Mobile Suit Gundam Wing/Characters: Difference between revisions

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* [[Death Seeker]]: He gets better.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: He likes playing with dogs and the official artwork has him smiling as he plays with a ferret.

* [[Good Looking Privates]]: Heero and Trowa get to wear military uniforms, and in Heero's case it's an OZ cadet one {{spoiler|when he spies on Queen Relena.}}

* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: Heero and Trowa get to wear military uniforms, and in Heero's case it's an OZ cadet one {{spoiler|when he spies on Queen Relena.}}

* [[The Hero]]: No Pun intended.

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Bastard]]. In ''Frozen Teardrop'' we learn that his father was Odin Lowe... who was ''not'' the husband of Heero's mom, Aoi Clarke. Heero was born in between Odin and Aoi's break-up and Aoi's marriage to Seis Clarke, she and Seis raised him in his earliest years, and when they were murdered Odin took little Heero back in.}}

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The pilot of the Gundam Deathscythe. He's cheerful, friendly, and flirtatious, serving as the moodmaker of the Gundam Pilots. He's also the self-proclaimed [[Grim Reaper]], a title he gave himself after living on while those he cares about die around him. He anthropomorphizes his Gundam more than the others, calling it "buddy"<ref>''aibo'' in Japanese</ref>.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type II

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* [[Badass]]

* [[Big Brother Mentor]]: To Heero and Quatre.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted. His Gundam's [[Achilles Heel]] is its tendency to run out of ammo in extended fights.

* [[Bottomless Magazines]]: Averted. His Gundam's [[Achilles' Heel]] is its tendency to run out of ammo in extended fights.

* [[Cold Sniper]]: Trowa is able to remain weirdly detached whilst murdering people or {{spoiler|contemplating a suicide strike}}, despite being one of the most compassionate characters in the series.

* [[Cool Mask]]: both Trowa and Heavyarms have a half-clown mask they can wear.

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* [[Friend to All Living Things]]

* [[Gatling Good]]

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Good Looking Privates]]: He wears both OZ cadet clothes {{spoiler|and a Mariemeia army suit}} in canon.

* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: He wears both OZ cadet clothes {{spoiler|and a Mariemeia army suit}} in canon.

* [[Heroic Build]]: Revealed in Endless Waltz when he beats up several thugs from {{spoiler|The Barton Foundation}} whilst topless. Apparently those turtlenecks are '''''very''''' unflattering.

** He probably gained a lot more visible muscle after working for the circus. Being an acrobat will do that to you.

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* [[The Stoic]]

* {{spoiler|[[Taking the Bullet|Taking The Blast]]: For Heero during Quatre's fight with Heero. He survived, but was left with amnesia.}}

* [[Teen Genius]]: While the other pilots also qualify, he's the only one who manages to {{spoiler|infiltrate Oz ''and'' Mariemeia's Army succesfully}}, probably because unlike the other four boys he doesn't have a massive case of [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]] to screw things up for him.

* {{spoiler|[[That Man Is Dead]]}}

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* [[The Captain]]: Heero may be [[The Hero]], but he readily passes leadership of the Gundam Team onto the more charismatic Quatre.

* [[Cross-Dressing Voices]]: In the Japanese version. Generally averted in the dubs except probably the Filipino dub.

* {{spoiler|[[Death by Childbirth]]}}: What happened to Quatre's mother {{spoiler|when she insisted on giving birth to Quatre naturally, when all of the Winner children before him were [[Gattaca Babies|test tube babies]] ''and'' she was a very delicate [[Ill Girl]].}}.

* [[Crossing the Desert]]

* [[Dual-Wielding]]

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* [[Honor Before Reason]]: He had the golden opportunity to turn Treize into a greasy smear with his Gundam, but instead got out and had a fair [[Sword Fight]] -- which he ended up losing, triggering his [[Heroic BSOD]].

* [[I Call It Vera]]: His Gundam's nickname is "Nataku", {{spoiler|named after his deceased wife.}}

* [[Justice Will Prevail]]

* [[Leitmotif]]: "When the Dragon Submerges, Everything Ends", which tends to get used as a generic tune for all the Gundams and thus gets the most playtime next to Heero's theme.

* [[Not Good with People]]: That's such an understatement.

* [[Numerical Theme Naming]]: His name is written with the Chinese character for "five".

* [[Ten-Minute Retirement|One Month Retirement]]: Wufei experienced this after Treize defeated him in a [[Sword Fight]], as he felt unfit to pilot his Gundam.

* [[Ship Sinking]]: Based on what we know of Sally's Po daughter Kathy Po, it's likely that Sally and Wufei did not get together in the end.

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]: {{spoiler|After Treize allowed Wufei to kill him.}}

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Series composer Katsuyuki Sumizawa said on-record that in various planning stages, Wu Fei was going to be African and/or a Newtype with the power to [[Detect Evil]]. Some early merchandise, such as pencil boards, still lists him as a Newtype.

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* [[Everything's Better with Princesses]]

* [[Expy]]: The [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Sayla Mass]] to Heero's Amuro Ray and Zechs's Char Aznable.

** [[Fountain of Expies|Expies of Relena]] that appear in future Gundam shows include [[Turn a Gundam (Anime)|Dianna Soreil]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Lacus]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Clyne]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Cagalli Yu]][[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|la Athha]], [[SD Gundam Force|Princess Rele]], and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Marina Ismail]], and outside of Gundam, [[Code Geass|Nunnally Lamperouge and Euphemia Li Brittania]].

** [[Fountain of Expies|Expies of Relena]] that appear in future Gundam shows include [[Turn A Gundam (Anime)|Dianna Soreil]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Lacus]] [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|Clyne]], [[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED|Cagalli Yu]][[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny|la Athha]], [[SD Gundam Force|Princess Rele]], and [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Marina Ismail]], and outside of Gundam, [[Code Geass|Nunnally Lamperouge and Euphemia Li Brittania]].

* [[Go Through Me]]: Does this a few times, namely when Duo was about to shoot Heero, during Heero and Zechs' duel in Antartica {{spoiler|before discovering Zechs' true identity}}, when she tried to talk Zechs out of firing Libra's main cannon, and in the manga adaptation, when she tried to stop OZ from attacking the Sanc Kingdom, while wearing her white royal dress.

* [[Hair of Gold]]

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* [[Nipple-and-Dimed]]: Averted in a famous piece of official art that shows Relena skinny-dipping in hip-deep water.

** Link to it? One that's not "censored"?

*** [http://cosmic-dare.org/relena/artbook.html Last row, second panel] (intentionally done this way to avoid possible hotlinking issues). You're welcome.

* [[Official Couple]]: See the note under Heero.

* [[The Ojou]]

* {{spoiler|[[Our Presidents Are Different]]}}: {{spoiler|Became President of Mars after Dix-Neuf Noinheim, aka "Milliardo Peacecraft", was assassinated.}}

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Politically-Active Princess]]: Serves this role after undergoing some character development. She is a pacifist, but that does not stop her from using her political clout to try to stop the war.

* [[Princesses Prefer Pink]]: At least her limo, which was given to her by her adoptive parents.

** And her Sanc Kingdom school uniform, which is more rose than out-and-out pink.

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* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]

* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Treize is the only person opposed to the use of Romefeller's Mobile Doll system.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: As much as anyone else in the series--aside from thanking those under his command (to Une's displeasure), Treize can recall the precise number, to the digit, of OZ officers and soldiers killed in pursuit of his goals, to everyone else's surprise.

* [[Good Looking Privates]]

* [[Good-Looking Privates]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Is averted in the series, where Une jumps in the way of his, though he still dies later by similiar means.}}

* [[Hidden Agenda Villain]]: Okay Mr. Khushreneda...just what exactly ''were'' you trying to accomplish?

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* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Subverted; [[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"|her first name might actually ]]''[[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"|be ]]''[[His Name Really Is "Barkeep"|"Lady"]] (as seen when a colony representative calls her "Miss Lady".

* [[Four Eyes, Zero Soul]]: An unusual female version as "Lady".

* [[Good Looking Privates]]: As "Saint", but arguably as ''Lady'', too.

* [[Good-Looking Privates]]: As "Saint", but arguably as ''Lady'', too.

* [[Gundamjack]]: {{spoiler|After waking up from her coma, she steals the Wing Gundam and [[Taking the Bullet|takes Libra's main cannon blast]] for Treize. The lower body was destroyed, but she survived unscathed.}}

* [[Ironic Name]]: Her name means "one." She has a split personality.

* [[Iron Lady]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: In episode 10, when she threatened to shoot down the colonies unless the Gundam pilots surrender, forcing Heero to [[Take a Third Option]].

** And she punts the pup twice in a row, when Noin objects openly to the slaughter of civilians and she slaps her as a reply.

* [[Letting Her Hair Down]] ''and'' [[The Glasses Come Off]]: Her transition into Saint Une.

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* [[Proper Lady]]: As Saint Une

* [[Psycho Supporter]]: As Lady Une, again.

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: Where Colonel and Saint meet.

* [[Split Personality]]: As ''Lady'' Une, she's a ruthlessly efficient bitch. As ''Saint'' Une, she's a sweet young lady. {{spoiler|At the end, she reconciles both of her personalities and keeps the best of them.}}

* [[Subordinate Excuse]]: Towards Treize.

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=== '''Dekim Barton''' ===

A former associate of the original Heero Yuy, Dekim Barton is the main villain of ''Endless Waltz''. He is the co-leader of the Mariemaia Army, as well as the leader of the Barton Foundation.

* {{spoiler|[[Colony Drop]]:}} What his original version of Operation Meteor turned out to be, and what he tried to accomplish, but Heero, Duo, and Trowa prevented that.

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* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Nice Hat]]: Has a cute pink beret. She wears a teal-green beret in the ending for ''Endless Waltz: Special Edition.''

* [[Playful Hacker]]:

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Shorttank]]

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* {{spoiler|[[Disappeared Dad]]}}

* [[Hot Dad]]

* [[Identical Stranger]] (looks supiciously like an [[Older and Wiser]] Trowa. And suddenly, Quatre's [[Ho Yay|fixation on Trowa]] is explained.)

* {{spoiler|[[Sacrificial Lamb]]}}

* [[The White Prince]] (adult version)

=== Dr. Iria Winner ===

* [[Cool Big Sis]]

* [[Gattaca Babies]] (she and her sisters are test-tube babies)

** [[Justified Trope]], in story: the first and second generations of colony people were ''all'' Gattaca Babies due to how hard it was for people to adapt to colony life, with pregnant women being almost surely condemned to [[Death by Childbirth]]. {{spoiler|Their brother Quatre may have been the first exception ''ever''. And their littlest sister Catherine definitely was one, since she was born ''after their parents's deaths.''}}

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* [[The Family That Slays Together]]: They're not blood-related, but... (see [[Gattaca Babies]] below)

* [[Gattaca Babies]]: According to ''Episode Zero,'' {{spoiler|all of the members are test-tube babies}}.

* [[Gentle Giant]]: Rashid.

* [[La Résistance]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: According to ''Episode Zero'', "Maganac" means family. It actually comes from the Tagalog phrase "mga anak," or literally, "the children."

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* [[Intergenerational Friendship]]: {{spoiler|With Heero}}

* {{spoiler|[[Kill the Cutie]]}}

* [[Nice Hat]]

* [[No Name Given]]

* {{spoiler|[[Posthumous Character]]}}

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* [[Death by Origin Story]]

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]] and [[Papa Wolf]]: [http://aboutgundamwing.com/Pending/chronicle6.jpg One of the mangas] shows him personally clearing up the way for Pagan and the future Premier Darlian (who was his [[Number Two]] back then) so they can escape with baby Relena, sword in hand among the flames devouring the Sanc Royal Palace.}}

* [[Hot Dad]] (of Milliardo{{spoiler|/Zechs}} and Relena)

* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]

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The youngest of the Winner siblings, and Quatre's younger sister. Presumed to be another test-tube baby.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Bifauxnen]] - [[Gender Flip]] - [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: If you ever wondered how would a girl!Quatre look like, [http://yfrog.com/hsso7pkj here she is.]

* [[Battle Couple]]: She and {{spoiler|Trowa Phobos}} may become this. {{spoiler|After Kathy defects to Relena's side, they may end up as either [[Dating Catwoman]] or [[Star-Crossed Lovers]].}}

** {{spoiler|[[Love Triangle]]: She ''may'' be at the center of one with Trowa Phobos and Milou Peacecraft.}}