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/Exaggeration of Doom/

Here is my collection of all the generalizations of characters as told by the Gundam Wing Fanbase. Generally, they're just "stereotypes" of the characters that show up in fanfics or other portrayals of the characters on fan sites. Most of them are just over-exaggerated characteristics applied by a hint of something that one of the characters said once. These myths have perpetuated over time and maim the "personalities" of the GWing characters in the process. I'm guilty of using these "stereotypes" from time to time, but eh. It's all in fun.

NOTE: Most of these stereotypes are based on SOME facet of the character. The point I'm trying to make is that fandom uses these one-time-happening things and makes it seem like that's the only aspect of the character. This does not apply for obvious things, IE Relena's "tee heeing" or Duo's "cross-dressing pregnancy." 

Descriptions of each character, as dictated by rabid fandom (Complete with a sample fanfic, with underlined phrases being the over-used ones): 
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Heero is a psychotic maniac. He has no feelings, he's evil to the core and in yaoi, hates Relena/wants to kill her/does kill her. He also often is the one with the most sexual prowess in his respective pairings. He loves to have sex, apparently. He even rapes other characters on occasion. ("It...is...my .... MISSION!") He overuses the words "I will kill you" (though fans often write "Omae o korosu," presumably the Japanese wording...trying to make it more "authentic", as if writing an entire story in English and then having three Japanese words (or is that more like two?) could possibly make it more authentic.), virtually making them the only words to ever come out of his mouth. Oh, that, and "Mission: accepted/completed." And he's never afraid to give a death glare. At anyone. For any reason. And his gun is almost always present in fanfiction, as he can't seem to ... let...go! Usually, it's wedged somewhere in his spandex. Yeah. Try not to think about it.
Sample Heero fic:
Duo: Heero, we're going swimming at Relena's today!
Heero: Mission: Accepted.
(They arrive at Relena's house)
Relena: How nice to see you again!
Heero: (Pulling out his Ever-Present Gun out of his spandex, he points it at his hostess) Omae o korosu. (He shoots her.)
Now, Duo, my delectable morsel, we will make hot man love right over her body! Bwahaha! 

[Heero/Relena Illustration]

Duo gets it the worst, as you may have noticed. He gets raped, literally, and is often seen dressing as a female. His somewhat optimistic personality is totally played up to make him out as so happy he seems to be on stimulants, and he is often energetic and screams like a little girl. He also dances around in happy circles, and loves on his respective partners by "glomping" them. A lot. Not that I could ever see Duo "glomping" anyone. He's also played up to be a bit of a sexual deviant (when Hilde is involved) and a bit more shy and inexperienced (when Heero's involved.)  Basically, fans make Duo the kind of guy who's going to involve whipped cream, ketchup and other condiments in any of his sexual escapades. And if he's not careful, he just might end up pregnant. (Go figure.) He also tends to be a little slutty, and likes to show off his Manly Bod. But then, most of the time he's dressed as a girl anyway. He's also insanely hyper. He (and Hilde, when they're together in fan fics) usually vaguely disturb the rest of the characters in the fic by shouting nonsensically, or breaking into fitful bales of laughter about inane things for no apparent reason. (They're perky, but not THAT perky.)
Sample Duo fic:
Duo: Look, Hilde, I'm wearing a dress!
Hilde: Wow, you look cute!
Duo: Yeah I do! (smiles insanely) I'm so happy today! Happy happy happy happy! Happy! Oh, look, here's Heero! *glomps him*
Heero: Omae o korosu.
Duo: I'm so happy happy happy happy! And I just took a pregnancy test; I'm pregnant with your baby, Heero! Happy happy happy!
Heero: Well, that's too bad, because I have a deadly disease and I'm dying....You'll have to raise it alone. (dies dramatically)
Duo: Heero's dead, but I'm gonna have a baby! Happy happy happy happy!
Hilde: Happy happy happy happy!
 

I take it back...Relena gets it worst. Fan Relena basically just whines a lot--and has an obsession with calling out, "HeeeeeeeroooO!" a lot for no apparent reason. Not only that, she's kind of a Super Slut  and tries to seduce Heero with her feminine wiles, at the same time being evil and heinous to Duo. She's also inherently stupid and doesn't take no for an answer. That is, she sees Duo and Heero having sex, and she somehow twists that in her mind so that it actually means Heero really wants her and is sacrificing his anal virginity for her love. "Heeeeeeroo! Thank you for having sex with another man to prove your love to me!! But please...try to stop...pretending to...enjoy it so much..." She cries and pouts, basically all the time, as well... she's needy and jealous, and spends a lot of her time glomping off Heero. (Not that I've ever seen her even so much as attempt that in the actual show.) In more well-grounded fanfics, she's usually the calm, level-headed one. That rants about peace incessantly.
Sample Relena fic:
Relena: Since I have absolutely nothing better to do, I'm going to dress in a skimpy thong bikini and go flit around Heero. (Looks around.) NOw where is he? HEEEEEERRRRRRROOOOO!
Heero: (seemingly, pops out of nowhere.) Omae o Korosu, Relena.
Relena: Tee hee, tee hee. I missed you, too.
Heero: ...
Relena: Ooh, I seem to have dropped the tan oil. I think I'll have to bend over to get it.
Heero: Go for it. I'm going to hang out with Duo now. (He leaves...well, tries to. Relena glomps him too fast, and hangs off of him, wailing piteously.)
Relena: No! HEEEEEEEERRROOO! 

[Heero/Relena Illustration]

Trowa is just quiet. And that's basically it. He's just so quiet, that most of his dialogue in these Fanworks mainly include "...." among little else. There's really nothing else to say about Trowa, since in most fanfics he doesn't do much (or try ANY) talking, and when he does talk, it's just a few words here and there. When paired with Quatre, he usually acts as the quiet care-taker, when paired with Catherine, he's quiet incestuous, and with Midii Une (the girl from his Episode Zero) he's...uh, quiet..something.
Sample Trowa fic:
(Q and D walk up to Trowa, who is gazing off into nothingness.) 
Quatre: Hey! How are you, Trowa?
Dorothy: Hi, Trowa.
Trowa: Hi.
Dorothy: My, Trowa, but you and Master Winner sure are comfortable around each other.
Quatre: What do you mean?
Trowa: ....
Dorothy: Are you sure you're just..."Friends?" 
Trowa: ....
Dorothy: Admit it! There's something going on!
Trowa: ....
Dorothy: Admit it!
Trowa: ....No.

Quatre is sickeningly näive. He knows little about anything, and is worried constantly. He's a philanthropist on speed, and always is the one to say, "That's not very nice." He also cries a lot. Like, all the time. He bawls and says, "Please, don't fight." He's concerned with the well-being of his fellow humans, as well as the animals, and sometimes even is a vegetarian. (and i've yet to act like Quatre.) He's needy and dependent, and is usually afraid of Dorothy; and ends up running to Trowa for moral support. On just about anything. He gets embarrassed incredibly easily, and is more or less a really big prude. That is, he doesn't like to get naked, so he never changes his underwear. (tee hee tee hee.) The other characters know that he embarrasses easily, and cause discomfort for him whenever possible. He blushes quite often, and is won't drink any alcoholic beverages (Oh wait, that really IS supported by the show. What do you know.) 
Sample Quatre fic:
Duo: Hey, Quatre, we hired you a prostitute for your birthday!
Quatre: (turns crimson) Wh..wh...what?
Duo: Ha ha!
Quatre: (still blushing and stuttering) Duo, the hiring of prostitutes further fortifies the degrading practice!
(the prostitute, who looks strikingly similar to none other than Dorothy, walks in.)
Dorothy/Prostitute: There's the birthday boy. Hey, hot stuff. What'll it be?
Quatre: Uhm....uhh....uhmthanks..but.
Dorothy: What? Did you say, "Dominatrix?" You got it! (pulls a whip out of nowhere and starts beating him)
Quatre: (crying) Ow! This isn't very nice! Help me, Trowa!

Wufei says little. In fact, usually the only thing he ever says has to do with Justice. If anything bad, embarrassing or slightly unplanned happens in a fic, Wufei's the first to sputter, "Injustice!" And maybe it is, but it's still way overused. No one says "Injustice" 59,879 times per single paged fic (and why yes, I have counted up all the "injustices" in every fanfic with Wufei in them and then taken an average. *pretends to be a very well-educated webmistress, and then when the visitors, satisfied, turn their backs, she rolls her eyes exaggeratedly and tosses her head flippantly.*). Well, except Wufei. Usually, however, he just comments whether something is "honorable" or "dishonorable." And it's amazing that he can distinguish between the two! He also has a tendency to address all other male characters solely by their last names. He addresses all female characters as "woman", or, more authentically, "onna". Though most people don't walk around speaking in two languages, Wufei flaunts his fluency and sometimes cries out, "Onna!" for no apparent reason. Well, at least not for one seen by the other characters. Not only that, his greeting usually involves calling SOMEONE or SOMETHING a weakling or any variation thereof. Specifically, Sally Po gets the brunt of these weak-oriented comments.
Sample Wufei fic:
Duo: Hey, Wu-man, (though I'm fairly sure that throughout the duration of the series, NO one assigns anyone else nicknames, and even if they did, NO ONE would give Wufei one) we're going on vacation to Maui.
Wufei: Maui is an honorable place
Duo: But you have to pay your own plane fare.
Wufei: Injustice! That's dishonorable, Maxwell!
Sally Po: Hey, Wufei, I'm going, too!
Wufei: Injustice! I'm not going anywhere with a miserable onna!
Sally Po: Too bad. 
Wufei: You're a weakling, onna!

Hilde is an enigma. Since she is not in as many episodes as the aforementioned characters, she doesn't have as much time to get stereotypes formed about her character. She's usually portrayed as a female Duo clone---Duo's Mini-She, if you will. So basically, you can apply certain facets of the Duo stereotype character to the Hilde stereotype character. Translation: In fandom, Hilde is perky, perky perky! All the time, time time! Everything's exciting, everything's a good idea, and kinky stuff is fun! She borders on Hyper and Demonically Insane, and she's usually portrayed as fun-loving and spontaneous...but to a more extreme and irresponsible degree than EVER exhibited in the show. She glomps Duo, and can usually be found tugging on his braid and screaming his name when he does something dumb (and sometimes for other reasons too.) Usually something in her past has incurred that has Scarred Her For Life. Usually, Duo works through this with her for the sole purpose of sleeping with her. Mostly though, everything's just exciting and shiny!
Sample Hilde fic:
Duo: Hey, I know, let's go on a VACATION!
Hilde: Yay! Vacations are so cool! Let's invite everyone else!!! YAY! Whee!
(Everyone packs up, and leaves.)
Duo: Wow, this is cool!!!!
Hilde: This is so much fun!!!!!  Let's stop at this rest stop!!! Whee, rest stops are so exciting! Yay, rest stops!
(They stop.)
Duo: Wow, this is a nice brick color!
Hilde: Yay for nice brick colors! Whooopee!
Quatre: Please stop being so embarrassing.
Duo: Dude, look at that hot girl that just came out of the bathroom! Hubba hubba!
Hilde: DUUOO! (yanks his braid)
Duo: I'm just kidding.
Hilde: You know I was scarred for life by my last boyfriend who left me for another girl.
Duo: OK, let's work through it and then have sex! (They fall, inconspicuously, to the ground together in a passionate embrace.)
Relena: ....Hello? Did you guys forget the rest of us are here, and that we're supposed to be on a road trip? ... Oh, for the love of...Get off the floor! Hilde! I' m serious! Duo, what are you...don't do that in public! Get your tongue out of there! Oh, fantastic... Quatre passed out. I hope you two are happy. We're leaving. Yup, we're taking your van and leaving you two idiots here. Heero, seize the keys.
Heero: Mission : accepted. 

Ha ha ha, Dorothy. Such a charming girl. The only GW character with cleavage. A bit chubbier than the others, but psycho enough to make up for it. I love Dot, but basically, she's not only a victim of fan-rape, she's a victim of fan-stealing of cattle, fan-pillaging of her town, fan-burning of all copies of The Wizard of Oz, and fan-eating of the last piece of her apple pie! Oh, the HORROR! (Color change to accent the horror in all its horrible-ness.) Anyway, what is the main fabrications of the Dorothy character, you ask? One word: DOMINATRIX. (Shoot, there we go with the color shifting again.) As hinted to in an earlier pseudo mini mock fic, (Quatre's, to be exact) the lovely Dorothy loves to dress in leather and be chief administrator in the bedroom. (Or living room. Or back yard. Or local mall. Or where ever her insatiable lust strikes, apparently.) Quatre is the predominate victim in Dorothy's voracious escapades of kinky desire, and usually can't outrun the Whips of Domina-Dorothy! Yes, of course, there are always more generalizations. For instance, the fact that Dorothy loves the war. And yes, she kind of brings it on herself, now doesn't she? In fanfics, the authors usually alternate Dorothy's lines as following: "Quatre, my lightly seasoned chicken tender! You can run, but you can't hide from me! I will beat you raw, and then devour you! Bwa ha ha!" and the next sentence: "I love the glory of War!" Basically, usually Dorothy is conveyed as a psychopathic megalomaniac. She flatters Relena. A lot. Oh, and her eyebrows are usually big topics of interest as well. On the plus side, Dorothy's speaking capabilities shine through when she's in the hands of more talented fans, and she's usually portrayed as eccentric, but witty and very intelligent. When she's not just laughing insanely, she uses big words. She always has the last word, too. And it's usually a big word. 
Sample Dorothy fic:
Dorothy: Now that I have detained and appropriately shackled all of the Gundam Wing pilots, I will compel them to participate in my kinky sex games. Mwahah. 
Wufei: Injustice.
Duo: Wow, Dorothy in leather! This is sooooo fun!
Heero: I will kill you. That is, as soon as you un-handcuff me.
Trowa: ...
Quatre: (Crying) Dorothhhyy! This is mean! Let us go!
Dorothy: Unfortunately, I'm unenthusiastic concerning the prospect of acquiescing your demand.
Quatre: But Dorothy, your eyebrows are too scary.
Dorothy: They represent the glory of the war to me. Each time I tweeze them into their distinctly irregular formation, I contemplate the true grandeur of each and every battle!
Quatre: Why?
Dorothy: Because they're unique, just like my love for WAR!
Relena: (bursts through the door) LET MY HEERO GO!
Dorothy: Ahh, Miss Relena, the most eloquent human in the world. Allow me to masticate your earlobes, as I am a gynotikolobomassophile!

Ahhh, here we have Lady Une: Warrior Princess, forged in the heat of battle. Or something like that. And while I mean no disrespect to Xena, as she is one of my role models (no lesbian implications intended), fans seem to think that Lady Une is some sort of an evil warrior bitch: the reincarnation of an axe-slinging William Wallace type. And while this is not completely absurd, she surely gets a tiny bit misrepresented by the fans. She seems to be a bit psychotic; a lot of fans make out her ... slight battle with schizophrenia the basic aspect of her character. And this is not true. She is a very powerful and slightly ruthless character...on one hand. On the other hand, she follows Treize around lamely, chanting, "Mr. Treize: I love you, there's no one above you: you are the sun, you are the rain (which he doesn't realize are song lyrics that she blatantly stole in an overt attempt to make herself look lyrical and feminine. Fortunately for her, Treize doesn't pay enough attention to her to figure out that poetry is not really up her alley...she's much more skilled at throwing people out of planes and shooting at their plummeting bodies, and blowing up the dads of innocent little girls.)" And of course, Treize looks at her genteelly and misses the point: "Of course there's no one above me. I'm the boss around here." Of course, Lady Une just drools slightly, because Treize is about to get into his bath. And, since his resume consists basically only of working at strip clubs, Treize is not about to make Une's job any easier. And boom, she's a victim of Spontaneous Orgasm Syndrome (SOS). On a related note: throwing herself on the altar of love, Lady Une lowers herself to being Mr. Treize's slave and even runs him bubble baths--bath salts compliment of Zechs (i guess you had to read his bio to know what I'm talking about)...but WAIT, you say: She does that in the show!!! I KNOW, I scream back at you. But NOT ALL THE TIME, as it's portrayed in fan fiction! Wow. That about covers it. And you know what, I think I pretty much covered this one. (Thanks to Ashy for some of the ideas, because, you might have figured out that I don't read too much Lady Une fics, as cool and as Xena-esque as she is.) Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention Fan-Une's inclination to overuse the words "his Excellency."
Sample Lady Une fic:
Lady Une: Do not be alarmed, villagers: It is I, Une: Lady of OZ!
Villagers: ...
Lady Une: (lobs off the head of a nearby villager) Now, do my bidding! I want all of your children rounded up and slaughtered within five minutes, and then I want them roasted over an open fire and prepared for my nightly dinner.
Villagers: Uhm, why?
Lady Une: In the name of his Excellency! (more heads roll and she uses her telekinesis to set fire to a nearby hut)
Villagers: Oh, My, God, we're going to die.
Lady Une: (decapitates yet another nearby villager) You're not MOVING FAST ENOUGH!
Villagers: AHHH.
Treize: What are you doing, Lady?
Lady Une: Mr...Trieze...(in a state of euphoria, Lady Une collapses to the ground at Treize's feet) ..I want to have your baby.
Treize: I KNOW. We've been over this already. But given your inclination to eating children, I wouldn't feel comfortable impregnating you with one, understand?
Lady Une: *drools* Yes, yes, your Excellency. Birth control, it is!
Treize: ...Then that brings up the whole question of why would I have sex with a woman that cannibalizes little kids, now doesn't it? This has nothing to do with the fact that I want kids, and everything to do with the fact that I'm sleeping with one. And he tastes like...honor. Anyway. Instead, why don't you just run along and draw me a bubble bath? Get some more of those enticing bath scents from Zechs: I know that bastard is hording them. And get out your Massaging For Dummies book because I'm feeling a bit tense.
Lady Une: Yes...your...Excellency...*drools more.*