More information
I managed to find more information on the characters I previously mentioned (last posting).
Hopefully this helps (since explaining these guys is hard).
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Gundam Wing summary (of partial series):
In the future, the countries of Earth made these huge spacestations called colonies (because of this, they change A.D. to A.C., meaning "After Colony"). The colonies are inhabited by scientists and workers. To control the colonies, the major nations ally together and call themselves "The Allied Nations of the Earth Sphere Alliance" (the area containing the Earth and the colonies is called the Earth Sphere). Their rule started out peaceful enough, but later on they abused their power and started a tyrannical reign of terror using their military weapons, called mobile suits. Mobile suits are huge robotic suits that are piloted by men and women of the Earth Sphere Alliance military. The mobile suits use fear, instead of peace, to control the colonies.
The year is After Colony (A.C.) 195. The colonies of the Earth Sphere are under the complete control of the Alliance. But, certain scientists of the colonies are dissatisfied with the way the colonies are treated. So they decided to create special mobile suits, made out of almost indestructable gundanium, which can only be made in zero gravity. They call these mobile suits "Gundams", which can only be piloted by the best. The scientists disguise them as shooting stars, and call their plan "Operation Meteor."
Additional summary:
There are colonies in space that are being attacked by a army called OZ. The colonies made five giant mobile suits called Gundams (Wing Zero, Heavyarms, Deathscythe, Nutaku, Sandrock). The Gundams are made of Gundanium and each has their own pilot.
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Character biographies (see previous post for pictures/other info):
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Duo Maxwell
Age: 15 years
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'1"/ 156 cm
Weight: 97 lbs/ 44 kg
Blood Type: B
Status: Pilot of Gundam Deathscythe
On the outside, Duo Maxwell seems laid back, casual, talkative, a bit boisterous, and almost easygoing with quite the sense of humor. His heritage is American, and he lived for a while with the Sweepers, an organization that conducts ocean salvaging, before moving out to the L2 colony.But when the game face goes on, Duo is all business. Piloting his best friend, the Gundam Deathscythe, he cuts wide swaths through his enemies. He detests OZ and Romefeller and would love to see them go down in flames.
Not that he was like this at first. He had originally wanted to sabotage Operation: Meteor and destroy the Deathscythe...but Doctor G, the creator of Deathscythe, made a nice counterproposal: rather than destroy it, steal it, become the God of Death, and inflict revenge on OZ on his terms.
Duo's life as the "God of Death" takes a sudden turn, though, when he runs into Hilde Schbeiker. Hilde had been itching to join OZ, but Duo convinced her to go her own way, and the two became good friends and partners in the secret campaign to overthrow Romefeller. Duo now finds himself with another reason to fight...and as he would eventually admit to himself, a personal reason to find an end to all the carnage.
The Deathscythe Gundam (classified by the Earth Sphere military as Gundam-02) is as imposing and lethal as its name entails. Equipped with Hyper Jammers that block radar traces, it can maneuver almost at will, and this lean, mean machine can cut and run faster than most enemies can realize what's happening. Its main weapon, obviously, is its massive beam scythe. Its buster shield is also capable of attacking by launching itself at enemies or by utilizing pincers or a central beam blade. The original Deathscythe is disabled by OZ mobile dolls and eventually destroyed...but the Gundam creators soon provide Duo with its successor: the Deathscythe Hell, which sports a double-bladed beam scythe as well as the multipurpose Active Cloak. Closed, it acts as extra armor and can deflect beam attacks or conceal it in darkness (rendering it practically invisible when in space). Opened, it makes the Gundam look like a devil fresh out of Hell (which suits Duo just fine).
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Quatre Raberba Winner
Age: 15 years
Hair: Platinum Blond
Eyes: Blue-Green
Height: 5'1"/ 156 cm
Weight: 90 lbs/ 41 kg
Blood Type: O
Status: Pilot of Gundam Sandrock
Surrounded by love since a child, Quatre had grown up to be a loving and caring boy. He is often reluctant to kill, and when he does, he will apologize for his action. He is the only heir to the Winner family assests, and being the only male heir and the youngest in the family of a father and 29 sisters, Quatre has many loyal servants and troops protecting him. With such a rich background, he always appeared in the series with a high elegant dress sense and high class manners.
Since the beginning of the series, Quatre has befriended Trowa in a battle. And starting from there, both of them establish an everlasting friendship. Quatre is Arabian and from the L4 Colony. His Gundams are Sandrock, Sandrock Custom, and Sandrock Kai.
Additional summary:
In reality the sole male heir (and sole natural child) of the Winner family, Quatre (pronounced KAT-tre) is quite the gentleman. He had been raised with love throughout his life by his father and 29 sisters (all test-tube children; his mother died giving birth to him), and he shows a great repect for life. The Winner family originated in the Middle East until they went to the L4 colony and rose to prominence. Like the Peacecrafts, they're pacifists...so Quatre practically committed the ultimate sin and alienated himself from his family by agreeing to work for Master H and become the pilot of Gundam Sandrock.
Why would such a peacable young man take up arms? Because he knows more about humanity than others are willing to admit. In his mind, Quatre feels it necessary to fight to gain and protect the peace. Even as such, he strives to maintain his own sense of humanity: striving to avoid killing unless he has to and frequently apologizing and questioning himself lest he lose touch with his mission.
The one time he did lose control was when his father chose to let himself die rather than become part of the escalating war. He had already nearly lost himself and his Gundam trying to get to space. Without a family, without a friend, and without a Gundam, he happened to find some old designs the five Gundam creators had previously shelved. So he began work on an ultimate weapon to stop the war. It was the Wing Zero, a Gundam whose design had originally been considered too dangerous to build...because of an infamous interface called the ZERO System. Quatre would discover just how dangerous this new system could be when it drove him to temporary insanity and caused him to go on a rampage, in the process accidentally destroying a space colony. It was only when he nearly killed both Heero and Trowa that he managed to regain his senses. He's been trying to atone for his grievous mistakes ever since.
Quatre is not alone in this fight. The Magwanac Corps is a team of 40 elite mobile suit pilots loyal to the Winner family and who have promised to defend Master Quatre with their lives if need be. Quatre considers them friends more than allies and stands equally ready to protect them.
Quatre possesses significant qualities of leadership which, sometimes, he himself doesn't realize, and he frequently becomes a de facto leader, helping to coordinate team efforts, forming friendships with the rest of the Gundam pilots, and sometimes guiding them (like he did with Heero) when they found themselves lost. It's in fact when Quatre leads that he gains his firmest resolve. By helping Heero find Relena, he helped himself regain his sanity. Heero would later return the favor by helping Quatre face his fears and learn how to control the ZERO System.
Cloaked like a desert nomad, the Sandrock Gundam (codenamed Gundam-04 by the Earth Sphere military) carries both the ruggegness of a desert survivor and the regality of the Winner name. Its main weapons are two shotels (sickle-like weapons) that can be heated for additional penetrating power. Put together with its backpack and the buster shield seen on every Gundam, a combined weapon called the Cross Crusher can be utilized. Quatre once tried to self-detonate Sandrock with himself inside it, but the Sandrock refused the command. Instead, it covered for him while he escaped into space. Upon his return to Earth, Quatre sought out the Sandrock (which had been rebuilt by OZ and then recaptured by rebels) and brought it back into service. Eventually, Sandrock would be modified by Howard to enable it to fight in space, and it would be rechristened Sandrock Kai ("Custom"). Its Cross Crusher ability is traded in for additional long-range firepower and much-needed maneuverability.
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Triton Bloom
Alias: Trowa Barton
("No-Name")
Age: 15 years
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'3"/ 160 cm
Weight: 97 lbs/ 44 kg
Blood Type: AB
Status: Pilot of Gundam Heavyarms
Trowa Barton is mysterious. His mysteric aura becomes stronger when silent, like in deep thought. In the Gundam Wing series, Trowa's past is unknown. Being a clown in a circus as a cover, Trowa always put out a clown appearance in front of an audience. During his life in the circus, he befriended another acrobat girl called Catherine. As the story goes on, Trowa's mystery is slowly revealed, especially in Endless Waltz. His nationality they say is either Latin or unknown and is from the L3 Colony. His occupation is being a clown. His Gundams are Heavyarms, Heavyarms Custom, Heavyarms Kai, and when he was in OZ, the Vayeate.
He calls himself a nameless soldier. No one knows his name or where he comes from, though he appears to be of Latin descent. For all he can remember, he has always been a soldier: a common grunt in the faceless world of war. 1. ×
This nameless soldier became involved in Operation: Meteor on the L3 colony when he was helping Doctor S to set up the Gundam that would become Heavyarms. Then, the original Trowa Barton revealed the secret of the operation...and out of concern for the lives on L3, a concerned member of the crew killed him. That was when "No-Name" (as he asked to be called) stepped forward and offered to take the place of the late Trowa Barton. Doctor S agreed...and gave him his new name.
And so it was that "Trowa Barton", with the Gundam Heavyarms, went to Earth. As a cover, he employed himself in a traveling circus, and he quickly established a reputation as the saddest clown in the show, with half of his face hidden behind a partial mask and his perpetual poker face exposed on the other. It was in the circus that he attracted the attention of Catherine Bloom (who is in actuality his sister), a young lady who also worked at the circus and was at once scared and intrigued by this stoic figure. Somehow, the fact that someone cared about him as a person helped Trowa to (slowly) break out of the soldier's mold.
Trowa's reputation has a dark tint to it. He's been known to infiltrate enemy organizations in efforts to sabotage them from within. Posing as a snake, he sometimes plays the snake too well: often engaging in friendly fire. He used a high-powered beam cannon to destroy Duo's Deathscythe, he (with Heero) engaged Quatre in the experimental Vayate, and he physically attacked or fired in the general direction of the other Gundam pilots on several occasions.
The Heavyarms Gundam (called Gundam-03 by the Alliance military) lends well to Trowa's style of combat: full on and at a distance. Aptly named, Heavyarms carries the most firepower of any of the suits: one beam gatling, two gatling guns and two vulcans on its chest, homing missiles, and micro-missiles. When the guns and missiles run empty (which is typical with Trowa), Heavyarms does have a gundanium heat knife that can be used as a fallback weapon. Though Trowa hides Heavyarms on Earth when he journeys into space, resistance fighters eventually get the Gundam to Howard on the Peacemillion, who adds a second beam gatling and modifies it for additional maneuverability in space, turning it into the Heavyarms Kai ("Custom")
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Info taken from "Absolute Anime.com".
Hopefully this helps (since explaining these guys is hard).
***
Gundam Wing summary (of partial series):
In the future, the countries of Earth made these huge spacestations called colonies (because of this, they change A.D. to A.C., meaning "After Colony"). The colonies are inhabited by scientists and workers. To control the colonies, the major nations ally together and call themselves "The Allied Nations of the Earth Sphere Alliance" (the area containing the Earth and the colonies is called the Earth Sphere). Their rule started out peaceful enough, but later on they abused their power and started a tyrannical reign of terror using their military weapons, called mobile suits. Mobile suits are huge robotic suits that are piloted by men and women of the Earth Sphere Alliance military. The mobile suits use fear, instead of peace, to control the colonies.
The year is After Colony (A.C.) 195. The colonies of the Earth Sphere are under the complete control of the Alliance. But, certain scientists of the colonies are dissatisfied with the way the colonies are treated. So they decided to create special mobile suits, made out of almost indestructable gundanium, which can only be made in zero gravity. They call these mobile suits "Gundams", which can only be piloted by the best. The scientists disguise them as shooting stars, and call their plan "Operation Meteor."
Additional summary:
There are colonies in space that are being attacked by a army called OZ. The colonies made five giant mobile suits called Gundams (Wing Zero, Heavyarms, Deathscythe, Nutaku, Sandrock). The Gundams are made of Gundanium and each has their own pilot.
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Character biographies (see previous post for pictures/other info):
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Duo Maxwell
Age: 15 years
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Blue
Height: 5'1"/ 156 cm
Weight: 97 lbs/ 44 kg
Blood Type: B
Status: Pilot of Gundam Deathscythe
On the outside, Duo Maxwell seems laid back, casual, talkative, a bit boisterous, and almost easygoing with quite the sense of humor. His heritage is American, and he lived for a while with the Sweepers, an organization that conducts ocean salvaging, before moving out to the L2 colony.But when the game face goes on, Duo is all business. Piloting his best friend, the Gundam Deathscythe, he cuts wide swaths through his enemies. He detests OZ and Romefeller and would love to see them go down in flames.
Not that he was like this at first. He had originally wanted to sabotage Operation: Meteor and destroy the Deathscythe...but Doctor G, the creator of Deathscythe, made a nice counterproposal: rather than destroy it, steal it, become the God of Death, and inflict revenge on OZ on his terms.
Duo's life as the "God of Death" takes a sudden turn, though, when he runs into Hilde Schbeiker. Hilde had been itching to join OZ, but Duo convinced her to go her own way, and the two became good friends and partners in the secret campaign to overthrow Romefeller. Duo now finds himself with another reason to fight...and as he would eventually admit to himself, a personal reason to find an end to all the carnage.
The Deathscythe Gundam (classified by the Earth Sphere military as Gundam-02) is as imposing and lethal as its name entails. Equipped with Hyper Jammers that block radar traces, it can maneuver almost at will, and this lean, mean machine can cut and run faster than most enemies can realize what's happening. Its main weapon, obviously, is its massive beam scythe. Its buster shield is also capable of attacking by launching itself at enemies or by utilizing pincers or a central beam blade. The original Deathscythe is disabled by OZ mobile dolls and eventually destroyed...but the Gundam creators soon provide Duo with its successor: the Deathscythe Hell, which sports a double-bladed beam scythe as well as the multipurpose Active Cloak. Closed, it acts as extra armor and can deflect beam attacks or conceal it in darkness (rendering it practically invisible when in space). Opened, it makes the Gundam look like a devil fresh out of Hell (which suits Duo just fine).
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Quatre Raberba Winner
Age: 15 years
Hair: Platinum Blond
Eyes: Blue-Green
Height: 5'1"/ 156 cm
Weight: 90 lbs/ 41 kg
Blood Type: O
Status: Pilot of Gundam Sandrock
Surrounded by love since a child, Quatre had grown up to be a loving and caring boy. He is often reluctant to kill, and when he does, he will apologize for his action. He is the only heir to the Winner family assests, and being the only male heir and the youngest in the family of a father and 29 sisters, Quatre has many loyal servants and troops protecting him. With such a rich background, he always appeared in the series with a high elegant dress sense and high class manners.
Since the beginning of the series, Quatre has befriended Trowa in a battle. And starting from there, both of them establish an everlasting friendship. Quatre is Arabian and from the L4 Colony. His Gundams are Sandrock, Sandrock Custom, and Sandrock Kai.
Additional summary:
In reality the sole male heir (and sole natural child) of the Winner family, Quatre (pronounced KAT-tre) is quite the gentleman. He had been raised with love throughout his life by his father and 29 sisters (all test-tube children; his mother died giving birth to him), and he shows a great repect for life. The Winner family originated in the Middle East until they went to the L4 colony and rose to prominence. Like the Peacecrafts, they're pacifists...so Quatre practically committed the ultimate sin and alienated himself from his family by agreeing to work for Master H and become the pilot of Gundam Sandrock.
Why would such a peacable young man take up arms? Because he knows more about humanity than others are willing to admit. In his mind, Quatre feels it necessary to fight to gain and protect the peace. Even as such, he strives to maintain his own sense of humanity: striving to avoid killing unless he has to and frequently apologizing and questioning himself lest he lose touch with his mission.
The one time he did lose control was when his father chose to let himself die rather than become part of the escalating war. He had already nearly lost himself and his Gundam trying to get to space. Without a family, without a friend, and without a Gundam, he happened to find some old designs the five Gundam creators had previously shelved. So he began work on an ultimate weapon to stop the war. It was the Wing Zero, a Gundam whose design had originally been considered too dangerous to build...because of an infamous interface called the ZERO System. Quatre would discover just how dangerous this new system could be when it drove him to temporary insanity and caused him to go on a rampage, in the process accidentally destroying a space colony. It was only when he nearly killed both Heero and Trowa that he managed to regain his senses. He's been trying to atone for his grievous mistakes ever since.
Quatre is not alone in this fight. The Magwanac Corps is a team of 40 elite mobile suit pilots loyal to the Winner family and who have promised to defend Master Quatre with their lives if need be. Quatre considers them friends more than allies and stands equally ready to protect them.
Quatre possesses significant qualities of leadership which, sometimes, he himself doesn't realize, and he frequently becomes a de facto leader, helping to coordinate team efforts, forming friendships with the rest of the Gundam pilots, and sometimes guiding them (like he did with Heero) when they found themselves lost. It's in fact when Quatre leads that he gains his firmest resolve. By helping Heero find Relena, he helped himself regain his sanity. Heero would later return the favor by helping Quatre face his fears and learn how to control the ZERO System.
Cloaked like a desert nomad, the Sandrock Gundam (codenamed Gundam-04 by the Earth Sphere military) carries both the ruggegness of a desert survivor and the regality of the Winner name. Its main weapons are two shotels (sickle-like weapons) that can be heated for additional penetrating power. Put together with its backpack and the buster shield seen on every Gundam, a combined weapon called the Cross Crusher can be utilized. Quatre once tried to self-detonate Sandrock with himself inside it, but the Sandrock refused the command. Instead, it covered for him while he escaped into space. Upon his return to Earth, Quatre sought out the Sandrock (which had been rebuilt by OZ and then recaptured by rebels) and brought it back into service. Eventually, Sandrock would be modified by Howard to enable it to fight in space, and it would be rechristened Sandrock Kai ("Custom"). Its Cross Crusher ability is traded in for additional long-range firepower and much-needed maneuverability.
*****
Triton Bloom
Alias: Trowa Barton
("No-Name")
Age: 15 years
Hair: Brown
Eyes: Green
Height: 5'3"/ 160 cm
Weight: 97 lbs/ 44 kg
Blood Type: AB
Status: Pilot of Gundam Heavyarms
Trowa Barton is mysterious. His mysteric aura becomes stronger when silent, like in deep thought. In the Gundam Wing series, Trowa's past is unknown. Being a clown in a circus as a cover, Trowa always put out a clown appearance in front of an audience. During his life in the circus, he befriended another acrobat girl called Catherine. As the story goes on, Trowa's mystery is slowly revealed, especially in Endless Waltz. His nationality they say is either Latin or unknown and is from the L3 Colony. His occupation is being a clown. His Gundams are Heavyarms, Heavyarms Custom, Heavyarms Kai, and when he was in OZ, the Vayeate.
He calls himself a nameless soldier. No one knows his name or where he comes from, though he appears to be of Latin descent. For all he can remember, he has always been a soldier: a common grunt in the faceless world of war. 1. ×
This nameless soldier became involved in Operation: Meteor on the L3 colony when he was helping Doctor S to set up the Gundam that would become Heavyarms. Then, the original Trowa Barton revealed the secret of the operation...and out of concern for the lives on L3, a concerned member of the crew killed him. That was when "No-Name" (as he asked to be called) stepped forward and offered to take the place of the late Trowa Barton. Doctor S agreed...and gave him his new name.
And so it was that "Trowa Barton", with the Gundam Heavyarms, went to Earth. As a cover, he employed himself in a traveling circus, and he quickly established a reputation as the saddest clown in the show, with half of his face hidden behind a partial mask and his perpetual poker face exposed on the other. It was in the circus that he attracted the attention of Catherine Bloom (who is in actuality his sister), a young lady who also worked at the circus and was at once scared and intrigued by this stoic figure. Somehow, the fact that someone cared about him as a person helped Trowa to (slowly) break out of the soldier's mold.
Trowa's reputation has a dark tint to it. He's been known to infiltrate enemy organizations in efforts to sabotage them from within. Posing as a snake, he sometimes plays the snake too well: often engaging in friendly fire. He used a high-powered beam cannon to destroy Duo's Deathscythe, he (with Heero) engaged Quatre in the experimental Vayate, and he physically attacked or fired in the general direction of the other Gundam pilots on several occasions.
The Heavyarms Gundam (called Gundam-03 by the Alliance military) lends well to Trowa's style of combat: full on and at a distance. Aptly named, Heavyarms carries the most firepower of any of the suits: one beam gatling, two gatling guns and two vulcans on its chest, homing missiles, and micro-missiles. When the guns and missiles run empty (which is typical with Trowa), Heavyarms does have a gundanium heat knife that can be used as a fallback weapon. Though Trowa hides Heavyarms on Earth when he journeys into space, resistance fighters eventually get the Gundam to Howard on the Peacemillion, who adds a second beam gatling and modifies it for additional maneuverability in space, turning it into the Heavyarms Kai ("Custom")
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Info taken from "Absolute Anime.com".