In Japan, Quatre Raberba Winner is the least popular Gundam Wing pilot. Although he acquits himself well, fans of the series there still refer to him as the “space heart wimp” because they think he’s not a stoic bad-ass like Hiiro, Trowa, and Wu Fei are, and tends to wear his heart on his sleeve.
Unfortunately, some American fans see him that way, too, or even worse, and that's just as wrong.
Reasons for being hated: wimp, useless, stupid, hypocrite, crybaby, manipulative/abusive asshole, not a fighter, a whiny brat, crazy/can "go ZERO" and kill everyone at any moment, gets in the way of alternate Trowa pairings, is Trowa's canon love interest.
WAH!!! Quatre is a wimp!!!
Then why does Trowa call him the strongest person he knows, not just in the series, but in canonical mangas such as Blind Target or Battlefield of Pacifists? And if Cat’s such a wimp, why does Hiiro pass the baton of leadership to him in the series?
If he were a wimp, which he isn’t, he would never have earned the respect of any of the other Gundam pilots, let alone Rashid and the Maguanac Corps, Commander Sada'ul, Noin, Sally, or his own sister, Iria.
WAH!!! Quatre is useless!!!
Quatre isn't "useless"; he's a soldier, a strategist, and leader of men. That he has the soul of an artist is a plus. Besides, if he were "useless," the character would never have seen the light of day.
WAH!!! Quatre is stupid!!!
Bitch, please. According to some sources, and hinted at in the manga version of GW, he wrote the ZERO System BY HIMSELF. If that makes him stupid in your opinion, then you need a new dictionary, because you don't know the meaning of the word.
WAH!!! Quatre is a hypocrite!!! He claims he's a pacifist, but fights in a war!!!!
Uh, no. His father and sisters are the pacifists in his family; Quatre isn't, and even says as much to Duo in "The Whereabouts of Happiness." Like his mother, Quatre is a fighter.
WAH!!! Quatre is a crybaby!!!
Again, please. Quatre cries exactly four times in the entire series: when he detonates Sandrock, when his father is killed and Iria is injured, when he sees the remains of Trowa's Vayate and the enormity of what happened in the L2 cluster hits him, and when he finds Trowa alive.
WAH!!! Quatre's a manipulative, abusive asshole!!!
Look, just because Quatre is an empath doesn't mean he's manipulative. Quatre is a receptive empath, not a projective one like Lady Une is. He only receives the emotions of others. He can't project his to others.
Oh, and just because someone is abused and/or neglected throughout their childhood, much like Quatre was, doesn't mean he's going to become an abuser, too.
WAH!!! Quatre’s not a fighter like the others!!!
Gimme a break. All the official data released by Sunrise states, and I quote, that Quatre received the same level of training the other Gundam pilots did.
WAH!!! Quatre is a whiny brat!!!
How is he whiny? He doesn’t throw fits or temper tantrums. Have you forgotten that he goes through a lot of crap during the series? I think you’re confusing Quatre with Dorothy.
WAH!!! Quatre is crazy!!! He can "go ZERO" at any moment and kill everyone!!!
I call this "Cupcakes" Syndrome, if I can be forgiven for referencing a truly hideous My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic titled "Cupcakes." It's also completely inaccurate.
Being an empath, Quatre felt his father die the moment it happened and his eldest sister's physical pain and emotional suffering. Therefore , he experienced a psychotic break and went temporarily insane from an overload of pain and suffering that wasn't his own. He wasn't "crazy" when he piloted Wing Zero; the ZERO actually blocked Quatre's empathy to the point where he didn't feel his own emotions, much less any outside ones.
WAH!!! Quatre gets in the way of other Trowa pairings!!!
Oy, ye'bat.
This is the one thing that can really turn me off a fandom, when some fans stoop so low as to hating on a character because, in their opinion, they get in the way of their preferred pairings.
This also ties into the “Quatre is a manipulative/abusive asshole” bit. Some fans use that out of character misrepresentation to justify their preferred Trowa pairing.
Well, I'm sorry, but there are some folks in this world who enjoy canon couples, and your pairings aren't the only ones out there. So please, please, PLEASE GET THE FUCK OVER YOURSELF and let others have their opinions, too, without trying to tear them down because they like something you don't care for, okay?
WAH!!! Quatre is a focused/canon love interest!!!
Well, this all relates back to the above, pairings. Yes, he may be Trowa's canon love interest in the series, but that could be what the creator(s) had in mind when they created his character in the first place.
In the end, you can't control canon, you can't control what the creators' original intentions were, and you most certainly can't control the creators' own creations in a canonically proven way like, obviously, the creators can.
WAH!!! Trowa belongs with me/Duo/Hiiro/Middie Une/my OC!!!
You know, you're certainly welcome to pair Trowa up with whomever you choose, but that doesn't mean we have to drop the pairing we like. No one knows who either Trowa or Quatre are going to end up with. That's something only their creators can decide.
By the way, they'd decided that Middie Une was a one-shot deal before the Episode Zero episodes were cut from the production schedule.
As for the "me" part, Trowa would never love you because one, he doesn't exist, and two, even if he did, he wouldn't tolerate anybody hating on Quatre because he's very important to him. Trowa only belongs to Sunrise/Sotsu, and nobody else.
