Before making a single edit, Tropedia EXPECTS our site policy and manual of style to be followed. Failure to do so may result in deletion of contributions and blocks of users who refuse to learn to do so. Our policies can be reviewed here.
All images MUST now have proper attribution, those who neglect to assign at least the "fair use" licensing to an image may have it deleted. All new pages should use the preloadable templates feature on the edit page to add the appropriate basic page markup. Pages that don't do this will be subject to deletion, with or without explanation.
All new trope pages will be made with the "Trope Workshop" found on the "Troper Tools" menu and worked on until they have at least three examples. The Trope workshop specific templates can then be removed and it will be regarded as a regular trope page after being moved to the Main namespace. THIS SHOULD BE WORKING NOW, REPORT ANY ISSUES TO Janna2000, SelfCloak or RRabbit42. DON'T MAKE PAGES MANUALLY UNLESS A TEMPLATE IS BROKEN, AND REPORT IT THAT IS THE CASE. PAGES WILL BE DELETED OTHERWISE IF THEY ARE MISSING BASIC MARKUP.
Rebellious Princess Relena of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing is specifically bashed by some fans because of her princess-like girliness and her pink limousine. Made stupider by the fact that as Relena gets Character Development, she starts wearing pants more often. In fact, during the Endless WaltzOAV she was wearing a light pink office suit with pants... apparently the same one she wore in her last scene in the TV series.
Back in the day, there was even a Gundam WingYaoi fansite that specifically said "girls who don't act like men are always bitches".
And not to mention, many "fandom feminists" claimed that it was "a feminist duty" to hate Relena and denounce her as a bad example for little girls since she oh-so was "an obsessed and pathetic Rich Bitch who followed Heero like a yapping lapdog and only lived for him". Because starting a series as a desperately lonely and naive girl who latched on the first person who didn't mask his thoughts in front of her right after her father's tragic death and later growing into a more mature young woman able to help others to find peace is so horrible and offensive. (Not to mention, it was a-okayfor some of them to turn Duo into a pathetic and obsessive yapping lapdog that only lived for Heero".)
In-universe, this is inverted by Trowa with Dorothy. When informed of Treize's death, Dorothy is devastated but doesn't cry, to which Trowa says to her, "That's sad. A woman who can't cry." Once Trowa leaves, however, she breaks down in tears.
In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, we have Soma Peiries, a likable and kickass Dark Action Girl. Then, this personality went dormant and replaced by the original one: the gentle, sensitive Mysterious Waif Marie Parfasy. Fan reaction was very unkind that she chose not to fight and temporarily be a Bridge Bunny rather than remain a kickass Action Girl, to the point that she was in danger of being kicked to The Scrappy Heap, though this was not solely because of this trope. Drifting Out of Focus also played a signficant role.
Worse, the Fan Dumbknew that Marie would return to action by piloting the GN Archer, being dissatisfied by how long it took. As SoMarie and her boyfriend Allelujah/Hallelujah (who also was unjustly accused of forcing Marie to stay aside for chauvinistic reasons, when in fact he was living up to The Promise he made to her father Sergei about keeping her safe) became a Battle Couple, the bashing wore off, but still hasn't disappeared.
There were also misogynistic comments about Rebellious Princess Marina Ismail being "only good for running daycare centers" since she's often seen taking care of Azadistani orphans and later refuses to take a gun for self-defense. This is perhaps Fridge Logic at play, but a valid example of complaining over her taking on a feminine role, and according to Marina being a deconstruction of the Rebellious Princess trope.
Quotes • 
Headscratchers • 
Playing With • Useful Notes • 
Analysis • 
Image Links • 
Haiku • Laconic