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IronBornCorps posted...

What about when he stole Duo's Gundam parts after Duo helps him? Duo has a mission too and. He also jumped out of that hospital window and waited to the very last second to deploy his chut. The first act he constantly displays anti-social behavior.

Yeah, stealing from Duo was pretty crappy. :)
Not sure why you brought up the parachute thing, that was again him trying to kill himself, and (thankfully) losing the will to do it at the last second.

I'm not saying he has displays these through the whole show. As you get into the back story, his motivations become more clear. After he blows himself up he also goes around to the family to atone for his mistake. There is a noticeable behavior switch after that, and it's moved even further once he starts using the Zero system.

It was being duped into killing the pacifist faction by OZ that did that really, but yeah.

I think it's unfair to use his mission as an excuse for his behavior, considering Duo and Quatre seem to have no problem working as a team, and not being completely closed off, and not coming off like a sociopath. I will admit Wu Fei has these characteristics way more than Heero, and Wu Fei doesn't really grow much as a character. His whole arc is around beating Treze and being a loner.

I think Duo and Quattre are just really sociable by their nature, it probably goes against their training, if anything.
And 3/5 of the pilots are anti-social, so if anything, I'd call that the norm.
Wu Fei suffers the most of the five from not having their backstories included in the show. It strips him of a lot of character growth and understanding his viewpoint. But he does have another arc besides that, with his interactions w/ Noin and Sally Po.

EDIT: Back on the whole "toxic" thing, how fucked up is it that Relina's so blindly in one-sided love w/ Heero that she urges him to kill her own brother? Literally gets berated about how horrible that is immediately after, too. That's gotta be the single most toxic action in the whole show.