Duo Maxwell
Duo Maxwell is a male anime and manga character who features in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
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Biography
Duo Maxwell (Japanese: デュオ・マックスウェル, Hepburn: Dyuo Makkusuweru, derived from Latin duo, lit. "two") was a male human born in the After Colony era where he was an orphan growing up on the streets of an L2 colony. In the year AC 187, after a reckless attempt to steal food from an Alliance military warehouse, he and some other children were taken in and cared for by Father Maxwell and Sister Helen at the Maxwell Church. It is from Sister Helen that he adopts the practice of braiding his hair. Though the other children were eventually adopted Duo was always returned to the church, and remained in their care until AC 188. In that year, rebels would claim the church for a refuge after a battle with the Alliance. When Father Maxwell protested their use of violence, they struck him down and accused the priest and Sister Helen of being Alliance spies. Hoping to appease them, Duo rushed off and stole a mobile suit. Upon returning, he found the church has been destroyed, the Alliance having attacked in his absence. Duo finds Sister Helen amidst the ruins, and before she dies she tells him he has God's blessing. The incident would later be known as the Maxwell Church Tragedy, which resulted in the death of 245 people, Duo being the sole survivor. Following this, Duo was imprisoned for an unspecified amount of time by the Alliance. In AC 192, Duo is discovered stowing away on board a space shuttle and meets Professor G, who is impressed the boy managed to sneak past his security system. He subsequently becomes involved in Operation Meteor. Duo then joined the ranks of the Sweeper Group and where he became the pilot of Gundam Deathscythe.
After landing on Earth, Duo attacked a mobile suit factory and then attacked an Earth Alliance naval fleet when they were attempting to salvage the Wing Gundam. Duo met Heero Yuy during the second episode, who attempted to kill Duo due to a misunderstanding. After recovering Wing Gundam and breaking Heero out of an Alliance hospital, Heero uses Deathscythe's components to repair Wing Gundam and parts ways with Duo. The two encounter each other again during an attack on the New Edwards Base, during which Duo meets the other three Gundam pilots: Trowa Barton, Quatre Raberba Winner, and Chang Wufei. Duo works alongside Heero until Heero self-detonates Wing Gundam. Duo joins with Quatre and the Maganac Corps, lying low until the decision to travel into space is made by the Gundam pilots. Duo and Deathscythe are captured by OZ and taken to the Lunar Base. Duo escapes with Heero's assistance, Deathscythe is destroyed, and Duo is recaptured by Hilde and the Gundam Scientists. He remains imprisoned, along with Wufei when they are freed by Lady Une; Duo escapes again, taking the incomplete Deathscythe Hell with him. He had been living with Hilde and working on completing Deathscythe Hell, but is made to test Wing Gundam Zero's ZERO System by OZ officer Trant. In episode 36 he encounters Trowa again while visiting the circus with Hilde, and informs Quatre of Trowa's whereabouts. He joins with Trowa, Quatre, and Lucrezia Noin after saving them from OZ, and the group links up with Duo's Sweeper friend Howard, who is commanding the spaceship Peacemillion. Sometime during these episodes, Duo is approached to join the White Fang rebellion, but rejects the offer, due to the group's similarities to OZ. Duo works alongside the other Gundam Pilots and their allies during the rest of the series. He then goes to save Hilde from the rebuilt OZ-13MSX1 Vayeate and OZ-13MSX2 Mercurius mobile dolls, which were programmed with combat data taken from when Heero and Trowa tested the original prototype suits. Duo is able to defeat both mobile dolls. Duo locates the five Gundam Scientists, and assists them in seriously damaging the superweapon Battleship Libra. He fights alongside the Maganac Corps and World Nation soldiers against White Fang, and watches Heero use Wing Zero to destroy the wreckage from Libra before it crashes on Earth.
After working with Quatre to send four of the Gundams into the sun, Duo went with Heero to rescue Relena after she was captured by the Mariemaia Army. During their entrance to the colony, Duo captured a Leo mobile suit, and was pitted against Trowa (who had infiltrated the Mariemaia Army) in a Serpent. The three Gundam pilots are able to prevent a colony drop from being performed, and Duo is knocked out by Heero to allow the latter to escape and reclaim Wing Zero. After escaping from his cell, Duo, alongside Trowa and Quatre, recover their Gundams and travel to Earth, fighting the Mariemaia Army's invasion force. He and the other pilots are able to defeat many enemy Serpent suits without killing any pilots, and after Heero and Relena defeat Dekim Barton, Duo self-detonates Deathscythe Hell.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Despite frequent hardships, Duo tends to keep an upbeat and humorous, if sarcastic, attitude.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Duo Maxwell was created by Katsuyuki Sumizawa where he featured in the setting of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing.
Appearances
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing:
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