The Gundam meta-series is a BIG long runner with many different continuities. The bashing started with Zeta Gundam, became mainstream with G Gundam and Gundam Wing, and ever since then it just won't stop.
- Relena Darlian/Peacecraft, from the fangirl-popular Gundam series Gundam Wing, is perhaps the most famous victim of Die for Our Ship ever in anime, and may be one of the most hated fictional women, along with Akane Tendo, Orihime Inoue, Ginny Weasley and Miaka Yuuki. She is often Flanderized as a Rich Bitch, a Yandere, or (sometimes) even a Card-Carrying Villain by fans who prefer the Heero/Duo pairing, even though Heero/Duo is virtually non-existent throughout the series (with the Ho Yay technically going more towards other pairings than them), even though Duo himself is shown several times to ship Heero/Relena, and even though the lyrics to Relena's Image Song "Always a Secret" depict her as a sweet and kind girl who would be pretty willing to let go of Heero and go the Married to the Job way if he fell in love with someone else. And then the sequel novel Frozen Teardrop, for all of its controversial writing, ended with Heero and Relena getting married.
- Technically, this happens to most of the show's female cast, since there's a 1-to-1 ratio of men to women among the primary cast — even ones who don't express any overt signs of romantic love for their counterparts and seem to go more for friendship or partnership with the guys. Relena gets it the worst (by far) because of a bad first impression. Other common victims are Duo's partner and potential girlfriend Hilde Schbeiker; Treize's right-hand Lady Une, Quatre's rival/counterpart the violently-inclined Dorothy Catalonia, and Lucrezia Noin, who is in the closest thing this series has to a explicit romantic relationship with Zechs Merquise. Trowa's Cool Big Sis Catherine Bloom gets surprisingly little of this, perhaps because she and Trowa act more like siblings than potential lovers. According to Frozen Teardrop they are, in fact, blood siblings.
- In Gundam SEED and its sequel, SEED Destiny:
- The ire of Athrun Zala/Cagalli Yula Athha fans, after canon went against them in Gundam SEED Destiny, brought lots of bashing of Meyrin Hawke, Lunamaria "Luna" Hawke and Meer Campbell... to the point that some people have either: a) sworn off both series as a whole SOLELY for the Ship Sinking; b) sworn off the Athrun/Cagalli pairing, or c) bashed Athrun/Cagalli back for the evil it inflicted on their girls or ships - especially poor Cagalli.
- It doesn't help that the amount Athrun/Cagalli even sinks depends on which edition you're watching. The fact that Word of God flip-flops all over the place just makes the situation worse.
- And it's not only about the infamous Athrun shipwar. If you like Kira Yamato/Lacus Clyne, apparently you can't like Flay Allster and must call her "whore" and "rapist". If you prefer Kira/Flay, you're often expected to call Lacus an unrealistic
Purity Sue. Not all the fans are like that, but it's still often the first thing that other fans see when the Ship-to-Ship Combat is mentioned.
- A case that's more or less forgotten but was horrible in its time, is the war between Domon/Allenby and Domon/Rain shippers in the G Gundam fandom. Allenby/Domon stans bashed Rain for being "girlier, therefore weaker and a slut" and "too whiny"; Domon/Rain fans retorted by calling Allenby a "third-wheel bitch" who "wanted to tear apart the Official Couple". Nevermind that Ally pulled an I Want My Beloved to Be Happy and pushed Domon towards Rain in the end.
- Domon himself isn't free of this. Those who preferred Rain with Chibodee or George often took his already pronunciated bad traits, ran away with them and derailed him into a rapist or a wife beater so she could ditch him for any other of her possible beaus. Sometimes, Rain's canon ex love interest Saette also was badmouthed by Domon/Rain fans, despite having more or less valid reasons to wonder about Rain and Domon.
- What makes the Rain vs Allenby debate even more interesting is that Koichi Tokita, the author and artist of the official manga adaptation, went on record as saying he preferred Allenby. However, rather than making Rain look bad, he tended to make her look good but Allenby looked better, both in the manga itself and in the silly Yonkoma included with it.
- Exception: despite the sheer popularity of the Neil "Lockon Stratos" Dylandy/Tieria Erde yaoi pairing in the Gundam 00 fandom, its fangirls never seem to bash Feldt Grace for having a sweet crush on Lockon. In fact, many of them actually like her.
- Sadly, it went in Feldt's "defense". More than a few Feldt/ Lyle Dylandy (Neil's Backup Twin) fans bash Anew Returner HARD and call her a Canon Sue for threatening their OTP. Which is ironic and utterly stupid, since before Anew ever was in the picture, Lyle actually preferred to put on a Hidden Heart of Gold-hiding facade in front of Feldt and push her away, rather than encourage her to pursue his affections. The fact that Anew in canon hooked up with Lyle, turned on the crew (even if as a Manchurian Agent under Mind Control), and wasn't convinced that her time/feelings for Lyle were true until it was way too late doesn't help fangirls' negative perception of her at all, even if that's not all there is to her character and that whole deal wasn't exactly her fault, but her "twin brother" Revive and Ribbons's own And of course, these two men get scot free in fandom view.
- As for 00's main star Setsuna, there are those who ship him with Marina or with Nena. The odds are most likely in Marina's favor now since Nena was killed by Louise. However, the two aforementioned ladies are... not well-liked. As a result, some fans paired Setsuna with other characters such as his Gundams, his fellow Meisters, Saji, Graham, Louise, Liu-Mei or Feldt. The last one mentioned already made her move, and unlike the two ladies, she's liked. Recently, however, questions on who will be Setsuna's Love Interest in The Movie have caused some Ship-to-Ship Combat, even though it's most likely he'll end up with no one.
- Setsuna turned out to be the standard Gundam Asexual Celibate Hero... until The Movie's distant finale. He visits an elderly Marina and, according to The Movie's manga adaptation, Setsuna restores Marina's youth and ultimately marries her, much to the chagrin of the Setsuna/Feldt shippers.(Though there are doubts about how canon that one is...)
- As far as Saji/Louise shippers go, they have a good reason to bash Louise's partner Andrei Smirnov for trying to win Louise's heart, as he has became The Scrappy for killing his father, Colonel Sergei Smirnov. And again by interrupting Saji and Louise during an important conversation during Episode 19. And again in episode 24 when he directly assaults Saji blaming him for Louise's deteriorating mental condition. Fortunately, Setsuna is there to prevent it , and then Andrei is swayed away from them by his interaction with Marie... However, they "conveniently forget" that in The Movie, Andrei not only has learned his lesson and gotten some bits of Character Development, but he does pay for his sins, via a Redemption Equals Death.
- Miraculously, Mileina Vashti has managed to dodge shipping-based hate as well, despite having a crush on Tieria and confessing to him.
- Sadly, it went in Feldt's "defense". More than a few Feldt/ Lyle Dylandy (Neil's Backup Twin) fans bash Anew Returner HARD and call her a
- And believe it or not, not even the Universal Century Gundam series are free. The hate that Zeta Gundam fans levelled to Fa Yuiry came less from her status as a Naïve Everygirl unable to 100% become an Action Girl, but rather from for supposedly "getting in between" Kamille and Four's True Love. Even more so after Four actually dies in really tragic circumstances, Kamille lives on but is mind raped into catatonia, and Fa survives and stays with him as he slooooowly gets better, to the point that they appear to be an Official Couple by the end of the sequel.
- Gundam AGE has this too, due to the hostility between Flit/Emily and Flit/Yurin shippers. The first accuse Yurin of being "too goody-goody" and say her and Flit's romance is a borderline Romantic Plot Tumor/Strangled by the Red String deal, so Emily has a better chance since she has known Flit from much earlier and thus can handle him better; the latter say that Emily is a mere Satellite Love Interest without any depths, therefore the kind Yurin would be more "meaningful" and fit better as Flit's girlfriend. Made worse by how episode 14 horribly kills off Yurin., thus Emily goes the Victorious Childhood Friend route (at the very high price of knowing Flit will never get over Yurin, mind you).
- In the second generation, Romary got massive loathing from the Asem / Zeheart shippers. And more than one potshot from Asem/Arisa fans, too. And bonus accusations of being The Obstructive Love Interest or a Satellite Love Interest for being a Girl Next Door.
- Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury has this with Suletta/Miorine shippers, and... well, just about anything that the show implies to be a threat to Suletta/Miorine as a couple. This largely owes to the fact that they are a) largely treated as an Official Couple by the show's advertising, promotion, and story (ultimately being married in the finale), and b) an explicitly romantic same-sex couple between the protagonist and deuteragonist, something unheard of in Gundam and not much more common in anime as a whole. While certainly daring, it also attracts a fandom that has been burned a lot by Bait-and-Switch Lesbians, and consequently found itself raising its hackles every time the show introduced a new guy or started implying Ship Tease involving an existing one.
- One of the more morbid cases of this was Elan Ceres who early on seemed to express an interest in Suletta (with the latter seemingly having a crush on him in return) that can be framed in and out-universe as having romantic undertones, all while the other characters (including Miorine) interpret their interactions as romantic in nature and try pushing them together. He is probably the most tragic story of any character in the first season as he's revealed to have been a Body Double turned into an Expendable Clone, and is ultimately executed by his handlers when his Pharact's Deadly Upgrade wears him out. A surprising number of people were actually quite pleased when this happened, as it meant the termination of what would have been him and Suletta going on a date.
- Guel is probably the biggest recipient of this. Guel's character as written in the series starts out as a violent Jerk Jock and Miorine's initial entirely-loveless partner, but then loses Miorine, gets humbled, and becomes increasingly kinder, in part due to an unrequited crush on Suletta, the first girl to ever beat him honorably. However, though he is generally popular, the show's yuri fandom was probably slowest to forgive him. This was not helped by the fact that, as he was the most prominent male character, people who disliked the series for, frankly, misogynistic and/or homophobic reasons latched onto Guel as the "real protagonist" as a way to instigate conflict, even loudly supporting Guel/Suletta despite whole miniarcs going by without them interacting nor Suletta even thinking about him. Even after that pairing was about as sunken as it could be (Guel confesses his feelings properly, Suletta declares herself taken and lets him down gently, he accepts this) and makes it clear that he actually supported Suletta and Miorine getting together, he still proved visibly more controversial among the yuri fandom due to being seen as a Spotlight-Stealing Squad in the show's very packed second cour, beyond just shipping reasons.
- It says a lot about how badly yuri fans have been burned out by baiting when there is noticeably far less antipathy towards the handful of same-sex teased couples, even ones that threaten SuleMio, which includes Sophie's odd apparent crush on Suletta (who actually considers killing Miorine so that she can have Suletta all to herself), or Miorine's Childhood Friend that has feelings for her in the light novel adaptation. This is partly for Yuri Fan reasons, and partly because they don't scan as "threats" in the same way (bait-and-switching a well-established gay pairing for an underwritten straight one happens pretty regularly, not so much an established gay one for an underwritten gay one).
