History Characters / Touhou

* BrotherChuck (Despite being present in four out of the five PC-98 games, she has yet to even be ''mentioned'' in the the Windows series.)

* RealityWarper (She's capable of manipulating "Boundaries" in any sense of the word. That could mean anything from opening a portal into a painting or a dream to grabbing the horizon with her hand and pulling it around to ''manipulating the border of truths and lies in the reflection of the moon to create a portal to it.'' )

* EpilepticTrees (A fan theory has Maribel and Yukari Yakumo being the same person. The basic idea is that when Maribel sleeps, she dreams she is Yukari. And when Yukari sleeps, she dreams she is Maribel. It doesn't help matters that they look similar.)

* FanNickname (Western fans often call her [[http://danbooru.donmai.us/data/2bd42bcc4700bf350c12c974f6347a66.png "Suwacko"]] or "Swackers.")

* ChineseGirl

** TH12.3 also takes it one step further in her win quote where she (very proudly) states that beating up opponents feels much better than besting them with magic

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First, there are two principal methods Japanese names could be written into Latin letters, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepburn_romanization Hepburn System]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunrei-shiki_romanization Kunrei-shiki System]]. In general, [[WordOfGod ZUN]] favored the Hepburn System before Phantasmagoria of Flower View, but changed to the Kunrei-shiki System afterward. This page uses the Hepburn format for the sake of [[SpellMyNameWithAnS argument]], as it is the most widely recognized and makes the pronunciation obvious to English speakers.

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*WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity (Inverted - Parsee's jealousy of others is explicitly stated in-game to be the ''source'' of her powers.)

* HypercompetentSidekick (Fandom has her increasingly playing this role, either with Shou or the Myoren Temple crew as a whole)

* MeaningfulName (Her name means "one wheel in clouds", and her [[BossSubtitles character title]] is "The Great Wheel That Guards And Is Guarded".)

*FanNickname (Affectionally called "Yukarin". Also called "Sukima" ("gap") in reference to how her powers manifest, and "Babaa" ("old hag") in reference to her extreme age, being around [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 1300 years old]] and thus one of the oldest characters in a series filled with centuries-old characters.)

* {{Bifauxnen}} (A lot of fanart likes to depict her as looking very boyish, to the point where some posts of her on Danbooru get the "reverse trap" tag.)

*SmokingIsCool (Often seen smoking in fanart.)

One of the Tengu who inhabit Gensokyo, Aya runs the [[strike:tabloid]] newspaper known as the Bunbunmaru; because she gets carried away when writing the articles, people don't really like to be featured in her paper. While she is strong, she prefers to work on her paper far more than fighting.

* KamehameHadoken (The fan-invented and now memetic [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kofnEdB8Blc#t=0m25s Twilight Spark]].)

** There was also the "fish bait" that caused fish to mutate into monsters and the bamboo fertilizer that made bamboo grow super fast and super strong in ''The Inaba of the Moon And The Inaba of the Earth". SoYeah.

*** Keep in mind, Eirin was sending Reisen #2 to offer support against a rumored invasion that Eirin herself had spread the rumors for. SoYeah.

* [[TheGenericGuy The Generic Girl]] (Ichirin ''herself'' would be easily forgetable if it weren't for [[TheOneGuy Unzan]])
** This has recently been [[WordOfGod confirmed]] in [[AllThereInTheManual an interview with ZUN on UFO]].
--->'''ZUN:''' Ichirin is pretty much just a hitbox for Unzan in the game.

** Also inverted. When she finally got a personality in ''Double Spoiler'', it ended up being more or less the exact opposite of the one fans had been using.

** Of course, being [[PinkBishoujoGhetto one of the closest things Gensokyo has to men]] means that Wriggle gets shipped around quite a bit to begin with.
*{{Crossdresser}} (She wears a button-up dress shirt and a pair of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomers_%28clothing%29 victorian style bloomers]], but since nearly every other character wears a skirt or a dress, she's labeled as a crossdresser by fans. Numerous references to her [[{{Bifauxnen}} supposed manliness]] follow.)

*YouFailNuclearPhysicsForever: she has the power of nuclear fusion, yet the control rod on her arm is only useful in fission power plants.

* Genre Savvy (One particularly amusing example in Perfect Cherry Blossom was Reimu waiting around for a boss to arrive.)