Is Rey from Star Wars a Mary Sue?

[KLAMarine]

Shadow1980 said:

KLAMarine said:

No doubt TLJ was a box office success but backlash against a company's product and their efforts is never something any company wants to see.

With JJ back in the director's seat, I'm sure Ep. IX will be the "safe" film, kinda like how TESB was the OT's "risky" film and ROTJ was the "safe" film full of straightforward action-adventure. And like how ROTJ performed better than TESB (though not by much), I'm sure Ep. IX will do even better than TLJ (though still nowhere near as well as TFA, because it'll probably be a very long time before we see a box office juggernaut like that again). In fact, if Disney does think the concerns of the vocal anti-TLJ minority on the internet is worth addressing, we probably will see everything Star Wars play it safe from now on to avoid ruffling any feathers.

That's a shame: Rey turning to the dark side or Kylo Ren finally beating Rey and becoming another Vader would have made for an interesting twist.

Shadow1980 said:

I don't recall saying she was flawless. I'm just saying she's overpowered and to the point that she breaks rules and becomes a lame character.

If you personally think she's a lame character, that's fine. I can't make someone like a character that I like. But I can call foul when someone acts like a character is objectively a Mary Sue when such an evaluation is A) largely subjective and B) requires a lot of jumping through hoops to justify. I honestly feel that some people are just hating "NuWars" for hate's sake, and finding whatever post hoc rationalizations they can to justify their hate.

What hoops would these be?