Shadow1980 said:
If you just don't like her, that's fine. My problem is with the hyperbole coming from some people. They confuse "Character I don't like" or "character I think is poorly written" with "Mary Sue" if the character is powerful or displays any sort of competence. Being powerful doesn't make a character a Mary Sue. Neither does being skilled, especially if the skills are not unusual and can be easily justified in-story. The term Mary Sue is meant to apply to characters, almost always self-inserts/"author avatars," who are idealized to an absurd degree and are nominally flawless. It originated from a parody of self-insert Star Trek fanfiction from the early 70s. But in today's internet culture the term just gets abused. |
Well for you, I'll simply call her a poorly-written character.
