Why do you not raise a peep when males get mary sues in every other film, but when women get them you create a national emergency?
Why do you not raise a peep when males get mary sues in every other film...
Name 3 male mary sues (gary stues) in recent years
Be. Very. Careful. Now.
keanu reeves in everything
liam neeson in everything
james bond
every male action hero
Cause men are cool and women are fucking gay and unbelievable as anything competent, particularly when it comes to hand-to-hand combat.
By definition a Mary due is a fan character that everyone in universe loves aside from the bad guy who likely ends up loving them at the end, is good at everything they do, never fails, and is likely a self insert for the author.
None of those characters fit the bill if for no other reason than they regularly fail and get their shit kicked in
This, I know men who are pretty much real life gary stues but women are bad at fucking everything
Mary Sue gets confused with the recent meme that characters have to be "realistic."
Characters should be realistic, not compared to our reality, but the universe in which they exist.
Take Schwarzenegger in Commando.
Dude can literally break chains off fences, lift a man with one hand, and flip porsches.
But even with this, he still gets beat up by 3 guys at the beginning of the film after failing to safely drive his dead bronco down a hill.
Not a Mary Sue.