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Over the weekend, even as most of us were celebrating the fact that a new Star Wars movie did not in any way suck, some portions of the internet got sucked into a pointless, silly debate. Is Rey, the film’s hero, a “Mary Sue”? The answer is no. Next question?
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Rey is just the greatest.
She is borderline Mary Sue though. Granted there are still question marks over her past that threaten that but ultimately it felt like JJ and co pushed her a little too hard and went a little overboard.
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The problem is the term's become contextual at this point. Even with that considered, you can't deny she hit A LOT of the marks of that kind of wish fulfillment:
-the usual beautiful-looking/strange name stuff
-she's talented to a staggering degree, and I'd say canon-breaking ways too
-she's practically flawless as a character
-dramatic backstory
There's a few more things you can bring up but you get the picture.
So, when a girl is a bad-ss, then she must be some sort of cookie cutter archetype?
That is the dumbest thing I have heard. She is good with technical stuff and tough enough to survive on an unforgiving planet with unforgiving, uncaring people.
She has the force. Just like Leia, she uses the force without knowing she can. Leia was able to resist a mind probe in A New Hope and sent droids out on an escape pod and manipulated the force to prevent the Star Destroyer crew from firing upon it.
The force can be manipulated on the weak of mind. I see some connection in the way these two characters wield the force and it is completely canon as it was established in the very first episode with both Leia and Luke.
Luke used it to target Wamprats with his T-16 back home and those were no bigger than 2 meters. And the trench run was just like Beggar's Canyon. So, no, two characters in the very beginning used the force with minimal to no training quite effectively.
To think one had to be a Jedi master to have a lightsaber come to hand when already associated with that lightsaber is ludicrous. Luke called the lightsaber to him while he was still a complete rookie.
She's an annoying feminist.