trunkage said:
Silentpony said:
I think the thing that makes him not is that it exhausts him. He holds a space rhino for like ten seconds and slips into a coma. Ray holds a starship for entire minutes against a Sith and just runs off, none-the-worse-for-wear, then does space gymnastics that would have made Neo go 'Whoa'
Even OG Yoda after moving Luke's X-Wing was visibly exhausted from it. If Baby Yoda was a Mary Sue, he/she would have held the space rhino for minutes, used the force to summon a blaster, 360 no-scoped the Rhino, did a triple salchow off the backbeam, scored the winning goal in the space world cup, fixed Apollo 11 with a force sneeze, made his/her own soup 'cause they're independent and strong, and saved their own self from the Empire because they're not a damsel that needs a man to save them, all the while holding down a 9-5 job as an editor of a Fashion Magazine in the BIG SPACE CITY.
The point Im making isn't that Mary Sues are just effortlessly powerful, its that they're invulnerable and never any consequences to their risks. Hell Rey, in defiance of the star wars trilogy hero, never gets her hand cut off.
So, breathing heavy after using the force and cutting her arm off would have cured her issue?
Actually yeah, that would have fixed a number of issues. The second movie of every Star Wars Trilogy is the good guys get their shit kicked in, the Empire is on the rise, and the hero looses a hand.
Empire Strikes Back. Han in Carbonite, the Rebels forced from the Galaxy, Luke looses a hand, the Empire is on the rise.
Attack of the Clones. Anakin on the way to the Dark Side. The Sith start a war they control both sides on. The Jedi are forced to be part of a war. Anakin loose a hand.
The Last Jedi. The Alliance is all but destroyed. Kylo assumes command of the Galaxy. Fucking LUKE SKYWALKER dies. And Rey...slips into Kylo's Force DMs and gets to see some space tits.
That's it. and up until the second to last scene in the entire Trilogy Rey is invulnerable. And even then, she's perfectly fine. There was no low point for her. The heroes journey is denial of the call, acceptance, initial success, failure and abandonment of the call, and then eventual return and victory. Anakin fails at this, which is why he's a tragic anti-hero. Luke succeeds, which is why in South Park he's sitting next to Jesus and Santa Claus as examples of folk heroes. And Rey...just skips to the end, and wins.