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Originally Posted by ClarkNasty
Good lord. Rey is without question the best character there as well as the most well rounded. She’s shown being strong in a fight, needing help in a fight, tough, emotionally weak, petulant, earnest, dangerously angry sometimes. In what universe is this some “super strong no flaws” character.
The more y’all talk the worse your stance sounds.
Yeah, I guess we're going to have to agree to disagree on that. If you Google "Rey Mary Sue", you get smacked with a barrage of click-bait listicles by all the usual suspects (including the literal themarysue.com) à la "12 Reasons Why Rey Is Not a Mary Sue - Number 7 will show you how racist you are for thinking that".
Here's what the actress who plays Rey has to say. Spoiler: If you call Rey a Mary Sue, it's because you're a sexist, because of course you are.
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“I don’t buy the Mary Sue thing anyway. I find the term sexist in itself because it’s, ‘Mary Sue’. I don’t think there’s a thing called ‘Ryan Craig,’" Ridley pointed out. "When I was doing it, I never felt sure of what was going on. It wasn’t like, ‘This is happening, and I’m so powerful and look at me go.’"
"And essentially, all I found Rey trying to do in the first one was she was trying to the right thing like she was trying to help BB-8 and then she’s trying to help Finn and now she’s trying to help the Resistance," Ridley pointed out. "It’s not a sort of self-centered power that she’s just exhibiting,because also she didn’t ask for anything in the first one.”
Hey, that character is flawlessly virtuous, trying to help this droid, and trying to help that guy, and trying to help this cause, and - get this - NEVER asking anything in return!!! Don't call her a Mary Sue, you sexist prick!