RE: Mary Sue, Marty Stu
August 13, 2014 at 2:08 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2014 at 2:11 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Quote:2. Is the protagonist awesomely skilled in a few specific areas of does it seem like he/she can do anything and knows everything, better than even experts in the respective fields? Bonus Mary/Marty points if there's no believable reason such skills should have ever been acquired.Continuing my Johnny hate - the Pyschlos, his eventual enemies, jacked him into a "god-machine" that literally beamed any knowledge he required (and most anything that he didn't) - directly into his head, apparently, so he could blow their fucking homeworld up a few hundred pages later. How very accomodating of them.
8.well.........both Johnny and L. Ron were clearly insane...so there's that. The Psychlo/catrist thing is a direct mirror of scientology, obviously.
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