DrDre said:
Star Wars universe Wonder Woman, having discovered insta-Force.Sorry Frink I didn’t mean to open up old wounds and rekindle the Mary Sue debate, I myself was responding to Dre’s comment above. That comment launched it. I don’t like the Mary Sue stuff, I think its tedious and it is emboldening a certain section of fandom that I would rather not embolden.
Yeah, Wonder Woman is a DC super hero. I could hardly call her Superman, since she is…a woman. I don’t like my Star Wars protagonists to be super heroes, who like Spider-Man, who was bitten by a radio-active spider, instantly gets super human powers. I call that insta-Force. I want my Star Wars protagonists to work for it, and struggle. It has nothing to do with her being a woman. That’s something you brought into the discussion.
I want to go with your Spider-Man analogy. Peter Parker did get powers, but he had to learn a hard lesson to understand the responsibility that comes with it. Rey has the power, but not the understanding.
I wonder if that was what Leia’s role in IX would have been. She is trying to teach Poe about it, citing that the bomber pilots who died destroying the dreadnaught were dead heroes: not leaders. She is trying to teach him to look beyond the battle and be a leader and her successor. Leia can do the same for Rey, and be the parent figure she so desperately wants (a mother instead of the father).