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Originally Posted by Reckoner
I don't think she's a Wesley character. I'm bent on applying the definition of Mary Sue to Mari unless you can sufficiently explain to me otherwise  |
Wow, it just means you haven't been exposed to... bad fanfiction in the EVA fandom. Ever, if you're grinning like that. :P
In the early days, before 'ground rules' were even agreed upon, Mary Sues in EVA fanfiction were RAMPANT. Second only to self-inserts, actually. My experience first as a member of EFML, the old Darkscribes, in Evafics.org, then as caretaker of Asuka's Notebook and... Well, inasmuch as I wasn't that a good writer myself in those days, I didn't do self-inserts or Mary Sues. It was just, wrong.
Hmm, I digressed a bit. Suffice to say that, if you're familiar with
Shinji and Warhammer 40k, the feats of UNIVERSE BREAKING that Shinji does in that Story is a good barometer of what Mary Sues have been seen doing in EVA fiction on and off in the past decade and a half -- which Mari, I have to say, hasn't even done anything close. She's gotten her arse kicked, twice, in what I might add was not a curb-stomp; in fact it was the opposite, as SHE was the one stomped thoroughly by Zeruel.
The only aspect about her that, really, could be said to be vaguely Mary Sue-ish is the 'plans within plans' comment she had, but that's it. Everything else is still plausible within the context of the movies -- even her usage of Unit-02 and the Beast Mode (which that little quip by Ritsuko alludes to be an actual in-built feature this time around).