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Star Wars fans: Rey is such a boring Mary-Sue.

Tumblr: No she isn’t! There is a perfectly logical explanation as to why she mastered everything she touched perfectly on the first try.

Star Wars fans: ….how then?

Tumblr: She used the Force.

Star Wars fans:

that is literally how the force works if you can use it have you never seen a star wars movie before or

anakin never finished a race, then wins one first time out

anakin never flew a starship before and manages to do what the other pilots couldn’t: blow up a droid control ship

let’s not forget luke

luke never used a lightsaber or piloted an x-wing before, then the second he uses the force, bam, perfect first time out

lmao look at this person tryin’ to call rey a mary sue like it’s 2004

[ Image in the OP is Han saying “That’s not how the force works!” in The Force Awakens; images in reply are of the parts of previous movies being discussed. ]

That and like. She has better reasons for knowing this stuff than the above dudes do.

Like, of COURSE she knows all about mechanics- she’s been scavenging starships for parts most of her life, so knowing what’s what and how it works is a crucial life skill.

When she handles a lightsaber, she’s very obviously using it like she would a staff (and spends most of the fight running away from Kylo anyway). You know, like the staff she carries with her all the time for self-defense in the desert hellhole she grew up in.

Everything we see her do with the Force is stuff Kylo did in front of her- he invades her mind, and she invades his and then mind-tricks a Stormtrooper (which still takes her three tries). He Force-holds her and later tries to Force-pull a lightsaber, and she Force-pulls it to her instead.

Practically everyone in the Star Wars universe is casually multilingual, and the only character in TFA who’s shown to be unable to understand at least one of Chewie or BB-8 is Finn, who was raised and brainwashed as a Stormtrooper (and neither the Empire nor the First Order seems to be much of an equal opportunity employer when it comes to species). Given her scavenger history, Rey having met astromech droids before isn’t just possible, but likely.

Her skills are better-established than either Luke’s or Anakin’s before they matter, but nope, she’s the Mary Sue, apparently.

For god’s sake, if you take Episode 1 at its word, Anakin was a goddamn virgin birth caused by the will of the force, and has an extensive prophecy about him being the Chosen One.

Like. Seriously.

She’s also clearly heard stories about the Jedi, so once Maz Kanata tells her that she has a natural affinity for the Force, trying to do things with the Force (Jedi Mind Trick, Force-pulling the Skywalker lightsaber) can also be really easily handwaved as testing out things that she’s heard of the Jedi being able to do. Plus she’s in pretty dire situations when she tries them, so there’s an aspect of “welp I’m screwed anyway might as well try this out I mean it’s a long shot but it’s not like I have anything to lose if it doesn’t work.”

Also, as for how she understands the Wookiee language, that’s actually explained in one of the canon supplementary books, Star Wars: Rey’s Survival Guide, which is all about her life on Jakku. She salvaged a working computer from an old Rebel Y-Wing and kept it for herself, and it had programs for translating alien languages, flight simulation, ship schematics, navigational charts, etc, and she studied from it a lot when she wasn’t out salvaging parts or trading them in town (since it’s not like there’s a whole lot else to do on Jakku). The book also states that Jakku got regular visits from off-worlders searching for hard-to-find parts, and some of those visitors were Wookiees, so she’s met and interacted with them before.

So the girl who grew up on a desert wasteland planet who works as a scavenger and has nothing better to do with her free time than study the ship schematics, navigational charts, language translation tools, and flight simulation programs on the computer she keeps around has a good working knowledge of languages, piloting, and ship mechanics. Wow, how unrealistic. What a horrible Mary Sue.

The other thing about all this is Rey doesn’t even actually accomplish much in her debut movie compared to Anakin and Luke, for all her alleged overpoweredness.

Anakin singehandedly liberates an occupied planet by disabling an entire armed militia all at once.

Luke blows up a superweapon with no targeting equipment. The equipment wasn’t even broken, he just turned it off because a ghost told him to.

Rey doesn’t do anything like that. Starkiller Base is destroyed by the combined efforts of veteran freedom fighters Han and Chewie and an entire squadron of the best X-Wing pilots of their generation led by veteran ace pilot Poe Dameron. Rey’s big contribution is beating Kylo Ren in a lightsaber duel, and even then the circumstances of that severely diminish the accomplishment. Kylo had been severely injured twice and was visibly enraged by the time Rey struck a final blow and they were fighting on unstable terrain due to the entire planet collapsing around them and HE WAS STILL WINNING. He was on the offensive the entire time and Rey spent the whole thing blocking and fleeing until she got desperate enough to tap into the Force at a critical moment to finally knock him flat. Overpowered my ass, her biggest accomplishment by the end of the movie was SURVIVING IT.

So you know, two protagonists who had no reason to have any of the skills they showcase manage to destroy entire armies in one go with barely any effort vs. one who had the resources and training to accomplish all of that but barely manages to save her own life in the end. Which one’s unrealistic again?

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend of people crying “Mary-Sue” whenever a female character does things male characters have been doing for centuries without question.

Fake Geek Boys don’t know how the force works I guess