THIS THREAD CONTAINS MASSIVE SPOILERS, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
All this debate about whether recent charcaters in fiction like Rey from Star Wars or Bella from Twilight have me at odds and I have to say that Rey is NOTHING compared to Sarah Kerrigan of Starcraft when it comes to being a Mary Sue.
Where to begin with this charcater? Well best start with the first game to showcase how she ended up the way she was.
Basically Sarah Kerrigan began as a highly trained Ghost of the Terran Confederacy, (Ghosts being the guys that are stealthy snipers and markers of Nuclear attack) she was saved by Arcturus Mengsk of the rebel Sons of Korhal faction who stands against the Confederacy.
To make a long story short. Sarah was abandoned by Mengsk and left to die on a planet that has been overwhelmed by the hostile alien Zerg. And this was portrayed as a very decisive moment in the entire franchise that they even remade that event into a high quality cinematic in Starcraft 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V1PwpoDqzM
As shown ordinarily she would have been killed and devoured by the Zerg like they did so many others, but the Zerg had other plans for you see the Zerg actually "captured" Kerrigan under the strict guidence of their Overmind since the Overmind has been searching for "subjects" that has powerful psionic (Psychic) capabilities and many Ghosts were trained to fully utilized these psionic abilities. And Kerrigan unfortunately happened to be the unlucky one to get caught by the Zerg.
So what happens is that the Zerg tortured and mutated her into an infested Zerg/human hybrid herself forever turning her into the Queen of Blades. A series of events played out that soon resulted in the Overmind being destroyed by the Terran and Protoss, leaving Kerrigan in an opportunity to now persue her own ambitions and inevitably assume completely mastery over all Zerg, and this was done through manipulation and betrayal. Such horrible backstabbing that even Jim Raynor vowed to kill her for this:
https://youtu.be/laW2DSheEdM?t=2303
So at the conclusion of Brood War Sarah is now the ruler of all Zerg and her words "The Queen ***** of the Universe". Basically at this point she was the Lich King of the franchise (or Arthas was the Kerrigan of his franchise but still) she fully solidified herself as the ultimate villain of the franchise that you are meant to hate after what she has done.
So what the fuck did they do to her in Starcraft 2? Long story short, they turned her into a literal Chosen One hero that LITERALLY transforms and ascends herself into an Angel made of Light, Fire, and Lawful Goodness to defeat that great evil Cosmic Alien God that wanted to snuff out all life in the universe, nevermind all the evil shit she has done in the past. And that is the tl;dr version. Starcraft 2's story is so large I don't know where to begin.
But the point still stands. You can argue that she was already Mary Sue-ish in her time as a villain in Starcraft 1, but at least she followed through with her established role of being a villain, a villain mind you was created out of betrayal and abandoned to the wolves. But did anyone wanted THIS for Kerrigan?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGJ5wa69ZI
How did we go to that after seeing this!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5nOOSRS4c
And if this was because of her being a female, I think I would have that same reaction if this happened to Arthas the Lich King. Darth Vader is more redeemable then Kerrigan or the Lich King combined.
So now that I made my claim of Kerrigan being the Ultimate Mary Sue in fictional history. Explain to me why she is not with counter arguements.
All this debate about whether recent charcaters in fiction like Rey from Star Wars or Bella from Twilight have me at odds and I have to say that Rey is NOTHING compared to Sarah Kerrigan of Starcraft when it comes to being a Mary Sue.
Where to begin with this charcater? Well best start with the first game to showcase how she ended up the way she was.
Basically Sarah Kerrigan began as a highly trained Ghost of the Terran Confederacy, (Ghosts being the guys that are stealthy snipers and markers of Nuclear attack) she was saved by Arcturus Mengsk of the rebel Sons of Korhal faction who stands against the Confederacy.
To make a long story short. Sarah was abandoned by Mengsk and left to die on a planet that has been overwhelmed by the hostile alien Zerg. And this was portrayed as a very decisive moment in the entire franchise that they even remade that event into a high quality cinematic in Starcraft 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V1PwpoDqzM
As shown ordinarily she would have been killed and devoured by the Zerg like they did so many others, but the Zerg had other plans for you see the Zerg actually "captured" Kerrigan under the strict guidence of their Overmind since the Overmind has been searching for "subjects" that has powerful psionic (Psychic) capabilities and many Ghosts were trained to fully utilized these psionic abilities. And Kerrigan unfortunately happened to be the unlucky one to get caught by the Zerg.
So what happens is that the Zerg tortured and mutated her into an infested Zerg/human hybrid herself forever turning her into the Queen of Blades. A series of events played out that soon resulted in the Overmind being destroyed by the Terran and Protoss, leaving Kerrigan in an opportunity to now persue her own ambitions and inevitably assume completely mastery over all Zerg, and this was done through manipulation and betrayal. Such horrible backstabbing that even Jim Raynor vowed to kill her for this:
https://youtu.be/laW2DSheEdM?t=2303
So at the conclusion of Brood War Sarah is now the ruler of all Zerg and her words "The Queen ***** of the Universe". Basically at this point she was the Lich King of the franchise (or Arthas was the Kerrigan of his franchise but still) she fully solidified herself as the ultimate villain of the franchise that you are meant to hate after what she has done.
So what the fuck did they do to her in Starcraft 2? Long story short, they turned her into a literal Chosen One hero that LITERALLY transforms and ascends herself into an Angel made of Light, Fire, and Lawful Goodness to defeat that great evil Cosmic Alien God that wanted to snuff out all life in the universe, nevermind all the evil shit she has done in the past. And that is the tl;dr version. Starcraft 2's story is so large I don't know where to begin.
But the point still stands. You can argue that she was already Mary Sue-ish in her time as a villain in Starcraft 1, but at least she followed through with her established role of being a villain, a villain mind you was created out of betrayal and abandoned to the wolves. But did anyone wanted THIS for Kerrigan?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TGJ5wa69ZI
How did we go to that after seeing this!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA5nOOSRS4c
And if this was because of her being a female, I think I would have that same reaction if this happened to Arthas the Lich King. Darth Vader is more redeemable then Kerrigan or the Lich King combined.
So now that I made my claim of Kerrigan being the Ultimate Mary Sue in fictional history. Explain to me why she is not with counter arguements.