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Mary Sue is a type of character, link provided (ye be warned now that you will lose hours at that site).
That's right, because when you defect to a foreign power in order to join up with the captain who defeated you, then take up arms against your own homeland, you do it completely. No mixed loyalties! Just some bittersweet regret.
<sarcasm>I see. This must be why Stalin
didn't have to close the Soviet Union's borders to prevent mass emigration to other countries, even Germany </sarcasm>. Reigns of Terror generally have that effect. By this point, Yu is a couple regime changes out of date, Haven wise, and Caslet was the next worst thing to dead when he got to Hades.
Because, after all, you're not defecting to Manticore. You're joining Honor's Party!
Or the Solarians, or anyone else. As I recall, Parnell went to Sol and Earth, and there weren't too many other Peeps that came along for the trip.
ah TVTropes we can now have a common language for analyzing and ridiculing our media.
You have to link to it!
We went from proud ships of the line to enormous missile buses in just a few years.
Such is the nature of war. We went from proud lines of battle to enormous dreadnaughts and battleships in just over the same amount of time.
And you apparently missed the page I referenced (hmm, which I now see that both link to the same page). Not all Mary Sues are bad!
No, not all tropes are bad.
Mary Sue is pretty much always bad.
The "Not all tropes are bad" page specifically references Mary Sues as not always being bad. And if we want to get into Mary Sues with a more... um, stark, example, we can always argue about Victor Cachet (or Anton Zilwiki). Talk about a wannabe
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Kane and Thrawn are not bad.
Seconded.
Kane and Thrawn I have at least heard of, Mary Sue and Honor??? :shrugs:
Honor Harrington
