How come so many modern best selling books feature Mary Sue's as the main character?

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Anonymous Thu Dec 24 19:37:04 2015 No.7501711 [Reply] [Original]

How come so many modern best selling books feature Mary Sue's as the main character?

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 19:52:06 2015 No.7501757 Because so many authors are fucking retarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 20:13:00 2015 No.7501807 because the jews control the publishing industry and they are pushing the stronk wimin agenda

Anonymous Thu Dec 24 20:13:22 2015 No.7501808

>>7501711

I'm pretty sure they are subconsciously hearkening back to greek characters like Odysseus, Achilles and the like from other myths. In a sense the archetypes over time grow and diminish in strength so to speak depending on the state of civilization. The Mary Sue is a Jack-of-all-trades archetype taken to the extreme, in a sense seemingly creating a freak or super adaptable human. I think the archetypes suggest a leaning towards the Will to Power but not recognized and the Mary Sue itself not recognizing a single person so much as the potential of the human race. That's just my opinion, but they do tend to be boring simply because while fulfilling the desire to see what is possible for the best humanity could ever provide they can't be related to. We look to heroes and not ourselves in times of unconscious need perhaps.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 20:54:37 2015 No.7501935 >>7501711 I feel like it's the opposite. Every character is so "darrrrrk and ebbbulll" because apparently everyone being supernaturally dickish is somehow more realistic than everyone being supernaturally saintly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 21:09:11 2015 No.7501983 File: 23 KB, 284x423, 1378873631536.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>7501711 >tfw i fucking hate my main characters >tfw when things seem to be alright they fuck it up at the end

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 21:40:06 2015 No.7502092 >>7501711 HOW COME YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE A FUCKING APOSTROPHE GTFO

>>	Anonymous Thu Dec 24 21:46:48 2015 No.7502114 >>7501935 Some real people, like psychopathic serial killers or something of the sort, could be considered to be almost supernaturally dickish, while as far as we know the reverse has never existed.

>>	Anonymous Fri Dec 25 08:17:53 2015 No.7503360 >>7501983 just posting to let you know I'm saving this gem, thanks anon

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