Heinlein x Mary Sue

[bunsen_h]

A Mary Sue should be able to raise a perfect family, lead an invasion, teach all of the people and animals of the world to be vegetarian, command a fleet, design an architectural wonder, write a world-changing book, obviate the need for money, build an impregnable defense, cure an incurable disease, restore the dying to health, re-interpret "orders" to mean what she wants, give orders that save the day, show them show them all, overcome a tragic past, solve problems that have stumped experts, outsmart any attempt at trickery, change her eye colour, destroy a computer with illogic, create a food synthesizer from pocket stuff, defeat the villains, outshine the heroes. Anything less is for background characters.

Comments

[armiphlage]

Laurence Dahner's characters do 80% of this.

[beable]

you are reminding me of Spider Robinson’s terrible essay defending RAH from a bunch of criticisms in which for each one he manages in his defense to make Heinlein’s writing seem even worse than it actually is.