[Twitter Bullshit] Max Landis doubles down on the shitlording - why Rey is a Mary Sue and Luke isn't.

Can't speak to Jaina, as I can't remember it all off the top of my head, but I can speak to the other two.

Mara Jade, apart from her failures as the Emperor's Hand to kill Luke (obviously) and the crap she went through following the Emperor's death and Ysanne Isard's schemes, was always portrayed as the more violent counterpoint to Luke's idealism and borderline pacifism. Overall, it wasn't so much that she failed outright, but rather that she was used to advocate for a different path to Luke's, the anti-hero to his traditional heroism, as it were. Also, while Luke was fairly well loved by all the Jedi at least, Mara Jade definitely chaffed against several other members due to her past and personality.

Kyle Katarn on the other hand, suffers primarily from his origin. He was the main character of the Dark Forces series, which was heavily influenced by games like Doom, and was also the first game you got to control a Jedi, so he naturally tended to gravitate towards the "overpowered protagonist" that a lot of similar games held. His character also had some setbacks early on, portraying him as a righteous paragon, owing to the fact that these games often had "good" and "evil" endings that were incredibly cliche and simplistic, hamstringing meaningful character development. He was certainly toned down in the books, relegated to the sidelines in a larger story, but the writers still had to reconcile his fantastic feats from the games with his place in the EU, which may be why he appeared to be overpowered and Mary Sue-ish. Still, I think they did it right by giving him the title of "Battlemaster" and limiting his prowess primarily to the realm of combat.

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