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Is Hiro a Mary Sue?

posted 6 years ago by actionkamen (23176)
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He's a superior genius who is liked and admired by everybody while acting like a brat, always win, always right even when he's wrong and has justification for it.

He invented impossible technology seemingly operates using infinite energy source that envied by all people. Singlehandedly. Before puberty.

Has a friendly robot companion given to him for free and even able to modify it into his liking when he had no prior knowledge of, nor any meaningful training, also surrounded by friends that always look highly of him even when he's actually the weakest (okay, second weakest) hero while being the only one who can defeat the villain and saves everyone.

He's like a fan-fic character written by teenager robotic nerd who has no friends. Is he not?

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

All Heroes-with-a-capital-H are wish fulfillment figures to some extent.

Hiro is a pretty three-dimensional one, as comic book heroes go. Yes, he's a child genius, and it's actually believable that a child supergenius who creates world-changing technology at 14 would be treated as special and forgiven a lot! But he's hardly a perfect kid, what with dropping out of school to pursue a career in back-alley robot fights and fits of despair and murderous rage and all, those were treated pretty realistically by the standards of cartoon superhero movies. So no, not a Mary Sue.

[–] actionkamen (23176) 6 years ago

Yes, he is.

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Well if you want to bring the discourse to a REALLY sophisticated level, all I can say is...

Is not!