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Sometimes it fits, but sometimes it's just as far from the right conclusion, as one can get. When a person thinks of a mary sue, they usually think about this special and perfect character. Many of badly written characters simply don't fit there.

I think Sylvie from Loki show is the perfect example.

Spoilers for Loki show below.

When you think about it it's pretty tragic that from Loki's perspective after he took the throne legitimately everything went wrong because no one would listen to him, then in Thanos' realm he was turned into a puppet and forced to work for someone else, then the TVA took him and hurt him and had him working for them under threat of death and once he meets a variant of himself she acts exactly the same as the others towards him: he's treated with contempt, like he's lesser than her, like he's only valued as long as he's useful and he just... follows her around because at that point he's a shadow of the man he used to be.

Even on Lamentis the "look" they give each other comes across as awkward and weird, like neither of them know how they're supposed to feel or what facial expression to use. And don't even get me started on the blanket scene. It doesn't help that they're forcing a 40 year old actor to act like an awkward teenager with a first crush, opposite someone who's only believable when she's belittling him.

There have been couples I didn't like that I would admit had chemistry. There have been couples I didn't like that I would think didn't have a lot of chemistry. But nothing like this. They had negative chemistry, if possible.

My feeling with chemistry, too, is that if the chemistry is good, other characters don't have to comment and the couple never has to kiss. You can feel the connection just from their looks, interactions, body language, vibes, etc. But on this show, they had to have Mobius tell us Loki was falling for Sylvie and they had to have the kiss because otherwise, it would not have been apparent they were going for something romantic between the two because there was just nothing there whatsoever.

It's self love

-It's weird that they kiss

There different people

-Then how is that self love?

Because they're both Lokis

It's concerning but many people think it's the same thing. Just one look at any relationships forum and you'll see countless people who don't know how to be alone, who think you need a romantic partner to live with, that unless someone loves you romantically you're worth absolutely nothing. All this is bullshit of course but in a society drunk on amatonormativity does it really come as a surprise?

Movies and shows do this all the time, they ruin other type of relationships for their characters because they believe romance is the one and only thing that matters (plus those characters are shown to be happy and forever healed now that someone else loves them romantically), and those who are not paired up either end up dead or they're given a 'different' family to live with.

And she’s not even really Loki. She’s no more wholly Loki than she is wholly Enchantress. What she is is this lazily written, lazily created mishmash of two completely different characters. It’s like they couldn’t fully commit to creating Lady Loki, and they couldn’t fully commit to creating Enchantress, so they ripped both characters in half and stapled this character together with the shreds, slapped the name Sylvie on it and called it “completely original”. So here we have this “completely original” character, running around with Loki’s horns and Enchantress’s costume designs, going by the name Sylvie who gets to “be her own person”. Lucky her, huh?

Why the push to make her seem so special? They force her and push her on the story so hard. The show starts implying that she’s “superior” before we even get to lay eyes on her (it’s either close to the end of episode 1 or right at the beginning of episode 2, but it’s quick, they don’t waste any time). And right after that the show just gets laden and saddled with her. They harp on her “superiority” relentlessly. They take every opportunity to use her to one-up Loki in every way. They make him be the idiot clown as a contrast to her “TrAgIc SeRiOuS HeRo On A MiSsIoN”. The narrative framing is so manipulative and so strict, it’s like they don’t want to give the audience a choice whether we actually like her or not. You have to. This is how it is. She’s the bestest, most specialist, most tragical, most superior Loki ever. Naturally. Why wouldn’t you like her? If Loki loves her, you have to too. If Loki thinks she’s amazing, you have to too. If Mobius likes her better, you have to too.

Why do they have to do this? You didn’t see Hawkeye trying to convince the audience that Kate Bishop is the superior Hawkeye, or convince us that Yelena is the superior Black Widow, or that Sam is the superior Captain America. Why this need to tear Loki down, I don’t understand! They even have to say her trauma is “worse”. They couldn’t just say her trauma is different! Even her trauma has to one-up his! Her trauma is worse because of course it is. Of cooourse it is!

If they wanted her to be the new Loki, then they could’ve just cast her as Lady Loki. Period. And let her have her own show without Loki’s physical presence as a stepping stone for her. It wouldn’t be the first time they made major changes without explaining anything, right? If she’s so incredibly special, people would’ve latched on to her without Loki’s help, right? People still would’ve watched it simply because it’s new Marvel content.

I just can’t believe they dragged Loki back into the MCU for this. I’m sorry, this is a lot of negativity to be dumping on you, and you don’t have to post this or respond, but you’re just such a safe, understanding blog. Thank you!

Oh thank you honey and I agree with absolutely every single thing you say here, you're 100% right!!

Frankly the only explanation I have is that they used her to outshine Loki but they didn't give a damn about her story either so they had everyone around her either falling in love with her, telling her she's their favourite or worse: the variants who had refused to follow Loki and took about half the episode to finally agree to fight alongside him, they immediately choose to follow her even though they don't know her.

It's the only way they've got to tell the audience to like her: if everybody loves her, so should you! Well, guess what:

To sum up: The new Harry Potter game involves shutting down a goblin rebellion, keeping them subjugated. Oh and the goblins are going around stealing wizard children.

Since the goblins are basically Jewish caricatures, this has shades of Nazis and other groups through the centuries shutting down the Jews anytime we dared to get “uppity”. And the whole stealing kids thing? Can we say blood libel?

From now on, anyone who is all “the HP goblins aren’t antisemitic caricatures” is going to be blocked. And that includes you Pick Me Jews who are saying that. I’m tired of this.

Remember that time that Marvel Studios erased the existence of Steve Rogers’s gay and Jewish childhood friend and instead decided to age up his teen sidekick to replace him?

Remember that time that Marvel Studios decided to make Peter Parker a whitewashed version of Miles Morales instead of either using Miles in the MCU or staying more faithful to Peter Parker’s character?

In the same vein, remember that time that Marvel Studios erased the Parker family’s poverty and talked down about the historical Aunt May for not being a “real” breadwinner unlike their version?

Remember that time that Marvel Studios completely erased Wanda and Pietro Maximoff’s Romani and Jewish heritage and turned them into literal HYDRA agents?

Remember that time Marvel Studios erased Sam Wilson’s canonical superpowers because they weren’t “grounded” enough and yet made every excuse to incorporate the superpowers of other characters that were much more far-fetched?

Remember that time that Marvel erased Clint Barton’s deafness and took nearly a decade to finally release anything that even alluded to him being deaf in the MCU?

Remember that time that Marvel Studios more or less erased the history of one of the founding Avengers and only included her as a minor side character with a brief cameo to distance themselves from something in the comics that never should have happened in the first place?