Talk:History of the World of Avatar/@comment-98.23.142.62-20120613225745/@comment-50.99.190.190-20120617003445

[Spoilers and lots of text ahead. This analysis is from watching every episode up to 9.]

I don't really think that Korra is a Mary-Sue. She has plenty of personality flaws; one big one is that she charges into things without thinking them through, causing her to face defeat. A great example of this is when she goes to face Tarrlok. She also failed in her planned encounter with Amon this way.

Korra has quite a temper, as we have seen numerous times so far in the series. It's caused her to do reckless things, such as nearly attacking Tahno when he successfully provoked her, which would have eliminated them from the Pro Bending tournament. It's caused her to storm away from her air-bending training, which only prolongs the already difficult process for her. It caused her to attack Tarrlok, who ended up defeating her.

She has also admitted to being afraid of Amon to Tenzin, which isn't a very Sue-like quality. Korra, the heroine, is afraid of the villain.

Yes, Mako and Bolin both like her, but she has faced blatant consequences from that, which were visibly shown in the Pro Bending arena. (Tahno was provoking Korra, there's no proof that he likes her as anything more than a friend in the series so far.) (Mako, on the other hand, has faced almost no consequences from dancing between Asami and Korra.)

On the avatar side of things, she's already 17 and she still can't air-bend. Aang was 12 years old when he had already mastered three elements, and was quite adept at fire-bending. She's also 17 and just barely able to contact Aang's spirit, and still hasn't been able to get into avatar state. Both of those (contacting the previous avatar, and going into the avatar state) are things that Aang could do at 12 years old.

I have so much more I could write, but this is already incredibly long winded.

TL;DR

I will agree that Mako sems like a Mary-Sue; but definitely not Korra. I think she has a good balance of flaws and qualities. It seems like the only basis I've seen here that she's a Mary-Sue would be that "more than one character likes her," which doesn't even scratch the surface of her as a character.