>>718738242
>"Mary sue" is just a hallmark label chuds put onto female protagonists
I assume you're baiting for (you)s but no.

Korra was clearly intended to have a Mary Sue spirit. And her character suffers from elements of it. It's just that other writing quirks from Bryke counterbalanced it and made her something else - not necessarily good.

Like the fact she's a woman alone, and LoK is already suffering from proto woke and millenial writing, means she never has real criticism, tear down, and grow stronger growth a male would. She's girl so she needs to be protected, even unconsciously, and her feeling are always valid. Ergo Korra ends up cry-bullying her way through the story's problems.

Since she's was designed to be the beest evar in bending and only have "spiritual weakness" as a character flaw she should have in theory been more of a Mary Sue in practice. Curb stomping physical threats while being taught by sages like Tenzen (which she won't listen to or learn from because she's a cry-bully). But because one of the few things they got right is having actually threatening and competent villains that can't be easily one shotted even by a prodigy teenager, Korra just kind of ends up in this weird logical endpoint zone where she's confident, bites off more than she can chew, gets her ass handed to her. And then needs fate to save her ass from herself. Every time. And she never learns. She can't learn.