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I so Hate How Over and Wrongly Used the Term 'Mary Sue' Has Become.

I had an exchange with someone on Youtube and in every comment they made to me they seemed to have to go out of their way to proclaim that Captain Marvel is a Mary Sue. I had only defended the film once, but this person felt they had to express those feeling in all the half dozen comments in our exchange, and they fully ignored anything I said to counter their statements. I truly have no clue why they were so aggressively out to put down the movie (And Brie Larson, as they made sure to add negative comments about her every chance they had) and it really seemed to be a broken record after a point. But is Captain Marvel really a 'Mary Sue'? So here is the Wikipedia page about 'Mary Sue' -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue .  Oddly enough, the original Captain Marvel (Now known as Shazam) is a 'Mary Sue', as were so many heroes form that era, including Superman, who very well may be the more pure and famous 'Mary Sue' out there. So why is Superman a &

Why is Manga Out Selling Traditional Comics?

 On-line now there are a large amount of people who are pointing out that at this time in the USA Manga (Japanese comicbooks) are more popular than the new issues of traditional comicbooks by Marvel and DC. Their claims as to why this is focuses on their beliefs that the comicbooks have become 'woke' over the last few decades and that has driven away the fans. They are openly ignoring that both Marvel and DC have been doing 'woke'/political storylines for well over five decades now, only focused on the 'wokeness' of todays' comics that they disagree with. For the record, Manga is as 'woke' as it gets. LGBTQ+ characters have been in Manga for decades. There are so many gender fluid characters, as well as countless androgynous characters and that is nothing new. 'Mary Sues' are everywhere in Manga. In fact just about everything that is being claimed as the problems with traditional American comicbooks right now, can be found in Manga and has be