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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 7783776" data-attributes="member: 22779">Well, to be fair, that's because Leia doesn't actually do anything in 3 movies.  She shoots a blaster a couple of time?  She doesn't fly a ship.  She doesn't rescue anyone, other than at the breakout in the detention scene where she shoots the wall.  It would be pretty hard to argue Leia as a Mary Sue character when she's pretty much 100% dependent on the male characters around her nearly all the time.  :/The reason you see all the reactions these days is we actually have female characters that are not dependent on any male characters and there's a rather toxic subset of the fandom that can't bear to see that.  It's only in horror movies that female characters are allowed to be active.</blockquote>