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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 4819542" data-attributes="member: 58197">That was... unexpected. Not bad, and I won't go so far as to call this strip "filler," but seriously, this arc is past due to wrap up. I want to see Roy get resurrected and the OotS reunited, damn it.[rant]I'm getting fairly sick of seeing this. Xykon is anything but a Mary Sue. Mary Sue would never be ignominiously defeated by a lowly fighter with a broken sword... or forced to endure a comically humiliating stretch of time as a partial skeleton in a little red wagon... or need to be saved by a hobgoblin rolling a lucky crit... or blunder recklessly into a trap and escape only through the intervention of a crazy ex-paladin... or need a lackey to provide tactical advice at a critical moment... or get blindsided by a half-naked paladin armed with a broken piece of metal... or get blown up by a measly 4th-level spell.You seem to think that lucky breaks (of which he certainly gets more than his fair share) make Xykon a Mary Sue. But Mary Sue never survives by sheer luck. Mary Sue survives by being always perfect, always right, and always the best.Complain about Diabolus Ex Machina if you like; Xykon's repeated lucky escapes are definitely edging into that territory. But Xykon is not and has never been a Mary Sue.[/rant]</blockquote>