Talk:Riven/@comment-4636093-20120725022145/@comment-4636093-20120726171051

Mary Sues are characters with overthought and yet completely cliche'd pasts.

Whether it's a peasent woman who is really the princess of the kingdom and is in hiding from her dark uncle, or someone who worked for the bad guys and is seeking redemption.

All of them have something in common and that's that they all have only one side to their personality, to the point that they don't actually have a personality, only a backstory which they unrelentingly talk about or reference.