Guild Wars 2

She’s a Mary Sue, she can do everything.

I love that EVERYONE keeps calling her a Mary Sue despite none of them really seeming to know exactly what a Mary Sue is…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

Just to address the title.

You mean she can’t be a BIO-engineer?

I am pretty sure that leafy-toxicky-kraity-ugly thing we fought in the Tower of Nightmares was created through a mixture of bio-engineering and magic.

Buuuuut I could be wrong. I won’t pretend to understand what it is that Scarlet’s doing besides rally the public against her.

Skipping through most of the later additions i’d like to add to the original post that i find her being all that powerful very much beleivable. we know that before she took the name scarlet and went into this madness she had a glimpse of what she and her mentor thought was the eternal alchemy. Thats the point where she stopped being a genius and became more of a force of nature with an influence in tyria equal to that of an elder dragon.
That being said, its hard to tell what she saw and what happend to her when she participated in that experiment, she might as well be the avatar of an elder dragon or something even worse, because she is definitely no longer a simple sylvari.

i’m not super knowledgable about her past so i might have some parts there incorrect, correct me if you wish.

Scarlet was with the Hyleks learning toxins when Omadd found her.

Derom.1205:

I still think that the reason Scarlet is called a Mary Sue is because she is supposed to be the personel nemesis of the Player. An equal in power. And storywise the Player is a person who destroyed almost every evil/criminal organisation in Tyria in a few months and created the biggest and most powerful alliance in all of Tyria (the Pact).
So she has to be powerful or this whole fight just wouldn’t be fair.

No.

It’s a bad escalation. You can’t counter a Mary Sue story with a Villain Sue.
You make a true villain, who win and loose. You make the hero loose and win too.

THIS counter Mary Sue storyline.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I love that EVERYONE keeps calling her a Mary Sue despite none of them really seeming to know exactly what a Mary Sue is…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

Taken from that page:
“Mary Sue stories—the adventures of the youngest and smartest ever person to graduate from the academy and ever get a commission at such a tender age. Usually characterized by unprecedented skill in everything from art to zoology, including karate and arm-wrestling. This character can also be found burrowing her way into the good graces/heart/mind of one of the Big Three [Kirk, Spock, and McCoy], if not all three at once.”

She can do literally everything and manages to get every evil faction under her banner, even the xenophobic Krait.

FlamingFoxx.1305:

I love that EVERYONE keeps calling her a Mary Sue despite none of them really seeming to know exactly what a Mary Sue is…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Sue

She would perhaps be more accurately described as a Villain Sue (because she’s not an author-substitute, but she has most of the traits associated with the trope anyway).

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VillainSue

Villain Sue is still supposed to be wish fulfillment, but I think you’ve pretty much hit it on the head. “Mary Sue” is a term that technically describes a motive for writing a character, but in practice it can only be assigned to characters who display the hallmarks of that motivation, and it’s weird to say one character is a Mary Sue due to the fact that she’s unbelievably perfect, and another isn’t despite displaying that same trait. It does dilute the meaning somewhat, but I think it’s a perfectly natural progression of the term. It may not be used in the same way as it was in the golden age of star trek fanfic, but the new usage is nonetheless popularly accepted. It is, love it or hate it, here to stay.