>>98318934>she has only the physical strength of a person of her build and no berserker modeStar-Lord: "What's so wrong with that?"
This setting's not quite high-powered enough for me to readily accept "not as superpowered as she COULD be" as a character flaw.
See, here's the thing, I think: audiences want justice, generally speaking. If they see a character who's being treated worse than they deserve, they'll throw their sympathies their way to balance things out. If they see a character who's being treated BETTER than they deserve, they'll throw their sympathies AGAINST them to balance things out.
This includes treatment by the author, including what traits the character was designed with. This is why people recoil from "Mary Sues," because they clearly have the author's favor - way more of it than anyone has any right to, as people tend to feel, and so the character ends up hated, precisely because the author didn't hold back with their love. Maybe it's just envy on our parts and shouldn't be encouraged, but it's the way things are: if we see some character with more than what WE have, well by gum they'd better EARN it by facing challenges on their level! ("Anti-Sues" don't work because they're transparently manipulative.)
And this doesn't just apply to main characters; it applies to foils, too; to anyone for whom the audience's feelings about the character are supposed to matter (so anyone above the level of "extra," I guess.)
(And smarts and virtue are generally weighted higher than strength, I think: can you imagine a virtue-themed One Punch Man where the main character is always right about everything but we're supposed to care about his struggles that come from not having the strength to impose his way?
They're called "Political Cartoons," of the kind that can only preach to the choir!)
Didi's been given enough good points and not enough challenges that asking for us to root for her, too, is asking a little much. As I see it.
