Mandalorian Supplement

By Locrious, in Star Wars: Edge of the Empire RPG

Not sure what, "God Mode Sue that KJA and especially Karen Traviss made him out to be." means, could you please explain?

Now I have always wanted to be a bounty hunter because then people wonder, "Where does he get those wonderful toys?". Never thought too much about Boba except that he was a bounty hunter and really the only one in the movies. (you saw him more than once, and he had lines.) Now Cad Bane is what I am talking about. That is the bounty hunter I want to be but he was not in the movies.

Personally, I really don't see where the justification was that Boba Fett was this master hunter and strategist that was always several moves ahead of his prey at all times, particularly if you stick to the films. He was obviously capable, but a far cry from the God Mode Sue that KJA and especially Karen Traviss made him out to be.

I never really got the "god mode" impression from the Traviss stuff. Sure he was a professional and one of the best, but that was mostly from his long career and experience, not anything else any other hunter wouldn't pick up if they lived that long. I think the Holiday special in all it's horrendousness also added to the Fett Mystique. You also have to keep in mind that when using the OT we have the comparison of Stormtroopers (who got progressively less threatening) vs. Fett. Fett clearly comes off more bad ass of the non-force threats to the main characters.

Not sure what, "God Mode Sue that KJA and especially Karen Traviss made him out to be." means, could you please explain?

Karen Traviss is known for really liking Mandolorian culture and characters, and how Mando culture was passed down to the GAR clones, particularly the ARCs and commandos.

I really like what she did expanding the culture. But I understand how some people thought she went too far in making Mandos a special snowflake "better than everyone else" culture (as if that'd stick, Jedi are clearly GL's wittle snowfwakes in this IP :P ). Some of the conflict with Traviss comes from how she goes after people who happen to have different opinions than her, and a belief that she (and other Mando fanboy authors) created problems with other authors in series like Legacy of the Force, i.e. Jaina goes to learn from Boba Fett how to defeat her brother Jacen who has fallen to the Dark Side, as Mandos are among the warrior cultures who have the best record fighting Jedi. Some people think Traviss went too far with her Mando worship in her books, and other Legacy authors overcompensated the other way, leading to inconsistencies in the overall plot. Like, IIRC, in a Traviss book Mandos will wipe the floor easily with Jedi, and in Denning books the Jedi will thrash them. That kind of author conflict damages immersion in the setting for readers.

Like I said, I like how she was interested in the culture, as opposed to more stuff about Jedi (I am so over everything being Jedi-centric tbh) but I can definitely see how people think she took it too far with idolizing Mando culture.