Talk:Daisy Johnson (Earth-1010)/@comment-6437996-20161230092111

In a lot of ways Daisy's a mary sue in Agents of Shield. Even though she has no training in infiltration or field she manages to talk her way out of being captured as well as people who do it for a living. She manages to hack into shield with a laptop she won in a bet. Tony Stark making his suit in a cave was more believable. Even when she's in the wrong (she's trying to bring up her parents during a team crisis, she betrays everyone at onepoint) she's meant to be the one we side with (Grant is shown to be a jerk for not immediately forgiving her, May's point that you shouldn't bring up your family issues in another crisis is portrayed as being mean to her.) The guy who's portrayed as cold and aloof immediately warms up to her and loves her despite it being against his character.

As someone else says

"Another recent example of a Mary Sue to (dis)grace our TV screens is Skye from Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD.  Skye is remarkably talented in a great many areas of technology, most of which she has no formal training in, but excels because “it just comes natural” to her.  All the other characters spent the first year of the show overflowing with gooey admiration for her many virtues, such as her beauty, brains and courage. Even when she developed uncontrolled super powers in year two, any characters who were wary of her new abilities were depicted as bull-headed, unlikeable jerks. The cold-hearted Agent Ward (later revealed to be a traitorous mole) fell completely in love with her, and the very private Coulson sees her as a surrogate daughter. Her screw-ups or deliberately bad behavior is always quickly overlooked and forgiven. For example, Coulson is warned that it’s unwise to bring Skye into the SHIELD team because of her past with Rising Tide, but he succumbs to her wonderfulness and lets her in. When she betrays the team, she is immediately given a second chance. She goes against Coulson’s orders again but he overlooks it once more. When she sides with the Inhumans against SHIELD, she is once again forgiven and welcomes back. Skye has a tragic background, regarding her “monster” father, a deceitful mother and a massacre in the Hunan province of China, after which she went to a foster home. She is an “0-8-4” which is an object of unknown origin and power—later revealed to be one of the Inhumans. Skye has now become the most powerful character on the show with her ‘quake’ abilities, and we’re told that her destiny is to lead the Inhumans."

Basically Skye's backstory needs work. Make it that she had formal training for several years before she went into the field. Make it that she gets called out on mistakes more. Anything really 