she has been one of the most powerful mages to exist, it's common knowledge, they didn't give her a power boost, she was always powerful, sylvanas on the other hand...
When was this surrender? If you're talking about in the courtyard outside the throne room, he does fight. He's outnumbered and subdued. You can play the battle on an Alliance character to experience the fight. If you're talking about some other time, I'm sorry for misunderstanding you.
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Medivh apparently left his humanity behind long ago, during the events of WC3, so more than likely he stopped being human after his initial death in WC1. He also hasn't done anything beyond have prophetic sight and turn into a raven (which is from Atiesh anyway) since he was killed, unless I'm forgetting something, so I find it hard to gauge his power anymore.
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When did the Council tell her to "knock it the fuck off"? I don't recall them ever speaking against her actions until the following expansion when Khadgar ignored the "stop working with the Horde" rule that seemed to have been put in place for the Kirin Tor.
I wouldn't really call Sylvanas a Sue. Sure, she's a terrible person who always seems to get her way, but the telltale sign (for me at least, since no one can agree on what this term even means) is when a character like that receives constant, unjustified praise and adoration from their peers in spite of it all; she's never really had that. She had a strong critic in Saurfang right from the start, and while the rest of the Horde were admittedly portrayed as her gormless henchmen until very late in the day, they all disavowed and turned against her too. Eventually.
I don't think Jaina fits the bill either, although she has kind of the opposite problem. She rarely gets what she wants and every decision she makes seems to backfire horribly on her, but every morally ambiguous thing she does is downplayed and swept under the rug by the characters with whom she interacts and even the narrative itself. It took seven years for someone to bring up that time she instigated a bloody purge, and we only got that much because people complained their asses off.
Yeah, badly written and/or clearly overpowered and/or inconsistently powered does not a Mary Sue make by its lonesome. Otherwise fucking Doomguy would be a Mary Sue, given that he's incredibly powerful and feared by all in-universe, but he's more along the line of a power fantasy. Mary Sue comes from a character having only qualities and everyone in-story, save the vilest villains, fawning over them repeatedly while they are better than everyone at everything and literally all possible events go their way. A Mary Sue, above all, is wish fulfillment incarnate.
Neither of these characters fit these categories. One could argue Sylvanas is the fulfillment of someone's wish to be a villain that can do whatever they want with no consequences, but even then I now find that debatable, to me she's more an infuriating plot device than a character now. Jaina is overpowered and definitely has some Sue-ish traits, but they are quite downplayed compared to the biggest examples such as Rhonin or Cata!Thrall.
Neither.
Both have lost, failed, died/nearly died, gained and lost love, and are far from being the best at what they even do. There are sill better magic users than Jaina and Sylvanas is neither the world's best ranger or the most powerful death figure on Azeroth. Even when they 'asspull' powers from the nether, it is after years of training, background deals, and experience.
Their writing can be cheesy, but they are far from Mary Sues to me. I think other human characters are worse offenders, especially when they start robbing traits from other races or have mastery over something in a month.
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it isn't attacking or power, Garrosh did that and even more
it is the fact how this action has zero effects on her reputation, alliance still love her even if she killed belf chance to return to alliance (which would been major blow to horde), and horde love her and she literally slaughtered them on sight ! (what the F*CK!?)
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http://youtu.be/x3ejO7Nssj8 7:20+ "Alliance remaining super power", clearly blizz favor horde too much, that they made alliance the super power
As a side note from Jaina's power level, neither she nor Sylvanas are Sues. The Sues of the game are WC3-era Thrall, Anduin and Rhonin under Knaak.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
It's not about power level, but narrative role. Thrall is a Messiah figure who's effectively achieved his goal even before the game starts, where people like Arthas, Kael, Tyrande, Grom etc. have to change, Thrall begins and ends as an immaculate being. Everyone who meets him and isn't on his side soon after is either a literal demon or is a strawman who's family will betray them within two lines of dialogue like what happens with Daelin.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
Also some of you guys/girls have to remember that a Mary Sue doesn't necessarily has to be "perfect". They may have flaws, but they are so inconsequential and/or have so little effect (if any) on the overall narrative that they might very well not exist. It's like saying someone is a bad chef when you are discussing basketball players.
And another very telling symptom of Mary Sue is that they are always shown to be right. Anyone opposing them, no matter their reasons, is depicted as being irrational, unreasonable or straight up evil. Villain Sue's are an exception in this regard though.