I am so sick of people saying that fans of Johnlock hate Mary/Amanda.
I love Mary as a character and that character happens to be a villain.
I also love Amanda and her puppy cuddles.It is possible to love a character but acknowledge that they are not some kind of precious and pure snowflake.
Ugh.
But she’s not a villain. She’s no shining beacon of pure pureness, but she’s not a villain.
Okay, lets look at some facts about Mary:
She lied to John about everything.
She has killed multiple people and went “rogue” and became an assassin who was most likely paid to murder all sorts of people, innocent and bad.
She killed Sherlock, stopped his heart and in this scene you can see that the surgeons have stepped away from trying to save Sherlock and have probably pronounced him dead.
No one is such a good shot that they can know that someone will come back to life.She threatens Sherlock and tells him he can’t tell John.
She is possibly one of the snipers at the pool who worked for Moriarty.
She herself says that if John knew the things she has done that he would not love her anymore.
She is possibly involved with Moriarty or is Moran of both or she IS Moriarty.
Amanda says she is fucking psychopath.
Tell me, does none of this sound like a villain to you?
It’s textbook.Also, this is just a very short list and I could go on and on but I’m pretty sure this gets my point across.
Let’s look at some facts:
- John and Mary love each other, as people. The rest is backstory: fit to burn.
- Mary described her work as an assassin by saying “People like [Magnussen] deserve to be killed, that’s why there are people like me.” It’s a view shared by men who say things like “but he wasn’t a very nice man” and “neonazi; don’t waste your time”.
- When she left that life, she chose to become a nurse. She could have done anything; she decided to heal the sick.
- No one can stab someone through a belt and not kill them until they take it off; and yet. A woman who can shoot a hole through a coin in a dim corridor doesn’t miss a man’s heart at five paces by mistake.
- Invented theories are a sign that you’ve passed beyond finding reasons
- Amanda says that they’re all psychopaths, and she did that because she’s using the word as a causal term for ‘person more suited to the greenworld than mundanity’. Which is its own problem, but not related to Mary’s heroism.
Moriarty was a villain, Magnussen was a villain, that cabbie, Lord Moran, the photographer guy and the random racist-stereotype Chinese gang-slash-circus were villains. (Irene was
almost, but not quite a villain.)
Mary isn’t.
She has a pretty similar backstory to Black Widow, really.