Many people really believe that Saitama is a Gary Stu, just for being powerful.

---Despite having many flaws and problems, people constantly call him Mary Sue or Gary Stu.

What is a Gary Stu?

Mary Sue in male, seemingly perfect character with no flaws.

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Ok what's your point. People call Superman op all the time even though that's not true

People have taken to using the term to mean a very strong character. The original definition was a character who is good at everything and instantly beloved by everyone ala the original character Mary Sue.

Saitama is hated by most everyone in his setting with only a small few acknowledging him for his deeds. That isn't a Mary Sue. He isn't a wish fulfillment character. If anything he represents a very human flaw that many of us have in our real lives; a lack of drive and direction.

^This, Saitama isn't a Gary Stu, I mean he started out as a C Class hero, that's about as low as you can go iirc.

He's the exact oposite of that, as he always fails on his goals

Gary Sue is now just a word for “powerful character that is popular who I don’t like”.

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He's not Rey. Stop it.

@mister_surreal: Ohhh so true.