NeoSioType posted...
People love Mary/Gary Stu for wish fulfillment and power fantasy.
The issue with this is the Mary/Gary Stu is often so unrelatable that they don't fulfill anyone's fantasy because it's more like looking at an alien than a person.
Not that Mary/Gary Stu can never work, but it's much harder to make it interesting, given, that applies to a lot of tropes with negative connotations.
A story about a loser has to make the loser's life still be interesting to watch.
The most recent extremely successful movie I can think of that had a loser main character off the top of my head is Joker (the first one obviously).