Arcian wrote...
The Tvtropes term is "Creator's Pet", formerly named after Wesley Crusher from Star Trek:TNG who was more or less Gene Roddenberry's author avatar in the show (Gene's middle name is Wesley). Wesley is considered both a Creator's Pet and a Marty Stu (male equivalent of Mary Sue), and has been criticized for saving the Enterprise on repeated occasions by coming up with the needed solutions despite being very young and inexperienced to the point of having trouble entering Starfleet Academy, made worse by the fact that he is on a ship crewed by the Starfleet's best.
As shown in ME1, Liara is very young and very inexperienced. Then, at the start of ME2, she suddenly becomes hyper-competent and manages to take over after the Shadow Broker in spite of her glaring, suspension-of-disbelief-shattering inexperience. And lo and behold, in ME3 she is the one who finds the needed solution to the Reaper problem on Mars despite the prothean site having been attended to by the galaxy's best for decades.
That would be the one I was thinking of.
Finding the Crucible blueprints doesn't bother me too much because it makes sense for her to find them being a continually touted expert on the Protheans and their extinction, considering BioWare's plot necessitated they be found so late on in the series, but yeah, I'll agree with the Shadow Broker point. It is quite sudden and contrived.
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