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Originally Posted by Namorax
Well, from what I've seen on this forum, LN/WN protagonists HAVE to be OP.
Period.
Otherwise nobody will bother with them (apparently).
And since it's boring to read about a Mary Sue who can curbstomp everything easily enough to let no tension build up, they add all kinds of psychological/otherwise weaknesses in order to create something that makes the reader want to continue reading (while still having the warm afterglow of curbstomping everything).
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I can't blame them with how, for decades, it was all about shitty shounen going through hardship or psychological weakness for dozen of chapters only to be undermined with deus-ex-power-of-love POWAH on the climax chapter, then training arc, then start all over again whenever new arc begin. It gets really really old, at least OP MC is kind of fresh. You just have to look at the right work (not something where OP MC isn't actually OP at all, or has stupid limitation, and deus ex his way to resolution in the end, SAO-style).