Editing Sun Wukong (section)

==Is He a Mary Sue?==
Wukong is quite a [[Mary Sue]] at first glance, with a superpower suite to match (Flight, immortality, disguise-piercing super sight, a steel-hard body, transformation mastery, [[What|being able to turn strands of hair into anything up to and including ''perfect clones of himself...'']] DBZ ''wishes'' it could be that bullshit.). He's also very much the Only Sane Man™ on this Journey to the West, who winds up spending most of his time saving the rest of the party from their naivety and/or idiocy, and proves to be an archetypical, cunning-if-occasionally-childish trickster through and through. In contrast, Xuanzang is rather unworldly, Zhu Baije is an idiot, Sha Wujing is what effectively amounts to a non-entity, and the horse is essentially just a horse. '''HOWEVER''' among the several things that temper this potential Suedom are theme of "There's always a bigger fish" (in Wukong's case, the Buddha), and "Even a guy this awesome is caught in the teeth of the gears of karma and desire" in his backstory, and the book in general.