Editing Karen Traviss (section)

===Star Wars===
When Karen Traviss first started writing for the Star Wars expanded universe, most fans didn't see a problem with it. Her first book based on the well liked Republic Commando game was praised as being interesting and deep, with good character development and plotting. Things soon started to go off the rails, however, thanks to her clear bias towards all things Mandalorian/clone troopers and her raging hate-boner for the Jedi. Examples include...

*Turning the Mandalorians into Ward-level [[Mary Sues]] by wanking their abilities into the stratosphere and reducing their entire culture ito a bland stew of proud warrior race guy tropes. [[Spiritual Liege| Mandalorian Liege anyone?]] Traviss-brand Mandalorians are also presented as being completely right and correct about everything all the time, and anyone who disagrees with them is naive at best and evil at worst, even when they're doing things like beating the shit out of their clone trainees or torturing Kaminoan scientists to death. 

*She also supports the lowest numerical estimate given for the clone army, a [[Skub|topic which caused much confusion and disagreement]] throughout the fandom and even in the EU author corps. To give you an example, the low-ball number for the clone army was less than the entire armed forces of the Soviet Union in World War II. [[What|The clone army, one that spans an entire galaxy, supposedly had fewer troops than one country on one planet that couldn't use cloning to keep up its numbers.]] And they were fighting a droid army that (at the time Traviss was writing) was said to be quintillions strong and had dozens or hundreds of factories dedicated to making replacements as quickly as they were destroyed.

*In the Legacy of the Force series, Traviss retconned the entirety of the New Jedi Order, [[What|turning the Jedi into fucking idiots who couldn't find their ass with both hands and a holocron.]] Most notoriously, [[Rage|Jaina Solo was unable to operate the comm systems of a starfighter despite having been a member of Rogue Squadron, and was somehow unable to fight Mandalorians because they "can't be seen in the Force", despite the fact that she fought against the Yuuzhan Vong,]] [[Fail|an entire race of Force-invisible beings.]] She then had Jaina go off to train with the Mandalorians to defeat her Sith Lord brother, since they could apparently teach her how to beat a Sith better than her uncle Luke, who was like 5 for 5 on killing Sith Lords at that point. Hilariously enough, Traviss apparently pissed off the other writers in the series so much that when it came time for Jaina's epic showdown with Jacen, they just ignored all of her super-sekrit Mando training and had her kick his ass the Jedi way.

*As mentioned previously, she has a massive raging hate-boner for the Jedi. Karen was not a fan of Star Wars when she was first contracted to write for the franchise, and did only minimal research into its background and lore. She therefore decided that the Jedi were ''obviously'' a bunch of corrupt, hypocritical, power-hungry slavemasters who just took this clone army they'd been handed and went merrily off to battle. This is in stark opposition to their usual portrayal: a bunch of hippie shaolin monks who were thrust into the middle of a galactic war they hadn't asked for and had tried to stop, and who had deep misgivings about the whole situation, ''especially'' with regards to the clones. As part of this, she turned [[What|Obi-Wan Kenobi into a bloodthirsty glory hound as opposed to the wise and patient mentor he's been in literally every other portrayal ever]], [[Derp|and had Mace Windu actively engaging in a conspiracy with Palpatine to prolong the Clone Wars for no reason other than the evulz.]] She then wrote some Jedi characters who agreed with the Mandalorians 100 percent about everything and shilled them as being the smartest Jedi in the Order because of this, to the point where they all managed to survive Order 66.