Subject: Wow, that derailed quickly.
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Posted on: 2013-06-26 21:41:00 UTC
The way it looks to me:
Nesh: Serious question people!
hS: Conspiracy theory!
Rest of the Board: YAY CONSPIRACY THEORY!
So I will answer the serious question, because I too have seen that trend.
As the person who brought it up for Star Trek, I can explain why: We want our favorite characters to be special. Not Suvian-special, but their own kind of special. We want them to be able to retain what we love about them even in an environment that tends to suck that away. And if the character is particularly strong in canon, we like to think that they'd stay that way, even if they don't.
And the current writings on OOC Resistance/Immunity are...well, they leave it open. You maintain that this comes from being ignored in badfic, and I agree, but this is from the page on OOC Resistance: "Unusual wisdom or magical power, especially experience with mind-control or illusions, may allow a character to see through the Sue's deception. Deities and demideities, when they are not outright OOC immune, are usually OOC resistant by default." I was going off the "experience with mind control" thing for Picard. Many characters have magical powers and many continua have god-like beings.
So, we have a tendency to protect our favorite characters and are given a broad definition that allows many characters in. Can you blame people for asking questions?
Bluntly, the definition you told me doesn't go with the rest of the wiki. I agree with your definition because because I know characters that are strong in canon are warped in badfic. For example, Vulcans would be OOC-Resistant by the "unusual powers" bit, but I know for a fact that Suethors have a pathological inability to write Vulcans in character. (I think it has to do with the logic thing.) But Elrond is listed as OOC-Resistant, and how many times have we seen him agree to Tenth Walkers? He doesn't seem resistant to me, and I think that he only is because he's awesome and people want him to be, and the definition is open to that interpretation.