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Welcome to the Mary Sue PB Works Page!

Who And What Is Mary Sue

A Mary Sue, or her male counterpart called a gary Stu or Marty Stu, is not strictly an original character or self-insertion, as many people erroneously believe.

It is a character that's written:

a. By a fan with a crush on some well established famous fictional character, so she lives that crush out vicariously through her created character. giving oneself the same last name of some established fictional (canon) character one is crushing on, automatically makes that fan a Mary sue. Having a crush on a canon character makes a fan a Mary Sue. Sex appeal is the very center of Mary Sue-ism.

B. In a way that tends to put off readers by outshining the main characters in established fiction, either by becoming a complete plot-hog or outmatching established characters in heroism, strength etc.

C. All of the above! B. is rarely on its own without A and may be absent in a Mary Sue story altogether, but A. is what really defines a story, its author, and fans as Mary Sues.

many of these links will help define the difference between an original character in her own right, and a Mary Sue.

Examples of Mary Sues:

Amadelia What makes her a Mary Sue in this profile is her relation to Cinderella, but since this was submitted for a Mary Sue movie rpg, she would've been no more of one than the movie characters had been. Take out the Cinderella connection and the dwelling so much on her apparently shiny beautiful looks - 'sky blue eyes, pouty red lips, high cheek bones, athletic body' her hair pin is 'sapphire', her staff is absolutely priceless too, being made of silver and a ruby - that she comes from royalty but is an orphan, and she could be un-Mary Sued.

Amelia Boarder given the unlikely nickname of Mia Mya

Angelica Very horrifying sort of musician

Anatolia Krueger (Tweet appears to be deleted) but can be read here along with a bunch of other stuff about this creepy brat. anatolia is A Freddy Krueger Mary Sue. Of all the characters, this fangirl wants to be married or related to this psycho creep from "Nightmare On elm Street".

Black Sylke a Gundam Mary Sue

Jessica Sue a typically common and repulsive sort of Mary Sue with a huge crush on Severus Snape of all people, and writes him as reciprocating. Mr. Snape is not attractive or nice by any stretch, but there are things even he wouldn't do.

Julianna a D&D Mary Sue who's part phoenix, part elf, and who knows what else

Lavender Sue a child Mary Sue and a role player's nightmare.

Orianna a classic textbook Mary Sue. She was a little too much even for an rpg that was centered on a movie that was itself based on Mary Sue foundations.

Topanga A Mary Sue in Harry Potter fanfiction/role play.

Senna Marie Maxwell the Gundam Mary Sue who earned her infamy by throwing one of the longest running, attention-seeking, infantile tantrums against her fellow Mary Sues in the genre. The Mary Sue she hounded did some obviously unnerving things with the characters in her writing, but bad as that was, she didn't deserve to be out-marysued and literally stalked, bullied, flamed all to heck by that sadistic bullying cretin and her many crummy alter egos and toadie pals.

Vienna another angsty yet vain Mary Sue

Confessions And Demonstrations

Confessions of past Mary sues and/or demonstrations of how not to write something destined to be hated by readers.

player Liberated Describes Some Mary Sues

Player describes vampire Mary Sues Yes, they come in all manner of form, from fairy to vampire.

The wonderful adventures of the beautiful elf worshiping immortal and all powerful amazon of ritiousness

another demonstration of how to write a Mary Sue and how not to write a piece of fiction. Some suggestiveness.

From Erin To Sherrie

The Weakest Link the resulting story of a Senna Marie

Part 2, Senna's Unedoing "Unedoing" is spelled that way because Senna is a raving Lady Une fanatic as well as a Mary Sue in denial.

Horrors Of The Past, My Worst Mary Sue - Tigerbites looks back in cringing horror at a Mary Sue character she made.

Mary Sue In Famous Well-established Fiction

Many famous characters show Mary Sue traits to some degree. Usually established fictional characters from movies, books and the like aren't Mary Sues, but once in a while, it happens, and this doesn't count the super hero genre, they're supposed to be larger than life.

But what about inserting Mary Sue into a movie sequel via new introduced character?

Yes, that happens and it seriously ticks at least some fans off.

The result of one such travesty concerning an Anne of Green Gables movie was at least one fan's outrage.

Is it possible to Mary Sue a super hero genre?

Yes - if in a SuperMan movie, the villain actually wins the day, or else some other made up character comes along and outshines SuperMan in his own story, that would do it. Fans don't necessarily appreciate this but it's not rare in the world of RPG and fanficction writing.

How about whole famous book and movie series that turned out to be Mary Sue?

Yes, it happens.

Non-fanfiction Mary Sues

Harry Potter

Twilight

Typically, fans of a Mary Sue or Gary Stu book or movie will vehemently deny this because they know Mary Sue is the most detested type of character and they resent it when anyone comes along and points out how/why their favorite famous characters are GS/MS.

Videos:

Mary Sue Music Video

Like, my name is Mary-Sue

House of Block-Mary Sue

Attack of the Mary Sue

Silver meets the Mary Sue

Anti-Mary-Sue-Gary-Stu Video

More Links

Mary Sue Links is a page of many more links to Mary Sue related sites and articles.

Mary Sue Test Test your characters to see if they could be Mary Sues. For fun, test your favorite TV show, movie or book characters too.

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