"When she arrives, you will be greeted upon opening your door with a smile. A smile that could stop time, level mountains, extinguish the sun, set Antarctica on fire, end civilizations, and create world peace all in the same day. it will be the most beautiful smile you will have ever seen. Your soul will be filled with so much happiness that you will feel faint or intoxicated. You yourself will not be able to stop smiling in return."
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Did you just cringe when you read that? Or were you unable to decide whether to gag, facepalm, or laugh?
That's normal. Mary Sues such as this tend to have that effect on people. Mary Sues are initially much beloved by their authors, and are often disdained by other readers, but there are exceptions to this. And in some cases, the Mary Sues are eventually shunned and confessed as embarrassments by their authors.
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Who And What Is Mary Sue
A Mary Sue is a fictional character that is 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!
It only takes one of these characteristics to turn a story into a Mary Sue, but while B. can be cut out in a re-write to redeem a story, there is no such hope if A. is present. A. is what really defines a story, its author, and fans as Mary Sues.
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.
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:
Let's start with a Mary Sue of a Gary Stu.
Mary Sue The Killer
Jeff The Killer, a notorious creepy pasta story with a huge fandom. Mary Sue The Killer is a good satirization of both Jeff and his sad little fangirls.
Jeff The Killer the notorious Gary Stu creepy pasta story with Jane Arkensaw's and Jess The Killer's stories said to take place right along with his.
More of Jeff's fellow Mary Sues:
Jane The Killer
She's a really nasty character.
There is some confusion as to whether Jane the Killer is Jane Arkensaw or Jane Richardson.
It's Richardson. She's the original Jane The Killer, andArkensaw only killed one person who attacked her. Richardson killed 211 plus. Both Janes are Mary Sues, but Richardson is the bigger Sue by far.
Jane Richardson The Killer Story Info
Born Of Science" Here's where you get to see her cause the Sue-meter soar right off the charts.
Reactions People call her out for the Mary Sue she is, and her author throws a tantrum using sexist micromemes.
Camille The Would-be Killer, Jeff's long lost cousin
Nina Woods The Killer
Jana The Killer
Other Mary Sues:
Blackness Rose Midnight The eyeless drowned killer, a parody of pasta Sues
The Creepy Pasta Mary Sue Moon Girl with the civilization-ending smile
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 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
I Spy Mary Sue Eyes author/character banter showcasing how annoying Mary Sue writing gets with so much emphasis on appearance.
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.
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.
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
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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