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Mary Sue

A Mary Sue (also known as Sue; Marty Sue, Marty Stu, Mary Stu, or Gary Stu if male) is an unbelievable character that usually is just too good to be true. This is often the end result of someone becoming so obsessed with being part of an nonexistent universe that they simply had to make a character that they can project themselves on to be part of said universe. However, the character always ends up being an overcompensated, overly-perfect wish-fulfillment of the author, inflicting nothing but his or her own arrogance onto the fiction and/or fandom.

Despite being a literary criticism, Mary Sues have managed to invade every medium of entertainment, as nearly every single fictional video game, movie, TV show, and book has at least one, to the point that they have evolved into an entire character archetype.

The term originated from the name of an original character from a Star Trek parody-fic where at the tender age of fifteen-and-a-half, said OC became a Lieutenant, fucked Captain Kirk and Spock, revealed that she was a half-Vulcan, ran the Enterprise after everyone else got sick, nursed them back to health, and then subsequently died.

Contrary to popular belief, Mary Sues existed before the fic; they were just less identifiable back then due to the lack of the internet's accessibility. Ironically, it's also the internet’s fault that the Sue-plague spreading, as now any twat with internet-access that believes that she can write a good story has the means to show everyone unfortunate enough to find her godawful fanfic why she hasn't.

(( I'm So Pretty And Perfect, You Know It's Not Me Self Inserting My Fantasy ))


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