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Mary Sue - How to Tell by =windfalcon:iconwindfalcon:

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EDIT 3: 11/22/09 You guys are kidding me XD For goodness sakes, reaaaaad the liink here: [link] Every time I get a comment that reads "the one on the left is a Mary Sue because she has green hair and a power," I realize that they're not reading the description which contains this link: [link]

Here, I'll post it again: [link]

Did you get it that time? How about now? [link]

tl;dr: If 'special' traits fit in with the universe, it doesn't automatically make the character a Mary Sue. What if everyone else in Ami Machida's universe has green/blue/purple hair? What if everyone else has a cat power? Does that make her a Mary Sue? Not necessarily.

Please, spare me the time from having to point you BACK to the silly description and just take a minute to read the link. You know, the one I linked to a bunch of times up above. And the link here: [link]

EDIT 2: 10/11/09 I suppose this is long overdue, but for those of you with confusion, here is an explanation on why I perceive the one on the left as not a Mary Sue: [link] For the love of god stop whining about it D:

EDIT: 6/21/09 Okay, everyone, please chill with all the 'hay is my character a mary-sue!?11" questions. I get about 3 a day now and one thing you need to understand - I AM NOT AN AUTHORITY ON MARY SUES. This picture is a parody. Just for fun. The one on the right is obviously an extreme exaggeration of a stereotype and not the definitive definition for a Mary Sue. D:

Please full view. You won't be able to read the text if you don't.

For those of you who don't know, a Mary Sue, in a nutshell, is a fanmade character that is usually extremely beautiful, powerful, smart, talented, and in plain words, perfect in every way.

These characters tend to be quite a bother in fanfiction and role playing, since they simply can't be beat, and thus become boring.

Have any of you ever been rping, and come across a character who is like, " oh, well, that planet in the way isn't a problem *blows it up*"

Or, is like, "well, Vegeta and Goten and Trunks and Goku ALL have a crush on my character"

Yep. That's a Mary Sue.

So, for people who still don't understand, I made this little picture/diagram. Usually, Mary Sues have TONS of talents and TONS of powers, and no weaknesses.

Enjoy ^_^

-Done in Copic Markers, with the background and text done on computer -

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~badcherry Feb 25, 2004, 12:31:15 AM
This is funny and amusing, I like it.

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*seasaidh Feb 25, 2004, 12:37:03 AM
nice very nice :)

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~camp-koala Feb 25, 2004, 3:55:31 AM
Heee hee, nothing like a good mary-sue to kill the mood!
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~desensitized Feb 25, 2004, 5:54:04 AM
:claps: xD This is great!

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~frenchymcboss Feb 25, 2004, 7:10:56 AM
Sounds a lot like Super Man syndrome to me: you make a character too strong, so you have nowhere to go. Ami is drawn well, but your perfect character looks like it may have been drawn at an angle, as the face sort of looks skewed. Otherwise, you had a really nice execution.
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~crazymunky Feb 25, 2004, 11:08:51 AM
Damn right. I don't see why it's so difficult to tell a Mary-Sue apart. Maybe the kids are just slow these days. ^^;

[headdesk]

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~-mo- Feb 25, 2004, 12:24:08 PM
Sadly... I think you may have hit it on the nose.

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~-mo- Feb 25, 2004, 12:29:55 PM
Gaw.. its so true, and if anyone needs an example try about 90% of the fanfics on [link]

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~runesphinx Feb 25, 2004, 1:09:05 PM
*bows at the altar of Windfalcon's genious, beauty, and all around gutsyness* I love you, girlfriend. Thank you for drawing this. I laughed myself into into a gutting-busting fetal position after I saw this. Major Kudos!
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~aurakage Feb 25, 2004, 2:55:19 PM
three letters: l-o-l. :rofl: i love this...i only recently learned what a mary sue was, so it's kind of a concidence that you're uploading something for it (but of course you don't care about that ^^; haha). i've encountered a few mary-sue people in my roleplaying years...and i hate them into little pieces. ><;; (not that you can actually hate them into little pieces, because there's always a freaking forest spirit or something magically appearing from thin air to throw a barrier around them.) i love how serenity and vegeta are her parents, and the whole thing with the " 1/2 this, 1/2 that, and 1/2 everything else!" :giggle:

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