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, who for one reason or another is deemed undesirable by fan critics. A character may be judged Mary Sue if she is competent in too many areas, is physically attractive, and/or is viewed as admirable by other sympathetic characters. Mary Sues are generally presumed to be idealized self-inserts rather than true characters, although they may actually be intended as proxies for the reader. In fan fiction, it is considered extremely gauche, or at least very immature, for an author to create characters based on him- or herself."Mary Sue" is an extremely subjective value judgement. One fan's Mary Sue may be another fan's awesome woman action hero. Someone at TvTropes observed that "Mary Sue" is actually the reaction that fans may have to a work that "is unduly favoring a character by changing other characters or the environment in inappropriate ways. When the audience calls "Mary Sue" on a character, the author has shattered their Willing Suspension of Disbelief."[1]
Mary Sue type characters do exist in both fan fiction and canon. The main difficulty with true Mary Sue stories is that they often cause canon characters, established story lines, and the very inner consistency of the canon's reality, to behave wildly out of bounds.
The male version of a Mary Sue is a Gary Stu or a Marty Stu." -Wiki
This is for people who didn't know what a Mary Sue was, for example I didn't know what was a Mary Sue was until 4 moths ago. But onwards to the point, I always wondered if my OCs were a Mary Sue. I mean like I'm okay with people's Mary Sues, I just don't want my characters like that so I often take this Mary Sue Litmus Test here: www.springhole.net/writing/mar…
I just wanted to share this link with you guys, so... yeah. Right now I'm doing the test for Tochi.