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lupercal
05-02-2006, 12:59 AM
Thalia is Crazy wrote:

*a mary-sue is over-endowed with radical superpowers, abilities and strengths, and seemingly no weaknesses or end to her infinite loveliness: a female character generally reserved for rancid fanfiction.

She/he is also generally considered to be a projection of an idealised self-image of the author. The most famous example probably being Wesley Crusher in 'Star Trek, The Next Generation' (Gene Rodenberry's middle name was Wesley).

I have to admit though, that fan-fiction apart, where much more blatant examples tend to be obvious, I have less problems with alleged 'Mary Sue' characters than a lot of people seem to. I'm not sure where the delinition between a MS and a run of the mill hero is. I read that Aleu in 'Wolf Quest' was supposed to be a Mary Sue character. That just seemed nitpicking to me, as she seemed to have flaws which argued against the idea of a MS character, but even it were true, it didn't spoil the film for me.


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Thalia-is-Crazy
06-10-2006, 05:38 PM
I don't really have a problem with having all main characters and heroes look like supermodels and sex kittens...
But that's physical appearance.
And endless powers can be cool too... depends on how they're played out.

But when within a movie or TV series attention is constantly drawn to how infinitely amazing this particular character is, or how, OMG no one's ever been so powerful/talented/etc (DBZ ANYONE?)
it gets annoying.

You really cheesed that I don't like valley of the wind?