08-22-2009, 07:53 AM
Ok, maybe I need to clarify things a bit.
A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue), in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors or readers. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly.
And when it says the character "just knows things", it's usually a cop-out for the writer not coming up with anything impressive or clever *or anything else at all, really* to forward the plot.
A Mary Sue (sometimes just Sue), in literary criticism and particularly in fanfiction, is a fictional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, lacking noteworthy flaws, and primarily functioning as wish-fulfillment fantasies for their authors or readers. Perhaps the single underlying feature of all characters described as "Mary Sues" is that they are too ostentatious for the audience's taste, or that the author seems to favor the character too highly.
And when it says the character "just knows things", it's usually a cop-out for the writer not coming up with anything impressive or clever *or anything else at all, really* to forward the plot.
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