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The Mary-Sue mothership takes on the same concept of Mary-Sue (or Gary-Stu, depending on the case), but this term stands for both the Mary-Sue and the Suethor who created the Mary-Sue in question.

In this case, however, the 'pairing' between the Mary-Sue and the canon character will have gathered a club of fans who follow the Suethor's every art or literature featuring the Mary-Sue and canon character, of whom would, 99.9% of the time, be turned OOC (out of character).

The Suethor's avid fan club becomes very loyal to the Suethor, giving the Suethor art gifts featuring the Mary-Sue in scenes with the canon character in their own artistic style.

Mary-Sue motherships are more than likely to be found at DeviantART, but some Suethors show off the work of their followers at Photobucket or other image site.

If there is ever a setting where a Gary-Stu character is involved, it is termed the "Gary-Stu Death Star."

The numerous images featuring the Mary-Sue and canon character fighting against the world or having babies can be termed "Mary-Sue motherload."
"Holy crap, I just spotted another Mary-Sue mothership. M-S MOTHERSHIP! TWELVE O'CLOCK!! IT'S HEADED RIGHT FOR US!!"

At the very heart of a Mary-Sue mothership is an insecure individual who is angsty and only wants to elope with a towdally osm fictional character who will marry them, give them babies, and live happily ever after. The End.
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Rey from Star Wars Episode 7, 8 and 9. The definition of a bad written character. If you have any questions about her not being a Mary Sue, please go back to the first 6 episodes and then try to defend her.
Rey is now officially MaRey SueWalker. She is such a Mary Sue.
Mary Sue by Tatsu 0w0 April 16, 2020
A Mary Sue is a seemingly perfect character. Their male counterpart is a Gary Sue or a Marty Sue. They have little to no flaws. Often times they have a tragic backstory, being abused, abandoned, etc. They are unrealistically attractive, and often times have things that break cannon severely, such as a Pokémon girl being a Neko. They often have powers that are given to no others in the universe, and that have nothing to do with the universe. They often have long names, often times having 'Kawaii' or 'Desu' or simple Japanese language within them.
Often times they are dating a cannon character, and often times replace a cannon character.
"Your OC is a Mary Sue!"

"Yeah, my old OC was named Shi. She was a Mary Sue."

"Here's my OC, Kristina Jose Marky Trinity. Please don't say she's a Mary Sue."
Mary Sue by glibmonster July 30, 2017

Mary-Sue 

A sexist term used to enforce the misogynistic ideals that female characters/authors shouldn't be allowed to fantasize or write anything along the lines of wish fulfillment. Its misogynistic qualities are exemplified in many ways, most notably being the fact that it's not a term dominated by the male counterpart despite existing in a patriarchal society, as well as the fact that the male counterpart is largely undecided upon in name and also undefined (see urban dictionary's Gary Stu entry which has no definition but to say "A Male Mary Sue", and the Marty-Stu entry which involves the "Mary Sue" definition to define it).

It's usually used on the whole to bully new authors out of writing female characters altogether, making the task seem so daunting to some that they now only write slash fictions with two male characters, also exemplifying the misogynistic qualities this term involves.
1.

Fan Fiction Reader: Why don't we just call all bad/annoying characters "special snowflakes" instead of using a female name like mary-sue in a derogatory fashion?

2.

Troll: You're writing a mary-sue to pair with the canon character you fat low life, it's pathetic and so are you!

3.

Author: I'm so afraid of having my female character labeled as a mary-sue that I only write male characters!
Mary-Sue by urmamason May 24, 2013
A Mary Sue is often a perfect female character, with no flaws, a sad backstory, and the story often revolves around them. They often have impossible bloodlines and names like Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and they completely upstage canon characters. The other characters are also commonly friends with or in love/crushing on the her, despite not having any reason to.The male counterparts are Gary or Marty Sue.
"Ebony's name is Enoby not Mary Sue"
my immortal
Mary Sue by Blue Flaming Wolf February 23, 2019
An OC (Original Character) that is basically the best in every way possible. Usually they have a disproportionately large chest, rainbow hair and a dark backstory. They usually have names like, 'Princess Rainbow Sparkle Killer Kawaii Desu' or, 'Miss Sexy Thang Sparkle Rainbow Queen Psycho Killer Shiny Beauty Girl'.
That biatch is nothing but a careless, insincere Mary Sue!

~or~
My eyes are bleeding, and critique would do an indescribably large number on this, I think it's a Mary Sue!
Mary Sue by YeeBlaster June 29, 2018
A term used by emotionally stunted men in fandom spaces that are either:
1. Threatened by a powerful female character, (but, not a male character with the exact same arc)
2. Unable to comprehend the heroine arc or emotional depth and struggle that character has had to go through
'Rey is such a Mary Sue'-Jack Dimwit exclaimed, in disgust that a character could probably beat him up, *with no training*, even though the character literally grew up having to learn how to defend and feed herself since she was 5 years old
Mary Sue by usethehorserey April 29, 2019