A character too perfect for their setting. Most often, this character is talented and attractive, and anyone who doesn't adore them is portrayed as mean, stupid, or evil. It's common for them to be the smartest, even if this requires everyone else to act stupider than they should. Out of place but awesome names are also frequent occurrences. They lead charmed lives, and any conflict or drama they are met with will be either overdone to the point of headache induction, or easily brushed aside.
While not always the case, Mary Sues are more often written by someone who is just starting out, either by someone who wrote their own personal power fantasy and expects everyone else to applaud them for it, or by someone using shortcuts to try and make their character impressive to others.
These characters are considered a mark of poor writing because they give too much favoritism to the character in question, and it comes off to readers as the author trying to artificially make their character the best around through shortcuts rather than well crafted development. Their perfectness also tends to prevent the stories they're in from developing suspense, making not only the character but the entire work they're in boring.
While the term Mary Sue, along with the male version Gary Stu, has been applied to both fan characters and canon characters in published works, it is much more common to see used on fan characters. Particularly those in fan fiction, which are most often female.
While not always the case, Mary Sues are more often written by someone who is just starting out, either by someone who wrote their own personal power fantasy and expects everyone else to applaud them for it, or by someone using shortcuts to try and make their character impressive to others.
These characters are considered a mark of poor writing because they give too much favoritism to the character in question, and it comes off to readers as the author trying to artificially make their character the best around through shortcuts rather than well crafted development. Their perfectness also tends to prevent the stories they're in from developing suspense, making not only the character but the entire work they're in boring.
While the term Mary Sue, along with the male version Gary Stu, has been applied to both fan characters and canon characters in published works, it is much more common to see used on fan characters. Particularly those in fan fiction, which are most often female.
So this girl's name is Crystal Roseblade, she grew up in the same orphanage as the protagonist and was a childhood friend of his, but he forgot about her, and now she's come back out of nowhere as a huge pop idol who's secretly the world's greatest demon slayer? Do you think you might be writing a Mary Sue?
by ring of fates May 21, 2014
A cougar bar located in Mississauga Ontario, where young men are subjected to being hunted by older women. Also reffered to as a DEN for cougars.
by Niko February 14, 2005
a gargantuan pussy.
often large enough to fit, easily, an obese American child (or thelve).
typically rimmed with coarse baboon hair and emits a distinct odour not too different from that of wet elephant shit.
renowned for its impressive ability to produce earth trembling queefs, a queef from Sue Palmer's Bush is rumored to be able to topple over small buildings.
it is ridiculously large.
also on display in the Botanical Gardens in Montreal, Canada.
often large enough to fit, easily, an obese American child (or thelve).
typically rimmed with coarse baboon hair and emits a distinct odour not too different from that of wet elephant shit.
renowned for its impressive ability to produce earth trembling queefs, a queef from Sue Palmer's Bush is rumored to be able to topple over small buildings.
it is ridiculously large.
also on display in the Botanical Gardens in Montreal, Canada.
- Bitch, yo mamma's so loose that its bigger than Sue Palmer's Bush!
- Hey what's that cave over there with all that dark shit all around it?
Dat ain't no cave, it's Sue Palmer's Bush!
- Hey what's that cave over there with all that dark shit all around it?
Dat ain't no cave, it's Sue Palmer's Bush!
by Jeremy Palmer May 06, 2008
When Sue opens her mouth and you need to tell her to shut the fuck up because noone cares about what she says
Shut up sue
by Enel3 November 30, 2020
When a girl (preferably Mary Sue Coleman) watches you while you sleep and you suddenly jizz in her face and yell 'SURPRISE' !!
Everyone heard Chris yell 'surprise' when he Mary Sue Surprised the president of the University of Michigan last night..
by kelseykilla October 31, 2010
A piece of lingerie or underwear that is being worn as if it were a top. From the Seinfeld character of the same name.
by KJR August 12, 2005
A Mary Sue or Gary Stu (male form) is often either a perfect or almost perfect character. They often appear in fan fictions and are sometimes based on the author themselves.
If the Mary Sue or Gary Stu is based on the author, they normally have qualities that the author wishes they had.
For example, they wish to be more popular or better looking.
When a Mary Sue or Gary Stu is written into a fan fiction, it will often cause canon (original) characters to become OOC (out of character). They often have terrible, grief-filled pasts and 'need' a certain canon character to understand them or they have a past that is the exact same or very similar to a canon character's.
Mary Sues and Gary Stus are mostly found in new writers or written in fan fictions by more exprerienced writers for fun.
They also tend to have either very common or extremely strange and exotic names or, if they are made for fun, will sometimes have the name Mary Sue or Gary Stu.
If the Mary Sue or Gary Stu is based on the author, they normally have qualities that the author wishes they had.
For example, they wish to be more popular or better looking.
When a Mary Sue or Gary Stu is written into a fan fiction, it will often cause canon (original) characters to become OOC (out of character). They often have terrible, grief-filled pasts and 'need' a certain canon character to understand them or they have a past that is the exact same or very similar to a canon character's.
Mary Sues and Gary Stus are mostly found in new writers or written in fan fictions by more exprerienced writers for fun.
They also tend to have either very common or extremely strange and exotic names or, if they are made for fun, will sometimes have the name Mary Sue or Gary Stu.
Mary Sue had a horribly tragic past.
When she was only a baby, her parents had been murdered by Voldemort because they had been trying to protect her.
However, when Voldemort tried to kill her it backfired and left her with only a scar.
When she was only a baby, her parents had been murdered by Voldemort because they had been trying to protect her.
However, when Voldemort tried to kill her it backfired and left her with only a scar.
by ManamixChan December 29, 2009