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• Bob, from Jack Chick's Bible Series. Yes, that one. See article here for a thorough analysis.
  • For those that don't really want to read that article... Bob is basically just a walking Deus ex Machina that serves as an Author Avatar and uses his magical plot powers to "fix" everybody by converting them to Christianity. Bob himself has no personality, no real backstory, and little to mark him but his goal of bringing everybody to Jesus by constantly being in the right place at the right time.
  • This troper can't help but notice that for all of Bob's Stu-ness, a good number of his charges still die and go to hell for their sins. This might have been to remind the reader that people go to hell, but it comes off as Bob only being able to convert stupid people while leaving anyone capable of fending him off to burn in the lake of fire.

Live-Action TV

• To an extent, this was the ultimate fate of the title character of MacGyver. Always in the right place at the right time to intervene in many a social issue, always reforming or subduing the perpetrators while inspiring everybody around him to make the world a better place. It doesn't really say much for the series that the other characters became significantly more interesting in comparison due to not being walking plot devices.
  • While it's not really fair to give him the God-Mode Sue label, there are a downright scary number of times that the Million to One Chance tricks he pulled off succeeded. One particularly egregious example even made its way into the main article text of God-Mode Sue.
• The angels of Touched By An Angel - they exist explicitly to sort out other people's problems.
• 'The Doctor, the Doctor, the Doctor. He walks into a time period, boom, the problem is laid out for him. No one from that time was ever able to solve their own problem, even if the solution just involved going through staff doors and poking around where they weren't allowed to. The Doctor fixes everything, every time, for everyone, in an hour. People die, yes, but the main problem is always solved. It is a popular series, though, and he does have quite a bit of depth (although there is some Continuity Snarl surrounding him), so he's generally exempt from the usual hatred.
• What about scientist Samantha Carter from Stargate SG 1? She's not only highly competent in whatever area she tries at, the only character comparable to her is Mckay (who assumes her role in Stargate Atlantis), and the comparisson goes like this: Mckay is an arrogant smartass and Jerkass who mostly fails miserably at anything unrelated to High Physics, Computer Science (he had to be a Hacker) and Wormhole Theory (he has near no practical or theoretical knowledge of even other science areas, ignorant even to the most common-knowledge principles of Medicine), hypochondriac, useless in a fight (he got slightly better recently, but any Red Shirt fares better), out of shape, insecure, kind of a hypocrite, petty, not very attractive according to the series females... and the list goes on forever. His redeeming qualities? He's the second smartest human in two galaxies (Pegasus and Milky Way) and second best at his areas of expertise (oops, I mean third, forgot about his sister). Samantha? THE smartest human in two galaxies and best at Mckay's areas of expertise, not to mention countless other sciences, a competent Soldier, a bastion of righteousness and justice, strong willed, fit, a looker (although at first she was considered a normal nerd) and every single time she and Mckay happen to meet, she can instantly find numerous errors with Mckay's calculations and hypothesis, even when he's working at something for weeks and she just glanced at it.

Western Animation

• Arnold of Hey Arnold! degenerated into this as the show went on, becoming the kid who solved everyone's problems, including those of the adults on the show. Lampshaded in one episode, in which several kids get annoyed with this fact and try to have Helga solve their problems instead... only to learn that they need Arnold after all.