History Literature / TheQuintessentialMarySue

* WouldBeRudeToSayGenocide: Mary-Sue [[spoiler:absorbs the lives of ''an entire planet'' of mages to increase her power, despite already having enough power to defeat her enemies before killing anyone]]. Their lives mean nothing to her.

* GreenEyedMonster: The Faceless One envied Mary-Sue so much that they [[spoiler:erased her memories and impersonated her identity, while leaving her to live as a human on Earth]]. Mary-Sue is so impossibly far above every other being that this [[AntiVillain is a totally understandable reaction]], but Mary-Sue shows no forgiveness. The only bad thing the Faceless One really did was [[spoiler:[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom inadvertently cause Mary-Sue's evil personality to form (which is implied to be a result of Mary-Sue;s own character weakness, not the Faceless One's sabotage) allowing her to usurp God and turn the world into Hell]]. Yet later on they claim all this was a lie and that they were truly acting out of love, not envy]].

* CosmicHorrorReveal: What starts as just mocking overpowered JerkSue characters slowly and steadily gets more creepy and horrifying, culminating in Chapter 3, where it's revealed that [[spoiler:Mary-Sue's destiny is to end the world, no one has any free will or any ability to stop this, and Mary-Sue devours countless souls in order to gain the power to wrest control of existence from God]].

->[[spoiler: ''All heard the Omnipotent words of Mary-Sue and knew they were now '''Truth'''.'']]

* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: Before the TimeSkip the story takes place over just two days, during which Mary-Sue goes from [[spoiler:thinking she's human to learning her heritage, regaining her power and memories, killing the entire People of the Gem, fighting against her past self, and dying and going to Hell]]. The TimeSkip lasts less than a week, and the story lasts an unspecified time after that, possibly less than a day. [[spoiler:Time has very little meaning once Mary-Sue defeats Heaven]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Mary-Sue throws a cup of tea on the ground, makes her servant clean up the mess, and yells at her to never give her cold tea again. [[BlatantLies The tea has steam coming out of it.]] The servant used to bully Mary-Sue when younger [[spoiler:(according to her FakeMemories, that is)]], so Mary-Sue doesn't give a crap and [[{{Sadist}} just wants to see her suffer]].

* BadassAdorable: [[spoiler: Mary-Sue's original thirteen-year-old self]] is the only thing in existance that can stand up to her, and is also described as almost superhumanly cute.

* MadeASlave: Mary-Sue took revenge on the kids who [[spoiler: (supposedly)]] bullied her by breaking their spirits to the point where they allowed her to make them her servants forever. They willingly accept any punishment she gives them, even when she [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption is determined to find fault with them no matter what they do]].

* PlotHole: It's never explained how Mary-Sue [[spoiler:becomes so powerful as to literally usurp God in the end. Sure, she was warping reality ever since her return to Earth, but there is an uncrossable gulf between “vast but finite” power and infinite power]].

* TurnInYourBadge: Mary-Sue's kicking out one of her 100 so-called Best Friends plays out like this, the friend being publicly humiliated and forced to hand over her “Best Friend Bracelet”. [[FelonyMisdemeanor For speaking favorably of a politician Mary-Sue doesn't like.]]

** The final line [[spoiler:makes Mary-Sue go from just “really powerful” to “literally omnipotent” with no explanation]]:

** Also, the narration always says “Mary-Sue [[ExactWords remembered]]” when describing her past. [[spoiler:What she remembers is not what really happened]].
** Early on, characters practically treat Mary-Sue like a god. [[spoiler:She overthrows God and takes His place in Chapter 3, and the similarities to religious apologetics become even more obvious]].

* GreenEyedMonster: The Faceless One envied Mary-Sue so much that they [[spoiler:erased her memories and impersonated her identity, while leaving her to live as a human on Earth]]. Mary-Sue is so impossibly far above every other being that this [[AntiVillain is a totally understandable reaction]], but Mary-Sue shows no forgiveness. The only bad thing the Faceless One really did was [[spoiler:[[UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom inadvertently cause Mary-Sue’s evil personality to form (which is implied to be a result of Mary-Sue’s own character weakness, not the Faceless One’s sabotage) allowing her to usurp God and turn the world into Hell]]. Yet later on they claim all this was a lie and that they were truly acting out of love, not envy]].
* HanlonsRazor: Mary-Sue assumes the worst of everyone, but [[MoralMyopia demands that everyone think perfectly of her]]. She assumes that the seer disparaging her living conditions is an insult, when it’s actually because [[spoiler:Earth is a shithole compared to Mary-Sue’s previous life]]. Even though she assumes the Seer from the Planet of the Gem is insane, and knows that he truly believes his claims, she still would have tortured him for disrespect if he hadn’t proved his claims.
* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Somehow, Mary-Sue can drink an entire keg of ale in one go, then continue to drink dozens of men under the table while her drink is more than twice as potent, and even though she’s buzzed, suffers no ill effects. [[spoiler:Even considering she’s not human, this is ridiculous]].
* HellHasNewManagement: [[spoiler:Mary-Sue overthrows TheLegionsOfHell less than a week after dying]].
* HellOfAHeaven: [[spoiler:Mary-Sue never does set foot in Heaven, even after destroying St. Peter and seizing the key to the Pearly Gates. Instead, she just declares that Heaven is now Hell, in a fit of spiteful pique in response to her previous banishment]]. [[AmbiguousEnding However, we never actually learn of the souls in Heaven’s fate.]]

* ImpossiblyDeliciousFood: Mary-Sues, the cookie Mary-Sue created. [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin People would rather starve if they can’t obtain it.]] [[spoiler:Once she dies, wars break out over the stuff since [[NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup she never shared the recipe]].]]

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mary-Sue busts out the priceless liquor upon hearing what she thinks is the seer’s insane ramblings. Even though she is already wasted.

* ItIsDehumanizing: No one knows the Faceless One’s gender or identity, but for daring to inconvenience Mary-Sue, they are constantly mocked, dehumanized, and called “it”.
* LackOfEmpathy: Mary-Sue is ''never'' nice. To ''anyone''. She intentionally breaks expensive china in front of her maid just to punish her, blackmails the world into making her rich, ruins the life and breaks the spirit of [[WithFriendsLikeThese a friend]] who voices a political opinion she doesn’t share, and threatens to play a BrownNote if her friends do anything but glorify her constantly or even let her be slightly bored. This gets [[spoiler: ''so much worse'' once she becomes the Succubus Queen of the Damned]].

* MuggleFosterParents: Mary-Sue had the abusive variety, who tried to steal her money. Of course, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness there is no evidence other than Mary-Sue’s own testimony that they actually wanted the money for themselves]], which might explain why [[spoiler:she really did live with them and that is not a fake memory]].

* OverlyLongName: Mary-Sue’s true name is Merry-Melody-Solemnity-Twilight-Resplendence-Theresa-Sumptuous-Suzanne. [[spoiler:Her true, original personality goes by this gladly, but]] amusingly, [[EveryoneHasStandards Mary-Sue thinks this name is stupid and doesn’t want to be called by it]].
* PaintingTheMedium: St. Peter mocks Mary-Sue by asking her what [[spoiler:the aliens]] look like, and what the other characters look like, and what their names are. Mary-Sue can’t answer, despite knowing the answer, because it was never given, since that would detract from her awesomeness.

* PlotHole: It’s never explained how Mary-Sue [[spoiler:becomes so powerful as to literally usurp God in the end. Sure, she was warping reality ever since her return to Earth, but there is an uncrossable gulf between “vast but finite” power and infinite power]].

* PunyEarthlings: Earth humans are so primitive and weak compared to intergalactic society that they are considered little more than animals, with characters being shocked and horrified that [[spoiler:Mary-Sue was forced to live among them and believes herself to be one of them]]. When she questions how it’s possible for her to [[spoiler:have been superior to any human instantly at birth]], her interlocutor is shocked that she even considers the possibility that she wasn’t. Moreover, humans are apparently so dull that Mary-Sue has grown bored of them, and only listens to [[spoiler:the seer of the Gem]] because she can somehow tell that he is not human, and therefore interesting.

* RationalizingTheOverkill: Mary-Sue rationalizes her bad behavior (including ruining people’s lives and making them serve her forever) on the grounds that they deserve it for bullying her as a child. When really her childhood was perfect and she was given falsified memories of it sucking, and it wasn’t much worse than schoolyard taunts and distant foster parents even if it were real. Even after she knows the truth, she still uses this excuse, suggesting that she thinks being subjected to any hardship for any reason justifies her making everyone else’s lives a literal hell.

* ReallyGetsAround: Mary-Sue fucks 100 people ''in a single night''. [[DoubleStandard She would condemn anyone else even a fraction as promiscuous.]]

* SnicketWarningLabel: The author’s note at the end of Chapter 2 tells readers not to proceed to the last chapter if they are the type of person who likes justice, instead inviting them to pretend [[spoiler:that Mary-Sue was defeated upon her death]], because Chapter 3 will create a world where [[CrapsackWorld the innocent are punished for the crimes of the guilty and the weak carry the strong]].
* SpaceFillingEmpire: Before Mary-Sue was born, ''the entire universe'' was divided into four polities: [[spoiler:the empire of the Philosphites, a nigh-omniscient ProudScholarRace with [[SquishyWizard pronounced physical frailty]]; the empire of the Amazinines, near-omnipotent ProudWarriorRace barbarians with such super strength they [[StrongFleshWeakSteel don’t need technology]] but have very little intelligence; the Planet of the Gem, the only planet in the universe with magic, which allowed it alone to maintain its independence from the two expansionist empires; and Earth, which [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet is so primitive the rest of the world ignored it]].]] The first two joined in personal union [[spoiler:so that Mary-Sue could be born, and this was masterminded by [[TheManBehindTheMan the People of the Gem]]]]. So only Earth is cut off from the rest of the universe. [[spoiler:Mary-Sue conquers all four, as well as Heaven and Hell]].

* StrongFleshWeakSteel: [[spoiler:The Emperor of the Philosphites has a brain more powerful than any supercomputer. The Queen of the Amazinines can travel billions of times faster than light through her body’s own locomotion and is invulnerable to anything short of a hypernova. And their child]], Mary-Sue, is a PhysicalGod.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: It isn’t very long, but after regaining her childhood memories, [[spoiler:the ''original'', superficially nicer Mary-Sue calls out her amnesiac self about all her flaws, and how she is as immature as a five-year-old, and that she tortured and killed people for no good reason. She also gets a much longer one from St. Peter at the Pearly Gates that sums up everything wrong with the story up to that point]].

* TurnInYourBadge: Mary-Sue’s kicking out one of her 100 so-called Best Friends plays out like this, the friend being publically humiliated and forced to hand over her “Best Friend Bracelet”. [[FelonyMisdemeanor For speaking favorably of a politician Mary-Sue doesn’t like.]]

** [[spoiler:The seer of the Planet of the Gem truly thought that by forcing the prophecy of Mary-Sue’s birth to come true, he would save the universe from destruction. But according to St. Peter, he did nothing but cause the universe to continue beyond its natural end, like a cancer, allowing Mary-Sue to become all-powerful and ruin everything]].
** Even more so is [[spoiler:the Faceless One, who posthumously claims to have corrupted Mary-Sue out of love, not envy. According to them, Mary-Sue really was as nice as her reputation suggests, but she was plagued with self-doubt, and so the Faceless One concluded, perhaps falsely, that Mary-Sue’s empathy was a curse, and removed it for her in the belief that it was what she wanted]]. Had they not done this, the DownerEnding might not have come to pass, though St. Peter implies that nobody in this universe actually has the free will to choose otherwise.

* WingedHumanoid: [[spoiler:Mary-Sue originally had wings, lost them as well as her memories in a ritual gone wrong, and gets them back in Chapter 2 along with her full power]]. Just touching the wings gives her power back; it’s not explained at all.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: Mary-Sue is the worst friend ever. She sees her friends as status symbols, and makes them change everything about themselves to be worthy of her. All their personalities are drained away like Abercrombie & Fitch models. Even then, she emotionally abuses them constantly, refuses to engage any of their interests in any way, and will not hesitate to ruin their lives or even inflict a FateWorseThanDeath on all of them. She’s already done it ''[[AMillionIsAStatistic twice]]''.

* WorldsMostBeautifulWoman: Mary-Sue, of course. Her beauty is paramount even without cosmetics, which fail to enhance it at all. Naturally, [[InformedAttribute her physical description doesn’t jibe with this]].

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Between [[spoiler:Mary-Sue’s original and current personalities. The original wins, but at the cost of their life, which doesn’t matter since only the evil personality manages to come back to life]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Nothing can impair Mary-Sue’s beauty, not even dirt or grime. In fact, her beauty is so innate that cosmetics can only cover it up.

* CasualInterstellarTravel: Both the [[spoiler:Philosphites and Amazinines]] can travel throughout the entire universe, billions of times faster than light, with ease. The latter [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower don’t even need technology]]! [[spoiler:The People of the Gem]] use magic to teleport anywhere instantly.

* CharacterShilling: Other characters shill Mary-Sue constantly. [[spoiler:Though her original personality is definitely nowhere near as wicked as the one created after losing her memories, we still only hear about it secondhand and thus don’t know whether Mary-Sue ever lived up to her reputation before she lost her memories and identity]].
* ChekhovsGun: Most of Mary-Sue’s accomplishments from Chapter 1 serve only to make her seem creepy and awesome, but The One True Song is used again in Chapter 2 [[spoiler:to kill her. It doesn’t last]]. The Mary-Sues cookies are also mentioned once again in Chapter 3 in a throwaway gag.

* CosmicHorrorReveal: What starts as just mocking overpowered JerkSue characters slowly and steadily gets more creepy and horrifying, culminating in Chapter 3, where it’s revealed that [[spoiler:Mary-Sue’s destiny is to end the world, no one has any free will or any ability to stop this, and Mary-Sue devours countless souls in order to gain the power to wrest control of existence from God]].

* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: Earth compared to the rest of the universe, to a ludicrous degree. Mary-Sue’s private 100-story mansion is a mere hovel to extraterrestrials.

* CruelToBeKind: [[spoiler:The Faceless One, after their death, tells Mary-Sue that they only stole her identity and memories and replaced them with worse ones in order to grant Mary-Sue’s wish of freedom from the immense burden she was made to bear. They straight up say they helped her by hurting her]]. [[UnreliableExpositor It’s impossible to determine whether this is true or not]].

* DisproportionateRetribution: Displease Mary-Sue at your peril. Express a political opinion she doesn’t hold? Get berated in front of 100 people and be blackballed from holding gainful employment ever again. (She also gave her MuggleFosterParents this fate.) And her childhood bullies, who aren’t described as doing much worse than teasing (and [[spoiler:who never ''actually'' did anything at all]]) are psychologically broken and made into her slaves.

* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Everyone on Earth wants to have sex with Mary-Sue, regardless of sex [[IfItsYouItsOkay or orientation]]. [[spoiler:She does indeed have sex with 50 women and 50 men—offpage of course—in a single night]].
* ExecutiveExcess: Mary-Sue lives a ludicrously opulent lifestyle of ConspicuousConsumption, mansions, parties, [[NiceToTheWaiter mistreating servants]], and hedonism, because she is the world’s richest individual. [[spoiler:As the Empress of the Universe Made Whole, this is taken up to eleven, with consumption making her Earthly lifestyle seem indigent]].
* ExtremeLibido: Even 100 partners in one night is not enough to satisfy Mary-Sue. [[spoiler:Her original personality from her suppressed memories calls her a whore for this]].
* ExtremelyShortTimeSpan: Before the TimeSkip the story takes place over just two days, during which Mary-Sue goes from [[spoiler:thinking she’s human to learning her heritage, regaining her power and memories, killing the entire People of the Gem, fighting against her past self, and dying and going to Hell]]. The TimeSkip lasts less than a week, and the story lasts an unspecified time after that, possibly less than a day. [[spoiler:Time has very little meaning once Mary-Sue defeats Heaven]].
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Mary-Sue throws a cup of tea on the ground, makes her servant clean up the mess, and yells at her to never give her cold tea again. [[BlatantLies The tea has steam coming out of it.]] The servant used to bully Mary-Sue when younger [[spoiler: (according to her FakeMemories, that is)]], so Mary-Sue doesn’t give a crap and [[{{Sadist}} just wants to see her suffer]].
* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:The Faceless One removed Mary-Sue’s memories of her life as a super intelligent and powerful alien princess, and replaced them with memories of a — [[FauxHorrific shudder]] — ordinary life on Earth!]] Despite this completely negating Mary-Sue’s bad childhood, she ''still'' uses it to justify her actions and deny having ever done anything wrong.

* {{Fiction 500}}: Mary-Sue is a multitrillionaire, having more money than actually exists in the world, and made her fortune in just two years, running a company that provides no goods or services, but just markets herself.

* FreudianExcuse: The tendency for {{Jerk Sue}}s to have these is parodied: the ''entire world'' thinks that Mary-Sue’s DisproportionateRetribution on hapless people is justified because of her horrible childhood, despite how she is making them suffer much more than she ever did.[[invoked]]

* ThirteenIsUnlucky:
** Mary-Sue [[spoiler:lost her memories, power, and identity on her thirteenth birthday]].
** The Faceless One is mage number 13 of the Council of 14, and their actions directly lead to the DownerEnding.

* GagBoobs: Mary-Sue is an '''L'''-cup. Somehow, [[HollywoodDensity her band size is only 38 despite this]].

* EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses: [[spoiler:Mary-Sue is not a native earthling, but instead the princess of the Universe Made Whole, which rules the whole universe except for [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet Earth]]]]. Or at least, she was until her parents died [[spoiler:at the hands of the Faceless One]]. Now she’s the Empress. [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Be afraid.]]

* ParodySue: Mary-Sue herself. She was written to get a high score on the Mary Sue Litmus Test.

* ExecutiveExcess: Mary-Sue lives a ludicrously opulent lifestyle of ConspicuousConsumption, mansions, parties, [[NiceToTheWaiter mistreating servants]], and hedonism, because she is the world’s richest individual. [[spoiler:As the Empress of the Universe Made Whole, this is taken UpToEleven, with consumption making her Earthly lifestyle seem indigent]].

* MuggleFosterParents: Mary-Sue had the [[CinderellaCircumstances abusive]] variety, who tried to steal her money. Of course, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness there is no evidence other than Mary-Sue’s own testimony that they actually wanted the money for themselves]], which might explain why [[spoiler:she really did live with them and that is not a fake memory]].

* ExecutiveExcess: Mary-Sue lives a ludicrously opulent lifestyle of ConspicuousConsumption, mansions, parties, [[NiceToTheWaiter mistreating servants]], and hedonism, because she is the world’s richest individual. [[spoiler:As the Empress of the Universe Made Whole, this is taken UpToEleven, with consumption making her Earthly lifestyle seem ghetto]].

* RapunzelHair: Her hair is pink, and flows to her feet. Keep in mind that she is almost seven feet tall.