->''The essential story structure of a Macho Sue tends to revolve around untouchable pride. If love means never having to say you're sorry, [[KarmaHoudini being Macho Sue means the whole of reality loves you]].  Typically, Macho Sue's storyline follows a certain trajectory: he begins by acting egregiously, picking or provoking fights and causing problems. However much the ensuing difficulties can be laid at his door, Macho Sue is not about to apologise, in any way. So the problems continue - only to be salvaged by some immense reversals that give the impression that he was right all along. The man he insulted turns out, suddenly, to be a bad guy. The woman who dislikes him falls into his strong arms when he solves a problem that is not the same problem he caused for her. People change their personalities, storylines shift and flip like a mechanical maze popping up new paths and lowering old gates in order to keep Macho Sue from ever, ever having to backtrack. As JohnWayne says, "Never say sorry - it's a sign of weakness."''\\
''(...)the dominant feature of Macho Sue is that his arrogance and unwillingness to listen to others often create at least half the problems of the early part of the story, and the rest of the story involves, somehow, proving that the problems he created weren't really problems at all. Which is something of a non-story: things happened! Oh, but not really. An alternative narrative is that Macho Sue behaves like a complete wanker for most of the story, then pulls off some feat that's considered so impressive that everyone conveniently forgets what an ass he is.''
-->'''[[http://www.kitwhitfield.com Kit Whitfield]]''', from the article "[[http://kitwhitfield.blogspot.com/2008/03/macho-sue.html Macho Sue]]"

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