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1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/536905/1/Nine-Men-And-A-Little-Lady Nine Men and a Little Lady]]'', by Kielle, with help from Kerrie Smith, is the classic short story about a ParodySue in the ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' fandom. Kielle wrote this in 2002, after [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing the first movie]] spawned a flood of awful fan stories about an extra girl. Kielle's parody supposes that they are all the same girl.
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3	She changes her name, appearance, and origin story whenever she wants. She lusts for several men, but mostly wants Legolas. Somehow, she joins the Fellowship. Among her powers, she can momentarily force others OutOfCharacter, forcing them to adore her. When they escape her influence, they reveal what they really think about her.
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6	!!''Nine Men and a Little Lady'' provides examples of:
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8	* AccidentalHero: [[spoiler:Gollum inadvertently saves the day by eating Mary Sue. Gollum had mistaken her references to her "precious" as meaning the Ring.]]
9	* BaitAndSwitchComparison: In her journal, Galadriel compares Mary Sue with the One Ring.
10	-->''Today, the Fellowship moves on. A great evil passes from my domain, and a vast dank shadow lifts from the hearts of my people.\
11	Oh, and [[ArtifactOfDoom the One Ring]] is leaving, too.''
12	* CurseCutShort: Sam's poem to Mary Sue ends on one:
13	-->''She's so beautiful she gives me a twitch,\
14	It's really too bad that she's such a--''\
15	[Page is too blurred beyond this point to transcribe.]
16	* DeliberatelyDistressedDamsel: Mary Sue likes to get hurt, so her love interest can heal her. "Ooo! I could get injured again, that would be great!" She would want orcs to kidnap her, but not if it takes her away from the plot.
17	* FixFic: Parodied when Mary Sue tries to save characters from death. [[spoiler:She does save Gandalf, in Moria. To restore canon, Gandalf kills himself by falling on his sword. Later, Boromir dies on schedule, and Gimli sits on Mary Sue so she can't resurrect Boromir.]]
18	* HeinzHybrid: If all her claims are true, Mary Sue is an elf, a Dúnadan, a "Part {{Unicorn}}", a human from Earth, and also a hobbit.
19	* HolyHandGrenade: When the Company encounters orcs and troll in Moria, Mary Sue summons "holy light" and defeats the whole group. This annoys Gimli, who would like to kill a few, but now has no one to attack.
20	* HumanoidAbomination: Mary Sue ''looks'' human, but her appearance, name, and backstory keep changing, and being around her entrances others so they all focus on her. Only being away from her for a long time (like Merry and Pippin) or having other protection (like Vilya for Elrond) allows people to see how unnatural and illogical she really is. Even Gandalf, a literal angel in human form, says she violates all rules laid down by Eru Himself.
21	* IHaveManyNames: Mary Sue keeps changing her name: Kaszia, Kirthia, Aragwen, Tanja, Jeriah, Selina, Tathalia, Rilliana, Berel, Ravyne, Myrishna, Aelithea. This confuses the other characters. Her part of the story is "Mary Sue's Journal".
22	* InconsistentColoring: Mary Sue's appearance is inconsistent between appearances, being combined with KaleidoscopeHair. Her eyes have been reported as "violet", "crystal-blue", "emerald-green", or some other color. This baffles Sam when he tries to write a love poem.
23	--> ''Myrishna (or was it Aelithea?) had eyes like stars,\
24	Or maybe emeralds...or were they pale?\
25	But her hair was like {{mithril}}!\
26	Or night...or sunshine...or maybe ale.''
27	* ItIsDehumanizing: Elrond's section refers to Mary Sue as 'it' to emphasize that Elrond sees her as a HumanoidAbomination.
28	* JustEatGilligan: The whole problem in this fan fiction is Mary Sue, so the other characters should just get rid of her. Legolas is smart enough to want to murder Mary Sue; he doesn't, only because he can't MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. [[spoiler:Gollum ends the story by literally eating Mary Sue.]]
29	* KaleidoscopeHair: Mary Sue's hair is "flame-red", but later it is "silver". Boromir states that her hair changes color.
30	* LoveTriangle: Mary Sue loves Legolas, Aragorn, and the hobbits, but mostly Legolas. (If she's not a HaremSeeker, she's annoyingly inconsistent about whom she wants.) This is all one way; the men never love her except when she uses her powers to take them OutOfCharacter.
31	* MediumAwareness: The characters know that they are in a story from a book. Legolas writes, "Gimli doesn't even LIKE me until sometime past the middle of this book." Sam knows that they [[AdaptedOut skipped Tom Bombadil]] and some of Galadriel's presents. Gandalf and Gimli try to keep the plot on the rails.
32	* MultipleChoicePast: Mary Sue has multiple, and entirely contradictory, backstories.
33	* ParodySue
34	* RandomEncounters: Legolas complains about a "random orc" that attacks Mary Sue. "They tend to pop up around her."
35	* SailorEarth: Mary Sue is the Tenth Walker of the Fellowship.
36	* {{Shapeshifting}}: This explains how Mary Sue changes not only her eye color and hair color, but her whole race. Mary Sue mentions shapeshifting when she compares herself to Éowyn. "Can ''she'' shapeshift? Huh! I thought not."
37	* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Mary Sue can talk to horses, but the horse in question doesn't like her attention. Bill the Pony left at Moria because he wanted to "bite her fingers off" if she kept at it.
38	* TakeThat: Kielle uses Sam to attack the movie. First, Sam knows that they [[AdaptedOut skipped Tom Bombadil]]. Second, Sam insists that Galadriel still gives presents to Sam and the others, even though "that scene got cut out to make Frodo look more special."
39	* TrappedInAnotherWorld: Mary Sue also claims to be a "teenager from Earth".
40	* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: Kielle has found the journals of several characters, and presents them as evidence of a [[SailorEarth Tenth Walker]] in the Fellowship. This is partly implausible: Merry wrote while tied up by orcs, and Bill the Pony wrote a journal despite being a speechless and illiterate horse. A past storyteller removed Mary Sue from the story, leaving only nine men in the Fellowship.

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