History Main / HerCodenameWasMarySue

* In "the Nightman Cometh", the season 4 finale of ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', Charlie expands the song "Dayman" that he and Dennis wrote in an earlier episode into a full musical. The main character is clearly a SympatheticSue version of himself and the plot revolves around his [[StalkerWithACrush obsessive attachment]] to the Waitress (whose character sings a song expressing her true feelings of longing for his). Charlie begs her to attend the performance and reserves her a seat front-and-center, hoping that she'll be so moved that she'll finally realize they were meant to be together. Awkward HilarityEnsues. Perhaps more disturbingly, the other large part of the play's plot revolves around the main character getting molested by the titular villain (well, Charlie insists that isn't what's happening, but nobody believes him), who is heavily implied to be at least partly based on Charlie's CreepyUncle Jack.

* In one issue of Greg Rucka's ''ComicBook/DetectiveComics'', Two-Face creates a comic book called ''The Adventures of Copernicus Dent with his Best Girl and Plucky Assistant R'Nee'' in Arkham Asylum's art therapy program. The hero Copernicus Dent is drawn to look like Harvey Dent without any scarring, while the villain Janus is entirely scarred all over. R'Nee is clearly named after Renee Montoya, whom Two-Face was infatuated with, but the character is a [[HeroesWantRedheads redheaded]] DamselInDistress.

* In ''Series/{{Castle}}'', the title character is writing the crime novel series ''Nikki Heat'', whose protagonist is based on Beckett, the police officer he's shadowing for material. And most of her colleagues at the 12th precinct also have analogues in the series, even minor recurring characters. Castle inserts himself into the series as IntrepidReporter Jameson Rook, whom Nikki Heat immediately falls for (it takes her real-life counterpart a lot longer). But other than that, Rook is shown as ''less'' competent than Castle in several ways, frequently screwing up and failing to spot clues, while Castle himself is shown as a competent investigator in his own right. Interestingly, the ''Nikki Heat'' series has subsequently been {{Defictionaliz|ation}}ed.

* ''Read It And Weep'', the movie on Disney Channel some years ago about a [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent teenage girl]] whose journal was basically a fantasy story about herself acing all of her classes, getting the guy she wanted, "zapping away" the AlphaBitch, and generally [[WishFulfillment getting just about everything she wanted]]. Somehow, the journal gets published, and becomes a big hit with everyone, until the girl [[AccidentalPublicConfession accidentally reveals on a talk show that the characters in the journal were based on people she knows in]] RealLife. Cue everyone in school avoiding her (including her friends) and her having to choose between friendship and popularity. Or something like that.
** The movie was based on a book, and in the movie, the journal got published because her printer was broken and she needed to send her homework to a friend to print out, and she accidentally sent the wrong file.
** Kind of a {{Deconstruction}} of Mary Sue wish fulfillment as the character she created starts to interfere with her life and is revealed to be a Jerkass. The deconstruction is that, as a wish-fulfillment character, she did things that the protagonist couldn't really do and still be a good person (kind of how a lot of Mary Sue fics have heavy ProtagonistCenteredMorality issues).
*** The created character's name was Iz, and even from the beginning, the audience sees her as shallow. She seems to be encouraging the writer to "stand up for herself" but is really having her act petty and vindictive instead of taking the high road and ignoring the bullies. By the end, she is absolutely a Libby herself, who doesn't understand why the writer wants to give up on the fame/money/whatever just so she could have her friends back. She was entirely as shallow as the bullies she was created to "zap away."