Playing With / Mary Sue

Basic Trope: A character is perfect, but is a bit too perfect.

• Straight: Mary Sue is good at everything, loved by everyone and has no flaws. She marries and has babies with Charlie in the end.
• Exaggerated:
  • Mary Sue is so kind and lovable she tastes like diabetes, is an All-Loving Hero and Friend to All Living Things, is loved by her arch-enemy Alice, has every possible positive trait imaginable, no flaws, no weaknesses, and kills the Obviously Evil Emperor Bad and his Mook armies in a Curb-Stomp Battle.
  • invoked30-Sue Pileup
  • invokedGod-Mode Sue
• Downplayed:
  • Mary Sue has some things she's average at, and can by clumsy at times, however her clumsiness has no relevance to the plot.
  • The Ace mixed with Incorruptible Pure Pureness
  • Jerk Sue/Villain Sue
• Justified:
  • Mary Sue was made perfect by a witch.
  • Mary Sue's parents raised her to be perfect.
• Inverted:
  • invokedBob Badness is a cruel jerk Stupid Evil ditz who doesn’t hook up with anyone and is horrifically ugly.
  • Hate Sink
• Gender-Inverted: invokedMarty Stu
• Subverted: Mary Sue seems perfect, but as the story progresses her Fatal Flaw becomes apparent.
• Double Subverted:
  • It turns out this was just an Informed Flaw.
  • She becomes a invokedJerk Sue.
• Parodied: Parody Sue
• Averted: Mary Sue has flaws like an average person.
• Enforced:
  • The creator ensures that Mary Sue has no flaws and that everyone likes her.
  • The creator tried to make The Ace but failed.
  • The work still has to go through early editing.
• Lampshaded: "My god, Mary Sue can do anything!"
• Invoked: ???
• Exploited: ???
• Defied: Emperor Bad kidnaps Mary Sue and forces her to give up all her kindnesses.
• Discussed: "Sometimes I wish I was very perfect like these characters in these crappy fanfictions."
• Conversed: 'Isn't it weird Mary Sue doesn't have any flaws in this work?'
• Deconstructed:
  • Mary Sue becomes The Scrappy.
  • Mary Sue tries to do something wrong.
  • Remember how Mary Sue is a paragon? Turns out it was just the author's escapism; her powers being useless in Real Life will throw her under the bus.
• Reconstructed::
  • Mary Sue then becomes well-liked for stopping Emperor Bad from destroying the universe or, better yet, letting someone else do it without her intervention.
  • ...but then she acts like that attempt was no big deal, and goes back to her old ways.
  • Mary Sue becomes a stand-up comedian or an actor in Real Life, as she pretends to be great while letting people mock it.
• Played for Laughs: The usually casual Mary Sue has moments of being a invokedGod-Mode Sue through Dream Sue or Her Codename Was Mary Sue, and it's funny.
• Played for Drama: Mary Sue's lack of flaws prevents her companions from relating to her or sympathizing with her.
• Played for Horror: Mary Sue's exponential growth in power, lack of personal flaws, freedom from any consequences for her actions, and overall perfection swells to the point where it's debatable if she's even human and her existence creates discomfort to those around her.

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