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Author: Shazzbaa

Jun 7th 2008 at 6:57:05 AM

I prefer lumping. I know it makes the article bigger, but honestly, that's not a good reason to split the same trope into male and female. Especially since many people just call them "MarySue" regardless of whether they're male or female. You could just have a small note: "Male Mary Sues are sometimes called 'Marty Stu,' and have a greater tendency to have an [[{{Wangst}} angsty backstory]] and be EXTREME! [[BadAss badasses]], and are much less likely to be a FriendToAllLivingThings," etc.

Since the angsty and impossibly cool version is still a Mary Sue, I'd rather see the definition all handled neatly in one article rather than spread arbitrarily across two (meaning I have to visit both articles before I get the full definition). It ''is'' arbitrary, because they don't necessarily fall neatly into their gender-roles -- I've seen female {{Mary Sue}}s who fit the "angsty and impossibly cool" type, and were no less MarySue-ish.

Remember, as hard as it may be for some of us to fathom, some people are going to come here ''not knowing what a MarySue is,'' so it'd be nice if the MarySue article was complete.