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Working Title: Hip Girl Shakes Things Up: From YKTTW
Silent Hunter: I Thought It Meant the Noel Coward play.
- It's extraordinarily difficult to avoid having this character end up being a Mary Sue (usually Purity Sue) as it takes a certain amount of plot bias for a total stranger to go into an ambivalent or even downright hostile community and somehow overwrite the traditions and attitudes of everyone that matters.
fleb: Okay, outside Fan Fic Fixer Sue, where has that happened?
TJ Devil 02: Go read The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg, by Mark Twain (making this Older Than Radio). Hadleyburg is a town that prides itself on having weeded out any and all temptation to do evil, ever. The Man who arrives shows that this doesn't mean the people are strong-willed by putting a massive temptation in their presence. Everyone falls for it, and the town has a laugh at itself for being so gullible because they never learned to resist the Forbidden Fruit. It also is a bit of a mockery of the line from the Lord's Prayer: "Lead us not into temptation". The town's motto becomes: "Lead Us Into And Out Of Temptation".
Farseer Lolotea: IMO, the Fixer Sue is less a Blithe Spirit than a Suethor failing at Blithe Spirit.
Majin Gojira: and most Ed Wood movies are failures on every sense of being a film, but they still count as them. Even attempting to do something counts. They still procecute "Attempted Murder" afterall (Even though there's no Nobel Prize for "Attempted Chemestry").
Ezekiel: So does Loki count?
