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** Kevin J. Anderson has Kyp Durron, a [[ChewToy slave raised on the penal colony of Kessel]] because his parents were Rebel sympathizers. Han Solo finds him, and discovers that he's [[GodModeSue more powerful than Luke]]. He then becomes Luke's brightest student, but TheParagonAlwaysRebels and he does so in a big way, [[OurSoulsAreDifferent rending Luke's soul from his body]] and stealing an invincible Imperial planetkiller that he stole from the Empire in the first place, and turning it on a system with an Imperial training academy. He then demands to see his brother, but they can't find his brother, so he blows up the star. And they find his brother and release him to Kyp, but [[{{anvilicious}} he doesn't get to the Sun Crusher in time to be protected]]. And when Luke recovers, after ThePowerOfFriendship destroys the evil Sith Lord influencing Kyp, the New Republic grants him the power to determine Kyp's fate, and Luke forgives him. Although, after ''I, Jedi'' pointed out the ''massive'' problem with this (among other decisions Anderson made), rare was the appearance of Kyp where someone didn't point out "Dude, you killed a ''solar system''.

* In the CassonFamilySeries by Hilary [=McKay=], Rose Casson gradually gets revealed as this over the course of the series. At first they seem like an ensemble series, with each book focused on a different member of the family with the others getting their own subplots...but then Rose not only gets more books with her name in the title than anyone else, she also starts taking over the books of OTHER characters, so much so that Caddy is basically a minor character in her own book. Especially blatant evidence of [=McKay=]'s Rose favoritism is that every time Tom is mentioned, it's in relation to Rose--despite him being established as INDIGO'S best friend in the first book he appeared in.

* Rudi frakking Mackenzie in the ''Creator/SMStirling'''s ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'' series. Almost universally disliked by fans but apart from card carrying villains, [[and one solitary romantic rival who conveniently self sacrifices]] no one in universe has anything less than gushing praise for him. He is the best fighter, best general, most handsome, most kind and generally all round best person on the entire Continent. He literally has no flaws and is uniformly above average at everything and excellent at most. Every decision he makes is correct, or at least works out that way no matter how stupid it might have appeared at first. Every friendly character we meet is happy to sacrifice their interests for his [[up to and including subordinating whole countries to his High Kingship without visible dissent.]] No wonder he turned a lot of people off the series.

* Cassie from the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. She's the stated favorite of writer Creator/KAApplegate, she is the only character in-series to win the SuperpowerLottery (being both an estreen ''and'' a [[GameBreaker temporal anomaly]]) and she is usually praised and defended by the narrative even when it's completely unwarranted - take for example ''Megamorphs #02'', when Marco privately compliments Cassie for going on a whiny rant about killing a Triceratops, or ''#53 The Answer'', when Tobias harshly criticizes Jake for excluding Cassie from the war council despite the fact that he had extremely good reason to (that reason being that she betrayed the whole team by allowing the blue box to be seized by the Yeerks, and all for a 'gut feeling' that [[GambitRoulette she's lucky to see pan out]]). She criticizes the others from start to finish, puts the whole team at risk on multiple occasions to justify her extreme sense of morality, and she is the only character to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness never learn or grow in any way]]. [[spoiler:This even extends to the epilogue, where she is the only Animorph that Applegate spared from the BolivianArmyEnding.]]

** Lord Jaxom from the ''DragonridersOfPern'' series. His high GaryStu levels were barely acceptable in ''The White Dragon''. But when he was made the focus character in ''All The Weyrs Of Pern'' - which featured the resolution of ''F'lar's'' dream of removing the threat of Thread permanently - the fandom turned on Jaxom en masse.

* Inverted by Elistan in the ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}} Chronicles'': Margaret Weis considered him a PuritySue and neglected to include him in a large section of ''Dragons of Winter Night''. When co-author Tracy Hickman noticed this, she asked, "Do I HAVE to put him in? Can't I kill him?" to which Tracy Hickman replied that she couldn't as he was at that point the world's only cleric of Paladine (although he agreed to let her kill him in the ''Legends'' trilogy). As a result, Elistan's involvement in ''[=DoWN=]'' is mostly limited to saying something once in a while to remind readers he's still there.

* Hermione Granger from ''HarryPotter'' is sometimes accused of being this in the fan base due to the films (all but the fifth being written by Hermione fanboy SteveKloves, which is what got him the job in the first place) and later books playing her up as being more useful than Ron Weasley (which for some shippers seriously hurt the credibility of their relationship since it never really looked balanced).

* Richard from ''TheSwordOfTruth'' is not just good, but perceived, [[DesignatedHero at least by Goodkind]], [[CanonSue as damn near perfect]]. Richard, and often by extension Kahlan or Zedd, as they always seem to agree with him, is always shown as being above reproach, no matter what he does, or how it is perceived by those around him. Richard can kick a child in the face, nearly killing her, and [[EvilIsPetty doom an entire nation to death because they disagreed with his moral standpoint (more than once)]] and numerous other clearly villainous acts, but it doesn't matter because it was all somehow warranted. On the other hand, characters who are not on Richard's side cannot be forgiven the slightest of offenses and [[GratuitousRape most if not all of them are revealed as rapists, even child molesters]]. If a formerly "good" character starts disagreeing with Richard, this is the beginning of that character's FaceHeelTurn [[CharacterDerailment (even some of ''them'' may turn to rape)]]. [[CanonSue That is because Richard is a picture of all that is holy and good in the world, and can never be allowed to be wrong]]. [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality If he kills someone, that person deserved to die. If a country refuses to join Richard's D'Haran Empire, that country is evil, even if they were only "evil" by virtue of opposing Richard.]] By the same token, a formerly evil character's HeelFaceTurn will begin with them realizing Richard is right.

** [[MilesVorkosigan Cordelia Naismith Vorkosigan]] must be this for Lois Mcmasters Bujold. Cordelia is always right, always on the side of the angels and never, ever called out for her open contempt of Barrayaran ways.

* Some consider Jon Snow and [[ManipulativeBastard Petyr]] [[KarmaHoudini Baelish]] from ASongOfIceAndFire to be this. In Jon's case the traits aren't a problem individually (a rare Valyrian steel longsword, an albino pet direwolf, a girlfriend with hair stated to be a "lucky" shade of red and becoming commander of the Night's Watch and the [[EnemyMine Wildlings]]), they add up over time. [[spoiler:Subverted as his girlfriend ends up dying and in A Dance with Dragons his men stab him]]. Petyr Baelish is a more blatant, by comparison to George's other character's, example. Every book he's better off than he was in the previous one, his plans have yet to fail and [[spoiler:no one know he's responsible for the War of the Five Kings. The only people who even suspect him of being untrustworthy are [[DangerouslyGenreSavvy Tywin]] [[ProperlyParanoid Lannister]], his son [[GenreSavvy Tyrion]] and [[InformationBroker Varys]], especially the latter]].
** While some would say that Tyrion, [[WordOfGod George's admitted favourite character]], and [[TheChosenOne Daenerys]] fit this better; the difference is that Tyrion and Daenerys make mistakes and suffer for them many times, unlike Petyr and ([[spoiler:until recently]]) Jon.

* Gerold Dayne, called "Darkstar" is one of the most obnoxious characters in ''ASongofIceandFire''. He calls himself "Darkstar", and has the incredibly {{narm}}-ish motto "I am of the night." Though described as "the most dangerous man in Dorne", his only significant act is when he fails to kill a child. Author George R. R. Martin loves Darkstar, and wrote him specifically to be a fan favorite.

** Todd Reeve in "Decision at Doona". An anti-social six year old who knew everything. Once he got out of the over-populated corridors of Earth and into the wild of Doona he was such a "natural genius" he was practically TheMessiah. It was pretty blatantly clear that the author adored him, as he was [[CharacterShilling talked up by everyone]] (except his father!) as being spectacular.

* Literature/TheDraka of SMStirling's ''The Domination'' books. They are a nigh-invincible VillainSue empire, thanks to their superpower of being able to make every other nation in world grab the IdiotBall for dear life. They pretty much always emerge [[TheBadGuyWins victorious]].

* Karen Traviss rears her head for the second time on this page [[Literature/HaloGlasslands with her]] [[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar inclusions]] to the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' novels, this time with Admiral Parangonsky and Serin Osman. Usually, anything they say is right and is a mirror to Traviss' own beliefs, at the cost of shattering canon relationships, butchering how psychology works, and ignoring the military chain of command.

** Stackpole has Corran Horn. The author repeatedly shoved Horn into the background of other authors stories, and in the case of the JediAcademyTrilogy, completely subverted its tone in the ''I, Jedi'' book. He repeatedly has major lore characters (Wedge, Han, and Luke for starters) singing Horn's praises, while he moves Horn from one plot contrivance to another. Examples include [[spoiler: his escape from TheAlcatraz involved him meeting a famous general, learning a secondary character was not a brainwashed traitor, using the force for the first time, finding a long lost Jedi museum on the Imperial Capitol, and finding his very own grandfather's special-colored lightsaber.]]

** Stackpole has Corran Horn. The author repeatedly shoved Horn into the background of other authors stories, and in the case of the JediAcademyTrilogy, completely subverted it's tone in the I, Jedi book. He repeatedly has major lore characters (Wedge, Han, and Luke for starters) singing Horn's praises, while he moves Horn from one plot contrivance to another. Examples include [[spoiler: his escape from TheAlcatraz involved him meeting a famous general, learning a secondary character was not a brainwashed traitor, using the force for the first time, finding a long lost Jedi museum on the Imperial Capitol, and finding his very own grandfather's special-colored lightsaber.]]

* Literature/TheDraka of SMStirling's ''The Domination'' books. They are a VillainSue empire that almost always wins, thanks to their superpower of being able to make every other nation in world grab the IdiotBall for dear life.
[[TheBadGuyWins victorious]].

* Literature/TheDraka of SMStirling's ''The Domination'' books. They are a VillainSue race of reptilian alien Nazis, that have successfully conquered Earth and reduced humanity to a SlaveRace, in most of the books they are in they are the ones who always [[TheBadGuyWins victorious]].

* Literature/TheDraka of SMStirling's ''The Domination'' books.

* [[CreepyChild Renesmee]] from ''BreakingDawn''. Everyone who meets her loves her, despite the fact that she hasn't done anything other than be [[spoiler: Edward and Bella's half human/half vampire daughter with psychic powers]]. Many fans loathe her for [[SpotlightStealingSquad hijacking the story away from]] the OfficialCouple. Others hate her for her very existence [[ArtisticLicenseBiology defies biology]] ''and'' is a [[SeriesContinuityError direct contradiction]] to previous WordOfGod. And of course, [[spoiler: Team Jacob fans hate her for [[RelationshipSue other]] [[DieForOurShip reasons...]]]] It certainly doesn't help that it's obvious this is a motherhood fantasy with how thanks to her vampire nature, Renesmee's super-smart and beautiful and loved by everyone who meets her, but Bella doesn't have to deal with any of the gross/boring/hard parts of being a parent.
** This is explained in-universe; vampire children have some sort of supernatural quality to them that makes people love them and want to protect them.
*** [[CanonSue Which, for many fans, just makes it worse.]]

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** Lord Jaxom from the ''DragonridersOfPern'' series. His high GaryStu levels were barely acceptable in ''The White Dragon''. But when he was made the focus character in ''All The Weyrs Of Pern'' - which featured the resolution of ''F'lar's'' dream of removing the threat of Thread permanently - the fandom turned on Jaxom en masse.
** Todd Reeve in "Decision at Doona". An anti-social six year old who knew everything. Once he got out of the over-populated corridors of Earth and into the wild of Doona he was such a "natural genius" he was practically TheMessiah. It was pretty blatantly clear that the author adored him, as he was [[CharacterShilling talked up by everyone]] (except his father!) as being spectacular.
* Elizabeth Wakefield from the [[SweetValleyHigh Sweet Valley]] series is purported to be the good twin who is nice to everyone - but, more often than not, she comes off as a sanctimonious hypocrite. As such, many find her to be even worse than the allegedly bad twin, Jessica.

* Karen Traviss rears her head for the second time on this page [[Literature/HaloGlasslands with her]] [[Literature/HaloTheThursdayWar inclusions]] to the ''{{Franchise/Halo}}'' novels, this time with Admiral Parangonsky and Serin Osman. Usually, anything they say is right and is a mirror to Traviss' own beliefs, at the cost of shattering canon relationships, butchering how psychology works, and ignoring the military chain of command.

* In S.D. Perry's {{Novelization}}s of the ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'' series, she took plucky little [[TheMedic Rebecca]] [[GuestStarPartyMember Chambers]] and made her into her go-to hero, even receiving a {{spinoff}} novel all to herself -- ''Resident Evil: Caliban Cove'', which itself received a sequel in ''Resident Evil: Underworld''. Basically, if something is happening in the plot, Rebecca is doing it; if something is '''not''' happening, the characters described will be going on at length about how wonderful/resourceful/intelligent Rebecca is. (It's kind of like the films except focusing on Rebecca, not Alice.)
* In the CassonFamilySeries by Hilary [=McKay=], Rose Casson gradually gets revealed as this over the course of the series. At first they seem like an ensemble series, with each book focused on a different member of the family with the others getting their own subplots...but then Rose not only gets more books with her name in the title than anyone else, she also starts taking over the books of OTHER characters, so much so that Caddy is basically a minor character in her own book. Especially blatant evidence of [=McKay=]'s Rose favoritism is that every time Tom is mentioned, it's in relation to Rose--despite him being established as INDIGO'S best friend in the first book he appeared in.
* Cassie from the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. She's the stated favorite of writer Creator/KAApplegate, she is the only character in-series to win the SuperpowerLottery (being both an estreen ''and'' a [[GameBreaker temporal anomaly]]) and she is usually praised and defended by the narrative even when it's completely unwarranted - take for example ''Megamorphs #02'', when Marco privately compliments Cassie for going on a whiny rant about killing a Triceratops, or ''#53 The Answer'', when Tobias harshly criticizes Jake for excluding Cassie from the war council despite the fact that he had extremely good reason to (that reason being that she betrayed the whole team by allowing the blue box to be seized by the Yeerks, and all for a 'gut feeling' that [[GambitRoulette she's lucky to see pan out]]). She criticizes the others from start to finish, puts the whole team at risk on multiple occasions to justify her extreme sense of morality, and she is the only character to [[IncorruptiblePurePureness never learn or grow in any way]]. [[spoiler:This even extends to the epilogue, where she is the only Animorph that Applegate spared from the BolivianArmyEnding.]]
** Her ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' {{Expy}}, April, may qualify as well. She is endlessly self-righteous and, out of the main cast, she's the only one who never has to undergo any major suffering from her own character flaws which, like with Cassie, are glossed over or ignored.

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* Angel from ''Literature/MaximumRide''. Of all the members of the flock, she exhibits the most blatant MarySue qualities, such as gaining random awesome superpowers out of the ble, not even [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands as the plot demands]]. Despite being a CreepyChild (and being conceived as this by most of the readers), manipulating the minds of people to her whim and doing other morally ambiguous stuff, she is well-loved by all and characters often go out of their way to rescue her or just make her happy. After the novels ''MAX'' and ''FANG'', there should have come ''IGGY'', the next member of the flock, but not, it was ''ANGEL''.

* [[CreepyChild Renesmee]] from ''BreakingDawn''. Everyone who meets her loves her, despite the fact that she hasn't done anything other than be [[spoiler: Edward and Bella's half human/half vampire daughter with psychic powers]]. Many fans loathe her for [[SpotlightStealingSquad hijacking the story away from]] the OfficialCouple. Others hate her for her very existence [[ArtisticLicenseBiology defies biology]] ''and'' is a [[SeriesContinuityError direct contradiction]] to previous WordOfGod. And of course, [[spoiler: Team Jacob fans hate her for [[RelationshipSue other]] [[DieForOurShip reasons...]]]] It certainly doesn't help that it's so obvious this is a motherhood fantasy with how thanks to her vampire nature, Renesmee's super-smart and beautiful and loved by everyone who meets her, but Bella doesn't have to deal with any of the gross/boring/hard parts of child-rearing.