History Fanfic / AntiClicheAndMarySueEliminationSociety

* CoolPet: A few [[LoyalAnimalCompanion faithful friends]] inhabit the Library. These include gribblies from the X-Files, miniature gods and also quite a few Franchise/{{Pokemon}} - Combee, Asuka the Luxray, the Litwicks... Oh and most recently, Fish Finger, a baby Liopleurodon. She ain't no goldfish...

* FunetikAksent: In the case of the ''very'' French Cassandra.
* GratuitousNinja: Used by Tyler.
* HairFlip: Willowe does this [[BlatantLies every so often]].

* HowDareYouDieOnMe: Tash pulls this one off after [[spoiler:Adrian comes back from the dead]].
* HumongousMecha: Adrian's Phoenix Zord.

* ManchurianAgent: [[spoiler:Louise]] was made into one by [[spoiler:Merle]]

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: See PlotHole below.

* PlotBunny: Actually exist in the Library. There are seven different breeds thus far and they all interrupt the plot in some way. Don't let them bite you. They're pretty much harmless as long as you give them a wide berth, but Rhia hunts them.

* PowerGlows: The Uber Sues/Stus zigzag this.

* ShapeshifterBaggage: Subverted in the case of the Anthropomorphiser.

* ShoutOut: '''YOU''' count them. Leave me out of it.

* StuffBlowingUp: Look me in the face and tell me this isn't true.

Over time, as the diverse cast of characters on both sides of the battle grew, the series' genre shifted over from straight-up parody to a mix of humor, drama, and adventure. It is and always will be about a group of authors who use [[SelfInsertFic self inserts]] to track down and eliminate Sue/Stu-ish characters from various fandoms to prevent them from distorting {{Canon}}, but there are especially powerful enemies, characters and authors alike, who support the [[MarySuetopia Mary Sue ideal]] and would put a stop to the Society's shenanigans. Even more interestingly, there are some who have a personal bone to pick with some of the agents, and that's when things usually get dangerous.

The series itself gains mixed reviews, mainly positive for its multi-authoral collaboration sense and original motive for removing Sues, and negative for a perceived intrusion into fandoms for the purpose of writing [[ParodySue Parody Sues]] and glorifying their own self-inserted characters and plotlines. Nevertheless, the snarky humor, which is self-deprecating just as often as not, leads one to believe that the hypocrisy of combating SelfInsert armies with more is indeed part of the joke. Add that to the magical tool of LampshadeHanging (Agent Sues/Stus are blatantly stated to be such and are currently trying to be "rehabilitated", and any positive traits of characters are often reflected as ''negative'') and the fact that most of the extremely powerful Agents have such power offset by their personalities (most of the Agents have been regarded as insane at one point, and there is not a single Agent who has been taken as well to by other characters as the typical Sue), and you've got something to read and chuckle at, if nothing else.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters - And it keeps getting bigger.
** The huge influx of new Agents has quieted down severely ever since [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment new restrictions were put in place after it seemed restrictions were needed]]. There is a heavy screening process at the moment.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Adrian has white hair, Aster has blue hair, Mizuho has silver hair, the Sues exhibit a multicolor cast.
** Subverted partially in the Society because Aster is firmly established as an anime-style character, and Adrian and Mizuho aren't exactly...human...

* SpotofTea: In a Society founded and run primarily by British agents, this is usually the answer to any problem, to the point where the leaders have been known to sound the general alarm if they run out of teabags.

* BigBadEnsemble: The {{Mary Sue}}s and {{Gary Stu}}s.

The Anti-Cliché and Mary-Sue Elimination Society, usually abbreviated to ACMSES or just "the Society", is a [[MetaFiction Metafictional]] SharedUniverse operated by thirty-some fledgeling writers in their teens and twenties.

Originally a short series of crack/parody fanfics making fun of Mary Sues in various fanfiction universes and written by a trio of British girls, the series spread far and wide with the announcement that other writers were free to adopt their premise (and main antagonist). Rather than a small list of under a dozen linear parodies that all followed more or less the same template, the series rapidly ballooned into a full-fledged series of over 200 stories and counting, with a respectable fanbase of its own. Installments are primarily episodic, although there is a strong overarching tale that connects each "season" - sometimes several at once!

Over time, as the diverse cast of characters on both sides of the battle grew, the series' genre shifted over from straight-up parody to a mix of humor, drama, and adventure. It is and always will be about a group of authors who use [[SelfInsertFic self inserts]] to track down and eliminate {{Mary Sue}}s and {{Marty Stu}}s from various fandoms to prevent them from distorting {{Canon}}, but there are especially powerful enemies, characters and authors alike, who support the [[MarySuetopia Mary Sue ideal]] and would put a stop to the Society's shenanigans. Even more interestingly, there are some who have a personal bone to pick with some of the agents, and that's when things usually get dangerous.

The series itself gains mixed reviews, mainly positive for its multi-authoral collaboration sense and original motive for removing Sues, and negative for a perceived intrusion into fandoms for the purpose of writing [[ParodySue Parody Sues]] and glorifying their own self-inserted characters and plotlines. Nevertheless, the snarky humor, which is self-deprecating just as often as not, leads one to believe that the hypocrisy of combating Mary Sues with Self-Inserts is indeed part of the joke. Add that to the magical tool of LampshadeHanging (Agent Sues/Stus are blatantly stated to be such and are currently trying to be "rehabilitated", and any positive traits of characters are often reflected as ''negative'') and the fact that most of the extremely powerful Agents have such power offset by their personalities (most of the Agents have been regarded as insane at one point, and there is not a single Agent who has been taken as well to by other characters as the typical Sue), and you've got something to read and chuckle at, if nothing else.

* AGodAmI: Most of the Mary Sues and Marty Stus have a fanatical belief in their own superiority when compared to the rest of the Multiverse's residents. Willowe, however, wants to take this a step further and make it fact.

* NotSoDifferent: Many of the members are Self Inserts and this is usually employed by Sues (and sometimes even canon characters) to point out that there isn't much difference between them and the Sues. Most of the time the Self Inserts just laugh and go after the Sue anyway knowing they are protected by WordOfGod and LampshadeHanging.