History Main / MarySueHunter

* In Fanfic/NarutoVeanganceRevelaitons, an ending that the author's former stepbrother wrote has [[EnsembleDarkhorse Edfred]] and his boyfriend Muskoka restore the cast to normal, enabling them to kill the hated main character, who easily fell into ''several'' Mary Sue categories.

* The Epitome of Randomness came up with their own interesting take on the genre. Specifically a whole organization of children dedicated to the field. Inroducing the [[http://m.fanfiction.net/u/1288334 Sue Slayers]]

* Dr. Clef (the character, not the author) of the WebOriginal/SCPFoundation has a reputation for "decommissioning" {{Reality Warper}}s... most of which are terrible Mary Sues written by people who don't know any better.
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* Dr. Clef (the character, not the author) of the WebOriginal/SCPFoundation has a reputation for "decommissioning" RealityWarpers... most of which are terrible Mary Sues written by people who don't know any better.

* Dr. Clef (the character, not the author) of TheSCPFoundation has a reputation for "decommissioning" RealityWarpers... most of which are terrible Mary Sues written by people who don't know any better.

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The genre did not exist before the 1990s, that being when the oldest Mary Sue Litmus Tests started circulating.

* Similarly, the ''{{Anti-Cliche and Mary-Sue Elimination Society}}'', ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Thus, the name]]) also in its own shared universe but in a much smaller shell. The Society goes up against [[ParodySue mostly Parody Sues and Stus]], except some authors will choose to use [[OldShame their own former Sues]]. However, some of the Agents are almost a hop, skip, and a jump from being Sues themselves, and they're only protected by the mighty power of LampshadeHanging (and being mostly crazy).

* The ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' could be argued to be the TropeCodifier for Mary Sue Hunters, as whether or not they [[GenreLaunch started it]], they definitely popularised the idea. Different from others in that it has its own shared universe.

* ''[[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]]'' is a story about a BadassNormal former BattleTech Pilot who joined the Agency to stop the intrusion of the Dream Maker, a person who lets people live out their fantasies in other dimensions which have in some way caused trouble. Sues range from [[GodModeSue crushing the toughest folks in]] StreetFighter, [[SugarApocalypse attempting to kill]] BarneyTheDinosaur and [[EldritchAbomination becoming an all-powerful demon god just because the person wants to create a CrapsackWorld with several worlds completely empty]].

* ''{{Redwall}}'' fandom used to have these. This troper isn't sure if they're still there, but it was headed by a [[DeadpanSnarker weasel named Kelaiah]] and a [[ActionGirl pine marten.]]
** They're still around, as far as this editor (who knows one of the authors) is aware, but they haven't updated in a while.
*** [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1090378/Kelaiah This one?]]

A format of story with an unknown but relatively recent lineage that has found a niche in many FanFic communities. Using a definition of MarySue most often based on CommonMarySueTraits, or perhaps just selecting {{Original Character}}s who really annoy the author, these stories cast an OriginalCharacter (or more rarely [[PossessionSue retrofit a canon character]]) to kill, maim, injure, arrest, expose, discredit, "purify", or otherwise remove another OriginalCharacter and their influence from an established canon. Think RevengeFic, but for MarySue.

Usually, these stories are done in a style similar to ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', taking excerpts from some other FanFic writer's work and building around it. The tone will almost invariably be [[DeadpanSnarker cynical and satirical]].

Random examples of this genre are not as accepted as normal {{MST}}s. Writers are expected to ask permission to {{MST}} another fanfic. Mary Sue Hunters will at best humiliate, and more likely kill and humiliate, the Mary Sues hunted; it's hard to get permission for ''that,'' and there is expected to be honor amongst fanfic writers. Thus, these stories tend to get banned from most regular fanfic communities.

Mary Sue Hunters are more tolerated if the author also creates the prey -- that is, creates the Sues hunted. These will usually be {{Parody Sue}}s by definition.

The big problem with this sort of character and this sort of sport is HeWhoFightsMonsters. The kinds of Mary Sues that most need hunting are the ones who warp the reality of their 'verses to resist it. The more Mary Sues your Mary Sue Hunter can successfully take down, and the easier the takedowns, the more likely her name could land on some other Mary Sue Hunter's list.

A format of story with an unknown but relatively recent lineage that has found a niche in many FanFic communities. Using a very arbitrary definition of MarySue most often based on CommonMarySueTraits (if not just selected case by case), these stories basically cast an OriginalCharacter (or [[PossessionSue retrofit an existing canon character]]) to kill, maim, injure, arrest, expose, discredit, "purify", or otherwise remove another OriginalCharacter and their influence from an established canon. Think RevengeFic, but for MarySue (or, rather, whatever the author chooses for that to mean).

Usually, these stories are done in a style similar to ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', taking excerpts from some other FanFic writer's work and building around it. The tone will almost invariably be very [[DeadpanSnarker cynical and satirical]]. Because of this, the excerpt based stories tend to be a pretty good way to get banned from most regular fanfic communities due to almost always coming across as [[TakeThat personalized attacks]] against authors. The lighter side just gathers together trends and tendencies of the fandom's writers and creates a ParodySue (or several) to serve the same role.

Or to put it another way, the authors of stories starring Mary Sue Hunters often [[CompletelyMissingThePoint forget the reason]] for the term MarySue and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters end up writing self-centered fics]] about overpowering {{Original Character}}s ([[VanHelsingHateCrimes who aren't necessarily Sues]]) who reduce the canon characters to little more than extras... who kill other overpowering {{Original Character}}s who reduce the canon characters to little more than extras. Better the devil they create. They aren't all like this, but it's an easy trap.

Of course, there's nothing stopping this format from being applied to canon characters, but it's pretty rare.

Ironically, the authors of these stories often tend to [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely miss the point]] behind the MarySue designation and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters end up writing self-centered fics]] about overpowering (what may be [[VanHelsingHateCrimes not Sueish at all]]) {{Original Character}}s that reduce the canon characters to little more than extras... in order to kill overpowering {{Original Character}}s that reduce the canon characters to little more than extras in self-centered fics. Better the devil they create, perhaps. Of course, that isn't to say ''all'' of them are like this, but SturgeonsLaw doesn't excuse satire by principle.

* The [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] and Redshirts under their command in MetafictionizedPhlebotinumPoisoning are literal MarySueHunters, for the sole reason that they anger the [[AGodIsYou Reader God]]. The fact that the whole story is chocl-full of LampshadeHanging and Deconstructions doesn't help, either.

* Similarly, the ''{{Anti-Cliche and Mary-Sue Elimination Society}}'', also in its own shared universe but in a much smaller shell and a much, much, ''much'' more angsty plot (to the point where the original point of the Society's somewhat moot now, and many of the Agents are blatantly stated to be Sues/Stus. Nowadays the only thing protecting the Agents are LampshadeHanging and behavioral, if not character, flaws).

* ''LynchingITP'' is a set of PlayByPostGames which combine this with MegaCrossover, usually directed at the worlds of ''{{Twilight}}'' or ''TheInheritanceCycle'', though it has a tendency to turn into an UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny with the Sues in the background.

* Maybe not [[GenreLaunch started]], but [[TropeCodifier popularised]] by the ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''. Different from others in that it has its own shared universe.
* Similarly, the ''{{Anti-Cliche and Mary-Sue Elimination Society}}'', also in its own shared universe but in a much smaller shell and a much, much, ''much'' more angsty plot (to the point where the original point of the Society's somewhat moot now, and many of the Agents are blatantly stated to be Sues/Stus. Nowadays the only thing protecting the Agents are LampshadeHanging and behavioral, if not character, flaws).

* ''[[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]]'' is a story about is a BadassNormal former BattleTech Pilot who joined the Agency to stop the intrusion of the Dream Maker, a person who lets people live out their fantasies in other dimensions which have in some way caused trouble. Sues range from [[GodModeSue crushing the toughest folks in]] StreetFigher, [[SugarApocalypse attempting to kill]] BarneyTheDinosaur and [[EldritchAbomination becoming an all-powerful demon god just because the person wants to create a CrapsackWorld with several worlds completely empty]]

* Maybe not started, but popularized by the ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''. Different from others in that it has its own shared universe.

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* Darthipedia, the ''StarWars'' humor wiki, has a "Mary Sues" category. Big examples include the male Jedi Exile, Ahsoka Tano, Corran Horn, [[VillainSue Kyp Durron]], and pretty much everyone else who is TheScrappy, except Jar Jar. (Who would identify with Jar Jar?)

* ''[[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]]'' is a story about is a BadassNormal former BattleTech Pilot who joined the Agency to stop the intrusion of the Dream Maker, a person who lets people live out their fantasies in other dimensions which have in some way caused trouble. Sues range from [[GodModeSue crushing the toughest folks in street figher]], [[SugarApocalypse attempting to kill]] BarneyTheDinosaur and [[EldritchAbomination becoming all powerful demon god just because the person wants to create a CrapsackWorld with several worlds completely empty]]

* ''[[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]]'' is a variant.
** The story is about is a BadassNormal former BattleTech Pilot who joined the Agency to stop the intrusion of the Dream Maker, a person who lets people live out their fantasies in other dimensions which have in some way caused trouble. Sues range from [[GodModeSue crushing the toughest folks in street figher]], [[SugarApocalypse attempting to kill]] BarneyTheDinosaur and [[EldritchAbomination becoming all powerful demon god just because the person wants to create a CrapsackWorld with several worlds completely empty]]

A format of story with an unknown but relatively recent lineage that has found a niche in many FanFic communities. Using a very arbitrary definition of MarySue most often based on CommonMarySueTraits (if not just selected case by case), these stories basically cast an OriginalCharacter (or [[PossessionSue retrofit an existing canon character]]) to kill, maim, injure, arrest, expose, discredit, "purify", or otherwise remove another OriginalCharacter and their influence from an established canon. Think RevengeFic, but for MarySue (or, rather, whatever the author chooses for that to mean).

Usually, these stories are done in a style similar to ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'', taking excerpts from some other FanFic writer's work and building around it. The tone will almost invariably be very [[DeadpanSnarker cynical and satirical]]. Because of this, the excerpt based stories tend to be a pretty good way to get banned from most regular fanfic communities due to almost always coming across as [[TakeThat personalized attacks]] against authors. The lighter side just gathers together trends and tendencies of the fandom's writers and creates a ParodySue (or several) to serve the same role.

Ironically, the authors of these stories often tend to [[CompletelyMissingThePoint completely miss the point]] behind the MarySue designation and [[HeWhoFightsMonsters end up writing self-centered fics]] about overpowering (what may be [[VanHelsingHateCrimes not Sueish at all]]) {{Original Character}}s that reduce the canon characters to little more than extras... in order to kill overpowering {{Original Character}}s that reduce the canon characters to little more than extras in self-centered fics. Better the devil they create, perhaps. Of course, that isn't to say ''all'' of them are like this, but SturgeonsLaw doesn't excuse satire by principle.

* Maybe not started, but popularized by the ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum''. Different from others in that it has its own shared universe.
* Similarly, the ''{{Anti-Cliche and Mary-Sue Elimination Society}}'', also in its own shared universe but in a much smaller shell and a much, much, ''much'' more angsty plot (to the point where the original point of the Society's somewhat moot now, and many of the Agents are blatantly stated to be Sues/Stus. Nowadays the only thing protecting the Agents are LampshadeHanging and behavioral, if not character, flaws).
* ''[[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]]'' is a variant.
** The Story is about is a BadassNormal former BattleTech Pilot who joined the Agency to stop the intrusion of the Dream Maker, a person who lets people live out their fantasies in other dimensions which have in some way caused trouble. Sues range from [[GodModeSue crushing the toughest folks in street figher]], [[SugarApocalypse attempting to kill]] BarneyTheDinosaur and [[EldritchAbomination becoming all powerful demon god just because the person wants to create a CrapsackWorld with several worlds completely empty]]
* The webcomic [[http://www.drunkduck.com/Mary_Sue_Academy Mary Sue Academy]] has a group of Mary Sue Hunters as villains (sort of).

* {{Redwall}} fandom used to have these. This troper isn't sure if they're still there, but it was headed by a [[DeadpanSnarker weasel named Kelaiah]] and a [[ActionGirl pine marten.]]