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Hi I'm Mary Sue
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Hi I'm Mary Sue
Are we too quick to call characters in stories we don't like Mary Sue?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CanonSue

General Examples include( just the accusations I've heard, not my personal opinion):

Bella Swan Twilight series

Anita Blake Anita Blake vampire Hunter

Louis and Lestat: Vampire Chronicles

Hermione: Harry Potter

Ginny: Harry Potter

Winter: Leven Thumps

Kendra: Fablehaven

Daenerys Targaryen: A Song of Ice and Fire
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#2
RE: Hi I'm Mary Sue
Mary Sues aren't always bad. Jack Sawyer in The Talisman and Black House is a pretty good deconstruction of the trope.
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#3
RE: Hi I'm Mary Sue
Linking to tvtropes is an act of evil.

Oh hi, did you think you were going to be productive today? THINK AGAIN! Mwuhoohahahaha.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
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RE: Hi I'm Mary Sue
I may have just realized a OC I made is a Sue o.o;
At least partially. CRAP. Back to the drawing board (puns. Hah!)
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#5
RE: Hi I'm Mary Sue
The most unbiased Mary Sue test I could find

http://www.springhole.net/writing/marysue.htm
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