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Amongst [[Fan Fiction]] writers, the [[Fix Fic]] is incredibly popular due to everybody having an opinion on how a particular canon should go. Don't like how they took your favorite character and [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]? Nah, [[He's Just Hiding]]. Your [[One True Pairing]] got ruined? [[Character Derailment|Derail a few characters]] to get things on the right track. Wish the villain wasn't such a cad? Maybe he found that there was good in his heart after all. But how are you going to make this happen? This is when you call your local [[Fan Fiction]] repair business and request they send out a '''Fixer Sue'''.
The
This can still happen within a canon itself, but it's quite rare. Still, maybe the author just ended up hating a particular path that was taken and decides to go head over heels during the [[Author's Saving Throw]]. Alternatively, the character might just exist as a walking [[Deus Ex Machina]] and the story surrounding him or her is based around "fixing" every perceived social wrong. Characters prone to this include the [[Blithe Spirit]], the [[Magical Negro]] and [[The Drifter]] [[Walking the Earth]].
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Somewhat more believably, this may be combined with [[Peggy Sue]] (''not'' a [[Mary Sue]] type, by the way), in which a canon character does this as a part of [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong|Setting Right What Once Went Wrong]], or even as an unexpected coincidence or consequence of their actions.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* There are a high number of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfics that try to remove the [[Official Couple|canon]] [[Schoolgirl Lesbians|lesbianism]] of [[Bifauxnen|Haruka]] and [[The Ojou|Michiru]]. Most of them just [[Character Derailment|turn Haruka]] [[Psycho Lesbian|into an evil butch pervert]] [[Die for Our Ship|who abuses Michiru]] and create a dashing [[Relationship Sue|Gary Stu]] to make Michiru heterosexual. The most infamous example, however, was cooked up by the notorious Save Our Sailors website, which actually [[Possession Sue|used]] ''Haruka'' as the
** The long-dead Queen Serenity gets used like this a ''lot'' in ''Sailor Moon'' fics. Her powers will be boosted from being simply powerful to being capable of nothing short of [[God Mode Sue|divine miracles]], then, because she's dead, she will poof away once her job is done and the author doesn't have to even come up for a plausible exit for her. Because Queen Serenity ''is'' such a legendary figure in the canon, all the characters will accept whatever she did as correct, even if the fix applied is something that would have appalled them in canon. Like say... a fix fic that tried to correct Haruka and Michiru by having Queen Serenity appear and "correct" Haruka's gender to male, which is regarded positively by everyone involved.
* The ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' fanfic "[https://web.archive.org/web/20091227051139/http://www.darkscribes.org/story/390 Higher Learning]" stars Kaoru Miyazaki, a [[Kid From the Future]]
* Shioshiro Himiya, from the ''[[Weiss Kreuz]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2065398/1/ Kind des Schicksals], is another [[Kid From the Future]] Stu - the child of Aya Fujimiya and Ken Hidaka, both of whom are ''male'' and don't like each other much - who conveniently knows the entire plotline and comes back in time to save Weiss and Schwarz from the evils of [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|Weiss Kreuz Gluhen]]. His presence is the answer to just about every issue the characters have, no matter how deep-rooted, and once his purpose - to warp the story into a [[Fan Girl]]-approved shape and get [[Yaoi Fangirl|fan-favorite]] [[One True Pairing|pairings]] to hook up [[Because Destiny Says So]] - is fulfilled, he conveniently dies. This fic is also absurdly popular. Though one wonders if it would be as popular if Shioshiro had been 1) a girl and 2) someone else's child.
* Pretty much every [[Original Character]] or [[Ascended Extra]] in [[Cori Falls]]'s ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' fanfiction exists solely to make sure everyone knows how perfect and special her version of Jessie, James and Meowth are and that Ash Ketchum is stripped of any positive qualities to prove what a [[Complete Monster]] he "really" is.
* The ''[[School Days]]'' short fanfiction ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5152764/1/School_days_The_Guardian_Angel The Guardian Angel]'' is a non-[[Egregious]] version of this, but it is kinda a [[Mary Sue Classic]] and a [[Pair the Spares]] fic. Haiko Nai is an 18-year-old trained-from-childhood bodyguard (but otherwise completely normal) hired by a unknown client to protect Sekai, Kotonoha, and Makoto. [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|The plot's rather vague in regard as to who the client is or Haiko's backstory.]] Anyway, he infiltrates the school, after a few mishaps quickly becomes friends with them (due to a [[Running Gag]] involving sandwiches), saves Sekai from a drunk driver and thus earning school-wide fame, sheepishly suggests that Kotonoha take Taisuke to the festival (whereupon Taisuke immediately confesses his love to her), and forms a close relationship with Setsuna. When Sekai storms off after finding out Makoto was cheating on her, he follows and gets stabbed trying to stop her from killing Makoto. He goes into a coma from blood loss, and wakes up three months later right after being pronounced effectively dead, much to the utter joy of his new friends. Predictably, they lived [[Happily Ever After]].
* In many ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fanfics, Ranma Saotome is made into a
** It's not uncommon in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' fics for Ranma to have an unknown cousin, brother, uncle or ancestor<ref>usually on Nodoka's side of the family to avoid Genma having anything cool</ref> who suddenly appears and solves all of his problems.
** On the other side, the entire length of canon couldn't solve [[Ranma ½]]'s [[Love Dodecahedron]], but one mediocre fight with a Fixer Sue collapses the whole thing, quickly and neatly. A great number of fics start off with one of the girls in mortal peril from some new enemy, and it is only after he rescues her that Ranma finally realizes how important she really is to him. Then the majority of the story is actually spent tying off all the romantic loose ends.
* Parodied in ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130705220140/http://www.asynjor.com/fanfic/ornstead.html Otaku Three - EVA Revolution]'' by [[Jared Ornstead|Jared "Skysaber" Ornstead]], where his
* As in ''Ranma'' fics, ''[[Love Hina]]'' has ''many'' involving Keitaro suddenly having a brother or cousin who shows up to fix the story.
== Film ==
* There are ''[[Rocky Horror Picture Show]]'' fanfics out there that feature a fan-character (often a female) bringing Dr. Frank N Furter back from the dead and/or simply going back in time to prevent him from being killed in the first place.
** Another common sort of ''Rocky Horror'' fic is essentially the
* Just about half of all ''[[Newsies]]'' fics ever written involve a girl who watches ''Newsies'' and then time-travels back to 1899 via a "magic paper", and uses her knowledge of the plot to remove Sarah from the storyline and hook Jack and David up (or just hook up with one of the newsies herself).
* ''[[The Seven Percent Solution]]'' by Nicholas Meyer is a ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'' fic bizarrely combining this with using an historical character as [[Possession Sue]]. You see, ''actually'' [[Sherlock Holmes]] was just a delusional junkie. And the one desperately needed there is all-shiny... who? {{spoiler|[[Freud Was Right|Dr. Sigmund Freud]]!}} Yes, just like that.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* There are dozens of ''[[iCarly]]'' fics for the Sam/Freddie [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] styled ''Seddie'' ship, where a
** [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6906423/1/iCarlys_Father iCarly's Father] has Col. Shay as a
* A good number of Rose shippers in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fandom use Bad Wolf {{spoiler|(the omnipotent goddess Rose became for a few minutes at the end of season 1)}} as a frequent
** And
* A truly terrible [[Fix Fic]] of the American ''[[The Office]]'' written somewhere around season 3 features Jim's "best friend" who promptly shows up and hangs around the office for no reason other then to fix everyone's problems. Naturally she gets Jim and Pam, and all the other couples, together. And when she started calling out Michael and Dwight on their character flaws, she started taking away things that made ''the comedy series'' funny!
* There is a certain ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' fanfic out there which cranks this trope to the highest level. A woman from the "real world" pretty much descends like an angel from heaven into the Magic Box and proceeds to spend chapter upon chapter spouting off about how wonderful [[Draco in Leather Pants|Spike]] is, making him out to be the sweetest, most courageous boy ever and verbally tearing down anyone who stands in the way of this new worldview. [[Shipper on Deck|(And the Spike/Buffy ship.)]] This, of course, means that [[Derailing Love Interests|Riley and Angel]] are [[Ron the Death Eater|revealed]] as a [[Fantastic Racism|speciesist]] sociopath and a vicious, egotistical [[You Keep Using That Word|pedophile]], respectively. The Fixer Sue flat out says that she hates Riley and thinks he's boring, but gets a thin guise of "trying to help Angel"... for about three minutes, before listing every way he's terrible. (A majority of these reasons are blown way, way out of proportion or just made up "psychological" analysis.) They are exiled by the "enlightened" Scoobies, who may have ripped them apart with their bare hands if the author had deemed it fitting drama. [[It Got Worse|It gets worse after that]].
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star Fox]]'' usually has either Falco or Wolf be Fixer Sues in order to "rescue" Fox from Krystal. Strangely enough, another rising example is the [[Retcon|ret-conned]] Miyu, a female lynx, from ''Star Fox 2.'' This troper can think of two fanfics (by the same author, no less) where Miyu "saves" Fox from an abusive-ized Krystal; one of them even has her express belief that, though he's a fox and she's a lynx, they can reproduce and have children, even though they're two entirely different species.
** This also works in reverse: Fox himself becomes a Fixer in order to get Krystal back from [[
* A lot of ''[[Fate/stay night]]'' fanfics will introduce a
== Western Animation ==
* In the ''[[Metalocalypse]]'' fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3918028/1/New_Roommate New Roommate], Alexis Ofdensen (yeah, she's his daughter; you can see where this is going) overlaps quite a few Sue types, but at her core is a
** Well, hey, [[Sarcasm Mode|it worked whenever they were shown having sex with women in the show, right?]]
* In the otherwise good ''[[Invader Zim]]'' fic (it was on the [[Fanfic Recs]]!) [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4627351/35/Invader_Zim_The_Series Invader Zim: The Series,] original character Nick is said to be a Fixer Sue (by ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'', to be exact). It should be noted that {{spoiler|until the end,}} his efforts were unsuccessful, and while he makes friends with most of the canon characters, he also gets his fair share of crap dumped on him too.
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