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The Fixer Sue is a unique entity in the [[Mary Sue]] class in that he or she was never meant as a character so much as a plot device. They may or may not represent the author or indulge in the [[Common Mary Sue Traits]], but what they do is use their magical plot altering powers to get things "back on track" in the eyes of the author. The plot still elevates the character to unrealistic heights, but instead of it being done for the greater glory of the author, it's to get to a particular end within the canon. Once the character is done fixing all the "problems", he or she will usually get unceremoniously removed (either by death, being [[Put on a Bus]], or just getting downgraded to a minor character).
Fixer Sue can be just anything and everything so long as he or she gets the results desired. A [[Villain Sue]] comes in and ceremoniously kill off the [[Love Dodecahedron]] outside of the [[One True Pairing]]? Hey, that works. A [[Sympathetic Sue]] [[wangst]]s about how her (non)canon sister is depressed and unloved, inspiring the protagonist to choose her instead? One of the canon characters [[Peggy Sue|comes back in time to change things]] because canon inevitably led to a [[Bad Future]]. That also works. This is also often done in a tongue-in-cheek manner (for example, a [[Purity Sue]] shows up and makes the hero realize how much he really hates extremely girly women and goes for the tomboyish childhood friend).
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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