Mary Sue Hunter: Difference between revisions

While some works with this sort of character are revered, 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 (but possible, given the right badfic author) 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, and [[YMMV|might possibly not be a good idea]].

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The big problem with writing this sort of character and this sort of sportfic is [[He Who Fights Monsters]]. The kinds of Mary Sues that most need hunting are the ones who [[Black Hole Sue|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. Also, not all authors or Hunters can reliably tell if an [[Original Character]] is a Mary Sue, but Hunters are almost always presumed to be able to tell—they don't generally say "[[My God, What Have I Done?|accidentally attack innocent characters]]?". So statistically, they are slightly more likely to be a Mary Sue than an OC without an agenda. Some works in this genre, inc. the [[Trope Codifier]], have recognized this.

* [[Limyaael's Fantasy Rants|Limyaael]] wrote ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1518794/1/The_Game_of_the_Gods The Game Of The Gods]'', a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fanfic that has [[Ultimate Evil|Morgoth]] playing a game with Varda where he creates Mary Sues and places them in Middle-Earth while his opponents use logic and the rules of Tolkienian canon to kill them.

* The webcomic [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620214428/http://www.drunkduck.com/Mary_Sue_Academy/ Mary Sue Academy] has a group of Mary Sue Hunters as villains (sort of).