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If you come across a piece of blatant Sueishness in fanfiction and feel [[Snark Bait|the need for some justified cruelty]], it can be wiser (or at least, fun) to [[Poe's Law|assume that it's a parody]]. If you're right, you're right, and if you're wrong, you've insulted the author far more than any accusation of poor writing ever could.
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== Fan Works ==
=== The Abridged Series ===
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The
** He learned.
* Lelouch from ''[[Code MENT]]''. He's a prince [[Big Screwed-Up Family|who's also related to]] [[Soul Eater|Death the Kid]] and [[Hellsing|Alucard]] with incredible power and influence over others, gets away with stuff that can only be described as ''batshit insane''... and yet he spends most of his time just being a Jerkass, scoring drugs, blowing stuff up, and contributing nothing but menace to society.
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* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2722948/1/KotOR_Marisu_Saves_The_Day This] ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' fic neatly skewers the tendency for fanfic writers to make female!Revan into a Mary Sue. ([[Punny Name|Note the character's first name.]])
* ''[http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/war_babe.htm Arwen, the Warrior Babe]'' takes to a ludicrous extreme the [[Action Girl]] change that some feared the movie version of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' would bring.
* "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1518794/1/ The Game of the Gods]" has not one but '''thirty''' ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' Parody Sues, all of whom meet their end via the invoking of Logic. And it's pretty darn funny.
* Many wonder whether the infamous ''[[My Immortal]]'' is a [[Stealth Parody]] or not.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6016295/1/Dont_Let_a_Mary_Sue_Into_Titans_Tower Don't Let A Mary Sue Into Titans' Tower] A ''Teen Titans'' fic that hilariously parodies traditional Mary Sues, with the titular Mary Sue (who has the required super-long, super-stupid name) being incredibly lame and all the Titans trying to get rid of her but being unable to.
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=== Newspaper Comics ===
* The infamous "His Code Name Was The Fox" arc in ''[[FoxTrot]]'', where Roger Fox wrote an abominable novel that cast himself as a generic [[Tuxedo and Martini]] superspy. You can read it starting at page 20 [http://tinyurl.com/6jdqbz here] (although the arc it's a part of starts earlier). Created [[Her Codename Was Mary Sue|its own trope.]]
* In ''[[Curtis]]'', the protagonist's favorite comic book features Supercaptaincoolman, a hero who seems to have ''every'' super-power imaginable and is almost invincible. Emphasis on "almost", of course, as the villains he fights tend to be [[Villain Sue]] types.
=== Tabletop Games ===
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** This is, of course, why he is an example of [[Shoo Out the New Guy]].
** Luckily, the Marketing Executives who [[Executive Meddling|created him]] in the first place wised up quickly and [[Bus Crash|killed him off when he had to go back to his home planet]].
** Radioactive Man, the protagonist [[Show Within a Show| from Bart's favorite comic book]], often parodies the concept, along with every other superhero cliche in the book. There are some stories where Radioactive Man subverts the Trope, like his battle against the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeZN3DtjgM4 Fossil Fuel Four] and the special issue here (according to Milhouse) Radioactive Man and Milhouse are killed on ''every'' page.
* Sierra from ''[[Total Drama Island|Total Drama World Tour]]'' has quite a lot of [[Common Mary Sue Traits]]. However, other characters find her creepy and annoying, especially Cody.
* {{spoiler|[[Deus Ex Machina|Mintberry Crunch]]}} from the ''[[South Park]]'' "Coon & Friends" trilogy.
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