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[[Mary Sue]] makes great [[Snark Bait]]. Who doesn't love to pick apart these paragons of failed attractiveness? But wouldn't it be even ''more'' fun to create an intentional Sue and play it for comedy?
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# The character succeeds and the whole universe ends up falling to her [[Keep Abreast of This Index|buxom charms]], usually being made into her all-encompassing harem, except for maybe one snarky guy [[Only Sane Man|who knows exactly how stupid this is]].
# The character fails, either because there's just [[Thirty
# The character is perfect in ALMOST every way. The ways she's not perfect affect her life the most.
This character can overlap with any of the other [[Mary Sue]] types, so long as it's fairly obvious the story is basically a big [[Take That]] at [[Mary Sue]]. One good sign of a Parody Sue is when the story [[Lampshade Hanging|points out]] the [[Canon Defilement]] caused by the Sue's presence and actions. [[Genre Savvy|Don't be fooled]] if somebody claims [[Parody Retcon|this is what they were aiming for]] once they suffer the backlash of their storyline. And of course, just because somebody intends to make their story a hilarious parody [[Sturgeon's Law|doesn't mean they'll actually succeed]]
See also [[The Ace]], which does much the same thing but with a supporting character. The author may choose to create a Parody Sue by having their fictional character create a very obvious [[Mary Sue]] character for
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 ==
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* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series]]'' [[Possession Sue|turned]] Shogo Aoyama, the one-shot movie character in the first ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' movie, into a straight parody of this named "[[Gary Stu]]". In practice, he was more like the [[Only Sane Man]] when it came to everyone's obsession with card games ("I just don't see the appeal").
** He learned.
* Lelouch from ''[[Code
** His solution to C.C. holding him at gunpoint is to {{spoiler|attempt suicide, since a dead body can't be harmed by being shot.}} And it gets worse from there. The best bit? He did it in canon, [[Code
=== Fan Fictions ===
* The ''term'' [[Mary Sue]] actually comes from [[A Trekkie's Tale|a parody of Sues]] in ''[[Star Trek]]''.
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5690584/1/The_Vampoife_Dood_Who_Lifed The Vampoife Dude Who Lifed] [[Mega Crossover]] story famously parodies the [[Mary Sue]] trope, with a heavy dose of [[Deadpan Snarker|snarkiness]].
* The main characters of anything by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1047027/squirrelking Squirrelking] of ''Half Life Full Life Consequences'' fame. They are always the brother or son of the canonical protagonist and usually [[God Mode Sue|ridiculously overpowered]]. But please don't be
* [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.
* [[Those Lacking Spines
* [http://www.aladdincentral.org/library/viewstory.php?sid=272 Maridah Sumaya], a parody of bad ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' series fanfic (especially [[Draco in Leather Pants|Mozenrath]] fanfic).
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1989893/1/ Attack of the 50 Foot Eyesores]'', a parody of ''[[Transformers]]'' fanfiction with all the usual: twins of opposite factions with awe-inspiring powers who refuse to fight, forcing (almost) everyone to fall in love with them, freaking out and accusing others of being sexist for little remarks, and even making characters that don't fit right into "their" world vanish. Followed by [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2004465/1/ Return of the 50 Foot Eyesores,] which revives them and adds a mysterious long-lost sibling with a mysterious dark lover, and also turns Megatron into a Canon Sue on purpose who immediately makes Starscream fall in love with him.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5295023/1/The_Human_Whose_Name_Is_Written_In_This_Fanfiction The Human Whose Name Is Written in This Fanfiction]'', a ''[[
* The whole point of the [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]] is to get rid of such Parody Sues (because none of the authors want to pick on a real life Sue and incur wrath of the Sue's author). Some of the Society agents themselves are Parody Sues.
* ''[[
* There exists a tiny sub-genre of stories wherein the characters of a series find and read a Suefic. Results vary by author, but are usually hilarious as the canon characters attempt to explain what the hell is happening.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3515932/1/At_Worlds_End At World's End]'' is not a comedy, but it ''does'' have the character Don James, who is introduced in chapter eight and appears to be a Marty Stu, until {{spoiler|he dies at the end of the chapter,}} and then at the very beginning of the ''next'' chapter it's revealed that {{spoiler|he's been a traitor the entire time,}} and later on it is revealed that the reason for this is that {{spoiler|he was actually ''driven to madness by his own Marty-Stuness!''}} Though it doesn't say that last bit in as many words, obviously.
* ''[http://johnsu.deviantart.com/art/My-First-Fanfic-155792920 John Su's "My First Fanfic]'' is the ultimate example of Parody Sue. Don't look directly into the Man Wave.
* ''[[
** More specifically: {{spoiler|they are, during the [[Tournament Arc]], revealed to be another hideous result of the [[Big Bad]] residual evil; a Team Rocket experiment with human and Pokemon psychics that involved a piece of the shattered crystal core of the [[Big Bad]] backfired, killing the psychics horribly, and in their dying moments, the psychic backlash was pulled together by the crystal and created Mariah Susanson, who became a [[Reality Warper]] and was influenced by her combined psyche's desires and wish fulfillment fantasies. Barry Stu was a random guy she tore the soul out of and remade to fit her desires; when the first Stu was defeated in a battle, she destroyed him and turned his opponent into her next Stu, and so and so forth. In other words, a more twisted take on the Sue problem.}}
* A story arc in ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4627351/1/Invader_Zim_The_Series Invader Zim: The Series]'' (a fanfic adaptation of ''[[Invader Zim]]'') involves a group of these, the leader of whom is named Sue, and murders [[Jhonen Vasquez]] [[Disproportionate Retribution|for the cancellation of the original series,]] then becomes the girlfriend of [[Author Avatar|Nick Grey]] (a self-admitted [[Fixer Sue]]) after [[Real Life Writes the Plot|his old girlfriend leaves him.]] During this, she also provides assistance to both Dib and Zim from behind the scenes, using her assistance to partly brainwash them into loving her to some extent. This leads to the two becoming vampires through having them eat something during the process of becoming vampires. Naturally, Zim and Dib become [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampires that feed on chinese food and corn, respectively, as well as taking on mutations related to what they feed on.]] After this, she reveals to Nick that her full name is [[Relationship Sue]], a half-Irken, half-human with [[God Mode Sue|the power to draw an infinite amount of guns out of thin air]], and that her plan is to enslave Zim so that the two can conquer the universe as king and queen. She then kills him. This ultimately leads to an epic battle between the Sues and [[Enemy Mine|Zim, Dib,]] Gaz, GIR, [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Johnny C]], and [[Evil Knockoff|White]], which concludes with Gaz [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|crushing Relationship Sue to death]] with [[Cool Car|a monster truck.]]
* In the Ouran story ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6273725/1/Too_Perfect_to_be_True Too Perfect to Be True]'', the canon characters plead with the audience to stop replacing their beloved Haruhi with Mary Sues.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/536905/1/ Nine Men and a Little Lady]'' by Kielle neatly skewers ''[[
{{quote|
Lothlorien, February 15, 3019'''
Today the Fellowship moves on. A great evil passes from my domain, and a vast dank shadow lifts from the hearts of my people.
Oh, and the One Ring is leaving, too. }}
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3435160/1/The_Worst_Thing Perfectua Bellenina], star of a grotesquely exaggerated ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Story Within a Story|Suefic]] that the canon characters themselves are unlucky enough to stumble upon...
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5580734/1/Alucard_Meets_a_Mary_Sue Alucard Meets a Mary Sue]''
* A brief but delicious ''[[
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5779981/1/The_spectacular_adventures_of_bMiz_b_bBid_b_and_bRig_b The spectacular adventures of Miz, Bid and Rig!] Now with Zag!
* Danielle in ''[[
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5077152/4/Though_A_Bird_Cant_Fly_Doesnt_Mean_It_Never_Will Chapter 4] of ''[[Though a Bird Can't Fly
* The ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfictions [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6664200/1/Gash ''Gash, or, There Once Was a Beautiful Young Pokémon Trainer Called Gash''] and [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6667669/1/Kanto_Quest Kanto Quest] by [http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1151627/Darkblade701 Darkblade701] feature these characters.
* [[Deconstruction|Deconstructed]] in ''[[
* [[
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6565945/14/Mary_Mary_Quite_Contrary Mary Mary? Quite Contrary!] starts off as an advice guide to avoid making a Mary Sue. Then in Chapter 14, it becomes an actual story featuring a rather blatant [[Mary Sue]], who is even ''aware'' that she is a [[Mary Sue]] (named Christiana Sophia Maysalee Thomas). More recently, there's Dark, who is a parody of the kind of [[Villain Sue]] commonly found in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fanfiction.
* The [[Harry Potter]] fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7762173/1/ Sapphire Eleanor Rose Suzette de Mont vs Canon]'' has, well, [[Captain Obvious|Sapphire Eleanor Rose]] [[Exactly What It Says
* [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5777260/1/Quiero_ser_una_Mary_Sue ¡Quiero ser una Mary Sue!] (''I want to be a Mary Sue!'') is a Naruto Spanish fanfiction about a real world girl who is suddenly teleported into Naruto's world. As she has been reading a lot of fanfiction she thinks she can manage this new world and become a Sue pretty easy. She quickly sees she's wrong, [[Hilarity Ensues]]. It also plays a lot with the [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] as the main character aspiration. Saddly is incomplete and we don't know if the author is going to continue it. Really funny and sarcastic.
* In one ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
=== Tabletop Games ===
* [http://tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?p=76612 Teh most awesomist class EVAR!!1!] Basically, ''[[Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]'' as a ''D&D'' character.
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* The flash cartoon ''[http://lightning-duchess.deviantart.com/art/Most-Original-Sonic-Fanfic-Evr-78527287 Most Original Sonic Fanfic Evr]'' features several of these.
=== Web Comics ===
* The trope images is from ''[[Ensign Sue Must Die|Ensign Sue]] [http://www.interrobangstudios.com/potluck/index.php?strip_id=988 Must Die]'', where Ensign Mary Amethyst Star [[My Immortal|Enoby]] Aiko [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Archer]] [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Picard]] [[Star Trek: Voyager|Janeway]] Sue has been unleashed on the ''[[Star Trek (film)|Star Trek]]'' universe. But her life isn't all perfect, she suffers from a horrible case of Pedal Transient Paresthesia.
{{quote|"... ''Your foot's asleep?!''"}}
** When the Crew want her dead, what do they do?? {{spoiler|[[Red Shirt|Easy. Give her a red uniform and beam her down on a mission.]] At the cost of unleashing many, MANY other Mary Sues across the myriad universes.}}
* The ''[[
* ''[[Brawl in
* The ''Fire Emblem Online Comics'', a [[Exactly What It Says
* A [[Take That]] comic at fan-made Sues in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Verse]] written by one who calls himself [https://web.archive.org/web/20030803120518/http://piratemonkeysinc.com/ms1.htm Pirate Monkeys Inc:] it starts as Type 2 (and is, in fact, the Trope Image for [[Thirty
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* ''[[Dragon Ball Multiverse]]'' gave us [http://www.dragonball-multiverse.com/en/page-284.html this]. {{spoiler|She ends up as a mix of Type 1 and Type 2, as while her mere presence forces all the canon characters to fawn over her, the alternate Arale she's up against knocks her into orbit while she's waxing Sue-ish before the fight.}}
* In one ''[[
* Meimu as depicted in ''[[
=== Web Original ===
* The web-novella ''[http://www.bymoonslight.com/ Under the Moons of Riadorf]'' takes on the softest of soft SF to ludicrous effect. The authors' whole site follows the theme, complete with fake author biographies. There's also a [http://www.bymoonslight.com/?page_id=16 Choose Your Own Adventure] Sue.
* ''[[Trope-tan]] and the Stealer of the Spotlight'' is a deliberate attempt to invoke this and as many other bad fanfiction/other tropes as possible in half a page.
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** {{spoiler|The author later revamps him, but he still serves as good example.}}
* [http://raygirl.deviantart.com/art/Summer-the-MaRAY-Sue-192837505 Meet] [[Rayman|MaRAY-Sue]].
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130925035137/http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37118 Trollslum Team Sparklegrub] attempts a [[Thirty
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-10101-j SCP-10101-J] and [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-777-j SCP-777-J], of the [[
** [http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-732 SCP-732] turns Foundation documents into bad fanfic, which makes for a handy [[Cosmic Retcon|excuse]] for the periodic Sue-purges.
== Canon ==
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* Similar to The Most Interesting Man in the World, John Jameson from the Jameson Irish Whiskey commercials. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNoeOv4yXBA Here's an example.]
* "Big Jim" from the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXYA89Axqoc Progressive commercial here] is a parody of cheesy 1960s style animation "tough guys". Although in truth, Jim is just daydreaming.
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* Nabeshin, the [[Author Avatar]] of director [[Shinichi Watanabe]] from ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'', ''[[Puni Puni Poemi]]'', and ''[[Nerima Daikon Brothers]]'' who even has his own ongoing B-Plot in the former. [[Widget Series|Not that these shows take themselves seriously anyway]]....
* The eponymous character from ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'' skirts this. He's fast, near-perfect in all regards, [[Clueless Chick Magnet|liked by almost every major female character]] who meets him ([[Chaste Hero|though he doesn't really understand how to return their love]]), but is counterbalanced by the fact that the universe [[The Chew Toy|loves to screw around with him]]. He also seems a little [[Book Dumb]], especially compared to a [[Teen Genius]] like Maria and Nagi.
** Ditto Hinagiku Katsura, the 15-years-old [[Student Council President]] and fencing expert, who's also fallen in love with the hero {{spoiler|and in later manga chapters, is revealed to have a home life and past that's almost as screwed up as Hayate's}}. Some tropers have once remarked that Hina "has Mary Sue written all over her, in several languages, with glowy marker". Even her character description in the manga is extra-flowery compared to the other characters. She ''is'' [[Ensemble Darkhorse|rather popular in the real world]], though, so...
*** She gets an ending theme all to herself, too. Hinagiku is ''definitely'' a Parody Sue... And is loved because of it!
* Punie from ''[[Dai Mahou Touge]]'' would most certainly be a normal [[Mary Sue]] under most circumstances: she's cute, strong, has magical powers, and everyone loves her. It's just that little bit about {{spoiler|being truly and disturbingly evil, complete with [[Stepford Smiler|a Stepford smile]], to the point where even her adorable mascot Paya-tan is out to kill her.}}
** {{spoiler|Then again, Paya-tan is a dick too, not to mention a Vietnam veteran and a Yakuza boss.}}
* Miko Shirogane/Shirogane Z from ''[[Powerpuff Girls Z]]'' is a ''[[Villain Sue]]'' parody, being multi-talented in many areas and forms a plan that successfully humiliates the Powerpuff Girls. And she does this all in an over-the-top fashion.
* Mr. Satan/Hercule kind of falls into the second type in ''[[Dragonball Z]]'', especially as far as Earth's normal populace is concerned.
* Medaka from ''[[Medaka Box]]''. As a freshman in high school, she becomes the [[Student Council President]] with 98% of the vote... and single-handedly executes the duties of the entire student council, with some help from her childhood friend. She's absurdly rich, trained to near-''[[Naruto]]'' levels of martial arts (everyone else is pretty much normal), is a master of deductive reasoning, and that's just for starters. She's also ''completely'' out of touch with normal people: she once ran a tutoring session for an entire class that consisted of tips on how to make sure your handwriting was clear enough, because she couldn't conceive of actually getting a wrong answer that wasn't because of a handwriting mistake. (Things like this cause her childhood friend to remark, at one point, "She's so smart that she's come back around to stupid.")
** [[Up to Eleven|The series actually takes this to 11]]
** This continues to be played with as the series goes
* [[Haruhi Suzumiya]] has probably become the definitive deconstruction/parody of the [[God Mode Sue]] in Anime. She's brilliant (though prone to doing stupid things regularly), she's in great shape (having been in, but gotten bored with, every school athletic club), and an entire organization exists with the sole intention of keeping her happy and making sure that she never loses at anything (because they are afraid of her). In fact, the only reason she doesn't count is that she's {{spoiler|totally disillusioned with reality due to her childhood and}} faced with a completely unflappable [[Deadpan Snarker]]. She is {{spoiler|a ''literal'' God Mode Sue.}} There's also the fact that her {{spoiler|"literal" God Mode}} is a direct ''obstacle'' to one of her main
** Not to mention [[Jerk Sue]]. She only gets away with as much stuff as she does because no one wants to cause [[The End of the World
* {{spoiler|Erika Furudo}} in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* The most powerful weapon in ''[[Soul Eater]]'' is Excalibur, a sword that can turn any Meister into one of the greatest meisters of all time (a loser meister uses it to defeat three of the top students). He's also really [[Jerkass|obnoxious]], has 1,000 provisions that a person must follow, [[You Fool!|calls everyone a fool]], and constantly talks about how awesome he is. The result is that no one can actually stand him enough to use him.
=== Comic Books ===
* [[Squirrel Girl]] is canonically the most powerful character in the Marvel Universe. The fact that her powers relate to ''talking to squirrels'' makes the parody aspects of this all the more obvious.
* ''[[Ultimate X-Men]]'' had the character of Elliot Boggs, a.k.a. the Magician, who was brought to Professor X after [[It's All My Fault|accidentally killing his parents]] when his powers manifested, at which point he is promptly invited to join the X-Men, defeats the Blob in front of reporters causing the media to embrace the X-Men for the first time ever, and even singlehandedly takes down a group of attackers that had already beaten the rest of the X-Men. Eventually it is revealed that he actually has [[Reality Warper|vaguely-defined reality-altering powers]] that he'd used to manipulate the team into accepting him and to create villains for himself to defeat and reporters to praise him. The plotline was not largely well-received, as many readers gave up in disgust during the opening issues of the arc where Elliot appeared to be a traditional [[Mary Sue]]; others were put off by the fact that the reveal basically boiled down to "He's not really as great as he seemed... he's just omnipotent," and that he just [[Karma Houdini|walked off]] at the end.
* [[The Sociopath|Max]] [[The Pied Piper of Hamelin|Piper]] of ''[[
* The [[DC Comics]] universe has the legendary Rex the [[Heroic Dog|Wonder Dog]]. He's a decorated veteran [[Captain America (comics)|World War II experimental supersoldier]]. He's an investigative journalist. He can drive vehicles. He can speak every language that exists, has eternal youth, and has ill-defined magical powers. He once nuked a T. rex. He almost certainly knows more than Batman and Mr. Terrific combined. He's also a dog, who gained the ability to talk ''after'' he had already accomplished most of his impressive stuff.
=== Films - Animation ===
* Metroman from ''[[Megamind]]'' is seen as a cocky, handsome, and powerful expy of Superman. Everyone in the world loves him and there are shrines for pretty much anywhere. However, the subversion is that he believes that being a [[Boring Invincible Hero]] is what's ''expected'' of him, and his true passion is to be a musician.
=== Films - Live-Action ===
* ''[[You Don't Mess With the Zohan]]'' has a main character who can do impossible wire-fu martial arts, feels absolutely zero pain, has a [[Gag Penis|massive budgie stuffed down his trousers]].<ref>that bulge is revealed about a third into the movie as not his penis, but just a veritable jungle of pubic hair. "The bush! It's like a cushion for them."</ref> All this is played for laughs. Also, he is shown to be attracted mainly to (besides the main romantic interest) old and/or fat women, whom he very loudly bangs after giving them a haircut.
* Didier, the French exchange student from ''[[Son of Rambow]]'' is a sexy, young Johnny Depp-lookalike who is so cool that he has two [[Unwanted Harem|unwanted harems,]] one of girls, and [[Even the Guys Want Him|one of boys.]] Yet underneath his cool and bored exterior he is just another sweet and innocent pre-teen boy who wants to have fun and make believe with other children his age. It also becomes evident at the end of the film that he's not even remotely popular back home.
* The title character of ''[[The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension]]''. Neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, multi-instrumental rock star and comic book
** The character was originally not intended as so much of a parody, described as more of a renaissance man by the actor who played him.
*** According to the movie materials, everything in the movie is a dramatization of real events.
* The film ''[[Her Alibi]]'' is an overlooked gem for parodying this concept. The main character writes almost nothing but books featuring his [[Author Avatar]], and rewrites events in his life to fit this character, making him look like an over-the-top [[James Bond]].
* The film ''American Dreamer'' was about a woman who has a concussion, and wakes up believing she's a character in her favorite pulp novels, and an over-the-top female [[James Bond]].
* ''[[Rushmore]]'' begins with Max Fischer dreaming he's popular and can solve an unsolvable math problem.
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* [[Austin Powers]] is, like Derek Flint, a Parody Sue of secret agents.
* Similarly, Dr. Neil Connery (played by Sean Connery's brother) of [[Operation Double 007]]
* ''[[Rustlers
* ''[[Black Dynamite]]''.
* ''[[The Other Guys]]'' has a type 2 example with two [[Cowboy Cop]] characters played by [[Samuel L. Jackson]] and [[Dwayne Johnson|The Rock]]. In universe, both are definitely in the [[Jerk Sue]] category, loved by all and chick magnets, routinely creating massive property damage, and huge jerks to the "little people" at the station. They [[Death
* [[Meaningful Name|Gary]] from [[The Muppets (
** He also has a girlfriend named Mary
=== Literature ===
* [[
* ''Dearly Devoted [[Dexter]]'' pulls this on a [[God Mode Sue]] in typically vicious fashion. When a [[Mad Doctor]] inflicts terrible revenge on one of his former Special Forces coworkers, the feds send in Agent Kyle Chutsky. He's an Adonis, physically fit, expert at most everything, swiftly gets into a [[Slap Slap Kiss]] relationship with Dexter's sister Deborah, and has a personal history with the villain. So is our [[Villain Protagonist]] about to be pushed out of the book? Not quite. {{spoiler|Remember that personal history? The mad doctor grabs Chutsky, and by the time Dexter finds him he's lost two of his limbs and ''all'' of his composure.}}
* Donald Ogden Stewart's short story "How Love Came to General Grant", a parody of novelist Harold Bell Wright, establishes in this paragraph the purely pure pureness of Miss Ella Flowers:
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* The character Donna Inez in [[Lord Byron]]'s [[Narrative Poem]] ''Don Juan'' may well be an early example. The [[Lemony Narrator]] spends many verses praising her beauty and accomplishments in an overblown manner, describing her as so morally perfect that "her guardian angel had given up his garrison". She is also an [[Insufferable Genius]] and has absurdly high moral standards.
* Jerzy Kosinski's ''[[Being There]]'' has most everyone becoming fascinated by and even in awe of Chauncey Gardiner, a brilliant-yet-humble socio-political thinker who brings hope and clarity to a complex world with his simple sayings, looks described as a cross between Cary Grant and Ted Kennedy's, and elegant manners. No one can dig up a single bad thing about his past; he's a man with nothing to hide...of course, the audience knows that his real name is [[Seemingly
* Major —— de Coverley from ''[[Catch-22]]'' does almost nothing at the Air Force squadron but play horseshoes and rent apartments, and his few lines of dialogue paint him as very simply minded, but everyone in the book holds him in godlike reverence. In a novel full of [[Deadpan Snarker
* Aliera in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' series has been seen by fans as one of these. While she has a number of Sue-ish traits, being a strikingly beautiful [[Action Girl]], but she is very far from being a Sue, instead presented as a hot head with morally questionable beliefs (admittedly this is her House's [[Planet of Hats|hat]]).
* ''[[Discworld]]'''s Captain Carrot. (Presumably) Royal blood? Relentless charisma? Godlike physique? Check, Check and [[Squee
** Carrot's Sue-ness is more apparent in his reality-bending powers than in any superficial trait. He has the inexplicable ability to turn bad
** Indeed in one book it's implied had Vimes not left to address the problem at its source the entire watch, Carrot included, would have died in the rising turmoil.
* [[Stanislaw Lem]]'s Ijon Tichy character, hero of ''[[
* Captain Benjamin Avery, square-jawed hero of ''[[The Pyrates]]'', [[Master Swordsman]], [[Cunning Linguist]], [[Chick Magnet]] and [[Celibate Hero]], is one of the most
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* James Meyer in the ''[[
=== Live-Action TV ===
* Brilliantly done in the ''[[Frasier]]'' episode "The Show Where Diane Comes Back", in which Diane's play ''Rhapsody and Requiem'' is a thinly veiled reproduction of ''[[Cheers]]'', with "Mary Ann" as the [[Author Avatar]]. ''Everyone'' loves her in the bar (even delivering an ode to her), which drives Frasier nuts, particularly since everyone also downplays the time that "Mary Ann" abandoned her fiance at the altar—which, since Frasier was the fiancé who got stiffed in real life, he has some alternative perspectives and objections towards. When the actor "Franklin" openly asks why his character would forgive Mary Ann so easily for leaving him at the altar, it causes Frasier to explode in a famous speech:
{{quote|'''Frasier:''' What you are feeling is that this woman has reached into your chest, plucked out your heart, and thrown it to her hellhounds for a chew toy! And it's not the last time either! Because that's what this woman is! She is the Devil! There's no use running away from her, because no matter how far you go, no matter how many years you let pass, you will never be completely out of reach of those bony fingers! So drink hearty, Franklin, and laugh! Because you have made a pact with Beelzebub! '''''And her name is Mary Anne!''''' }}
* Appears in the 4th season ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' episode "Superstar", similar to the ''Futurama'' example. Loser Jonathan uses a reality-altering spell to make himself everyone's [[Always Someone Better|"Someone Better"]] — he fights better than Buffy, beats Giles at chess, advises the Initiative, plays basketball, fronts a band, and starred in ''[[The Matrix]]''. Unfortunately, [[Equivalent Exchange|the spell also conjures an ugly monster terrorizing the populace]]; destroying it would end the spell.
* Parodied on ''[[Garth Marenghi's Darkplace]]'', in which Garth casts himself as Rick Dagless, MD, described by his priest as "the most sensitive man I know, and I know God."
* One episode of ''[[My Wife and Kids]]'' has [[Betty White]] guest-star as a [[Mary Poppins]]-like housekeeper who can do anything perfectly, and in doing so elicits an awed "... Wow..." from everyone around her...except for wife Jay, who feels put out by the attention she's getting. At the end of the episode, the Kyles' neighbor runs into the house, saying that he just saw her flying through the sky with an umbrella, garnering one final "...Wow..."
* Tek Jansen, hero of [[Stephen Colbert]]'s (fictional) novel ''Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure'', and the related comics and animated adventures that have been seen. He is super awesome spectacular ultra-spy who has obviously had hundreds of girlfriends, and the fact that he physically resembles and is voiced by Colbert is [[Blatant Lies|surely a matter of coincidence]].
* [[Monk]] seems to have envisioned himself as one of these as a child as an insert to his favorite show. It's actually incredibly disturbing.
* On an episode of ''[[Yes, Dear]]'', Jimmy (Mike O'Malley) was a contestant on [[Big Brother]], and within days became the most popular member of the household, prompting everyone (except poor Ashley) to use him as a decoy to get Ashley eliminated in the first ceremony (using something of a [[Batman Gambit]], no less). Jimmy ended up disqualified when Greg snuck onto the set to try and warn him of treachery from the others (though it turned out that it was just part of the gambit, the revelation footage not having been televised on the episode they were watching).
* After watching "The Antwon Walker Story", [[Dave Chappelle]] wrote "The Dave Chappelle Story". He is portrayed as being born with a huge penis, is on first name basis with [[Richard Pryor]] & [[Eddie Murphy]] and had had sex with [[Janet Jackson]], [[Jennifer Lopez]], some of the girls from the "Big Pimpin'" video, and [[Halle Berry]]. But he always kept it real.
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* ''[[The Red Green Show]]'' had, in the later seasons, a segment featuring Ranger Gord's 'Educational Films', featuring him as almost everything the real Gord isn't. (Well, Gord and the cartoon-Gord are both male Canadian forest rangers.)
* Jool in ''[[
* Dr. Angela Hunter on ''[[Green Wing]]''. She's stunning, brilliant, great at her job, (almost) everyone loves her, she's one of the few competent people at the hospital and seemingly kind and generous. In actuality she's very bitchy and just fakes a lot of her kindness in order to get ahead.To top it off she becomes the star of of a documentary that comes to film at the office and manages to leave with a great acting job. And then she gets murdered by a moose.
* Jason on ''[[The George Lopez Show]]'' is probably meant to be a parody. He plays baseball, is on the debate team, spends his free time wheeling around his disabled brother, and has daddy issues.
=== Music ===
* The [[Alice Cooper]] song "You're a Movie" is about an overconfident soldier who embodies this trope.
{{quote|''Bullets repel off my medals
And my men are in awe when I speak
All chaos my strategy settles
My mere presence gives strength to the weak
For me it seems really alarming
I'm really just only a man
With five million sheep in this army
I seem to be the only one fit to command'' }}
* The [[Harry Potter|wizard rock]] band House of Black made a song called [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3RWk34GYZQ "Mary Sue"] poking fun at, well, Mary Sues.
=== 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 ===
* ''[[
** That doesn't stop the Lancea Sanctum from INVENTING the Cainite Heresy in the Camarilla Fan Club supplements, just to add a level of meta on top that nobody seems to really be "getting".
** Dracula's "Rites of the Dragon" is a supplement prop book specifically designed to parody "The Book of Nod".
*** And let's not forget the [[Chick Tract|Jack Chick parody Bible tract]] in the Daeva clanbook...
*** White Wolf released a "new translation" of ''The Testament of Longinus'' on PDF, which reads like other holy scriptures if the narrator (of the first part) were a raving egomaniac. Including repetitions, contradictions, and historical inaccuracies... and translator notes which argue with each other about the significance and authorship of various verses. It's a hoot.
* ''[[Dungeons
** ''[[Spelljammer]]'' has
* ''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]'' includes a "Mary Sue" trait specifically intended for playing a Parody Sue.
=== Theater ===
* Princess Winnifred the Woebegone in ''[[Once Upon a Mattress]]'' has one defining character trait: she's ''spunky!'' Luckily, the play is a madcap comedy, so we're not asked to take her (or anybody else) too seriously. And a good actress can make the character fairly endearing.
=== Video Games ===
* Fraziska Von Karma from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' is considered one of the [[Jerk Sue|Jerk]] and [[Villain Sue|Villain]] varieties, complete with several [[Common Mary Sue Traits]]. Daughter of the previous game's [[Big Bad]]—Check. [[Like Brother and Sister]] relationship with [[The Rival]] from the last game—Check. Gets away with physically assaulting any and all law enforcement officers and even using illegal evidence in court—Check. 18 years old lawyer who started her illustrious career at 13—Check. Beating her is a big [[Take That]] at the typical [[Mary Sue]] that Edgeworth fangirls tend to use in their self-insert fics. Also in case 4 of ''Investigations'' a couple of the people she tries to intimidate [[Not Now, Kiddo|either shrug her off or laugh at her]]. [[Butt Monkey|So she just takes it out on Edgeworth and Gumshoe.]]
* In the [[Play Station 3]] version of the game, [[The Paladin|Flynn]] from ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' is a Type 3 that is played for drama. His best friend and eternal rival, the protagonist [[Memetic Badass|Y]][[Deadpan Snarker|u]][[The Hero|r]][[Always Second Best|i]] constantly snarks about how he gets the treatment of a [[God Mode Sue]] in-universe when it comes to fighting and politics. However, Yuri is also aware that Flynn is the single most [[Lawful Stupid]] human being in existence. When his devotion to the rules cause him to screw up, Yuri ''really'' lets him have it... [[Character Development|and Flynn reluctantly realises that he's in the wrong for once when he does]].
* Zed from ''[[Wild ARMs]]'', moreso in the remake ''Wild Arms Alter Code F''. He is a demon who sees himself as the incredibly awesome protagonist of the story and claims that the main characters are villainous, until he finally ditched Ziekfried and, in the remake, can eventually join the party. In the original game he also dropped the "Doom Bringer" sword which was very powerful but reduces Jack's luck the the worst possible value when he uses it - which sort of explains Zed's comic ineptitude throughout the game.
* The ''[[Disgaea]]'' games give us Kurtis. He's handsome, he's badass, he is a genius, a cyborg, has a quite tragic backstory ''and'' is [[The Rival]]... And then he {{spoiler|does a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and ends up transformed into a [[Everything's Better with Penguins|Prinny]]}}. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* [[Duke Nukem]], though the "parody" part was subverted in ''[[Duke Nukem Forever|Forever]]''. [[Word of God]] has said that in that game he's meant to be taken completely seriously, and that he is supposed to be the coolest thing and center of his world. Most people who played the game seem to have thought it was a parody regardless of the intent.
* Holly Lingerbean in ''[[Shantae: Half Genie Hero]]'' seems to be an atypical Mary Sue at first, being perfect at everything and everyone ''loving'' her - except Shantae. Eventually it is discovered that Holly is a sort "living" memory of a long-dead celebrity, and her accomplice - a giant worm-like monster who can consume memories - is making sure everyone focuses on her. In short, she is a literal embodiment of the [[Attention Whore]] trope. Shantae defeats the worm and eradicates Holly as a result, but so long as a memory of the original Holly [[Meaningful Name|Lingerbean]] exists in one person's mind, she cannot die, and reappears in ''each'' playable character's story when the memory is reignited.
** In a tweet announcing the release of ''[[Updated Rerelease|Shantae: Half-Genie Hero Ultimate Edition]]'', WayForward reveals that [https://twitter.com/WayForward/status/1458132731234295810 Holly is the new half-genie] hired by the mayor.
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* Strong Sad's fanfiction character, Twelve Times A Day Man, from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.
* Shadowleggy is very aware of playing this trope when she appears in her [[Resident Evil Musicals|videos]].
=== Web Comics ===
* The ''[[Girl Genius]]'' webcomic has an [[Affectionate Parody]] called "[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20051212 Fan Fiction]" that mines all the [[Common Mary Sue Traits]] including [[Kaleidoscope Eyes|eyes that change color]], and Mary coming back from the dead. Shaenon Garrity, the creator of ''[[Narbonic]]'', ''[[Skin Horse]]'', and ''[[Smithson]]'', wrote this for the Foglios.
** The story ends up playing the Sue author pretty sympathetically—her brothers whine that she's telling the story wrong, but her mother comforts her by telling her she made her own Mary Sue stories when she was a girl.
* In [http://nonadventures.com/2008/07/12/poultry-position/ this strip] of ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'', the author claims in the [[Alt Text]] that his [[Mary Sue]] character is an annoyed elderly rooster.
* Lewis Powell of ''[[Terror Island]]'' took ''that'' idea even further, claiming in [http://www.terrorisland.net/strips/163.html this strip] that his [[Mary Sue]] character was ''a fake magic cube''. {{spoiler|Ben wrote Lewis's commentary that day, for what it's worth.}}
* ''[[Mary Sue Academy]]'' is about a school for Mary Sues, and is appropriately full of these. It's right [https://web.archive.org/web/20120620214428/http://www.drunkduck.com/Mary_Sue_Academy/ here].
* Shadow and Chug of ''Powerup Comics'' are ([[Stealth Parody|stealth]]) parodies of the [[Jerkass Stu]] model. Since they represent all of the authors' viewpoints, it's deemed acceptable for them to dismiss the recurring strawman character with a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100325162852/http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=299048 bullet to the forehead] simply because he has the "wrong" opinions.
* Dave Anez has admitted ([http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/index.php?date=060224 and lampshaded]) the fact that Bob is ''[[Bob and George]]'''s [[Marty Stu]]. He dresses like Proto Man (easily the coolest ''[[Mega Man (
* There's still some debate among fans as to whether Jade from the ''[[MS Paint Adventures]]'' series ''[[Homestuck]]'' was intended to be one of these or not. She ''does'' have a ludicrous number of quirky hobbies, skills, and "cute" flaws (narcolepsy and [[Cloudcuckoolander|general ditziness]]). Jade also has a magical pet, crazy supernatural powers, future technology, a grasp on the unfolding plot, and she lives under the wing of her equally talented and rich Grandfather {{spoiler|who is deceased, making her [[Conveniently an Orphan]] in addition to everything else.}} What makes her seem like a Parody Sue instead of a straight example is the fact that her Sue-ness (like every other trope used in the series) is [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerated]] to the point that it becomes funny. {{spoiler|Then she loses her powers, her gear and her pet, and spends so much time dozing that all the other main characters zoom past her. Time to start earning your keep, miss.}}
** The troll Kanaya Maryam, being essentially Jade's gothy friend Rose raised in Jade's circumstances, is the wannabe vampire to Jade's magic princess. Just count how many times the phrase "one of the few of your kind" recurs in her [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004223 introductory bio.]
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*** [[Word of God|Andrew has confirmed]] that Vriska herself is a metafictional commentary on the [[Mary Sue]], although she might be better said to be a [[Deconstruction]] Sue. She ''thinks'' she is prettier, smarter, and stronger than everyone else, inserts herself in major plot events simply to make herself important, and never suffers any negative consequences for her actions {{spoiler|untill she dies}}. The result of this is everyone who speaks to her (except [[Morality Pet|John]]) thinking she is either a psychotic bitch or simply a [[Jerkass]], with [[Base Breaker|a similar effect on the fandom]].
** Feferi's status is ambiguous due to her Mary Sue traits, such as having the highest possible blood color in a hematocracy and being heir apparent to the Empire while being very nonchalant about it. She's incredibly nice (remember that the trolls are [[Proud Warrior Race|a bunch of murderous bastards]]), has a guardian that can kill every single person in her species excluding herself, the Troll Empress, and possibly other sea trolls at the drop of a hat (compared to the other guardians of the trolls who can't really do much at all by comparison), and wears bright clothes and gold accessories where almost everyone else is decked out in blacks and greys. {{spoiler|She's dead too, by the way.}}
* ''[[Living
* Tsukiko from ''[[
* ''[[League Of Super Redundant Heroes]]'' has a super-heroine ''literally'' called Mary Sue, who is clearly the most perfect example of a human being (or superhuman being for that matter), but still points out her [http://superredundant.com/?comic=163-likabillity "defining flaw"] that goes hand-in-hand with her perfection to define the trope.
* ''[[Chainsawsuit]]'' got a few entries, including "[http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/03/13/brightshadow-academy-for-mary-sues/ Brightshadow Academy for Mary Sues]". Its newest student is [http://chainsawsuit.com/2012/03/29/brightshadows-newest-student/ Jane Peters], who "had no [[God Mode Sue|unique powers]] and a [[Dark and Troubled Past|very normal past]]":
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=== Western Animation ===
* The [[Mary Sue]] concept in general, as well as [[Always Someone Better]], is parodied in the ''[[Recess]]'' episode "Here Comes Mr. Perfect", in which a [[Marty Stu]] from out of town shows up whose sympathetic character flaw ''is'' that he's [[Marty Stu]]
** He also gives a speech in his own defense that, in a meta sense, can be taken as a sort of defense of the [[Mary Sue]]
* An episode of ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' cartoon has an old acquaintance of Sebastian who has the same problem. In a last-ditch effort to beat him at ''something'', Sebastian challenges him to pretty much tell Sebastian's life story. The old acquaintance not only does so, in perfect detail, (which, in itself is pretty damn creepy) but also manages to mix a heaping helping of [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason Sebastian Sucks]] while doing so. Cue the [[Flat What]] from everyone. Including the viewers.
* Appears in ''[[Doug]]''. When Skeeter helps with one of Doug's Quailman comic, his character is a blatant [[God Mode Sue|God Mode Stu]], [[New Powers
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'': Brock Sampson is a parody of over-the-top [[Heroic Sociopath]] characters. While he does get plenty of asskicking scenes, he is also shown doing less adventurous things with the Ventures (such as helping effeminate Dean put on his plays and/or dressing up for costume competitions), whom he sees as a family unit. In fact, when [[Femme Fatale]] Molotov Cocktease invites him to abandon them and join her as a mercenary, he happily tells her that he prefers the Ventures to the moral ambiguity and weirdness of spy work.
* In ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' episode "Kadic Bombshell", Brynja Heringsdötir is an obvious parody of the [[Relationship Sue
* [[Fridge Brilliance|If you think about it]], Azula from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' is a Type 3 Parody/Deconstruction of the [[Villain Sue]] archetype; she's insanely powerful and skilled; related to major characters but appeared out of nowhere at the end of the first season, much like the standard [[Copy Cat Sue]] character; a fourteen year old girl who looks about nineteen, [[Evil Is Sexy|and not a bad nineteen at that]]; and she can [[Magnificent Bastard|Magnificent Bitch]] with the best of them. However, by constantly pushing herself to reach a [[Mary Sue]]-like level of impossible perfection, she eventually suffers [[Villainous Breakdown|a total mental and emotional breakdown,]] having first lost the approval of her father and the friendship of the only two people who genuinely cared about her. {{spoiler|At the end of said breakdown, she's just had her ass handed to her by a ''Water Tribe peasant'', on the day of Sozin's Comet when her Firebending should have been at her very strongest no less; [[All There in the Manual|the official website]] caps it off by explaining that she was hauled off to a mental institution soon afterwards.}}
* In ''[[Invader Zim]]'', Tak has Sue tendencies: arrives at the Skool out of nowhere on an incredibly cool and expensive-looking jet, [[Relationship Sue|gets Dib's attention (while shooting down Zim's futile courtship attempts)]], turns out to be [[Copy Cat Sue|another rogue "Invader" like Zim]]
** One episode cast Dib as a [[God Mode Sue]]. After throwing a muffin at Zim in school, he's visited by [[Energy Beings]] that sought him out to be their champion against the Irken Invaders. They give him superpowers that allow him to do pretty much anything he wants, which he proceeds to use to talk Zim into turning himself in to the authorities, expose every single paranormal mystery, singlehandedly fought and defeated the Irken Armada, and "even got to ride a moose". As it turned out, {{spoiler|it was all a virtual reality simulation orchestrated by Zim to get him to admit he threw the bran muffin.}}
* In the episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' parodying ''[[Star Trek]]'' fandom, they produce an episode of ''Star Trek'' based on an [[Energy Being|alien energy cloud]]'s fanscript, wherein members of the regular cast fall in love with and are overwhelmed with admiration for the alien energy cloud.
** There's also Barbados Slim, who won Olympic gold medals in both ''Limboing and Sex''. His [[Pec Flex|pecs also wiggle by themselves]]. He has been described as both an adonis, and a 'mahogany god'.
*** He gets some minor comeuppance in Bender's Big Score, when after Hermes steals back his wife from him, Slim tries to storm out of the room, being forced to limbo underneath a malfunctioning automatic door...which then shuts on him partway through.
* Lila from ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' is effectively a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|sickeningly sweet]] parody of a [[Mary Sue]].
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': The Griffins bring in a new dog after Lois points out that Brian's getting old. "New Brian" is polite, perfect, multi-talented and instantly befriends everyone (''sans'' Stewie), who rightly realizes that he's Brian's "replacement". New Brian goes on to improve everyone's lives and supplant Brian completely. However, he makes his fatal mistake when he... gets a little intimate with [[Companion Cube|Rupert the teddy bear]]. [[Woman Scorned|Stewie is not pleased...]]
** Don't forget Derek, Jillian's {{spoiler|late}} husband. He's depicted as a parody of a [[Relationship Sue]] .
* An episode of ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[Home Movies]]'': You let Fenton play in your movies at your peril.
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* ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]''. One episode features a guest character with many [[Common Mary Sue Traits]], including taking main character burden. Then she turns out to be very incompetent in the terms of fighting monsters.
* The main character of ''[[I Am Weasel]]'' was this. Weasel was, to be blunt, too perfect for his own good.
* ''[[Johnny Test]]'' brings us ''Mary'' and ''Su''san Test. It's only played with though.
* Poochie on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is, arguably, a good example of a Stu character played as a parody of new characters who are just stuck into stories and then they annoy the fans. But the reason Poochie annoys the fans isn't just because he's new, it's because of his Gary Stu traits. He comes in with a whole rap song about why he's so cool, Itchy and Scratchy's usually violently comedic characters are changed into [[Creator's Pet|oohing and ahhing over him]], and he throws the story off course to show off how cool he is (cue Milhouse moaning "[[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot|When are they going to get to the fireworks factory?!]]"). Also, like with many Gary Stu type characters, [[Creator's Pet|the fans are annoyed by him]], except for his voice actor, Homer, who acts like a fan who is overly protective of their [[Mary Sue]] character. Homer's idea of how to improve the show is to make Poochie louder, angrier, have access to a time machine, and to make the other characters say "Where's Poochie?" when he's not on-screen, which could also go under the [[Creator's Pet]] trope.
** 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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{{spoiler|'''Cartman:''' *sighs* Fucking Mintberry fucking Crunch.}} }}
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'': Hello Nurse, according to the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpS3eFqhxSQ| song about her], her list of accomplishments includes winning the Tony, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer, obtaining several Ph.Ds, playing Chopin without rehearsing, singing opera at the Met, solving math equations, winning a scholarship to Yale, starring as the lead role in ''[[King Lear]]'', and becoming the ambassador to China. Oh, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|she doesn't smoke]].
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