Parody Sue: Difference between revisions

 

== The Abridged Series ==

** 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.

* 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.

* ''[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.

* 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.

* 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.

{{quote| '''Galadriel's Journal<br />

Lothlorien, February 15, 3019'''<br />

* [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]''

* [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! [[Parody Sue|Parodied]] [[Relationship Sue|Relationship Sues]] for everyone!

* 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.

* [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.

* [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.

 

 

== Tabletop Games ==

 

 

 

== Web Comics ==

{{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.}}

* A [[Take That]] comic at fan-made Sues in the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Verse]] written by one who calls himself [http://piratemonkeysinc.com/ms1.htm Pirate Monkeys Inc:] it starts as Type 2 (and is, in fact, the Trope Image for [[Thirty-Sue Pileup]])-- then flips around to become Type 1 and shows us why, if she ''does'' succeed, she's still utterly revolting.

{{quote| "And order is restored to the Sue-niverse..." }}

* ''[[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.}}

 

 

* [http://raygirl.deviantart.com/art/Summer-the-MaRAY-Sue-192837505 Meet] [[Rayman|MaRAY-Sue]].

* [http://www.mspaforums.com/showthread.php?37118 Trollslum Team Sparklegrub] attempts a [[Thirty-Sue Pileup]] with fancharacters of ''[[Homestuck]]'' 's trolls. Mostly type 2, with some 3 thrown in for good measure.

** [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.

 

 

== Advertising ==

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== Anime & Manga ==

** 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!

** This continues to be played with as the series goes forward -- dealing with the "Minuses" takes up the biggest arc so far, which are God Mode '''[[Anti-Sue]]''' characters with psychotic (negative, or ''minus'') personality traits. (The standard [[Mary Sue]] characters are called "Pluses.") The most recent arc has two "Not Equal" characters show up, which are heavily insinuated to be so far beyond human mentalities that they're actually of [[Eldritch Abomination]] level of psychosis and power -- the main one shown so far has been clocked at having over 13 '''quadrillion''' various superpowers (normal Abnormals get ''one''). Worse, they're [[Medium Aware]] -- they're waiting out the main character and her [[True Companions]], as they'll graduate in a few years and thus not be there to stop their plans; they know to do this because they know they're in a [[Shonen Jump]] manga and the hero always wins in [[Shonen Jump]], even against impossible odds.

* [[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 goals -- to experience the supernatural. Much of the series involves the others running around trying to keep her in the dark. Her presence also makes their lives harder instead of better, with no actual upside. It also really complicates her relationship with Kyon. She'd probably be mortified if she knew that Kyon can effectively read her mind at times based on {{spoiler|what her reality warping powers do}}.

 

 

 

== Comic Strips ==

 

 

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

* 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 hero -- and that's the "''real''" one. In [[Literary Agent Hypothesis|the film]], he also saves the human race from an alien invasion effortlessly. And then there are all the [[Shrouded in Myth]] moments such as references to his former wife. All of this is very intentionally over-the-top and meant as comedy.

* [[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]]

* ''[[Black Dynamite]]''.

** 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:

{{quote| A hush fell on the crowd as they caught sight of her face -- a hush of silent tribute to the clear sweet womanhood of that pure countenance. A young man on the edge of the crowd who was on the verge of becoming a drunkard burst into tears and walked rapidly away to join the nearest church. A pr-st---te, who had been plying her nefarious trade on the avenue, sank to her knees to pray for strength to go back to her aged parents on the farm. Another young man, catching sight of Ella's pure face, vowed to write home to his old mother and send her the money he had been expending in the city on drinks and dissipation.}}

* 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.

* 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|Deadpan Snarkers]], no one dares turn a bit of snark his way; in fact, they're all so terrified of him that no one's ever even asked his first name; that's why he's Major —— de Coverley.

* 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]]).

** 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 people -- or at least, ordinary people in bad moments -- into ''good'' people, because he believes so earnestly that all people ''are'' good at heart that nobody can bear to disappoint him. People are aware of this reality-warping ability, and it's commented on several times in the text, but somehow it still keeps on working. It's temporary, though; enough to quell a riot but not to so enthral that underlying conflicts won't reappear unless Vimes and others remove the cause.

** 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.

* Captain Benjamin Avery, square-jawed hero of ''[[The Pyrates]]'', [[Master Swordsman]], [[Cunning Linguist]], [[Chick Magnet]] and [[Celibate Hero]], is one of the most blatant -- and enjoyable -- in history.

{{quote| In short, Captain Avery was the young [[Errol Flynn]], only more so, with a dash of Power and Redford thrown in; the answer to a maiden's prayer, and between ourselves, rather a pain in the neck.}}

 

 

{{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 [[The Minnesota Fats|Minnesota Fats]] -- 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.

* 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.

* 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.

{{quote| "Did I tell you sell drugs? No! Hov' did that. so hopefully you won't have to go through that."}}

* ''[[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.)

* 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 ==

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== 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".

*** 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 and Dragons]]'', as usual, has a handful of everything.

* ''[[Witch Girls Adventures]]'' includes a "Mary Sue" trait specifically intended for playing a Parody Sue.

 

 

== Video Games ==

* 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.

 

 

** See the page quote above. 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.

* 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 [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 [http://www.drunkduck.com/Powerup_Comics/index.php?p=299048 bullet to the forehead] simply because he has the "wrong" opinions.

* 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.]

*** [[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.}}

* ''[[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]]":

{{quote| poor jane peters... but little did she know that she was going to become [[Anti-Sue|the greatest student that brightshadow academy had ever seen]]}}

** 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]] -- not that they're good characters, per se, or or not annoying, but that it isn't ''the character's'' fault -- '''they''' didn't decide to be perfect.

* 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.

* ''[[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|Relationship Sues]] so prevalent in the show's [[Fan Work]]. This one-shot character has every trapping of a Mary Sue and Odd (and [[Unresolved Sexual Tension|Ulrich]], and [[Official Couple|Jérémie]], and every other boy in the school) falls for her, but she's quickly revealed too shallow to be a serious love interest. She leaves at the end of the episode without having any lasting effect on the status quo (the heroes not even bothering with a [[Reset Button|Return to the Past]]).