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''<small>"Once upon a time, there was [[Little Red Riding Hood|a little girl with an adorable red cape]] and</small> '''[[Large Ham|great FLAAAMING eyebrows]]'''!"''
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== [[Fan Work]] Examples ==
=== Anime & Manga ===
* Interestingly deconstructed, averted, and played ''straight'' in ''[[Dreaming of Sunshine (Fanfic)|Dreaming of Sunshine]]'' the [[Author Avatar]] is not godpowered- and, in fact, attempts to change the timeline as little as possible. This is actually justified, as she is attempting to retain her advantage by not rendering her knowledge of future events useless. This is difficult, as she arrived many years before the worst of the shit starts to hit the fan. She has some skills beyond the norm, but those stem from being reborn with her memory intact, not from being an Uberninja.
* Nine times out of ten, a new original senshi in any ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' fanfiction will be a self-insert, replete with godlike powers and totally authority over everyone and everything -- the girl is usually related to a canon character as well. Considering the show's target audience was teenaged girls, which then became 5-13 girls when the show hit the US, this is not surprising.
* In the [[Bleach]] fanfic [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6820157/1/bFanfictional_b_bFugitive_b Fanfictional Fugitive], the author directly admits that the main character is [[Author Avatar|based on herself]] as much as possible. Then she starts to pretty much beat the entire shit out of her(self?) by both turning the character based on herself into a [[Wangst|whiny]], [[Minor Injury Overreaction|powerless]], [[It's All About Me|selfish]] and generally [[Dirty Coward|unlikable]] [[Distressed Damsel|damsel in constant distress]] and making [[Author Avatar|Fanfic!Myrthe]] experience an [[Deus Angst Machina|ongoing]] [[Chew Toy|series]] [[Mind Rape|of]] [[Break the Haughty|nasty]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|events]]. And then lets her character react to these events [[Deconstruction|in a way]] that does [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|not]] [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids|flatter]] [[Freak-Out|her]] [[Dirty Coward|character]] at all.
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* One such story was Bert Van Vliet's ''[http://www.bgcrisis.com/zone/index.html The Bubblegum Zone]'', a ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' self-insert which later had an explicit crossover with ''Twisted Path'' in the latter series' fourth installment.
* Another is Ed Becerra's ''[http://www.fanfic.net/pub/Anime/FanFictions/Miscellaneous/Legions-Quest/ Legion's Quest],'' which carefully and skillfully walks the complicated line between playing a godlike Self Insert straight, parodying it, and subverting it. It, too, crosses over explicitly with ''Twisted Path'', in its own ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]]'' segment.
* Possibly the most notorious self-inserter of all was the one known only as "Oscar"; his [[Author Avatar]] was a 13-year-old ''[[Dragonball Z|Super Saiyan]]'' hermaphrodite (no, that is ''not'' a joke) who engaged in a sexual affair with Artemis from ''[[Sailor Moon]]''... in his ''cat'' form. (Again, that is ''not'' a joke, as much as one might wish it so.) In later stories, Oscar became "involved" with Felicia from ''[[Darkstalkers (Video Game)|Darkstalkers]]'' and [[Looney Tunes|Lola Bunny]]. To top it all off, the real Oscar then mysteriously disappeared, and is now presumed dead. [http://www.nabiki.com/mst/megane67/mst/oscarfic/ A link to an] [[MST]] [http://www.nabiki.com/mst/megane67/mst/oscarfic/ series of some of his work]; linking to the actual ''stories'' would be [[NSFW]].
* Dr. X of ''[http://www.suburbansenshi.com Suburban Senshi]'' is a surprisingly well-done self-insert, even with his gobs of power that mix and match multiple canons. It's all in the writing (and the fun social commentary, upon which the series could stand alone).
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/741167/1/Not_A_Dirty_Word Not A Dirty Word]'' by Michael Fetter is a rather... twisted, if witty parody of the usual Type 2 self-insert, in which the male author finds himself stuck in the body of Kasumi Tendo of ''[[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma One Half]]'' -- and finds he has to abide by her [[Yamato Nadeshiko|"rules of behavior"]]. His efforts to find loopholes in those rules, and the repercussions his successes have on the established plot, are what really make this a fun story. Just, please, ignore the utterly cringeworthy prologue describing Jesus getting mad at the author and punishing him with the insert.
** Speaking of ''Ranma ½'', fanfiction written in the mid-90's commonly featured [[Self-Insert Fic]], but with amusing twists due to authors trying to avoid the pitfalls of this trope. The most common twist was usually the author being deposited in the fic wholesale, with no changes from their real self, and the story characters teaming up to reap gallons of pain on the author for the things they've "put them through".
* [http://www.heavens-feel.com/elmer/evad1.txt Tom. Fucking. Dyron.] is one of the more audacious, unbelievable examples readily available. His 13-chapter fic, ''Evangelion 2: The DELTA Invasion'' ('''EVANGELION 2'''!), is the most ridiculous mess ever seen. Tom, the character, is... look, just read it. MSTed in the link above, ''do not'' attempt to read it raw.
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* Hundreds, possibly ''thousands'' of these came up over the years in the ''[[Bob and George]]'' forums among the fan authors. It would be impossible to list them all. Needless to say, some were good, some were bad, and some were just plain ugly.
* ''[http://www.yggdrasil.org/omg/index.html Oh! My Brother].'' An example of the good kind of self-insert fic. Christopher Angel manages to create a very readable and enjoyable series.
* The Multi-universal crossover ''[[Sleeping Withwith the Girls]],'' deconstructs the idea of a self-insert ''heavily.'' The idea is that every time the nameless self-insert falls asleep, he is teleported to the bed of one of eight girls from anime. The problems quickly build up, as a) most of these girls are [[Tsundere]] types, and do ''not'' react kindly to him. b) "comical" attacks like a [[Megaton Punch]] ''will'' kill the Self Insert and subject him to the [[Chunky Salsa Rule]]. c) Because he has to wake up as quickly as possible to avoid the aforementioned consequences of death at the hands of crazy girls, by the end of the first volume, he has gone almost a week without sleep, is badly injured from a vast collection of wounds accumulated from a variety of sources, and the healing nanobots he picked up in his first world nearly boil him alive in his own sweat. d) because of his actions, he has ''severely'' damaged the timeline of several worlds, possibly dooming them.
 
=== Film ===
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** On the other hand, no less a luminary than David Gerrold originally wrote the famous "The Trouble with Tribbles" episode to feature a young ensign that he saw as a self-surrogate, and did something similar in his novel ''The Galactic Whirlpool''.
** This whole idea was parodied with Melllvar's fan script on the ''[[Star Trek]]'' episode of ''[[Futurama]]''. Melllvar is called on by the crew to save them from catastrophe, and Uhura unenthusiastically falls in love with him.
* ''[[I CarlyICarly]]'': There is copious amounts of this usually by having a new transfer student that just happens to have the same name as the author joining the same school as the iCarly [[Power Trio]]. They also usually end up in a [[Love Triangle]] with them all.
* The [[Professional Wrestling]] internet fanbase ''loves'' this kind of fiction, often called "Dynasties", "Legacies", "Diaries", or just plain "Fantasy Booking".
** The whole concept of taking a wrestling company and shaping it as the author sees fit doesn't necessarily have to be [[Self-Insert Fic]] material, but when the story opens with Vince McMahon handing over control of the family business to a total stranger, the tone is irreversibly set. (And don't start on the number of women's wrestlers who get into romance...)
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=== Video Games ===
* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' is somewhat notorious for its terrible self-insert fictions, mostly starring young fifteen year olds who somehow get sucked into their television sets and get keyblades.
** [[Deconstructed]] in ''[[Those Lacking Spines (Fanfic)|Those Lacking Spines]]'', which in one chapter, a long line of wannabe Keyblade bearers are waiting for their keyblades, with the [[Original Character]] population getting so high that the introductory towns in the game are incredibly filled.
{{quote| "There's sure a lot of people here," Tsuki tilted her head and bit her lip a bit. "I guess I was under the impression there was, um, only one Keybearer."<br />
'''Yeah, you'd think so, wouldn't you?''' the creepy text said irritably. '''But in this world, the Keybearers apparently reproduce like little bunnies.''' }}
* A writer of ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' fanfic wrote themselves in as being the off-screen love interest of the character Mariko "Spirit" Tanaka, who {{spoiler|died in the Heaven's Gate mission series}}. The odd part (or more so than otherwise) was that the character and said love interest {{spoiler|both died, when Spirit [[Driven to Suicide|crashed into the starbase where her fiance was supposedly held prisoner]] by the [[Mega Neko|Kilrathi]]}}.
** You can read it [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1530595/1/The_Spirit_of_Christmas here.] Draw your own conclusions.
* [http://www.mgcomics.com/MBC/ Mixed Bag Comics] is a [[Sprite Comic]] using characters from, well, [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|as many sprite-based games as possible]]. Some of these characters appear to act as if in their original continuities while others don't and yet more do so only partially, making the position of the self-insert seem less out-of-place than it would be otherwise. The webcomic twists the trope even further in several ways:
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* [[Final Fantasy VII]] fandom is a breeding place for this type of fanfiction. A good example would be [http://www.fanfiction.net/~highpriestessmegami Sephirothslave's][http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1052718/1/Shinra_High Shinra High] and its sequel, [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1900045/1/Shinra_SOLDIER Shinra SOLDIER]. The main character is a blatant self insert. There are few differences between the OC and its creator: it shares her name, appearance ([[Buxom Is Better|with improvements in the bust area]]), likes and dislikes, preferences, fears, desires, opinions and some skills. The self insert allows Sephirothslave to enjoy the game universe, twist the characters to her own liking, "earn" a position as Commander of the Shinra Army, Sephiroth's love and the adoration or respect of everybody except a few who hate her (and are thus automatically evil). What few seem to notice however, is that she didn't only insert herself into her fanfictions, [[Thirty-Sue Pileup|but also her real life friends (while not even bothering to change their family names), younger sister and even her ''band teacher'']]. The massive ego-mania and canon defilement have earned her hundreds of negative reviews, the occasional [http://lian-hua.livejournal.com/3626.html sporking] and the [[Unstoppable Rage|outrage]] of many fans of the game.
* A less Stu-ish example comes from [[Toy Hammer (Fanfic)|Toy Hammer]] with a direct self-insert (down to name, appearance and personality) in the form of Vincent, a friend of the main character (a reclusive artist named Michael). There's a slight piece of [[Fridge Brilliance]] in there when you realize that both Vincent the author and Vincent the character both literally 'drop off' Michael into the story (via creation then by car), but otherwise that's the only mention of him for the first ten chapters of the story. However, he does become a surprisingly competent fighter (for an unfit gun-geek) {{spoiler|and later a [[Supporting Leader]]}}.
* ''[[My Inner Life (Fanfic)|My Inner Life]]'' has the blatant self insert Mary Sue of Jenna Silverblade. Hilariously, the author actually freely admits that Jenna is "herself" (or rather an alternate version of herself who lives in Hyrule when she sleeps) and gives a huge disclaimer at the beginning that because of this, [[Daydream Believer|she believes the fanfiction to be true to some degree]].
* [http://danbooru.donmai.us/pool/show/1017 Manga of My Memories of Playing Touhou] by Shino/Ponjiyuusu is example of [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]. Shino replaces playable character and acts as [[Psycho Lesbian]] [[Butt Monkey]]. She repeats mistakes made by common Touhou players and get herself hilariously beaten by game bosses from PCB to UFO.
* Another [[Tropes Are Not Bad|well made]] example of this trope could be [[Mass Vexations (Fanfic)|Mass Vexations]], whose protagonist, Art is actually a fan of ''Mass Effect'', which he loses repeatedly and ends up trapped in, making him [[Genre Savvy]] to the point of [[Medium Awareness]], [[Justified Trope|justifying]] his status as a [[For Want of a Nail|nail]] in the Mass Effect universe even when he doesn't [[Invoked Trope|invoke it]] himself. While Art ends up in a relationship with a canon character, their relationship progressing at a realistic rate, only becoming [[Just Friends|official]] 20 chapters in to the fic's [[Mass Effect 2]] version, more than two years after they met.
* Not even ''[[Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|Team Fortress 2]]'' is safe from this. ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5124333/1/ The Adventures of Brody and Sniper]'', widely considered one of the worst TF2 fanfics ever written, is about a [[Mary Sue]] who is playing the game during a thunderstorm, causing Sniper to come out of the computer. [[Relationship Sue|He soon falls in love with the Sue]], and follows her around during her daily life.
 
 
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* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4483666/1/Neos_Happy_Funtime_Land Neo's Happy Funtime Land]'' by [[User:Neo The Saiyan Angel]] is an excellent parody of a Self Insert, in which the author rewrites an episode of ''[[Kim Possible]]'' and secretly tricks the animators and voice actors into producing it. The author describes herself as an "absolutely gorgeous person..." for a paragraph or two. Neo goes so far as to change a character's hair with the snap of her fingers, saying that she liked it better blond.
* [[User:Donteatacowman]]'s brief fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4616905/1/The_Strange_Self_Insert The Strange Self Insert]'' sees the author dropped into ''[[Kim Possible]]'' to gush over Ron (but she preferred him evil) and tell Kim she's one-dimensional. Unsurprisingly, they decide to send her home as quickly as possible.
* In the ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|Animaniacs]]'' fanfic ''A Horrible World of Plot Holes and Spelling Errors'', the author inserted herself into the fic. Dot immediately recognized her as "that bitch who had me strangled to death by a drug addict on Christmas Eve". Since the fic was a parody of current fics, the Warners encountered no less than three [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]] (two of which were hopelessly in love with Yakko), spelling errors galore, and a crazed fan of Dot. The Warners go to the author to see what was going on. She explained that it was a parody of Mary Sues and the role they play.
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. Where to begin? There's ''tons'' of them out there. When you find one, expect that the Sue will be in love with Danny and have ghost powers [[New Powers Asas the Plot Demands|for no explainable reason]].
* ''Transformers''. Oh ''Primus'', where do I start... The classic example would be infamous [[Tri Chess]] (that now seems to disappear off the web). ''[[Transformers Armada]]'' has it the worst, with almost every OC being a self insert of various degree and a [[Mary Sue]]. Regularly played with and parodied in Insecticomics.
* Who hasn't seen ones like this in X-Men Evolution? Plenty to see, some not that bad, some terrible, you decide.
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', due to the high and notable levels of [[Longing for Fictionland]] in its fandom, has a lot of "human in Equestria" stories, and it can be guessed a lot of these are self-insert fics. ''[[Through the Eyes of Another Pony (Fanfic)|Through the Eyes of Another Pony]]'' began as an attempt to pull off a self-insert character well, though the protagonist's characterization has since evolved away from simply being the authorial alter ego.
** "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7153949/1/Filling_the_Gap Filling the Gap]" (warning: not very safe for work, or for people with quality standards) is an example of a poorly disguised [[Self-Insert Fic]] where the author accidentally switches [[Point of View|from third person to first]] at times, forgetting that they're supposed to pretend the protagonist totally isn't them. This story perhaps beats a record by doing so in ''the very second sentence'', and then doing so again, in both cases in the middle of a sentence--to surreal effect.
{{quote| ''... he found himself losing my grip on reality very quickly.''}}
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=== Crossover ===
* <s>[[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]]</s> [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Psyweedle]] wrote himself in as [[God Mode Sue|The Webmaster]] in a fic he <s> plagiarized from Dr. Who</s> wrote [[Old Shame|when he was 13.]]
* The [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]] is actually made up of (mostly) self-inserts to, ironically, [[Mary Sue Hunter|combat]] [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]] themselves; however, [[He Who Fights Monsters|the inserts actually work hard not to make themselves into Sues]]. Mostly through [[Lampshade Hanging|liberal usage of lampshades]].
* The character of Peter Chung in [[Star Destroyer Dot Net|Mike Wong's]] ''[http://www.stardestroyer.net/Empire/Fanfic/Conquest/index.html Conquest]''; his academic and ethnic backgrounds are similar to those of the author's, and when analysing Imperial technology, he even brings up some of the same points made on the main part of the site.
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=== Film ===
* One of the (two) screenwriters for the [[B-Movie]] ''[[Soultaker (Film)|Soultaker]]'' (which is best known for being featured on [[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]) also played the lead female in the movie. The plot? A rich girl and her ex-boyfriend get into a car accident and must outwit an angel of death, who was in love with her [[Reincarnation|in a past life.]] Hmm...
* [[Charlie Kaufman]] wrote himself into the script of ''[[Adaptation]]'', a movie "adapted" from the book ''The Orchid Thief''. The movie is about him trying to adapt ''The Orchid Thief'', and eventually writing himself into the script.
** The wild thing is that he manages to go the [[This Loser Is You]] route as well as the (well-written) Mary Sue route by inventing a fictional twin brother Donald who is everything Charlie is not. He even goes so far as to list Donald Kaufman in the actual credits of the film alongside himself, meaning that he was the first fictional character to be nominated for an Academy Award.
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=== Literature ===
* Richard Marcinko, former Navy SEAL, has written the ''Rogue Warrior'' series, a collection of anti-terrorism action novels with himself as the main protagonist. What is especially interesting is that the ''fictional'' Rogue Warrior books are written as sequels to the ''factual'' first book, entitled ''Rogue Warrior'', which was Marcinko's autobiography. What is even more interesting is that his real life exploits (leader and founding member of both SEAL Team Six and Red Cell, along with being a legitimate [[Jerkass Stu]]) make it almost impossible to draw a line between self-insertion and [[Author Avatar|avatarhood]]. Fans and critics of the series argue over whether Marcinko's characterization in the fictional followup books is [[God Mode Sue|blatantly overpowered]] or whether he is, in fact, just that Badass.
** FBI agent Joseph Pistone, better known as ''[[Donnie Brasco (Film)|Donnie Brasco]]'', wrote (or put his name on top of) several fiction novels following him going undercover yet again as Donnie Brasco to infiltrate some evil goings-on or another. These seem to be out of print.
* A rather blatant example, the post-apocalyptic novel ''[[Warday]],'' by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, follows the authors as they travel the country five years after a nuclear war, making a study of postwar America. The characters only differ from the authors in that the characters have been through a nuclear war.
* It has been argued that ''[[Left Behind]]'' by Tim La Haye and Jerry B. Jenkins, is biblical [[Fanfic]] where the two intrepid, studly, and irreproachable leads (Rayford Steele and Buck Williams) are transparent [[Marty Stu|MartyStus]] for the authors and their personal ideologies.
* Subverted by [[Geoffrey Chaucer (Creator)|Geoffrey Chaucer]] when he includes himself as a character in ''[[The Canterbury Tales (Literature)|The Canterbury Tales]]''. He tells a tale [[Stylistic Suck|so lame]] that he gets rudely interrupted by the host (who also makes fun of his nerdy appearance).
* Look at a picture of Laurell K. Hamilton and then read a description or look at a picture of the title character of the ''[[Anita Blake]]'' series. Yeah...
* The same goes for [[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Stephenie Meyer]].
** [[Canon Sue|Bella]] is never given a physical description in the text, but [[Word of God|SMeyer's description of Bella on her website]] sounds [http://bs3073.k12.sd.us/images/Stephanie%20meyer.jpg suspiciously familiar]:
{{quote| "very fair-skinned, with long, straight, dark brown hair and chocolate brown eyes. Her face is heart-shaped -- a wide forehead with a widow's peak, large, wide-spaced eyes, prominent cheekbones, and then a thin nose and a narrow jaw with a pointed chin. Her lips are a little out of proportion, a bit too full for her jaw line. Her eyebrows are darker than her hair and more straight than they are arched. She's five foot four inches tall, slender but not at all muscular, and weighs about 115 pounds. She has stubby fingernails because she has a nervous habit of biting them."}}
** Even [[Robert Pattinson]], the guy who plays Edward in [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Twilight (Literaturenovel)|Twilight]]'', thinks the book is a [[Self-Insert Fic]].
** However, in the books, Bella is given so little physical description (or depth of character) that she is in many ways the ultimate in self-insert Mary Sues, because any girl reading it can slide herself into Bella's place (assuming she's not just reading it for the lulz). Meyer flat out said that she "left out a detailed description of Bella in the book so that the reader could more easily step into her shoes."
** There's also the fact that Edward is Stephanie's own [[Relationship Sue]], having at one point stated that if an actual Edward Cullen came along, she would leave her husband and children without a second thought.
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** Considering that ''Portrait'' is, more or less, Joyce's autobiography (as the title makes rather clear) or at least his telling of his coming-of-age story, and that ''Ulysses'' is its sequel, this makes sense. More interesting is that, although Stephen is quite clearly an [[Author Avatar]], he shares more personality traits with Joyce's brother rather than James himself. Then again, this is according to the brother
* [[Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]]. BOOOOOOOO....
* The protagonist of [[Philip K. Dick]]'s ''VALIS'', Horselover Fat, is heavily based on the author. ("Horselover Fat" is a rough translation of "Philip Dick", from Greek and German for his first and last name respectively.)
* Wayne D. Barlowe made himself the main character in his book ''Expedition''.
* [[Peter S. Beagle]] has Joe Farrell, a rare example of this done well.
* Sammy-Jo Strauss doesn't even try to hide it in her self published book, [[From Reality to Fiction]] considering the main character shares her name.
* [[Stephen King]] appears as himself in two volumes of ''[[The Dark Tower]]''. He is by no means a sympathetic character, and is disliked by the [[Nakama|ka-tet]]. He is also literally their creator, making him a rather supreme example of an [[Anti-Sue]].
* The ''villain'' of ''Those Who Trespass'' is suspiciously similar to author [[The O 'Reilly Factor|Bill O'Reilly]]. The hero also shares O'Reilly's background and the personality he claims to have in his nonfiction books, but is not as obviously meant to represent O'Reilly himself.
* [http://www.wowpedia.org/Rhonin Rhonin], a character appearing often in [[War CraftWarcraft]] novels written by Richard A. Knaak, is highly regarded as an insertion sue. His exploits ranging from saving the red dragon aspect from an orc warlock of greater power to going back in time to help win an ancient war (that had already been won, who knows why he felt the need to put himself in it) to banging [http://www.wowpedia.org/Vereesa_Windrunner Sylvanas' other sister] that never existed until Knaak decided he needed some elf ass.
 
 
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* ''50 Cent: Bulletproof'' and its sequel ''50 Cent: Blood on the Sand''. According to [[The Other Wiki]], when asked to do the voice for the main character of ''[[Grand Theft Auto San Andreas]]'', 50 Cent replied that he would only voice himself in a video game. So these little self-insert adventures were developed for him.
* This trope is literally invoked in the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series with the [[Winnie the Pooh|100 Acre Wood]]. Thanks to the magical nature of the book (it sucks the reader from the "real" world into the story), restoring the Pages (and thereby reconstructing the world) and interacting with the characters, allows Sora to (inadvertently) rewrite the plot of ''[[Winnie the Pooh]]'' to include himself as a prominent character. When you lock the world's keyhole, it even includes him on the cover with the rest of the characters.
* In-universe example: The fifth arc of ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Nini]]'' is largely a [[Self-Insert Fic]] written by the main villain, whose [[Author Avatar]] hijacks the story from the usual protagonists and proceeds to wreak havoc on the plot and characters.
* Accidentally happened in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', when Shinkawa designed Otacon to look like [[Hideo Kojima]], and Kojima ran with it and based Otacon's personality off his own as well. While Otacon is one of the most heroic characters and ends up [[Relationship Sue|having sex with Naomi, a character Kojima based on his ideal woman,]] the amount of [[The Woobie|abuse Kojima piled on him]] easily overwhelms all this and makes him look kind of pathetic.
* Sakupen in [[Dad Series|Dadgame]] is probably a parody of this played for laughs (his power is ''really'' over the top, plus he runs away screaming when first engaged) which does not stop him from being [[That One Boss|atrociously]] [[God Mode Sue|hard]].
* An RPG [[Lord of the Rings The Third Age]]'s story is about a group of people who act like a shadow to the original fellowship of the ring. They go to the same places and witness simillar events in the movie. They even help the original team fight off Balrog and the monster army in Helms Deep.
* The entire plot of ''[[Touhou Pocket Wars Evolution (Video Game)|Touhou Pocket Wars Evolution]]'' is that of the player (a [[Otaku|slightly obsessed Touhou fan]]) going to [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Gensokyo]].
 
 
=== Webcomics ===
* Possibly a parody, ''[[Least I Could Do]]'' has Rayne Summers write a book, [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20081229 apparently with him as the protagonist], if the visual representation is supposed to be contextual. As a possible subversion to the standard [[Mary Sue]] tendencies of such a thing, the text of the book says "Though he began with the best of intentions, ultimate power did what is always had. It corrupts" [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090106 in reference to his character] as a joke to how he hates Apple Inc. Also, he apparently [http://leasticoulddo.com/comic/20090108 tries to conquer the world in it].
* An ''[[Xkcd (Webcomic)|Xkcd]]'' story arc has a thinly veiled [[Author Avatar]] of Randall Munroe meeting and chilling with the cast of ''[[Firefly]]''.
* ''[[DMFA]]'' [http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Vol_766.php mocks this].
* ''[[Megatokyo]]'', definitely.
* In ''[[Housepets (Webcomic)|Housepets]]'', Grape inserts herself into fanfiction for the in-world [[Fictional Document]] ''Pridelands''.
* [[Andrew Hussie]] is playing an ever-increasingly more important role in ''[[Homestuck]]'', though in the end his extent of influence is restricted to just [[Arc Words|one yard]].
* Chris-chan plays as one of the most important characters in ''[[Sonichu]]''.
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* ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' has had a fair number of self-inserts over the course of four versions. Usually they're not frowned upon, as long as they're treated realistically and don't stretch the [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]. And other times [[Write Who You Know|characters based off of people the handler knows]] show up too.
* Since the day the ''[[Draw Your Own Story]]'' comics began on the CivFanatics forums, most of the [[Loads and Loads of Characters]] were more or less [[Mary Sue|Sue]]-ish self-inserts (often represented by the user's avatar.)
* [[SCP Foundation (Wiki)|SCP]]-[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-423 423] is literally named "Self-Inserting Character," a piece of paper who can add a minor character named "Fred" into the story. Normally the character plays a background role, never very important or changes the story. However, it was noted that when placed inside it's own SCP article, the only thing that changed was the addition of "ruggedly handsome" at several points.
 
 
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* There was an example in ''[[The Simpsons]]''. It involved Marge practically inserting herself into ''her own'' novel, but she didn't stop there, she more or less inserted the entire residency of Springfield into the story. Initially she writes Homer's character as a noble, loving husband, but when the real Homer commits a brazen display of [[Jerkass]]-edness, Marge angrily rewrites his character to match. The real conflict comes when Marge has her protagonist fall for Ned Flanders' character, making everyone in Springfield suspect that Marge had fallen for Flanders. When Homer actually got around to reading it, he went after Flanders...not to kill him (unlike the novel), but to ask him for advice on how to be a better husband. As for the novel, it got terrible reviews.
** ...but sold well enough for every person in town to have a copy of it.
* Brainiac 5 of ''[[Legion of Super -Heroes (TV series)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'' places himself into one of these where he [[Ho Yay|dies in Superman's arms]] after saving his life.
* An episode of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' had Aku tell fairy tales to the children of earth in hope of showing them his side of things and making them more obedient minions when they grow up. This eventually ended up with him turning every protagonist into himself ('''''[[Large Ham|WITH GREAT FLAMING EYEBROWS!]]''''') and every antagonist into Jack.
* In the ''[[Futurama]]'' episode ''"Where No Fan Has Gone Before"'', the entity known as Melllvar has written a script for an episode of ''[[Star Trek]]'', where he saves the crew of the Enterprise, and has Uhura tell him how attractive he is. He then holds ''The Original Series'' cast prisoner, and forces them to act it out.
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* Similarly, ''[http://archives.eyrie.org/anime/Shoujo-Kakumei-Utena/utena.ma-vie-et-roses.gz Ma Vie Et Roses]'' by Scott Johnson and Scott Jamison subverts and plays with Self Insertion. In this ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' fic, an anime fan finds himself shoved into a show he's barely even heard of. One of the authors, who was genuinely unfamiliar with the series at the time, wrote the actions of the pseudo-[[Author Avatar]] Skyler Sands, while the other wrote the rest of the fic around him. Acting out of true ignorance, Skyler manages to thread his way through the main action while still ranging far afield (such as ending up joining the Shadow Girls' avante-garde theatre group). Skyler is very [[Genre Savvy]], which helps (but not enough), and eventually ends up speculating on the existence and motives of the "meta-Skyler" who put him in the story.
* ''[http://indiemadnesse.sandwich.net/extract/extract.html Self-Extraction]:'' a "charming little tale of the people who write themselves in, and the people who shoot them back out", written round-robin by a half-dozen or so authors. Initially played for laughs but gets more serious toward the [[Dead Fic|incomplete]] ending.
* ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3107822/1/ The Wild Horse Thesis]'' has [[Ranma ½ (Manga)|Ranma Saotome]] inserted via magic spell into the place of Shinji Ikari of ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' by Gosunkugi in the hopes of getting rid of him. Unfortunately for the caster, Ranma uses his situation to his advantage, and proceeds to wreak havoc on Gendo's plans to change the ending of the anime for the better. One of the better examples on this page, it was good enough to earn a place on the [[Fan Fic Recommendations]] listing.
* In the ''[[Mass Effect]]'' fanfic ''[[Project Gethinator (Fanfic)|Project Gethinator]]'', it's mentioned that {{spoiler|Admiral Daro'Xen}}, who is [[Yandere]] for Shepard in a big way, has written quite a few [[Self-Insert Fic]] [[Real Person Fic|Real Person Fics]] involving herself and Shepard. According to those who know of them, they're quite sick and depraved, second only to [[Noodle Incident|what Prazza did in]] ''[[Noodle Incident|Fornax]]''[[Noodle Incident|'s Forbidden Issue]], and illustrate quite nicely how completely fucked up {{spoiler|Admiral Xen}} is.
 
 
=== Literature ===
* One minor character in the ''[[Simon R. Green|Hawk & Fisher]]'' novels was a self-promoting mercenary who wrote loads of over-the-top adventure stories about his own "incredibly heroic deeds", then published them as mass-market chapbooks under a pseudonym.
 
 
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