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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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As the name implies, a [[Self-Insert Fic]] is one where the author has made a simulacrum of him- or [[Most Fan Fic Writers Are Female|herself]] -- commonly called an ''[[Author Avatar|avatar]]'' -- in the story's world as a key character. If the author has any sense of subtlety, the resulting character won't share their name or alias, but it's still easy to tell who that "new character" is.
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** In 85% of wrestling fanfic these days The Undertaker ALWAYS has a daughter in her early-twenties who, of course, falls in love with [insert name here but it's usually Randy Orton].
** Almost as common is a girl showing up as Matt and Jeff Hardy's long-lost sister. This will not necessarily stop her from sleeping with one or both of them.
* Parodied extensively in the British comedy show ''
* Lampshaded and spoofed in [http://web.archive.org/web/20030711193142/members.aol.com/tjats/204.html this episode of Science Fiction Theater 1,000,000,000] (a fan fiction series based on ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'') where the [[Author Avatar]] tries to play the role straight, but after probing by Crow and Servo, he then turns into a typical [[Marty Stu]], even changing the series into Freedom Fighter Theater 3000 for a time.
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'''JIM:''' Cram it, you talking tin can!
'''MAGIC VOICE:''' You're out of line, mister-- eep!
'''JIM:''' Hahahahahaha! I'm invincible! }}
* A famous, and often ridiculed, Marty-Stu among ''[[Doctor Who]]'' fandom is [[The Ben Chatham Adventures|Ben Chatham]], a character who very strongly resembles his creator (the legendary [[Outpost Gallifrey]]/[[Gallifrey Base]] poster sparacus), sharing his manner of speech, his political viewpoints, even his taste in drink. Even the suggested actor for this character is an actor that the author has admitted to fancying. Needless to say, around 90% of characters in each story instantly fall for Chatham.
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* ''[[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]]'', 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.
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'''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 (video game)|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]]}}.
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* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|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]]'' 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.
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* The same goes for [[Twilight (novel)|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]:
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** Even [[Robert Pattinson]], the guy who plays Edward in [[The Film of the Book]] ''[[Twilight (novel)|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."
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