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2090658 No.2090658 [Reply] [Original]

Why do people throw the term "Mary Sue" around so much these days?

How can a video game protagonist be a Mary Sue? It's a video game. She's the main character. Of COURSE she always wins.

>> No.2090670

Fanfic faggots. Lots of them. All of them.

/jp/ is infested with creatures that natural selection would have claimed a long time ago had parents not intervened.

>> No.2090664

Reimu is a Mary Sue.

>> No.2090671

You can thank /tg/ for that

>> No.2090680

No one knows what Mary Sue means anymore.

>> No.2090704

Only fan characters can be "Mary Sue"s.

>> No.2090708

>>2090704
crappy original stories can be mary sue

>> No.2090714
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2090714

The only Mary Sue in Touhou is this one.

>> No.2090715

I thought Suika was ZUN's Mary Sue.
Or Aya.

>> No.2090716

>>2090714
Which one?

>> No.2090720

>>2090708
no. mary sue's steal the spotlight from original characters. that's why they are called mary sue

>> No.2090724

>>2090720
>mary sue's
>'s
Stop that.

>> No.2090726
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2090726

Mario is a Gary Stu in every Mario platformer that he's the main character of! Thanks for helping me realize that!

>> No.2090732

>>2090724
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>> No.2090737

>>2090716
Marisu.

>> No.2090750

It's called 'Canon Sues'

>> No.2090753

>>2090732
I was just trying to help you not look like an idiot.
I shouldn't have bothered.

>> No.2090774

Mary sue has to be a self insert that trumps all others in all abilities, has no meaningful flaws other than perhaps a "dark past" and should over come all conflict within an existing setting with minimal effort.

No Touhous are mary sue, even ZUN's self insert via Rinnosuke isn't that important or powerful. The characters might be LOL HAX, but that doesn't make them a Sue.

>> No.2090786

Being a Mary sue is a paradox. One of the definitions of being a sue is hving no flwas, but being a mary sue is a flaw in it'self. Hmmm.

>> No.2090788

>>2090753
Hey, don't be like that... Look, I'm sorry. I took it as a personal attack, and I didn't think you were just trying to help me. So I got defensive is all. Forgive me?

>> No.2090803

>>2090788
Fine. Polite sage.

>> No.2090831

>>2090786 One of the definitions of being a sue is hving no flwas, but being a mary sue is a flaw in it'self
The difference is that suedom is an out-of-canon flaw.

>> No.2090834
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2090834

For male Reimu: Marty Stu or Gary Stu (without 'd of course).

Btw, Reimu can't be Mary Sue, because she's..

<-- ..poor.

>> No.2090849
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2090849

lol fanfiction

>> No.2090888

>>2090715
Suika is ZUN's self-insert. He wants to be the little girl that is always drunk.

>> No.2090898

>>2090803
Heh... Um... I wouldn't mind if you gave me some more grammar lessons in the future... You know, if you wanted to, you don't have to...

>> No.2090909

>>2090888
It's funny because it's true.

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2090943

>>2090888
Holy shit, Sherlock. What was your first clue?

>> No.2090952

Mary Sue is one of the words I wish was globally filtered on 4chan, along with Pretentious and Autistic.

>> No.2090999

>>2090943
I think his first clue was the fact ZUN drinks too damn much

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