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2465521 No.2465521 [Reply] [Original]

itt: mary sue characters

i can't wait for everyone to post CHARACTERS I HATE = MARY SUE.

>> No.2465525

Well the first person who comes to mind for me is Mary Sue herself.

Is your pic related? are you implying kvothe is a mary sue?

>> No.2465529

>>2465525

i am

>> No.2465530
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>> No.2465537

>>2465530
Well he's basically a cooler Superman...

>> No.2465555

>>2465521


kvothe = harry potter has red hair and goes to college

wow great job rothfuss, you really are bringing life back to fantasy

>> No.2465559

>>2465521

i only read half of Name of the Wind, it was terrible

Kvothe super-genius chosen-one with a dark orphaned "oliver twist" background

wow where have I seen this before?

>> No.2465617

>>Kvothe
>>Mary Sue

Citation needed.

>> No.2465624

>>2465617

>citation needed

refer to
>>2465559
>Kvothe super-genius chosen-one with a dark orphaned "oliver twist" background

>kvothe = harry potter has red hair and goes to college

>> No.2465628

>>2465624
I'll grant you that he's talented student but he doesn't seem to have shit going for him besides that.

>> No.2465656

Virgil in Inferno

He's obviously not a self insert, but everything Dante writes about Virgil is just fan wank. I lost my shit in the 3rd Bolgia when he carried Dante down a cliff face "That would have been hard passage for the goats."

>> No.2465658

>>2465656

elaborate, how is it a fan wank?

>> No.2465685

>>2465656
wat
Virgil is in Hell, after all, indicating that Dante didn't think he was that great. He shows fear in Hell and disappears before they get to Paradise, because he belongs in Paradise less than Dante himself does.

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2465700

He can't be permanently killed and can wipe out a company of soldiers in an instant.

>> No.2465710

>>2465700
well, thats one book on my never to read list

>> No.2465724

>>2465685

He was in limbo with the pious pagans.

>> No.2465730

>>2465700

wow, that cover SCREAMS shit.

>> No.2465750
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2465750

obligatory

>> No.2465759
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2465759

Every fucking female character in this piece of shit. The protagonist and the little sister are two halves of the same Sue.

I have to read this for AP Language and Comp. Proof that my school is shit-tier.

>> No.2465787

>Stephen King novel
>guy going through midlife crisis
>have special power or immunity
>fight against some evil entity

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>>2465628
>doesn't seem to have shit going for him besides that.

You mean other than the sexomancy?

(I liked NotW myself, but: internet)

>> No.2465835

>>2465700
>White Guy with katanas
>Oh so edgy name
I bought this book and was, thankfully, able to return it for store credit

Also, for some reason, I am perfectly fine with Kvothe being a Mary Sue. I enjoy the story for the setting and the adventures more than the character.