Generally a safe range to be in. Fanfiction: Moderate-to-high chance your character is a Mary Sue. Still a safe-ish range to be in, but be careful.
Risky range to be in. VERY risky range. On the odd chance that xe isn't, it's most likely you didn't read the instructions properly some people don't do this, which causes freakishly high scores.
If it's the latter case, read the instructions and take the test again. First, remember that this test is not supposed to be the final word on the quality of a character. It's just supposed to let you know that your character may need some work and that you may need to ask yourself some critical questions about your character.
Read this page and this page and compare what they say to your character. If you're unsure, ask people for opinions and if they think your character is overpowered, implausible, or author-spoiled. If your character has a high score, or if people keep calling your character a Sue despite your character not having a high score, you can check out these pages for further tips and help:.
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Spelling it differently or changing it a little counts. Fic: RPG: A name you planned on giving one of your children, or the name of one of your actual children? Is your character's name taken deliberately from a character from another fandom that you like? Does your character have an unusual or exotic name EG, a name related to nature or something mystical, a strangely-spelled name, or a name from a culture your character doesn't belong to chosen primarily because it sounded exotic, extra-pretty, or to make your character "stand out" more?
Is your character's name not merely mildly unusual EG, a child of hippie parents being named Skye or River , but very unusual for your character's place and situation? Having trouble finding names for your characters? Try the random name generators - link opens in a new window.
Did you deliberately base your character's looks on your own? Does your character look how you wish you looked? Did you deliberately base your character's appearance on your own child, or someone you wish was your own child?
Does anyone become distracted or enraptured by your character's looks? Does anyone fight or squabble over your character because of xir looks? Is anyone including you jealous of your character's good looks?
Do any characters see xir attractiveness as a threat? Does this include anyone who doesn't especially like your character, or considers your character a rival or enemy? Does your character modestly deny it every time or refuses to believe that xe is attractive? Is your character strong enough to wield a huge weapon like a warhammer, giant gun, or huge sword, yet has a waifish figure instead of 'unattractive' bulging muscles? Conversely, do you go to great lengths describing how your character is not gorgeous?
Does your character explicitly look like or strongly resemble an attractive real-life celebrity in-story? Faceclaims don't count unless it's highlighted how your character looks like that celebrity in-story.
Do other characters find your character extremely attractive and desirable, even when xe should be completely gross and icky EG, after battling, getting tortured, going for days without bathing or washing , and they don't have a kink for that kind of thing?
Does your character have any of the following? Note: Alexandria's Genesis is not real. Eyes with any other unusual qualities? Unusual feature of any other kind? One box for each: Does your character have a particularly attractive or pleasant scent that doesn't come from xir perfume, cologne, or shampoo?
Does your character have a scar or other small "flaw" that is noticed by someone, but does not actually detract from your character's appearance from your point of view? Do not click if healing technology or magic is readily available that allows for healing without scars. Does your character have a particularly piercing EG, "can stare straight into your soul" , haunting, captivating, or dazzling gaze? Does your character's personal choice of clothing frequently include: Clothing that you deliberately picked from your own wardrobe?
Clothing you chose because you really wished you owned it or could get away with wearing it in public? Clothing that is realistically impractical, improper , or inappropriate for the character's situation, but looks cool?
Ignore if your character's choice in clothing ends up backfiring - eg, midriff-revealing armor results in a serious injury, or a high heeled shoe breaks and results in a sprained ankle. If your character belongs to a race you made up, consider taking the Mary Sue Race Test. In a universe where hybrids of this type are virtually unheard of or are completely unprecedented?
A hybrid of more than two species? Does xe possess the strengths of both or all species, but none of the weaknesses? Or does your character have all of the weaknesses, but none of the strengths? Is your character part something that has features that might be considered unattractive or unappealing by human standards, but the only features your character inherited do nothing to detract from xir appearance , or even enhance it? If not a cross-breed, then is your character cross-cultural because you believe it makes your character more "interesting" or "exotic?
Link opens in new window. Is xe happier this way? Do people like xir better this way? Do you wish it would happen to you? Do you think of your character as a role model? Does xe convince others that xir way of thinking is right? Is spreading these views one of your character's biggest motivations, or even xir sole motivation?
And does no one frown upon your character's behaviors or views? Or do only characters who don't matter disapprove, EG, the villain, the "village idiot," fusty old grandpa, etc? Does your character openly call anyone else incapable, incompetent, foolish, etc.
Is the insulted person the type of person who'd never let that kind of behavior slide with anyone else? Does your character ever strike or attack any other character, or steal or destroy any other character's possessions, yet the character or characters affected don't get angry or upset over it? Is the victim the type of person who'd never let that kind of behavior slide with anyone else?
Did a serious injury result, or was the item something very important to the character? Is your character easily provoked to violence - but only gets into fights with characters who truly deserve the beating they get? If your character is openly defiant or disrespectful toward authority figures , is your character always justified and in the right?
Are any other actions that get your character into trouble with authority always justified from your point of view? Do authority figures punish your character more harshly than they would have punished xir peers under the same circumstances?
Do authority figures not punish your character when they probably would have punished xir peers under the same circumstances? Are The Rules of the universe bent or broken for your character? Like joining a group despite being too old or too young. Do not click if the rules catch up to your character and xe does not find a way to permanently cheat or circumvent them. Does your character have any psychological disorders or conditions for the following reasons?
Any mental condition or psychological disorder that is used in such a way to completely absolve or excuse your character acting in cruel, inconsiderate, injurious, or hurtful ways so nobody including the audience supposedly has any legitimate right to feel angry or hurt over what happened, and no real effort is ever made to prevent the character from doing the same thing again?
Planning to write a character with a mental illness? Is your character mainly driven by completely-justified revenge? Are animals instinctively attracted to your character? Sometimes she will believe this makes her look ugly , but every other character will insist the exact opposite.
If she's an actual animal or other non-human species or if she can transform into one , expect strange and unnatural fur colors purple or otherwise. Color combinations will tend to clash horrifically, as if the author just threw together what she thought was cool and gave no thought to how it would actually look.
She may also still have humanlike hair and Non-Mammalian Mammaries. She might be a Half-Human Hybrid , giving her cause to angst. If a canon character is non-human and explicitly Last of His Kind , her non-human part might be of that race, just to keep him company.
And being part-human, as you've come to expect, will never mean that she looks ugly; the most that will happen is that she's a Little Bit Beastly. There are many ways this can play out: The non-human bit is often an Inhumanly Beautiful Race , like elves , which just means she looks even prettier. This allows her to Wangst about how ugly she is relative to the rest of her race and simultaneously be So Beautiful, It's a Curse. If she is part-monster race, like half- orc , her human traits will make her " ugly " to other orcs, while humans will see her as "monstrous".
Expect the writer to milk the Half-Breed Discrimination trope for all its worth. Of course, the character will never actually be ugly even if other half-orcs in the setting would never win a human beauty contest. She'll always be drawn or described as an exotically beautiful Cute Monster Girl.
She can be a Heinz Hybrid , which allows her to be basically human but with a grab bag of the best traits of all manner of fantastic races and species. If she's part Rubber-Forehead Alien or other very humanoid species, she'll be able to pass for almost completely human, often by concealing the "rubber forehead" bit with glamour or science.
She can therefore look like a pretty human but still take advantage of everything the other species has to offer. Some Sues appear on roleplay sites that encourage "faceclaims," which means that the author can use a picture of a real celebrity to represent what the character looks like. A Sue will almost always have someone extraordinarily pretty as a faceclaim, like a Victoria's Secret model.
If the character is a teenager, her faceclaim will be in her late 20s. And if she's an Emo Sue, her faceclaim will almost always be Amy Lee. If there is a Super Mode in the canon, expect hers to look unique or make her prettier. Often both.
She has exotic weaponry in a setting where she shouldn't have access to it. Usually, no one questions why she's allowed to carry it, and nobody finds her intimidating unless that's exactly what she's going for.
Bonus points if there is no explanation for where she keeps it. Bonus points if it glows. Swords , especially a katana, because Katanas Are Just Better. While you can find them outside of Japan these days, their utility as swords is not high. Two katanas is a dead giveaway. Guns, particularly Rare Guns. If she's particularly into guns , she'll have all the rare guns, described as lavishly as her outfits but with no explanation of where she got them. Sometimes she uses large guns, in spite of a thin, waifish girl being unlikely to be able to actually carry and fire one properly.
If she uses small guns, much like with katanas, it's a dead giveaway if she uses two. She might use a gun even if the setting doesn't usually have them, in which case she can get away with a more elegant revolver Any weapon related to a canon one-of-a-kind weapon. The canon character's weapon may be unique, mysterious, powerful, and of unknown origin.
The Sue's weapon will be the same but cooler and more powerful, and she'll know exactly where hers came from; it was handed down through generations. Any weapon that's been heavily modified to look stylish and cool , regardless of whether such a weapon would even be functional.
These modifications are often described in as much detail as her clothes are. Related to the above, if she uses a gun or bow, she will never run low on bullets or arrows no matter how many Mooks she mows down.
Her ammunition will remain endless even in settings where it shouldn't be easy to come by. However, other characters' supplies may dwindle, making Mary Sue look even more badass in comparison. If she has her own transport, it will always be cool and expensive. She may have access to a Humongous Mecha in a universe that lacks them, or only hands them out on a case-by-case basis.
She may even have her own Time Machine , which could be lifted wholesale out of a different canon. The web exists everywhere for her, even on other planets, medieval fantasy worlds, or prehistoric Earth — she can whip out her laptop anywhere and have access to both our normal internet and the local internet of whatever world she lives in.
And she can use it to hack toasters and the Pentagon. Bonus points if her laptop displays an unnaturally long battery life, so she can use it even when she's been adventuring in the wilderness for several days. She will often have a music player, usually an iPod.
It's mostly used to let the Sue listen to songs the author likes. The songs and bands need not exist when and where the story takes place. Sues have even been known to take these devices to less advanced people , only for them to be more impressed with the music than the device itself. If she has a pet, it will be exotic or fantastic. Wolves are very popular, as are big cats , despite these being undomesticated and illegal to own in most countries.
Unicorns and dragons are common as well. If most characters canonically have a pet or familiar, she might have a menagerie.
These animals will rarely be mentioned after their initial appearance, and the story will never bother explaining how she cares for them. Canon Character Relationships. Mary Sue is often designed to hook up with another character, often as a form of Wish-Fulfillment.
This isn't that bad in and of itself okay, it is kinda weird , but Mary Sue accomplishes this without any sense of realism. She just grabs her lover's attention straight away, and their relationship will never face any obstacles or tension; it's true love from the start and nothing else.
The biggest giveaway is if the love interest is explicitly the author's favorite character , and she essentially "cures" him of all the angst that ails him at the expense of his characterization. Her love interest will often be dating or married to someone else in canon. This is not a problem for Mary Sue , whose author can get rid of the other girl in many ways, including killing her off , derailing her into a hateful person and thus easy to break up with, pretending the relationship never existed, or even letting her step aside or sacrifice herself just so that he can be with Mary Sue.
Sometimes Mary Sue is introduced as a canon character's New Old Flame , explaining why he might leave his current girlfriend for her but raising the question of what led them to break up in the first place if they're that great together. She will be related to a canon character in some way. This marginally helps explain such phenomena as her being a Copy Cat Sue and other characters accepting her so easily. She will often be a canon character's offspring — perhaps even the villain's for added Wangst — but this tends to raise further questions, like the character being too young for a child occasionally resolved with a Kid from the Future or being gay or asexual occasionally resolved with If It's You, It's Okay or a Mister Seahorse scenario — this is Fan Fic , after all.
She may even be related to more than one character, or she may a character's clone but better. Most characters give her more heed than they normally would. The good guys never stop praising her. The bad guys never stop belittling her and thus making themselves look bad. They talk about her when she's not present. At least one will confess to being secretly in love with her if more than one does, they may fight each other over her. The villains will obsess over her, to the point of destroying themselves in their jealousy or opening themselves up to redemption and the realization that she was good all along usually by having sex with her.
Characters' previously established personalities change in reaction to her. Proud, arrogant gimps suddenly acknowledge her superiority in everything. Reckless youths will listen to all her advice. Responsible leaders will defer to her instead. Villains will obsess with her to the detriment of all else. Extremely competent characters will become stumbling buffoons who require her help to do anything. Sweet, mild-mannered characters whom the author doesn't like turn evil and insult her.
They all become unnaturally focused on her in some way. She's a perfect judge of character, and she'll be right about everyone. If everyone suspects an ally is really a backstabber, she'll be the only one to trust him. If everyone believes the villain is really a good guy, she'll be the one to suspect him. She will get special treatment in-universe; anything the canon characters would have to fight for or earn, she just gets automatically.
The classic example is the year-old American Harry Potter "exchange student" who goes to Hogwarts, is immediately given a spot on the Quidditch team, and doesn't have to wear the uniform. Disturbingly, when author wants to go the Draco in Leather Pants work for their favorite villain and ship them with their Sue , the Mary Sue often agrees with some of the most problematic parts of the villain's philosophy. A worrying number of Mary Sues have bought into Fantastic Racism usually after discovering something outside canon that makes the race in question Always Chaotic Evil.
These authors don't seem to grasp that fantastic villainy is often a metaphor for real-world evils or worse, have no problems with said real-world evils. Story Elements. Mary Sue is without exception a single-person Spotlight-Stealing Squad. The entire story hinges on her existence ; if you removed her, there would be no story. All other elements of the story are designed to show off how awesome she is and cannot function independently.
She is not bound by the rules of the universe , whatever the setting may be. Nobody will ever comment on the impossibility of what she does; they'll just assume she's that talented. Her backstory is often self-contradictory , as the author piles on more and more awesome things without any regard for how they could all happen. Most continuity issues are Hand Waved or Voodoo Sharked. Mary Sue is The Chosen One , even if the setting already has one.
There are many ways she can accomplish this: she can be a Sailor Earth type who "shares" the position with the canon hero; she may be vaguely "destined to help the destined one fulfill their destiny" i. Being the Chosen One doesn't necessarily involve her being a God-Mode Sue , especially as authors become aware of the phenomenon and try to avoid it, but it does make her critically important to the world and allows her to continue stealing the spotlight without the "god mode" label.
That said, if the author likes the canon work, the fic will not change very much of the canon work. The worst Mary Sues of this sort don't have any effect on the canon story; they just watch the plot, correctly guess everything that will happen, and occasionally take over one of the canon characters' accomplishments, resulting in an experience that's like reading the original work with a thirteen-year-old fangirl talking in your ear. Sometimes she'll be a character who wasn't in the original work but was super important behind the scenes , usually as a canon character's secret Love Interest.
She is often around the same age as the author, usually around This often becomes an Improbable Age as Mary Sue starts taking command of everyone and everything around her. Some authors work around this by making her look 16 but be Really Years Old. Questions and Answers. More than that, they're royalty! But they don't know that yet.
No, but they haven't seen them in a while, and can't remember much about them. Has your character ever been abused, tortured, or involved in some other kind of physical harm inflicted by an antagonist?
They did once before they went insane and killed everyone in their family. They can be snobbish or overbearing at times and have a very demanding presence. They have a talent for lying, but are otherwise, dumb, ugly, and mean. Does your character possess any kinds of powers or other special abilities? Related Topics. More Character Quizzes. Would you like to find out which Percy Jackson Character are you?
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