What is your most memorable Mary Sue/Gary Stu character?

[AlexSilverX]

@ToryD I remember on my old community, we once did an RP with the express purpose of having overpowered characters bordering on god-modding. We even called it "The Sue Verse" xD We had a good time, it was hilarious.

 

[ToryD]

@ToryD I remember on my old community, we once did an RP with the express purpose of having overpowered characters bordering on god-modding. We even called it "The Sue Verse" xD We had a good time, it was hilarious.

Lol, that sounds like it could be an interesting comedic RP. I'd be game for something like that. xD

 

[AlexSilverX]

Lol, that sounds like it could be an interesting comedic RP. I'd be game for something like that. xD

Oh, it was pretty comedic. Especially since the cast was aware of its own "sue-dom".


Actual in-character dialogue:


"What should we do?"


"Nuke him from space!"


"That'd just tickle him!"


"Punch him in the face then! It'll be more effective!"


Double post by way of edit:


SPOILER ALERT!


The "punching him in the face" shot him directly into the sun, which he survived. It only pissed him off mildly.

 

[ToryD]

Oh, it was pretty comedic. Especially since the cast was aware of its own "sue-dom".
Actual in-character dialogue:


"What should we do?"


"Nuke him from space!"


"That'd just tickle him!"


"Punch him in the face then! It'll be more effective!"


Double post by way of edit:


SPOILER ALERT!


The "punching him in the face" shot him directly into the sun, which he survived. It only pissed him off mildly.

That... is fantastic! Hahaha! I'm half-tempted to start up a Sue-RP myself now. It would go nowhere.

 

[AlexSilverX]

That... is fantastic! Hahaha! I'm half-tempted to start up a Sue-RP myself now. It would go nowhere.

But that's precisely the point of a Sue RP xD


It's satyre!


Plus, whenever newbies ask "Why can't I make a Sue?" or "What is a Sue?" we can just point at that RP and go "THIS."


 
Edit by way of double post:


Only problem is, because sues always have alternate forms up the wazoo and tons upon tons of powers, tragic backstory and super-complex self-contradicting personalities, the profiles are HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE.

 

[ToryD]

Oooooorrrrrr, you can always just say "To Be Revealed Later" to cut out all the excess. Just start pulling rabbits outta hats like Superman. Lol.

 

[AlexSilverX]

That's even worse... I like it!

 

[JemStarGypsy]

Her name was Sierra Dawn and this was waaaay back in the day on a fan fiction website I wrote for that centered around glam metal bands. Somehow we all started r'ing our own story lines over yahoo messenger. I am not even sure it is still around. Anyway, Sierra was a rock stars daughter who was madly in love with her father's best friend (who was twice her age). Looking back, she was awful. Spoiled, invincible, and non-evolving. To this day I can write full length novels but I hate making OC's for roleplay

 

[Morris]

First ever Mary Sue/Gary Stu... man, that brings back memories.


He was called Randor, and wasn't an RP character, but an OC for a Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II mod (named "Wars of the East"). In the context of the game, he wasn't exactly overpowered or Sue-ish. Just an original character to bolster the hero roster of Isengard, which was quite limited in vanilla game.


What made him really cringe-inducing is the shamelessly forced insertion, and what we originally planned to do with him in a potential future mod. It never came to be, so I ended up writing it all down as a piece of horrendous fanfiction which I pretty much purged all records of. He was a Dunedain ranger at odds with Aragorn, and this let Saruman influence him, draw him into service. He trained the Uruk-hai for fighting basics, and when Isengard was besieged he saw it best to run, stole Saruman's own ring of power (for those who didn't read the books: yep, he had made one, and it never came up again after one scene), led the Uruk survivors to the mountains, then fled to Gondor, seeing if he could go undercover. He couldn't, and after the battle of the Pelennor Fields reached his ears, he though Gondor will triumph one way or another so he fled to Harad. He was captured, sold to Umbar, got out somehow, and ended up stealing a precious gemstone (actually a Palantir shard) to buy his way out... except he started hearing voices through it. It led him to Far Harad, where he met reclusive Black Numenoreans, who made him their agent. So he goes back all the way to Dunland, rallies the wild men, Uruk leftovers, the orcs of Gundabad, and cleaves a huge portion out of Rohan, including Helm's Deep, diverting Gondor's attention from the east, enabling the Black Numenoreans to trample everything by Easterlings, Haradrim, orcish remnants while Gondor's forces are away.


Except then he has a change of heart and ends up leading a collaboration of human forces against the Black Numenoreans and their puppets, saving the world, and ending up top dog in the process.


...don't even ask how the bloodsoaked hell I came up with all this garbage back in the day. I'm so sorry master Tolkien, I'm so sorry...

 

[call me rae]

Well she was my first character and I played her in a lot of things. She was a pretty blatant self-insert with a cringe-inducing special snowflake complex.


Basically her most common incarnation was a Succubus. Only instead of seducing people and feeding on their desires I basically ripped off Rogue from the Xmen's powers and had her train people's energy through touch.


That wasn't all she was of course painfully shy - borderline phobic of social interactions. She was also intelligent and a loyal friend. Her family was all beautiful, sexy, and super successful and she was the black sheep. Not that she wasn't also beautiful of course she was just shy and took a long time to warm up to people.


Once you did get to know her she had virtually no flaws of course. And looking back on it the oddest thing about her was the fact that she had a this really isolating power that never seemed to cause any consequences to anyone around her.


She would steal people's energy by hugging them or shaking their hand - which how she did this when her backstory stated she was super phobic of people I can't quite remember. And it never did anything but make them a little dizzy and made her look of course drop dead gorgeous or something.


She was also French for no real reason other than I felt like it.


She wasn't the WORST of the Mary Sues I wrote back when I started but she's the one that sticks out most in my memory.