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A Mary Sue (or Marty Stu) is largely a fluid concept. To some, it merely represents an overpowered character with awe-inspiring abilities and skill. To others it's more a name applied to author surrogation (or author insertion) into another character. Sometimes both definitions apply; all of which typically fulfil the role of wish fulfilment for the author. In contrast, this Wiki uses a comparatively solid definition of the term:

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rdfs:comment	A Mary Sue (or Marty Stu) is largely a fluid concept. To some, it merely represents an overpowered character with awe-inspiring abilities and skill. To others it's more a name applied to author surrogation (or author insertion) into another character. Sometimes both definitions apply; all of which typically fulfil the role of wish fulfilment for the author. In contrast, this Wiki uses a comparatively solid definition of the term:
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abstract	A Mary Sue (or Marty Stu) is largely a fluid concept. To some, it merely represents an overpowered character with awe-inspiring abilities and skill. To others it's more a name applied to author surrogation (or author insertion) into another character. Sometimes both definitions apply; all of which typically fulfil the role of wish fulfilment for the author. In contrast, this Wiki uses a comparatively solid definition of the term: A Mary Sue is any character or faction who, through the power of luck and fate, and their own sheer ability, break all or most of the realistic forces in the literature that represent them, to the point where suspension of disbelief is clearly shattered, and often - additionally - all enjoyment for the majority of typical readers that encounter the character/faction. A Mary Sue is characterised by being lords of fate and ability, showing mastery in many fields, general imperviousness to danger, in the short term and long; and the crushing blows of sheer improbability, often for little to no solid literary reason other than to simply be a powerful entity, existing in a demigod-like isolation away from all material circumstance, negative consequence, or even bare-faced canonical or logical impossibility. However, Mary Sues aren't all of these elements combined. Indeed, Mary-Sue"ism" does still exist in a character that demonstrates only one or two typical Mary Sue symptoms, thus classing as a Mary Sue like all others.

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