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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fanboy2000" data-source="post: 4847200" data-attributes="member: 19998">All good links.Mary Sue comes from fan fiction, specifically, Star Trek fan fiction. (It originated there, but it obviously didn't stop there.) The prototypical Mary Sue is beautiful, good at everything (fights better than a klingon, more knowledgeable in physics than Spock, can fix a warp drive better than Scotty, etc) and is often the daughter of Kirk or some other main cast member. Such a character is typically assumed to be a stand-in for the author. Either that's how the author sees himself or herself, or the author wishes he or she were like that.It doesn't take much generalize that description to other areas of fiction.The label is one of derision and, IIRC, it comes from a pice of fiction where a character was actually named Mary Sue. Mary Sue was supposed to lampoon the "good at everything and generally awesome" stereotypical character popular in Star Trek fan fiction at the time.</blockquote>