About 33.9K fanfictions emerge when you directly type DC in the search bar at Wattpad. However, if you type Batman in the search results, the results go up to 41.8K and on typing Superman you get 42.8K stories so here I'm assuming that these heroes...
Of course this had to be the Don't no 1, the ultimate character which can destroy your whole fanfic regardless of the plot or concept in just a matter of seconds.
What exactly is a Mary Sue?
A Mary Sue (if female) or Marty Stu (if male) is an idealized and seemingly perfect fictional character. Often this character is recognized as an author insert or wish fulfillment. Sometimes the name is reserved only for women; but more often the name is used for both sexes.
[Definition credits go to Wikipedia].
Now let me tell you my own definition for a Mary Sue or Marty Stu.
In my opinion, a character whose nature is not identified clearly, has infinite powers (control on elements, telepathy, pathokinesis, thunder control etc etc), is highly emotional (cries on everything, sensitive to the point of 1000/10, whiny wimpy wailing brat), and still saves the day all the time.
Also, I'm not referring to the characters found in troll stories because there is a difference between them. Even though the qualities of Troll characters and Mary Sues are quite similar, still I think troll characters are included for people to make fun of them while Mary Sues are those characters which are a bit cringeworthy but can be improved if the authors are given correct guidance and want to fix those characters up.
Character Infrastructure:
1. Is usually a love interest of any important canon character or a protegee of some sort (sibling, cousin, best friend) or both.
2. Is portrayed as the sweetest person to ever exist or rather the most innocent person to walk the earth.
3. Is described ravishingly. And by description, I meant physical description.
[Consider a few examples for instance,
Her eyes were like shining blue whirlpools of the ocean, glistening with the tears that had not yet spilled.
OR
Her beautiful tresses were the flaming hue of the sunset, rippling down her back like a cascading fire fall.
And a lot other stuff like that].
These descriptions that are very wordy or pain a picture of an out of this world scenario or character are referred to as Purple Prose. Later on we will be doing a chapter on how to fix purple prose and I will be elaborating more on these examples there.
4. Replaces whatever canon character was in a relationship with the main character.
For example, if it's a Bruce Wayne story then the Mary Sue would replace Selina. If it's a Superman love story then the Mary Sue would replace Lois. And not just replacing in the sense of becoming the love interest, by replacing here I mean that the Mary Sue steals all their shining moments, their dialogues, their dynamic with the main character and is portrayed as inevitably much better than that canon character she/he has replaced.
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