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Oh, Mary Sue. What a divisive term you are, my dear. Up there with the likes of the manic pixie dream girl, the Mary Sue is an archetype reserved almost exclusively for female characters ...
For some anime fans, a handful of characters from their childhood or their past seem like icons in the moment. When audiences ...
Every subsection of fanfiction has its own priorities and grievances, but the derision toward so-called Mary Sue characters is nearly universal. The Mary Sue, a feminist “geek culture” website ...
Killing Mary Sue writer-director James Sunshine and star Sierra McCormick spoke to Bleeding Cool about the film's premise, ...
Known as a “Mary Sue,” the trope featuring a female character who can do no wrong, appears time and time again in wildly popular media such as “Twilight” and “Star Wars.” ...
Moviefone speaks with Dermot Mulroney about ‘Killing Mary Sue’. “I want to deliver for whatever the director wants, and in this case, it turned out great.
The “Mary Sue” character, introduced in 1973 by Smith in the second issue of Menagerie (named after a two-parter from the show's first season), articulated a particular trope that exists far ...
Not all fans feel that Captain Marvel is a “Mary Sue” character. For the number of fan complaints against the hero, there is also a great deal of loving fans who defend Carol Danvers and her ...
While often used incorrectly in fan critique, Star Trek fan and writer Paula Smith coined “Mary Sue” to describe self-insert characters in fanfiction. In a way, Wesley Crusher is Roddenberry ...
EXCLUSIVE: Bleiberg Entertainment has picked up international rights to action caper Killing Mary Sue, starring Sierra McCormick (American Horror Stories) Dermot Mulroney (My Best Friend’s ...