All the World's A Stage: So Sue me

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1-16-2011 @ 11:37PM

Tribunal said...

Agree, completely.

Too many people give their characters an over-the-top dramatic flaw and think it saves them completely.

Or too often their "big flaw" is 98% of what makes them a Sue (think Wesley Crusher's attempt to enter Starfleet and failing the test).

A Sue is a too-perfect character that is some self-inseretion for the author (or designed to be that for the reader). Being an orphan, or a non-magical person in a magical world, or the only part orc-draenei-human (who's rejected for that, mind you!) in no way saves them.

Sue is a case-by-case basis. There are no hard and fast rules. And it bothers some people more than others, etc.

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