Trope Talk: Mary Sue!
Call it a spiritual successor to the Strong Female Characters video, but today we're talking about what exactly a Mary Sue is - as well as how to diagnose one while avoiding the danger of a false positive!
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Interesting enough there is a Mary Sue test online that has around 100+ questions that determine if your character is Mary sue or not. It goes into super details to how far a character suceeds, if there flaws are considered endearing, if they're completely blameless on any negative decisions they made, etc.
This is probably my favorite trope talk so far! And so well formatted. But then again, I used to write Mary Sues when i started on fanfictions at like 11 - so i always try to give new authors advice, as most dont realise that they fall into this trap