“I wanted to write the complete sort of Mary Sue that there was because they were all alike,” says Smith. “It was just so typical that it just had to be done.” While the original meaning ...

In her “Star Trek: The Original Series” parody piece, “A Trekkie’s Tale,” Smith dreamed up a character named Mary Sue, a 15-year-old girl who boards the Enterprise and has her every wish ...

In the fanfiction — which is itself a parody of the female characters like Janice Rand and Rayna Kapec who appear in the original show — a beautiful 15-year-old lieutenant named Mary Sue ...

Luke was every bit as OP is in the context of the original trilogy. In some ways, he's even more Mary Sue-ish than Rey, though The Last Jedi remedies that in beautiful fashion by giving Luke ...

However, since the original naming of the trope, the character type has acquired a pejorative reputation in certain fan communities, with the label "Mary Sue" often applied to any heroine who is ...

The short answer? No. For the long answer, we’ll have to dive into what exactly makes a “Mary Sue,” and why the term has such a loaded connotation within fandom. Strap yourselves in.