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She regains her virginity by walking through a magical fire in the center of the earth. Not to mention the long paragraphs of description she gets and the fact that she causes riots with her beauty...

http://wikimaster.livejournal.com/1459.html?view=2995#t2995
I also posted it on the other board.

PS: I did ask if I could tack new elements into the PPC.

That hurt on so many different levels I think I need to go lie down. Though this does give me an idea for a page to create on the Wiki; a list of Canon-Sues found in Original Fiction.

So, we have three people so far:
Ferris Bueller
Mary Poppins
Eragon

Anyone got any more to add?

It depends.

The only thing that differentiates a Canon Sue from a Mary Sue is the type of fic they reside in. There are tests out there online to tell if your original character is a 'Sue.

One glaring sign your character might be a Sue is if she and the hottie who've been lusting after one another for an entire novel find out they're actually brother and sister at the end, and in the next novel of the trilogy they spend pretty much the entire thing drooling over one another and not one single person around them slaps them up and says, "Hello, incest?". If, when the third novel opens, she's having a Sad Moment because sniffleweep her brother is acting like he has no feelings for her anymore and she was just So!Sure he really did and now she feels like a knife has been driven through her heart. It only took him the entire last novel to finally say, "Yeah, we really should cool it" and then he had to go and ruin it with body language and actions and tone of voice that made it abundantly clear he was doing it only out of extreme reluctance. I have no idea how much incestuous lusting the third novel of Cassie Clare's trilogy is packed with, but considering she remarks that the character on the front cover of Novel three comes between Canon Sue and her Incestuous Lust Interest, I feel secure in saying there's plenty to be had and that it won't turn out to be incest after all because gaspsurprise he's not actually her brother. He was confused/switched at birth with her real brother so it's perfectly fine for them to be shagging like nymphos deprived for a year. rolls eyes muchly

I thought "Canon Sue" was simply another way of saying "Possession Sue" or "Sue![canon]".

Sporking's always fun... evil grin

They're called Canon Sues, and there's an LJ group devoted to them named, aprops enough, canon_sues. The main character of Cassie Clare's original fic trilogy has been pegged as one. The first two books have been sporked and I'm working on sporking the third. Oh, and there's another trilogy set to kick off in 2010. I look forward to shredding that one as well.

Anthony Caine of For Better or For Worse has also been identified as a Canon Stu.

Obviously, there are Sue characters in original fiction, but do we still call them 'Sues'? I mean, as far as I know, the term "Mary Sue" applies only to fanfiction characters inserted into someone else's word. (And personally, at least 'formally', I think it should stay that way.)

I think certain characters just reach a point where they're so much a part of our heritage that we accept they're Mary-Sues / Gary-Stus, but we can forgive them. I mean, with Mary Poppins, it says she's 'Practically Perfect in Everyway' so we know what to expect. Same with Ferris Bueller. The movie starts very confidantly, and we expect him to succeed. If he hadn't there would have been many feelings of disappointment, huh?

total numbnut here Um, I can't really do Manx.

I can do Shadow, but unless you can make my voice (which is incredibly weird) sound like a Generic Caucasian Kid, I probably can't do Manx. In the same scene, it'd probably be all confuzzling and suchlike.

Apologies for not speaking earlier. Parents have been dragging me off the computer at inoppurtune times.

slinks off

for the soundtrack pieces that you two requested. School's being a little evil. And it's only the fifth day back.

I think it is because they don't attempt to avoid Ferris being a Stu.

He is, and Ferris definitely knows it, and uses it to his advantage in the movie. Which makes it funny instead of annoying.

Actually, Ferris is kind of like a male Haruhi Suzumiya, now that I think about it.

I've done some of my lines, I just need to finish them now. I ought to have them in before the 31st, but I'm gonna need some nagging in case I forget. is a procrastinator, even with things she enjoys

How does Ferris Bueller avoid being a Marty Stu? Why is watching him get away with everything and get out of every situation funny instead of grating on nerves?

A rare work of genius indeed. I might go so far as to title it an enduring classic.

...also, Vexen happens to be my favorite O.XIII member. :P

It's an awesome story, and awesomer because it's so true.

Yes, I know the last one is still visible, but Trojie and I have made an executive decision recently.

No lines have been handed in since the last reminder post. This is Bad. Therefore, we have set a deadline by which time we would like all lines in by. This date is:

31st October 2008. Latest. Please.

We didn't want to set a deadline, but the lack of lines arriving kind of nudged us to it. Many thanks to the people who have handed in already, and we hope to get the rest in soon. Apologies, all: we aren't trying to nag, but we would like those lines in.

And just for reference, the people who have not sent in their lines:

Ansela
Artic Blade
BattleHamster
BeetleFire (lines done by Insanegrrl)
Chatvert
Crystal
Elcalion
Fichunter
Fynn
insanegrrl
Jai
just_theDoctor
Laburnum
Leto Haven (hasn't sent Lucien lines yet, and has only sent .aups not MP3s .. sigh)
lynxihez
Oozaru Angel
Paddlebrains
Pigeonarmy (needs to send in Archer and Sabbat)
Platinumyo
Rohirric Monkey

Being the third installment in the continued (mis)adventures of Agent Teek, and her partner Crebaina- well, until quite recently.
Temporary partners. Star Trek aliens. Your typical insert-Sue-into-LOTR-trilogy 'fic. Sadistic daisies.
Chaos shall now commence.

http://www.freewebs.com/teekandcrebaina/mission3.htm

Original fic, kindly donated for slaughtering by Tomato: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3250677/1/QuestforIdentity

(Tomato's Agents April, Moon, and Lora also make cameos, as she kindly let me borrow them. Again.)

Written late at night by Sara and Le Jai. Agent Sara gets an unexpected vacation, and Jai is swept up in the insanity.

http://agentsara.livejournal.com/4939.html#cutid1

I'm not sure if you got my email or not, but we'd rather like to have a few more than three questions answered for that application form, just so we get a clearer picture of your little Suethor.

But the two are undeniably connected so I suppose we can work with that. And yes, she shall suffer. Fufufu...

Actually, I've enrolled my inner Mary Sue. Oh come on, everyone has to have a little part of them who wants to go be a perfect little princess in a different world and get the hottest male in the area! It's just that some inner MSs are more profound than others, and that's part of what makes Suethors so...odd.
For a PPC-er, it's just lurking there in the back, heavily stifled by the inner Canon Lover.

[/philosopher]

But I still wonder what would happen if you stick someone's head into the Mirror of Galadriel. Maybe I shall save it for a 'Sue my Agents might encounter.

And I agree wholeheartedly with your statement regarding what inter-continuum travel SHOULD be.

...for the simple reason that death would be much slower, and of the Sue's own making.

See, one of the things I REALLY hate about this TV show is:

a) it makes Pride and Prejudice sound like escapist literature, which it is NOT.

b) it legitimizes escapism without consequences, that is, the Mary Sue sees nothing wrong with escaping into Pride and Prejudice instead of dealing with the consequences of everyday life. That, my friend, is called turning yourself into a victim of circumstance.

One of my favorite passages ever comes from the Neverending Story. It has this to say about Fantastica (the world of human fantasy):

'There are people who can never go to Fantastica,' said Mr. Coriander, 'and others who can, but who stay there forever. And there are just a few who go to Fantastica and come back. Like yuou. And they make both worlds well again.'

That is what fantasy should be. That is what going into another world should be. The character should have enough imagination to go there, enough pragmatism to go back, and enough strength to knit her desires into the fabric of her real life, and make both her dream and day-to-day worlds whole and healthy.

...they never do that, though, do they?

~Araeph