Call to duty~

[koorii]

Hello, hello my loyal followers I have a task for you!

I need you to tell me the fanfic and mary sue cliches you'd like to see most brutally parodied!

Annnd go!

Comments

[kaishinftw.livejournal.com]

The three I hate most are:

1. Being absurdly, beautifully perfect.
2. EVERYONE liking her, everybody falling in love with her and instantly turning against anyone who hates her.
3. Asspulling incredible/impossible skillz out of nowhere, like shooting sharper than Jigen or being able to calculate nuclear physics in her head.

I beg of you, parody with all of the brutality you can muster.

[spellhorn.livejournal.com]

their appearance? (you know what I'm talking about)

the whole 'damsel in distress' syndrome they all seem to suffer from?

the guaranteed inexplicable connection to the canon characters

the inexplicable manifestation of super super-powers, usually totally impossible in the verse they're in.

The fact that /everyone/ loves them or comes to eventually. If they don't they tend to die painful and sudden deaths

the necessary Tortured Past



soooo...basically everything XD

[ambitiousgeek.livejournal.com]

Normal cliches:

Sudden character mood swings. One moment you have them as this super EMO I hate the world, the world hates me and weak as character, and the next they're suddenly badass and kicking everyone around. It's like: wtf did I miss? A whole story perhaps?

The over usage of "I love you".

Two characters suddenly falling in love. One minute they hate each other and don't blink, 'cause when you open your eyes next they're suddenly making passionate dying love in the bushes.

Two characters bumping into each other and unable to resist the physical pull of the other. ="= Oh that one is so old. You know the one where one of the characters berate their own mind for thinking the other guy has an "oh so hot" body. >____>

[ambitiousgeek.livejournal.com]

*undying

more:
-Sudden accident near climax, leading to coma, causing amnesia. O. M. G.

[book-people.livejournal.com]

I'd really like to see "competition for Sue's desired love interest is, in fact, a raging bitch" parodied, though I'd also like "randomly more powerful than everyone else around her for no apparent reason and yet still cannot save herself from Bad Guy." XD

Edit: Sue is somehow connected to Prefered Love Interest's tragic past in some meaningful way, making them Destined Lovers.

[kaishinftw.livejournal.com]

I'd like to add the Mary-Sue's character-warping field. All characters around her are altered. The characters that the author likes suddenly become significantly more awesome/loving/brilliant/generally perfect, if ridiculously dependant on the Mary-Sue. Meanwhile, all characters that the author dislikes randomly becomes bitches/bastards/sluts/abusers/murderers/ugly etc. I swear it is the Mary-Sue's presence that warps these characters so.

[ceirwy.livejournal.com]

Cliche I rather enjoy mocking:

OH NO SOMEONE IS ON THEIR DEATH BED DUE TO [insert tragic accident here]! NO WORRIES MY LOVE WILL CURE YOU AND YOU WILL LOVE ME AFTER TOO!

Florence Nightingale effect

[tsuanyue.livejournal.com]

This is probably off subject and more of a DC KaiShin fandom theme that I'd like to see screwed with.

The Florence Nightingale effect:

I love this cliche, but everytime there's a fic where Kaito and/or Shinichi is hurt and the other nurses them back to health, a part of me is caught up in the wuv and fluff effect. However, there's a tiiiiiny bit of me that wants Shinichi to kick a soccer ball at his head or for Kaito to freak and call his mother screaming, "There's /fluids/ coming out. Where they're really not supposed to be coming out! Ewwww.... What's my liability? Oh, wait. Nevermind. Hey, Nakamori! I'm up here. Now where's my spare hat?" *rustle* "Great, you're his problem now. And if you could manage a little more projectile vomit in about 3 minutes?" *urp* "Great! Bye tantei-kun!"

Re: Florence Nightingale effect

[whm-koorii.livejournal.com]

HAHA. That sounds like a really long way of saying my rant: SICK PEOPLE ARE NOT CUTE OR SEXY.

Re: Florence Nightingale effect

[tsuanyue.livejournal.com]

Usually it's Shinichi that's stupid enough to go to a heist sick and start this theme. I kind of like the ones where Kaito's shot/injured though. There's sick and then there's /whump/. I like character whumping *cough*abuse*cough*.

[jn-fallen-angel.livejournal.com]

I hate hate HATE the cliches where the character is well...like Ran can be sometimes. I LIKE Ran, I really do. But she is powerful enough to knock out bodyguards in a single hit, but holes through solid rock and bend steel with her bare fists without even trying...and then a criminal comes after her and she's all scared and screaming "OMG SOMEBODY SAVE ME!" The only part of an otherwise awesome character that I thoroughly dislike...

[nenagh-breen.livejournal.com]

The fact that they get 'bad feelings' about characters that will betray them. Unless they have precognition (which is more likely than you'd think for them) the betrayer, who fooled all the cannon characters first, would probably fool them as well.

Or perhaps the creation of unknown/very rare items that make them even more powerful/loved/BA. (Like a fourth deathly hollow from Harry Potter or another 'Millennium Item' from Yu-Gi-Oh.) Reincarnation of Gods/Goddesses/Great historically powerful people might be listed under this flag as well.

Also, their names: to get away from the generic which screams MARY SUE most authors try for something 'original'. Like Aurora Darkwind or some foreign language - Spanish, Latin, Japanese, Chinese, etc. - getting butchered into something that sounds vaguely like a name and simultaneously means something deeply meaningful.

[mancha-sama.livejournal.com]

*points and laughs* I am so amused at this. XD You brought it upon yourself (even if you meant to do so)!

My suggestion: Stealing a main character's tragic past as their own, or adding themselves into the tragic past and being EVEN MOAR tragic than the main characters. (Ex: The boy-who-lived's TWIN SISTER who was brought up in an abusive orphanage and is thought not to be the chosen one when she really is etc etc etc. ...Why do they make it so easy? *weeps*)

Personal "Favorite"

[cyatto-gamemi.livejournal.com]

Don't forget their perfect knowledge of any and every language known to existence, and their horrendous use of it inappropriately. (I must shudder at this a moment, it's one of those things I can't stand unless being mocked. Some use is okay, but replacing the phrase "I love you" for the confession with Japanese or whatever is pretty stupid, especially since half the time they spell it wrong. >.< I love Japanese and speak it in my daily life, but their speech is terrible! At least I make sure that I'f I say something like "he/she/it is cute" I say the whole thing in Japanese. Don't butcher the language! *fist shake*)

Ahem. >.> I'm not obsessive over proper grammar and use of foreign terms at all... <.

[purplepython.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Let's go with outrageous coloration without any dye. For example, say... Red eyes without any sort of albinistic traits. Or purple hair without dye. Though I suppose this wouldn't really count that much in an anime/manga/other world where such things are normal, but still.

Oh, also: albinism without being affected by light. Kill it with fire, please. Or parody it with all your might, whichever works!

(Yes, I know the irony: a gal named purple python speaking out about outrageous coloration. It was the only thing I could see that hadn't already been covered. Heh.)

[kyra-mackenna.livejournal.com]

http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070427
Her.

I'm Immortal Now...

[dc-kid-fan13.livejournal.com]

I hate it when they have an injury that no one can recover from, perhaps someone even saw them die, and then whoever is writing it decides they get to come back to life.

Also, when they have all the powers of the universe (perhaps that's an exaggeration), just recently learned about them too, and know how to use every single one.

One more that someone already mentioned but I believe deserves the honor of a second mention: When, although they are awesome and can kick anyone's butt no problem, the second they get into danger, they can't do a thing.

Ja ne!
~J. DKF