Doctor Sue

splash_the_cat was looking for Mary Sue metas, through which I found The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test.

The term "Mary Sue" is one that gets me to roll my eyes these days, especially if used to describe a canon character. It's code for "I really cannot stand this character and so I'm justifying it with slapping on the label of Mary Sue." Don't believe me?

This is the Doctor from Doctor Who held up to The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test. (It was originally made for the Gargoyle fandom, so a few questions were tossed that were fandom-specific.)

I'm not trying to say that the Doctor is a Mary Sue. He's obviously not, but I'm saying that you really could slap "Mary Sue" onto just about any canon character. It's a term that in fandom has pretty well lost its meaning now.

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Doctor Sue

splash_the_cat was looking for Mary Sue metas, through which I found The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test.

The term "Mary Sue" is one that gets me to roll my eyes these days, especially if used to describe a canon character. It's code for "I really cannot stand this character and so I'm justifying it with slapping on the label of Mary Sue." Don't believe me?

This is the Doctor from Doctor Who held up to The Original Mary Sue Litmus Test. (It was originally made for the Gargoyle fandom, so a few questions were tossed that were fandom-specific.)

I'm not trying to say that the Doctor is a Mary Sue. He's obviously not, but I'm saying that you really could slap "Mary Sue" onto just about any canon character. It's a term that in fandom has pretty well lost its meaning now.

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Time to score Jack Harkness based on the Mary Sue test.

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principia_coh did this for Rose, Martha and Donna, and so scores for DW characters so far are:

The Doctor: 83 points
Jack: 58 points
Rose: 38 points
Donna: 36 points
Martha: 35 points

Sort of amusing how the women of Who (who are roughly all about the same point-wise) get the Mary Sue label, but the guys never get touched. Hmm.

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Time to score Jack Harkness based on the Mary Sue test.

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principia_coh did this for Rose, Martha and Donna, and so scores for DW characters so far are:

The Doctor: 83 points
Jack: 58 points
Rose: 38 points
Donna: 36 points
Martha: 35 points

Sort of amusing how the women of Who (who are roughly all about the same point-wise) get the Mary Sue label, but the guys never get touched. Hmm.