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A form of Stylistic Suck. Whenever an in-universe author or creator not established as being a (passable) writer creates a story, the main character will be a blatant Author Avatar Mary Sue. Whatever they want, their character gets. Often, all the other primary characters will have their actual fictional counterparts of their own as well, usually with one or two traits exaggerated greatly and generally portrayed in the light that the character sees them. This may include the villain of the story being based on a character the writer doesn't like. Most of the time, these stories will be treated as being pretty bad by the other characters (whether or not they express it depends on how nice they're feeling), and the work will often raise implications about their friend's desires and feelings about the people around him that will raise eyebrows. This is all usually Played for Laughs, however, the trope could also be used to tell the audience what the character writing the story wants and what he thinks of other characters, etc. See also Parody Sue for the trope this draws upon and Dream Sue for the prototype. Compare Write Who You Know, …And That Little Girl Was Me, and Muse Abuse. When they're demonizing other people in the story, see Revenge via Storytelling. When they're not writing a story, but talking about themself while pretending to be someone else, it's …But He Sounds Handsome. |
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Adventure Time: All of the Gender Flip "Fionna and Cake" episodes are supposedly written in-universe by characters who idealise themselves: The original "Fionna and Cake" is by the Ice King and ends with (after Ice Queen is defeated) all the characters talking about how cool Ice King is. "Bad Little Boy" is a story told by Marceline that is all about how cool her male version Marshal Lee is. Zig-zagged in that it also ends with Marshall getting the crap beat out of him by Fionna for a particularly mean prank. "The Prince Who Wanted Everything" is by Lumpy Space Princess and has Lumpy Space Prince as a prince horribly abused by his evil parents who blossoms after escaping Lumpy Space to the main universe. |
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In the Hallmark version of Arabian Nights, when Scheherezade comes to the part of the slave girl Morgiana in "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves", she takes the time to describe the girl's intelligence and beauty. As the Sultan states "she sounds like you", Morgiana turns around and she's played by the same actress. Scheherezade hurriedly insists "she wasn't like me at all", and Morgiana is replaced with a different actress. Later in the story, Morgiana's sexy dance that exposes Black Koda and saves everyone is intercut with Scheherezade dancing for the Sultan. | |
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Frasier reveals that Frasier and Niles, when they were kids, co-wrote a series of The Hardy Boys-style books called The Crane Boys Mysteries about "two plucky lads who used their keen psychological insights to solve crimes brought home by their detective father". | |
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Samurai Jack: "Aku's Fairy Tales" is this crossed with Revenge Fic; annoyed by children no longer fearing him/aspiring to be like Jack, Aku gathers the youth of an entire city in a vast hall and narrates bowdlerised, self-insert versions of traditional folk tales to them, hoping they'll believe Jack's a violent bum and Aku is a level-headed, powerful hero. The children respond to each story by hanging lampshades on the ways they go against established character traits and facts. This gradually escalates, with Aku's stories getting shot down after each new sentence for being blatantly impossible and/or clear mixes of more than one folk tale. After several bizarre, seconds-long depictions of Jack being killed and maimed by an entire spectrum of fairy tale characters and animals, Aku finally distills his story formula into this: Of course, the kids retort "Nah, that's not how it would happen!", which leads to a group fanfic where they add increasingly exaggerated ideas into a short story, ending with Jack achieving his goal of defeating Aku and returning to his time period (obviously!). |
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The animated Addams Family had a... unique case of combining God-Mode Sue with Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth, of all things. Uncle Fester's comic Fester Man stars himself and most of the family as superheroes. Despite the villain's initially capturing the rest of the cast, Fester Man quickly thwarts him by being... well, himself. Even using Fester Man's Kryptonite Factor (chimneys, of course) fails to harm him. The villain then gives up out of sheer exasperation. | |
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There was the "historical" play, "Imperial Love," written by Milich Oppenheimer. It casts Milich as the hero of the Scarlet Moon War in Suikoden. For the unaware, Milich started the war Brainwashed and Crazy and came close to destroying the hero's army. | |
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The Space Ghost Coast to Coast episode "Pavement" involves Space Ghost writing the show. This trope appears in spades. | |
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In Bones, Dr. Brennan is a successful novelist whose books star a fictionalized version of herself named Kathy Reichs. She later reveals that she's mostly interested in writing about science and had Angela help her with the character bits, which turn out to be more popular (and cause her to badger Brennan for a cut of the proceeds). Interestingly, Bones itself is based on a series of books written by... Kathy Reichs. But the TV Brennan is more like the real Kathy Reichs, while the book Brennan is more like the Kathy Reichs from the TV show's fictional book series. Your brain has permission to hurt. | |
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Chuck Bartowski's alter ego that he uses on spy missions is "Charles Carmichael", a Mary Sue version of himself. His continued success as a field agent has led to Carmichael becoming a Shrouded In Legend super-spy. | |
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In The Worst Thing About My Sister, Marty creates a superhero named "Mighty Mart", which is clearly based on herself. | |
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In Castle, the title character is writing the crime novel series Nikki Heat, whose protagonist is based on Beckett, the police officer he's shadowing for material. And most of her colleagues at the 12th precinct also have analogues in the series, even minor recurring characters. Castle inserts himself into the series as Intrepid Reporter Jameson Rook, whom Nikki Heat immediately falls for (it takes her real-life counterpart a lot longer). But other than that, Rook is shown as less competent than Castle in several ways, frequently screwing up and failing to spot clues, while Castle himself is shown as a competent investigator in his own right. Interestingly, the Nikki Heat series has subsequently been Defictionalized. | |
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In Cybill, Ira writes a book about his marriage to Cybill, with him as a Mary Sue. | |
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In The Baby-Sitters Club, Mallory writes a play that makes her look ideal. Her family? Not so much. | |
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In Magic of Stella, Aya, the protagonist of Ayame's novel Stardust Intenzione, is a Magical Girl Warrior with a private life that "sparkle like a star," up to and including having two boyfriends. | |
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In "the Nightman Cometh", the season 4 finale of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Charlie expands the song "Dayman" that he and Dennis wrote in an earlier episode into a full musical. The main character is clearly a Sympathetic Sue version of himself and the plot revolves around his obsessive attachment to the Waitress (whose character sings a song expressing her true feelings of longing for his). Charlie begs her to attend the performance and reserves her a seat front-and-center, hoping that she'll be so moved that she'll finally realize they were meant to be together. Awkward Hilarity Ensues. Perhaps more disturbingly, the other large part of the play's plot revolves around the main character getting molested by the titular villain (well, Charlie insists that isn't what's happening, but nobody believes him), who is heavily implied to be at least partly based on Charlie's Creepy Uncle Jack. | |
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In EP 5 of Umineko: When They Cry, Bernkastel hijacks the story by creating a new piece called Furudo Erika that is not only her Author Avatar but a parody of the audience and a Shout-Out at the main character of Higurashi: When They Cry. This is both Played for Laughs and Played for Drama at different points of the story. | |
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Various characters on The Simpsons have done this. One episode, in particular, has Marge write a Regency romance called "The Harpooned Heart" starring a thinly-veiled version of herself, with other Springfieldians as the rest of the cast. At first, she writes Homer's character as a loving husband and excellent provider, but after he ticks her off she re-writes him into a boorish Jerkass. Her character ends up having an affair with Ned Flanders' character, which most of the readers assume is Wish-Fulfillment on Marge's part, and leads to Homer chasing down Flanders... to ask for advice on how to be a better husband. It's a little more than an assumption; a couple of them notice that the main character, Temperance, is referred to as 'Marge' for three paragraphs at one point. There's also the episode where Mr. Burns makes a film revolving around him that literally portrays him as a Christ-like figure. It is not popular with audiences and even loses an award show after Burns bribes the judges. |
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In Extras, Patrick Stewart is working on a script about a man who uses his incredible psychic powers to do nothing more than insert himself into a football match to score the winning goal, and go around repeatedly making women's clothes fall off. Needless to say, he has written the role for himself. | |
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WarioWare: WarioWare: Twisted!: Wario Man's microgames star Wario as the main character in every single one of them. Or barring that, they'll star some random character with Wario's face on them. Or just things like a dog with Wario's moustache. This is the case for the second Wario stage (including Wario Man and Tiny Wario) in all the games (at least up to Smooth Moves). In Mega Microgame$ and Smooth Moves, the first Wario stage (which is always the first stage of the game) has this as well. WarioWare Gold: Scanning amiibos produces drawings of characters made by Wario. Most of them are cartoonishly awful, but Wario amiibos produce images that are significantly better-looking and depict Wario as either a ruggedly handsome hunk◊ or a Bishie Sparkle-coated pretty boy◊. |
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Miraculous Ladybug: The works of resident comic artist Nathaniel and resident writer Marc tend to skew in this direction. Nathaniel draws comics of himself as the superhero Mightillustrator either rescuing Marinette (who he initially had a crush on) or fighting alongside Ladybug (who he later gets a crush on). Marc, a fan of his work, writes a story from Ladybug's point of view where she expresses feelings for Mightillustrator, but considering that Marc is all but stated to have a crush on Nathaniel, it comes off as a case of In-Universe Possession Sue. | |
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In Chapter 2 of Cucumber Quest, the characters are sidetracked (through kidnapping) into Count Legato's play: Magnificent Prince Crescendo. It's the tale of a gorgeous youth, beloved by all, and the only girl whose beauty can compare to his (almost). Or as Cucumber puts it, "you wrote an entire play about how pretty you are?" | |
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In The Awkward Adventures of Meghan Whimblesby, Andrea writes fan fiction for The Lord of the Rings, and inserts Meghan as a side character. Andrea is a Legolas fan and likes to ship her main characters with Legolas. These stories bore Meghan, who cannot expect the next surprise: Meghan is about to fall into Middle-earth and encounter Legolas. | |
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Borderlands 2: Subverted in "Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep," a Dungeons & Dragons-type game where Tiny Tina makes a story for Lilith, Brick, and Mordecai to play through. The goal of the game is to rescue the missing queen and considering both Tina's personality and everything else she's put in the story, it's clear that the queen will be played by her. In the end, it turns out to be Butt Stallion, Handsome Jack's horse made out of diamonds. | |
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In the first season of Mad Men, Paul Kinsey is revealed at the 1960 election party to have written a one-act play entitled Death Is My Client, about an ad man named Peter Tollifson who is "an animal in the boardroom and in the bedroom" and impossibly brilliant. Some of the cast actually ends up doing a staged reading of it later that night, with a deathly serious Kinsey himself directing. | |
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After being humiliated in the first part of the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Homestar monopolizes (among other things, simultaneously) Strong Bad's drawing table as he works on his 23-part graphic novel about a guy who wins the Race to the End of the Race, isn't wanted for public indecency and dumps Marzipan for a much hotter girl who still likes him. Or he will once he can think of a good name for the main character. | |
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Community: Abed makes several short web movies about the gang that actually predict plot points — and in which Abed portrays himself as a Mary Sue with magical powers. You can watch them online yourself if you're so inclined. "Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps" features each member of the study group telling a scary story. In every one, the characters of the story are clearly analogous to (and played by) members of the study group. Every one has elements of this, but the worst offender is Pierce, who tells a story about Magnum, a young, virile man who is still relevant, pausing from having sex with three women at once to beat up a pair of gun-wielding hoodlums with his Gag Penis. The runner-up is Shirley, who tells a Left Behind-esque story about a bunch of jerks who bullied their nice Christian friend who definitely isn't named Shirley, but then the Rapture comes, and she saves them from Satan with her powers of faith just long enough to forgive them for mocking her, before going to Heaven and leaving them all to be horribly tortured by Satan. |
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In Peep Show, Mark briefly considers writing a play about a "Genius unappreciated in his own time named Mark Borrigan who loves, or maybe hates chips". Subverted in that he grimly claims that it is never going to happen. | |
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Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter. Except that he was writing memoirs which were actually about heroic deeds done by other people. | |
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In The Divine Comedy, Dante is a literal self-insert so he can meet his favorite poets and put down all the popes he doesn't like. His guide Virgil is one of the poets Dante greatly admires, while Pope Boniface VIII, who helped get Dante exiled from his home city, was in the 8th circle of hell, face down in a stone tube with flames engulfing his feet. | |
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In Gardenscapes 2, Austin the butler is sometimes seen working on the manuscript for a thriller novel. The main character is an "intrepid butler" named Caustin. | |
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In the animated segments of KateModern, Charlie depicts herself as a badass Ninja who regularly saves her friends from their enemies. | |
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In Calvin and Hobbes, Calvin's many alter egos only ever lose because of the Reality Subtext. The most frequently-seen ones are Spaceman Spiff (a 1950s comic-style space explorer), Stupendous Man (a superhero), and Tracer Bullet (a Film Noir-style detective). | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Bloo, in "The Bloo Superdude and the Potato of Power", whose character was strong, cool, wise, and of course, the star. He was a bit dim, though. The Sequel Episode "The Bloo Superdude and the Great Creator of Everything's Awesome Ceremony of Fun That He's Not Invited To" continues this. | |
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In one episode of The Love Boat, Isaac tries his hand at writing, but can't decide on the genre (his opening paragraphs, as read by other crew members, are all examples of Stylistic Suck). He finally turns to a textbook example of this trope; Gopher's name is changed to "Muskrat", etc. His fellow crew members are not amused. | |
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The first few episodes of the 2001 anime of Cyborg 009 have 007 writing his account of the group's daring escape from Black Ghost. When 003 reads some, it's all about how 007 saved everyone and won the love of a blonde countess. She comments on how skewed a perspective it has. | |
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In Rocko's Modern Life, when he's hired to help write the new cartoon Wacky Delly, Filburt creates and voices a simple character, Lester Roquefort, but his creative bickering with Heffer makes him more and more defensive until his character's dialogue is nothing but constantly repeating "I am the Cheese! I am the best character on this show! I am better than both the salami and the bologna combined!" | |
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In The World God Only Knows, Shiori creates an idealized version of herself in her story, which is basically a talkative version of herself with a bit of Keima's ability and attitude mixed in. The story is something of an inverted replay of her capture arc until she gets mad at Keima and drops a bridge on his character while a smiling 'Simone' sees him off. | |
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In the last episode of Cheers, Diane is seen winning a Cable ACE Award for a Made-for-TV Movie she authored called The Heart Held Hostage, the central character of which is a thinly-veiled version of fellow barmaid Carla. | |
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Married... with Children: After an unsuccessful audition, Kelly banters with the show's producer and pitches him on a show about her dysfunctional family and its antics — portraying herself as an intellectual in a sea of idiots. Then she discovers that the producer has actually made the show but is shocked to see that it accurately portrays her as a brainless slut. Peggy draws a comic strip about a loser who so greatly resembles Al that people recognize him on the street. Al is rather upset by this, until he finds out that he has inadvertently become a sex symbol as a result. |
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Averted in Y: The Last Man. Yorick regrets not writing his story as the Last Man on Earth — the problem is that, despite his English Major degree, he only ever likes writing stuff like space opera and Knight Rider fanfiction. | |
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In World of Warcraft, the expansion Cataclysm is about how Deathwing ravages Azeroth. There are a series of quests where three drunken NPCs tell you how they 'dealt' with him while he was passing by in the most hilarious way possible. | |
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In Junjou Romantica, Usagi writes Boys' Love novels about a very very thinly-disguised version of himself, in which "he" gets to have sex with his long-term crush; later, when he gets into a relationship in real life, he puts a Flanderized version of his boyfriend Misaki into his novels, much to Misaki's disgust. The novels were later written for real, under the series title Junai Romantica. | |
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On Murphy Brown, Jim Dial wrote a spy thriller with a central character based strongly on himself that caused his wife to think he was having an affair with Murphy as, without realizing it, he had based the love interest on Murphy. | |
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At the end of Thor: The Dark World, Loki has exiled and impersonated Odin. In Thor: Ragnarok, Thor arrives in Asgard and finds Loki-as-Odin hosting a play that's a recap of the previous film, only rewritten by him to depict himself as a Woobie who heroically saved Asgard. Thor is unimpressed. | |
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The Big Bang Theory: In the pilot, Penny tells Leonard and Sheldon about a story she wrote about a girl who bears a striking similarity to herself. She fails to see the similarities. In "The Thespian Catalyst", in order to practice his performance skills, Sheldon makes a play out of a story he wrote as a child, "Where No Sheldon Has Gone Before". In it, Spock from Star Trek takes 10-year-old Sheldon into the future so his genius can bring peace to "a vast and troubled galaxy", while his mother calls herself "a religious nut" and is happy to see him go save the future. Penny suggesting that his mother should have a more emotional reaction to her son leaving causes Sheldon to get too in-character and suffer an emotional breakdown, necessitating a call with his real mother. Amy writes Fan Fiction about a girl living in the 1800s who finds a time-traveling physicist called Cooper in her yard. Leonard starts working on a novel about a crime-solving physicist with a "bigger-than-average" penis. His friends are reduced to villains and stereotypes. He claims the abrasive love interest is based on Penny, but she thinks the character acts more like Bernadette. In the end, Leonard realizes she's actually based on his mom, and decides to stop working on the book. |
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Disgaea 5 has Seraphina doing this in every chapter preview she hosts except the ones between Chapters 8 and 12. Parodied at her expense in Chapter 5's preview. | |
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In The Sirens Sang Of Murder by Sarah Caudwell, barristers Julia and Cantrip are working on a pulpy novel called Chancery!, where the protagonists are thinly veiled versions of themselves, except far more competent. | |
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One episode of Xena: Warrior Princess had Gabrielle venting her frustration for being the sidekick by writing a wish-fulfillment story that began "Xena was away fishing". Hilarity Ensues as one of the gods had imbued Gabrielle with the power to make her writings a reality. At the end of the episode, after the power was removed, Xena arrives with an enormous cartload of fish, puzzled by the irresistible compulsion she had to fish. | |
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In Homestuck, Vriska's "Flarp" (yeah, sort of like that) character Marquise Spinneret Mindfang is (from her perspective) "the best character, and you wish you were her. Oh wait, you are her!" She turns out to be a real historical figure later on. Most people expected uranianUmbra to be a white-haired, lime-blooded Troll - basically looking like a troll version of Calmasis. When Calliope is finally revealed, she looks nothing like that, except when she cosplays. Her fantroll Callie Ohpeee does, however. She is also implied to write Lemons about her, but her species' standards of decency seem to differ from humans'. In one of the interludes where Caliborn takes over the narration, he uses the opportunity to introduce his Original Character. This character is, of course, a cooler-looking grown-up version of himself with wings and Glowing Eyes. Unlike Caliborn, the audience has already seen the grown-up and powered-up version of Caliborn: Lord English. However, while Lord English is a monstrous thug, Caliborn's fantasy self-insert is rather handsome. Karkat's story in the Summerteen Romance arc of the Paradox Space spinoff features him as handsome, muscular, and optimistic, with his leadership greatly appreciated by his friends. Compare to the scrawny and pessimistic canon Karkat, who was made "leader" just so he wouldn't complain about not being in charge. One of Karkat's future selves edits the story to be massive Take That! towards his past self, noting that the Karkat in the universe where everyone gets a happy ending is nothing like the real one. |
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This is the case for the second Wario stage (including Wario Man and Tiny Wario) in all the games (at least up to Smooth Moves). In Mega Microgame$ and Smooth Moves, the first Wario stage (which is always the first stage of the game) has this as well. | |
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The film Manhattan famously opened with Woody Allen's character writing a novel with himself as the lead. Meanwhile, Isaac's lesbian ex-wife Jill (Meryl Streep) is writing a roman à clef of her own, to his great consternation. Allen's Deconstructing Harry is all about the alienation the title character, another writer, suffers from friends and family as a result of this. |
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In the hour-long special The Garfield Show: Furry Tale, Garfield tells Odie a fairy tale about Prince Jon and the fair Elizabeth and the handsome and talented cat who brings them together. | |
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Spitting Image: One sketch was about Meghan Markle trying to pitch a show to Netflix, that is clearly about her. Her pitch is about a beautiful Swan named Sweaghan Swarkle, whose beauty isn't recognized by those around her, until season two when everyone apologizes. The producer even slips up and refers to the main character as a princess. | |
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In Irregular Webcomic!, William Shakespeare writes those Harry Potter fanfics where the exchange student Will charms Hermione. He also writes the novelisation of the movie The Lord of the Rings where he creates the character Willimir (Faramir and Boromir's more handsome younger brother). Willimir is the new love interest for Éowyn. | |
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Westworld: Lee Sizemore wrote Hector to be what he himself wanted to be — dashing and fearless. Maeve is amused when she finds out and derides him for it. | |
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In the bonus materials of the Order of the Stick book, Don't Split the Party, Belkar retells a wildly inaccurate version of the events of the previous three books that bears a strong resemblance to various works of classic literature and happens to star himself as the dashing protagonist that all of the attractive women in the strip swoon over. | |
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The scripts written by the female lead in My Sassy Girl. | |
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In Yes! Pretty Cure 5, Komachi is reluctant to show Nuts the romance novel she's been writing, because she used the two of them as the basis for the lead couple. For a moment, Nuts refused to review it, but a few episodes later, he warms up and started giving blunt but fair reviews so she can improve. | |
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This is pretty much the whole plot of the film Alex & Emma, where Alex writes out a book in which every character has a real-life counterpart and events are based on happenings in his life. This turns out to work against him when Emma, his real-world love, encounters the real-life version of the other woman... | |
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Randy's story in the My Name Is Earl episode "Creative Writing" stars Randy. He has incredible superpowers, he's got a monkey as a driver, he beats up Joy, and it's full of Stylistic Suck dialogue. In this case, Earl actually loves the story, mainly because he's stuck with writer's block. | |
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Done in a similar vein on Wizards of Waverly Place in which Alex writes a graphic novel and, due to being a wizard, can actually "live it", turning herself in a princess. | |
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Rimmer's diaries in Red Dwarf brazenly rewrite real events to portray the cowardly and Know-Nothing Know-It-All Rimmer as a bold, fearless hero who routinely pulls his cowardly and incompetent crewmate's chestnuts out of the fire. When made into a virtual reality fairground ride called "The Rimmer Experience" (based on Disneyland's "It's a Small World," complete with puppets of Arnold Rimmer singing his praises), the experience culminates in a truly astonishing song, presumably penned by Rimmer himself, exhorting what an amazingly wonderful guy he is. The experience is enough to make Lister — who had recently begun to miss his recently-departed crewmate — swear that he never wants to see the man again in his entire life. | |
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The graphic novel Superman: Under A Yellow Sun featured a book-within-a-book written by Clark Kent, about a guy who grew up in the midwest and was a bit of a boy scout. He opposed a bald Villain with Good Publicity, with the aid of a brilliant reporter who was also the love interest and her plucky young photographer. A bit of a subversion, in that the character wasn't a "conventional" Mary Sue (it's hard to write a "more perfect" version of Superman, after all), but was The Atoner, initially doing things that Clark was tempted to do, but that went against his morals, and later making up for them. | |
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In one issue of Greg Rucka's Detective Comics, Two-Face creates a comic book called The Adventures of Copernicus Dent with his Best Girl and Plucky Assistant R'Nee in Arkham Asylum's art therapy program. The hero Copernicus Dent is drawn to look like Harvey Dent without any scarring, while the villain Janus is entirely scarred all over. R'Nee is clearly named after Renee Montoya, whom Two-Face was infatuated with, but the character is a redheaded Damsel in Distress. | |
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One storyline in PS238 concerned the super-school pupils reading their creative writing assignments aloud to each other. Dillon's story was about how his rival Jenny's expy was pathetic and useless, while his was totally awesome and made Dr. von Fogg cower in fear. It ended abruptly, as Jenny and Victor von Fogg blasted it to ashes in his hands. | |
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Bunnicula: James Howe's spinoff series Tales From The House of Bunnicula series presents the journal entries of a dachshund puppy named Howie who wants to be a writer, interspersed with the actual story he is writing. The stories themselves are amateurish attempts at science fiction and horror, all starring a flawless, universally admired dachshund named Howie. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic is a girly, soft-looking Reluctant Psycho Butt-Monkey who stops the review to rant anytime he thinks a child is getting mistreated. The title-card Critic is stick-thin, hard-lined, shamelessly evil and gets away with everything. Can you tell the difference? | |
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Amber of Shortpacked! writes a Twilight pastiche (with mummies instead of vampires) which very obviously stars her various co-workers. | |
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This also applies to Jason's comic book Slugman, whose arch rival is Paige-O-Tron, an airheaded robot with exploding pimple bullets, an obsession with shopping, and the ability to chatter people into madness. Not to mention his and Marcus' Dungeons & Dragons games tend to feature Paige-themed monsters. | |
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On Top Gear (UK), Richard Hammond likes to narrate stories about fictionalized versions of himself. During the Season 13 "Race to the North", in which he rode a vintage motorcycle, he did most of his segments in the style of a radio drama about a hero named "The Black Shadow". While filming the ill-fated attempt to drive the Vampire rocket dragster, he wore a silvery racing suit and reportedly entertained the crew by darting around as "The Silver Flash". | |
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Farscape plays with this trope in an episode where John and Chiana get trapped in a virtual-reality game based on John's life, but programmed by Stark. The only way to leave the game is to kiss the princess — except while John assumes it will be Aeryn, it turns out to mean Zhaan, Stark's princess. | |
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Not to mention Strong Bad's occasional Teen Girl Squad cameo as "Sir Hotbod Handsomeface". Strong Bad actually has such a consistent pattern with imagined alter-egos being tall, muscular versions of himself that they earned a wiki article. | |
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Kimiko of Dresden Codak writes one of these. Due to her personality, well, let's just leave it as weird. More specifically, while it's remarkably well researched, it eventually devolves into a make-out session between Kimiko's Self Insert and an expy of her physics T.A. |
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A rare professional example: in Young Adult, Mavis is writing a book based on her perception of the events of the film. Like herself, her main character is also trying to get back together with an ex who is now with someone else. She also goes out of her way to make sure the reader knows that her Mary Sue character is, like, so popular, just so very popular, she was even voted Most Popular at a school she doesn't go to. | |
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did interesting things with this in "Our Man Bashir", where what started out as a regular spy story ended up getting Bashir's friends inserted into it due to a computer malfunction. | |
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In the Archer episode "Movie Star", Malory allows an actress to hang around ISIS for a day in exchange for her next script and her agent's contact information. She immediately sets to altering the script...by changing the actress' boss to a woman named "Malory Steele" and shoehorning in a gratuitous romantic subplot. By the end of the episode, it's picked up as a porno named "Mandingo 2". | |
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Arthur does this when Fern tries to write a story and publish it under a pen name, giving copies out everywhere around the school. She calls it "Happy Happenings", and actually ends up taking the criticism of the story well and changes the story to be less...Sue-like. Also, in a different episode, DW writes a story about "BW"note Lampshaded by her audience: "Hey, that's close! If it was 'DW', I'd think you were making this up!", whose parents let her have a horse in her room, could ride a bike no-wheeled, had the President as a "best friend", had a secret base and access to all kind of technology, could do the balance-beam easily... The parodies of her own character as a Mary Sue go on and on... In "The Agent of Change" Francine, Muffy, and Molly's character Agent Double X is a blatant Mary Sue, but unlike the earlier examples it's never once lampshaded and everyone loves their character, meaning this was likely an unintentional example. |
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The original Haruhi Suzumiya series is implied to be this from the perspective of the much more mundane alternate universe spin-off The Disappearance of Nagato Yuki-chan. At the end of the anime, they decide that they should do something literature-based since they're a literature club in this timeline, and decide to write a story about their adventures as a club. Their adventures included versions of many events and side-characters from the original series, but without the supernatural elements. Haruhi is just as much of an egotist in this timeline, so it's easy to interpret the original series as their novel project, having been hijacked by Haruhi who made the world revolve around her (which also explains why her main rival in Disappearance is quickly written out in Melancholy). | |
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Rocket Power had an episode that dealt with this, in which Sam creates a video game starring himself. The video game Sam is cool, smart, handsome, and a beast at every extreme sport the gang does. He also programs flanderized avatars of Twister, Otto, and Reggie into the game, for his own avatar to whip mercilessly. None of them are particularly happy with Sam's portrayal of them (although Reggie snidely points out that Otto frequently acts like his in-game self, a preening, narcissistic jerk). Sam eventually realizes the error of his ways and reprograms the game so it more accurately reflects real life, giving himself the power to learn moves from his friends in the game. | |
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The L Word The first season featured a running arc where Jenny writes a story titled "Thus Spoke Sarah Shuster", where the heroine is a thinly-veiled version of herself. She is critiqued on it (and the title) in a second-season episode. Done in an even bigger way in the later seasons with Jenny writing a book (which gets made into a movie that she gets to cast and direct) featuring thinly-veiled copies of the entire main cast, with her as the Mary Sue. Then taken to the next level as Jenny begins having sex with "Jessie", her on-screen Mary Sue. |
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In The Nanny, Niles wrote a play starring himself, as the butler, and Fran was a secondary character. | |
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Steven Universe: "Garnet's Universe" is an unusual example: Steven tells a rambling, Animesque story about Garnet. Technically, Steven never appears in the story, but Garnet repeatedly takes out a picture of him and claims that he's "my favorite person in the world". Interestingly, the characters Steven makes up for the story share voice actors with people he knows, but only one, Ringo, seems to actually be based on anyone — in this case, Ronaldo. Since Steven gets on with Ronaldo pretty well, it's odd that Ringo turns out to be the Big Bad. Mayor Dewey tries to do this with his ancestor William Dewey in the play in "Historical Friction". This is depicted as not just bad writing, but historically inaccurate, and the more flawed version in Pearl's edit is better received. |
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The Colbert Report: Stephen's fictional Tek Jansen novel series (including Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure) stars Tek Jansen, a "super-awesome spectacular ultra-spy" who physically resembles (and is voiced by) Colbert and who has "obviously had hundreds of girlfriends." It's one of Colbert's many send-ups of Bill O'Reilly, who once wrote a book like this for real. Tek Jansen has since been Defictionalized in animated shorts and comic books. | |
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A variation exists in Amélie where Amelie has multiple Imagine Spot moments where she watches documentaries about Lady Diana and puts herself into them. While one such spot obviously leads to Amelie getting a Downer Ending, she nonetheless becomes a Mary Sue in those spots as the documentary narration makes her into a selfless martyr that the world can't go on without. | |
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Attempted by Carl in the Phineas and Ferb episode "Excaliferb", when he tries to insert himself into the story as the ultimate hero. Monogram tells him to stick to what's written. | |
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A backup strip in Phonogram: The Singles Club summarizes the plot of the earlier mini-series, Rue Britannia, from the point of view of a minor character in that story, the protagonist's best mate. It's mostly a faithful-if-snarky retelling of the events of the earlier story, if more than a little inspired by Hellblazer and containing more than a few clues that the best mate didn't quite know or understand what was going on and is filling in the blanks... right up until the end, when the best mate saves the protagonist by machine-gunning some people and then going and having sex with a couple of beautiful women, something which most definitely did not happen in the earlier tale. | |
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The Red Green Show sometimes featured a segment in which Gord, the neurotic forest ranger, would animate short "educational cartoons" about woodlands. Not only was all of the information contained completely wrong, but it also featured Ranger Gord as an ultra-heroic beefcake of a man, surrounded by incompetent woodland animals who just so happened to bear more than a passing resemblance to Red and Harold. | |
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In the Mighty Magiswords episode "Felonious Prose", Witch Way composes a fake installment in the Veronica Victorious series to distract Vambre from her quest. Gateaux is revealed to be a major fan, but even his work can't go without adding a romantic interest named Xateaug. Later, he considers the installment "Veronica Victorious and the Cat Who Has Feelings". | |
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Evangelion: After the End has Asuka reimagining the series as a Sentai show, wherein she is The Hero and The Leader, because she's wearing red, while the rest of the Five-Man Band, consisting of Rei, Shinji, Toji, and Kaworu, are portrayed as weirdos and losers. | |
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Parodied in Garfield and Friends in one episode where Garfield decides to try his hand at authoring. The stories themselves show some promise as he builds up some fantastic situation into a full-blown crisis for his Author Avatar main character to face, but each time he reaches the climax, all he can think to have his "hero" do is eat a hearty meal and take a nap. | |
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Star Trek holodeck programs sometimes take this path, since the main character literally is whoever's using the program. The earliest and perhaps one of the more extreme versions of someone doing this with the Holodeck was featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Hollow Pursuits". Lt. Barclay, a shy and socially-backward member of the engineering team, has become addicted to his fantasies to the point of neglecting his real-world duties. When in the Holodeck, he's confident and forceful, playing against versions of the crew that were bumbling and ridiculous fools, including a snide, bratty Wesley, a much-shorter Commander Riker, and a sultry "Goddess of Empathy" bearing the likeness of Troi. In the Voyager episode "Author, Author", the Doctor tries to publish his novel. He's quite the Marty Stu within it (in particular a Sympathetic Stu), while the rest of the crew are Jerkasses. To teach him a lesson, Paris rewrites it to depict the Doctor as a jerkass who injects the overly-innocent Seven of Nine with a Klingon aphrodisiac. The Doctor gets the general idea. The Doctor's daydreams in "Tinker, Tailor, Doctor, Spy" cast him as a commanding figure, loved by all the crew (especially the female half) and quite capable of single-handedly saving the ship from the Borg. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine did interesting things with this in "Our Man Bashir", where what started out as a regular spy story ended up getting Bashir's friends inserted into it due to a computer malfunction. |
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General Protection Fault has done this multiple times with different characters, in all cases tending towards the "Elseworld" extreme. | |
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One episode of The Office (US) has regional manager Michael Scott out of his office. While innocently searching his desk for something else, the staff finds his screenplay Threat Level: Midnight, in which "FBI Detective Michael Scarn" saves the world while romancing Catherine Zeta-Jones. Everyone in the office helped him film it over the ensuing years, culminating in a triumphant screening. | |
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In Paper Mario: Sticker Star, the Toad Mario keeps saving during his travels sends some embellished stories back to his house-sitter in Decalburg. | |
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Black Mirror: In "USS Callister", nerdy immature game designer Robert Daly's Player Character, "Captain Daly", is handsome, witty, powerful, intelligent, and always right. The female crew members melt in his arms, while the male crewmembers constantly praise his brilliance while chastising themselves for doubting him. His villain is a buffoon who exists to be repeatedly foiled and humiliated by his quick wit. The catch is that Daly is a Cruel Player-Character God who sadistically torments the sentient digital clones of his co-workers if they don't play along. | |
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Star Wars: Doctor Aphra: Aphra’s opening narration sounds straight out of a power fantasy fanfic. Granted some of it is true, but the script notes that the “truly epic space battle� is “perhaps exaggerated in its epicness because this is the story as Aphra’s telling it, and she is nothing is not over the top.� | |
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In The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, Scrooge's uncle Angus "Pothole" McDuck became a dime novel writer after retiring from the riverboat business. The novels cast himself as the Invincible Hero with Scrooge as his Bumbling Sidekick, both an inversion and exaggeration of their relationship in "The Master of the Mississippi" (Which is also the title of Pothole's novel series). Here's an excerpt; | |
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LEGO Ninjago: Shadow of Ronin: In Kai's retelling of the ninjas' time on Chen's island, Kai finds opportunities for him to come up with good ideas and have the other ninjas compliment him. | |
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The title character of Sabrina Online has been drawing a webcomic lately and was for a while mystified why readers referred to her main character as Mary Sue. Hilarity, lampshading and Fourth-Wall Breakage have ensued. | |
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Kirby: Right Back at Ya! has King Dedede create his own television channel- each show was about him or featured him as the star. In a later episode, he took a try at creating anime, with a show called, 'Dedede: Comin' At Ya!'. | |
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NCIS has McGee publishing a successful novel. All the characters are based on himself and his fellow agents. We never get to find out too much about the book, but it doesn't sound like he gave himself the full treatment, instead glorifying his version of Gibbs. He does, however, express his feelings on others in full, leading to some interesting interactions: He notes his suspicion that Ziva likes DiNozzo. They retaliate by throwing McGee into the back of a van with no seat belt, while DiNozzo — for the only time in the series — willingly hands the keys to Ziva. Ducky's assistant Palmer notes that there's a character in the book called "Pimmy Jalmer" who's a necrophiliac. McGee insists that it's based on someone else who's really named "Pimmy". One episode reveals that he's apparently set up a Ship Tease between his Author Avatar McGregor and Abby's character. When he's writing the sequel, the Villain of the Week turns out to be a Loony Fan who steals his drafts and notices that the characters break up, and somehow concludes that Abby's character will kill McGregor in retaliation, so he has to kill Abby in real life to save McGee. McGee accedes to the villain's demands and has them get married instead, only for Abby to complain that it ignores established characterization. He also toys with the idea of killing of McGregor off himself, but rejects it "because everyone likes him so much." |
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Friendly Hostility and its sort-of precursor Boy Meets Boy used to have Foxman (Fox) and his faithful ward (Collin) fighting the Diabolical Mastermind His Mind Kills (Collin) from time to time. This would sometimes get complicated. | |
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Cecily of Gemma Doyle makes one, named Cecile. Gemma mocks it mercilessly. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series: The comics adaptation of BTAS had Harley Quinn, during one of her short stints on the straight and narrow, write an "autobiography" that turned out to be a romance novel between "Punchinello", a female criminal, and "Owlman", a masked crimefighter. The Joker was not amused (which says a lot) even after she assured him that it was completely fictional. When she tried to act out her novel to gain publicity, Batman wasn't amused either (which, well, doesn't say so much)... because it meant he had to read it too. A possible mild case in "Legends of the Dark Knight," where the Robin depicted in the third story bears not a little resemblance to the storyteller (who's earlier specified that in her version, Robin is a girl, as was the case in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns). |
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The comic book Banzai Girl has "Katie's World", a comic strip by a mother featuring her daughter... much to the daughter's chagrin. This, in turn, is a Lampshade Hanging on the comic itself, as Banzai Girl itself is a comic written and drawn by model Jinky Coronado featuring the adventures of model Jinky Coronado and her friends battling tentacle monsters. | |
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In Descendants of Darkness, the Count does this, writing historical romances with himself as the male lead and a Gender Flipped Tsuzuki as the female lead, with a couple of twists: for one thing, the books are magical and write themselves, and for another, the actual Tsuzuki gets sucked into one by accident and meddles with the intended plot, causing his female counterpart to end up paired with the book's version of Tatsumi instead. | |
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The second Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan has Christine Kamogawa, whom you help write a novel that features a rather blatant Author Avatar having three separate men falling in love with her and who end up fighting over her at the end... only to have her run off with a fourth guy. Of course, you can subvert this trope by failing, which sees each of these endeavors fail spectacularly. | |
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Karkat's story in the Summerteen Romance arc of the Paradox Space spinoff features him as handsome, muscular, and optimistic, with his leadership greatly appreciated by his friends. Compare to the scrawny and pessimistic canon Karkat, who was made "leader" just so he wouldn't complain about not being in charge. One of Karkat's future selves edits the story to be massive Take That! towards his past self, noting that the Karkat in the universe where everyone gets a happy ending is nothing like the real one. | |
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Battle Kreaturez features the side comic "The Adventures of Wally the Platrox", which are illustrated by Wally and portray him as the greatest being in all of existence. | |
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Daria Subverted with Melody Powers, who is an in-universe Parody Sue, but makes a lot of people uncomfortable (on purpose) as they think it's a real one. Another episode had Daria continually trying to write a story about people she knows in various situations, including one where her parents praised her while treating Quinn as The Unfavorite. The final story wound up being a touching, happy scene from the family's hypothetical future. The Daria Database, a tie-in book, featured a comic strip called Gothic Nights by Andrea. It featured her as Queen Hecuba, manipulating various other characters based on Lawndale High students and staff. |
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Maddy, the heroine of Mari Mancusi's Gamer Girl (2008), creates a manga based on the romance between her online MMORPG avatar ("Allora") and her avatar's love interest ("Sir Leo"), who turns out to actually be her real-life crush. | |
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In Archie Comics, it's not uncommon for one of the teens to recite a classic fairy tale with themselves in the protagonists' role. One story has Betty tell Little Red Riding Hood with Archie as the titular character (In this version, he rides a skateboard), but instead of visiting his grandmother, he's going to see Betty's story analogue, with Veronica as the "She-wolf"(Who looks like she always does, just with ears, a tail, and in a swimsuit) who instead of wanting to eat Archie, just tries to seduce him. | |
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The Singing Detective is the hero of the main character's pulp novels. They're played by the same actor. | |
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Etna is fond of this on the chapter breaks of Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. Etna continues this in Disgaea Dimension 2, with Sicily either joining in, filling for Etna, or being a victim herself. | |
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Not quite writing his own story, but in Malcolm in the Middle, Malcolm plays a game called "The Virts" where he can set the stats of the various characters, and he sets his character's Intelligence and Attractiveness (if not everything) to 10 while giving more realistic or even spiteful stats to the rest his family. Subverted in that everything he tries to do to make his character better and bring down his family ends up backfiring, making his family rich and successful, while GameMalcolm becomes depressed, hideously fat, and suicidal. Malcolm is obviously distressed over this development. | |
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WarioWare: Twisted!: Wario Man's microgames star Wario as the main character in every single one of them. Or barring that, they'll star some random character with Wario's face on them. Or just things like a dog with Wario's moustache. | |
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A one-time character named Nobuko from the first season of Ojamajo Doremi writes a story starring a boy detective named "Tatekawa Nobuo", his scientist friend Professor Hadzuki, his friend/rival detective from Osaka Aiko Senoo, and Doremi the... friendly dog. Bonus points for the characters being double expies of not only Doremi and her friends, but also various characters from Case Closed— in that order, Conan Edogawa, Dr. Agasa and Heiji Hattori. All four seasons featured an episode that focused on a story Nobuko had written, all of them with expies of the main characters. |
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A Gun for George is a dark Deconstruction of this trope and Mary Sues as a concept; Terry Finch is a pulp “Men’s Action� writer who’s trademark character, The Reprisalizer, is very obviously his Author Avatar designed to carry out all his disturbingly lurid revenge fantasies. As the film progresses, Terry’s ability to discern fiction from reality degrades more and more, with the ending heavily implying that he’s becoming a vigilante and going to start murdering “bad guys� (I.e. anybody who pisses him off in any way whatsoever) for real. | |
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At the end of The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery, the show-within-the-show is derailed when a key cast member has to rush off to deal with a family emergency. One of the other cast members rapidly writes a new ending to the play, taking the opportunity to give all the other characters lines remarking on how young and beautiful her character is. | |
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In the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", an alien entity named Melllvar holds the cast of Star Trek: TOS hostage, and forces them to act out a Fanfic he has written in which he is the God-Mode Sue: In the episode "My Three Suns", Fry refuses to think ahead because short-sightedness has "gotten him this far." He tries to persuade Leela of his life philosophy with an ancient parable: Fry actually defeated the Big Brain with one of these. After the Big Brain enters several books, Fry tricks him into entering a story he wrote which made the Brain a Mary Sue. Fry died, the Brain won, and then decided to leave Earth "for no raisin". In "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences", Fry writes a superhero comic focused on "Delivery-Boy Man", an Invincible Hero who looks like him but shirtless and incredibly buff. He has a ridiculous number of powers, including laser vision, magnetism, and time travel, which he uses to completely undo everything the villain did before smooching his girlfriend. After receiving some criticism, Fry over-corrects by making Delivery-Boy Man into a Failure Hero who has no powers whatsoever and does nothing but cry while the main villain kills his girlfriend. Eventually, he manages to compromise by making Delivery-Boy Man still clearly flawed and a screwup, but also being able to defeat the villain through his "meteor-wishing power." |
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A web short made to advertise Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary features Klug writing a novel and then reading it to Sig. The main character of Klug's book is very obviously meant to be Klug himself, with a different name that's clearly still just "Klug", with the other characters being his friends and enemies with similar new names. Klug writes his hero Lemres into the story as his ally, while Raffina and Feli, his rivals, are the villains. Klug himself messes up his speech a couple times and nearly says the people's actual names instead of the altered ones he made up for the book. | |
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Roy, from Shanghai Noon, writes a series of pulp novels based on his adventures with Chon - in the books, he presents himself as an all-competent hero and portrays Chon as a racist stereotype. | |
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Yume from They Are My Noble Masters writes stories with herself as a very popular Magical Girl, to compensate for the fact that she hardly gets any attention in real life. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick points this out about Pocahontas, how John Smith's awesome was based on "accounts" of the real (portly, brown-haired, not attractive and blonde) John Smith. She herself has done this with her title card - instead of a pretty Tiny Tyrannical Girl, she's instead tall, curvy, has Tsurime Eyes, and wears a lot of purple, men are catering to her whim, and she has a bigger bust and longer legs. |
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In Suikoden III, there's Erk de Forever from 'Erk's Adventures', penned by 'Hitman Bravo', aka Ace. | |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor opens with Evelyn reading one of the books she wrote based on her experience in the previous two films to a collection of fans. One of them asks if she based the main female character on herself, with Evelyn completely denying it. Possibly a subtle reference to the fact that Evelyn was played by Rachel Weisz in the first two movies, but by Maria Bello in this one, so from the actress's point of view, the main female character during those events WAS somebody else. | |
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Marigold of Questionable Content writes Harry Potter fanfic. Very, very bad Harry Potter fanfic. In her case, less a case of Mary Sue self-insertion as pure awful writing skills. Hilarity Ensues when she shows it to a friendly character with a literature and English background and asks for her opinion. Well, one of those is actually written down by the artist. And it is So Bad, It's Good. |
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During John Major's tenure as Prime Minister, a running joke in Private Eye's 'Secret Diary of John Major' was that Jeffrey Archer would constantly send John Major novels in which 'Godfrey Bowman' was so crucial to helping 'James Colonel' that he was awarded a knighthood. | |
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In Garth Marenghis Darkplace, the eponymous character wrote the Show Within a Show in which he stars. Guess whose character is the Marty Stu leading man? | |
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A Saturday Night Live episode from 1996 was hosted by recent Republican presidential candidate Steve Forbes featured a Nightline sketch in which the topic of discussion is a Primary Colors-like Roman à Clef about the 1996 GOP race. The book's Anonymous Author is obviously Forbes himself given the Mary Sue-like terms in which the character "Teve Torbes" is described. | |
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Peanuts: Snoopy has his "Joe Cool" alter-ego, in which he believes himself to be the Big Man on Campus. Snoopy frequently imagines himself as a daring action hero in his stories. His manuscripts are always rejected by the publishers in increasingly creative ways. This runs counter to the other Running Gag of his inability to get past "It was a dark and stormy night". In addition to Snoopy himself as The World War I Flying Ace, his story about "two brothers and their sister meeting in France during World War One" had the other two siblings played by Spike and Belle. Reference is also made to Spike fighting heroically in the trenches while Snoopy engages in his aerial dogfights. |
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ABC Comics had two superhero/comedy/parody characters, the First American and his sidekick/eye-candy U.S. Angel. In one story, U.S. Angel takes a break from writing Starsky & Hutch Slash Fic to write a story about her and the First American with herself in the Mary Sue role. Then she takes a break and the First American gets hold of it and writes something completely different. In the end, they're writing about each other's humiliating deaths and their own depraved sexual hangups. At the end of the story, they make peace and enjoy writing Starsky & Hutch Slash Fic together. | |
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A regular gag in FoxTrot: The Trope Namer is an arc called His Code Name Was the Fox, in which Roger Fox wrote a hilariously horrible spy novel featuring himself as a James Bond clone, complete with unflappable calm, hyper-intelligent problem-solving skills, and women falling all over him. As expected, his wife (a professional writer) suffered a Heroic BSoD while reading it. Jason does this all the time as well, such as a strip where he wrote a proposal for a new Star Wars Special Edition...with himself slipped in as Jason Skywalker, Luke's younger brother who sides with Vader, becomes Darth Jason, and still manages to escape the second Death Star. Suffice it to say, Lucasfilm's response was negative. When Paige tries writing, she ends up making a standard fantasy story with herself as the damsel, her imaginary perfect man Pierre as a Knight in Shining Armor named 'Sir Galahunk', and Jason as a troll. The knight even briefly struggled with sparing the troll or leaving him for the boars, until real-world Jason showed up with Quincy by his side. Paige's response: "Do you know if they make 'boar whistles'?" There's also the variation when Jason will make fanfic works (movies, comics, etc.) starring Paige, usually as some sort of horrible abomination. His proposal for Titanic II, for example, starts with a ship twice as good as the original... only to have disaster strike when Paige introduces herself as a passenger. This also applies to Jason's comic book Slugman, whose arch rival is Paige-O-Tron, an airheaded robot with exploding pimple bullets, an obsession with shopping, and the ability to chatter people into madness. Not to mention his and Marcus' Dungeons & Dragons games tend to feature Paige-themed monsters. |
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Spider-Man Roger Stern's The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #246 has a series of characters: Felicia Hardy, J. Jonah Jameson, Mary Jane Watson, and Spider-Man have a series of fantasies about their idealized realities. Felicia Hardy sees herself and Spidey as glamorous international spy-adventurers and Spider-Man is secretly Cary Grant. Jameson sees himself actually beating Spidey in a straight-up fight. MJ sees herself as a successful and famous movie star. Peter Parker sees himself saving Jameson with him admitting he was wrong, and then being invited to join both the Avengers and the Fantastic Four. A team-up between Spider-Man and Captain America in Avenging Spider-Man opened with one of the comics Steve Rogers drew before he was Cap. It involves a Billy Batson-like kid named Roger Stevens who becomes the superhero Sir Spangled when he says the magic words "Rocket's Red Glare!" He also buys liberty bonds. |
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Timon & Pumbaa: In the episode "Wide Awake in Wonderland", Pumbaa can't sleep, so he has Timon read him a bedtime story from "The Little Book of Warthog Fairy Tales". Timon does, only to discover that every single story in the book portrays meerkats in a negative light. Thus, he makes up a bedtime story of his own about a handsome, brave and smart meerkat named King Timun that single-handedly defeated various evil warthogs (for instance, a ferocious fire-breathing "wartdragon") and is then rewarded for it. According to Timon, the moral of that story is that it's better to be a meerkat than a warthog. Pumbaa's reaction to this story is to fall asleep. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Lovable Sex Maniac Hlaalu Councilor Crassius Curio is this. He has written a semi-pornographic play called The Lusty Argonian Maid in which "Crantius Colto" is the main character getting his "spear" polished by the eponymous Argonian Maid. It was so popular that it received a sequel come Skyrim. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, hacking Frank Pritchard's computer reveals that he's sent a number of pitches to Picus' entertainment division for a series involving a master hacker that is a blatant Author Avatar. He gets rebuffed every time, and the latest email has the guy he's pitching to replying that the concept just isn't very interesting, compared with a rugged, at-times violent ex-cop like Adam Jensen. | |
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In the animated shorts included with the Transformers: Animated DVDs, there are several "profiles" showing footage of various characters as another character describes their personality and abilities. Starscream voices his own profile, presenting himself as basically the most awesome Decepticon ever and showing a few clips that aren't in the show itself (such as him standing atop a pile of Autobot corpses). It's only until the last clip that it shows a bit of reality—namely, Megatron shooting him in the face. | |
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The second half of The Neverending Story features a magical version when Bastian enters Fantastica and gets all his (even unconscious) wishes fulfilled. He naturally doesn't want to be a scared loser like he has been, so wish by wish, he becomes handsome, strong, brave, unbeatable in battle, famed for his wisdom, and so on. Of course, this is Power at a Price and ends up being one big lesson in Be Careful What You Wish For, including a nearly fatal case of Acquired Situational Narcissism. | |
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In El Goonish Shive: Sarah is creating a comic titled "The Wizard Sarah". Hmmm... She's jealous that the other characters have magic, so it's understandable. | |
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Diane Keaton's character in Something's Gotta Give writes a play which is a dramatization of everything that had happened in the movie up to that point, except that she has the expy of Jack Nicholson's character die because it's "funnier" that way (they end up together, of course). It plays on Broadway and is lauded as brilliant. Diane Keaton's character is an established and well-regarded playwright, though. | |
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Alan tries to write a book several times during an episode of Two and a Half Men called "Baseball Was Better With Steroids". All the attempts seem to go like a Mary Sueish representation of himself. | |
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SHAZAM! (2019)'s Creative Closing Credits are an animation of Billy's notebook doodles. In the story therein, Shazam faces exaggerated versions of his challenges in the movies with his foster family, easily outshines Superman, Batman and The Flash (It's actually Darla who outruns the Flash, but she has the same power set as Shazam) and takes Wonder Woman to the prom. | |
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In New Mutants #22, Rahne writes a story whose main character Allystraea is an idealized version of herself, a redhead fairytale princess living in an enchanted forest and able to become a wolf. She goes on a quest to kill an evil witch to avenge the death of her beloved prince. There turns out to be more to it that it appears when the evil Silver Sorceress and her henchman the Black Baron are based on Cloak and Dagger ... and the real Cloak and Dagger end up in the hospital, having been attacked by a wolf. It turns out Rahne's still suffering the effects of receiving the same drug that gave Ty and Tandy their powers in Marvel Team-Up Annual #6. | |
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In the Blackadder the Third episode "Ink and Incapability", Edmund declares that he's just finished an epic novel titled Edmund: A Butler's Tale, under the pseudonym "Gertrude Perkins" (women writers were all the rage those days). We never hear any excerpts, but Samuel Johnson describes it as "a huge roller coaster of a novel crammed with sizzling gypsies" and is eager to patronize it. Only he can't, because Baldrick threw the only copy on the fire. | |
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Spike at Your Service", Rainbow Dash reveals she's working on a novel about a pegasus who's a really great flier and who becomes captain of the Wonderbolts. | |
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Doctor Who: What few bits we hear of River Song's detective novel in "The Angels Take Manhattan" are mostly about how incredibly cool and impossibly sexy her main character Melody Malone is, who is basically herself. The Doctor claims to fancy the character. The Defictionalised book is also mainly about how sexy Melody is, mixed up with stuff about Melody flirting outrageously with various disgustingly hot rich people who all adore her, and torturously uncool Private Eye Monologue sections, but it seems River was intentionally writing in a campy style for humour, as she's very good when she concentrates. | |
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In Moving Pictures, the Librarian, an ape with a vocabulary of "Oook", was working on a screenplay for a click about a young ape who was orphaned in the big city and grew up to speak the language of humans. | |
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The film version of The Disaster Artist, which details the making of worst-film-ever The Room (2003), has the actors openly discuss the Mary Sue-ishness of Wiseau's screenplay. | |
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On NYPD Blue, former detective now private investigator Mike Roberts writes some detective stories with an obvious Author Avatar main character and other characters modeled after cops he used to work with. It's actually kind of poignant, as the Author Avatar shares a camaraderie with the other cops that Roberts never had. | |
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I. M. Meen: The titular villain writes stories about himself to boost his already huge ego. You find excerpts from four of his completed ones- "Meen, Dinosaur Hunter", "Hooray For Meen", "Meen Goes To Mars", and "The Temple Of Gloom"- on cell doors. Unfortunately, he doesn't use proper grammar, which has lead to many people disliking his work. | |
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Suikoden: In Suikoden III, there's Erk de Forever from 'Erk's Adventures', penned by 'Hitman Bravo', aka Ace. There was the "historical" play, "Imperial Love," written by Milich Oppenheimer. It casts Milich as the hero of the Scarlet Moon War in Suikoden. For the unaware, Milich started the war Brainwashed and Crazy and came close to destroying the hero's army. |
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In Dumbing of Age, Joyce Brown tries to sublimate her lustful urges by writing erotic fiction about an ace space pilot who happens to be called Julia Gray. When she tries to turn it into a comic strip, she's quick to tell Dorothy Keener that President Doris Kenner is not her, because "President Doris has dark hair". | |
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Max Hammer, the star of Noah's webcomic in Noah and Saskia, is very much an idealized version of Noah as he wishes he really was. The villains tend to be caricatures of his family. Or Ernesto. | |
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The She-Ra and the Princesses of Power episode "Roll With It" has a planning session quickly devolve into this. Glimmer imagines herself as a badass anime protagonist who's more powerful than she actually is, Bow imagines a scenario like the original She-Ra cartoon (complete with a metric ton of horrible puns), Perfuma imagines herself spontaneously growing a plant golem to take down the tower, Mermista just gives herself She-Ra's powers specifically themed to herself, and Frosta imagines herself as a gritty overpowered anti-hero with Glimmer as a sidekick. | |
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An episode of Ed, Edd n Eddy where the Eds recount a story of how they got stuck in Jonny's wall ended up with each Ed telling part of the story. In his story, Eddy is wealthy and everyone worships the ground he walks on. In Double D's story, he's more assertive than he is in real life and his friends are easily cowed by his scoldings. In Ed's story, he has superpowers and is the only one who can save the day. The story's only consistent elements were that it involved a jawbreaker bank and the Kanker sisters. | |
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In the "Woodland Critter Christmas" episode of South Park, Cartman subverts this trope for almost the entire episode (it isn't revealed the story is one he made up for class until the last few minutes), with Stan as the protagonist and a bunch of animals filling in as villains... but near the end brings in Kyle as the ideal candidate to host the Antichrist since he's Jewish and hasn't been baptized. Real Kyle gets mad when the Kyle in the story takes over as villain and Santa almost has to shoot him, but decides to let him go on and watches as the climax and falling action actually include him in the happy ending... until in the last ten seconds Cartman mentions he died of AIDS two weeks later. The episode "Fishsticks" showed that Cartman is so egotistical that he remembers actual events in this manner. He plays no significant role in creating Jimmy's joke, but by the end of the episode he remembers not only creating the joke but being universally loved by everybody and destroying an army of rampaging Jew-bots with the Human Torch's powers. |
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In Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Luigi goes on his own adventures over the course of the game that mirror Mario's, including gathering his own team of partners. He tells Mario a series of stories about his travels, which are highly exaggerated and generally portray Luigi in a much more heroic manner than he actually was; his partners will eagerly fill you in on what actually happened. His Super Luigi books are even more exaggerated, with much of their content being outright lies. | |
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Shortround in the Insecticomics is writing the ultimate in wish-fulfillment fiction (keep in mind that in reality, he's timid and very panicky). Kickback can't shake the feeling that if the story ever gets out, everyone else in the story is going to be out for Shortround's sundered spark. | |
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A recurring thread on Barney Miller involved Harris' writing and eventual publication of a novel based on his experiences with the precinct called Blood on the Badge. It occasionally leads to conflict with people he knows: Chano is incensed to discover that Harris included a real-life incident in which Chano captured a famous criminal — only to replace Chano with his own Author Avatar. A recurring Ambulance Chaser defense attorney sues Harris for the thinly-veiled depiction of him in the book. Harris starts invokedHypothetical Casting for a film version, and picks Charles Nelson Reilly as Dietrich because he's "mad at him". |
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Tales of MU: One bonus story is a piece of fanfiction written ages ago by Mack. She manages to insert herself into it... after switching the gender, so there can be a romance with a canon character. It manages to show up a few of her issues... Meanwhile, just down the corridor from her, Sooni is busy churning out a far more extreme fanfic on her favourite anime, Pretty Neko Science Princess, with herself in the title role. |
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RWBY Chibi: Ruby gets Team RWBY to perform a play about Little Red Riding Hood, but finds Yang sabotaging the skit as it progresses. When Yang and Ruby argue mid-scene, Yang accuses Ruby of being a self-inserted Mary Sue, pointing out that Ruby's written the play to revolve around herself, and used the dialogue to emphasize that she's beloved by all who meet her. | |
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In Lois & Clark, Lois is perpetually writing a romance novel. In a later season, Jimmy cracks her password ("Superman") and reveals that the main character's love interests are named "Clark" and "Kent". One is reliable and strong (her relationship with Superman), and the other is kind but flaky (her relationship with Clark). | |
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In Gossip Girl, Dan is supposed to be a talented aspiring writer, but when the camera catches a page of his most recent novel, it's a thinly-veiled retelling of recent events from his life in toe-curlingly awful prose. Only in season five does anyone call him on it, when Blair calls his book a "memoir masquerading as fiction". The few things Dan invents are also in line with the trope: Blair's character has sex with Dan's, when her real-life counterpart has made it abundantly clear that she's not interested, and Chuck's character commits suicide and isn't found for days because he's just that lonely. | |
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Mickey Mouse Comic Universe: One series of Italian stories has Goofy as a passionate hobby writer, who every so often insists on reading Mickey his latest finished story. He experiments with a lot of different genres (epic fantasy, mystery noir, globetrotting adventure), but what stays consistent is that all the stories are riddled with plot holes and factual errors to the point of becoming nonsensical... and that the main characters are always thinly-veiled Expies of Goofy and Mickey, with the Goofy expy being the best, the brightest, the toughest and the one who is always right about everything, while the Mickey expy is the hapless sidekick who makes all the mistakes and is constantly in need of rescue. | |
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In A Second Chance, while being stuck as the storyteller for a group of hospitalized kids, Ryan recounts a very embellished version of his first encounter with One Eye, where he frames himself as a muscle-bound Rambo copy and effortlessly beats up the wolf, here depicted as a behemoth with saber-teeth and spikes covering his back, after the latter kidnapped his friends, that being Lynn, here shown as a hysterical Damsel in Distress wearing a red dress, Lincoln, here depicted as wearing a diaper and suckling on a pacifier, and Lucy and Lana, who are manic, cheering fans who even dress like Ryan. | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Powered By The Cheat toons, The Cheat is wildly popular and successful and given multiple trophies for no reason. "The Cheat is a millionaire! A parade for The Cheat!" In the Strong Bad Email fan club, Strong Sad inserts himself into a "SBEmail fanfic" as a superhero named Twelve-Times-A-Day Man. After being humiliated in the first part of the first episode of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, Homestar monopolizes (among other things, simultaneously) Strong Bad's drawing table as he works on his 23-part graphic novel about a guy who wins the Race to the End of the Race, isn't wanted for public indecency and dumps Marzipan for a much hotter girl who still likes him. Or he will once he can think of a good name for the main character. Not to mention Strong Bad's occasional Teen Girl Squad cameo as "Sir Hotbod Handsomeface". Strong Bad actually has such a consistent pattern with imagined alter-egos being tall, muscular versions of himself that they earned a wiki article. Dangeresque is this and then some, especially in Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective, where most of the dialogue and a number of plot elements exist to show how awesome Strong Bad's character is. The SBEmail "hygiene" has Strong Bad make a cruddy personal hygiene movie about John (played by Homestar), a fifth grader with terrible hygiene and no friends, and Gene (played by Strong Bad himself), "a beacon of light shining through the stink cloud generated by John." The movie goes on to explain why John sucks and Gene is awesome. Subverted at the end, where John goes to an out-of-state college to reinvent himself, while Gene spends the rest of the fifth grade, and possibly his life, struggling to keep up his reputation. |
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In Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl and its movie adaptation, Amy's parents have done this on her behalf, writing books about a character called "Amazing Amy" who always does things a little better than her and makes what they think are better choices. Being compared to her fictional counterpart kind of screws the real Amy up. Just how much becomes apparent over time. | |
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The Arknights event Ancient Forge follows the plot of a movie co-written by and starring Lava and Nian. Lava, in reality a rookie Caster still learning how to properly harness her Originium Arts, is depicted as one of Rhodes Island's strongest operators, a master of fire Arts, the only one smart enough to figure out how to save the day, and she's given a cool new outfit to go along with all this. Meanwhile, Nian portrays herself as an Invincible Villain and gives herself new powers based on whatever she thinks would be cool at the time, such as summoning an army of immortal terracotta soldiers or cleaving through a fortified city wall with a single swing of her sword. Unlike Lava, though, it's implied she's not embellishing her abilities; she's one of several Pieces of God and could probably do all of that and more if she wanted to. | |
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The short-lived 1995 UPN show Deadly Games is about the protagonist's video game being brought to life. The game itself is very much like this; the protagonist is a hero named "the Cold-Steel Kid", his ex-wife is the love interest, and the villains are all people he knows and dislikes for very petty reasons. | |
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In the Firefly comic Better Days, the crew tells stories about what they'll do with their cut of the giant pile of cash they've scored. When Jayne tells his story, he's a badass Captain of a ship that's so powerful it commands the respect and fear of the Alliance, has carved out a section of space all to himself, and is surrounded by an all-female crew who refer to him as "Your Manliness." | |
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In the Thanksgiving episode of Hey Arnold! Mr. Simmons class made a Thanksgiving play for the school. The characters are really based on his relatives who in real life are bums whose lives aren't really as happy as his play portrayed them to be. | |
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In Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse, Episode 5, the living room in Max's brain has a rack of 'ideas for novels in audiobook vinyl form', which can be listened to. One of them is a "Fan Fiction" about Flint Paper, which ends when Flint says that to solve the mystery, he needs to rely on "his best friend - Max!". The other stories are a Dan Brown Take That! starring a Mary Sue, with the Ancient Conspiracy involving Eli Whitney and two completely insane but violent works starring obvious Author Avatars. | |
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The title character of Doug often imagines himself as either Quail-Man (a rather odd Superhero that is basically Doug with a belt on his head, underwear over his pants, and a blanket as a cape) or himself as Smash Adams (a generic Tuxedo and Martini superspy that Doug is a fan of). The actual Imagine Spots don't really give that much story detail, though. A more explicit example is one episode where Doug tries to actually produce a comic for Quail-Man and asks Skeeter for help. Skeeter is more than willing, but also brings his own character (Silver Skeeter) to the equation. Due to Silver Skeeter constantly showing up Quail-Man with New Powers as the Plot Demands, this led to Creative Differences. | |
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Slayers X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengance of the Slayer is a game made in-universe by Zane Lofton, the teenaged edgelord from Hypnospace Outlaw now grown up, starring himself as a gunslinging badass with mystical "Hackblood" powers who fights bad guys while being mentored by the lead singer of his favorite Nu-Metal band. The villain of the game is a retail manager dating his mom as Zane's way of dealing with his mother promiscuity, a terrible step-father and his current crappy retail job. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email fan club, Strong Sad inserts himself into a "SBEmail fanfic" as a superhero named Twelve-Times-A-Day Man. | |
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In the Voyager episode "Author, Author", the Doctor tries to publish his novel. He's quite the Marty Stu within it (in particular a Sympathetic Stu), while the rest of the crew are Jerkasses. To teach him a lesson, Paris rewrites it to depict the Doctor as a jerkass who injects the overly-innocent Seven of Nine with a Klingon aphrodisiac. The Doctor gets the general idea. | |
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A slight variation: instead of creating a fictional world where he was a hero, Doctor Doom and the Puppet Master once transplanted the Fantastic Four's consciousnesses into tiny robots, altered their memories to have them leading mundane lives in which they had never gotten powers, and stuck them in a miniature model of a town. Doom "wrote" himself into their lives by masquerading as Reed's Jerkass boss, who spent all his time bullying Reed mercilessly, docking his pay, forcing him to work overtime, ridiculing his work, and generally making his life miserable. This scenario is probably one of Doom's Top Five Wet Dreams (which all probably revolve around making Reed's life hell), so despite Doom being a villain even in his own story, it fits the entire purpose of a Self-Insert Fic to a tee. Or perhaps he was deluded enough to think that his character was a hero for tormenting that accursed Richards. | |
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A team-up between Spider-Man and Captain America in Avenging Spider-Man opened with one of the comics Steve Rogers drew before he was Cap. It involves a Billy Batson-like kid named Roger Stevens who becomes the superhero Sir Spangled when he says the magic words "Rocket's Red Glare!" He also buys liberty bonds. | |
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One episode of How I Met Your Mother was centered around a Romantic Comedy film named The Wedding Bride turning out to be one of these written by Ted's ex-fiancée's husband. | |
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Housepets! gives us the dog Peanut, who imagines himself as the hunky superhero dog Spot. Spot shares many of Peanut's qualities such as his secret fondness of cats. Mostly Spot just shows up as filler comics apparently authored by Peanut, but it led to some problems when Peanut assumed Spot's identity in a simulation in which everyone else took on the identities of characters in a book series they were fond of. | |
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The website Funny or Die has Dean Norris spoiling Breaking Bad with a script he wrote, in which everyone fawns over his character, who gains superpowers and gets his hair back. | |
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In the Wander over Yonder episode "The Cartoon", Lord Hater has the Watchdogs make a cartoon based on him, blatantly resulting in this trope; he explicitly refers to the finished work as propaganda. Of course, that's just one of the cartoon's flaws… | |
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In I Love Lucy, Lucy decides to write an autobiography, in which she makes herself a gorgeous red-headed goddess and Ethel, Fred, and Ricky incompetent, unlikeable buffoons. She doesn't even care to get the details right (for instance, writing Ricky as arriving in America alone by boat in Ellis Island when he immigrated by plane with several family members). Her friends dispose of the manuscript, only for Lucy to smugly announce that she got a publishing deal, and they hastily try to put it back together so that Lucy can get paid. But the publisher later reveals that he wanted only to publish excerpts for their How to Write a Novel series — in particular, the chapter "Don't Let This Happen to You". | |
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Frasier/Cheers: In the last episode of Cheers, Diane is seen winning a Cable ACE Award for a Made-for-TV Movie she authored called The Heart Held Hostage, the central character of which is a thinly-veiled version of fellow barmaid Carla. In the Frasier episode "The Show Where Diane Comes Back", Diane is revealed to have written a play based heavily on her experiences in Cheers, with Expies of all the show's characters, Frasier included. Diane becomes "Mary-Anne", who is the smartest person in the bar; everyone adores her, even "Franklin", who doesn't mind that she left him at the altar for another man. Frasier sees right through it, and given that Diane did exactly that to him and he's not over it, has a chance to spew one of the show's hammiest and funniest The Reason You Suck Speeches: Frasier reveals that Frasier and Niles, when they were kids, co-wrote a series of The Hardy Boys-style books called The Crane Boys Mysteries about "two plucky lads who used their keen psychological insights to solve crimes brought home by their detective father". |
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In Friends, Joey writes a play as a transparent ploy to try to make Ross and Chandler make up (and Rachel and Monica make out), in which he is introduced as "a handsome man" whom all the other characters compliment. Indeed, he injects himself into the threesome that he writes for Monica and Rachel. | |
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The Sopranos: Christopher Moltesanti produces a horror film, Cleaver, where undead mobster Michael comes back for revenge on his boss Salvatore and his cheating fiancé. It's quite obvious that Michael is a stand-in for Christopher, Salvatore for Tony, and Michael's fiancée for Adriana. | |
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch writes a cheesy spy story, but in an unusual spin on this trope she doesn't write herself as the heroine; instead, she makes her friends Valerie and Harvey the heroes, her teacher Mrs. Quick becomes a Gadgeteer Genius, and Vice Principal Kraft becomes an evil Bond villain who gives out exploding detention slips. Hilda admits the reason she didn't throw out the magical typewriter like Zelda ordered her to was because she loved to write romances with herself as the heroine and watch them come true. | |
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WarioWare Gold: Scanning amiibos produces drawings of characters made by Wario. Most of them are cartoonishly awful, but Wario amiibos produce images that are significantly better-looking and depict Wario as either a ruggedly handsome hunk◊ or a Bishie Sparkle-coated pretty boy◊. | |
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In the beginning an episode of Dexter's Laboratory, Dexter serves as the Killer Game Master to his friends in a D&D clone. The Big Bad of the campaign is a Villain Sue named "Zoraz, Master of Doom", and when Dexter's friends convince him to let Dee-Dee take over as GM for a while, Dexter wants to play an over-powered warrior-mage named "Gygax". | |
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Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts: Klungo's self-developed games, Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh World and the sequel Hero Klungo Sssavesss Teh Universsse fit this quite well. Klungo's games feature himself as the hero, saving planets from his former mistress, and the accompanying◊ artwork◊ hilariously exaggerates Klungo himself and the actual content of his games. | |
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Gravity Falls: "Bottomless Pit": Dipper, Soos, and Mabel have to tell stories to pass the time while falling down a pit. Stan gets a brief story in called "Grunkle Stan wins the Football Bowl", where Stan scores the winning touchdown, manages to teach football players about the usefulness of old people, and managed to invent a robot, Footbot. Needless to say, Soos, Dipper, and Mabel do not like the story. In "Sock Opera", Mabel's big, musical puppet show is essentially about her and her crush-of-the-week falling in love and getting married. The first song is about how great Mabel is. |
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The earliest and perhaps one of the more extreme versions of someone doing this with the Holodeck was featured in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Hollow Pursuits". Lt. Barclay, a shy and socially-backward member of the engineering team, has become addicted to his fantasies to the point of neglecting his real-world duties. When in the Holodeck, he's confident and forceful, playing against versions of the crew that were bumbling and ridiculous fools, including a snide, bratty Wesley, a much-shorter Commander Riker, and a sultry "Goddess of Empathy" bearing the likeness of Troi. | |
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