How to avoid mary sue

If your protagonist isn’t causing some of their own issues, whether from flaws in their personality, poor judgement, or not being up to a task, they’re in risk of becoming a Mary Sue. Many, many writers craft morally upstanding heroes and then set the world against them.

Not only are these hindrances self-inflicted, but they can be overcome after sufficient character growth, adding much needed color to the dramatic thrust of the story. But upon closer inspection, all the so-called “flaws” that a Mary Sue possesses aren’t really flaws at all.

A Mary Sue is a Friend to All Living Things who is So Beautiful, It’s A Curse and can solve any problem in five minutes or less? Then an Anti-Sue will be The Grotesque and an Enemy to All Living Things who never does anything right.

Originally Answered: Is Hermione Granger considered a Mary–Sue character? No. She was JK Rowling’s self insert. This is different from a Mary Sue, which is a character that warps reality.

Under this definition, no character in Harry Potter can be a Mary Sue, because the series itself is not a fanfiction. There’s also an ugly side to the term. It’s often used to put down any powerful female character, and is only rarely used against male characters.

No he’s a male character. Male characters are called Gary Stu’s first of all. He also makes plenty of mistakes and has many flaws, so I would not classify him as this. Seen through Harry’s eyes in the earlier books, maybe.

No. Because the original definition of a Mary Sue/Gary Stu was a self inserted character into a fanfiction. Since Percy appears in original works by Rick Riordan then he cannot be a Gary Stu by the original definition.