If you have a few minutes...

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...please pick a manga or anime character you're familiar with and head over to the Universal Mary-Sue Litmus Test and score him or her, and put the results in the comments. Thanks!



Bleach, Ichigo - 66
Death Note, L - 36
Inu-Yasha, Inu-Yasha - 60
Naruto, Naruto - 69
Rurouni Kenshin, Kenshin - 66

(So far, nobody's beat Drizzt's 71.)


This came from the comments in my previous entry, and I think I'll just repost my rambling on it here:

So far I predict that the standard shounen heroes will all be Stus, because that seems to be a prerequisite for that sort of character. OTOH, Gary Stu and Mary Sue characters tend to appeal directly to the target demographic of 14-year-old boys and girls (the age at which most of you confess to voraciously reading Forgotten Realms novels XD), so there's really no surprise in that.

Comments

Re: SDK characters (because I'm so subjecting more of them to this...)

[chomiji]

But of course! He has such a reputation! (And in multiple areas, too!) And political enemies. And tactical genius. And is cute as the dickens, despite (seemingly) having an alcohol habit that could kill a moose.

Re: SDK characters (because I'm so subjecting more of them to this...)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

And I even let him slide on...several things.

I think the reason Yuya is the only one to escape so far is that she doesn't get to fight.

And can you imagine Kyoshiro if he were around the whole time? (I mean, he's already the most special snowflake in the series.)