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Mary Sue

stock character; youthful but one-dimensional character with overly idealized and hackneyed mannerisms, often considered a stand-in for the author
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Summary

Mary Sue is a stock character[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of stock character entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10,879 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Named after: Q140354409[3]
  • Subclass of: author surrogate[4], self-insertion[5]
  • Described by source: Geek Heroines: An Encyclopedia of Female Heroes in Popular Culture[6], Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction[7]

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Influence

Things named for Mary Sue include The it[8], a website[9].

Why It Matters

Mary Sue has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[10] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[11]

Entities named for it include The it[8], a website[9].

Related Entities

The Mary Sue

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [9] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [10] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [11] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Mary Sue. Retrieved October 16, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-sue
MLA “Mary Sue.” 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph, 4ort.xyz, 16 Oct. 2026, https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-sue.
BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_mary-sue_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Mary Sue}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/mary-sue}, note = {Accessed: 2026-10-16}}
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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4d ago · Xezbeth · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hu', 'it', 'ja', 'ko', 'p
    All the tropes article id → Mary_Sue
    Sitelink count → 21
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ All the tropes article id: Mary_Sue"
  2. 16w ago · Rose Abrams · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → stock character
    Subclass of → author surrogate, self-insertion
    Aliases → —
    Described by source → Geek Heroines: An Encyclopedia of Female Heroes in Popular Culture, Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Named after: Q140354409"
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