Sunday, September 7, 2014

Hot Button Topic: Mary Sues and their counterpart Marty Stu - and the JAG (Military) Mary Sue.

Holy Jumpin' Jehosephat.  When the hell does she find time to sleep?  
or the "I can't fit everything on the proper side because I've got too many fucking medals" syndrome

"The archetypal Military Mary Sue"
  
  1. Wounded so many times in battle she can't walk through an airport metal detector without setting it off.
  2. More decorations and attachments (meaning subsequent awards) than a person can acquire in one lifetime, let alone three.
  3. Been to Iraq, Afghanistan so many times that she's lost count.  
  4. Fast tracked all the way to O-6 before she hits 25 because she's good like that.
  5. Is only 25 but she's managed to find enough time to pass Marine Jump School, study to become a Naval Aviator; and go through BUD/s training to become a SEAL.  
  6. has "won" not "received" the Medal of Honor because to her, everything is a competition and if you ain't won the blue button, you ain't won shit. 
  7. Is going to somehow get promoted to Fleet Admiral (5-stars) even though that rank hasn't been in use since the 1950s.  
  8. Is an expert marksman in both rifle and pistol, can shoot anything in the US military inventory up to and including the M65 Atomic Cannon...and damned near everything in the Soviet military arsenal too.  
  9. Went to the Air Force for an year to show them "how its done" even though she's 25.  
  10. Commanded a Navy fighter squadron, a Navy SEAL unit all at the same time.  
  11. Is planning to qualify to become an astronaut at the age of 26.  
  12. Shot down so many MiGs Erich Hartmann (the ranking ace) is threatening to come back from the afterlife to get a few more kills before she overtakes him.  She's coming up on 335 kills (17 shy of his record).  Yeah...she's that damned good.  
  13. Can tell the admiral off in 17 different languages and in Ancient Urdu too.  
  14. She's also planning on going to law school concurrently as she's taking astronaut training.  After all with what happened during Season 1 Recovery, hell, NASA will need a JAG lawyer too.  
  15. Can come up with a solution faster than the canon cast can come up with a problem; will more often than not solve the problem before the cast can even come up with the problem.  
  16. "Everybody likes me!!!"  and she can get anyone she wants with a crook of her little finger.   
  17. She can kick anyone's ass...since she knows 15 different types of martial arts.
  18. Always the first one to come up with a solution while everyone else stands around looking at each other or in adulation of her.   
  19. (more to come when I can think up of more). 
Are you writing a Military Mary Sue or Marty Stu?

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