on the topic of questions... by
a rather puzzled platypus
on 2013-01-02 15:10:00 UTC
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On the subject of questions, can your agent be recruited from a six page short short story?
Use canonical methods. by
Calista
on 2013-01-02 04:10:00 UTC
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The best way to kill a Sue is to use an ironic, canonical method. And the safest way is to use a ranged weapon. So, if you can find an ironic, canonical ranged weapon? Go for it. Legolas fangirl Sues can usually be taken down very well by an Elven-made bow, for example. Or an Orcish bow or crossbow (I think the Uruk-Hai had crossbows, didn't they?), which could well be part of the disguise.
Of course, your agents have to be proficient in the weapon in question. Most agents will have some kind of training, but newbies may be reduced to simple weapons anyone can use, and even the most experienced ones may have to improvise. If worst comes to worst, a heavy rock to the skull will take down most Sues.
In some cases, the Sue is so flat that she is unable to comprehend that the agents are going to assassinate her. It could literally be possible to grab her, tie her up, and throw her off a cliff without encountering anything but misspelled protests. But some Sues will fight back, and if they fight back, your agents should fight dirty. Thankfully, Sues are not very creative combatants, since most of their writers don't know how to write battle scenes and simply hand their Sue the victory, with or without just-for-show flourishes. The biggest danger from Sues in combat is just that they are overpowered, so it's a bad idea to take them on head-on. Creativity, stealth, and dirty fighting should be the order of the day.
It's really not the Sues that are so dangerous; it's the canons. A well-written canon under Suefluence does not suffer from the lack of creativity that Sues have. Those who are mostly in character aren't too much of a threat because of the SEP field, but if they're OOC enough to notice or the Sue calls them into the fight on her side, your agents have the problem of dealing with sometimes very skilled combatants who should not be killed. This is why you want the Sue alone for the assassination. Otherwise, you may end up with an infuriated, Sued Aragorn chasing you through a mysteriously spiderless Mirkwood, convinced that you are out to kill the girl he loves so much that he has completely forgotten about Arwen.
Not that this wouldn't be amusing to write about. Unlike Sues, agents are not perfect and do not have their battles handed to them on a silver platter.