Subject: A grave conundrum
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Posted on: 2010-03-09 08:12:00 UTC

I was wondering, are there any worlds that get written off? I mean, if a canon Sue exists, what do we do about it?
Were those worlds originally innocent, that became possessed by a Sue that is so powerful it perverted reality sufficiently to make it unrecoverable? Or are they simply an ignored part of the fandom. If so, something needs to be done.
For instance, take Terry Goodkind. While he is a gifted author, his characters a blatant power fantasy's and Sues, and are used to shunt his personal political views down our throat, and women are simply there to be abused and raped. And of course, Satan logic.
If you don't agree with me, well each to their own, I will admit I can understand why those less cynical and embittered, or less idealistic may enjoy them, but I see them this way.
As such, Richard could be seen as a Sue, quite easily. Now Goodkind has forbidden fanfiction, so is that because Sues respect him enough to keep of his turf/fear him?
And does our organization leave him alone because we know any attempt to remove him will simply make things worse?
A less controversial example is probably Twilight. While many consider it a mainstream guilty (or not so guilty pleasure). Nothing wrong with that. Many people enjoy Sue stories too. Some of us are probably guilty.
So what is the organizations view on that?
Or Eragon. Blatant Sue, most characters only exist to praise him, he can do anything, and the evil empire only exists because Eragon needs something to oppose.
He learns to read, fluently, in a week. He becomes a master swordsman in two months. And so on.
This is an honest question. I do not judge you for liking them. Hell, I've written for the Eragon fandom, because despite ripping off Tolkien and other authors, he does have potential.

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