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Q&A How to identify a (personal) Canon Sue?

Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't possible at all. Then as a writer you can cr...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by M.N.Raia‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T13:12:58Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/48852
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar M.N.Raia‭ · 2019-12-08T13:12:58Z (about 5 years ago)
Sometimes (as an intelligent species, and therefore creative, speculative about reality and so on...) we want to experience some situations which aren't possible at all. Then as a writer you can create a character who "lives that cool stuff which I (the writer) WANTED but isn't possible." Well, this thought defines the notion of "A character who was born to fulfill an author's power fantasy [1]." But, again, as a writer you introduce a story. Then you have a character who has this "feature of a Canon Sue" but isn't.

Considering a part of this video [1], how can I identify a Canon Sue? I mean, suppose that you want to fly by yourself. Are you really creating a Canon Sue by inventing a character who can "live your dream"/"do something that the author wants to do but is impossible in our reality" (fly by yourself), even though you have a proper story of this character to tell?

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<sup>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXVGIi1m28" rel="noreferrer">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcXVGIi1m28</a> (in time interval of 3:16 - 3:20)</sup>

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2019-11-06T11:56:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 8