Is Your Character a Mary Sue?

Is your character a Mary Sue? This in depth quiz can help you find out. After all, the first step to recovery is accepting you have a problem (or your character in this case).

This quiz is intended to be used to diagnose original characters for original stories. While it may work for fan characters, I recommend you take another quiz because the results may be inaccurate.

Created by: Stelluna of Stelluna's Writing 101
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What kind of name does your character have?
- A simple but memorable one, nothing too fancy
- Something that describes them as a person
- A really long, elegant name
- They have a really long name, but they go by something short
- A completely average name like Bob or Sally, something along those limes
- Something exotic, unusual for their lineage
- Other
Is your character a teenager?
- No
- Yes
Is your character particularly skilled for their age? (ex. your character is just barely a teenager, but they are really skilled at fighting, etc.)
- No
- Yes, they are naturally good at what they do
- Yes, but it's because they received extensive training when they were younger
- Yes, they received their skill through someone/something else (spirit, a god, etc.)
Does your character come from royalty or nobility?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, but they don't know
Does your character have a tragic past?
- Not at all
- A little tragic
- Sort of tragic
- Very tragic
- Extremely tragic
Does your character's tragic past frequently come up in the story?
- They don't have a tragic past
- No
- Only sometimes
- Yes
- Yes, I use this as a way to explain why the character acts the way they do
- Yes, I use this as a way to progress the plot
Is your character the sole survivor of a great tragedy, genocide, or the last of a family or species?
- No
- Yes
- They don't think so, but they really are
- They think so, but they're really not
Was your character raised by someone other than their parents for any reason? (ex. they're adopted, an orphan, a runaway, they were abandoned, they were kidnapped, etc.)
- No
- Yes
Did your character watch their parents or other loved others die?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, they killed them themselves
Has your character ever been responsible for (or thought they were responsible) for the death of a loved one?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, multiple
Does your character come from another country, world, or universe than the other characters?
- No
- Sort of
- Yes
Is your character spoken of in prophesies?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, multiple
Is your character a "chosen one?"
- No
- Sort of
- Yes
- Yes, but they don't know it
Does your character ever "just know things" that they shouldn't know?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, but it's because they're an eavesdropper
- Yes, but it's because they have psychic powers
Does your character have any particular special powers?
- No
- Yes, one
- Yes, two or more
- Yes, all of them
Does your character have powers that could be considered supernatural? (ex. talking to or seeing ghosts, talking to animals/nature, etc.)
- No
- Sort of
- Yes
Does your character have any special item that they get their power(s) from? (ex. an amulet, a ring, a staff, a gem, etc.)
- No
- Yes, one
- Yes, more than one
If you answered yes to the last question, do they ever lose it or does it ever fail on them?
- They don't have one
- No
- Yes
- Yes, on multiple occasions
If your character has any powers, do they have drawbacks?
- My character doesn't have any powers
- No
- Yes
- Yes, a lot
Is your character extremely physically strong?
- No
- Sort of
- Yes
- Yes, they've had excessive training
- Yes, they have superhuman strength
When compared to other characters in your story's world, is your character among the strongest?
- No (or they don't fight)
- Yes
- Yes, but their incompetency makes them not good at fighting
- Yes, but they don't understand how to control their strength, so they're not good at fighting
Would you say your character is a god or "god-tier?"
- No
- Sort of
- Yes
- Yes, but there are people who keep them in check
Is your character a popular recognizable mythical creature like a werewolf, vampire, fairy, mermaid, etc?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, they are a hybrid of multiple
Is your character any type of "kemonomimi" (person with animal ears)?
- No (or they're not human)
- Yes
- Yes, but they are more animalistic than human
If you answered yes to the last question, is your character at all affected by their animalistic features?
- No, they don't have animal ears
- No, they are basically just a person with animal ears
- Yes, but its only minimal things (ex. a cat person who purrs, but isn't further affected, etc.)
- Yes, they act a little animalistic
- Yes, they act very animalistic
Does your character have unnaturally colored eyes or eyes with unnaturally occurring traits? (ex. color changing, sparkling, pupils are a strange shape, etc.)
- No
- No, but their eyes change to an unnatural color while using their powers
- Yes
- Yes, they give them special powers
- Yes, but they wear colored contact lenses
Does your character have heterochromia? (both eyes are different colors)
- No
- Yes
Does your character have unnaturally colored hair?
- No
- Yes, they were born with it
- Yes, but their hair changed that color later in life
- Yes, but they dyed it that color
Does your character have multicolored hair?
- No
- Yes, 2-3 colors
- Yes, 4 or more colors
How many colors are in your characters color scheme? (excluding their skin tone)
- 1, the color scheme is monochromatic
- 2-3
- 4-5
- 6+
- They have a rainbow color scheme
Would you consider your character to be the "every man?"
- No
- Yes
Is your character generally liked other characters?
- No, people don't like them at all
- No, but only because nobody notices them
- Sort of, they can be hard to get along with
- Yes, they try to be kind to everyone, even if some people dislike them
- Yes, they are so friendly that everyone likes them
- Yes, but they're the one who doesn't like anybody
Do other characters frequently gawk over or compliment your character?
- No
- Sometimes
- Yes
- Yes, but my character doesn't like it
- Yes, but they're weird people
- Yes, but they're being sarcastic
Is your character particularly handsome or beautiful?
- No, they're below average
- No, they're about average
- They're slightly above average
- Yes
- Yes, but the don't care/don't notice
- Yes, but they've gotten some sort of body modification
Is your character the target of affection from others?
- They are too young
- No
- Yes, their lover
- Yes, 1 person who is not their lover
- Yes, 2 or more people
- Yes, generally everyone
How many characters are in love with your character?
- None, they are too young
- 0
- 1-3
- 4-6
- 7+
What is your character's outlook on life?
- They are extremely optimistic
- They are mostly optimistic
- They go with the flow
- They are mostly pessimistic
- They are extremely pessimistic
What does your character want most in life? (pick the one they want most)
- A social life (friends, family, a lover, etc)
- Fame and fortune
- To help people or to defeat evil
- A purpose
- They already have everything they could ever want
- They don't know yet
- I don't know yet
- Other
Is your character extremely innocent or naive for their age?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, and people think it's cute
- Yes, and people think it's annoying
- Yes, and people think they're stupid
Would you say your character is "pure of heart?"
- Not at all
- Mostly no
- They're average
- They do what they have to
- Mostly yes
- 100%
What are your characters thoughts on morality?
- They are a pacifist
- They are a reformed warmonger who is now a pacifist
- They are neutral and will only attack when met with violence
- They used to be a pacifist, but are now neutral after their pacifism failed
- They are a warmonger and will attack with brute force
- They used to be a pacifist, but are now a warmonger after their pacifism failed
- Fighting doesn't really affect them, it's just a thing they do
Has your character ever been able to befriend and reform a villain?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, multiple times
- Yes, but the villain was actually using them
- They were able to befriend them, but they ended up joining the dark side
On a scale of 1-5, how smart is your character?
- 1, they can barely figure out how to open a jar of mayonnaise
- 2, they aren't the sharpest tool in the shed
- 3, they are about average
- 4, they are a bit smarter than the average person
- 5, they are a genius
Is your character really witty and always has a quip to come back with?
- No
- Yes, but not always
- Yes
Has your character ever snapped under pressure?
- No, they can keep their cool
- Yes, but only one time
- Yes
- Yes, frequently, they don't work well under pressure
Does your character ever die while saving someone, but get brought back to life?
- No, they haven't died saving anyone
- No, they stayed dead
- Yes
- Yes, more than once
Does your character ever, at any point in the story, die and get brought back to life?
- No, they don't die
- No, they stay dead
- Yes
- Yes, multiple times
- Sort of, they're a reincarnation
Have they ever failed while setting out to accomplish a goal? (ex. fighting a powerful enemy, retrieving a macguffin, etc.)
- No
- No, but that's because their goals are mundane and easy to achieve
- Yes, once
- Yes, on multiple occasions
- Yes, but they did it on accident in a stupid way
- They have never once accomplished a goal
Has your character ever had to rely on the help of others to overcome a situation?
- No, they've never been in a situation that required the help of others
- No, they are able to overcome everything alone
- No, they are too stubborn to rely on other people
- Yes, but they were hesitant or it was against their will
- Yes
Does your character have mental illness such as depression, bipolar disorder, multi personality disorder, or any other similar disorder?
- No
- Yes
- Yes, multiple
Is their mental disorder(s) used as a way to excuse crimes they have committed or strange behavior?
- No (or they don't have mental illnesses)
- Yes
Does your character have any flaws that make things hard for them or other characters dislike them for?
- No
- Yes, one
- Yes, a few
- Yes, multiple
Does your character have any small flaws that could be considered "cute" or "quirky?" (ex. they're shy, they're too pretty, they giggle when they're nervous, etc.)
- No
- Yes, one
- Yes, multiple
- Yes, but people find them annoying for it
Does your character change as a person throughout the story?
- My character isn't in a story yet
- No
- No, they're already a great person, so they don't need to change
- No, because they are stuck in their ways
- Sort of, but they stay mostly the same
- Yes,
- Yes, a lot
De-Suifier: Do you ever poke fun at your character's flaws or use them to progress the plot?
- No
- Yes
De-Suifier: Is your character 40+ and looks their age?
- No, they are not 40+
- No, they look younger
- No, they look older
- Yes
De-Suifier: Does your character ever act petty, selfish, lazy, or pointlessly cruel for no other reason than their own benefit?
- No
- Yes
De-Suifier: Does your character fall in love, only to get rejected?
- No
- Yes
De-Suifier: Does your character get over their tragic past with the help of another person/lover?
- No, they didn't have a tragic past
- No
- Yes
De-Suifier: Does your character have a fear that they can't overcome at a crucial moment?
- No
- Yes

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