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Post by Alohilani on Jun 23, 2008 8:41:37 GMT -5
Well, that makes me feel better about how Kila never gets less than a 50.
I would, however, worry if you get an INSANELY high score. Say, over 90. I mean, I wouldn't freak out, but I would reccommend having someone not you whose work you respect take a look at your character, just in case.
Oh, and on the other end of the scale? I've seen people put horrible OCs through that test and get good scores. So, if the test can't tell when something IS off, how can it tell when it's not?
So true. In any other show, I think all of Team Lightyear would be annoying. (Yes, even XR. He'd just come off as the requisite loudmouth.) See, the thing is, what I think the writers did is that nearly every character in the series is making fun of their own cliche. Some of them, mainly love interests, aren't good enough at it to be entertaining, they just come off as cardboard, but other characters- Team Lightyear especially- do it fantastically.
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Post by loony on Aug 6, 2008 16:16:42 GMT -5
I didn't even bother putting Stellar into this, I KNOW she'll get a high score. I kind of killed her anyway, so whatever. I put Twoey in instead. She got a 73. But I think that was because I took the test wrong and I did more than one category.
My problem with this is they don't put any questions in for characters who happen to be robots. So that accounts for some of the "good at everything" or the "has awesome powers". I guess I prolly got a few points for those...I dunno, kind of ticked me off...
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Post by ckret2 on Aug 9, 2008 10:48:12 GMT -5
My problem with this is they don't put any questions in for characters who happen to be robots. So that accounts for some of the "good at everything" or the "has awesome powers". I guess I prolly got a few points for those...I dunno, kind of ticked me off... Good point; there are all sorts of little qualifications like that that can mess up a test. For example, I've got one OC from a canon species that, the way I write them, can learn any language they hear in minutes. So for the question "how many languages does this character know?" where it offers a whole bunch of boxes to check, I just checked in every single one, since he knows literally thousands of languages. That probably knocked up his score quite a bit. Even so, "good at everything" is a rather... not good thing, isn't it? Not even robots are good at everything--perhaps they're abnormally good at calculations, and perhaps the robot has some sort of programming to make their aim almost perfect with a gun, but with robot characters (with any characters, really), it still doesn't make sense for them to be good at everything. Take characters like XR. He rather sucks at the whole "social interaction" thing (although his blunders make him adorable). And he's blown up really, really easily. Unless the POINT of a character is to be "good at everything" and it's somehow significant to the story that this character be a very literal deus ex machina--perhaps most of the story is about fighting over the robot, as sides try to capture it and use it as a weapon--then not even a robot should be. As for "has awesome powers," I think that if these powers are the same kind of powers that all the robots have, then they don't count; it would be like a character who can use magic in Harry Potter's universe. Awesome to us, yes; awesome to the characters, no. Unless the character has special abilities that go above and beyond even what normal robots can do, which is a whole new can of worms. Just further evidence that Mary Sue litmus tests are worthless, I suppose. XD
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Post by loony on Aug 14, 2008 17:31:55 GMT -5
I quite agree...maybe someone should make/find a Mary Sue test that covers the SciFi universe too, because the SciFi world has their share of Mary Sues as well...(did you know that Star Trek has the honor of creating the first Fanfiction!Mary Sue?)
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Post by Warp Darkmatter on Nov 1, 2008 15:27:35 GMT -5
The first time through this...I embarressed myself...I'm saying how, but it wasn't pretty. The second time was good though, Raey got a 17. Oops, I said.
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Post by ChapstickFantastic on Nov 1, 2008 16:56:13 GMT -5
I quite agree...maybe someone should make/find a Mary Sue test that covers the SciFi universe too, because the SciFi world has their share of Mary Sues as well...(did you know that Star Trek has the honor of creating the first Fanfiction!Mary Sue?) Yeah, there's something to be said about mary-sues in space. There's a lot more things that can be done to a character out in the Sci-Fi world that just doesn't work in single-world mary-sues.
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Post by Robbie Valiant, P.I. on Nov 1, 2008 18:24:26 GMT -5
I quite agree...maybe someone should make/find a Mary Sue test that covers the SciFi universe too, because the SciFi world has their share of Mary Sues as well...(did you know that Star Trek has the honor of creating the first Fanfiction!Mary Sue?) Yeah, there's something to be said about mary-sues in space. There's a lot more things that can be done to a character out in the Sci-Fi world that just doesn't work in single-world mary-sues. I actually ran the Doctor and Rose Tyler through- Doctor as "original fiction", and Rose as fan fiction, as the DW universe had been established when she was made- The Doctor got around 85, and Rose Tyler 81! Doctor Who- Proud Home of Mary Sues since 1963. XD
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Post by ChapstickFantastic on Nov 1, 2008 20:46:59 GMT -5
Yeah, there's something to be said about mary-sues in space. There's a lot more things that can be done to a character out in the Sci-Fi world that just doesn't work in single-world mary-sues. I actually ran the Doctor and Rose Tyler through- Doctor as "original fiction", and Rose as fan fiction, as the DW universe had been established when she was made- The Doctor got around 85, and Rose Tyler 81! Doctor Who- Proud Home of Mary Sues since 1963. XD Ah, ha, ha! I thought about doing the exact thing! But of COURSE they are both Mary-Sues... There's just too much! xD Edit: I took it for my new character (golly that was looong) and I got 4. 4. WTF. 4 IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. AUGH. I feel even more boring, now. >:/
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Post by Warp Darkmatter on Nov 4, 2008 12:27:46 GMT -5
I thought the point was to get a low score. Maybe I misunderstood what I was supposed to do.
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Post by ChapstickFantastic on Nov 4, 2008 16:25:32 GMT -5
I thought the point was to get a low score. Maybe I misunderstood what I was supposed to do. No, no, that's the idea, but 4?! It says that I need to "spice" up the character... But I guess the lines are blurry. Ahhh wellllll.
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Post by Warp Darkmatter on Nov 6, 2008 15:53:36 GMT -5
Ok. That's totally the opposite side of the spectrum and I agree. ;D
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