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C. Robert Cargill
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MARY SUE is a term that gets abused as "Woman who does something unexpectedly awesome," when it specifically means "Character who never fails when trying and is always better than all of the other exceptional characters around them."
It comes from a fan fiction story about a character named, SHOCKER, Mary Sue, aboard the TNG Enterprise, who saves the bacon of the TNG crew time and again when they cannot. She never fucks up and always succeeds when our longtime heroes cannot. THAT'S a fucking Mary Sue.
Ironically, my favorite example of a Mary Sue character is CLOCKSTOPPERS, a film in which the hero shreds on a BMX bike, shreds on the guitar, gets the hottest girl in school, all while being a nebbish nerd & nabbing a device that STOPS FUCKING TIME. Directed by Jonathon Frakes.
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C. Robert Cargill
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Marvel developed a Doctor Strange film in the 80s with writers like Lawrence Block, Bob Gale, and Larry Cohen all taking a stab at it. Stan rewrote a few drafts himself. I had to read every single draft for arbitration. Unsurprisingly, Stan's was my favorite.
When Marvel hit financial troubles in the late 80s they sold off option rights for their characters, including Strange. Charles Band bought the STRANGE option, developed the film, then failed to make it in time, losing the rights. So he cut out all the specifics & retitled it.
Because a Strange movie was never made and Disney bought Marvel, and the rights reverted to Marvel, that meant the development process was officially 33 years long, and everyone had to be included in a second arbitration. (No one realized the problem the first time around.)
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