Fanfiction: the definition of Mary-Sue

[Ainaserkewen]

4) After receiving "Great story, but it's a Mary-Sue" reviews, the author took pains to make the heroine less 'Sue-ish by having characters dislike her, having her act b*tchy and human sometimes and having her *not* end up with one of the canon characters that we know ends up with someone else.

Making other characters like her less and her showing off her "not-so-nice" side in my opinion doesn't make her less of a Sue. I once read a terrible Mary-Sue where the protagonist is beautiful, is on the arm of Kaiba Seto(the richest 17 year old ever) and has all these great (canon charater) friends. Other characters were put there to "get in her way" kind of a pathetic attempt to create conflict, they have cat fights, but everybody else still loves the Sue best even though she has emotions like jealousy and hatred and stuff. I shall read that fan fic you mentioned Lily, and get back to you.