History Main / PuritySue

* Doctor Tenma from ''{{Monster}}'' is morally perfect. He always helps anyone in need and just being in his presence makes other people more ethical, [[BigBad with one exception]].

** Perhaps in his depictions in modern media, but YMMV on whether that's the case in the Bible. In the gospels, Jesus is shown to fly into a rage and smash up the stalls of people selling goods outside a temple, yells at His disciples and others for coming to Him for every problem, and is eventually executed by His own people on trumped-up charges.

* [[ChittyChittyBangBang Truly Scrumptious.]] The name says it all. An entire song is dedicated to how wonderful she is.

* [[ChittyChittyBangBang Truly Scrumptious.]] The name says it all.

* Played hilariously straight with Carrot Ironfoundersson in [[{{Discworld}} ''Guards! Guards!'']]. Unlike most Purity Sues, though, he is enormously likable, even to the reader.

* Deconstructed in ''TheTurnOfTheScrew''. The narrator initially thinks the children she's governess of are adorable little angels, but they quickly turn out to be CreepyChildren who may or may not be communicating with ghosts. Of course, the narrator herself could just be insane, especially since [[spoiler:she eventually smothers the boy to death to "save" him.]]

* Deliberately about every Disney princess that you can think of.

* Deliberately about every Disney classic princess that you can think of.

** She is also something of a JerkSue. She's a small child at the beginning and a young woman at the end, and she is oh so innocent, impressionable, emotionally vulnerable and fragile. Combined with her power, this makes her a dangerous menace to be around. But anything destructive she does is not her fault; it's because the bad, bad people hurt her. Afterwards, everyone flocks around her to cheer her up.
*** Jaenelle is neither innocent nor impressionable by the ''middle'' of the first book, wherein she's suspicious and guarded. Throughout the entire serious she kills one man who tries to drug and rape her for political motive, one group of men (indirectly, by cursing the grounds) who visit an institution that provides them children to rape, and an invading army when she goes to war. Her family repeatedly calls her out when she does something stupid and bullies her into doing things she doesn't want to do; her adopted father - hero and protagonist - tells her to stop being a "selfish little bitch" and she admits she was being an ass and apologizes.

* Lyner Barsett in ArTonelico is this taken to CrazyAwesome levels. Remember, TropesAreNotBad. A Galahad ''Expy'', this ChasteHero [[ChickMagnet acquires an adoring entourage]] of RobotGirls, including a [[PhysicalGod Physical Goddess]], and his only flaws are endearing ones like clumsyness, obliviousness and [[BerserkButton going psycho on anyone who abuses defenseless robot girls]]. He is able to use the PowerOfFriendship to get back the GenreSavvy [[spoiler:Ayatane]], even though [[spoiler:he]] knows that's what's going on and tries to resist. He even does this to ''the final boss'' and as of the second game, [[spoiler:Mir/Jacqli]] ''still'' doesn't know what hit her. And it is ''hilarious''.

* Jaenelle from Anne Bishop's ''BlackJewels'' series. A literal manifestation of all good sentient hopes and dreams, anyone who hated her was, at best, a fool unintentionally furthering evil, and a plain old villain at worst. She's practically omnipotent from childhood and only gets more powerful; but she's still innocent and sweet, and all the "good guys" devote their lives to protecting her (mostly from her self-sacrificing tendencies). She tries to [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifice herself to save the world]], but she is saved with ThePowerOfLove. She has an angsty past; her first adoptive parent didn't understand her greatness, dismissed her as unstable, and sent her to a "mental asylum" where [[spoiler:she was molested and later raped]]. She has single-handedly reconciled humans with all the telepathic animals, whom the humans previously didn't even know existed.
** She is also something of a JerkSue. She's a small child at the beginning and a young woman at the end, and she is oh so innocent, impressionable, emotionally vulnerable and fragile. Combined with her power, this makes her a dangerous menace to be around. But anything destructive she does is not her fault; it's because the bad, bad people hurt her feelings. Afterwards, everyone flocks around her to cheer her up.
** Ironically she becomes less of a Sue when she gains her full powers. At that point, she has too much power but not enough control, and is crippled throughout most of the third book because using any of her major abilities will cause Armageddon. Bishop probably recognized her Sue [[AuthorsSavingThrow needed to be taken down a peg]].

** George Eliot wrote the essay [[http://library.marist.edu/faculty-web-pages/morreale/sillynovelists.htm Silly Novels by Lady Novelists]] in 1856, yet most of her descriptions could fit Sues that were written yesterday. Example: "...it may be that the heroine is not an heiress -- that rank and wealth are the only things in which she is deficient; but she infallibly gets into high society, she has the triumph of refusing many matches and securing the best, and she wears some family jewels or other as a sort of crown of righteousness at the end. Rakish men either bite their lips in impotent confusion at her repartees, or are touched to penitence by her reproofs, which, on appropriate occasions, rise to a lofty strain of rhetoric; indeed, there is a general propensity in her to make speeches, and to rhapsodize at some length when she retires to her bedroom." Sound familiar?

* Sam Beckett from ''QuantumLeap'': Someone so wonderful that apparently ''God'' personally chose him to set right what once went wrong.

*** Not quite true; a recent adaptation got some mileage out of Rose Maylie, who is a quintessential PuritySue.

** Which all just gets [[HilariousInHindsight funnier]] when [[RealLifeWritesThePlot Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy]] caused the cancellation of the show, and [[ContractualPurity probably her career]].

* Cheza of WolfsRain fits here. She's unnaturally liked by all the characters,there isn't a single character in story who wants to harm her in any way,the brooding and mysterious leader of the pack is comepletely infatuated with her to the point of obsession. Hell, ''Everyone'' in the pack is infatuated with her beyond comprehension,even the ''Villan'' despite lacking any type of defining personality traits. She often just sits,twirls around silently or giggles as everyone else fawns over her. Did I aso mention she has the power to tame wolves with her super awesome singing power,and look into thier dreams and bring life to everything around her,even though she's only a ''flower''?

** I would propose Edward as a PuritySue himself. He is described as perfect (looks, cooking, handwriting...)by Bella, Carlisle talks highly of him, the other Cullens also think the world of him and obey his idiotic orders and yet he thinks of himself as a monster and unworthy of love and that his life is so meaningless. That is until he found Bella. On the top of that he SPARKLES!

** in Hodgson's ''Little Lord Fauntleroy'', it's main character Cedric himself as the adorable, compassionate Stu. He's even able to get his crotchety, hateful grandfather to love him and his mother, who his grandfather detests. Everyone who comes into contact with Cedric is bettered and loves him.

* Kate from ''Series/RobinHood.'' After [[spoiler:Marian was killed off]] the writers were apparently terrified to make her replacement anything other than a shining example of heavenly perfection. InformedAttractiveness? Check. Almost every male in the show [[SoBeautifulItsACurse falls in love with her]] (even ''Prince John'' wants a piece of her). InformedAbility? Check. The website lists her weapon as her "imagination", even though she never uses it (she spends most of her time getting captured and waiting for one of the boys to come rescue her). Traumatic experience? Check. Her brother is murdered right in front of her (as a direct result of her own stupidity, but that still doesn't stop Robin from apologising to ''her'' for letting it happen). Supernatural talent? Check. Somehow a peasant girl manages to overpower an armoured guard on horse back with nothing but her ''bare hands''. [[ShillingTheWesley Everyone on the show adored her]], leaving the audience to scratch their heads and wonder why on earth everyone was so fascinated with such a whiny, obnoxious, brainless little snot.