Mary Sue
A woman named Paula Smith made up the term "Mary Sue" in 1973. She published a magazine with Star Trek fan stories, and many of the writers were women. Smith noticed that some of these writers wanted to imagine themselves in the story, so they made the main characters, like Captain Kirk and Spock, love their own characters. In 1974, Smith wrote a funny story called "A Trekkie's Tale" to make fun of this. The story was about a girl named Mary Sue who became a very important person in the ''Star Trek'' universe at a young age. Captain Kirk fell in love with her, and she saved the day but died doing it.