Mary sueism and other fandoms question

[scifispice80 <scifispice80@yahoo.com>]

Hey all, I'm usually a lurker, so this is my first official post.  I 
have a question for people who are involved in other fandoms as well 
as Harry Potter.  I've been in fandom for a show called the Secret 
Adventures of Jules Verne for a few years now.  The show only lasted 
one season, but the fandom as whole is very dedicated, and has 
generated an enormous amount of fanfiction.  I've written fanfic for 
the show and interacted with many of the authors, webmasters, etc for 
quite some time, and the concept of mary sueism never once came up.  
I'm also a member of several buffy lists, groups etc, which have lots 
of fic, and I never hear anything about mary sueism there either.  I 
know mary sueism supposedly started in the  star trek fandom, and 
even though I'm a trekkie, I never got into the fanfic aspect of it, 
so I never came across it there either.  It wasn't until I got into 
Harry Potter fanfic recently that I even found out what a Mary sue 
was.  Has anyone else who's part of different fandoms experienced 
this?  Are other fandoms lacking the concept of mary sueism and the 
hp fandom just very quirky, or is it there and I just haven't noticed?

Scifispice80