Out of Character

Out of Character, or OOC, means exactly what it sounds like: characters not acting like themselves. An extreme example of this is Harry Potter the Emotionally Four Years Old Transvestite Schoolgirl, but less obvious occurences are all too common. This is often as a result of a Mary Sue warping everyone in the story OOC. The 'Sue's Lust Object often suffers the worst, though it can happen to everyone. Arwen, for some reason, often becomes obsessed with doing the 'Sue's hair, and Boromir frequently becomes a misogynist or a rapist.