Sue

Sue Sylvester (Glee)
By: Ben Salus

The intimidating, vicious, merciless Sue Sylvester models the modern villain. Being a high school gym teacher/cheer coach, she embodies the villain a teen's everyday life. Sue leads the "Cheerios" Cheer Squad and is indignant, to say the least. She is very condescending to the team, in that she always screams at them for petty mistakes, and even criticizes them for their superficial imperfections. Sue tells Santana, a Cheerio who just had a breast augmentation, "Boobs McGee, you're demoted to the bottom of the pyramid, so when it collapses, your exploding sandbags will keep everyone safe from injury." Even Quinn Fabray, a cheer captain, was thrown off the team because she was pregnant. Sue told her, " I don't need the sound of your stretch marks rubbing together." Her snide and heartless comments are part of what makes her a villain. Also, she has a vendetta against the Glee Club. Her enemy, Mr. Will Shuester, the faculty sponsor of the "New Directions" Glee Club, gets the most, for lack of a better word, crap for it. Sue Sylvester and the Cheerios compete with Glee for funding, and Sue goes to many extremes to make sure the demise of the Glee Club is imminent. She gives the regional competition set list of the Glee Club to its adversaries, almost Benedict Arnold-esque. Sue Sylvester always ridicules Mr. Shuester for his apparel, his hair, and his love and dedication for the Glee Club. She scorns Mr. Shuester on countless occasions. She also provides comic relief in the show, although this comic relief is offensive and intimidating to other people, by making awkward threats to them. An example would be, "I spent large segments of each day picturing you choking on food, and I recently contacted an exotic animal dealer because I had a very satisfying dream that I once shoved your face into one of those pink-inflamed monkey butts." Sue antagonizes the other teachers too. She blackmails the principal so he would eradicate the Glee Club, and she forces Brittany to lie about Coach Beistie "peeping" on her while she changed. One more characteristic that pins Sue's picture on the dartboard of many students is that she is very cocky. She is so full of herself and of her Cheerios, that she asks for an outrageous amount of funding, and she boasts on her new segment, "Sue's Corner" About how great she is. She talks so highly of Cheerios, and she has made it into such a prestigious, obnoxious program, that she told someone that, "One girl ate a pigeon. That's how badly they wanna be Cheerios." Her swagger fails to stop there. When talking to Mr. Shuester about how inferior everyone else, including him, is to the Cheerios, she states, "Oh God, Will, let me break it down for you. High school's a dry run for the rest of your life. Not everyone can be champions; not everyone should be champions. The world needs fry cooks; bus drivers..." Oddly enough, Sue does have one good quality. She has a sense of family. Sue Sylvester has a sister with Down Syndrome. At times, Sue is seen with her sister, showing a nicer, seemingly genuine side. Although Sue has this side, her disdain and edge for the people at school causes her to act with bad intentions. This facade is what truly makes Sue a villain. By becoming a person who is not truly herself, Sue is not the protagonist that Mr. Shuester is; rather she is the antagonist because she causes most of the drama and hardships and misery for everyone at the school.



!.) Her attire, a gym suit, symbolizes her narrow-mindedness relating to the Cheerios. She never alternates her selection in clothes, and in doing so, people perceive her as being nothing but the ruthless cheer coach she is. 2.)Sue is pale. Her lack of color is not only on her skin, but also in her heart. Her heart is black, cold, and dark. She has no room for compassion or appreciation in her everyday life. Her pale skin shows no pulse, no heart beat, no rhythm, no blood flowing through her veins, no other feelings circulating her body except those that are empty, dark, and hateful. 3.) Sue's constant megaphone use is an attribute that proves her evilness. She always yells at innocent people throughout the halls with her megaphone. From the ears perspective, this destructive tool is obtrusive and disrespectful. She takes her anger out through this megaphone, using it as a weapon of mass interruption. 4.) The stare. The scornful, hateful stare. She digs into your soul with her hazy brown eyes. Her open mouthed, raised cheek, forehead cinching glare makes you feel so uncomfortable that you have to give in to her demands. 5.) Sue takes this picture at sundown because it is the best time for her to come out. The sun, which can symbolizes life, love, and happiness, is going away, and the dark depths of the night are creeping up. Sue, who is most related to the night, has layer upon layer of evil. As each evil plan she has is foiled, a layer sheds, revealing an even darker, scarier, more malicious skin, apt to dominate the world.

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