User blog comment:Happyface414/People Who Hav an Ego/@comment-1024726-20091205021813

The difference between an ego and a powerful character is representative-ness.

If a REPRESENTATIVE character (i.e., a character who represents a user) is Sue-ish, then it's an ego. However, if a character who doesn't represent the user who made it up or some other user is Sue-ish or powerful, it's NOT an ego. Mayor McFlapp, for example, controls the universe. However, he doesn't represent anyone. He's also quite clumsy and quirky, the opposite of what you would expect a universe-controller to be.

Ben Hun, if he gains too much power, could easily be an ego character -- he's a representative. Willie Watt is another rep (though I don't think she's much of an ego), as is Corai.

The reason TS is cleared is because his actual REPRESENTATIVES aren't all that. Well, Shroomsky is the headmaster of the AIA and Turtleheimer is a politician, but were they all that from the start? No, TS waited for some opportunity to develop his characters and pounced when it came. Ego characters, on the other hand, are simply all that from their beginning. An entirely new country is created for them to rule, or (in more extreme cases) the user annexes a pre-existing country for them.

TS's powerful creations do not represent him in any way. Same thing with the BoF. It's not a representative of me, and thus it's not an ego character.