49 Facts About Sue Sylvester

1.

Susan "Sue" Rodham Sylvester is a fictional character of the Fox musical comedy-drama series, Glee.

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Sue Sylvester enlists members of her cheerleading squad, the Cheerios, to bring the club down from the inside, and conspires to lure away its star member, Rachel Berry.

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Sue Sylvester is appointed co-director of the club by Principal Figgins, but soon scales back her involvement when her attempts to turn the club members against director Will Schuester fail.

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4.

Sue Sylvester is ridiculed by the other judges for her lack of fame and underdog status, allowing her to empathize with the glee club members.

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5.

Sue Sylvester has a commentary feature on the local television news, "Sue's Corner", which she uses to editorialize on issues such as littering and support for caning.

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6.

Sue Sylvester falls in love with news anchor Rod Remington, but their burgeoning relationship comes to an abrupt end when she discovers he is sleeping with his co-anchor, Andrea Carmichael.

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7.

Will is suspicious of her motives, increasingly so when Sue Sylvester donates money to the school to fund three new ramps for students with disabilities.

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8.

Sue Sylvester becomes a minor celebrity when Olivia Newton-John invites her to remake the video to "Physical", after a viral video of Sue Sylvester Jazzercising to the track achieves internet notoriety.

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9.

Sue Sylvester donates her share of the profits to her sister's care home.

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10.

At the onset of the second season, Sue Sylvester has formed a truce with Will, and together they conspire against the school's new football coach, Shannon Beiste.

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11.

Sue Sylvester is appointed acting principal after having Figgins infected with the flu, but although the school board is so impressed with her performance they make her position permanent, she resigns when they refuse to uphold her expulsion of Dave Karofsky, a bully who had threatened to kill glee club member Kurt Hummel.

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12.

Sue Sylvester grows disillusioned with cheerleading, and in an effort to recapture her love for it, plans to fire cheerleader Brittany Pierce from a cannon during the team's next competitive routine.

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13.

Sue Sylvester is named Loser of the Year in a televised interview with Katie Couric, and has her budget slashed.

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14.

When her attempts to do so fail, Sue Sylvester decides to become the coach of Aural Intensity, one of New Directions' Regionals competitors, and deliberately injures their director in order to get the job.

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15.

Sue Sylvester is furious when her club loses to New Directions, and punches the announcer in the face.

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16.

Sue Sylvester removes Becky from the Cheerios, because she reminds her of her sister.

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17.

At the well-attended funeral service, an emotional Sue Sylvester is unable to continue reading her eulogy after a few sentences, and Will reads the remainder for her.

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18.

Sue Sylvester decides to pledge to get rid of all arts programs in schools, music and theater especially, until all students are reading at or above grade level.

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19.

Sue Sylvester goes back on her promise to leave the glee club alone by having her new cheerleading co-captains, Becky and Santana, sabotage the club's recruitment drive.

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One of the other candidates in the race discovers that Santana is a lesbian, and uses this to attack Sue Sylvester on the issue of "family values" for appointing her a cheerleading captain, and to imply that Sue Sylvester herself is a lesbian.

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21.

Sue Sylvester's child is revealed by doctors to be a girl, but they mention that there were abnormalities on the scan.

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22.

Sue Sylvester then calls Kitty Wilde, a new cheerleader into her office to take care of Robin.

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23.

Sue Sylvester heavily forbids new transgender student Wade "Unique" Adams to audition for the role of Rizzo on the school's musical, Grease, only to create an argument between her and Finn, who insists on casting Unique.

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24.

Sue Sylvester "proposes" to Finn that if New Directions lose sectionals, the glee club would end.

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25.

Sue Sylvester is fired from the William McKinley High School in "Shooting Star", when Becky's gun is shot by accident, causing everyone to think that there's a school shooting.

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26.

Sue Sylvester says it was her gun and she misfired it while checking it, to protect Becky.

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27.

Sue Sylvester later starts working as a personal trainer, and Blaine tries to get her back on McKinley's faculty, but she denies his offer by saying that getting fired was the best thing that could have ever happened to her, because now, as a trainer, people respect her, and admits that she does not miss the Cheerios at all.

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Sue Sylvester is demoted to janitor, while she takes his job as principal, where she constantly torments Figgins, and tells Will and Roz that she will keep the Cheerios and New Directions going if they win in their upcoming competitions.

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29.

Sue Sylvester later reveals, after Santana apologizes to her, she is heartbroken Finn died believing she hated him, while she actually respected him and looked forward to having him as a colleague.

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30.

Sue Sylvester later comes to New York City as Will's companion since neither his wife Emma Pillsbury nor Beiste could go to see Rachel's broadway opening night in Funny Girl.

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31.

Sue Sylvester meets Mario, a New York citizen, and both are instantly lovestruck.

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32.

Sue Sylvester forcibly transferred Unique, Marley, Ryder Lynn, and Jake Puckerman to other schools to completely get rid of glee club's history.

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33.

In "Jagged Little Tapestry", Sue Sylvester gives Beiste her support for the latter's transition process, and alongside Tina Cohen-Chang, Quinn, and Coach Roz, are equally apprehensive about Becky's new boyfriend Darrell.

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34.

Sue Sylvester tries various tactics to get them back together, including trapping them in an elevator and forcing them to kiss if they want to be released.

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35.

In "A Wedding", Sue Sylvester tries to attend Brittany and Santana's wedding only to be flatly refused for her treatment of everyone.

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36.

Sue Sylvester is then allowed to attend the wedding and helps convince Kurt and Blaine to marry alongside Brittany and Santana, providing the rings for them when they don't have any.

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37.

Sue Sylvester later provides the two couples with their dream honeymoons, telling them that despite how she's treated them over the years, she's come to see them like her own kids.

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38.

Sue Sylvester is fired as principal in "The Rise and Fall of Sue Sylvester" after Becky, who finally sees the error in Sue's ways, decides to expose her.

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39.

Lynch feels that Sue Sylvester has the ability to be both "horrible and really delightful at the same time", assessing that she continually speaks her mind as she enjoys appalling people with the things she says.

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40.

Sue Sylvester is depicted as kind and loving towards Jean, though Lynch stated that exploration of Sue's humanity would be limited.

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41.

Sue Sylvester is an atheist, but according to Murphy, does not want to be.

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42.

Sue Sylvester said that the moment she put the track suit on, "the world bowed before her" and that she "had one made in every color".

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43.

Sue Sylvester's final solo in the series is a cover of "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks in "The Hurt Locker, Part One".

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44.

Sue Sylvester was lauded as "the greatest Broadway-musical villain to ever co-star in a TV series" by Entertainment Weekly Ken Tucker.

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45.

Sue Sylvester is the 100th Most Memorable Female TV Character, according to AOL TV.

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46.

Sue Sylvester received the TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Comedy at the 26th TCA Awards, as well as the Actress Comedy Series accolade at the WIN Awards.

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47.

Sue Sylvester was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film at the 67th Golden Globe Awards, and for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries, or Television Film at the 15th Satellite Awards.

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48.

Also in 2010, Sue Sylvester was nominated Choice TV: Villain at the Teen Choice Awards, and Lynch was nominated for the Favorite TV Actress Award at the AfterEllen.

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49.

In 2020, an image depicting Sue Sylvester proclaiming that she is going to "create an environment that is so toxic" from episode seven became a prominent reaction image and Internet meme.

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