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Working Title: Disowned Series: From YKTTW
Tree: Many of the examples here are actors hating parts they played. That's fair enough, but the trope is called Creator Breakdown with a capitol "Creator", and most of those actors didn't create those characters. I propose a change of tile, or maybe a new trope for actors that hate parts they had?
Ethereal Mutation: To a certain degree, they represent the final aspect of character creation through their acting. Maybe they didn't write the character, but their acting both brought it to life and influencs the writers down the line as certain minor elements of the acting started becoming aspects of the character (for example, Ian Fleming liked Sean Connery enough that he retconned some Scottish ancestry into James Bond in the novel On Her Majestys Secret Service).
Ruthie A: I don't know how true the William Shatner example is... He still comes to Star Trek conventions and seems to enjoy it (for example, joking around with Leonard Nimoy, taking questions from fans, etcetera). I did hear that he once told Star Trek fans to "get a life" but honestly, from what I've seen at conventions, there's no way he could actually hate Star Trek in the way that this page describes.
Goth Guru: You forgot "Wormy" which was a comic in the back of Dragon Magazine. The author left the strip unfinished, moved away, and became a taxi driver. He is very hard to track down and refuses to acknowledge 'Wormy' in any way. I suspect the comic was supposed to make brutal fun of gamers and was not understood as such. Gamers were cast as outlaw monsters who used humans and demi humans as figures in deadly wargames.
You also neglected Fur Will Fly, a webcomic that cast furries in an alternate universe setting. This is the second comic in which the artist and author suddenly kill some of the characters and reverse all aspects of the rest. In crazy going slowly they turned all the furrys into humans and destroyed the cartoon world. When someone suggests a web cartoonist do something to turn the comic on it's ear I always say, "I will drop the comic like I did Fur Will Fly!" If these were covered in another topic, they still need to be included here.
Nezumi: Okay, after hunting down the strip again, I'm a little confused. I've tried to sort out what you're talking about between Fur Will Fly and Crazy Slowly Going, but it's just left me sort of disoriented.
Nezumi: What is whatever22? I can't find anything relevant except on this page.
Pikawil: Does it count if the work in question is genuinely So Bad Its Horrible (such as the Catwoman film and Bomberman Act Zero, both of which are listed on the page)?
Heath Ledger regretted Brokeback Mountain? I smell a rat. Searching on the net, the only place to mention it seemed to be religious sites and white supremacists like Stormfront. If someone has a real source on this, let me know, but I really think it should be cut.
