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* ComicBook/TheInhumans were heavily pushed by Marvel in the 2010s, receiving big promotional pushes and involvement in crossover events. This stems from Marvel not owning the film rights to the X-Men, thus Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter wanting to use the Inhumans in their place as the naturally superpowered minority allegory. Although their film was scheduled to be developed, increased awareness of the brand and more stories to draw on for adaptations and merchandise was required, as well as more popularity in general given how obscure they are, and so they were given more shots than would normally be warranted given just how poorly they sold (their sales were usually always under the usual Marvel/DC cancellation threshold). This subsided when the Inhumans' TV adaptation bombed, the film rights to the X-Men were reacquired and Marvel was eventually restructured to minimise Perlmutter's influence, which saw an almost instantaneous decrease in the Inhumans' promotion. Media outside of comics that began production after the return of the X-Men film rights noticeably lacks prominent Inhumans elements, with even their BreakoutCharacter [[ComicBook/MsMarvel2014 Kamala Khan]], being introduced into the MCU with the Inhumans elements removed. The last episode of ''Series/MsMarvel2022'' even ''[[spoiler: reveals that she's a mutant]]''.

* A similar case to Nintendo can also be said for Creator/{{Sega}} towards its own mascot, Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog, who happens to be Sega's biggest CashCowFranchise, and the only one [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff with more popularity in the West than it does back in Japan]]. This is actually enough to annoy some Sega fans of other franchises, especially since unlike Nintendo's Big 3, Sonic is the only franchise Sega has with this treatment, and this tends to come at the cost of sales for other Sega franchises due to the lack of marketing and exposure for them that was instead put into the latest Sonic game. Though Sega seems to be averting this as of late, with the ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'' games seeing a large rise in popularity on both sides of the Pacific.

* Website/TheEscapist treated ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' with an almost exclusive level of prestige and security after picking up creator Creator/BenCroshaw in 2007, [[LongRunners reliably keeping him and the show afloat for 16 years]] even following massive scandals with other creators, ranging from [[ScrewedByTheNetwork skimping out on paying creators]] like the ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' team and abruptly laying off ''all'' their content creators except for Croshaw in 2017. Croshaw eventually resigned from The Escapist in 2023 (along with every other creator since added to the site, this time voluntarily) following the sudden firing of then editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, [[ChannelHop all regrouping on the newly-formed, employee-owned network Second Wind]], with ''Zero Punctuation'' being relaunched as a CreatorDrivenSuccessor, ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic'' (a result of The Escapist owning the ''Zero Punctuation'' IP).

* Speaking of baseball, due to its then-extensive coverage of MLB's October postseason, there was a stretch of time starting around the turn of the millennium in which Fox had to delay the season premiere of many of its shows until after the end of the World Series to accommodate its coverage. This meant that fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'', for example, had to wait until ''November'' to see new episodes. Starting in 2005, the network returned to launching its major shows in September -- but the Series still prevented ''The Simpsons''[='=] annual [[WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror Halloween Episode]] from airing until after the holiday had come and gone. To rub salt in the wounds of American ''Simpsons'' fans disinterested in baseball, some countries even had a ShortRunInPeru by airing the ''Treehouse of Horror'' a few weeks before the American airing, such as when "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" first aired on Canada's Citytv on October 18, 2020. Since 2006, almost the entire postseason is now cable-only: as of 2014, when MLB's current TV contract was signed, the Fox Sports 1 channel splits the Division Series and League Championship Series with Creator/{{TBS}}, alternating between American League and National League games each year, with the only postseason games still broadcast on "Big Fox" being the World Series and the opening game of whichever LCS Fox Sports 1 is covering.

* Ovation often shows various movies from TheEighties and TheNineties such as ''Film/RomancingTheStone'', ''Film/AFewGoodMen'', ''Gross Pointe Blank'', and most bafflingly, ''Film/LegendsOfTheFall'' [[note]]the latter of which has a "rotten" rating on Website/RottenTomatoes[[/note]].

* Website/TheEscapist treated ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' with an almost exclusive level of prestige and security after picking up creator Creator/BenCroshaw in 2007, [[LongRunners reliably keeping him and the show afloat for 16 years]] even following massive scandals with other creators, ranging from [[ScrewedByTheNetwork skimping out on paying creators]] like the ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' team and abruptly laying off ''all'' their content creators except for Croshaw in 2017. Croshaw eventually resigned from The Escapist in 2023 (along with every other creator since added to the site, this time voluntarily) following the sudden firing of then editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, [[ChannelHop all regrouping on the newly-formed, employee-owned network Second Wind]], with ''Zero Punctuation'' being relaunched as a CreatorDrivenSuccessor, ''WebAnimation/FullyRamblomatic''.

* Website/TheEscapist treated ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' with an almost exclusive level of prestige and security after picking up creator Creator/BenCroshaw in 2007, [[LongRunners reliably keeping him and the show afloat for 16 years]] even following massive scandals with other creators, ranging from [[ScrewedByTheNetwork skimping out on paying creators]] like the ''WebAnimation/ExtraCredits'' team and abruptly laying off ''all'' their content creators except for Croshaw in 2017. Croshaw eventually resigned from The Escapist in 2023 (along with every other creator since added to the site, this time voluntarily) following the sudden firing of then editor-in-chief Nick Calandra, [[ChannelHop all regrouping on the newly-formed employee-owned network Second Wind]].

* Professional sports in general. Immensely popular, sure, but try to imagine what it's like for people who don't like sports to have a program you have no interest in that can preempt the shows you DO want to watch seemingly at any time, rarely ends at the scheduled time (sometimes causing the next show to begin "in progress" or be skipped entirely), and when it does end and you think your show is about to start... here comes the ''post-game show.'' And then the other networks [[NoHoperRepeat only run reruns against it]] because they don't want to have to compete with the show "everyone" is watching. For that, you can blame ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi_Game Heidi]]''.

** Note that even Canada isn't immune to this, given that the rightsholder to first-run ''Simpsons'' episodes there is Citytv, owned by Rogers Communications, which also owns both [=MLB's=] Toronto Blue Jays and Sportsnet, itself an example of this trope as Sportsnet is the sole rightsholder to all Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts in Canada. If the Toronto Blue Jays were to make the World Series while Fox's World Series contract is active, then per simsub rules, ''Treehouse of Horror'' would also be pre-empted by the World Series on Citytv using the Fox feed, albeit with Canadian commercials, while Sportsnet would use its own broadcast.

* Speaking of baseball, due to its then-extensive coverage of MLB's October postseason, there was a stretch of time starting around the turn of the millennium in which Fox had to delay the season premiere of many of its shows until after the end of the World Series to accommodate its coverage. This meant that fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'', for example, had to wait until ''November'' to see new episodes. Starting in 2005, the network returned to launching its major shows in September -- but the Series still prevented ''The Simpsons''[='=] annual [[WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror Halloween Episode]] from airing until after the holiday had come and gone. To rub salt in the wounds of American ''Simpsons'' fans disinterested in baseball, some countries even had a ShortRunInPeru by airing the ''Treehouse of Horror'' a few weeks before the American airing, such as when "Treehouse of Horror XXXI" first aired in Canada's Citytv on October 18, 2020. Since 2006, almost the entire postseason is now cable-only: as of 2014, when MLB's current TV contract was signed, the Fox Sports 1 channel splits the Division Series and League Championship Series with Creator/{{TBS}}, alternating between American League and National League games each year, with the only postseason games still broadcast on "Big Fox" being the World Series and the opening game of whichever LCS Fox Sports 1 is covering.

* Speaking of baseball, due to its then-extensive coverage of MLB's October postseason, there was a stretch of time starting around the turn of the millennium in which Fox had to delay the season premiere of many of its shows until after the end of the World Series to accommodate its coverage. This meant that fans of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and ''Series/TheXFiles'', for example, had to wait until ''November'' to see new episodes. Starting in 2005, the network returned to launching its major shows in September -- but the Series still prevented ''The Simpsons''[='=] annual [[WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror Halloween Episode]] from airing until after the holiday had come and gone. Since 2006, almost the entire postseason is now cable-only: as of 2014, when MLB's current TV contract was signed, the Fox Sports 1 channel splits the Division Series and League Championship Series with Creator/{{TBS}}, alternating between American League and National League games each year, with the only postseason games still broadcast on "Big Fox" being the World Series and the opening game of whichever LCS Fox Sports 1 is covering.

* [[CanadaEh In Canada]], [[UsefulNotes/IceHockey ice hockey]] has pretty much always been the most-aired sport on Creator/{{CBC}}, Sportsnet, and TSN. [[SeriousBusiness This really shouldn't be much surprise in Canada]]. What's more, there are network favourites among the teams. Before ''Series/HockeyNightInCanada'' switched to an early/late game doubleheader broadcast in 1995, if you wanted to watch any Canadian team that wasn't the Maple Leafs or the Canadiens, you either had to hope they were playing against Toronto or Montreal, or that they'd made the playoffs and Toronto or Montreal weren't playing that night. The absurdity of this is indicated by the fact that in the mid-1980s, when Usefulnotes/WayneGretzky and the Edmonton Oilers were the best team in the league, it was almost impossible for someone in Eastern Canada to ever see them on TV.

* Certain cites get this too. If you're watching a national TV game in any team sport in the U.S. it's a pretty safe bet one (or both) of the teams will be from New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, or Boston.

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* Goodsmile Company really, ''really'' love their Nendoroid line. The chibi art style and how small they are make them perfect for the Japanese market, while the ease of manufacturing and lack of engineering make them easier to make than other figures/figurines. If you're into poseable figures, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all GSC make, because they generally neglect their Figma line these days.

* ''Manga/BlackClover'' became Website/{{Crunchyroll}}'s favorite when the anime was released, and the site is pushing hard for it to become the next ''Naruto''. But hey, at least on Crunchyroll you can ''choose'' what to see.

* '''''Franchise/{{Batman}}'''''. Despite Superman being ''the'' defining superhero, it's ''Batman'' who is the most pushed by DC, up to the point that the company is literally named after the comic that he debuted in. Any Bat-Event will usually be billed as ''the'' big event, and more often than not, the Bat-books (''Batman'', ''Batgirl'', ''Nightwing'', etc.) will outnumber the collective total of every other Justice Leaguer. This was especially noticeable during the New 52 reboot, when DC wanted to have 52 titles... and filled out 25% of the lineup with Bat-books, either staring Batman himself in a starring or supporting role, or showcasing several characters related to him, leaving other characters scrambling to be noticed in any way, shape, or form. This is also noticeable in terms of the creative teams -- more often than not, DC will put popular and big-name writers on the Bat-books.

* [[UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball Football]] in the United States. If it's autumn and your network carries the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]], expect a pop-up ad or commercial every five minutes reminding you when the next game is and who's playing. Those above problems with preemption? UsefulNotes/{{Baseball}} fans have the same problem when they're waiting for the World Series to start and Creator/{{Fox}} won't cut away from Curt Menefee and Terry Bradshaw yukking it up. Even on a general sports station like Creator/{{ESPN}}, the NFL will usually be promoted far more than anything else it carries.

** In a more specific example, TSN has ''always'' hyped the IIHF World Junior Championships (the top international under-20 competition, which traditionally begins on the day after Christmas), as being Canada's holiday sports tradition (much like ESPN's endless bowl games of varying significance). The tournament is treated with ''much'' more importance in Canada than in any other country, owing to the aforementioned hype, the fact that they've won it 16 times, and that one year where the Canadian team got into a ''twenty-minute, bench-clearing brawl'' with the Soviets that ejected them both from the tournament. It's gotten to the point that any game involving Team Canada, especially if they are [[TheRival playing Russia or the United States]], reach the final, or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs reach the final, playing Russia or the United States]], is guaranteed to have a good television audience. When the tournament is hosted by Canada (which happens quite a bit), these scenarios frequently result in sell-out crowds, especially in the three aforementioned scenarios. However, the international prominence of the tournament has grown too; Canada's six-year drought has given other countries time in the spotlight, including the Czech Republic, Finland, and Sweden, and the U.S. When Finland won the tournament at home in 2016 in overtime, the atmosphere could have easily been mistaken for a game involving Canada.

* Italian channel K2 airs cartoon movies every Monday night, with reruns during Saturday lunchtime and Sunday morning. With a few exceptions, most of their movie airings are either ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'', ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', any ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movie starting from ''Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea'', the ''Franchise/LuckyLuke'' films ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeDaisyTown Daisy Town]]'' and ''[[WesternAnimation/LuckyLukeBalladOfTheDaltons Ballad of the Daltons]]'', or a compilation of the various DVD-only shorts based on [=DreamWorks=] movies (plus the ones made for ''Film/TheSmurfs'' and ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', for some reason).

** ''Film/{{Ghost}}''

* The Carol Danvers incarnation of ComicBook/CaptainMarvel. Because Marvel have historically lacked prominent superheroines whose film rights they owned, the 2010s saw Carol Danvers adopt the Captain Marvel moniker and receive a ''huge'' push as their flagship female character. She has since never been ''without'' a solo series, was put on more than a few teams, and usually was an important figure in their events. This is probably due in part to the massive appeal Carol (and her merch) have outside of traditional monthly comics sales, with many people owning t-shirts, jackets, water bottles, and other official paraphenalia bearing her logo. The company loves her and continue to market her as their main female character at the expense of most other, more well-established characters like [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Invisible Woman]] and [[ComicBook/XMen Storm]] (although these are usually chalked up to Marvel giving [[WolverinePublicity more and more exposure]] to the ComicBook/{{Avengers}} at the expense of the FF and the X-Men as the decade went on, due to the aforementioned lack of movie rights).

* Italian channel K2 airs cartoon movies every Monday night, with reruns during Saturday lunchtime and Sunday morning. With a few exceptions, most of their movie airings are either ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein'', ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman'', ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', any ''Film/{{Pokemon}}'' movie starting from ''Pokémon Ranger and the Temple of the Sea'', any ''ComicBook/LuckyLuke'' movie, or a compilation of the various DVD-only shorts based on [=DreamWorks=] movies (plus the ones made for ''Film/TheSmurfs'' and ''Franchise/DespicableMe'', for some reason).

* Showtime's networks love airing ''WesternAnimation/TheSpongeBobSquarePantsMovie'' more than any other animated film. This treatment has lasted since they got the rights to show the movie 16 years ago.

*** As of October 2015, the network will show the entire ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' series every weekend, as well as on holidays and days when kids have school off.

** Freeform milked ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' marathons even more frequently than Spike did with ''Star Wars''. In almost every season of the year, there is a ''Harry Potter'' marathon. They would often take it to the max whenever another ''Harry Potter'' film was being released to theaters. In 2018, the title of ''The Harry Potter Network'' shifted to Creator/USANetwork and some of its sister networks within [=NBCUniversal=] as part of a new rights deal.

** Until about 2002 it was shocking if a week went by without them airing the 1986 bomb ''Stewardess School''.