History Main / CreativeDifferences

* Around two-thirds of the way through the anime adaptation of ''[[KareKano His & Her Circumstances]]'', the creative differences between the manga-ka Masami Tsuda and the director Hideaki Anno reached such a peak that she demanded he be fired. (Basically, Anno made Karekano ''far'' too comedic for Tsuda, who wanted a more angsty and plot-driven story) With Anno gone, his assistant Kazuya Tsurumaki completed the series (ironically, making it ''even more'' comedic in process). On the other hand, Tsurumaki's style wasn't the screwball type {{GAINAX}} in general and [[{{FLCL}} he in particular]] [[DieBuster would later]] [[GurrenLagann become famous for]], but more conventional RomanticComedy, which was more acceptable for the mangaka.

* Forest Whitaker left the live action ''FatAlbert'' film due to artistic differences with Bill Cosby.

* In a classic example, Creator/JulesVerne and his lifetime publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel constantly clashed about the content of the Verne's work, with [[ThePollyanna Hetzel]] consistently fighting to mitigate the Verne's [[HumansAreBastards bitterness and gloom]], and [[ExecutiveMeddling insisting on him]] writing the LighterAndSofter fiction. Hetzel also weren't averse to [[LowestCommonDenominator pandering to the audience]], to which [[DeadpanSnarker Verne]] usually replied with his [[VitriolicBestBuds most pointed epistolar barbs]].

* Around two-thirds of the way through the anime adaptation of ''[[KareKano His & Her Circumstances]]'', the creative differences between the manga-ka Masami Tsuda and the director Hideaki Anno reached such a peak that she demanded he be fired. (Basically, Anno made Karekano ''far'' too comedic for Tsuda, who wanted a more angsty and plot-driven story) With Anno gone, his assistant Kazuya Tsurumaki completed the series.

** [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Animated]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}} TV]] [[PinkyandtheBrain shows]], [[{{Freakazoid}} on the other hand...]] (at least for Speilberg)

** Unless you count Creator/DreamWorksAnimation for Spielberg, though he was never really involved in the production of their films (and since 2004, he's had nothing to do with them).

* After his experience with ''{{Firefly}}'', JossWhedon refused to work with {{Fox}} for years because of this, foremost being an early cancellation. He only relented with ''{{Dollhouse}}'' because star Eliza Dushku had a 3-series deal with the network; Dushku brought Whedon in.
* Creator/ChristopherEccleston left the DoctorWho revival, due to his fights with the executives "over the way things were being run", and, according to him, his distaste for non-acting personnel getting bullied by directors.

* ''{{Sliders}}'':
** When John Rhys-Davies left the cast of ''{{Sliders}}'' just as the show had been [[ReTool retooled]] away from SpeculativeFiction and toward "rip off whatever movie is popular this week", he cited CreativeDifferences with the writers as the reason. Most observers concluded, "He was creative; they weren't."

* A notable play on this phrase came when [[TheSimpsons Harry Shearer]] left ''SaturdayNightLive'' in 1984. When a reporter mentioned to Shearer that this trope was the show's stated reason for his departure, he quipped, "Yeah, I was creative, and they were different."
* Creator/ConanOBrien left the ''Series/TheTonightShow'' in the beginning of 2010, after only six months of hosting it, due to his refusal to let Creator/{{NBC}} move the show a half hour later in their schedule in order to give the fledgling ''JayLeno Show'' a boost in ratings, claiming that it would ultimately be detrimental to ''The Tonight Show''.
** At the end of the day, Conan left because Leno had the better contract. Leno's primetime show was tanking in the ratings to the point that local affiliates, worried about flagging viewership for the 10/11-o'clock news due to the unpopular Leno lead-in, threatened to drop it themselves. NBC was forced into a situation where ''somebody'' had to go. Breaking Conan's contract cost NBC $45 million, but breaking Leno's would have cost $100 million, so NBC presented Conan with an unacceptable situation to convince him to accept a buyout. A month later, Conan was gone and Leno was back on ''TheTonightShow''.

* Nodded to by Disney sitcom ''EvenStevens''. When asked about the creative differences that led to the breaking up of the band with friend Twitty, Louis explains, "I'm creative, and he's different."

* Creator/JohnByrne left the ''The Uncanny ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' after a very successful run that included the "Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past" because he became increasingly frustrated with writer ChrisClaremont ignoring what he had drawn in favor of writing his own interpretation.

* Creator/ChristopherEccleston left the DoctorWho revival, due to his fights with the executives and personnel getting mistreated by higher-ups.

* After his experience with ''{{Firefly}}'', JossWhedon refused to work with {{Fox}} for years because of this. He only relented with ''{{Dollhouse}}'' because star Eliza Dushku had a 3-series deal with the network; Dushku brought Whedon in.

* Around two-thirds of the way through the anime adaptation of ''[[KareKano His & Her Circumstances]]'', the creative differences between the manga-ka Masami Tsuda and the director Hideaki Anno reached such a peak that she demanded he be fired. With Anno gone, his assistant Kazuya Tsurumaki completed the series.

** Their creative clashes were exacerbated by the fact that [[LoveTriangle both men were competing for the affections]] of the one of Zeta {{seiyuu}}s, MariaKawamura. The rumor goes that Tomino is still somewhat bitter over the fact that [[DidNotGetTheGirl not only Kawamura chose Nagano over him]], but they're HappilyMarried up to this day.
* This is the reason that a second season of ''FruitsBasket'' will never be made (at least, not by Studio Deen): creator NatsukiTakaya—who due to a hand injury was able to have direct involvement with the anime—and Director Akitaroh Daichi basically drove each other nuts. During production, Takaya gained a reputation for being a control freak. For one, she demanded that big-name seiyuu be cast for her characters, something Daichi [[StuntCasting normally]] avoids. She also had issues with the animation director and character designer. Unfortunately, Studio Deen will not let any director except Daichi handle the series, and Daichi has made it very clear he ''won't'' work with Takaya again.

* Music/ThePolice broke up expressly because of this trope. They had already been drifting along and were quasi-disbanded after 1983's ''Synchronicity'', but they decided to get into the studio to record a new album as well as an update of some of their older hits. They only made it as far as "Don't Stand So Close To Me", the recording of which was largely eaten up by petty arguments between Stewart Copeland and Sting over instruments to use. Sadly, Copeland later mentioned that part of the problem was that he had broken his collarbone playing polo, meaning he was unable to actually do any drumming [[hottip:*:one of the instruments at the center of the dispute was a drum machine synthesizer, specifically whether to use the Fairlight CMI Copeland preferred or the Synclavier Sting wanted]]. He went on to say that had the band been able to jam and get out any pent-up aggression that way, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen The Police might not have broken up.]]

* The original head writers for ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', Ken Penders and Karl Bollers, came to butt heads very badly at the end of their run, leading to both of them to quit, though it's said that Karl was the only one who quit and Ken was "let go".

** John Romero was frustrated over Quake being turned from an action-RPG into a shooter in Doom's template at a late stage in the game.

* JohnByrne left the ''The Uncanny ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' after a very successful run that included the "Dark Phoenix Saga" and "Days of Future Past" because he became increasingly frustrated with writer ChrisClaremont ignoring what he had drawn in favor of writing his own interpretation.

* This is rumored to be the reason why Manga/YuYuHakusho ended up rather... abruptly. Anime director Noriyuki Abe made [[AdaptationDecay so many modifications to the TV series]] that, by the time the Three Kings saga hit in, the already not-happy (and rumored to be, um, [[WagTheDirector rather hard to work with]]) YoshihiroTogashi lost it and decided to cut off the Manga/YuYuHakusho story ''as a whole'', finishing '''both''' the manga and anime so Abe wouldn't keep introducing more changes.

** More recently, they have grown very disgusted at Sega's Marketing for one of their more recent titles, ''VideoGame/AnarchyReigns'', epecially in the U.S. This is possibly one of the reasons they allowed themselves to branch out to even more companies, like with {{Konami}} to develop the gameplay for VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance, and being the main developer for the Creator/{{Nintendo}} published, WiiU exclusive title, ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'' as well as the main exclusive publisher of ''{{Bayonetta}} 2'' (With Sega merely owning the IP rights, with no development input)..

* YoshiyukiTomino and [[TheFiveStarStories Mamoru Nagano]] famously clashed in both their best known collaborations, ZetaGundam and HeavyMetalLGaim. Tomino, who was heavily depressed at the time, tended to create a [[CrapsackWorld bleak, sombre works]] filled with [[TrueArtIsAngsty angst and suffering]], while Nagano, while not without an occasional {{GRIMDARK}} moment of his own, nevertheless wished for less dark storytelling and, being infamously possessive of his works, a bigger creative control. Things were hot enough that Nagano ended up [[StartMyOwn starting his own]] [[TheFiveStarStories L-Gaim]], and Tomino made him one of the prototypes for the main Zeta villain, Paptimus Scirocco.