History Main / CreativeDifferences

** With Music/{{Rainbow}}, Blackmore was the unambiguous band lead, but it didn't end the creative conflicts around him. The band's first vocalist Music/RonnieJamesDio came with his own powerful creative vision and HeavyMithril interests, which defined Rainbow's mid-70s aesthetic in concert with Blackmore's tastes. However, come -78 Blackmore had decided to take the band to a more commercial direction, wanting to lighten the sound, focus on contemporary songs with simpler and less mystical lyrics. Dio quit the band over the decision, and while the resulting ''Down to Earth'' album was Rainbow's most commercially successful, it lost both its second singer and legendary rock drummer Cozy Powell as Blackmore decided to further continue the commercialization.

When they actually mean it, it refers to irreconcilably different artistic visions for the show or band. But nine times out of ten, it ''really'' means the person quit or got fired due to personal clashes and the PR team is trying their best to sugarcoat it for the media. At least, until the tell-all book comes out, or the social media blowup occurs. Also anytime someone mentions "scheduling conflicts", it likely means there's been a conflict between the director and producers or studio. Then the director quits or is fired. If there's only one constant member and a steady flow of departures and inductions, this is usually an indication of a PrimaDonnaDirector at the very least and is also usually a sign that the lone holdout is a [[ThePrimaDonna total diva who doesn't know how to share the spotlight]]. If the reverse is true and one person gets fired from everything they're involved in (or quits under contentious circumstances), odds are that they absolutely suck to work with and wear out their welcome in short order.

** Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling's agreement fell through due to NJPW not being fans of Wrestling/VinceRusso's booking, Wrestling/EricBischoff trying to tell NJPW how to book and WCW trying to enter a talent exchange with All Japan.

* Creator/TakeshiShudo, the original director for ''Anime/PokemonTheOriginalSeries'', had envisioned the show as one that could be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. [[http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbagraphic:Translating_the_Blog_Entries_of_Mr._Shudo His blogs]] reveal that this did not sit well with a lot of the staff, especially one he refers to as "omae-sama." Eventually, Shudo got fed up with how the show became overly kid-focused and left during the Johto League. On a lesser note, [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_mythical_third_movie.html his original idea]] for [[Anime/Pokemon3 the third movie]] was rejected by the staff, who thought it lacked success potential. In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was probably for the best]], since the third movie he went with is considered a contender for the best movie in the series to this day.

* Creator/TakeshiShudo, the original director for the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' anime, had envisioned the show as one that could be enjoyed by both children and adults alike. [[http://bulbanews.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Bulbagraphic:Translating_the_Blog_Entries_of_Mr._Shudo His blogs]] reveal that this did not sit well with a lot of the staff, especially one he refers to as "omae-sama." Eventually, Shudo got fed up with how the show became overly kid-focused and left during the Johto League. On a lesser note, [[http://dogasu.bulbagarden.net/movies/pm_lord_unknown_tower_entei/lord_unknown_tower_entei_mythical_third_movie.html his original idea]] for [[Anime/Pokemon3 the third movie]] was rejected by the staff, who thought it lacked success potential. In this case, [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools it was probably for the best]], since the third movie he went with is considered a contender for the best movie in the series to this day.

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

** In the end, this same situation, only reversed in the outcome, was part of what drove Claremont to finally end his long run on ''X-Men'' and leave Marvel altogether for a few years. In the last year or so of his run, Creator/JimLee would send him finished artwork, essentially saying "write a story around ''that''". Bob Harras, the Editor in Chief, was starting to side with the new crop of superstar artists, and Claremont grew fed up with the situation.
*** Claremont later said Lee had wanted a return to the classic X-Men stories he grew up reading with Magneto as a villain and Claremont had "Been there, done that."
** In reading Creator/JimShooter's (sadly on long hiatus) blog, this seems to be a constant source of tension between writer and artist. The writer often wants the scene visualized as he or she writes it in the script due to the necessities of storytelling (Shooter, for instance, writes long descriptions and even at times sends reference photos or sketches along to clarify how things should look). Meanwhile, the artist believes him or herself responsible for the visual look of the pages and may see things very differently from an artistic standpoint.

* This was the reason why Jonboy Meyers left from Benjamin Percy's ComicBook/DCRebirth run of ''ComicBook/TeenTitans''.

* The reason Creator/MarkWaid spent the 2010s away from DC Comics, despite his professed love for Franchise/TheDCU and everything about it, stems largely to the trouble he had working with co-publisher Creator/DanDiDio. The latter was a rageful tyrant who spent the entirety of ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' raging at the creators for how they were ruining the book because they'd gone off the initial plan, which as Waid was part of the group of writers meant he was one of the figures to experience this. Later, [=DiDio=] torpedo'd Waid's return to ''Franchise/TheFlash'', a book he had pretty much been MyRealDaddy to, before the first issue had released, as he'd decided to bring back Barry Allen and have him replace the MorePopularReplacement, Wally West. With Waid forced to write for a lameduck series that only existed to bridge time until Barry's return and the launch of his book, Waid quit DC under tense terms, jumping ship to Marvel, while ''The Flash'' was retooled in such a way it dropped almost ''everything'' Waid had built for it outside of the Speed Force (and even that was revamped in a way it became a shamble of what Waid had conceived it as), and Wally West, the character he had helped redefine and pored extensive personal energy into, was ExiledFromContinuity and was treated as a CreatorsPest to [=DiDio=]. When [=DiDio=] left DC in early 2020[[note]]allegedly after being fired, though it's still unknown exactly why he left[[/note]], Waid came back to DC and quickly began penning series' for them, now free of [=DiDio=]'s interference.

* A massive number of these unfolded between co-authors Drew Luczynski and Nathanoraptor over the course of writing ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth''. In fact, quite often the story ended up on unintentionally long hiatuses due to disagreements between the two writers over characters (i.e. Luczynski having low faith in some of the characters' ability to carry a story on their own and wanting for the story to revolve more around a single clear cut 'main protagonist' (plus a later hopeful {{Deuteragonist}}) while having all the other human characters be treated as 'just side characters', Nathanoraptor taking umbrage to Luczynski trying to push his own personal favorite into a prominent position too early, and also wanting the story's CharacterFocus to be more of an EnsembleCast style of equal importance, etc.) and story direction (i.e. Luczynski pushing for the story in general to unfold in the style of an Animal Planet style 'behind the scenes at a zoo' documentary that focused almost exclusively on the adventures in the past and the difficulty in caring for the rescued animals in the present while also being largely episodic with a few plot and character arcs here and there when it came to plot and character focus, whereas Nathanoraptor wanted the story to be more of a dramedy with an overarching storyline that was equal parts character driven and plot driven and also served as a DeconstructiveParody of standard Prehistoric Park fanfic conventions, plus the aforementioned desired EnsembleCast style of CharacterFocus). Eventually, after one especially long hiatus triggered by these disagreements, they were eventually able to work out a system that largely put an end to the problem. And even this wasn't enough to prevent a few more minor instances of this from occurring afterward, or Luczynski from eventually developing CreatorsApathy and later outright trying to [[CreatorBacklash disavow his involvement with the story altogether]].

** To better understand this: Ken Penders was head writer up until around #60 then went to focus on the ''Knuckles'' comic. Karl took over and the two seemed to be out of each other's hair until the ''Knuckles'' comic was canceled, putting the two head writers together. For a while, Ken had Knuckles back-up stories to Karl's main Sonic stories, but when the back-ups were abandoned, the two ended up working together and the messes began.

* Green River, one of the first Seattle {{Grunge}} bands, broke up prior to the release of their first full length album, ''Rehab Doll'', due to a rift between members: Mark Arm wanted to keep the band independent, while Stone Gossard and Jeff Ament wanted to pursue a major label deal. Mark and fellow member Joe Turner started {{Music/Mudhoney}} not long after, while Stone and Jeff would eventually start Music/PearlJam. Things were eventually patched up enough that there have been a few sporadic Green River reunion performances.
* These have been all but stated to be the reason why Tommy "Vext" Cummings was fired from Bad Wolves. While Cummings has maintained that he was fired solely due to his political beliefs and support for Donald Trump and was the subject of a conspiracy by the band and their manager to force him out behind his back, fellow founding member Doc Coyle has heavily implied that it was a long time coming and Cummings' support of the January 6, 2021 insurrection was the last straw, but that he knew or had to have known that the rest of the band was sick of him and that he was treading on thin ice well before that point. [[Music/FiveFingerDeathPunch Ivan Moody]] would go on to back Coyle's version of events, and said much the same thing - Cummings had worn out his welcome long before that point, they had every reason to fire him years before they did, and lying through his teeth about his firing and refusing to take responsibility for his actions were classic character traits of his.

** Ironically, he later went on to create ''Galleon'', a game which featured ''two'' sexy lead females instead of one...

* Creator/RichardDonner was let go midway through production of ''Film/SupermanII'' due to clashing with producers Alexander and Illya Salkind as far back as [[Film/SupermanTheMovie the first film]]. Donner wanted a serious, respectful film while they wanted a campy film akin to ''Series/{{Batman}}''.

* The 2001 anime adaptation of ''Manga/FruitsBasket'', produced by Creator/StudioDeen, had a lot of disagreements going on behind the scenes. Creator Creator/NatsukiTakaya--who, due to a hand injury, had to take a break from drawing the manga and was able to have more direct involvement with the anime--and director Akitaroh Daichi drove each other nuts. During production, Takaya gained a reputation for being a control freak; for one, she demanded that [[AllStarCast big-name voice actors]] be cast for her characters, something Daichi [[StuntCasting normally]] avoids. She also had issues with the character designs and how the anime's tone was LighterAndSofter with more emphasis on comedy. By the time the anime finished airing, she was [[DisownedAdaptation highly disappointed]] with how it turned out. It would never have a second season since DEEN wouldn't let any director except Daichi handle the series, and Daichi has made it very clear he ''won't'' work with Takaya again. It took nearly ''18 years'' for there to be another anime adaptation that would be [[TruerToTheText more faithful to the original manga's plot and tone]], but this time handled by Creator/TMSEntertainment and with a completely different voice cast.

* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'':
** The two head writers for this series Genki Yoshimura and Atsushi Maekawa had two very different styles of writing, Maekawa's being story driven light-hearted stories, and Yoshimura's being character driven darker stories, both were told to write in their own preferred styles. This lead to them not seeing eye to eye on how the story should go, which resulted in a lot of fillers, to cover up for the time where they couldn't come to an agreement.
** Meanwhile, the head writer for ''Adventure'', Satoru Nishizono, left the Digimon project because he didn't want for a sequel to his series to be made.
** Much of the main staff including Creator/ChiakiKonaka couldn't stand the executive meddling anymore, and so were ready to break their contracts and leave the project, but Bandai, unwilling to let them do this, gave them [[Anime/DigimonTamers their own series]], to mess around with instead.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' brought in Hiroyuki Kakudou (director of ''Adventure'' and ''02'') as a creative and lore consultant, but he left the project [[https://www.reddit.com/r/digimon/comments/exof4l/spoiler_links_discussion_digimon_adventure_last/fggwhzv/ over the film's premise]], which went directly against one of the rules he'd established for that continuity; that being anyone can have a Digimon, regardless of age.

* Director Roger Allers saw two while in Disney. First his co-director in ''King of the Jungle'', which would become
''Westernanimation/{{The Lion King|1994}}'', George Scribner, left disagreeing with Allers and the producers wanting to make the movie a musical, when he wanted a documentary-like film more focused on natural aspects. And then Allers himself left ''Kingdom of the Sun'' as his intent of making another dramatic musical clashed with Mark Dindal pushing for a screwball comedy, which was what Disney sided with to rework the project into ''Westernanimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove''.

* The reason Creator/MarkWaid spent the 2010s away from DC Comics, despite his professed love for TheDCU and everything about it, stems largely to the trouble he had working with co-publisher Creator/DanDiDio. The latter was a rageful tyrant who spent the entirety of ''ComicBook/{{52}}'' raging at the creators for how they were ruining the book because they'd gone off the initial plan, which as Waid was part of the group of writers meant he was one of the figures to experience this. Later, [=DiDio=] torpedo'd Waid's return to ''Franchise/TheFlash'', a book he had pretty much been MyRealDaddy to, before the first issue had released, as he'd decided to bring back Barry Allen and have him replace the MorePopularReplacement, Wally West. With Waid forced to write for a lameduck series that only existed to bridge time until Barry's return and the launch of his book, Waid quit DC under tense terms, jumping ship to Marvel, while ''The Flash'' was retooled in such a way it dropped almost ''everything'' Waid had built for it outside of the Speed Force (and even that was revamped in a way it became a shamble of what Waid had conceived it as), and Wally West, the character he had helped redefine and pored extensive personal energy into, was ExiledFromContinuity and was treated as a CreatorsPest to [=DiDio=]. When [=DiDio=] left DC in early 2020[[note]]allegedly after being fired, though its still unknown exactly why he left[[/note]], Waid came back to DC and quickly began penning series' for them, now free of [=DiDio=]'s interference.

** The second time this happened was in late 2019 when vocalist Gus Farias got forced out of the band. According to Gus, bassist Raad Soudani got the rights to Volumes' name and back catalog of music, [[HostileShowTakeOver becoming the full owner of the brand and kicked Gus out.]] Other have said that Gus was kicked out in combination of drug and personality issues as well as his own trap project, [=YungYogi=], gaining popularity in 2019. Gus has made it very clear that he was forced out and puts the blame squarely on Raad. Subverted with Gus's brother, guitarist, and band co-founder Diego "Yaygo" Farias who left the band around the same time as Gus. [[AbsenteeActor Yaygo wasn't touring much with the band other than festival appearances]] as he realized that production was his true calling and left the band amicably. [[DiedDuringProduction Tragically, Yaygo's post-Volumes plans won't come to be.]]

• Initial producer Boyd Kirkland left production of ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'' because he had creative differences with DC since he was unhappy it was retooled from a family-friendly cartoon to an adult oriented webtoon.

* Ryan Ross and Jon Walker as of July 2009 left Music/PanicAtTheDisco to form their own band, The Young Veins (whose sound is completely different from their previous band; compare Panic's latest song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebeKZGsadUU New Perspective]] with TYV's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMKnaYyuiss Change]] ), for this stated reason. This led to [[FanDumb many fans casting blame on them]] for not trying hard enough to work out the differences with fellow band mates Brendon Urie and Spencer Smith.

* Why Music/{{Sabaton}} changed every member except lead vocalist Joakim Brodén and bassist Pär Sundström after recording ''Carolus Rex'' in 2012. They were pretty open about the dispute: the other members (guitarists Rikard Sundén and Oskar Montelius, drummer Daniel Mullback, and keyboardist Daniel Mÿhr) wanted to tour less, despite the band's growing international popularity, and have more input into songwriting, and split from the band amicably to form Music/CivilWar. Brodén and Sundström recruited new guitarists and drummers for the subsequent Swedish Empire Tour, and is heard thanking the audience at Woodstock Festival Poland on ''Swedish Empire Live'' for accepting the new members.

* ''Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheOtherSideOfTheSpectrum'' ran into this problem between the head writer [=Redskin122004=] and the co-authors he brought on to the project, and these creative disagreements began to spill over into becoming personal disagreements. According to [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/735623/i-aint-gone-yet Doctor Fluffy]], [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/735463/my-side-of-the-spectrum VoxAdam]], [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/766785/late-af-but-i-suppose-i-should-get-this-off-my-chest-a-reflection-on-the-other-side-of-the-spectrum Kizuna Tallis]], [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/767698/spectrum-a-few-thoughts Sledge115]] and [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/735427/jed-on-a-response-or-the-other-perspective-on-the-spectrum Jed R]], working on ''Spectrum'' through the year of 2016 was [[TroubledProduction not a very pleasant experience]]. This culminated in the team splitting up on May 2017, with the five aforementioned authors (plus a few others) going on to [[ContinuityReboot launch]] a [[Fanfic/{{SPECTRUM}} reboot of the story]] and start over fresh.

• Initial producer Boyd Kirkland left production of ''WebAnimation/LoboWebseries'' because he had creative differences with DC since he was unhappy it was retooled from a family friendly cartoon to an adult oriented webtoon.

** The Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA[=-=]Wrestling/{{TNA}} agreement actually did end seven years early because of creative differences. The NWA had standards for it's titleholders it wanted to directly enforce and TNA had already pulled out of the NWA anyway and wanted promote material more distinct to it's own brand. NWA 'abrogating' the deal is how most news sources reported it, however.

* The director of the first ''VideoGame/AeroFighters'', Shin Nakamura, left Video System over his disagreement with the company's decision to focus development on the UsefulNotes/NeoGeo (which only supported a standard 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the 3:4 aspect ratio used for ''Aero Fighters'' and ''Turbo Force'') and founded Creator/{{Psikyo}} to continue making [[ShootEmUp shmups]] in that vein. Ironically, Psikyo would much later release a sequel to ''Strikers 1945'' for the Neo Geo while Video System would develop ''Aero Fighters 2'' and ''Aero Fighters 3'' as Neo Geo games before returning to the original screen orientation for later installments.

** Adrian Carmack was essentially fired after ''Doom 3'', later suing the company.

* ''VideoGame/MasterOfOrion III'' suffered something of a civil war on the creative team between the lead designer and the art director. The lead designer, Alan Emrich, wanted to more or less continue in the tradition of [=MoO=] II, adding more features such as religion, governmental corruption and the exploration of black holes, and of course new races and new racial abilities, but not fundamentally breaking away from the FourX SpaceOpera mold that had made ''II'' so successful. The art director, Rantz Hoseley, was having none of that, though: he wanted to have a more realistic simulation of a complex galactic empire, one that you couldn't run yourself and ''had'' to automate, and he also ''hated'' the humanoid aliens of the series (comparing them to PeopleInRubberSuits). Hoseley won the internal fight, and Emrich was forced out, leading to ''[[FranchiseKiller Master Of Orion III]]''.

* Creator/YoshiyukiTomino and ''[[Manga/TheFiveStarStories Mamoru Nagano]]'' famously clashed in both their best known collaborations, ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' and ''Anime/HeavyMetalLGaim''. Tomino, who was heavily depressed at the time, tended to create [[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]] [[Manga/TheFiveStarStories L-Gaim]], and Tomino made him one of the prototypes for the main Zeta villain, Paptimus Scirocco. Their creative clashes were exacerbated by the fact that [[LoveTriangle both men were competing for the affections]] of the ''Zeta'' {{seiyuu}} Creator/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 for many years.

* These have been all but stated to be the reason why Tommy "Vext" Cummings was fired from Bad Wolves. While Cummings has maintained that he was fired solely due to his political beliefs and support for Donald Trump and was the subject of a conspiracy by the band and their manager to force him out behind his back, fellow founding member Doc Coyle has heavily implied that it was a long time coming and Cummings' support of the January 6, 2021 insurrection was the last straw, but that he knew or had to have known that the rest of the band was sick of him and that he was treading on thin ice well before that point.