History Main / CreatorBacklash

** Creator/GailSimone hates the term StuffedIntoTheFridge and regrets coining it, largely because she feels it's been horribly [[TropeDecay distorted and over-applied]] ever since its creation, being used to insult ''any'' work in which a female character gets hurt or dies. It ''really'' doesn't help that when she started working for Creator/DCComics, she became friends with Ron Marz (the writer the trope is named in reference to), and was promptly insulted by some "[[FanDumb fans]]" for being nice to him.

* [[Webcomic/BooksOfAdam Adam Ellis]] drew a comic of himself killing off one of his earlier comics, currently the page image. In said comic, someone told their annoying friend to "let people enjoy things". This was often used about perfectly innocent stuff, like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequels, but many also used it to promote hate and racism and act hyper-defensive of legitimate or constructive criticism.

* [[Webcomic/BooksOfAdam Adam Ellis]] drew a comic of himself killing off one of his earlier comics. In said comic, someone told their annoying friend to "let people enjoy things". This was often used about perfectly innocent stuff, like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequels, but many also used it to promote hate and racism and act hyper-defensive of legitimate or constructive criticism.

** In ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', it's probably easier to list the various Tribes who ''weren't'' this at some point, to the fans if not the producers, given how much of they tended to rely on ethnic or subculture stereotypes. In fact, more than one fan has suggested that this is precisely ''why'' the SpiritualSuccessor, ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'', cast out all ideas of using ethnicity or subculture (feminists, the homeless, etc) as a basis for werewolf tribal cultures.

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* Creator/HenrikIbsen was ''not'' happy about having to change the ending of ''Theatre/ADollsHouse'' for the German Production [[note]]The Actress playing Nora was against the idea of leaving her children and there was no Copyright in Germany[[/note]]. The term he used was "barbaric atrocity". Ironically, due to changing values, the original ending is now perfectly acceptable. The redo is something of a WriterCopOut. He also did not react well when feminists began lauding him for the play's support of their movement, which [[MisaimedFandom he denied]].

* In spite of the brief success of the ''Toys/{{Poopsie}}'' toyline, Creator/MGAEntertainment is all but outright stated to have regretted making the franchise. As of 2022, the MGA website no longer makes any mention of ''Poopsie'' and the official [=YouTube=] channel is private (so far the only MGA [=YouTube=] channel to be so as official videos from other discontinued toylines such as ''Toys/{{Bratzillaz}}'' and ''Toys/NoviStars'' are still up).

* Charles Spencer "Spen" King, the chief engineer of the Range Rover sport-utility vehicle, designed it as a genuine off-road vehicle with more amenities than a regular Land Rover, and was deeply dismayed to see it and [=SUVs=] like it driven mainly by rich people who never took it off-road.

* Before ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Creator/JimDavis did a short-lived comic called ''ComicStrip/GnormGnat''. Davis thought it was funny. Not a lot of other people did. After one editor told Davis that "no one can relate to bugs", he gave up. The only times Davis brings the comic up now is when he's mocking it as "one of his biggest mistakes". This was lampshaded in one of the ''Garfield'' book collections. A gag comic at the end of one book was titled "Top 10 Comic Strips Jim Davis tried before Garfield" where Number 2 on the list was... Gnorm Gnat. The number one comic strip "tried" was Garfield being a living toaster.
* Creator/BillWatterson claims he regrets introducing Calvin's Uncle Max into ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes''. His reasons are that Max didn't have much of an identity, he didn't bring out anything new in Calvin, and the awkwardness of Max not being able to address Calvin's parents by their first names (which Watterson, as a matter of principle, didn't want them to have).
* Berke Breathed, creator of ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', kept a great deal of the strip's first two years out of publication for years because he thought the strips were dated, unfunny, poorly drawn, derivative of ''ComicStrip/{{Doonesbury}}'', or some combination thereof. Finally, in the late 2000s, he began releasing complete anthologies of the strip, complete with running commentary. Even in the commentary, he is highly critical of his own work, saying that he had no idea which direction the strip would take until around 1981, when Opus the penguin became a permanent cast member.

** In a crossover with this, literature and animation, Berke does not like ''WesternAnimation/AWishForWingsThatWork'', an AnimatedAdaptation of his 1991 Christmas book of the same name (which in turn uses the Opus character from ''Bloom County'' and ''Outland'').

* Scott Adams released a series of ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strips that are really contrived to give Dogbert an arch-nemesis named Bingo the Cow Herding Dog in order to [[ExecutiveMeddling give Hollywood some material to work with]]. It would have turned the strip into something only other cartoonists like. This was during the strip's early years that focus more on Dilbert's antics at home than at work. You can read them [[http://web.archive.org/web/20030205175909/http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/news_and_history/html/dogbert_origin_strips.html here]].
** In a twentieth anniversary collection, Scott Adams included some comics he wrote for ''Dilbert'' as practice before trying to find a syndicate. Before listing the examples, Adams wrote "At the time, I thought puns were the highest form of humor. Forgive me."
** His seventh anniversary collection ("Seven Years of Highly Defective People") he includes a meandering Sunday strip captioned with the annotation "I hate this comic. I was tired."
* Creator/CharlesMSchulz frequently said he was somewhat embarrassed by the first few years of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}''. As a result, several hundred strips from the early 1950s were never reprinted in book form during his lifetime, only seeing the light of day via Fantagraphics' ''Complete Peanuts'' series.
** Schulz also hated the title "Peanuts" which the syndicate imposed on him, and to the end of his life never missed an opportunity to call it "the worst title ever thought up for a comic strip." This is why the animated specials and other adaptations released in his lifetime never have "Peanuts" in the title.
* Despite his prolific reprinting of past ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strips in books, calendars, etc. there are a rather high number of Far Side comics — mostly from the early years — that Gary Larson doesn't like and are almost never reprinted. The epic every-strip-ever collection released in 2014 remains the only place to see them.
* The various rights-holders for the various ''ComicStrip/RupertBear'' media pretend ''Rupert and the Diamond Leaf'' never existed due to a certain plot point involving racial stereotypes, [[BrokenAesop as it unfortunately compromises the racial harmony that has always featured in the]] ''[[BrokenAesop Rupert]]'' [[BrokenAesop stories]] (even the characters considered FairForItsDay have aged much better, such as Tiger Lily). This didn't stop ''The Daily Express'' from reprinting the story in April 2020, but with the offending plot points excised.

* To this day, Sammy Hagar is practically alone in disliking Music/VanHalen's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMV-fenGP1g video for "Right Now"]]. He wanted it to be less of a concept and more of a straightforward interpretation of the lyrics, since he had worked hard on them and wanted listeners to hear them. In fact, he was so angry that he refused to sing most of the lyrics in the video, even when the titles say "right now, we should pay attention to the lyrics." The director liked that take anyway and kept it.

* [[Music/LimpBizkit Fred Durst]] was so embarrassed by the video for "Take A Look Around" that he banned it in the US.
* Music/{{Journey|Band}} was highly dissatisfied with their music video for "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)"; to the point that they refused to do any videos for their next album, ''Raised On Radio''.

* Music/PhilCollins [[WordOfGod reportedly]] finds the Music/{{Genesis|Band}} video for the TitleTrack of ''Music/ATrickOfTheTail'', featuring a miniature Phil dancing on an upright piano while Music/TonyBanks plays the song and the other members of the band gather around, to be the most embarrassing one of his career. A bit of SpecialEffectsFailure (this was 1976) didn't help matters.

* Longtime ''Series/SesameStreet'' writer and puppeteer [[Creator/MuppetPerformers Joey Mazzarino]] (most famous for performing Murray Monster) left the show after its 46th season, unsatisfied with the changes that the show was going through.

** Creator/FrankOz also expressed dissatisfaction with [[Series/TheMuppets2015 the 2015 Muppets TV series]], thinking that it wasn't true to the characters.

* Robert Benfer seems to have grown into this as his ''WebAnimation/{{KlayWorld}}'' series drew to a close. While it was clear he enjoyed doing it for a number of years, he eventually changed the name of his youtube channel and stopped producing these videos completely, despite their popularity. In a video he released explaining that the series was going to end, he sounds exhausted with the Klay World series and mentions that the only reason he kept making them was to fund his other projects.

* Creator/CharlesMSchulz grew to dislike the character "Pig-Pen" over the years, due to his one-joke nature and his difficult character design. What prevented the character from being written out of ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' like so many other characters that Schulz had grown bored with was the huge amount of fan-mail that he consistently received for him. Though it's telling that "Pig-Pen"'s final appearance in the strip shortly before it ended had the usually proud character [[http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1999/09/08 show embarrassment for his dirty nature.]]
* One of the primary reasons Creator/BillWatterson decided to stop drawing ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' in 1995 was pressure from Universal Press Syndicate to commercialize his work, with Watterson noting that if Universal wanted to, they could have licensed his characters without his permission or continue drawing Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist, so he decided to discontinue Calvin and Hobbes because he had achieved all he could in the comic strip business. Nevertheless, in spite of his efforts, numerous unauthorized products have made their way into the market, with window decals depicting Calvin praying before a cross, and taking a whizz on various automobiles' and sports teams' logos.
** Within the strip itself, Watterson came to dislike the title arc of ''Weirdos From Another Planet!''. He considered the Martian backgrounds too cartoony and the GreenAesop too {{Anvilicious}}. He also disliked the strip where Calvin pretended to be a god that smote his creations, since the restrictive Sunday format ruined what he planned. He even had mixed feelings about being able to design his own Sunday layouts when he realized how hard it was to come up with ideas and layouts that were easy to follow, and how the new Sunday strips took two or three times as long to draw as the old ones.

* Dom Fera, of WebAnimation/TheLazerCollection fame. The series often completely overshadows the rest of his work. He expressed this sentiment in [[StylisticSuck Lazer Collection 4]]. That said, he doesn't ''hate'' the Lazer Collection, he just thought it was ridiculous that people expected him to put out 4 so soon after 3.

** Upon stepping down as the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer said [[http://web.archive.org/web/20140104022907/http://www.techaxle.com/steve-ballmer-explains-why-windows-vista-was-his-biggest-mistake/ his greatest mistake as the man in charge was Windows Vista]], due to its TroubledProduction and the fact it took focus away from things they could have been focusing on instead, such as phones.
* Surrealist artist Creator/ReneMagritte once titled a painting of a [[http://www.royal-painting.com/images/Magritte,%20Rene/26745-Magritte,%20Rene.jpg pretty blue sky with clouds]] "The Curse". Scholars have debated what kind of "curse" may have prompted that title, but some believe that it refers to Magritte being thoroughly sick of how his other works featuring pretty blue skies with clouds were the ones that were most popular.

* Creator/LaurenFaust doesn't hate ''Toys/MilkyWayAndTheGalaxyGirls'' (far from it, actually), but she dislikes their designs and has expressed a desire to redesign them (they were created in the early 2000s, and she's [[ArtEvolution developed as an artist]] since then).

* Creator/ChrisRock came to regret his [[NWordPrivileges "Black People vs. Niggas"]] rant due to the StopBeingStereotypical implications, as well as the fact that a lot of actual racists were using his words to justify their bigotry, claiming to only hate ''those'' black people and not the "[[YouAreACreditToYourRace good ones]]."

* While Creator/{{Hasbro}} was trying an experiment with ''Franchise/TransformersAlignedUniverse'', many of the people involved in the various entries didn't want to be part of it, hence the number of BroadStrokes and {{Continuity Snarl}}s that happened, to the point the UniverseBible was ignored entirely.

* As reported by the book ''Brick by Brick'', certain unnamed higher-ups at Franchise/{{LEGO}} felt this way about their non-traditional series like ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'', feeling its story-driven nature, ball joint-based building system and at times overly dark and violent story stood against everything the company represented (some of these were also major concerns regarding their ''Franchise/StarWars'' sets). Within the ''BIONICLE'' franchise itself, writer Greg Farshtey hated Vakama's forced betrayal-arc in the 2005 plot, which was pushed by the team producing that year's DirectToVideo movie. Greg allegedly yelled at them, but his arguments were ignored, and he had to somehow fit the arc into his book series.
* In 1988, an Australian breeder named Wally Conron created the "Labradoodle" (Labrador Retriever x Standard Poodle mix) as we know it. He intended to make a new service dog-geared breed meant to be low-maintence, friendly, and easily trainable. However, the popularity of the mix led to others breeding their own Labradoodles and other similar mixes with cute names (Goldendoodles, Cockapoos, etc). Since then, numerous other Poodle mixes have popped up and Labradoodles are still not any closer to being a "real breed" than they were in the 1980s. Wally Conron no longer breeds them and says he regrets starting the "designer dog" fad. He says that he created "a Frankenstein" and that Labradoodles (and similar mixes) are generally poorly bred, having many problems and no breed standard instead of the original intention of fixing the "flaws" of Poodles and Labradors.

* Creator/EddieMurphy came to regret his 1987 standup special ''Raw'' due to the misogynist and homophobic jokes throughout the set (as well as other stand-up sets his did during the 80s). He chalked up the misogyny to relationship woes, and he admitted that the homophobia and AIDS jokes were pure ignorance. To his credit, he apologized for those jokes as early as 1996 and has donated to the Elton John AIDS Foundation.
-->"Just like the rest of the world, I am more educated about AIDS in 1996 than I was in 1981. I think it is unfair to take the words of a misinformed 21-year-old and apply them to an informed 35-year-old man. I know how serious an issue AIDS is the world over. I know that AIDS isn’t funny. It’s 1996 and I’m a lot smarter about AIDS now."

* Several members of Creator/MontyPython--like Creator/JohnCleese--quickly became tired of the notoriety that came with their television shows and movies. More specifically, they'd founded the Pythons on the grounds of "shock comedy" that was supposed to be different, engaging, and surprising every time people watched it. As such, the very notion of codifying "Python-esque" humor was the exact ''opposite'' of what they wanted, and seeing people endlessly repeat their jokes made the creators frustrated to no end (Cleese once remarked that he'd seen a group of people have a conversation of nothing but Python quotes and went home bitterly disappointed). The backlash against any sort of formula also led to interesting moments in the group's live shows, as they'd deliberately subvert the fans' expectations to try to keep the original point of shock humor alive. In one famous instance, the "Dead Parrot" sketch began as usual, but when John Cleese entered the set and said that his parrot was dead, Creator/MichaelPalin looked at it, agreed, and gave Cleese a refund, thus completing the bit without telling a single joke (which ''was'' the joke).

* Nicholas Price was a British artist who was the creator of the 'Old Joe Camel' character, who was briefly used in an adult magazine in the 1970s to advertise Camel cigarettes. Years later, when Camel resurrected the character for their more mainstream, controversial ad campaigns in the 80s and 90s, Price was not happy about it and stated that it "mortified him" to see the character used in that way, especially when it was more appealing to children. He ended up suing Camel for not paying him properly for the use of the character (it later got settled out of court), and went on to say that he never would've created the character if he knew it would get to that point.

* In spite of the brief success of the ''Toys/{{Poopsie}}'' toyline, Creator/MGAEntertainment is all but outright stated to have regretted making the franchise. As of 2022, the MGA Entertainment website no longer makes any mention of the franchise and the official [=YouTube=] channel is private (so far the only MGA [=YouTube=] channel to be so as official videos from other discontinued toylines such as ''Toys/{{Bratzillaz}}'' and ''Toys/NoviStars'' are still up).

** Schulz also hated the title "Peanuts" which the syndicate imposed on him, and to the end of his life never missed an opportunity to call it "the worst title ever thought up for a comic strip." This is why the animated specials and other adaptations released in his liftime never have "Peanuts" in the title.

* Creator/AdamEllis drew a comic of himself killing off one of his earlier comics. In said comic, someone told their annoying friend to "let people enjoy things". This was often used about perfectly innocent stuff, like the ''Franchise/StarWars'' Prequels, but many also used it to promote hate and racism and act hyper-defensive of legitimate or constructive criticism.

* Some longtime puppeteers (including some no longer affiliated with the chief group of [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppets]], such as Creator/FrankOz) supposedly expressed dissatisfaction during the production of ''Film/TheMuppets'', feeling that it was too serious for the Muppets. Rumor has it that former Kermit the Frog performer [[Creator/MuppetPerformers Steve Whitmire]] threatened to have his name taken off the film if the original ending (Tex Richman being revealed to be Kermit in disguise the whole time, as a way to bring the crew back together) had been used.

Not quite. See, the creators are people too, and if they're the origin of a particular work, that doesn't stop them from holding such a strong negative opinion about it. This is what is referred to as creator backlash. It's the most high profile form of {{hatedom}} possible, since it's the very creator(s) of the work denouncing it. As they bring up their feelings of hatred for their work in interviews, public forums, and their other creations, it brings a certain amount of discord into being a fan when the very source has denounced it. It might even trigger feelings of betrayal, or resentment that the author has (apparently) become a holier-than-thou hypocrite.

Not quite. See, the creators are people too, and even if they're the origin of a particular work, that doesn't stop them from holding such a strong negative opinion about it. This is what is referred to as creator backlash. It's the most high profile form of {{hatedom}} possible, since it's the very creator(s) of the work denouncing it. As they bring up their feelings of hatred for their work in interviews, public forums, and their other creations, it brings a certain amount of discord into being a fan when the very source has denounced it. It might even trigger feelings of betrayal, or resentment that the author has (apparently) become a holier-than-thou hypocrite.

* Before ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', Creator/JimDavis did a short-lived comic called ''ComicStrip/GnormGnat''. Davis thought it was funny. Not a lot of other people did. After one editor told Davis that "no one can relate to bugs", he pretty much gave up. The only times Davis brings the comic up now is when he's mocking it as "one of his biggest mistakes". This was lampshaded in one of the ''Garfield'' book collections. A gag comic at the end of one book was titled "Top 10 Comic Strips Jim Davis tried before Garfield" where Number 2 on the list was... Gnorm Gnat. The number one comic strip "tried" was Garfield being a living toaster.

->"''And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the Earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.''" (Genesis 6:5-7)

*** The biggest example from Fantasy is doubtlessly the Pygmies (the name itself being inherently iffy not helping...), who were a faction starting in second edition. By third edition, their appearance and culture would pretty much just seem like shockingly racist caricatures of the people of the African Congo these days and they unsurprisingly ended up entirely unmentioned within the game's fluff or crunch as the years went on. A ''{{TabletopGame/Blood Bowl}}'' comic mentioned them having a team that was beaten and eaten by the Amazons team who took their spot at the tournament as if to say "No, the Pygmies will never be brought back". The team being eaten in the GaidenGame is the last mention of them.
* Being very much a product of its times, there are more than a few examples of this stemming from the ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'':

*** Before the Fianna's IRA connections were comparable to 9/11, the Black Furies were amongst the most embarrassing of the Tribes, being essentially an entire faction based on being {{Straw Feminist}}s -- and ''huge'' {{hypocrite}}s to boot. Their second edition tribal book drastically altered its flavor from its predecessor, although unlike the Fianna there was never any formal authorial apology.

** The sexism of 1st Edition AD&D (the most infamously memetic being the lower strength caps for women rule) is likewise something which later editions' designers would very much like everyone to forget.
** Colin [=McComb=] has said as much of [[OurElvesAreDifferent The Complete Book of Elves]], and [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?626446-Let-s-Read-The-Complete-Book-of-Elves/page32&p=16158533#post16158533 personally apologized for it on RPGNet]]. Though, for the record, he says the elves coming off as racist jerks [[DeliberateValuesDissonance was totally intentional.]]

** A number of older cards were ''very blatantly'' racist, most notably Invoke Prejudice, which depicted a knockoff Ku Klux Klan. While updated production standards ensured such cards wouldn't be created in future, they hung around as uncomfortable background facts of the game [[https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/depictions-racism-magic-2020-06-10 until 2020]], when they were banned from all official tournament play and had their art {{unperson}}ed from Gatherer.

** A number of the current writers, notably Holden Shearer and John Mørke, have stated that in hindsight, they really wish they hadn't done about half the things that went into late second edition, because they feel the focus on high-Essence play and the spectacular and cosmic stuff papered over the pulp fantasy the game was actually supposed to be about.
* The Senet cards from ''Cyberdark Impact'' set from the ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh TCG'' for having an entire obscure rule created to accomodate mostly weak cards, namely that cards cannot be moved from the position they were played at on the game mat. [[https://yugiohblog.konami.com/articles/?p=4270 Konami later admitted that the mechanic was a disaster because no one cares about card position or moving cards around, especially for convenience with the latter.]] Card-position-matters mechanics were, however, brought back with a vengeance with the introduction of Link monsters; presumably, Konami figured that making the mechanics much more central would bypass the issue.

* A similar thing happened with ''Theatre/{{Pygmalion}}'' - higher-ups wanted to change the ending to one in which Eliza and Higgins got married, so it could have a standard happy ending, rather than letting Eliza leave Higgins to marry Freddy. Needless to say, Creator/GeorgeBernardShaw would not be happy about the musical adaptation.

* WebAnimation/{{Benthelooney}} pretty much disowns every video that he has made during the first season of his Rant series. Before he started using a script, and also disowns a fair amount of his pre-cancellation rants.

* Robert Benfer seems to have grown into this as his ''WebAnimation/{{KlayWorld}}'' series drew to a close. While it was clear he enjoyed doing it for a number of years, he eventually changed the name of his youtube channel and stopped producing these videos completely, despite their popularity. In a video he released explaining that the series was going to end, he sounds exhausted with the Klay World series and even mentions that the only reason he kept making them was to fund his other projects.

* Jacob Lenard, creator of ''WebAnimation/{{Mugman}}'', suffered from creative burnout in the series' final years and grew to dislike much of the earlier episodes. Several changes were made in the final episodes, such as the removal of longtime characters Teanna, Johnny and Papa, complete retooling of character designs and character dynamics and even a re-make of an earlier episode. Eventually, after growing tired of the aimless direction of the series and fan backlash, brought the series to a close. Mugman would briefly be brought back in "Welcome to Wedgewood" shortly after the original series' cancellation, but that show would also be cancelled just after one episode due to Lenard's dissatisfaction with it.
* The ''WebAnimation/ObjectLockdown'' team really hates Drago, most notably series creator Wuggolo. They felt that he didn't really fit in the show's cast despite the fact he's a dragon action figure. No wonder they sent him on a LongBusTrip in "The Cream of the Crop."

* Parenting blogger Jenna Karvunidis, who created (or at least popularized) gender-reveal parties, has come to regret her contribution to pop culture. When her eldest daughter (for whom Karvunidis threw the first of these parties and blogged about it) started exhibiting tomboyish traits including a preference for suits, Karvunidis realized it's unfair to a child to place so much emphasis on their biological sex instead of letting them develop as individuals. Not helping matters are the increasingly over-the-top acts parents have decided to take on to celebrate the sex of their unborn babies, including pyrotechnic displays that have caused [[https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-breaking/2018/11/26/sawmill-fire-explosion-caught-camera-during-gender-reveal-party/2121802002/ two]] [[https://www.desertsun.com/story/news/environment/wildfires/2020/09/06/el-dorado-fire-grows-2-727-acres-containment-remains-5/5734173002/ wildfires]] and the death of at least one firefighter. Mind you, all Karvunidis herself ever did was bake a cake that was pink on the inside. She ''never'' suggested the more outlandish reveals people have done, causing her to put this line in her Twitter profile so that it's the first thing everyone sees on it:

* Several members of Creator/MontyPython--most notably Creator/JohnCleese--quickly became tired of the notoriety that came with their television shows and movies. More specifically, they'd founded the Pythons on the grounds of "shock comedy" that was supposed to be different, engaging, and surprising every time people watched it. As such, the very notion of codifying "Python-esque" humor was the exact ''opposite'' of what they wanted, and seeing people endlessly repeat their jokes made the creators frustrated to no end (Cleese once remarked that he'd seen a group of people have a conversation of nothing but Python quotes and went home bitterly disappointed). The backlash against any sort of formula also led to interesting moments in the group's live shows, as they'd deliberately subvert the fans' expectations to try to keep the original point of shock humor alive. In one famous instance, the "Dead Parrot" sketch began as usual, but when John Cleese entered the set and said that his parrot was dead, Creator/MichaelPalin looked at it, agreed, and gave Cleese a refund, thus completing the bit without telling a single joke (which, of course, ''was'' the joke).
* Victor Gruen was an architect best known for conceptualizing the modern shopping mall, with many of his notable projects including Southdale Mall in suburban UsefulNotes/TwinCities and (the now defunct) Northland Center in suburban UsefulNotes/{{Detroit}}, being among the very first malls in the UsefulNotes/UnitedStates. However, he later came to regret his role in developing them; in a 1978 speech, Gruen said, "I am often called the father of the shopping mall...I would like to take this opportunity to disclaim paternity once and for all. I refuse to pay alimony to those bastard developments. They destroyed our cities."

* Colonel Sanders came to hate UsefulNotes/{{KFC}} and even called the gravy "wallpaper paste" .

->''"I've come to hate my own creation. Now I know how God feels."''
-->-- '''Homer Simpson''' (on his song "Everybody Hates Ned Flanders"), ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS14E18DudeWheresMyRanch "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"]]

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* The crew of ''Webanimation/{{RWBY}}'' has, along with [[TroubledProduction bad development memories]], shown regrets for seasons 1 (Lindsay Jones says she'd love to redub the season, and Miles Luna bemoans one arc that takes too long) and 5 (the commentary track is full of Miles either mocking what ended up there or assuring the mistakes wouldn't be repeated), and admitted some character arcs could've been handled better.

* John [=McAfee=], the creator of [=McAfee=] antivirus software, had eventually grown to hate the pioneering software that beared his name. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKgf5PaBzyg He even released a video telling users how to uninstall the software.]] When [=McAfee=] (the company that he was no longer involved with ever since his resignation in 1994) was acquired by Intel in 2010 and was re-branded four years later as Intel Security, he said "I am now everlastingly grateful to Intel for freeing me from this terrible association with the worst software on the planet. These are not my words, but the words of millions of irate users."

* Jon Graham, creator of ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'', stated on his blog while working on Season 6 that since learning some things in film school, he now looks back on the first 3 seasons of the series with regret due to how unrealistic and overly-silly they are in comparison to his work on the more drama-based series it became towards its end. As a result, he implored fans to simply disregard the events of the earlier season for said reason. This however made the series's abundant plotholes [[ContinuitySnarl that much more confusing and unexplainable]].

* Burnie Burns has come to regret rushing season 3 of ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' so they'd change to ''Videogame/Halo2'' the same day the game came out, specially at how overworked he got. Two of his replacements had moments, with Miles Luna regretting [[WorfHadTheFlu injuring Carolina's leg to sideline her]] in Season 12, and Joe Nicolosi coming to hate how in Season 15 he made VIC's HeroicSacrifice a parody of Epsilon's in season 13.