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| 8 | * Creator/MitsuruAdachi ''really really really'' likes baseball, if the fact that nearly every series he's worked on in his illustrious career revolves around it is any indication. |
| 9 | * Creator/DouglasAdams: |
| 10 | ** During his writing of the first version of the first story of ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' he was obsessed with cheesy American cop shows and how little sense they make, as well as how the heroes tend to be DesignatedHero types. Even though ''Hitch-Hiker's'' is a science fiction pastiche, this obsession was responsible for things like the two CowboyCop characters (Shooty and Bangbang) who attack the main characters while insisting no-one has to die needlessly and the TearJerker death scene of the whale, which was supposed to be a reaction to the callous body count of such shows. There's other things like this as well. |
| 11 | ** He has pretty big CreatorProvincialism for the Home Counties, especially Cambridge and its university culture. |
| 12 | ** ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' spends a lot of time on Arthur's examination of his new girlfriend's feet. |
| 13 | ** His love of maths and early computer programming inspired the logic-play that defines his sense of humour. |
| 14 | ** He was fascinated with bad pop-philosophy books - they are a running gag in ''Hitch-Hiker's'' and even sneak into his tenure on ''Series/DoctorWho'', where the Doctor is shown to share his love of [[SoBadItsGood laughing at them]]. |
| 15 | ** Baths are a recurring theme in his work, as he loved having them, particularly for [[RidiculousProcrastinator procrastination purposes]]. |
| 16 | * Brendan Adkins' ''[[http://www.ommatidia.org/ ommatidia]]'' is a website full of stories that are all 101 words. The relevant portion is where a large amount of those stories involve self-possessed young women with unusual names and esoteric interests, usually involving SpeculativeFiction elements. |
| 17 | * Creator/KenAkamatsu: |
| 18 | ** Cosplay. Just check out ''Manga/LoveHina'' or ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi''. In fact one of the more important students in ''Negima'', Chisame, is a CosplayOtakuGirl. The whole thing hits its peak during the school festival arc in which everyone is wearing cosplay, and there is a cosplay contest. His wife is also a famous cosplayer. That's why ElegantGothicLolita Evangeline dressed up all the characters left behind in school for summer. |
| 19 | ** The author has gone on record as saying that he prefers more mature, curvier women...then you notice that ''Manga/LoveHina'' and ''Negima'' both have women just like that acting as enablers and[=/=]or helpers for others' relationships. |
| 20 | ** WordOfGod is that out of all the girls in Negi's class, the one that he'd most want a Pactio with[[note]] Read: make out with[[/note]] is Kakizaki. |
| 21 | ** He also seems to have a (non-sexual) interest in invincible/immortal characters. ''Manga/LoveHina'' had a running gag about Keitaro being impossible to kill, ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' featured several immortal/ageless characters [[spoiler:including the protagonist at the end]], and ''Manga/UQHolder'' is all ''about'' immortality, to the point that a good chunk of the primary cast, including the primary protagonist, are all immortal. |
| 22 | * Alex Ahad, original creator, lead artist, and character designer of ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'', draws a ''lot'' of curvy women. A significant portion of characters in the game are also [[EyeScream missing eyes]][[note]][[CuteMonsterGirl Squigly]] is missing one eye, [[HospitalHottie Valentine]] is either missing an eye or it's heavily damaged enough to wear bandages over it, and [[{{Cyborg}} Peacock]] has ''no'' eyes. [[MagicalGirl Annie]], one of the DLC nominees, is also missing an eye. Early concepts also had Parasoul with a ''tree'' growing out of her eye socket![[/note]]. |
| 23 | * Creator/ShermanAlexie seems to have a thing for LGBT themes, heterosexual [[LoliconAndShotacon shotacon]], and political TakeThat. |
| 24 | * Creator/WoodyAllen has made several movies where either the main character or a side character, who is usually a stand-in for Allen himself, gets together with a ridiculously hot girl that is much younger than him who is into him for some reason, which is not PlayedForLaughs. Such films include ''Film/{{Manhattan}}'', ''Film/WhateverWorks'', ''Film/MidnightInParis'', ''Film/MagicInTheMoonlight'', ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'', and ''Film/IrrationalMan''. Given the age discrepancy between himself and his wife Soon-Yi Previn it's hard not to think Allen that really likes this concept. |
| 25 | * Creator/RobertAltman's films shows women humiliated by nudity in ''M*A*S*H'', ''Nashville'', and ''Prêt-à-Porter''. They also show women publicly nude in ''Brewster [=McCloud=]'', ''The Long Goodbye'', ''A Wedding'', and ''Short Cuts''. |
| 26 | * Kozue Amano seems to have a thing for cute girl butts; the angle at which she depicts bent-over and crouching girls makes one wonder at times. This was relatively subtle in works such as ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' , but becomes quite a bit more blatant in her latest work, ''Manga/{{Amanchu}}'', in which she loves to hoist her female main characters into tight diving suits. |
| 27 | * Creator/DaisukeAmaya: |
| 28 | ** ''VideoGame/KeroBlaster'' is full of cats and frogs because Pixel has always liked them. The ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' fansite has a collection of pixel artworks by him dating all the way back to 2003 titled [[http://www.cavestory.org/pixels-works/neko-100.php Neko 100]], which features 100 different pixel artworks of cats, one of which is clearly a frog wearing a cat mask (and also a tie, giving him a significant resemblance to Kaeru). |
| 29 | ** A lot of the theme and story concept of ''VideoGame/KeroBlaster'' appear to be inspired by the many years Pixel spent working at an office job with a company that produced (non-game) software. |
| 30 | * Discussed in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''Muggle Fairy Tales Are Mad!'', when Ron makes the observation that H C Andersen seems to have had a foot fetish (specifically, for [[AgonyOfTheFeet foot injuries]]), as the protagonists of his stories are constantly going barefoot in poor weather, receiving grievous damage to the feet, or otherwise suffering foot-related problems. |
| 31 | * Brett Anderson of {{Music/Suede}} appears to have a thing for extremely skinny women, especially if you go by "She" ("she is bad, she is bored, she is bony") and "She's in Fashion" ("and she's as similar as you can get/to the shape of a cigarette"). |
| 32 | * Creator/WesAnderson's films are obviously idiosyncratic to the point where it might be shorter to list all the weird, narrowly particular things he's ''not'' obsessed with. Emotionally cold or distant women tend to be his go-to for love interests. There's also a pronounced fascination with people dealing with the aftermath of some sort of injury: bandages, bruises, slings, etc. |
| 33 | * The mangaka of ''Manga/ZodiacPI'', Natsumi Ando, states in a comment that she loves pretty and long legs on her girls, which is why she likes putting them into mini-skirts a lot. |
| 34 | * ''WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd'' likes feet, and in every single interview with a woman, he attempts to get a chance to have them show them or let him rub them. |
| 35 | * Creator/VCAndrews is a {{zig zagg|ingTrope}}ed example. The '''real''' V.C. Andrews wrote 7 books in her lifetime, which were parts of 3 different series. Of those, 2 out of the 3 included incest plotlines. After her death, this underwent crude {{flanderization}} by the infamous ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman. |
| 36 | * Creator/HideakiAnno. ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion''. This might extend to the rest of the good people of Gainax as well. Every enemy except for the GiantSpider in ''FLCL'' is hand-based (giant hand, giant with extendable hands, giant hand throwing a baseball, giant hand with extra hands on the fingers, ludicrously giant hand) as is ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' where the enemies in the last few episodes are giant Hand and Foot spaceships. |
| 37 | * Many of Creator/PiersAnthony's books include... |
| 38 | ** Averting NobodyPoops. Some books some have more than ten separate references to "bathroom activities." |
| 39 | ** Teenage girls who are involved in nudity and sexual situations, often with adult men; for example, ''Firefly'', and the ''Mode'' series. It should be emphasized that in ''Firefly'', it's a ''five-year-old girl'' demanding sex from an adult male. The ''Adept'' books also includes lots of examples of teenage and preteen children being put in the middle of sexual situations, to include 12 year old characters having SexAsRiteOfPassage. The fact Anthony unapologetically calls himself a "dirty old man" shows he is fully aware of this trope, and that anyone who reads his works are full-warned ahead of time what they will encounter therein. |
| 40 | ** Every Piers Anthony story has to have a woman [[RapeAsDrama facing being raped]]. Often rape is excused as something "normal" or otherwise permitted in society under "special" circumstances. |
| 41 | ** He puts a lot of a lampshade on people complaining about sexuality in his books in ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'''s "Adult Conspiracy" -- the great act of self-censorship that adults participate in to keep kids from finding out about sex -- magically enforced in Xanth, to boot. Going back to "nudity and sexual situations", the most cited example of this is tragically -- but appropriately -- named "The Color of Her Panties" -- wherein a mermaid turns herself into a human for a while, but doesn't realize she should be putting on clothing, and no one really cares too much -- until she's given a free pair of panties (''magic panties'', we should point out, which were designed to knock out would-be assailants), which causes every male in view to pass out from over-stimulation. The Aesop? It's not the nudity that's inherently sexual, [[TheissTitillationTheory but rather the]] ''intent'' or the ''covering up'' that adds appeal. Or something. Another Xanth story features a demoness displaying her panties on purpose, but then takes them off to escalate when that doesn't get the desired response. |
| 42 | ** His ''Literature/ApprenticeAdept'' series explicitly has the main character be born on Proton, a planet populated by naked Serfs (indentured servants) "owned" by clothed Citizens. When the main character, Stile, has sex behind closed doors he dresses his partner to increase her allure, knowing there would be an extreme scandal if they were seen in public with the sheer nightgown, possibly to the point of being thrown off-planet. When he discovers the portal to the magic realm of Phaze, complete with functional clothing and a nudity taboo, Stile is understandably weirded out. Even in Phaze, there's a scene where his third major love interest, Lady Blue, rides a unicorn naked. (The unicorn, who can shapeshift to human, is his second major love interest.) |
| 43 | ** Somewhat orthogonal to all this, the man also seems a bit fixated on selling HonorBeforeReason as an actual virtue. Even if it means throwing in an obvious DeusExMachina or three so the protagonists can somehow get out of the mess their honorable behavior landed them in in the first place... |
| 44 | * Creator/EijiAonuma stated in an interview that he's fond of the {{Tsundere}} archetype, hence why ever since he became the producer of ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series, Link has been accompanied by or at least befriends a (usually) female character that has such traits over the course of the adventure: [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Princess Ruto]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Tatl]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Tetra]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheMinishCap Ezlo]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Midna]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass Linebeck]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword Peatrice]], [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds Irene]] and even [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks some]] [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild incarnations]] of Princess Zelda are all harsh in their personality but are sweet internally. |
| 45 | * ''Manga/CaseClosed''. Between [[ActionGirl Ran, Kazuha, Eri, Satou, and Shizuka]], one gets the distinct feeling that in Gosho Aoyama's eyes, being able to beat the starch out of an assailant does nothing but ''add'' to a woman's attractiveness. Although there ''is'' the question of whether this is about BDSM strands, or just not being dependent on the man for every last little thing. |
| 46 | * Creator/HiromuArakawa: |
| 47 | ** She has stated in an omake for ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', "Men should be buff! Women should be vavoom!" This is most obvious with Hohenheim and Scar who are much more muscular than their character designs in the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003 2003 anime]]. |
| 48 | ** By usual anime standards, her female characters are not particularly skinny. None of the female characters seem to have particularly flat chests, either. Arakawa herself has stated that she dislikes overly skinny females, as they look starved and wouldn't have the energy to fight. |
| 49 | ** Arakawa's words have been passed down the Armstrong line for generations! |
| 50 | ** Arakawa grew up on a dairy farm and wrote two characters as butchers in ''Fullmetal Alchemist''. She's now doing ''Manga/SilverSpoon'', which is set at an agricultural school. |
| 51 | * Creator/GreggAraki's [[Film/TheDoomGeneration films]] all have themes of male bisexuality. Araki is himself bisexual. |
| 52 | * Creator/HirohikoAraki: |
| 53 | ** In his magnum opus, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', he makes no attempt to hide his admiration for Western rock bands and film, with such character names as [[Music/{{ACDC}} Esidisi]], [[Music/RonnieJamesDio Dio]] [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]], and [[Music/{{Queen}} Killer Queen]]. Believe it or not, these listed examples only scratch the surface of references to western rock bands. |
| 54 | ** He also enjoys Italy, as he set much of the ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Battle Tendency]]'' arc and all of ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind Golden Wind]]'' in the country. Out of the eight major arcs of [=JoJo=], only two don't feature any explicitly Italian characters (specifically ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' and ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureJoJolion JoJolion]]''), and small references to Italian culture are abound. |
| 55 | ** He also has a love for fashion, which explains the ImpossiblyCoolClothes that his characters wear and [[ThemeNaming the names]] of pretty much every character in ''[[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStoneOcean Stone Ocean]]''. He also wrote ''[[Manga/ThusSpokeKishibeRohan Rohan Kishibe Goes to Gucci]]'' about his AuthorAvatar Kishibe Rohan visiting the Gucci factory in Firenze (which also ties back into his interest in Italy). |
| 56 | ** There's quite a lot of BodyHorror in his art. Characters with two right hands, faces growing out of arms, a guy folding himself up to fit through a crack in the wall... you name it. |
| 57 | ** At least two dogs die [[{{Gorn}} extremely grisly deaths]] in each major arc at the hands of the bad guys. According to Araki, the reason for this is that he loves dogs, and [[KickTheDog this is how he demonstrates that the villains are reprehensible scumbags.]] |
| 58 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY7zs-rkeGE Araki admits JJBA is all about male beauty]], but his view of the ideal male body has changed drastically over the years. Drawing inspirations from bodybuilders and Ancient Greek and Roman statues, all the men of Parts 1-4 have almost ''Creator/TomOfFinland''-esque proportions, while from Part 5 onward Araki's love of high fashion starts to show in his [[{{Bishonen}} lithe, androgynous character designs]]. |
| 59 | * Creator/DarrenAronofsky is famous for his fascination with [[Literature/TheBible the Old Testament]]; he made movies exploring [[Film/{{Pi}} the kabbalah]] and [[Film/TheFountain the Garden of Eden]] long before he cut out the middleman and directed [[Film/{{Noah}} a film adaptation of the story of Noah]], later going on to direct [[Film/{{Mother}} a film]] where one of the characters is intended to represent God ([[MindScrew maybe...]]). He's also known for directing films about characters obsessively devoted to transcending human limitations through their experiences and achievements--whether that involves [[Film/{{Pi}} solving an unsolvable math problem]], [[Film/RequiemForADream experimenting with mind-altering drugs]], [[Film/TheFountain finding the secret of immortality]], [[Film/TheWrestler becoming the world's greatest professional wrestler]], or [[Film/BlackSwan becoming the world's greatest ballerina]]. |
| 60 | * Music/KenAshcorp |
| 61 | ** His musical output usually focuses on shows and games he is personally a fan of. A good chunk of cover art also features Yuri. [[GirlOnGirlIsHot A LOT of Yuri]]. |
| 62 | ** Ken takes this to an even further extent in apptly-titled "We're Shameless", in which he [[RefugeInAudacity proudly admits]] to being into ''futanari elves''. |
| 63 | * Give Terry Austin (comic book artist and inker, best known for collaborating with Creator/JohnByrne) an opportunity to draw ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} and he ''will'' take it. You can [[EasterEgg spot the sailor]] in numerous crowd scenes in 80s ''ComicBook/UncannyXMen'' issues. |
| 64 | * Creator/ObsidianEntertainment's Creator/ChrisAvellone enjoys... |
| 65 | ** Subverting {{Romance Sidequest}}s in video games he works on; he has admitted that they irritate him. In ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'', for instance, both of the original campaign's potential romances are revealed in ''Mask of the Betrayer'' to have been killed during the collapse of TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon (though side comments in ''Storm of Zehir'' put a question mark on Casavir). This was referenced in the stretch goals for ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'''s Kickstarter. At one level it was promised Chris Avellone would write the romance subplots; at the next level up, it was promised he wouldn't. |
| 66 | ** Characters that had difficulty communicating. [[VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas Christine Royce]] and [[VideoGame/AlphaProtocol Sis]] for the non-verbal communication factor. Ecco, one of Fall-From-Grace's students, from ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' is also mute. Non-traditional communication in general is a great mainstay of his, particularly when he's allowed to run away with a primarily text-based game. |
| 67 | * Konno Azure, creator of ''Manga/KoeDeOshigoto'', really, ''really'' likes embarrassed blushing girls. |
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| 72 | * Johnny B, the creator of the ''VideoGame/JackFrench'' games, has a foot fetish. WordOfGod says that this is the reason why Lucy is barefoot throughout her interview in the second game. |
| 73 | * Paolo Bacigalupi (''Literature/TheWindupGirl'') enjoys piedophilia ([[InconsistentSpelling the "i" is very important]]), pr AFSR, a fetish for dolls, living dolls, and other artificial people. On the milder end, the title character of ''The Windup Girl'' is considered extremely desirable because she walks in a jerky fashion like a wind-up toy. On the much less mild end, the title character of ''The Fluted Girl'' has holes in her back and a hollow spine and can be played as an instrument. Her owner (there is no other way to put it) has her perform with her [[{{Twincest}} twin sister]] to entertain guests, and both in-universe and in-narration it's portrayed in a blatantly sexual manner. |
| 74 | * [[Creator/IainBanks Iain M. Banks]]'s ''Literature/TheCulture'' is a space-faring, almost nomadic civilization that have [[FreeLoveFuture no sexual taboos]]. When asked to provide their "national anthem", their ambassador delivered a song called "Lick Me Out." |
| 75 | ** That was more of a political thing which is also relatively big with Mr. Banks: The Culture is a society which considers usual symbology as politically undesirable and thus the ambassador had too little of an understanding of the very concept of "national anthem". Said ambassador just gave out the first tune that popped in his/her mind and the damage was done. This was just the melody and as damage control they didn't give out the lyrics afterwards... |
| 76 | ** All their genetic modifications, the fashion for changing gender at a whim, etc. It's not just the Culture either. The psychopathic sadistic villain from ''The Algebraist'', who has had his genitals genetically altered so he can ejaculate poison or truth serum, immediately springs to mind. Oh, and cannibalism pops up quite a bit in several novels too. (Yes, that IS a fetish. It is not recommended to search for it.) |
| 77 | ** Sexually sadistic alien species are a recurring theme. The elites of the Azadian apices in ''Literature/ThePlayerOfGames'' [[spoiler: carry out (and televise) elaborate and perverse tortures]], while the Affront males in ''Literature/{{Excession}}'' castrate their slaves...and [[spoiler: genetically modified their own species's females to make sex more painful.]] |
| 78 | ** Incest is as common as non-incestuous relationships in Iain (M.) Banks' books. ''The Steep Approach to Garbadale'' is about a man's life-long infatuation with his first cousin; ''Walking on Glass'' has a subplot about a brother and sister; ''Use of Weapons'' has a love triangle involving closely related characters; the teenage male protagonist of ''The Crow Road'' has sex with Janice, his dead uncle's lover, who he thinks of as "aunty Janice"; the teenage female protagonist of ''Whit'' is made to strip naked by her grandfather, who then attempts to rape her; ''A Song of Stone'' has several sex scenes featuring the narrator and his half-sister. (Or was it his step-sister? Some kind of sister, anyway.) |
| 79 | * Jesse J. Barboza (best known for ''Webcomic/NineteenNinetySomething'') seems to really like drawing characters (whether they’re his own or from something he’s a fan of) completely submerged in water, as [[https://www.deviantart.com/jbwarner86/gallery/60351886/underwater-tributes one of his DeviantArt galleries]] can attest to. |
| 80 | * Creator/CliveBarker is ''really'' into people getting eaten (aka [[RuleThirtyFour vore]]). He also [[FetishRetardant seems to assume the reader's into it too]]. |
| 81 | ** He also has a strong interest in magically induced sex changes; they frequently appear in his early short stories and in the novel ''Literature/{{Imajica}}''. |
| 82 | ** Barker admitted, on his commentary track for the film ''Film/MidnightMeatTrain'', that the Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} series arose out of his interest in BDSM. |
| 83 | * Creator/JamieBarker likes to write transgender (usually transfeminine) characters - a given considering she is trans herself - as well as [[FunnyAnimal Funny Animals]], [[SlimeGirl Slime Girls]] (as well as Slime People of other genders) and musings on being transgender. |
| 84 | * Creator/JohnBarnes does his absolute best to avert this, repeatedly describing the love interests in his stories as being fat, bucktoothed, or otherwise unattractive. Considering how lovingly he describes their negative physical qualities, though, one wonders if he just has a different concept of beauty. |
| 85 | * Creator/MichaelBay seems to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qn_HFEDNZ_Q really]]'' like explosions, especially unnecessarily large ones. Which is to say nothing of his deep and abiding love for the United States Military. |
| 86 | * Ira Steven Behr, one of the head writers of ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', really likes Music/FrankSinatra and the Creator/RatPack. Finally, in the seventh season of ''Deep Space Nine'', he introduced a holographic lounge singer who could help solve the crew's problems while crooning "The Way You Look Tonight". At least the characters seemed to like him.[[labelnote:*]]The role was initially offered to Frank Sinatra, Jr. (!) but he was only interested in playing an alien.[[/labelnote]] |
| 87 | * Creator/BrianMichaelBendis |
| 88 | ** He was a huge fan of ComicBook/LukeCage and ComicBook/IronFist while growing up, and brought both characters into greater prominence by making them core members of the popular ''[[ComicBook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' franchise. Ditto for ComicBook/SpiderWoman, ComicBook/KittyPryde, and his own creation, Comicbook/JessicaJones, who frequently appear in his stories. |
| 89 | ** Also, as noted in a ''Tales from the Longbox'' article, Bendis started to make Peter Parker use Jewish terms. Phrases like 'oy' work, but 'shmendrick'? The majority of non-Jewish people don't even know what the hell that means. It's also been noted that Peter sort of became a self-insert for Bendis (which also explains the Jewish stuff), and, of course, Kitty Pryde becomes Peter's girlfriend. So yeah, Bendis is basically pairing his favourite character with ''himself''. |
| 90 | ** Bendis really, really, REALLY loves {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s. It's most noticeable in ''Comicbook/NewAvengers'', but a truly astonishing number of his stories feature moments where the heroes just sit around talking for pages on end, usually while eating something. It has reached MemeticMutation among comic readers, with people even [[https://i.imgur.com/psB3YM6.jpg parodying]] the "Bendis speak" dialogue. |
| 91 | * Comic book artist Ed Benes really likes drawing ladies' butts. He will use any opportunity to draw with MaleGaze and BoobsAndButtPose. Thanks to him [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Red Lantern]] member Bleez is best remembered as two blue ass cheeks attached to a WingedHumanoid. |
| 92 | * Creator/GregoryBenford has a thing for M/F/F threesomes and Japanese women. |
| 93 | * Creator/RachelBloom's work usually includes references to Jewish culture, musical theater, and/or awkward sexual experiences. |
| 94 | * Creator/DonBluth is fond of casting talking mice as protagonists, most notably ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretOfNIMH'' and ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail''. He also seems to [[CatsAreMean dislike cats]]. He does, though, show some cats in a positive light, even if they're typically villainous. It could just be that if you focus on mouse protagonists, then naturally, cats would be the main antagonists. |
| 95 | * Creator/{{Boichi}} loves ass shots, he has an ass fetish, he even admitted so. In the non-sexual way, he likes brunette girls and blond guys. |
| 96 | * Creator/FredericBoilet depicts pretty Asian girls who enjoy casual sex, [[MightyWhiteyAndMellowYellow especially with Western men]], in nearly all of his stories. |
| 97 | * Creator/MaryGrahamBonner: |
| 98 | ** Bonner was quite fond of her home country of Canada, and wrote a few books about its history. |
| 99 | ** She also enjoyed baseball (having picked up the game when she still lived in Cooperstown), and wrote numerous baseball-themed stories. |
| 100 | * In a darker example, Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's daughter came forward in recent years claiming that her mother molested her. If nothing else, we know that Bradley was okay with her (ex-)husband, Walter Breen, molesting young boys, and that she had relationships with teenagers when she was middle-aged. And if you take all that into account while reading her books...''man'' does ''Literature/TheMistsOfAvalon'' have a lot of rape and incest and pedophilia in it, which is often excused and/or romanticized. |
| 101 | * Creator/TintoBrass loves [[{{Squick}} the sight of women urinating]], and [[FetishRetardant massive amounts of ungroomed body hair]], regardless of what kind of film he's directing. |
| 102 | * ''Literature/TheCatWhoSeries'': Lilian Jackson Braun loved cats, and owned her own set of Siamese -- who were always named Koko and Yum Yum. |
| 103 | * Creator/RichardBrautigan liked women's bodies. He especially liked breasts and put them in at every possible opportunity. His novel ''The Abortion'' takes this on and lets us see it from the woman's point of view. His other favorite themes include cemeteries, telephones, San Francisco, Japanese culture (he lived in Shinjuku for several years) and of course, and most beloved, trout fishing. |
| 104 | * Creator/NicholasBriggs adores Daleks more than any other monster. Every big story arc he plans tends to derail into Dalek territory eventually. He even does the Creator/BigFinish podcasts with his [[RoboSpeak ring modulator]] nearby so he can become a Dalek on demand. The good news is that his love of Daleks does not blind him to what makes them work, hence why he became a PromotedFanboy Dalek voice actor in the new series. |
| 105 | * Stuart J. Brown uses key moments in his stories to express his fondness of classic rock music, by making his leading character, ''Webcomic/{{Annyseed}}'', "geek out" and splurge random knowledge or opinions on certain albums or songs. |
| 106 | * Creator/EdBrubaker really really ''really'' loves taking characters from UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks and recycling them for DarkerAndEdgier espionage and paramilitary stories. See (among others) Comicbook/BuckyBarnes, John Steele, and Amazing-Man/Prince of Orphans. {{Flashback}}s to UsefulNotes/WorldWarII are ''very'' common in his Marvel work. |
| 107 | * Creator/StevenBrust has stated that the key to writing good fiction is simply to write about what you think is cool. In Brust's books, swashbuckling adventure, fine cuisine and Hungarian cultural references abound. |
| 108 | * Pop quiz: Quick, name one, single Music/JimmyBuffett song which doesn't mention liquor at any point. |
| 109 | * Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold writes a lot of older man/younger woman romances, generally as a second chance at love after a tragic failed relationship for both. |
| 110 | * Rich "The Giant" Burlew of ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a vegetarian in real life. Reflecting this, not only are two important characters - Vaarsuvius and Celia - both vegetarians, but there's a plethora of (usually) cute and sympathetic animal side characters having major roles in the story (e.g., Blackwing, Mr. Scruffy, Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator, Greyview, and Windstriker). |
| 111 | * Creator/TimBurton is in love with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism German Expressionism]], ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'' in particular. Most of his characters, animated or otherwise, [[LooksLikeCesare Look Like Cesare]], much of the architecture in Burton's films (''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'''s {{Halloweentown}} in particular) look like Holstenwall, he redesigned [[Film/BatmanReturns The Penguin]] to look like Caligari and created a Creator/ChristopherWalken character named [[Film/{{Nosferatu}} Max Schreck]]... |
| 112 | ** He's also fond of Creator/EdWood's movies. Not only did he make [[Film/EdWood a biopic about him]], but he also gives the alien salute in ''Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace'' to the Oompa-Loompas in his version of ''Film/CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory''. |
| 113 | ** Troubled/Misunderstood loners also show up quite often as main characters. Even in his adaptations (like Batman, or Wonka), the already existing loner aspect is played up. |
| 114 | ** There's also evidence throughout his works that he has some degree of a hand fetish (see: ''Film/EdwardScissorhands'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Nine}}'', ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''). |
| 115 | * Creator/WilliamSBurroughs was '''really''' fond of EroticAsphyxiation, which can be seen over his entire body of work, including ''Literature/NakedLunch''. The 'orgasm death gimmick' as it became known, was greatly expanded upon in ''The Soft Machine'', ''The Ticket That Exploded'' and ''Nova Express'', was strangely absent in ''The Wild Boys'', but returned with a vengeance in ''Cities of The Red Night'', where it was a major plot point. It's completely absent in ''The Black Rider'', too. The books also bring to light Burroughs's fondness for teenage boys, particularly blonds and redheads. |
| 116 | * As Creator/KurtBusiek explained in his introduction for ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'', he included Atlas on the initial line-up for two reasons: One, he thought the character was interesting, and two, he just likes giants. |
| 117 | * Creator/JimButcher: |
| 118 | ** Butcher is often accused of liking objectifying women via narrative MaleGaze, based on the ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles''. However, [[MisBlamed that's actually the protagonist's issues bleeding through into his narration]], and is not present in other works in the same universe from any other character's POV, or in his other works. However, he does tend to have petite blonde ActionGirl[=s=] as prominent characters in all three series, and has mentioned that his wife owns lots of guns, much like Murphy. |
| 119 | *** The names "Margaret" and, to a lesser extent "Gwendolyn", have a tendency to pop up with some frequency in Butcher's works; The Dresden Files has Dresden's protége Margaret "Molly" Carpenter, his mother Margaret Gwendolyn [=LeFay=] and [[spoiler: his daughter]] who is also named Margaret. ''Literature/TheCinderSpires'' has Gwendolyn Margaret Lancaster. |
| 120 | *** Butcher definitely likes his {{Action Girl}}s, but they are always either petite or amazonian in build. Find a female character in any Jim Butcher book who is between five and six feet tall. We'll wait. |
| 121 | ** Butcher is also a fan of ''Marvel'' comics, and drops references to them in his ''Dresden Files'' stories; in ''Literature/GhostStory'' Harry Dresden (temporarily a ghost at the time) compares his newfound intangibility and teleportation abilities to Kitty Pryde and Nightcrawler, respectively. In several novels Harry refers to his tendency to [[YouFightLikeACow poke fun at his adversaries during a fight]] as following "the Tao of [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Peter Parker]]" Butcher even got to write a ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'' novel, ''Literature/TheDarkestHours''. |
| 122 | * For the longest time, fans of author/game designer Jack Butler simply assumed that he had something against women, as everything he wrote included at least one brazenly abusive and violent woman who was usually stupid and prejudiced in some way as well. When he finally admitted to have been the victim of nearly two decades of domestic abuse at the hands of his wife, things became much, much clearer. |
| 123 | * Creator/JohnByrne loves having a big, busty, [[AmazonianBeauty musclebabe]] teamed up with an average, somewhat shortish male secretary. He even did it to Franchise/WonderWoman in ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987''! |
| 124 | * At first glance, Daestgatling, the author of ''FanFic/OnceUponATimeAbridged'' and some of the strangest, most meta fics in existence, likes some degree of BigLippedAlligatorMoment and surreal plots and also HeroicComedicSociopath with a few moments [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing the line twice]] for added strangeness. However, as her works go on, she sometimes stops playing the insensitive CloudCuckooLander, and starts using her sharp snark for mocking everything inconsistent or insensitive in a plot (mostly any DoubleStandard, which runs on both), and destroy the heartwarming of moments from the original which have unfortunate undertones, while revealing what is HarsherInHindsight in a moment of insensitive humor or HeartwarmingInHindsight in what other people take for granted. |
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| 128 | %% C's alphabetized %% |
| 129 | * David Cage, director of most games a Creator/QuanticDream has a few elements that recur in his work. While some of the subjects are quite broad, the most specific are easy to spot: young girls/women with short pixie-cut hairstyles, ''extremely'' large apartments, police procedural work (may be the [[VideoGame/HeavyRain whole game]], or just [[VideoGame/DetroitBecomeHuman one plotline]]) and huge plot twists [[MandatoryTwistEnding that may or may not make sense]]. |
| 130 | * Sophie Campbell of ''ComicBook/WetMoon'' and ''ComicBook/{{Shadoweyes}}''. She loves [[BigBeautifulWoman plump women]] and very full lips. Even the lead of ''Water Baby'', who is thin, has the "bee-stung" look about her. Pops up again in her comic book adaptation of ''{{WesternAnimation/Jem}}'', where the Holograms and Misfits each already had a blue-haired band member, but decided to make them, Stormer and Aja, into BBW. She also added a UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} CanonForeigner, Blaze, after Campbell herself came out as a trans woman. She also very clearly loves piercings. |
| 131 | * Name an Creator/OrsonScottCard book which doesn't feature a nude prepubescent or pubescent boy. Go on, try. Made somewhat more amusing when viewed in the light of how notorious Card has been for his anti-gay views over the years. |
| 132 | * Creator/JacquelineCarey |
| 133 | ** Most of her books have a bisexual protagonist, and her ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' novels are about a society where EveryoneIsBi. |
| 134 | ** Paradoxically, even though her ''Literature/KushielsLegacy'' books feature a lot of BDSM, this ''doesn't'' seem to be a clear-cut case of Author Appeal. The author has said that the BDSM aspect was done as a subversion of the DamselInDistress cliché and that she was completely unfamiliar with it prior to researching the books. |
| 135 | * A great many of the books written by Creator/JackChalker involve one or more people transforming, often into large-breasted women, though there's also a lot of BodyHorror too. |
| 136 | * Creator/MichaelChabon writes so much "low-brow" genre fiction because he likes to write in genres that he genuinely enjoys reading. Aside from that, Chabon (who is Jewish) loves Jewish history and culture. It figures prominently in most of his books. |
| 137 | * The best-known works by Creator/HowardChaykin both involve male, promiscuous Jewish protagonists. It borders on being an AuthorAvatar, as there isn't much physically separating the main characters of ''American Flagg'' and ''American Century''. |
| 138 | * Creator/DamienChazelle really, really likes jazz. Nearly all of the movies he's worked on feature aspiring jazz musicians as the protagonists and have it play an important part in the story. Chazelle has said that he would've been a jazz musician if he wasn't already a filmmaker. |
| 139 | * Is it humanly possible to name any work by comics artist Creator/FrankCho that doesn't include jungles, dinosaurs, primates, extraordinarily well-endowed women with big butts, or [[JunglePrincess some combination of the above]]? |
| 140 | * Creator/CassandraClare of ''Literature/TheShadowhunterChronicles'' fame has been accused of having an incest fetish. We have multiple cases of NotBloodSiblings, an OfficialCouple who spends multiple angsty books believing that they're related, that girl's actual, {{villainous|Incest}} brother having a crush on her...it comes off like she's trying to get as far as possible without totally alienating the average reader. Oh, and [[Literature/TheMortalInstruments the first trilogy]] shares a title with [[https://fanlore.org/wiki/Mortal_Instruments_(Harry_Potter_story) the Ron/Ginny incest fic]] back that she wrote back when she was a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' FandomVIP. |
| 141 | * Creator/ChrisClaremont's run on ''Comicbook/XMen'' repeatedly showed strong women beating up men, with female characters who were more timid being reworked into dominant bruisers. Psylocke was the prime example of this. [[http://clarmindcontrol.blogspot.com/ Mind control plots are also common in his work]], seemingly for the same reason. |
| 142 | ** When a pornstar revealed that Claremont had allegedly hired one of his colleagues to dress up as Storm (a strong female character he wrote) and do things to him involving copious amount of lubricant, many people were grossed out, but only a few were surprised. |
| 143 | ** In addition to strong women beating up men, he also introduced the Hellfire Club. The leader of the group, Sebastian Shaw, has the power to get stronger the more you hit him. The two lead women, Selene and Emma Frost, both wear dominatrix outfits and have hypnotic powers. The outfits in question (and the portrayal of the Hellfire Club, as well as 'Emma' as a name for the HC's queen) are derived from ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone", earlier shown in the U.S. |
| 144 | ** In addition to having female characters going from ingenue to dominant bruiser, Chris Claremont is also fond of having female characters go through some bizarre body modifications. Whether it's Psylocke being transformed from a Caucasian woman to an Asian one, to Storm being reduced in age to a young girl, to Polaris going through a change in her powers that turn her into towering amazonian powerhouse, to Sue Storm from the Fantastic Four being transformed into an alien being, to Kitty Pryde on the Exiles having her body transformed into versions from alternate dimensions (including CatGirl), to Caitlin Fairchild being turned into a shape-changing goo monster, to Jean Grey getting her arms replaced with a bunch of tentacles, to the completely separate occasion Callisto got ''her'' arms replaced with a bunch of tentacles, females undergoing some unwarranted physical change are a pretty common occurrence in his works. |
| 145 | ** Claremont also has a tendency for shy females to dress far more provocatively and show off their body a lot more. Sometimes this is just something like Kitty Pryde having to wear tighter clothes because she has nothing else to wear. Other times this features Rogue dressing very provocatively while undercover, under the rationale that "people won't be paying attention to her face." |
| 146 | ** He also seems to have a bit of a fetish with bondage and S&M themes, even outside the Hellfire Club characters. When Claremont is writing, don't be surprised to see leather and leashes pop up. |
| 147 | ** There's also his proclivity for filling his books with [[PseudoRomanticFriendship extremely close female friendships]] and other LesYay elements to the point where it's only half-jokingly stated that every woman is a lesbian, or at least bisexual, when written by Claremont. |
| 148 | ** He loves creating flying characters, characters who are [[AcePilot skilled aviators]], or both. Carol Danvers, Betty Braddock, and Madeline Pryor are only the most famous examples. |
| 149 | ** Throughout his work there are numerous situations where a character is put in leather outfits against their will. Particularly interesting because it happens just as often to male characters as to female ones, if not more often. Quite often the characters in question will then either act with extreme embarrassment or loudly complain about having to wear said garments, even when there's more important matters at hand. |
| 150 | * Creator/ErnestCline: |
| 151 | ** ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'' draws a lot of attention to [=Art3mis=]'s "rubenesque" (plus-sized) figure and even mentions her exact weight when Wade reads her government file. |
| 152 | ** ''Nerd Porn Auteur'', from his slam poetry days, professes a passionate affinity for [[NerdsAreSexy nerdy women]], which is not at all unsurprising given his later body of work. This would cause the poem to face fresh scrutiny for its lascivious tone when it resurfaced in TheNewTens, but [[FairForItsDay it made a lot more sense]] in [[TurnOfTheMillennium the early 2000s]], when nerdy interests were still culturally fringe and those who liked them were uncool and unattractive in the public eye, making such a view much more subversive and less passé than it is today. |
| 153 | * Going by her ''Literature/ImmortalsAfterDark'' series, Creator/KresleyCole seems to write no male protagonists but those who are at least six and a half feet tall, musclebound, [[BiggerIsBetterInBed well hung in the extreme]], and overbearing, domineering alpha male types. She's a little more flexible with female protagonists, but they seem to top out at five and half feet, usually well-endowed up top, and tend to have curly '80s hair. |
| 154 | * Creator/EoinColfer seems to be quite the environmentalist, as evidenced by the heavy {{Green Aesop}}s that can be found in the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' series. The narrative would often go into the horrific outcomes of pollution and how HumansAreTheRealMonsters for all their environmentally destructive ways. Also for killing animals for consumption and espousing the virtues of the green and vegetarian lifestyle of the fairies. He also goes on at length about amazing green innovations made by ''a master criminal and his son.'' |
| 155 | * Amanda Conner: |
| 156 | ** Seems to really like drawing busty women in little or no clothing. This is not really unusual among comic-book artists, but it might be unusual among female comic-book artists. Seriously, though, in her run on ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'', she seemed to look for any excuse to draw both Kara and Attlee nude or nearly so, and one could name plenty of other examples from her work. Make of that what you will. |
| 157 | ** She seems to really have a thing for Power Girl specifically. Once the ComicBook/New52 remake of PG was gotten rid of, Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti (the latter of which was co-writer of the aforementioned Power Girl series) essentially brought back pre-[=Nu52=] PG in the Harley Quinn series they've been writing. And then they brought back Peej AND Atlee together in Harley's Rebirth series. |
| 158 | * Victor Cook, who is of Korean and Caucasian heritage, is co-developer of ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' and the later ''WesternAnimation/StretchArmstrongAndTheFlexFighters''. Since the former gave a RaceLift to many characters to reflect a culturally diverse modern New York, he did the same thing for the latter to make Charter City feel alive. |
| 159 | * [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1664081/Cornova Cornova]], author of the ''Fanfic/PokeWars'' series, seems to have a thing for gore and intricate battle sequences. |
| 160 | * Creator/LarryCorreia has often noted that he LOVES firearms and B-movie monsters, so of course his novels are full of both. |
| 161 | * Creator/MichaelCrichton: |
| 162 | ** He may have a... fixation with people using the bathroom, especially women. It generally doesn't derail the plot or get heavily detailed, and often it comes up to add verisimilitude to crazy situations, but it tends to come up at least once a book... often two or three. This may simply be a LampshadeHanging on [[NobodyPoops the rarity of bathroom visits in most fiction, compared to reality,]] and an attempt to redress the balance. Or maybe he is a kinky bastard. Or both! Ironically, the most famous example of someone in a Crichton work using the bathroom -- Gennaro's ill-fated toilet trip in ''Film/JurassicPark1993'' -- isn't even in the Crichton novel on which it's based. |
| 163 | --->When you gotta go, you gotta go. |
| 164 | ** Crichton also has a notable love for muscular female characters; Ellie Satler's muscular legs are described in ''Jurassic Park,'' and the female lead in ''Novel/{{Sphere}}'' (book only) is a full-on bodybuilder nicknamed "Mother Nature with muscles." |
| 165 | * Amid all the SignatureStyle (i.e. BodyHorror and FanDisservice), it may be hard to spot, but Creator/DavidCronenberg loves cars and car accidents. ''Shivers'', his debut, has a car crash in a parking lot. ''Rabid'''s plot is kicked off by a motorcycle accident. ''Fast Company'' is about racecar drivers. ''The Brood'' has the protagonist worrying that his drunken father-in-law will drive off a bridge. Revok's escape scene in ''{{Film/Scanners}}'' involves psychically incapacitating drivers, causing them to crash. ''Crash'' is about people who have a sexual fetish for car accidents. So there you go. It's also fun to notice how many of his movie's protagonists are thin, lightly-build guys, matching his own appearance. |
| 166 | * Creator/RobertCrumb and buttocks. Anyone who's read his comments knows it's true, so at least he's refreshingly honest about it. |
| 167 | * [[Creator/BenCroshaw Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw]] of ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' fame is a massive fan of the CosmicHorrorStory genre, to the point where multiple works from him -- such as the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'', ''VideoGame/TheConsumingShadow'', ''Literature/DifferentlyMorphous'', and ''Literature/ExistentiallyChallenged'' -- all feature the genre in some fashion, and even his other works often feature themes of existential horror as seen in ''Literature/{{Mogworld}}'', ''Literature/{{Jam}}'', and ''Literature/WillSaveTheGalaxyForFood''. His aforementioned review series also shows that he's a big fan of both nautical settings and MagicalRealism. |
| 168 | * [[Literature/DirkPittAdventures Clive Cussler]] seems to ''really'' like blue and green eyed characters. He ''really, really'' loves anything to do with the sea and classic cars. |
| 169 | * The manga group Creator/{{CLAMP}} has an amazingly diverse array of manga for everyone, but there's several... odd little quirks that pop up in most of them: |
| 170 | ** The biggest one is the EyeScream. It happens in ''every single one'' of CLAMP's manga, save [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura one]] (mostly because it has a younger target audience than most of their works do) |
| 171 | ** Love in the CLAMP-verse transcends everything. Especially [[HoYay gender]]. ''Especially''. |
| 172 | ** Speaking of gender, [[NoBiologicalSex genderless characters]] are suspiciously common in CLAMP's work. |
| 173 | ** The character and background artist, Mokona, seems to enjoy drawing half-naked women, whether it be for [[{{Fanservice}} sex appeal]] or FanDisservice. A well-known example of the latter is in ''Manga/RGVeda'', their first manga, where one female character is stabbed brutally in the chest, with only a small piece of fabric covering her chest... |
| 174 | ** CostumePorn. Everywhere. |
| 175 | ** Angelic/demonic wings. |
| 176 | * Creator/CoolKyouShinsha: |
| 177 | ** They really like women with big breasts, both in his mainstream works and his porn (where women with said large breasts are usually molesting young boys). |
| 178 | ** They also like having {{Odd Couple}}s in their stories. For example, ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}'', ''Manga/ICantUnderstandWhatMyHusbandIsSaying'' and ''Manga/MissKobayashisDragonMaid'' all revolve around weird couples. ''Ojojojo'' has an UpperClassTwit and a spaced out weirdo falling in love, ''I Can't Understand'' focuses around an {{Otaku}} and his {{Everyman}} wife, and ''Kobayashi'' is focused on a master-servant relationship between a software engineer and her superpowered dragon-in-human-form lesbian maid. |
| 179 | [[/folder]] |
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| 181 | [[folder:D]] |
| 182 | %% D's alphabetized %% |
| 183 | * WebVideo/CJDachamp: What CJ calls "menaces", which is when someone acts like a NoNonsenseNemesis or proves to be TheDreaded and decimates their enemies. It's usually enough to get someone added to the Round Table of Black Air Force Activity if they do it often enough. However, in spite of that, a few things get people added to the Round Table or focused on more than others in his videos. |
| 184 | ** Displays of SuperStrength, authority, or a lot of power appeal to CJ quite a bit. This can range from [[Manga/HighschoolOfTheDead Takashi Komuro slapping Rei Miyamoto]] to [[Manga/DragonBallZ Majin Buu]]'s Human Extinction Attack wiping out all of Earth. |
| 185 | ** Shows of UndyingLoyalty are usually enough to earn CJ's praises. In ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'', people pulling up to help out Takemichi has CJ admire the "ride or die" attitude of the crew. |
| 186 | ** GoodOldFisticuffs being used to give someone a beatdown. While anything that gets someone declared a menace is a good move, CJ likes it more when it's ordinary people using their bare hands. It's why CJ declared ''Manga/TokyoRevengers'' to be "Black Air Force Energy: The Anime", because the fights in that series are nothing but that. |
| 187 | * Creator/PaulaDanziger had hippie culture. Her hippie-parent characters were wise, benevolent, talented and genuinely cared about their children's opinions, even though they knew exactly where to draw the line in terms of behaviour. They were often single parents or lived with their partner rather than being married. By contrast, if the main character's parents were married, worked for The Man, played golf, went shopping for clothes every weekend or loved city life, they were likely to be neurotic/perfectionist/ExtremeDoormat mothers, or abusive, cruel, neglectful fathers, usually on the brink of divorce. A good example of the contrast is Phoebe's newly divorced parents in ''The Divorce Express''; her father is a virtuous and environmentally conscious artist, while her mother is a materialistic, nagging, superficial manipulator. Both ''The Divorce Express'' and its sequel, ''It's an Aardvark Eat Turtle World'' make it ''very'' clear that the reader is meant to sympathise with her father. In the same vein, {{Hippie Teacher}}s were the only decent teachers in the entire school, with the rest being {{Sadist Teacher}}s and jobsworths who couldn't care less about the students in their care. |
| 188 | * Author Madeira Darling has a thing for pretty dominant men in dresses, long pretty hair, and BDSM... considering she writes BDSM erotica this may be justified. |
| 189 | * Creator/RussellTDavies' fondness for nontraditional romantic relationships has bled into ''Series/DoctorWho'', most noticeably in the [[ExtremeOmnisexual in-your-face pansexuality]] of Captain Jack. And that's not even counting all the stuff that goes on in {{Franchise/Whoniverse}} series ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. He also seems extremely fond of interracial pairings, especially when [[WhereDaWhiteWomenAt there is a black man involved.]] The ''Doctor Who'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E3Gridlock "Gridlock"]] includes a marriage between a woman and an anthropomorphic cat. They even had kittens. The same episode also features two old ladies who were married. |
| 190 | * Gay horror film director David [=DeCoteau=] was originally notorious for the amount of gratuitous female nudity in his works, but has become well-known in recent years for including equally gratuitous male homoerotica in almost all of his films. And by that, we mean male models in their underwear getting frisky no matter what the film is actually about. |
| 191 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' author Creator/TroyDenning has written many books for the expanded universe - and all of them have involved torture, bondage, and/or dismemberment. Often repeatedly. He describes injuries with the loving detail of a romance novelist explaining body parts. |
| 192 | * Michael [=DeForge=], character designer for WesternAnimation/AdventureTime! and indie comic book artist seems to have a slight preference depicting for non-heterosexual sexuality. One of his major comics, ''ComicBook/AntColony'', has a gay couple as one of the main focuses. He also seems to like drawing leather and other shiny materials in his comics. BodyHorror, bright colors, and intricate designs are also fairly common. |
| 193 | * Edgar Degas drew or painted many, many, MANY images of women bathing, usually from the same angle (ToplessnessFromTheBack, turned so that one breast is visible). The poses sometimes vary, the backgrounds vary, sometimes there's a maid, but there's always a ToplessnessFromTheBack pose and there's usually long luxurious hair being combed, flipped, or otherwise emphasized as well. |
| 194 | * Several of Creator/PhilipKDick's novels set in the future have a bare breasted woman in them, often an important character. Nobody comments on it, so it can be assumed to be normal in those societies. There's no compelling plot reason for it, but to his credit he avoids it in societies where it would be inappropriate (e.g., the present day, the alternate world where the Axis won, or controlling and repressive societies). |
| 195 | ** The female, dark-haired, small, neurotic, violent alter ego of the author. He has been recorded as suggesting that this represents some dreams he had of his twin sister who died at 5 weeks old. |
| 196 | ** Buxom, dark-haired ladies in tight sweaters are a Dick staple. They even wear tight sweaters in ''The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch'', in which the Earth has become so hot it's dangerous to go outside. |
| 197 | * [[Creator/BlizzardEntertainment Samwise Didier]] [[LampshadeHanging describes his style of art and favourite things to create]] [[http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/profile_samwise.html on his profile at the Sons of the Storm]], a website collecting some Creator/BlizzardEntertainment artists' works, as [[RatedMForManly "Over-proportioned, primary colored, bulky armored dudes and monsters."]] |
| 198 | ** He also has a noted affinity for pandas. The Pandaren — a race of anthropomorphic pandas in the VideoGame/{{Warcraft}} universe — are a Didier creation. |
| 199 | * Creator/PaulDini, a writer of the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse, has a penchant for using ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, a dark-haired StageMagician with a tendency to wear top hats and fishnets. When Dini's writing her, she tends to take a lot of bubble baths. Also, in RealLife he's married to [[http://imgur.com/wc50z.jpg a dark-haired stage magician with a tendency to wear top hats and fishnets]], and first hooked up with his (heretofore non-comics fan) wife because she was given a copy of a Zatanna comic he'd written and she contacted him about her resemblance to the character. He even wrote the character's solo series for a time. |
| 200 | ** He also seems to like bondage situations. |
| 201 | *** His famous "Almost Got 'Im" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' climaxes with ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} BoundAndGagged [[ConveyorBeltODoom on a conveyor belt]] |
| 202 | *** His episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has [[https://i.imgur.com/PF7Nz5T.png Zatanna gagged by Abra Kadabra]] |
| 203 | *** One of his episodes of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' has [[https://i.imgur.com/ZFNd7qW.png Zatanna bound and gagged in the Batmobile trunk with the ejection parachute]], |
| 204 | *** Zatanna is bound and gagged around three times during his 10 issue run of a comic of her name. In fact, his first issue of ''Zatanna'' opened with a [[https://i.imgur.com/zcfzwTl.jpg splash page of the character bound and gagged while in her stage outfit]]. |
| 205 | *** ''ComicBook/BlackCanary and ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}: Bloodspell'' removes any doubt about his fondness for bondage as [[https://imgur.com/gallery/XxdjwvU Zatanna is BoundAndGagged twice in this comic]] and Black Canary is also given this treatment, briefly. |
| 206 | *** These are far from the only examples. |
| 207 | ** He seems to like [[LesYay lesbianism]]. Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn? It's barely subtle at all. |
| 208 | * ''Literature/SergeStorms'': Creator/TimDorsey is ''not'' shy about letting his personal likes and dislikes seep into his work. |
| 209 | ** First, the man is a proud Floridian. He loves his home state's history, natural landscape, and [[OnlyInFlorida general weirdness]], and ''hates'' greedy businessmen and other corrupt people in positions of power who not only wreck the ecology of the area or livelihoods of people living there, but [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney use their wealth]] to get away with it. As such, his novels follow [[VillainProtagonist Serge A. Storms]], a [[AntiVillain lovable]] SerialKiller who specifically targets [[AssholeVictims assholes]], ''especially'' those that dare harm the great state of Florida. |
| 210 | ** Dorsey also loves his {{Rube Goldberg Device}}s -- Serge uses one to kill somebody in almost [[OnceAnEpisode in almost every book]]. |
| 211 | ** He's also likely to portray [[IntrepidReporter journalists]] sympathetically, since he used to be a reporter himself. |
| 212 | ** Related to the first point, he ''looooooves'' Florida in general, so every single book will feature real locations, tourist attractions, and monuments from the Sunshine State, ranging from mainstream to basically unknown, often with Serge gushing about how great it is and giving the history of the place -- [[SelfDeprecation regardless of whether or not anyone around him cares]]. Floridians often love Dorsey's books because, in addition to being funny, they're like a checklist of must-see Florida attractions. |
| 213 | * Surprisingly enough, Creator/FyodorDostoevsky seemed to have a thing for the {{Tsundere}} archetype: it shows up in a number of his books, and at least one of his lovers was a particularly virulent type A. This being [[ThePhilosopher Dostoevsky]], they often fit the SourOutsideSadInside archetype and are used as a means to explore the conflict between overbearing pride and existential despair. |
| 214 | * In Creator/DianeDuane's ''Franchise/StarTrek'' novels -- including but not limited to, ''Literature/SpocksWorld'' -- [=McCoy=]'s sheer awesome is down to the good doctor being the author's all-time favorite. |
| 215 | * Artist Jed Dougherty has a thing for women with AmazonianBeauty and BuxomBeautyStandard figures, SwordAndSorcery, and TinyGuyHugeGirl relationships. Needless to say, ComicBook/SavageHearts was a match made in heaven for him. |
| 216 | * Kevin Dunn, the executive producer of Wrestling/{{WWE}}, is one of the largest proponents of the idea that WWE ''isn't professional wrestling'' but something else - but what's more, he believes that WWE fans feel the same way, don't consider themselves wrestling fans and don't watch any other wrestling promotion. Therefore when WWE manages to sign a big name who was never part of their company before, Dunn often tries to force name and gimmick changes on them. He doesn't always get his way, but part of the reason Wrestling/{{Mick Foley}} was brought in as Mankind was because Dunn was convinced nobody would know who Cactus Jack was. Dunn detests accents, especially non-American accents like the ones Wrestling/{{Sheamus}}, Wrestling/{{Becky Lynch}} and [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Cesaro]] have. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:E]] |
| 220 | %% E's alphabetized %% |
| 221 | * English [[TheWestern Western]] author Creator/JTEdson seemed to have a fetish for {{Cat Fight}}s judging from how often he managed to shoehorn them into his novels. The most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example involved a character who had a collection of paintings of {{catfight}}s that had taken place in the author's previous novels, including ones that no one but the participants had been there to witness. |
| 222 | * Creator/RolandEmmerich ''loves'' demolishing cities/famous landmarks. He also seems to really enjoy destroying the White House, having done so three times in his career, though he has started to spare it; it gets shot up, but not destroyed, in ''Film/WhiteHouseDown'', and only incurs minor damage in ''Film/IndependenceDayResurgence'' [[spoiler:but Emmerich has revealed in an interview with Empire magazine that it is destroyed in an extended edition of the film]]. |
| 223 | * Creator/GarthEnnis loves to include two things in his comic books: anal sex, and grievous head wounds. It is a rare issue of ''Comicbook/{{Preacher}}'' that did not include anal sex or someone being shot in the head, or both. |
| 224 | ** Also, a fetish for having [[TheWarOnStraw Straw Man]] versions of [[StrawLoser characters he doesn't like get beaten up]], such as he did to Wolverine, Daredevil, Spider-Man, God, and others. ''Preacher'' and ''Punisher'' are most guilty. |
| 225 | ** And castration. Lots of castration. |
| 226 | [[/folder]] |
| 227 | |
| 228 | [[folder:F]] |
| 229 | %% F's alphabetized %% |
| 230 | * Falcoon, producer of ''VideoGame/TheKingOfFighters: Maximum Impact'', has admitted that he likes designing female characters with large chests, so it's small wonder that the ''Maximum Impact'' games feature a lot of JigglePhysics. This is especially noticeable with the characters Falcoon designed himself, like Lien Neville (whose chest receives a lot of the focus in cutscenes). Interestingly, he's gay. |
| 231 | * Joseph Fanning, the author of ''Webcomic/HighSchoolChangedMe'' appeals to a quite certain amount of things. Out of this, a lot of other things were born, like RPG (which lives through it's 3rd revision already) or a forum roleplay. A [[Webcomic/MSFHigh sequel]] (?) to the comic was also born after quite an argument with the artist. |
| 232 | * Creator/PhilipJoseFarmer was the original {{Fanfic}} writer. The dude loves writing about sex with historical figures. |
| 233 | ** Not just sex, and not just historical figures. Tarzan, Phileas Fogg...he likes building on pre-existing concepts or using pre-existing characters. |
| 234 | ** He also tends to have characters which surprisingly have the same initials as he does. |
| 235 | * Almost everything Creator/LaurenFaust has worked on contains at least one reference to chocolate milk and Film/TheBigLebowski. |
| 236 | * Creator/EricFlint really likes to talk about sex. And socialism and workers' rights, but often sex. Such as the Gretchen's marriage consumation scene in ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'', which is somehow essential to "tormenting" Satan, and "lashing the devil", or ''The Tyrant'', where the ''entire'' denoument of the book is set around or ''directly'' related to sex in some way. |
| 237 | * One has to wonder about Creator/PhilFoglio. As well-done as ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is, Agatha does spend a lot of time in nothing but lacy bra and bloomers... which is outright tame compared to the pornography he's done. And ''all'' the female characters in ''Girl Genius'' have big chests and big hips. |
| 238 | ** Remember that ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is a collaboration between him and his ''wife''. A recent filler sequence took several pages to present a fashion show of several characters in the form of paper dolls, and in the commentary, ''Kaja'' expressed delight at having an excuse to show the characters in the sort of corsetry she only occasionally works into the main story. So it's not just Phil. |
| 239 | *** Kaja Foglio has been quite open about being an ''enthusiast'' of such lacy Victorian underthings, both in the context of them as art, and using them personally. So yes, more than one type of Author Appeal going on there. |
| 240 | *** ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' is one of the world's few truly equal-opportunity fanservice providers. The princes end up (deliciously) naked about as often as Agatha winds up in corsets and teddies. |
| 241 | ** The trapeze from ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie''. |
| 242 | ** The Foglios are responsible for ''ComicBook/XXXenophile'', a delightful adult comic for the open minded. Phil has on occasion introduced himself as "Phil Foglio, Gentleman Pornographer". |
| 243 | ** On a more child-friendly level, the Foglios are both avid tea aficionados, and tea works its way into a comic about mad science more than it probably should. |
| 244 | * Almost every movie featuring Creator/JonFavreau will include his amateur MMA skills. And let's not forget how they wrote him out of Friends.... |
| 245 | * George Formby seems to insert A LOT of references to his home town Wigan into his music despite it being relatively unknown outside the United Kingdom. |
| 246 | * Creator/LeoFrankowski: |
| 247 | ** The ''Conrad Stargard'' series has enough appeals to fit into every single category on [[http://community.livejournal.com/canon_sues/94852.html#cutid1 this page]]. |
| 248 | ** It was bad enough the final books of the ''Conrad Stargard'' series are self-published. The books didn't sell and the publisher got sick of his SelfInsert AuthorAvatar. |
| 249 | * Creator/FrankFrazetta liked big butts on women. He also liked nudity or near-nudity and extreme sexual dimorphism. |
| 250 | * Creator/StephenFry's novels usually include and address male homosexuality to at least some extent. Even just ''acting'', in Sherlock Holmes he manages to add an irrelevant scene of Mycroft talking about how gay he is. |
| 251 | * Creator/KouFujisaki's works invariably involve workaholic {{salarym|an}}en, giant muscular {{seme}}s, curvy women, and big lips. |
| 252 | * Creator/RyuFujisaki's works reveal that he has something for clowns. Just check ''Manga/HoshinEngi''. Almost every character will appear wearing gigantic shoes, big rounded (probably spherical) buttons, fluffy gloves, parachute pants, harlequin-like hats, stars and/or stripes patterns, some of them even with big rounded noses, etc. Just look for the self-portrait cartoon he uses at the end of every volume of the series. |
| 253 | * Kosuke Fujishima of ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' has a thing for ''exquisitely'' detailed machinery. |
| 254 | * All of Creator/BryanFuller's shows are about death. |
| 255 | * If you're watching a Creator/LucioFulci movie about zombies...it's going to include bloody gory deaths of some kind. (He used to direct Spaghetti Westerns) It was also rather amusing when he made fun of his ''own'' sick mind in a later movie! |
| 256 | [[/folder]] |
| 257 | |
| 258 | [[folder:G]] |
| 259 | %% G's alphabetized %% |
| 260 | * Creator/MarkGatiss also likes addressing his own homosexuality, both in his work on ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'' (in which he rather savagely rips into the concept of the FagHag) and in his detective novels, which star a dashing bisexual chap named Lucifer Box. |
| 261 | * Shoji Gatoh (creator of ''Literature/FullMetalPanic'') seems to have a...thing for [[HoYay overt homoerotic overtones]]. Arguably more so than [[LesYay lesbian overtones]]. He even made one novel sidestory dedicated to getting Tsubaki to [[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove confess]] (albeit accidentally) to Sousuke, in what appears to be an effort to clarify to the readers that Sousuke (along with Tsubaki) would be the [[{{Uke}} submissive one in a gay relationship]]. And then there's his fascination and love for the [[BigBad villain Gauron]], whom he kept [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat bringing back to life]] (while many, many fans were screaming ''why'' he liked Gauron so much to bring him back). And every time [[DepravedHomosexual Gauron]] makes an appearance, Gatoh makes it more and more obvious that the idea of [[NoYay Gauron with Sousuke]] appeals to him. Including a gratuitous part in the novels where Gauron graphically describes how he fantasized killing and raping Sousuke. And then there's that episode in ''Manga/LuckyStar'' that Gatoh had a hand in, where Kagami picks up a graphic {{Yaoi|Genre}} doujinshi of Gauron and a BoundAndGagged Sousuke. It's safe to say that countless viewers cried for BrainBleach, and the only possible reason why Gatoh even ''thought'' of it was because he...liked it. |
| 262 | * The comics of Melinda Gebbie (longtime girlfriend, now wife of Creator/AlanMoore) usually have some sort of girl-on-girl action. An interesting example would be an issue of ''Supreme'' wherein two versions of the same story were shown. Chris Sprouse drew a traditional superhero fight, her version looked more like a catfight. |
| 263 | ** All her work on ''AARGH!'', an LGBTQ benefit oneshot comics anthology published by Creator/AlanMoore. |
| 264 | ** For that matter, lesbians also tend to pop up quite frequently in Creator/AlanMoore's works as well. |
| 265 | * Creator/MelGibson: |
| 266 | ** His movies often show his love of dogs. |
| 267 | ** He is a noted fan of Film/TheThreeStooges, and his films make occasional references to the troupe and their slapstick routines. |
| 268 | ** A number of his roles endure ColdBloodedTorture at the hands of the villains. Fans and media have speculated that these scenes appeal to Gibson's devout Catholicism. |
| 269 | * Compared to the common [[GirlOnGirlIsHot fanboy-friendly]] bias towards depicting lesbian and bi women as representatives of sexuality diversity in genre comics, Creator/KieronGillen's works are much more likely to depict gay and bisexual men as equal in number to the women, and depict their romantic and sexual interactions with equal erotic attention. Gillen himself is bisexual. |
| 270 | * Tony Goldmark, aka ''WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera'' is a huge Music/WeirdAlYankovic fan, and has put at least one Weird Al reference in all of his episodes, including the two times when Weird Al himself cameoed in the show. This extends to his podcast ''Podcast/EscapeFromVaultDisney'', where Weird Al happens to be brought up once every few episodes, regardless of the context. There was even a Weird Al-themed 27th episode [[note]]Al likes the use the number 27 in his lyrics, originally unintentionally, but then became played-up once fans pointed it out. The episode also happened to premiere the same day as Weird Al's birthday.[[/note]] where all the entries in the master list were media on Creator/DisneyPlus Weird Al has appeared in. It even ends with a discussion of the appearances Al has made in Disney-owned media that was not on Disney+ at the time, presumably as an excuse to talk more about Al. |
| 271 | * Creator/TerryGoodkind's ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' series has a very significant theme of sexual violence. Most of the villains are monstrously perverted in some way, most of the female characters must contend with rape or attempted rape at some point in the series, and even the male hero is tortured by a league of dominatrix-like characters who play a large role throughout the books, both as villains and heroes. Many readers interpret the theme as originating from a kink of Goodkind's. He also loves to lecture on the evils of socialism (or in later books, religion as well). On a lighter note, ''Faith of the Fallen'' has a lovingly detailed description of the manufacture of (the fantasy equivalent of) ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lardo lardo di Colonnata]]'', a form of pork fatback cured in marble basins with rosemary and other herbs. |
| 272 | * ''[[http://jadaze.comicgenesis.com/ Lean On Me]]'' creator Jade Gordon admits to having a thing for UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} women and crossdressers, and her comic centers around a romance between her AuthorAvatar and a beautiful trans girl. |
| 273 | * Ed Greenwood, main author of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' is known for his...[[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1901&whichpage=23 rather]] [[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?291731-Of-Sues-Best-Unspoken disturbing]] fixation on characters having sex. |
| 274 | * Comics creator Mike Grell is all about equal opportunity {{Fanservice}}. Any character design he comes up with is almost certain to bare as much skin as possible. |
| 275 | * Creator/MarkGruenwald: |
| 276 | ** His works, particularly his ''Comicbook/CaptainAmerica'' run, also often featured subtle to not-so-subtle instances on a frequent basis. This could range from standard rope/chain/mechanical devices bondage scenes to a scene where a semi-nude Red Skull had the villainess Viper strap him to a "torture wheel" that would inflict pain on him, which the Viper had full control over. He even pointed out that he was interested in seeing how far the Viper would actually go! |
| 277 | ** Even though he spent his whole career at Marvel, he was a big fan of the major DC superheroes, and wrote the ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme'' mini-series so he could play around with them. |
| 278 | * Creator/GaryGygax had a very obvious fondness for obscure archaic words and polearms. |
| 279 | [[/folder]] |
| 280 | |
| 281 | [[folder:H]] |
| 282 | %% H's alphabetized %% |
| 283 | * Rob Halford from Music/JudasPriest has a thing for S&M leather clothes, as seen in his concert shows and songs (one could say he's "hell bent, {{hell bent for leather}}"). He made black leather clothes very popular in the Heavy Metal community. That look came from the Underground Gay Scene; he kept his homosexuality a secret for decades. However the fans may have figured it out a long time ago. |
| 284 | * Byron Hall seems to have Author Appeal for violent bigotry and rape. And words like "cunt-pipe" and "fuckstick". His infamous TabletopRPG ''{{TabletopGame/FATAL}}'' tries to justify the massive amount of these things by claiming historical accuracy and realism... [[FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy badly]]. This "realistic" RPG includes several varieties of "armor that turns you into a walking racial caricature, for no apparent reason", and has a SubsystemDamage table that somehow lets you damage a man's uterus without accounting for any of the skin, muscle, or other organs that would be in the way even if you pretend that Hall was trying to be trans-inclusive (hint: he was not). The misogynistic approach to (gratuitously detailed) sexuality pushes it past offensively stupid into stupidly offensive. [[https://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/14/14567.phtml This]] fairly famous review goes into as much detail as you will ever need -- and, tellingly, Hall responded to its accusation that FATAL was "the date rape RPG" by asking "[[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne where is dating included?]]" |
| 285 | * Laurell K. Hamilton spends considerable text describing clothing worn by Literature/AnitaBlake. And any man with long hair, and [[GagPenis large...]] |
| 286 | * In any Film/JamesBond movie directed by Guy Hamilton, James will be rougher with the women than usual. |
| 287 | * As is pointed out [[HoYay/VideoGames elsewhere]], almost anything by Hanako Games has LesYay in it ''somewhere''. |
| 288 | * Board game designer Creator/ElizabethHargrave is a nature lover who has made games like ''TabletopGame/{{Wingspan}}'' (birds), ''TabletopGame/TussieMussie'' (flowers), ''TabletopGame/{{Mariposas}}'' (butterflies) and ''TabletopGame/TheFoxExperiment'' because she wanted to see more games that reflect these interests. ''Wingspan'' in particular was inspired by her hobby of birdwatching. |
| 289 | * [[WebVideo/OliverHarpersRetrospectivesAndReviews Oliver Harper]]: |
| 290 | ** Huge fan of '80s movies. It's why films from that decade make up the majority of his reviews. |
| 291 | ** ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'', especially the first two Christopher Reeve films. |
| 292 | ** Really likes the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc video format, and will often mention the LD version if the film he's reviewing was released on the format. This is helped by the fact he amassed a huge collection of them in the early 2000s thanks to car-boot sales and thrift stores. |
| 293 | * Creator/SophieHannah: |
| 294 | ** The author ''loves'' a DysfunctionalFamily and AbusiveParents - nearly every single book she's written features some messed-up family situation, often the backstory of the leading lady or her boyfriend. |
| 295 | ** Emotionally-distant men also feature heavily, the most prominent being Simon Waterhouse, who is arguably the protagonist of the Spilling Series, but there's also Robert Haworth in ''Literature/HurtingDistance'' and Tim Breary in ''Literature/TheCarrier''. Bonus points if said leading men are paired with sarcastic, headstrong women (Charlie, Naomi and Gabby, respectively) |
| 296 | * Creator/ButchHartman is an avid comic book fan, something which is made obvious by the sheer number of references and specific parodies in any ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' episode with a superhero theme. He even tried to make [[AlphaBitch Trixie Tang]] a closet comic book fan in one episode, but to many fans' frustration, [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter this was never followed up]]. |
| 297 | * Music/YoshikiHayashi has quite a few, but HoYay and BDSM have been around since almost the beginning. Leather as well, though it's usually his other band members wearing it. He tends to like remixing parts of his earlier works, not out of laziness but of liking the work enough to want to do more with it, yet never being satisfied. Models and the {{Dominatrix}} also make frequent appearances. |
| 298 | * Creator/NathanielHawthorne liked writing about orphans, distant parents, and the plight of women. Also, his works have a lot of incest. A ''lot'' of incest. |
| 299 | * Hugh Hefner liked blondes. Most of the women he'd dated in recent memory have been blond, and there are also a disproportionately high number of blond Magazine/{{Playboy}} playmates. |
| 300 | * Creator/RobertAHeinlein made a hobby of this in his various works, enough so that each particular item deserves its own entry. |
| 301 | ** KindheartedCatLover: Heinlein was a cat lover and cats show up throughout most of his novels. Anyone who is mean to cats is certain to be a villain. |
| 302 | ** {{Polyamory}}: From ''Literature/StrangerInAStrangeLand'' and on, expect any book to feature its protagonists in a polyamorous group marriage. |
| 303 | ** SexyManInstantHarem: Related to the above, his Gruff Old Man protagonists invariably attract a sizable harem of sexy women. |
| 304 | ** ParentalIncest, BrotherSisterIncest, {{Twincest}}, lots and lots of incest. |
| 305 | ** UsefulNotes/{{Nudism}} and SkinnyDipping: Heinlein was a practicing nudist and many of his protagonists are as well. |
| 306 | ** RedheadsAreRavishing: His third wife, Virginia, was a redhead. This hair color is a standout feature of almost all the female love interests in his works and a number of the males. Moreover, ''twin'' redheads are similarly common. |
| 307 | ** WifeHusbandry and PrecociousCrush: Several novels involve underage or newly of-age girls throwing themselves at the protagonist, who is frequently a parental figure. In many cases they reveal that they've been waiting years for the opportunity to be noticed, {{invok|ed trope}}ing SheIsAllGrownUp. |
| 308 | ** FreeLoveFuture: This derives from and is inspired by all of the above. It sometimes extends into EternalSexualFreedom by projecting this value system onto past protagonists -- for example, Lazarus Long's family on Earth. |
| 309 | ** KinkySpanking: A large number of works feature spanking as a fetish. Flogging as a punishment shows up from time to time (e.g. in ''Literature/StarshipTroopers'') but is not fetishized. |
| 310 | ** AuthorTract: Heinlein's politics became more and more Libertarian and Hawkish as he got older and it's clear to see in his work. |
| 311 | * It is impossible to read the work of [[ComicBook/LoveAndRockets Gilbert Hernandez]] and not get the impression that he has a massive thing for women with [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure gigantic breasts and hips and tiny waists]]. |
| 312 | * Jaime Hernandez has been accused of fetishising lesbians, based on the number of self-identified lesbian characters in his ''ComicBook/LoveAndRockets'' work and the frequency with which they turn out to occasionally shag men as well. When the accusations started getting nasty, he suddenly revealed that two long-established male buddy characters sometimes blew each other, making it more of an equal-opportunity EveryoneIsBi. Unless, it was an attempt at an AuthorsSavingThrow, since it had never been hinted at until he came under fire. |
| 313 | * Frank Herbert's later books in the Franchise/{{Dune}} series fall prey to this trope. At first the story is about political intrigue and cultural clashing... and then by the fifth book or so it all collapses into what are BDSM dominatrixes taking over the galaxy through their powers of orgasm. |
| 314 | * Hoo-boy, those guys who wrote the comics at Heroic Publishing sure love incest! ''Flare, Eternity Smith, Icicle, {{TabletopGame/Champions}}...'' |
| 315 | * Wrestling/PaulHeyman is known for the following: |
| 316 | ** Heyman's booking philosophy is focusing on the wrestler's strengths, while hiding their weaknesses, which he calls, "Accentuate the positives, and hide the negatives". |
| 317 | ** Heyman is also known for his LoveTriangle storylines, usually including a lesbian relationship. Some examples include Wrestling/TommyDreamer-Wrestling/BeulahMcGillicutty-Wrestling/KimonaWanalaya in ECW, Wrestling/TorrieWilson-Wrestling/DawnMarie-Al Wilson on ''[=SmackDown=]'' in 2002-2003, and [[Wrestling/RusevAndLana Rusev-Lana]]-Wrestling/BobbyLashley on ''Raw''. |
| 318 | * Michael "Wrestling/ShawnMichaels" Hickenbottom: |
| 319 | ** Michaels' booking places a strong focus on colorful aesthetic and wrestlers holding high concept gimmicks, reminiscent of the New Generation era where Michaels established himself as a top player in the industry. |
| 320 | ** Michaels also has a knack for reenacting famous segments/spots from his illustrious in-ring career. Examples include [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oEX902RUTU Toxic Attraction's breakup]] being done in a way similar to HBK's betrayal of Wrestling/MartyJannetty in Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake's "The Barber Shop" segment and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgB8TCn1FK0 Carmelo Hayes tricking fans]] with the OhCrapFakeout stunt that Michaels did in his infamous "Who's your daddy, Montreal?!" promo. |
| 321 | * Creator/JonathanHickman: |
| 322 | ** If it's a Creator/JonathanHickman comic, it WILL have charts in it. ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'', ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' and ''Comicbook/TheNightlyNews'' all have them, and ComicBook/{{SHIELD}} takes it to the next level. As the Twitter account Comic Facts put it "[[https://twitter.com/comicsfacts/status/181802131693641728 If you were to plot a graph showing the details of every Jonathan Hickman comic, you'd have the first page of a new Jonathan Hickman comic.]]" |
| 323 | ** Upon his becoming a sort of showrunner for the entire ''Comicbook/XMen'' franchise with ''Comicbook/DawnofX'', this has extended even to X-Men related comic books ''written by other people.'' |
| 324 | * Creator/HidekazHimaruya loves his military uniforms. And (generally busty) girls with hair decs. And [[WholesomeCrossdresser boys in dresses]] (not only Poland and the younger Italies, but also Noto from the Noto-sama mini-games). |
| 325 | * Creator/KisekiHimura, best known for his work on ''Literature/SwordArtOnline Progressive'', absolutely ''loves'' drawing short-haired girls with big breasts, with the fanservice generated from the body itself rather than their actions. It doesn't get any clearer than his side project ''Webcomic/TawawaOnMonday'', a weekly illustration series all about buxom ladies going about their daily lives. |
| 326 | * It is claimed that ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' mangaka Kouta Hirano based the design of Rip van Winkle (no, not [[RipVanWinkle that one]]) on a mix of his fetishes. |
| 327 | ** If you cross-reference with the other female characters then you can definitely see a pattern emerging: Glasses or sunglasses (Rip, Yumiko, Integra, Heinkel), gloves (almost EVERY character, male and female), androgyny (Rip, Integra, Heinkel and Zorin all wear men's clothes; Seras ''would'' look like a boy if not for her exceptionally large breasts, and do we even need to discuss Schrödinger?), and stupidly large weaponry (Alucard's Casull, Rip's musket, Seras' "Harkonnen," Zorin's Scythe...) because "[[WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged bitches LOVE cannons.]]" |
| 328 | ** He also loves military uniforms, [[BadassLongcoat coats]], soldiers, warfare, [[BadassInANiceSuit suits]], and ridiculously long hair, on people of both genders (Alucard, Yumie, Rip, Luke Valentine, Integra, and even Pip Bernadotte's got an impressive ponytail), and people who are either very tall, very thin, or both. He also seems to like characters with [[ImprobableWeaponUser unconventional]] [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon weaponry]] (Rip's magic musket, Tubalcain Alhambra's [[DeathDealer playing cards]], Zorin's scythe, Walter's [[RazorFloss wires]], Anderson's bayonets...) |
| 329 | ** Considering that Kouta has made no secret of adapting characters from previous hentai work there's no good reason to be surprised when characters are so rife with {{fanservice}}. |
| 330 | * P. C. Hodgell, author of ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheKencyrath'', really likes cats. It's most prominent in the first book: Both the Res aB'tyrr and Skyrrman have cats, Boo and Fang respectively; Jame gets her NonHumanSidekick, her cat Jorin; we learn about the the Arrin-ken--the most awesome Kencyr--who look like are giant cats. Things are toned down a bit in the latter books, but you can still tell these are the work of a cat-lover. |
| 331 | * Creator/WilliamHopeHodgson had definite opinions on bodybuilding, gender roles, and the domination and disciplining of beautiful women by strong men, and in ''Literature/TheNightLand'' he indulges fully in them. |
| 332 | * Robert Holmes wrote the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors The Two Doctors]]'' as a tirade against meat-eating which has the Doctor and his companion both go vegetarian at the end. |
| 333 | * Homer's works are full of detailed descriptions of feet, and often describes them as beautiful. This applies for both female ''and'' male characters. |
| 334 | * Wakō Honna made a very {{Ecchi}} borderline hentai work called ''Manga/NozokiAna'' (“A Peephole”), which was about a guy being roped into a daily routine of voyeurism and exhibitionism by a young woman who happens to be his neighbor and classmate. [[PornWithPlot There was more to it]], and it was all well in line with the current trend to take {{Hentai}} plot devices and clean them up for romantic comedies. Another, less intense work by Honna—''Manga/NozoXKimi''—includes many of the same elements, including the basic premise of a guy whose classmate/neighbor blackmails him into a daily voyeurism/exhibitionism routine. These manga and her other works also tend to include examinations of what people are like BeneathTheMask, school and apartment buildings as settings, and an ending where [[spoiler:the main heroine leaves for a period of time before reuniting with the protagonist]] (in ''Nozo × Kimi''’s case, this only applies to the end of the initial monthly serialization, but the series itself continues after that as a weekly serialization). Oh, and they often have Honna [[{{Fanservice}} being unapologetically horny when she draws naked/undressed women]] in sexual situations with the protagonist. |
| 335 | * "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep Mr. Basic]]", the deranged perpetually naked madman behind ''WebVideo/HowToBasic'', obviously enjoys [[RunningGag smashing eggs]] so much [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext no matter how little reason there is for him to do so]] that it's a common joke in the fandom that "[[ItsPersonal Eggs killed his parents.]]" |
| 336 | * Creator/TanyaHuff: Nearly every book she writes has people being freely sexually active with both sexes with little consequence (EternalSexualFreedom or FreeLoveFuture, depending on the setting). She's an openly bisexual woman (married to fellow spec fic writer Fiona Patton) who's featured numerous LGBT+ characters in her works, portraying societies with [[NonHeteronormativeSociety no stigma against them usually]]. They're heavily bisexuals, as stated above, to the point of EveryoneIsBi sometimes, but she's also written gays, lesbians and asexuals. |
| 337 | * Creator/{{Humon}} has often mentioned her fondness for [[SharpDressedMan sharp-dressed men]], fem dom and [[ChubbyChaser larger men]]. She's gone out of her way when drawing fanservice-y art to portray characters of all sizes and shapes, on the basis that not all attractive people are PrettyBoy and women with {{impossible hourglass figure}}s. In a non-sexual way, she also prominently features multicultural mythology in all of her work, especially [[Myth/NorseMythology Scandinavian legends and creatures]]. |
| 338 | * Creator/AndrewHussie likes {{R|olePlayingGame}}PGs, glasses (''especially'' CoolShades), and superheroes. ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' has ''a lot'' of that. Especially glasses - half of the main cast wears some kind of eyewear. He also loves HipHop music; he's done explicitly hip-hop based comics like ''And It Don't Stop'' (about giant robot rap battles). In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', three of the main characters are rappers; [[TheLancer Dave Strider]] is a DJ and music producer who [[TimeMaster uses turntables to access his time powers]] (and has some minor AuthorAvatar elements), and [[TheStoner Gamzee Makara]] is a {{Fantasy Counterpart|Culture}} {{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}}. Additionally, the narration occasionally dips into using contorted rapper slang and rap-inspired grammatical constructions, usually [[SophisticatedAsHell for humourous effect]]. |
| 339 | * Creator/XanthippeHutcheon loves anime (especially MagicalGirl anime), [[CatGirl Cat Girls]], transgender characters (influenced by her being a trans woman) and unnaturally colored hair (her own hair has been dyed both magenta and blue so far). These influences are most prominent in her webcomic ''Webcomic/PandorasTale'', though they often get touched on in her other comic ''Webcomic/ThinkingTooMuchToThinkPositively''. |
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