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5[[caption-width-right:300:No matter the story, Creator/HayaoMiyazaki will have someone/something flying.[[labelnote:Clockwise from top left:]]Anime/PorcoRosso's plane, the [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoros]], [[Anime/KikisDeliveryService Kiki and Jiji abroom]], [[Anime/HowlsMovingCastle Howl's castle]], [[Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind Nausicaä]] on her Mehve, [[Anime/CastleInTheSky Sheeta and Pazu in Pazu's 'thopter]], [[Anime/SpiritedAway Chihiro riding Haku]][[/labelnote]]]]
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7A recurring item found across several works for a director, producer, or writer.
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9For recurring associates, see ProductionPosse. For recurring characters or items identified with a previous movie, see ProductionThrowback and ReusedCharacterDesign. The literary/unintentional equivalent of this is an AuthorCatchphrase, and the actor equivalent of this is just a normal catchphrase (e.g. [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger "I'll be back"]]). Does not include overarching SignatureStyle elements of a body of work, {{Signature Shot}}s, or ''explicit'' UsefulNotes/{{trademark}}s, such as Creator/AlfredHitchcock's silhouette or Walt Disney's signature. If the Thumbprint is something the author likes, then it's AuthorAppeal, and if it's lifted wholesale from another series by the creator, it's BorrowingFromTheSisterSeries.
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14* [[CreatorThumbprint/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
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25* This is part of the reason why ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' fans love the series. The person in charge of it is a self-admitted fan of ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', so he inserted ''a lot'' of HumongousMecha tropes and references into the anime. [[GenreMashup The resulting fusion]] of {{Magical Girl}}s and HumongousMecha is [[RuleOfCool very cool indeed]].
26* Creator/MakotoShinkai clearly loves SceneryPorn and cats, including a cat in every one of his films since ''Anime/SheAndHerCat'' (normally naming the cats in the later films after the earlier cats).
27* Creator/NaokiUrasawa is a noted Germanophile, which is very noticeable giving the settings of his work: Large parts of ''Anime/{{Monster}}'', ''Manga/MasterKeaton'', and ''Manga/{{Pluto}}'' are set in Germany.
28* [[Manga/AntiqueBakery Yoshinaga Fumi's]] works are very well regarded for their nuanced and fully realized characters. Yet for some reason all of these characters, no matter their profession or past, share the ability to speak for paragraphs about all the little details behind the [[FoodPorn delicious, mouthwatering dishes]] that always pop up.
29* Creator/StudioGainax has [[GainaxEnding not just one]] but ''two'' [[{{Gainaxing}} tropes named for them]]. They're also fond of [[BadassArmfold people crossing their arms]], which has aptly become known as the "Gainax Pose".
30%%* Between both his principal works' tendency to contain a cast of kids exposed to uncomfortable amounts of rape, teenage pregnancy, mental illnesses, parental child abuse and eventually a gruesome and pointless death, and just generally possessing a SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism you could use as a trebuchet, it would seem Creator/MohiroKitoh (''Manga/ShadowStar'', ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'') is ''[[HumansAreBastards not]]'' [[HumansAreBastards a 'people' person]]. Especially where children are concerned. He's also fond of mountain bikes, and has a tendency towards aircraft and anything in the air, and perhaps the military.
31* In their ''Girls With Guns'' works, Creator/BeeTrain always has a female character that wears a pair of red shoes - which started with Kirika in ''Anime/{{Noir}}''. Also, Kouichi Mashimo went to a Jesuit university, knows a lot about the Catholic Church, and likes to feature some of Aquinas's and Augustine's ideas in his shows. He also has a non-sexual love for any ActionGirl (especially [[GirlsWithGuns with a gun]]), being a fairly well-known feminist in Japan.
32* Creator/MasamuneShirow loves drawing sexy, scantily clad women, but that hardly sets him apart; what ''does'' is his [[TechnologyPorn obsessive attention to detail regarding near-future/sci-fi weaponry and machines]].
33* If you couldn't tell from the series itself, Hiroyuki Imaishi, the director of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' said in an interview that he liked [[ThisIsADrill drills]] and wanted a show where they were the main character's weapon. This becomes either hilarious or creepy when you see his previous work, ''Anime/DeadLeaves'', where one guy has a giant drill (that's drawn just like the ones in TTGL because he's also the character designer for both) ''for a penis''.
34* Wataru Yoshizumi, the mangaka behind ''Manga/MarmaladeBoy'', ''Manga/UltraManiac'', ''Mint na Bokura'' and many others likes her tennis. She tends to have at least one of her characters in each of her series be a member of their school tennis club.
35* Aside from uniforms and girls with hair decs, Creator/HidekazHimaruya loves bunnies.
36* Creator/ArinaTanemura really likes insane hair.
37* Shamelessly lampshaded by Ai Yazawa in her manga ''Manga/NeighborhoodStory'', about an arts high school populated by eccentric teens. "''In the Yazawa High School students have an unspoken agreement to dress in the most outrageous way possible. Why? Principal Ai Yazawa just loves outlandish clothes!''". Before becoming a mangaka, she wanted to be a fashion designer, and she's a hardcore fan of Vivienne Westwood. She also loves rock and punk music. It becomes glaringly obvious since ''all'' of her mangas feature [[Manga/ParadiseKiss fashion designers]], [[UnlimitedWardrobe massive amounts of different outfits]], designs lifted from Westwood, [[Manga/{{Nana}} aspiring musicians and punk rockers]].
38* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Creator/TiteKubo is a huge music geek. As a result, he gives many of his characters theme songs from a wide range of styles and nationalities. His chapter and volume titles can be a CallBack to songs and he often finds a way to insert music into character conversations. During the Turn Back The Pendulum arc not only did he have Captain Shinji trying to convince Vice-Captain Aizen that jazz was a brilliant invention but he also created a little character sketch at the end of the relevant volume to tell the reader that jazz didn't actually exist during Shinji's era, coupled with a sketch of Shinji looking absolutely baffled at what he's listening to if jazz doesn't exist. Kubo is also a huge fashion fan and takes every opportunity to sketch his characters in many different fashion styles from Japanese garb to punk outfits, tracksuits, and boxing gear. Even here, he often finds a way to insert music.
39* Creator/HirohikoAraki is a big music fan, particularly of western progressive rock. This can be seen in the naming conventions of characters from his masterwork, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', with characters sporting such names as Music/{{Dio}} [[Creator/MarlonBrando Brando]], [[Music/REOSpeedwagon Robert Edward O. Speedwagon]], Music/VanillaIce, and so forth. He even had a prog-rock song used as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8okVPx2LpCc ending theme of the new anime series]]. He also tends to use the death of dogs to illustrate just how evil a new villain is. Contrary to popular belief, he does this because he absolutely loves dogs, and killing one makes the villain viler in his eyes. In fact, one of the first things to happen in Jojo's is Dio [[KickTheDog kicking Jonathan's dog, then later killing him]].
40* ''Manga/TheWallflower'' author Tomoko Hayakawa practically admits in her author notes that she simply made a series full of stuff she likes: {{Bishonen}}, J-rock performers, horror and gothic pop culture, and the ElegantGothicLolita style.
41* Tsutomu Nihei, author of ''Manga/{{Blame}}''!, has an obvious obsession with architecture, post-humanism, and cyborgs. The latter occasionally verges on fetish territory, and the former is [[MemeticMutation something of a running joke amongst his fans]].
42* Creator/AkiraToriyama has a thing for vehicles. Give the ''Manga/DragonBall'' manga a look through and count how many of the chapter cover pages not directly related to the storyline feature some kind of detailed vehicle. He outright admitted that the main character of his 1987 one-shot ''SONCHOH'' is the car and not the old man who drives it. This is also {{Lampshaded}} in an {{omake}} of his ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' manga, where Toriyama's editor calls him out for always drawing some sort of vehicle on the covers and asks him if the main character of the manga is a car. ThemeNaming is another giveaway, particularly of the [[EdibleThemeNaming edible]] variety. If one or more characters in a given work are named after garments and/or food, even if the work in question is otherwise not meant to be tongue-in-cheek, there's a very good chance Toriyama had a hand in making it.
43* ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' scribe Kosuke Fujishima is a ''huge'' fan of exquisitely-detailed machinery, especially that surrounding vehicles, so it's no surprise that all his work features very in-depth discussion and imagery of the same.
44* Eiichiro Oda of ''Manga/OnePiece'' fame very clearly ''loves'' afros. Not only do several major ''One Piece'' characters sport afros, but the story draws attention or uses the afro for comedy in almost every case:
45** Gaimon, who is mistaken for a shrub;
46** Kuromarimo, who has one afro on his head and three in his beard, fights with afro-shaped balls of hair;
47** Fleet Admiral Sengoku, despite being TheComicallySerious;
48** Luffy wears an afro wig during his fight with Foxy, and everyone except [[OnlySaneMan Nami]] insists that the afro makes him stronger.
49** Strawhat pirate Brook, who is a ''[[DemBones skeleton]]'', still retains his afro because [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum he has deep roots]], and has great emotional attachment to the hair because it will allow his old friend [[spoiler:Laboon]] to recognize him even though he is a skeleton;
50** Emporio Ivankov, who can carry his right-hand man in his afro;
51** [[WildTake Wild Takes]] and silly expressions, in general, are another favourite, even if the situation in the story is serious.
52* Kozue Amano, the creator of ''Manga/{{ARIA}}'' and ''Manga/{{Amanchu}}'' clearly has a thing for SceneryPorn.
53* Creator/KaoruMori
54** She is an Anglophile. It definitely shows in the immense attention to the details of upstairs-downstairs dynamics, costume details, and setting of ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance''.
55** She highlighted in her latest work ''Manga/ABridesStory'' that she is also fascinated by Central Asian costumes and settings. All her female and male characters have exquisitely detailed embroidered clothes.
56* Works by Creator/StudioTrigger prominently feature four-pointed stars: the stars on Goku Uniforms in ''Anime/KillLaKill'', the seven stars of the Shiny Rod in ''Franchise/LittleWitchAcademia'', the scars in ''{{Anime/Kiznaiver}}'', and much, much more.
57* Creator/KunihikoIkuhara, most well-known for ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', has a very distinct style that repeats through every work he has directed - [[DesignStudentsOrgasm brightly coloured]] StockFootage, surreal animal-based slapstick, queer themes, focus on family relationships (sometimes delving into incest), and a whole ton of MindScrew.
58* ''Manga/RyusPath'': It's not a Creator/ShotaroIshinomori story without the government being evil, scummy or involved in a cover-up of sorts. Do note that in real life, he was a noted critic of the Japanese government and it's corruption.
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62* Creator/WilliamAdolpheBouguereau, as can be seen at Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau here]], made a career out of painting [[{{Moe}} innocent, pale young girls looking sad and adorable]]. He also had a thing for bare feet, by the way.
63* Creator/AlexandreCabanel: "Orestes" started a lifelong trend of depicting muscled men in his artworks. After all, it's easier to emote through sheer BodyLanguage when your subject has muscles that bulge when tense or in awkward positions.
64* Creator/AlphonseMucha is best remembered for his drawings of beautiful women in classically-inspired gowns surrounded by [[FlowerMotifs flowers, flowers, and more flowers]] with their hair either pinned up like a Gibson Girl or swirling about [[DramaticWind dramatically]]. Usually set in intricate, organic-looking frames, his work exemplifies the ArtNouveau style -- in fact, the page image for Art Nouveau is one of his works.
65* In Art Frahm's illustrations of women losing their underwear, the women almost always had their arms full of groceries, and the grocery bags almost always [[VisualInnuendo prominently]] featured [[ISOStandardUrbanGroceries a large stalk of celery]]. Chronicled [[http://lileks.com/institute/frahm/index.html here]] (moderately NSFW).
66--> '''James Lileks:''' [[RunningGag Celery is present]].
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70* Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was known for hiding the word Nina (his daughter's name) within the elaborate cross-hatching of his cartoons. A number next to his signature indicated the number of hidden Ninas.
71* Keno Creator/DonRosa
72** He put the acronym [[http://neamar.fr/Res/DUCK/ D.U.C.K. into the first page]] of all of his comics, as a homage to his favorite Creator/CarlBarks ("Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno").
73** Furthermore, he is a recognized Scrooge/Goldie shipper.
74* The late comic book writer Mark Gruenwald apparently loved his home state Wisconsin. In ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica,'' he made the villain Sidewinder a Wisconsinite, while his hero ComicBook/{{Quasar}} also hailed from "America's Dairyland". His love for Wisconsin really showed in ''D.P.7.,'' as most of the early issues were set there, and many of the characters were from Wisconsin.
75* Likewise, Creator/BrianMichaelBendis really seems to like his hometown of Cleveland and has set many of his stories there.
76* Creator/PaulDini is a gigantic zoology buff, which accounts for a great deal of the animal references he tends to make in his scripts. Examples from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' include the inclusion of the extremely obscure ''cassowary'' in "Almost Got 'Im", the conversation between two of Ra's al Ghul's mooks about how crocodiles kill their prey in "Out of the Past", and the fact that Dini got Bruce Timm a STUFFED PIRANHA as drawing reference for "Mad Love".
77* Creator/RobLiefeld and his [[MemeticMutation obsession]] with pouches. This was originally justified, as the characters in question used things like machine guns in combat and needed plenty of ammo (that's what the pouches were for). He has since [[AdamWesting leaned into this]], by creating a singular drawing of a character simply called "[[https://comicbook.com/news/rob-liefeld-the-pouch-cable-deadpool-marvel-90s/ The Pouch]]".
78* Franchise/TheFlash's John Broome seemed to have some sort of fixation with second-floor burglaries. It has been suggested that maybe he was burgled while living on the second floor and developed it because of that.
79* John Callahan has at least two cartoons with quadriplegic protagonists. It's likely because the man himself is also quadriplegic.
80* Anything Creator/GeoffJohns writes frequently involves a character receiving an injury to their hand or arm.
81* Bill Amend of ''ComicStrip/FoxTrot'' '''really''' loves his math/computer/geek humor. (He was a physics major.)
82* Creator/NeilGaiman of ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' fame likes mythology, cats, and gothic imagery and/or clothes. And expect stories within stories within stories, and the story will be talking about other stories.
83* Mike Mignola has said in interviews that he created ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' because he loves drawing weird monsters, big gorillas, and mad-science devices and wanted an excuse to get paid for it. All those elements showed up at one time or another in his earlier work for Marvel and DC.
84* Creator/DougTenNapel's comics usually have a cat. Even when they aren't main characters or even important to the plot, there's usually at least one scene that prominently features one if not several. Also, big, freaky monsters make appearances often, even when there's no reason for them.
85* Legendary comic book artist George Perez
86** He has a non-sexual fetish of redesigning characters' costumes to be much more detailed than the average artist is willing to draw. It gets sexual because whenever he draws [[ComicBook/TheAvengers Wanda Maximoff, AKA the Scarlet Witch]] (whom he has singled out as his [[PerverseSexualLust favorite character to draw]]), he draws her in [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/41/7a/64/417a645713787a664b6be5b88891c693.jpg this costume]], which references her Roma heritage. Furthermore, this outfit is designed to indicate that Wanda ''[[VaporWear does not wear panties]]'' (the two sections of fabric over her hips are connected by gold loops that rest over bare skin). When asked to provide WordOfGod information that nobody else could give, Perez stated that Wanda prefers to go commando and dared readers to find an instance in which she is proven to be wearing underwear. He even found other ways to subtly convey this sexual trivia - such as showing her wearing a very long t-shirt to bed. It is worth noting that no other artist draws this costume if they can avoid it, although that is likely because of the prohibitive level of detail rather than the designer's fetish appeal.
87** Perez just has a fetish for costume design in general. His second-favorite Marvel girl to play with is the Wasp because he can design any-and-as-many costumes as he damn well pleases for her with no one batting an eye about it. Hilariously enough, though, even with the ''dozens'' of outfits he's given her, ''none'' of the rare {{Stripperific}} costumes she's had were of his design. Not that he couldn't. His design for ''ComicBook/NewTeenTitans'' ' [[http://league.jmkprime.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/starfire-326x600.jpg Starfire]]
88** This continued into his ''[[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Wonder Woman]]'' run where he had Diana wear a variety of outfits beyond her famous LeotardOfPower, such as an armorered hoplite look and a tank-top and shorts look she wore when on Themyscira.
89* D'Israeli's artwork always includes the word 'fishpaste' somewhere, usually as graffiti.
90* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Bill Watterson]] cites [[ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}} Charles Schulz]] as one of his main creative influences, and it shows in his art style. A few of the stylistic twists Schulz used in his strip, such as profile shots of characters that show only their eyes and nose but not their mouths, or the use of the word "AUGH" when uttering a cry of surprise or dismay, were adopted by Watterson and later used in ''Calvin and Hobbes.''
91* Creator/StanLee and his fondness for alliterative names - Peter Parker, Reed Richards, J. Jonah Jameson, Susan Storm, Bruce Banner... He's explained that alliterative names were just easier to remember since he was writing tons of books and creating new characters all the time. A recurring trope that happened several times in every series Lee wrote were stories about an IdentityImpersonator, ranging from iconic stories about [[HeroWithBadPublicity slander campaigns by]] [[Comicbook/SpiderMan Mysterio]] and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting invasions by]] [[Comicbook/FantasticFour the Skrulls]], as well as some less beloved copycats.
92* Creator/GarthEnnis has a fondness for Irish and British characters, especially working-class ones. He's also a massive World War II buff, so references to WWII tend to drift into his work (when the comic isn't outright ''about'' the Second World War).
93* Scott Snyder has a penchant for starting every story with--as comics journalist David Brothers says it--the main character relating “[Aged male mentor figure] used to say [anecdote relevant to the plot].”
94* Bill Finger, the unsung early writer of the ''Batman'' comics, loved doing stories around giant-sized but functional versions of props like typewriters, cigarette lights, and similar displays.
95* Creator/MarkWaid loves to take formerly dark or unhappy characters and brighten their outlook (and the tone of their stories). In general, he favors more positive storytelling and will often address this directly in his plotlines. Examples include Comicbook/TheFlash and Comicbook/{{Daredevil}} both learning to stop worrying and love being superheroes, and Waid's ComicBook/KingdomCome dealing directly with the conflict between light and dark styles of superheroes.
96* Creator/JohnByrne likes to use the license plate GNU 556 in various vehicles (including a ''zeppelin'') in different stories. According to him, it's a tribute to a song by British musical comedy duo Music/FlandersAndSwann.[[note]]A car with this registration features in a ShaggyDogStory that Michael Flanders liked to use to introduce the song "The Gnu" in ''At The Drop of a Hat''[[/note]] He also likes to draw himself in some stories as he did on ComicBook/FantasticFour, Comicbook/StarBrand and ComicBook/SheHulk (this time, combining with her MediumAwareness and BreakingTheFourthWall). He is also fond of depicting the NeckLift, to the point that some comics fans refer to it as "the Byrne Hold".
97* Creator/FrankMiller
98** Frank loves Ancient Greece, particularly [[UsefulNotes/GrecoPersianWars the Battle of Thermopylae]]. References to the battle pop up all over his oeuvre, even outside of [[ComicBook/ThreeHundred the obvious place]]: the climax of ''ComicBook/SinCity: The Big Fat Kill'' features an ambush in a city alleyway that's directly compared to Thermopylae, and ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightReturns'' includes a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to a porn star called "Hot Gates" (the literal English translation of "Thermopylae"). Not to mention that he's the creator of ComicBook/{{Elektra}}, a Greek-American ninja named after a heroine from Greek tragedy. And he put a sleazy photographer named "[[Literature/TheTrojanCycle Agamemnon]]" in ''Sin City: A Dame to Kill For''. And his film adaptation of ''Film/TheSpirit'' features the Blood of Heracles as a {{Macguffin}}, and an army of [[{{Mooks}} cloned thugs]] with Ancient Greek names.
99** If you give him half a chance, Miller ''will'' find an excuse to fit ninja and samurai into a comic book. In addition to being the author of ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'', he created "The Hand" for Marvel, [[ComicBook/Wolverine1982 sent Wolverine to Japan]], gave ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} and ComicBook/{{Elektra}} ninja training, and put a shuriken-throwing female ninja into the middle of urban America in ''ComicBook/SinCity''.
100* Just like Creator/MasamuneShirow, Steven A Gallacci, the creator of ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' tends to include beautiful girls and lots of technical data about the military, guns, machines, or anything geeky. Unlike Shirow, Gallacci justifies this because he was a member of the USAF and a Vietnam War veteran.
101* [[Creator/NellBrinkley Nell Brinkley's]] early serials like ''ComicBook/GoldenEyesAndHerHeroBill'', ''The Fortunes of Flossie'', and ''The Adventures of Prudence Prim'' all featured curly-haired blondes with wide eyes and spindly limbs, plenty of CostumePorn and billowing fabric, and love interests with dark, slicked-back hair.
102* [[Creator/BrianKVaughan Brian K. Vaughan]] really likes to share obscure trivia about whatever topic is being discussed. It's particularly easy to notice in ''Ex Machina'', where virtually every character is (sometimes inexplicably) knowledgeable about the intricacies of state- and city-level government and the history of New York.
103* Most of Creator/WarrenEllis's characters are struggling with and/or defined by their various addictions: cigarettes, coffee, alcohol, reckless behavior, etc. He also loves protagonists who began as idealists, and by the time the story starts, have become embittered and cynical by life.
104* Jeremy Whitley (''ComicBook/TheUnstoppableWasp'', ''ComicBook/{{Princeless}}'') is married to a black woman and has two daughters with her. Much of his creative output is a deliberate attempt to create books and stories for his daughters to read; as such, Whitley is virtually guaranteed to introduce at least one dynamic, confident female black character in everything he writes.
105* Creator/GregPak has created or reintroduced at least one Asian-American character in almost everything he's ever written at Marvel.
106* Creator/AlanMoore is famous for his fascination with [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Apocalypse]]. Many of his stories are about characters attempting to bring about the End of the World, but his stories also frequently explore the idea that "The End of the World" might just be [[EndOfAnAge the beginning of a new age]] (for good or for ill). To name a few notable examples:
107** ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is set in an alternate version of 1980s America where an apocalyptic nuclear war is seemingly on the horizon, the climax involves [[spoiler:a (fake) alien invasion]] that's compared to the End Times, one of the main characters regularly waves around a sign that reads "The End is Nigh!", and it ends with the characters [[spoiler:facing an uncertain future after the Cold War comes to an abrupt and unexpected end]].
108** ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'' is about a fascist dictatorship that rules Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear war that leaves the rest of civilization in ruins, and the protagonist is an anarchist terrorist who dreams of a new age without laws or governments. It ends with V [[spoiler:successfully overthrowing the British government, but leaves it ambiguous whether the next regime will be better or worse than the last]].
109** ''ComicBook/FromHell'' portrays UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper as a mad occultist who views his murders as a magic ritual that will bring about a bold new age in human history. The ending implies that [[spoiler:it actually ''worked'', and that his "new age" was actually the 20th century]].
110** The later volumes of ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' involve an occult sect attempting to bring about "a strange and terrible new aeon" by summoning an entity known as "The Moonchild", who's presented as a composite of various {{Antichrist}}-like characters from classic literature and film (and [[spoiler:Literature/HarryPotter]]). The series finale ultimately [[spoiler:depicts the end of the world, which is presented as a composite of various fictional apocalypses]].
111** In ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', the titular divine entity is prophesied to bring about the end of the world, but the final issue reveals that [[spoiler:this isn't such a bad thing--because the "apocalypse" is purely metaphorical, and it just involves merging the material and immaterial worlds]]. In the end, [[spoiler:Promethea succeeds in fulfilling the prophecy, bringing about a new utopian age]].
112* Creator/WilliamMoultonMarston - One word: [[UsefulNotes/{{BDSM}} Bondage.]]. Joye Hummell, Marston's assistant and eventually ghost writer on many early Franchise/WonderWoman comics said you could tell which stories were hers by the ones that featured less bondage.
113* E.P. Jacobs, creator of ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer'', included in every story he wrote characters spending some time underground, be it a subterranean military base, Egyptian tomb, sewers, or an entire civilisation hidden in a complex of gigantic caves.
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117* Jhonen Vasquez (''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' and ''ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac'') gives frequent homages to ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'', ''The Fly'' (both [[Film/TheFly1958 the original]] and Creator/DavidCronenberg's [[Film/TheFly1986 version]]), ''Film/{{Scanners}}'', and video games in his comics/TV shows. He's also a fan of [[HumongousMecha giant robots]], space in general, horrifying imagery, BodyHorror, and certain words, most notably: ''[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom doom]]'', ''cheese'', ''piggies'', ''tacos'', ''monkeys'', ''moose'', ''noodles'', ''dooky'', ''nachos'', and ''bunnies''. He even stated at [=ComicCon=] '07 that he's fascinated with plotlines of people who are "controlled and used" by others (Johnny and the Doughboys, Devi and Sickness) and that he also hates dogs and little kids (sans [[ComicBook/JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac Squee]]).
118* Music/NickCave loves flowers, violence, horror, poetry, and religious debate. He also enjoys portraying the DeepSouth, although it would be a stretch to say that he loved it.
119* Glenn Danzig enjoys singing about death, Satan, and demons.
120* Creator/MamoruOshii really likes Basset Hounds. He also has a thing for tanks in the rain.
121* Creator/TobyFox has used various arrangements of his song "Megalovania" for ''VideoGame/TheHalloweenHack'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', and ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''.
122* Creator/RickGriffin loves kangaroos. His fursona is a kangaroo, ''Webcomic/AAndHClub'' features a kangaroo main character, ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' features a pair of kangaroos as ThoseTwoGuys, and several of his other works feature them in supporting roles.
123* Scott Fellows' ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Supernoobs}}'' both have a girl in the main cast who mostly goes by her last name and whose first name is Jennifer; Moze and Shope, respectively.
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127* [=Blackout77=]'s various Mario World hacks often have the following:
128** Forced UsefulNotes/GameGenie usage ([=DDC1-64DD=] and [=DDC5-6DAD=] seem to be the codes Blackout likes the most)
129** Ridiculous {{Kaizo Trap}}s
130** Glitched custom music
131** An unedited overworld
132** Plagiarizing other hacks
133** Pokemon creepypastas
134* How can you spot a [[http://www.fimfiction.net/user/kalash93 Kalash93]] story? Firstly, he loves his GunPorn, especially Kalashnikov rifles and other Soviet weapons. Expect to see stuff about mercenaries, paramilitaries, guerillas, militias, and positive depictions of civilian gun ownership. Secondly, GratuitousForeignLanguage, especially [[GratuitousRussian Russian, ]]because he is a Russian Language major in RealLife, but he's also studied [[GratuitousLatin Latin]] and [[GratuitousGerman German.]] Russian cultural and military references abound in his war stories, with many of his characters wearing a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telnyashka telnyashka.]] The guy adores his booze, particularly rye whiskey. And he's written a few stories that involve prostitution, as well as male virginity.
135* [[Creator/ThatPersonYouMightKnow [=ThatPersonYouMightKnow=]]] ''floods'' his stories with {{Shout Out}}s, ranging from easy spots such as ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' to bizarre 80s game shows like ''Series/{{Interceptor}}''.
136* Dahne, the author of ''Fanfic/{{Stray|Dahne}}'', ''loaded'' the story with {{Shout Out}}s, and seems to have a particular interest in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' (justifiable in-story, as one of the protagonists is a mecha anime {{Otaku}}), ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'' (which provides the ArcWords), and Myth/NorseMythology.
137* Creator/{{Ri2}}'s most well-known fics are DarkerAndEdgier continuations of works like ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' or ''[[FanFic/LatiasJourney Pokemon]]'' that tend to [[GoingCosmic Go Cosmic]] near the end. Also, a character named "Mewgle" that tends to show up for a cameo appearance or some sort of sub-plot.
138* [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Holmes!angst and Holmes!torture]] are something of a {{Motif}} in ''Fanfic/ChildrenOfTime'', a series by Tropers/AleineSkyfire and Riandra, whose Sherlockian novels (''[[Fanfic/DeliverUsFromEvilSeries Mortality]]'' and ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret'', respectively) deal very heavily with these subjects.
139* With the exception of short vignettes (and not always then), stories by the ''{{WesternAnimation/Total Drama}}'' fanfic writer, Tropers/{{Gideoncrawle}} include at least one reference to a Creator/GilbertAndSullivan operetta. His pen name is also a [[Theatre/{{Ruddigore}} G&S reference]].
140* Creator/Iron117Prime's crossovers are usually epic in scale, and will often diverge from the canonical work of both franchises. But it's consistent EvilerThanThou moments that put him on the map: there can only be one dominant villain faction in the story and the other will succumb to a rather gruesome end.
141* Creator/NimbusLlewelyn has a few.
142** [[WorldOfSnark Everyone will be sarcastic. Literally, everyone.]]
143** The female protagonists will all be badass (though not necessarily physically), and the main character, if male, will usually be an AmazonChaser.
144** He has a penchant for lots and lots of references to ''Film/ThePrincessBride''. [[ReferenceOverdosed Shout Outs generally abound]], most particularly either to Creator/MarvelComics or to ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', depending on what fandom the story is written in.
145** Minor characters, especially villains, will be retooled, made exponentially more dangerous, and sent shooting over the MoralEventHorizon.
146** It will also look at what happens if you break a powerful hero and let them loose on the world.
147** Either it's a hero or a villain expect them to be TheChessmaster in some form.
148** He likes characters to be more in the morally grey area. You'd have even the most heroic characters more willing to do whatever they need to do to ensure a threat is eliminated - though there are some exceptions, like Superman, and they are not criticised for their scruples in this regard (indeed, they're admired all the more for trying to be better than an imperfect world).
149* Fanfics written by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2186891/E350 E35]][[https://archiveofourown.org/users/E350tb/pseuds/E350tb 0tb]] can usually be identified by their [[GeniusBonus accurate]] historical references, references to (and occasional [[SelfDeprecation pot-shots]] towards) his home continent Australia, [[GratuitousNazis usage of Nazis]] as villains of varying competency, or multiple of the above.
150* How do you know a fanfic is written by Green Phantom Queen? If it's not filled with horror references, look out for the secondary female characters gaining the spotlight, and the prominent focus on females in general, the pointing out on DoubleStandard, and the glorious FoodPorn.
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153[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
154* Creator/HayaoMiyazaki
155** All of his films have at least one scene depicting characters at great heights or on the edges of precipitous drops: most of his films also feature at least one of ThoseMagnificentFlyingMachines. Many of his films feature flight as a prominent theme. There are also pigs, and characters that get so angry [[ExpressiveHair their hair levitates]].
156** Around half of his stories also tend to have some sort of pacifism or anti-war theme, either directly or indirectly, in them.
157** Many of his works also include monsters made out of black goo.
158* As an homage to Al Hirschfeld, artists working on the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of ''WesternAnimation/Fantasia2000'' (which was inspired by Hirschfeld's drawings) added their names within the backgrounds as FreezeFrameBonus. They even throw in a couple of Ninas for good measure.
159* Creator/WesAnderson:
160** He likes to use intentionally dated objects and technology. Even in stories set TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture like ''Westernanimation/IsleOfDogs'', the technology may look outdated to the point of {{Zeerust}}. This gives his films an air of nostalgia and a sense of timelessness.
161** Many shots will be symmetrically framed, with the main character in the scene standing dead center, often looking directly at the camera.
162* Creator/MarcellJankovics:
163** MetaphoricMetamorphosis, transforming characters, places, symbols and colors in and out of each other. It was an assignment to create such a scene for an airline commercial that made him fall in love with animation. Most of his characters change visually in some way.
164** Symbolism. Everything, even the tiniest background details, compositions, character design elements have to mean something. In Jankovics works, symbolism and thematic allegory always trump narrative and his "characters" are treated more as symbols. He wanted to make viewers think rather than entertain them.
165** Deliberate rejection of {{Disneyesque}} art styles to strive for a more "European" feel, with looser forms and exaggerated expressions.
166** [[GoodOldWays Old traditions]], folk art, tales based on classical literature and ancient legends and religions.
167** Mature subjects and imagery (mainly nudity, lots of uncensored breasts, genitals, allusions to sex and gore), often incorporating them into his metamorphosis. Expect to see some even if the work is aimed at kids.
168** To a lesser extent, most of his work contained some form of blatant Hungarian nationalism, social satire and conservative ideas.
169* Of Creator/DisneysNineOldMen, Milt Kahl was very well-known for his "head swaggle", where characters would lightly shake or tilt their heads while talking. As lip syncing to this was extremely difficult to do and Kahl was one of the only people capable of it, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDyaZvQQaNo he would insert it as often as he could.]]
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172[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
173* ''Series/GameOfThrones'':
174** Episodes penned by George R.R. Martin often feature subtle exposition of location and travel, such as Melisandre passing King's Landing in "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" because the Blackwater Rush is the fastest route back to Dragonstone, and Roose Bolton mentioning smuggling himself to account for bypassing Moat Cailin in "The Lion and the Rose". Contrast this with Robb campaigning somewhere vague in Season 2 and the Karstarks marching home regardless of Moat Cailin in Season 3.
175** Director Neil Marshall loves ArrowsOnFire and MadeOfPlasticine mooks that can feel slightly out of place with the rest of the series.
176* British comedian Creator/RikMayall seemed to like politics. Various references to the subject popped up in every episode of ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', ''Series/FilthyRichAndCatflap'' and ''Series/{{Bottom}}''. So playing the lead role in ''Series/TheNewStatesman'' must have been a dream come true for him.
177* ''Series/BreakingBad'' creator Creator/VinceGilligan is from Virginia, and sometimes makes sure that state is either a setting ("Soft Light", the first episode he wrote on ''Series/TheXFiles'', is set in Richmond) or referenced somehow (Jesse Pinkman's NA sponsor mentioning Virginia's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverage_control_state ABC stores]]).
178* Jerry Series/{{Seinfeld}}--both the actor and character--likes Franchise/{{Superman}}. [[Series/{{Seinfeld}} It]] [[OnceAnEpisode shows]].
179* Creator/TinaFey and the other writers of ''[[Series/ThirtyRock 30 Rock]]'' like to make ''Franchise/StarWars'' references. In season 2, they got Carrie Fisher to guest star and say, "Help me, Liz Lemon... you're my only hope!"
180* Creator/BryanFuller likes the macabre like fish like water: ''two'' of his shows (''Series/DeadLikeMe'' and ''Series/PushingDaisies'') have used death as a metaphor for adulthood. He loves giving his female leads {{tomboyish name}}s, for whatever reason.
181* Steve Smith, co-creator, producer and co-head writer of ''Series/TheRedGreenShow''
182** He seems to be a car buff in real life and many of the show's gags involve cars and trucks of some sort. {{Shout Out}}s and {{Take That}}s directed at various makes and models (the Chrysler K-Car is a recurring target) are an additional EasterEgg for automotive aficionadoes.
183** Along with that, Steve Smith even {{Lampshaded}} the number of gags that involve beer in one form or another. When cars and beer are the basis for so much of the humor, is it any wonder the show was such a hit among middle-aged blue-collar guys?
184* Inevitable ''Series/DoctorWho'' examples:
185** Creator/TerryNation: "Evolution" depicted as a [[GoalOrientedEvolution predictable force with inherent drives]], man-eating plants, planets with meaningful names, biological warfare and plagues in general, characters called "Tarrant", Daleks, loose story structuring with the WackyWaysideTribe as plot development, DressingAsTheEnemy. Many of these also turned up in his shows ''Series/BlakesSeven'' and ''Series/{{Survivors}}''.
186** Creator/DavidWhitaker: ScienceFantasy tropes and shittons of occultist symbolism (especially UsefulNotes/{{Alchemy}}), psychedelic MagicFromTechnology, elements of FairyTale, villains defined by being inversions of the heroes, the TARDIS being a SapientShip BlueAndOrangeMorality {{Starfish Alien|s}}, WhatTheHellHero moments, mercury (usually as AppliedPhlebotinum and/or a MacGuffin).
187** Kit Pedler: Cybermen, TheSiege, multinational (but usually monogender) teams of scientists or soldiers doing really important things with expensive equipment, [[Mohs/PhysicsPlus harder and more speculative science fiction]] than other ''Who'' writers complete with ShownTheirWork explanations in place of {{Technobabble}}, {{Transhumanism}} leading to the occasional dash of mystical symbolism.
188** Creator/RobertHolmes: Cynicism (sometimes to localised CrapsackWorld levels), "[[ThoseTwoGuys double act]]" guest characters, fart jokes, references to Earth-Humans as "Tellurians", [[ObstructiveBureaucrat bureaucratic villains]], plain ol' scary stuff especially regarding ParanoiaFuel and AttackOfTheKillerWhatever, something of a RebelliousSpirit mentality to his morals.
189** Creator/MalcolmHulke: GreyAndGrayMorality, HumansAreTheRealMonsters, avoidance of AlwaysChaoticEvil aliens, political subtext, reptile monsters. [[NoirEpisode Noirish]] prose in his books.
190** Creator/TerranceDicks: [[DamselInDistress Companion function being to be sexy and get menaced]] and a corresponding focus on the Doctor, very tight and focused plot and dialogue almost to the point where you can tell with a stopwatch when the monster's going to show up, people escaping and [[{{Padding}} getting captured again]], BeigeProse in his novelisations, {{Continuity Nod}}s, very witty Doctor dialogue, good ol' screwdriver-in-hand monster stories with lots of running down corridors and PeopleInRubberSuits.
191** Creator/BarryLetts: Buddhism RuleOfSymbolism, [[GreenAesop environmentalism]]
192** Creator/PhilipHinchcliffe: WholePlotReference, LeakingCanOfEvil villains, amazing amounts of FamilyUnfriendlyViolence, WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids, GothicHorror.
193** Creator/ChrisBoucher: RaygunGothic, secularism versus religion, futuristic CargoCult versus OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions, Leela being really competent and badass, the Doctor's ScienceHero methods being at least based on real-world science rather than AppliedPhlebotinum, golden-age science fiction tropes, WorldOfSnark.
194** David Maloney: A director rather than a writer, but he became notorious for the frequency with which his episodes featured characters in gas masks. He then went on to be the producer of ''Series/BlakesSeven'', and made it famous for its constant depiction of Federation soldiers as GasMaskMooks.
195** Creator/DouglasAdams: Witty dialogue full of jokes, GeniusBonus and {{Meta Guy}}s, UnfazedEveryman side characters, time travel used in-story, Pythonesque elements including SurrealHumour and {{Bathos}}, RecycledScript, ItRunsOnNonsensoleum, magic books/art/computers, Cambridge, baths, tea.
196** Bob Baker and Dave Martin: SpaceOpera spectacle with wildly ambitious demands on BBC special effects, even after script editors toned things down; very weird aliens; ArcWords with MadnessMantra overtones; supernatural horror entities reimagined in an SF context.
197** Creator/ChristopherHBidmead: GeniusBonus {{Technobabble}}, maths, MinovskyPhysics-based MagicFromTechnology leading to PostModernMagik concerning things like art and computers, more maths, Tarot symbolism, his pet AlternateCharacterInterpretation that the Doctor is a very dark and mathsterious '[[HorrifyingHero monster]] that [[HeWhoFightsMonsters fights other monsters]]', and even more maths.
198** Pip and Jane Baker: SesquipedalianLoquaciousness, anvilicious {{Green Aesop}}s, {{Camp}}, killer plants.
199** Creator/EricSaward: CrapsackWorld, badass soldiers (or mercenaries) in large numbers, FacialHorror, Cybermen, ContinuityPorn, NauseaFuel especially regarding rotting flesh and horrible smells.
200** Creator/AndrewCartmel: Moral ambiguity, heavy use of the GambitIndex, villains with explicitly right-wing political motivations, social satire.
201** Creator/RussellTDavies: [=LGBT=] allusions, family members woven into plot, evil middle-aged women, people named "Smith" and "Jones", living disembodied heads, self-aware {{Camp}}, interracial couples, BlackAndGreyMorality with the Doctor being HeWhoFightsMonsters and the villains being [[CardCarryingVillain thoroughly evil]], {{Bathos}}, themes that ordinary life is as noble as seeing the wonders of the universe.
202** Creator/MarkGatiss: FanFlattering, InternalHomage and PanderingToTheBase, {{Pastiche}} of cult genres (particularly Film/HammerHorror) and show eras, {{Camp}}y humour.
203** Gareth Roberts: Stuff that's a bit like the stuff in Season 17 of the Classic series, {{Bathos}}, FantasticComedy, the Doctor being a FishOutOfWater alien CloudCuckooLander, gleeful silliness.
204** Robert Shearman: {{Absurdism}}, WorldLimitedToThePlot, LawOfNarrativeCausality
205** Creator/StevenMoffat: Time travel used inside the story, telephones, hot snarky women, aliens whose main ability invokes ParanoiaFuel, terror, doppelgangers, people who use "psychopath" as a badge of honour, avoidance of traditional villains, romantic melodrama, playing with gender stereotypes, WorldOfSnark, ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight, SexIsInteresting, witty dialogue, plot arcs, CrossReferencedTitles, particular phrases and character traits cross-pollinated with his [[Series/{{Sherlock}} other show]], the Doctor scaring off enemies by telling them to look up what he's done to his enemies in the past.
206* Creator/JossWhedon has admitted he has a thing for super-powered young women. And putting them through {{Trauma Conga Line}}s.
207** ''Series/{{Buffy|the Vampire Slayer}}'' gave us Buffy, Faith, Willow, and eventually hundreds of young women around the world.
208** ''Series/{{Angel}}'' then gave us Cordelia, who became a Power before the age of 23.
209** ''Series/{{Dollhouse}}'' gives us Echo, whose in-born ability is some sort of brain thing, which over time translates to a kind of CharlesAtlasSuperpower when she becomes capable of almost infinitely broad expertise.
210** ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' has River Tam, a mind-reading human weapon.
211* If it's a show by Stephen Poliakoff, you can bet that photography will be involved somehow.
212* David Renwick likes complex but self-contained plots, black humour, DiabolusExMachina, and childless couples as central characters.
213* A minor example is Judd Lynn, since [[Series/PowerRangersDinoCharge his last]] [[Series/PowerRangersNinjaSteel two shows]] involve villains going after the TransformationTrinkets of the rangers, a Red Ranger's DisappearedDad, villains being called ''monsters'' by the Rangers and their own kind, the villains being turned into aliens who shoot giant lasers to MakeMyMonsterGrow, the AmbiguousGender villain being AdaptedOut of a [[MakeMyMonsterGrow monster-growing]] job and a series-ending HeelFaceTurn, the currency being Space Bullions, an unusual amount of [[GenderFlip Gender-Flipped]] monsters, and an unusually large amount of monster suits being recycled (both shows have a [[Series/PowerRangersJungleFury Rinshi]] appearing in a picture and Necrolai from ''[[Series/PowerRangersMysticForce Mystic Force]]'').
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216[[folder:Music]]
217* John Flansburgh of Music/TheyMightBeGiants appears to enjoy writing about cranial trauma, while John Linnell likes personifying inanimate made
218* Late rapper Music/{{DMX}} was known for his love for dogs, which makes its way into many of his songs. His fifth album, ''Grand Champ'', took it a bit further and stated that they can't just be any dogs, but pit bulls.
219* [[Music/NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] likes pigs. A lot.
220* Mozart seemed to really like writing parts for basses and sopranos, as evidenced by many of his most famous characters, such as Figaro, Sarastro, Osmin, Leporello, the Queen of the Night, Constanze, and Zerlina. He also liked ToiletHumour.
221* Almost ''every'' song recorded by Music/ModernTalking has a chorus sung in two ways: in an unison way, mostly without harmony, but with different octaves, and after that in a more high pitched way, with harmonies.
222* Music/PinkFloyd's Music/RogerWaters:
223** His father, a pacifist, was killed in UsefulNotes/WorldWarTwo in 1944 in Anzio, Italy. This proved to be a pivotal event in Roger's life. As a result, themes of war, politics, miscommunication, isolation, and mortality often occur in his work in Pink Floyd and as a solo artist, especially starting with ''Music/TheWall''.
224** Other common Music/PinkFloyd[=/=]Waters themes include madness, the music industry, and [[DrugsAreBad the dangers of recreational drugs]], all of which played a part in the breakdown of founder Syd Barrett and reoccurred after the band's success in TheSeventies. ''Music/TheWall'' and ''especially'' ''Pros and Cons'' [[note]]A ConceptAlbum about a man going through a mid-life crisis, dreaming about both cheating on his wife by picking up two hitchhikers in Germany, then in another dream that same night having been cheated on by his wife as he moves out in the country with his family[[/note]], along with many of his works at least before them (if not since) explore relationships and faithfulness, a subject he was familiar with. His marriage to his first wife Judy Trim fell apart by the mid-[[TheSeventies 1970s]], particularly as Music/PinkFloyd became more successful, and the relationships and marriages other Pink Floyd members were also falling apart around him.
225* Music/DavidBowie loved writing and singing about apocalypses, dystopias, and space-themed science fiction. The latter shows up so often in his work that it became the basis for an article in ''Website/TheOnion'', "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-launches-david-bowie-concept-mission%2C2907/ NASA Launches David Bowie Concept Mission]]".
226* Music/OlivierMessiaen was a lifelong birdwatcher and traveled around the world to learn bird calls he could incorporate into his compositions.
227* Music/AntonBruckner had a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruckner_rhythm specific rhythmic pattern]] that he used in many of his works, of two equal-length notes followed by a triplet of that note, and vice versa, i.e. 2 + 3 or 3 + 2. The most prevalent examples are the opening theme of Symphony No. 4 in E♭ major and Symphony No. 6 in A major, where it is used in the first movement to a much greater extent than anything he composed before.
228* Music/LeonardBernstein apparently had a passion for ferocious percussion assaults, as demonstrated in the opening scene of ''Film/OnTheWaterfront'', the Credo of ''Mass'' (which at its climax has the percussionists "ad lib. hitting everything in sight"), and the prologue of ''A Quiet Place''; this may also explain why ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', whose original production got by with just two percussionists, has as many as five drum parts at once in the published full score. Bernstein also liked transferring rhythmic motifs to relatively pitched drums, as in "Prelude, Fugue and Riffs," the prologue of ''Theatre/WestSideStory'', several sections of ''Mass'' and the first movement of "Divertimento for Orchestra" (which calls for snare drums in four pitches).
229* With the exception of her first album, every single one of Music/ShiinaRingo's official albums' track listings is symmetrical (excluding bonus tracks). She also frequently deliberately gives her albums meaningful running times; for example, ''Karuki Samen Kuri no Kana'' runs for 44 minutes and 44.4 seconds, in conjunction with the album's FourIsDeath theme.
230* Music/DavidByrne, both in his work with Music/TalkingHeads and in his solo music, is interested in the effects of mass media on consumers, and in the fluid nature of identity. Characters in his songs will consume a lot of fiction (particularly by watching TV), or they'll be unsure who they really are--or [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs they'll be unsure who they are because they constructed their own personality from all the TV they watched]].
231* Music/{{BEMANI}}
232** A large number of L.E.D.'s songs have English titles in "''(adjective)'' ''(noun)''" format with all uppercase letters, such as "BLUE STRAGGLER", "THE BLACK KNIGHT", "STELLAR WIND", and "THE DEEP STRIKER".
233** Ryu☆, when composing under his [[TheFourGods Seiryuu]] alias, always makes his songs run at 191 BPM.
234* Music/{{Bathory}} had the {{Instrumental}} track, "The Winds of Mayhem", serving as the EveryEpisodeEnding for their early albums. While it went missing for a while, it reappeared in ''Nordland II'' likely intended as a CallBack, although considering that this was the last Bathory album due to Quorthon's death, it serves as a fitting BookEnds track to his career.
235* Music/PharrellWilliams opens any track he produces with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixXNeUFdl3I the first beat repeated four times]].
236* Music/RichardWagner's later music dramas exploit the dissonance and tonal ambiguity of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-diminished_seventh_chord half-diminished seventh chord]] so much that the chord is known in some circles as the "Wagner seventh" or "''Theatre/{{Tristan|UndIsolde}}'' chord."
237* Downplayed with Music/{{CG5}}. While it's not ''every'' song, he has written multiple unrelated songs in the key of C Sharp Minor. Examples include "Let Me Through," "Phantom Dancing," "Every Door," and "A Man Has Fallen Into the River in LEGO City." He also did a cover of "[[VideoGame/SonicForces Infinite]]," which is in the same key.
238* Music/{{Voltaire}} writes many of his songs in the key of D Minor. Examples include "When You're Evil," "BRAINS!," "Goodnight, Demon Slayer," "Don't Go By the River," "Headless Waltz," "Beast of Pirate's Bay," and "Land of the Dead." The last two share similar melodies.
239* Music/GiorgioMoroder likes giving songs a SlowPacedBeginning before bringing in the drums and kicking up the tempo 40 seconds to a minute in. He's also fond of FadingIntoTheNextSong.
240* Music/{{Zedd}} frequently uses the sounds of ticking clocks in tracks that he produced, such as Music/AlessiaCara's "Stay", Music/MarenMorris' "The Middle", Music/ShawnMendes' "Lost in Japan" and Music/KatyPerry's "Never Really Over" and "365".
241* Music/WarrenZevon had a liking for inserting a name into the lyrics to rhyme off of or to keep the beat. One of the more famous is "You better stay away from him/He'll rip your lungs out, Jim" from "Werewolves of London".
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244[[folder:Pinball]]
245* Creator/GregKmiec always includes a solid red post on his playfields. The tradition started in TheSeventies, when Creator/{{Bally}} refused to identify their designers for fear of competitors poaching their talent. Kmiec included a single plastic red post (at the time reserved for bingo games) as a way around the edict.
246* Creator/PatLawlor
247** His pinball games almost always include some reference to "The Power", either as part of in-game dialogue or as an actual playfield element.
248** He also often has an illustration of a person holding a joystick with a red fire button.
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251[[folder:Podcasts]]
252* Most protagonists of ''Creator/NightValePresents'' audio drama podcasts tend to be gay.
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256* EyeMotifs and specifically [[EyeScream damage to eyes]] are all over the place in Creator/TheWeaver's work. For instance, they're a central theme in ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'', one character gets horrifically injured over their eye in ''Roleplay/NanQuest'', the multiple characters who have had eyes damaged or removed in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' series are dwelt on in ''Fanfic/RoommatesMemoirsOfTheHairlessApe'', and even one of the non-serious comedy characters in the ''Toybox Pals'' setting is missing an eye, due to being an old plush toy.
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259[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
260* Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.
261** Mushrooms
262*** Gary created a variety of fungoid monsters for the game: ascomoid, basidirond, phycomid, shrieker, ustilagor, violet fungi, Zuggtmoy the demoness lady of fungi, etc.
263*** Many of Gary's early ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' adventures have {{Magic Mushroom}}s and FungusHumongous, including D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', [=EX1=] ''Dungeonland'', S3 ''Expedition to the Barrier Peaks'', S4 ''The Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth'' and T1-4 ''TabletopGame/TheTempleOfElementalEvil''. Module D1 ''Descent into the Depths of the Earth'' had underground fields of normal mushrooms.
264** Shades of the color purple (violet, amethyst, heliotrope, lavender, lilac, magenta, mauve, plum, puce, etc.)
265*** They appear repeatedly in many of Gary's ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' modules: B2 ''The TabletopGame/KeepOnTheBorderlands'', G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'', D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', [=EX2=] ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'', S1 ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'', T1-4 ''TabletopGame/TheTempleOfElementalEvil'', [=WG4=] ''The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun'', [=WG5=] ''Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure'' and [=WG6=] ''Isle of the Ape''.
266*** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' monsters he created that are associated with purple: azer (love purple gems), bar-igura demons (can change their color to purple), crysmals (can be deep violet-colored), drow (violet eyes), forester's bane plant (stalks are purple), mind flayer/illithid (mauve skin), ogres (purple eyes), phoenix (plumage, beaks and claws are partially violet), purple worm, retch plants (globes can be violet or lilac), shade (eyes can have a purple iris and pupil), storm giant (could have violet skin and purple eyes), twilight bloom (purple flowers), violet fungi, Wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing plant (eyes can be violet).
267** Gygax made a number of Lovecraftian references in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', as evidenced by such creatures as the Kuo-Toa (inspired by Lovecraft's Deep Ones), the Aboleth (inspired by some sort of Great Old One), the Illithids (which are a race of Cthulhus without the bat wings), the Elder Elemental God (shown in G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'' as being shaped like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonian_%28Cthulhu_Mythos%29 Chthonian]]) and certain elements of terror in the temple of the EldritchAbomination gods. He outright acknowledged Creator/HPLovecraft as an important influence on D&D. Gygax needed a lot of content to make the game work, so he drew from a very large number of sources. He didn't ''quite'' make D&D into an AllMythsAreTrue setting, but he came pretty close.
268** His fantastically large and baroque vocabulary, which might have had an element of showing off. Such as "quaff", "dweomer", "draught", "chapeau", "billet", etc. He regularly used certain phrases such as "Of course", "Let us say" and "So to speak" as well.
269** Polearms. Gygax included a large number of polearms in the weapon selection of the 1st Edition Advanced ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' rules and wrote an article called "The Nomenclature of Polearms" that appeared in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #22 and the 1st Edition AD&D supplement "Unearthed Arcana". Ever want to know why [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html the glaive-guisarme seems to crop up in D&D so much]]?
270* Former Wizards of the Coast employee Monte Cook, creator of the game's 3rd Edition and a strong hand in creating 5th Edition too. Monte really, ''really'' believed in LinearWarriorsQuadraticWizards and went to great lengths to enforce it in all the wrong ways. For years, martial classes were either built on poorly conceived rules (3E Monks), ridiculously generic and boring to play (3E Fighters), or just straight-up sucked (3.5E Samurai). Caster classes, on the other hand, enjoyed highly overpowered spell lists granting them an unprecedented breadth of ability plus new-fangled metamagic feats to back them up; by mid-level, a lone, half-competently played Druid or Cleric was probably equal to ''three'' well-played martial {{PC}}s of the same level. And don't get us started on [[CreatorsPet Wizards]], the preferred class of Monte and people who hated losing in 3.5E, utterly dominant at all levels and pillars of play (except being perhaps a tad weak at 1st level).
271* James Jacobs, one of the major contributors to ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', really likes dinosaurs. In general, the Paizo creative team seems to like dinosaurs; Lovecraftian abominations; horror, pulp adventure, and sci-fi elements; and putting the iconic characters in [[CostumePorn elaborate outfits]].
272* TabletopGames/WhiteWolf, the writers of ''TabletopGame/WarcraftTheRoleplayingGame'', made it very obvious they preferred Humans, Elves, and Dwarves over the other races (especially [[DemotedToExtra the Trolls]] and the [[CanonDiscontinuity entirely absent]] Draenei) in the series. Even in the Horde Player's guide, they'd go on about elves, dwarves, and humans.
273* David Pulver, best known as a setting writer for GURPS, has stated that many GURPS players will always want to play a CatGirl, regardless of the setting. So in every setting he makes, there will be an option for a CatGirl of some kind.
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277* Creator/WilliamShakespeare
278** He loves comparing things to gardening, falconry, and hunting with dogs. He also loves cross-dressing characters, but that was a fairly common schtick at the time. When he was writing, women were not permitted to be actors, and as such [[RecursiveCrossdressing all of the female characters ''were'' men]], and he thought it would be funny to make jokes based on that.
279** His continual description of rebellion and social breakdown in terms of cannibalism/self-consumption. Although perhaps this belongs in the 'Miscellaneous Paraphilia' section.
280** In many plays he has a designated metaphor that keeps cropping up. For instance, ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' is full of references to disease, [[TheScottishTrope the one set in Scotland]] has lots of mentions of birds of prey, and so on.
281** CainAndAbel plots with hate-filled rivalry between brothers, often leading to attempted or actual fratricide.
282** Also, you can bet that there will be lots of [[WorldOfSnark snarking]], [[WorldOfPun bad puns]], and dirty jokes.
283* Tom Stoppard frequently references Creator/WilliamShakespeare. The guy who wrote a play deconstructing Hamlet with two of its [[Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead bit players as the main characters]]
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287* There's an unclickable "Joy of Painting" toon on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' that shows Marzipan dressed as Bob Ross painting a picture of a mountain landscape. Matt and Mike Chapman, creators of ''Homestar Runner'', admitted that they only did this because they thought showing GranolaGirl Marzipan with a [[GirlsWithMustaches beard]] would be funny. A lot of the stuff at ''Homestar Runner'' is based on the creators' childhood. Note the frequent appearance of breakfast cereals and MerchandiseDriven Saturday morning cartoons, the sibling rivalry between Strong Bad and his brother Strong Sad, the characters' VagueAge, and in-universe NightmareFuel.
288* ''WebAnimation/STBlackST'' loves filling his videos with {{Funny Background Event}}s, {{Sudden Video Game Moment}}s, and [[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo references]].
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292* ''Erika's New Perfume'' contains certain things that pop up in most of the author's other works, such as FountainOfYouth.
293* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade''
294** It is all about things the authors like, but also seems to feature a lot of terrifying [[StarfishAliens aliens]] and [[EldritchAbomination strange creatures]] for little reason.
295** Jerry Holkins (Tycho) is a massive Cthulhu nerd. Really, what else can you expect from a mind that writes things like [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/4/10/ this?]]
296* ''Webcomic/LivingWithInsanity'': The writer's projects all have couples in them. According to the blog posts, LWI would include more gaming and comic references, but the artist avoids jokes he doesn't understand.
297* Creator/AndrewHussie likes including horses, or horselike creatures such as centaurs, [[Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures in]] [[Webcomic/ProblemSleuth his]] [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} work]], more often than not exaggerated in musculature (they also paid good money for a picture of a flaming stallion facing a football player, and used to do ironic reviews of muscular horse porn). When questioned about this, they responded that "horses are funny". They also seem to be very fond of hip-hop/rap and the culture surrounding it, perhaps best exemplified with ''[[http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Andrew&cid=aids/00000.jpg And It Don't Stop]]''.
298* Several works written by Creator/MaryCagle feature [[AnArmAndALeg the loss of limbs]] as a dramatic device, either in a character's backstory or as part of a significant plot development, and usually followed by the characters gaining some form of ArtificialLimbs. Just for example, main character Steffi of ''Webcomic/KiwiBlitz'' has a prosthetic leg, her recurring nemesis Gear has had most of the left side of her body replaced with cybernetics, and [[spoiler:the side character Reed has his right arm cut off during an encounter with Gear, after which he eventually gets a bionic replacement]]. Meanwhile, in ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'', Mingxing lost an arm protecting the infant Kokoro from a monster attack, and now wears a {{magitech}} prosthesis in the present day. [[WordOfGod Cagle herself at one point commented]] on the prevalence of "good ol' classic arm damage" in her work:
299-->''"I SWEAR THIS ISN'T JUST A THING I LOVE OR SOMETHING IT JUST MAKES SENSE IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS AAAAAAA"''
300* Many themes and tropes in ''Webcomic/WeAreTheWyrecats'' are carried over from the creator's previous webcomic, Webcomic/RubyNation, such as AnimalMotifs, deconstruction of the superhero genre, Idealism vs. Cynicism, characters with disabilities, and [[CuteKitten cats]].
301* ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' has this in-universe with the [[ArtificialIntelligence sapient AIs]], who have a distinct tendency to be as proudly nerdy as the scientists who produced their neural networks.
302-->'''Florence:''' What were you expecting from minds designed by engineers?
303* Creator/JocelynSamara's comics are [[{{Animesque}} heavily inspired by manga and anime]], even adopting an art style akin to '90s manga. She is also quite fond of having a [[CastFullOfGay mainly queer cast]] as the central characters, as seen in ''Webcomic/{{Rain|2010}}'' and ''Webcomic/MyImpossibleSoulmate''.
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307* How else do you explain the contortion scenes in ''Literature/{{Sapphire}} Episode III''?
308* The stories by [=SD40ka=][[note]]No weblink, it's hosted on a {{NSFW}} porn-hosting site[[/note]] often enough star a male computer programmer, who marries/is married to a genius woman, and either or both of them recently served America ''proudly'' in Iraq thank-you-very-much. The characters are ''always'' staunch political conservatives, often actively reshaping the fictional universe into a Republican Paradise. He plugs that his (genius!) characters love the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute Cato Institute]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townhall.com Townhall.com,]] just in passing. There's even the occasional EasyEvangelism of a [[StrawmanPolitical merely misguided (rather than Evil) liberal]]. And everyone accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, without whom there was a great big hole in their hearts. In fact, it's a lot like the ComicBook/ChickTracts, only with lots of monogamous sex with [[BiggerIsBetterInBed big penises]].
309* They're best known for their {{Goth}} aesthetic, but Website/BlackPhoenixAlchemyLab also really likes creating perfume inspired by the works of HP Lovecraft (and LovecraftLite) and pirates.
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313* Creator/DougWalker ''really'' has a thing for broken, insane jerks who'll never get what they want but they'll keep on trying. WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic is a perfect example of this, and WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses is getting there (as a more depraved version) with the amount of SanitySlippage he's been put through. You also notice that much of the comedy he enjoys (ranging from WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck to ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'') is based on this. Doug has repeatedly stated that, in his viewpoint, all good comedy is based on suffering.
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317* Creator/ButchHartman's love of ''Franchise/StarWars'' and ComicBooks, as well as his hatred of jocks, cheerleaders, popular kids, rich kids, and anyone else who picked on him in high school shines throughout his work. This includes ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', and the never-picked-up ''Crash Nebula''. He also has a habit of making his protagonists BookDumb losers who are also crazy about space and comic books.
318* Creator/GregWeisman is a self-described "Shakespeare nut, probably with the emphasis on 'nut'". ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' had Puck, Oberon and Titania, the Weird Sisters and [=MacBeth=] as recurring characters, and another trio known [[AllThereInTheScript in the script]] as Othello, Iago, and Desdemona. Meanwhile, ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' has a running subplot about a SchoolPlay of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'' - in particular, "Growing Pains" takes advantage of the auditions to have Shakespeare quotes punctuate the story.
319** Smarter villains in his works espouse the idea that {{revenge}} is a "sucker's game" (David Xanatos from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', Sandman from ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'', Comicbook/LexLuthor from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''). Characters obsessed with revenge tend to be miserable for it.
320** He admits to liking "prison episodes," having personally written ones for ''WesternAnimation/TheSpectacularSpiderMan'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}''
321* Many characters throughout Creator/MattGroening productions have the middle initial "J." ([[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Homer Jay Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson, Mona J. Simpson, Waylon J. Smithers]], [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Philip J. Fry, and Hubert J. Farnsworth]]) as a reference to the creator of [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle Bullwinkle J. Moose]]
322* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' co-creator [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] lived in Japan for several years and loves Japanese culture, and as a result, [[AffectionateParody the show frequently pokes fun at Japan and its people.]] Notably, the jokes picked up a bit around the time he married his Japanese-American wife (for example, the comment about "a friend marrying an Asian woman" in the ginger kids episode). He also has a music degree, which explains the songs of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' (TheMovie was a musical and the early episodes, in particular, had Chef sing in every episode).
323* Creator/SethMacFarlane (''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', ''Series/{{Dads}}'') loves ''Franchise/StarWars'', musicals, and he finds deaf people ''hilarious''. Also, either Seth or somebody in his staff has a thing for [[http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_Griffin idiotic]] [[http://americandad.wikia.com/wiki/Barry fat]] [[http://cleveland.wikia.com/wiki/Cleveland_Brown_Jr kids]]. He also loves characters who logically shouldn't be able to talk but do. Like Stewie, Brian, Klaus, and Tim the bear. Another sign of this is [=MacFarlane=]'s constant insistence on promoting LGBT-tolerance and anti-racism storylines, only to ''very'' consistently portray LGBT and POC characters as poorly written stereotypes.
324* Creator/BradBird works the number A113--a reference to a room at [=CalArts=] used by animation and graphic design students--into all of his projects: ''Family Dog'', ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episodes, ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant'', ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}''. This has since become a widespread animation in-joke.
325** ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' and ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'' all have AnAesop that "those with a certain talent should be allowed to pursue it, no matter what."
326* Disney great Glen Keane was the lead animator for [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]], {{WesternAnimation/Pocahontas}}, and [[{{WesternAnimation/Tangled}} Rapunzel]]. What do these three ladies have in common? Long, extremely mobile hair and bare feet.
327* Canadian animator Creator/ToddKauffman has a tendency to give characters from series he's worked on [[https://neptoonstudios.tumblr.com/post/120292403028/neptoon-skull-we-put-that-sht-on-everything a distinctive skull logo]]: Duncan from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', Eric Needles from ''WesternAnimation/{{Sidekick}}'', Corey Riffin from ''WesternAnimation/{{Grojband}}'' and Jesse from ''WesternAnimation/{{Looped}}'' all wear it somewhere on their clothes.
328* Creator/CraigBartlett's shows all tend to have four main kid characters (''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' - Arnold, Gerald, Phoebe, and Helga; ''WesternAnimation/DinosaurTrain'' - Buddy, Tiny, Shiny, and Don; ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' - Jet, Sean, Sydney, and Mindy) who go on wacky adventures together, sometimes without adult supervision. Arnold, Buddy, and Jet are also [[AllLovingHero All-Loving Heroes]] who are optimistic and friends to all. Each show has similar production teams, especially Jim Lang, who composed for each show, giving them their own distinct sound. These shows also share wacky humor that kids and adults alike can enjoy (they all seem to be fond of the GilliganCut), pop-culture references galore, and occasional mature themes.
329* Angela Santomero's main three shows, ''WesternAnimation/BluesClues'', ''WesternAnimation/SuperWhy'', and ''WesternAnimation/DanielTigersNeighborhood'' all incorporate FakeInteractivity, AudienceParticipation, simple StrictlyFormula plots that children can understand, MediumBlending, and life lessons. They also like sending characters away to college. Steve was PutOnABus to college and was replaced by Joe; Whyatt's older brother Jack went to college; and in season 5 of ''DTN'', [[spoiler:Prince Tuesday will be sent to college and Prince Wednesday must cope with him being gone]].
330* Lisa Hanwalt's love for horses has made itself prominent in ''WesternAnimation/BoJackHorseman'' (where the main character himself is, well, a horse) and ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie'' (where the protagonists are major fans of anything horse related).
331* Creator/ChrisSavino directed both ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowski'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' (until he was fired from the latter) and both series have a few elements in common; a father voiced by Creator/BrianStepanek, a pageant princess sister voiced by Creator/GreyDeLisle and a RunningGag involving overly long plan names.
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335* Wrestling/VinceRusso loves pole matches. If you see a pole match in a Wrestling/{{WWE}}, Wrestling/{{WCW}}, or Wrestling/{{TNA}} show, Russo's booking this match. The pole matches are also for the craziest things. These include a rat, a bottle of Viagra, Judy Bagwell (they needed to use a forklift), a pinata, and the keys to Mick Foley's office, among other things.
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