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->''"If anyone '''really''' pisses you off, depict them in your comic as a ridiculous strawman and mock them with infuriating self-righteousness. You know, kind of like exactly what I'm doing now."''
-->-- '''Ben [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation 'Yahtzee']] Croshaw''', [[SoYouWantTo/WriteAGamingComic offering some advice for budding webcomic artists]].

A specific form of TakeThat, in which the producers of a show respond to criticism of the show through the show itself, either through subtle in-jokes that obliquely refer to the criticism, putting lines of dialogue into the mouths of the characters, or presenting parodies of their critics. The program may even [[FourthWallMailSlot break the fourth wall]] to directly address the critics.

Depending on the producer, this can come in many forms; gentle ribbing or parody of the critics and their position, pointed rejoinders, triumphant gloating, and — in extreme cases — over-the-top bile that leads to the strong assumption that the critics may have struck a delicate nerve (either that, or the producer [[SmallNameBigEgo just plain]] CantTakeCriticism).

Sometimes features the StrawCritic. InvertedTrope of CausticCritic. This also qualifies the show as an AuthorTract.

Subtrope of WriteWhoYouHate. Compare TakeThatAudience, when it's the viewers who are targets of in-show satire. See also DearNegativeReader, when the creator directly addresses the critics [[TheRant without the vehicle of the show]], and InsultBackfire, when the critics' own words are used against them.

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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': Exclusive promos for the movie made fun of the critics that didn't like it. One featured the Mooninites giving the pinky to a fake critic named [[http://lionel-loves-movies.blogspot.com/ Lionel]]. [[https://youtu.be/ErLKWPjYqWw Another one]] featured Carl describing any critic that didn't like the movie as a 97-year-old. Ouch.
* Domino's ''invoked'' this trope by [[OurProductSucks having ads featuring videos taken from focus groups about how their pizza sucked]]. Then they showed the Domino's execs reactions. Then the chefs vowing to do better. Then the chefs taking their new, improved pizzas to the critics' houses. "I'm eating my words!"
* [[https://youtu.be/jr9s8WO2t4M This]] response to Creator/StephenColbert's criticism of a [[TotallyRadical "hip"]] [[https://youtu.be/6n1vtZR16RY Miracle Whip ad]]. Stephen retorted [[NoSuchThingAsBadPublicity by thanking them for all the ad revenue]] and announcing he'd [[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown spend all the money on mayonnaise.]]
* In response to PETA deprecating Dodge's use of a monkey in [[https://youtu.be/SM81w3F4lxE one of their commercials]], Dodge released a new version of the commercial with [[https://youtu.be/CXYfDO9mS4o an invisible monkey.]]
* In a commercial for Audi's "Stay Uncompromised" campaign, Creator/RickyGervais stoically endures a recitation of nasty Twitter comments about him... read by an adorable little girl. Given Gervais' reputation, the tweets could have very plausibly have been real.
* In response to the constant negative reviews critics have been giving to ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', Creator/SylvesterStallone released [[https://www.instagram.com/p/B2scWLinP_y/?igshid=1772rvuzy3gur this ad]] on his Instagram.
-->'''Announcer:''' ''"It's not everyone's cup of tea."''
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* ''Anime/OsomatsuSan'' has an episode where a snide robot pair complain about the fact that [[WorldOfJerkass everyone in the town acts horribly]], which is a common charge thrown at the series.
* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'': The song "Let's Pop Together" mocks the critics and says that they'll all eventually be converted to fans anyway.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Asterix}}'': ''The Secret Weapon'' was criticised by many people for being sexist, centering as it did on a StrawFeminist OneShotCharacter who mostly makes completely reasonable points. The second-to-next album, ''Asterix and the Class Act'' (a "stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else" compilation of one-shots) contains multiple comments in the original material poking fun at anyone who could possibly accuse Uderzo of anti-feminism and implying people who do are empty-headed reactionaries.
* ''ComicBook/Supergirl2005'': Issue #18 was a heavy-handed attack by the writer, Joe Kelly, on the many critics who disliked the post-Crisis Kara Zor-El's abrasive and morally questionable personality, and the book's extreme and, given the character's youth, distasteful fanservice. Kara spent the issue fighting an evil duplicate of herself who wore Pre-Crisis Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}}'s costume and self-righteously berated her for not being "wholesome". The issue particularly annoyed the critics as it was rather a straw-man view of their objections - they didn't think Kara should be perfect or a StepfordSmiler but argued that Kelly's version of the character came across as a TotallyRadical sexualised fantasy of a screwed-up barely-legal teen. Two issues later the writer and artist were removed and the book underwent a heavy {{Retool}} in the direction that the critics in question were calling for.
* The ''ComicBook/DoctorWhoTitan'' comics did a prologue to their Thirteenth Doctor series with a special called ''The Many Lives of Doctor Who'' featuring four or five-page vignettes featuring every previous Doctor, with a framing narrative of the Doctor's [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes life flashing before their eyes]] as they regenerate from Twelve to Thirteen. The Tenth Doctor story featured Ten, Gabby, and Cindy encountering and sympathising with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Garrett_Anderson Elizabeth Garrett Anderson]], the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain, and was called "Nurse Who?" In the real world, "Nurse Who" had been an insult frequently used by alt-right misogynists to refer to the Thirteenth Doctor, the Doctor's first known female incarnation in mainstream canon.
* "ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay" is an influential ComicBook/{{Superman}} story written during [[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks a time]] when the character began declining in popularity among fans and critics amidst the rising popularity of [[NinetiesAntiHero edgy, remorselessly violent anti-heroes in 90's media]], with many questioning whether Supes' [[TheCape idealistic, humanist nature]] had become [[GoodIsOldFashioned old-fashioned]] or not. The enemy he faces, The Elite, are a direct parody of ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', which writer Joe Kelly uses as synecdoche [[DeconstructedCharacterArchetype to describe just how unscrupulous and morally bankrupt these character archetypes were]], with the story taking great lengths to portray Superman and his fettered, moral approach as superior.
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine'' took a dig at ''[[http://joshreads.com/?p=3759 The Comics Curmudgeon]]'' and newspaper comics snarkers in general in August 2009. As noted in the post, Stephen Pastis was being rather light-hearted anyway, and the Pastis character is often used for self-deprecating humor through the strip's history.
** ''Retail'' took a more bitter jab at the same blog and fanbase in another strip from 2007.
** ''Crock'', a frequent target of the ''Curmudgeon'' blogger Josh Fruhlinger's more biting criticism, went so far as to pull the plug on a invalided soldier who, told by doctors that a lobotomy had removed all "artistic talent", said he intended to move to Baltimore and write a comics blog. (Josh was based in Baltimore at the time.) Josh, of course, had a field day with it, as seen [[http://joshreads.com/?p=13534 here]].
** The ''Archie'' comic strip responded to Josh's swipes at the strip's humor as being the output of a device called the "Archie Joke-Generating Laugh Unit 3000" by featuring a character wearing a tee-shirt that had "AJGLU-3000" in a circle with a line through it (seen [[http://joshreads.com/?p=1827 here]]). Unlike the ''Crock'' jab, however, this and [[http://joshreads.com/?p=1946 later references]] could have been meant more fondly.
* ''ComicStrip/FunkyWinkerbean'''s [[CreatorBreakdown author]] appears to be using this to get at critics who think [[CerebusSyndrome a former-gag-a-week comic becoming a depressing, mostly cancer-themed melodrama]] is the same as a high school class performing ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wit_%28play%29 Wit]]''.
--> StrawCritic Parents (essentially): The comics pa-- The school play is for fun and relaxation. If we wanted cancer-themed melo-- [[TrueArtIsAngsty "art"]] we'd watch ''[[Series/GreysAnatomy Gray's Ana]]''-- go to a museum.
* ''ComicStrip/NineChickweedLane'': The author had his avatar Thorax breezily condemn anyone as imbeciles who didn't like the warped perspective, ornate dialogue and morals of his characters. He had earlier blamed his being forced to move his more openly sexualized fantasy strip ''Pibgorn'' off the newspaper comics page on the same people.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' does this ''countless'' times, in poorly written author's notes where Tara calls out the "preps" who keep critiquing the story.
%%* In addition to frequent DearNegativeReader author's notes (to the point where the chapters without said notes are less common than the ones with them), ''Naruto Veangance Revelaitons'' has a few "jokes" at critics' expense.
%%-->'''Sakura:''' "what did the flamers say 2 tha fanfic writer"
%%-->'''Ronan:''' "i dont kno wat sakura"
%%-->'''Sakura:''' "u suck"
%%-->'''Ronan':''' "haha but then what"
%%-->'''Sakura:''' "well then the fanfic writer said bak... u guys need 2 stop smoking its bad 4 u!"
%%-->'''Ronan:''' "LMAO1! I getddit [[DontExplainTheJoke becus the flamers r callded flamers and flames have smoke]] lol [[BlatantLies dats funny]]!"
%%** In his Website/DeviantArt account, before he got banned, he had a crudely drawn picture of him killing or humiliating several of his more regular critics for Naruto Veangance Revelaitons and his fic on that site, New Champion Evangelion, while saying "fuck u flamers".
* The VillainTeamUp near the end of ''Fanfic/TwilightSparklesAwesomeAdventure'' includes "all the people who down-rated this story".
* When there were viewer complaints about Derpy after [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup "The Last Roundup"]], the author of the ''Fanfic/TotalDramaRemakeFanficSeries'' decided to write Derpy into the fourth installment and had the contestants remind the klutzy pony she still has loyal fans.
* ''FanFic/ThePrayerWarriors'' often has people who badmouth the author mutilated. In ''Threat of Satanic Commonism'', Rika and Books, two of the most prominent sporkers, are put in an arena and killed. [[GenderFlip Both are male despite really being female]]. Both actually [[InsultBackfire liked the fact that]] their characterizations got to take turns beating up the [[DesignatedHero protagonist]].
* [[Creator/DetsniyOffSkiword Dahlia Hawthorne Escaps From Pirson]] performs this onto a user named CJ Fortune, who has criticized various Franchise/AceAttorney [[TrollFic TrollFics]] in the past. In this story, he is a hardened criminal with at least 7 crimes to his name, and the story's sixth chapter has him on trial, with Dahlia acting as his defence attorney with the intent to throw the case so he will be found guilty as part of an EvilerThanThou plan. [[spoiler:Through Dahlia's intentional mistakes, and VideoGame/ProfessorLayton's prosecuting, CJ Fortune gets found guilty and is sentenced to be the slave of 'Canadian Judge'.]]
* The authors of ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' don't often encounter anything but pleasant feedback from their readers. But on one memorable occasion, they received a string of increasingly harsh reviews on one of their other ''Franchise/DragonAge'' projects, culminating in a friend of said reviewer making a Website/YouTube ''video'' criticizing their writing (which he had never actually read). Rather than calling out the offenders in an author's note, however, they instead posted a cathartic chapter in ''The Memory Band,'' in which two of the student characters (who like to write RealPersonFic about their teachers) went through an almost identical experience. Meanwhile, the offending reviews were deleted, the reviewer was successfully reported to the [=AO3=] harassment team, and the Website/YouTube user ended up having his entire channel pulled because of his abusive and bullying behavior in both his videos and his comments on them.
* [[Creator/JenniferDianeReitz Chatoyance]] wrote ''[[Fanfic/TheConversionBureauTheChatoverse The Reasonably Adamant Down With Celestia Newfoal Society]]'' to insult those who criticized the messages in her stories. The story depicts the main characters (who are pretty blatant stand-ins for critics of her setting) as incompetent whiners for daring to be unhappy about their ForcedTransformation and they're only portrayed more sympathetically when they realize that they are wrong.
* Both writers of ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReimagined'' (Nathanoraptor and [=A-LionGleek=]) have allowed both that story and its spinoff ''Extras'' to include several lighthearted digs against multiple unnecessarily harsh and almost mean-spiritedly judgmental criticisms that were thrown against ''Reimagined's'' thematic predecessor ''Fanfic/PrehistoricEarth'' by Nathanoraptor's former cowriter Drew Luczynski.
* The end of ''[[Fanfic/FullCircleOddSquad Full Circle]]'' includes an Editor's Note from the original author that targets one critic who asked the story's republisher and beta reader, lilac-kat, why she wastes time writing a story about a kid's show.
* ''Fanfic/TheEmeraldPhoenix'' contains a scene in chapter 10 responding to a reviewer who mocked the story for making Momo's hero name "Izanami the Creator", insisting it was highly inappropriate because Izanami is a goddess of death. Specifically, Melissa brings up that Izanami is a goddess of death, only for Momo to correct her Izanami was originally a goddess of ''creation'', which is what Momo's emphasizing with her title, and that ''many'' deities have conflicting aspects (using the fact Freya is a goddess of both love and war).
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' has a line that might be read this way. The final article of food critic Anton Ego says that "In many ways, the life of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so." However, considering Pixar's good track record with critics, that might not be so.
* Creator/RogerEbert and Richard Roeper ripped apart ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'' in their review, calling it a "nasty little film". At Comic-Con in San Diego that summer, creator Creator/CraigMcCracken was seen wearing a T-shirt that read "a nasty little film".
* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'' pokes fun at those who criticize the Disney Princesses as little more than [[DamselInDistress damsels in distress]] when one of the questions they ask Vanellope is "Do people assume all your problems got solved because a big, strong man showed up?"
-->'''Vanellope:''' Yes! What is ''up'' with that?
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/HistoryOfTheWorldPartI'' features this in its opening sequence, with a cave-painter being the "birth of the artist", followed by the inevitable after-birth - the first critic[[note]][[CausticCritic Who proceeds to]] [[ExcrementStatement urinate on the painting.]][[/note]].
* ''Film/LadyInTheWater'' features a StrawCritic expressly for this purpose, who gets killed. There is also an author who changes the entire world by becoming a martyr and is played by [[Creator/MNightShyamalan Shyamalan himself]]. In their (mostly savage) reviews of the movie, many critics were quick to note this stroke of narcissism. When the movie completely bombed he had to eat crow. Made even better by the common reaction to the critic, who became something of an EnsembleDarkHorse.
* ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' (1998):
** Director Creator/RolandEmmerich lampooned Series/SiskelAndEbert by featuring NoCelebritiesWereHarmed versions of the latter as the buffoonish Mayor of NYC and the former as his sycophantic sidekick to avenge their critical mauling of his previous movies[[note]]one of those movies, ''Film/{{Stargate}}'', is on Ebert's most hated list;[[/note]] (also, presumably, a preemptive strike against criticism of the current movie). The critics just laughed it off, and Siskel even wondered why Emmerich went to the trouble of putting them in a giant monster movie but didn't have the monster either eat or squash them.[[note]]It should be noted in the case of Godzilla actually eating people, Toho vetoed the concept, so GINO feasting on Mayor Ebert and Gene was never going to happen -- though that also didn't stop the [[Film/JurassicPark1993 raptor]] expies that were GINO's kids from eating most of Philippe Roche's crew.[[/note]]
** The extra in the car that is stepped on early in the film is intended to be a representation of J.D. Lees, editor of ''G-Fan Magazine'', who had harsh criticism for the film based on information leaks prior to its release. Since hardly anyone in the audience was even going to recognize the reference, it's pretty clear that this statement was just for the benefit of Emmerich himself.
* In ''[[Creator/SeltzerAndFriedberg Meet the Spartans]]'', they build up the gag, by having characters read unflattering reviews of the previous installment, ''Epic Movie'', off the Internet in a mocking tone of voice.
* ''Superprodukcja'', by usually brilliant Polish director Juliusz Machulski, stars a movie critic who is forced to become a screenwriter and director of a movie under the thumb of a mob boss. It's pretty bad.
* In ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' the eponymous monsters overrun a TV studio. In one scene, film critic Leonard Maltin ([[https://youtu.be/KtUA810cUhk playing himself]]) is ranting about how horrible the original ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' is, using actual lines from his review, then gets mobbed by gremlins and starts yelling "I was just kidding! It was a 10! A 10!" This is a rare case where the producers ''and'' the critic seem to be taking things in equally good humour. (The entire sequel could be seen as a TakeThat to the original, despite being directed by the same guy.) Elsewhere, the sequel demonstrates its own self-effacing good humour by including a scene where people discuss the inconsistencies in the "don't feed them after midnight" rule (before being mauled by gremlins) and another scene where Kate (Phoebe Cates) is physically dragged away as she launches into a maudlin speech about why she doesn't like Presidents' Day, parodying her speech about Christmas in the original film.
* ''Film/{{Willow}}'': General Kael, TheDragon of the film, is named after Creator/PaulineKael, and the the two-headed dragon is named "Eborsisk" [[AllThereInTheScript in the script]] after Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert. While Pauline Kael gave negative reviews to ''Franchise/StarWars Episode IV: Film/ANewHope'' and ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk,'' Siskel and Ebert generally gave his movies good reviews. It's not exactly clear how much personal insult Lucas intended to give, so he may have just been taking playful swipes at film criticism in general.
* ''Film/TheDeadPool'': The film critic who gets murdered by the antagonist was supposedly inspired by Kael, who had labelled the original ''Film/DirtyHarry'' as a "fascist movie".
* In ''Film/JayAndSilentBobStrikeBack'', Jay and Bob blast some Internet critics for making fun of them (in context of making fun of a comic book that is based on them in-universe). [[spoiler:The film's penultimate sequence involves the two of them beating the shit out of the Internet posters (most of whom are revealed to be [[InternetJerk annoying twelve-year-olds]])]].
--> '''Jay:''' ''[as [[TheSilentBob Silent Bob]] transcribes on an Internet movie site comment]'' All you motherfuckers are gonna pay. You are the ones who are the ball-lickers. We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make 'em eat our shit, then shit out our shit, then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made 'em eat. Then you're all you motherfucks are next. Love, Jay and Silent Bob.
* In ''Film/TheyLive'', [[spoiler: after Nada destroys the signal and the aliens' true forms are revealed]], a pair of critics on TV (clearly {{exp|y}}ies for Siskel and [[Creator/RogerEbert Ebert]], are shown as aliens, complaining that directors like Creator/GeorgeARomero and Creator/JohnCarpenter "need to show some restraint". This is a bit odd, considering that at least Ebert greatly championed ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968'' and ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' when many critics reviled them as trash, although Ebert hadn't been as kind to some of their later films.
* The villain of ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is named after Andrew Sarris because a producer had a grudge.
* A guy who shows up at the beginning of Creator/TheAsylum's ''The Hitchhiker'' was based on a critic who writer and director Leigh Scott hates. He's depicted as an AmbiguouslyGay porn reviewer.
* ''Starburst'''s John Brosnan delivered a TakeThat to Creator/HarlanEllison, no less, when the latter took the former to task over his good review of ''Film/{{Gremlins}}'' (Ellison hated it, dubbing it "The Muppet Chain Saw Massacre"):
--> ''I resent it when a critic presumes to lecture me as well as accuse me of having a severe lapse of morals because I happened to like a particular film that he didn't.''
* Creator/JamieKennedy's ''Film/{{Heckler}}'' is based around tearing down critics. First, it analyzes and criticizes hecklers at stand-up comedy shows, then moves on to its larger point of comparing negative critics to hecklers. A good portion of the running time is Kennedy personally confronting hecklers from his shows and critics who have panned his films.
* In ''Film/RoboCop2014'' Novak's last line, "stop whining", can be interpreted as either a WhatTheHellHero against InUniverse bioconservatives trying to uphold the Dreyfuss Act or a YouBastard against out-of-universe Luddites.
* A poster for Creator/DavidLynch's ''Film/LostHighway'' features "Two Thumbs Down! - Siskel & Ebert" at the top in giant block letters. Below, it reads, "Two more great reasons to see... ''Lost Highway''". The poster also features headshots of the two main protagonists that are cut off so that their eyes are not visible.
* The Second-Salemers from ''Film/FantasticBeastsAndWhereToFindThem'' serves as a TakeThat towards the [[EveryoneIsSatanInHell religious fundamentalist critics]] of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series. Their anti-witch views are presented as FantasticRacism (up to and including [[BurnTheWitch advocating genocide]]), and the movement's leader, Mary Lou Barebone, is an {{abusive parent|s}} towards her adopted children [[spoiler: who [[DeathByRacism is killed]] by one of them when he turns out to be the Obscurial]].
* In ''Film/SpiderManNoWayHome'', while Peter and May are watching the news in their apartment, there is a Time Magazine cover that is spreading the Daily Bugle's libel, that is called "Iron Man Jr" and depicts a picture of a baby Spider-Man in a diaper crying, responding to all the fans online who called Tom Holland's Spider-Man this phrase and making it something Jameson and the mislead media would call him in the movie.
* The [[https://movies.universalpictures.com/media/the-hunt-poster-5e42ebc495937-1.jpg poster]] for ''Film/TheHunt2020'' shows negative quotes on the film's premise back when its original trailer premiered, with the slogan "The most talked about movie of the year is [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch one that no one's actually seen]]. Decide for yourself."
* ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'':
** InUniverse. After Bennett disparages his museum, calling it a "circus of humbug", Barnum changes the name to "P.T. Barnum's Circus" and wears a hat bearing the title "Prince of Humbug" during the show.
** Barnum's dialogue with Bennett preemptively does this for issues raised by critics.
--->'''Barnum:''' A theatre critic who can't find joy in the theatre. Now who's the fraud?
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/Next2006'', Crichton wrote a minor character into his book that was currently being tried for raping a toddler, with the commentary that while his penis was fairly small, he still did significant damage to the child. Strangely enough, the rapist's name was almost identical to that of a man who had criticized Crichton's last book. The critic found this very funny.
* SF&F author and Vietnam veteran Creator/DavidDrake's ''Literature/HammersSlammers'' was reviewed unfavorably early in his career by reviewer Charles Platt, who said that if Drake had ever seen war he wouldn't have written [[http://david-drake.com/2010/platt/ "such queasy voyeurism".]] In response, many of his works feature a reprehensible character named "Platt" who typically dies violently. About the best any "Platt" can hope for is to be stupid.
* Creator/PiersAnthony takes a direct shot at his critics in the first chapter of ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' book ''Currant Events'': In the very first chapter, the muse Clio runs into a evil doppelganger who taunts Clio with many of the critiques of the Xanth series as she attempts to kill and replace her as the Muse Of History. (It was one of Good Magician Humphery's challenges, so she probably wouldn't have killed her, but still.) In his Author's Notes, introductions, and some of his stories, he frequently bashes critics and editors. His defense of his works (which are the print equivalent of a SummerBlockbuster) usually boils down to QualityByPopularVote; plenty of people like them, so they must be good.
* Artist Raoul Hausmann's [[http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=5867&tabview=text The Art Critic]].
* Creator/LordByron famously satirised the various Scottish critics who had panned his early verse, in the poem ''English Bards and Scotch Reviewers''. It can be found in Vol.1 of his collected poetic works on [[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/8bpt110.txt Gutenberg]].
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** A handful of books, alongside the usually glowing review snippets you see on the covers and first few pages of books, end with one from ''The Late Review'' that reads "Doesn't even write in chapters ... a complete amateur ... hasn't a clue". This review is supposedly the reason Creator/TerryPratchett wrote his ''Moist von Lipwig'' series of books, which not only have chapters but even have [[InWhichATropeIsDescribed Victorian-style chapter titles]]. The quote is also used by a vapid and shallow witch in ''Literature/AHatFullOfSky'' to dismiss another, hard-working witch: "She's rather sad. Complete amateur. Hasn't really got a clue. Just bustles about and hopes."
** The "critters" that infest the depths of L-space graze on books and ''poop out'' slim volumes of literary criticism.
* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Creator/JRRTolkien's foreword features the following: "Some who have read the book, [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch or at any rate have reviewed it]], have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."
* OlderThanFeudalism: 1st Century BC Roman poet Creator/{{Catullus}}' poem [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16 16]] is a response to two of his critics, and has been described as one of the most offensive poems ever.
* A.P. Herbert's ''Literature/MisleadingCasesInTheCommonLaw'' includes the following passage, where a judge (apparently) urges the jury that they ''shouldn't'' discriminate against a critic:
-->You were invited by the plaintiff's counsel to consider upon a somewhat higher plane the activities of Miss Trott, which are admittedly creative, than those of Mrs. Tulip, as being chiefly occupied in tearing to pieces the things which other men have made. But this distinction, however attractive to the lay mind, I must ask you to dismiss from your own. In many ponderous and ill‑drafted enactments our ancestors have been careful to secure to the most repellent of the King's subjects the common rights of free expression so long as it takes the harmless form of venomous and enraging words.
* ''Literature/{{Illuminatus}}'' has a pre-emptive strike on its critics, by including the worst possible review of the novel [[MindScrew in the text of the novel itself]], and attributing it to a deeply obnoxious CampGay who admits that he hasn't actually read the novel itself.
* Creator/PoulAnderson's "Critique of Impure Reason" is a critique of literary fiction and its critics.
* In ''Literature/{{Candide}}'', a StrawCritic who points out all the flaws during a play Candide is enjoying later is specified as "a pamphleteer - a Freron" - one of Voltaire's critics was Elie-Catherine Freron. This shot at critics is a little odd, given that a page or so later, Voltaire insults a few of his contemporary writers.
* Creator/PGWodehouse: "A certain critic — for such men, I regret to say, do exist — made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained 'all the old Wodehouse characters under different names'. He has probably by now been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elisha; but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. [[SelfDeprecation With my superior intelligence, I have outgeneralled the man this time by putting in all the old Wodehouse characters under the same names. Pretty silly it will make him feel, I rather fancy."]]
* In one of the many chapters of ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTomJonesAFoundling'' [[BreakingTheFourthWall where Fielding speaks directly to the reader]] he asserts that [[InsaneTrollLogic critics are the same thing as poisoners]] [[DisproportionateRetribution and should all be hanged as such.]] (This would have been even more shocking to a contemporary reader, since Fielding had been a Chief Magistrate of London who had sentenced men to hang in RealLife.)
* Creator/SMStirling has often been accused of sympathizing with the Domination of ''Literature/TheDraka'', a racist, technologically advanced EvilEmpire that has conquered much of an AlternateHistory Earth. In response, the unrelated novel ''Conquistador'' contains the following line, in response to those making the accusation: "There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author. That term is idiot."
* The Polish writer Katarzyna Michalak, in response to the numerous [[{{MST}} sporkings]] of her work on the Polish internet, wrote into her book ''W imie milosci'' an over-the-top, CardCarryingVillain "internet hater", who deliberately thrashes a poor, disabled girl's story and cackles at driving her to tears. The real-life "haters", of course, found it hilarious.
* Creator/MegCabot, author of ''Literature/ThePrincessDiaries'', has long gotten flak for putting pop culture references into her books. In ''Princess In Training'', Mia struggles with an English teacher who disparages her for the same thing, resulting in the novel's CMOA in which Mia [[CallingTheOldManOut calls her on her overly-rigid view]] of what constitutes "culture."
* ''Literature/TheGirlWhoCircumnavigatedFairylandInAShipOfHerOwnMaking'' was criticised because the Big Bad ruler of Fairyland in it, the Marquess, is a woman, and ''Marquess'', despite common misconceptions, is the standard English spelling of Marquis, and not its feminine version. At the beginning of the final book in the series, ''The Girl Who Raced Fairyland all the way Home'', it's revealed that she intentionally took a [[SheIsTheKing masculine title]], and the characters who criticise her for it are depicted as smug, obnoxious snobs.
* After the critic Lee Wilson Dodd wrote an unfavorable article about his short stories, Creator/ErnestHemingway published a poem called "Valentine" dedicated to "a Mr. Lee Wilson Dodd and Any of His Friends Who Want It." The last lines of the poem refer to critics as
--> "very vulgar people, annals of the callous[[note]] a reference to the title of Dodd's article about him [[/note]],
--> dope fiends, soldiers, prostitutes,
--> men without a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster gallus]]."
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* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' season four finale "The Deconstruction of Falling Stars" episode ended with a dedication: "Dedicated to all the people who predicted that the Babylon Project would fail in its mission. Faith manages". The really neat part is that it works on both sides of the fourth wall. In addition, the blurb on the back of the box set contains a few comments from the show's harsher critics.
* In a ''Series/{{Dinosaurs}}'' episode, Earl comments, when watching a puppet show, that while the aesthetic of using puppets makes it appear at first glance to be a children's show, the actual content and themes of the show make it clear that it isn't, may refer to criticism of the show being for children. Or something to that effect.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a notorious UnpleasableFanbase, and this has sometimes annoyed creators enough to influence the show.
** The Sixth Doctor's debut story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS21E7TheTwinDilemma The Twin Dilemma]]", which features an extremely tumultuous post-regeneration crisis, ends with the Doctor telling his companion Peri that "Whatever else happens, I ''am'' the Doctor, whether you like it or not."
** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]" is based around mocking critics of the show, complete with a stereotypical FanBoy whining that [[NostalgiaFilter the circus isn't as good as it used to be]], and the villains of the piece being a metaphor for television executives.
** "[[Recap/DoctorWho2005CSTheChristmasInvasion The Christmas Invasion]]" has the Tenth Doctor scolding Rose for giving up on him while he was comatose following regeneration. Given that this was the first regeneration following the show's relaunch, it's easy to picture these words being aimed at everyone who dismissed Creator/DavidTennant for replacing Creator/ChristopherEccleston.
** The 2005/6 seasons were criticised by some fans who complained about the number of stories set on contemporary Earth, wanted more exotic settings and SpaceOpera content, and got upset about the number of contemporary pop culture references. The 2006 [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas special]], [[Recap/DoctorWho2006CSTheRunawayBride "The Runaway Bride"]], featured an unspeakably nasty, misanthropic, intellectually-snobbish human villain who turned out to be plotting with aliens to destroy the world just because they offered to show him the wonders of the universe, and who was given a long and unsympathetic speech mocking pop culture.
** Peter Capaldi's first episode as the 12th Doctor includes the Time Lord asking Clara to accept the new Doctor even if he's different from what he used to be. This whole speech might as well be pointed directly at audience members who expressed disapproval of Capaldi's casting for not being as young and sexy as the previous three Doctors.
** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E5TimeHeist "Time Heist"]], the Twelfth Doctor addresses fans' criticisms of his [[https://images.amcnetworks.com/bbcamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/twelve.jpg costume]]: "What do you think of the new look? I was hoping for minimalism, but I think I came up with 'magician.'"
* Richard Ingrams once attacked ''Series/FawltyTowers'' as unfunny. An episode of the next series featured a 'Mr. Ingrams' inflating a sex aid doll in his room.
* After the first season of ''Series/{{Galavant}}'' the website TV by the Numbers predicted that its low ratings meant the show was unlikely to get renewed only for [[NetworkToTheRescue ABC]] to give it a second season anyway. The second season premiere episode was titled "A New Season aka Suck It Cancellation Bear" as a jab at the website's flawed prediction.
* Played for laughs in the TV version of ''Radio/KnowingMeKnowingYouWithAlanPartridge''; in one episode, Alan keeps bringing up a negative review of the previous week's show which has clearly rankled with him, and keeps latching onto the reviewer's description of the show as 'moribund'. His every effort to try and prove the critic wrong, however, keeps backfiring and demonstrating that the criticism was clearly on point.
* The ''U.S.S. Minnow'', the ship on ''Series/GilligansIsland'', was supposed to be a jab at Federal Communications Commission president Newton Minow. Show creator Sherwood Schwartz hated Minow, and for good reason; Minow wasn't a fan of television, calling it a "vast wasteland".
* ''Series/MurphyBrown'':
** When then-Vice President Dan Quayle attacked the show for its favorable depiction of a single mother, a subsequent episode included a snippet of his remarks against the character of Murphy Brown to make it sound like he was criticizing a real person. Candace Bergen, in character as Brown, then responds to his criticism. This eventually culminates in a TakeThat right back at him when they arranged for a dump-truck full of potatoes to be dumped on his front porch, in reference to Quayle's equally well-publicized potato/potatoe gaff. "It's a good thing he didn't misspell 'fertilizer.'"
** In a subsequent episode, similar to the RealLife example below, Murphy pranks art critics by presenting the random finger-painting of her preschool-age son Avery in an art museum, under the name A. Veret.
* Leonard Maltin made a cameo in the ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S09E09Gorgo episode]] ''Film/{{Gorgo}}'' where he claims he ''liked'' the titular movie despite "sending two of [his] assistant editors into intensive care". Maltin had in fact written a positive review of ''Gorgo'' prior to the episode and his cameo was equally good-natured, despite the show having in earlier episodes brutally mocked Maltin's scores of ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' movies: the episode ''The Undead'' where Crow made Mike dress up as Maltin and read a humiliating apology for "his" review and [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S07E06Laserblast the episode]] ''Film/{{Laserblast}}'' where Maltin's two-and-a-half star rating of the titular movie is constantly mentioned as a RunningGag culminating in Mike and the 'bots going through one of Maltin's books comparing his scores of classic movies to the one he gave ''Laserblast'' (coming to the conclusion that, for example, Maltin considers ''Laserblast'' to be superior to ''Film/BeingThere'' and as good as ''Film/{{Unforgiven}}'' and ''Film/SophiesChoice''). In his review of ''Film/TheUndead'' he called it a black comedy, however, so it's possible he thought it wasn't supposed to be serious. All of these were, however in good fun; Maltin holds no grudges and freely admits that his reviews are just his opinion, and if you disagree that's fine and dandy too.
* The lengthy ''Series/NotTheNineOClockNews'' parody of ''Series/TheTwoRonnies'' came about after Ronnie Barker called the show obscene, making the point that someone whose entire routine relied on DoubleEntendre possibly shouldn't be throwing that particular stone.
* The Season 2 premiere of ''Series/OddSquad'', "First Day", has a line from Oprah that is a direct jab at critics who despise the show simply for the MeanBoss personality she had throughout Season 1. While she is more of a BenevolentBoss in Season 2, she still keeps a lot of the old charm and some traits from the previous season (such as her catchphrases and her love of juiceboxes), which extends into Season 3.
--> '''Oprah:''' If you're always yelling, that's all people think you do, and they don't see that there's a lot more to your character.
* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has an episode ("Let's get Hairy") featuring a psychotic DeadlyDoctor as the [[MonsterOfTheWeek killer of the week]] called Ken Tucker. He shares his name with an Entertainment Weekly critic who routinely took potshots at the show.
* ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "Entangled", Kryten notes that one of the various professions that is always wrong are tv critics.
* Not surprisingly, Creator/GeneSiskel and Creator/RogerEbert were not immune to ribbing each other's taste in film. For the "Worst of 1993" episode of ''Series/SiskelAndEbert'', both Roger and Gene selected a film the other enjoyed as that year's worst film: Roger selected ''Film/{{Carnosaur}}''; Gene selected ''Film/CopAndAHalf''.
* Jeremy Clarkson of ''Series/TopGear'' often makes fun of his critics. In Season 9 episode 1, when Richard Hammond returns from a rocket-car crash at 288 mph that left him temporarily brain-damaged and could have killed him, Clarkson thanks the (very much alive) Hammond for reminding everyone of an important lesson: Speed kills.
* The short-lived show ''Series/VengeanceUnlimited'' had "[[IronicEpisodeTitle Critical]]", an episode that incorporated many critics' negative statements. Most of these lines were given to the naïve 16-year-old computer whiz who was unwittingly helping the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]], just to show how much they thought of the critics.
* ''Series/TheWestWing'' features an episode where Josh posts a message about some minor issue of government procedure on an Internet forum. Though the site is actually dedicated to him, the users (including a forum administrator "sitting in a muumuu and smoking Parliament Lights") attack him for getting the issue wrong. Creator Aaron Sorkin wrote this episode as a response to his experience using Website/TelevisionWithoutPity, where he was a member for quite some time. Sorkin posted a topic about a dispute he had with a staff writer, which led to the site's users attacking him. The same episode also features the new US Poet Laureate deliver a speech wherein she says that an artist's job isn't to reach for some higher truth, but to captivate the audience's attention for as long as possible.
* In ''Series/TheWitcher2019'' season 2, Jaskier meets an in-universe fan of his poems who repeats common fan criticisms of The Witcher season 1, ostensibly as a critique of his poems. Jaskier responds with a lengthy diatribe insulting the fan (and by extension the audience) saying LetsSeeYouDoBetter. The worst part is that Jaskier was supposed to be on a ''stealth mission'', and his outburst gets a redshirt killed for absolutely no reason.
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[[folder:Music]]
* It's only too obvious that Music/TwoLiveCrew's FilkSong "Banned in the USA" (which is SFW and done with Music/BruceSpringsteen's approval) is intended to be this towards critics complaining about the use of dirty language in their music, along with them using their First Amendment rights to condemn censorship.
* In January 2013, a brief feud between country music superstar Music/BlakeShelton and legend Ray Price ensued after a series of "Take That Critics"-type comments. While taping comments for the GAC series "Backroads" (for an episode devoted to his career), Shelton spoke out about the criticism several classic country music artists sometimes have about current country music. Shelton – known for not being shy about expressing his opinion, sometimes without thinking – stated the following: “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpa’s music ... (a)nd I don’t care how many of these old farts around Nashville going, ‘My God, that ain’t country!’ Well that’s because you don’t buy records anymore, jacka–. The kids do, and they don’t want to buy the music you were buying.” Price – not known for his outspokenness – posted the following response on his Facebook page: "It’s a shame that I have spend 63 years in this business trying to introduce music to a larger audience and to make it easier for the younger artists who are coming behind me. Every now and then some young artist will record a rock and roll type song, have a hit first time out with kids only. This is why you see stars come with a few hits only and then just fade away believing they are God’s answer to the world. This guy sounds like in his own mind that his head is so large no hat ever made will fit him. Stupidity Reigns Supreme!!!!!!! Ray Price (CHIEF “OLD FART” & JACKA–”) ” P.S. YOU SHOULD BE SO LUCKY AS US OLD-TIMERS. CHECK BACK IN 63 YEARS (THE YEAR 2075) AND LET US KNOW HOW YOUR NAME AND YOUR MUSIC WILL BE REMEMBERED." Shelton later realized he had offended Price, a performer he identified as one of his heroes, and scaled back his comments, and Price accepted the apology. But neither came before an exchange of "Take That Critics"-type comments.
* Many people think that the song "Droppin' Plates" by Music/{{Disturbed}} is a TakeThat at the record company who told them that because they played a unique style of music, they wouldn't become successful. Their first album sold over four million copies and they managed to score three consecutive #1 albums.
* The entire (albeit lighthearted) point of "Silly Love Songs," Music/PaulMcCartney's attempt to combine a, well, love song with a defense of the [[SillyLoveSongs entire genre]]. Rock critics ''hated'' 'silly love songs' in TheSeventies, and took it out on the musicians...
* Music/{{Eagles}}' song "The Long Run" has been interpreted as a response to music critics:
-->People talking about us, ain't got nothing else to do
-->When it all comes down, we will still come through in the long run
* Music/AdamAndTheAnts' song, "Press Darlings," name drops two adversaries in the British music press, Nick Kent and Garry Bushell. AdamAnt would later extend this trope to the ''Friend or Foe'' album, where most of the tracks answer Ant's critics in the media.
* "99 Problems" by Music/JayZ featured a pretty vicious one: ''Rap critics say it's money cash hoes/I'm from the hood, stupid/what type of facts are those?...I'm like, fuck critics/You can kiss my whole asshole/If you don't like my lyrics you can press fast-forward.''
* Perhaps the most direct version of this trope came from Music/BillyJoel, who, early in his career, actually tore up newspapers on stage that gave him bad reviews. One of the songs from his 1980 album ''Music/GlassHouses'', "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me", had some pointed commentary about music critics trying to drive popular culture. ''Magazine/RollingStone'' responded by calling that song "the worst song about rock and roll ever" after a poll. In the end, the joke was on them: it became his first #1 single on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.
-->''There's a new band in town, but you can't get the sound\\
From a story in a magazine aimed at your average teen''
* Music/KanyeWest made sure to add the lyric "And take THIS, [[LargeHam HATERS!]]" to "Stronger".
* ''Anything Right'' by Music/{{POD}} is about how no matter what they do, they'll be criticized either for being too religious or not religious enough.
* Music/TheClash's "Garageland" isn't entirely about this, but the first few lines are a direct response to a CausticCritic's take on one of their early live performances - they were referred to as "the kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately, preferably with the engine running". Thus "Back in the garage with my bullshit detector/ Carbon monoxide making sure it's effective". The song was also meant as a response to music press and fans who had said the band had sold out by signing to a major label.
* Music/OingoBoingo's "Imposter": It may or may not be based on anyone specific, but it depicts a StrawCritic as a jealous failed artist ("You're just a critic, we know why you drink so much / Jealousy slowly consuming your gut").
* Music/ChristinaAguilera quite likes defending herself against criticisms of her sexual music/show. "Still Dirrty" and "Can't Hold Us Down" are both also against those types of critics. She also has "Here To Stay", "Keep on singing my song", "Bionic", "Dirrty", "Thank You", "Welcome, "Make Over", "Fighter", "Prima Donna" and "Beautiful".
* Death metal band Cryptopsy received massive fan backlash for their album "The Unspoken King" and its jump into deathcore. They later uploaded a track, "It's Dinner Time" to their myspace page mocking fans for this criticism.
* "Mean" by Music/TaylorSwift doesn't seem like this at first, but at the end, it has a line that calls out a critic who insulted her music prior. Even better was her debut performance of the song at the 54th Grammy Awards, where she changed the line to "Someday I'll be singing this at the Grammys". Take that, indeed.
* "Mr. Writer" by Music/{{Stereophonics}} attacks music critics for being ignorant and sexually unsuccessful, accuses them of attacking artists they used to praise just to get attention, and fantasizes about shooting them. According to the band, it's specifically about one unnamed journalist, who toured with the band, then gave them negative reviews.
* "Jools and Jim" from the Pete Townshend solo album ''Empty Glass'' doesn't even try to hide the fact it's about music critics; the title refers to the critics Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons - who had written criticising the late Keith Moon - and the lyrics spit bile at professional critics.
* Tyler, The Creator of Music/{{OFWGKTA}} often calls out critics who label his music as "hatemongering horrorcore", but his most notable moment of disdain for the criticizing bloggers is heard at the very beginning of the title track of his debut album "Bastard" where he rants:
-->"Yo, fuck 2DopeBoyz and fuck Nah Right, and any other fuck-nigga-ass blog that can't put an 18-year-old nigga making his own fucking beats, covers, videos and all that shit."
* A constant theme for Music/{{Eminem}}.
** ''Slim Shady EP'' is riddled with lyrics sniping at the negative response his debut album ''Infinite'' got, either turning the criticisms into boasts (''Infinite'' was mocked for being derivative, so Slim Shady admits he bit your style, but "just to make it fresher") or dissing critics' magazines and threatening to assault other rappers at their shows. However, it ''is'' a NewSoundAlbum dropping all the elements from ''Infinite'' that critics disliked, so it's fair to say he took the criticisms on board. Due to some of the ''EP'' material being recycled for ''Music/TheSlimShadyLP'', this persists on ''LP'' to a certain extent (particularly on "Just Don't Give A Fuck").
** The entirety of ''The Marshall Mathers LP'', especially the song "The Way I Am", is a swipe at critics of his controversial content and the [[TheNewRockAndRoll moral panic]] surrounding his music. In fact, when Eminem performed "The Way I Am" at the 2000 MTV Video Music Awards, he introduced the song as a "little song I wrote for my critics".
** "On Fire" by Music/{{Eminem}} features the line ''"So, the next time you blog, [[LetsSeeYouDoBetter try to spit a flow]] / You want to criticize, dog? Try a little more"'' which is assumed to be directed at former rapper Nick Cannon who claimed that a song on his ''Relapse'' album proved him to be [[http://idolator.com/5229092/nick-cannon-stands-up-to-eminem-sits-back-down-almost-immediately racist and jealous]] of the relationship he now has with his ex-girlfriend Music/MariahCarey.
** "Chlorasceptic (Remix)", a non-album single reworked from a track on ''Revival'', was an attempt to WinBackTheCrowd after the negative reaction to ''Revival''. The lyrics frankly address the (often contradictory) criticisms.
--->You just called my shit trash?\\
Thank God, I rap better when the odds are stacked!\\
"''Revival'''s wack, I don't like the 'Zombie' track,\\
and when he's talkin' that garbage psychotic crap --\\
where's your content at?\\
What's with all the [[ConsciousHipHop conscious rap?]]\\
Music/{{Pink}}? Music/{{Beyonce}} this and Music/{{Kehlani}} that?"\\
I just add it to the fuel in my rocket pack\\
'til I'm ready to respond, then [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge I'ma launch it at 'em.]]\\
Idiotic from the fuckin' embryonic sac\\
to the body bag, I'll be back,\\
and when I am, [[BadassBoast I'll be at your fuckin' throat like Chlorasceptic!]]
** Nearly the entirety of the album ''Kamikaze'' is a rant about the critics and other rappers who shit on his previous album, ''Revival'' - not unjustifiably, as a significant proportion of the negative feedback was from the tracklist before the album came out. And it's a NewSoundAlbum ditching the aspects critics hated about ''Revival''...
** A lot of ''Music To Be Murdered By'' is about Eminem's impossible position with the critics and UnpleasableFanbase. Most of the rest of it is about his disbelief that he's still making commercially relevant music despite pushing 50.
* Music/{{Queen}}'s "[[Film/{{Highlander}} Princes of the Universe]]" has a verse that's commonly seen as a Take That to critics who thought them past their prime: ''"People talk about you / People say you've had your day / I'm a man that will go far / Fly the moon and reach for the stars / With my sword and head held high / Got to pass the test first time, yeah / I know that people talk about me / I hear it every day / But I can prove them wrong 'cause I'm right first time"''
* Her Space Holiday's "Meet the Pressure". There's something incredibly petty about saying that the wives of your critics masturbate while listening to the very words they criticised.
* Music/LouReed's live album ''Take No Prisoners'' contained a tirade against ''Village Voice'' critic Robert Christgau, calling him a "toe fucker" and complaining about his previous album receiving a B+. Christgau responded by giving the album a C+ and thanked Reed for "pronouncing my name right" in the review.
** Reed's ''Music/MetalMachineMusic'', a two-record set full of [[HarshNoise monotonous guitar feedback droning]] has also been interpreted as a raised middle finger against the critics, by forcing them to listen to all of this before they review it.
* Music/SonicYouth also reacted against some bad reviews by renaming the song "Kill Yr Idols" to "I Killed Christgau With My Big Fucking Dick". Christgau later named it one of the best singles of 1984.
* Much of Music/BritneySpears' later career is essentially this, beginning with her first ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' appearance, her TV appearances, Kill the Lights, her fame songs in general and some unreleased tracks like "Guilty" and "Dramatic".
* Music/NickCave's "Scum" is a tirade of abuse against Matt Snow, a British music journalist who had been a friend of his until he dared to give him a bad review.
* The appropriately named song, "Shut Up!" by Music/SimplePlan
* "War Nerve" by Music/{{Pantera}} is a direct attack on the media in general and critics in particular.
--> "For every fucking second the pathetic media pisses on me and judges what I am in one paragraph - Look here - Fuck you all"
* "Panama" by Music/VanHalen was written after a critic claimed that Van Halen only made songs about "partying, sex, and cars". Upon reading this, Music/DavidLeeRoth realized that the band didn't have any songs about cars, so he decided to write one.
* Music/PinkFloyd did this, in the third verse of "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" from their album ''Music/{{Animals|1977}}'' against British {{Moral Guardian|s}} Mary Whitehouse.
* Music/SteveTaylor:
** One of the more entertaining aspects of his career was his constant battles with charlatan televangelists who decried him as an agent of Satan for writing rock music. "Guilty By Association" in particular is all about critics who unfairly maligned his work as Satanic simply because of the instruments it uses and the genre of music it belongs to.
* Music/{{Sting}} gets one in on "St. Augustine in Hell"-when Satan is listing former occupations of current residents of Hell, the last named is Music Critics.
* Music/{{Madonna}}'s song "Human Nature" from ''Music/BedtimeStories'' is a critique directed against her critics, namely for her more suggestive material in her music and performances.
* Music/LadyGaga does this in "Applause", which is all about how she doesn't care if critics hated her previous album, because she did it all for the fans.
* The last verse of Tim Minchin's "The Pope Song" delivers a verbal slap to audience members more offended by his song's profanity than by the fact that the Pope protected pedophile priests.
* Music/FrankZappa didn't have a high opinion of rock 'n roll critics. He famously said: "Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read." In his autobiography, "The Real Frank Zappa Book", he also devoted a few lines about the inanity of most critics and argued that somebody may like an album, even if someone gave it a bad review. Zappa himself discovered his main musical inspiration, Music/EdgardVarese, thanks to a horrible review in a magazine, and felt he had to check it out just because of that. ''Packard Goose'' on Music/JoesGarage is a pointed attack on rock 'n' roll journalists.
--> ''Well, fuck all them people, I don't need no excuse''
--> ''For being what I am''
--> ''Do you hear me, then?''
--> ''All them rock 'n' roll writers is the worst kind of sleaze''
--> ''Selling punk like some new kind of English disease''
--> ''Is that the wave of the future? Aw, spare me please!''
--> ''Oh no, you gotta go''
--> ''Who do you write for, I wanna know?''
--> ''I believe you is the government's whore''
--> ''And keeping peoples dumb (I'm really dumb)''
--> ''Is where you're coming from''
--> And keeping peoples dumb (I'm really dumb)''
--> Is where you're coming from''
--> Fuck all them writers with the pen in their hand''
--> I will be more specific so they might understand''
--> They can all kiss my ass but because it's so grand''
--> They best just stay away''
* Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}}' "It's Only Rock And Roll (But I Like It)" from ''Music/ItsOnlyRockNRoll'' was written as a TakeThat against critics who kept criticizing the band for not being as meaningful as they were before.
* Courtney Barnett's "Don't Apply Compression Gently" dismisses complaints about her music being derivative:
-->I take pieces of myself from everyone around me\\
I’m not individual enough for you\\
I replicate the people I admire\\
But at least I’m not bitter and sad\\
I may not be 100% happy but at least I’m not with you!
* Music/DieArzte have had several, but their most notable are "Radio brennt" where they complain about never appearing on mainstream radio (which is HilariousInHindsight, giving their bookable chart performance nowadays) and "Ein Lied über Zensur" (a song about censorship) which is a take that to both the censorship they had to endure early in their career and the MoralGuardians that still advocate them being banned.
* Music/BillyRayCyrus fired back at his critics (particularly fellow country artist Music/TravisTritt) at the American Music Awards in 1993. He even referred to the title of one of Tritt's hits when he said: "As far as I'm concerned, to those people who don't like 'Achy Breaky Heart,' here's a quarter. Call someone who cares!"
* Music/WolfAlice wrote "Freazy" as a response to critics who didn't think they were pop enough. The lyrics flat out say that such hatred is pointless because they'll do as they like.
* For the song "Sex Metal Barbie", In This Moment looked up some of the worst comments and dirtiest gossip they could find about vocalist Maria Brink online, then wrote the song responding to them. Particular emphasis is placed on the idea that she supposedly "doesn't belong" in the HeavyMetal scene due to being a blonde woman who dresses femininely.
* Music/{{Tool}}'s "Hooker With a Penis" is a TakeThat against fans who accused them of selling out with their previous album, ''Undertow.'' Maynard paints such people as ignorant consumers who don't realize that every musician "sells out" simply by selling records to begin with.
* Circle Jerks' "Defamation Innuendo", specifically accusing critics of [[ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch writing negative reviews without listening to the music or going to the concerts]]. At a couple of points in the song, Keith Morris does a spoken word impression of a lazy music journalist:
--> I didn't get a chance to see the band
--> Hell, I never heard of 'em
--> And now I gotta write about 'em
-->God, the story is due...
--> The story's due tomorrow
-->What should I write?
--> Well, they're no good!
* The character of Beckmesser in ''Theatre/DieMeistersinger'' by Music/RichardWagner is reportedly meant as a caricature of the Viennese music critic, UsefulNotes/EduardHanslick. Beckmesser's serenade in this opera is deliberately written to portray StylisticSuck by having bad text setting and an awkward melodic line. He gets called out for this by the work's hero, professional Mastersinger Hans Sachs.
* Calliope Mori, a [[VirtualCelebrity Vtuber]] from WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}, released a single in early 2021 titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M-6lkoi6L4 Off With Their Heads]]" which was targeted at critics in the English Vtuber fan community who took offense when she offered advice to a fan about Vtubing that amounted to "Stop tweeting, start creating". Calli meant the advice as inspiration to others to dive headlong into their creative passions, but some believed she was being condescending while also accusing her of being a corporate shill who got her fame and fortune from being a "company hire" without taking into account the genuine talent and hard work she put in to achieve her dreams. In response to the critics, Calli penned "Off With Their Heads" to explain, in lyrical form, that the Vtubing industry was highly competitive and that you cannot expect to succeed if you don't commit to your craft.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* The Announcer in ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' calls out people who say that Griffin can't put [[AnachronismStew elevators]] in a TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons podcast.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
* In recent years, the Wrestling/{{WWE}} has made numerous {{subtext}} references to Wrestling/TripleH's real-life marriage to Wrestling/VinceMcMahon's daughter Wrestling/StephanieMcMahon, which many critics claimed was the only reason Triple H became a main eventer.
** In 2006, when Stephanie was expecting their first child, Wrestling/ShawnMichaels asked Triple H who he thought got her pregnant. Triple H's response: "I don't know, but I tell you what - that guy's gotta be one hell of a stud!"
** When Stephanie gave birth on the same night that RAW aired live, Michaels explained Triple H's absence by saying he was at the hospital without the [=McMahons=] knowing, then said, "Between you and me, I think he knows who the father is."
** In a later show, when Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon told Triple H and Michaels to grow up, Triple H brought up how Shane's father "put his own daughter in an I Quit match, just days before she married a man with the world's largest peni..." (Michaels cuts him off before he can finish.)
** On RAW's 15th anniversary, when the [=McMahons=] tried to shoot a family portrait, Wrestling/TripleH came out and said he felt like he was a part of their family. Later, Stephanie got back at Vince for all the times he humiliated her by kissing Triple H. Trip's response: "All right Steph, see you at home... [[LameRhymeDodge I mean, your brother's a gnome]]..."
** This all came full circle in the buildup to Wrestling/WrestleMania 25 when Triple H and the WWE not only admitted to the marriage on TV but used it to hype his match with Wrestling/RandyOrton by having Orton assault Stephanie. On an episode of ''Smackdown'', Triple H called his marriage "the worst-kept secret in the WWE".
* Wrestling/{{WWE}} had an [[Website/WrestleCrap infamously horrible]] feud between Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/{{Kane}} centering around a dead ex-girlfriend of Kane's. However, Wrestling/VinceMcMahon expected the angle to take WWE into its second boom period and duplicate the success of [[Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin Austin]] vs [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock]], and was quite displeased when the fans hated it. The Raw after the infamous mannequin rape promo, Triple H cut a promo about how he didn't care that people were offended and anyone who was offended was so lame they shouldn't be permitted to watch WWE. It's very easy to watch that promo and hear Vince's voice coming out of Triple H's mouth.
* During the early turn of the century, WWE had the Wrestling/RightToCensor heel stable, which was a direct shot at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Television_Council Parent's Television Council]] and other such media watchdog groups. Interestingly, the RTC was actually pretty successful - giving the WWE a kayfabe reason to make some of the changes the PTC and allies were calling for.
** Wrestling/{{WCW}} had a much less well known stable of a similar nature called "Standards and Practices", consisting of Lenny Lane, Lodi, and Ms. Hancock. This one was created by Wrestling/VinceRusso after he got pissed off at Turner Broadcasting for limiting violence and edgy material on Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro broadcasts. WCW and Russo being, well, WCW and Russo, S&P was never really used for much of anything, and they disappeared fairly quickly. However, it was Wrestling/StacyKeibler's start in wrestling. And really, it's hard to complain about Stacy Keibler dressing as a secretary and doing table dances. (Incidentally, if you're wondering why a team called Standards and Practices would have a valet doing erotic dances, ask Russo, because no one else has a clue.)
* Wrestling/HulkHogan had always been a target of criticism by the ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'', a wrestling dirt sheet written by Dave [=Meltzer=]. Hogan had "won" "Most Overrated Wrestler" 3 times from the Wrestling Observer Awards[[note]]3 times when this happened in 1995, he would later "win" four more, giving him a grand total of 7 for his career[[/note]]. So at World War 3 1995, during Hogan's "return from the Darkside" (it was a storyline that Hogan was no longer a good guy because of Wrestling/KevinSullivan's Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom stable. Except for he was. It's Wrestling/{{WCW}}, it's always been very confusing), burning the clothes of his previous identity. Hogan would produce an Issue of Wrestling Observer, calling it a rag sheet, and was a dinosaur compared to the Internet. Hogan would then throw it to a fire burning his clothes. Dave Meltzer would take note; not only did Hogan win "Most Overrated Wrestler" that year, but he also won "Most Embarrassing Wrestler" as well. He also had all of the "swervy" booking changes in the newsletter before the PPV went down.
-->'''Hulk Hogan:''' [[HilariousInHindsight The Internet's got all the scoops!]]
* Dave Meltzer was also the target of [=UWF=] promoter Wrestling/{{Herb Abrams|UWF}}' wrath, in the form of a {{Jobber}} named Davey "The Observer" Meltzer. [[Wrestling/DrDeathSteveWilliams Steve Williams]] methodically took apart "Meltzer" and then stuffed a copy of ''Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter'' in his mouth as a final humiliation.
* A [[InJoke very obscure instance]] ended up having incredible results in March of 2012. Ringbelles was one of a few websites whose staff was skeptical about Sweet Saraya doing anything meaningful in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} when it was revealed [[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Britani]] wouldn't be returning for Volume 45. Not only was Saraya there, but her entrance on volume 46 was abrupt enough to make a woman scream, Ringbelles staff member Jennifer. Saraya didn't miss a beat and [[AxCrazy tried jumping the guardrail to push aside all the fans between them]], but couldn't get through and so [[MisplacedRetribution turned her frustrations]] on Wrestling/VedaScott.
* In 2012, [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Charlie Haas]] bombarded Wrestling/RingOfHonor with videos about things that pissed him off after Shelton Benjamin left for Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}}. In 2013 Ari Berenstein of 411 MANIA gave Haas some tips on Twitter about how to make his videos better, which lead to Haas making a video about how fans trying to help him pissed him off, citing everything Berenstein had suggested.
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[[folder:Radio]]
* Showing an uncharacteristically pointy side, radio comedy team Radio/BobAndRay reacted to ''NewYorkMagazine'' critic John Simon's negative review of their stage show by incorporating him into their skits as 'The Worst Person in the World' - a character who never spoke, just made rude noises while other characters (that is, Bob and/or Ray) commented loudly on his uncouth manners. (Broadcaster Keith Olbermann later picked up the concept, ''sans'' specific attack, and used it in his ''Series/{{Countdown|WithKeithOlbermann}}''.)
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[[folder:Sports]]
* Game Six of the 1995 World Series, which clinched the championship for the Atlanta Braves, might be seen as a Take That to the Braves' most overly critical fans. Tom Glavine was the winning pitcher with eight one-hit innings; many Atlanta fans booed him throughout the year for being the Braves' union representative during the previous year's strike. The game's lone run was scored on Dave Justice's home run; Justice had been booed throughout that very game after claiming the Braves fans hadn't been enthusiastic throughout the series.
* UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan's Hall Of Fame induction speech. Yes, the greatest player of all time had detractors, and he went after them. He devoted his crowning moment to belittling anyone and everyone who had slighted him, ever. He singled out coaches and players for insults they had hurled his way as far back as 20 years ago--singling out Isiah Thomas, Magic Johnson, George Gervin, Bryon Russel and Jeff Van Gundy among others--while barely mentioning his own family at all, and even that was to remind them how tough they had it having to put up with his ego. He even flew in, at his own expense, the high school coach who cut him from the varsity team sophomore year and the player that coach had kept on the team instead of him, just to embarrass them.
-->'''Michael Jordan:''' “I wanted to make sure you understood: You made a mistake, dude.”
* UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball: In early 2004, businessman Allan Scott (no, not [[Franchise/GreenLantern that one]]) criticised Port Adelaide coach Mark Williams, stating that Williams would never coach Port to an AFL premiership. Following Port Adelaide's victory in the 2004 AFL Grand Final, Williams made the famous speech "Allan Scott - You were wrong!"
* The famous [[https://youtu.be/rHWbSBGlDsI rant]] by Giants owner Wellington Mara about the Giants being "the worst team ever to win the Super Bowl" ([[SubvertedTrope They didn't]])
* An interesting case of someone attacking someone ''else'''s critics. After Holly Holm defeated [[http://titlehistories.com/mma/ufc/ufc-wm-b.html UFC Women's World Bantamweight Champion]] Creator/RondaRousey at ''[[UsefulNotes/UltimateFightingChampionship UFC]] 193'', winning the title and ending Rousey's undefeated streak, many people said that Rousey's career was over. {{Professional Wrestl|ing}}er Wrestling/AllysinKay responded with [[https://www.instagram.com/p/-JnhgaNgHJ/ this Instagram post]], talking about how unpredictable UsefulNotes/MixedMartialArts is and how many of the critics would never have the courage to actually enter a fight.
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[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
* Michael Richards' racially-fueled tirade shows what happens when criticizing your critics goes horribly wrong. When he was heckled, Richards starting using the n-word at the heckler, and used some ''very'' racist remarks on top of that. [[CreatorKiller That moment killed Richards' career, right then and there]]. These days, [[NeverLiveItDown this racial tirade is all Richards is known for]].
* Discussed by Creator/ChristopherTitus in a stand-up special. He mentions that "every comedian has sixty things in his head he's used a million times" when someone heckles them onstage. Titus remarks that the real way to make a comedian have a nervous breakdown is to sit as close to the stage as possible [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond and never laugh]].
* In the Creator/MartinLawrence special ''Runteldat'', there's one bit where he rants about critics and how much he hates them.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The web animation "The Red Dragon's Interview" shows Creator/WizardsOfTheCoast taking one of these at anyone who criticizes not the execution of 4e, but its highly controversial content by depicting them as a literal ''and'' figurative {{troll}}. The whole thing is rather tongue-in-cheek.
* In ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'', one of the backstory's major bad guys was the Scottish wizard Davnalleous, named for Dave Nalle, a game designer and reviewer who was critical of the game early on. Later editions of the game explained the name as an attempted Latinization of a more plausibly Gaelic-sounding name (Damhan Allaidh, which translates as "Spider").
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* The 2007 production of Shakespeare's ''Theatre/TheComedyOfErrors'' at the Stratford Festival was panned for being disjointed and nonsensical. In response, they added a giant penguin which wandered across the stage sometime during the third act, with a sign on its back reading "For the critics".
* Music/RichardWagner famously wrote Sixtus Beckmesser in ''Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'' as a harsh caricature of Viennese music critic Eduard Hanslick. The result was ambiguous: "Beckmesser" (and the adjective "beckmesserisch" derived therefrom) entered the German language as a word for a pedantic but uninspired critic, but on the other hand, Hanslick remains the most well-known music critic of his time...
* In one of the most extreme cases ever, magician Criss Angel found out during an April 2009 performance of his much-pilloried Las Vegas show ''Theatre/CrissAngelBelieve'' that celebrity blogger Perez Hilton was in the audience...using Twitter to tell his followers that the show stunk. During the curtain call, Criss pointed him out to the audience and profanely dissed him. The media stir in Vegas this caused proved a setback for Criss, as commentators derided him as unprofessional and a disgrace to the Vegas entertainment scene.
* ''Theatre/TitleOfShow'' discusses some of its own reviews within the show.
-->'''Hunter:''' Jeff, what was that bad review in anyway?\\
'''Jeff:''' Broadway.com.\\
'''Hunter:''' Broadway.com?! Broadway.com can kneel down, open its online mouth and suck my--\\
'''Jeff, Heidi, and Susan:''' ♪ ♫ ''[[CurseCutShort Festival medley]]!'' ♪ ♫\\
'''Hunter:''' ''([[SubvertedTrope yelling over the others]])'' IT CAN SUCK MY FUCKING COCK!
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The computer game ''Videogame/{{Peggle}}'' has often been described (notably by Ben [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation 'Yahtzee']] Croshaw) as being pure luck with no room for skill. In the sequel ''Peggle Nights'', if the player attains the relatively difficult achievement of 100% Clear on all the levels, the quip of the "lucky" rabbit character Warren in the trophy room is "You cleared all the pegs? I'm starting to think there's more to this game than chance!"
* After spending several games being panned and savaged by critics, NISA decides to fire back with the first trophy of ''VideoGame/HyperdimensionNeptuniaVictory'' with the following quote.
-->'''Neptune:''' Oooh, looks like you started a new game! Think any game reviewers won't get this one?
* ''Videogame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge'' advertises an "optional easy mode for beginners and ''magazine reviewers''" in its [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/monkey-island-2-lechucks-revenge/cover-art/gameCoverId,376/ back cover ]].
* A subtle one in ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIVBlackFlag'' has the in-universe front for the antagonist faction panning the idea of [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII a game about Ratonhnhaké:ton]], specifically citing his stoic yet angry personality -- echoing some real-world player complaints about him -- but also claiming that depicting his early years was not recommended either because, "''although Ratonhnhaké:ton's early life would be of some interest to our more educated audience, it is unlikely that his story would appeal on a broader scale... being too 'foreign', as it were, to normal audiences''."
* In the ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' DLC ''Mr. Torgue's Campaign of Carnage'', Mr. Torgue directs you to track down and murder the authors of video game reviews he disagrees with. Interestingly, none of the games reviewed seems to be a stand-in for ''Borderlands'' itself.
* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic III'' includes a monster named "Scorpia", which is an ugly, gray-skinned, obese woman. It is no coincidence that Scorpia was the nickname of a female game journalist who had given ''Might and Magic II'' a scathing review... Reportedly, she felt "flattered" to be included in the game.
* ''VideoGame/TheTwentyFifthWard'' does a [[ZigZaggingTrope Zig-Zagged]] version between this and TakeThatAudience, with the trope of visual novels being expected to have MultipleEndings. The answer? A final chapter with ''100'' different endings, and you have to re-play the chapter over and over, going through the same sets of choices to get them.
* PETA included a not-so-subtle jab to the criticism and backlash their video game parodies received in ''Pokémon: Red, White & Blue'' (a sequel to ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndBlue'') by having one of the opponents the player fights being an overweight UsefulNotes/McDonalds customer who whines about his childhood being ruined and accuses the Pokémon of taking things way too seriously after he is beaten.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' itself did this in Generation V with Team Plasma, the villains ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', as a swipe at the criticisms that many religious and animal rights groups made against the series; depicting them as a literal KnightTemplar AnimalWrongsGroup. [[spoiler:Ghetsis, TheManBehindTheMan of Unova, depicts himself as a figure of good, but ultimately has self-serving goals for the group.]] As of ''VideoGame/PokemonBlack2AndWhite2'', [[spoiler:half of the group have realized their error and reform, but the other half have discarded the "animal rights" excuse for their actions and are now flat-out terrorists.]]
* After many complaints of the later ''VideoGame/PaperMario'' entries doing away with the diverse and and unique [=NPCs=] of the earlier games and replacing them all with flocks of identical-looking Toads, ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheOrigamiKing'' has [[spoiler:BigBad King Olly attempting to commit Toad genocide for the [[EvilIsPetty petty]] reason that a Toad had gravely offended him, and since they all look the same, he was seeing the face of the guy he hated everywhere he went, so he decided that they all had to go]].
* ''VideoGame/FalloutBrotherhoodOfSteel'': For its many departures from canon, the game was a lightning rod of controversy among the ''Fallout'' fan community even during its production. In the credits, the game calls out a ''Fallout'' fan messageboard that was host to particularly strong condemnation of the upcoming game and tells them, "Thanks for the laughs!"
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'' frequently broke up its "Flashbacked!" plotline to use Robin as a surrogate for criticism that his comic had gotten too serious. [[http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20071112.html "The End of Shortpacked"]] was interpreted by many as a direct response to the John Solomon review, featuring a hostile customer upset that his opinion on how to run the store was not taken as the gospel and declaring the staff to be too arrogant to listen to him and regular customers to be merely [[YesMan yes-men]].
* ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'':
** [[http://penny-arcade.com/2004/3/24/ In direct response]] to Creator/KevinSmith's statement that ''Film/JerseyGirl'' "wasn't for Critics", the creators came up with a random strip called [[http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/3/24/the-adventures-of-twisp-and-catsby/ The Adventures of Twisp and Catsby]], daring the critics to criticize it (ironically, Twisp and Catsby became incredibly popular. No critic ''wanted'' to criticize them).
---> '''Gabe & Tycho:''' I'd bet you'd '''love''' to criticize that, wouldn't you, you Critics? But you ''can't''. It's not ''for'' you.
** [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/8/30/ Penny Arcade also had a variant: after making fun of various game reviewers for years, they worry about the critics' response to their own game. Cue cut to the big review sites throwing a party: "Hey, guys - I just started my review! Do you know if there is a number less than zero?"
* ''Webcomic/VGCats'' ran a strip with a controversial [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=269 abortion joke]]. "Now some people weren't happy about the content of that last strip, and [[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=270 we can't have someone not happy]]. Not on the '''Internet'''."
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' has been doing this a lot starting around late January 2013, labeling anyone that dislikes [[CreatorsPet Xanthe]] or the [[PlotTumor Sisterhood Arc]] as a StrawMisogynist regardless of the reason.
** There have been a number of strips that have characters read actual fan complaints about the series' current direction, then put on "Patriarchy-filtering glasses" that supposedly reveal what the complainers really mean, which is always misogynistic whining. For example, complaints about Monique's CharacterDerailment get turned into "Waaaah! 'Nique doesn't [[MsFanservice show her ass anymore]]!"
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[[folder:Web Originals]]
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick got a lot of negative reaction to her "rapping about rape" video. Feeling that [[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Spoony]] wasn't getting nearly as much criticism for the rape jokes in his own videos, she had a line in the "Inside the [=NChick=] Labs" special where reprimands one of the other characters for even mentioning the rap, declaring "we're not Spoony, we can't get away with that shit".
* WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic tends to do this in regards to his FanDumb, most notably with his character of "Douchy [=McNitpick=]", who endlessly whines and bitches about every tiny mistake he makes and finds the idea of agreeing with him on anything to be repulsive. In his ''Film/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'' review, he did a RunningGag that the fans of the movie were pointing guns at his head so he couldn't actually criticize it. At the end of the review, he both says what he doesn't like about it and very fairly says many things that he thought the movie did do well, only for the FanDumb (in voiceover) to shriek "HE SAID HE DIDN'T LIKE IT!" and attack him. On the whole, Doug mixes it with a '''lot''' of SelfDeprecation and a constant need to apologize for things that aren't his fault, so nobody really gets upset. At the end of his review for ''Film/ASimpleWish'', the Critic is confronted by Creator/MaraWilson, who had been the leading child actress in that movie. Angry with him for mocking her for doing such terrible movies, she starts playing some of the ''really'' bad home-made films the Critic did in his teens, showing him as an extremely awkward adolescent. The episode commentary explained the circumstances behind Mara's cameo, how the whole thing was arranged between her and Doug, and how both of them had great fun doing it. Doug has stated that he considers it to be the best joke he's ever made in the show.
* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony:''
** After making fun of the source material for several episodes, "One Joke to Rule Them All" made fun of fellow Abridged Series ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft''. In the video description, the series creator preemptively called out anyone who viewed ''Friendship Is Witchcraft'' as a SacredCow:
--->insult the canon? "heh, that was kinda funny." \\
insult the {{fanon}}? "I'LL EAT YOUR FAMILY!"
** In TheStinger of "Ponynet Fight", Twilight wonders whether it's possible to troll bronies and Pinkie Pie answers by posting screenshots of negative comments from prior ''UFP'' episodes. The AuthorAvatar shows up to tell his haters that they're giving bronies a bad name... [[SelfDeprecation then he realizes that he's also to blame for riling them up in the first place]].
* WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows considers this a personal pet peeve when reviewing music. In his review for the aforementioned "Applause," he states that he has never once seen a musician call out her critics or haters without sounding whiny or pathetic.
* WebVideo/TheCinemaSnob: His entire persona is based on snobby movie critics, like Roger Ebert, though he does respect his opinions overall.
* Podcast/{{Radiodrome}}: Josh (but other hosts often too) seem to hate mainstream critics for condemning many of the B-movies, horror movies and exploitation films they tend to like. Even though a lot of these films aren't exactly quality pictures, making general critics' opinions understandable at least. ''Radiodrome'' devoted one episode to a 1980 Siskel & Ebert review of a slasher movie that they at the time both gave a thumbs down. The duo then condemned the entire genre on both its artistic merit as well as their lack of ethics. Josh, Brad, and other co-hosts reviewed every single quote from this (then) 30-year-old review that should be viewed in the context of its time anyway, only to simply disagree with all of the points that Siskel and Ebert raised.
* Creator/SamAndMickey's ''The Real Housewives of Toys 'R' Us'' has Franchise/{{Barbie}} vent in episode #2, about the argument that her unrealistically beautiful image makes her a damaging role model for little girls. She argues that little girls shouldn't feel intimidated by her beauty, because children play with all sorts of unrealistically-designed toys. She also reminds [[WesternAnimation/TheLegoMovie President Business]] and his council, who lobbied the criticism against her appearance in the episode, that she does promote such empowering values as achieving seemingly impossible dreams, refusing to act subservient, and overcoming male dominance.
* Website/YouTube singer [[Creator/AmandaLee AmaLee]], who specializes in English anime covers, has an AprilFoolsDay tradition of doing this to her HateDumb by taking songs and changing the lyrics to call-out particular types of hate comments the most common being "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks She Changed It, Now She Sucks]]". Ranging from [[SarcasmMode such heresy]] as [[https://youtu.be/7LJ8hBZx71k not signing a direct translation of the lyrics]] to [[https://youtu.be/JzPSE6Kzyn8 "being a sell-out"]].
* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's'' review of ''Videogame/JurassicParkTrespasser'' when the game's producer Seamus Blackley gets sick of the game's constant negative reviews and plans to trap critics and reviewers on his private island to be brainwashed into loving it. It's especially funny as Seamus ''himself'' [[SelfDeprecatingHumor provides the voice over]] and goes full BigBad after giving an earnest interview about [[TroubledProduction why the game was so bad]].
* [[invoked]] Arin and Danny, when playing ''VideoGame/SonicAndTheBlackKnight'', are ''not'' having a good time as they're not fans of it at the best of times but Arin is struggling immensely at a [[DifficultySpike suddenly harder level]]. Not being able to figure out what to do, he loses it and fires a ''fierce'' take that at fans who mock him for getting distracted during playthroughs and missing critical exposition or instructions. Ironically, this burst of anger inevitably [[ThePowerOfHate gets them through the level]].
--> '''Arin:''' When has the game ever told me?! It never did! And I'm sure it did and someone's gonna make a fucking video, like it's gonna start with me saying "they never said it" and then it's gonna smash-cut to just us talking about fucking smacking a butt or two and it's gonna say it on the screen and it's gonna zoom in slowly on the screen and I'm gonna look like an idiot, like an asshole! It's exactly what's gonna happen, I know it!
--> '''Danny:''' That ''is'' what's gonna happen.
--> '''Arin:''' It's happened so many fucking times in my life and I'm sick of it! ''I'm sick of it!!!''' Sonic has made me sick of it!
--> '''Danny:''' This is your legacy. This is ''my'' legacy! We have no children; this is our legacy! Wow!
--> '''Arin:''' When I was a kid I was like "I'm gonna make a movie or something and I'm gonna make a show that'll inspire millions!" No! I'm gonna get cut up into an "Arin sucks compilation" on Youtube by some fucking Sonic fan who's like "Shut up you don't know!"
--> '''({{Beat}})'''
--> '''Danny:''' ...Wow... ''wow'' dude! You alright?
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Occasionally happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', usually through the mouth of the [[StrawCritic Comic Book Guy]]. When he points out a continuity error that the producers had made ("Should The Simpsons get a horse?" when they did have one in an earlier episode, with completely different circumstances), followed by Homer asking "Anyone care what this guy thinks?" - with the entire town yelling "No!" at him.
** [[http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/leaked-simpsons-movie.php This]] Website/SomethingAwful.com faked script for "The Simpsons Movie" mentions this joke in particular when it states "[[LampshadeHanging Good, if we point out our flaws then we don't need to fix them]]."
** "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" is as much about ExecutiveMeddling, TotallyRadical, and ShooOutTheNewGuy as it is fan criticism, though Comic Book Guy's critique tends to be what it's best remembered for (that and Poochie's [[BusCrash ultimate fate]]).
** In the episode "No Good Read Goes Unpunished" Marge and Lisa wonder what to do when a decades old piece of media is considered offensive. The camera then pans to a photo of Apu, signed "Don't have a cow". Marge and Lisa look directly at the camera and state that the problem will be dealt with later, if at all.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** "Boys Do Cry" closed with Peter responding to criticism of the content of the show by saying the following:
--->'''Peter''': (talking with Lois; the camera slowly zooms in during) Like, for instance, if you're watching a TV show and you decide to take your values from that, you're an idiot. Maybe you should take responsibility for what values your kids are getting. Maybe you shouldn't be letting your kids watch certain shows in the first place if you have such a big problem with them, instead of blaming the shows themselves. ([[AsideGlance blatantly looks at the viewer]]) Yeah.
** In an earlier episode, in response to a bad review by Entertainment Weekly Peter uses a page from EW as toilet paper.
** Some argue whether turning Quagmire, a self-professed rapist, into a prudish SelfDeprecation avatar to Brian and Peter's immorality counts as this trope as well.
* ''WesternAnimation/DrawnTogether'' tried to do this with an ''Entertainment Weekly'' review using the justification of the cast saying "Members with these characteristics aren't our target audience." Unfortunately, they listed so many characteristics that it's impossible to find a member of society that doesn't fit into some of the demographics that were mentioned. In the end, though, the critic and Spanky Ham admit they both have points: she isn't the target audience and Drawn Together ''is'' [[SelfDeprecation "a steaming pile of sh*t"]]. ''Entertainment Weekly'' kept playing along, though, culminating in a review that went "I gave the show an F. They killed off my coworkers. If this continues, we'll have to get married."
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' has Bender say, "Have you ever tried simply turning off the TV, sitting down with your children, and hitting them?" in response to parents who blame television shows (like Futurama) for making their kids misbehave. Given the way it's presented, it's kind of a SpoofAesop.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Slappy Squirrel repeatedly badmouthed MoralGuardians who wanted over-the-top, slapstick violence toned down.
** One cartoon specifically had her nephew Skippy deal with bullying, to which all the nonviolent solutions failed and he resorted to Aunt Slappy's favorite solution - liberal use of cartoon explosives. The same toon's B-plot saw Slappy forced to build some machine to tone down on-screen violence, which ended up working by [[SceneryCensor moving the violence offscreen]].
** Subverted in an episode which pit Slappy against Series/SiskelAndEbert knockoffs but didn't seem to be a shot at them personally - A) Slappy's shtick is being a washed-up cartoon star, of course she'd have to deal with critics; and B) the show made liberal use of NoCelebritiesWereHarmed, they weren't ''not'' going to lampoon recognizable faces if they could help it.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{MAD}}'' does this on occasion with some SelfDeprecation thrown in, much like its print version. ItMakesSenseInContext since their main purpose is to criticize pop culture as a whole.
* Siskel and Ebert caricatures appear in the Bakshi ''WesternAnimation/MightyMouse'' finale "Mighty's Tone Poem" to tell everybody what they think of Mighty Mouse's home movies (which he's screening as punishment to four of his foes). Petey Pate gives them the heave-ho:
-->'''Petey Pate:''' Beat it, Baldy! You too, Fatso! The doughnut shop is down the street. Just follow the trail of cops!
* At the end of ''WesternAnimation/TheBeatles'' episode "Tell Me Why," a donkey eats one of the boys' guitars. George quips "Eight million mules in Spain and we had to get one that's a music critic."
** In "Not a Second Time," the boys are in an African jungle en route to a concert in Johannesburg. Ringo is frightened by an approaching team of crocodiles:
-->'''Guide:''' Oh, don't worry about those crocs. They're music lovers.\\
'''Ringo:''' Yeah...well, I hope they're not critics.
* Very common in ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'', given its reputation as a divisive show. An episode or two a season is dedicated to mocking the show's vocal {{Hatedom}}. The show tends to revel in SelfDeprecation, so these episodes are as much the result of them [[TheGadfly loving playing up the show's infamous representation]] as it is them sincerely telling the hatedom to relax.
** The episode "Let's Get Serious" had the ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' cartoon version of Aqualad pointing out how incompetent this iteration of the Titans was. The Titans thus decided to "get serious", but instead became parodic pastiches of DarkerAndEdgier comic book characters, and the end of the episode implies that [[StatusQuoIsGod things will go back to normal in the next episode]]. Notably, it's one of the few of the few non-special episodes that ''even the hatedom enjoys''.
** In "Más y Menos", when the Titans are seeing a video detailing Más and Menos' superpowers, there's a video in the upper right corner (that has a picture of a baby crying) that says "Teen Titanz NO!" by someone named [[DarthWiki/RuinedForever ChildHoodDestroyed]].
** "The Return of Slade" is has a BaitAndSwitch title designed to drum up interest from older fans of the original series. Slade never appears onscreen, and the Titans proceed to talk about how awesome the "three episodes and a made-for-tv movie" was, with Beast Boy saying "It's too bad nobody will ever see it"! The rest of the episode is one big AuthorTract involving BB and Cyborg getting upset that a clown they hired is too silly, so they turn it into a psychotic MonsterClown. Raven says that "Clowns are supposed to be silly because [[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids THEY'RE FOR KIDS!"]], and claims that [[AudienceSurrogate the two of them]] are letting nostalgia blind them and that they need to grow up. In case you didn't get it, the episode uses clowns as a thinly-veiled and obvious metaphor for the show itself, with Beast Boy and Cyborg standing in for the show's {{Hatedom}}.
** Then there's the episode "The FourthWall" which mocks the critics by having the show's characters seemingly acknowledging the lack of quality, and working to improve themselves by making their humour more "high brow" by putting on British accents and talking generally about politics, emphasizing emotion and character by [[LargeHam hamming up their lines]], and finally boosting their animation by threatening the animators and changing their style to an almost Disney-esque style with faded colours and faux-traditionally animated backgrounds. However, at the end of the episode, they realize it's better to be true to one's self and return to form.
*** The episode “Toddler Titans… Yay” rehashes plot line from “The Fourth Wall” by having Control Freak once again making complaints towards the teen titans and being deemed in the wrong for it. This time however the episode takes jabs at those criticizing the show for only caring about appealing to little children and refusing to honor the legacy of the original series. This is carried out by having the Teen Titans sent to an alternate world that is a Dora The Explorer knockoff and having them cause havoc there to escape.
** The second half of "Two Parter" not only took a jab at the critics but also had a cameo from Music/WeirdAlYankovic as [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] that was meant to parody the more serious episodes of past DC productions.
** "The Titans Show" takes it a step further by having the villains of the show play the role of the normal audience viewing the series. Control Freak reveals he was responsible for the last five episodes being held on an island to make the Titans more interesting for the villains to watch. Starfire questions why people who hate them all would devote so much time and energy watching them and the Titans show her the "brutal" comments left online about them. Control Freak reminds them that "[[VocalMinority opinions on the internet]] aren't [[OpinionMyopia accurate indicators]] of popularity and success."
** "Teen Titans Roar!" is one towards critics of ''WesternAnimation/ThundercatsRoar'', with the Titans playing the role of the {{Hatedom}} decrying the reboot as ruining the franchise, except for Starfire, who plays the reasonable "normal" person who gives the new show a chance. This culminates in a battle between the Titans and the ''Roar!'' Thundercats where the Titans are easily defeated (except for Starfire, who didn't fight), after which the spirit of the original Lion-O descends from Heaven to declare ''Roar!'' a worthy successor to his show and that anyone who disagrees "has a poop mouth with poop opinions". At which point, ''Roar!'' Lion-O thanks him for the [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial totally sincere and not forced endorsement]].
* [[WesternAnimation/GarbagePailKidsCartoon The Garbage Pail Kids cartoon]] ''starts off'' out with one of these. The first skit in the very first episode consists of a stereotypical {{Moral Guardian|s}} decrying the show, questioning why it would ever be put on the air, only to be silenced by the channel changing to the actual cartoon.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E14FameAndMisfortune Fame and Misfortune]]" gives the message of "[[MST3KMantra It's a children's show that teaches social skills, you should really just relax!]]" and that imperfections are what makes the characters who they are. The episode's climax even has many of the ponies that have harassed the Mane Six throughout the episode echoing the usual criticisms thrown towards the characters, with Applejack being the most boring character.
* ''WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019'' features a jab at critics of the show, portraying two male sexist stoners who hate the show, complete with [[Film/JusticeLeague2017 "Release the Snyder Cut"]] and [[Film/TheLastJedi "The Last Jedi Isn't Canon"]] shirts. The former rants about Harley Quinn being a MarySue and the show being feminist propaganda despite not having actually ''seen'' it (and yet somehow wrote a review for it) and wonders why would anyone make a show set in Gotham City with Batman as a bit character (despite having seen all 5 seasons of ''Series/{{Gotham}}''. He's finally persuaded to watch the latest ''Harley Quinn'' since it [[ADayInTheLimelight focuses on Batman and Batgirl]] and Harley is not in it.
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* OlderThanSteam: When [[Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti Michelangelo]] was painting ''Last Judgement'' for the Art/SistineChapel, priest [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biagio_da_Cesena Biagio da Cesana]] complained about the figures being nude. He proceeded to depict Biagio in hell as Minos, and making that figure censored... [[GroinAttack by a snake attacking Biago's privates.]] Biagio tried to complain to Pope Paul III, who responded in kind:
-->'''Paul III:''' As pope, I have power over earth and heaven. However, Michelangelo drew you in hell, which I have no power over.
* Creator/GustavKlimt entitled one of his works ''Art/{{Goldfish}} [[http://bobkessel.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/klimt-goldfish-to-my-critics.jpg?w=250&h=718 To My Critics]]''.
* UsefulNotes/BenjaminDisraeli, who earned his living as a novelist, said that "Critics are those who have failed in literature and art."
* German composer Max Reger legendarily wrote the following to a critic who had panned his music:
--> "I am sitting in [[ToiletHumour the smallest room in my house]]. Your review is in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
* Quote of lost origin: Critics are like eunuchs at an orgy. Meaning, they may claim to know everything about how to do it, but cannot do it themselves.
* At the 2013 World Wide Developer's Conference, while introducing the redesigned Mac Pro desktop computer, Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller said "'Can't innovate anymore', my ass!", in reference to those that felt Apple's best days were over after Creator/SteveJobs' death in 2011.
* In 1947, Han van Meegeren was arrested on charges of selling artwork by the Dutch master Creator/JohannesVermeer to [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany Hermann Goering]]. It turned out that the painting was actually part of a scheme to ruin art critics: van Meegren had painted it himself. His plan worked: he was found guilty of forgery[[note]]which carried a much lighter punishment than selling Dutch cultural treasures to the Nazis would have[[/note]], and the Dutch art critics were greatly embarrassed.
* When a news website limited their review of an Music/AmandaPalmer concert to the topic of a wardrobe malfunction that occurred onstage to the exclusion of her actual singing and performance, Amanda responded magnificently [[https://youtu.be/OiAffX0x04k in the form of a song.]]
* A museum tested the skill of art critics by presenting paintings drawn by actual monkeys, then claimed they came from a very famous surrealist painter. Out of around 20 critics, only one of them exclaimed correctly that they were obviously drawn by a monkey; all others fell for it completely.
* On [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII June 22, 1941]], Creator/JeanMarais inflicted a beatdown on critic Alain Laubreaux at a Parisian restaurant. Laubreaux was a homophobic and antisemitic [[LesCollaborateurs collaborationist]] who lambasted the plays of Marais' lover Creator/JeanCocteau purely out of Nazi-friendly ideological bias. It inspired a similar scene in ''Film/TheLastMetro''.
* After the film ''Film/BohemianRhapsody'' depicted the creation of the song of the same name, a montage of savage critiques filled the screen. This was in stark contrast to end of film, where the song became the centerpiece of the massive Live Aid concert. Not to mention that the song made the top ten lists in three different decades (the original release, after being featured in ''Film/WaynesWorld'' and the Freddie Mercury biop) and is considered by the Rolling Stone magazine as among the greatest songs of all time.
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