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TV Tropes patron saint.
Some people have a gift of reaching right into your soul
And finding the hole
And making it bigger.
Reel Big Fish Drunk Again
"For those of you looking for the 'Joss Whedon is a better writer than you' panel, you're in the wrong room. That's going on in every other room at this convention."
Scriptwriter, director, cameo actor (Quentin Tarantino style), television producer (through his famed Mutant Enemy production company), and Comic Books author. (And as of the live movie-theater broadcast of This American Life on April 23, 2009, singer.) Joss (short for "Joseph"; rhymes with "floss") is from a family of talented writers, and is one of the first third-generation television writers.
Best-known for Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Angel, the famously-cancelled cult hit Firefly (and its motion-picture version, Serenity), Whedon's characters and scripts are famous among his fans for containing a dry, caustic wit; Whedon's humor is a trademark of his work, and he can be counted on to do something completely unexpected in every new series (in Buffy, he listed a regular guest-star in the opening credits for the first time — only to kill her off in that very episode.)
Whedon delights in defying the audience's expectations — rather than killing a major character, he'll kill off a lesser-known but much more endearing (and often fan-favorite) character.
In the DVD commentary for Serenity, Whedon explains that he likes doing such things because people expect the hero to die or be horribly injured at some point during the production — but they don't expect the minor characters to die, so the impact is much greater.
He's also perfectly aware of how some people think of him; [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyuTU26sDk Marv Wolfman, at a Comic-con panel
 ], but he's a good sport about it.
See also Jossed, Whedon'th Thyndrome
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