I removed the Jay Naylor example because it sounds like he's not really trying to distance himself or his current projects from the porn stuff he's done. He might be a better fit for one of the other h-tropes.

Bill Willingham's Ironwood is more of an inversion of this trope. David Dragavon and Fantasia Faust both originated in the Elementals comic books.

I cut this:

• Chrysler Corporation LLC, which sold rebadged Mitsubishi vehicles between 1988 and 1995, in the United States, Canada and the Northern Mariana Islands, no less! It wasn't until the introduction of the "cloud cars" (Chrysler Cirrus, Dodge Stratus, Plymouth Breeze) that things got better for them.

because it has nothing to do with this trope.