History Main / AuthorUsurpation

* LRonHubbard and ''Dianetics''. ''Literature/BattlefieldEarth'' runs a close second.

* AlanMoore and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}.''

* GeorgeLucas and ''StarWars''.

* OrsonScottCard and ''Literature/EndersGame''. He also wrote a bunch of sequels and several other series.
* Creator/CSLewis and ''{{Narnia}}''.

* HermanMelville wrote a whole bunch of books. You probably only know ''Literature/MobyDick''.

* J.M. Barrie and ''PeterPan''.

* GeneRoddenberry and ''Franchise/StarTrek''.

For the actor version, see IAmNotSpock.

* OrsonScottCard and EndersGame. He also wrote a bunch of sequels and several other series.

* DouglasAdams and ''TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''.

* ''HermanMelville wrote a whole bunch of books. You probably only know Literature/MobyDick.

* Joseph Heller and ''{{Catch-22}}''.

* HideoKojima and ''MetalGearSolid'', to his annoyance.

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}'', will forevermore be known as the studio that created the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series.

* LFrankBaum and ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

* Creator/GeorgeOrwell and ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]].'' Despite being responsible for any number of other exceptional books, the word "Orwellian" forever refers to the totalitarian, oppressive/suppressive government present in ''1984''; evidence for it is [[OrwellianEditor right]] [[OrwellianRetcon here]] on the site. It doesn't help that his second most famous book, ''AnimalFarm'' concerns almost all of the same themes.

* OrsonScottCard and [[EndersGame Ender's Game]]. He also wrote a bunch of sequels and several other series.

* J.M. Barrie and ''PeterPan''.

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}'', will forevermore be known as the studio that created the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series.

* Creator/GeorgeOrwell and ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]].'' Despite being responsible for any number of other exceptional books, the word "Orwellian" forever refers to the totalitarian, oppressive/suppressive government present in ''1984''; evidence for it is [[OrwellianEditor right]] [[OrwellianRetcon here]] on the site. It doesn't help that his second most famous book, ''AnimalFarm'' concerns almost all of the same themes.
* Creator/HPLovecraft is another extreme example; Lovecraftian basically ''means'' CosmicHorrorStory and/or EldritchAbomination.
* To complete the trifecta, Creator/NiccoloMachiavelli's non-fiction essay ''Literature/ThePrince'' has forever ensured that "Machiavellian" will always be a synonym for amoral behavior in the pursuit of absolute power, despite the fact that Machiavelli himself was staunchly pro-republican.
* GeneRoddenberry and ''Franchise/StarTrek''.
* GeorgeLucas and ''StarWars''.

* HideoKojima and ''MetalGearSolid'', to his annoyance.

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Myth}}'', will forevermore be known as the studio that created the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series.

* GeneRoddenberry and ''StarTrek''.

* AAMilne and ''Winnie-the-Pooh''.

* GeorgeOrwell and ''[[NineteenEightyFour 1984]].'' Despite being responsible for any number of other exceptional books, the word "Orwellian" forever refers to the totalitarian, oppressive/suppressive government present in ''1984''; evidence for it is [[OrwellianEditor right]] [[OrwellianRetcon here]] on the site. It doesn't help that his second most famous book, ''AnimalFarm'' concerns almost all of the same themes.
* HPLovecraft is another extreme example; Lovecraftian basically ''means'' CosmicHorrorStory and/or EldritchAbomination.
* To complete the trifecta, Niccolo Machiavelli's non-fiction essay ''The Prince'' has forever ensured that "Machiavellian" will always be a synonym for amoral behavior in the pursuit of absolute power, despite the fact that Machiavelli himself was staunchly pro-republican.

* CSLewis and ''{{Narnia}}''.

* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the ''SherlockHolmes'' stories, reportedly to the author's chagrin.

* MaryShelley and ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}''.

* JMBarrie and ''PeterPan''.

** Somebody once asked him, "When will there be a sequel to ''Wyrms''?" He replied, "It doesn't need a sequel: it needs readers."

* JRRTolkien and ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''.

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* JRRTolkien and ''TheLordOfTheRings''.

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' and ''{{Myth}}'', will forevermore be known as the studio that created the ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series.

* MaryShelley and ''{{Frankenstein}}''.

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as {{Marathon}} and {{Myth}}, will forevermore be known as the studio that created the {{Halo}} series.

* AlanMoore and ''{{Watchmen}}.''

* {{Bungie}}, despite making ground-breaking series such as {{Marathon}} and {{Myth}}, will forever be known as the studio that created the {{Halo}} series.

* MaryShelley and ''Frankenstein''.

* LFrankBaum and ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

* LFrankBaum and ''TheWizardOfOz''.

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*L. Frank Baum and ''TheWizardOfOz''.