History Main / RageAgainstTheAuthor

[[caption-width-right:350:So, TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin, huh? [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Lemme have a word with ya about that]], [[Creator/PattonOswalt Mr. Author]]...]]

* Yui and Rito in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11591414/2/To-Love-CARNAGE To-Love-Carnage]]'': They [[spoiler:hope they don't piss off 'god' (the author) and have them PutOnABus or [[KillTheWoobie Killed]]]].

* ''Fanfic/SOE2LoneHeirOfKrypton'':
** In the first chapters' omakes the author, assisted by Asuka, tells their alternate ideas to turn her into a super-heroine (before settling on ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}''). Unfortunately their discarded ideas go from unfeasible to dumb, getting Asuka thoroughly embarrassed until she gets fed up with it and chases him angrily.
** In another omake the author decides a Jimmy Olsen analogue is needed, and Kensuke is picked. When Kensuke realizes that being Jimmy Olsen is NOT something great, he glares at the author.
* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' "[[Fanfic/ThisTimeRound Look Who's Talking: Storytime!]]" fic (which is already as MetaFic as it can get) "[[http://www.ttrarchive.com/stjackbeanstalk.html Jack and the Beanstalk]]" ends with the babies, horrified by the nonsense they've had to listen to, hunting down [[Tropers/DaibhidC the fanfic writer in question]].
* In one ''Franchise/BaldursGate'' fanfic, the [=NPCs=], sick of replaying the same scenes over and over when the human player reloads saved games on her computer, team up and kill the PC. At which point, the human player decides never to play the game again.
* Although this wiki uses the term "RevengeFic" for stories where an author takes revenge against a character, anime fandom used the term for stories where characters break the FourthWall to take revenge against fanfiction authors for JustForFun/{{egregious}} acts of perceived CanonDefilement. This variety was both named and typified by the ''[[http://thelbane.ranma.net/~alcen/ Revenge Wars]]'' which flooded the Anime Fan Fiction Mailing List in response to and in the wake of Scott "SKJAM!" Jamison's story ''[[http://skjam.dreamwidth.org/4743.html#cutid1 Sauce]]''. (Compare with the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' entry in the "Web Original" section, below.)
* In many of Phoenix Reece's fics, his characters tend to break the fourth wall during the Author's Note to physically assault him for what he makes them do. The ultimate example, however, is ''Happy Tree Camp''. Featured in the story is an out of place human character who is described as [[TakeThatMe oafish and simple]], [[spoiler:who later turns out to be the author who has sacrificed most of his powers in order to be a part of his story and make sure it goes well while ObfuscatingStupidity to keep his cover. The villain finds out about this and ends up kidnapping him, hypnotizing him and trying to use him to get godlike power and ultimately to become an author himself. Obviously, part of his plan involves killing the author in revenge for what he did to him, along with nearly every other main character.]] Also, once the characters find out about Phoenix, they keep asking him to change the story to make the ending good for them. [[spoiler:His "daughter" Pippy complains about how awful the story gets afterwards, since she reads all of his stories after he writes them.]]
* In "Music/{{VOCALOID}} Forever", Rin and Len Kagamine plan to take revenge on all the fans and MMD users that have written about the Kagamines experiencing {{Twincest}}, pairing them up with other people, or just downright raping or abusing them. It's not exactly rage against the author of the story, but against authors of other stories.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bFSRvUcj8w "I'll Quit Singing"]] is Luka ranting about writers who make her sing pornographic songs.
* In the ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7893897/1/Sports_day Sports Day]]'', Touma Kamijou eventually finds the authors and threatens to beat the crap out of them if they don't stop screwing with his life and the lives of the innocent girls in his UnwantedHarem. At the time that he caught up with them, they were talking about the ''next'' life-threatening situation they would put Touma in for their own amusement and holding a gambling pool for the ''next'' random girl they would make fall in love with him.
* [[FourthWallObserver Pinkie Pie]]'s final summation in ''Fanfic/TwilightSparklesAwesomeAdventure'' has definite shades of this.
-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Duh! We’re in a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin poorly written story full of grammatical errors]] with a bland Mary Sue [[AuthorAvatar of the author]] as main character. Twilight is married to Trixie who is a colt, Princess Celestia is a [[CardCarryingVillain super-evil meanie]] who [[ShootTheMessenger kills people because they bring her bad news]] and Rainbow Dash [[CrackPairing was shipped with]] [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos the Slenderman]]. Of course, this is a [[ContrivedCoincidence strange coincidence]]! But at least it means that this story will be over very soon. Or do you want to read any more pages about Meanie Sue betting up guards?

* In ''Fanfic/TheFanmakeBlooperSeries'', the climax of ''Blooper And The Beast'' happens the same way the climax for ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' happens... except instead of trying to kill the Beast, the assorted characters tried to kill ''the Author''. [[spoiler:They fail, as the author brainwashed their minds into acting just like the mob from the movie, with [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]] being brainwashed into being Gaston. However, once the Author's OC comes in and is told that he will love [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]], he refuses and soon kills him]].
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'' has Naruto unleash the Nine-Tails and threaten to destroy a ward of Tokyo every hour unless Masashi Kishimoto is brought before him alive. Sasuke, meanwhile, goes around immolating fans who write Narusasu slashfics with Ameratsu and then leaving their corpses to burn eternally.
** It's then subverted with the Mane Six from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', who send a sincere thank you letter to Lauren Faust... before they go to a fan convention and pretend to be cosplayers.
* In the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' one-shot ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/11713899 I'm Not Dead!]]'', [[SdrawkcabName "Madame Gnilwor"]], an analogue of J.K. Rowling, argues with [[spoiler:Fred and George]] and tries to take [[spoiler:Fred (who's alive but temporarily paralyzed)]] away in a twisted reversal of a certain ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' scene because [[spoiler:he's]] on her list.
* In [=ToucanLDM=]'s [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFB22421D3FC7B307 MLP Meets]] videos, Lyra and Bon-Bon were initially portrayed as the {{Butt Monkey}}s whenever they appeared. [[https://youtu.be/q3zBiN4QdP4 When the author himself ends up in Ponyville]], the two get to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown exact their revenge]] on him.
-->'''[[Series/{{House}} Dr. House]]:''' So LetMeGetThisStraight. You were transported to a land of magical ponies, only to have two of the little colorful ponies beat the living tar out of you. [{{Beat}}] Yeah, I think it's best for you to go to the hospital next door, pal.

* In ''Fanfic/TalesOfAResetMind'', Anger tries to spoil the reader, and gets into a fight with The Author because of that.
* ''Fanfic/CoreLine'': Multiple characters throughout the stories complain about how the works of fiction they come from have moulded the perceptions of other people about how they are in (InUniverse) RealLife (for example, an AlternateSelf version of [[Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion Mari Illustrious Makinami]] that is the great-granddaughter of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica ([[Fanfic/SuperwomenOfEvaAmericanDream long story]]) getting a hard time being seen as something more than just the [[BloodKnight battle-lusty]] CloudCuckoolander the movies show her as and getting proper recognition from her work). This kind of situation happens so often that there is [[LanguageEqualsThought an actual term for it]] in-universe, "Authored Rage".

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' fanfiction ''Fanfic/EverybodysGottaLeaveSometime'', Lucy van Pelt openly calls Charles Schultz a "jerk" because he won't draw their stories anymore, even though her friends tell her he can't help it because he's very sick.
* ''Fanfic/CindersAndAshesTheChroniclesOfKamenRiderDante'', given how it's a crossover with ''Anime/ReCreators'', has an additional example in the form of Yuichi. Having come from an {{Utsuge}} whose anime adaptation had a DownerEnding, Yuichi confronts his creator on this and tries to kill him, much to [[DeathSeeker his creator's wishes]].

* In ''Fanfic/TheDeathEatersDisneyWorldTrip'', Voldemort is ''somehow'' aware of the author's narration of the fic and [[LemonyNarrator all the snark that comes with it]], and occasionally protests the snarky comments. For instance, in Chapter 4, he starts arguing with the Narrator over his character description.
-->'''Narrator:''' […] Poor ugly, bald, creepy, disgusting Dark Lord.\\
'''Voldemort:''' ''(to "no one in particular")'' Lord Voldemort is none of those things!\\
'''Narrator:''' Yes, Voldemort could read the narration. Dang. Oh well, it's not like he can curse me, right?\\
'''Voldemort:''' YOU KNOW I WOULD SO DO THAT IF I HAD THE ABILITY!

** Similarly, in ''Manga/{{Nightschool}}'', the cast runs off to go party when Svetlana tries to interview them in the omake section. Her reaction? "Hey, I just figured out what happens in the next volume. [[KillEmAll Everyone accidentally gets]] [[DroppedABridgeOnHim run over by a truck."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' did this in the [[MilestoneCelebration 200th episode]].

* The entire idea of ''Comik?'' is that the comic is being created over time by a writer/artist the characters are aware of. One character undermines this with another trope: she believes they're comic book characters but believes the author is a god. She's as unenthusiastic as the rest of the cast, however, resulting in RageAgainstTheHeavens in a series about RageAgainstTheAuthor.

* And Mojo Jojo pulls the same thing in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'', both on the show ("Simian Says") and the comic book ("See You Later, Narrator").

[[caption-width-right:350:So, TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin, huh? [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Lemme have a word with ya about that]], [[Creator/ButchHartman Mr. Author]]...]]

** Cartoonist Stephan Pastis (who [[AuthorGuestSpot appears as an actual character]]) often gets the worst of it, as when he appeared at a signing of Rat's comic strip collection ''Dickie the Cockroach'', tried to upstage him and promote the ''Pearls'' collections, and got beaten up with a baseball bat. He was even eaten by a "Ratterpillar" to end a recent wonderland arc. Also, any time there is a pun strip, it will typically end with one of the characters, usually Rat, threatening or otherwise mocking Pastis.

[[caption-width-right:350: So, TheGoodGuysAlwaysWin, huh? [[PreAssKickingOneLiner Lemme have a word with ya about that]], Mr. Author...]]

* David (the author of ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'') showed up at one point and fought Ethan. They then pudding wrestled (that was Robin's idea). Eventually the fight was broken up by Maggie (the writer's girlfriend), who demanded they exchange info and deal with it like adults (read: Maggie and David broke into Ethan's house and smashed up the place). Why were they fighting? David kept editing [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/David_Willis Ethan's]] [[Wiki/TFWikiDotNet Transformers Wiki]] page.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' Spades Slick stabs Andrew Hussie, but [[KnifeNut he does that to everybody]]. Then, taking this trope to its logical conclusion, [[spoiler:EldritchAbomination Lord English appears behind the fourth wall, holding the severed head of the author's robotic avatar. Then he hunts down and shoots the author's ''main'' avatar. Eventually expanded on somewhat; As a child, Caliborn was the only character shown so far who recognized Hussie's narration within his head. The resulting rebellion against Hussie, and the narration's increasing railroading of his emotions, seems to have driven him even madder than he was.]]

* In ''Tsumihoroboshi-hen'' of ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', when Rena is about to KillThemAll, Keiichi muses on what a sick tragedy it is.

** In a [[UpToEleven particularly complicated]] instance of the trope, in [[http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/1800.html one story arc]] he's killed by a character from the strip... namely, himself. When he was about to announce which character from the strip was [[[TonightSomeoneDies going to be killed.]] And hadn't intended it to be himself who died.

* ''Anime/BigO'' is what happens when [[spoiler:the ruler]] of the setting realizes they're in a live-action movie series and starts a war just to complain about their lack of agency in their role. The anime takes place after they lose.

* Once the protagonist of "WebOriginal/NothingLikeTheSun" [[NoticingTheFourthWall notices the fourth wall]], in a manic burst she realizes that her writers [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou thought they were safe from her because they were real and she is fictional]], and she proves them wrong by using her omnipotent powers to take them to her world, where she and her friend torture them in an attempt to make them take away her GlowingEyes. They only stop because the authors can only change her world while in their own world.

** ''ComicBook/DeadpoolKillsTheMarvelUniverse'' has [[FanNickname Dreadpool]]'s rampage end with the murder of the Marvel Comics creative team, because he can't truly destroy the Marvel universe as long as there are writers to write Marvel comics [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou and fans to read them]].

* IDW’s adaptation of ''ComicBook/{{Clue}}'' ends with the butler getting so angry over the way the comic is being written that he [[spoiler: murders the editor, the letterer, the artist and finally the writer, before turning towards [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the reader]]]]. Though this was also a bit of HeKnowsTooMuch, given that [[spoiler: Mr. Boddy was having him eliminate all witnesses to how he faked his death and framed Mr. Green]].

* An InUniverse example, the ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation'' series, which depicts a stick figure fighting it's creator, and ocasionally [[ItMakesSenseInContext fighting the icons on the desktop]]. Well, until the fourth part, where the two sides become friends.

-->'''Pinkie Pie:''' Duh! We’re in a [[RougeAnglesOfSatin poorly written story full of grammatical errors]] with a bland MarySue [[AuthorAvatar of the author]] as main character. Twilight is married to Trixie who is a colt, Princess Celestia is a [[CardCarryingVillain super-evil meanie]] who [[ShootTheMessenger kills people because they bring her bad news]] and Rainbow Dash [[CrackPairing was shipped with]] [[Franchise/TheSlendermanMythos the Slenderman]]. Of course, this is a [[ContrivedCoincidence strange coincidence]]! But at least it means that this story will be over very soon. Or do you want to read any more pages about Meanie Sue betting up guards?

* At a (slightly) less meta level, the point of the ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' is to enter a fanfictional world, complain about everything wrong that is happening, and smack around the nearest representation of the author. Some agents are recruited from fanfiction works that either did horrible things to their characterization, or would have done [[FateWorseThanDeath incredibly painful]], [[RapeAsDrama very nasty]], and/or [[SacrificialLion plain lethal]] things to them. There are also a few agents from the Real World, especially after the Ypur Invasion, who are aware that they are fictional inserts reflecting parts of their author. They tend to wonder what kinda of sadist needs to expose them to the [[MarySue horrible, horrible]] [[EverythingsBetterWithSparkles sparkles]].