History Main / RageAgainstTheAuthor

--> They've never given me a name. I've been around since ''[[Recap/VeggieTalesEpisode1WheresGodWhenImSScared Show 1]]'' and I ''still'' don't have a name!

--> They've never given me a name. I've been around since ''show one'' and I ''stil'' don't have a name!

* A RunningGag on Website/{{Newgrounds}} is to use Creator/TomFulp, the creator of Newgrounds, as a ButtMonkey. Doubles as BitingTheHandHumor.

* A RunningGag on Website/{{Newgrounds}} is to use [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Fulp Tom Fulp,]] the creator of Newgrounds, as a ButtMonkey. Doubles as BitingTheHandHumor.

* In ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl'', the main character is taken to his imaginary world and must awaken his [[SuperWeight author-weight powers]] there. At one point, Lavagirl gets pissed at him for how she was written.

* In the Russian movie and Carlo Gozzi play ''[[Theatre/IlReCervoThe Stag King]]'', Tartalja -- one of the Masks in Dell Arte comedies and a CardCarryingVillain in the film -- starts complaining that he doesn't want to be bad, he wants to live in peace, etc., and that only his mask forces him to be evil. The wizard, who is also the {{Narrator}} of the story, reminds him that he [[YouCantFightFate cannot change his destiny]], so Tartalja has to continue his evil deeds.

* In the Russian movie and Carlo Gozzi play ''The Stag King'', Tartalja -- one of the Masks in Dell Arte comedies and a CardCarryingVillain in the film -- starts complaining that he doesn't want to be bad, he wants to live in peace, etc., and that only his mask forces him to be evil. The wizard, who is also the {{Narrator}} of the story, reminds him that he [[YouCantFightFate cannot change his destiny]], so Tartalja has to continue his evil deeds.

* In the Russian movie and Karlo Gotzi play ''The Stag King'', Tartalja -- one of the Masks in Dell Arte comedies and a CardCarryingVillain in the film -- starts complaining that he doesn't want to be bad, he wants to live in peace, etc., and that only his mask forces him to be evil. The wizard, who is also the {{Narrator}} of the story, reminds him that he [[YouCantFightFate cannot change his destiny]], so Tartalja has to continue his evil deeds.

* In ''[[VideoGame/ChexQuest Chex Quest HD]]'', [[spoiler:Dr. O. Ryen's ending sees her, in an attempt to stop the Flemoid menace at its very source, go back in time to 1996, the date when the original ''Chex Quest'' game came out, and assault one of its developers, though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she later admits that her attempts at doing so only made things worse for her]]]].

* In ''[[VideoGame/ChexQuest Chex Quest HD]]'', [[spoiler:Dr. O. Ryen's ending sees her, in an attempt to stop the Flemoid menace at its very source, go back in time to 1996, the date when the original ''Chex Quest'' game came out, and assault one of its developers, though [[NiceJobBreakingItHero she later admits that her attempts only made things worse for her]]]].

* Once the protagonist of "WebOriginal/NothingLikeTheSun" [[spoiler:[[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.

* ''Webcomic/TrueBelievers'' features Franchise/SpiderMan and Mary Jane protesting "[[Creator/JoeQuesada Joe Quesadilla]]"'s decision to [[ComicBook/OneMoreDay retcon their marriage.]]

* The characters on the Israeli sitcom ''[=HaPijamot=]'' often comment about certain aspects of their characterisation, and occasionally even argue with the director. One early episode had Ilan, one of the lead characters (played by one of the writers), complain that [[WhoWritesThisCrap his character isn’t written well enough]], and in another a supporting character named Roni writes the episode for him, making herself a literal GodModeSue, before Ilan finds out about it and undoes everything.

* The noncanonical short story "After Midnight" has Creator/MercedesLackey confronted by a number of her characters, including several of the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar and lead by her primary HurtingHero, [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Vanyel Ashkevron]]. It's PlayedForLaughs as all her characters are fully in ItsAllAboutMe mode, each bickering with the others and complaining that they had it worst, and Van angry that Lackey made him ''whine'' so much. Another character gripes about Lackey's joke about her 'formula for success' being to make audiences like and care about someone, then drop a mountain on them. Herald Myste, the AuthorAvatar, has to intervene and explain that tragedy is a compelling narrative force and the books would not exist if characters didn't suffer in them, which the other characters are reluctantly mollified by. Myste then bargains with her author for a juicier role that ''doesn't'' involve getting killed or maimed and does involve a romance, though when she leaves Lackey does contemplate dropping a mountain on her after the readers get attached.

** [[spoiler:It happens again in ''Rabbit Rampage,'' where Bugs (the former animator) faces off with a malevolent new animator who turns out to be Elmer Fudd.]]

--->'''Bugs:''' (''spits out the carrot he was eating'') ''TORTOISE BEATS HARE?!'' Why these screwy guys don't know what they're talkin' about!! Why, the big bunch'a joiks! [[BitingTheHandHumor And I oughta know, I work for 'em]].

* In the three-part ''Series/RedDwarf: Back to Earth'', the characters get into a fight with their creator after they find out he's planning to kill off the characters.

* The noncanonical short story "After Midnight" has Creator/MercedesLackey confronted by a number of her characters, including several of the Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar and lead by her primary HurtingHero, [[Literature/LastHeraldMage Vanyel Ashkevron]]. It's PlayedForLaughs as all her characters are fully in ItsAllAboutMe mode, each bickering with the others and complaining that they had it worst, and Van angry that Lackey made him ''whine'' so much. Another character gripes about Lackey's joke about her 'formula for success' being to make audiences like and care about someone, then drop a mountain on them. Herald Myste, the AuthorSelfInsert, has to intervene and explain that tragedy is a compelling narrative force and the books would not exist if characters didn't suffer in them, which the other characters are reluctantly mollified by. Myste then bargains with her author for a juicier role that ''doesn't'' involve getting killed or maimed and does involve a romance, though when she leaves Lackey does contemplate dropping a mountain on her after the readers get attached.

* ''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 - but they managed to [[spoiler:turn the series' director into an amnesiac supporting character]].

* 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.

* The afterwords of the ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' novels feature arguments between "L" (Lord of Nightmares, the creator deity of the ''Slayers'' world) and "A" (Author, Hajime Kanzaka). These arguments usually result in "A" being beaten up by "L" or "Minion S" for being behind schedule or not giving them any screentime.

* In the ''WebVideo/TryHards'' episode "Making An Award Winning Film IN A WEEK", Tom's short film ends with one of the characters leaving the film and killing him as punishment for not being able to come up with a proper ending.

* Website/SCPFoundation has this as [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal one of the proposals]] for SCP-001. [[spoiler:The Foundation has discovered its writers. It also has a backup plan should the writers ever decide to destroy them, by killing them all through [[BrownNote memetic agents]].]] And it's not just the writers. [[spoiler:Note that the procedure in question carries a risk of destroying ''all of observable reality.'' And the memetic agents in question will be disseminated through the database itself. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou They've got plans to try to kill you, the reader, while you're on the site.]]]]

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

* Wiki/SCPFoundation has this as [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/sandrewswann-s-proposal one of the proposals]] for SCP-001. [[spoiler:The Foundation has discovered its writers. It also has a backup plan should the writers ever decide to destroy them, by killing them all through [[BrownNote memetic agents]].]] And it's not just the writers. [[spoiler:Note that the procedure in question carries a risk of destroying ''all of observable reality.'' And the memetic agents in question will be disseminated through the database itself. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou They've got plans to try to kill you, the reader, while you're on the site.]]]]

* ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian'': In the episode "[[Recap/DaveTheBarbarianEpisode31APigsStory A Pig's Story]]", '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''' determines that the one always responsible for his [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain numerous failures]] is the one who whatever says, goes: [[InteractiveNarrator the Narrator]]. So he captures the Narrator in order to make him tell a story where he wins.

* The time when '''THE DARK LORD CHUCKLES, THE SILLY PIGGY!''' captures [[InteractiveNarrator the Narrator]] in ''WesternAnimation/DaveTheBarbarian''.

* In an inversion, Creator/JMBarrie's Literature/SherlockHolmes spoof "The Adventure of the Two Collaborators" has himself and Creator/ArthurConanDoyle visiting 221B Baker Street to [[CreatorBacklash kill Holmes]], after their new play fails because [[TruthInTelevision audiences heard Holmes wasn't in it]].