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* InUniverse example with ''VideoGame/Shipwrecked64'', the character Stumbler O'Hare, a "hopeless romantic" of a rabbit who [[IronicallyDisabledArtist tries to paint despite his arms having been torn off]], was created by the in-universe developer Connor Thomas to make fun of the BigBad [[spoiler:Mark Mullins, who, along with ''far'' more serious crimes that Connor discovered, embezzled a very large amount of money to pay medical bills for his wife]] who recently had an arm amputated. [[DeconstructedTrope Stumbler himself is fully aware of his origins, sympathizes with the very person he was made to spite, and is haunted by guilt]].

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As revealed on ''[[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen Walt Disney's Nine Old Men]] and the Art of Animation'', Madame Medusa was based on Milt Kahl's ex-wife Phyllis Bounds Detiege (who was related to Walt Disney as the niece of his wife Lillian) Milt was married 3 times and she was the only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness). He made sure to include traits of hers such as her flamboyance, fake eyelashes, and what he called the "aging sexpot attitude", as well as her favorite style of boots. Another animator, Jane Baer (who knew both) later told historian John Canemaker, "[[[[https://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/the-animated-phyllis-bounds/ Phyllis wore boots. Medusa wore the same boots.]]"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As revealed on ''[[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen Walt Disney's Nine Old Men]] and the Art of Animation'', Madame Medusa was based on Milt Kahl's ex-wife Phyllis Bounds Detiege. Milt was married 3 times and she's the only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness).

* The [[https://www.expositionbreak.com/a-walk-through-the-planes-an-interview-with-monte-cook-ray-vallese-and-colin-mccomb/ developers confirmed that the Lady of Pain]] from ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' was based on then TRS CEO Lorraine Williams, and her "my way or the highway" managerial style.

Subtrope to WriteWhoYouKnow and CreatorBreakdown. Supertrope to TakeThatCritics, TakeThatAudience, StrawCritic and StrawFan. Compare MuseAbuse, where the creator doesn't ''hate'' the people he takes inspiration from for their history, but still chooses to portray them in a negative light. Compare {{Unperson}}, where instead of a TakeThat the character/person is excised from the world's history. Tends to overlap with {{Tuckerization}}, though some authors are known to defy it in order to ''not'' raise suspicions (and avoid possible lawsuits), in whose case they indulge into RomanAClef. If the targeted person actually likes the character, it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. When the whole work is done as a single piece of TakeThat, it's either a RevengeFic, an {{Allegory}} or an AuthorTract. Contrast FriendlyEnemy: there, both the creator and its target remain on friendly terms while exchanging potshots with each other, while here they ''hate'' each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As revealed on ''[[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen Walt Disney's Nine Old Men]] and the Art of Animation'', Madame Medusa was based on Milt Kahl's ex-wife, Phyllis Bounds Detiege. Milt was married 3 times and she's the only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness).

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention.) * ''Film/Godzilla1998'': The characters of [[MayorPain jackass Mayor Ebert]] and his kiss-ass assistant Gene were a very deliberate lampoon of Creator/RogerEbert [[Series/SiskelAndEbert and Gene Siskel]] from Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin, because the former two gave negative reviews to ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay''. For their part, Siskel and Ebert not only gave ''Godzilla'' another dual thumbs down but playfully wondered why the writers didn't have Godzilla kill the characters, such as eating them[[note]]Because Toho forbade the idea of Godzilla eating anybody, that's why[[/note]]. As well, a minor character Godzilla kills by stomping down on his car during its initial arrival to New York was based on G.D. Lees, editor of ''G-Fan Magazine'', who was similarly venomous with the whole idea of them helming an Americanized ''Godzilla'' film.

* As described in WebVideo/CGPGrey's video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEV9qoup2mQ Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again]]" Alexander Pope criticized Thomas Hearne's writings as pointless. When Hearne complained Pope write a caricature of Hearne into one of his plays.

* ''Literature/DeclineAndFall'': Burglar Toby Cruttwell is based on C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, a famed British historian who was Waugh's tutor when he was at Hertford, and who had told Waugh that he would never amount to anything. In his autobiography, ''A Little Learning'', Creator/EvelynWaugh had a lifelong beef with him, and named a number of disreputable characters in his books after Cruttwell.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention; the second part sounds like speculation.) * Philip Roth's novel ''I Married a Communist'' was criticized for the similarities between Ira Zuckerman's harpy of a wife and Roth's own ex-wife. Roth defended himself by claiming the character wasn't so bad, only manipulated by her daughter -- by that logic, Roth's book was a Take That! against his own stepdaughter.

* Music/{{Pink}}'s "So What" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_(Pink_song) was written about]] her ex-husband Carey Hart, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfFZqTlWrQ the music video]] even showing Pink taking a chainsaw to a tree with her and Hart's names carved in it. The line where Pink seemingly disses Music/JessicaSimpson is actually an odd way of saying that Simpson is cooler than her since the waiter keeps giving Pink's table to the latter. Hart and Pink would end up getting back together about a year after the song released, with Pink herself saying that [[https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2009/0515/417276-pink/ she found it funny to perform the song in front of him]].

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention from Chikara's owner/booker, the only article related to the whole thing comes from Punk's side of the story.) * Wrestling/CMPunk used to wrestle for Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, however, things ended up... bitter between them, so in retaliation Chikara's creative team came up with CP Munk, a UsefulNotes/StraightEdge wrestling chipmunk who acts as a parody of Punk. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309020424/cmpunk.com/askpunk.php Punk was unflattered by the mocking up]].

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary mention.) * One of the characters in ''VideoGame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'' is Damon Ricotello, a villainous CorruptCorporateExecutive who is revealed to have stolen a FictionalVideoGame from one of his former partners, assaulting her in the process. He is based on John Riccitiello (and in fact Damon's last name was originally Riccitiello) , who was the CEO of Creator/ElectronicArts during the time ''No More Heroes'' creator Creator/Suda51 worked with the company on ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', a game that underwent a lot of ExecutiveMeddling during development. [[spoiler:Even more on the nose, the FictionalVideoGame in question is a followup to ''Shadows of the Damned''.]]

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention.) * ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'': The character of Cuntons is stated to be based on Maura Clemmons, a woman who has been accused of stalking the webcomic's author. Cuntons was initially drawn as an ugly fat person who wears the skin of a wolf over her head, and was used as one of the author's straw "carnists" meant to lose arguments to the Vegans.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed; [[https://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2005/02/23/how-will-eisner-be-remembered.aspx?source=isesitlnk0000001&mrr=1.00 the provided interview]] seems more like a WordOfSaintPaul speculation than the author's intention.) * Lord Farquaad from ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' was meant to be an insulting take on the CEO of Disney at the time, Michael Eisner, by the film's executive producer Jeffrey Katzenberg.

%% Every new entry must be accompanied with a source (either a weblink or a documentary/biography) where a statement by ''WordOfGod'' (''not'' WordOfSaintPaul) validating the claim can be found.

Depending on how the character is written, and the nature of the real-life conflict, this can either be done well or come off as petty and juvenile. Often, if there's someone who likes the character in question, [[DamnedByAFoolsPraise other characters will lampshade]] how said character is that character's OnlyFriend. More often than not, however, there will be occasions where the author [[StrawCharacter adds several bits of hatefulness into the character that may not really be related with the targeted person]].

Subtrope to WriteWhoYouKnow and CreatorBreakdown. Supertrope to TakeThatCritics, TakeThatAudience, StrawCritic and StrawFan. Compare MuseAbuse, where the creator doesn't ''hate'' the people he takes inspiration from for their history, but still chooses to portray them in a negative light. Compare {{Unperson}}, where instead of a TakeThat the character/person is excised from the world's history. Tends to overlap with {{Tuckerization}}, though some authors are known to defy it in order to ''not'' raise suspicions (and avoid possible lawsuits), in whose case they indulge into RomanAClef. If the targeted person actually likes the character, it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. When the whole work is done as a single piece of TakeThat, it's either a RevengeFic, an {{Allegory}} or an AuthorTract. Contrast FriendlyEnemy: there, both the creator and its target remain in friendly terms while exchanging potshots to each other, while here they ''hate'' each other.

%% -->'''Greg Mallory:''' But there some things you can always rely on and these were real men, don't forget. Real flesh and blood. Not multicolored shit dreamed up by overgrown kids. Who's going to tell the world about them? Who's going to make sure their stories live on? It's why I'll always be proud to be an American soldier.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention, also Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotGeneral.) * Creator/DakariKingMykan often writes people he disagrees with in his stories as {{Straw Loser}}s who just sit around barking things they said to him. One of the most prominent examples includes Brass Bolt, who is based off of brassboy212, a member of the brony community who complained about how Mykan portrays [[Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic Starfleet]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As revealed on ''[[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen Walt Disney's Nine Old Men]] and the Art of Animation'', Madame Medusa was based on Milt Kahl's ex-wife, Phyllis Bounds Detiege. Milt was married 3 times and she's his only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness).

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention.) * ''Film/Godzilla1998'': The characters of [[MayorPain jackass Mayor Ebert]] and his kiss-ass assistant Gene were a very deliberate lampoon of Creator/RogerEbert [[Series/SiskelAndEbert and Gene Siskel]] from Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin, because the former two gave negative reviews to ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay''. For their part, Siskel and Ebert not only gave ''Godzilla'' another dual thumbs down but playfully wondered why the writers didn't had Godzilla kill the characters, such as eating them[[note]]Because Toho forbade the idea of Godzilla eating anybody, that's why[[/note]]. As well, a minor character Godzilla kills by stomping down on his car during its initial arrival to New York was based on G.D. Lees, editor of ''G-Fan Magazine'', who was similarly venomous with the whole idea of them helming an Americanized ''Godzilla'' film.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention.) * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In ''Ashes of Victory'' the entire 10-person crew of LAC-1961 "Cutthroat" are a collective, simultaneous frustration-vent for the author. Their CO, Lt. Commander Robert Roden, managed to nil Creator/DavidWeber in a spades game a a FanConvention, and then proceeded to gloat about it. The rest of the crew -- with one exception -- are named for people present or participating in that game. The crew are depicted as "Characters" who are rabid Spades players, even hustling unsuspecting junior officers. The exception? Tactical Officer Lt. Joe Buckley.[[labelnote:If he sounds familiar...]]This incident started the trend that has left Joe firmly ensconced as Creator/BaenBooks' in house DesignatedVictim[[/labelnote]] The real life Buckley had had the temerity to call Weber out on a math error in a published book. All perish from a single lucky shot from a dying enemy ship.

--> ''"It is aimed directly at somebody else in my immediate family. If you take the key word from the title as well as the key word from the bridge (Crooked _____), you can figure out who it was written for. [Step father] I've never been good at writing love songs, so I decided to write a HATE song!"''

** As he confessed to the ''Magazine/RollingStone'' Magazine [[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/eminem-blows-up-91979/ in an interview]], "Brain Damage" is about his grade-school nemesis, D'Angelo Bailey, who once battered him so severely he ended up comatose from a cerebral haemorrhage.

* Music/{{Pink}}'s "So What" [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_What_(Pink_song) was written about]] her ex-husband Carey Hart, with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJfFZqTlWrQ the music video]] even showing Pink taking a chainsaw to a tree with her and Hart's names carved in it. The line where Pink seemingly disses Music/JessicaSimpson is actually an odd way of saying that Simpson is cooler than her, since the waiter keeps giving Pink's table to the latter. Hart and Pink would end up getting back together about a year after the song released, with Pink herself saying that [[https://www.rte.ie/entertainment/2009/0515/417276-pink/ she found it funny to perform the song in front of him]].

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary/interview mention.) * The resident bully from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica Pickles, was based off of a girl who used to beat up Paul Germain as a kid. Angelica was originally written as a male, until Germain brought up that his childhood bully was actually a girl.

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%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed in the form of a link or a biography/documentary mention.) * The developers confirmed that the Lady of Pain from ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' was based on then TRS CEO Lorraine Williams, and her "my way or the highway" managerial style.
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!! Note that, due to the controversial nature of the trope, there should be a WordOfGod (''not'' WordOfSaintPaul and ''much less'' [[EpilepticTrees fan speculation]]) statement attached to any example in the form of a link or the name of a documentary/biography. And the examples should also describe the feud while still remembering that Administrivia/WeblinksAreNotExamples.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, [[https://beano.fandom.com/wiki/Cruncher_Kerr the link provided]] doesn't mention any hostility.) * Someone at ''ComicBook/TheBeano'' made a playful jab at the comic's editor, Euan Kerr, in the 80s, by naming Roger the Dodger's bully "Cruncher Kerr". Cruncher still appears today, and now antagonises all of the comic's cast.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': ''Creator/GarthEnnis'' famously hated the superhero genre and based the character "The Legend" on Stan Lee. The Legend was a sexually depraved, racist man with dwarfism and one of his monologues alludes to the famous feud between Lee and Creator/JackKirby about who created the iconic Marvel characters of the 1960s. While there is no online evidence of Garth Ennis's personal opinion on Stan Lee, a monologue by Greg Mallory makes it very clear that his opinion of Stan Lee and other hero creators isn't very high.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, the only mention of this specific case is [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130523174927/http://www.ugo.com/the-goods/funky-flashman-1 a top-25 list without a quote]].) * For his ''[[ComicBook/NewGods Mister Miracle]]'' series for Creator/DCComics, Creator/JackKirby created the villain [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funky_Flashman Funky Flashman]], a smooth-talking con artist who tried to exploit the talents of others for his own wealth and fame. He was based on Creator/StanLee, whom Kirby had recently had a falling-out with, accusing him of trying to take credit for Kirby's ideas. The character also had a sidekick named Houseroy, based on the editor of Marvel at the time, Roy Thomas.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Franchise/TheSmurfs'': Peyo got the inspiration for Brainy Smurf through one of his childhood friends, one of the least-liked smurfs who liked to show off and to play the wise guy.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, also Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotGeneral.) * Creator/DakariKingMykan often writes people he disagrees with in his stories as {{Straw Loser}}s who just sit around barking things they said to him. One of the most prominent examples includes Brass Bolt, who is based off of brassboy212, a member of the brony community who complained about how Mykan portrays [[Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic Starfleet]].
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * In ''Fanfic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'', Creator/DakariKingMykan based Brass Bolt off of one of his detractors and former supporters, brassboy212. Brass is depicted as an unpleasant pony with an irrational, obsessive hatred towards Starfleet. Whenever he complains about them, the [[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong other characters grow irritated and shut down his arguments]].[[note]]Only one instance is described in the text, though it's implied this isn't the first this has happened.[[/note]] After failing to convince other ponies to hate Starfleet, he tries to make Starfleet look incompetent, [[spoiler:which fails and causes him to get arrested]].

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Film/Godzilla1998'': The characters of [[MayorPain jackass Mayor Ebert]] and his kiss-ass assistant Gene were a very deliberate lampoon of Creator/RogerEbert [[Series/SiskelAndEbert and Gene Siskel]] from Creator/RolandEmmerich and Dean Devlin, because the former two gave negative reviews to ''Film/{{Stargate}}'' and ''Film/IndependenceDay''. For their part, Siskel and Ebert not only gave ''Godzilla'' another dual thumbs down but playfully wondered why the writers didn't had Godzilla kill the characters, such as eating them[[note]]Because Toho forbade the idea of Godzilla eating anybody, that's why[[/note]]. As well, a minor character Godzilla kills by stomping down on his car during its initial arrival to New York was based on G.D. Lees, editor of ''G-Fan Magazine'', who was similarly venomous with the whole idea of them helming an Americanized ''Godzilla'' film.

%% (It isn't WordOfGod but WordOfSaintPaul.) * ''Franchise/StarWars:'' George Lucas' official explanation is that he named Darth Vader after the Dutch word for "father", but Chuck Sonnenberg of ''Website/SFDebris'' doesn't believe that. In Chuck's documentary about the making of ''Star Wars'', [[https://youtu.be/yjwHuV9WXrQ?si=xcwpdhLxklvkq7TS&t=580 he pulls out a page from George Lucas' high school yearbook]] to show that one of his classmates was a football player named ''Gary Vader''. As for their actual relationship, Chuck can only speculate whether Gary was one of George's bullies from that time, or if George envied Gary instead.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, also Administrivia/ExamplesAreNotGeneral.) ** Many of the teachers are based on actual teachers Dav Pilkey had as a child.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * In ''Literature/FightClub'', Creator/ChuckPalahniuk named Marla Singer after a girl who used to beat up his sister in school, deciding it was the most hateful name he could think of.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, also sounds like speculation, needs a rewriting in addition to a source.) * ''Literature/FlowersInTheAttic'': {{Implied|Trope}}. The book is about an abusive mother who locks her children in the attic. Creator/VCAndrews dedicates the book "to my mother." This statement isn't qualified in any way -- not "to my mother who always encouraged my writing," for example. Andrews was disabled, and her mother was her caregiver for most of her adult life. We know that real-life Mama Andrews wasn't materially abusive in the way that fictional Corrine is -- she didn't starve her kids, for example. Still, it's pretty easy to imagine how Andrews's feelings about dependency and still living under the thumb of her controlling mother as an adult might -- when exaggerated for fiction -- become a story about being locked in an attic.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed, also sounds like speculation, needs a rewriting in addition to a source.) * ''Franchise/HerculePoirot'': It's been suggested that Captain Hastings was based on Creator/AgathaChristie's first husband. After the divorce, Hastings suffered galloping {{Flanderization}}, before being written out.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In ''Ashes of Victory'' the entire 10-person crew of LAC-1961 "Cutthroat" are a collective, simultaneous frustration-vent for the author. Their CO, Lt. Commander Robert Roden, managed to nil Creator/DavidWeber in a spades game a a FanConvention, and then proceeded to gloat about it. The rest of the crew -- with one exception -- are named for people present or participating in that game. The crew are depicted as "Characters" who are rabid Spades players, even hustling unsuspecting junior officers. The exception? Tactical Officer Lt. Joe Buckley.[[labelnote:If he sounds familiar...]]This incident started the trend that has left Joe firmly ensconced as Creator/BaenBooks' in house DesignatedVictim[[/labelnote]] The real life Buckley had had the temerity to call Weber out on a math error in a published book. All perish from a single lucky shot from a dying enemy ship.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed and the second part sounds like speculation.) * Philip Roth's novel ''I Married a Communist'' was criticized for the similarities between Ira Zuckerman's harpy of a wife and Roth's own ex-wife. Roth defended himself by claiming the character wasn't so bad, only manipulated by her daughter -- by that logic, Roth's book was a Take That! against his own stepdaughter.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Literature/JamesBond'': Francisco Scaramanga (who is described to be [[AmbiguouslyGay a possible homosexual]]) in ''Literature/TheManWithTheGoldenGun'' was named after George Scaramanga, Fleming's fellow student in Eton whom he had animosity towards to.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * In Creator/MichaelCrichton's ''Literature/{{Next}}'', Crichton wrote a minor character into his book that was currently being tried for raping a toddler, with the commentary that while his penis was fairly small, he still did significant damage to the child. Strangely enough, the rapist's name was almost identical to that of a man who had criticized Crichton's last book. The critic found this very funny.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed and it reads like fan speculation rather than an official claim.) * ''Literature/TheOceanAtTheEndOfTheLane'': It is generally believed that the character of Ursula Monkton represents Scientology, particularly with her telling the narrator's sister not to speak to him until he rejoins the family. Gaiman's family had history with Scientology, and since his family is still involved, he must carefully cloak his criticisms.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Series/DoctorWho'': Victor Kennedy in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love and Monsters"]] was based on Ian Levine, a record producer and (now former) ''Doctor Who'' fan often claimed to have served as an unofficial continuity advisor for the series in the '80s. Levine and writer Creator/RussellTDavies didn't get on particularly well (with Davies notoriously telling Levine to fuck off at a convention), and Levine himself is notorious among Whovians for his unpleasant behavior.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed from Chikara's owner/booker, the only article related to the whole thing comes from Punk's side of the story.) * Wrestling/CMPunk used to wrestle for Wrestling/{{Chikara}}, however, things ended up... bitter between them, so in retaliation Chikara's creative team came up with CP Munk, a UsefulNotes/StraightEdge wrestling chipmunk who acts as a parody of Punk. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20090309020424/cmpunk.com/askpunk.php Punk was unflattered by the mocking up]].

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%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * In ''VideoGame/CookieRunKingdom'', Dark Cacao Cookie is written as a TakeThat to Korean parents who put way too much pressure on their kids to succeed academically.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * One of the characters in ''VideoGame/TravisStrikesAgainNoMoreHeroes'' is Damon Ricotello, a villainous CorruptCorporateExecutive who is revealed to have stolen a FictionalVideoGame from one of his former partners, assaulting her in the process. He is based on John Riccitiello (and in fact Damon's last name was originally Riccitiello) , who was the CEO of Creator/ElectronicArts during the time ''No More Heroes'' creator Creator/Suda51 worked with the company on ''VideoGame/ShadowsOfTheDamned'', a game that underwent a lot of ExecutiveMeddling during development. [[spoiler:Even more on the nose, the FictionalVideoGame in question is a followup to ''Shadows of the Damned''.]]

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * For ''Webcomic/PeterAndCompany'', Jonathan Ponikvar created and based the character Chelsea off a childhood bully of the very same name and many of her actions are a mix of both exaggerated fiction and real things that she's actually done to the author.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'': Many of the comic's villains, who are more often than not depicted in an unflattering light and harshly punished, were based on, and sometimes named after, numerous people that Chris had came into conflict with in real life. For example, WickedWitch Slaweel Ryam was a caricature of a college dean who suspended Chris for a year.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'': The character of Cuntons is stated to be based on Maura Clemmons, a woman who has been accused of stalking the webcomic's author. Cuntons was initially drawn as an ugly fat person who wears the skin of a wolf over her head, and was used as one of the author's straw "carnists" meant to lose arguments to the Vegans.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * Fred Flintstone from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' was named after Fred Quimby, [[Creator/HannaBarbera William Hanna and Joseph Barbera]]'s former boss at MGM who they hated. This is why Fred is so pushy.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Creator/CraigMcCracken based [[JerkAss Mitch]] [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters Mitchelson]] off of a kid who was complaining during the test screening for "Meat Fuzzy Lumpkins" stating that "whoever made this should be fired".
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * The resident bully from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica Pickles, was based off of a girl who used to beat up Paul Germain as a kid. Angelica was originally written as a male, until Germain brought up that his childhood bully was actually a girl.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) ** [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] named Liane Cartman after his ex-girlfriend Lianne, whom he discovered had been cheating on him. Out of spite for the real Lianne's reported infidelity, Ms. Cartman (at least in early seasons, when the breakup was more fresh in his mind) is depicted as a promiscuous single mother who [[ReallyGetsAround works as a prostitute]], appears on the cover of "Crack Whore" magazines, and whose parenting amounts to [[SpoiledBrat spoiling her rotten son]].
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed and it reads like fan speculation rather than an official claim.) * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': It is alleged that Creator/RebeccaSugar at least partially based Marty, Greg's abusive former manager, on a professor she disliked during her time as a student at SVA in New York City.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * Gordon from ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'' was named after a rude young boy who lived in Rev. Wilbert Awdry's neighborhood.

%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed) * German naturalist Georg Steller described a number of animals in the North Pacific on the Great Northern Expedition, most of which are named after him, including Steller's sea cow (since extinct) and Steller's sea eagle. However, efforts to locate or identify one such creature, "Steller's sea ape," proved fruitless. Given the rather insulting terms Steller used to describe the animal, its supposedly prominent facial hair, and its scientific name of ''Simia marina danica'' ("Danish sea ape"), it's now generally believed to be an insulting, vengeful caricature of the Danish captain of the expedition, Vitus Bering -- the two were known to have a poor relationship.

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* ''Literature/DeclineAndFall'': Burglar Toby Cruttwell is based on C.R.M.F. Cruttwell, a famed British historian who was Waugh's tutor when he was at Hertford, and who had told Waugh that he would never amount to anything. In her autobiography, ''A Little Learning'', Creator/EvelynWaugh had a lifelong beef with him, and named a number of disreputable characters in his books after Cruttwell.

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%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed.) * ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': In ''Ashes of Victory'' the entire 10-person crew of LAC-1961 "Cutthroat" are a collective, simultaneous frustration-vent for the author. Their CO, Lt. Commander Robert Roden, managed to nil Creator/DavidWeber in a spades game a a FanConvention, and then proceeded to gloat about it. The rest of the crew - with one exception - are named for people present or participating in that game. The crew are depicted as "Characters" who are rabid Spades players, even hustling unsuspecting junior officers. The exception? Tactical Officer Lt. Joe Buckley.[[labelnote:If he sounds familiar...]]This incident started the trend that has left Joe firmly ensconced as Creator/BaenBooks' in house DesignatedVictim[[/labelnote]] The real life Buckley had had the temerity to call Weber out on a math error in a published book. All perish from a single lucky shot from a dying enemy ship.
%% (Proper WordOfGod Citation Needed and the second part sounds like speculation.) * Philip Roth's novel ''I Married a Communist'' was criticized for the similarities between Ira Zuckerman's harpy of a wife and Roth's own ex-wife. Roth defended himself by claiming the character wasn't so bad, only manipulated by her daughter - by that logic, Roth's book was a Take That! against his own stepdaughter.

** Writer and former newspaper reporter David Simon [[https://www.saratogian.com/2008/01/07/the-wire-gets-personal-in-its-final-season/ based two different characters]] on Bill Marrimow, his former [[DaEditor editor]] with whom he had a bitter feud while working for the ''Baltimore Sun'' newspaper. The first, Lt. Charles Marrimow, is an utterly incompetent and hardasss police lieutenant whose true purpose in being appointed the new commander of a special police unit is to disrupt the unit and make it so impossible for the unit to function that it disintegrates, thus quietly halting their investigations into various corrupt politicians and shady businessmen who are power players in the city. The second character, an editor at the fictional version of the ''Baltimore Sun'' within the show, is a stuck-up prig who protects a journalist who is fabricating stories and is noted to be engaging in [[HiredForTheirLooks hiring attractive young women for their looks]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/vdn9by/vice-life-bio-trey-parker As revealed in interviews]], Trey Parker's real-life sister provided the basis for Stan's [[TheBully bully]] sister Shelly.

** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': JK Rowling [[http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2004/0804-ebf.htm once mentioned at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2004]] that Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character in the work based on a real person; even if she dropped hints, she refused to comment on who.

* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': According to [[https://web.archive.org/web/20060211094000/http://www.pilkey.com/bookview.php?id=45 Dav Pilkey himself]], Melvin Sneedly, the stuck-up nerd, is based on an arrogant tattletale child that Pilkey knew from school, who has been given the alias "Michael Sneedman" to conceal his identity.

* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': According to the film's DVD audio commentary, one of Creator/WesCraven's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger inspirations]] for Freddy Krueger was a school bully.

* [[Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone Trey Parker]] [[https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/south-park-creator-trey-parker-revealed-wrote-first-movie-ridicule-ex-fiancee.html/ confessed]] in the DVD commentary for ''Film/CannibalTheMusical'' that he wrote the film as a diss against his high-school sweetheart Liane, whom he was engaged with until he discovered her sleeping with an a capella singer. This also carried into ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', where he named Eric Cartman's mother (a sweetheart with [[ReallyGetsAround a promiscuous side]]) after her.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'': As revealed on ''[[Creator/DisneysNineOldMen Walt Disney's Nine Old Men]] and the Art of Animation'', Madame Medusa [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rescuers was based on]] Milt Kahl's ex-wife, Phyllis Bounds Detiege. Milt was married 3 times and she's his only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness).

Subtrope to WriteWhoYouKnow and CreatorBreakdown. Supertrope to TakeThatCritics, TakeThatAudience and StrawFan. Compare MuseAbuse, where the creator doesn't ''hate'' the people he takes inspiration from for their history, but still chooses to portray them in a negative light. Compare {{Unperson}}, where instead of a TakeThat the character/person is excised from the world's history. Tends to overlap with {{Tuckerization}}, though some authors are known to defy it in order to ''not'' raise suspicions (and avoid possible lawsuits), in whose case they indulge into RomanAClef. If the targeted person actually likes the character, it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. When the whole work is done as a single piece of TakeThat, it's either a RevengeFic, an {{Allegory}} or an AuthorTract. Contrast FriendlyEnemy: there, both the creator and its target remain in friendly terms while exchanging potshots to each other, while here they ''hate'' each other.

Subtrope to WriteWhoYouKnow and CreatorBreakdown. Supertrope to TakeThatCritics, TakeThatAudience and StrawFan. Compare MuseAbuse, where the creator doesn't ''hate'' the people he takes inspiration from for their history, but still chooses to portray them in a negative light. Compare {{Unperson}}, where instead of a TakeThat the character/person is excised from the world's history. Tends to overlap with {{Tuckerization}}, though some authors are known to defy it in order to ''not'' raise suspicions (and avoid possible lawsuits), in whose case they indluge into RomanAClef. If the targeted person actually likes the character, it's ActuallyPrettyFunny. When the whole work is done as a single piece of TakeThat, it's either an {{Allegory}} or an AuthorTract. Contrast FriendlyEnemy: there, both the creator and its target remain in friendly terms while exchanging potshots to each other, while here they ''hate'' each other.

* ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'': According to the film's DVD audio commentary, one of Creator/WesCraven's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddy_Krueger inspirations]] for Freddy Krueger was a school bully.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': In addition to his high-school sweetheart Liane providing the basis for Liane Cartman, [[https://www.vice.com/en/article/vdn9by/vice-life-bio-trey-parker as revealed in interviews]], his real-life sister provided the basis for Stan's [[TheBully bully]] sister Shelly.