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A kind of [[Fan Service]] where the presence of a particular gimmick or kink is so widespread and prominent that it is interpreted as a specific reason the creator actually produced the work. Often, this can overlap with a certain philosophy the author espouses; for instance, an [[Utopia|"enlightened culture"]] in [[The Future]] may have [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|no nudity taboo]], or may have [[Everyone Is Bi|everyone bisexual]], remove all body hair at birth, et cetera. Deliberately satirical or political stories often invoke associated [[Take That]] moments.
'''Author Appeal''' is perhaps the single leading cause of [[Mary Sue]] characters and [[Fan Fic Chopsuey]] settings. Beyond just being written from the ground up to appeal to the author's baser interests, most writers can't help but to then derail the storyline and other characters to facilitate the character; that's the line where
Interestingly, with ''careful'' handling
Compare [[Fan Service]], [[Author Tract]], [[Writer on Board]], [[Filibuster Freefall]], and [[Mary Suetopia]]. Contrast [[Playing to The Fetishes]] when it seems like the author is acting out a personal fetish but is in fact just playing to a niche demographic. Very common in [[Fan Fiction]].
If a writer's early work contains obvious
[[Creator Thumbprint]]s are often this.
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* Dennis Farina plays a writer of detective fiction in the 1997 film ''[[That Old Feeling]]'' and he was married to an actress played by [[Bette Midler]]. His victims are always actresses.▼
== Live-Action TV ==
* This trope was hilariously parodied in an episode of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', when a character takes it upon himself to design women's clothing. His design sketches? Nothing but gigantic boobs on stick figures. The trope shows up again in a later episode when the same character writes an entire novel about his fictional "erotic life."▼
* Spoofed wonderfully on ''[[Extras]]'', where [[Patrick Stewart]] ([[Adam Westing|playing himself]]) explains his idea for a new movie he's been writing. He says it's an exploration of what would happen if there were one person in the real world who could control people's minds. In actuality, though, the only thing his character does is go around making women's clothes fall off and "seeing everything." When Gervais explains his own idea for a script, Stewart only becomes interested when Gervais claims that there's nudity in it.▼
* A long-ago ''[[Saturday Night Live
* David on ''[[Roseanne]]'' likes to draw big-breasted women. Or maybe that's Mark. You try to make heads or tails of the [[Gainax Ending]].▼
* ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]'' has a reoccurring character named Pierre who has a dad fetish and makes instructional videos for children. They'll inevitably derail into him asking the kids about their dads. He also has some sort of obsession with meat and the internet.▼
== Web Comics ==
* [[Oglaf]]'s episode ''[http://oglaf.com/fairest/ Fairest]'' ([[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]]) well illustrates the nature of Author Appeal.▼
* ''[[Gunshow]]'' demonstrated this effect in tabletop RPG. ([[Alt Text]]: '[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 I have punched you now.]')▼
== Western Animation ==
* Mr. Garrison's romance novel in ''[[South Park]]'', which was filled with loving descriptions of penises. And little else. Even a lesbian scene quickly meandered into a loving description of penises. When the publisher accuses the novel of being "really, ''really'' gay," Garrison insists that it's just [[Fan Service]] to the female audience. Later he comes out of the closet anyway.▼
== Real Life ==
=== A ===
* [[Cross Game|Mitsuru]] [[Touch (manga)|Adachi]] ''really really really'' likes baseball, if the fact that nearly every series he's worked on in his illustrious career revolves around it is any indication.
* Brendan Adkins' ''[http://www.ommatidia.org/ ommatidia]'' is a website full of stories that are all 101 words. The relevant portion is where a large amount of those stories involve self-possessed young women with unusual names and esoteric interests, usually involving [[Speculative Fiction]] elements.
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** Plus, he has gone on record as saying that he prefers more mature, curvier women...then you notice that ''[[Love Hina]]'' and ''[[Negima]]'' both have women just like that acting as enablers and/or helpers for others' relationships. Hmmm...
** [[Word of God]] is that out of all the girls in Negi's class, the one that he'd most want a Pactio with<ref>Read: make out with</ref> is Kakizaki.
* [[Sherman Alexie]] seems to have a thing for [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=glbt
* Kozue Amano seems to have a thing for cute girl butts; the angle at which she depicts bent-over and crouching girls makes one wonder at times. This was relatively subtle in works such as ''[[Aria]]'' , but becomes quite a bit more blatant in her latest work, ''[[Amanchu!]]'', in which she loves to hoist her female main characters into tight diving suits.
* Brett Anderson of [[Suede]] appears to have a thing for extremely skinny women, especially if you go by "She" ("she is bad, she is bored, she is bony") and "She's In Fashion" ("and she's as similar as you can get/to the shape of a cigarette").
* The mangaka of [[Zodiac P.I.|''Zodiac Private Investigator'']], Natsumi Ando, states in a comment that she loves pretty and long legs on her girls, which is why she likes putting them into mini-skirts a lot.
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** [[Catch Phrase|Arakawa's words have been passed down the Armstrong Line for Generations!]]
** Arakawa grew up on a dairy farm, and wrote two characters as butchers in FMA. She's now doing ''[[Silver Spoon]]'', which is set at an agricultural school.
* [[Gregg Araki
=== B ===
* [[The Windup Girl|Paolo Bacigalupi]] enjoys piedophilia ([[Spell My Name with an "S"|the "i" is very important]]), pr AFSR, a fetish for dolls, living dolls, and other artificial people. On the milder end, the title character of ''The Wind-Up Girl'' is considered extremely desirable because she [[Uncanny Valley|walks in a jerky fashion like a wind-up toy]]. On the much less mild end, the title character of ''The Fluted Girl'' has holes in her back and a hollow spine and can be played as an instrument. Her owner (there is no other way to put it) has her perform with her [[Twincest|twin sister]] to entertain guests, and both in-universe and in-narration it's portrayed in a blatantly sexual manner.
* ''[[The Culture]]'' from [[Iain Banks]] is a space-faring, almost nomadic civilisation that have no sexual taboos. Ho, and when asked to provide their "national anthem," their ambassador delivered a song called "Lick Me Out."
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* [[John Byrne]], too, loves having a big, busty, [[Amazonian Beauty|musclebabe]] teamed up with an average, somewhat shortish male secretary. He even did it to [[Wonder Woman]]!
=== C ===
* Ross Campbell of ''[[Wet Moon]]'' demifame. He loves [[Big Beautiful Women|plump women]] and very full lips. Even the lead of ''Water Baby'', who is thin, has the "bee-stung" look about her.
** He also very clearly loves piercings.
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** You aren't escaping bisexuality, though. Of the nine novels Jacqueline Carey's written, seven of them have a bisexual protagonist. [[Squee|Thank you, ma'am.]]
*** She's up to ten of twelve now (with two more on the way).
* [[Lewis Carroll]] was an early photographic artist whose subjects were almost all naked, prepubescent girls. This has raised the obvious suggestion that he was a pedophile, but Carroll strongly defended his artistic intentions. At the time, photography often emulated classical paintings, which frequently featured nude children as a symbol of innocence. (Julia Margaret Cameron also did nude photos of children, and nobody's suggested she was a perv.) Everyone involved in the photography noted that his conduct was unimpeachable. The children were always in the presence of chaperones and he always had parental consent. Carroll was apparently a little odd, but probably not a pedophile. In fact, some people think that ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131014071926/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Lewis-Carrolls-Shifting-Reputation.html he was doing it to get on with the governesses]''.
** As Carroll was suspected of shagging other professors' wives, it would not be surprising to find out that he was after the governesses as well. In fact, his nude-children photos were played up by members of his family in order to deny that he was an adulterer, by proving that he was an innocent. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160822004455/http://www.wakeling.demon.co.uk/page3-real-lewiscarroll.htm There are a lot of myths about Lewis Carroll].
* A great many of the books written by [[Jack Chalker]] involve one or more people transforming, often into large-breasted women, though there's also a lot of [[Body Horror]] too.
* It has been stated [http://www.enterthejabberwock.com/?p=482#more-482 here] that "Parts of images that are most often lovingly detailed and realistically crafted in [[Chick Tracts]]: Toilets and gay men's muscles. I'm not sure what conclusion to draw from this."
* Is it humanly possible to name any work by comics artist [[Frank Cho]] that doesn't include jungles, [[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|dinosaurs]], [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|primates,]] extraordinarily well-endowed women, or [[Jungle Princess|some combination of the above]]?
* [[Chris Claremont]]'s run on ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' repeatedly showed strong women beating up men, with female characters who were more timid being reworked into dominant bruisers. Psylocke was the prime example of this. Mind control plots are also common in his work, seemingly for the same reason.
** When a
** In addition to strong women beating up men, he also introduced the Hellfire Club. The leader of the group, Sebastian Shaw, has the power to get stronger the more you hit him. The two lead women, Selene and Emma Frost, both wear dominatrix outfits and have hypnotic powers.
*** The outfits in question (and the portrayal of the Hellfire Club, as well as 'Emma' as a name for the HC's queen) are derived from ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "A Touch of Brimstone", earlier shown in the U.S.
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* Amid all the [[Signature Style]] (i.e. [[Body Horror]] and [[Fan Disservice]]), it may be hard to spot, but [[David Cronenberg]] loves cars and car accidents. ''Shivers'', his debut, has a car crash in a parking lot. ''Rabid'''s plot is kicked off by a motorcycle accident. ''Fast Company'' is about racecar drivers. ''The Brood'' has the protagonist worrying that his drunken father-in-law will drive off a bridge. Revok's escape scene in ''[[Scanners]]'' involves psychically incapacitating drivers, causing them to crash. ''Crash'' is literally about people who have a sexual fetish for car accidents. So there you go. It's also fun to notice how many of his movie's protagonists are thin, lightly-build guys, matching his own appearance.
* [[Robert Crumb]] and buttocks. Anyone who's read his comments knows it's true, at least he's refreshingly honest about it.
* [[NUMA Series|Clive Cussler]] seems to ''really'' like blue- and green
* Author Madeira Darling has a thing for pretty dominant men in dresses, long pretty hair, and BDSM...considering she writes BDSM erotica this may be justified.
=== D ===
* [[Russell T. Davies]]' fondness for nontraditional romantic relationships has bled into ''[[Doctor Who]]'', most noticeably in the [[Extreme Omnisexual|in-your-face pansexuality]] of Captain Jack. And that's not even counting all the stuff that goes on in [[Whoniverse]] series ''[[Torchwood]]''.
** The ''Doctor Who'' episode "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S29/E03 Gridlock|Gridlock]]" included a marriage between a woman and an anthropomorphic cat. They even had kittens. The same episode also featured two old ladies who were married.
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** In [[Real Life]], the author admits to having a thing for Filipinas.
=== E ===
* English [[The Western|Western]] author J.T. Edson seemed to have a fetish for [[Cat Fight]]s judging from how often he managed to shoehorn them into his novels. The most [[Egregious]] example involved a character who had a collection of paintings of catfights that had taken place in the author's previous novels, including ones that no one but the participants had been there to witness.
* [[Garth Ennis]] loves to include two things in his comic books: anal sex, and grievous head wounds. It is a rare issue of ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' that did not include anal sex or someone being shot in the head, or both.
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** And castration. Lots of castration.
=== F ===
* Falcoon, producer of ''[[The King of Fighters]]: Maximum Impact'', has admitted that he likes designing female characters with large chests, so it's small wonder that the ''Maximum Impact'' games feature a lot of [[Gainaxing]] and [[Jiggle Physics]]. This is especially noticeable with the characters Falcoon designed himself, like Lien Neville (whose chest receives a lot of the focus in cutscenes).
** But it becomes a larger wonder if you know that Falcoon is ''gay''...
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** Not just sex, and not just historical figures. Tarzan, Phileas Fogg...he likes building on pre-existing concepts or using pre-existing characters.
** He also tends to have characters which surprisingly have the same initials as he does.
* One has to wonder about [[Phil Foglio]]. As well-done as ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is, Agatha does spend a lot of time in nothing but lacy bra and bloomers...which, of course, is outright tame compared to the pornography he
** Remember that ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is a collaboration between him and his ''wife''. A recent filler sequence took several pages to present a fashion show of several characters in the form of paper dolls, and in the commentary, ''Kaja'' expressed delight at having an excuse to show the characters in the sort of corsetry she only occasionally works into the main story. So it's not just Phil.
*** ''[[Girl Genius]]'' is one of the world's few truly equal-opportunity fanservice providers. The princes end up (deliciously) naked about as often as Agatha winds up in corsets and teddies.
** The trapeze from ''[[What's New with Phil and Dixie]]''.
* George Formby seems to insert
* Leo Frankowski and the ''[[The Cross Time Engineer|Conrad Stargard]]'' series. Frankly, the series has enough appeals to fit into every single category on [http://community.livejournal.com/canon_sues/94852.html#cutid1 this page].
** It was bad enough the final books of the ''Conrad Stargard'' series are self published. The books didn't sell and the publisher got sick of his [[Self Insert]] [[Author Avatar]].
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* In the ''[[Terminator]] Revolution'' comics by [[Simon Furman]], there are exactly two female characters. Both dress near-identically (low-cut [[Bare Your Midriff|belly shirt]], low-slung pants, high-riding thong, and apparently [[Vapor Wear|no bra]]) despite living twenty years apart and in very different circumstances. They also have the same jawline and hair parting. The similarity leads to [[Unfortunate Implications]] when you consider that they're John Connor's mother and wife...although this might be not Furman's fault but down to comic [[Only Six Faces|art]] [[Bare Your Midriff|clichés]].
=== G ===
* ''[[Sailor Nothing]]'' by Stephan "Twoflower" Gagne involves a young woman with unrequited feelings for a close female heterosexual friend of hers, who is unaware of said feelings. This also pops up in the same author's ''Anachronauts'', along with one character getting weak in the knees and a sudden desire to take up smoking again after [[Fetish Fuel|watching an naked elf slaughter her way through a few dozen zombies and smile]]<ref>This happens to be the only time the character's sexuality is so much ''hinted'' at.</ref> ([[It Makes Sense in Context]]). Seems Mr. Gagne has a thing for [[Ho Yay|Les Yay]].
* [[Mark Gatiss]] also likes addressing his own homosexuality, both in his work on ''[[The League of Gentlemen]]'' (in which he rather savagely rips into the concept of the [[Fag Hag]]) and in his detective novels, which star a dashing bisexual chap named Lucifer Box.
* Shoji Gatoh (creator of ''[[Full Metal Panic!]]'') seems to have a...thing for [[Ho Yay|overt homoerotic overtones]]. Arguably more so than [[Les Yay|lesbian overtones]]. He even made one novel sidestory dedicated to getting Tsubaki to [[Anguished Declaration of Love|confess]] (albeit accidentally) to Souske, in what appears to be an effort to clarify to the readers that Sousuke (along with Tsubaki) would be the [[Uke|submissive one in a gay relationship]]. And then there's his fascination and love for the [[Big Bad|villain Gauron]], whom he kept [[No One Could Survive That|bringing back to life]] (while many, many fans were screaming ''why'' he liked Gauron so much to bring him back). And every time [[Depraved Homosexual|Gauron]] makes an appearance, Gatoh makes it more and more obvious that the idea of [[No Yay|Gauron with Sousuke]] appeals to him. Including a gratuitous part in the novels where Gauron graphically describes how he fantasized killing and raping Sousuke. And then there's that episode in ''[[Lucky Star]]'' that Gatoh had a hand in, where Kagami picks up a graphic [[Yaoi]] doujinshi of Gauron and a [[Bound and Gagged]] Sousuke. It's safe to say that countless viewers cried for [[Brain Bleach]], and the only possible reason why Gatoh even ''thought'' of it was because he...[[Fetish Fuel|liked it]].
* The comics of Melinda Gebbie (longtime girlfriend
** Not to mention all her work on ''AARGH!'', an LGBTQ benefit
** For that matter, lesbians also tend to pop up quite frequently in [[Alan Moore]]'s works as well.
* Terry Goodkind's ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series has a disturbing focus on rape, with it almost happening (or actually happening to someone less important) at least once a book. There isn't a single female character within the series of several 500+ page books who has not been raped, nearly raped, threatened with rape, or revealed to have been raped in the past. In a scene in the sixth book, the protagonist's wife, linked to a female antagonist to feel what she feels, experiences ''very'' rough sex that the other is going through. She reflects that there was always an undercurrent of such things in her sex life with her husband, but nothing like this...
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** The brigade of women who do nothing but wear leather fetish gear and torture men is also a big chunk of Author Appeal here.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20101227225000/http://jadaze.comicgenesis.com/ Lean On Me]'' creator Jade Gordon admits to having a thing for male-to-female transsexuals and crossdressers, and her comic centers around a romance between her [[Author Avatar]] and a beautiful transgirl.
* Ed Greenwood, main author of the ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', is known for his... [http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1901&whichpage=23 rather] [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=291731 disturbing] fixation on characters having sex.
* Works by the late Mark Gruenwald, particularly his ''[[Captain America (comics)|Captain America]]'' run, also often featured subtle to not-so-subtle instances on a frequent basis. This could range from standard rope/chain/mechanical devices bondage scenes to a scene where a semi-nude Red Skull had the villainess Viper strap him to a "torture wheel" that would inflict pain on him, which the Viper had full control over. He even pointed out that he was interested in seeing how far the Viper would actually go!
=== H ===
* Rob Halford from [[Judas Priest]] has a thing for S&M leather clothes, as seen in his concert shows and songs. He made black leather clothes very popular in the Heavy Metal community. That look came from the Underground Gay Scene; he kept his homosexuality a secret for decades. However the fans may have figured it out a long time ago.
* ''[[FATAL]]'', a [[Tabletop RPG]], tries to justify this [[The Tasteless But True Story|by claiming historical accuracy and realism]]...[[Dan Browned|badly]]. Even ignoring it's a game with ''magic'' and ''orcs'' in a bastardized version of medieval Europe, it's possible to cut a man's uterus in this game, and while we're busy with the impossible you can do it without harming any intervening skin, muscle, or other organs that might be in the way. The misogynistic approach to (gratuitously detailed) sexuality pushes it past offensively stupid into stupidly offensive. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031206035133/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal Here's] a more complete assessment ([[NSFW]] for language).
** All you need to know about ''FATAL'' can be summed up in author Byron Hall's response to the charge that he had created a "date rape RPG," which was the succinct and revealing "[[I Take Offense to That Last One|where is dating included?]]" The same attempted rebuttal had him continuing to claim historical accuracy even whilst all but admitting that he was doing it for the lulz.
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** [[Redheaded Hero]] and [[Heroes Want Redheads]]: His wife, Virginia, was a redhead. This hair color is a standout feature of almost all the female love interests in his works and a number of the males. Moreover, ''twin'' redheads are similarly common.
** [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]: Heinlein was a cat lover and cats show up throughout most of his novels. Anyone who is mean to cats is certain to be a villain.
** [[Polyamory]]: From ''[[Stranger in
** [[Sexy Man, Instant Harem]]: Related to the above, his Gruff Old Man protagonists invariably attract a sizable harem of sexy women.
** [[Incest Is Relative]]: [[Parental Incest]], [[Brother-Sister Incest]], [[Twincest]], lots and lots of incest.
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** Considering Hetalia has its own [[Fetish Fuel]] page? He's not alone.
* It is claimed that ''[[Hellsing]]'' mangaka Kouta Hirano based the design of Rip van Winkle (no, not [[Rip Van Winkle|that one]]) on a mix of his fetishes.
** If you cross-reference with the other female characters then you can definitely see a pattern emerging: Glasses or sunglasses (Rip, Yumiko, Integra, Heinkel), gloves (almost
** Considering that Kouta has made no secret of adapting characters from previous hentai work there's no good reason to be surprised when characters are so rife with [[Fetish Fuel]].
** The characters themselves all seem to be fairly depraved, too. Makes sense, really.
* [[William Hope Hodgson]] had definite opinions on bodybuilding, gender roles, and the domination and disciplining of beautiful women by strong men, and in ''[[The Night Land]]'' he indulges fully in them.
* [[Andrew Hussie]] likes [[Role Playing Games]], glasses (''especially'' [[Cool Shades]]), and superheroes. ''[[Homestuck]]'' has ''a lot'' of that. Especially glasses - half of the main cast wears some kind of eyewear. He also loves [[Hip Hop]] music; he's done explicitly hip-hop based comics like ''And It Don't Stop'' (about giant robot rap battles). In ''[[Homestuck]]'', three of the main characters are rappers; [[The Lancer|Dave Strider]] is a DJ and music producer who [[Time Master|uses turntables to access his time powers]] (and has some minor [[Author Avatar]] elements), and [[The Stoner|Gamzee Makara]] is a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] [[Juggalo]]. Additionally, the narration occasionally dips into using contorted rapper slang and rap-inspired grammatical constructions, usually [[Sophisticated As Hell|for
* Maria Momoe from ''[[Ookiku Furikabutte]]'' is in some ways an [[Author Avatar]] for Asa Higuchi. Higuchi majored in sports psychology and was a softball player in high school. Momoe is very devoted to coaching a high school baseball team, and the series depicts in fine detail how [[Write Who You Know|her deep understanding of her players' feelings]] helps her motivate them towards success.
=== I ===
* Daigo Ikeno, the artist behind the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series, is responsible for Chun-Li's thighs increasing in girth with each game, as he loves him some big ol' thighs. The producer of the series, Yoshinori Ono, prefers thinner women, so Ikeno as admitted that he's often delivered thinner designs at the start of development and slowly made Chun-Li's legs thicker with each new drawing. Then, once he sent his final design to the 3D model crew, it would be far too late for Ono to do anything about it. (It's all in good fun, though, and the two men have had a good laugh about it.)
* [[Sailor Moon|Kunihiko]] [[Revolutionary Girl Utena|Ikuhara]] really likes [[Schoolgirl Lesbians]].
=== J ===
* Jeph Jacques, creator of ''[[Questionable Content]]'', is obsessed with girls with psychological issues, and the entire cast of his
** Of course, this doesn't stop him from [http://www.shortpacked.com/index.php?id=1742 mocking blatant author fetishes].
* [http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/ Niklas Jansson], has a tendency to draw girls with exposed midriffs, white panties, and white thigh-highs with knee-high boots. Even when he's doing his game "redesigns", these will pop up, regardless of setting. For example, count the girls dressed such in [http://androidarts.com/kawaiik/kawaiik.htm Kawaiik].
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** ''Conan The Triumphant'' centered upon Al'Kiir; the demon-god of female subjugation who required a steady stream of female souls to "play" with. Al'Kiir was said to prefer very strong-willed women as "brides" and his rituals required sacrifices to be stripped, oiled with some kind of aphrodisiac, chained down and whipped. Naturally Karela wound up on the altar by the novel's end...
** The Conan books at least were considered an [[Old Shame]] on Jordan's part, originally published under a different name.
** If [[The Wheel of Time|Robert Jordan's]] above noted fetishes weren't enough, [[Hide Your Lesbians|discreet lesbian relationships]] ("pillow friends") are referred to with increasing frequency among the various all-female organizations, especially among Aes Sedai, due to [[
=== K ===
* [[Lloyd Kaufman]] of Troma (''[[Toxic Avenger]]'') Entertainment likes his [[Gorn]]
* [[Guy Gavriel Kay]] has the extremely obvious fetishes of male submission (complete with pillows and silken ropes) and Mardi Gras-type festivals involving anonymous sex.
* Smelling women pops up oddly often in Anthony Kiedis' (of the [[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] fame) lyrics.
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* Koji Kumeta has a couple of appeals that seem to be present in ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou-sensei|Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei]]''. It might be just part of the general weirdness, but there's several scenes that sort of randomly show a dominatrix prostitute "doing her thing" and the character of Ms. Chie was shown to be a sadomasochist. On the non-sexual side, the whole series showcases meticulously selected [[Awesome Anachronistic Apparel]] and has a [[Retro Universe]] feel. There's a similar [[Fan of the Past]] vibe in the characters- Ikkyu "loves everything old", Nozomu is very knowledgeable of both classic literature and older pop culture, Harumi has an encyclopediac knowledge of manga history. Finally, it's quite likely that many of the numerous [[Character Filibuster|character filibusters]] reflect Kumeta's opinions.
=== L ===
* [[Fritz Leiber]]'s work suggests that he was pretty heavily into BDSM. Especially his final ''[[Fafhrd and The Gray Mouser]]'' stories, which are stuffed full of graphic sex scenes of that nature.
** Not to mention the presence of barely nubile young girls the Twain more often than not lust upon...
* If you're watching a [[Sergio Leone]] film and there's a female character in it, you can bet that she'll be raped at some point, or that she's a prostitute. Or both.
** This is pretty standard for all [[Spaghetti
* [[Rob Liefeld
=== M ===
* [[Hayao Miyazaki]] has a fascination with flight, hence why practically all of his works involve flying in some form or another. Even [[Sherlock Hound|the adaptation of Sherlock Holmes]] he worked on had flying machines, when there were none to be had in the original source material.
** [[Studio Ghibli]] also ''loves'' Goo of some kind - how often do you see it in there?
* Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of ''[[Demon's Souls]]'' and ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is a big fan of [[Dark Fantasy]], [[Berserk]] in particular, and difficult games. This definitely shows in his work with the Souls games.
* [[Botchamania|Maffew]] ''reeeealy'' likes [[CHIKARA]], and wants his followers to like it, too. More than one of the Botchamania videos have had allusions to the small, independent wrestling promotion; even their main website links to Chikara's page.
* Uno Makato, the character designer of ''[[Dragonaut: The
* Sondra Marshak's ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels are all about the importance of physical strength as the ultimate resolving factor. One gets the distinct feeling (particularly after having ploughed laboriously through either ''The Price of the Phoenix'' or ''The Prometheus Design'') that she was brutally bullied in school and/or had a tough time in Phys Ed, to the point that she is obsessed with strength.
* Seiji Matsuyama likes having girls with ''massive'' [[Gag Boobs]] in all of his works -- ''[[Eiken]]'' is just the most well known in the west. And ''Eiken'' is his most tame series yet. [https://web.archive.org/web/20111120235214/http://media.animevice.com/uploads/0/584/19447-kirikaandkomoeho9_super.jpg This] is him acting restrained.
* ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' in the original form, was heavily based on the author William Marston's belief that a little BDSM now and then was a healthy way of sublimating the aggression in a relationship. Oh, and bondage leads to world peace. It was [https://web.archive.org/web/20151123180551/http://www.superdickery.com/more-wonder-woman-bondage/ startlingly blatant] for the supposedly impenetrably oppressive 1940s. Amusingly, attacks by [[Media Watchdogs]] cracking down on comics were treated more as a misinterpreted annoyance than any outright denials of its themes.
** [[Superdickery.com]] nicknamed her "Suffering [[Les Yay|Sappho]]" - [https://web.archive.org/web/20150426194543/http://www.superdickery.com/tag/suffering-sappho/ there are] more examples of "binding games" and/or [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|girl-on-girl action]] than you can shake a [https://web.archive.org/web/20151121122712/http://www.superdickery.com/the-tnt-trap/ vibrator]-shaped [https://web.archive.org/web/20151121212238/http://www.superdickery.com/best-wonder-woman-bondage-yet/ bomb] at.
* [[George R. R. Martin]] seems to really like writing about [[Incest Is Relative]]. ''A lot.'' To the point that one of the first questions on one of the "You Know You've Read Too Much ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire|ASOIAF]]'' When..." lists floating around the internet is: "You no longer view incest as inherently wrong as long as they love each other."
** He has some disturbing shit out there but the only major recurring theme he has is a bunch of stories that have the protagonist losing a woman to his best friend, something that he openly states happened to him and he wrote a lot of depressed stories that featured the idea.
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** Shirow did it ''once'' and then every single adaption has included it as a reference. Which means that combined, Maj. Motoko Kusanagi has lost three arms, one leg and two ''heads!''
** It shows up in every ''[[Ghost in the Shell (manga)|Ghost in The Shell]] book'' and in ''[[Dominion Tank Police]]'' as well.
** [[Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
* Brooke McEldowney has long made clear his love of nubile cartoon women (the only thing he can draw correctly are long feminine legs), but a recent plot-arc in his web-comic ''Pibgorn'' has also featured a ''lot'' of shots of said women in bondage and/or outright torture. Add this to the constant references to sex in ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' and you get the feeling that Brooke is one sick cookie. Oh yeah, and occasional bondage in ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'' too, played for laughs.
* [[Seth MacFarlane]] loves singing. ''[[Family Guy]]'' has lots of musical numbers that are far longer than
** Surprisingly, Todd McFarlane's run on ''Spider-Man'' invert this: Fans assumed all the webbing he drew was for this trope, when he actually ''hated'' drawing webbing, but couldn't bring himself [[Doing It for the Art|not to include it]].
* Vonda McIntyre seems to like [[Polyamory|group marriages]], [[transhuman]]ism, contraception (and other things) via biofeedback, and [[Unscaled Merfolk]].
* [[Robin McKinley]]'s novels often involve May/September romances. McKinley's husband is 25 years her senior.
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] chairman [[Vince McMahon]] has apparently been pushing for an incest angle for years now, and, at one time, even proposed a storyline that would show himself as the on-screen father of his daughter Stephanie's child (thankfully, Stephanie, as head of WWE's creative committee, was able to veto that one). He appears to have finally gotten his wish with Paul and Katie Lea Burchill, a brother/sister pairing who, when they debuted, had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much [[Subtext]]. Fortunately, the incest portion of the gimmick was eventually dropped, and the Burchills were re-cast as a British [[Rich Bitch]] and her overprotective brother. And then became [[Jobber]]s,
* [[Russ Meyer]]. ''Bosomania''. Catch it! As the years passed, the boobs in his movies just got bigger and bigger.
* Though [[Stephenie Meyer]] gets a lot of accusations of this, [[Cleolinda Jones]] had a more humorous hypothesis. In her summary of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Breaking Dawn]]'', Cleo suggests that Renesmee being a "perfect baby" (sleeps most of the day, never cries, can communicate psychically) sounds like the fantasy of a woman who's had three kids ("I haven't slept in days, please God send help").
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** Not to mention what Frank Miller did to ''[[Catwoman]]''. [[Classy Cat Burglar]]? Certainly not classy anymore. Poor Selina...
*** That retcon was thankfully [[Canon Discontinuity|ret-retconned]].
** The aforementioned
** On a lighter side, Miller is very fond of All Star Converses, which he uses on a basis. From Dwight and Wallace in Sin City, to The Spirit in the new film.
* [[Kentaro Miura]]'s ''[[Berserk]]'' contains a ridiculously varied palette of battle armor, all drawn in exquisite detail.
** That's what you have a problem with? Not the horrible things being done to women throughout? I mean c'mon! Someone who has had countless women raped (once in a massive troll-on-human rape orgy) and on two occasions ''had monster babies burst out of pregnant women''. Dude has some issues, methinks
** And then there's all the [[Eye Scream]]. Seriously. Eyeballs popping out all over the place...
* [[Alan Moore]] certainly is fond of depicting sexual relations between young women and older/uglier men whenever he can. He does it in ''[[V for Vendetta]]'', ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'', ''Promethea'', ''From Hell''...
** Silk Spectre II dating a much older (though technically timeless) Dr. Manhattan, beginning when she was 16, in ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]''.
** The later installments of ''[[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen]]'' seem to go out of their way to regale us with the sexual adventures of many characters.
** ''[[Lost Girls (comics)|Lost Girls]]'' is the inevitable, er, climax of the above two points; one gigantic blown load of Author Appeal.
* Then there's Chris Morrison (the
** Indeed, when he included a female that WASN'T of this body type, he rather abruptly ended the storyline involving her, continued the story as if it finished (sort of, he was unclear on the circumstances), and used the unseen events as an excuse to have the character start pumping iron like crazy until she was more buff than your average (male) [[American Gladiators]].
* [[Toni Morrison]] has a thing for necrophilia, and adults breastfeeding other adults. She also has an oral fixation...one chapter of ''[[Beloved]]'' has an unnamed (but possibly the title) character crammed among the dead on a slave ship, and all she focuses on is a dead man's "pretty white points" of teeth and his sweet breath. Several times before, other characters' breath-scents are brought up.
* Let's just say that for Morrissey, "rough trade" is more than just the name the record label that [[The Smiths]] were signed to. There's also his fetish for [[Auto Erotica|leather car seats]], which he's admitted to in interviews.
* So [[xkcd|Randall Munroe's]] [http://xkcd.com/311/ deepest desire is to] [http://xkcd.com/580/ have a herd of] [[Summer Glau]] [[Action Girl|beat the crap out of him.]]
* Matt Maiellaro of [[Adult Swim]] fame is a guitarist, and thus electric guitars have played prominently in episodes of ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', ''[[Squidbillies]]'', and ''[[12 oz. Mouse]]''.
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* [[Namco Bandai]] and spanking. Actually, butts in general, given characters like Isabella Valentine and Anna Williams from ''[[Soul Series|Soulcalibur]]'' and ''[[Tekken]]'' respectively. But spanking seems to be high on the list of things Namco developers would like to do ''to'' a butt.
** Namco's ''[[Tales (series)]]'' series seems to throw in a reference to spanking somewhere in every game.
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* [[Jay Naylor]] (Of ''[[Better Days]]'' fame) and the female buttocks. The banner on top of his [http://www.jaynaylor.com/ website] consists of nothing [[Incredibly Lame Pun|but]]. Mocked with [http://badwebcomics.wdfiles.com/local--files/better-days/BetterDaysAss.png this image.]
** Also casual nudity, as confirmed by [[Word of God]].
* John Norman's ''[[Gor]]'' novels began as somewhat mediocre [[Planetary Romance]] novels, but rapidly came to revolve entirely around the elaborate system of sex slavery practiced by the men of Gor. The series has actually spawned a [[Rule 34|small but vocal BDSM subculture
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* [[Oh Great]], creator of, among others, ''[[Air Gear]]'' and ''Tenjho Tenge'', he's also well known for his [[Hentai]] work (such as ''Silky Whip''). It must be seen to be believed. The [[Fan Service]] even in his "tamer" series is...incredible.
* On both game music podcast [[Nitro Game Injection]] and its spinoff show [https://web.archive.org/web/20131107095540/http://kngi.org/about/infofaq-gamefuel/ GameFuel], the music playlist usually features a disproportionate amount of rock and metal remixes.
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* [[Ovid]]'s ''[[The Metamorphoses]]'' is a string of myths connected by the common theme of transformation.
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* [[Chuck Palahniuk]] always manages to get not plot-related gay sex, homoerotic imagery, or at least a guy beating off into his novels. Apart from his obvious love of genital injury...
* In an interview, Ben Barnes said something along the lines of "I asked the director, Oliver Parker, why every sex scene involved a mask, whip, knife, handcuffs, or a feather boa, why there was no non-kinky sex in the world of [[The Picture of Dorian Gray|Dorian Gray]]. He just looked at his shoes. I assume it was plucked from his own bedroom but you'd have to ask him."
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* [[Christopher Pike]], he of the big breast fascination. An interesting point, however, is that the main characters of his novels commonly have small frames and they mock the larger breasted secondary characters.
* ''[[Elf Quest]]'' didn't start out this way, but gradually introduced Wendy Pini's ideas, which might best be described as a fixation on a [[Free-Love Future]]. By the second series, practically [[Everyone Is Bi]] including the hero. Although actual scenes never went beyond PG-13 or a mild R, it must have made things interesting for the parents who'd been reading ''Elfquest'' to very young children.
* Pure Sabe, author of the [[ROM Hack]] ''[[Rock Man 4 Minus Infinity]]'', seems to ''really'' like ''Rockman World 5'' and ''[[Mega Man X]] 2'': enemies and gimmicks from the Robot Master stages are similar to those seen in the former, and the Cossack stage bosses resemble the X-Hunters of the latter.
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* [[Ayn Rand]] had a thing for "bodice-ripper" style ravishment sex, which her sex scenes usually involved. The rather violent sex scenes she wrote (especially the rather infamous Howard Roark/Dominique Francon sex scene in ''[[The Fountainhead]]'') can plausibly be read as [[Victim Falls For Rapist]], although this is debated by many ([http://www.wendymcelroy.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.144 including anarchist-feminist Wendy McElroy]).
** Additionally, Rand practiced consensual polyamory during the time she was writing ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. The heroine of ''Atlas'', Dagny Taggart, has multiple relationships over the course of the novel's plot.
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** [http://hradzka.livejournal.com/194753.html?thread=760769#t760769 He does admit everything the reviewer says about the Paladin of Shadows is right,] but then makes the...''creepy'' claim like "women tend to love {{[[[Victim Falls For Rapist]] guys like the alpha rapists}}] and men to follow them."
*** ''[[Something Awful]]'''s Goons [[Squick|had]] [[Nausea Fuel|a field]] [[Serial Escalation|day]] with these.
** In the ''[[Posleen War Series]]'', an artillery piece is named after Bun-Bun from '''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. The crew not only gets away with it, but a random guy they meet just happens to be a big fan. This is after five years of war with a genocidal alien race that has control of most of the planet, yet apparently the ''Sluggy Freelance'' servers are still up, or at least a mirror or archive thereof.
*** In the [[Special Circumstances]] series, a character has a ''[[The Very Secret Diaries]]'' t-shirt <ref>gifted by her sister as a joke</ref> that is not only plot-relevant, by way of a prophecy, but the guy who it is plot-relevant ''to'' happens to be a fan of the fic. Strangely, in the exact same series, a random guy ''doesn't'' recognize ''[[Interview with the Vampire]]''. So in Ringo's work, fanfic is more likely to be recognized than a critically-acclaimed, Oscar-nominated blockbuster film.
* [[Guy Ritchie]] definitely likes his male characters to do a [[Shirtless Scene]] at least once in a movie, preferably during a fight. Their body types are always the same: slender bordering on thin, but with well defined muscles. Plot relevance is optional.
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* [[When They Cry|Ryukishi07]] seems to have a thing for [[She's Got Legs|legs]]. Quite a few outfits his female characters wear show them off, such as the Angel Mort waitress outfit in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni|Higurashi]]'' and the outfits worn by the Stakes of Purgatory, the Chiesters, and the Einserne Jungfrau in ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro ni|Umineko]]'', all of which incorporate [[Showgirl Skirt]]s.
=== S ===
* ''[[Gorgeous Princess Creamy Beamy]]'' combines the author's love of BBWs (Big Beautiful Women), usually eating until they're sick, combined with parody of [[Magical Girl]]s.
** Author S. Sakurai's other
** This is at least an open and deliberate part of the series, frequently lampshaded and foregrounded.
* A lot of Richard Sala's comics feature young women who frequently (if not always) [[Does Not Like Shoes|go barefoot]]. ''[[Peculia]]'' is one example.
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* John Swartzwelder, a writer on [[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]], is a massive [[Preston Sturges]] fan and because of that has an accompanying love for [[Hobos]], who he has used as a source of humor in a number of episodes he has written.
* The varied art galleries of bisexual artist [http://sue-chan.com/art.html Suechan] tend to be heavy on furries (especially catgirls), a blend of homoerotic and heteroerotic art, comic book characters, 80's cartoons andthe PC's from assorted [[Tabletop Games]]. {{spoiler|Also, for the purest example of this trope, there's a separate, hidden section of her webpage dedicated to hypnofetishism [http://sue-chan.com/mc.html here].}}
* Tom Siddell, creator of ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', is a noted fan of [[Yuri Genre|Yuri manga]], and themes of it crop up from time to time in his comic. Most notably Zimmy and Gamma, whom depend on each other to get by each day, as well as main character Kat going through sexuality confusion after being [[Mistaken for Gay|mistaken for it.]] Zimmy and Gamma were originally part of another comic Tom was going to do before he started ''Gunnerkrigg Court'', and he has stated he would still like to do it someday after ''Gunnerkrigg'' ends.
=== T ===
* Satoshi Tajiri, the creator of ''[[Pokémon]]'', loved collecting insects as a child, [[Gotta Catch Them All|much like how the player's character collects many different
* [[Rumiko Takahashi]] ''loves'' to have couples that do nothing but bicker and argue yet are ''obviously'' in love with each other. She also likes to have fun with perverted old men... as well as [[Can't You Read the Sign?|a particular sign gag]].
** Like the dude below, she also loves her characters to be barefoot, open to any gender.
* [[Quentin Tarantino]] really likes women's [[Foot Focus|feet]], and openly admits to having a foot fetish (to the point of writing a scene where he could drink bourbon from Salma Hayek's foot in [[From Dusk till Dawn]]). He also wears his artistic influences on his sleeve and is very open about being inspired/lifting sequences from other films he enjoys.
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** He also seems to be into vore, if certain parts of ''[[Level E]]'' and ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]'' are any indication...
** Green seems to be his favourite color, as he likes dressing [[Hunter X Hunter|his]] [[Yu Yu Hakusho|protagonists]] in green.
* [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]: There was just ''something'' strange going on with Lily Borjarno's hot cocoa-drinking scene late in ''[[Turn A
** Speaking of ''[[Gundam]]'', when reading [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]]'s ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' novels, you get the feeling he has a thing for chubby girls. It's very restrained, but there are a few telltale signs. The first time we see Mirai Yashima in the second book it's pointed out she gained some weight since her last appearance. Then there's the novel exclusive character Margaret Blair, who's lovingly described as being very cute & plump. She even becomes Char's girlfriend & he absolutely adores her & decides he wants to start a family with her after the war. This seems somewhat out of character for Char, as every other woman he's been involved with was rather petite.
*** This can also be seen in reverse with [[Lady of War]] Kycillia Zabi. She is meant to be somewhat unattractive, which is accomplished by emphasizing how unnaturally thin she is, with a sharp, angular face, prominent cheekbones & relatively flat chest (in an era where the typical Japanese standard of beauty favoured busty, caucasian-looking women rather than the current [[Moe Moe]] craze).
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** His Fox series has Gerin and Van sharing a woman (not at the same time, they roll dice for the privilege). Eventually the wanton wishbone becomes exclusive to Van (not faithfully, she just doesn't sleep with the Fox anymore) and Gerin the Fox gets a more conventionally exclusive love interest.
* Director Tom Tykwer of ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' fame has an admitted [[Peanuts|Charlie Brown]]-esque preference for redheads, as demonstrated by the eponymous Lola and the characters of The Plum Girl and Laura in his film adaptation of ''[[Perfume]]: The Story of a Murderer'', though the latter two were mentioned to have red hair in the novel as well.
* Yui Toshiki, creator of ''[[Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa]]'', a story about a shemale, has some considerable knowledge of gaffs and padding in crossdressing. This shows up ''again'' with another work, called [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/my_doll_house/ My Doll House] where the main character is a part time crossdresser. Let's just say it's very obvious this was written by the same author, as some of the other kinks are there too.
=== V ===
* [[Valve Corporation]] really seems to love:
** Character-driven multiplayer (''[[Team Fortress 2]], ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'', [[Portal 2]], [[Alien Swarm]]'')
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** and, of course, [[Nice Hat|nice hats]].
=== W ===
* [[Rhe Wachowskis|Lana Wachowski]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20131207051827/http://lecter.org/forum/showthread.php?t=248 has a good reason] why every good character in ''[[The Matrix]]'' films loves to wear leather.
* Canadian cartoonist/fantasy artist [[Style Wager]] has admitted to be fond of short (but full-bodied) girls, which explains the large number of goblins, halflings, gnomes, dwarfs and athropomorphic rodents that can be found in his works. Judging from his art, he might also have a weak spot for [[Meganekko|girls with glasses]].
* Honmyou Wakou did a pervy (but not quiiiite pornographic) work called ''[[Nozoki Ana]]'' ("A Peephole"), which was about a guy being roped into alternating days of voyeurism and exhibitionism by his classmate, a young woman. There was more to it, of course, and it was all well in line with the current trend to take [[Hentai]] plot devices and clean them up for romantic comedies...until he started publishing ''[[Nozomi To Kimio]]'' ("Nozomi and Kimio", although Nozomi's name is a pun on peeping), which is about...a guy being roped into alternating days of voyeurism and exhibitionism by his classmate, a young woman. Well then.
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* [[Joss Whedon]], listed by theme:
** The man seems (virtually by his own admission) incapable of writing anything that doesn't feature ''at least one'' short-statured, petitely-built, very young woman/teenage girl with some angsty emotional issues or even sanity problems who can [[Waif Fu|kick the living crap]] out of people three times her size for [[Little Miss Badass|one reason]] or [[Cute Bruiser|another]]. If they're not the main character, they'll at least be a prominent supporting role.
*** Kitty Pryde of ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' as a Buffy-esque young student teacher
*** In interviews about his (later abandoned) ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' film project that the title character would "obviously have to be quite young", in bizarre dissonance with just about every depiction of the famous Wonder
*** For ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' he proposed the very Whedonesque idea of featuring [[Barbie]] as an [[Action Girl]] who would have been, in his own words, "[[Terminator|T2]]'s Sarah Connor in a pink convertible." Mattel, the company which owns Barbie, thought the film would bomb and wouldn't give them the rights. (Mattel [[The Red Stapler|changed their minds about that]] by the time ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 2'' rolled around.) ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]] 3'' featured Barbie in a fairly competent role.
*** ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'' has Black Widow in a starring role, who was actually introduced in ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]] 2'', [[Waif Fu]] and all. She gets some significant character development now that she's a main character. And if that weren't enough, we have Cobie Smulders as Black Widow's SHIELD colleague Maria Hill.
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*** Connor was raised and manipulated by {{spoiler|Holtz}} [[Tyke Bomb|to be a hate-filled tool for revenge.]] He has some problems, to say the least.
*** And then there's Simon and River's parents from ''[[Firefly]]'', who seemed more concerned about their status than about their daughter, and wouldn't believe Simon about what River was going through in the Academy.
* [[Marv Wolfman]] has also done this. The most glaring example being [[Spider-Woman]]'s capture by a vigilante named The Hangman, who ties and gags her and leaves her in his dungeon because he believes that "all women are frail", and he must therefore protect her from the evil world. This is particularly bizarre considering her capture was a cliffhanger ending for the Hangman's first appearance, but following her escape from his dungeon at the beginning of the next issue, he's not heard from again for several years, and when he actually returns, he was an
** On ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|The New Teen Titans]]'', he had Starfire, Wonder Girl, and Raven all undergo some form of this.
* [[Ed Wood (creator)|Ed Wood]]. While there's a blatant example of deliberate polemic in ''[[Glen or Glenda]]'' (whose cross-dressing main character he played under a pseudonym), the author's personal love of transvestitism pops its head up in virtually every single movie. (Nice example: Tor Johnson fondling an angora sweater in ''[[Bride of the Monster]]''.)
* Tennessee Williams, mid-1900s gay playwright and author of ''[[A Streetcar Named Desire]]'' had a thing for writing passionate, gorgeous [[Bishonen]] leading men in their mid to late twenties, and, if possible, naked from the waist up (he included a bedroom in a suspiciously high number of his plays where it was very convenient for them to be half-naked). He would write an entire half-page paragraph describing everything from how they moved to what they were dressed in, while giving the women about one sentence description (i.e. the bare minimum, usually with more description on the clothes than the person in them). When you have lines like, ''"His body shows no sign of decline, yet it's the kind of a body that white silk pyjamas are, or ought, to be made for"'', it's a little hard to avoid. Still, he wrote amazing plays and integrated his own Author Appeal into them so well that it not only became justifiable but essential to the play (and hence achieving the goal of all fiction writers since the beginning of time).
=== Y ===
* Suzuhito Yasuda, character designer of ''[[Durarara!!]], [[Kamisama Kazoku]], [[Devil Survivor]]'', and official manga artist for Yozakura Quartet, likes giving major characters cat ears.
* [[Jane Yolen]] usually avoids this, but her submission to the anthology ''A Starfarer's Dozen'' spends several pages describing exactly how it feels to slowly turn into an animal, using incredibly sensual language for a work not marketed to adults.
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** If you follow his other works, as well as the occasional stuff he throws into the manga via the mad scientist frog, you can tell he's also got a thing for mind control, transformation, age progression, [[People Puppets]], as well as completely inappropriate clothing styles (a nurse in a bikini top and maebari, for example). Lets just say that ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' is the ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' of the eastern world.
=== Z ===
* ''[[Touhou]]'', a game featuring [[Loads and Loads of Characters]], has an [[Fundamentally Female Cast|almost entirely female cast]]. [[Word of God]] says there are just as many men as women in Gensokyo, it's just that apparently, no man ever [[Orcus on His Throne|feels like doing anything]] in a game where girls [[Blood Knight|fight for no reason besides boredom]], or has [[Can't Catch Up|no superpowers to compete]] with the
** Mind you, the series creator, ZUN, isn't a very good artist, and his male characters are all either non-humanoid or don't appear in the games themselves; on his part, Gensokyo's unbalanced population might be less rooted in Author Appeal than the limits of his abilities. More directly, though, he's notorious to the point of [[Memetic Mutation]] for his love of alcohol, which might explain why just about every Touhou character seems willing to drink at the drop of a hat, even though the human ones sure don't look of age. There's even one who has ''literally never been seen sober''.
** There's also the hats and copious amounts of frills.
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* [[Disney]] ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies introduced many large tentacle creatures. Does this have anything to do with inclinations of someone in the new Lucasfilm management? Was someone attracted to ''Star Wars'' because of a Sarlacc? Quite possibly. See "[//disneystarwarsisdumb.wordpress.com/2019/01/26/kathleen-kennedys-tentacled-kink/ Kathleen Kennedy’s Tentacled Kink]" for more references.
{{quote|(from behind-the-scene notes): I remember KK would go into her office and google images of frill sharks and giant tentacle creatures for reference. She loves that stuff. }}
* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], veteran ''[[Doctor Who]]'' writer [[Terrance Dicks]]' contributions began to display a rather alarming tendency to have the Doctor's female companions threatened with being raped upon being captured by the villains. Nothing ever happened, of course, but it's frequent presence in his works began to get more than a bit unsettling. The Doctor even makes a rape joke in the theatrical play ''Doctor Who - The Ultimate Adventure''.▼
** Lloyd Rose, who has written various stories in the ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe, likes to portray the Doctor as [[The Woobie]]. A lot. He gets injured (or otherwise suffers), in various nasty ways in at least three of [[Tomboyish Name|her]] stories: ''City of the Dead'', ''Camera Obscura'', and ''Caerdroia''. Really [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|nasty]]. Also, there's often quite a bit of [[Foe Yay]], almost always between the Doctor and characters who pose an immediate, physical threat to him. Looks like there's a bit of a sadomasochism kink there.▼
** Jim Mortimore and [[Body Horror]], specifically dealing with full-body infections leading to transformation. At one point he does it to '' {{spoiler|the entirety of Asia}}''.▼
=== Fan Works ===
* This is the very reason for "Linkin Park Z" (i.e., ''[[Dragon Ball]] (Z)'' music videos set to [[Linkin Park]] songs), despite the fact that most Linkin Park songs are relatively dark and brooding and have little to do with the more cheerful and combat-oriented Dragon Ball sagas.
* There was a fic where [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Rei Ayanami]] revealed her love of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. After that the whole thing dissolved into an [[Author Tract]] about how people can't appreciate modern fantasy.
* ''[[Neon Exodus Evangelion]]'' is a ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' [[Mega Crossover]], whose [[Eyrie Productions, Unlimited|authors]] were also clearly into New England college life, antiauthoritarianism, motorcycles, the Titanic and the UK. But not, however, anything the original creators of Eva had done with the themes and characterization. Then again, it's less an ''Evangelion'' fic than an ''[[In Nomine]]'' fic wearing ''Evangelion''{{'}}s clothes, written in part as a protest against ''Evangelion''{{'}}s nihilism, so maybe its failure to slavishly mimic ''Evangelion'' can be overlooked.
** The first few installments of the same authors' flagship series ''[[Undocumented Features]]''
* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K]]'' has one Author Appeal element, but it's right there in the title, and used with style.
* There is one ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' fanfic where Tenchi and his crew gave in willingly to Kagato [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|because he threatened them with country music]].
** Another ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' example was alien princess Ayeka listening to the 1997 song "Bitch" by Meredith Brooks (real subtle there) despite the fact that she had never been to Earth, and the song wouldn't be written for 700 years.
* ''[[Knight of Lolicon]]'': In addition to the [[Lolicon|premise]], at some point the writer must have just felt like throwing in obscure anime that only fellow otakus were likely to have seen, and made the fic nigh-unreadable to anyone who isn't familiar with [[Magical Girl]] and [[Shoujo]] series targeted towards young girls. There are also a lot of [[Shout-Out
* ''[[Nyoron Churuya San]]'' (a [[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya|Haruhi]] gag manga) is largely based on Churuya's desire for smoked cheese — which exists because the author really likes smoked cheese.
* ''[[Decks Fall,
* ''[[The Darker Knight]]'' is a ''[[Batman]]'' [[Troll Fic]] in which Batman saves random celebrities and rock bands and fights against a zombie apocalypse with characters from other comics, cartoons, and movies. [[Hilarity Ensues]].
* One [[Alternate Universe Fic|AU]] ''[[High School Musical]]'' fanfic had Gabriella and Troy share a mutual dislike of eggs. To say nothing of the setting, namely casting Gabriella as a well-off Jew and Troy as one of the Hilterjüngen in Nazi Germany. Luckily, the author canceled the fic after coming back from a long hiatus and realizing that it was kind of terrible.
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' fans (among others) call these elements "pepperjack cheese", or just "pepperjack", after a ''Harry Potter'' [http://pottersues.livejournal.com/1200.html fanfic] in which Hermione expresses a fondness for pepper jack cheese, a mild cheese with jalapeño peppers that's popular in parts of the United States but basically unknown everywhere else. England, of course, is part of "everywhere else", and it's nigh-impossible to obtain there.<ref>Burger King is probably your best bet.</ref> The author boldly stated in her notes that Hermione liked it now because she (the author) liked it. It was such a blatant example that it soon became shorthand for "the characters must like what I like!"
** Musical choices are a very common element. Fanfic writers will often put Hogwarts students (even pureblood wizards like Draco) in shirts advertising moody American Muggle bands [[Present Day Past|that hadn't even been formed at the corresponding timeline.]]
** Another ''Harry Potter'' fanfic, ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'', features as its main character a [[Gender
** In ''[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12562072/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Daft-Morons Harry Potter and the Daft Morons]'' by "sinyk", Harry is a [[Supreme Chef]] who, when he can wrest control of the kitchen from Dobby, creates utter feasts for his friends and loved ones. Inexplicably, one of the things he's mentioned as preparing for one meal are rissoles, an obscure Australian family "comfort food". It probably comes as no surprise that the author is Australian.
* A Drizzt Do'Urden fanfic that was slightly more nuanced than the standard. Catti-brie wanted to try bondage, and while Drizzt is at first interested, being from a society that is controlled by a frothing boot-on-the-neck abusive matriarchy, he started freaking out. He got used to it in the end, though.
* Fics in which the characters eat the author's favourite meal are quite common, and often not particularly problematic, but see the above mention of Pepper-Jack Cheese - it doesn't work when the food is not accessible or there would be other reasons for the characters not to eat it. For example, there was once a ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' fic which featured the elves making a ''pizza''.
* A curious ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''/[[Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series)|Classic ''Battlestar Galactica'']] (original) crossover fanfic had this as the climax, with a Mary Sue ''Enterprise'' crewman precipitating the rapture with a piano recital. It took a good chunk of both series' humans (save for a beffudled Picard, musing on whether he could find faith), and even some Cylons, which were revealed to be lizards in silver armor. (This last is a reference to the little-known novelization of the original pilot movie, which was adapted from an early script
* An author has produced a few short ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Meta Fic]]s in which Ninth and Tenth join the Eleventh [[Hatedom]], and lambast him whenever he enters ''[[This Time Round]]''.
** There's also a ''Doctor Who''/''[[The Prisoner]]'' crossover fic. The "new Number Two" convention from The Prisoner is compared to Time Lord regeneration, which provides the sole hook for combining the two series. It's very weird.
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* An otherwise well-written ''[[Babylon 5]]''/[[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|2004 ''Battlestar Galactica'']] crossover seemed to indicate that NCAA basketball was a major obsession of the Earth Alliance.
* ''[[With Strings Attached]]'' is what happened when the then 15-year-old writer got into [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]] and [[Dungeons & Dragons]] simultaneously, though the final product (which she finished when she was 44) went far, far beyond anything as simple as D&D.
* The author of the ''[[Command & Conquer]]'' story ''[[Tiberium Wars]]'' (no, not the official novelization) is clearly a big fan of ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'', especially ''[[Gaunt's Ghosts]]'', and this shows up in his portrayal of Nod which definitely has elements of the Imperial Guard and Space Marines. Not to mention all the other subtler [[Shout-Out
* The fanfic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6932565/1/Return_to_Atlantica_b_1_out_of_3_A_New_Beginning Return to Atlantica]'', besides being a terrifying behemoth (one chapter, one hundred and sixty-six thousand, two hundred and eighteen words), contains everything from ''Pokémon'' to ''[[The Little Mermaid]]'' to ''[[Spyro the Dragon]]'' to ''[[Super Mario Bros.]].''
* A fan of the ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' series starts pulling the characters out of the video games. Since they are in the "Real World," they can watch movies and play video games, including their own. Due to the nature of the magic involved, the characters will occasionally run into characters like Dante from ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' and Cloud from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1863484/1/Razzy_Plush Razzy Plush], [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2007793/1/Sequel_to_Razzy_Plush Sequel to Razzy Plush]'', and ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3242997/1/Plush_Kain_The_Convention_Adventure Plus Kain: The Convention Adventure
* A ''[[Daria]]'' fic, in which shy, insecure Stacy Rowe, who is obsessed with being popular and liked by others was also secretly a fan of the Dead Milkmen. More inexplicable references to and even cameos by bands that it was clear the author loved followed.
* Swing123, author of ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series]]'', seems to ''really'' love ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' and ''[[Doctor Who]]'', as elements and [[Shout-Out
* There's a very well written fic ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6673293/1/A_Cure_for_Love A Cure For Love]'' that is a ''[[Death Note]]'' [[Slash Fic]] + [[Britcom|British humor]] + political drama + [[The Smiths]] + pop culture references. It works.
* Another ''[[Daria]]'' fic shows Daria's parents as loving and completely indulgent to the disgustingly spoiled Quinn, while Daria is neglected to the point of emotional abuse. When Daria asks for an upgrade to her creaky aging Apple computer, her parents respond by buying ''Quinn'' the very latest and best ''IBM-clone'' computer. The writer's preference could not have been more obvious if she'd added "Written on an Apple" to every paragraph.
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▲* In the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], veteran ''[[Doctor Who]]'' writer [[Terrance Dicks]]' contributions began to display a rather alarming tendency to have the Doctor's female companions threatened with being raped upon being captured by the villains. Nothing ever happened, of course, but
▲* This trope was hilariously parodied in an episode of ''[[It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]]'', when a character takes it upon himself to design women's clothing. His design sketches? Nothing but gigantic boobs on stick figures. The trope shows up again in a later episode when the same character writes an entire novel about his fictional "erotic life."
▲** Lloyd Rose, who has written various stories in the ''Doctor Who'' Expanded Universe, likes to portray the Doctor as [[The Woobie]]. A lot. He gets injured (or otherwise suffers), in various nasty ways in at least three of [[Tomboyish Name|her]] stories: ''City of the Dead'', ''Camera Obscura'', and ''Caerdroia''. Really [[Normally I Would Be Dead Now|nasty]]. Also, there's often quite a bit of [[Foe Yay]], almost always between the Doctor and characters who pose an immediate, physical threat to him. Looks like there's a bit of a sadomasochism kink there.
▲* Spoofed wonderfully on ''[[Extras]]'', where [[Patrick Stewart]] ([[Adam Westing|playing himself]]) explains his idea for a new movie he's been writing. He says it's an exploration of what would happen if there were one person in the real world who could control people's minds. In actuality, though, the only thing his character does is go around making women's clothes fall off and "seeing everything." When Gervais explains his own idea for a script, Stewart only becomes interested when Gervais claims that there's nudity in it.
▲** Jim Mortimore and [[Body Horror]], specifically dealing with full-body infections leading to transformation. At one point he does it to ''
▲* A long-ago [[Saturday Night Live|SNL]] sketch featured Patrick Stewart as the owner of an erotic bakery. As various customers came in to pick up orders or browse, it emerged that Stewart's character had a slight inability to bake anything but cakes depicting women going to the bathroom.
▲* Mr. Garrison's romance novel in ''[[South Park]]'', which was filled with loving descriptions of penises. And little else. Even a lesbian scene quickly meandered into a loving description of penises. When the publisher accuses the novel of being "really, ''really'' gay," Garrison insists that it's just [[Fan Service]] to the female audience. Later he comes out of the closet anyway.
▲* [[Oglaf]]'s episode ''[http://oglaf.com/fairest/ Fairest]'' ([[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]]) well illustrates the nature of Author Appeal.
▲* Dennis Farina plays a writer of detective fiction in ''That Old Feeling'' and he was married to an actress played by [[Bette Midler]]. His victims are always actresses.
▲* David on ''[[Roseanne]]'' likes to draw big-breasted women. Or maybe that's Mark. You try to make heads or tails of the [[Gainax Ending]].
▲* ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!]]'' has a reoccurring character named Pierre who has a dad fetish and makes instructional videos for children. They'll inevitably derail into him asking the kids about their dads. He also has some sort of obsession with meat and the internet.
▲* ''[[Gunshow]]'' demonstrated this effect in tabletop RPG. ([[Alt Text]]: '[http://gunshowcomic.com/471 I have punched you now.]')
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