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** It's the same thing with the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' fandom. Any character from any work of fiction can become a pony. Crossovers with ''[[Doctor Who]]'' are popular, as well as ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''.

* The people at Paizo, who make the ''[[Pathfinder]]'' RPG, have quite a few things they ''really'' like; sexy, powerful women (both for heroines and villainesses), the [[Punk Punk|dungeonpunk]] aesthetic (which they arguably push farther than any D&D setting save ''[[Planescape]]''), the works of [[H.P. Lovecraft|HP Lovecraft]] and his friends (especially the [[Cthulhu Mythos]] and other [[Cosmic Horror Story]] tropes...), creatures derived from [[Urban Legends]] and similar folklore (they have versions of the Jersey Devil and mothmen as fully-statted monsters, ''in a medieval setting''), and [[The Legions of Hell]] (''TEN'' of them, fleshed-out with [[Backstory]] and multiple subspecies for each), among other things.

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''

* ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''. It's a matter of speculation as to whether Gary Gygax's fascination with polearms had Freudian roots or did stem from his rather peculiar views on history (he had problems with ranged weapons, after all). It's quite clear, however, that someone in 3e team had a thing for spiky chains (which was made suetifically powerful compared to typical cold steel and appeared in places as ludicrously unsuitable for swishing long things about as ''underground'') and dragon-shipping fanfics. Jury is out on chains, but [[Furry Fandom|the scalies]] are still on 5e team, seeing how the Dragonborn is one of PC races not just in "generic setting", but SRD (i.e. as core as it gets).

** A curious [http://blogofholding.com/?p=647 overabundance of ewers] in illustrations for the early editions, and even 4 edition retained some.

** It's a matter of speculation as to whether Gary Gygax's fascination with polearms had Freudian roots or did stem from his rather peculiar views on history (he had problems with ranged weapons, after all).

** It's quite clear, however, that someone in 3e team had a thing for spiky chains (which was made suetifically powerful compared to typical cold steel and appeared in places as ludicrously unsuitable for swishing long things about as ''underground''). Wrong sort of "dungeons", guys! And…

** …dragon-shipping. Even the kobolds were retconned into dragon-kin. [[Furry Fandom|The scalies]] are still on 5e team, seeing how the Dragonborn is one of PC races not just in "generic setting", but SRD (i.e. as core as it gets).

* Someone on [[Nintendo]] design team may have a thing for huge hands. [http://cheezburger.com/8774087168/nintendo-video-game-logic-many-hands-picture Observe].

* The plot to ''[[Superman]]'s Girl Friend, [[Lois Lane]]'' issue 29 is illogical even for [[Superdickery]]: Aliens have trapped Superman in a krypotonite trap and are watching his friends, so Lois has to kiss Green Arrow, Aquaman and Batman so she can whisper this to them and Batman can collect the antidote hidden in her lipstick and get it to Superman without all that much stealth (Instead of hugging Green Arrow, whispering it to him and having him or Batman quietly lift the antidote off her). It really seems the team behind the issue decided they wanted Lois kissing them first and worked backwards.