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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]]!

 

* 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.

** But to be fair, Phedre specializes in BDSM, which might be why she doesn't encounter a lot of other fetishes.

*** The author has said that the BDSM aspect was done as a subversion of the [[Damsel in Distress]] cliché and that she was completely unfamiliar with it prior to researching the books.

* [[NUMA Series|Clive Cussler]] seems to ''really'' like blue and green eyed characters. Not to mention, he ''really, really'' loves anything to do with the sea and classic cars.

* 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.

* [[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.

** Human characters that fit this include Olive Kitty (''Mechanical Conflict'',) Vaneesa Abiyoti (''[[Stationery Voyagers]]: Final Hope'',) and all three of the Flippo triplets from the [[Ciem Webcomic Series]]. Stationeries are all over the map with this when their human forms are presented; but the most glaringly obvious examples are Neone Delft and Verdegal.

** In [[Real Life]], the author admits to having a thing for Filipinas.

* 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.

** Also, a fetish for having [[The War On Straw|Straw Man]] versions of [[Straw Loser|characters he doesn't like get beaten up]], such as he did to Wolverine, Daredevil, Spider-Man, God, and others. ''Preacher'' and ''Punisher'' are most guilty.

** And castration. Lots of castration.

* 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''...

* If you're watching a Lucio Fulni movie about zombies...it's going to include bloody gory deaths of some kind. (He used to direct Spaghetti Westerns) It was also rather amusing when he made fun of his ''own'' sick mind in a later movie!

* 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]].

* 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]].

* 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)]]'' 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!

* 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 [[But It Really Happened!|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. [http://web.archive.org/web/20031206035133/http://atrocities.primaryerror.net/fatal Here's] a more complete assessment ([[NSFW]] for language).

* As is pointed out [[Ho Yay/Video Games|elsewhere]], almost anything by Hanako Games has [[Les Yay]] in it ''somewhere''.

* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] liked writing about orphans, distant parents, and the plight of women. Also, his works have a lot of [[Incest Is Relative]]. A ''lot'' of incest.

** [[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.

* [[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 humourous effect]].

* 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]].

** 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].

** 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 [[Sitch Sexuality]]. Most Tower initiates grow out of this once they become full Aes Sedai; some of them don't, and Galina Casban verges on [[Psycho Lesbian]] at some points, but most Aes Sedai are simply asexual.

* [[Lloyd Kaufman]] of Troma (''[[Toxic Avenger]]'') Entertainment likes his [[Gorn]], girls and especially in combination. He's not alone, as he finds many actresses and models who love appearing blood-splattered and faux-mangled. Promoting this as a defining quality of Troma blurs the line between Author Appeal and [[Playing to The Fetishes]].

* [[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.

* [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s movies frequently have major scenes taking place in a bathroom, someone spitting or salivating, extreme close-ups of intensely emotional faces, and "[[Kubrick Stare|the glare]]"—head tilted forward with eyes looking up.

* 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.

* [[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.

* 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.

 

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