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* When [[Peter David]] started writing ''[[Incredible Hulk|The Incredible Hulk]]'', he promised that he wouldn't kill off Betty Ross, Hulk's long-time love interest, partly because the character was one of his wife's favorites. Years later, he and his wife went through a painful divorce. Not long after ''that'', Betty Ross met a rather painful end in the comics. David has since come out and admitted that the strip was more than a little influenced by his real-life circumstances and, had things happened differently (not limited to the fact that he was soon taken off the book), he would have let Betty live.
* [[Geoff Johns]]' sister died in the crash of TWA Flight 800. Surprisingly, nothing horrible happened to the character based on her, the Star-Spangled Kid (now known as Stargirl). However, the situation did inspire an influential arc of ''[[Justice Society of America|JSA]]'', in which Atom Smasher {{spoiler|loses his mother in an airplane crash, then substitutes the villain Extant -- who killed Al's godfather -- in place of his mother after a big reality-altering plot implodes}}. This led to the revitalization of Black Adam and the series' arguable high point, ''Black Reign''.
* Mystek of the ''[[Justice League of America|Justice League Task Force]]'' was [[Thrown Out the Airlock]] due to a tag-team combo of [[Executive Meddling]] and the resulting [[Creator Breakdown]]. As writer Christopher Priest explains [https://web.archive.org/web/20090109224346/http://www.christopherpriest.com/hi.htm at his website]:
{{quote|We eventually introduced a character named Mystek, but I killed her off when her miniseries was not approved. Mystek was supposed to be a creator-owned character, developed under a first-look deal, and I was instructed to put her into ''JLTF'' to introduce her to the fans in preparation for her miniseries. Then there was no series, so I shoved her out an airlock in ''JLTF'' #32.}}
* ''Adventures of Barry Ween'' creator [[Judd Winick]] wrote a touching graphic novel about his friendship with fellow ''MTV's Real World'' co-star Pedro Zamora and Pedro's eventual death, ''Pedro And Me''. Since then, much of Winick's work - particular at [[DC Comics]] - has consisted of [[Very Special Episode|Very Special Issues]] involving HIV and homosexuality.
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