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Does not include overarching [[Signature Style]] elements of a body of work, [[Signature Shot]]s, or ''explicit'' [[Iconic Logo]] trademarks, such as [[Alfred Hitchcock]]'s silhouette or Walt Disney's signature. If the Thumbprint suggests some kind of kink or fetish on the part of the creator, then it's [[Author Appeal]].
Compare [[Signature Device]], [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]].
Many of these can be found in trivia sections on [[IMDb]].
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▲== Anime & Manga ==
* All of [[Hayao Miyazaki]]'s films have at least one scene depicting characters at great heights or on the edges of precipitious drops: most of his films also feature at least one fantastic flying machine. Many of his films feature flight as a prominent theme.
** And pigs. Don't forget the pigs.
* This is part of the reason why ''[[
** Of course, the series has taken a considerable amount of flak from critics recently{{when}} for, you know, [[Genre Shift|not actually being a magical girl show anymore]]. Which is silly, considering that the franchise re-invented itself with every new instalment.
* [[Naoki Urasawa]] is a noted Germanophile, which is very noticeable giving the settings of his work: Large parts of ''[[Monster (manga)|Monster]]'', ''[[Master Keaton]]'', and ''[[Pluto]]'' are set in Germany.
* [[Antique Bakery|Yoshinaga Fumi's]] works are very well regarded for their nuanced and fully realized characters. Yet for some reason all of these characters, no matter their profession or past, share the ability to speak for paragraphs about all the little details behind the [[Food Porn|delicious, mouthwatering dishes]] that always pop up.
* Between both his principal works' tendency to contain a cast of kids exposed to uncomfortable amounts of rape, teenage pregnancy, mental illnesses, parental child abuse and eventually [[Kill'Em All|a gruesome and pointless death]], and just generally possessing a [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]] you could use as a trebuchet, it would seem [[Mohiro Kitoh]] (''[[Narutaru]]'', ''[[Bokurano]]'') is ''
** Finally, he's also [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|fond of mountain bikes]].
** Also there seems to be a tendency towards aircraft and anything in the air, and perhaps the military.
* Keiichi Sigsawa, author of ''[[Kino's Journey]]'' and ''[[Allison and Lillia]]'', goes out of his way to profile in entirely unnecessary detail every weapon and vehicle that comes up, regardless of whether it is important to the plot. And as if that weren't enough, even his ''pen name'' is based on [https://web.archive.org/web/20080205094632/http://www.sigsauer.com/Default.aspx a gun brand].
* [[Shirow Masamune
▲* [[Shirow Masamune|Masamune Shirow]] loves drawing sexy, scantily clad women, but that hardly sets him apart; what ''does'' is his [[Technology Porn|obsessive attention to detail regarding near-future/sci-fi weaponry and machines]]. The [[Other Wiki]] even has [[wikipedia:Seburo|a page about Seburo]], which is Shirow's ''recurring futuristic small arms manufacturer''.
* If you couldn't tell from the series itself, Hiroyuki Imaishi, the director of ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' said in an interview that he liked [[This Is a Drill|drills]] and wanted a show where they were the main character's weapon. This becomes either hilarious or creepy when you see his previous work, ''[[Dead Leaves]]'', where one guy has a giant drill (that's drawn just like the ones in TTGL because he's also the character designer for both) ''for a penis''.
* Most of the [[Viewers Are Geniuses|ridiculously hard to understand]] math and physics found around ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'' (including an important in one of the later novels that is even ''illustrated'') stem from Nagaru Tanigawa (the author of the novels) being a math/physics buff.
** See ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' for something similar.
* Wataru Yoshizumi, the mangaka behind ''[[Marmalade Boy]]'', ''[[Ultra Maniac]]'', ''[[Mint na Bokura]]'' and many others, likes her tennis. She tends to have at least one of her characters in each of her series be a member of their school tennis club.
* Aside of uniforms and girls with hair decs, [[Hidekaz Himaruya]] loves bunnies.
* Shamelessly lampshaded by Ai Yazawa in her manga ''[[Gokinjo Monogatari]]'', about an arts high school populated by eccentric teens. "''In the Yazawa High School students have an unspoken agreement to dress in the most outrageous way possible. Why? Principal Ai Yazawa just loves outlandish clothes!''". Before becoming a mangaka, she wanted to be a fashion designer, and she's a hardcore fan of Vivienne Westwood. She also loves rock and punk music. It becomes glaringly obvious since ''all'' of her mangas feature [[Paradise Kiss|fashion designers]], [[Unlimited Wardrobe|massive amounts of different outfits]], designs lifted from Westwood, [[Nana|aspiring musicians and punk rockers]].
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** Kubo is also a huge fashion fan and takes every opportunity to sketch his characters in many different fashion styles from Japanese garb to punk outfits, tracksuits and boxing gear. Even here, he often finds a way to insert music.
* ''[[The Wallflower]]'' author Tomoko Hayakawa practically admits in her author notes that she simply made a series full of stuff she likes: [[Bishonen]], J-rock performers, horror and gothic pop culture, and the [[Elegant Gothic Lolita]] style.
* Kouichi Mashimo of [[Bee Train
* Tsutomu Nihei, author of ''[[Blame]]''!, has an obvious obsession with architecture, post-humanism and cyborgs. The latter occasionally verges on fetish territory, and the former is [[Memetic Mutation|something of a running joke amongst his fans]].
* Akira Toriyama of [[Dragon Ball]] fame has a thing for vehicles. Give the Dragonball manga a lookthrough and count how many of the chapter cover pages not directly related to the storyline feature some kind of detailed vehicle.
** [[Lampshaded]] in an [[Omake]] of his ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' manga, where Toriyama's editor calls him out for always drawing some sort of vehicle on the covers and asks him if the main character of the manga is a car.
* ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' scribe [[Kosuke Fujishima]] is a ''huge'' fan of exquisitely-detailed machinery, especially that surrounding vehicles, so it's no surprise that all his work features very in-depth discussion and imagery of the same.
** He's put [[w:Lotus Seven|Super 7s]] into not one, but two titles: ''[[You're Under Arrest]]'' and ''[[éX-Driver]]'' (the latter story had two 7s). He's only written five titles on his own so far.
* Eiichiro Oda of ''[[One Piece]]'' fame very clearly ''loves'' afros. Not only do several major ''One Piece'' characters sport afros, but the story draws attention or uses the afro for comedy in almost every case:
** Gaimon, who is mistaken for a shrub;
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** and Luffy wears an afro wig during his fight with Foxy, and everyone except [[Only Sane Man|Nami]] insists that the afro makes him stronger.
** [[Wild Take]]s and silly expressions in general are another favourite, even if the situation in the story is serious.
* [[Kozue Amano]], the creator of ''[[Aria (manga)|Aria]]'' and ''[[Amanchu!]]'', clearly has a thing for [[Scenery Porn]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad|Nobody complains,]] [[Doing It for the Art|for good reason.]]
*
** She highlighted in
* Isuna Hasekura, author of the ''[[Spice and Wolf]]'' novels, has a serious thing for economics. It features prominently in both of his works to date. In fact, he took the prize money he got for his first novel to the stock market and is currently writing a manga about day trading.
== Art ==
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau, as can be seen at the [[Other Wiki]] [[wikipedia:William-Adolphe Bouguereau|here]], made a career out of painting [[Moe|innocent, pale young girls looking sad and adorable]]. He also had a thing for [[Foot Focus|bare feet]], by the way.
== Comic Books ==
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* [[Mike Mignola]] has said in interviews that he created ''[[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'' because he loves drawing weird monsters, big gorillas and mad-science devices and wanted an excuse to get paid for it.
* [[Doug Ten Napel]]'s comics usually have a cat. Even when they aren't main characters or even important to the plot, there's usually at least one scene that prominently features one if not several.
* Legendary comic book artist George Perez has a non-sexual fetish of redesigning characters' costumes to be much more detailed than the average artist is willing to draw. It gets sexual because whenever he draws [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|Wanda Maximoff, AKA the Scarlet Witch]] (whom he has singled out as his [[Perverse Sexual Lust|favorite character to draw]]), he draws her in [https://web.archive.org/web/20160407021740/http://sarcasm-hime.net/wanda-ref.jpg this costume], which references her Roma heritage. Furthermore, this outfit is designed to indicate that Wanda ''does not wear panties'' (note that the two sections of fabric over her hips are connected by gold loops that rest over bare skin). When asked to provide [[Word of God]] information that nobody else could give, Perez stated that Wanda prefers to go commando and dared readers to find an instance in which she is proven to be wearing underwear. He even found other ways to subtly convey this sexual trivia - such as showing her wearing a very long t-shirt to bed. It is worth noting that no other artist draws this costume if they can avoid it, although that is likely because of the prohibitive level of detail rather than the designer's fetish appeal.
** Perez just has a fetish for costume design in general. His second-favorite Marvel girl to play with is the Wasp, because he can design any-and-as-many costumes as he damn well pleases for her with no one batting an eye about it. Hilariously enough, though, even with the ''dozens'' of outfits he's given her, ''none'' of the rare [[Stripperific]] costumes she's had were of his design.
*** Not that he couldn't. His design for ''[[The New Teen Titans]]'' ' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120127021411/http://league.jmkprime.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/starfire-326x600.jpg Starfire]
* D'Israeli's artwork always includes the word 'fishpaste' somewhere, usually as graffiti.
* [[Calvin and Hobbes|Bill Watterson]] cites [[Peanuts|Charles Schulz]] as one of his main creative influences, and it shows in his art style. A few of the stylistic twists Schulz used in his strip, such as profile shots of characters that show only their eyes and nose but not their mouths, or the use of the word "AUGH" when uttering a cry of surprise or dismay, were adopted by Watterson and later used in ''Calvin and Hobbes.''
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* [[Bill Finger]], the unsung early writer of the ''Batman'' comics, loved doing stories around giant sized but functional versions of props like typewriters, cigarette lights and similar displays.
* Dahne, the author of ''[[Stray (fanfic)|Stray]]'', ''loaded'' the story with [[Shout-Out]]s, and seems to have a particular interest in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' (justifiable in-story, as one of the protagonists is a mecha anime [[Otaku]]), ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' (which provides the [[Arc Words]]), and [[Norse Mythology]].▼
▲== Fan Fiction ==
▲* Dahne, the author of ''[[Stray]]'', ''loaded'' the story with [[Shout-Out]]s, and seems to have a particular interest in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' (justifiable in-story, as one of the protagonists is a mecha anime [[Otaku]]), ''[[Planescape: Torment]]'' (which provides the [[Arc Words]]), and [[Norse Mythology]].
* [[Ri2]]'s most well known fics are [[Darker and Edgier]] continuations of works like ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' or ''[[Latias' Journey|Pokemon]]'' that tend to [[Going Cosmic|Go Cosmic]] near the end. Also, a character named "Mewgle" that tends to show up for a cameo appearance or some sort of sub-plot.
* [
* [[Jared Ornstead]]. Look for dimension-hopping, [[Fixer Sue]] [[Self-Insert Fic|Self-Insert]] [[Author Avatar]]s, who in more recent stories are "blessed" with a [[Protagonist-Centered Morality]] which allows them to get away with endless atrocities because they're the "good guys". Women will be easily won over by the hero with either material possessions or simple courtesies, to the point of completely abandoning their previous moral and ethical beliefs to embrace the hero's own. [[Author Tract]]s and [[Author Filibuster]]s will litter the stories, along with [[Dear Negative Reader]] over the most trivial and benign comments. His 1990s vintage fics tend to be fun romps, often with epic plots; his later stories are often no less epic, but veer strongly into [[Hate Fic]] territory. Either way, they usually [[Jump the Shark|run off the rails]] at some point, and often end up [[Dead Fic]]s.
== Film ==
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* In the days of silent films, studios used to hide their names in the set to guard against other studios stealing the scenes for their own films (and to defend against accusations thereof).
* [[Alfred Hitchcock]] would [[Creator Cameo|appear]] as a bystander in all of his films. When he found out that people would watch the films for his cameo, and get distracted from the story, he started making his appearance in the first few minutes.
* Similarly, [[Stan Lee]]
* [[Sam Raimi]]'s [father's?] old Oldsmobile, dubbed "The Classic", is in many of his films. For example, it was Uncle Ben's car in ''[[Spider-Man (film)|Spider-Man]]''.
* [[Frank Capra]] and that crow.
* [[Martin Scorsese]]'s films often feature Catholic imagery, guilt-ridden protagonists, and the Madonna-Whore complex in regards to love interests.
* [[Christopher Nolan]]'s films would be a third shorter if he left out all the [[Scenery Porn|birds-eye view cityscapes]]. Also, at least one of the main characters will carry a small, innocent-looking object around (such as a [[The Dark Knight|
* Film producer Jon Peters appears to really like [[Giant Spider]]s, as noted in our article on [[Executive Meddling]].
* [[Tim Burton]] has a few:
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** [[Monster Clown|Scary clowns]], dark woods, tile floors...
** And Burton seems to have a thing for dogs, as there are some dropped into every one of his movies at some point.
** And that's the subtle stuff, we'll not even get into his main character is nearly always a sensitive outsider shunned by the masses. That defines himself prior to achieving the fame... [[Pandering to the Base|and]] his [[Emo Teen|
* [[Kevin Smith]] always stuffs his films with his favorite things: [[Star Wars]], Jaws, hockey and comic book references, and talks about "unnatural" sex acts. He has a thing for [[Meganekko|girls with glasses]], brought on by his wife. There are also ''Degrassi'' references.
* As a boy, [[Wes Craven]] was bullied by a kid named [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|Fred Krueger]]. Before this name became attached to Craven's most iconic baddie, his earlier film ''[[The Last House
* Screenwriter/director Richard Curtis seems to have a thing for Americans. Aside from the ''[[Bridget Jones (film series)|Bridget Jones]]'' films, which were adapted from another medium and was a collaboration with several other writers, every theatrically released film he's ever written has been a British comedy featuring at least one American character, though that maybe due to the UK cinematic convention of having an inexplicable American in the cast to coax the US market.
** Ironically in ''[[Love Actually]]'' he has the British prime minister played by Hugh Grant give an epic [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] to the American President played by Billy Bob Thornton.
* The films of [[Guillermo del Toro]] always include slime, aspects of clock punk (or at least, clocks), things in jars (often [[People Jars]]), and references to Roman Catholicism. The supernatural is extremely common, and he's also greatly interested in the [[Spanish Civil War]].
* [[Robert Zemeckis]] likes [[Historical In-Joke
** In a documentary made for the 2002 ''[[Back to
** Which brings us to [[Motion Capture]].
** Casting actors, often the lead, [[Acting for Two|in multiple parts]] (Michael J. Fox in ''[[Back to
* [[Dario Argento]]'s films usually have protagonists who are involved in the arts or some creative profession, and are foreigners.
** Jessica Harper in ''Suspiria'' and Jennifer Connelly in ''Phenomena'' are based on Disney's Snow White.
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** Most have at least one scene with a speeding vehicle (''[[THX 1138]]'', ''[[American Graffiti]]'', ''[[Star Wars]]'' movies, ''[[Indiana Jones]]'', etc.). Though this may have less to do with [[Author Appeal]] and more to do with the majority of his films being action films, where speeding vehicles can be expected.
** The number 327 is also frequently encountered, although it's not clear why. One theory is that Lucas' first car was a Chevy 327.
* [[Pixar|Lee Unkrich]] really likes monkeys. [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|Guess what shows up twice in his directorial debut]] ''[[Toy Story (franchise)||Toy Story 3]]''?
** And speaking of [[Pixar]], nearly every film by the company will contain a reference to Pizza Planet or A113 (more info under Western Animation).
* [[Steven Spielberg]]'s first film, ''[[Duel (film)|Duel]]'', used a dinosaur roar sound effect as the tanker truck goes over the cliff, which he has incorporated into the climax of just about every film he's made ever since.
* [[Stanley Kubrick]] liked filming [https://web.archive.org/web/20150427195454/http://kubrickfilms.tripod.com/id35.html bathroom scenes].
** CRM-114 shows up a bunch.
* When [[Quentin Tarantino]] heard it was being discontinued, he saved one last box of Fruit Brute cereal and tries to have a character eating it in every film he makes. He also has his own fictional brands, including Red Apple Cigarettes and Big Kahuna Burger. He also likes having stylized and often [[Nausea Fuel|nauseatingly]] [[Gorn|gory]] action scenes (though hilariously, he still found [[Monty Pythons Meaning of Life|Mr. Creosote]] to be a bit too much to stomach).
* ''[[Star Wars]]'' sound tech Ben Burtt is the driving force of the resurgent popularity of the [[Wilhelm Scream]].
* Most films directed by [[John Landis]] (with the notable exception of ''[[Animal House]]'') feature the phrase "See You Next Wednesday." Even the [[Michael Jackson]] "Thriller" video incorporates it in background dialogue.
* All of John Glen's ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' movies feature [[Disturbed Doves]].
* [[John Woo]] is also fond of the doves, and since ''[[The Killer]]'', they've shown up in pretty much all his work.
* Stephen Sommers ''loves'' scenes with people getting swallowed up by quicksand and the ilk (see ''[[The Jungle Book (film)|The Jungle Book]]'', ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy 1999]]'', ''[[The Mummy Trilogy|The Mummy Returns]]'' and the Sommers-produced ''[[The Scorpion King]]'').
* [[James Cameron]] has [[Foot Focus]] and many a [[Action Girl]] in his films.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food|Coffee?]] [[Coleman Francis]] [[The Skydivers|loves coffee!]]
== Gamebooks ==▼
* Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebook series, seems to enjoy sailboat racing, given how he's snuck [[Author Avatar]]s of himself and his teammates as minor characters in some of the gamebooks he's written. He appears as one of the crew members who can ferry the hero to Kaad in ''Return To Firetop Mountain'', and the rest of the crew have real-life names that are spelled phonetically ("Eeyun" instead of Ian, "Ndroo" instead of Drew, etc.), and also appears as an innkeeper who reminisces about his sailing days to the hero in ''Armies of Death''.▼
== Literature ==
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*** Not exactly survivalists and not, for the most part, off the grid. They're people with unusual skills and interests who, often, live in remote areas; and those -have- to be the bulk of survivors, given the initial premise. Exactly what chance would a professor of post-colonial studies in the Bay Area have if all high-energy technology stopped working? The only 'survivalists' proper in the Emberverse series are the Aryan Brotherhood types who appear early in "Dies the Fire", and they don't do too well. The survivors center around an itinerant musician and a bush pilot, for example.
*** CUT also started as a survivalist cult in the Emberverse.
** He also seems to be very fond of the concept of the country squire, whether in the form of a [[The Draka|Draka]] landholder, a Prime of one of the Thirty Families of New Virginia (from his novel Conquistador), a Commander of post-change Britain in the [[Emberverse]], a zamindar of the [[The Peshawar Lancers|Angrezi Raj]], or a Hereditary Supervisor of the [[The General (series)|Civil Government]].
** However, his real thumbprint is his [[Food Porn]]. It occurs in all his books, from the fifth millenium to the Emberverse.
* Speaking of Piers Anthony... Sure, the Xanth books are filled with puns, but they lurk in other books too, not to mention the [[Meaningful Name]]s. And he loves logic puzzles; more than once has the climax of a book hinged on the protagonist figuring out a logic puzzle. (Off the top of my head: ''Golem in the Gears'', the Prisoners' Dilemma; ''With a Tangled Skein'', the [[Twelve Coins Puzzle]].)
** ''Macroscope'' involved the game ''sprouts''.
* Many of [[Neil Gaiman]]'s stories involve talking cats, imposter mothers, and, of course, eye trauma.
** His main (male) characters usually start as incompetent [[This Loser Is You]] and [[Took a Level
** On a more "meta" level, he is also very, very fond of playing with the inside/outside aspect of things (i.e. what you thought was outside was really inside something bigger, or you were the one being inside all along - and not just in spatial terms) as well as the concept of stories within stories. For example, one Sandman book has the protagonist telling a barman the story about a time he got stranded in a strange inn, where people told each other stories to pass the time. One of the travellers tells a story about a boat voyage, during which Hob Gadling tells the protagonist of ''that'' story another story. That's 4 levels of indentation, 5 if you count "Neil Gaiman telling the reader the story of that guy telling the barman...".
*** 6, if you count "[[TV Tropes]] telling you the story of Neil Gaiman telling the reader the story...", but you really shouldn't.
*** Even better, in that same Sandman book, a character the protagonist of the book met is telling a story about a meeting he had with someone, who told a story about his mistress, who in THAT story started telling many stories...one of which was a story about a bunch of travelers stuck at an inn, telling stories to pass the time. Yes, it was recursive to that extent, and boy, was Gaiman proud of managing to include the moment.
*** Gaiman's also a huge mythology nut and loves to reference a huge range of tales from almost any culture you can think of, particularly if at some point they were [[Bowdlerization|bowdlerised]] and the original forms were much darker and more gruesome. [[The Fair Folk]] are treated as the trope describes, the original (and deeply [[squick]]y) tale of Red Riding Hood makes an appearance and a thematic point in ''Sandman'', ''[[American Gods]]'' and ''[[Anansi Boys]]'' are probably set in the same continuity and are all about myths being real and alive (and trying to stay that way), and [[Shakespeare]] himself and his King's Men perform ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' for the entities it was based upon, during which some members of the audience have to be reminded not to eat the performers.
* [[Frank Herbert]]'s consistent themes: hallucinatory experiences as a spiritual journey of discovery (usually by means of some substance,) and resentment toward/competition with a father figure. Also, various takes on mental merging, from several different [[Hive Mind]]s to full memory sharing in ''[[Con Sentiency]]'' and Reverend Mothers' ancestral memories in ''[[Dune]]''.
* [[Cordwainer Smith]] loved to include cats (including an early, Western example of the [[Catgirl]] trope) and references to Chinese culture in his science fiction stories.
* [[Mercedes Lackey]] loves to include birds and intelligent avian creatures in her fantasy novels. Valdemar has gryphons, ''tervardi,'' and the Tayledras ("Hawkbrothers") and their semi-intelligent [[Bond Creatures|bond birds]]; the Free Bards books all have bird-themed titles; and one of her fairy tale adaptations has a minor character who's interested in falconry.
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* [[Peter David]] has a number of these. Many of his ''[[Star Trek]]'' books at least once mention Alexander the Great, for instance.
== Live
* British comedian [[Rik Mayall]] seems to like politics. Various references to the subject pop up in pretty much every episode of ''[[The Young Ones]]'', ''[[Filthy Rich
* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]—both the actor and character—likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].
* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[30 Rock]]'' like to make ''[[Star Wars]]'' references. In the second season, they managed to get Carrie Fisher to guest star and say, "Help me, Liz Lemon... you're my only hope!"
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* Inevitable ''[[Doctor Who]]'' examples:
** [[Terry Nation]]: "evolution" depicted as a predictable force with inherent drives, man-eating plants, planets with meaningful names, characters called "Tarrant".
** [[Malcolm Hulke]]: [[Grey and Gray Morality]], [[Humans Are
** [[Robert Holmes]]: cynicism (sometimes to localised [[Crapsack World]] levels), "double act" guest characters, [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]] references to intestinal gas, references to Earth-Humans as "Tellurians", bureacratic villains, [[Nightmare Fuel]].
** [[Pip And Jane Baker]]: [[Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness]], anvillicious green Aesops
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* Jhonen Vasquez (''[[Invader Zim]]'' and ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'') gives frequent homages to ''[[Alien]]'', ''[[The Fly (1958 film)|The Fly]]'' (both the original and [[David Cronenberg]]'s version), ''[[Scanners]]'', and video games in his comics/ TV show. He's also a fan of [[Humongous Mecha|giant robots]], space in general, [[Nightmare Fuel]], [[Body Horror]], and certain words, most notably: ''[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|doom]]'', ''cheese'', ''piggies'', ''tacos'', ''[[Everything's Better with Monkeys|monkeys]]'', ''moose'', ''noodles'', ''dooky'', ''nachos'', and ''bunnies''. He even stated at [[Comic Con]] '07 that he's fascinated with plotlines of people who are "controlled and used" by others (Johnny and the Doughboys, Devi and Sickness), and that he also hates dogs and little kids (sans [[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac|Squee]]).
* [[Nick Cave]] loves flowers, violence, [[Nightmare Fuel]], poetry, and religious debate. He also enjoys portraying the [[Deep South]], although it would be a stretch to say that he loved it.
* Glenn Danzig enjoys singing about death, Satan, and demons.
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* [[Pink Floyd]]'s Roger Waters' father, a pacifist, was killed in [[World War Two]] in 1944 in Anzio, Italy. This was a pivotal event in Roger's life. As a result, themes of war, politics, miscommunication and mortality often occur in his work in Pink Floyd and as a solo artist, especially starting with [[The Wall]].
** Other common [[Pink Floyd]] / Waters themes include madness, the music industry and [[Drugs Are Bad|the dangers of recreational drugs]], all of which played a part in the breakdown of founder Syd Barrett, and reocurred after the band's success in [[The Seventies]].
* [[David Bowie]] loves writing and singing about apocalypses, dystopias, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|cocaine]]. And science fiction/space-inspired subject matter shows up so often in his work that it became the basis for an article in ''[[The Onion]]'', "[https://web.archive.org/web/20131018072029/http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-launches-david-bowie-concept-mission
== Professional Wrestling ==
* [[Vince Russo]] loves pole matches. If you see a pole match in a [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], [[World Championship Wrestling|WCW]], or [[Total Nonstop Action Wrestling|TNA]] show, Russo's booking this match.
** Not just pole matches, pole matches for the craziest things. These include a rat, a bottle of Viagra, Judy Bagwell (they needed to use a forklift), a pinata, and the keys to Mick Foley's office, among other things.
==
=== Game Books ===
* Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''.▼
▲* Ian Livingstone, co-creator of the ''[[Fighting Fantasy]]'' gamebook series, seems to enjoy sailboat racing, given how he's snuck [[Author Avatar]]s of himself and his teammates as minor characters in some of the gamebooks he's written. He appears as one of the crew members who can ferry the hero to Kaad in ''Return To Firetop Mountain'', and the rest of the crew have real-life names that are spelled phonetically ("Eeyun" instead of Ian, "Ndroo" instead of Drew, etc.), and also appears as an innkeeper who reminisces about his sailing days to the hero in ''Armies of Death''.
=== Tabletop RPG ===
** Mushrooms
*** See [[Magic Mushroom]] and [[Fungus Humongous]]
*** A variety of fungoid monsters: ascomoid, basidirond, phycomid, shrieker, ustilagor, violet fungi, Zuggtmoy the demoness lady of fungi, etc.
** Shades of the color purple (violet, amethyst, heliotrope, lavender, lilac, plum, puce, etc.). Monsters with purple coloration: mind flayer/illithid (mauve skin), ogres (purple eyes), purple worm, storm giant (could have violet skin and purple eyes), violet fungi. Drow coloring lots of their stuff violet (this distinct look really stuck - see e.g. ''[[Master of Magic]]'')
*** Appear repeatedly in modules B2 ''The Keep on the Borderlands'', G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'', D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', EX2 ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'', S1 ''Tomb of Horrors'', T1-4 ''Temple of Elemental Evil'', WG4 ''The Forgotten Temple of Tharizdun'', WG5 ''Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure'' and WG6 ''Isle of the Ape''. In some cases they appeared so many times it appeared that Gygax had suffered a "purplegasm".
** Gygax also made a number of Lovecraftian references in those same works, as evidenced by such creatures as the Kuo-Toa (inspired by Lovecraft's Deep Ones), the Aboleth (inspired by some sort of Great Old One), the Illithids (which are basically a race of Cthulhus without the bat wings), the Elder Elemental God (shown in G3 ''Hall of the Fire Giant King'' as being shaped like a [[wikipedia:Chthonian (Cthulhu Mythos)|Chthonian]]) and certain elements of [[Nightmare Fuel]] in the temple of the [[Eldritch Abomination]] gods. He outright acknowledged Lovecraft as an important influence on D&D.
*** Gygax needed a lot of content to make the game work, so he drew from a very large number of sources. He didn't ''quite'' make D&D into an [[All Myths Are True]] setting, but he came pretty close.
** Also his fantastically large and baroque vocabulary, which might have had an element of showing off. Such as "quaff", "dweomer", "draught", "chapeau", "billet", etc.
▲*** Certain phrases such as "Of course", "Let us say" and "So to speak".
** And polearms... Ever want to know why [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0136.html the glaive-guisarme seems to crop up in D&D so much]?
** Anagrams or puns on his own name (Xagyg, Zagyg, etc).
* [[White Wolf]], the writers of the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' RPG, made it very obvious they preferred Humans, Elves, and Dwarves over the other races (especially [[Demoted to Extra|the trolls]] and the entirely absent [[Discontinuity|draenei]]) in the series. Even in the Horde Player's guide, they'd go on about elves, dwarves, and humans.▼
*** This one became fairly popular - Jim Ward got character Drawmij (in ''[[Greyhawk]]'') and ship named '''Ward'''en (in ''Metamorphosis Alpha''), Collins has Snilloc (in ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'').
▲* [[White Wolf]], the writers of the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' RPG, made it very obvious they preferred Humans, Elves, and Dwarves over the other races (especially [[Demoted to Extra|the trolls]] and the entirely absent [[Canon Discontinuity|draenei]]) in the series. Even in the Horde Player's guide, they'd go on about elves, dwarves, and humans.
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* [[Shakespeare]] loves comparing things to gardening, falconry, and hunting with dogs. He also loves crossdressing characters, but that was a fairly common schtick at the time. When he was writing, women were not permitted to be actors, and as such [[Recursive Crossdressing|all of the female characters ''were'' men]], and he thought it would be funny to make jokes based on that.
** Not to mention his continual description of rebellion and social breakdown in terms of cannibalism/self-consumption. Although perhaps this belongs in the 'Miscellaneous Paraphilia' section.
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** His earlier works were rather definitely based on his childhood experiences, too.
** The premise of ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' was based on his exploration of caves as a child. In an interview for a game-developer site, he flat-out tells other designers to base their games on things they like.
** Miyamoto has admitted to being a [[The Western|Western]] fan, which is particularly apparent in the 3D ''Zelda'' games. For example, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', ''[[Video Game/The Legend Of Zelda The Legend Of Zelda Majoras Mask|The Legend Of Zelda The Legend Of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' all have [[Powerup Mount|Epona]], ''Ocarina of Time'' has Lon Lon Ranch, ''Majora's Mask'' has Romani Ranch, and ''Twilight Princess'' has the redesigned Kakariko Village, the Hidden Village, Ordon Ranch and the plot similarities with ''[[The Searchers]]''.▼
▲Miyamoto has admitted to being a [[The Western|Western]] fan, which is particularly apparent in the 3D ''Zelda'' games. For example, ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'', ''[[Video Game/The Legend Of Zelda The Legend Of Zelda Majoras Mask|The Legend Of Zelda The Legend Of Zelda Majoras Mask]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]]'' all have [[Powerup Mount|Epona]], ''Ocarina of Time'' has Lon Lon Ranch, ''Majora's Mask'' has Romani Ranch, and ''Twilight Princess'' has the redesigned Kakariko Village, the Hidden Village, Ordon Ranch and the plot similarities with ''[[The Searchers]]''.
* Yuji Horii of ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' fame is a compulsive gambler which is why many of the games in the series have some sort of gambling mini-game in it. (Though its been said that the fact that you can only save in the town's churches is a way to try to make going out in the field/dungeons feel a bit more of a gamble as well.)
* Speaking of belts, ''[[Guilty Gear]]'' character designer Daisuke Ishiwatari seems to use belts as a unifying motif minus a few rare cases (Anji Mito has only a sash). [[Author Avatar|Sol Badguy]] tops the list with 24 belts in his costume design. Funnily enough, the costumes still manage to look pretty cool.
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* There are so many Flash and [[Interactive Fiction]] games about escaping from a locked room remarkably like, say, a programmer's bedroom (usually complete with bed, closet and computer) that it has become its own ''genre''. Of course, this might have to do with a throwback to early adventure games, which seized on the genre because of technical limitations; it's a lot easier to write and code a game about a single room than it is about, say even a small apartment.
* [[Hideo Kojima]] tells people that instead of being 70% water like normal people, he's 70% movies. As a child, he would often come home to an empty house and sometimes claims that he was raised by movies. As a result, not only do his games homage all his favourite movies to the point where they're almost [[Massively Multiplayer Crossover]] [[Fan Fiction]], but many of his characters are also movie fans (although the only one explicitly 'raised' on movies is Raiden and he's anything but an upstanding member of society).
* The creator of web-based MMORPG ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'' is a huge fan of [[They Might Be Giants (band)|They Might Be Giants]]; and references abound throughout the game.
* [[Rare]]. Keys. ''Enormous'' keys, bigger and heavier than the characters, the most famous being the infamous ice key from ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]'' / ''Banjo Tooie''. Both ''[[Diddy Kong Racing]]'' and ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' feature gigantic gold keys as [[Plot Coupon|plot coupons]]; finding or using a key is always a momentous occasion.
* The Rom Hacker Tatsu loves referencing the [[Dragon Quest]] and [[Kunio-Kun]] series in his rom hacks. ''[[Rockman 6: Unique Harassment]]'' has plenty of them in store:
** The title screen uses a Dragon Quest-like font.
** Napalm Man and Mr. X Stage 4 use tiles that alter Mega Man's controls.
** Napalm Man's level is called Mega Quest. It even uses Fighting Spirit from [[Dragon Quest VII]].
** Mr. X Stage 1 uses the USSR theme and Mr. X Stage 4 uses Team Shadow's theme from [[Super Dodge Ball]].
** Estark is the boss of Mr. X Stage 3, complete with special commands in message box and boss music.
* ''[[Shortpacked]]'', a rare hobby-based and clean-subtexted example, takes this trope to a really fun extreme. Toys, especially [[Transformers]], had managed to sneak into the earlier webcomics of David Willis, and this is a Webcomic set in a toy store, written by a toy collector. Do the math. He parodied the sexual form trope with one panel where his girlfriend, in-universe, appeared to be wearing a skimpy [[Transformers Armada|Hot Shot]] costume.
* ''[[Fans]]!'' is a little too vehement in its defense of fanboys. Claim that they're valuable, intelligent and worthwhile human beings, fine. Claim that fanboys have the specific combination of strengths that makes them the only ones capable of defending Earth, and that the biggest, geekiest fanboys alive will be revered by future generations as heroes who made all of society possible... that's taking things a bit too far.
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* [[Dominic Deegan|Mookie]] will be the first to tell you that a) he was a nerd, b) he loves heavy metal and [[Comic Books]], and c) "Lots of things I love are green!".
** Apparently among those green things are [[She Hulk]] and [[Hot Amazon|women built like her.]]
* ''[[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Penny Arcade]]'' is all about things the authors like, but also seems to feature a lot of [[Nightmare Fuel]]-ish [[Starfish Aliens|aliens]] and [[Eldritch Abomination|strange creatures]] for little reason.
** Jerry Holkins (Tycho) is a massive Cthulhu nerd. Really, what else can you expect from a mind that writes things like [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/
* ''[[Girly]]'' features a lot of kitties. The creator has mentioned that he loves cats.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'''s author has mentioned a few times how cool he thinks it would be to have a Zombie Head On A Stick. This probably explains why the characters acquired one, have been dragging it around with them, and will defend it to the death, despite the facts that Z.H.O.A.S. (its name) adds nothing to the plot and the joke got old months ago.
* Brian Clevinger of ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' loves [[Anticlimax|Anticlimactic]] resolutions, stating that his favorite jokes are those that are played upon the viewer.
* ''[[Living with Insanity]]'': The writer's projects all have couples in them. According to the blog posts, LWI would include more gaming and comic references, but the artist avoids jokes he doesn't understand.
* [[Andrew Hussie]] likes including horses, or horselike creatures such as centaurs, [[MS Paint Adventures|in]] [[Problem Sleuth|his]] [[Homestuck|work]], more often than not exaggerated in musculature (he also paid good money for a picture of a flaming stallion facing a football player, and used to do ironic reviews of muscular horse porn). When questioned about this, he responded that "horses are funny". He also seems to be very fond of hip-hop/rap and the culture surrounding it, perhaps best exemplified with ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130830093437/http://www.andrewhussie.com/comic.php?sec=archive&auth=Andrew&cid=aids
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* There's an unclickable "Joy of Painting" toon on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' that shows Marzipan dressed as Bob Ross painting a picture of a mountain landscape. Matt and Mike Chapman, creators of ''Homestar Runner'', admitted that they only did this because they thought showing [[Granola Girl]] Marzipan with a beard would be funny.
** A lot of the stuff at ''Homestar Runner'' is based on the creators' childhood. Note the frequent appearance of breakfast cereals and [[Merchandise-Driven]] Saturday morning cartoons, the sibling rivalry between Strong Bad and his brother Strong Sad, the characters' [[Vague Age]], and in-universe [[Nightmare Fuel]].
* How else do you explain the contortion scenes in ''[[Sapphire (web serial)|Sapphire]] Episode III''?
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100822135108/http://www.asstr.org/files/Authors/SD40ka/ SD40ka] ([[NSFW]] porn-hosting site): His stories (and it's definitely a "he") often enough star a male computer programmer, who marries/is married to a genius woman, and either or both of them recently served America ''proudly'' in Iraq thank-you-very-much. The characters are ''always'' staunch political conservatives, often actively reshaping the fictional universe into a Republican Paradise. He plugs that his (genius!) characters love the [[wikipedia:Cato Institute|Cato Institute]] and [[wikipedia:Townhall.com|Townhall.com,]] just in passing. There's even the occasional [[Easy Evangelism]] of a [[Strawman Political|merely misguided (rather than Evil) liberal]]. And everyone accepts Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Savior, without whom there was a great big hole in their hearts. In fact, it's a lot like [[Jack Chick]], only with lots of monogamous sex with [[Biggus Dickus|big penises]].
* [[Doug Walker]] ''really'' has a thing for broken, insane jerks who'll never get what they want but they'll keep on trying. [[The Nostalgia Critic]] is a perfect example of this, and [[Ask That Guy With The Glasses]] is getting there (as a more depraved version) with the amount of [[Sanity Slippage]] he's been put through.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick|Lindsay Ellis]] loves her some [[Black and Grey Morality]], robots, stamping on [[Girls Need Role Models]] and lots and lots of [[Self-Deprecation]].
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== Western Animation ==
* Butch Hartman's love of ''[[Star Wars]]'' and [[Comic Books]], as well as his hatred of jocks, cheerleaders, popular kids, rich kids and basically anyone else who picked on him in high school shines throughout his work. This includes ''[[The Fairly
* Watch a few episodes of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' and it becomes pretty obvious that show creator Tom Warburton has a love affair with [[Humongous Mecha]], whether they're made of houses, amusement park rides, giant rotting sandwiches, or ''baby chickens.'' [[Rule of Cool|Not that anyone minds.]]
* Greg Weisman is a self-described "Shakespeare nut, probably with the emphasis on 'nut'." ''[[Gargoyles]]'' had Puck, Oberon and Titania, the Weird Sisters and MacBeth as recurring characters, and another trio known [[All There in the Script|in the script]] as Othello, Iago, and Desdemona. Meanwhile, ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has a running subplot about a [[School Play]] of ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'' - in particular, "Growing Pains" takes advantage of the auditions to have Shakespeare quotes punctuate the story.
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** The also clearly have a thing for progressive rock. Especially David Bowie.
*** Doc Hammer also enjoys painting, which sometimes works it's way into the plot. Jackson poked fun at him for this in the commentary for O.R.B.
* One writer on ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' is a big Preston Sturgis fan and has an accompanying interest in [[Hobos]], leading to a number of hobo jokes throughout the series.
** That would be [[wikipedia:John Swartzwelder|John Swartzwelder]], who still holds the record for writing the most Simpsons episodes at 59.
** Additionally, many characters throughout Matt Groening productions have the middle initial "J." (Homer Jay Simpson, Bartholomew J. Simpson, Mona J. Simpson, [[Futurama|Philip J. Fry, and Hubert J. Farnsworth]]) as a reference to the creator of [[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Bullwinkle J. Moose]]
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** He also has a music degree, which explains the songs of ''[[South Park]]'' ([[The Movie]] was a musical and the early episodes in particular had Chef sing in every episode).
* [[Family Guy|Seth]] [[American Dad|Mac]][[The Cleveland Show|Farlane]] loves ''[[Star Wars]]'', musicals, and he finds deaf people ''hilarious.''
** Also, either Seth or somebody in his staff has a thing for [http://familyguy.wikia.com/wiki/Chris_Griffin idiotic] [http://americandad.wikia.com/wiki/Barry fat] [http://cleveland.wikia.com/wiki/Cleveland_Brown_Jr kids]{{Dead link}}
** Not to mention main characters who logically shouldn't be able to talk but do. Like Stewie, Klaus, and Tim the bear.
* Brad Bird works the number A113—a reference to a room at CalArts used by animation and graphic design students—into all of his projects: ''Family Dog'', ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' episodes, ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]''. This has since become a widespread animation in-joke.
* One [[My Little Pony:
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