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** And pigs. Don't forget the pigs.
* This is part of the reason why ''[[Lyrical Nanoha]]'' fans love the series. The person in charge of it is a self-admitted fan of ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'', so he inserted ''a lot'' of [[Humongous Mecha]] tropes and references into the anime. [[Mix and Match|The resulting fusion]] of [[Magical Girl]]s and [[Humongous Mecha]] is [[Rule of Cool|very cool indeed]].
** 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.
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** 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
* 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]]'', ''[[
* 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.
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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.]]
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* 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.
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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]
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== Fan Works ==
* 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]].
* [[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.
* [[Doghead Thirteen|Calum "Doghead Thirteen" Wallace]]: In his ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fics, you will frequently see House-elves speaking hilariously over-mangled English (and who don't think ''anything'' like a human), Harry-Hermione shipping (sometimes with a touch of playful [[BDSM]]), and a Harry (or, less often, a Hermione) who is mechanically inclined at a level anywhere from handyman-tinkerer to self-taught aerospace engineer.
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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]] appeared in every movie based on one of his [[Superhero
* [[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 the Future (film)|Back to the Future]]'' DVD, Zemeckis said he always felt the best [[Time Travel]] stories were ''[[The Time Machine]]'' and ''[[A Christmas Carol]]''. Seven years later, he came out with his own version of the latter.
** Which brings us to [[Motion Capture]].
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* [[James Cameron]] has [[Foot Focus]] and many a [[Action Girl]] in his films.
* [[Trademark Favorite Food|Coffee?]] [[Coleman Francis]] [[The Skydivers|loves coffee!]]
== Game Books ==▼
* 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]].)
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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 & Catflap]]'' and ''[[Bottom]]''. So playing the lead role in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' must have been a dream come true for him.
* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]—both the actor and character—likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].
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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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▲* 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 ===
* Gary Gygax, co-creator of ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]''.
** Mushrooms
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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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* 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.
▲== Webcomics ==
* ''[[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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** 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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