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A recurring item across several works for a director, producer or writer. For recurring associates, see [[Production Posse]]. For recurring characters or items identified with a previous movie, see [[Production Throwback]] and [[Reused Character Design]]. The literary/unintentional equivalent of this is an [[Author Catchphrase]], and the actor equivalent of this is just a normal [[Catch Phrase]] ([[Arnold Schwarzenegger|"I'll be back"]]).
Does not include overarching [[Signature Style]] elements of a body of work, [[Signature Shot
Compare [[Signature Device]], [[Author Vocabulary Calendar]].
Many of these can be found in trivia sections on [[IM Db]].▼
{{examples|Examples:}}▼
== Anime
* 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 (
* [[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
** 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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 ''[[
* 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 ''[[
* ''[[Bleach]]'': [[Tite Kubo]] is a huge music geek. As a result, he gives many of his characters theme songs from a wide range of styles and nationalities. His chapter and even volume titles can be a [[Call Back]] to songs and he often finds a way to insert music into character conversations. During the TBTP arc not only did he have Captain Shinji trying to convince Vice-Captain Aizen that jazz was a brilliant invention but he also created a little character sketch at the end of the relevant volume to tell the reader that jazz didn't actually exist during Shinji's era, coupled with a sketch of Shinji looking absolutely baffled at what he's listening to if jazz doesn't exist.
** 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 [[
** [[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
** 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 ''[[
** Gaimon, who is mistaken for a shrub;
** Kuromarimo, who has one afro on his head and three in his beard, fights with afro-shaped balls of hair;
** Strawhat pirate Brook, who is a ''[[Dem Bones|skeleton]]'', still retains his afro because [[It Runs
** Fleet Admiral Sengoku, despite being [[The Comically Serious]];
** Emporio Ivankov, who can carry his right hand man in his afro;
** 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
* [[Kozue Amano]], the creator of ''[[Aria (
*
** 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]] [
== Comic Books ==
* Caricaturist [[Al Hirshfeld]] was known for hiding the word Nina (his daughter's name) within the elaborate cross-hatching of his cartoons. A number next to his signature indicated the number of hidden Ninas.
* Keno [[Don Rosa]] put the acronym [http://neamar.fr/Res/DUCK/ D.U.C.K. into the first page] of all of his comics, as a homage to his favorite [[Carl Barks]] ("Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno").
* The late comicbook writer Mark Gruenwald apparently loved his home state Wisconsin. In ''[[Captain America (comics)]],'' he made the villain Sidewinder a Wisconsite. His love for Wisconsin really showed in ''D.P.7.,'' as most of the early issues were set there, and many of the characters were from Wisconsin.
* Likewise, [[Brian Michael Bendis]] really seems to like his hometown of Cleveland, and has set many of his stories there.
* [[The Flash]]'s John Broome seemed to have some sort of fixation with second floor burglaries. It has been suggested that maybe he was burgled while living on the second floor and developed it because of that.
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* [[Neil Gaiman]] of ''[[The Sandman]]'' fame in comics amidst other masterpices likes mythology, cats, mythology, gothic imagery and/or dressing and mythology. Did I mention mythology?
** And meta: expect stories within stories within stories, and the story will be talking about other stories.
* [[Mike Mignola]] has said in interviews that he created ''[[Hellboy (
* [[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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** He's explained that alliterative names were just easier to remember since he was writing tons of books and creating new characters all the time.
* [[Garth Ennis]] has a fondness for Irish and British characters, especially working-class ones.
* Scott Snyder has a penchant for starting every story
* [[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 (
▲== Fan Fiction ==
* [[
▲* Dahne, the author of ''[[Stray (Fanfic)|Stray]]'', ''loaded'' the story with [[Shout Out|Shout Outs]], 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]].
* [[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.
▲* [[Ri 2]]'s most well known fics are [[Darker and Edgier]] continuations of works like ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' or ''[[Latias Journey (Fanfic)|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 ==
* As an homage to [[Al Hirshfeld]], artists working on the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of ''[[Fantasia]] 2000'' (which was inspired by Hirshfeld's drawings) added their names within the backgrounds as [[Freeze
* 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 (
* [[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
* [[Tim Burton]] has a few:
** has a thing about hands. His films contain strange
** Burton also likes German Expressionist cinema (please note the fact that Johnny Depp [[Looks Like Cesare]] in over half of Burton's films), which is a visible influence of his work. Sometimes he admits this, like how Christopher Walken's character in ''Batman Returns'' is named "[[Nosferatu
** [[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
* [[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
* 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
* [[Robert Zemeckis]] likes [[
** 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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** That's besides his whole "dark underbelly of suburbia" thing, the dominant theme in much of his work.
* [[The Coen Brothers]] seem obsessed with hair, or at any rate like to portray characters who are, and/or characters with bizarre or terrible haircuts.
** They are also fond of: suitcases full of money, powerful men behind desks, shots of walking feet, and [[Implacable Man|Implacable Men]] who verge on being [[Physical God
* If [[
** Mel Gibson's attachment to a film, as star or director, does tend to suggest the presence of torture or similar. ''[[Mad Max]]'' and the hacksaw, ''[[Lethal Weapon]]'' and the electric sponges in the shower, lots of ''[[Conspiracy Theory (
* Every [[George Lucas]] movie features the number 1138 at some point, as homage to his first film, ''[[
** Most have at least one scene with a speeding vehicle (''[[
** 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. [[
** 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 (
* [[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 (
* [[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|Author Avatars]] 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 ==
* [[Robert Frost]] loves nature, and can or will not, in particular, shut up about trees.
** He also had a thing for Iambic meter, but that's possibly more a stylistic choice than [[Author Appeal]].
* The ''[[Arthur (
* An in-story example: The [[Gordon Korman]] novel ''Son of Interflux'' has an art student who always includes a camel in his paintings, no matter what it's a painting of. His teacher finds it immensely irritating.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]], ''again'' (the man had trouble keeping himself out of his books, clearly)
** ''[[Starship Troopers (
** See his entry in [[Food Porn]].
** He also seemed to be a spanko. Many of his books includes scenes where a man spanks a woman.
** See his page here for a list of character types which can be considered his "trademarks".
* [[
** He would also faint if the temperature would drop too much (cf. ''Cool Air'') and he loved cats.
** Also, most of his protagonists are solitary men who have little or no obvious employment, yet never lack money; Lovecraft came from an upper-class family that fell into poverty while he was a child. As a result he spent his whole life in chronic lack of money, but unable to get work that would match his social status. There's clearly some wish-fulfillment going on.
** The really surprising thing about Lovecraft's marriage is that his wife was Jewish. True, no particularly anti-Semitic tropes appear in his work, but it seems weird for someone so xenophobic to make an exception.
* [[
* Ayn Rand admits that the men in her novels are intended to be the ideal man, an [[Author Tract|important aspect of her writing]].
* Robert Anton Wilson's novels are pretty much an excuse to write extensive analyses about his personal philosophies, and explore various schools of mysticism he's been involved with - however, he manages to do it in entertaining and amusing manner. He also occasionally lampshades his tendencies to this with characters commenting about books that start telling a story, and end with an essay of philosophy.
** He also loved James Joyce's books, and several times included them, or the man himself into the plots of his various books. In ''Schroedinger's Cat''-trilogy he even features a utopian alternate universe where Joyce became the Pope, changed the entire nature of the Catholic Church to a more modern value-system, and prevented [[World War II]]!
* The authors of the ''[[Left Behind]]'' series really, really like their telephone conversations. In fact there's probably as much talking on the phone as there is talking face-to-face in the earlier books.
** Don't forget their love of explaining the difficulties of getting from Point A to Point B. Over a billion people have just disappeared, but I'm going to worry about how hard it is to get to New York.
* [[
** And, of all things, cannibalism, but that depends on whether there's an extreme famine going on.
** Much of Stirling's work is a homage to the "heroic [[Mighty Whitey]] explorer" genre of pulp fiction, so this is a cross between [[Author Appeal]] and [[Shout
** Another common vein in Stirling's works is the prevalence of "survivalists." In the [[Terminator]] novels, they were the few survivors of Skynet's attack on humanity, and in the [[Emberverse]] most survivors were people who lived off the grid.
*** 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
** ''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 [[
* [[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.
** Also, something like 80% of her villains are rapists.
* In all the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' books, spiders and socks are mentioned in passing several times, and both becoming huge plot points in the second book. There's even a giant talking spider character named Aragog.
** The spider thing probably has more to do with the fact that Ron is arachnophobic than any direct author appeal. Though this raises the question of why [[
*** The reality is that Jo Rowling herself is an arachnophobic.
** She also made a whole family of [[Redheaded Hero|red headed heroes]] to counter the negative stereotypes of 'gingers' in the UK. She also made their last name "Weasley" specifically because she likes weasels and thinks they get a bad rap.
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** As [[Stephen King]] once snarked, "Rowling never met an adverb she didn't like."
* Brian Jacques fills his ''[[Redwall]]'' novels with [[Food Porn|pages upon pages of descriptions of the food]] the characters eat. So many different kinds of scones!
* If [[Star Trek:
* The elves of ''[[The Inheritance Trilogy]]'' are atheist, nudist, vegetarian tree-worshippers who impart their "wisdom" repeatedly to the main character and the reader.
* [[Lois McMaster Bujold]] loves riverboating on the Ohio, and more than half of ''The Sharing Knife: Passage'' focuses on this pastime.
** Also horses and gardening.
* Dan Simmons' novels are all basically love letters to his favorite literary works. ''[[Hyperion|The Hyperion Cantos]]'' contain an almost obscene number of references to John Keats. His ''Ilium'' and ''Olympus'' duology is based on [[
* Every single book in [[James Ellroy]]'s ''L.A. Quartet'' has a different serial killer and a different incestuous relationship. Ellroy is pretty upfront about his mental baggage: his beautiful mother, to whom he was sexually attracted, was brutally murdered when he was a child. They never found the killer. He has a memoir about this.
* Everything by Leo Frankowski has both sexual and non-sexual [[Author Appeal]]. Especially ''Conrad's Time Machine'', a book whose plot is as follows: Two [[Author Avatar]] s hang out together inventing a time machine, and spend the majority of the book whisked away to an tropical island where they become fabulously wealthy, enjoy the services of an [[Unwanted Harem]], and finish inventing their time machine. It's also filled with quotes from Frankowski's own favorite authors, especially Heinlein.
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* [[Diana Wynne Jones]] and Wales/the Welsh language.
** There's also a lot of magical or quasi-magical cats to be found in her work.
* [[Robert Forward]]'s ''[[Camelot
* [[David Weber]] seems to have a thing for baseball. It's one thing when it shows up on [[Honor Harrington
** Weber also seems to have a thing for hexapodal mammalian and reptilian creatures, see the six legged animals of the planet Sphinx in the [[
* [[James Lee Burke]] uses references to scent in his descriptions of people and places to a noticeably unusual degree.
* [[Anne Rice]] seems to have a thing for European culture and overall history. And she likes describing elaborate clothing. She really likes describing clothing.
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* [[NUMA Series|Clive Cussler]] almost always has a cameo of himself assisting the heroes in some way.
* [[Steven Brust]] is another writer with a taste (pardon the pun) for [[Food Porn]]. He also has a thing (taken from Hungarian folklore iirc) for canny coachman characters. There's a couple in the [[Dragaera]] series, and in ''[[Freedom and Necessity]]'', the protagonist disguises himself as a coachman at the beginning of the novel. Brust was also previously involved in music, so there are a number of musician characters in his books and one book has a lot of carefully disguised allusions to the [[Grateful Dead]].
* [[Roald Dahl]] loved nostalgia for his childhood, and [[Food Porn|food]]. Almost all of his books revolve around food in some way, and most of the [[Happy Ending
* Along with his obsession of going into absurd detail with characters getting diarrhea, periods, and wet trousers (possibly deliberate [[Squick]]), [[Stephen King]] ''also'' seems bent on all his stories being in Maine.
** And if they aren't set there, they will definitely include some passing reference to the state at some point.
* Pretty much the entire oeuvre of [[China Mieville]] is [[Perdido Street Station|one]] [[Kraken (
* [[Dale Brown]] was a former bomber crewman, so most of his [[Cool Plane
* [[Eoin Colfer]] and Ireland.
* [[
* [[Chuck Palahniuk]] seems to have a thing for furniture stores and describing houses.
** And so far everyone of his books has mentioned the color cornflower blue.
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** Virginia. Small and boring towns where something weird happens, for the first time ever.
* [[Spider Robinson]] is a huge fan of [[Robert Heinlein]], and one of Heinlein's most ardent defenders. Needless to say, there are many similarities between Heinlein's work and Robinson's, particularly involving individual liberty, free love, and [[Shaggy Dog Story|shaggy dog stories]] ending in [[Incredibly Lame Pun|truly terrible puns]]. This is most evident in the ''Callahan's Place'' series and its various spinoffs.
* [[Peter David]] has a number of these. Many of his ''[[
* 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
▲== Live Action TV ==
* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]
▲* 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 and Catflap]]'' and ''[[Bottom]]''. So playing the lead role in ''[[The New Statesman]]'' must have been a dream come true for him.
* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[
▲* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]--both the actor and character--likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].
▲* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[Thirty Rock (TV)|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!"
* [[Bryan Fuller]] likes the macabre like fish like water: ''two'' of his shows (''[[Dead Like Me]]'' and ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'') have used death as a metaphor for adulthood. He loves giving his female leads [[Tomboyish Name|tomboyish names]], for whatever reason.
* Steve Smith, co-creator, producer and co-head writer of ''[[The Red Green Show]]'', seems to be a car buff in real life and many of the show's gags involve cars and trucks of some sort. [[Shout
** Along with that, Steve Smith even [[Lampshaded]] the number of gags that involve beer in one form or another. When cars and beer are the basis for so much of the humor, is it any wonder the show was such a hit among middle-aged blue collar guys?
* Inevitable ''[[
** [[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
** [[Eric Saward]]: [[Kill
** [[Barry Letts]]: Buddhism, environmentalism
** [[Russell T. Davies]]: LGBT allusions, family members woven into plot, people named "Smith" and "Jones", self-aware [[Camp]].
** [[Steven Moffat]]: Time travel used inside the story, telephones, aliens whose main ability invokes [[Paranoia Fuel]], [[Nightmare Fuel]]
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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'', ''[[
* [[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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== Music ==
* John Flansburgh of [[They Might Be Giants (
* Rapper [[
* [[Nine Inch Nails
* Mozart seemed to really like writing parts for basses and sopranos, as evidenced by many of his most famous characters, such as Figaro, Sarastro, Osmin, Leporello, the Queen of the Night, Constanze, and Zerlina. He also liked [[Toilet Humour]].
* [[
** Other common [[
* [[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.
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=== 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
=== 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 [[
*** 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.
▲** 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 [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chthonian_<!-- 28Cthulhu_Mythos29 Chthonian]]) and certain elements of NightmareFuel in the temple of the EldritchAbomination gods. He outright acknowledged Lovecraft as an important influence on D&D. -->
** Also his fantastically large and baroque vocabulary, which might have had an element of showing off. Such as "quaff", "dweomer", "draught", "chapeau", "billet", etc.▼
▲*** 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.
** 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).
▲*** Certain phrases such as "Of course", "Let us say" and "So to speak".
*** 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]]'').
▲** 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]?
* [[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.
==
* [[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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== Video Games ==
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0KnkU1cZz4 Totaka's Song], a short, 19 note tune hidden in almost every game [
* Shinji Mikami from ''[[Resident Evil]]'' fame has a thing for masked wrestlers and [[Sentai]] as demonstrated in games where he can actually get away with it. ''([[
* Goichi Suda AKA [[Suda 51]] likes [[Mind Screw|Mind Fucks]] A LOT. He also seems to have a thing for gratuitious gore, semi-futuristic decadent places with slashes of Magical Realism, and rave music. He also seems to love lucha libre, as seen in ''[[No More Heroes]]'', where the player character collects luchadore masks (who all have names like "La Guerra, Jr.") and learns new wrestling moves from finding masks with notes in them Suda51 even wears a luchador outfit in some press releases.
** And as mentioned above, there is [[
* By this time, it's became quite obvious that Square-Enix designer Tetsuya Nomura is obsessed with [[Everythings Better With Zippers|zippers]] and [[Too Many Belts|belts.]]
** And as of ''Dissidia: [[Final Fantasy]]'', he has added earrings to his obsession, as only four characters out of twenty lack them, and only because two of those are covered head to toe in ludicrously huge armor. But even that is dubious defense, as even Garland, whose helmet covers his entire head, wears earrings ''on the helmet'' where the ears would be.
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* Shigeru Miyamoto has implemented personal interests into many of his games, including ''[[Pikmin]]'' (gardening), ''Nintendogs'', ''Wii Fit'', and most recently, ''Wii Music''. Nintendo recently banned him from talking about his current hobbies.
** His earlier works were rather definitely based on his childhood experiences, too.
** The premise of ''[[
** 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.
** He also loves Queen. So much that [[Marty Stu|Sol]] is a walking reference to Queen, especially Freddie Mercury.
*** Actually he seems to like rock music in general, almost every character from Axel to Zappa is a reference to either a famous rock musician or a band.
* 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 (Webcomic)|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.
** Likewise for [[Larry Niven]], [[Jerry Pournelle]], and [[Michael Flynn]]'s ''Fallen Angels'', word for word with a side order of anti-environmentalist screed.
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** One could give him the benefit of doubt on this one: His best-known adult books don't seem to contain anything incest-related whatsoever. It's even possible that the entire arc was a subtle [[Take That]] at how incest was pictured in ''[[Badly Drawn Kitties]]''...
*** One of his early sketchbooks was entirely centered around incest, he just doesn't sell it anymore, myth busted.
* ''[[
* Tom Siddell has worked many of his own interests into ''[[
* ''[[Erikas New Perfume|Erika's New Perfume]]'' contains certain things that pop up in most of the author's other works, such as [[Fountain of Youth]].
* ''[[Last
* [[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 ''[[
* ''[[Living
* [[Andrew Hussie]] likes including horses, or horselike creatures such as centaurs, [[MS Paint Adventures|in]] [[Problem Sleuth
== Web Original ==
* 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
* How else do you explain the contortion scenes in ''[[Sapphire (
* [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 [
* [[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 Chick
== 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
* Greg Weisman is a self-described "Shakespeare nut, probably with the emphasis on 'nut'." ''[[
** Better ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' than ''another'' high school play with ''[[Romeo and Juliet]]'' that centers around the "kissing scene".
* ''[[The Venture Brothers]]'' creators Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, on the DVD commentary for the series, talk about their "addiction" to using [[Star Wars]] references, and vainly trying to give up the habit.
** 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 [
** 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]]
* ''[[South Park]]'' co-creator Trey Parker lived in Japan for several years and loves Japanese culture, and as a result the show frequently pokes fun at Japan and its people. Notably the jokes picked up a bit around the time he married his Japanese-American wife (for example, the comment about "a friend marrying an Asian woman" in the ginger kids episode).
** 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
** 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
* One [[My Little Pony
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