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* 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 [http://www.sigsauer.com/Default.aspx a gun brand].
* [[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 [
* 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.
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== Art ==
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau, as can be seen at the [[Other Wiki]] [
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== Fan Fiction ==
* Dahne, the author of ''[[Stray (Fanfic)|Stray]]'', ''loaded'' the story with [[Shout
* [[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.
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* 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.
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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 (Literature)|Grayson]], but it is also the favored sport on [[Safehold (Literature)|Safehold]]. The latter is especially bizarre, given that Safehold is at a Renaissance tech level.
** Weber also seems to have a thing for hexapodal mammalian and reptilian creatures, see the six legged animals of the planet Sphinx in the [[Honor Harrington (Literature)|Honor Harrington]] series and most of the native fauna on [[Safehold (Literature)|Safehold]].
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* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[30 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 Bastards]], avoidance of [[Always Chaotic Evil]] aliens.
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*** 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".
*** Monsters with purple coloration: drow (violet eyes) mind flayer/illithid (mauve skin), ogres (purple eyes), purple worm, storm giant (could have violet skin and purple eyes), violet fungi.
** 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.
** Also his fantastically large and baroque vocabulary, which might have had an element of showing off.
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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. ''([[Killer 7]]'' had Mask de Smith and the Punishing Rangers AKA The Handsome Men, ''[[God Hand]]'' had Mr. Gorilla Mask and the Mad Midget Five.
* 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.
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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 ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|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.<br /><br />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 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|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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*** One of his early sketchbooks was entirely centered around incest, he just doesn't sell it anymore, myth busted.
* ''[[Sabrina Online (Webcomic)|Sabrina Online]]'' ''started out'' as a comic for fans of the Amiga computer platform before gradually expanding into more of a [[Slice of Life]] comic, so its occasional Amiga humor can be dismissed as a non-example of this trope. The increasingly-frequent ''[[Transformers]]'' strips, however, are another matter.
* Tom Siddell has worked many of his own interests into ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. First, Kat's [[Otaku Surrogate|interests]] in videogames, TV, and dance music usually mirror his own. Second, his interest in folklore and mythology is the reason for the comic's [[Crossover Cosmology]]. Third, Tom's a big fan of English folk music, with its effect on the story varying between [[Shout
* ''[[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 Resort]]'' has its protagonist, Jigsaw (along with the rest of the Talmi species), heavily implied to be Jewish. The author is also Jewish. Hey, it could be worse.
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** 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 (Literature)|Sapphire]] Episode III''?
* [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 Critic (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Critic]] is a perfect example of this, and [[Ask That Guy With the Glasses (Web Video)|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 (Web Video)|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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*** 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]]'' 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).
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