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* This is part of the reason why ''[[Magical Girl 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|Magical Girls]] and [[Humongous Mecha]] is [[Rule of Cool|very cool indeed]].
** Of course, the series has taken a considerable amount of flak from critics recently for, you know, [[Genre Shift|not actually being a magical girl show anymore]].
* [[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'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]] (''[[
** 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.
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* 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.
* [[Bee Train|Kouichi Mashimo]] went to a Jesuit university, knows a lot about the Catholic Church, and likes to feature [[Enemy Within|some]] [[Hollywood Atheist|of]] [[Rousseau Was Right|Aquinas's]] [[The Church|and]] [[Redemption Quest|Augustine's]] [[Grey and Gray Morality|ideas]] in [[Noir|his]] [[Madlax|shows]]. He also has a non-sexual love for any [[Action Girl]] (especially [[Girls
* 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!
* 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|Wild Takes]] and silly expressions in general are another favourite, even if the situation in the story is serious.
* Kozue Amano, the creator of [[
* Mori Kaoru is an Anglophile. It definitely shows in the immense attention to the details of upstairs-downstairs dynamics, costume details and setting of [[Victorian Romance Emma]].
** She highlighted in her recent work [[Otoyomegatari]] that she is also fascinated by Central Asia costumes and setting. All her female and male characters have exquisitely detailed embroidered clothes.
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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 [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.
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== 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]].
* [[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.
== 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]] appears in every movie based on one of his [[Superhero|Super Heroes]].
* [[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.
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* [[Tim Burton]] has a few:
** has a thing about hands. His films contain strange hands -- severed hands, mutilated hands, [[Artificial Limbs|prosthetic hands]], gloved hands, and artistic representations of hands -- in far greater proportion than is common. The only remotely sexual connotation attaches to the leather-glove fetishism in ''Batman''. Of particular note is ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'', which uses the lyric "bony fingers" three times.
** 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]]'' 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 [[Historical In-Joke|Historical In Jokes]] as well as putting real people in his films, either by getting the real person or by combining [[Fake Shemp|editing tricks]] with [[Stock Footage]].
** In a documentary made for the 2002 ''[[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.
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* [[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|Physical Gods]].
* 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, ''[[THX 1138 (Film)|THX 1138]]''.
** Most have at least one scene with a speeding vehicle (''[[THX 1138 (Film)|THX 1138]]'', ''[[American Graffiti]]'', ''[[
** 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
** 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.
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* All of John Glen's [[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!]]
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* [[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 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.
* [[
** 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.
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** ''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 In Badass|level up]] through the story (seen in ''[[Neverwhere]]'', ''[[
** 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|squicky]]) tale of Red Riding Hood makes an appearance and a thematic point in ''Sandman'', ''[[
* [[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.
* [[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.
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** 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 30K
* [[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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* 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|Cool Planes]] are bombers.
* [[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 ''[[
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* 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.
* Jerry [[Seinfeld]]--both the actor and character--likes [[Superman]]. [[Seinfeld|It]] [[Once an Episode|shows]].
* [[Tina Fey]] and the other writers of ''[[
* [[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-Out|Shout Outs]] and [[Take That|Take Thats]] directed at various makes and models (the Chrysler K-Car is a recurring target) are an additional [[Easter Egg]] for automotive aficionadoes.
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** [[Eric Saward]]: [[Kill'Em All]], [[Crapsack World]], badass soldiers (or mercenaries) in large numbers, Cybermen
** [[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]]
== Multi-Media ==
* Jhonen Vasquez (''[[Invader Zim]]'' and ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'') gives frequent homages to ''[[Alien]]'', ''[[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
* [[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]]'', "[http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-launches-david-bowie-concept-mission%2C2907/ NASA Launches David Bowie Concept Mission]".
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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 ''[[
* 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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== Webcomics ==
* ''[[
* ''[[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 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 ''[[
* ''[[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.]]
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* ''[[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 (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' loves [[Anticlimax|Anticlimactic]] resolutions, stating that his favorite jokes are those that are played upon the viewer.
* ''[[Living
* [[Andrew Hussie]] likes including horses, or horselike creatures such as centaurs, [[MS Paint Adventures|in]] [[Problem Sleuth
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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 ''[[
* [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 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 Odd Parents]]'', ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', and even the never-picked-up ''[[Crash Nebula]]''. He also has a habit of making his protagonists [[Book Dumb]] losers who are also crazy about space and comic books.
* 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.
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* ''[[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]
** 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|Simpsons]]'' episodes, ''[[The Iron Giant]]'', ''[[The Incredibles]]'', ''[[Ratatouille]]''. This has since become a widespread animation in-joke.
* One [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
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