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==[[Anime]] and [[Manga]]==
* [[Go Nagai]] created ''[[Mazinger Z]]'' as a kid-friendly side project while he worked on the (''much'' darker) ''[[Devilman]]'' manga. Guess which one became the bigger hit? (That didn't stop him from exploiting ''Mazinger'' to the hilt, however.) That being said, ''Devilman'' was still phenomenally successful in the end, but since it couldn't match the busting success of the ''Mazinger'' franchise it still qualifies for the trope.
* Ahem, ''[[One Piece]]'' was this, at least initially. Creator [[Eiichiro Oda]] had ''absolutely'' no idea this would be any more popular than the typical manga, much less the top selling of all time, and had initially expected it to run about 200 chapters. As of 2023, he was off by about 860. In fact, he once half-jokingly claimed he started writing manga in order to avoid having to get a "real job".
==[[Comic Books]]==
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* [[Dennis Hopper]]'s attempt to follow ''[[Easy Rider]]'' with an ambitious project he was conceiving for a while, ''The Last Movie'', [[Follow Up Failure|bombed so hard]] that it prevented Hopper from directing again for nearly a decade.
* Leo McCarey directed two movies of 1937: the light comedy ''[[The Awful Truth]]'' and the cynical drama ''Make Way for Tomorrow''. When he received the Best Director award for ''The Awful Truth'', he said that he'd been awarded for the wrong movie.
* Out of all the actors to play [[Batman]], [[Batman Forever|Val Kilmer]] has never been very well received. Many loved [[Batman (film)|Michael Keaton]] and hated [[Batman and Robin (film)|George Clooney]] but were really just indifferent to Kilmer, finding him [[So Okay It's Average|dull]]. However, Batman creator Bob Kane felt that he played the character best. (Granted, Kane died before [[Dark Knight Trilogy|Christian Bale]] and [[DC Extended Universe|Ben Affleck]] donned the cowl.)
* [[David Cronenberg]]'s (arguably) two most popular films, ''[[The Fly]]'' and ''[[A History of Violence]]'', were actually born out of [[Troubled Production]] on two films - he went into the director's chair on the former after he was fired from production on ''[[Total Recall]]'', and in the commentary, says he was "interested in it somewhat" (he didn't write the original script, just some patchwork), and admitted that he didn't like the original 1958 film. The latter film is one which he did [[Money, Dear Boy|primarily for the paycheck]] after having to defer his salary on the now-forgotten ''Spider''. Unlike many of the creators here, he has come to appreciate these projects, and talks in interviews about doing a potential companion piece to ''The Fly''.
* [[Roberto Benigni]] has stated in several interviews that he wanted to do his version of ''[[Pinocchio]]'' since he was a child. It was only after the success of ''[[Life Is Beautiful]]'' that he was given the freedom to pursue this project, which was poorly received outside of Italy. Nevertheless, about a decade and half later he filmed and produced a second version of the tale (with himself as Gepetto instead of the titular puppet) that got a comparatively better reception abroad.
* ''[[Sucker Punch]]'' was a pet project of [[Zack Snyder]] that got negative reviews and barely recouped its budget at the box office.
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* ''[[The Thief and the Cobbler]]'' was the 30-year labor of love of [[Richard Williams]], better known for ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]''. Sadly, the copious [[Executive Meddling]] that the project received caused him to [[My Greatest Failure|disown the film]], ''including'' the highly praised [[Recut|Recobbled Cut.]]
* Matt Groening created ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' hastily in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office, where he originally planned to pitch ''[[Life in Hell]]'' (at the time his most notable work, which had been running for around 10 years in newspapers) as a shorts series. He chose not to because he wanted to keep the rights to ''Life In Hell''. Now few people know ''Life In Hell'', and ''The Simpsons'' is considered his Magnum Opus.
** Groening once [https://web.archive.org/web/20110718234649/http://animatedtv.about.com/od/mattgroening/tp/groeningtop10.htm made a list] of his favorite ''Simpsons'' episodes, and choose mostly examples from the first and eighth season, while many fans consider the third to seventh season to be the show's Golden Age. The first season is even generally disliked by many viewers because the show was [[Early Installment Weirdness|still searching for its form]] in those days. Many episodes from the first season are too slow, not particularly funny and even uncharacteristic.
* ''[[Family Guy]]'' has an [[In-Universe]] example with Brian Griffin. His labor-of-love novel, ''Faster than the Speed of Love'', becomes a massive bomb due to its being an incredibly trite [[Cliché Storm]] that unintentionally rips off the ''[[Iron Eagle]]'' series. After he trashes schlocky self-help books and says anyone could make one, Stewie [[Let's See You Do Better|challenges him to do so]], so he throws together ''Wish It, Want It, Do It,'' which becomes a smash hit.
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