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== Anime ==
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== Comic Books ==
* Ron Marz reportedly received death threats from [[Green Lantern]] fans upset about the ''Emerald Twilight'' storyline (which had the hero going through a [[Face Heel Turn]], [[EverybodysEverybody's Dead, Dave|massacring most of the secondary characters]] and then being killed off). This was especially unfair since Marz had the plot [[Executive Meddling|imposed on him by more senior writers]]. Marz himself has since gone on the record saying it was [[Money, Dear Boy|something he did for pay]], and was rather glad when much of Emerald Twilight was retconned. Also, it was Gerard Jones who came up with the original concept for ''Emerald Twilight''.
* Dan Didio, DC Comics editor-in-chief, gets ''huge'' amounts of flack for any unpopular turn any DC title takes. While the man has made more than his share of editorial blunders, he gets the blame for just about everything, regardless of whether it was his idea, another exec's, or the writer's, or whether it was something that happened before he came to DC. His antagonistic statements to fans don't help.
** And now that he's been bumped up to co-publisher, it's likely he'll get a lot more Mis Blame (Bob Harras is now DC's editor-in-chief while Geoff Johns is Chief Creative Officer).
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== Film ==
* [[Steve Kloves]], the screenwriter of all the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' [[Harry Potter (Film)|movies]] (except the fifth), gets blamed for deviating from the books too much. This is despite earlier drafts of scripts being rather more faithful to the books than what appeared on screen, [[Executive Meddling|indicating other things at work]].
* Despite the many, ''many'' times that he's apologized and felt shame for what he did, [[Joel Schumacher]]'s name is synonymous to Satan in the ears of many [[Batman]] fans. Most of the blame can be given to the [[Executive Meddling|executives]] for trying to shove [[Merchandise -Driven|product placement]] into the movie, and Akiva Goldsman for creating the blizzard of puns that Mr. Freeze spouted.
** [[Joel Schumacher]] has also stated that the Batman films were so heavily storyboarded before hand that his creativity as a director was limited.
** George Clooney has also apologized for his part in it, though he was really only doing what he was told.
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*** Perhaps as a form of irony, the former was the one that first penned the clone numbers<ref> whether they were his numbers or Lucas' is open for debate as movie novelizations supposedly have closer consultations with Lucas</ref> the latter is blamed for (see the ''[[Attack of the Clones]]'' novelization).
* Among parts of the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' [[Fan Dumb]], Victoria Holmes gets blamed for everything [[Unpleasable Fanbase|that they think is wrong with the series]]. Insults range from calling her sexist, insulting almost every word that comes out of her mouth, and the most mindboggling of them all: Fans claiming that she steals all the credit from the other authors, despite the fact that they think she deserves to receive all the blame.
** Their hatred of her is even more confusing since she is responsible for all the concepts and ideas behind the series, which the fans love, as well as the plotting and creating the characters. Kate and Cherith, on the other hand, are responsible for the actual writing of the books, which is generally agreed upon to be [[So Okay ItsIt's Average]].
 
 
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** Holden has effectively performed a bait-and-switch with collaborator and fellow Ink Monkey John Mørke, which makes it harder to criticize.
* Mike Mearls of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' gets blamed for every decision that the fans, [[Fan Dumb]], and [[Fan Hater|Fan Haters]] do not like.
* [[Warhammer 40000|Matt Ward]] is generally blamed for [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|ruining the]] Ultramarines [[CreatorsCreator's Pet|for the fans]], turning the Grey Knights into [[Purity Sue|Purity Sues]] and making the Necrons into [[Recycled in Space|Space]] [[Ancient Egypt|Egyptians]], though he's likely not the only one to blame.
 
== Video Games ==
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** Castle is rapidly becoming the new Hate Target for the playerbase, being the guy who works on (and consequently sometimes makes [[Nerf|downward changes]] to) Powers. Keep in mind that eventually, pure distilled [[Fan Dumb]] drove the previous powers guy away from the forums, and Castle is trying really hard not to let that happen to him.
** And now, the trope has come full circle - Matt Miller, AKA Positron, is now being blamed for everything bad about the game.
** MMORPG lead devs in general are likely to end up targets of this. It's perhaps for this reason that the lead developer of Clichequest, the fictional MMO in ''[[The Noob]]'', is portrayed as a [[Ted Baxter]], [[Jerkass]] and [[Pointy -Haired Boss]].
** Speaking of which, Jack Emmert has teamed up with Bill Roper of ''[[Hellgate London]]'' infamy for a double dose of extra [[Fan Dumb]] for ''[[Star Trek Online]]''.
* Reggie Fils-Aimé, president of Nintendo of America, tends to get a lot of (mostly) undeserved flack from the ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'' community, many of whom seem to have decided that [[Fan Dumb|he's the sole obstacle]] to an English release of ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]''.
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** Similarly, everything wrong with ''[[Final Fantasy XIV (Video Game)|Final Fantasy XIV]]'' is Hiromichi Tanaka's fault, despite who's really responsible for any of the game's many troubles between the [[Executive Meddling|executives]], the developers, and sheer misfortune being ''very'' muddy indeed. This is somewhat understandable given Tanaka volunteered to take responsibility for all of the game's problems (his fault or otherwise) when he stepped down as producer.. except he ''still'' sometimes gets loudly and [[Hatedom|enthusiastically]] blamed by the community for issues introduced ''since Naoki Yoshida replaced him''.
* John Romero gets a lot of flak for his blunders with ''[[Daikatana (Video Game)|Daikatana]]'', many of them justified, but a lot of the level design's failures can instead be attributed to the head level designer... Romero's wife.
** Not to mention the people calling him some sort of [[Small Name, Big Ego|egotist]] for the tag line "[[John Romero]] Is About to Make You His Bitch", even though that and the general exaggeration of his involvement/how much he did was more marketing than anything else.
** All of this culminating in a ridiculous event where ex-Romero fans rallied behind Ion Storm's marketing director for insulting him over the phone in an over the top way...even though the marketing director was ''one of the people responsible for running Ion Storm into the ground and putting the game into [[Development Hell]].''
* You know the 2008 ''[[Prince of Persia]]''? If you're one of the [[Love It or Hate It|fifty percent that didn't like it]], odds are you blame or know people who blame Ben Mattes for this. For most [[Sarcasm Mode|true PoP fans]] Ben Mattes has been a curse to the franchise ever since he came in with The Two Thrones, and built fan expectations for the 2008 game just so he could crush them with the actual product. The kicker? [[Did Not Do the Research|He's the producer!]]
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== Western Animation ==
* This phenomena, a lot like what happens in [[Real Life]], is lampshaded in ''[[A BugsBug's Life (Animation)|A Bugs Life]]''
{{quote| '''Hopper''': "First rule of leadership: ''Everything'' is your fault."}}
* [[John Kricfalusi]] is widely blamed for the failures of [[The Ripping Friends]] and [[Ren and Stimpy]]: Adult Party Cartoon--ignoring that the former show suffered from horrific meddling (which included throwing out all of the custom poses that Spumco is known for), and the latter show was pushed to be [[Darker and Edgier]] due to Spike TV wanting it to be another money maker along the lines of [[South Park]].
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** Of course, some of the films he ''was'' responsible were almost as bad, so it's not surprising that people would be unable to tell the bad writing from the other bad writing.
*** Though in those cases, there's a lot of [[Executive Meddling]], so it's still played straight.
* [[My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic (Animation)/Recap/S2 E8 The Mysterious Mare Do Well|"The Mysterious Mare Do-Well"]], a major [[Base Breaker]] episode of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]], induced so many [[Periphery Demographic]] fans to rant against its credited writer, Merriwether Williams, that the lead moderator of Equestria Daily, the fandom's major news and fanwork blog, had to [http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/12/pre-episode-pony-service-announcement.html tell the fans to cut it out]. Never mind the huge chain of people from executive producer [[Lauren Faust]] down to each individual writer and animator who are actually responsible for each episode.
* [[Pixar Regulars|John Lasseter and Ed Catmull]] have recently fallen into this among some [[Pixar]] fans and especially [[Disney Animated Canon]] fans sometime after ''[[The Princess and The Frog (Disney)|The Princess and The Frog]]'' was released. For example, they have gotten a ton of flack for changing ''[[Rapunzel]]'''s title into ''[[Tangled (Disney)|Tangled]]'', canceling the production of ''Newt'', ordering up sequels to previous Pixar films like ''[[Cars (Animation)|Cars]]'' and ''[[Monsters, Inc. (Animation)|Monsters Inc.]]'', putting any fairy tale projects in development at Disney on hold, and changing the hand-drawn project ''[[The Snow Queen (Literature)|The Snow Queen]]'' into a CGI film titled ''[[Frozen (Disney)|Frozen]]''.
 
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