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Contrast [[Protection From Editors]] and [[Creator Worship]].

 

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== Literature ==

* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', R.A. Salvatore got criticisms up to and including death threats for writing the death of Chewbacca, even though it was collectively agreed upon by the higher ups that [[Tonight Someone Dies|someone had to die]] to establish that [[Anyone Can Die]] in ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', and GL did not expressly tell them not to kill him. One can only imagine what would have happened had the higher ups been allowed to kill off their first (tentative) target, Luke Skywalker. This was reportedly nixed by [[George Lucas]] himself.

*** 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.

** And some fans squarely place the blame on [[Joss Whedon]] for dissatisfaction with the UPN years. Or [[Broken Base|anything else]].

* ''[[I Carly]]'': [[Dan Schneider]]. Usually by shippers, and also those who are upset by ''[[Victorious]]'', his most recent work.

** The John Nathan-Turner example is particularly odd, as he was producer for a whole decade and there are nearly no fans who hate every single episode of that time. Amazingly, though, they find weird ways to argue JNT only had significant influence ''on the episodes they didn't like''. Stuff like "Oh, for the first couple of years he was finding his feet and had a lot of help. For the last couple of years he'd given up and Andrew Cartmel did all the work." It's all a little far-fetched.

** Some of the 'blame JN-T / Colin Baker for everything' stems from an interview Eric Saward gave to a fanzine in 1986, in which among other comments he basically called Nathan-Turner a complete incompetent and outright said that he thought Colin Baker was terrible in the role of the Doctor and should never have been cast. Fans were quick to use this as evidence that Nathan-Turner and Baker were complete incompetents who were deliberately ruining the show, apparently not stopping to consider that not only were Saward's actions incredibly unprofessional but that, as script editor, he had his own axes to grind and responsibilities for what was going on behind the scenes, both of which were curiously downplayed.

* A sizable proportion of ''[[Star Trek]]'' fandom hates and despises Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. They are referred to jointly as "Bermaga", and if it weren't for the [[Fan Dumb]] throwing a hissy fit over the [[Star Trek (Film)|the new movie being in a new continuity]], you might have been able to hear the squeals of joy that those two weren't involved in the movie in any way shape or form.

** Oddly enough, the Berman-hating fandom didn't say a ''thing'' when Berman quit as head of Star Trek, about a year after ''[[Star Trek Enterprise]]'' was cancelled. You'd think there'd have been jubilation and dancing in the streets, such was the strength of the Berman-hate, but in fact almost nobody even ''noticed'' that he'd gone. As late as eighteen months later, elements of the [[Fan Dumb]] could ''still'' be found here and there on the internet complaining about how Rick Berman was in the process of killing Star Trek.

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