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* Dan Shive, the author of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'' frequently uses [[The Rant]] to post disagreements that he had with his characters over a particular strip. This is usually simply complaining about [http://egscomics.com/?date=2008-04-21 his characters ruining a perfectly good dramatic moment,] but sometimes it is as extreme as him actually [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-07-23 losing an argument with one of his characters.]
* Parodied in ''[[Terror Island]]'', where the writers claim that their [[Insistent Terminology|theorems]] are logically derived from universal axioms and they have no control over their content.
* [[The Rant]] under one strip of ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120105043552/http://as.crowdedstreet.net/Something/ Burning Stickman Presents...Something!]'' notes that the author had intended for the strip to end a certain way, but then "the comic decided otherwise."
* ''[[1/0]]'', being the [[No Fourth Wall]] comic that it is, has many instances like this. For example, the characters going on strike: refusing to move or act or think until the author agrees to their demands! For a comic like ''1/0'', you basically have to assume that the author has no control over his characters at all.
** It's pretty much stated in-universe. The author created the characters with their personalities, and he lets those personalities run the show, allowing the story to develop pretty much on it's own without the author inserting any external events. This tendency is called into focus when the characters threaten to conduct scientific tests of how their universe works, forcing the author to come up with consistent rules for the laws of reality of the comic. The author strikes a deal with them to prevent them from forcing him to make up more things about the setting.
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