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[[File:frazzlededitor2.jpg|link=Magic: The Gathering|frame|These guys exist for a good reason.]]
{{quote|''(This writer can't be blocked, targeted, dealt damage or enchanted by editorial criticism.)''}}
The [[Executive Meddling]] we're most familiar with is the sort that ruins stories, characters, and entire franchises. So why, some may ask, does the job even exist? Put simply, because quite often they're actually ''right'', it's just the negative effects of [[Executive Meddling]] that are always publicized. No creator is perfect, after all; sometimes they really ''do'' make unmarketable stories, [[Wall Banger|Wall Bangers]], and other mistakes on their own. Even the best need guidance.
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== Comic Books ==
* Reginald Hudlin's current{{when}} run on ''Black Panther'' has editors actively accommodating haphazard rewrites to make the character more "relevant" (Storm [[Strangled by the Red String|dropping out of the X-Men to marry him]] isn't even the worst of them).
* [[Rob Liefeld]] started off as a fairly average artist on ''Hawk & Dove''. Then he moved over to ''New Mutants'' and started getting popular; as his fame increased, his art became more and more stylized and less and less polished. Feet vanished, biceps bulged painfully as wrists and ankles shrank, and the entire work became more and more focused on guns, boobs, and muscles, to the detriment of everything else. Then other artists started ''[[Follow the Leader|copying]]'' him...
* [[Frank Miller]]'s ''[[All Star DC Comics|All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder]]''. A completely insane take on the character, which gave the world lines like "Are you retarded or something? Who the hell do you think I am? I'm the goddamn Batman." Arguably, much of his more recent{{when}} work falls under this; consider his upcoming ''Holy Terror, Batman!'', in which the Dark Knight fights Al-Qaeda. Really. Keep in mind that it was originally supposed to be a return to the Silver Age Batman, and that Miller was responsible for the acclaimed [[Batman: Year One]] and [[The Dark Knight Returns]]. On the other hand, there are arguments that it's intentionally [[So Bad It's Good]].
* [[Grant Morrison]] in general. Especially since Dan Didio publicly stated he didn't understand most of ''[[Final Crisis]]'' but trusted Morrison's word that was fantastic.
** Speaking of a major DC writer, Geoff Johns is also protected in such a way.
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** Then again, [[Macekre|it didn't stop his works from getting pretty bad translations at first]].
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]. In so many ways. His early works, especially his 'juveniles', were constrained by the mores of the time and the rules of the publishers, and RAH ''benefited'' from this immensely, it forced him to restrain some of his personal [[Author Appeal]] elements and write better stories. In later years, freed from editorial and cultural restraint, his books became both longer and longer, and more and more repetitive, circular musings on a few favorite fixations.
* R.A. Salvatore is in an unusual state where he's both subject to this trope and strangled by [[Executive Meddling|the opposite]]. On the one hand, there's less and less oversight of the content and style of his ''Legend of Drizzt'' series, and quality has suffered grievously. On the other, his attempts to end the series were bluntly denied—he doesn't have the copyright, and his publishers [[Franchise Zombie|solicited another writer to continue the series]] before he backed down. One can't help but wonder if the recent{{when}} [[Wallbanger]]s are deliberate attempts to wreck the series so he can move on. Or, "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=12023&whichpage=53#262993 Drizzt has become more of an albatross for him.]"
** This applies across the board, and both to novels and RPG sides of ex-TSR. The general level of editing (though there were ''really good'' exceptions) shifted from "[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5812&whichpage=6#118705 apparently insane]" to "mostly nonexistent". Series zombification happens with other authors as well. Ed Greenwood, obviously, is in a similar position (but he started side projects away from Hasbro). [[Dragonlance|Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman]] also eventually fed up with [[Executive Meddling]] and bailed out. Weis now owns two RPG publishing houses.
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** Another evidence that Protection From Editors might be a bad thing: the album Let It Be. Phil Spector added much orchestral overdubs and embellishments to the album, much to the dissatisfaction of Paul McCartney who favored a more minimalist production. Years later McCartney remixed and remastered Let It Be... Naked, which has the Spector production stripped down and is supposedly closer to the original artistic vision. However, many Beatles fans strongly prefer the original release, some in fact considered Spector's overproduction to be the saving grace of the album.
* [[Guns N' Roses]] is the musical king of this trope. ''Appetite for Destruction'' and "Lies" sold so well and made Guns N' Roses so big, they were given a lot more control over the follow-up album. That transformed into '''two''' albums, the ''Use Your Illusion'' duo, which saw release four years after ''Appetite''. Sales of that were enough to apparently let Geffen (their recording company) take as long as they wanted for the follow-up album. '''Seventeen years''' afterwards, we get ''Chinese Democracy''. Those three albums are considered to be bloated and very dense, and the latter is essentially one long [[Author Tract]] railing against anyone and everyone that ever tried to stand in the way of the ginger-haired tyrant.
* [[Prince]] became subject to this, after some unpleasant experiences at [[Warner Bros]]. As usual for this trope, his popularity
== Periodicals ==
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