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*** Most (in)famous of which was the legendary feud between the [[Prima Donna Director]] and scriptwriter [[Yoshiyuki Tomino]] and equally self-important mecha designer Mamoru Nagano. It became doubly notorious because not only both men were feuding over the Beltorchika Irma's [[Seiyuu]] [[Maria Kawamura]],<ref>Nagano won and they still seem to be [[Happily Married]].</ref> but over [[Creative Differences]] as well.<ref>Nagano routinely hated Tomino's style and the direction where he was taking the show, up to the point that [[The Five Star Stories]] basically started as his [[Start My Own]] towards their other collaboration, [[Heavy Metal L-Gaim]].</ref>

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam F91]]'' also fell to this. Originally intended to be full series before it was dropped, a lot of compromises were made in order to compress what material Tomino had into a feature-length movie. ''[[Crossbone Gundam]]'' would ultimately resolve many of the plot points from that film.

* ''[[The Dream Machine]]'' the final movie of the [[Author Existence Failure|late]] [[Satoshi Kon]] has experienced its share of trouble, having gone from production into [[Development Hell]], back into production only to fall back into development hell. First Kon's death from pancreatic cancer put the film on hold to determine the next course of action. Kon's widow and Studio [[Madhouse]]'s Masao Maruyama told they would finish the film and production resumed. However at Otakon 2011 Maruyama reported the movie has been put on hold due to financial difficulties. Maruyama is still determined to finish the film eventually with about 600 shots out of 1500 had been animated at that point.

* For a long time, ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'' looked like a happy subversion. Ken Akamatsu wanted to do a shounen-action series from the start, but [[Executive Meddling|his producers]] wanted a [[Harem Genre|harem show]] like his extremely popular ''[[Love Hina]]'' series. Akamatsu ''faked'' a harem series, using the first two volumes to lay down characterization, then slowly segue into the fighter series he wanted from the start. This resulted in an extremely intelligent and popular series known for its [[Amazon Brigade]] and ridiculously badass ten-year old protagonist. However, some three hundred chapters later, the executives tried to take the rights to the series away from him. He responded by ending the series abruptly, with a carefully crafted final chapter that managed use the [[Where Are They Now? Epilogue]] to [[Torch the Franchise and Run|make sure no one else could use his series]]. It remains to be seen if there will be any more releases filling in the unanswered questions.

** And after it was all done, hen Sega head honcho Bernie Stolar's draconian policy against third party developers kicked in, leaving them high and dry until the Saturn was dead in the water.

* The development of the partially crowdfunded ''Star Citizen'' project (which Chris Roberts of ''[[Wing Commander]]'' fame is closely involved in) is among the most contested in recent years, with all sorts of drama and controversy surrounding it ([[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|and that's about as neutral as one can say about it]]). Whichever camp one is regarding the matter however, time will tell what the final results will bring.

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* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': Every single in-universe album during the show's run. The first is done underwater in an attempt to sound as "analog" as possible, deafening the producer. But the biggest example of this trope is the second album: the band procrastinated big time getting it out, causing mass panic. When they finally got to it, Nathan demanded to perform in a suit of armor that made recording difficult, Pickles was starved while everyone else ate, Toki and Murderface produced their own song which, due to how bizarre it was, failed to even make it on the album and to top it all off, Guitarist Skwisgaar Skwigelf was forced by feedback to do his guitar parts skydiving, and thanks to Toki deleting the parts, they did it twice.

* An episode of ''[[What's New Scooby Doo]]'' revolved around director Vincent Wong's attempt to make a re-make of a cheesy spy movie ''Spy Me A River''. Besides the [[The Prima Donna|lead actor]] quitting halfway through, no one reading the script, Mystery Inc. being used as stunt doubles, and a [[Classically-Trained Extra]] with [[The Starscream|eyes on the lead role]], the production was haunted by the Faceless Phantom {{spoiler|who turned out to be the director who wanted to sabotage the film after realising how awful it was}}.

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