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Author Phobia
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Authors are people just like us, with likes and dislikes...and fears. Their dislikes may stem from an incident in their life, or, just a basic hatred, fear or phobia of something that will provide a genuine Berserk Button whenever it's mentioned in their presence. Sometimes a creator draws upon their personal Nightmare Fuel in an attempt to make their villains more fearsome and intimidating. For instance, if the author as a child was bitten by a venomous spider and nearly died, they might make the Big Bad of their story a hideous Giant Spider. For them, it can be a way to overcome their fears or tensions or to at least give it a new meaning by using it as a trope in their work. Other times they just use their personal hatred of something to provide an Aesop to inform their audience why they too should dislike this particular thing. Can result in Propaganda Piece, Author Tract or Anviliciousness if treated too seriously or heavily. If audience members have no problems with the author's personal distastes it might result in Flame War, especially if it's treated irrationally or without much knowledge of the subject. For instance, if an author has a fear of gorillas, he may write a story in which his characters are attacked by a Killer Gorilla. As many biologists can tell you, gorillas really aren't vicious aggressive monsters who just randomly attack you. In such cases, the author may be accused of being an Unreliable Narrator who just acknowledges people's prejudices about a matter or even makes his audience more frightened of stuff they originally weren't that anxious about. Contrast Author Appeal. See also Based on a Dream (if the dream is a nightmare the author had) and Single-Issue Wonk. |
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Donkey Kong Country: Designer Steve Mayles admits to disliking wasps. He was kind of freaked out while working on the Zingers, gorilla-sized Wicked Wasps which are hard to defeat. | |
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Creator Edgar P. Jacobs of Blake and Mortimer fell down a seven meters deep old well when he was two or three years old. It took half an hour before he was able to be brought back up. The experience resulted in a lot of scenes in his comic strip where characters fall into pits or are walking through underground locations. | |
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Frieza from Dragon Ball was based on nightmares that Akira Toriyama had as a child. He is by far the most nightmarish of that manga's villains as a direct result. | |
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BioShock Infinite: Ken Levine stated in an interview that childhood nightmares about a cracked porcelain doll belonging to his mother served as the inspiration for the Motorized Patriot enemies. | |
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As with the Orwell example below, King's fear of rats appears again and again: "Nona," "Graveyard Shift," 'Salem's Lot and a section in It are just a few examples that contain very chilling descriptions of rats. | |
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In EarthBound (1994), Final Boss Giygas is presented as an Eldritch Abomination, repeatedly spouting nonsensical things to main character Ness. According to Shigesato Itoi, the dialog Giygas says is based off a childhood memory of him watching what he interpreted to be a rape scene (actually sex-followed-by-murder scene) in a movie. | |
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Spitting Image: The main reason the show was created was to take the piss out of all the celebrities that irritated people, including their main targets Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. | |
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In particular, Pet Sematary is based on a real incident where King stopped his son from almost getting run over by a truck. He couldn't shake thoughts of what would have happened if he failed and wrote a novel around it. | |
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Super Mario Bros. 3's Chain Chomps came from an experience Shigeru Miyamoto had as a child, when a dog chased after him as he approached but stopped just inches from him because the dog was tied to a stake. | |
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Thomas Dolby wrote "Flying North" about his fear of flying. | |
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Amber Williams of Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures is afraid of horses, which is why Kria and Dark Pegasus are both demonic horses. | |
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A subtle version in Winter Voices, and one that only comes into play during the later parts of the game. Rape is a very common element of many of the Heroine's nightmares, but it doesn't become glaringly obvious until Episode 4. | |
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Stephen Colbert in The Colbert Report warns his viewers about how bears are godless killing machines. Inspired by a phobia he had as a child of bears attacking him in his room. | |
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The sea, drowning and the loss of loved ones are common themes in John Ajvide Lindqvist's novels, most notably Handling the Undead, Harbour and Tjärven. Lindqvist has himself acknowledged that his writing is a way to handle his feelings caused by the loss of his own father, who drowned at sea. | |
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: Mrs. Hawking's perception of her pregnancy and childbirth as a horrible experience draws from playwright Phoebe Roberts's own fears on the subject. Similarly, Mrs. Hawking's fears of the physical decline of growing older, beginning with part three, Base Instruments. | |
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Ultraman Ginga: Designer Masayuki Goto has a fear of clowns, which inspired Dark Lugiel's cross-shaped eyes evoking a clown's makeup. | |
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Wings of Fire: The scene in "The Dragonet Prophecy'' with Clay having to make it through an underground river of indeterminate length while not knowing if he'll end up drowning even with his ability to hold his breath for an hour is inspired by author Tui Sutherland’s own fear of swimming in enclosed spaces like this. | |
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Mother 3 has Tanetane Island, in which the party hallucinates friends and family members attacking them and saying very disturbing things. Itoi said in an interview that his worst nightmare was his loved ones being evil. | |
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Fate/Grand Order: The main artist for Oberon, Chica Umino, was afraid of insects. She pushed through her fear when looking through insect reference books to make sure that Oberon's drawing meant significant fear. | |
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Scott Cawthon, the creator of Five Nights at Freddy's, has admitted that out of the four animatronics in the game, he finds Bonnie the creepiest, to the point of having nightmares about him while making the game. This is probably why, after Freddy, Bonnie gets the most attention in promotional material (including the trailer) and in the game proper, there's a Random Event involving him making a Nightmare Face. Also possibly why Five Nights at Freddy's 3's sole animatronic is another rabbit named Springtrap, whose character design looks like a more gruesome Bonnie, to the point that people were calling it "Golden Bonnie" prior to release. | |
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Aqua Regia: Fluhor is terrified of dystopias and military repression, considering the story of his country and the hunt of artists, students and more who opposed the regimes, it's an understandable fear. | |
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Ultra Series: Ultraman Ginga: Designer Masayuki Goto has a fear of clowns, which inspired Dark Lugiel's cross-shaped eyes evoking a clown's makeup. Ultraman X: Series writer Takao Nakano based Greeza on his traumatic image of Zetton as a child. |
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Accidentally applied in Rakenzarn Tales. The quest to recruit Cain Argol involves fighting a giant snake. Geminidrake, Cain's creator, is deeply afraid of snakes, a fact that did not come to light until after the quest had been completed. | |
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Doctor Who: Dr. Kit Pedler, creator of the Cybermen, was terrified of the potential for medicine—specifically prosthetic medicine—to become dehumanizing. The Third Doctor story "Planet of the Spiders" features Giant Spiders that jump up and latch onto people's backs, and they are horrible. Robert Sloman was a terrible arachnophobe. The Fourth Doctor story "The Deadly Assassin", which the Fourth Doctor spends mostly being tortured, beaten to a pulp and drowned in a jungle has an added frisson when you remember that the writer Robert Holmes had fought in Burma while still a teenager. In addition, Tom Baker has a phobia of water (severe enough that he could only shower because he couldn't stand baths). The Eleventh Doctor story "A Christmas Carol" involves flying sharks and fish. As a child, Steven Moffat had nightmares about fish that could swim through the air. It should be noted that the fish in the story are actually rather friendly and the Doctor even rides the shark at one point. Pretty much all of Moffat's monsters are based on things that scared him as a child, such as statues moving when you aren't looking (Weeping Angels), the darkness hiding carnivores (Vashta Nerada), and Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (the Silence). He even deconstructed his tendency to do this in "Listen", where the Doctor's attempt to prove a weird theory about the perfect camouflaged organism is revealed to be the product of a time-traveling Clara, his companion, scaring him as a child in the night. |
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Black Sabbath's titular song, about a guy who dies and goes to hell, was inspired by a nightmare one of the band members had. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was in turn inspired when they rented out a castle and spent time recording in the dungeons, which freaked them out. | |
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When David Lynch was a boy, he went on a late night walk with his brother and came upon a naked woman, covered in bruises, who vanished before they could ask her if she needed help. The incident had a profound impact on him, and is recreated almost point-for-point in Blue Velvet, while a broader horror of (typically male) violence against women is present across a lot of his work. | |
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Yukito Kishiro is afraid of a certain kind of butterfly, and so is his character, Alita from Battle Angel Alita. This is only mentioned once. | |
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Iron Maiden's Signature Song "The Number of the Beast" was inspired by a nightmare bassist and bandleader Steve Harris had after watching Damien: Omen II. "Fear Of The Dark" was also inspired by Harris's own - you guessed it - fear of the dark. | |
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This is a phobia that he attributed to Lucy Pevensie in The Chronicles of Narnia. This phobia can also be inferred to be the reason why insects are rarely mentioned in Narnia, if at all. | |
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In 1999, King was struck by a car and has since turned it into a reoccurring theme, with one of his books (From a Buick 8) being based on it, and even making the incident a plot point in The Dark Tower. | |
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Ultraman X: Series writer Takao Nakano based Greeza on his traumatic image of Zetton as a child. | |
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Family Guy: Stewie Griffin's fear of the cover of the 1977 Queen album News of the World in the episode "Killer Queen" was based on Seth MacFarlane's fear of the cover when he was a child. | |
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Babylon 5: Londo's dream about standing on his homeworld and watching the sky fill with black, spider-shaped spaceships was based on a nightmare of J.M.S., the series creator. (Of course, JMS's dream, unlike Londo's, wasn't prophetic. We hope.) | |
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