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A recurring item found across several works for a director, producer, or writer. For recurring associates, see Production Posse. For recurring characters or items identified with a previous movie, see Production Throwback and Reused Character Design. The literary/unintentional equivalent of this is an Author Catchphrase, and the actor equivalent of this is just a normal catchphrase (e.g. "I'll be back"). Does not include overarching Signature Style elements of a body of work, Signature Shots, or explicit trademarks, such as Alfred Hitchcock's silhouette or Walt Disney's signature. If the Thumbprint is something the author likes, then it's Author Appeal, and if it's lifted wholesale from another series by the creator, it's Borrowing from the Sister Series. See also Self-Plagiarism. |
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Watchmen is set in an alternate version of 1980s America where an apocalyptic nuclear war is seemingly on the horizon, the climax involves a (fake) alien invasion that's compared to the End Times, one of the main characters regularly waves around a sign that reads "The End is Nigh!", and it ends with the characters facing an uncertain future after the Cold War comes to an abrupt and unexpected end. | |
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In Promethea, the titular divine entity is prophesied to bring about the end of the world, but the final issue reveals that this isn't such a bad thing—because the "apocalypse" is purely metaphorical, and it just involves merging the material and immaterial worlds. In the end, Promethea succeeds in fulfilling the prophecy, bringing about a new utopian age. | |
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Jeremy Whitley (The Unstoppable Wasp, Princeless) is married to a black woman and has two daughters with her. Much of his creative output is a deliberate attempt to create books and stories for his daughters to read; as such, Whitley is virtually guaranteed to introduce at least one dynamic, confident female black character in everything he writes. | |
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Buffy gave us Buffy, Faith, Willow, and eventually hundreds of young women around the world. | |
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This continued into his Wonder Woman run where he had Diana wear a variety of outfits beyond her famous Leotard of Power, such as an armorered hoplite look and a tank-top and shorts look she wore when on Themyscira. | |
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Bleach: Tite Kubo is a huge music geek. As a result, he gives many of his characters theme songs from a wide range of styles and nationalities. His chapter and volume titles can be a Call-Back to songs and he often finds a way to insert music into character conversations. During the Turn Back The Pendulum arc not only did he have Captain Shinji trying to convince Vice-Captain Aizen that jazz was a brilliant invention but he also created a little character sketch at the end of the relevant volume to tell the reader that jazz didn't actually exist during Shinji's era, coupled with a sketch of Shinji looking absolutely baffled at what he's listening to if jazz doesn't exist. Kubo is also a huge fashion fan and takes every opportunity to sketch his characters in many different fashion styles from Japanese garb to punk outfits, tracksuits, and boxing gear. Even here, he often finds a way to insert music. | |
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Yoshinaga Fumi's works are very well regarded for their nuanced and fully realized characters. Yet for some reason all of these characters, no matter their profession or past, share the ability to speak for paragraphs about all the little details behind the delicious, mouthwatering dishes that always pop up. | |
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Mike Mignola has said in interviews that he created Hellboy because he loves drawing weird monsters, big gorillas, and mad-science devices and wanted an excuse to get paid for it. All those elements showed up at one time or another in his earlier work for Marvel and DC. | |
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Lisa Hanwalt's love for horses has made itself prominent in BoJack Horseman (where the main character himself is, well, a horse) and Tuca & Bertie (where the protagonists are major fans of anything horse related). | |
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Angel then gave us Cordelia, who became a Power before the age of 23. | |
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E.P. Jacobs, creator of Blake and Mortimer, included in every story he wrote characters spending some time underground, be it a subterranean military base, Egyptian tomb, sewers, or an entire civilisation hidden in a complex of gigantic caves. | |
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Ah! My Goddess scribe Kosuke Fujishima is a huge fan of exquisitely-detailed machinery, especially that surrounding vehicles, so it's no surprise that all his work features very in-depth discussion and imagery of the same. | |
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David Byrne, both in his work with Talking Heads and in his solo music, is interested in the effects of mass media on consumers, and in the fluid nature of identity. Characters in his songs will consume a lot of fiction (particularly by watching TV), or they'll be unsure who they really are—or they'll be unsure who they are because they constructed their own personality from all the TV they watched. | |
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This is part of the reason why Lyrical Nanoha fans love the series. The person in charge of it is a self-admitted fan of Super Robot Wars, so he inserted a lot of Humongous Mecha tropes and references into the anime. The resulting fusion of Magical Girls and Humongous Mecha is very cool indeed. | |
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If you couldn't tell from the series itself, Hiroyuki Imaishi, the director of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann said in an interview that he liked drills and wanted a show where they were the main character's weapon. This becomes either hilarious or creepy when you see his previous work, Dead Leaves, where one guy has a giant drill (that's drawn just like the ones in TTGL because he's also the character designer for both) for a penis. | |
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In many plays he has a designated metaphor that keeps cropping up. For instance, Hamlet is full of references to disease, the one set in Scotland has lots of mentions of birds of prey, and so on. | |
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Ryu's Path: It's not a Shotaro Ishinomori story without the government being evil, scummy or involved in a cover-up of sorts. Do note that in real life, he was a noted critic of the Japanese government and it's corruption. | |
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She is an Anglophile. It definitely shows in the immense attention to the details of upstairs-downstairs dynamics, costume details, and setting of Emma: A Victorian Romance. | |
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Freefall has this in-universe with the sapient AIs, who have a distinct tendency to be as proudly nerdy as the scientists who produced their neural networks. | |
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Bill Watterson cites Charles Schulz as one of his main creative influences, and it shows in his art style. A few of the stylistic twists Schulz used in his strip, such as profile shots of characters that show only their eyes and nose but not their mouths, or the use of the word "AUGH" when uttering a cry of surprise or dismay, were adopted by Watterson and later used in Calvin and Hobbes. | |
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With the exception of short vignettes (and not always then), stories by the Total Drama fanfic writer, Gideoncrawle include at least one reference to a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. His pen name is also a G&S reference. | |
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Penny Arcade It is all about things the authors like, but also seems to feature a lot of terrifying aliens and strange creatures for little reason. Jerry Holkins (Tycho) is a massive Cthulhu nerd. Really, what else can you expect from a mind that writes things like this? |
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A minor example is Judd Lynn, since his last two shows involve villains going after the Transformation Trinkets of the rangers, a Red Ranger's Disappeared Dad, villains being called monsters by the Rangers and their own kind, the villains being turned into aliens who shoot giant lasers to Make My Monster Grow, the Ambiguous Gender villain being Adapted Out of a monster-growing job and a series-ending Heel–Face Turn, the currency being Space Bullions, an unusual amount of Gender-Flipped monsters, and an unusually large amount of monster suits being recycled (both shows have a Rinshi appearing in a picture and Necrolai from Mystic Force). | |
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STBlackST loves filling his videos with Funny Background Events, Sudden Video Game Moments, and Jojo references. | |
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Angela Santomero's main three shows, Blue's Clues, Super Why!, and Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood all incorporate Fake Interactivity, Audience Participation, simple Strictly Formula plots that children can understand, Medium Blending, and life lessons. They also like sending characters away to college. Steve was Put on a Bus to college and was replaced by Joe; Whyatt's older brother Jack went to college; and in season 5 of DTN, Prince Tuesday will be sent to college and Prince Wednesday must cope with him being gone. | |
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Vince Russo loves pole matches. If you see a pole match in a WWE, WCW, or TNA show, Russo's booking this match. The pole matches are also for the craziest things. These include a rat, a bottle of Viagra, Judy Bagwell (they needed to use a forklift), a pinata, and the keys to Mick Foley's office, among other things. | |
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James Jacobs, one of the major contributors to Pathfinder, really likes dinosaurs. In general, the Paizo creative team seems to like dinosaurs; Lovecraftian abominations; horror, pulp adventure, and sci-fi elements; and putting the iconic characters in elaborate outfits. | |
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Polearms. Gygax included a large number of polearms in the weapon selection of the 1st Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons rules and wrote an article called "The Nomenclature of Polearms" that appeared in Dragon magazine #22 and the 1st Edition AD&D supplement "Unearthed Arcana". Ever want to know why the glaive-guisarme seems to crop up in D&D so much? | |
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David Pulver, best known as a setting writer for GURPS, has stated that many GURPS players will always want to play a Cat Girl, regardless of the setting. So in every setting he makes, there will be an option for a Cat Girl of some kind. | |
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The Flash's John Broome seemed to have some sort of fixation with second-floor burglaries. It has been suggested that maybe he was burgled while living on the second floor and developed it because of that. | |
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V for Vendetta is about a fascist dictatorship that rules Britain in the aftermath of a nuclear war that leaves the rest of civilization in ruins, and the protagonist is an anarchist terrorist who dreams of a new age without laws or governments. It ends with V successfully overthrowing the British government, but leaves it ambiguous whether the next regime will be better or worse than the last. | |
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Jerry Seinfeld—both the actor and character—likes Superman. It shows. | |
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BEMANI A large number of L.E.D.'s songs have English titles in "(adjective) (noun)" format with all uppercase letters, such as "BLUE STRAGGLER", "THE BLACK KNIGHT", "STELLAR WIND", and "THE DEEP STRIKER". Ryu☆, when composing under his Seiryuu alias, always makes his songs run at 191 BPM. |
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Steve Smith, co-creator, producer and co-head writer of The Red Green Show He seems to be a car buff in real life and many of the show's gags involve cars and trucks of some sort. Shout Outs and Take Thats directed at various makes and models (the Chrysler K-Car is a recurring target) are an additional Easter Egg for automotive aficionadoes. Along with that, Steve Smith even Lampshaded the number of gags that involve beer in one form or another. When cars and beer are the basis for so much of the humor, is it any wonder the show was such a hit among middle-aged blue-collar guys? |
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Scott Fellows' Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and Supernoobs both have a girl in the main cast who mostly goes by her last name and whose first name is Jennifer; Moze and Shope, respectively. | |
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The Wallflower author Tomoko Hayakawa practically admits in her author notes that she simply made a series full of stuff she likes: Bishōnen, J-rock performers, horror and gothic pop culture, and the Elegant Gothic Lolita style. | |
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Living with Insanity: The writer's projects all have couples in them. According to the blog posts, LWI would include more gaming and comic references, but the artist avoids jokes he doesn't understand. | |
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Dollhouse gives us Echo, whose in-born ability is some sort of brain thing, which over time translates to a kind of Charles Atlas Superpower when she becomes capable of almost infinitely broad expertise. | |
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He admits to liking "prison episodes," having personally written ones for The Spectacular Spider-Man and Gargoyles | |
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Pharrell Williams opens any track he produces with the first beat repeated four times. | |
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Eiichiro Oda of One Piece fame very clearly loves afros. Not only do several major One Piece characters sport afros, but the story draws attention or uses the afro for comedy in almost every case: Gaimon, who is mistaken for a shrub; Kuromarimo, who has one afro on his head and three in his beard, fights with afro-shaped balls of hair; Fleet Admiral Sengoku, despite being The Comically Serious; Luffy wears an afro wig during his fight with Foxy, and everyone except Nami insists that the afro makes him stronger. Strawhat pirate Brook, who is a skeleton, still retains his afro because he has deep roots, and has great emotional attachment to the hair because it will allow his old friend Laboon to recognize him even though he is a skeleton; Emporio Ivankov, who can carry his right-hand man in his afro; Wild Takes and silly expressions, in general, are another favourite, even if the situation in the story is serious. |
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Almost every song recorded by Modern Talking has a chorus sung in two ways: in an unison way, mostly without harmony, but with different octaves, and after that in a more high pitched way, with harmonies. | |
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Many themes and tropes in We Are The Wyrecats are carried over from the creator's previous webcomic, Ruby Nation, such as Animal Motifs, deconstruction of the superhero genre, Idealism vs. Cynicism, characters with disabilities, and cats. | |
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From Hell portrays Jack the Ripper as a mad occultist who views his murders as a magic ritual that will bring about a bold new age in human history. The ending implies that it actually worked, and that his "new age" was actually the 20th century. | |
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Giorgio Moroder likes giving songs a Slow-Paced Beginning before bringing in the drums and kicking up the tempo 40 seconds to a minute in. He's also fond of Fading into the Next Song. | |
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Kozue Amano, the creator of ARIA and Amanchu! clearly has a thing for Scenery Porn. | |
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Wataru Yoshizumi, the mangaka behind Marmalade Boy, Ultra Maniac, Mint na Bokura and many others likes her tennis. She tends to have at least one of her characters in each of her series be a member of their school tennis club. | |
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The later volumes of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen involve an occult sect attempting to bring about "a strange and terrible new aeon" by summoning an entity known as "The Moonchild", who's presented as a composite of various Antichrist-like characters from classic literature and film (and Harry Potter). The series finale ultimately depicts the end of the world, which is presented as a composite of various fictional apocalypses. | |
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Game of Thrones: Episodes penned by George R.R. Martin often feature subtle exposition of location and travel, such as Melisandre passing King's Landing in "The Bear and the Maiden Fair" because the Blackwater Rush is the fastest route back to Dragonstone, and Roose Bolton mentioning smuggling himself to account for bypassing Moat Cailin in "The Lion and the Rose". Contrast this with Robb campaigning somewhere vague in Season 2 and the Karstarks marching home regardless of Moat Cailin in Season 3. Director Neil Marshall loves Arrows on Fire and Made of Plasticine mooks that can feel slightly out of place with the rest of the series. |
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Bill Amend of FoxTrot really loves his math/computer/geek humor. (He was a physics major.) | |
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Jhonen Vasquez (Invader Zim and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) gives frequent homages to Alien, The Fly (both the original and David Cronenberg's version), Scanners, and video games in his comics/TV shows. He's also a fan of giant robots, space in general, horrifying imagery, Body Horror, and certain words, most notably: doom, cheese, piggies, tacos, monkeys, moose, noodles, dooky, nachos, and bunnies. He even stated at ComicCon '07 that he's fascinated with plotlines of people who are "controlled and used" by others (Johnny and the Doughboys, Devi and Sickness) and that he also hates dogs and little kids (sans Squee). | |
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He has a penchant for lots and lots of references to The Princess Bride. Shout Outs generally abound, most particularly either to Marvel Comics or to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, depending on what fandom the story is written in. | |
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Zedd frequently uses the sounds of ticking clocks in tracks that he produced, such as Alessia Cara's "Stay", Maren Morris' "The Middle", Shawn Mendes' "Lost in Japan" and Katy Perry's "Never Really Over" and "365". | |
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The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Tomorrowland all have An Aesop that "those with a certain talent should be allowed to pursue it, no matter what." | |
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Shamelessly lampshaded by Ai Yazawa in her manga Neighborhood Story, about an arts high school populated by eccentric teens. "In the Yazawa High School students have an unspoken agreement to dress in the most outrageous way possible. Why? Principal Ai Yazawa just loves outlandish clothes!". Before becoming a mangaka, she wanted to be a fashion designer, and she's a hardcore fan of Vivienne Westwood. She also loves rock and punk music. It becomes glaringly obvious since all of her mangas feature fashion designers, massive amounts of different outfits, designs lifted from Westwood, aspiring musicians and punk rockers. | |
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Dahne, the author of Stray, loaded the story with Shout Outs, and seems to have a particular interest in Neon Genesis Evangelion (justifiable in-story, as one of the protagonists is a mecha anime Otaku), Planescape: Torment (which provides the Arc Words), and Norse Mythology. | |
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As an homage to Al Hirschfeld, artists working on the "Rhapsody in Blue" segment of Fantasia 2000 (which was inspired by Hirschfeld's drawings) added their names within the backgrounds as Freeze-Frame Bonus. They even throw in a couple of Ninas for good measure. | |
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Inevitable Doctor Who examples: Terry Nation: "Evolution" depicted as a predictable force with inherent drives, man-eating plants, planets with meaningful names, biological warfare and plagues in general, characters called "Tarrant", Daleks, loose story structuring with the Wacky Wayside Tribe as plot development, Dressing as the Enemy. Many of these also turned up in his shows Blake's 7 and Survivors. David Whitaker: Science Fantasy tropes and shittons of occultist symbolism (especially Alchemy), psychedelic Magic from Technology, elements of Fairy Tale, villains defined by being inversions of the heroes, the TARDIS being a Sapient Ship Blue-and-Orange Morality Starfish Alien, What the Hell, Hero? moments, mercury (usually as Applied Phlebotinum and/or a MacGuffin). Kit Pedler: Cybermen, The Siege, multinational (but usually monogender) teams of scientists or soldiers doing really important things with expensive equipment, harder and more speculative science fiction than other Who writers complete with Shown Their Work explanations in place of Technobabble, Transhumanism leading to the occasional dash of mystical symbolism. Robert Holmes: Cynicism (sometimes to localised Crapsack World levels), "double act" guest characters, fart jokes, references to Earth-Humans as "Tellurians", bureaucratic villains, plain ol' scary stuff especially regarding Paranoia Fuel and Attack of the Killer Whatever, something of a Rebellious Spirit mentality to his morals. Malcolm Hulke: Grey-and-Gray Morality, Humans Are the Real Monsters, avoidance of Always Chaotic Evil aliens, political subtext, reptile monsters. Noirish prose in his books. Terrance Dicks: Companion function being to be sexy and get menaced and a corresponding focus on the Doctor, very tight and focused plot and dialogue almost to the point where you can tell with a stopwatch when the monster's going to show up, people escaping and getting captured again, Beige Prose in his novelisations, Continuity Nods, very witty Doctor dialogue, good ol' screwdriver-in-hand monster stories with lots of running down corridors and People in Rubber Suits. Barry Letts: Buddhism Rule of Symbolism, environmentalism Philip Hinchcliffe: Whole-Plot Reference, Leaking Can of Evil villains, amazing amounts of Family-Unfriendly Violence, What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?, Gothic Horror. Chris Boucher: Raygun Gothic, secularism versus religion, futuristic Cargo Cult versus Outgrown Such Silly Superstitions, Leela being really competent and badass, the Doctor's Science Hero methods being at least based on real-world science rather than Applied Phlebotinum, golden-age science fiction tropes, World of Snark. David Maloney: A director rather than a writer, but he became notorious for the frequency with which his episodes featured characters in gas masks. He then went on to be the producer of Blake's 7, and made it famous for its constant depiction of Federation soldiers as Gas Mask Mooks. Douglas Adams: Witty dialogue full of jokes, Genius Bonus and Meta Guys, Unfazed Everyman side characters, time travel used in-story, Pythonesque elements including Surreal Humour and Bathos, Recycled Script, It Runs on Nonsensoleum, magic books/art/computers, Cambridge, baths, tea. Bob Baker and Dave Martin: Space Opera spectacle with wildly ambitious demands on BBC special effects, even after script editors toned things down; very weird aliens; Arc Words with Madness Mantra overtones; supernatural horror entities reimagined in an SF context. Christopher H. Bidmead: Genius Bonus Technobabble, maths, Minovsky Physics-based Magic from Technology leading to Post-Modern Magik concerning things like art and computers, more maths, Tarot symbolism, his pet Alternate Character Interpretation that the Doctor is a very dark and mathsterious 'monster that fights other monsters', and even more maths. Pip and Jane Baker: Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness, anvilicious Green Aesops, Camp, killer plants. Eric Saward: Crapsack World, badass soldiers (or mercenaries) in large numbers, Facial Horror, Cybermen, Continuity Porn, Nausea Fuel especially regarding rotting flesh and horrible smells. Andrew Cartmel: Moral ambiguity, heavy use of the Gambit Index, villains with explicitly right-wing political motivations, social satire. Russell T. Davies: LGBT allusions, family members woven into plot, evil middle-aged women, people named "Smith" and "Jones", living disembodied heads, self-aware Camp, interracial couples, Black-and-Grey Morality with the Doctor being He Who Fights Monsters and the villains being thoroughly evil, Bathos, themes that ordinary life is as noble as seeing the wonders of the universe. Mark Gatiss: Fan Flattering, Internal Homage and Pandering to the Base, Pastiche of cult genres (particularly Hammer Horror) and show eras, Campy humour. Gareth Roberts: Stuff that's a bit like the stuff in Season 17 of the Classic series, Bathos, Fantastic Comedy, the Doctor being a Fish out of Water alien Cloud Cuckoo Lander, gleeful silliness. Robert Shearman: Absurdism, World Limited to the Plot, Law Of Narrative Causality Steven Moffat: Time travel used inside the story, telephones, hot snarky women, aliens whose main ability invokes Paranoia Fuel, terror, doppelgangers, people who use "psychopath" as a badge of honour, avoidance of traditional villains, romantic melodrama, playing with gender stereotypes, World of Snark, Things That Go "Bump" in the Night, Sex Is Interesting, witty dialogue, plot arcs, Cross-Referenced Titles, particular phrases and character traits cross-pollinated with his other show, the Doctor scaring off enemies by telling them to look up what he's done to his enemies in the past. |
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David Maloney: A director rather than a writer, but he became notorious for the frequency with which his episodes featured characters in gas masks. He then went on to be the producer of Blake's 7, and made it famous for its constant depiction of Federation soldiers as Gas Mask Mooks. | |
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If you give him half a chance, Miller will find an excuse to fit ninja and samurai into a comic book. In addition to being the author of Ronin (1983), he created "The Hand" for Marvel, sent Wolverine to Japan, gave Daredevil and Elektra ninja training, and put a shuriken-throwing female ninja into the middle of urban America in Sin City. | |
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Richard Wagner's later music dramas exploit the dissonance and tonal ambiguity of the half-diminished seventh chord so much that the chord is known in some circles as the "Wagner seventh" or "Tristan chord." | |
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He has a non-sexual fetish of redesigning characters' costumes to be much more detailed than the average artist is willing to draw. It gets sexual because whenever he draws Wanda Maximoff, AKA the Scarlet Witch (whom he has singled out as his favorite character to draw), he draws her in this costume◊, which references her Roma heritage. Furthermore, this outfit is designed to indicate that Wanda does not wear panties (the two sections of fabric over her hips are connected by gold loops that rest over bare skin). When asked to provide Word of God information that nobody else could give, Perez stated that Wanda prefers to go commando and dared readers to find an instance in which she is proven to be wearing underwear. He even found other ways to subtly convey this sexual trivia - such as showing her wearing a very long t-shirt to bed. It is worth noting that no other artist draws this costume if they can avoid it, although that is likely because of the prohibitive level of detail rather than the designer's fetish appeal. | |
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Anton Bruckner had a specific rhythmic pattern that he used in many of his works, of two equal-length notes followed by a triplet of that note, and vice versa, i.e. 2 + 3 or 3 + 2. The most prevalent examples are the opening theme of Symphony No. 4 in Eâ™ major and Symphony No. 6 in A major, where it is used in the first movement to a much greater extent than anything he composed before. | |
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Tsutomu Nihei, author of Blame!!, has an obvious obsession with architecture, post-humanism, and cyborgs. The latter occasionally verges on fetish territory, and the former is something of a running joke amongst his fans. | |
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South Park co-creator Trey Parker lived in Japan for several years and loves Japanese culture, and as a result, the show frequently pokes fun at Japan and its people. Notably, the jokes picked up a bit around the time he married his Japanese-American wife (for example, the comment about "a friend marrying an Asian woman" in the ginger kids episode). He also has a music degree, which explains the songs of South Park (The Movie was a musical and the early episodes, in particular, had Chef sing in every episode). | |
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She highlighted in her latest work A Bride's Story that she is also fascinated by Central Asian costumes and settings. All her female and male characters have exquisitely detailed embroidered clothes. | |
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How else do you explain the contortion scenes in Sapphire Episode III? | |
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Downplayed with CG5. While it's not every song, he has written multiple unrelated songs in the key of C Sharp Minor. Examples include "Let Me Through," "Phantom Dancing," "Every Door," and "A Man Has Fallen Into the River in LEGO City." He also did a cover of "Infinite," which is in the same key. | |
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There's an unclickable "Joy of Painting" toon on Homestar Runner that shows Marzipan dressed as Bob Ross painting a picture of a mountain landscape. Matt and Mike Chapman, creators of Homestar Runner, admitted that they only did this because they thought showing Granola Girl Marzipan with a beard would be funny. A lot of the stuff at Homestar Runner is based on the creators' childhood. Note the frequent appearance of breakfast cereals and Merchandise-Driven Saturday morning cartoons, the sibling rivalry between Strong Bad and his brother Strong Sad, the characters' Vague Age, and in-universe Nightmare Fuel. | |
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Firefly has River Tam, a mind-reading human weapon. | |
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Holmes!angst and Holmes!torture are something of a Motif in Children of Time, a series by Aleine Skyfire and Riandra, whose Sherlockian novels (Mortality and A Study in Regret, respectively) deal very heavily with these subjects. | |
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Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan is from Virginia, and sometimes makes sure that state is either a setting ("Soft Light", the first episode he wrote on The X-Files, is set in Richmond) or referenced somehow (Jesse Pinkman's NA sponsor mentioning Virginia's ABC stores). | |
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Disney great Glen Keane was the lead animator for Ariel, Pocahontas, and Rapunzel. What do these three ladies have in common? Long, extremely mobile hair and bare feet. | |
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Bathory had the Instrumental track, "The Winds of Mayhem", serving as the Every Episode Ending for their early albums. While it went missing for a while, it reappeared in Nordland II likely intended as a Call-Back, although considering that this was the last Bathory album due to Quorthon's death, it serves as a fitting Book Ends track to his career. | |
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The late comic book writer Mark Gruenwald apparently loved his home state Wisconsin. In Captain America, he made the villain Sidewinder a Wisconsinite, while his hero Quasar also hailed from "America's Dairyland". His love for Wisconsin really showed in D.P.7., as most of the early issues were set there, and many of the characters were from Wisconsin. | |
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