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Creator's Oddball
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Creator's Oddball is a work that clashes with the rest of a creator's output. It can be much Lighter and Softer or Darker and Edgier, or even a different genre. This might be related to Early-Installment Weirdness, where the writer has just started their career and hasn't settled on a genre yet. If this occurs in an actor's filmography, that actor is Playing Against Type. If this occurs in an actor's filmography when it really shouldn't have, this is Questionable Casting. In music, this might become a New Sound Album if the change in direction doesn't take and the artist goes back to their signature style. If it's a specific song, and it becomes successful, it's a Black Sheep Hit. For Franchises instead of writers, this is Oddball in the Series. When it's a show on a TV network, this is Network Red-Headed Stepchild. Sometimes results in Magnum Opus Dissonance in either direction. |
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Planet of the Apes is a conventional science fiction action film, a remake no less, with almost none of his Signature Style. | |
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Only Yesterday had the animators draw the cheek muscles and laugh lines way more realistically than usual, with the result that most adult characters look bizarrely old and wrinkled when they smile. Unsurprisingly they didn't attempt to do this again. | |
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Let's Go Luna!, a preschool cartoon on PBS Kids, was created by Joe Murray, who created two other cartoons beforehand, Rocko's Modern Life and Camp Lazlo, the former of which is considered one of the raunchiest Nicktoons of all time and the latter also having its fair share of Parental Bonus. | |
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Similarly, Swap<->Swap is the only yuri manga by Tomekichi, who mainly writes in the yaoi genre. | |
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Metallica: The Load records, which completely abandoned their classic thrash style for a bluesy hard rock style. Then, they experimented with Alternative/Nu Metal with St. Anger. They have, since, returned to said thrash style. | |
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The School for Good and Evil (2022) is a more dramatic fantasy story. | |
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Psikyo also made Battle K-Road, a Fighting Game about a martial arts tournament, showcasing several real-life combat styles. It stands out both for being an one-on-one fighting game among a series of shmups, and for having a contemporary setting and being (mostly) treated in a realistic way instead of being another fantasy/sci-fi title. | |
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For most of her career, Kathy Mattea had a very sparse, folksy style of country with hints of bluegrass and Celtic music. But her 1994 album Walking Away a Winner had a heavier country-pop and country-rock influence, with many critics comparing the album to Bonnie Raitt or Mary Chapin Carpenter. | |
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Sui Ishida is a mangaka known for creating Tokyo Ghoul, a psychological horror manga about violence between ghouls and humans. By contrast, his other work Jack Jeanne is a relatively light-hearted Romance Game about a theatre academy. | |
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His earlier film, American Graffiti, fits even better, being a realistic film inspired by his own teenage years. In fact, he created it because Francis Ford Coppola (who produced it) bet him that he couldn't make a mainstream, realistic movie. It's also considered a classic and basically invented the Nostalgia Filter Coming of Age Story. | |
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Wild C.A.T.s (1994) was produced by Nelvana, and is one of their few, if not only, straight action series (all of their other shows with action have typically been action-adventure or mystery); furthermore, the visual style is straight out of the comic, standing in stark contrast to the varied visual styles of Nelvana's other productions. | |
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Akitaro Daichi, who is famous for lighthearted adventures and wacky comedies, saw some news reports about the genocide in Rwanda and created the bleak dystopian anime Now and Then, Here and There. | |
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The Redwall cartoon was this, not for its studio, but for PBS, who aired it. It was—and remains to this day—one of the only non-educational children's shows ever to air on PBS. The reason it was aired was likely meant to encourage kids to read the books, though. | |
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He also did After Earth, which, despite receiving slightly better reviews, still received negative reception; many critics felt the film was fairly standard sci-fi yarn that could've been directed by anybodynote which actually rings true, as that film was the brainchild of its star. | |
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Titanic (1997): Because of its enormous success and long-lasting cultural impact, it's easy to forget that the film was a huge departure from James Cameron's usual style of films, being a romantic period piece after having directed gritty sci-fi films like The Terminator and Aliens during most of his career. | |
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Seekers has a heavier Green Aesop than other Erin series. It also features different Animal Naming Conventions: the animals have names from human languages (such as Tobi and Kallik) and characters keep the same name their entire life. | |
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HoneyWorks has a lot of songs talking about heterosexual romance, and even their Love Triangle songs are based on this. "Nonfantasy", "Gimme Gimme Call", and "Minikui Ikimono", however, deal with decidedly non-heterosexual romance; the former ends in a MMF threesome marriage while the grooms kiss each other; the second ends with the two boys in the Love Triangle dating each other instead while the girl ends the PV dejected but comforted by her friends; and the last is the only one taken semi-seriously, as it deals with the Gayngst of a girl in love with her straight best friend. | |
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The Orville is a relatively serious science fiction drama series done in the style of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Critics wondered if the dick and fart jokes were added at the insistence of executives so people wouldn't be caught off guard that it was a Seth MacFarlane creation, as he is known for creating raunchy comedies. | |
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Castle: An In-Universe example in "The Time of Our Lives", which (maybe) visits an Alternate Timeline where pulp crime novelist Castle never met Beckett and made her his new literary muse, and instead wrote a Slice of Life novel that completely flopped and basically ended his career. | |
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Trina Robbins is mostly known for her feminist underground comix and activism supporting women in comics. She also designed Vampirella's iconic costume. | |
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Mermaid Saga is a dark and serious work about an immortal Death Seeker... by Rumiko Takahashi, the legendary master of romantic comedy. The Diet Goddess is also her only manga to be published in a shoujo anthology, while most of her other works are either shonen or seinen. | |
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Wreck-It Ralph and Brave came out the same year and they felt like Disney and Pixar swapped places for once. "Ralph" is a film about the secret life of non-sentient things like Pixar often did (as exemplified by the famous meme "What if toys/cars/robots/emotions had feelings?") with lots of jokes linked to a specific demographic (gamers in the 1980s and 90s) that goes over the head of the younger audiences. Whereas "Brave" feels to many like a clichéd Disney character-driven fairy tale featuring a rebellious princess forced in an arranged marriage and having to deal with an overbearing mother. | |
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When you think of true crime documentaries, do you think Napoleon Dynamite? Because Murder Among the Mormons is definitely a departure for comedy director Jared Hess as it focuses on the case surrounding psychopathic fraudster Mark Hofmann. | |
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Hammer Horror produced many memorable horror films such as The Curse of Frankenstein and Horror of Dracula. Yet they also produced the campy 1969 science fiction film and self-proclaimed Space Western Moon Zero Two, which was as far from Gothic horror as one could get. | |
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Earwig and the Witch is the studio's first CGI movie (directed by Miyazaki's son Goro) and also their second made-for-TV movie. It was not well received, both for the graphics' quality and a story considered flat and unengaging. | |
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Dragon Ball is very much the outlier among Toriyama's large body of manga work. Toriyama's first big break was Dr. Slump, a zany gag manga series which was seen as his magnum opus until Dragon Ball came along and usurped it. Dragon Ball initially started in much the same vein as Dr. Slump with its silly and raucous humour, but it steadily evolved into the violent, high-stakes, hyper-masculine action-adventure series it's more popularly known as; a direction that Toriyama himself came to regret and attempted to rectify in the final arc. Since Dragon Ball concluded, Toriyama has primarily dabbled in limited manga series and one-shots like Sand Land and Kintoki that instead emphasise comedy and adventure, effectively Revisiting the Roots. His return to the Dragon Ball franchise in 2013 saw him apply more of his gag manga affections to the series, which is reflected in the character design sheets and the overall writing. | |
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After becoming famous for Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling didn't return to fantasy outside of Harry Potter until 2020, writing first general fiction and then mystery thrillers. Then came the The Ickabog in 2020) and The Christmas Pig in 2021. | |
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Yasuhiro Nightow is primarily known for science fiction works with a futuristic or contemporary setting like Trigun, Gungrave and Blood Blockade Battlefront, but he also did the art for Energy Breaker, a fantasy JRPG. | |
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Likewise, Alita: Battle Angel and the TV series The Book of Boba Fett (which he is the Show Runner for) have him going into pure sci-fi action with a PG-13 rating. | |
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Chris Cornell's solo career either rocked hard like his band Soundgarden or went for a pared-down, mostly acoustic sound. Aside from the Timbaland-produced Scream, which is reviled exactly for how dance-pop beats and Cornell's rock crooning don't gel at all. | |
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Two of the official Silent Ponyville stories are pure romance, and a third one is straight-up Slice of Life using the mind-delve spell to show cute scenes from Twilight's childhood. | |
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Jay Roach, director of the Austin Powers movies and Meet the Parents, also directed the TV movie Recount, a political drama about the events of the United States presidential election in 2000, and Bombshell (2019), another political drama about the Fox News sexual harassment cases revealed during the 2016 election. | |
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David Gordon Green was well known for making critically acclaimed dramatic independent films like George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow, and Snow Angels. Then, as his father put it, he went "from the Arthouse to the Outhouse" by making raunchy comedies like Pineapple Express, Your Highness, and The Sitter. Then he did it again, pivoting to a genre horror movie with Halloween (2018). | |
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck made many dramas on TV and film before being given Captain Marvel (2019). | |
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The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter is reasonably hard Sci-Fi, and while it has humorous moments, it's not a comedy. It might be based on an idea Sir Terry had before he became synonymous with funny fantasy, but it's very different from his usual works. And while his love of Victoriana is visible in later Discworld novels, Dodger is unique in that it contains no fantastic elements at all. | |
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Hideaki Anno, the creator of Neon Genesis Evangelion, a dark mecha series with heavy amounts of symbolism and Mindscrew, directed a Live-Action Adaptation of the anime Cutey Honey, a lighthearted magical girl series with plenty of Fanservice. | |
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Big Eyes uses uncharacteristically bright colors and does not feature any of Burton's usual actors. Aside from a handful of fantasy scenes, it's a relatively straightforward biographical film. | |
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Big Fish, which avoids Johnny Depp, takes a Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane approach to the supernatural and is otherwise a generally bright and cheery film. | |
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Ocean Waves is the first made-for-TV movie they've done, also it wasn't directed by either Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata, but rather by a younger staff member. It was considered unsuccessful. | |
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The Melvins have had several album-length left turns, but possibly the most surprising is The Bootlicker: while their sound usually involves sludgy walls of feedback, this album features absolutely no guitar distortion. The actual content doesn't get any lighter and softer, but the arrangements bring to mind Tom Waits and Krautrock more than they do grunge or stoner metal. Freak Puke by Melvins Lite is probably the closest they've come to returning to this sound - that album did prominently distorted guitars; However, with Trevor Dunn sitting in on standup bass and Dale Crover restricted to playing his drums with brushes, it also emphasized the more jazzy and experimental elements of their sound. | |
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WASP had Kill, Fuck, Die, their industrial metal album. The song-writing itself wasn't actually that far removed from the band's previous few albums, just a bit angrier, but the production turned it into something totally unlike anything else the band has recorded before or since. | |
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John P. McCann, who is known for writing episodes of family friendly cartoons such as Freakazoid! wrote every episode of Lobo (Webseries), an adult oriented cartoon. | |
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Future-Worm! is aimed at children and aired on Disney XD during its run, while most of Bento Box's other cartoons are aimed squarely at adults. | |
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Ready Jet Go! is a children's animated series is produced by Wind Dancer Films, a company known for producing live-action movies and TV shows aimed at an adult audiences. | |
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Parodied by Something Awful in their "Great Authors" series, where they imagine classic writers working far outside their regular genres, from Hunter S. Thompson recapping an episode of The Big Bang Theory to Cormac McCarthy writing for a parenting blog. | |
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2021) is their one family-friendly film thus fur. | |
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Rockstar is a developer and publisher famous for its self-conscious cultivation of a cool image, making their name with the Grand Theft Auto series and also releasing noir-inspired crime dramas, slick open-world street racers, ultraviolent slashers, adaptations of cult '70s action films, and gritty Westerns... so imagine everyone's surprise when they made Rockstar Games Presents Table Tennis. It was just that: a straightforward table tennis game, treated with the same seriousness as all of their other titles. Pretty much every retrospective on the game goes out of its way to note just how oddball and unlike the rest of the company's titles it was. Table Tennis was actually far more important to Rockstar than one may guess, as it was a test run for the new Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE) that powered titles like Grand Theft Auto IV and Red Dead Redemption during the seventh generation of gaming. | |
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Army of the Dead is the first feature film that Snyder has ever shot entirely digitally (the only things he shot digitally before this movie was his short Snow Steam Iron, and parts of the epilogue for Zack Snyder's Justice League after Army of the Dead completed principal photography). It is also perhaps the one in his filmography with the least amount of Color Wash outside of Dawn of the Dead (2004). It's also one for Netflix: the streamer had long been barred from screening any of its films in mainstream cinema chains in the United States and many other countries, notably attempting and failing to work out arrangements for Roma, The Irishman and Marriage Story. In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic, however, the #3 U.S. chain Cinemark warmed relations with Netflix, allowing for titles like Mank, The Trial of the Chicago 7, The Midnight Sky and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom to play on their screens. Army of the Dead, however, marks the first time a Netflix film has received a full-on nationwide release in a major cinema chain, despite premiering on the streaming service just one week later. While it only earned about an estimated $1 million, the release was apparently considered enough of a success that Netflix would launch another 14 movies in theaters between September and December 2021. | |
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Rocksteady Studios is known these days for the Batman: Arkham Series. It might seem strange, then, that their debut title was a rather violent first-person shooter (the sort of game Batman himself would despise) by the name of Urban Chaos: Riot Response. | |
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Last Chance in Xollywood: In-universe, Last Chance studio usually churns out No Budget Z-grade exploitation movies, but they once made a film titled Police on Trial, a documentary dealing with police brutality and social justice. Randy made it after her twin sister on Earth was shot for a speeding ticket. | |
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There's also his run on Superman Adventures, an all-ages tie-in to Superman: The Animated Series. | |
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It might be surprising for some to learn that the mafia-themed adult-oriented animated series Fugget About It is produced by Canada's 9 Story Media Group, a company whose animated productions otherwise consist only of children's cartoons, including many PBS Kids series. | |
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The prequel short film to Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Giant God Warrior Appears in Tokyo is the studio’s first (and so far, only) live-action production. It’s also undeniably the bleakest out of the studio’s output and in contrast to the rest of their works, ends on an outright Downer Ending with the events that would set the stage for Nausicaä. | |
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The Red Turtle is a co-production between them and the European studio (and Ghibli's worldwide distributor) Wild Bunch and it's extremely different from pretty much every film they've made. Not only is there no Dialogue at all and has a drastically different art style than their usual fare, but it's also the only feature film of theirs to not be directed by the studio's employees, but rather by Dutch-British animator, Michaël Dudok de Wit. | |
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Croteam is mainly known for their Serious Sam franchise, shooters featuring a sarcastic One-Man Army anti-hero (or parody thereof) mowing down endless waves of mooks and giant monsters. They also made The Talos Principle, a first-person puzzle game with no violence, a philosophical bent about the nature of self and a plot that gets unfurled by reading logs scattered around and talking with an artificial intelligence. It received a great amount of critical acclaim. | |
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In-universe examples appear in Jem: Most of Jem and the Holograms' songs are about romance, friendship, and love in general. Then there's "The Last Laugh" which is almost hateful and is very mocking towards The Misfits. It's surprisingly mean-spirited and shows that Jerrica is fed up with Pizzazz. "Glitter and Gold" is also less fluffy than their normal fare, being a boastful song where Jem talks about how confident and fashionable she is. The Misfits are all about boosting their own egos. "Misfits in Hawaii" is self-deprecating and portrays them in a negative light. "Love Sick" is a straight-up love song (fitting since Pizzazz does become seriously out of it when she falls for Riot), which is not something The Misfits care for. |
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My Goldfish is Evil is the only show Sardine Productions made that does not utilise Flash animation. | |
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There's also his kid-friendly works in the 1980s, like Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and the adaptation of The Butter Battle Book, which have a subversive edge to them but are nevertheless apt for family viewing. | |
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Ti West, best known for horror films like The House of the Devil, The Innkeepers, The Sacrament, and X (2022) also wrote and directed the Western In a Valley of Violence. | |
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Civil War (2024) is arguably a better example. In a sharp contrast to the artsy, mid-budget independent films that run the gamut of genres and styles which A24 is best known for, Civil War marks their first outright action movie and their first foray into blockbuster filmmakingnote though its $50 million budget and decidedly hot-button subject matter do differentiate it from a normal action blockbuster. | |
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Pond Life is the only show for adults the studio - which mainly does child-friendly cartoons - worked on. | |
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His tenth Bond novel, The Spy Who Loved Me, is told from the First Person perspective of the woman in the story, rather than his usual third-person perspective focusing on Bond. (He didn't like the result, though fans of the books generally find it an interesting experiment.) | |
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Norwegian Wood, a gentle, tragic coming of age tale, is this for Japanese surrealist author Haruki Murakami. His work is usually compared to Philip K. Dick. | |
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While Cate Shortland had made a thriller in Berlin Syndrome, it's certainly far from the espionage action of Black Widow (2021). | |
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Following bad reviews for The Long Kiss Goodnight, Shane Black attempted this doing a Romantic Comedy imitating his idol and mentor at the time, James L. Brooks. Then when he hit a creative wall, he just returned to his Signature Style and the result was Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. | |
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Last of the Breed is a techno-thriller written by Louis L'Amour, who is generally better known for Westerns and other historical fiction. | |
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Respawn Entertainment are known for being made of former team members of Infinity Ward who left and made Titanfall, Titanfall 2, and Apex Legends, all futuristic sci-fi First Person Shooters set in the same universe, with the single-player entries being linear. They then made Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which is a third person hack-and-slash metroidvania soulslike platformer with elements of Tomb Raider, set in the Star Wars galaxy. However, their signature wall-running mechanic was implemented as one of the protagonist's force powers. | |
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The Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise represents another one for Nickelodeon. While most of the network's programming consists of episodic zany comedies, the Avatar series are continuity-driven action cartoons, to say nothing of how both The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra enjoy exploring the themes of war, genocide, imperialism, and familial abuse. | |
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Disturbed is most well known for two things; their long and continuous career in metal, and their one-shot orchestral soft rock cover of The Sound of Silence. | |
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Castlevania (2017) is also an oddball from Frederator Studios, being a straight drama series. In contrast, all of their other shows are comedies (or, at the very least, Dramedies). Its art-style is also far more detailed and Animesque than the studio's other works, which are generally cartoony.note Bee And Puppy Cat is somewhat animesque, but still has a fairly simple art-style. | |
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Bkub, known for his offbeat gag comics and wonky art style, looked to going here with Hoshiiro Girl Drop, an idol-themed romantic comedy with a cutesy orthodox style. Then it was revealed to be an interlude for Pop Team Epic's second season of strips. | |
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Treasure Planet is remarkably different from the rest of Disney's filmography: no musical numbers, no princesses, no funny animal sidekicks (unless a robot and a mute blob of goo count), no romance outside of some paired supporting characters, an Emo Teen delinquent protagonist, a genuinely sympathetic villain as the Big Bad, and a generally epic tone and sprawling Sci-Fi-based universe not unlike Star Wars. If an unassuming viewer didn't know better, it'd be easy to mistake for a movie from the traditonal animation days of Dreamworks Animation instead. | |
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Then there's Cool World which had a rather bizarre plot (pretty much an older version of Who Framed Roger Rabbit), was made on a big-budget in contrast to Bakshi's previous low-budget films, and was (more or less) aimed towards a younger demographic. However, Bakshi actually has an excuse with Cool World, as the original idea for it (an erotic horror movie) was scrapped due to massive amounts of Executive Meddling from producer Frank Mancuso Jr. and actress Kim Basinger. | |
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In contrast with C.H. Greenblatt's wacky comedy shows like Chowder and Jellystone!, Harvey Beaks is an atmospheric Slice of Life. It's also the series he's proudest of the most. | |
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KO_OP is an indie studio better known for making small, short puzzle games with simple narratives, along with mobile games. By contrast, Goodbye Volcano High is much larger in scope than previous projects, is a console game, and has multiple, heavier narratives. | |
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David Kirschner is well known in Hollywood for his writing and producing credits for family movies like Hocus Pocus and An American Tail; along with his time as president for Hanna-Barbera during the '80s. Yet between these projects he also produced the popular horror franchise Child's Play and later the psychological thriller Frailty; both of which really stand out in a filmography made up of kids material. | |
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The studio is well known for working on series that are heavy in comedy and action. Their second TV anime, Kiznaiver, is a sci-fi story about seven students forced into an experiment where the pain one feels is shared between them, and while there are still some comedic moments, but it is an intensely dramatic and romantic series, with a lot more focus on character rather than an overarching plotline. | |
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Balan Wonderworld was the first 3D platformer published by legendary JRPG makers Square Enix, known for Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, and Dragon Quest. Granted, they did not develop Balan Wonderworld, they were only the publishers, but there have been many reports of Executive Meddling from Square Enix, who were keen to massively expand the game's story and lore (including a tie-in novel) similar to typical JRPGs, culminating in the removal of Yuji Naka as director. General consensus is that they interfered too much in the development of a game in a genre they had no experience with, and it shows in the final product. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem is this for Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Point Grey Picutres. While Rogen has acted in family friendly films before, the works he produces almost all tend to be raunchy and hard R, including the production company’s last animated film, Sausage Party. This will be the first project by Rogen and Goldberg geared towards family audiences. | |
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12 Tiny Christmas Tales is not only a sincere and (relatively) straightforward Christmas Special, it's also one of his only family-friendly works, having a TV-G rating and even airing on Cartoon Network. | |
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He made a one-shot story in 1987 named Lady Red whose humour is much more cynical and mean-spirited than his usual brand of silliness. It features a clueless wannabe heroine who gets raped twice and decides to become a prostitute in the end. Also it mimics Western comics, being written from left to right and featuring typical comic book sound effects. | |
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He also wrote The Iron Heel, which is about the rise of an oligarchic regime in the United States and is often called the earliest of modern dystopias. | |
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Billie Eilish is mainly known for her somber, moody songs, which might make it jarring to some to hear her contributions to the movie Turning Red are for an in-universe early 2000s pop boy band and have a more upbeat tone. | |
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Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is far darker, bleaker and serious compared to everything else the studio or director Hiroyuki Imaishi has ever put out, with what little humor and absurdity that is present being more subdued than any work they've created previously. This is especially made clear by the ending, as while Imaishi and TRIGGER's past works usually end on a happy and optimistic notes, Edgerunners ends on a particular dour one, as everyone but Lucy and Falco dies. TRIGGER acknowledged this during their panel at Anime Expo 2022, stating that the anime is a "fresh new style" from them. | |
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The Souichi stories in Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection are also rather unusual, since while it uses Junji Ito's trademark horrifying art style and definitely deals with the supernatural, it's primarily a horror-themed comedy about a boy causing mischief where for the most part, no one suffers any lasting harm. One story in Museum of Terror is genuinely horrific and seems to imply that Souichi will grow up to be a genuine threat, but a later Souichi story has it be All Just a Dream. | |
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Mikhail Bulgakov is mostly famous for The Master and Margarita, a largely lighthearted and satiric novel with religious overtones, yet the majority of his works are dark and realistic stories on par with works of Kurt Vonnegut and Charles Bukowski in terms of cynicism and desperation. | |
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Oddly Enough: Oddest of All contains "What's the Worst That Could Happen?", which is one of Coville's very few stories to not have anything fantastic happening. There's no magical or supernatural elements, no aliens or fantastic technology, just a normal kid trying to confess to a girl that he likes her and get over his stage fright in time to perform in the skit they're supposed to do. Even when said skit goes horribly wrong, it's all due to natural causes. | |
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The Farm 51 is best known for Painkiller-inspired shooter games, namely Necro Vision and Painkiller: Hell and Damnation, the HD Video Game Remake of Painkiller. Their previous game, Deadfall Adventures, was somewhat more puzzle and story driven than their previous games but was still very much a first-person shooter. However, their 2017 game Get Even (2017), despite being advertised as an FPS, was really more of an Environmental Narrative Game with stealth elements, and while it is possible to play it as a shooter, the gunplay is deliberately poor and the story heavily penalizes you for playing it as an FPS. The Farm 51 have acknowledged this approach was poorly received, and their next game, Chernobylite, while still story-driven, has much more of an emphasis on gameplay and doesn't heavily punish playing it as an FPS. | |
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Zach Cregger, best known for a sketch comedy troupe, made his directorial debut (co-directed with his late friend and fellow member Trevor Moore with Miss March, a raunchy sex comedy at a time where films of the same genre were going out of style. When that film proved to be a Creator Killer, Cregger would switch genres 13 years later, this time alone, helming a horror thriller film with plenty of Psychological Horror, Fan Disservice, Nausea Fuel, and only tangential hints of comedy. That film, Barbarian, would become a critical and commerical success. | |
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Hourglass, a Solo Side Project by Dave Gahan, frontman of Depeche Mode, while still following the band's traditional Alternative Dance/New Wave Music approach as per the usual Depeche Mode style, takes what the band is typically known for and takes it to great extremes, making it stand out with its smoother tones, stronger emotions, and the general industrial atmosphere that isn't applied elsewhere on Depeche Mode's discography. | |
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Letterkenny is this for WildBrain, who almost exclusively produce content for pre-school and child audiences. Letterkenny is a live-action series that sounds innocent enough on paper, that is until you realise the show is filled to the brim with tobacco and drug usage which is a major focus of the show, and non-stop excessive swearing that is said every few seconds. The same applies to its spin-off Shoresy, which has as much swearing as the show it spun-off from. | |
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The Big U, a college campus satire novel by none other than Neal Stephenson, science-fiction writer and author of Snow Crash. He does not like the book and discontinued publishing for a while. Then people started paying hundreds of dollars for old copies of it, and he had it republished, saying that "the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it." To be fair, it was his first novel. | |
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David R. Ellis the man behind such thrillers as Snakes on a Plane, Final Destination 2, The Final Destination, and Cellular began his career directing the family film Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco. | |
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The Bad Guys series by Aaron Blabey is a graphic novel chapter book series. While still meant for a younger audience, they are very different than his standard rhyming children's picture books. | |
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Missing Linc has an In-Universe example. Dirk O'Donnell, a director known for directing mature films, is directing the family-friendly Full House Gang movie. He turns out to be trying to make the film more like his typical genre, to the displeasure of Bill Buck. | |
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RedLetterMedia made schlock comedy and horror/comedy films such as Gorilla, Interrupted, Oranges: Revenge of the Eggplant, and Feeding Frenzy before finding success as a comedic online review show. However, in 2008 they also made The Recovered, an entirely serious Psychological Horror film without a single joke. | |
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In Emily Carroll's collection of stories in Through the Woods, almost all of the stories share certain tropes and themes; they're set in a vaguely defined past (generally somewhere in the 1700s-1800s judging by the clothes), most of the stories are Nameless Narratives or have the absolute minimum number of named characters, there are supernatural elements present but often the greatest threats are more mundane issues, etc. One story, "The Nesting Place" seems to intentionally go for the opposite on all these points. Judging by the fashions, the story could only be set in the 1920s (possibly the 1930s), every character who appears on screen gets a name and lines to speak, and the only danger to the main character is a fantastical creature... although she uses the threat of mundane dangers that people would pose to the creature, along with a dose of They Would Cut You Up, to get it to back down. | |
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Starman is a science fiction film like much of his work, but it's also a pensive and romantic drama that's been described as "E.T. for adults". Carpenter made it specifically to break out of his horror typecasting after The Thing (1982) flopped at the box office. | |
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Wow! Wow! Wubbzy! is this for Frederator Studios, being the only preschool cartoon produced by them. In contrast, it has historically created cartoons aimed at older children and eventually moved into adult animation. | |
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You're Only Young Twice (1971) was a light comedy written by Jack Trevor Story who had mostly only written for crime series such as No Hiding Place and Dixon of Dock Green. | |
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He's also gone against type as a producer, being one of the producers of the romantic comedy Lars and the Real Girl. | |
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My Neighbors the Yamadas is a comedic and episodic slice of life movie with it notably ditching Ghibli's traditional aesthetics in favor of a much more simpler and comedic aesthetic that is very faithful to the 4koma manga strips the film was based on. It's also the only Ghibli film not released in Japan by Toho (their usual partner) or Toei Company (which distributed some of their early output), instead being released by Shochiku. | |
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Ganbarion's gaming catalogue consists primarily of licensed action games based on One Piece (such the Unlimited trilogy and One Piece: World Seeker). However, among all those One Piece games are two projects they worked on with Nintendo: the dark fantasy Action RPG Pandora's Tower and fitness game Wii Fit U. | |
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The Butthole Surfers' Weird Revolution, which is much more electronica-influenced than anything they'd previously done. It may have been an attempt to roll with their popular Black Sheep Hit "Pepper", although it was actually preceded by a couple of electronic-based soundtrack contributions, along with the similar but much more experimental After The Astronaut, which got shelved after promo copies got scathing reviews. | |
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A common belief about Lee's films is that they are usually centered on Black America, with messages related to the Black struggle, Black social issues, Black history or Black activism, with mostly black casts and white characters generally shown as villains, or at least in need of correction to some degree. Films like Summer of Sam and 25th Hour have casts that are largely white, or at least non-black, as Summer of Sam had a cast of mostly Italian characters, though the actors ranged from Italian, Jewish, Latin, or even just Caucasian. Inside Man had Denzel Washington headlining...along with Jodie Foster and Clive Owen. | |
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Comic novelist Kingsley Amis (using the pseudonym "Robert Markham") wrote Colonel Sun, the first James Bond novel published after Ian Fleming's death. | |
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Robert W. Chambers, the author of the supremely creepy ''The Repairer of Reputations'' and ''The Yellow Sign,'' mostly wrote light, fluffy romantic comedy stories. A reader looking for more weirdness is likely to be very disappointed. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove feels more like a hybrid between a Warner Bros. cartoon and a Muppet production than anything you'd expect to see out of Disney's theatrical animation department. It's a slapstick comedy with copious Breaking the Fourth Wall gags from beginning to end, with even the few somber moments being played for laughs. In a rare move for a Disney movie at the time, there was no Love Interest or romance for the protagonist. The villains are also lovable nutjobs who don't die in the end, and the standard cute animal sidekick is rejected by almost everyone and becomes a jerk as a result. They even subverted the then-typical Disney "bad guy turns into a giant mindless monstrosity" climax by having main antagonist Yzma turn into a cute little kitten that keeps her intelligence, attitude, and ability to speak. | |
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David Jaffe is mostly known for his brutal and violent games like Twisted Metal and God of War. He was also one of the designers for Mickey Mania for the Sega Genesis. | |
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Dissolving Classroom has also several elements that are at odds with his usual output. While it's bleak and has an implied Downer Ending, the bad guys are punished in the end. Also, the main characters' powers are clearly depicted as coming from Satan/the devil instead of the usual unexplained supernatural evil force (not to mention that Christianity is largely irrelevant in Japan). And the fourth-wall-breaking ending that shows the evil siblings as Animated Actors is uncommon for Ito as well. | |
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Crimson Spell is the result of prominent BL manga artist Ayano Yamane dabbling in the Heroic Fantasy genre. It's still a yaoi, but her other works (such as the Finder Series and A Foreign Love Affair) and most of her one-shots take place in a relatively "realistic" setting and are more action/crime based. | |
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Muppet Babies (2018) stands from Mr. Warburton's other shows , being made for preschool audiences rather than older kids. note Although The 7D was originally going to be for Disney Junior before being retooled for Disney XD. | |
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Zombie Studios was primarily known for making tactical shooters. In 2014 they made Daylight, a procedurally generated maze horror game primarily notable for being the first game made with Unreal Engine 4. | |
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Lyrick Studios, the producers of Barney & Friends and the original mass market distributor of VeggieTales, also distributed some other series on VHS in their early days... as well as the Catholic documentary series The Faithful Revolution: Vatican II about the Second Vatican Council, colloquially known as "Vatican II". The Audiovisual Identity Database, in its Lyrick Studios article, calls that video "a surprisingly non-children's release". | |
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Harry Martinson was primarily an author of leftist social critiques and travelogues inspired by his years as a merchant seaman. However, the work that catapulted him to international fame and eventually led to his winning the 1974 Nobel Prize for Literature was Aniara, an extremely dark and depressing piece of dystopian science fiction that, for added weirdness, was also a collection of poetry. | |
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Invader Zim is this to Nickelodeon, due to its unusual art-style, heavy amounts of Black Comedy and horror, and attracting an older audience than most of the channel's shows. While Nickelodeon did intend for it to be this — the reason they hired Jhonen Vasquez in the first place was that they wanted edgier material in the vein of The Ren & Stimpy Show — the fact that it contrasted so much with their other programming like SpongeBob SquarePants and The Fairly OddParents!, in addition to the show's budget issues, ultimately led to an early cancellation and being destined to be a Cult Classic. | |
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While Space Bomber is a shmup like most of their output, there are several differences from their other games: for starters it's a Cute 'em Up (the only other one they've made is Pilot Kids), it's a retro-styled single-screen vertical shooter a la Galaga or Space Invaders and also has some slight puzzle elements with its mechanic of grabbing and throwing enemies. Moreover, it's the most overtly wacky and parodic game they have made, directly spoofing cheesy alien invader B-movies. | |
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Jon Watts had only done a horror movie and a thriller, yet Marvel trusted him with their most popular character, and a known jokester in that, with Spider-Man: Homecoming. | |
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The Mighty Peking Man (also known as Goliathon) was a giant monster movie made by the Shaw Brothers, who were known almost entirely for their martial arts movies. | |
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Danny Phantom is this for Butch Hartman, being a superhero action show rather than a wacky comedy like his other shows (although it does have its share of comedic moments). | |
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While Duckman wasn't the first adult animated project from Klasky-Csupo (having done the first three seasons of The Simpsons and the Music Video for the Beastie Boys song "Shadrach"), it was easily their most adult work they've done before or since (the only adult works they've done since being the first season of Stressed Eric, and Immigrants, a compilation movie of the finished episodes of a show that would have been for Spike TV). | |
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Eurovision Song Contest: Latvia, best-known for crazy novelty acts, sending the quiet, intimate "That Night" by Carousel in 2019. In one of the most triumphant recent examples, Italy sending glam-rock band Måneskin with "Zitti e buoni" in 2021, which went against their usual grain and earned them their first victory in over thirty years. Thirty years prior, they sent their only entry neither in Italian or English: Peppino di Capri's "Comme è ddoce 'o mare," which is in the Neapolitan language. Earlier still, in 1957, Italy sent the longest song to ever compete in the contest. Nunzio Gallo's "Corde della mia chitarra" was a whopping 5:09, which led to the establishment of the rule that songs could be no longer than three minutes long the following year. Al Bano and Romina Power's "We'll Live It All Again" (1976), Raphael Gualazzi's "Madness of Love" (2011), and Nina Zilli's "L'amore e femmina" (2012) are the only Italian entries to have as much, if not more, English in them as Italian. Francesca Michielin's "No Degree of Separation" (2016) was also partially translated into English for Eurovision, but the majority of it remained in Italian. Most people would agree that the Mediterranean-sounding banger of 2019 was Luca Hänni's "She Got Me." Astonishingly, it came from Switzerland, and its fourth-place finish was their best in over twenty-five years. An earlier example would be their host entry from 1989, Furbaz's "Viver senza tei" - their only entry in the Romansh language. Not necessarily sonically (although it is somewhat unusual for them to send a rock song), but conceptually: their 2005 entry "Cool Vibes" was performed by Estonian girl group Vanilla Ninja. While other singers from outside of Switzerland have represented them in the past, most at least sang in one of their native languages (French, German, or Italian). Vanilla Ninja had no connection whatsoever, but they did score very well and finished eighth. At the time, Gina G's "Ooh, Aah...Just a Little Bit" was considered this for both the United Kingdom and the contest as a whole, as it was much more electronically-driven and contemporary than most of what was sent to the competition in the mid-90s. While it only finished eighth, it was still a huge hit and scored a Grammy nomination. Lithuania managed to zig-zag this: they got their best result to this day with LT United's "We Are the Winners" in 2006, a straightforward sports chant/novelty song. That in and of itself was a break from type for them, but even more so was their sending a low-key acoustic number (4Fun's "Love or Leave") the following year. Starting in the '80s, Denmark's trademark at the contest was sending high-energy pop songs with brassy instrumentation and lots of dancing. 1991's "Lige der hvor hjertet slår" by Anders Frandsen was a simple piano ballad...and their first entry since 1985 to finish outside the top ten. Back-to-back examples in 1995 (Aud Wilken's "Fra Mols til Skagen," a minimalistic, intimate song) and 1997 (Kølig Kaj's "Stemmen i mit liv," the only straight-up novelty song Denmark's ever sent). At the time, Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah" was this for Finland, but seeing as they've sent several rock songs since then, it's much more common nowadays. "Irlande Douze Points" by Dustin the Turkey. Ireland, the country known for classy ballads and folk songs, sent an electro-pop novelty song performed by a puppet turkey. It wasn't an experiment that paid off particularly. The duo of entries by Jedward are also quite different from what Ireland's known for sending, but at least they got decent results. Earlier, we have Sandie Jones' "Ceol an Ghrá" (1972), which remains Ireland's only Irish-language entry. Subverted in regards to Ireland's Junior Eurovision participation, which is organized by Irish-language TV station TG4, thereby ensuring that every entry Ireland sends there is in Irish. Most people probably wouldn't have expected Germany, of all countries, to send a goofy, lighthearted song about brushing off the haters. Nevertheless, that sums up their 2021 entry, "I Don't Feel Hate" by Jendrik, pretty neatly. It comes complete with tap dancing and a woman dressed as a giant "deuces." The televote wasn't too keen. Both Hovi Star's "Made of Stars" (2016) and Kobi Marimi's "Home" (2019) apply for Israel. They're mostly known for sending songs inspired by their diverse local cultures and immigrant populations, with a particular emphasis on sounds inspired by Eastern European and Mediterranean music. These two songs were both classically Eurovision-esque power ballads meant to sound more like what you'd hear from a Western European country. Neither did particularly well. For a more successful example, 1998's "Diva" by Dana International was a hi-NRG dance number performed by an openly transgender singer. It wound up earning Israel their third victory. Sonically, Portugal's 2021 entry "Love is on My Side" by the Black Mamba isn't too far afield from their usual entries. What sets it apart is that it's the only Portuguese entry (so far) to be performed entirely in English, as the majority of their entries are entirely or mostly in Portuguese. Also applies to Spain's 2016 entry "Say Yay!" by Barei (also their only entry entirely in English) and France's 2008 entry "Divine" by Sebastien Tellier (mostly in English, save for a few lines in French to appease the broadcaster). Applicable at the time for two 2015 entries - Israel's "Golden Boy" by Nadav Guedj and Serbia's "Beauty Never Lies" by Bojana Stamenov - but both have since sent other entries in English. On the flip side, there are also several countries for whom the odd one out is a song entirely in their native language, which applies to Sevak Khanagyan's "Qami" (Armenia 2018)note Inga and Anush's "Jan Jan" (2009) is partially in Armenian but "Qami" is their only entry to date entirely in Armenian., Naviband's "Story of My Life" (Belarus 2017)note They almost had two other songs in native languages, but VAL's Belarusian-language hopeful "Da vidna" couldn't compete after the 2020 contest was canceled, and Galasy ZMesta's Russian-language "Za nauchu tebya" was disqualified from competing in the 2021 contest for containing political content., Kabat's "Mala dama" (Czech Republic 2007)note There were a few lines in Czech in their 2021 entry "Omaga" by Benny Cristo, Fomins and Kleins' "Dziesma par laimi" (Latvia 2004), and Go_A's "Shum" (Ukraine 2021)note A few other Ukrainian entries have been partially in Ukrainian, but "Shum" was the first entry entirely in the language. That distinction would've gone to "Solovey," also by Go_A, but it never competed as the 2020 contest was canceled. The original oddball entry would be Sweden's 1965 contribution, "Absent Friend," performed by opera singer Ingvar Wixell. It was the first Eurovision entry performed entirely in a non-native language, in this case English (although Austria's 1963 entry was also partially in English), leading to the establishment of the native-language rule that would last from 1966-1972 and again from 1977-1998. On that note, it made two entries from 1977 stand out: since both Germany and Belgium selected their entrants before the native-language rule was brought back, they were allowed to perform in English, thereby making their respective entries - "Telegram" by Silver Convention and "A Million in One, Two, Three" by Dream Express - the only two entries between 1977 and 1998 not performed in a country's native language. The first example for France would be 1992's "Monté la rivie" by Kali, which was the first French entry to not be performed entirely in French (a lot of it was in Antillean Creole, as Kali hails from the French overseas territory of Martinique). They would go on to send entries in Corsican (Amaury Vassilly's "Sognu" from 2011, although - unsurprisingly - Patrick Fiori's "Mama Corsica" from 1993 also features a few lines in Corsican) and Breton (Dan Ar Braz et L'Heritage des Celtes' "Diwanit Bugale" from 1996). For both the language and the contest as a whole, Morocco's 1980 entry "Bitaqat Hob" by Samira Said remains not only the sole Eurovision entry entirely in Arabic but also the only entry Morocco ever sent and the only appearance by an African country at the contest to date. Several editions of the contest have unique quirks that never spread to subsequent editions: The 1980 contest featured an ambassador from each competing country (mostly the countries' national final hosts or commentators) introducing their country's song. Several from the 1996 contest, particularly its rebranding as "Eurosong," its unique relegation system (every country interested in competing could submit an entry, which were then judged by jurors from each country to determine which 22 countries would join hosts Norway - an idea that backfired when one of the relegated countries was frequent participant and major EBU financial contributor Germany), having politicians from each country wish their representatives luck, presenting the songs in a "letterboxed" format before the contest switched to widescreen in 2005, presenting the votes from a virtual "blue room," and the only instance to date of a country's spokesperson appearing onstage to deliver her country's votes (fittingly, Norway's). Most of these novelties would disappear the following year, and it's the only contest since the very first in 1956 to not feature a German entry. Partially tested in 2001 and widely used in 2002, the EBU offered countries the choice of either determining their votes entirely through a televote, entirely through a jury (if they had no feasible way of conducting a televote) or through a 50-50 combination of jury and televotes. This backfired when it appeared the 50-50 countries and all-jury countries were trading votes, which led to the all-televote-unless-it's-impossible system being brought back the following year. The 50-50 system wouldn't return until 2009, and now every country was using it. 2006 was the only year where a country voted that wasn't participating: the dubious circumstances surrounding their national final led to Serbia and Montenegro being forced to withdraw, but seeing as it was shortly before the contest and they still intended to broadcast it, the EBU allowed them to vote in both the semi and the final. |
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Hazbin Hotel utilises full-featured and fluid animation, compared to the usual Limited Animation the company is known for. | |
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British developer The Creative Assembly is primarily known for the Total War Real-Time Strategy games. Naturally, their most successful game was Alien: Isolation, a licensed, First-Person Shooter Survival Horror based on the franchise of the same name. | |
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Buck Owens: By 1969, Owens had already displayed a lot of non-country influences in his music, but that year he released two singles that were much more rock than country: "Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass", which featured fuzztone guitar and harpsichord (!) as lead instruments, and a live cover of "Johnny B. Goode" that would've put most garage bands to shame. He was a big enough star that they still managed to become #1 country hits, but he received some backlash from longtime fans for those two records, plus a bluegrass/gospel cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water," due to a pledge he signed several years earlier stating he would never record a song he didn't consider a country song. Owens defended his choice of music, noting that he said he would not record in a pop-country vein, not record rockabilly or bluegrass, which he considered forms of country music. That stated, from about the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, in part due to massive grief over the death of his best friend Don Rich in a tragic accident in 1974, an apathetic Owens began recording pop-country. While the music itself isn't bad, it also did not represent Owens at his best, something he later admitted. It wasn't until the late 1980s, when he had a brief comeback with Dwight Yoakam on "Streets of Bakersfield", that he began to record in his classic styles and made vintage Buck Owens music. |
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Most Pat Benatar albums are album-oriented rock and roll... except True Love, which is jump blues. | |
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Attention Please by Boris is a dance-rock album that sounds nothing like their usual metal/hardcore/noise oriented albums. | |
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Alien Swarm is a FreeWare top down shooter. | |
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Although it was recorded as a joke, Anal Cunt's Picnic Of Love is a complete inversion of their trademark style: instead of short grindcore songs with Black Comedy lyrics and song titles, it consists of 2-3 minute acoustic ballads sung in falsetto, with titles like "I'd Love To Have Your Daughter's Hand In Marriage". | |
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Out of the Manga Time Kirara pantheon, Izumo Ito's The Demon Girl Next Door is notable for being a more serialized story (albeit one that still has many of Kirara's trademark tropes all over it) and rather dark, which is shocking given the traditionally laid-back, adorable Slice of Life manga Kirara is best known for. | |
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Insomniac Games is renowned for their light-hearted, colorful, and cartoony platformer franchises, (Spyro the Dragon and Ratchet & Clank) so when the studio's gritty, darker, more realistic first-person shooter series Resistance is juxtaposed against their previous work, it can be pretty jarring at first. | |
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Strange Magic is an animated kid's movie loosely based on A Midsummer Night's Dream. In this case it was deemed too strange, relegated by Disney to the Touchstone Pictures label and mostly forgotten about. It's become something of a Cult Classic, however. | |
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Waking Life is a drastic departure from the rest of 20th Century Fox's adult animated productions, as the film completely lacks the lowbrow humor and Dysfunctional Family writing found in their other works, instead being a philosophical Le Film Artistique drama centering on the themes of freewill, the nature of reality, and the meaning of life. It's likely because of these reasons that Fox decided not to credit their 20th Century Animation branch in the film's production. | |
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Artist Christian Zanier's main output is highly erotic adult works and Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics. He also illustrated a couple of LEGO BIONICLE graphic novel stories, featuring bio-mechanical warriors based on children's toys and no women. | |
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Sierra co-founder Roberta Williams crossed this when she created her magnum opus, the gory and violent Phantasmagoria. Prior to Phantasmagoria, she was known for creating the King's Quest, Laura Bow, and Mixed-Up Mother Goose series, all meant for general audiences. | |
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Bully could also count as pretty oddball by Rockstar's standards, given its Lighter and Softer tone compared to the rest of their games. Its Wide-Open Sandbox gameplay and sense of humor, though, were still very much in the Rockstar tradition. | |
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Dota 2 is a Multiplayer Online Battle Arena. | |
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Ryou Minemani usually has an output of dramatic manga, as seen through her works Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku and Boy's Abyss. However, the manga in between them, Hatsukoi Zombie, is the awkward stand-out since it's a played straight romantic comedy. | |
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The Faculty is something in between. On one hand, it's an R-rated sci-fi horror movie inspired by Invasion of the Body Snatchers, but on the other, it's also a teen horror film with satirical undertones inspired by Scream (1996) and The Breakfast Club. On a creative level, it was also the first film he directed that he didn't also write. | |
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Kitten Kaboodle, a hyper-colorful Pengo-like 1988 Arcade Game by Konami starring a Cute Kitten, looks and plays nothing like the Shoot Em Ups and adventure-oriented games the company was well known for at the time. | |
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While Nintendo publishing a third-party title internationally isn't at all strange, a peculiar instance of this is them distributing R-Type — as in the original 1987 game — for North American arcades, with it even being the last arcade title Nintendo would ever release. Unlike other arcade games published by Nintendo, R-Type does not use Nintendo-developed hardware at all. | |
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Unaccompanied Minors is a holiday comedy focusing on a mix of young boys and girls stuck at an airport together. | |
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And prior to his epic film work, he was well known for producing television dramedies, most notably thirtysomething and My So-Called Life. | |
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Portal, while a first person shooter of sorts, is a puzzle game that is mostly non-violent. | |
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He also directed a film adaptation of The Munsters. While his involvement is understandable given his lifelong fandom of the show (his Signature Song "Dragula" is named after Grandpa Munster's coffin dragster), what was a surprise was the fact that it was rated PG and specifically recreated the show's sense of humor, without trying to play it Darker and Edgier or as a deconstruction. The trailer even lampshaded this, opening by listing off some of the violent horror movies Rob had made in the past before jumping right into straightforward comedy. | |
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Stop-motion animator Art Clokey made a name for himself creating children's shows like Davey and Goliath and Gumby. He tried his hands in live-action with the mid-'60s short The Plucky Plumber, and later explored the spirituality of human consciousness in his 1977 avant-garde cartoon Mandala. | |
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His most notable oddball is Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu, a comedy about his daily life with his fiancee's cats. It still has his signature disturbing art style that makes use of all of his horrific trademarks, but here it's Played for Laughs since they're applied to completely innocent and funny moments. | |
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On, the creator of the Grow games and other web games, is mostly known for making games with cute and colorful graphics in Sugar Bowl worlds that are meant to be played by everyone, including and notably children. In 2020, he made his first and currently only R-rated game: Zombie Trapping, which includes zombies and blood and has fewer bright colors than his usual games. It really stands out visually compared to his other games. | |
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The Lords of Salem, while still an R-rated horror film, strays far from his usual grindhouse-inspired style, instead being a grim Religious Horror film about evil witches that emphasizes mood and Surreal Horror instead of graphic violence and whose villains are not Affably Evil. | |
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Stjepan Sejic is most well-known for working as an artist on Witchblade and also his erotic BDSM webcomic Sunstone. He's now working on a Lighter and Softer all-ages Witchblade spin-off called Switch (2015). | |
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Sanrio's only non-animated work was co-producing the 1982 American live-action film Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder. To date, this is the furthest the company has gotten from their signature cute and wholesome fare since it's set during The Vietnam War. | |
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Tango Gameworks' first three games were horror games that, while having moments of levity, were serious in tone (The Evil Within, its sequel, and Ghostwire: Tokyo). The studio's fourth game, Hi-Fi RUSH, is an over-the-top action-Rhythm Game hybrid with a very colorful and cartoony art style to match its more comedic atmosphere. The launch trailer even lampshades the extreme contrast: | |
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Olive, the Other Reindeer is this for Matt Groening. It's his only family-friendly work as opposed to his adult cartoons he's primarily known for. It's also the only one to not use his art style, instead being based on the illustrations of the original book. | |
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Most of the stuff that Aaron Augenblick has worked on, such as Wonder Showzen and Superjail!, are very much not kid-friendly. City Island (2022) appears to be the first kids' show he has worked on. | |
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Metroid serves as this among the company's catalogue of franchises, with the original NES game even being created as the "anti-Mario". The grim and dark nature of the sci-fi franchise contrasts even greater when placed alongside most of the other series that co-creator Yoshio Sakamoto oversees, which are all lighthearted and cartoony series (WarioWare, Rhythm Heaven, and Tomodachi Life). | |
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Stephen Donaldson is famous for writing speculative fiction: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Mordant's Need, The Gap Cycle. He is not at all famous for his series of detective novels entitled The Man Who [did something]. (Interestingly, he's in the habit of writing a new detective story after completing a series of fantasy novels: it seems to be how he winds down.) | |
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Their adaptation of When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace is an oddball for multiple reasons: it was the studio's first light novel adaptation, is adapted wholesale from its source material rather than having an original plot, has an animation and art style that differs greatly from TRIGGER's usual quirks, and is mainly a Slice of Life comedy. The studio wouldn't do another wholesale adaptation until Delicious in Dungeon in 2024. | |
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Dav Pilkey is best known for his humor books, especially Captain Underpants, or otherwise for his books for little kids like Dragon and The Dumb Bunnies. In 1996, he wrote and illustrated God Bless The Gargoyles. | |
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Titan A.E. is a sci-fi film with violence and a soundtrack that contrasts Don Bluth's previous works, all of which swayed more into Disneyesque fantasy (although on the other hand, the film's dark tone isn't completely out of place if you're aware of some of Bluth's earlier movies). | |
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Chicken Little can be considered another example of Disney imitating the output of a competitor, specifically the DreamWorks Animation films of the early 2000s. A CG cartoon with funny animals, a contemporary setting, snarky and sarcastic humor, lots of movie and pop culture references (including a clip of an Indiana Jones movie for no real reason) does sound like something that Dreamworks would've made at the time. Even the promotional materials were a rare example of Disney spoofing other properties, with parodies of their own The Lion King (1994), Men in Black and even The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) that came out at around the same time. | |
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His first feature film, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, has many of his stylistic touches, but is much lighter in tone, with a bright color palette and very little of the macabre humor he's better known for. Other than a Nightmare Sequence and Large Marge, there are no horror elements at all. | |
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Mike Patton is an insanely prolific singer whose lyrics for about half of his discography are screaming and he can adapt to any genre, but his most accessible work is, of all things, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) theme song remix for Shredder's Revenge. | |
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Adult film director Paul Norman directed the horror film Ice Cream Man. | |
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Kimberly Pierce was fond of the gritty indie dramas with a strong social message - Boys Don't Cry and Stop-Loss. Then she goes and directs the 2013 remake of Stephen King's Carrie. | |
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Rick Siggelkow mostly produces shows aimed at preschoolers, mainly based on pre-existing British properties. However, two works of his are aimed at older children: Ace Lightning and Dinosapien. | |
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Mikhail Lermontov’s main male characters are not the best guys to have a romance with. They are selfish, or Yandere, or at best Loved I Not Honor More, or some combination thereof (and if they are actually nice, they generally get killed off). However, he also wrote A Wanderer’s Prayer, a beautifully touching short poem where the narrator is of I Want My Beloved to Be Happy mindset, praying to the Blessed Virgin to help and protect an unnamed “innocent maiden�, including giving her "companions full of care�. | |
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Nickelback has always been associated with, depending on who you ask, the hard rock community since their debut in 1995. So it was a serious shock for many when their eighth studio album, No Fixed Address, was discovered to heavily feature, of all genres, Disco and Electronica. Their signature sound is not entirely absent from the album, however. On their debut album Curb on the other hand they are virtually unrecognizable, as the music has a much heavier and less commercial Grunge/Alternative Rock sound and Chad's vocal style is quite different. | |
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So it came as a shock to just about everybody when he made the lighthearted family comedy Spy Kids in 2001... and then made two back-to-back sequels to it over the next two years. He's since mostly gone back to his more R-rated roots with Sin City, Planet Terror, and Machete, though he does this side-by-side with family films like Shorts and The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl that he makes for his kids. | |
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