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Magnum Opus Dissonance

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Magnum Opus Dissonance	comment	The serious work that you lavish all of your efforts on and have the highest expectations for will not receive nearly as much acclaim or success as the one you just toss out to pay the bills. What happens when a writer or artist deliberately tries to create their Magnum Opus? They slave over it for years, pouring 110% of their heart and soul and energy and sanity into it, and confidently expect it to be huge, monumental, Genre-Busting, and assure them eternal fame and honor... and what is the response? At best, "Meh, it's So Okay, It's Average". At worst, "Wow, this sucks". But what happens when the same artist just writes or creates something for fun or profit or out of contractual obligation with no big plans, hopes or expectations for its success? Heck, they know it's not that good but figure it will at least pay the bills this month. They're so busy working on that inevitably earth-shattering magnum opus, they don't even give this other silly little project much thought. Whoever commissioned it is sure to be disappointed, but it's no big deal; the public won't even notice its existence enough to laugh at its pointlessness anyway. Cue Situational Irony! That book, movie, or painting that the creator couldn't care less about becomes an instant sensation. They're hailed as a genius, worshipped for blessing the world with this wonderful new classic, immortalized in parodies and homages, and earn an eternal place in history for their brilliance and creativity. That masterpiece they had such high hopes for will quickly fade into obscurity, but they will be remembered and celebrated for this little hackwork forever. There are multiple causes behind this. Creators have different expectations and standards they apply to themselves than the audience and critics do; their definition of a Magnum Opus might simply be the one that was the most perfect, smoothest, with the fewest hassles that went into making it. Some of them tend to be The Perfectionist, and where audiences might forgive one or two mistakes or blemishes, the creator can't and will keep striving to achieve that ideal. Often, the author put so much pressure on themselves that it actually damaged the creative process, whereas giving their creativity free-rein produced better results despite them paying less attention. Also, works intended to deliver a deep, profound, important message have a tendency to come across as Anvilicious-esque, while works that are written without such concern end up focusing more on the story itself. This can also be related to One for the Money; One for the Art; after succeeding with a crowd-pleasing work, a lot of creators get to work on their masterpiece, and said work may suffer from Protection from Editors due to a swollen ego or Development Hell due to the creator trying to get it just right. Alternatively, writers are as human as the rest of us and, as individuals, can hold different opinions than their fanbase (or what they think is their fanbase); this includes both expectations of audience experience and perceived aesop importance/acceptance. And their tastes might evolve over time: their latest work is more likely to match what the creator currently prefers, as well as represent their accumulated experience throughout their career, but fans' tastes are much less likely to evolve in the same way as the creator, causing them to cry They Changed It, Now It Sucks! instead. In some cases, however, the author does indeed know better and over time the work of art they are proudest of might become Vindicated by History. All of the above aside, this isn't necessarily as black and white as it sounds. As some of the examples below demonstrate, the opus can, in fact, have its own substantial fanbase and perfectly respectable sales and reviews...but it just ends up Overshadowed by Awesome compared to the other works. Some fans may even agree with the author and prefer the opus to the author's other creations. When the effect is somewhat delayed, see Vindicated by History. For the inverse, see Old Shame. Sub-Trope of Murphy's Law and the Centipede's Dilemma and Sister Trope to Creator Backlash (often a good source thereof, too). Breakout Character is sometimes related when a specific character rather than an entire work becomes far more popular than was ever planned. See also Creator's Favorite Episode, where that choice may potentially result in this. Compare Self-Deprecation, Sweet and Sour Grapes, Springtime for Hitler, It Will Never Catch On, I Am Not Spock, Never Live It Down, and And You Thought It Would Fail. Some examples also drive on the Sunk Cost Fallacy as a creator can believe his best work is the work he spent the most time working on. May overlap with My Greatest Failure if the creator takes it hard. Also see Consolation Award for when the work that is considered the best by the public is not the most awarded. Can be the result of You Were Trying Too Hard. Compare Black Sheep Hit, where a work atypical of the creator's style attracts new fans... who often clash with the existing fan base. Often overlaps with One-Hit Wonder.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_10cdd4d6	comment	Referenced in Married to the Sea. "Shakespeare got to get paid, son."
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_162d4741	comment	In-universe example in Mythic Quest. Poppy spends a year working on Hera which she thinks is going to be the next epic game. She shows it to some coders who tell her the game is graphically brilliant, technically perfect and utterly bug-free. There's just one problem: it's simply not fun to play. Meanwhile, Playpen, a little puzzle game thrown together from unused data which Poppy herself calls "a piece of shit" ends up being addictive to anyone who plays it.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_16e1deec	comment	Speaking of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, despite Flair being the wrestler most closely associated with the Big Gold Belt, he has stated that he prefers the old "domed globe" belt over the Big Gold. (He did list the Big Gold as his second favorite title belt, however.)
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Ken Penders considers the "Mobius: 25 Years Later" arc to be his all-time best work, has a story in Development Hell that he claims will make heavy use of it, and has gone on record as saying that if he were to be reinstated on the title, he would declare it the only canon possible future. In fact, he banned another writer from his forum for suggesting that it was just a possible alternate future—not even that it was non-canon, just that it wasn't necessarily the One True Future. Most fans consider it to be one of the comic's biggest low points, as it had a massive amount of buildup making it out to be the fight of a lifetime, but its actual stakes and plotting were borderline nonexistent (a big chunk of its twelve issues is the cast getting ready for a dinner party) and the future versions of characters were just boring dads or housewives with boring Generation Xerox kids. Fan opinion varies on what the actual best part of Penders's years on the title was, but very few people would give the title to M25YL. Penders also considers the "EndGame" arc to be among his greatest works, and the single most important story in the comic, thanks to it setting the stage for the rest of the comic. While it did receive praise when it came out, nowadays many fans generally hate it, due to it using, or flat out inventing, many of the worst cliches associated with Penders's run, the numerous contrivances needed to make the story worknote the main plot of the comic begins when Sonic the Hedgehog is framed for treason and murder, which almost everyone believes despite this being far from the first time Sonic has been framed by an impostor, and the plot hinging around Sally, the comic's female lead, being anticlimactically thrown off a building to her apparent death, which was originally meant to be permanent. Indeed, when Penders declared the story to be the comic's most important, many online began openly mocking him for saying it.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_1adff626	comment	Peanuts specials: Charles M. Schulz and Bill Melendez considered What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! to be their favorite Peanuts special. While it's by no means hated, it never reached the cultural impact as the holiday themed specials. Schulz wanted the derided special It's The Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown to be his Citizen Kane, "but it's not."
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_1afaadc2	comment	Roger from RENT spends the entirety of the show agonizing over creating one last song before he dies of AIDS, never being able to find the right words. When he finally plays it over the dying body of Mimi, it's...kinda bad. His final song is commonly thought of as the worst song in a show full of otherwise outstanding musical numbers.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_2192aeb3	comment	Shouzou Kaga, generally recognized as the creator of Fire Emblem and the director of its first five games, considers his best work with the series to be the Jugdral games: Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776. While the general consensus among the fandom does tend to agree that the Jugdral games are his masterpieces (being the most ambitious, well-plotted, and feature-heavy), his most successful and famous game is Fire Emblem: Mystery of the Emblem, along with the game it has a remake of, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light (otherwise known as "the one with Marth"). Genealogy did rather well for itself and has a strong following, but isn't nearly as iconic or well-known (especially overseas), and Thracia 776 was an Acclaimed Flop due to launching extremely late in the Super Famicom's lifespan.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_22a914c	comment	Silicon Knights' Too Human was the passion project of studio head Denis Dyack, having spent nine years in development across multiple platforms. Originally going to be a Sega Saturn/PlayStation game, it was first shifted to the Nintendo GameCube, and then finally to the Xbox 360 due to its enhanced graphical quality, as Dyack ended the studio's relationship with Nintendo after being disgusted by the Wii's weaker hardware. The result? Mediocre sales and reviews, with Dyack's attempts to lay the blame on other parties resulting in a lawsuit that backfired and lead to the studio's eventual decline. Meanwhile, most fans would agree that Eternal Darkness was their best game.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_24a64afa	comment	While Bad Movie Beatdown episodes tended to get more views then Projector during the time period when both shows were being produced, creator Mathew Buck confirmed after his departure from Channel Awesome that this show was his true passion, and much more the kind of thing he had wanted to do all along.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_261159e9	comment	Oliver & Company (1988) and The Little Mermaid (1989). Oliver & Company was given extensive focus by Disney as a tentpole release, while The Little Mermaid was dismissed by Jeffrey Katzenberg as nothing but a girls' film. However, while Oliver & Company received a polarizing response from critics in spite of its commercial success, The Little Mermaid exceeded it in both profit and acclaim, being hailed as a return to form and signaling the start of the Disney Renaissance.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: The show in general is one of the most famous examples in Western Animation. Matt Groening created the show hastily in the lobby of James L. Brooks' office, after realizing that if he accepted his planned Life in Hell pitch, he'd lose the rights to the series. At the time, Life in Hell was his most notable work, and had been running for around 10 years in newspapers, so it was a logical move. Fast-forward a decade, and The Simpsons would become one of the most successful, beloved, and influencial TV series of all-time. In contrast, Life in Hell is now one of Groening's lesser-known works, with many not being aware that he continued making the newspaper strip until 2012. Groening once made a list of his favorite Simpsons episodes, and choose mostly examples from the first and eighth seasons, while many fans consider the third to seventh seasons to be the show's Golden Age. The first season is considered to be mediocre at best since the show was still searching for its form in those days and fans feel that a few episodes from the first season are too slow, not particularly funny, and uncharacteristic. On both sides of the coin, Groening has mentioned "Homer's Enemy" as being his favorite episode ever, while Al Jean, the current executive producer, has said that "Homer's Enemy" is his least favourite episode. The episode has, at least, a Broken Base between fans who agree it is one of the best and those who think it was the start of the Seasonal Rot due to being too dark and perceived Character Derailment of Homer and many secondary characters. Ken Keeler has said that "The Principal And The Pauper" has been his best work for television, despite doing more-favorably received episodes on The Simpsons and Futurama, with then-showrunners Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein also defending the episode. Matt Groening, Al Jean, Harry Shearer, and a lot of Simpsons fans, however, hate this episode, often listing it as the worst episode in the entire series, and it's widely seen as the point where the show started to experience Seasonal Rot. "Cape Feare" was an episode none of the creators felt very confident about; they couldn't come up with enough material for it and had to pad it out (including giving it a long Couch Gag). It's regarded as one of the funniest episodes of the series, and particular acclaim is lavished on the "Sideshow Bob steps on rakes" sequence, which was originally added solely to pad the runtime. Writer Ian Maxtone-Graham blames himself for the show's downfall, as he admitted in a 1998 interview that he had "The City Of New York vs. Homer Simpson", the last episode to score more than 90% on IMDb. He also wrote four episodes that made IGN's list of the ten best episodes after season 13. "Saddlesore Galactica"note That really weird, really derivative episode from season 11 about the magic elves as horse jockeys has been cited by many fans as the point in which the show stopped being realistic and started slavishly imitating the more surrealist tone of shows like South Park and Family Guy, and is often cited as one of its worst episodes. The DVD commentary, on the other hand, reveals the writers loved making the episode, noting that it was a deliberate, tongue-in-cheek mockery of such shows, and a piss take against The Simpsons itself for recycling old stories and the fans who complain about them (hence the part where the Comic Book Guy points out that the Simpsons taking in a horse as a pet has been done before, with Homer telling him nobody cares what he thinks). Despite "Marge vs. The Monorail" often being considered one of the best episodes of the series, if not the best, Yeardley Smith has been vocal in her dislike of the episode. In a 1995 interview, she heavily criticized it for not fitting in well with the show's then-usual style. While the production team certainly weren't complaining about season 9's "Trash Of The Titans" winning an Emmy, they were taken aback that it was this particular episode that won it, as most of them thought that if any episode from this season was going to win the award, it would have been "Lisa The Skeptic". The episode's writer, Ian Maxtone-Graham, theorized that it won the award because the episode's closing shot left such a powerful impact on the Academy. Happens in-universe in "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore". Richard Dean Anderson arrives at Springfield for a Stargate SG-1 and encounters Patty and Selma, who are diehard fans of MacGyver, and he's left stunned that they're fans of that show, telling them "That show was a paycheck, and nothing more.". They take that very badly, kidnapping him and tying him to a chair, though this ends up a case of Gone Horribly Right for them, as he actually MacGyvers his way out before asking them to make that tougher again and again.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_28ccdd97	comment	Blake and Mortimer: The entire series was considered one by its author, who was trained as an opera singer and really thought it was his true calling.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_29efc2f3	comment	Walt himself intended both Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland to be his joint magnum opus, but neither movie turned a profit during its initial box office release. In the case of Alice, Walt disliked the film even before it flopped due to its Development Hell issues and regarded it as a mistake for the rest of his life, and the Troubled Production of Sleeping Beauty (the reason they were his "joint magnum opus" is because they were both conceived at the same time. However, animation bottlenecks held up work on the film for five years; it didn't reach the cel-painting stage until 1957, four years after the live-action reference footage had been shot and the voice tracks laid down). Both of them have long since been Vindicated by History.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_2baa7b2e	comment	The Killing Joke is one of the most famous stories that Alan Moore wrote in DC continuity, having gotten a film adaptation, sold incredibly well in trade, and regarded as the Joker story by many. Alan Moore, meanwhile, considers it one of the worst books he's written. He judged the overly-dark style to be unfitting for a character meant for wild adventure, the observations on Batman and the Joker shallow and low on Applicability (since it's dealing with two characters who don't act anything like any person ever has), and the blatant use of Collateral Angst something he should have realized was a bad idea from the get-go. In general, Moore doesn't seem to be fond of being regarded as an important Batman creator when he only ever wrote two issues starring him—he considers the other story he wrote, "Mortal Clay", to be much better, despite it being infinitely less well-remembered.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_2d01f8dc	comment	Season 5 of Beavis and Butt-Head is considered a weaker season by fans due to many episodes having meandering plots without resolution. However, it is a favorite of Mike Judge; on the Mike Judge Collection DVD sets, it is by far the season least affected by missing episodes or "director's cut" edits.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_2d90b8d	comment	Steve Gerber evidently considered the 1990-91 Foolkiller limited series his greatest work. However, it seems that he will always be known best for Howard the Duck.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_32a01588	comment	During the early 1940s, Disney released the artistically advanced Pinocchio and Fantasia, then the relatively cheap Dumbo. The first two of those movies flopped at the box office (partially because World War II cut off overseas markets), while Dumbo proved profitable enough to keep Walt Disney Animation Studios afloat. Pinocchio and Fantasia did later become some of Disney's most acclaimed movies, though. Possibly, in Fantasia's case, it was because it was not exactly a broad-appeal film (in the 1940s, classical music was already considered a highbrow subject; the stories built around the pieces were intended to be agreeable to the masses and introduce them to classical music, which had positive effects for "Night on Bald Mountain", "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and "The Rite of Spring").
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_3544ad11	comment	House of Cards (US) was Netflix's breakthrough in their original programming library and the show the company wanted to promote as their equivalent to Breaking Bad or The Sopranos. Plus, Arrested Development's comeback was one of most heavily hyped up returns in TV history and easily the most anticipated arrival on the network. But it was the underdog success of a prison dramedy targeted towards female audiences that would become the cornerstone of the empire — with the only shows of theirs that can compare to it in popularity being an interconnected universe of six comic book shows, and an '80s throwback sci-fi/horror series.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_359b115d	comment	While most viewers of Kamen Rider Zero-One consider the Workplace Competition the low point of the show (if they donâ€™t consider it a Filler Arc), producer Takahito Omori is proud of it, as it allowed the creative team to do things they normally wouldnâ€™t be able to do in a Rider show.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_3651bc0c	comment	After floundering in the 2000s, it's clear they had high hopes The Princess and the Frog would be the start of a Second Disney Renaissance (the first having been The Little Mermaid), releasing it amid a wave of publicity and hype regarding its protagonist Tiana, the first black Disney Princess. The movie did well, but, thanks at least partly to being released in an absolutely brutal winter season (Avatar, Sherlock Holmes, and the Alvin and the Chipmunks sequel were all released around the same time), it didn't do quite as well as Disney had hoped. The next two Disney Princess films, Tangled and Frozen on the other hand, while not disliked, each spent a long time in Development Hell and dealt with heavy Executive Meddlingnote The reason they aren't called Rapunzel and The Snow Queen is due to the perception that a fairy-tale title cut the mass appeal. Despite that, they each did infinitely better at the box office and got the praise that Frog was aiming for. Frozen especially so.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_3dc754a7	comment	The brain-breakingly epic Tamers Forever Series (based on Digimon Tamers) was originally intended to be a mere side project while the author overcame his Writer's Block.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_42ffb88e	comment	The SCP Foundation has SCP-3333, which had a tumultuous history. In its original form, it was one of the most popular articles on the site, but the author came to dislike several aspects of its writing, so they had SCP-3333 rewritten to a version they felt was an improvement. Unfortunately, the rewrite was almost universally disliked by the community, after which the author was forced to admit that people enjoyed the original version they hated more than the new version they felt better about, and reverted the article back to its original form. (The author expounded on their thought process in this essay.)
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_48ed41c8	comment	In the early 1990s, Pocahontas was in production at Walt Disney Pictures, and everyone involved was convinced that this would be the great landmark animated feature of the revitalized Disney. By comparison, The Lion King was simply a filler project to tide things over for 1994. But The Lion King became the mega-smash hit that would prove to be the financial pinnacle of Disney's Renaissance, while Pocahontas in 1995 became more of a letdown that signaled the decline of the company's success.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_4aa0bd11	comment	William Higinbotham, an American physicist, retooled his analog computer's oscilloscope program to run a very low-tech tennis game all the way back in 1958 (called Tennis for Two), creating the very first electronic game to have a video display (the first "video-game"). He stated before his death that he regrets being known for inventing the video game because he would have liked to be known for his work on nuclear nonproliferation.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_5755b96a	comment	Rich Burlew originally started The Order of the Stick as a small, fun side project to draw traffic to his website, which was mostly dedicated to game design articles. However, it quickly eclipsed his other writing and became the main feature of the website.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_5b72f209	comment	The Echo Project is responsible, for, well, Echo, and is most invested in its 'verse, including the prequal The Smoke Room and sequel Arches. However, Adastra (2018) is by far their most popular product, and notorious for a Troubled Production in regards to its following installments. Critics and staff alike tend to prefer the former, with some in the dev team even going as far as claiming that Adastra doesn't really represent the project's ambitions.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_5d5e1651	comment	Krunkidile, the maker of Team Service Announcement, claims the series has become less fun for him to make and also doesn't think highly of his most viewed video One Step Ahead. His favorite of his videos is CARTOON DOG HAT, which is just the same clip over and over again.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_6a4c8f1b	comment	The One-Punch Man webcomic by ONE was a side hobby when compared to his second work, the actual serialized series Mob Psycho 100. But it became wildly popular and was adapted into a manga with greatly updated artwork by Yusuke Murata and later an anime series. Actually reversed later on, with Mob Psycho 100 also receiving an anime adaptation, and a second season before One-Punch Man; while One Punch Man is still indisputably the more well known of the two, it's viewed as more one-note and comedic compared to Mob Psycho 100, which explores similar themes with more emotional depth.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4 has an in-universe example with a renowned pre-war painter transplanted into a Robo-Brain for immortality. He is responsible for all the prolific cutesy kitten/puppy paintings you see throughout the game... and he hates them and made them under an alias, despite them making him filthy rich.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_6e60e73a	comment	My Little Pony: Friends Forever #14 was self-described as "the most socially and politically conscious pony comic you ever read" within 10 minutes of its release on writer Jeremy Whitley's twitter... who went on to fiercely defend it and blocked the author of a scathing article that pointed out the many problems and complaints of the issue, which was almost universally disliked. Compare and contrast his FIENDship Is Magic issue that featured King Sombra's origin which, despite releasing with much less fanfare, was praised as not only the best of the entire Fiendship series but one of the best issues in the entire IDW comics run.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_7336205a	comment	Molly Holly held two WWE Women's Championships, won and lost the Hardcore title at WrestleMania 18 and earlier managed Randy Savage. Her favorite part of her career? A Romeo and Juliet-style romance angle she did with Spike Dudley. That was Molly's favorite storyline, as well as Spike's. She considers getting her head shaved at WrestleMania XX to be her greatest single moment.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_74e12970	comment	The creators of Balan Wonderworld were strongly against the idea of including prerendered cutscenes, with them being handled by a different branch within Square-Enix who apparently insisted on getting involved with the project. Many people upon playing the game remarked that those prerendered cutscenes were by far the strongest part of the overall product, with the game the creators worked on being lambasted.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_74fb542e	comment	That Mitchell and Webb Look had a sketch where Neil Armstrong has embarked on a new career as a singer-songwriter and his manager tells a prospective interviewer that he will not be taking any questions about walking on the moon.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_753491f7	comment	Discussed in Fantasia, when the host introduces the sequence based on "The Nutcracker Suite", he mentions that Tchaikovsky, the composer, did not consider it his best work, while it is unquestionably the most popular of all his compositions.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_753ebc3e	comment	Dave Meltzer has stated repeatedly he regards rating matches is the least important thing he does as a wrestling journalist, and doesn't understand why others make such a big deal out of it.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_7a7102f5	comment	Grand Theft Auto: Vice City features an In-Universe example on the radio. Claude Maginot stars in the lowbrow sit-com "Just the Five of Us" and the avant-garde play "In The Future, There Will Be Robots". When he's interviewed on K-Chat, he keeps trying to steer the topic towards "Robots" while the airheaded host only wants to discuss his sit-com, and he mentions being prouder of "Robots" while reluctantly admitting it's not doing as well as "Just the Five of Us".
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_7bbd8e45	comment	Henrik Ibsen considered Emperor and Galilean his best work, though it's rarely performed and most people disagree, with other works like A Doll's House being more well-known.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_7be31c26	comment	Kelly Green has deleted some of her funniest The Mansionverse comics over and over again, forcing fans to go out and tell her they love it and want it back every time. Even this failed for a few comics, but fortunately the fans Keep Circulating the Tapes.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_83abcf04	comment	Despite the fan backlash to Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Nintendo themselves have praised the game on occasion, stating that it should be the template for the Paper Mario series going forward. Indeed, the game's influence can be seen in its two successors Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam and Paper Mario: Color Splash. To say the fans disagree is an understatement. Many would rather see the series return to the style of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which is beloved for its story, Ensemble Dark Horse partners and battle style.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_85e5fb6b	comment	Jennie Breeden, author of The Devil's Panties has clearly encountered this trope.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_86814cd2	comment	Series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has stated that Final Fantasy IX is his favorite in the series. Its sales were the worst of the PlayStation era, with Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII selling betternote This can be explained in part by the fact that IX was released very close to the launch of the PlayStation 2 and in another part by the Broken Base with regards to VIII. The fans, on the other hand, are a different story.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_89f4bc45	comment	The Undertaker much prefers his reviled "American Badass" gimmick than the quasi-supernatural "Deadman" that fans love.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_8d5e753b	comment	Asterix co-creator Albert Uderzo considered Asterix in Corsica to be the best entry in the series, and while it's a very popular entry in France, in other countries it's seen as a decent but unexceptional story.note At least some of this is due to Corsica depending rather heavily on regional jokes that a non-French audience would not understand.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_8f36f969	comment	The Loud House showrunner Michael Rubiner has cited the show's April Fools' Day episodes about Luan pranking the family ("April Fools Rules", "Fool's Paradise", "Fool Me Twice", etc.) as among his favorite episodes, with producer Karen Malach agreeing. Conversely, the show's fandom is mixed towards these episodes, mainly because of how Luan is portrayed in all of them.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_90f94684	comment	According to developer interviews, Fire Emblem Engage was intended as a broad-appeal Jumping-On Point that would cause a Newbie Boom similar to Fire Emblem: Awakening, while Fire Emblem: Three Houses was targeting older hardcore fans with its darker, more mature story. Fan reception turned out to be the exact opposite: Three Houses was a massive mainstream success due to its story and characters, while Engage saw more success among die-hard fans due to its high difficulty and references to past entries.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_95cb19dd	comment	Marvel tends to place One More Day in high regard, with editorial (especially Joe Quesada) often defending the story and the decision to separate Peter Parker and Mary Jane, while also actively preventing writers from retconning the event and considering it "untouchable". This is despite J. Michael Straczynski not having made any secret of his dislike for the story and the comic being widely regarded by fans and critics as one of the worst Spider-Man stories ever, if not the worst.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_976efc02	comment	When doing Turkey Day 2018, Mystery Science Theater 3000 creator Joel Hodgson and third series host Jonah Ray both expressed surprise when it turned out that the Netflix revival's second episode, featuring Cry Wilderness, was the fandom's favorite episode as Joel had expected the episode featuring Carnival Magic to be the popular episode.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_986cb669	comment	Among all the films made within Walt's lifetime, it is said that Bambi was his favorite. Though the film is indeed quite acclaimed today, it was a box office failure upon its release (for the same reasons as Pinocchio and Fantasia) and even to this day, his first venture into feature-length animation Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is often considered his most iconic film.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_987ae286	comment	Though financially successful, Cars is usually regarded as one of Pixar's lesser efforts, and seen by most as an unapologetically Merchandise-Driven property of the sort that would be created by a marketing team, with its sequel being the first Pixar film to be considered outright bad. However, John Lasseter claims to have seen the film as a major passion project, being the first film he directed after Toy Story 2, and reflecting a lifelong love he held for cars.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_9b117a52	comment	Charles M. Schulz and Bill Melendez considered What a Nightmare, Charlie Brown! to be their favorite Peanuts special. While it's by no means hated, it never reached the cultural impact as the holiday themed specials.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_9d4fbe8e	comment	Freeman's Mind began as an experimental "side series". Ross Scott's main project was Civil Protection, which began life a year earlier. Despite a positive response to Freeman's Mind, Ross planned to terminate it two episodes in, because he didn't like the creation process or the restrictive format. However, it was much faster and easier to make, and so he started putting out new episodes to tide people over between Civil Protection episodes. It became his most popular and famous series, and remains so more than a decade later, to the point that it's hindered his work on other projects that he cares about more, like Civil Protection and THE MOVIE.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a495544e	comment	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command was reportedly barred from being referenced in future Pixar or Toy Story media because former studio head John Lasseter reportedly disliked the series immensely for not being what he felt a Buzz Lightyear TV show should have been, and even after Lasseter left the studio, Pixar is still adverse to referencing the series outside of the occasional Mythology Gag. This is in stark contrast to its Cult Classic status among the Pixar fanbase, who have come to appreciate the show more since the show's end and find it a much more entertaining and fun take on Buzz Lightyear and Star Command than Pixar's later attempt to reimagine the iconic Space Ranger.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a609791a	comment	While the Scooby-Doo franchise's most well-regarded installments among the fanbase are those that take the Mystery Inc. gang out of their usual "Scooby-Doo" Hoax comfort zone to face with real monsters or supernatural threats (such as Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated), most of the people who've worked on these various shows and films as producers and showrunners feel that the meddling kids and their mangy mutt are more in their element when the threats they deal with have a grounded explanation or Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane (ala the original show).
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a77c0823	comment	Moore has once said that the only copies of his comics that are in his house are From Hell and Lost Girls. They are likely the works he is proudest of (and that he owns the rights to). Compare that to most fans gravitate to Watchmen or V for Vendetta.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a7bb24f4	comment	The lukewarm reception of Mega Man 10 can be partially attributed to the game maintaining 9's gameplay Reset Button to Mega Man 2, considered by the developers to be the best in the series. The game after that one was considered a relatively poor product by the developers partly due to being rushed (pun not intended), but several fans hold it in higher esteem than 2, in part due to concepts in that game that weren't repeated ad nauseam (unlike the ones introduced in the game following that one).
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a82ca160	comment	For a while, it was customary in PokÃ©mon games for there to be a pair of largely-identical games released initially, and then a third game (or pair of games) released sometime later that added more content and addressed problems in the originals. Gamefreak has been fairly consistent in regarding the "original" paired versions as the "true" versions, which is evident in the various remakes: PokÃ©mon Ruby and Sapphire were remade into Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, and PokÃ©mon Diamond and Pearl were remade into Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl, with both largely ignoring the alterations made in Emerald and Platinum respectively. Fan appraisal, meanwhile, consistently favors the third games as the "true" versions, with Emerald and Platinum being held in much higher regard than Ruby and Sapphire or Diamond and Pearl, and the refusal to utilize aspects of the third games is easily the most common criticism of the remakes.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a88418fd	comment	Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns" is thought by many to be one of his greatest songs, if not the greatest, and it's been covered many times, even by artists who don't usually do show tunes. Sondheim himself, however, considers it to be nothing special, just something he wrote in ten minutes or so. He also doesn't much care for his other most well-known song "I Feel Pretty" from West Side Story, though that has more to do with it not fitting the character or atmosphere of the show, rather than it being a bad or inferior song in general.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_a8e95927	comment	The Brady Bunch Hour is widely regarded as one of the worst TV shows of all time, but it's the only The Brady Bunch project that Robert Reed (actor) liked working on because it was the only one which didn't involve Sherwood Schwartz, whom he didn't get along with (Sid and Marty Krofft Productions co-produced it with Paramount).
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_ac64e9dc	comment	Neil Druckmann considers The Last of Us Part II to be the greatest work he's ever made and, within that game, Abby to be his favorite character. Fans, however, have a much more divisive view of both.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_acb92fd0	comment	Father Ted co-creators Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews have both said that the show's second episode "Entertaining Father Stone" is by far their favorite episode of the series. Among fans, the episode is a lot more divisive — some considering it to be a masterpiece of Cringe Comedy, but others criticizing it for being very slow-paced and relying on the same main joke over and over — with "Hell", "Are You Right There, Father Ted?" and "Kicking Bishop Brennan up the Arse" being the more usual contenders for the show's best episode.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_b0b22636	comment	Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak is not too fond of the shopping format the show had note it lasted until October 1987 for the nighttime syndicated version when it tried an all-cash format (and became a permanent change soon after), but the daytime network version used it until July 1989 after moving from NBC to CBS, mainly because of how it slowed the game down and how much time it took for contestants to pick their prizes to shop for. Many of the fans think otherwise.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_b0fc9724	comment	Saturday Night Live: Many people regard the 1990 "Chippendales Audition" sketch in which host Patrick Swayze and Chris Farley audition as Chippendales dancers with a lively dance-off as one of SNL's best sketches. Though some, including Chris Rock and writer Bob Odenkirk, dislike the sketch, thinking it tapped into insecurities that led to Farley's premature death in 1997. Though fellow writers Al Franken and Robert Smigel have defended the sketch, saying that it works because Swayze's character is genuinely worried that he's being beaten by Farley's character, the judges give a sincere evaluation of the performance, and praise his dancing abilities in of itself.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog frequently calls back to the half-pipe special stage from Sonic the Hedgehog 2 in an attempt to fuel some nostalgia for the longtime fans. Many fans, however, criticize them for their Fake Difficulty, touchy controls, poor implementation of Tails and reliance on Trial-and-Error Gameplay, generally preferring the blue spheres special stage from Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Their implementation in Sonic Heroes didn't help matters and players got sick of seeing them repeated over and over again in every game. They were at least more warmly received in Sonic Rush however due to the stylus control giving players the precision they needed to make the stages challenging but fair and fun. The series has since gotten the memo, as they would stop using the half-pipe template after Sonic the Hedgehog 4 Episode II.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: Co-creator Steve Ditko didn't like to talk about Spider-Man. More precisely, he preferred not to talk about the character and he vowed never to draw the character again after he left Marvel in 1967. He occasionally popped up to complain that Stan Lee takes too much credit for Spidey's creation, but that's the extent to which he discussed Spidey. Ditko preferred to promote his Ayn Rand-inspired comics, but most of the readers who even know about those works have judged them tedious and unreadable. Marvel tends to place One More Day in high regard, with editorial (especially Joe Quesada) often defending the story and the decision to separate Peter Parker and Mary Jane, while also actively preventing writers from retconning the event and considering it "untouchable". This is despite J. Michael Straczynski not having made any secret of his dislike for the story and the comic being widely regarded by fans and critics as one of the worst Spider-Man stories ever, if not the worst.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_b6c9037f	comment	Jonny Sims of The Magnus Archives is surprised at how popular the Season 3 premiere episode "A Guest For Mr. Spider" became. Simms considers it to be one of the less inspired episodes of the story, referring to it as "horror on easy mode." Nonetheless, he's quite flattered at the attention it's gotten.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_c0d295c4	comment	In Team Fortress 2, Hydro was one of the maps Valve worked hardest on. Go through it some time and look for the developer commentary; they spent a long time designing it and created a new game mode for it - Territory Control. When they included it in the original six maps, it... went nowhere. Turns out a series of very small maps, plus control points, meant that every match was either two minutes long or two hours long, not to mention how utterly confusing the layout is for anyone who hasn't dedicated hours upon hours to learn it. It was (and still is) very common for the defending team to lose a round within 45 seconds because none of them can find the point they need to defend. The map has been all but abandoned ever since; when Jerma985 did a basic search of total TF2 servers available, he counted over 1200 servers and only two Hydro ones, each of which had only three people on them. The only reason most players still go to Hydro is to go there for a short time to get the World Traveler Achievement.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_c0ed3f7a	comment	Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird don't really care for the bumbling henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) cartoon that put their creation on the map, as they were new characters made for that adaptation purely to sell toys. They tend to be some of the most popular characters in the series among fans. Word of God is that Expies Tokka and Rahzar from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze were created for it rather than having Bebop and Rocksteady being used as per Eastman & Laird's request (partially because of the legal clearances required to use them), and why Bebop and Rocksteady were absent from most works between Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), much to the disappointment of fans who grew attached to them.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_c4a22754	comment	Episode 10 of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series (the one with Panik, Yu-Gi-Oh DMX, "I'm just talkin' 'bout Yugi!") regularly places high on "best episode ever" lists. LittleKuriboh claims that it's not even a good episode.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_c57319b9	comment	Prehistoric Earth: In the retrospective released in July 2020 for the 4th anniversary of the story he and Nathanoraptor wrote together, Drew Luczynski has made it clear that he has largely come to immensely dislike how the story ultimately turned out once the writing for it ended up increasingly in the hands of Nathanoraptor. Specifically, he's made it clear that he believes that the chapters that made up 'Season 1' are the only good parts of the entire story since those are the ones that most closely adhered to his own personal vision of the story. The story's readers and Nathanoraptor have the complete opposite opinion (specifically, they consider the 'phase 1' to be a weak and aimless start, believe the 'second and third seasons' to be the moment the story reached its full potential and found all the 'side characters' arguably more interesting than the 'main protagonist').
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_c9e9858e	comment	George Broussard, the head of 3D Realms and the creator of the Duke Nukem series, spent over a decade working on Duke Nukem Forever in order to ensure that it would be the most groundbreaking title in the series, which lead to multiple engine switches, delays, and very little to show for it. Needless to say, the fact that it not only took down his career and studio but also finally released to poor reviews calling it "outdated and immature" proved otherwise.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_ccd1ec22	comment	The Thief and the Cobbler was the 30-year labor of love of Richard Williams, better known for Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Sadly, the copious Executive Meddling that the project received caused him to disown the film until the last few years of his life, giving his seal of approval to The Recobbled Cut.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_cda078d3	comment	Bugsnax: Another In-Universe example. Wiggle Wigglebottom's only hit was "Do The Wiggle", a song she wrote in a sleep-deprived, caffeine-fueled haze after arriving late to the studio, and which she admits to not even remembering writing (and even at the time she had no idea where she got the banjo for the background track). Her trip to Bugsnax Island was in part to seek new inspiration, but also to try to get over her bitterness about no-one else caring about the material she cared about.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d25ddfc	comment	The Black Cauldron (1985) was Disney's most expensive film at the time and was hyped up by the company as being their biggest and most revolutionary film since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Meanwhile, The Great Mouse Detective (1986), which was in production around the same time, was treated as a much smaller project and was relegated to the sidelines for most of its production. However, despite the internal hype and a huge marketing campaign, The Black Cauldron would become infamous for nearly killing Disney's animation department due to its poor critical reception and disastrous box office performance, while The Great Mouse Detective would go on to become a modest commercial and critical success, saving Disney Animation and paving the way for the Disney Renaissance a few years later.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d46cc708	comment	Danny Antonucci has stated that the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode "If It Smells Like An Ed" is his favorite episode. Said episode is one of the most divisive, with many fans feeling that it was one of the few instances where the Eds didn't deserve the punishment they got.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d4cad0e2	comment	Arcane Kids, the developers of a freeware game called Zineth, and an as-yet unreleased game called Perfect Stride (initially announced in 2013), had also made a lot of joke games. One of them was a Bubsy fangame called Bubsy 3D: Bubsy Visits the James Turrell Retrospective. It became their most popular game within a few days, and while Zineth videos linger around the 5000-10,000 views, many videos of the Bubsy fangame have hundreds of thousands of views. History repeated itself with Sonic Dreams Collection, which became a massive hit with Let's Players thanks to its weird, creepy atmosphere and satire of the Sonic fandom.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d4fe015f	comment	An episode of QI brought up C.B. Fry, an ancestor of Stephen Fry's and a successful turn of the century British sportsman. He represented England in football and cricket, equalled the world long-jump record in 1893, and reportedly was offered — and refused — the throne of Albania following World War I. He could also jump onto a mantlepiece backwards without losing his balance. Much to Stephen Fry's growing irritation, that was the only thing that anyone on the panel for that episode wanted to talk about. This does give pause for wonder as to what he expected, however, seeing as the panel was composed largely of comedians and aside from the mantel-jumping, C.B's other cited achievements, remarkable though they may have been, weren't exactly the stuff of potential hilarity.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d5f03f8d	comment	After Worms 3D got a mixed critical reaction but sold fairly well, Team17 poured a lot of time, effort and money into making sure that the next main-series entry, Worms 4: Mayhem would correct all the faults of its prequel and be the best Worms experience ever, while having a smaller team work on a portable entry called Worms: Open Warfare, which was a throwback to the earlier 2D Worms games for portable systems, as neither the Nintendo DS nor PlayStation Portable was powerful enough to feasibly handle a 3D Worms game. As it turned out, however, Worms 4 got only slightly better reviews than 3D and flopped massively sales-wise, coming within an inch of being the Creator Killer for Team17... who were dragged back from the brink by unexpectedly strong sales of Open Warfare. Afterward, Team17 refocused themselves exclusively on 2D (and 2.5D) Worms games and, save for a Compilation Rerelease of 3D and 4, have made it very clear that under no circumstances will they ever make another 3D entry.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d96a827b	comment	Tony Schiavone is best known to wrestling fans as the voice of WCW, but Tony himself has stated that his one-year stint as a commentator in WWF from April 1989 to April 1990 was more enjoyable for him and he wishes that he'd have stayed longer.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Implied In-Universe—in "Free Hat," Steven Spielberg's home is decorated with posters of his least popular movies. Out-of-universe, "Not Without My Anus" is the only episode from the first three seasons that Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't ashamed of, and like it for being "something weird and different." It was an April Fools' Day joke interrupting a two-part episode (and this, after a season break), which infuriated fans at the time. Stone admits that this makes him like it more. While the episode is nowhere near as hated today, there's still some debate over whether the prank was funny.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_da1208fe	comment	He considers the "Musical Trilogy" (Moulin Rouge!, The Phantom of the Opera, and Les MisÃ©rables (2012), with The Wall later on), to be among his favorite reviews, The first of the bunch was what convinced him to do Demo Reel, as he thought it had turned out so well that it proved he didn't need to rely on the Critic. Fan reception of them is a lot more negative, with most regarding them as overproduced, unfunny, and shallow (especially the last one).
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_dd8335c5	comment	Parodied in an I Think You Should Leave With Tim Robinson sketch: Santa Claus tries starring in a violent Heroic Bloodshed movie, and is angered when an interviewer tries discussing his career as a gift-giver instead.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e2aa3bec	comment	Dead Island: In-Universe, Sam B wanted to be a political, socially conscious rapper and considered his political material to be his life's work. Realizing that the only song he ever wrote that anyone wanted to hear more than once was a Horrorcore track he wrote as an elaborate joke for a Halloween party called "Who Do You Voodoo, Bitch?!" made him very bitter. The only reason he's on the island of Banoi prior to the zombie outbreak is to do yet another show of that very song.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e31a4abd	comment	Megatokyo originally started out as a way for Fred to improve his writing and drawing skills before starting on his main project Warmth. Despite Fred stating multiple times that Warmth is not abandoned and he plans to continue it in the future, Megatokyo is clearly the one that has attracted massive fan attention.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e3c4fe80	comment	This is part of why RPG World has No Ending - the artist grew frustrated that the photo-comic "real world" sections weren't regarded as well as the drawn sections and stormed off the Internet. He would eventually return to give it a proper ending and the character reappeared in his cartoon show, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e3ce3877	comment	Ric Flair The trilogy of matches that Flair had with Ricky Steamboat in 1989 for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship are considered one of the best series of matches in history, with The Wrestling Observer Newsletter giving all three matches five stars. But according to his autobiography, Flair felt that his earlier matches with Steamboat at various house shows in the 1970s were better than that. Speaking of the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, despite Flair being the wrestler most closely associated with the Big Gold Belt, he has stated that he prefers the old "domed globe" belt over the Big Gold. (He did list the Big Gold as his second favorite title belt, however.)
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e4a82515	comment	Ryan Sohmer made a name for himself with the... divisive Least I Could Do. Then, he decided to do a little side project lovingly spoofing two things he enjoyed: World of Warcraft and Dungeons & Dragons. With a more likable protagonist, a cool supporting cast, a good Myth Arc, some Growing the Beard and a certain Heroic Comedic Sociopath warlock, Looking for Group grew to vastly eclipse Least I Could Do in popularity and acclaim. Sohmer himself began to eventually view LFG as his magnum opus, as well.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_e5feb1e	comment	Ace Attorney creator Shu Takumi considers Turnabout Big Top, the third case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney â€“ Justice For All, his first or second favorite case in the series. Fans disagree, with many Western players in particular considering it the worst case in the series.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_ea2f4ce2	comment	The Runaway Guys have frequently cited their favorite projects are things like the Rayman and LittleBigPlanet LPs due to having more fun with them, but most fans gloss over those projects.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The series has an In-Universe example with Brian Griffin. His labor-of-love novel, Faster than the Speed of Love, becomes a massive bomb due to its being an incredibly trite Cliché Storm that unintentionally rips off the Iron Eagle series. After he trashes schlocky self-help books and says anyone could make one, Stewie challenges him to do so, so he throws together Wish It, Want It, Do It, which becomes a smash hit — until Bill Maher, Arianna Huffington, and Dana Gould criticize Brian and all self-help authors for peddling crap to naÃ¯ve readers. Another In-Universe example: in "Brian Wallows and Peter's Swallows", Brian is forced to care for a cranky shut-in after a DUI arrest, later telling her to drop dead after taking so much abuse from her. After watching a documentary on TV about how she was a famous singer who quit the business after fans wanted to hear her more well-known radio jingles rather than the operas she really wanted to perform, Brian stops her suicide attempt after telling her how much he loved her operas, which kickstarts their new-found friendship.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_edb4e494	comment	Most marks claim Mick Foley's best match to be his 1998 Hell in a Cell against The Undertaker. However, the man himself would vouch for either his 1996 match against Shawn Michaels or his 2004 bout with Randy Orton. This may be due to the fact that Foley has no memory of the Undertaker match due to all the blunt trauma he suffered in it. 'Taker himself doesn't like talking about the match, as he'd legitimately thought he'd killed Foley after one of the big bumps. Vince McMahon himself hated the match.note As the years go by this match is creeping ever closer to the Condemned by History pile thanks to the negative effect it's had on wrestling as a whole. Kevin Nash said that a big part of the business died right there "Because we took a work and turned it into a stunt", meaning it goes against the whole point of wrestling - to make things look dangerous but actually be safe instead of doing things that actually are dangerous and getting seriously injured. Jim Cornette agreed (and the fact that he's agreeing with Nash on anything says something), saying he can't think of a match that did more long-term damage to wrestling than that one thanks to basically every wrestler that's come along since trying to have their own "Foley moment".
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f04b4111	comment	Yoshio Sakamoto, series producer and co-creator of the Metroid franchise, directed Metroid: Other M so it would have the best story in the series and make protagonist Samus Aran a truly developed, rounded and sympathetic character. He was deeply hands-on with many facets of its production and, upon its release, considered it the best game he had ever made. However, Metroid fans are far more likely to give that title to the game he directed sixteen years prior, Super Metroid, which is still seen as one of the greatest entries in the Metroidvania genre. Meanwhile, Other M is widely viewed as the worst entry in the series, and the sheer vitriol that Western fans had toward it convinced Sakamoto to step away from the series for a few years.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f1a38c03	comment	Suske en Wiske creator Willy Vandersteen considered Robert en Bertrand to be his best work. This comic strip series never reached the same popularity Suske en Wiske did and was discontinued quickly after Vandersteen's death, while Suske en Wiske just keeps on publishing new stories.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f31ef35a	comment	Takashi Hashiguchi considers Saijou no Meii his most important work, having created it in an attempt to get young people more involved in the notoriously conservative Japanese medical establishment, but the world will always know him as the Yakitate!! Japan guy.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f4857d3	comment	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai has an In-Universe example as part of the Back Story of Lon Berk, the Demon World's Ultimate Blacksmith. While working for Demon King Vearn he created a number of novel magic weapons, as well as the Staff of Edacity - a simple upgraded version of the common Somatic Staff (a weapon for mages which converts the wielder's Mana into physical attack power). Due to Vearn's immense mana, in his hands the Staff of Edacity becomes the most powerful weapon in existence; Vearn is so pleased by it that he outright tells Lon Berk to retire as a smith, offering to make him his top general instead. Lon Berk is honoured by the offer, but so deeply unsatisfied at the Staff being his greatest achievement that he instead leaves Vearn's service to continue honing his skills. After multiple decades of trying and failing to create a weapon superior to the Staff (now widely known as "Lon Berk's masterpiece"), he gradually loses all passion for his craft; by the time the protagonists meet him he's been reduced to a jaded alcoholic who makes a living by selling sloppily-crafted weapons to humans.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f8eaad5b	comment	Schulz wanted the derided special It's The Girl in the Red Truck, Charlie Brown to be his Citizen Kane, "but it's not."
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f90f1b9f	comment	In 2006, while working on the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers Fan Fic series that became The Midnightverse, Midnight Man expected the three-act novel Lost And Found to become his magnum opus. What he got the most praise for, however, was First Date and Last Date whose combined length would still remain below novel size, comparing it with award-winning fics (the Dates were nominated, but never won anything), in one case even seeing Last Date on par with the legendary Graphic Novel Of Mice and Mayhem from the same fandom. Even Midnight had to reconsider by 2008 when Diamonds In The Desert (that wasn't even planned yet when he wrote Lost And Found) neared its completion and slowly clocking in at more than twice Lost And Found's size, also since it's his only fanfic that ever won Golden Acorn Awards (one in 2007 and 2008 each).
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_f9910506	comment	The Games We Play, a 379 page drama, while far from being an unnoticed piece of work, was promptly out-viewed by the author's later fic — a one-shot of the philosophical ramblings of Pinkie Pie watching paint dry, something the author wasted little time pointing out in a blog post.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_fa85cc4f	comment	He would eventually return to give it a proper ending and the character reappeared in his cartoon show, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes.
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Magnum Opus Dissonance / int_fe1b5414	comment	Actually reversed later on, with Mob Psycho 100 also receiving an anime adaptation, and a second season before One-Punch Man; while One Punch Man is still indisputably the more well known of the two, it's viewed as more one-note and comedic compared to Mob Psycho 100, which explores similar themes with more emotional depth.
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