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Mis-blamed	comment	Fans sometimes blame the wrong people, and thus misblame somebody. Comes in multiple varieties: Garbage In, Garbage Out There are actual weaknesses in the original work, which were faithfully translated in an adaptation. For example, you see an anime or manga with great action sequences and an interesting premise, punctuated by bizarre scenes or lines of dialogue, which you assume are changes by the translators, that cheapen said premise, provide a jarring tone, or even make the plot nonsense. You assume it's fallen victim to a serious Macekre. So you import the DVD, maybe get a region 2 player if you live outside the region, and put it in... Surprise! It's not a Macekre after all; what you thought was caused by overzealous translators was just a weakness in the original work. And yet, the fans have misblamed the translators, and they're not going to stop any time soon. It's less common for audiences nowadays who have access to the original material beforehand, and especially less common now with the rise of VPNs and other services. Production Lead Time Works take time to create, with professional works often taking years and having hard deadlines to complete by. Thus there's many times the blame is for things implemented before what it's being accused of, the unforeseeable events that caused it to become controversial, or they'd found out about the audience backlash. By the time they realize or are in a position to address the issues, so much of the work is set in stone that they couldn't feasibly fix it even if they wanted to. Most Visible Target Writers and those working the grindmill of day-to-day creative production are just trying to do their best making a good show/movie/comic book. Unfortunately, the demands of the executives to try and make it more popular become a kink in the creative flow. For example, a new story arc emerges that turns the characters inside out, and the fans respond with bile and hatred. Upon exiting said story arc, everything returns to the status quo. Odds are, such major changes are demanded as a method to shake up the series and blindsides you because it was shoehorned into a narrative the writers already had planned out. Similarly, often the actors will take heat for being "terrible actors" and "ruining the performance" when the real problem lies in the script they were handed and the director telling them what to do. An actor can only do so much with what they're given, and their choices are often limited to going wild with it or trying their damnedest to give a good performance: neither option is particularly likely to work barring luck or an extremely charismatic actor as it's not like an actor can just up and say "this is bad, I'm going to change it!" unless they have a ton of sway and push or creative control on the project. "The Creator Is GOD!" Blaming Executive Meddling when the author did it on purpose, without any executive mandate, perhaps with good cause, perhaps with poor cause. The mere existence of meddling executives often gives the impression that they are tyrants, slave driving the humble writer. But even the glorified writers are prone to mistakes and their own issues, which is chronicled with Author Tract, Author Appeal, Creator Breakdown and other tropes. For example, your favorite character is subject to Flanderization and you assume that the executives demanded the supposedly "flatter" personality. But the writer's blog reveals that the change was made because it made writing for the character easier and allowed for more story possibilities. Fan Dumb Poisoning Its Own Well The ultimate difficulties of the Fan Dumb, laying down false information and establishing opinion as fact. The information is then spread across the Internet and only information from the source can correct it. This is an example of when the fan dumb just doesn't fact check. They blame someone who worked on it for an error when they actually didn't even do that much behind it. A very common form of this is when people blame a company that worked on something that was subject to Hype Backlash, when in reality, the blamed company was merely a financial backer or they didn't have any involvement whatsoever and merely published it. This is often the underlying cause behind all the other types and we here at TV Tropes are not immune to it either. Another small set of cases that might be related are mistranslations. Some fans might accidentally translate something the wrong way and accept it as fact. (See: Spice Up the Subtitles) This may also be the result of rumors. "Single Person" Fallacy They believe somehow one individual is responsible for the totality of a problem or mistake that cripples a production. Or the entire production as a whole. A common name for this particular fallacy variant is the "Quarterback Syndrome", so called due to the tendency to blame the quarterback for bad plays in a game of American football. Take any given movie or television series. There happens to be an episode or scene that is just bad. The costuming is ridiculous, the acting is stiff, the dialogue is clichÃ©d, the direction is uninspired and even the lighting looks bad. Yet why is the director/showrunner blamed for it all? Well, each of those things listed are handled by a whole individual team who specialize in that field. The director has a lot of control, but if one of those elements goes sour it isn't just the director/showrunner's fault, and sometimes the director/showrunner is unable to do anything about it due to executive meddling, time/budget constraints, or some other impairment. A similar fallacy that applies to Video Games is the "There are no Developers, only Publishers" Fallacy. Despite all the company logos that show when people load up a game, they only seem to see the one of the big company and tend to assume it was all their doing. Even when their input is limited to monetary support and maybe localization. To further confound this, sometimes the #1 targets for this fallacy (Nintendo, Square Enix, Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Activision) are companies that actually do develop and publish games. There are some rumors that Japanese developers are actually glad in knowing they'll receive no credit for their work, because they'll also receive none of the criticism. This is often a result of a phenomenon called "Credits Negligence". Admit it. You yourself don't watch most credits in movies, shows, games, etc. Unless, that is, they do stuff like add in animation sequences, bloopers, small epilogues, or there's something else at the end. And even then, it's not likely you paid attention to them. Sometimes, they even scroll too fast for you to read them exactly (this happens on Television shows a lot, because they have to fit it all within a timeslot, so many times they only show the major credits and omit a lot). But nevertheless, you sometimes would actually be quite surprised at what one person's role really was in the work if you took the time to read the credits. Most haters typically won't do this, especially for games (this leads to why the "Single Person" Fallacy is often accepted as "fact" and "creditable"). All of that said, many would say that blaming the director for an artistic demerit in a film is completely justified. After all, the director's job is overseeing all artistic decisions, so if he or she lets another person's mistake slip by unchecked, there is some culpability. Hence the popular industry ideology, "When you're the director, everything is your fault" (this is pretty much the same phenomenon wherein the director is also credited for every good thing as well). The problem in these cases is when people fail to acknowledge that the director isn't the only one to blame. Even we are susceptible to this. Both in this page and other pages on the wiki, you will see us blame a "mysterious executive" for all of a show's problems. Misblame can be exacerbated when someone willingly takes blame for something not their fault. Among professionals, this can happen for lots of reasons: The director of a film, or other "auteur", may take blame because they agree with the above belief that "When you're the director, everything is your fault." Even if the problem wasn't fixable or wasn't under their control. Someone may take blame, because casting blame on another person (even truthfully) may mean never working with that person again, or never working again, period. Someone may tactfully take blame because they don't want to air dirty laundry. It's very easy to get accused of being hard to work with and it's easier to take your whipping and move on. Someone may take blame out of a genuine desire to protect another person, especially someone who is more easily replaceable than the big names. Compare Beam Me Up, Scotty! for misquotes. Compare and contrast Creator Worship, Creator Backlash, and The Scapegoat. See also God Never Said That, for a specific species of well-poisoning. Compare Cowboy BeBop at His Computer for when it is done in the media. See also Spice Up the Subtitles, which is a frequent case of this trope. This is a fan reaction trope, as such real life examples are impossible by definition. The In-Universe-equivalent of this trope is Misplaced Retribution.
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Mis-blamed / int_11788bea	comment	Kevin Nash claims he didn't book the Starrcade 1998 finish of Scott Hall tasering Goldberg, nor the Fingerpoke Of Doom eight days laternote As he later said in a shoot interview about the Fingerpoke, "Why the hell would I book myself to do that? I look like the biggest douchebag of all!" Then again, Nash has a tendency to troll smart fans during interviews, and has actually said he did book it in other interviews, so take anything he says with a grain of salt. Nash became a WCW booker around this time but he claims he knows this for a fact because he still has his pay stubs from WCW and he got paid more once he started booking. He's offered to show them to prove his point.
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Mis-blamed / int_11b7db91	comment	Heck, several Adventure Time and Regular Show fans blamed her for ending the shows, when in fact, the respective creators of both shows—-Pendleton Ward and J.G. Quintel—-decided to end their shows with Seasons 9 and 8, respectively.
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Mis-blamed / int_1305c32	comment	Additionally, Bruce Kalish was NOT responsible for the excessive explosions during his and the rest of Disney's run on the franchise. That was actually done by Koichi Sakamotonote This is disputed and since been disproven in subsequent interviews with Sakamoto, who, in fact, has worked on the series with Saban, and even does work on Japanese shows (you can see more than a few "explosions" in the Sakamoto-directed Kamen Rider Fourze, especially the final episode). But Kalish was the executive producer, and thus, everything was his fault. Fans may also be willing to give Sakamoto more leeway because aside from the explosions, his style of fight direction is generally held in high regard. While Bruce Kalish has passed the buck to Koichi Sakamoto on multiple occasions as Sakamoto does use similar effects work in series he directs (see: Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger on top of the above Fourze example), the problem with such blame for many fans is Sakamoto was not the main or stunt director nor involved in choreographing scenes during Kalishâ€™s run (SPD, Mystic force, Overdrive, Jungle Fury). He hadnâ€™t done so for Power Rangers since the end of Wild Force. And during the bulk of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive's production (where many cite Kalishplosions being at their absolute worst), Sakamoto was busy in Japan doing second unit directorial work and stunt choreography for Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Power Rangers Jungle Fury's source material), meaning he was not present or able to perform or direct the original effects work for Overdrive due to the much more demanding production schedule for Sentai. His work on Gekiranger in turn lead to his primary directorial work with Toei later on for Fourze and Kyoryuger, alongside Kamen Rider W, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, and the Ultra series over with Tsuburaya productions; none of these latter cases featuring egregious overused explosions which a scene then lingers on or repeats footage of; which is one of the more prevalent criticisms of the Kalishplosion, and such was otherwise absent from his work or nowhere near the egregious degree before this period. So generally fans have given Sakamoto the benefit of the doubt over this; as his while his effect-work does use a lot of explosions, his style of fight direction remains in known for itâ€™s fast, Dynamic and effective pace while not removing coherence or detracting from the narrative staging of a scene. Most of which is lacking or absent in what fans refer to as Kalishplosions. As the problem with Kalishplosions is not just the explosions, but how they are framed and utilized with respect to a scene and the story. Mark Harris replaced Sakamoto as stunt director at the beginning of Power Rangers Ninja Storm. As what fans refer to as Kalishplosions began to appear prominently in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, and such appeared in his later work, itâ€™s likely he is the true culprit in this argument. Tellingly, Harris returned as stunt director for the Neo-Saban era, and the Kalishsplosions still continue in that era, albeit they're a lot less noticeable due to being filmed and edited differently — which has just brought the argument full-circle as to whether or not Kalish was the person ordering the explosions to be showcased much more during his era.
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Mis-blamed / int_13349140	comment	Speaking of Ian, there has been a growing number of people who blame him for everything someone doesn't like about the later Archie Sonic run, as well as the IDW series. While he's certainly not completely innocent of all writing decisions, such as Eggman's characterization in the IDW series, he also shares head writing duties of the IDW series with Evan Stanley, who herself has had her share of people misblaming her. It's worth mentioning that Ian, Evan and others mentioned that Sega's desires for the book ultimately override anything the writers might want. It's also worth noting that they still gave their approval to what's been published so far. This doesn't mean the writers are completely innocent, but neither is Sega.
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Mis-blamed / int_15d17004	comment	Sherlock Holmes (2009) differs greatly from other adaptations, especially the classic, genteel Basil Rathbone or Jeremy Brett interpretations, but one only has to look at the laundry-list of continuity nods on that page to realize that in terms of characterization, Richie's film is closer to the spirit of Doyle's stories — just in a different direction from previous adaptations. In the same vein, a common criticism of the 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is that it "dumbed down" Sherlock Holmes by largely replacing the mystery and complex deductions with elaborate fight scenes and large-scale action set pieces — essentially turning Holmes into "Victorian James Bond". While it's understandable that people would like to see mystery in a movie about Sherlock Holmes, it should be noted that A Game of Shadows was based (albeit very loosely) on elements of the classic Doyle stories "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Empty House" — both of which were essentially Cloak and Dagger adventure stories, with no central mystery at all. Hell, if you've read either of those stories, you'll notice that the screenwriters actually took pains to add a mystery where there weren't any in the source material. A Game of Shadows has the climactic reveal about the true nature of Moriarty's plans and how Holmes managed to figure them out midway through the movie, while "The Final Problem" just has a long Stern Chase across Europe.
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Mis-blamed / int_160c1407	comment	Everyone knows that the bass on Metallica's ...And Justice for All album is almost non-existent. It's been believed pretty much since the album was released that new bassist Jason Newsted's parts were deliberately buried in the mix by the surviving members as a way of hazing Newsted. However, when Newsted appeared on the first 2013 episode of That Metal Show and that was brought up, he admitted that a lot of the blame actually falls on him. He said that he recorded his parts by himself with no input from anyone else, using the same equipment, bass, and engineers that he used in his former band Flotsam and Jetsam. Also, since he wrote the music in F&J and the guitarists took their cues from him, his bass parts on Justice were too much like a rhythm guitar, and ended up clashing both note-wise and sonically with Hetfield's actual rhythm guitar parts. Speaking of Metallica, people who dislike Lulu blame the band for that album...despite the fact that the late Lou Reed was the one in charge of that area—while Reed has released a lot of acclaimed work as a part of the Velvet Underground, he also released Metal Machine Music, so it's entirely possible that Lou made this album to be a troll.
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Mis-blamed / int_182ce539	comment	For the longest time, Triple H was pretty much the lightning rod for the fans' wrath, regardless of whether or not he had anything to do with it. Considering he's married to the then-head of the WWE's creative department (and, if you believe some of the nastier rumors, closer to Vince than his own son Shane), he's always accused to steering the company to always benefit himself. Have a favorite wrestler who isn't being pushed? Triple H is holding them back because he's "threatened." Crappy storyline? Triple H is burying someone he doesn't like. The blame has indeed continued on now that he has become WWE's head of talent - which would make sense given that he is officially the one running WWE's shows now, except that word around the company is that Vince still micromanages and meddles in the shows' affairs. It supposedly got to the point that even Triple H was getting frustrated with Vince's meddling - ironic given his reputation for having been a Professional Butt-Kisser for much of his career. This became subverted with the emergence of NXT, which Trips was allowed to run unfettered. The NXT product and shows under Trips were generally well-liked, with good, solidly booked storylines based around solid, fresh talent. This actually led to fans calling for Vince to retire and turn the main roster over to Triple H to see if he can do the same thing with it... ...until Trip was removed from his NXT role in 2021, with Vince effectively taking over the booking. But then in 2022, Vince was pushed into retirement due to allegations of sexual misconduct with female office staffers, and Trip ended up taking over WWE creative.
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Mis-blamed / int_1929cbce	comment	As soon as it was revealed that Toadsworth was gonna be in The Super Mario Bros. Movie before being cut, people started pointing fingers at Nintendo over the decision. While Nintendo has made similar decisions in the past, this time, Illumination Entertainment were in charge of the final decision to remove him.
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Mis-blamed / int_1bd094cc	comment	It's usually held that the mature content in Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" was the result of John Kricfalusi's Protection from Editors. Given John K's departure from the original series was partly over Nickelodeon's censorship policies, it's an easy assumption to make, but according to Kricfalusi himself, it was forced on him by higher-ups at Spike TV. However, it is hotly disputed whether or not this is the full story, considering his history of Never My Fault.
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Mis-blamed / int_1bdab048	comment	Certain fans of the original Richard Rider version of Nova blame Jeph Loeb for killing him off to replace him with Sam Alexander, who is half-Latino and therefore touted as proof of Rich Dying to Be Replaced. What these accusations usually ignore is that Rider had actually died several years earlier in The Thanos Imperative, well before Sam was created. Jeph Loeb is guilty of a lot of things, but in this case the worst he can be blamed for is not resurrecting Richard. As a perfect example, someone sent hate mail to Brian Michael Bendis' blog accusing him of hating Richard Rider. Bendis simply reiterated the point that Richard was already dead way before he had been hired to write Guardians of the Galaxy, and that the ones who killed him were Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning.
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Mis-blamed / int_1bdcbfc4	comment	Issue #12 of Saga wasn't for sale on the iOS version of digital comics storefront Comixology due to two panels depicting gay oral sex on Prince Robot IV's screen. People originally pinned this on Apple forbidding it, but it turned out that Comixology forbade it based on their interpretation of the Apple rules. Apple then said that they never banned it, and the comic was reinstated.
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Mis-blamed / int_1cf9838c	comment	Some people wrongfully accused Netflix or Bill Nye himself of censoring Bill Nye the Science Guy by editing out a segment about sex chromosomes. The edit was actually made in 2007 when Buena Vista decided to sell 31 of the episodes on iTunes, and cut out many segments they couldn't get the music or talent rights to. The actress in that segment couldn't be found, so it was cut.
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Mis-blamed / int_1d9853f9	comment	A funny case of this with Artemis Fowl: the infamous scene where Mulch unhinges his jaw and starts eating dirt so fast that it starts flying out of his buttcrack was largely reported as a sign that the film was a mess, and often got brought up in the context of Adaptation Decay. While there was a lot of controversial-at-best changes made to the source material, the scene is entirely accurate to how Artemis Fowl-verse dwarves were described in the books. It does strike one as a bit odd that this, of all things, was something they felt they needed to keep.
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Mis-blamed / int_1ed5c0a9	comment	When Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was first released to middling reviews, the film was considered poorly written with Rowling being the one blamed for its confusing nature and overstuffed plot. However, due to the release of an extended cut on the Blu-Ray with about an extra fourteen minutes that is considered a massive improvement and fixed most of said issues, these days the film is more likely to be considered poorly edited above all else. Those whoâ€™ve seen the extended cut by and large consider the bones of the story fine but chipped away at by overzealous editing that took away key context and exposition to meet an arbitrary, studio imposed run time of 2 hours and 15 minutes. Itâ€™s believed that roughly thirty scenes were either cut or significant watered down to meet runtime. The film, much like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (which had a whole half hour edited out in the roughly six months between the filmâ€™s completion and release), was made under Kevin Tsjuiharaâ€™s leadership at WB and chopped up against the creatorsâ€™ vision at the last minute to suit his whims. Tsjuihara was known to have a dislike of longer movies because he believed they could be shown fewer times throughout the day and fewer showings meant less money. Unlike most examples on this page, it doesnâ€™t seem like entire subplots were cut but rather the cuts came in the form of small bits of exposition and character development that added up. Whatâ€™s widely considered to be the most baffling cut is an extended version of Newt and Dumbledoreâ€™s conversation which explained both why Dumbledore sent Newt to New York in the first place and why Grindelwald was obsessed with finding an obscurial in only 40 seconds. Credence and Naginiâ€™s subplot in particular stands out as benefiting from having more time dedicated to it. The extended version isnâ€™t considered a masterpiece by any means and is still overly edited but its parts do form a cohesive whole taking the blame away from Rowling and putting it mostly on WB but to a lesser extent the editing team and director David Yates as well.
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Mis-blamed / int_1efbad7	comment	And yet, out of everyone, no one in the band's history has received more vitriol and blame from the fanbase than Ray Wilson, the replacement singer on ...Calling All Stations.... In truth, Mike and Tony were the ones who wrote most of the album, all Ray did was do what he was asked to do.
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Mis-blamed / int_1f818da5	comment	Since he's the face of the website, Doug Walker often gets the brunt of criticism for Channel Awesome's mistreatment of its producers. Most of the executive decisions and abusive behavior came from Mike Michaud and, to a lesser extent, Rob Walker, who hold the majority stake in the website and dictate most business decisions. Some ex-producers do criticize Doug's lack of interference, however.
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Mis-blamed / int_21938c93	comment	Similarly, when Avengers: Age of Ultron came out, detractors accused Whedon of deliberately ignoring events from previous movies (particularly Captain America: The Winter Soldier). In reality, Whedon had been required to write the script for Age in isolation, to prevent the possibility of his movie spoiling the major twists of the other movies.
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Mis-blamed / int_23d67c89	comment	While the The Hobbit trilogy didn't get the worst reviews, some fans have blamed Peter Jackson for many of the more controversial aspects of the film from the sloppy editing to the decision to turn what was supposed to be duology into a trilogy. In actuality, many of these decisions were mandated by New Line Cinema against Jackson's wishes. The actors Graham McTavish and Evangeline Lilly have confirmed that theatrical cut for the third film isn't what Jackson intended and that the extended cuts of all three films are closer to his original intention.
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Mis-blamed / int_24c8b6c8	comment	M. Night Shyamalan, already an easy target, ended up getting the brunt of the criticism for After Earth, even though by all accounts it was really Will Smith's brainchild, who essentially had complete creative control over the film. Shyamalan acted as little more than the cinematographer/director-for-hire.
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Mis-blamed / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons has a serious case of Type 5: Fans who dislike the newer seasons generally say it's all the fault of the showrunner at the time: Mike Scully for Seasons 9-12, and Al Jean for Season 13 and onwards. While Scully and Jean aren't innocent, to be sure, they aren't 100% guilty either. The showrunner isn't personally involved with every aspect of the show: The writing staff comes up with plot ideas and first drafts of episodes, while the showrunner selects which episodes get made and leads script revisions. The showrunner also isn't all-powerful: the senior production staff can and do interfere with writing and plot ideas. Scully inherited a show that was starting to go downhill in quality: Season 8 was the beginning of the end, with many senior writers and producers heading for the exits, co-showrunners Oakley and Weinstein operated on the assumption that The Simpsons would soon be over note Fox wasn't threatening to cancel the show at the time, but 8 years is a long run for a show like The Simpsons, regardless of quality, and senior staff, Groening included, were dropping hints about the show ending because they wanted the series to go out on a high note., leading them to experiment with new art and plot formats that led to a drop in quality and lack of direction for the show. The hardcore Scully Hatedom says he did so much damage that the show couldn't be salvaged when he stepped down as showrunner in mid-2001, but that ignores the changes Al Jean implemented on the show: of the disliked elements from Scully's time as showrunner, many were scrapped immediately while many more disappeared over time - very few of the complaints about episodes in Seasons 9-12 can be applied to seasons since then, and vice-versa. Since he became showrunner in Season 9, Scully gets blamed for that season's "The Principal and the Pauper", widely seen to be one of the worst Simpsons episodes ever, if not the worst. However, Scully was never involved in it. It was a holdover from Season 8, when Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein were showrunners, Steven Dean Moore was the director, and Ken Keeler was the writer. Al Jean also inherited a mostly new writing staff, presided over the retirements of the show's last original writers a few seasons into his time as showrunner, and took over at a time when the series was falling apart, due to both its age and the Denser and Wackier elements introduced during Scully's tenure. 8 seasons was a long time, and 12 was positively record breaking. For obvious reasons, Jean's detractors also ignore his time as showrunner in the third and fourth seasons, generally regarded as two of the series' best. The voice actors have also run out of steam with recent seasons: Hank Azaria (Moe, Chief Wiggum, Apu) has voiced one-off characters since the show's beginning and admitted in an interview that while he would try to do something new for each of them back in the 1980s and 1990s, he ran out of ideas around Season 10 (August 1998 to May 1999) and can now pull this off only a few times a season, sometimes less. Matt Groening gets next to none of the blame for the show's decline, but he probably deserves more: Some of the big complaints about the last 15 or so seasons are Flanderization, blunt political commentary, and the show increasingly resembling South Park and Family Guy. Incidentally, these are also some of the main complaints about the Un-Canceled seasons of Futurama, which has little in common with modern-day Simpsons apart from having Groening at the helm.
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Mis-blamed / int_26b883be	comment	Anyone who dislikes Nightmare Beach (or, Welcome to Spring Break) can be pretty much counted on to consider it a low point in the distinguished career of Eurocult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi, which isn't helped by the fact that the credited director, Harry Kirkpatrick, was long believed to be an Anglicized alias of Lenzi (which happens to have not been all that uncommon in the Eurocult scene, with examples including Ruggero Deodato becoming Roger Rockefeller or Roger Franklin, Bruno Mattei becoming Vincent Dawn, Claudio Fragasso becoming Clyde Anderson, Ennio Morricone becoming Leo Nichols or Dan Savio, Gian Maria VolontÃ¨ becoming John Wells, and, most infamously, Sergio Leone becoming Bob Robertson). In truth, while Lenzi was originally to direct the film, a dispute led to him taking a reduced role in favor of Kirkpatrick, who had written the screenplay for the film.
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Mis-blamed / int_278df229	comment	Season 2 of Superjail! received a case of type 5, with Jackson Publick (credited under his actual name, Chris McCulloch ) getting the accusation of "usurping" the show from Christy Karacas, as he was put in charge of being the story-editor and having the final call on scripts. If an episode fell flat, a plot twist was done that a fan didn't like, or if there was less violence, it had to be all on him. In actuality, the season 2 format change was something that Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick had wanted to do in hope of breaking away from being formulaic and getting to explore the characters' stories more. Type 2 and Type 3 also come into play, as while there was some degree of meddling in season 2 note mainly having to have the episode "Hot Chick" revised to remove an implication of rape, Mistress Kilda's death having to be toned down in "Lord Stingray Crash Party", some of the moments cited as being the network screwing the creators over (perceived Flanderization, revelations of the Twins and Alice's backstories) were actually things that the creators themselves had decided on (to obviously mixed reception). There is a lesser extent of type 5 with some of the new writers for season 2 (John J. Miller, Joe Croson, Adam Modiano), as none of them had written for the show before and were perceived as being amateurs or not "getting" it. In actuality, while the script is usually the writer's work, they evolve from boardroom pitches between all the writers and outlines by Karacas, the story editor revising the script over time, and there also being uncredited rewrites. In short, an episode that doesn't perform well doesn't always fall on one person. To contrast with the above situation, the writers and story editor in season 3 seemed to receive less blaming and outrage, perhaps as things had cooled down.
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Mis-blamed / int_27dedc29	comment	Many Doug fans claim that "Disney ruined Doug" when they bought the rights to the show and un-canceled it. In fact, buying Doug (and slapping their name on it) was the only thing they did to the show. Creator Jim Jinkens made all the changes himself.
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Mis-blamed / int_27f4c7fb	comment	A very common misconception about the film adaptation of Coraline was that Tim Burton directed it, especially when the trailers said "From the creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas". Actually, Henry Selick directed both The Nightmare Before Christmas and Coraline (Burton just produced), and he doesn't always have a similar style like Tim Burton does with at least 60% of his films. (Including stop-motion.) That misconception seemed to be what the marketing was aiming for (probably figuring that implying Burton's involvement would get more people to see it).
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Mis-blamed / int_283f4f74	comment	The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic book series doesn't help matters, since it was based off of the animated series and was probably read more by said complainers. Of course, Eastman and Laird's Mirage Studios didn't produce that book series—it was licensed out to Archie Comics.
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Mis-blamed / int_28508de	comment	People who don't realize there are two English dubs of at least the first three seasons of Winx Club like to slam 4Kids for their horrible "redub" of the series. The "redub" in question was done by a Canadian company and is actually more faithful to the original version than the 4Kids dub is. On a latter note, 4Kids is sometimes blamed for plot holes they did not create. For example, Beta Academy is mentioned in the original Italian dub. Now that Nickelodeon owns the show, they're getting lots of criticism for their "changes" (new music, Layla's name to Aisha, etc.). Some of these people thought 4Kids created Winx Club. The truth: Nickelodeon's undoing many of 4Kids's changes to make a more faithful English dub. Nickelodeon's treatment of the show is infamous, but there's a lot of ambiguity over what was going on behind the scenes. While sending the show to Nick Jr. wasn't unusual for Nick, Rainbow has said that they wanted to retool the show for younger children (due to experimenting with adult-themed spin-offs, like World of Winx and the live-action Netflix series). Rainbow ending their deal with Nickelodeon is often seen as them realizing too late the deal was a bad idea, but Rainbow has said that they had issues affording the California voice actors.
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Mis-blamed / int_2894671c	comment	A frequent complaint from fans is that DC mistreats the Justice League International, and that in-universe, that period in Justice League history is unfairly considered an Audience-Alienating Era. In reality, the perception of the JLI as a blotch on the League's history dates back to the actual series itself, where writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis made constant Self-Deprecating jokes about how the team was poorly regarded by other superheroes. The later reunion series, Formerly Known as the Justice League, even had Batman and Captain Marvel looking back on their time with the JLI as an Old Shame.
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Mis-blamed / int_2baf4941	comment	The same criticisms were leveled at Jaime Reyes, the newest Blue Beetle, several years prior. Some fans complained about Ted Kord (the previous Blue Beetle) supposedly being killed off for the sake of diversity, when in reality, Keith Giffen (considered by most to be Ted's Real Daddy) says it's the exact opposite situation. It had already been decided that Ted would die in the lead-up to Infinite Crisis, and Jaime Reyes was only conceived as a replacement after plans for Ted's death were finalized.
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Mis-blamed / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes was also a victim of extensive Executive Meddling by NBC (not to mention the writer's strike).
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Mis-blamed / int_2d944503	comment	Fans of the original Young Justice comic book attacked the Young Justice (2010) cartoon for excluding Wonder Girl while including most of the other Justice League sidekicks. In reality, Wonder Girl was legally barred from appearing in the first season of the show due to rights issues. These same issues had earlier kept the character from appearing on Teen Titans (2003), and Wonder Woman from appearing in Static Shock, Batman Beyond and Smallville. She eventually appeared in the second season. Fans of Young Justice (2010) and Green Lantern: The Animated Series have since gone on to blame Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go! for the cancellations of their beloved cartoons. Never mind that the creative teams behind the new shows had nothing to do with cancelling the older DC Nation cartoons. And Beware The Batman got cancelled and written off soon after. Many fans blamed Dan DiDio for Wally West's death in the Young Justice season 2 finale (as the character was declared "toxic" in the New 52 and was in Comic-Book Limbo until DC Rebirth), despite the fact that DiDio has nothing to do with DC Animation. Greg Weisman has stated he planned on killing off Wally as far back as Season 1.
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Mis-blamed / int_2e2efbf9	comment	It's even older than that. The original 1982 Back to the Future script featured Marty McFly surviving a nuclear blast in a fridge-time machine, in order to return to the present. This was scrapped because it was too expensive to pull off and they didn't want children climbing into fridges and getting stuck. Spielberg was also executive producer of that film.
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Mis-blamed / int_2ec27115	comment	Likewise, the network's former president Christina Miller is often blamed for the channel focusing on more comedic cartoons rather than airing more action-oriented stuff. Some viewers even accused her of being a Moral Guardian who actively sabotages shows that are even slightly action-based just because they aren't what she thinks the viewing audience wants. In reality, action-based shows were already in decline on the network well before Miller took the helm, with examples including Green Lantern: The Animated Series, ThunderCats (2011), Sym-Bionic Titan and Young Justice (2010), all of which were cancelled in the years prior to Miller's arrival. While Miller has certainly continued the network's trend towards comedy, she cannot be blamed for starting it. Heck, several Adventure Time and Regular Show fans blamed her for ending the shows, when in fact, the respective creators of both shows—-Pendleton Ward and J.G. Quintel—-decided to end their shows with Seasons 9 and 8, respectively.
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Mis-blamed / int_2f97b59	comment	Nickelodeon's treatment of the show is infamous, but there's a lot of ambiguity over what was going on behind the scenes. While sending the show to Nick Jr. wasn't unusual for Nick, Rainbow has said that they wanted to retool the show for younger children (due to experimenting with adult-themed spin-offs, like World of Winx and the live-action Netflix series). Rainbow ending their deal with Nickelodeon is often seen as them realizing too late the deal was a bad idea, but Rainbow has said that they had issues affording the California voice actors.
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Mis-blamed / int_2fc1b0a1	comment	There was an infamous IndieGogo campaign for a sitcom inspired by a Tumblr post about a pair of pansexual and asexual roommates, titled All or Nothing. The campaign raised $6,000, but the product never manifested due to some heavy Troubled Production (since the people behind the project were all teenage novices), leading to massive backlash as no refunds were ever issued. A couple of years later, an unrelated group adapted the concept into a vlog-based webseries, with the same title and basic premise. Unfortunately, many people assumed they were the ones who ran the IndieGogo campaign, leading to comments bashing the webseries for producing something cheap with $6,000 of crowdfunded money (in reality, the webseries was self-funded and never had any sort of crowdfunding, hence the small budget).
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Mis-blamed / int_2fc254ae	comment	After the 2003 live-action version of The Cat in the Hat was released, many filmgoers and even professional critics blamed star Mike Myers for the less than child friendly tone of the film. It was also commonly assumed that he must have rewritten the script and added all the crude jokes himself, because he had screenplay credits on the Wayne's World and Austin Powers films. In actual fact, though, Myers had nothing to do with the screenplay, and wasn't even attached to the film for most of its development phase; he agreed to replace the original star, Tim Allen, as part of a legal settlement with Universal after he broke his contract to star in a Sprockets movie.
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Mis-blamed / int_30b255fb	comment	A number of Dark Age DC fans blame the cancellation of Supergirl's fourth self-named book on Dan Didio and alleged old-school fans and writers who supposedly hated the Linda Danvers version of Supergirl and wanted her out of the way to allow the creation of a new Kara Zor-El. In reality the book was always in hot water due to perpetually dismal sales, and the decision to cancel it was taken long before Kara was reintroduced in The Supergirl from Krypton (2004) because of her less convoluted backstory (and not because of old-school fans).
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Mis-blamed / int_3133ae78	comment	It's commonly claimed, including on this very wiki, that SWAT Kats was cancelled on the direct orders of Ted Turner, who disliked the show's violent content and/or wanted to promote his own pet project Captain Planet and the Planeteers. While Turner did disapprove of cartoon violence in general, his distaste was mostly aimed at Animated Shock Comedy shows like Beavis and Butt-Head rather than action/adventure shows. The actual decision to cancel the show was made well below his level, and seems to have largely happened because the executives in charge believed Turner disliked it.
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Mis-blamed / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: After the season 3 finale, many fans accused Miles and Kerry of killing off Pyrrha solely as one final tragedy in a season that was already divisive due to its massive change in tone and threat level. Thankfully, this died down quickly after it was confirmed by both Monty's widow and Pyrrha's voice actress that Monty himself planned it before the series even began. Miles often gets accused of writing Jaune (who he voices) as a self-insert and giving him an abundance of screen time. A Reddit AMA revealed that Monty and Kerry were behind most of Jaune's prominence and that Miles actually became averse to writing scenes with Jaune because of the accusations. Eddy Rivas is often misblamed for the supposed queerbaiting that happened between Clover and Qrow, but little actual dialogue suggests a romantic bond between the two. Most of the blame for this can be laid at the social media team deliberately pushing the idea of the ship, several animators deliberately adding flirtatious content like Clover's wink when the script didn't call for it, and the voice actors of Qrow and Clover for underselling that they were meant to be more antagonistic. After the Volume 9 Blu-Ray was released, and the commentary revealed that a number of segments had been cut due to time and money, the fanbase quickly came to the conclusion that this was because part of the budget intended for the season was used for Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen. After this belief became widespread, Kerry Shawcross would explain that the movies had nothing to do with Volume 9's budget, as the show is funded internally by Rooster Teeth, while the crossover movies were funded by Warner Bros. Animation. RWBY was simply one of the countless productions across the entertainment industry to affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mis-blamed / int_35e88987	comment	When Vincent J. McMahon's proposed deal about bringing the WWF back into the National Wrestling Alliance failed, people were quick to lay the blame on the feet of perennial NWA World Heavyweight Champion Lou Thesz and spread rumors about exactly how he killed the deal. After kayfabe was effectively dead and he had retired, Bruno Sammartino came to Thesz's defense, revealing that the deal required Sammartino to become World Heavyweight Champion and saying he didn't want the belt unless he'd be given Sundays off so he could see his family.
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Mis-blamed / int_37564412	comment	After the infamous Pickle and Peanut was renewed for a second season, fans got angry at it because of the cancellation of Wander over Yonder. The truth is that P&P itself was all but ignored by the network during its run, being placed in a year-long hiatus after its first season, and like several other Disney XD cartoons (including Wander itself), ended after its second season (albeit on its own terms with a definite finale).
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Mis-blamed / int_39ad96a6	comment	One thing Russo is blamed for that he shouldn't is the "Mae Young gives birth to a hand" skit, which took place in early 2000, months after he left the WWF. He often also gets blamed for unmasking Rey Mysterio Jr. in WCW, which happened months before he left the WWF.
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Mis-blamed / int_3c5675b	comment	The infamous (and maligned) scene in which Black Panther (a human with low-grade Super Serum-induced powers) seemingly incapacitates the Silver Surfer (near-godlike wielder of the Power Cosmic) with just a simple armlock is frequently attributed to Reginald Hudlin, when in reality the scene was actually written by the above-mentioned McDuffie in an issue of Fantastic Four.
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Mis-blamed / int_44127c7c	comment	The American Power Rangers is often accused of adding unnecessary silly humour. Ironic, since the humour in Power Rangers is usually far less prevalent and far less silly than in the original Super Sentai. The best way to explain the differences between Power Rangers and Super Sentai is that Rangers stays in the middle whereas Sentai goes to BOTH extremes. Yes, Rangers is less silly and does cut out a lot of the over-the-top cuteness of the Japanese version, but because the Moral Guardians seem to be less strict in Japan, Sentai is also allowed to show blood, use guns, and have characters actually die. Oddly enough, each show is Lighter and Softer and Darker and Edgier than the other at the same time. Additionally, Bruce Kalish was NOT responsible for the excessive explosions during his and the rest of Disney's run on the franchise. That was actually done by Koichi Sakamotonote This is disputed and since been disproven in subsequent interviews with Sakamoto, who, in fact, has worked on the series with Saban, and even does work on Japanese shows (you can see more than a few "explosions" in the Sakamoto-directed Kamen Rider Fourze, especially the final episode). But Kalish was the executive producer, and thus, everything was his fault. Fans may also be willing to give Sakamoto more leeway because aside from the explosions, his style of fight direction is generally held in high regard. While Bruce Kalish has passed the buck to Koichi Sakamoto on multiple occasions as Sakamoto does use similar effects work in series he directs (see: Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger on top of the above Fourze example), the problem with such blame for many fans is Sakamoto was not the main or stunt director nor involved in choreographing scenes during Kalishâ€™s run (SPD, Mystic force, Overdrive, Jungle Fury). He hadnâ€™t done so for Power Rangers since the end of Wild Force. And during the bulk of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive's production (where many cite Kalishplosions being at their absolute worst), Sakamoto was busy in Japan doing second unit directorial work and stunt choreography for Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Power Rangers Jungle Fury's source material), meaning he was not present or able to perform or direct the original effects work for Overdrive due to the much more demanding production schedule for Sentai. His work on Gekiranger in turn lead to his primary directorial work with Toei later on for Fourze and Kyoryuger, alongside Kamen Rider W, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, and the Ultra series over with Tsuburaya productions; none of these latter cases featuring egregious overused explosions which a scene then lingers on or repeats footage of; which is one of the more prevalent criticisms of the Kalishplosion, and such was otherwise absent from his work or nowhere near the egregious degree before this period. So generally fans have given Sakamoto the benefit of the doubt over this; as his while his effect-work does use a lot of explosions, his style of fight direction remains in known for itâ€™s fast, Dynamic and effective pace while not removing coherence or detracting from the narrative staging of a scene. Most of which is lacking or absent in what fans refer to as Kalishplosions. As the problem with Kalishplosions is not just the explosions, but how they are framed and utilized with respect to a scene and the story. Mark Harris replaced Sakamoto as stunt director at the beginning of Power Rangers Ninja Storm. As what fans refer to as Kalishplosions began to appear prominently in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, and such appeared in his later work, itâ€™s likely he is the true culprit in this argument. Tellingly, Harris returned as stunt director for the Neo-Saban era, and the Kalishsplosions still continue in that era, albeit they're a lot less noticeable due to being filmed and edited differently — which has just brought the argument full-circle as to whether or not Kalish was the person ordering the explosions to be showcased much more during his era. The fact that the original Black and Yellow Rangers were played by an African-American man and an Asian-American woman has received a lot of criticism due to perceived Unfortunate Implications. It should be noted, however, that the actress originally cast as the Yellow Ranger was actually Hispanic (the original pilot ended up airing some years later), and the Vietnamese-American Thuy Trang was only brought in as a replacement when said actress dropped out of the show. As for the Black Ranger, Walter Jones himself has since explained that he was actually originally cast as the Blue Ranger, but the producers wanted him to switch roles so that the original Sentai footage would line up with the idea that Zack was Jason/Red's best friend; Jones was asked if he was okay with the change, and said "Yes" because he thought the suit was cooler. Jones also said that the staff did realize the Unfortunate Implications of the casting, but not until several episodes had already been completed, at which point it was too late to do anything about it. The promotional video entitled Galaxy Rangers (which can be seen on the DVD boxset) done by Saban in 1992 as a proof of concept for Bandai (which is believed by some to be made up from footage from an attempt at making Bioman with Zyuranger footage being swapped in.) Zack (played by actor Miquel Nunez Jr.) is classified as green (on screen at least) and Trini is played by a white actress. Haim Saban often gets blamed or credited (at least with the Saban eras) with anything Power Rangers despite not having much of a hand with it since 1995 and only cutting the checks nowadays. His producing partner, Shuki Levy was apparently far more guilty of Executive Meddling, and even then it only got really out of hand with Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie. Similarly, fans tend to blame Saban (the company, not the man) for the terrible live-action Sailor Moon adaptation that never made it further than a brief promo video, to the point of nicknaming it Saban Moon. This is presumably because Saban is the best-known (and for many fans, the only known) company that produces and/or adapts Tokusatsu for Western audiences; the promo was made by Toon Makers, a subsidiary of Toei, the company that owned the rights to Sailor Moon at the time.
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Mis-blamed / int_455e3038	comment	Similar to the Futurama example, many King of the Hill fans seem to think MacFarlane was responsible for that show's cancellation, as it was initially replaced by The Cleveland Show. Never mind that King was on the chopping block for 2-3 years prior due to sagging ratings and erratic scheduling, being renewed only due to fan outcry, the show enjoyed a thirteen-year run that many shorter-lived animated shows would kill for, and several other shows have rotated in and out of its old timeslot. A lot of King of the Hill fans (even on this very wiki) blame Lucky for Luanne becoming more ditzy over the years. Luanne Took a Level in Dumbass years before Lucky showed up.
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Mis-blamed / int_45a29545	comment	Several The Secret Saturdays fans blamed the show's creator Jay Stephens for the crossover episode "TGIS". However, no one worked on The Secret Saturdays (much less Stephens himself) had any involvement in the episode.
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Mis-blamed / int_46518682	comment	HBO has received flack for making changes to Sesame Street, such as firing older cast members and reducing the overall number of characters. However, the network is merely acting as a second home and financial backer for the series, and has no creative input.
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Mis-blamed / int_465ed759	comment	On a similar note, Banks is often blamed for the creative conflicts that led to the departure of Gabriel and Hackett, down to excluding Gabriel from the songwriting for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and passive-aggressively mixing Hackett out of the band's second live album Seconds Out note It was a Deadpan Snarker quip from Banks that Hackett himself has denied ever actually happened. This of course ignores Gabriel's problems with his wife and daughter around the same time (although he did end up writing the lyrics and overall story of the album) and the fact that the Banks/Collins/Rutherford trio had already gelled into the main creative force in the band. In fact, the band started crediting individual writers for each song in order to escape the notion that Gabriel wrote everything.
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Mis-blamed / int_4737c653	comment	Elementary is full of these. First off, despite what some more aggressive Sherlock fans may tell you, Steven Moffat did not invent the idea of a modern Sherlock Holmes adaptation, and the concept had been around for decades (it goes back to the 1940s Universal films with Basil Rathbone, which had Holmes battling Nazi spies). As for the criticism about making Watson Asian, it was not meant to "pander" to minority viewers; the creators are on record saying the part was race-neutral, and Lucy Liu just happened to be the best actress for the job. Some people have even complained about Sherlock's "fake-sounding" accent. Jonny Lee Miller is actually English, he just doesn't sound like Benedict Cumberbatch. The complaint seems to be due to the misconception that all English people have the same accent, despite the fact that there are just as many variations as one would find in American English.
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Mis-blamed / int_47b50df9	comment	Bret Hart gets quite a bit of the misblame as well. Contrary to popular belief, he was booked for another month of TV and house shows following Montreal, as well as having permission from WCW head Eric Bischoff to work the next pay-per-view in order to drop the title and finish up business in the WWF. His refusal to drop the title to Michaels was only after Shawn made it clear he wasn't losing to Bret under any circumstances. Stories of him taking the WWF title belt to WCW are equally ludicrous; the two previous incidents of this happening (one with Ric Flair, and one with Madusa) both ended up in nasty lawsuitsnote Though had Bret not lost the title that night there was nothing preventing Bischoff or someone else telling the world that WCW had just signed the reigning WWF world champion to a contract on Nitro the next night, which would have been just as damaging to the WWF's credibility. This is what Vince was afraid of, and hindsight shows WCW had no plans for the unbeaten WWF champion when he did in fact arrive.
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Mis-blamed / int_47dfc6f	comment	Angry Total Drama fans frequently see Fresh TV and Teletoon as being entirely responsible for many of the unpopular or controversial story decisions made in the seasons following the first. However, Cartoon Network purchased the majority of the rights to the franchise after the massive success of the first season, giving them greater ownership and far more influence over the show and its production than Teletoon, the franchise's channel of origin.
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Mis-blamed / int_493666a1	comment	The belief that King Kong vs. Godzilla was edited for the US release to make King Kong win instead of Godzilla. Like Battle of the Planets, it was indeed heavily Macekred, but this wasn't part of it — the movie was one of the earlier ones, before Godzilla became a hero, which meant Godzilla had to lose (though not die) in every movie. Snopes.com confirms. This claim is so prevalent that even resources discussing the movies have mistakenly portrayed it as true.
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Mis-blamed / int_498a3929	comment	The MPAA have been blamed by many for neutering the gore effects in Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning and Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. While it's true that they did insist on at least a few cuts to each of the films, they're not entirely to blame. With A New Beginning, Paramount actually forced a lot of cuts on the film before it ever reached the MPAA, some due to the sub-par effects, and others due to the executives feeling the kills were tasteless even by the standards of the series. Jason Lives was intentionally a less gory film to begin with, due to director Tom McLoughlin choosing to emphasise character, atmosphere and humor over gore. With Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, however... yeah, that was all on the MPAA.
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Mis-blamed / int_4b790c7a	comment	Many fans and critics blamed the mediocre response to Iron Man 2 on director Jon Favreau. In reality, the film saw copious amounts of Executive Meddling from Marvel Studios, especially with regard to the elements meant to act as set-up for The Avengers. Favreau had such a bad experience working on the film that he refused to return as the director for Iron Man 3.
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Mis-blamed / int_4da4f10d	comment	The hatedom of Work It Out Wombats! believes it was responsible for Elinor Wonders Why getting Screwed by the Network, even though they have nothing to do with each other besides sharing an animation studio. Although Elinor fans thought their show was canned, once season 2 was confirmed to be in production, their claims of Wombats "killing Elinor" became unfounded.
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Mis-blamed / int_4fe631e7	comment	Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane tend to get a lot of flack for not finishing Shadow of Israphel. While Lewis is involved in the creative process, he didn't make the series by himself (which, considering that the whole series began due to other Yogscast members pranking him, should be telling). Add to the fact that the creative team for SOI has largely moved elsewhere and you have a pretty huge case of Artist Disillusionment. Simon has seemingly never been involved in the creative process, only turning up to play whatever storyline gets thrown his and Lewis' way.
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Mis-blamed / int_5013e2bb	comment	Richard Knaak of the World of Warcraft Lore receives some of this. While the man does certainly have weaknesses in his writing style (Mary Sues for instance) he doesn't exactly go around changing the lore as he sees fit. He does discuss things with the rest of the lore team before hand, and he does have to get their approval before he makes any major change. While he is guilty of at least a few sins, changing the lore because he feels like it isn't one of them.
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Mis-blamed / int_5030d3bb	comment	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence was an idea and script created by legendarily cold, clinical director Stanley Kubrick, so when it was picked up after Kubrick's death by his hand-chosen successor, Steven Spielberg, a director notorious for his warm, humanistic and occasionally Narmy disposition, many Kubrick fans immediately wrote it off, and when they saw it, blamed everything they saw was a weakness on Spielberg, but most of the things blamed on Spielberg (specifically the robotic talking teddy bear that is David's accompaniment throughout the film) were present in Kubrick's original script, and in fact may have been why Kubrick gave the project to Spielberg prior to his death, saying it was "closer to his sensibilities". The rather controversial After the End ending was also completely planned by Kubrick and not Spielberg.
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Mis-blamed / int_510974b4	comment	Johnny Test's fundamental destruction of the reputation of Canadian television animation has made it a pretty big source of this, due to the numerous misconceptions its Periphery Hatedom spawned. The show's massive hatedom sometimes use it as proof that all Canadian animation is horrible. What many people forget is that creator Scott Fellows, James Arnold Taylor (Johnny's voice actor), and most of the show's production crew, are Americans. In fact, Warner Bros. Animation produced the early seasons while the later seasons were made in association with both Cartoon Network and Teletoon. Canadian content laws are often used by people to explain why Johnny Test ran for as long as it did despite being widely hated, claiming that because the laws require channels to air a certain amount of natively produced content every day it was basically immune to being taken off air. This gets rather silly when you consider the law has been around for a long time; the real reason for Johnny Test's longevity was simply that its low budget and solid ratings allowed the networks to make profit very easily and thus motivated them to air it as much as possible and continue ordering new seasons. People frequently use the show as proof that Teletoon uses the cheapest and laziest possible production values for all its original productions, despite the fact Teletoon isn't even an animation studio (and doesn't even have an in-house production company for that matter) and is in fact just a network that's involvement generally involves little more than ordering episodes of shows, lending them some funding (although they're not the sole donators to any show's budget), and giving executive notes to the production crew. In fact, NONE of Teletoon's original shows were actually made by them, but rather, they were the creations of numerous animation and television studios across Canada (in the case of Johnny Test, the real creators of the show were Cookie Jar Entertainment); the only reason Teletoon's shows are called "original productions" is because they were originally created for/commissioned by the network.
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Mis-blamed / int_51adb683	comment	The writers of Batman: The Killing Joke tend to get most of the blame for Bruce Wayne and Barbara Gordon's romantic relationship, which was one of the most widely disliked things about the film. Contrary to popular belief, however, the idea didn't originate in the film: they were previously depicted as ex-lovers in the DC Animated Universe, to which the Killing Joke film adaptation was a very deliberate Spiritual Successor. The key difference was that their relationship was only ever referenced in the DCAU: it was first established in Batman Beyond (which is set decades after Batman: The Animated Series) when an aging Barbara reveals that she previously dated Bruce in her youth. Since their relationship wasn't shown in detail (and it was never explicitly stated how old Barbara was when it happened), their age difference wasn't quite as uncomfortable for viewers at the time.
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Mis-blamed / int_53a73ca0	comment	Star Wars: The Clone Wars: There was lots of rage surrounding the new film spinoff of the TV series, mostly about how it was George Lucas's "worst movie yet!" In fact, Lucas's input was more or less limited to suggesting that the show's feature-length pilot episode be distributed theatrically instead of airing on television. Many blame Disney for canceling the series after it bought the Star Wars franchise in favor of Star Wars Rebels. But the rights to The Clone Wars at the time were owned by Cartoon Network, which made for an awkward legal situation. Rebels was actually in the works before the Disney buyout, due to the ratings of The Clone Wars declining (meaning that the show was slowly becoming unprofitable) and the Lucasfilm crew still wanting to do a Star Wars animated show that branched off of The Clone Wars. Due to the turbulent status of the franchise in early 2018, it became increasingly common for many to state that Disney only Un-Canceled The Clone Wars in order to bring an end to the controversies. However, given that most of those controversies were just a few months old, animation (especially as visually appealing as The Clone Wars) takes a long time to make, and the teaser clearly had fully animated segments, it had to have been in the works well before that.
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Mis-blamed / int_562fc19b	comment	The Extended Railway Series: In-Universe example. In "Blandford the Somerset Engine", Blandford is not happy about having to work on The Little Western with Duck and Oliver. When one of the Blisters asks him why he never speaks to him, he tells them about his original home, the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. After it became part of the Western Region of British Rail, he was assured no big changes. Over time however, the line started losing traffic, he found he was sharing sheds with Western Region engines, his brothers started being withdrawn, and then the line was closed down for good on March 7th, 1966. Blandford believed the Western Railway and its engines were behind it all (they'd been trying to gain ownership of the line for some time before then), and doesn't like Duck and Oliver as a result (Duck defends himself by saying he'd never been to Somerset, having been a station pilot at Paddington before coming to Sodor). It isn't until Blandford, while at the works after an accident, hears from Donald and Douglas the whole story about why his line was closed down that he finally comes around to the two Western Engines.
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Mis-blamed / int_5ae078da	comment	A lot of ECW fans blame TNN for what they saw as lower quality shows when it was on that network. Everything on TV was done by Paul Heyman, and though he faced some initial level executive meddling, generally TNN took a "hands-off" approach to the promotion (extending to the promotion and provided budget, the real reason the show got Screwed by the Network)note That and TNN leaving ECW to wither on the vine after they got the rights to Monday Night Raw. Had they cancelled ECW on TNN right then Heyman would have had time to find a new TV network, but TNN wouldn't let them go until Raw actually premiered on TNN a few months later. By that point it was too late to salvage the company. This confusion is not helped by the inclusion of a kayfabe network representative heel whose character attempted to tone down the hardcore style ECW was known for.
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Mis-blamed / int_5b3356f8	comment	The failure of Turning Red to make a profit on box office earnings is blamed on its Critical Dissonance by many people but the film did well where it was released theatrically and was popular on Disney+ to the point of Demand Overload so the actual reason for its apparent flop is more probably the fact that Disney did not release it widely in countries without Disney+ and did not release it domestically outside of awards qualifying runs in select theaters.
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Mis-blamed / int_5c9f8edc	comment	After the Volume 9 Blu-Ray was released, and the commentary revealed that a number of segments had been cut due to time and money, the fanbase quickly came to the conclusion that this was because part of the budget intended for the season was used for Justice League Ã— RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen. After this belief became widespread, Kerry Shawcross would explain that the movies had nothing to do with Volume 9's budget, as the show is funded internally by Rooster Teeth, while the crossover movies were funded by Warner Bros. Animation. RWBY was simply one of the countless productions across the entertainment industry to affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Mis-blamed / int_5cad8158	comment	Arguably Lizzie McGuire qualifies as an inversion of type 1 (not that the show had no flaws, just that it's the successors that had the flaws generally associated with the work) mixed with type 2. It is usually blamed by people (especially on the Internet) for Disney Channel's current batch of low budget Strictly Formula shows with over the top humor, wacky plots, weird premises, and laugh tracks, despite the fact that it really had none of those (Lizzie was supposed to be a normal girl, albeit one with a cartoon avatar, there wasn't a laugh track, and the show didn't look particularly cheap) and wasn't even made by the same production company. This may be because the success of the show really promoted Disney Channel to the forefront in the young female demographic.
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Mis-blamed / int_5f76cba1	comment	Damian's death was blamed on the New 52 reboot and touted by fans as "Yet another example of how the New 52 is ruining DC's characters." In reality, Morrison had planned Damian's death from the beginning, and had set the plan into motion long before Flashpoint was even announced, which is Hilarious in Hindsight given that for the first few years of his creation, there were quite the amount of fans that were indeed wishing for his death...
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Mis-blamed / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic often ends up blaming movies for elements that originated from the works they were based on. Case in point, the purple suit worn by The Phantom, as well as his nickname "The Ghost Who Walks". On that note, Rachel and Malcolm are often blamed for things people don't like about the new Nostalgia Critic episodes, even though they have far less creative control than previously and they've said they just show up and get told what to do.
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Mis-blamed / int_63ce3930	comment	Unlike Death Note, Netflix only licensed the live-action Fullmetal Alchemist and Bleach movies internationally, and had no involvement in their production, which was done by Warner Bros. Japan. Those two films actually had theatrical release in Japan, unlike Death Note.
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Mis-blamed / int_64dd58b2	comment	Itâ€™s pretty widely agreed that Dumbledore is the major character who came off the worst in the process of adapting the books to movies. In particular, a lot of fans dislike the second actor, Michael Gambon. Some of this stems from comparing him with the late Richard Harris, but the rest seems to point towards the infamous "Dumbledore asked calmly" moment. Additionally, established fans seem to have shifted blame on the "asked calmly" scene to the director (who'd never read any of the books), though new fans are always around to dig up the old chestnut. There is also blame to be had on the writing and his backstory having to be condensed out of the movies without much explanation. The middle aged version played by Jude Law in the Fantastic Beasts series is well-loved by fans and is considered to be an all-around better representation of the character despite very limited screen time thus far. This comes from a combination of JK Rowling being the one writing the character this go around and Law seeming to understand the character better than some of the people involved with the original movies.
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Mis-blamed / int_664b5d51	comment	If anything, the blame goes back even further, to their portrayal in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which took the newer, more animalistic look, viking-like armor and dark ship interiors from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and ran with it, having the Klingons growl at each other and behave as pirates, both in attitude and action. So, more so than Hurley, Harve Bennett deserves blame for starting the trend.
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Mis-blamed / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House: When discussing the reasons the show was canceled and Season 3 was shortened to three 44-minute specials, people are usually quick to point to the show's LGBTQ+ representation, particularly due to the former CEO. This ignores the other Disney series with LGBTQ+ representation that were allowed to continue despite it, and creator Dana Terrace stated it was due to being serialized with an older audiences seen as not fitting the "Disney brand"â€”the Disney Channel brand which focused on episodic comedies for young audiences. While a later post Dana made after the 2022 Florida LGBTQ protests suggested homophobia was a factor, there are others to consider. Due to the unfortunate timing of the episode "Through the Looking Glass Ruins", many assumed Amity kissing Luz was what caused Disney to cancel the show. However, due to Production Lead Time the decision was most likely made well before the episode was even scripted. Dana Terrace herself would even confirm that the kiss had no influence on cancellation of the show.
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Mis-blamed / int_69d15cc0	comment	Marvel Cinematic Universe: Many fans and critics blamed the mediocre response to Iron Man 2 on director Jon Favreau. In reality, the film saw copious amounts of Executive Meddling from Marvel Studios, especially with regard to the elements meant to act as set-up for The Avengers. Favreau had such a bad experience working on the film that he refused to return as the director for Iron Man 3. Fans of Agent Coulson were quick to call for the head of Joss Whedon, who is after all known for killing fan-favorites, after The Avengers came out. Apparently, though, this was part of the overall MCU masterplan, and Whedon didn't get much say in it. Similarly, when Avengers: Age of Ultron came out, detractors accused Whedon of deliberately ignoring events from previous movies (particularly Captain America: The Winter Soldier). In reality, Whedon had been required to write the script for Age in isolation, to prevent the possibility of his movie spoiling the major twists of the other movies. Ironically enough, it was eventually revealed to fans that much of the meddling was courtesy not so much of Marvel Studios itself, but of parent company Marvel Entertainment. In fact, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige got so sick of the meddling that he eventually went and convinced Disney (Marvel Entertainment's parent company) to remove Marvel Studios from Marvel Entertainment's control. As related to the above, itâ€™s not Feigeâ€™s fault that it took a decade before the franchise had a film led by someone who wasnâ€™t a White Male Lead. Heâ€™d wanted to make a Black Panther movie in particular for quite some time but was shot down by the people at Marvel because they felt like it wouldnâ€™t sell toys.
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Mis-blamed / int_6a4bddd6	comment	A case of avoiding this very thing being the reason for a writer's departure is Len Kaminski leaving Iron Man. Kaminski, who had a well-received run on the book, revealed that The Crossing, the story that came after his run, was a case of Executive Meddling and after realizing the editorial staff had chosen to ignore his protests, he chose to get the hell out of dodge than have this trope happen to him.
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Mis-blamed / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The "Roving Mauler" Dungeons & Dragons monster gets a lot of "what drug were they on" reactions from its appearance. Said appearance is lifted from the demon Buer◊, who goes all the way back to the 16th century. Really, this just raises the question of what drug were they on in the 16th century? One of the more common beliefs about 3.5 is that the game's notoriously poor balance towards casters was caused by Power Creep from the release of too many handbooks, and people should stick to core books only. In reality, the wide opinion of optimizers is that the least balanced way to play 3.5 is to use only the core books. Nearly all the most broken caster tricks in the game, from polymorphing to scry-and-die to the Candle of Invocation to Natural Spell, are found in the core books - meanwhile, most of the popular non-caster tactics, like Leap Attack or martial adepts, were only introduced in splatbooks. In an all-splat game, the caster's power doesn't really change because they're already broken, while the low-tier classes can actually do stuff.
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Mis-blamed / int_6bc0f10a	comment	When it was eventually released, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) met with a lukewarm response. Fans were quick to blame most of the elements that they disliked on Executive Meddling which butchered Douglas Adams' vision... apparently unaware that most of the more contentious material (such as the increased focus on the romance between Arthur and Trillian and the Humma Kavula subplot) were actually put in there by Adams himself. For that matter, pretty much every adaptation of Hitchhiker's Guide was criticized for differences from the source material and crying "Adaptation Decay", despite the fact that Adams was directly involved with every one of them that was made when he was alive, and intentionally designed each of them to have significant differences from one another.
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Mis-blamed / int_6cb2d709	comment	Wizarding World franchise: Itâ€™s pretty widely agreed that Dumbledore is the major character who came off the worst in the process of adapting the books to movies. In particular, a lot of fans dislike the second actor, Michael Gambon. Some of this stems from comparing him with the late Richard Harris, but the rest seems to point towards the infamous "Dumbledore asked calmly" moment. Additionally, established fans seem to have shifted blame on the "asked calmly" scene to the director (who'd never read any of the books), though new fans are always around to dig up the old chestnut. There is also blame to be had on the writing and his backstory having to be condensed out of the movies without much explanation. The middle aged version played by Jude Law in the Fantastic Beasts series is well-loved by fans and is considered to be an all-around better representation of the character despite very limited screen time thus far. This comes from a combination of JK Rowling being the one writing the character this go around and Law seeming to understand the character better than some of the people involved with the original movies. By now, it's pretty much taken as gospel that Steve Kloves is your average foamy-mouthed delusional Harmonian. The idea that he simply thought Harry and Hermione might end up together isn't actually unfounded, as J. K. Rowling mentioned once that "Steve Kloves who has been the script writer, who is enormously insightful on the series and a very good friend, after he read book seven he said to me, 'You know, I thought something was going to happen between Harry and Hermione, and I didn't know whether I wanted it or not.'" On the other hand, this statement clearly indicates that Kloves did not have an actual preference for Harry/Hermione, he just thought it might happen, and much less that he was actively inserting Harry/Hermione moments into the screenplays even after the ship didn't sail. When Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald was first released to middling reviews, the film was considered poorly written with Rowling being the one blamed for its confusing nature and overstuffed plot. However, due to the release of an extended cut on the Blu-Ray with about an extra fourteen minutes that is considered a massive improvement and fixed most of said issues, these days the film is more likely to be considered poorly edited above all else. Those whoâ€™ve seen the extended cut by and large consider the bones of the story fine but chipped away at by overzealous editing that took away key context and exposition to meet an arbitrary, studio imposed run time of 2 hours and 15 minutes. Itâ€™s believed that roughly thirty scenes were either cut or significant watered down to meet runtime. The film, much like Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (which had a whole half hour edited out in the roughly six months between the filmâ€™s completion and release), was made under Kevin Tsjuiharaâ€™s leadership at WB and chopped up against the creatorsâ€™ vision at the last minute to suit his whims. Tsjuihara was known to have a dislike of longer movies because he believed they could be shown fewer times throughout the day and fewer showings meant less money. Unlike most examples on this page, it doesnâ€™t seem like entire subplots were cut but rather the cuts came in the form of small bits of exposition and character development that added up. Whatâ€™s widely considered to be the most baffling cut is an extended version of Newt and Dumbledoreâ€™s conversation which explained both why Dumbledore sent Newt to New York in the first place and why Grindelwald was obsessed with finding an obscurial in only 40 seconds. Credence and Naginiâ€™s subplot in particular stands out as benefiting from having more time dedicated to it. The extended version isnâ€™t considered a masterpiece by any means and is still overly edited but its parts do form a cohesive whole taking the blame away from Rowling and putting it mostly on WB but to a lesser extent the editing team and director David Yates as well.
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Mis-blamed / int_6d31710b	comment	As CM Punk made sure to mention, some of it belongs on "his idiotic daughter and his doofus son-in-law and the rest of his stupid family. "note Punk's prediction would prove accurate; as of September 2022 the idiotic daughter is now CEO and the doofus son-in-law is the booker. Punk is in AEW, currently under an indefinite suspension for knocking out one of the Young Bucks (who were also suspended, along with Kenny Omega and Ace Steel) after a backstage fight. Christopher Daniels, Brandon Cutler, and Michael Nakazawa were also briefly suspended, but their suspensions were lifted when it came out they were trying to break up the fight. Punk would later be released from the company and eventually return to WWE in 2023.
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Mis-blamed / int_6e54e9d1	comment	If Ring of Hell is to be believed, Triple H was responsible for Stone Cold Steve Austin's 2001 heel turn after WrestleMania X-Seven. According to Austin's autobiography, The Stone Cold Truth, Austin wanted to turn heel to refresh his character.
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Mis-blamed / int_6ec887a3	comment	This wiki seems to have something against Bananarama and/or the song "Venus", acting like they wrote it. Not only did they not write it, they didn't even originally perform it. It was written by Robbie van Leeuwen and originally performed by his band Shocking Blue about 17 or 18 years before the British Girl Group scored a hit with it.
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Mis-blamed / int_6fb3c581	comment	There was a small debacle when fans of the comic The Books of Magic accused J. K. Rowling of ripping it off for her Harry Potter novels. Nobody has confirmed this, and in fact, even Neil Gaiman admitted that neither Rowling or himself were the first people who created a bespectacled young man destined to become a great wizard, or send him to school. But it got worse when a magazine said Gaiman accused Rowling of pinching his idea. Immediately Gaiman defended himself against the person who misblamed him and said, "I did NOT accuse her of that!" He even admits that if anything, they were more inspired by fantasy authors writing Arthurian legends than each other. Terry Pratchett has likewise had to fend off numerous accusations that he'd ripped off J.K. Rowling with Equal Rites, despite the latter having been written in 1987. When he's pointed this out, some fans have turned around and misblamed him for accusing Rowling of stealing his work! The similarities between them mostly amount to this: there is a school for magic users, someone in the book uses a broomstick to fly. Someone is turned partially or entirely into a pig, goats are mentioned a couple times. An accusation also leveled at him for the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (even though the similarities pretty much begin and end with Johnny and Kirsty being similar characters to Harry and Hermione).
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Mis-blamed / int_6ff8b00a	comment	In the Hebrew dub of Dora the Explorer, the Gratuitous Spanish is replaced with Gratuitous English. This caused some controversy - Spanish is the major minority language in the United States, so by that logic, Gratuitous Spanish should have become Gratuitous Arabic instead - overlooking the fact all of Dora's other foreign dubs replaced Spanish with English as well.
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Mis-blamed / int_72262aee	comment	Nickelodeon took a lot of heat for the second half of the third season of Avatar: The Last Airbender taking so long to air that two episode premiered in Canada and another two on DVD. However, this was because production on the finale had been delayed, and Nickelodeon didn't want to air less than half of a season only to have another hiatus right before the end of the series.
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Mis-blamed / int_72abc8e4	comment	Eric Bischoff has said in multiple places (like Ric Flair's podcast and Conrad Thompson's 83 Weeks podcast) that he booked the controversial Starrcade 1997 finish. Bischoff is adamant that Hogan lobbied for the original finish to put Sting over clean because of the year-plus that had been put into the build. But when Sting showed up on the day of the event, he was pale, out of shape and unenthusiastic (Sting was struggling with substance abuse and marital problems unbeknownst to Bischoff at that time and had not wrestled an actual match in over a year), which caused Hogan and Bischoff to doubt Sting's work ethic. Bischoff shortened the match and changed the finish a few hours before showtime. As for the pacing of the count, Nick Patrick said in several interviews (including 83 Weeks) that he was initially told by both Bischoff and Hogan to do a regular count, but Sting later told him to do the fast count. Unsure of what to do, Patrick panicked and did a regular count.
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Mis-blamed / int_72c7235	comment	George Lucas had little to do with the infamous The Star Wars Holiday Special, especially since it's his biggest regret.
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Mis-blamed / int_77011132	comment	Saying Nintendo ran out of ideas and reused music for Kingdom Hearts Re:coded. In no way is Nintendo involved in the Kingdom Hearts franchise outside of advertising it in Nintendo Power. Nintendo is not even the publisher.
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Mis-blamed / int_78db2b3b	comment	Whenever a new adaptation of Gulliver's Travels is made, there's a good chance it will involve the scene in which Gulliver puts out a fire in the Lilliputian palace by urinating on it. As such there will always be a reviewer who claims that this is unnecessary Vulgar Humor and that "Jonathan Swift would be rolling in his grave!", presumably unaware that this exact scene (and more even grosser, cruder stuff) actually happened in the book.
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Mis-blamed / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Jack Schiff got blamed for injecting sci-fi elements into Batman's stories. In truth, it was editorial director Irwin Donenfeld's fault for having sci-fi be put into the DC output. Schiff recognised that aliens, spaceships, and the like had no place in Batman's detective storylines, and in fact, sci-fi is outside his aptitude as an editor. He argued against the management, but eventually gave in to pressure.
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Mis-blamed / int_7c96a245	comment	The fall of extremely popular Diva Mickie James in WWE is this. The "Piggie James" feud with Michelle McCool was followed by James dropping the Women's Title two weeks after winning it at Royal Rumble and her subsequent release led to fans immediately accusing WWE of burying a talented wrestler they thought was too fat in favor of a rail-thin blonde who was dating The Undertaker. In a 2010 interview after her release, James revealed that she didn't have a problem with the angle itself and she was released for causing issues on a tour.
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Mis-blamed / int_7fc57c48	comment	My So-Called Life fans tend to blame the show's one-season run on either a) Screwed by the Network or b) Claire Danes (who was, it's worth pointing out, all of 16) being a prima donna and refusing to sign for a second season. The producer statements have been ambiguous, but the most likely interpretation is that the network didn't offer a renewal until Claire had other commitments that she didn't want to back out of, and the producers threw up their hands rather than try to negotiate.
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Mis-blamed / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings fans who have heard about the deeper aspects of Tolkien's mythology have often accused the Peter Jackson films of either cutting out these elements or not explaining them: for instance, not explaining what Gandalf and Sauron are. The thing is, while the Jackson films did indeed take a lot of liberties, many of these things are not actually explained or brought up in the text of Lord of the Rings, either. For the most part, Tolkien kept much of the broader history of Middle-earth vague, with even the appendices leaving a lot of blank spots, and it was only in The Silmarillion that many of those ideas (such as the very concept of Maiar) were laid down concretely. Some of the more zealous fans have even accused the films of "cutting" ideas that aren't from either story, such as Glorfindel's history or the Blue Wizards, both of which were only conceived of in private essays and musings dating to well after Lord of the Rings was written.
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Mis-blamed / int_81692f99	comment	Many, many fans blame CBS for the culling of the Star Trek fan film community, accusing CBS of being jealous of the production of Prelude to Axanar and appointing the rules so that only they could make Star Trek productions. What many fans love to ignore is that the producers of Axanar were profiting from this and not actually being a non-profit work. CBS had to step in to protect their work and it was the Axanar creators' refusal to back down that lead to the rules being set up.
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Mis-blamed / int_8382c19a	comment	Rebecca Black's "Friday" was an autotuned single produced on a budget of a few thousand bucks and was posted on Youtube. It soon went viral, mostly from people pointing and laughing, metaphorically speaking. A certain imgboard began to troll her, including death threats and posting her school schedule online. Yet when she went on Good Morning America talking about how hurt she was, a lot of people blamed her parents and the video production company, instead of the people doing the actual trolling. (Compare to the tone of Gawker's own earlier posts, which were much less sympathetic.) Also, she apparently doesn't get to complain because the single is selling very well and she's rich now. Also, she is perceived as in it for the money or something or doing this on purpose, but actually she's just the one video that got lucky and had enough YouTube views to get famous. YouTube, and in fact Real Life itself, is full of girls with decent singing voices who want/have record deals and film low budget music videos. The way some people bash the song and her make it obvious they think Black's the one who wrote the song; she just sang it. It was written by two grown-ass men, Clarence Jey and Patrice Wilson, who are record producers, songwriters, and otherwise professionally associated with the music industry. Black was just your average American teenager who, as stated previously, just happened to hit it big (though probably not in the way she wanted). On a general note, it's depressing how many people online think it's okay to harass people just because they're rich and successful (or they perceive them to be) or because they've landed a dream job (even if it turns out to be not so great), especially if they're young like Black.
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Mis-blamed / int_847a1ace	comment	Karen Traviss gets a lot of flak, most notoriously for establishing that the Grand Army Of The Republic constituted a mere three million clones. While this number is ridiculously low for a galactic scale conflict (the Eastern Front in WWII alone had somewhere around 15 million troops), what people missed was that when Lama Su was talking about 'two hundred thousand units' being ready, he was talking about 'units of product' (and individual clones) rather than 'military units'. This was more clearly stated in the then upper-tier canon Attack of the Clones movie novelization, which was released in 2002. Traviss' first published work in Star Wars wasn't released until 2004. Unfortunately, this created a substantial amount of conflict when other authors missed the higher-canon established figures, and did things like give the Separatists an army in the quintillions. The resulting flame wars were not pretty to say the least.
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Mis-blamed / int_85a5a3b9	comment	"Prime killed Animated" is a common complaint of those who preferred the organic traditional animation to the more Movie accurate CGI of Prime. This isn't completely true. Hasbro gave Cartoon Network the option to continue using the license to produce Animated, while they would go on to produce Prime for their new cable channel, The Hub. Cartoon Network decided to end the show independently, as there was no incentive to continuing it if Hasbro would be pulling all funding and ending the toyline.
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Mis-blamed / int_85a9b36f	comment	Despite popular belief, The Emoji Movie was NOT responsible for Sony's nixing of Genndy Tartakovsky's Popeye movie. The two movies were developed in two different time frames, separated by the fateful Sony hack and the subsequent shuffling of executive positions, making it more of a case of unfortunate timing more than anything.
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Mis-blamed / int_87e00d8e	comment	Some Teen Titans (2003) fans blamed co-creator Glen Murakami for doing Teen Titans Go!. In fact, though he is credited as associate producer for said show, he has no major involvement in the show and that Aaron Horvath is the creative force behind the series.
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Mis-blamed / int_893bf98d	comment	The same complaints were alleged at Burton's adaptation of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Most of the complaints were, in fact, not departures from the original book, but actually more faithful to the book than the last movie was. The "changed" lyrics to the Oompa Loompas' musical numbers, for example, are directly lifted from lyrics in the book. One prominent film critic complained that the Burton adaptation chickened out by showing that the bad children survived their ordeals, where the 70s film had stayed "faithful" — but the Burton film was actually being faithful to an identical scene in the book. The only drastic change to the film came towards the end with the subplot about Wonka's father, which is all Burton. The bad kids survived in the 70s movie, too, but a lot of people, including that film critic, apparently missed the line explaining it.It should also perhaps be noted that, even though many fans of the original film disown the Burton remake, the remake actually exists, in part, because Roald Dahl was much displeased with how the original film turned out. His will even forbade future filmmakers from adapting the novel's sequel, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, into a film — which is why Burton's remake doesn't have the Sequel Hook that the original did. Legitimate criticism of the remake notwithstanding, Dahl's widow personally gave it her blessing, saying that she felt that it was closer to her husband's vision than the original.
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Mis-blamed / int_89fa77a	comment	After it was announced that Coronation Street character Rana Habeeb would be killed on her wedding day, many viewers took the show's producers to task for pulling the Bury Your Gays card. In reality, Rana's actress, Bhavna Limbachia had decided to leave the show and specifically requested that the character be killed off. That being said, it was the decision of the show's writers to have her die on her wedding day, which many felt to be a pointlessly cruel twist.
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Mis-blamed / int_8b7b9cd5	comment	Fans say the decision to make Greedo shoot first in the "Special Edition" version of A New Hope is proof that George Lucas has completely lost touch with his earlier work. The change may have been to get a PG instead of a PG-13 rating (which didn't exist at the time they made the original trilogy), but Lucas flip-flops a lot.
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Mis-blamed / int_8d6da726	comment	Freakazoid's cancellation is also sometimes blamed on Madman creator Mike Allred, on the grounds that he sued over Freakazoid's similarity to his creation. This is not true: Mike has openly stated that he was unhappy that he didn't receive a credit for his influence, but he never sued — he didn't feel it was worth it.
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Mis-blamed / int_8d817ccb	comment	Nikki and Paolo are universally despised by most Lost fans for their sudden introduction, questionable relevance to the main plot and the false pretense to "have been here all along". Yet the reason the characters were created in the first place is because fans themselves often asked about the stories of the random extras seen carrying wood or something while main characters were discussing important stuff. They didn't use the actors who had actually been seen in the background earlier in the series because they were extras, and thus couldn't be expected to hold up when moved into more major roles.
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Mis-blamed / int_8dd8ec81	comment	Similarly, fans tend to blame Saban (the company, not the man) for the terrible live-action Sailor Moon adaptation that never made it further than a brief promo video, to the point of nicknaming it Saban Moon. This is presumably because Saban is the best-known (and for many fans, the only known) company that produces and/or adapts Tokusatsu for Western audiences; the promo was made by Toon Makers, a subsidiary of Toei, the company that owned the rights to Sailor Moon at the time.
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Mis-blamed / int_8e09ebf	comment	Mark Harris replaced Sakamoto as stunt director at the beginning of Power Rangers Ninja Storm. As what fans refer to as Kalishplosions began to appear prominently in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder, and such appeared in his later work, itâ€™s likely he is the true culprit in this argument. Tellingly, Harris returned as stunt director for the Neo-Saban era, and the Kalishsplosions still continue in that era, albeit they're a lot less noticeable due to being filmed and edited differently — which has just brought the argument full-circle as to whether or not Kalish was the person ordering the explosions to be showcased much more during his era.
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Mis-blamed / int_8ee278fb	comment	ChalkZone got a lot of flack from angry Invader Zim fans claiming that the former got the latter canceled. Not only was ChalkZone delayed for two years (and thus was not meant to be a replacement show), but Zim was still running when the first season of ChalkZone premiered (The Fairly OddParents! and The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius are also blamed for this). The real reason why Zim was canceled was due to the show's high production cost, low ratings, and just generally being Screwed by the Network. Not to mention that ChalkZone itself was also treated horribly by Nick. ChalkZone also got some flack from people who thought it was a rip-off of the 1970s cartoon Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings. Co-creator Bill Burnett stated in this interview that he hadn't even seen it when ChalkZone was being made.
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Mis-blamed / int_8fda4aad	comment	In a glaring example of the Most Visible Target fallacy, many fans of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood blamed the new kid on the block, Word Party, as the reason the former was dropped from Netflix, as the former (along with a whole plethora of 9 Story Media Group shows) was dropped days before the latter premiered. The real reason is that Amazon had just snatched the rights out of Netflix's hands by signing a multi-year exclusive deal to stream PBS Kids shows.
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Mis-blamed / int_90562ebc	comment	It's been said that Batman fans at the time of Batman: A Death in the Family hated Jason Todd to the point they voted to kill him off. This leaves out that it's been speculated, even by the late Denny O Neil, who over saw the event, that the votes were rigged by one person who wanted to see Jason die. And that's without getting to Jason's death In-Universe is the subject of Blaming the Victim, overlooking Sheila Haywood, who he found out was his biological mother, and her betrayal of Jason to the Joker.
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Mis-blamed / int_90a3a7f4	comment	Fans of Kim Possible often cite the popularity of Phineas and Ferb as the reason that KP got the axe. KP ended a full year before P&F started airing regularly, and mainly because the show's creators wanted to move on, with that show's fourth season being an example of Un-Canceled anyway.
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Mis-blamed / int_90f42a9b	comment	One of the complaints about the Wheel of Time infamous covers is that Lan is shown to have a samurai-based helmet in the first book, claiming that only the Seanchan have Samurai-based helmets. Actually, Lan did have a helmet just like the one on the cover of the book during the Aiel war. It was based off of the one used by the famous Samurai Date Masamune. In fact Lan's helmet was probably the most accurate thing about that cover.
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Mis-blamed / int_924bb56e	comment	Pretty much anything that went wrong with Dollhouse is blamed on Fox, even when Joss Whedon himself takes credit for such things as drastic changes or shooting a new pilot. Granted, it's hard to blame the fans. Fox did cancel Firefly, which was definitely a high-quality show that got screwed by Executive Meddling. But it's like Whedonites have a constant persecution complex up and running — All. The. Time. Firefly is the perfect example of the above-mentioned phenomenon where a popular show gets cancelled because the "wrong" audience liked it. Producer Chris Buchanan said: "The initial results — they made the network nervous. The men didnâ€™t respond as strongly as they thought they would, and the women responded more strongly."
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Mis-blamed / int_947cae0e	comment	Psycho has received criticism in recent years for being allegedly responsible for transphobia in the media, as well as misogyny (due to the reveal that Norman's condition is due to his mother's abuse). This is despite the film going out of its way not to describe or even imply that he is transgender, Norman has an alternate personality that happens to be a woman. The claims of misogyny are also fairly baseless, as they imply that a woman could not be capable of causing her child such psychological harm, and is arguably an example of Females Are More Innocent.note By criticizing the film for placing blame for Norman's actions on his mother, and therefore implying that women are the source of all evil, these criticisms simultaneously ignore the much more common trope of female villains being given the same excuse, but with the abuser being a man.
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Mis-blamed / int_94c1352f	comment	People who dislike the The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel tend to pile all the hate and blame on Andrew Garfield, despite Garfield merely playing the role and not being responsible for the costume, the writing, the soundtrack, or anything that tends to be hated in particular concerning the film. Even issues people take with the characterization of Spidey tend to be things based more on how Spider-Man is written rather than how he's acted; even his hair (which gets a surprisingly large amount of hate) is at least partially the fault of the stylist for the film rather than him. As he is pretty much seen as the face of the new franchise, every problem with it is blamed on him, regardless of what sense it makes. And if it's not him, it's the director, even if the series' problems are obviously not all Marc Webb's fault. Some watchers claim that the reboot unnecessarily changed the web-shooters to mechanical ones instead of using the "comic-accurate" organic ones. However, comic-Spidey's web-shooters became organic only to match the changes made for the Raimi films; he had used mechanical ones for several decades by then.
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Mis-blamed / int_954f38b0	comment	Keiji Mutoh is sometimes unfairly blamed for All Japan Pro Wrestling's downturn in the 2000s, with his resignation in 2011 in being used as the "proof". This is largely because quite a few fans who watched and loved the ever escalating efforts of Genichiro Tenryu, Mitsuharu Misawa, Kenta Kobashi and Akira Taue in the 1990s hated Mutoh's "Puroresu Love" period that followed. Thing is, All Japan's decline can be linked back to the exodus of talent from the company thanks to a dispute with Giant Baba's widow Makoto to Misawa's Pro Wrestling NOAH, a promotion many of Mutoh's detractors followed almost exclusively until its own decline. The resignation had more to do with TARU assaulting Super Hate, leading to the latter having a stroke, than failure to turn the company around, which he actually succeeded in. While All Japan was behind the others, the "Puroresu Love" shows at least drew close to 10,000 and often well beyond it once they were established and also out drew some AJPW classics such as the tag league.
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Mis-blamed / int_95cb19dd	comment	Quesada is most famous and notorious for One More Day, which was also blamed on writer JMS for creating the story until it was known Quesada ordered it (the fact that Quesada served as artist/editor and had story credit was a dead giveaway and as EIC he was more than content to take credit for an idea that he had never made any secret of, namely ending Spider-Man's marriage). JMS differed from Quesada in that where the EIC wanted the retcon to create a Broad Strokes status-quo where every story happened with Peter and MJ in a relationship but not married, even if such a decision entirely altered whole scenes, moments, and the entire Character Development of multiple characters, JMS wanted to create a more logical change that would allow for character progression and be grounded on their history. Others point out that while Quesada ended the marriage, he also oversaw some of the best stories in that entire period - namely JMS' Spider-Man, where Quesada didn't say anything against the plans to bring the couple back from separation from the Mackie-Byrne era, which happened before his tenure and which he had criticized, noting that it was absolutely out of character for Peter and Mary Jane Watson to ever divorce given their devotion to one another, after everything they had been through together. Likewise, Matt Fraction used his foreknowledge to write "To Have and to Hold" (which Quesada approved) as a tribute to their iconic love story and their marriage and which Fraction said was a cheap shot and "dirty pool" to show the direction Spider-Man could take with a married Peter. Quesada also defended Spider-Girl, the daughter of the couple in the Alternate Universe line MC2, from multiple cancellations and stated that was the natural progression of their relationship. Many writers note the Irony that the period right before the marriage ended proved the great potential for storytelling and opportunities a married Spider-Man brought to the title, much of which was encouraged by Quesada as a kind of last hurrah. Dan Slott pointed out that the decision to end the marriage happened on the corporate level to protect Spider-Man's status as the company mascot and it wasn't necessarily about seeing Peter Parker as a character in a story. It was something that earlier editors had been asked and pressured to do, and tried to do, and it would have likely happened without Quesada. Of course whether anyone else would have done it without the same backlash and weak execution, and in a way that provided catharsis for the people who liked it, and didn't amount to telling audiences that the thing they liked was a mistake and unimportant, is a separate question altogether.
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Mis-blamed / int_976efc02	comment	Every single cast change in Mystery Science Theater 3000 (quite a few, as by the end the entire original cast was gone) was blamed on Jim Mallon, who the fans portrayed as a tyrant imposing his will on everyone else involved with the show. This even happened with the departure of Joel Hodgson, who not only had the same level of creative control as Mallon but created the show in the first place, so no one could make him leave if he didn't want to. There had been some behind the scenes friction between the two men that ultimately led to Joel's departure, but much of this has been blown out of proportion by the fanbase and Joel himself has had to play damage control more than a few times.
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Mis-blamed / int_986e857e	comment	Man of Action, the creators of Ben 10 have been blamed for the fan-divided Ben 10: Omniverse. However, they left the franchise after Ultimate Alien to work on Ultimate Spider-Man (2012), though they still receive a "created by" credit and in actual fact, art director Derrick Wyatt, executive producer Tramm Wigzell, supervising producer Matt Youngberg and now ex-Cartoon Network, Boomerang and Toonami CEO Stuart Snyder are actually responsible for the stylistic change from the Darker and Edgier tone of Alien Force/Ultimate Alien to the Denser and Wackier tone of Omniverse. Several The Secret Saturdays fans blamed the show's creator Jay Stephens for the crossover episode "TGIS". However, no one worked on The Secret Saturdays (much less Stephens himself) had any involvement in the episode.
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Mis-blamed / int_987ae287	comment	While many people assume Disney forced Pixar to make their first critical failure, Cars 2, to drive merchandise sales, John Lasseter insisted this wasn't the case. Lasseter came up with the idea of a sequel starring Mater when he was promoting the first film.
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Mis-blamed / int_99885b85	comment	Velma: The show's staff received no end of flak for not including Scooby-Doo in the show due to feeling he is too "kiddy". While showrunner Charlie Grandy certainly did admit that the writing staff thought Scooby-Doo was a generally childish element of the franchise that would have been hard to fit into the show's adult tone, he also revealed that they wouldn't have been able use the character even if they wanted to, as Warner Bros. Animation told them that the Great Dane was off-limits. The show was also blamed for causing the cancellation of Final Space due to how that show was taken off of HBO Max and that Velma came in to seemingly replace it while having Velma's and Fred's character designs look very close to that of Quinn Ergon and Gary Goodspeed respectively. However, Final Space was screwed over as a result of complications with the merger between WB and Discovery along with the failure of executives to recognize the popularity of the show and that they wrote it off for taxes. Many accuse Mindy Kaling of being the creator of the series; that honor would go to Charlie Grandy. She also is confused as a writer when she isn't credited as one. She is actually the executive producer.
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Mis-blamed / int_9a7088bc	comment	The poorly received third season of the original Star Trek was largely blamed on the showrunner Fred Freiberger. But most of the cast and crew have worked to denounce that idea because of several major reasons. First, Gene Roddenberry had left the writing duties in the third season, he (the creator) only had a minor influence on the show. Second, Gene Roddenberry left because the network promised a juicy Monday night spot, only to renounce it and give them the Friday Night Death Slot. Third, the production budget was always below par for a sci-fi series, and the budget was slashed another 10 percent, which affected the scripts heavily. Freiberger was doing his best on a show that was sinking fast. If anything the main culprits were script editor Arthur Singer and network executive Douglas S. Cramer, the former of whom knew virtually nothing about the show and made little attempt to find out during the season, and the latter of whom apparently vetoed several good story ideas and pushed for the show to have a campier overall tone (one of his demands in particular was having the script for "The Way to Eden" changed to incorporate childish pot shots aimed at his predecessor, Herbert Solow). In regards to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga's control of the franchise in later years, fans seem to often believe that they had complete control over it even above Paramount Productions. They were actually not immune from any Executive Meddling and were given demands that have compromised the various shows. This shows primarily in the TNG-esque nature of Voyager, which had started off fairly unique unto itself. But with Deep Space Nine underperforming in ratings, Executive Meddling demanded that the more TNG-like Voyager stay with the TNG formula. Those demands largely hurt the morale at the show; Ron Moore said it was extremely depressing being in the writers' room. Additionally, some seem to be under the delusion that Brannon Braga was the showrunner for the entire run of Voyager, and so lay the blame for the show's quality at his feet. In actual fact, he was only the showrunner on two out of the show's seven seasons — Jeri Taylor was the main showrunner for most of the show's history, and in an odd inversion of the trope, receives virtually no blame from the fans but quite a bit from the other writers who worked on the show. On the other hand, Braga was the showrunner for all but one season of Star Trek: Enterprise, so he has more to answer for on that count. Some fans blame Ronald D. Moore for turning the Klingons into thuggish, honor obsessed warriors during the course of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In actuality, that had already been done by then-showrunner Maurice Hurley during the first season, two years before Moore started working on the show. If anything, Moore actually toned down the TNG-era Klingons from their first few appearances, where they were depicted almost as animalistic savages; in their latter appearances they were again depicted with the more cunning and ruthless nature displayed in the TOS era, albeit still with the Vikings-in-Space angle that Hurley had introduced. If anything, the blame goes back even further, to their portrayal in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, which took the newer, more animalistic look, viking-like armor and dark ship interiors from Star Trek: The Motion Picture and ran with it, having the Klingons growl at each other and behave as pirates, both in attitude and action. So, more so than Hurley, Harve Bennett deserves blame for starting the trend.
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Mis-blamed / int_9d47a2a2	comment	If you've met a disgruntled fan of A Song of Ice and Fire, they'll probably tell you that the Seasonal Rot of A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons is evidence that George R. R. Martin ran out of ideas after the third book, and currently has no idea where the series is going. While the series' rather egregious case of Schedule Slip is no one's fault but Martin's (and he's admitted as much), the truth about the slow pace of the plot is a bit more complicated. As Martin has confirmed in multiple interviews, he knows exactly where the plot is going, and he has for years. The problem is that Crows and Dragons weren't even supposed to exist in his original plan for the series; he wanted to have a lengthy Time Skip after the events of A Storm of Swords that would have set up the final climax of the series in the next books (hence, why so many major characters die or leave at the end of that book). When he realized that that plan wouldn't work, he had to write two new books as a bridge between the first act and the final act; if not much seems to happen in those books, it's because they're only meant to set up the climax that Martin originally wanted to write much earlier. And yes, Martin does know how the series is supposed to end: he shared the planned ending of the series with the producers of Game of Thrones in the event they got to the ending before he did (which they did).
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Mis-blamed / int_9e8d7ed0	comment	After a fairly ugly Twitter spat between Simon Lane and The Cynical Brit, many unsubbed not just from Simon and Lewis' joint channel, but also from other content creators such as Duncan Jones and Zoey Proasheck, even though they had literally nothing to do with the events.
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Mis-blamed / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: Before the Godzilla (1998) film, a 1994 Godzilla film was planned. The film was originally going to have Godzilla fight against a giant monster named the Gryphon and have special effects done by none other than Stan Winston Studios. A misconception that has been circulating was that the reason the Gryphon never manifested was because Toho vetoed the idea, and proposed Mothra and King Ghidorah instead. Both were turned down because they were extremely expensive. The real reason was actually worse.The real season is that Sony's executives disagreed about the budget and caused the would be director Jan De Bont to drop out. There were several attempts to re-negotiate, and get a director, Tri-Star brought in Roland Emmerich (the first director to turn down directing Godzilla 1994 because he explicitly stated that he didn't like Godzilla.) and Dean Devlin. The condition they agreed to direct was that they would rewrite the entire thing however they wanted, and we all know how that went. The even sadder irony is that the budget went way over the budget Sony didn't agree on, meaning that the whole screw-up was really meaningless. The belief that King Kong vs. Godzilla was edited for the US release to make King Kong win instead of Godzilla. Like Battle of the Planets, it was indeed heavily Macekred, but this wasn't part of it — the movie was one of the earlier ones, before Godzilla became a hero, which meant Godzilla had to lose (though not die) in every movie. Snopes.com confirms. This claim is so prevalent that even resources discussing the movies have mistakenly portrayed it as true.
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Mis-blamed / int_a0500a06	comment	In the late 1990s and early 2000s, many people blamed Rugrats for the fact that The Ren & Stimpy Show and Rocko's Modern Life were cancelled, when in reality Ren and Stimpy was cancelled because of low ratings after the creator's firing and Rocko's Modern Life was cancelled because Nickelodeon thought that Joe Murray wanted to end his show.
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Mis-blamed / int_a183d57f	comment	Another notable misblaming is MacFarlane being somehow blamed for Futurama being cancelled. The truth is that Family Guy was canceled one full year before Futurama was and MacFarlane wasn't even doing anything with Fox at the time. Also, MacFarlane and Matt Groening happen to be friends in real life so MacFarlane probably would have wanted Futurama to continue. He also had a voice role in the fourth direct-to-DVD Futurama movie.
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Mis-blamed / int_a2f77c77	comment	Jim Cornette was amusingly blamed for The Colony, Super Smash Bros and Los Ice Creams not getting more Ring of Honor bookings, as well as not getting stronger Ring Of Honor bookings, based on his known hatred of "cartoon wrestling" and statement he'd rather have RoHbot scrappies the Hardy Boys. This is despite the fact he said that the Chikara wrestlers were respectful and fine to work with. Their lack of booking had to do with not being contracted to ROH, which he and Delirious could make suggestions about but weren't in charge of. He also gets blamed for The Young Bucks being absent because he alleged they didn't bring in anyone new, even though he did want The Young Bucks back simply to appease the people who were already there and blaming him for things but couldn't convince Sinclair to pay for them since tag teams "just as good" were available and didn't need to be flown in. In short, his tendency to shoot off his mouth rather than keep his opinions to himself lead to it, with him running off Colt Cabana being precedent for a whole flood. And even then, Cabana initially refused to return to ROH even after Cornette left and went back to OVW, saying he didn't like the new corporate owners either, and addressed the fact they mistakenly thought they could get him back after "the guy with the racket left" instead saying he returned for Carry Silkin.
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Mis-blamed / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing was always closely associated with Aaron Sorkin, and not unreasonably — he wrote, essentially, every episode during his time at the show. But it's common for people to bring up a litany of complaints about unrealistic Bartlett Administration achievements (or achievements that the person in question doesn't like) and attribute them to Sorkin — for example, the administration "saving" Social Security, fixing the Middle East and even Bartlett getting a Democratic successor. The problem is that Sorkin left the show after the fourth season, and all of these things happened after Sorkin left. If there's something you don't like from the first four seasons, that you can blame on Sorkin.
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Mis-blamed / int_a4274674	comment	Man of Steel: Zack Snyder (like pretty much every comic book film director before him) got a lot of hate from Superman purists for changing the character's costume. Snyder later revealed that he had fought to keep the character's red trunks, and that it was the execs who wanted the character in a more modern-looking outfit to fight the perception that Superman was "lame" and "old-fashioned". A lot of people also apparently missed the fact that the editors at DC Comics already took away Superman's famous red underwear when they redesigned his costume for their controversial New 52 Continuity Reboot in 2011...two years before Man of Steel came out. Many fans have blamed producer Christopher Nolan for Superman killing General Zod. In actuality, Nolan disliked that scene and only agreed to it after pressure from both Snyder and screenwriter David Goyer.
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Mis-blamed / int_a46c9a7a	comment	A lot of X-Men fans blame Brett Ratner for every single problem with X-Men: The Last Stand. Others blame the film's original director, Matthew Vaughn, for screwing the film over by quitting right before the start of filming, and still others hold both men equally to blame. In actual fact, while you could make legitimate criticisms about both Ratner's direction and Vaughn's decision to quit, neither of them were responsible for the storyline. That was about 90% the same as the final film well before Vaughn had signed up, and neither director was permitted to make any serious changes to the screenplay (which, despite him giving "family reasons" for his decision to quit, was apparently a major factor in Vaughn leaving the film). Ironically, many fans actually blame Bryan Singer for everything wrong with The Last Stand. Despite (or perhaps even because of) Singer departing the franchise to direct Superman Returns, and having nothing to do with X3 at all!
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Mis-blamed / int_a825da3e	comment	Head designer Mark Rosewater is often blamed for many things the players hate about Magic: The Gathering, even things that he had nothing to do with. And indeed, even things that have absolutely nothing to do with his department — as the face and voice of the company, he's just the one chosen to announce such things, leading many players to blame him for the decisions he likely had no say in whatsoever... Then again, many other things are entirely his fault.
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Mis-blamed / int_a851d974	comment	Similarly, Lindsay Ellis took some flak for the jokes at the expense of Nella in her show's review of Grease. Lindsay had to clarify that Nella wrote the script herself, and that Nella and her are friends and she would never actually say anything like that.
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Mis-blamed / int_a9f06cb6	comment	Many fans of VeggieTales blamed Dreamworks for the new designs introduced in VeggieTales in the House. It was actually Big Idea's decision to change the characters' designs in an attempt to update what they saw as archaic designs that were beholden to the limits of early 1990s 3D animation software.
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Mis-blamed / int_ac570e03	comment	Mike Love is blamed by many The Beach Boys fans for the non-release of Smile in 1967. While Mike can be hated for a lot of reasons (look up his acceptance speech at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on behalf of the Beach Boys), this is not solely his fault. It was actually a combination of a royalties lawsuit against Capitol Records filed by the Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks leaving, Brian Wilson's mental problems and the beginning of his drug problems, and a lack of support from other members (including Mike). The story that Love and Brian Wilson got in an argument during the sessions and Love told Wilson "Don't fuck with the formula!" isn't true; the line originated in a magazine article years later, and it was a band insider's characterization of Love's attitude toward the project.
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Mis-blamed / int_afb7052	comment	Blaming every last thing about Batman & Robin on director Joel Schumacher is practically standard issue (to the point where his very strong filmography leading up to it is completely dismissed in discussions), but his actual involvement wasn't as great as stated. While the overly goofy tone of the film, gaudy visuals and Bat-Nipples were indeed his fault, he was only loosely involved with writing the film; he helped screenwriter Akiva Goldsman come up with a story outline, then went off to direct A Time to Kill, during which time Goldsman finished the screenplay mostly by himself, albeit with the studio execs demanding the inclusion of tons of characters to help sell more toys. At worst, Schumacher just turned what would have been a very poor film regardless into an even bigger mess.This can also extend to Batman Forever, which, while it was better-received than its successor, is largely seen as the origin of many of the problems B&R would face. Schumacher wanted to adapt Batman: Year One, and even had a script written with the help of the comic's author, Frank Miller; however, because the dark tone of Batman Returns was blamed for the film underperforming, the studio forced him to make a much more lighthearted film.
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Mis-blamed / int_b0e1bc07	comment	Fans of the American version of Big Brother seemed to have blamed that the eviction of Jeff in the thirteenth season was somehow the producer's fault. Sure, Executive Meddling has been the most likely culprit for several game-changing instances, but there was clearly no Executive Meddling, obvious case of misblame there. Why would CBS meddle in a ratings dog? (The viewers literally dropped by half after his eviction.)
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Mis-blamed / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones: Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have often been blamed as the sole reason behind the show's Seasonal Rot after season 4 and its highly disappointing series finale, with some even claiming that they rushed the show's ending so that they could work on a Star Wars project (which later fell through due to disagreements between Disney and the showrunners regarding the project's premise). While the amount of blame Benioff and Weiss deserve for the show ending the way it did has been the subject of hot debate, it is important to note that perhaps the biggest factor behind the show's decline in quality was the fact that it overtook the unfinished book series it was based on, as George R. R. Martin failed to finish writing the books before the series ended, resulting in the showrunners having nothing but a few notes to work with in order to end the series. Similarly, the cancellation of Benioff & Weiss's Star Wars trilogy of films has often been falsely attributed to Disney changing their mind after taking into account the poor audience reception of the ''GoT'' finale, however these claims are almost completely unfounded. The actual reason behind the producers' firing being a culmination of the aforementioned conflict regarding the premise of the trilogy, and schedule conflicts that arose after Benioff & Weiss signed on to an additional deal with Netflix.
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Mis-blamed / int_b4878401	comment	According to TNA owner Dixie Carter, the fans' chants of "Fire Russo!" were misblame, as Vince Russo only had a small part in writing their shows. Disregarding the fact that the shows still had Russo's signature style all over them, this hardly made for a better situation, as it implied that the entire booking team had their collective heads up their asses, rather than just one member. (Hilariously muddying the waters: after Russo was fired 2012 at the behest of Spike TV, he was secretly rehired as a consultant a year later. Dixie would keep up the facade of Russo not being involved until Spike removed TNA from its schedule.) It's also easier to chant "Fire Russo!" than it is to chant "Fire Russo or whoever is responsible for this awful match!"
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Mis-blamed / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man fans have blamed Sam Raimi for the critically-divided Spider-Man 3 with the addition of Venom and having Mary Jane Watson become the damsel in distress for a third time. However, those ideas were actually Avi Arad's ideas, and in addition to that, Raimi's ideas were to have the Vulture as the secondary villain and Gwen Stacy being the damsel in distress for the final battle, plus Raimi considered Venom The Scrappy. Subverted by Raimi in an interview for Pajiba on December 30, 2014, who said that he was partly responsible and has stated that he's not fond of the film:
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Mis-blamed / int_b53050a8	comment	The infamously bad 2004 Catwoman film with Halle Berry tends to be harshly criticized by Batman fans for the title character having almost nothing in common with the original version from the comics. While the creative team behind the film was undeniably responsible for most of its problems, most of its liberties with the source material actually started with Batman Returns in 1992 (of which Catwoman is a very loose spinoff), which didn't get nearly as much flack for it. Batman Returns introduced the idea of Catwoman being a meek office worker who becomes a vigilante after being magically brought back from the dead by cats and developing vaguely defined cat-themed superpowers (instead of just being a professional thief with a cat gimmick); Catwoman just took those changes and ran with them.
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Mis-blamed / int_b8c3cc30	comment	Fans of Young Justice (2010) and Green Lantern: The Animated Series have since gone on to blame Beware the Batman and Teen Titans Go! for the cancellations of their beloved cartoons. Never mind that the creative teams behind the new shows had nothing to do with cancelling the older DC Nation cartoons. And Beware The Batman got cancelled and written off soon after.
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Mis-blamed / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Speaking of Super Sentai, many fans will often claim that Chouriki Sentai Ohranger was the series that almost killed off the franchise, while Gekisou Sentai Carranger was the one that saved the franchise. In reality, the ratings for Carranger were actually lower than those of Ohranger for a good amount of its runnote in fact, Carranger has the lowest rated episode in the entirety of the franchise, and in terms of toy sales, Ohranger outsold Carrangernote in fact, Ohranger is one of the most profitable shows in the entire franchise. As noted here, the show that actually almost killed Super Sentai was actually Chikyuu Sentai Fiveman, which was a flop both in ratings and in toy salesnote although the ratings decline had started since Goggle V, the toy sales were a result of poor executive decisions and general shoddy design - one notable example being the decision to produce a large number of Max Magma toys, despite the fact that said mech only appeared for two episodes in the series before being destroyed - it was so bad that Toei decided that they'd make one more show and call it quits on the franchise. Said show, Choujin Sentai Jetman, ended up being a huge hit, and as a result, Toei decided to continue making Sentai series. Fortunately, this incorrect belief seems to have started to die off. In another Sentai-example, fans of Power Rangers will correctly blame Toei for Samurai Sentai Shinkenger being heavily rooted in Samurai culture...but for the wrong reasons. A rumor is that Shinkenger has so many aspects of Japanese culture due to Toei retaliating against Disney trying to make the Sentai footage tone down on the violence (to the point where Disney wanted an animated series to replace the show). However, Shinkenger aired during the run of Power Rangers RPM, which was (at the time) going to be the last Power Rangers season, and had only happened because Disney was contractually obligated to make it (if Disney had their way, Jungle Fury would've been the last Rangers series), and Toei had no way of knowing that Saban would buy the rights back after RPM finished. As such, it's simply an issue of bad luck on Saban's part - Shinkenger finished airing before Saban bought the rights back, and even if they could've skipped Shinkengernote which they couldn't; Saban's deal with Toei explicitly forbade them from skipping Sentai at the time; it's the reason why Saban had to use the comedic Carranger for Power Rangers Turbo, despite Turbo planned as being Darker and Edgier, the alternative would've been to adapt Tensou Sentai Goseiger (which, while not as heavily rooted in Japanese culture, still had some aspects of Japanese culture, not to mention that it had a religious theme), so it was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in regards to adapting Shinkenger (as Shinkenger was very well-received in the west, in part due to fans watching it since no Rangers adaptation was made by Disney, whereas Goseiger...wasn't; if Saban had been able to skip Shinkenger and done so, jumping to Goseiger, odds are fans would've complained about the former getting skipped, as evident by the complaints fans had when (at the time) Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters was skipped in favor of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger).
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Mis-blamed / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants is often blamed as the main reason for Nickelodeon's perceived decline in the late-2000s. While network executives did deem whether a show was worth keeping based on how much the ratings stacked up in comparison to SpongeBob (and quickly scrapped any animated series that wasn't in the same ballpark), that's about it. The creative staff has no control over how the channel treats their or their colleagues work, and that goes for the vast majority of popular programming.
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Mis-blamed / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Matt Ward is often blamed for just about everything people don't like from 5th Edition and on in Warhammer 40,000, most of which were not his fault, or were done on orders from Games Workshop. His rewriting the Necrons backstory was an editorial demand that came down from higher-ups. A controversial story in which Grey Knights murdered an entire convent of Sisters of Battle is actually not that out of character for the Inquisition, with whom the Grey Knights are in lockstep. The change in the meta from largely assault-based to largely shooting-based armies between 5th and 6th Editions was also a change mandated by GW brass to try and sell more models and is not specific to anything Ward did unilaterally. His codices are scrutinized for being overpowered when first released, however Power Creep has long been part of the game. The new codices are supposed to be more powerful to try and drum up interest and sell more models. (Case in point, the extremely powerful 6th Edition Tau Empire codex wasn't even written by him.) The lack of quality control and playtesting of codices is also the result of a direction change at Games Workshop to generate content in a rapid manner. The one thing Ward is guilty of is being a shameless Ultramarines fanboy and interjecting this viewpoint into his fluff at the expense of the pride, history and identity of some other much-beloved Space Marines chapters.
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Mis-blamed / int_bf4abb02	comment	During Sam Humphries' run on the Rebirth-era Harley Quinn solo title, he got some hostility from Harley/Ivy shippers for not depicting Ivy enough in his run, with accusations that he was part of a homophobic plot by DC to "de-gay" Harley.note Which obviously wasn't very effective, given that Harley was unambiguously stated to be bisexual in Birds of Prey (2020), and she and Ivy got a full-on Big Damn Kiss in the second season of Harley Quinn (2019) In a fan Q & A, he said that he wanted to feature Ivy, but was ordered not to by the editorial department because she was being used in other comics.
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Mis-blamed / int_c06a9c1c	comment	The show was also blamed for causing the cancellation of Final Space due to how that show was taken off of HBO Max and that Velma came in to seemingly replace it while having Velma's and Fred's character designs look very close to that of Quinn Ergon and Gary Goodspeed respectively. However, Final Space was screwed over as a result of complications with the merger between WB and Discovery along with the failure of executives to recognize the popularity of the show and that they wrote it off for taxes.
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Mis-blamed / int_c0869433	comment	The more irrational fans of the Yogscast tend to accuse InTheLittleWood of "replacing" Sips for a series of Garry's Mod Murder. The reality... is that Sips simply wasn't available.
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Mis-blamed / int_c137e301	comment	While Bruce Kalish has passed the buck to Koichi Sakamoto on multiple occasions as Sakamoto does use similar effects work in series he directs (see: Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger on top of the above Fourze example), the problem with such blame for many fans is Sakamoto was not the main or stunt director nor involved in choreographing scenes during Kalishâ€™s run (SPD, Mystic force, Overdrive, Jungle Fury). He hadnâ€™t done so for Power Rangers since the end of Wild Force. And during the bulk of Power Rangers Operation Overdrive's production (where many cite Kalishplosions being at their absolute worst), Sakamoto was busy in Japan doing second unit directorial work and stunt choreography for Juken Sentai Gekiranger (Power Rangers Jungle Fury's source material), meaning he was not present or able to perform or direct the original effects work for Overdrive due to the much more demanding production schedule for Sentai. His work on Gekiranger in turn lead to his primary directorial work with Toei later on for Fourze and Kyoryuger, alongside Kamen Rider W, Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, and the Ultra series over with Tsuburaya productions; none of these latter cases featuring egregious overused explosions which a scene then lingers on or repeats footage of; which is one of the more prevalent criticisms of the Kalishplosion, and such was otherwise absent from his work or nowhere near the egregious degree before this period. So generally fans have given Sakamoto the benefit of the doubt over this; as his while his effect-work does use a lot of explosions, his style of fight direction remains in known for itâ€™s fast, Dynamic and effective pace while not removing coherence or detracting from the narrative staging of a scene. Most of which is lacking or absent in what fans refer to as Kalishplosions. As the problem with Kalishplosions is not just the explosions, but how they are framed and utilized with respect to a scene and the story.
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Mis-blamed / int_c1d0f909	comment	An interesting version involving Suicide Squad (2016): when early reviews came in and Rotten Tomatoes revealed that it was given a combined total of 30% liked, fans blew up at this and started a petition in an attempt to shut down the website, accusing it of creating reviews to destroy the DC Extended Universe. This is despite the fact that Rotten Tomatoes just gathers the reviews, that Warner Bros. has a stake in the website and the movie hadn't even been released yet.
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Mis-blamed / int_c25b1f2f	comment	The regrettable murder storyline from the second season of Friday Night Lights was such a huge departure from season one's low key, realistic tone that everyone was sure it was all NBC's Executive Meddling trying to get the show's middling ratings up. Turns out, it was entirely the idea of the show's producers. However, NBC really didn't help with all their commercials focusing on the storyline, showing an incredible misunderstanding of what the show's fans wanted to see. Or they assumed that the show's fans would be watching anyway, but that promoting the murder storyline would bring in people who had previously not watched much of the show.
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Mis-blamed / int_c290824a	comment	If Bay's name is in the credits at all, expect people to dump on it and dismiss it as pure garbage before it's even released. Once it is released, they will blame him for any flaws, real or perceived, even if he was only the executive producer (meaning he or his production company footed the bill, but that he likely had no creative input). Some dismissed Black Sails before it aired merely because it came from his production company.
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Mis-blamed / int_c3210502	comment	Hulk Hogan tends to be blamed for holding people back and not jobbing cleanly, and indeed he has used his pull and fame more than a few times for personal gain or vendettas (like getting WCW to fire color commentator Jesse Ventura). However, he was never a booker and even though he had creative control, he did not decide on the angles that didn't concern him. Management is to blame for most of the mishandling of people like Billy Kidman and Lex Luger. One particularly egregious example of him being misblamed is for the botched ending of his match against Sting at Starrcade 1997. Several people to this day claim that Hogan bribed Nick Patrick to intentionally count at regular speed, to make Sting look bad when he kicked out when he was supposed to (after "three"). There is no real evidence that Patrick didn't just make a mistake, other than general rumors of Hogan's backstage behaviors. Eric Bischoff has said in multiple places (like Ric Flair's podcast and Conrad Thompson's 83 Weeks podcast) that he booked the controversial Starrcade 1997 finish. Bischoff is adamant that Hogan lobbied for the original finish to put Sting over clean because of the year-plus that had been put into the build. But when Sting showed up on the day of the event, he was pale, out of shape and unenthusiastic (Sting was struggling with substance abuse and marital problems unbeknownst to Bischoff at that time and had not wrestled an actual match in over a year), which caused Hogan and Bischoff to doubt Sting's work ethic. Bischoff shortened the match and changed the finish a few hours before showtime. As for the pacing of the count, Nick Patrick said in several interviews (including 83 Weeks) that he was initially told by both Bischoff and Hogan to do a regular count, but Sting later told him to do the fast count. Unsure of what to do, Patrick panicked and did a regular count.
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Mis-blamed / int_c32a966f	comment	My Little Pony: Equestria Girls was largely blamed for the third season only having thirteen episodes, as it was thought the production was truncated so the movie could be made. In reality, the season was only thirteen episodes because Hasbro originally intended it to be a 65-Episode Cartoon. In fact, Equestria Girls was only greenlit after the massive popularity of the show prompted them to order a fourth season.
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Mis-blamed / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: No, Lauren Faust was not responsible for everything, good or bad, that ever happened on the show. While she did create it and wrote a handful of episodes in the first two seasons, she was only the showrunner during the first season. After which she stepped back to become a consulting producer in Season 2, before leaving the production entirely. She had zero input on any facet of Friendship is Magic (much less Gen 4 of the My Little Pony franchise as a whole) from Season 3 onwards. "Magical Mystery Cure" is one of the most base-breaking episodes in the show's history, and its detractors often blame writer M.A. Larson for it. According to him though, the final episode only loosely resembled his original script and many elements had to be hastily cut (without his knowledge) due to the show being unexpectedly renewed for another season, resulting in the final product. Larson being a Teasing Creator who utterly reveled in taking the blame for putting wings on Twilight Sparkle didn't help. My Little Pony: Equestria Girls was largely blamed for the third season only having thirteen episodes, as it was thought the production was truncated so the movie could be made. In reality, the season was only thirteen episodes because Hasbro originally intended it to be a 65-Episode Cartoon. In fact, Equestria Girls was only greenlit after the massive popularity of the show prompted them to order a fourth season. After Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's Heelâ€“Face Turn, the writers were criticized for never doing anything more with the character just as they became interesting and likable. However, the writers did want to do more with them, but Hasbro executives shot all these ideas down due to feeling their story was "over". One of the criticisms of Starlight Glimmer's Heelâ€“Face Turn was that it was being done to deliberately copy Sunset Shimmer's redemption and character arc. Word of God claims it wasn't, which is substantiated by Production Lead Time meaning it was likely written before Rainbow Rocks airedexplanationThe Season 4 premiere had its script locked August 2012 15 months before it aired November 2013. Starlight's redemption aired November 2015 and the Season had a two-month hiatus causing Friendship Games to spoil the episode's happenings, thus it can be assumed to have had its script locked June 2014 three months before Rainbow Rocks released September 2014. and made the previously contentious Sunset popular enough to want to copy. In response to criticisms of the franchise's villains being Easily Forgiven, Equestria Girls director Ishi Rudell revealed that he is also sick of this trend and would be happy to do otherwise, but it's not up to him, implying this approach was an executive mandate. My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) A common point of contention is how it ignores Character Development and continuity (outside some cameos) past the end of Season 4, leading to questions about why they sought help from the hippogriffs over all the other allied races they made since then and it not feeling like it fit the shows continuity. Many criticize this as an attempt for The Movie appeal to wider audiences at the expense of it appealing to existing fans. But work on The Movie started immediately after end of Season 4, thus Production Lead Time would make it impossible to incorporate said later development and continuity beyond cameos if they wanted to or not. Once it came out Friendship is Magic would end in 2019, some blamed the movie's weak reception and earnings. However, Hasbro stated they wanted it to continue for five years in 2014 when the movie was first announced, wanted to wrap it up in the very early pitches for Season 7 while the movie would be mid-production, and months after the movie released leaked early drafts for the next series which was too soon to have been designed in response to its reception. While other G4 movies may have been canned, the end of Friendship is Magic, already a Long Runner by this point whose toy sales were slowing down before the movie released, was decided well before reception of The Movie could influence it.
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Mis-blamed / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who fans have a tendency to find one particular behind-the-scenes figure — John Nathan-Turner, Michael Grade, Russell T. Davies, etc — and blame absolutely everything they don't like on that figure, regardless of whether they can be reasonably blamed or not. Graham Williams replaced Philip Hinchcliffe's highly acclaimed tenure and was given the job of toning down the horror element and playing up the humour and whimsy. In addition, his era oversaw a whole slew of behind-the-scenes troubles, none of which were his fault. While his era is regarded as divisive at best, it's generally agreed that he did the best he could under very trying circumstances. The low quality of seasons 22-23 of Doctor Who's original run was for a long time blamed on Colin Baker's performance as the Sixth Doctor. After his surprisingly good performances in the Big Finish audio plays, he's largely cleared his name, leading fans to look to other scapegoats. On that Michael Grade note, one of the things some fans blame him for is the original show's cancellation, due to his involvement in the 1985-86 hiatus. While Grade's actions in that period may have set things in motion, at the time of the cancellation he was no longer Controller of BBC 1 (the position that ultimately decided whether to recommision the series), having been succeeded by Jonathan Powell two years before - and while Powell accepted the decision not to continue the series, he wasn't the one who made the decision in the first place. It was Head of Drama Group Mark Shivas who informed Powell that they wouldn't be offering a new season of Doctor Who for the 1990-91 financial year. When Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) left after the third series of the revived show, some fans insisted she had either been fired or pressured to leave because the producers felt she could not live up to her extremely popular predecessor, Billie Piper (it didn't help that onscreen Martha left the Doctor for this reason). This was denied by all involved, but it still pops up occasionally as a conspiracy theory in the fandom. It's possible that she had only signed on for one series. Christopher Eccleston appeared to have left for reasons similar to the above (on top of the hectic shooting schedule); there has been no definitive proof that the 40-something actor left after one series due to being "typecast". Eccleston has also been quoted as being dissatisfied with how some of the directors mistreated the other crew during long shoots as why he wasn't involved in the 50th anniversary show. When his autobiography was released in 2019, it was clarified that he also had a falling-out with Russell T. Davies and was battling anorexia and depression. Martha had also fallen victim to a Type 3: her character has received criticism for not being confident enough in herself (particularly in her unrequited feelings for the Doctor), and not being convincing as a professional adult. This seems to be based on a misconception by US viewers about the character's intended age: medical students in Britain start studying at age 18, so Martha could well be a teenager, and cannot be any older than 22 or so. There's no in-story reason for her to be particularly world-wise. Steven Moffat often gets blamed for casting a woman to play the Doctor by those who disagree with the idea of a female Doctor. The idea to cast Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor was done by his successor, Chris Chibnall, though Moffatt did lay a lot of the groundwork by canonising the idea of cross sex regenerations. On a related note, the idea of a female Doctor has been around as long as regeneration and it was supported by Sydney Newman, one of the show's original producers. Ironically, during his tenure Moffat often got plenty of stick from people on the other side of the line for not casting a female Doctor when he had the opportunity. Chris Chibnall has been blamed for destroying the Canon with the Timeless Child plot twist (in which it was revealed that the Doctor, far from being an ordinary inhabitant of Gallifrey, was actually a mysterious child of unknown origin who the Time Lords stole the power of regeneration from. First of all, Doctor Who canon has contradicted itself before. "The Brain of Morbius" also showed the Doctor having previous regenerations before Hartnell and the Seventh Doctor was also hinting at a mysterious origin and not being an ordinary Time Lord. So essentially Chibnall was simply just building on some ideas already introduced. He has also been blamed for every aspect of stories people haven't liked, such as the rather disliked politics in "Kerblam!", a story which he didn't even write. The hatred for him was such that when he said that he wasn't told who the next showrunner would be and that he didn't pick them, people took that as proof that he didn't care for the future of the show, as if he personally decided not to pick a new showrunner!
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Mis-blamed / int_c61f3112	comment	And then there's Wonder Woman's position as the secretary of the original Justice Society of America in All-Star Comics. This is often blamed on sexism, since she's a secretary and didn't go on missions. In fact, it was editorial policy that any character with their own solo book couldn't be a member at all (which is why Superman and Batman weren't included and Flash and Green Lantern got kicked out when All-Flash and Green Lantern started). Wonder Woman was made an exception because of her popularity and having a back-line support position as a secretary was better than similar male heroes who didn't get to be there at all.
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Mis-blamed / int_c635e8e	comment	The content and rapping style on Encore has been attributed to Eminem's abuse of Ambien at the time, including by Eminem. However, Eminem writes in his book The Way I Am that he had been freestyling the material due to an attempt to recapture the humour and spontaneity he had with Dr. Dre while recording The Slim Shady LP, as well as to push himself to improve as a rapper (particularly because of how much he admires Jay-Z, who can write entire songs by freestyling). His 2003 material also shows inklings of the stylistic direction he'd adopt on Encore, particularly his three Invasion freestyles which show him beginning to incorporate crunk and snap influences in his delivery, a fake Southern accent, and belching, all recorded at a time when he was still on probation and facing regular drug tests that prevented him from being able to abuse medication. While it's obvious Eminem's Ambien addiction was a factor on the lowered technical ability on the album, the audible slur in his voice and the woe-is-me content, Encore ended up the way it did due to purposeful artistic decisions that were not all the fault of the zolpidem clogging up his brain.
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Mis-blamed / int_c652e8c7	comment	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is often accused of getting the series proper Un-Canceled and causing it to go through Seasonal Rot as a result. In reality, Nickelodeon was trying to convince Stephen Hillenburg to renew the show for a fourth season between 2002 and 2004, and he refused, so they hired Paul Tibbit instead. In fact, new episodes couldn't have been produced between the movie's release and Season 4's release, as the two were only six months apart (November 2004 and May 2005 respectively), while SpongeBob episodes take at least nine months to produce.
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Mis-blamed / int_c72c2d06	comment	Many blame Disney for canceling the series after it bought the Star Wars franchise in favor of Star Wars Rebels. But the rights to The Clone Wars at the time were owned by Cartoon Network, which made for an awkward legal situation. Rebels was actually in the works before the Disney buyout, due to the ratings of The Clone Wars declining (meaning that the show was slowly becoming unprofitable) and the Lucasfilm crew still wanting to do a Star Wars animated show that branched off of The Clone Wars.
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Mis-blamed / int_c7912cea	comment	With Jimmy Two-Shoes, it's not uncommon to hear people accuse Teletoon as being responsible for all the Executive Meddling that got the Darker and Edgier pilot remade into the Denser and Wackier final product. In reality, it was Disney XD that mandated all the changes in order to make the series more kid-friendly and thus more marketable to American audiences; Teletoon approved the pilot concept without issue due to originally intending the series to be aimed more at teenagers, in line with their own programming (such as the Total Drama series, their most popular show at the time). This is more evident with the second season, which received the tonal retool it did at the request of Disney XD's executives rather than Teletoon's.
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Mis-blamed / int_c7f59f7d	comment	Some Teen Titans fans blamed editor Jonathan Peterson for not allowing Nightwing and Starfire to marry in the 100th issue of The New Titans. In actuality, the decision was made by his successor Rob Simpson after he left DC to join Image as well as Batman editors, who wanted Nightwing to return back to the Bat-books, forcing Marv Wolfman to scrap plans to have them married as well as a miniseries taking place prior to it. It's even worth knowing that Peterson was actually in support of the wedding plans than against it.
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Mis-blamed / int_cb2db091	comment	An accusation also leveled at him for the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy (even though the similarities pretty much begin and end with Johnny and Kirsty being similar characters to Harry and Hermione).
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Mis-blamed / int_cc8fd137	comment	The Last Samurai is often trotted out as a textbook example of why "whitewashing" is such a problem in Hollywood, since—of course—everybody knows that it's completely absurd to cast the whitebread Tom Cruise as "The Last Samurai". Except, if you've actually seen the movie, it should be pretty obvious that Cruise's character isn't the titular "Last Samurai"; that would be Katsumoto, who's played by the very Japanese Ken Watanabe. In fact, since the word "samurai" can be either singular or plural, the title could either refer to Katsumoto or to the band of rebel samurai that he leads. While the movie could be justly accused of leaning on an unnecessary White Male Lead to make Asian history more accessible to Westerners, it never tries to claim that Cruise's character is a samurai. He's just a wayward American who gets some samurai training and falls in love with their way of life.
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Mis-blamed / int_ccd1ec22	comment	Saying Disney should have finished The Thief and the Cobbler. Disney had nothing to do with that movie, it was made to be an anti-Disney, and the art style looks nothing like the art style of Disney movies. Well, since Disney owned Miramax, the company responsible for Thief's Macekre, Roy Disney for a long time was talking about having the Disney animators, many of whom trained with Richard Williams and brought that influence to Aladdin, finish animating Williams' cut of the movie. But then Roy Disney left the company and then died, and Miramax closed and their library appears to have been sold to various other companies, so good luck with that.
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Mis-blamed / int_ccf0819f	comment	People tend to blame Vince McMahon (Jr) for everything bad in the WWE; while it is true that he has final say on what goes on TV a lot of the more controversial angles where others were the idea of other people working for the company (for example, the infamous Katie Vick angle was developed by McMahon, then-Raw Head Writer Brian Gewirtz, Bruce Prichard, and Michael "P.S." Hayes (according to Pritchard), though Vince has defended it pretty strongly and gladly taken "responsibility" for it in interviews, confusing the issue). This is especially true for 93-94 at which time Vince had actually taken a leave of absence for legal reasons and the company was being run by Pat Patterson. As CM Punk made sure to mention, some of it belongs on "his idiotic daughter and his doofus son-in-law and the rest of his stupid family. "note Punk's prediction would prove accurate; as of September 2022 the idiotic daughter is now CEO and the doofus son-in-law is the booker. Punk is in AEW, currently under an indefinite suspension for knocking out one of the Young Bucks (who were also suspended, along with Kenny Omega and Ace Steel) after a backstage fight. Christopher Daniels, Brandon Cutler, and Michael Nakazawa were also briefly suspended, but their suspensions were lifted when it came out they were trying to break up the fight. Punk would later be released from the company and eventually return to WWE in 2023. Many critics also don't consider just how much responsibility the TV networks and sponsors have, since Vince pretty much has to answer to them. This is particularly true for everyone who complains about WWE's more sanitized, PG-rated, predictable programming nowadays; given that a lot of the more controversial stuff that DID get on the air in the late 90s was always getting Vince in hot water with studio heads (USA president Kay Koplovitz threatened to kick Raw off the air on a standards & practices violation after the infamous "Pillman's Got a Gun" episode), it's not unreasonable to suggest any choices to not take chances today is to appease those who ultimately decide if WWE is allowed to be on the air at all. For a long period of time, Vince got a lot of blame from fans for his heavy handed work schedule where his wrestlers were expected to wrestle night after night on both televised shows and untelevised house shows. Because of Vince's grueling schedule, it was commonly assumed that injury after injury would pile up night after night with wrestlers getting no rest. However, more recent years have revealed that a huge number of wrestlers are getting injured even in a company like AEW that runs a much more relaxed and less grueling schedule, where wrestling less regularly (while at the same time being encouraged to do riskier moves when they do wrestle) actually makes their bodies less "in tune" and increases the strain when they get into the ring, similar to the "load management" controversy in regards to the modern crop of top stars in the National Basketball Association. Now, due to the knowledge that even a relaxed wrestling schedule isn't necessarily any better for the body than a grueling one, Vince's heavy WWE schedule can either at best be seen as something that isn't to blame for recurring wrestling injuries with AEW's ascension vindicating Vince or at worst, a busy workload schedule that's not the most helpful when it comes to health but shouldn't get all the blame because pro-wrestling in general can be very taxing on the body and the fault shouldn't lie on a sole individual or wrestling company anymore.
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Mis-blamed / int_cd54bfc7	comment	The Superhero Squad Show is sometimes used as an example of the Disney/Marvel merger ruining Marvel forever, but it began production before Disney bought them.
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Mis-blamed / int_cd55fd0f	comment	High Guardian Spice: While the crew often gets blamed for creating the infamous initial announcement trailer, story editor Amalia Levari claimed this was out of their control; according to Levari, Crunchyroll had asked the crew isolated behind-the-scenes questions, which they answered not knowing that those questions would be repurposed into an announcement trailer. As confirmed by Sofia Alexander, the creator of Onyx Equinox, the production staff don't have any input as to how their shows are marketed by Crunchyroll. The series' staff are also accused of diverting funds from subscribers' money into this series' creation. However, not only is this claim unfounded but what has been confirmed runs contrary to it. In 2015, Crunchyroll had specifically received funding from companies like Sumitomo Corporation and Otter Media to invest in co-productions and original programming, including the Crunchyroll Originals program in general.
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Mis-blamed / int_cf7c1158	comment	The director of Punisher: War Zone openly lambasted the 2004 movie for having comedic parts such as the popsicle-torture. In fact, that scene was lifted almost directly from the comics (the original The Punisher: War Zone), and Garth Ennis, who greatly helped in raising the Punisher back to popularity in the comics, has mentioned that as his favorite scene from the older comics.
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Mis-blamed / int_d0744832	comment	The Avengers #200, the infamous issue where Ms. Marvel becomes impregnated and gives birth to her own impregnator before going off to have a "happy ending" with him has four writer credits: writers David Michelinie and Bob Layton, artist George Perez and then-Editor-in-Chief Jim Shooter. Both Mark Gruenwald and David Michelinie have said the issue was a last minute re-write due to similarities to another comic coming out around the same time (specifically Carol was supposed to be impregnated by the Kree's Supreme Intelligence originally; the other comic was a similar plot in What If) and according to Gruenwald Shooter's involvement was essentially the decree that they needed to find a different father. Still despite a book re-written by committee at the last minute Shooter, perhaps because of his infamous reputation, is generally the sole person blamed for that issue. That said, by Shooter's own admission, he couldn't precisely remember what part he played, but the fact that he was editor at the time meant that he wasn't completely innocent, and has accepted responsibility for it.
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Mis-blamed / int_d148f51d	comment	Fans of The Looney Tunes Show and Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated may be angry that the shows were cancelled because of Executive Meddling, but it was really because the producers meant from the beginning to make 52 episodes of each series.
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Mis-blamed / int_d25ddfc	comment	The Black Cauldron. Many people blame Jeffrey Katzenberg for cutting the film at the last minute and ruining the movie. While he did cut the film and tone down some scenes as they were really too dark to get a PG ratingnote This was before PG-13 rating, the original cut could have made the movie R, in reality, most of the cuts were just timing issues. While he did do an infamous twelve minute cut, most of it was restored after Eisner talked to him. Most of the film blame can go towards Executive Meddling. The film was already overbudget and had been in production since 1973 when the rights to the book were obtained. The film had missed its release date a number of times, but issues with adaption, in fighting between Walt's old animators and the newer animators caused a lot of people to drop out of the film. Katzenberg wasn't hired by Disney until 1984, only a few months before the original release date. The storyboards of the movie and the book tie in show the missing and reworked scenes.
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Mis-blamed / int_d28045f2	comment	In Torchwood: Children of Earth, Ianto's character arc involved him beginning to accept his bisexuality and come out to his family about his relationship with Jack — then he was suddenly and unexpectedly killed off. Many fans were not happy, and blamed Russell T. Davies (despite the fact that he is openly gay and has introduced a variety of LGBT characters on both Torchwood and Doctor Who.) He denied that sexuality had anything to do with it, and insisted Ianto was just "defeated by a greater evil" for plot purposes. Some people then turned their ire towards writer James Moran, who has also stated that there was no malicious intent behind the decision. It's worth noting that Torchwood is very much an example of Everyone Is Bi. Of the original five characters, the three that die are all bi, while of the two that survive, one is pansexual and the other either bi or bi-curious Depending on the Writer. This isn't to say it was necessarily good writing, but it hardly seems the Unfortunate Implications were intentional.
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Mis-blamed / int_d3631a89	comment	When the 2010 Robin Hood movie hit theatres, the critics were quick to blame their disappointment on the lesser-known writers Ethan Reiff and Cyrus Voris, who were credited as authors of the "story". Who else could have bungled it in a movie directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe, and written by Brian Helgeland, the screenwriter of Mystic River and L.A. Confidential? In fact, Reiff and Voris' original script was a completely different story altogether, Nottingham, that told Robin Hood's story from the Sheriff's point of view. This premise was dismissed from the start by Scott, and after several rewrites there was practically nothing left of the original script (in Reiff and Voris' words, a single sentence of the dialogue they wrote made it into the final film, and was said by a different character).
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Mis-blamed / int_d4ee383b	comment	For years, Yoko Ono's been blamed for causing their break-up, when it's largely clear that they were already drifting apart from growing tensions and diverging interests among the band. It is fair to say that her increased presence in the studio was annoying to the other three Beatles, recordings having previously been a 'no girlfriends' zone, and by all accounts she didn't make much of an effort to make friends, but as early as 1971, George Harrison said publicly (on the Dick Cavett show) that Yoko was being misblamed and that the Beatles broke themselves up. Yoko still gets blamed for the general weirdness that was her and John Lennon's marriage, despite a ton of evidence that John was at least as odd as she was before they met.
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Mis-blamed / int_d4f9ccf	comment	Well, since Disney owned Miramax, the company responsible for Thief's Macekre, Roy Disney for a long time was talking about having the Disney animators, many of whom trained with Richard Williams and brought that influence to Aladdin, finish animating Williams' cut of the movie. But then Roy Disney left the company and then died, and Miramax closed and their library appears to have been sold to various other companies, so good luck with that.
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Mis-blamed / int_d8ed0fb0	comment	After Devourment released Conceived in Sewage, which was a New Sound Album that skewed more towards NYDM and proto-slam than their established slam death metal sound, a lot of fans angered by the change in sound blamed Relapse Records and Erik Rutan (who produced the album) for pushing them towards a "lighter", more marketable sound. In reality, neither claim was accurate. Most of the album had been written for years and hadn't been recorded largely because they desperately wanted off of Brutal Bands, and Majewski had expressed a desire as early as 2010 to expand his vocal range and move into more varied territory, as they had grown sick of playing pure slam and wanted to broaden and introduce some variation to their sound. Relapse had absolutely no say in what they did with their sound and Rutan's input was largely restricted to how they played various riffs; the rest was all them.
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Mis-blamed / int_d99024a2	comment	Many Genesis fans blame Phil Collins for the band's shift away from Progressive Rock to pop in The '80s. Collins is on record as saying that the shift occurred because Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks saw the solo success he was having and wanted a piece of that as well. Collins said on his (now defunct) official forum that (paraphrasing from memory) "I'd like to see someone convince Tony Banks to do something he doesn't want to do!" Also according to Word of God, as the band were shifted from a five-piece to a four-piece to a trio, the band were attempting to avoid the fights over writing credits and creative input they were facing with the departures of Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett by crediting the entire band with all the songs on each album. They credited individual writers by A Trick of the Tail to deflect accusations that Gabriel was the sole visionary behind the group's music, which led to the inter-group squabbles (Hackett in particular) they tried so hard to avoid. The band decided to come in the studio with no pre-written material and write collectively in the studio. They also discovered that a great deal of magic came with group improvisations, and that by shortening the group compositions they could get more of a variety of styles. They were also, by 1981, equipped with their own recording facility (Fisher Lane Farms), and were interested in reinventing their sound for The '80s, producing their own music along with engineer Hugh Padgham. What came out of these circumstances was Abacab and the music they came up with since then. The results of having commercial success with their new sound and approach was simply icing on the cake. On a similar note, Banks is often blamed for the creative conflicts that led to the departure of Gabriel and Hackett, down to excluding Gabriel from the songwriting for The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway and passive-aggressively mixing Hackett out of the band's second live album Seconds Out note It was a Deadpan Snarker quip from Banks that Hackett himself has denied ever actually happened. This of course ignores Gabriel's problems with his wife and daughter around the same time (although he did end up writing the lyrics and overall story of the album) and the fact that the Banks/Collins/Rutherford trio had already gelled into the main creative force in the band. In fact, the band started crediting individual writers for each song in order to escape the notion that Gabriel wrote everything. Genesis also, by Word of God, began as a "songwriting collective", then became a band when they could find no one else willing to sing their material. They had tried to write pop songs on their first album, but failed to get success. They moved into a Progressive Rock direction from their second album, Trespass, especially as it was easier for sheltered, upper middle class private school-educated Britons to write fantasy lyrics over love songs, but they occasionally dabbled in their own brand of pop ever since with songs like "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)", "Counting Out Time" and "Your Own Special Way". They hadn't intended to be strictly progressive rock, but most of their material fell into that style until they learned to write more commercially and gained success from it. And yet, out of everyone, no one in the band's history has received more vitriol and blame from the fanbase than Ray Wilson, the replacement singer on ...Calling All Stations.... In truth, Mike and Tony were the ones who wrote most of the album, all Ray did was do what he was asked to do.
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Mis-blamed / int_d9c285d4	comment	When Kamp Koral was announced, fans were quick to blame Nickelodeon for deliberately waiting for Hillenburgâ€™s death to produce the spin-off. While his thoughts on the show are unknown, it is possible that Hillenburg was aware of the show being developed, as the development began shortly before he passed away. Kamp Koral developer Vincent Waller originally tweeted his belief that Hillenburg was aware of the show, but he later retracted the statement, saying that the stressful period "kinked up my chronological memories of events into a bit of a slippery jumble for that entire block of time."
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Mis-blamed / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Voice actress April Stewart has been blamed by some sore fans for Mona Marshall not having as many roles, as well as the exit of Eliza Schneider. In actuality, Schneider quit on her own terms in 2003 due to a salary dispute and issues with her union note Around this time, the SAG was advising voice actresses to not accept roles for the show due to its non-union status, or they would risk being blacklisted or having their health coverage stripped. Along with fines, these are among the expected consequences for union actors who take on non-union work.. Stewart herself had to use an alias for her early work in the show until matters could be settled. It's also worth noting that Marshall always had voiced fewer female characters in comparison, as Schneider had handled the majority of the roles after Mary Kay Bergman's death. Due to old fansites like Beef-Cake and convention advertisements mistaking Mona Marshall as the second voice of Wendy, Schneider herself received some blame and misconception of "usurping" the role. In actuality, she'd always voiced the character and simply modified her take after a while. In comparison, April Stewart would later receive flack for making Wendy sound too old, until it was revealed that it was the creators' own decision to not speed up her voice as much (while Mary Kay Bergman could naturally perform the higher voice, Schneider and Stewart had to have their voices digitally modified). An in-universe Type 5 example is Played for Laughs in "Night of the Living Homeless", where Kyle tries to come up with an idea with what to do with the homeless, and Cartman's idea was to jump over them with his skateboard. The other boys either thank Kyle for the idea that was obviously Cartman's, or in Stan's case, get baffled by it.
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Mis-blamed / int_db96ded4	comment	The Legend of Korra: No, the show was NOT removed from Nick's schedule and made online exclusive during Book 3 in favor of giving more airtime to Nickelodeon's more comedy-based shows. While it being a complete tonal mismatch compared to their other programming was a factor (being a teen-oriented action/adventure series), it was the series seeing far better viewership numbers compared to its on-air ratings during Book 2 that resulted in the decision. Zigzagged with regards to the finale. Fans blamed Nickelodeon for the ambiguity of the final scene, which shows Korra and Asami going on a private vacation in the Spirit World, all-but-explicitly a couple. Many blamed Nick for the ambiguity of it, and assumed that Bryke had to sneak it in without the studio's knowledge, but after Bryke confirmed the Korrasami Ship online they mentioned that the Studio was supportive of the idea, though due to their Standards and Practices would only allow so much to be shown. So the studio is the reason for the ambiguity, but the scene was done with them fully knowing what was being expressed. The finale similarly had other fans accuse Bryke of queerbaiting due to the slightly ambiguous ending. Most were a little more savvy and aware that Standards and Practices would only let them go so far, which Bryke confirmed online.
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Mis-blamed / int_dbb68ab6	comment	The Chronicles of Narnia: The controversial and allegedly sexist ending of the last book, in which Susan doesn't enter Narnia's Heaven with her family because she doesn't believe in Narnia any more and only cares about stereotypically feminine things such as make-up, was actually a Sequel Hook for an eighth book that unfortunately was never made. It would have resolved this issue, as Susan was intended to come to terms with the loss of her siblings, "find Narnia in her own time" again, and eventually make her way to Heaven to be with them.
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Mis-blamed / int_dd6c417	comment	In another Sentai-example, fans of Power Rangers will correctly blame Toei for Samurai Sentai Shinkenger being heavily rooted in Samurai culture...but for the wrong reasons. A rumor is that Shinkenger has so many aspects of Japanese culture due to Toei retaliating against Disney trying to make the Sentai footage tone down on the violence (to the point where Disney wanted an animated series to replace the show). However, Shinkenger aired during the run of Power Rangers RPM, which was (at the time) going to be the last Power Rangers season, and had only happened because Disney was contractually obligated to make it (if Disney had their way, Jungle Fury would've been the last Rangers series), and Toei had no way of knowing that Saban would buy the rights back after RPM finished. As such, it's simply an issue of bad luck on Saban's part - Shinkenger finished airing before Saban bought the rights back, and even if they could've skipped Shinkengernote which they couldn't; Saban's deal with Toei explicitly forbade them from skipping Sentai at the time; it's the reason why Saban had to use the comedic Carranger for Power Rangers Turbo, despite Turbo planned as being Darker and Edgier, the alternative would've been to adapt Tensou Sentai Goseiger (which, while not as heavily rooted in Japanese culture, still had some aspects of Japanese culture, not to mention that it had a religious theme), so it was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation in regards to adapting Shinkenger (as Shinkenger was very well-received in the west, in part due to fans watching it since no Rangers adaptation was made by Disney, whereas Goseiger...wasn't; if Saban had been able to skip Shinkenger and done so, jumping to Goseiger, odds are fans would've complained about the former getting skipped, as evident by the complaints fans had when (at the time) Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters was skipped in favor of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger).
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Mis-blamed / int_de38bcf4	comment	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014): Michael Bay tends to receive all of the scorn of the fan base in spite of simply being a producer for the film. This tends to be par the course for anything Bay is associated with. In a somewhat ironic turn, it turns out that Bay is actually responsible for nixing a lot of bad ideas that others wanted to put in, since he's now fairly aware of how a fanbase will react to changes. But, due to being who he is, he ends up being blamed for a lot of the ideas to which he said no. Essentially, a lot of the people cursing his name should be thanking him for doing what they wanted! The "Turtles as aliens" rumours. They were eventually revealed to have never been an official part of the story. The rumour was based on a line which, in context, seemed to indicate that the Ooze, rather than the Turtles, would be alien in origin. A throwaway line confirmed this to still be true.
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Mis-blamed / int_de8f6b17	comment	Before the Godzilla (1998) film, a 1994 Godzilla film was planned. The film was originally going to have Godzilla fight against a giant monster named the Gryphon and have special effects done by none other than Stan Winston Studios. A misconception that has been circulating was that the reason the Gryphon never manifested was because Toho vetoed the idea, and proposed Mothra and King Ghidorah instead. Both were turned down because they were extremely expensive. The real reason was actually worse.The real season is that Sony's executives disagreed about the budget and caused the would be director Jan De Bont to drop out. There were several attempts to re-negotiate, and get a director, Tri-Star brought in Roland Emmerich (the first director to turn down directing Godzilla 1994 because he explicitly stated that he didn't like Godzilla.) and Dean Devlin. The condition they agreed to direct was that they would rewrite the entire thing however they wanted, and we all know how that went. The even sadder irony is that the budget went way over the budget Sony didn't agree on, meaning that the whole screw-up was really meaningless.
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Mis-blamed / int_de90363d	comment	Others point out that while Quesada ended the marriage, he also oversaw some of the best stories in that entire period - namely JMS' Spider-Man, where Quesada didn't say anything against the plans to bring the couple back from separation from the Mackie-Byrne era, which happened before his tenure and which he had criticized, noting that it was absolutely out of character for Peter and Mary Jane Watson to ever divorce given their devotion to one another, after everything they had been through together. Likewise, Matt Fraction used his foreknowledge to write "To Have and to Hold" (which Quesada approved) as a tribute to their iconic love story and their marriage and which Fraction said was a cheap shot and "dirty pool" to show the direction Spider-Man could take with a married Peter. Quesada also defended Spider-Girl, the daughter of the couple in the Alternate Universe line MC2, from multiple cancellations and stated that was the natural progression of their relationship. Many writers note the Irony that the period right before the marriage ended proved the great potential for storytelling and opportunities a married Spider-Man brought to the title, much of which was encouraged by Quesada as a kind of last hurrah.
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Mis-blamed / int_e293455a	comment	A large portion of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fandom can still be guaranteed to meltdown at the name of Marti Noxon, whom they hold responsible for the divisive sixth season, during which she took over showrunner duties while Joss Whedon was giving the majority of his time to Angel and Firefly. For many of them, the failure of subsequent series Point Pleasant was often held up as "proof" that she was out of her depth helming a TV show. Whedon came to her defense, saying the most divisive story elements ultimately came from him. David Fury and Steven DeKnight sometimes also get this, although in their cases it's more down to off-screen interactions with fans that went bad.
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Mis-blamed / int_e54d6e9	comment	On a related note, Heaven's Gate tends to be regarded as The Millstone for the entire New Hollywood generation and as a flop that bankrupted the studio. While these facts are true, a lot of it is Flanderization since the production failure was as much the fault of inexperienced studio executives as director Michael Cimino and the former have tended to latch on to the latter. The post-Star Wars trend at the time was already making it difficult for directors to make more personal films with Robert Altman moving to France in The '80s, despite being the most prolific film-maker of the period. Heaven's Gate itself has a better reputation these days, having been added to The Criterion Collection.
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Mis-blamed / int_e6267766	comment	In Star Wars Legends (formerly the Expanded Universe): Karen Traviss gets a lot of flak, most notoriously for establishing that the Grand Army Of The Republic constituted a mere three million clones. While this number is ridiculously low for a galactic scale conflict (the Eastern Front in WWII alone had somewhere around 15 million troops), what people missed was that when Lama Su was talking about 'two hundred thousand units' being ready, he was talking about 'units of product' (and individual clones) rather than 'military units'. This was more clearly stated in the then upper-tier canon Attack of the Clones movie novelization, which was released in 2002. Traviss' first published work in Star Wars wasn't released until 2004. Unfortunately, this created a substantial amount of conflict when other authors missed the higher-canon established figures, and did things like give the Separatists an army in the quintillions. The resulting flame wars were not pretty to say the least. Curtis Saxton, who was the franchise's technical consultant in the late 1990s and 2000s and authored several tie-in books (most notably the Incredible Cross-Sections), was active in the online "Star Wars vs. Star Trek" debate, leading to many accusations that he pulled huge firepower numbers out of thin air purely for the purposes of permanently settling the debate in favor of the Star Wars side. Saxton's website shows the workings behind the figures, and while they're based on assumptions that, especially in retrospect, tend to be regarded as questionable, it's obvious that he genuinely did do a great deal of work on the subject instead just abusing his position to invent grossly inflated numbers. That said, other authors such as Gary Sarli pointed out major flaws in his assumptions, resulting in things like turbolaser firepower calculations being at least five orders of magnitude larger than they would have needed to be, while the droid figures included in the Revenge of the Sith Incredible Cross Sections were several orders of magnitude larger than the trillions of commonfolk of the Republic established in the Attack of the Clones movie novelization, and at least twelve larger than the clone troop figures, also established in said novel.
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Mis-blamed / int_e6a28dac	comment	The exact degree to which the widely-maligned Heroes in Crisis is not the fault of writer Tom King is uncertain, but it's generally accepted that there was some level of Executive Meddling that factored into the series' most controversial aspects. A broad trend is that as the series was being released, King would claim certain aspects were all planned by him, but as it neared its conclusion, he began dropping hints that there had been a change of plans, if not outright recanting on certain details (ones he probably wouldn't need act on to if unnecessary given how despite the heavy criticism, he's overall quite happy with the series and will defend other aspects). Since DC editorial has remained hush-hush and quietly done much to bury the series in the past, it's unlikely we'll ever know the full truth, but to recap: Perhaps the most widely-criticized aspect was the series' handling of Wally West, revealing him to have suffered an extended mental breakdown that accidentally resulted in several hero deaths. While King insists that everything involving Wally being a central focus of the story (which from day 1 has been all about exploring the mental health of superheroes in the face of trauma) was as he had written, he also made it clear that he didn't originally plan to write Wally to begin with — he simply had an outline of the story of a hero making a terrible mistake without any specific characters in mind, and editorial asked Wally to be slotted in. This leaves a chicken-or-egg question on whether Wally's majorly out-of-character actions in the story were a result of King's ignorance of the character or DC editorials (though it should be noted that then-EIC Dan DiDio had a notorious longstanding hatred for the character), but this issue leads directly into the next one... The story itself — while touted as being entirely King's intent — seems to have been altered mid-release. Originally the series was announced as a 6-parter, then bumped up to 7, then finalized to 9, and while King claims it was his idea (according to him, it was 7 issues plus 2 side "special edition" issues, but he talked DC into making them all making them official), nothing about said issues reflect this. What instead received attention was the occasional odd delay, the degree to which certain high-profile elements of the story — mainly the Trinity, Sanctuary, and its therapist AI — are abruptly dropped by the last three issues, and how rushed the last few issues were in introducing and resolving the mystery, leaving even more plot and thematic threads dangling. This, combined with early (though unsubstantiated) rumors of the series' ending and the series already receiving backlash from day 1, has led to a good chunk of readers to assume that for whatever reason, someone (whether it be King, editorial, or both) got cold feet at the original trajectory for the series, and that they had to change course for a different resolution. While the end result was still work by King's hand, it's since been accepted among more charitable readers that the worst decisions of the story weren't his to make.
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Mis-blamed / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly is the perfect example of the above-mentioned phenomenon where a popular show gets cancelled because the "wrong" audience liked it. Producer Chris Buchanan said: "The initial results — they made the network nervous. The men didnâ€™t respond as strongly as they thought they would, and the women responded more strongly."
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Mis-blamed / int_ea591eaf	comment	WWE caught a lot of flak for releasing Marty Jannetty just days after signing him in 2006. Jannetty had to go onto his blog and insist WWE was not at fault and had no choice but to let him go after both sides discovered his probation prevented him from meeting their travel demands.
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Mis-blamed / int_eb049de6	comment	In the same vein, a common criticism of the 2011 sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is that it "dumbed down" Sherlock Holmes by largely replacing the mystery and complex deductions with elaborate fight scenes and large-scale action set pieces — essentially turning Holmes into "Victorian James Bond". While it's understandable that people would like to see mystery in a movie about Sherlock Holmes, it should be noted that A Game of Shadows was based (albeit very loosely) on elements of the classic Doyle stories "The Final Problem" and "The Adventure of the Empty House" — both of which were essentially Cloak and Dagger adventure stories, with no central mystery at all. Hell, if you've read either of those stories, you'll notice that the screenwriters actually took pains to add a mystery where there weren't any in the source material. A Game of Shadows has the climactic reveal about the true nature of Moriarty's plans and how Holmes managed to figure them out midway through the movie, while "The Final Problem" just has a long Stern Chase across Europe.
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Mis-blamed / int_ec2a1c9e	comment	9 suffered from this as well. Tim Burton's name was attached to the movie and people assumed — partly because of the weird animation style, Scenery Gorn, and dark themes — that the whole thing was his. Shane Acker came up with the concept, co-wrote, and directed, while Burton just produced it. Also, people blamed Burton for taking the credit even though he clearly credits himself a producer.
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Mis-blamed / int_ecd3889f	comment	John Cena gets constant flak for being a boring Invincible Hero and his Five Moves of Doom (amongst other things), yet as a performer, he really doesn't get the final say in the matter. Executive meddling is responsible for telling him what moves to do and how he should wrestle his matches. In fact, Cena said in an interview in the summer of '06 that he wanted to drop out of the Main Event scene after he jobbed to Edge at New Year's Revolution and turn heel to refresh his character. The writers collectively slapped him down and continued to write all of his lines at shows like they had since '03 when he turned face. Cena's Hate Dumb also tends to hold him exclusively responsible for the companies PG Era. The PG-Era writing was a result of the company wanting to clean up their image after Chris Benoit's double murder-suicide and to help with Linda McMahon's attempt at having a political career.
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Mis-blamed / int_ed535562	comment	When it was announced that The Secret of NIMH would be remade, a lot of people have credited Don Bluth's adaptation of being even more faithful and how this would automatically be less faithful. Yeah sure, Bluth's version does follow the book it was based off of...for the most part. Those who read the books would know that Jenner actually didn't stick around and plot to murder a terrifying Nicodemus and succeed...he actually deserted the rat colony, was overheard of as being electrocuted by a car motor (with other deserters), and Nicodemus actually did not die. On top of the fact that, you know, the film isn't even in theatres yet and, considering very little has been mentioned since the first announcement, may never happen at all. This would be one thing if this was announced in the 80s. Don Bluth probably didn't know there would be any others, since the movie was made before the two other NIMH books were written.
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Mis-blamed / int_edb4e494	comment	Speaking of Tony Schiavone, he got a lot of grief over the years for burying Mick Foley's WWF world championship win on the infamous January 4, 1999 edition of Nitro. Tony was ordered to do so by Eric Bischoff (though the line "That's gonna put some butts in the seats." was entirely Tony's). He not only called to apologize to Foley days later, but admitted that he would have changed the channel to see Foley win as well.
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Mis-blamed / int_ee221a4e	comment	Bob Budiansky gets a lot of flak from fans for horrible writing in The Transformers (Marvel), while Simon Furman is praised as the saviour of the series. They tend to ignore the fact that most of Budiansky's work was praised when it was originally released, and he even got a fan letter from Stan Lee for the "Decepticon Graffiti" story. The majority of Budiansky's work was easily as good as Furman's, but his entire opus was tainted by the burnout he suffered in his last few issues as he tried desperately to keep up with Hasbro's demands. In fact, some of his popular work is occasionally misattributed to Furman for just this reason.
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Mis-blamed / int_efccb9da	comment	Voltron: Legendary Defender: The show has been heavily accused of queerbaiting during its seventh season, after publicizing the fact that Shiro was gay and that Adam, his ex-boyfriend, would return that season. In the series proper, Adam is already dead by the time Shiro returns and only appears in two scenes, both of which are flashbacks. While the creators may have, knowingly or not, stoked hype for this plot, fans also blame them for the posters on Netflix's service that heavily marketed that aspect of the seventh season; said posters, however, are not made by the creators, but by Netflix itself, and they have no input in it.
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Mis-blamed / int_f10a65b	comment	Legends of Tomorrow: Phil Klemmer is this for the Legends fandom on Tumblr who act like he is responsible for every single creative decision on the show. However, this is mainly done in a joking manner.
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Mis-blamed / int_f2da188a	comment	During The Batman's heyday, it got a lot of flack due to Executive Meddling relating to it removing the use of Batman characters in Justice League Unlimited outside of Bruce Wayne himself. However, both shows were victims of that as, barring a cameo of Nightwing in JLU, Teen Titans (2003) limited the use of Robin (resulting in The Batman's Robin being a case of Adaptational Late Appearance) and neither show could use Two-Face, the Scarecrow, or Ra's al Ghul due to The Dark Knight Trilogy (resulting in The Batman using its first Clayface in place of Two-Face, Hugo Strange in place of the Scarecrow, and Black Mask and — in The Movie — Count Dracula in place of Ra's al Ghul).
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Mis-blamed / int_f4b2ce93	comment	Warner Bros.' Histeria! has received some undeserved bashing because the people in question think it got Animaniacs and Freakazoid! cancelled. Animaniacs and Freakazoid! (the latter of which was canned a year before Histeria! even began production) were actually cancelled because the shows were seen as underperforming with Kids' WB!'s target demographic. Series creator Tom Rugger himself placed the blame for Animaniacs' cancellation on the success of PokÃ©mon: The Series, for convincing executives that dubbing children's anime would be more profitable than creating their own programming. Freakazoid's cancellation is also sometimes blamed on Madman creator Mike Allred, on the grounds that he sued over Freakazoid's similarity to his creation. This is not true: Mike has openly stated that he was unhappy that he didn't receive a credit for his influence, but he never sued — he didn't feel it was worth it.
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Mis-blamed / int_f60557db	comment	The Bionic Woman reboot in 2007 has had executive meddling or low ratings usually blamed for the cancellation of the show. But it was the Writer's Strike that halted production. Had it not been for the strike, it's likely the show would have had a full first season at the least. The Writer's Strike resulted in a lot of problems. Fledgling shows went months without new episodes and lost what momentum they built, and some shows had storylines cut short. It's also the reason why Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was below standards. Michael Bay had to write most of the movie himself or it would have gotten shut down. He even admits that's why the movie sucks.
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Mis-blamed / int_f688799b	comment	My Little Pony: The Movie (2017) A common point of contention is how it ignores Character Development and continuity (outside some cameos) past the end of Season 4, leading to questions about why they sought help from the hippogriffs over all the other allied races they made since then and it not feeling like it fit the shows continuity. Many criticize this as an attempt for The Movie appeal to wider audiences at the expense of it appealing to existing fans. But work on The Movie started immediately after end of Season 4, thus Production Lead Time would make it impossible to incorporate said later development and continuity beyond cameos if they wanted to or not. Once it came out Friendship is Magic would end in 2019, some blamed the movie's weak reception and earnings. However, Hasbro stated they wanted it to continue for five years in 2014 when the movie was first announced, wanted to wrap it up in the very early pitches for Season 7 while the movie would be mid-production, and months after the movie released leaked early drafts for the next series which was too soon to have been designed in response to its reception. While other G4 movies may have been canned, the end of Friendship is Magic, already a Long Runner by this point whose toy sales were slowing down before the movie released, was decided well before reception of The Movie could influence it.
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Mis-blamed / int_fb94293d	comment	In his commentary for the TGWTG Brawl, Doug Walker wasn't exactly happy with fan dumb calling him a misogynist for showing a pillow fight between The Nostalgia Chick and Little Miss Gamer, explaining that Lindsay had been the one to come up with it, not him. note He wasn't angry at Lindsay, just the concern trolls. Same went for Noah Antwiler and his commentary for the first "Spooning With Spoony". Similarly, Lindsay Ellis took some flak for the jokes at the expense of Nella in her show's review of Grease. Lindsay had to clarify that Nella wrote the script herself, and that Nella and her are friends and she would never actually say anything like that. A lot of people attack Allison Pregler for allegedly kicking Spoony off of Channel Awesome. This is in spite of the fact that Spoony himself has said that Lupa did not get him fired and that he chose to leave himself. Since he's the face of the website, Doug Walker often gets the brunt of criticism for Channel Awesome's mistreatment of its producers. Most of the executive decisions and abusive behavior came from Mike Michaud and, to a lesser extent, Rob Walker, who hold the majority stake in the website and dictate most business decisions. Some ex-producers do criticize Doug's lack of interference, however.
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Mis-blamed / int_fb9c177d	comment	For a while in the 90s, it was widely claimed that the thing that killed the original Transformers was the 1990 line—more specifically, the Action Masters, which infamously eschewed transforming figures altogether (they had transforming accessories and vehicles, but the figures were just typical action figures). However, the line had been in a rapidly-increasing decline for a while; the cartoon had long gone off the air, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was now at the height of its popularity and Micro Machines was no small threat, and the franchise as a whole was nearing seven years of age with no significant rebranding. The Action Masters were just an attempt to reverse the decline—sure, it didn't work, but very little would have worked at that point.
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Mis-blamed / int_fbb719c5	comment	Numerous fans and critics blamed the shifting of John Constantine's nationality and the setting in the Constantine (2005) movie on Keanu Reeves, claiming that it was because he couldn't do an English accent (he can, even if not perfectly). However, as confirmed by various people involved, the shift to California was a decision made some time before Reeves was ever approached with the offer.
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Mis-blamed / int_fcc7ec6b	comment	Hulk Hogan's can also apply Triple H starting from 2002 onwards, especially due to his longtime relationship with Stephanie McMahon, holding back smark favorites like Evan Bourne, Charlie Haas and Shelton Benjamin. Of course, this often avoids factors like "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's retirement from wrestling and The Rock becoming an actor depleting WWE's main event talent until guys like John Cena and Batista were ready. Or that Vince McMahon has always favored not only the larger wrestlers but the ones who can exude the most over-the-top personality even before Triple H was in WWE.
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Mis-blamed / int_fd6f613d	comment	DragonForce got a lot of stink during their disastrous 2006 World Tour, especially at Graspop of that year, for being apparently incapable of playing their own songs, and it led to major accusations of them being a studio act that sped up their own recordings. The actual reason the tour went so poorly is because the technician they hired was wildly incompetent: Barely tuning the band's gear or not tuning it at all, and technical issues were so common it permanently colored the view of the band for years. They've since re-hired their techs, and undergo significant preparations before every tour to ensure it doesn't happen again.
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Mis-blamed / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: As a result of the Fandom Rivalry, many fans blamed Phineas and Ferb for Disney Channel's bad treatment of Gravity Falls. At the time, Phineas and Ferb was not only barely even airing on the network due to winding down production, but Gravity Falls had already established itself as being their newest hit. The odd scheduling was a quirk of the show's production necessitating that new episodes had to be stretched out to a greater extent than its peers; a quirk that would continue into its second season on Disney XD, where it served as the flagship show for that channel. Some fans blamed Disney XD for the show's end, but it was actually Hirsch's decision to end the show due to burn-out and wanting to avoid Seasonal Rot, with him even wanting to have a far shorter second season (if not just end the show on season one's cliffhanger). Disney actually saw it as a Cash-Cow Franchise due to its immense popularity and wanted to continue the show, forcing him to commit to a 20-episode season as opposed to the ten that he originally wanted once he agreed to do another season, and hoping that Hirsch would change his mind.
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Mis-blamed / int_ff66c30e	comment	Even the slightest "mature" content in The Muppets productions over the years has led people to say "Jim Henson must be rolling in his grave." Of particular note, The Muppets (2015) series for ABC received flack for not being kid-friendly like the original The Muppet Show. However, Jim Henson never considered himself a children's entertainer, and always intended to aim the Muppets at general audiences. Adult humor had always existed in the Muppet world. Heck, one of the pilots for the original Muppet Show was titled "Sex and Violence." The fact that the Muppet Show characters are cousins to those on Sesame Street only adds to the confusion for some.
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Mis-blamed / int_ff8fe34b	comment	Sips came under fire for a seeming shift to Garry's Mod and nothing else come late 2014, with some accusing him of either selling out or screwing them over. The reality is that many of his ongoing Let's Play videos, such as Far Cry 4, were lost due to his hard drive malfunctioning and dozens of videos subsequently going missing; this forced the rest of the Yogscast to essentially give him content to fill the gaps, leading to the increase in Gmod. Similarly, he came under fire after Turpster disappeared from videos come early 2015, with fans accusing him and Hat Films of kicking him out due to the Hate Dumb (some going from calling for him to be removed to missing him). In reality, Turps had just become a father and quite understandably won't be involved as much due to his newborn baby.
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Mis-blamed / int_ff8fe62e	comment	Sjin did not simply end his Feed the World series (part of the Yogscast Minecraft Series) and choose to reboot it. The "Heartbleed" patch basically corrupted the old Minecraft server that the Yogs played on, meaning that a reboot was necessary.
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