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Reality Subtext

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Reality Subtext	comment	The Reality Subtext extends past the Fourth Wall to issues surrounding the production itself or on an even larger scale. During the creation of a work, the rest of the world and its struggles go on. Maybe the author or actor is having relationship issues, or drug issues, or got pregnant, or someone close to them died. Or something major happened in the world: a disaster, a war, the death or birth of a public figure, a chaotic political climate, what have you. Often these events have an effect on the work, but not one that is visible to the viewer or reader unless they are privy to that outside knowledge. Some subtext is only speculative, and some come from first-hand sources such as interviews and DVD Commentary. Either way, it is either not intentionally called out within the work, or the reference is oblique except to those who are "in on it". A Sub-Trope of Real Life Writes the Plot. See Harsher in Hindsight, Heartwarming in Hindsight or Hilarious in Hindsight for unintended cases of this, as Reality Subtext is at least semi-intentional. Also compare Enforced Method Acting and Throw It In!. May overlap with Creator Breakdown, Memorial Character and Write What You Know.
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Reality Subtext / int_1081aa34	comment	The storyline to the WipEout games (which is dizzyingly detailed... if you hunt down supplementary material) was often heavily influenced by fans. This is best seen between Fusion and Pure. Fusion received a very mixed reception from fans, citing the game's heavier focus on combat over skillful racing, new teams replacing old favorites, and some subpar course designs. Pure was not only hailed as a return to form, but the backstory revealed that In-Universe, the change in focus was due to the shady Overtel Corporation seizing control of the race commission and doing what they liked in the name of profit, almost all of the new teams were in on the scandal or otherwise crooked and were dismantled during the league's collapse allowing the popular teams they absorbed to re-emerge, That One Level was the site of a catastrophic accident precisely because of shoddy course design, and the new league harkened back to the old style of racing in an attempt to recapture the audience and distance itself from the scandals.
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Reality Subtext / int_14f03a65	comment	A 1995 production of The School for Scandal starred Tony Randall — who had just married a woman 50 years his junior — as Sir Peter Teazle — whose first line is "When an old bachelor marries a young wife, what is he to expect?"
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Reality Subtext / int_154a6eb0	comment	At the time Richard Maltby Jr. wrote the lyrics of "Fandango," his son was one year old, his wife, Janet Brenner, was co-producing Closer Than Ever and Maltby himself was simultaneously working on Miss Saigon.
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Reality Subtext / int_17e6cb15	comment	Bojack Horseman: "Thoughts And Prayers" is an episode that has this In-Universe. Princess Carolyn's project "Ms. Taken" is an incredibly violent movie about a girl going in gun violence-filled Roaring Rampage of Revenge that gets almost shelved due to the recent shootings. The episode shows the higher ups trying to release the movie at all costs while basically feigning sympathy for the victims in order to not come off as insensitive.
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Reality Subtext / int_1a8ec53f	comment	Green Lantern: Judd Winick's run had A Day in the Limelight issue focusing on John Stewart. In it, John lamented his reputation as "the black Green Lantern," as well as the way the Guardians of the Universe often viewed him as their third choice behind Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner. This mirrors the way John was underutilized by writers (usually in favor of Hal or Guy) and ignored by fans before the Justice League cartoon gave him a significant popularity boost. Likewise, the Kyle Rayner backup story in Green Lantern (2023) #8 focuses on the way Kyle feels lost and out of place with there being so many other Lanterns nowadays, mirroring the character's decrease in prominence due to DC's increased focus on the older GL's like Hal Jordan and John Stewart, as well as newer ones like Jessica Cruz and Jo Mullein.
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Reality Subtext / int_1af3cde6	comment	In the first show, the Phantom fell in love with Christine when he heard her sing, made her the star of an existing opera, then wrote an opera for her to star in. But as Christine realizes he's a murderer and stalker, she leaves him for the Viscount Raoul de Chagny. Lloyd Webber met Brightman when she auditioned for Cats and was cast in the role of Jemima. He wrote a successful classical song for her, Pie Jesu, and specifically wrote the part of Christine for her (keeping the character design close to her style, added dance moves in Hannibal so that she could show off her footwork, and the cadenzas in the title song and Think of Me for her vocal range). He left her for another woman after six years of their marriage, and as Christine clearly still loves the Phantom but cannot stay with him, which the Phantom also acknowledges, the feeling is supposedly identical between Brightman and Lloyd Webber.
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Reality Subtext / int_20028d77	comment	The Spectre: According to the introduction to the Fleischer/Aparo trade, the only reason the Spectre was revived as a character at all was that then-DC editor Joe Orlando was mugged and the thief got away. This left him longing for a superhero who punished the wicked after every legal recourse has failed. A little research into The Golden Age of Comic Books later, he found some early Spectre stories that were just up that alley, and voila.
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Reality Subtext / int_251e67c5	comment	Justice League of America: Dwayne McDuffie's final arc, which saw the team struggling to stay together and Black Canary questioning whether she even cared enough to continue with the group, was meant as a metaphor for McDuffie's own deteriorating relationship with DC Comics. Not too long after, he was fired for publicly speaking out against the Executive Meddling his run had received. His earlier storyline with the team captured by Anansi was also a commentary on Executive Meddling. Anansi rewrites reality and causes a bunch of Points of Divergence that result in a radically different Justice League, mirroring the way Dwayne felt his own storylines were being twisted and taken away from him. James Robinson's final issue of the series (and the last issue of Justice League of America before the 2011 reboot) was very obviously a bitter commentary on the behind the scenes issues of the series itself. In the issue, Dick Grayson and Donna Troy lament that nobody will remember their League, but that they're proud of the work they did, and that they will never forget it. This incarnation of the team was going to be rebooted out of continuity, along with all of the team's members aside from Dick himself, who Robinson also commented on regarding his return to the Nightwing role after being Batman for a few years.
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Reality Subtext / int_25cf8a59	comment	Level 10 of Stinkoman 20X6 begins with the Shadowy Figure getting angry about how long Stinkoman's been outside his castle, with 1-Up and Pan Pan having waited so long the former grew a beard and the latter had 100 kids. This mirrors the 15-year wait after the release of Level 9, though in-universe Stinkoman merely fell asleep for a while.
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Reality Subtext / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the episode "The Joy of Sect": Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) is a member of the Church of Scientology. Bart's line, "Church, cult. Cult, church. So, we'll get bored someplace else on Sunday. Does this really affect our day-to-day lives?" is a subtle burn against Scientology (and organized religion in general) — one that apparently didn't cause any backlash from the Church of Scientology (unlike what happened with the South Park episode "Trapped In The Closet"). During Bart's Imagine Spot in "Bart vs. Thanksgiving", Uncle Sam appears and tell him it's his fault America has lost its way. This is a reference to politicians and conservatives deeming Bart (and the show) a bad influence during the show's early years. Word of God says "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" reflected the strains they felt balancing the expectations from both fans and the network, torn between being relatively realistic and being wackier, such as in the focus group scene.
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Reality Subtext / int_26674ed5	comment	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty can be read as a giant parable by Hideo Kojima for how "the Patriots" (i.e. Japanese ultranationalists) want to delete Japanese war crimes from school textbooks and shape the minds of the next generation. Snake's ending monologue, about letting children read "our" sad and messy history, is a pretty big clincher.
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Reality Subtext / int_26ef42e7	comment	Kevin & Kell takes place in an alternate Earth, where characters have similar events to what's happening in the real world. For example, comics in June 2020 have characters using masks to slow down a disease.
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Reality Subtext / int_2894671c	comment	Justice League International: In the late 80s, editor Andy Helfer was tasked with relaunching the Justice League after the cancellation of the original series. However, because Executive Meddling kept basically all of the A-list heroes (Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, ect.) off-limits, the new team had to be comprised almost entirely of C-listers, with the exception of Batman, who Denny O'Neil allowed Helfer to use out of pity. Writers Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis decided to lean in to how mismatched all the characters were, and Batman and Martian Manhunter, the only two founding leaguers remaining, were pretty much constantly pissed off at all the other characters for being unprofessional. Similarly, Hawkmanâ€™s brief stint with the JLI mostly involved him complaining about how inferior it was to the old Justice League, mirroring some of the bookâ€™s real world detractors.
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Reality Subtext / int_299c659b	comment	Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, about a man's triumph over his older siblings, was created for Andrew Lloyd Webber's older brother.
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Reality Subtext / int_2a8943c0	comment	In the Miraculous Ladybug fanfic When I Finally Break, Chloe's daily harassment on her, along with her difficult family life outside her parents, leads Marinette to start cutting herself and hiding her problems from her friends. The author has admitted in updates that her home life is dysfunctional and has a history of depression and self-harm that she keeps from her friends.
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Reality Subtext / int_2b432920	comment	Also, most of the humor in Panshy's video Shit TGWTG Producers and Fans Say.
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Reality Subtext / int_2bbcacd9	comment	At one point in Looney Tunes, director, Friz Freleng left the studio to work for MGM. After a miserable year, Leon Schlesinger gave him his old job back. It's believed that his cartoon, You Ought to Be in Pictures, where Daffy tricks Porky into quitting his job to go into feature filmsnote Daffy wanted Porky's job as the star of the studio was his way of saying thank you to Schlesinger.
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Reality Subtext / int_2c615218	comment	Missile Command's chilling "THE END" Game Over screen was, according to the developer, Dave Theurer, inspired by the recurring nightmares of nuclear war he was having by that point in the game development process. (The six cities that the player defends were, in the original design, six Real Life cities along the Pacific coast of California: Eureka, San Francisco, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and San Diego.)
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Reality Subtext / int_2cfe43cb	comment	Adventures in Odyssey, "The Triangled Web" features a reunion of a number of the original kids. It is mentioned that Jack and Lucy went to the same college in Texas and got married by the end of the episode, reflecting how their voice actors Donald Long and Genni Mullen got married and moved to Texas as well.
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Reality Subtext / int_2d9b271	comment	In 2016, Wally West returned to the DC Universe after being Exiled from Continuity since the New 52 reboot, where it's explained he was literally exiled from reality, trapped in the Speed Force by a being (Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen) who decided to interfere with the fabric of the DC Universe because they didn't understand it. Geoff Johns has confirmed it was meant as a criticism of the Misaimed Fandom of Watchmen and how some creators have tried to emulate it in all the worst ways, and portraying his rewrites to reality as an invasion of the universe and an attack on everything that made it great really makes it obvious it was specifically criticizing the people behind the New 52.
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Reality Subtext / int_2eeec9bd	comment	"Opening Doors" from Merrily We Roll Along loosely reflects some of Stephen Sondheim's own early career struggles in the 1950s. "Who Wants to Live in New York?" from this sequence has definite parallels to "What More Do I Need?" from his early musical Saturday Night, both being Berate and Switch List Songs about the hassles of living in New York City. "What More Do I Need?" was supposedly written around the time the authors of Saturday Night were desperately seeking out new backers following the unexpected death of Lemuel Ayers. Both in Real Life and fiction, the song wasn't enough to interest potential backers and the production died.
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Reality Subtext / int_30395cb1	comment	Invader Zim (Oni): The first issue begins with Zim having disappeared for some undisclosed but apparently very long amount of time, playing on the show's sudden cancellation and decade-plus Sequel Gap. Dib has become a gross, overweight shut-in as a result. The movie (apparently set in an Alternate Continuity from the comic) does the same thing.
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Reality Subtext / int_309df9ea	comment	Similarly, Atop the Fourth Wall took SOPA/ACTA and used it as the basis of a Backstory for a character. Essentially, the bill (unnamed, but heavily implied to be SOPA or a similar bill) caused a Big Brother Is Watching You style setting for the character's home, which was what a lot of people had been fearing if such a bill passed. It was not the last time Linkara would verge into this territory - A Voice from the Dark, a reunion of former Channel Awesome producers, features people such as Marzgurl and Welshy frequently complaining about being lied to, manipulated abused, distrusted, blamed for things they didn't do, and overall being put in massively high-stress environments due to the previous anniversary specials. While this could just mean how the In-Universe setups for Suburban Knights and other anniversary specials involved them being lied to, it's talked about in vague enough terms that it could just as easily be talking about the Real Life issues at Channel Awesome that they all experienced.
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Reality Subtext / int_31a8701b	comment	The Flash: The out-of-universe Fandom Rivalry between the second and third Flash, Barry Allen and Wally West, and the Executive Meddling from fans of the former who had began Running the Asylum, has repeatedly influenced stories in the comics. Back in 1992, The Return of Barry Allen was written as something of a retraction to people who were refusing to accept Barry Allen's death, with the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, getting a backstory that explains he was a Loony Fan who stole Barry Allen's identity in order to 'fix the mistake' that was Barry's death and Wally taking over the mantle. The story ends with Wally proving himself not just Thawne's superior, but also proving to be just as good a Flash as Barry Allen, if not better. Something he would continue to prove for the next two decades. Barry Allen's eventual return in 2010, and subsequently the New 52 reboot that erased Wally West, Jay Garrick, and the extended Flash Family so that Barry Allen was the only Flash, was in large part motivated by Dan DiDio (evidently, one of the kind of people the aforementioned story was griping about) having disliked Wally West for replacing Barry, and believing that Barry Allen's story is simpler and much easier to follow. This in-turn is likely why the extended Flash Family were also erased, as they were largely characters who had become prominent in Wally's tenure, and because erasing them meant more focus could be used on just Barry. In 2016, Wally West returned to the DC Universe after being Exiled from Continuity since the New 52 reboot, where it's explained he was literally exiled from reality, trapped in the Speed Force by a being (Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen) who decided to interfere with the fabric of the DC Universe because they didn't understand it. Geoff Johns has confirmed it was meant as a criticism of the Misaimed Fandom of Watchmen and how some creators have tried to emulate it in all the worst ways, and portraying his rewrites to reality as an invasion of the universe and an attack on everything that made it great really makes it obvious it was specifically criticizing the people behind the New 52. During Joshua Williamson's tenure on The Flash, Executive Meddling greatly hampered many of his stories, such as forcing him to repeatedly abandon any time he tried to give Barry Allen Character Development that resulted in Barry looking like an uncaring dickhead with Aesop Amnesia, and refusing to let him revive the Flash Family. During this time, other books also affected the Flash line, such as Teen Titans having the new Kid Flash, Wallace, help Damian Wayne with some shady shit, and more notably, Wally West being sent to Sanctuary, where he had a mental breakdown and his powers accidentally kill a lot of heroes. Williamson's final story, Finish Line, ends up providing an In-Universe explanation for all of these poor creative decisions with The Reveal that Eobard Thawne had been responsible for forcing people into making bad choices. Barry Allen pushing away his family, Wallace joining Damian Wayne's fascist Teen Titans, Wally West causing the massacre at Sanctuary, Barry not seeking help and prioritising saving the Flash Family, all of it. Speed Metal and Infinite Frontier #0, have Wally and Barry discuss the things Wally has endured in recent years, and how they were largely the result of Wally being pushed aside by Barry's return. In-universe, this is because they started with Flashpoint, an event Barry caused, and that many of them could have been mitigated had Barry put in the effort to help Wally. Out-of-universe, it's because Creator's Pet and Creator's Pest treatment for the two caused Barry to be given preferential treatment at Wally's expense. Barry makes amends by stepping aside and letting Wally be the Flash again, just as Joshua Williamson steps aside to let a new writer take over the Flash book with Wally as the lead once more.
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Reality Subtext / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY Volume 3 starts with Ruby talking to her mother's grave, and the shot of the crows flying into the setting sun is deliberately designed to form the shape of Monty's artistic personal signature. Monty Oum died before the start of the volume, so Ruby talking also acts as the crew of Rooster Teeth talking to Monty; the scene of Ruby talking to her mother's grave was the last scene Monty ever worked on. At the end of Volume three, after several deaths in the show, a slow song mourning the loss of someone who changed the lives of those around them plays over the credits, which end In Memoriam to Monty. Two songs used in the show also carry this subtext: "Let's Just Live" from Volume 4 is a tribute to both Monty and the character deaths, while Volume 6's "Indomitable" is a tribute to both Ruby's fighting spirit and Monty's inspirational impact on his colleagues. The Volume 8 episode "War" has two moments that are coloured by real life context that can be connected to the scene: The Ace-Ops tell Ren, Jaune and Yang that, when team members die, the team should just move on and replace them with someone else, essentially arguing that personal bonds and the pain of loss are meaningless. Ren explodes at that, furiously telling them that no-one is replaceable. While this has the obvious in-universe connotations of what Jaune, Ren and Nora went through after their team-mate Pyrrha died, the line takes on a reality subtext for those fans who know that Ren's voice actor, Neath Oum, only stepped in to the role after the death of his brother Monty, the creator of the show and Ren's original voice actor. When Weiss struggles to let go of her blood-ties to Atlas in favour of helping Mantle, she asks if May, who also comes from an elite Atlesian family, feels the same way. This triggers May into giving an extremely raw emotional outburst about the rejection she experienced from her family because she's a trans woman. Her voice actress, Kdin Jenzen, is also a trans woman, making the scene a very real moment for anyone who knows that. The Volume 9 Epilogue Animatic deals with themes such as hope and uncertainty with everybody unclear about the future war with Salem, mirroring how uncertain the future of RWBY is overall following Rooster Teethâ€™s shutdown, and the possibility of the show either continuing under a new company or Warner Bros. possibly shelving the entire franchise with no hope of any continuation if it didnâ€™t find a buyer. Most notably, a line where it was revealed that Salem decimated Vale while Team RWBY was in the Ever After is given a more meaningful impact since it parallels WB shutting down RT while Volume 10 was in the writing stages.
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Reality Subtext / int_39eb4272	comment	Jim Sangster's Doctor Who Novelisations-style adaptation of "Dimensions of Time" has several tongue-in-cheek references to the peculiar nature of the production, the most blatant being his version of the scene where Mandy intervenes in the confrontation between the Rani and Liz Shaw, which was originally subject to a phone-in vote between the two parts of the special, with the audience choosing between Mandy and Big Ron. In Sangster's version, the Rani's sidekick Cyrian mind-controls Big Ron to get involved, but the two trapped Doctors are able to alter the time bubble so that he chose Mandy (who is less of a physical threat) instead. When Cyrian checks the dimensional readings and discovers they've changed slightly, the correct and actual figures are the relevent phone numbers for the two characters.
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Reality Subtext / int_3ac755dd	comment	As is noted in the booklet that came with the Legacy Edition of the movie's soundtrack, "The Mob Song" from Beauty and the Beast reflects how AIDS was viewed at the time the song was written and the conditions in Howard Ashman's life as a sufferer of the disease.
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Reality Subtext / int_3b34143f	comment	The Dementors in Harry Potter are the personified result of J. K. Rowling's own battle with depression. She's also mentioned several times that her mother's death significantly affected her writing, especially in regards to the themes of love and death in the story. One of the most haunting moments in the first book is when Harry finds the Mirror of Erised, which shows him his long-dead parents, looking at him and smiling with pride.
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Reality Subtext / int_3d675820	comment	The company was in dire financial straits by 2000 and declared bankruptcy shortly after the release of The King of Fighters 2000. How did they communicate this? By destroying South Town (the setting of both Fatal Fury and Art of Fighting) via Kill Sat. Naturally, when SNK came under new management and was revitalized as SNK Playmore, The King of Fighters 2003 made a point of showing the city thriving once more.
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Reality Subtext / int_3d675822	comment	The 2002 Story of The King of Fighters All Star is heavily implied to end with Nameless's death. Occurring around the same time was the reveal of Krohnen in The King of Fighters XV — better known as K9999, the very same character Nameless was intended to replace.
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Reality Subtext / int_400469e	comment	Calvin and Hobbes: One strip features Calvin getting upset over going to bed because it means that he can't play with Hobbes. Then he realizes that going to sleep doesn't have to mean being apart, because they can always play together in their dreams. Bill Watterson wrote the strip because his cat — who served as the inspiration for Hobbes — had just died, and what made him feel better was realizing that they could always be together in his dreams. In-universe, Calvin imagines himself as various alter egos, the most common ones being Spaceman Spiff, a heroic explorer, Stupendous Man, a superhero, and Tracer Bullet, a detective. They all are touted as huge badasses in Calvin's imagination, but because they go up against people with more power than Calvin in real life (such as his parents, his teacher, and Roslyn), they always lose. There's a Calvin and Hobbes Sunday strip where Calvin's father says he sees everything in black and white, which leads Calvin to vividly imagine such a situation, and another with the same premise except with Calvin's father saying the boy doesn't have any sense of perspective, leading to Calvin being trapped in a world with no vanishing points. Both strips are based on Watterson's arguments with his syndicate on merchandising, where the company would accuse the cartoonist of seeing no shades of grey and having no perspective. Another brief story arc in the strip saw Calvin placating the monsters under his bed by feeding them garbage, according to Watterson himself, a testament to how he sometimes felt in writing the strip.
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Reality Subtext / int_409683e7	comment	Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse: During the climactic brawl in Nueva York, Miguel furiously rants to Miles that he's "not supposed to be Spider-Man" because the spider that bit him came from a different universe, meaning said universe was robbed of its own Spider-Man. According to Word of God, this is a subtle reference to the backlash toward the character of Miles Morales for "replacing" the true owner of the mantle.
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Reality Subtext / int_41ec4f3c	comment	Kill la Kill AU, by the author of the above Gensokyo 20XX series'', has some of this as well. Ragyou and Soichiro's divorce is because Amoridere's own parents divorced when she was around Satsuki's age in the earlier half of the series. ''Feel' has a chapter with Rei being on oxygen therapy; it's implied by the next chapter that Rei had passed on. This was based on the fact that Amoridere's grandmother (who also suffers from breathing problems) was in hospice, and later became a tad Harsher in Hindsight when her grandmother did pass away.
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Reality Subtext / int_4388e597	comment	Chess is a musical famous lyricist Tim Rice wrote while having an affair with Elaine Paige, starring Elaine Paige as a woman with whom a famous chess player has an affair.
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Reality Subtext / int_44127c7c	comment	The Power Rangers fan film Power/Rangers (Bootleg Universe) does this with two of the original Rangers from Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers and the actors who played them in the series proper, as it had Trini's funeral after the Rangers' final battle (reflecting Thuy Trang's passing) and Billy is shown as having come out as gay (reflecting David Yost, who is gay himself).
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Reality Subtext / int_44d00173	comment	Throughout The Little Drummer Boy, Aaron is embittered with hatred for all humans due to the murder of his parents until playing for the newborn Jesus. When his lamb returns, Greer Carson's narration mentions that "Aaron's heart was filled with joy and love. And he knew at last that the hate he had carried there was wrong. As ALL hatred will ever be wrong." A valid point regardless of when it aired, but the moral seems especially directed to those struggling with the horrible events of 1968 (a year that saw, among other things, the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King that April; followed exactly two months later by the assassination of New York Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy along with race riots following Dr. King's death, and another riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, instigated by the Youth International Party/Yippies, who instigated a similar riot at Disneyland two years later; the year would've been viewed with scorn had it not been for Apollo 8).
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Reality Subtext / int_44fe781e	comment	Appropriately for a Neon Genesis Evangelion fanfic, the author of Doing It Right This Time draws heavily on his own history of depression when writing Shinji.
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Reality Subtext / int_45e9bfb2	comment	The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #416 (October 1996) included a story by Tom DeFalco where the Daily Bugle is facing financial problems and has to lay off many of its personnel. Meaning that established supporting characters such as Kate Cushing were Put on a Bus, with their fates in doubt. Peter Parker himself, who had only recently returned to New York City with the promise of a permanent staff position, was among those fired and faced an unstable future. The story reportedly served as a way for DeFalco to work "through his feelings" concerning the ongoing financial difficulties of Marvel Comics and a series of Marvel staff layoffs. Some were staffers whom DeFalco himself had hired for Marvel, and he felt partly responsible for the company letting them go like this. Per "The Life of Reilly": "In his Daily Bugle scenes, Tom D. worked in a lot of in-jokes and references to what was going on at Marvel, all of which probably went over the heads of people on the outside, but were glaring obvious to anyone who was working (or had been working) at the company."
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Reality Subtext / int_48338594	comment	When The Muppets (2015) returned from its midseason hiatus, it had a new showrunner, who had listened to the fans and decided to give it a bit of a Retool to make it "more Muppety". In the first post-hiatus episode, Up Late With Miss Piggy is given a new showrunner who wants to give it a Retool but doesn't listen to what anyone wants, prompting the Muppets themselves to make the show more Muppety.
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Reality Subtext / int_49a885c8	comment	Advertisements for Final Fantasy XVI heavily involved the line "The legacy of the crystals has shaped our history for long enough." While it actually does involve the game's plot, it doubles as a reference to the Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy project, which was originally designed to bring back crystals as a plot device in the series. Due to Development Hell, Schedule Slip, and general mission creep, FNC and its related projects ended up defining pretty much everything Square Enix put out relating to Final Fantasy for the better part of a decade, between Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy XV (which started life as a spinoff of XIII), and many different sequels and spinoffs between the two, to very mixed reception. Furthermore, XVI is mostly the work of the creative team of Final Fantasy XIV, the main new property of that era to have no connection to FNC.
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Reality Subtext / int_4bd693d0	comment	In As Told by Ginger, in the episode "No Hope For Courtney", Mrs. Gordon dies. Originally, Mrs. Gordon was supposed to come out of retirement, but her voice actress (Kathlyn Freeman) died, so the writers redid the ending to reflect this (and dedicated the episode to Freeman).
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Reality Subtext / int_4d9653ef	comment	According to the creators of Planescape, the entire premise of Sigil was meant to be something of an analogy for the experience of working for TSR in the 90s. TSR dominated the tabletop gaming community but suffered from constant financial trouble, was currently juggling a multitude of incompatible game lines, had multiple internal factions arguing over what direction Dungeons & Dragons should go, and its CEO, Lorraine Williams, was massively unpopular, had seemingly no interest in the company's product, and tended to invent or destroy initiatives on a whim. Sigil is a vast, decaying city connected to all worlds in the multiverse, inhabited by warring factions that fight over various philosophical concepts, and ruled over by a dispassionate, inscrutable, omnipotent being that instantly kills anything to cross her path.
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Reality Subtext / int_4f9064f5	comment	Kung Fu Panda: Just like how Shifu had to tutor Po in the ways of the martial arts, the actors behind their characters oddly paralleled that considering Dustin Hoffman tutored Jack Black to improve his acting to raise it to his standard.
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Reality Subtext / int_5084d29e	comment	Captain Marvel: When Peter David's Captain Marvel series saw flagging sales, he did a storyline where Mar-Vell fought Entropy. And when the comic was being cancelled, he met Eulogy, who tells him that You Have Outlived Your Usefulness, and he's here to take inventory. Rick complains that he's "having to go through this again", and Genis-Vell begs with Entropy that they can't stop while there are things still Left Hanging, people who need him... Eulogy just tells him that his feelings have nothing to do with it, and that it's all been decided already. His run (...of adventures) is over, and there are others to satisfy the public. The final issue of Captain Marvel and the Carol Corps ends with the title characters flying off into the unknown space outside of Battleworld, with the narration commenting that while there's a good chance they might all die, death is better than simply sitting around and refusing to explore what else is out there. Some have read this as commentary from writer Kelly Sue Deconnick, as this was her last Captain Marvel story before she left Marvel Comics to focus on her creator-owned stuff like Bitch Planet. In Secret Empire #7, Carol Danvers is lamenting to the comatose body of the female Quasar that she's the reason for Steve Rogers and HYDRA taking over the United States and Earth's most powerful heroes are stuck behind an impenetrable shield. That she started off the second superhuman civil war that divided the superhero community again because she was too stubborn to back down, that she wanted people to love her and instead gave them a reason to hate her. This is seen as reflecting on the Character Derailment done to Carol due to the story, as well as the fact that Civil War II was seemingly intended to help solidify Carol as an A-lister but resulted in her being far more widely disliked instead.
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Reality Subtext / int_5472938f	comment	According to the author, the "Sometimes, its more than the person that dies" line in Turning the Hands of Time, Part I of the Madgie, what did you do? series came from the fact that the story was written either sometime around or after her maternal grandmother had passed and that, afterward, she found it hard to remember her since, recalling certain things about her briefly and vaguely.
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Reality Subtext / int_568caf46	comment	The Best Revenge, among its other changes from Harry Potter canon, puts quite a bit more focus on what exactly happened to Lily and James's possessions after they died. As the author explains in her notes, her brother died shortly before she started writing the fic, and being the executor of his estate taught her that "personal possessions sometimes matter very much for all sorts of reasons."
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Reality Subtext / int_569093cc	comment	The DuckTales (2017) episode "The Duck Knight Returns" had a boatload of this. Launchpad tells Drake Mallard to become Darkwing Duck for real "For Jim [Starling]", the in-universe actor for Darkwing, who was also voiced by Darkwing's original voice (and a case of The Danza), Jim Cummings. Around the time the episode aired, Jim Cummings, who voiced the original Darkwing Duck and voices the in-universe actor, Jim Starling, was involved in a nasty custody battle with his ex-wife, who levied accusations of rape and animal abuse against him.note The charges were later dropped, though the judge in the custody battle issued restraining orders against both Cummings and his ex-wife and chastised the both of them for putting themselves above their kids. Thus, this gives an unexpected perspective on Launchpad's loss of respect for Starling after Starling snaps. The episode address issues and questions involved with reboots, something the show itself had to deal with. Showrunner Frank Angones once dressed up as Darkwing Duck at school as a kid, much like the 2017 reboot's Drake Mallard did.
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Reality Subtext / int_5755b96a	comment	The Order of the Stick: The character of Wrecan is a tribute to a late member of the Giant in the Playground forums who went by the screen name "Wrecan". Strip #1025, Wrecan and Roy's last meeting before Roy leaves the godsmoot, has a few moments in particular to this effect: Wrecan's remark about counting the appearances of legacy bearers is a reference to how the real life Wrecan started the "number of appearances per character" thread. Their words of farewell to each other, with the "camera" angle facing Wrecan head-on for the second half, as if he's addressing the reader: The strip is titled "Mark of Distinction" as a reference to his real name, Mark Monack.
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Reality Subtext / int_5b3356f8	comment	Turning Red: A couple minor characters have insulin pumps on their arms because the film's technical supervisor Susan Fong lives with type 1 diabetes and wanted diabetic representation in the film.
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Reality Subtext / int_5bfedfba	comment	The story in Grave of the Fireflies was based closely on the experiences of the writer, Nosaka Akiyuki, in World War II. In Real Life, Nosaka watched his little sister die of starvation the same way the main character of the movie did. That the said main character later starves to death on the floor of JNR Sannomiya Station in the opening of the film should tell you a bit about how he still feels about that.
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Reality Subtext / int_5cfb879b	comment	New Gods: The marriage of the characters Scott Free and Big Barda is based on that of their creator, Jack Kirby, and his wife Roz to whom he was Happily Married for fifty years.
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Reality Subtext / int_5f76cba1	comment	Barry Allen's eventual return in 2010, and subsequently the New 52 reboot that erased Wally West, Jay Garrick, and the extended Flash Family so that Barry Allen was the only Flash, was in large part motivated by Dan DiDio (evidently, one of the kind of people the aforementioned story was griping about) having disliked Wally West for replacing Barry, and believing that Barry Allen's story is simpler and much easier to follow. This in-turn is likely why the extended Flash Family were also erased, as they were largely characters who had become prominent in Wally's tenure, and because erasing them meant more focus could be used on just Barry.
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Reality Subtext / int_6053d9f9	comment	Silent Hill: Silent Hills's infamous P.T. demo, in many subtle ways, references Hideo Kojima's falling out with Konami over the development of Metal Gear Solid V, and Konami corporate's treatment of him in his final months with the company. Every Silent Hill game has this subtext, the development team being composed of members "orphaned" from other projects suffering from Executive Meddling under Japanese work culture.
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Reality Subtext / int_60996c02	comment	In Spider-Man: The Animated Series, the writers were forced to use the Hobgoblin before the more popular and iconic Green Goblin in order to help sell Hobgoblin action figures. Producer John Semper hated this, so after finally introducing Green Goblin in Season 3, he did the "Goblin War" episode, which ended with Hobgoblin being permanently Put on a Bus. As if that weren't enough, the episode also had Green Goblin belittle Hobgoblin by dismissing him as a cheap wannabe, clearly mirroring Semper's own feelings about the character.
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Reality Subtext / int_610a694a	comment	PokÃ©mon Adventures: In the ninth volume, it's revealed that Red's hands have gotten numb due to his predicament with the Elite Four in the previous chapter, which causes him to have a hard time to even catch a PokÃ© Ball. In real life, the manga's illustrator Mato had been diagnosed with tendonitis, which forced her to retire from the series and to Satoshi Yamamoto to replace her ever since. Thankfully, she is nowadays doing well enough to continue on with regular illustration jobs, but she has never returned to serialized manga again.
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Reality Subtext / int_62126ef1	comment	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes episode "Everything Is Wonderful" can be seen as a commentary on Disney's controversial buyout of Marvel Comics, with Iron Man acting as Disney and Wonder Man acting as Marvel (or the Marvel fans who accused the company of "selling out"). The most blatant bit is when Wonder Man angrily accuses Tony of having stolen his company, to which Tony replies by claiming he only bought the company to save it after its years of financial troubles.
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Reality Subtext / int_6306cffc	comment	Doctor Who: Paul Cornell has written that the Doctor's increasing feeling that he needs to get away from UNIT and twentieth-century Earth in his Third Doctor Doctor Who (Titan) miniseries was an expression of his own decision at the time to stop doing work-for-hire or licensed work completely and only work on his own stand-alone works.
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Reality Subtext / int_63dc0a2	comment	The Tragedy of Man carried the same message of preserverence despite the loss of faith throughout its production, but it proved especially proignant when director Marcell Jankovics lost his studio backing right as he started animating and struggled with completing the film for 23 years (closer to 28 if you include preproduction), with seemingly everything working against him. The messages of God and Adam at the end, "Struggle and have faith." and "The end is death, life is a struggle. And man's end is the struggle itself." were the core mantras that kept him going and not giving up on the project.
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Reality Subtext / int_64791462	comment	There's a throwaway line in A Feast for Crows where Petyr Baelish expresses surprise at how quickly the new regime is dissolving into chaos, as he'd based his plans on the expectation that he'd have four or five peaceful years to consolidate power in his new position. This is a sly reference to the fact that George R. R. Martin had initially wanted to put a five-year Time Skip between the novels, but due to all the disparate plot threads he couldn't make it work.
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Reality Subtext / int_677bb544	comment	The ComiQ has an in-universe example, as Ryota's work has parallels to murders that took place three years ago, specifically a symbol found at the scene of the crime. The backgrounds turn out to be drawn by the supposed murderer, who is actually innocent and seeking a way to clear his name.
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Reality Subtext / int_67917017	comment	Marat/Sade is about Marquis de Sade getting inmates of Charenton, a mental institution, to put on a play. There's some truth behind this.
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Reality Subtext / int_68781099	comment	In A Clockwork Orange, the scenes of ultraviolence were written based on Anthony Burgess' memories of his wife's rape. Apparently, he was pretty consistently drunk during this period, and always regretted that the book became most remembered for the violence.
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Reality Subtext / int_68ff290a	comment	Silent Hills's infamous P.T. demo, in many subtle ways, references Hideo Kojima's falling out with Konami over the development of Metal Gear Solid V, and Konami corporate's treatment of him in his final months with the company.
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Reality Subtext / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: The last Scrooge Mc Duck story Carl Barks wrote before going into semi-retirement was King Scrooge the First (written 1966, published 1967). It is the story of an immortal man who is tired of his long life and seeks death. He describes himself as "tired, and old and lonely". The story is considered to express the 65-year-old Bark's own feelings of fatigue and decision to end a whole era of his life.
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Reality Subtext / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch: The New Blood arc retcons Jesse McCree to having been the criminal alias of Cole Cassidy, which is eventually forsaken by the character. A few months before the New Blood event, Blizzard Entertainment had been engulfed in a massive sexual harassment scandal that had implicated, among other employees, the actual Jesse McCree, forcing Cassidy to be Renamed to Avoid Association.
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Reality Subtext / int_6d10ab03	comment	Multiple pre-fight dialogues in Mortal Kombat 1 have characters express dismay over how Sindel turned out in the previous timeline — a rather obvious nod to the negative reception surrounding the Retcon in Mortal Kombat 11 that she was Evil All Along, which was harsh enough to be swiftly reversed here.
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Reality Subtext / int_6d9c346e	comment	There Is No Game is a game about the fact that there is no game due to the fact that the in-game developer ran out of funding in a manner similar to the developer in real life.
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Reality Subtext / int_72262aee	comment	The Avatar: The Last Airbender episode "Tales of Ba Sing Se" is a breather-episode made up of short sketches, each focusing on a different major character and how they interact with the city. Iroh's story featured him mourning his late son, Lu Ten. In reality, Iroh's voice actor, Mako, had coincidentally just died. The episode was even dedicated to him. Although Iroh appeared in the first four episodes of season 3, he never utters a word. The production based reason is that the creators wanted to give viewers time to adjust to a new voice actor. In-universe, he is silent out of despair over Zuko's betrayal, and therefore refuses to talk to Zuko when he visits.
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Reality Subtext / int_72ab82	comment	The time gap between the release of the original Kid Icarus game in Europe and North America and the release of its sequel for the Nintendo 3DS, Kid Icarus: Uprising, is a whopping 25 years, month up month down. This is referenced in the plot of the sequel, which takes place 25 years after the events of the original. The very first thing Pit says as the game begins is "sorry to keep you waiting!" and it's directed at the audience as much as it is to Palutena.
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Reality Subtext / int_77aa72de	comment	Jinsei Owata no Daibouken II (the sequel to the game that inspired I Wanna Be the Guy) was released in 2020, the last full year before Adobe Flash's discontinuation. The plot is about Owata's last adventure before the world ends, mirroring the fate of many Flash games and animations when Flash finally goes offline.
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Reality Subtext / int_78c969c4	comment	Foam Bath's director GyÃ¶rgy KovÃ¡sznai originally set out to become a storefront decorator, but the art community of the time considered it a lowly job and even academia was split between the "real arts" and "window dressers." The character Zsolt is therefore a hysterical window decorator who strives for his art and work to be appreciated and even rants about the lack of respect his kind gets. The rest of the movie reflects on real life parenting trends of the late 70s East Bloc.
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Reality Subtext / int_7965bb13	comment	Citadel of the Heart: Truth and Ideals had Chapter 72 ending with Grandis in a rather downer mood on a snowy night during the conclusion of the 8th Gym Arc. As the story progresses until its conclusion, Grandis shows a lot of signs of slacking off on the job as he begins drowning his sorrows with either non-alcoholic, sugar-filled drinks and soda or eating a huge amount of pizza and junk food. In the end, Grandis was very quick to leave once he was no longer necessary, as he felt the need to just take time off and relax for who knows how long for at least the remainder of the year. In what ended up being a more Life Imitates Art example of this, the author confirms he had been slacking off much of the remainder of 2017; often drinking caffeine-filled soda and eating pizza and other junk food, and being incredibly lazy as he had a lot of anxiety issues over the fact a story he had worked on for over three years was finally over. Due to this, now that he had no need to work on it any time soon, he developed an Empty Nest syndrome regarding it that prevented him from focusing on his other fics. Digimon Re: Tamers has the Downer Ending of Chapter 16 being a reflection of the immeasurable Creator Breakdown that occurred with MF217 because of the sheer, blunt impact of the death of his own grandfather about 11 days prior to it being posted. Grandis dying in said chapter reflects the fact the author felt dead inside while writing that chapter because of the influence of his grandfather's death throughout all of January and parts of February. Another one from Truth and Ideals has Fennel saying the following: "Precisely! There are several other features as well, but one of which I'm afraid no longer has official support ever since last year." She is referring to the C-Gear's connectivity to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection; Chapter 9, where this quote originates, was published in 2015, a year out from the shutdown of Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection on May 20th, 2014. In Sword Art Online: Special Edition Chapter 24, Mirror M mentions how he keeps forgetting that it's currently Christmas Eve, considering he's mistaking the date as being closer to Halloween instead. This is due to the fact that, while it was already obvious from the snowfall that Sword Art Online: Special Edition takes place in December, Chapter 24 of the fic was posted on October 25th of 2019.
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Reality Subtext / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: In the final issue of Batman Incorporated's second volume, Talia al Ghul goes on a villainous rant to Batman about how little his whole crusade to keep Gotham safe actually matters, and declaring that he's wasting his life on pointless nonsense. This was after Grant Morrison, who wrote that issue, had spent years doing an extensive reworking of Batman and his mythos to make for a more worldly and complex vision of the character... only to see the New 52 undo a lot of the run's impact and reset as many things as possible back to square one. For instance, one of Morrison's main ideas was to make Dick Grayson the next Batman, hoping the change would stick for at least a decade—instead, despite Dick's time in the cowl being widely acclaimed and selling very well, he was reverted back to being Nightwing again. Hence, Talia's frustration at Batman's shortsightedness is essentially Morrison's own frustration shining through.
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Reality Subtext / int_7c983fe2	comment	The premise of the 2017 Youngblood relaunch is a new team being formed as a Redeeming Replacement for the original team, which has long since disbanded and is publicly reviled for being overly violent and arrogant and putting themselves above the law. Likewise, the 2017 relaunch itself is an attempt to revive and update for the modern age the Youngblood franchise itself, which has fallen a long way since its heyday in the early 90s and is now largely remembered as an example of everything wrong with that period of comics.
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Reality Subtext / int_7dc993b1	comment	PokÃ©mon: A Marvelous Journey: At one point, Julia catches a red Gyarados which she names Geraldine. A regular Gyarados would be troublesome enough, but Geraldine has been forcibly evolved against its will, was captured by Team Rocket and experimented on, is scared of PokÃ©mon battles, and developed some form of PTSD because of her experiences. Ultimately, Julia comes to sadly realize that simply giving Geraldine love and care won't magically heal her and that she needs professional help, so she gives Geraldine up to a PokÃ©mon Rehabilitation Facility that can give her the therapy and support that Julia can't give her. This story arc was based on the author being forced to give up one of her cats because she was unable to pay for or help it with its many health issues. Saoirse the Snubbull suddenly dying from a heart defect that nobody knew about until the autopsy was based on what happened to another one of the authoress' cats.
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Reality Subtext / int_7dea6132	comment	Wonder why the penultimate episode of Brawl of the Objects was a lot shorter than the rest? That's because in March 2016, creator Anko6theAnimator had been diagnosed with Burkitt's lymphoma and feared he was going to die with the show incomplete. After he entered remission, the Grand Finale ended up becoming the show's longest episode.
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Reality Subtext / int_808b915	comment	Johnny's search for his father in A Prayer for Owen Meany mirrors John Irving's search for his own father.
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Reality Subtext / int_829b2f67	comment	The Sound of Music: Before leaving Austria, Captain Von Trapp sings "Edelweiss" as his last song at the music festival. "Edelweiss" was the last song Rodgers and Hammerstein wrote together before Oscar Hammerstein's death.
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Reality Subtext / int_84c51296	comment	It was not the last time Linkara would verge into this territory - A Voice from the Dark, a reunion of former Channel Awesome producers, features people such as Marzgurl and Welshy frequently complaining about being lied to, manipulated abused, distrusted, blamed for things they didn't do, and overall being put in massively high-stress environments due to the previous anniversary specials. While this could just mean how the In-Universe setups for Suburban Knights and other anniversary specials involved them being lied to, it's talked about in vague enough terms that it could just as easily be talking about the Real Life issues at Channel Awesome that they all experienced.
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Reality Subtext / int_85a5a3b9	comment	In Transformers: Prime, Megatron's first line is "Decepticons! I have returned!", drawing attention to Frank Welker assuming the role in a TF series for the first time since the original '80s animated series. Welker did voice the character in video games based on the Michael Bay movies before Prime premiered, but that's not quite the same - especially since he auditioned for the movie itself, but didn't get the part. Previously getting turned down to voice the character that he himself originated adds to the subtext quite nicely.
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Reality Subtext / int_8832bf9a	comment	Commander Kitty has a minor example: Fortiscue asks about tabla lessons because the author was learning to play at the time.
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Reality Subtext / int_8a08048e	comment	Taskmaster "Persuade three dogs to stand on the mat" consisted of, well, exactly that. Except for Lolly Adefope, who had to do hers with chickens instead. Originally everyone was to use chickens, but an outbreak of avian bird flu meant chickens had to be kept indoors and only Lolly's was filmed when it happened. Because Greg judged Lolly's task to be 40% harder than everyone else's, she was awarded two bonus points. Alex is accused of this during "Make as many white circles on the target as possible." Everyone got five minutes except for Phil Wang, who got 20 minutes, because the other four were "competing against Phil." Jessica Knappet points out that it sounds like a typo that Alex "is trying to style out."
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Reality Subtext / int_8ad918d7	comment	Bear in the Big Blue House: Lead puppeteer Noel MacNeal stated in an interview that the show's warm atmosphere and gentle-hearted title character was written in response to Barney & Friends, which was under fire from Moral Guardians for emphasising its hyperactive tone and sappy, sugary writing over any real substance found in previous childrens shows. Noel even claims that during development, the writers actually described Bear as "the anti-Barney show" to him. During the three year gap between seasons three and four, the writers noted that the show's target audience was growing up and likely starting school by that point. This lead to season four shifting focus towards exploring the town Bear lived in and its inhabitants along with episodes focusing on the child characters going to their first day of school or learning to riding a bike. The first two episodes of season four, "Welcome to Woodland Valley", involved Bear and Ojo's public library being destroyed by a fallen tree as the town's community comes together to repair the building. The episode was made in response to the September 11th attacks which had occurred nearly a year before the season's premiere.
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Reality Subtext / int_8b5820ed	comment	In Red Dead Redemption, the protagonist John Marston is voiced by actor Rob Wiethoff, who (somewhat famously) retired from acting immediately after the game was released, only temporarily returning for the sequel eight years later; despite being one of the most acclaimed and iconic voice performances in video game history, it ended up being his only major acting role. For many players, this adds an extra layer of poignancy to Marston's decision to leave his life as an outlaw behind and settle down with his wife and son. Particularly since Wiethoff (by his own admission) retired from acting for exactly the same reason: he wanted to focus on starting a family.
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Reality Subtext / int_8c87469c	comment	The knight training academy in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is celebrating its 25th anniversary. The game was released to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the series.
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Reality Subtext / int_8df5521b	comment	After World War II, there was a substantial drop in the popularity of superhero comic books that led to the vast majority of them being cancelled—only Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and a handful of other characters who co-starred in their anthology books (Aquaman, Green Arrow) managed to hang on. The Comics Code Authority essentially destroyed crime and horror books and dealt a heavy blow to romance, and not long after, superheroes became the dominant genre in the industry. Because of this, multiple superhero universes tend to refer to a similar drought in the postwar period, such as the Justice Society of America being Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee and disbanding or the Minutemen facing a rapid decline as its members broke off and retired. Marvel: The Lost Generation takes a different tack by explaining that, while there were superheroes during this period, no one remembers them anymore. JSA The Golden Age, an Elseworlds story, focuses on a Grand Finale for the Golden Age heroes and has one young hero arriving to try and help out in the middle of the fracas - Captain Comet. Captain Comet, in real life, was the only superhero DC created during the post-war era. The story ends with the narrator proclaiming that, though the Golden Age has gone, a new age, one of sterling silver, is coming.
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Reality Subtext / int_8f4ee60f	comment	It was long time since the original Back to the Future and the video game released in 2011, but they managed to get much of the cast back. In the interim years, for instance, Christopher Lloyd had gone (mostly) bald. The plot involves Marty feeling lonely and depressed after Doc leaves at the end of Back to the Future Part III, and he eventually meets an alternate version of Doc Brown, who's got the same balding as Lloyd in real life.
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Reality Subtext / int_909ca4b1	comment	In ReBoot, in the second season finale, one of the binomes makes a comment about how Megabyte's Armored Binome Carriers (ABCs) had betrayed them. This was after ABC, who have been creatively strangulating the show for two seasons, dropped them unceremoniously.
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Reality Subtext / int_90c73dda	comment	The rise of The Sharing in Sporadic Phantoms is shown to explicitly play on the feelings of isolation that people felt during the COVID-19 pandemic, touting their safe in-person gatherings and feelings of community to draw people in.
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Reality Subtext / int_914e2915	comment	Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time: Yes, the game is about Time Travel, but the title means this just as much as "after 19 years it's about time we got a true sequel!"
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Reality Subtext / int_916157ac	comment	Specifically, he openly admits to being coked out of his mind while writing The Tommyknockers. Said story features a group of people who find a deadly object which grants them great amounts of energy and a superficial kind of creativity, and then kills them with a slow wasting disease. Nose bleeds feature prominently. In perhaps the most on-the-nose example, the first invention created under the influence of the alien object is a psychic typewriter that effortlessly translates broad story ideas into beautifully written manuscripts.
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Reality Subtext / int_91a4f7a0	comment	A series of Heart of the City strips focused on Heart's friend Dean having a pet cat - Spock - who's so sick that his parents are about to have him put to sleep, but in the end, it turns out that it's a dog with the same name as the cat, and the cat is going to recover. The last strip of the series reveals that the cat who inspired the comic version has died.
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Reality Subtext / int_96cfa532	comment	The final chapter of Hikari no Densetsu was released in August 1988 and has Hikari compete in the Seoul Summer Olympics, which was around the same time the Real Life Seoul 1988 event was happening.
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Reality Subtext / int_980c3316	comment	Shazam!: When Captain Marvel (the other Captain Marvel, that is) and Superman see each other, they usually end up throwing punches, much more often than is typical for Let's You and Him Fight. This is largely a nod to their very first battle in court. DC Comics sued Fawcett over Captain Marvel being too similar to the Man of Steel, and eventually got the book canceled. Comic writers have since explored this situation decades later by having the two of them fight one another in the panels.
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Reality Subtext / int_99beaff4	comment	Speaking of Demo Reel, Doug showed just how much he was wrapped up in making the show work by indulging in a lot of this. Both Donnie's fear of failing as a director and his Ethical Slut behavior were his own, he said later that he would have made a Lighter and Softer episode about TMZ to work through his issues with them, and Rachel got involved by admitting her bad experiences with modeling and acting were what drove the sexism rants Rebecca kept having.
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Reality Subtext / int_9acb82d3	comment	Aftermath: Empire's End contains a brief appearance from Jar Jar Binks, who is now a street performer and said be beloved by children but hated by adults. This is, of course, a nod to the fact that he was originally a Kid-Appeal Character utterly despised by the majority of the franchise's adult fanbase.
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Reality Subtext / int_9be1af9a	comment	The Multiversity: In The Just #1, a character reacts in surprise at seeing a comic book and asks if people even read them anymore. Similarly this little nugget from Pax Americana #1, which comments on the trend of superhero movies being huge at the box office while actual comic sales are in the gutter.
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Reality Subtext / int_9edf7c1d	comment	What If?: At one point, Mike Wieringo was drawing a story for Marvel involving the New Fantastic Four (I.E. Spider-Man, Wolverine, Ghost Rider and The Incredible Hulk in his Joe Fixit persona), which had the original FF die instead of simply being incapacitated, forcing the New FF to pick up their torch permanently. Tragically, though, Mike suffered from a sudden heart attack in the middle of drawing the book, having finished seven pages. His friends and coworkers then collaborated with the Hero Initiative to finish the book while receiving VERY little pay (sometimes as little as a dollar per page), and released the complete story as a tribute to him. In other words: A good man died, and his friends banded together to continue his legacy... by writing a story where the exact same thing was happening. Naturally, there was a bit of crossover: An issue focusing on a what-if of Annihilation had Nova acting utterly incredulous upon learning of the events of Civil War (2006), angered that at a time when the cosmic side of Marvel was fighting for its collective life in a war that saw the deaths of countless billions and the destruction of multiple planets, its Earth-bound heroes were at each other's throats over the passage of some law involving their secret identities. Once the heroes of Earth become aware of the events of Annihilation (which proved even more apocalyptic in this universe), they more or less forget the entire question of hero registration in favor of banding together to protect Earth from Annihilus. This echoed a gripe brought up very frequently at the time: Annihilation was perceived as a Bat Family Crossover at most, received relatively lesser treatment and promotion, and was barely acknowledged in the wider universe, whereas Civil War received tons of promotion and proved almost inescapable across Marvel's line for some time. Nova's anger is more or less a rephrasing of how many fans at the time felt that Annihilation, not Civil War, should have been treated as Marvel's big event of 2006.
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Reality Subtext / int_a6543322	comment	While Touhou Project has made nods to real life events, Touhou Kouryuudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers is the most blatant about it: One of the main villains is Chimata Tenkyuu, goddess of the physical marketplace who has been losing power thanks to the rise of online shopping. Additionally, this game was released in the middle of the COVID-19 Pandemic, when lockdown regulations cause physical markets to be downright prohibited. Also, Chimata's domain more specifically covers marketplaces to commemorate specific occasions...like Comiket or Reitaisai, where Touhou games are usually physically sold by ZUN himself. This is the first Touhou game to be released digitally first, thanks to aforementioned events being cancelled by the lockdown. This game's incident, the Ability Cards, bear some uncanny resemblances to cryptocurrencies, which are at the height of popularity when the game was released. The Ability Cards have their power if you follow the rules, but will turn into worthless scraps otherwise, just like how cryptocurrencies only work if people agree on their value. Additionally, the process of gathering more cryptocurrency is frequently called "mining" while here we have Momoyo literally mining the currency in a cave .As summed up by one forum user:
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Reality Subtext / int_a851d974	comment	Out of apparently nowhere, The Nostalgia Chick developed an obsessive crush on fellow reviewer Todd in the Shadows. The two had started a long-distance relationship in real life, but it didn't fit for their characters to do the same.
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Reality Subtext / int_aaaf816f	comment	Mister Miracle (2017): Tom King's series does this a couple times over, the first being based on subtext related to his personal reality, the second being on that belonging to Mister Miracle's original creator, Jack Kirby: Much like most of King's work, the series is heavily rooted in the psychology of its hero and examining themes of PTSD and depression, things that King himself had suffered through in his life. In a more specific case, the main narrative conflict of Mister Miracle is protagonist Scott Free waking up and feeling like the world suddenly doesn't make any sense, with unexpected tragedy and trauma coming at him out of nowhere. In 2016, not only was King facing increasing existential anxiety over Donald Trump's inevitable presidency, he suffered a massive panic attack that landed him in the hospital, citing the experience of waking up and everything suddenly feeling "wrong" and being forced to just live with it being his inspiration for the plot, just heightened to a more supernatural sense of reality literally breaking apart. King also wrote in elements that allude to and pay tribute to the life of Jack Kirby, King interpreting Mister Miracle/Scott Free as something of Kirby's personal avatar: a super-Escape Artist who was ostensibly a widely-beloved "god" of his own field, but always yearned to grow beyond the confines of said field through ambitious feats, and also one who felt in many ways never fully appreciated by the powers that be or his peers. One major throughline of King's miniseries involves the character Funky Flashman, who Kirby created as a very unflattering caricature of Stan Lee, a former co-creator and friend whose relationship turned sour as Lee soaked up more of the attention and credit due to his outgoing showmanship, something they only really reconciled with just months before Kirby passed away. King further gave the two a further symbolic reconciliation by introducing Scott's son, Jacob (named after Kirby's birth name), with Funky becoming a loving Honorary Uncle who creates stories with the kid, including one tale about a "star eater and his herald". Funky repeatedly insists to Scott that "Genius Jake provides all the imaginations! I do the words!", alluding to how Lee himself saw his working relationship with Kirby, in turn how despite the animosity, he held the man in glowing respect as the true mastermind of all their beloved works. Funky's last words about Jacob in the final issue are "We have nothing to reproach ourselves about!", which were reportedly what Kirby last said to Lee before passing away.
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Reality Subtext / int_ad4d7d6a	comment	Your Name: One can feel the influence of the 2011 great earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on certain parts of the film. It's no coincidence that the Time Skip at the last part is 5 years at least from Taki's perspective, just like 5 years passed between the great earthquake in 2011 and the film's release in 2016. Mitsuha's Small Town Boredom and desire to move to Tokyo reflect the gradual dying-off of rural Japan as their young move away to urban areas. The novelization has an exclusive scene where, after the Shinto ritual, Mitsuha and Yotsuha have to entertain some guests and they note afterward that the party was full of elderly, most likely a jab at the silver tsunami Japan's facing.
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Reality Subtext / int_b15e4a4b	comment	Sakura Wars (2019): Sakura Amamiya being a huge fan of Sakura Shinguji is a commentary on how the latter character was received in real life. Komachi Oba originating from Osaka is due to the fact that her actress, Ryōko Shiraishi, was born in the same location.
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Reality Subtext / int_b1a0e4d2	comment	Marvel: The Lost Generation takes a different tack by explaining that, while there were superheroes during this period, no one remembers them anymore.
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Reality Subtext / int_b295cab3	comment	The Aeon 14 novels feature heavy use of Bio-Augmentation for aesthetic reasons as well as utilitarian ones, and body dysphoria is referenced on several occasions (particularly with the mechs in the Rika's Marauders series). Primary author M.D. Cooper came out as a transwoman in 2019.
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Reality Subtext / int_b2ac2311	comment	Peanuts: The 1966 story arc of Snoopy's doghouse burning down was the result of Schulz's own studio catching fire. Here. "It's getting dark..." "We had fun, didn't we, Marcie?" It's the last Sunday strip of the comic.
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Reality Subtext / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #416 (October 1996) included a story by Tom DeFalco where the Daily Bugle is facing financial problems and has to lay off many of its personnel. Meaning that established supporting characters such as Kate Cushing were Put on a Bus, with their fates in doubt. Peter Parker himself, who had only recently returned to New York City with the promise of a permanent staff position, was among those fired and faced an unstable future. The story reportedly served as a way for DeFalco to work "through his feelings" concerning the ongoing financial difficulties of Marvel Comics and a series of Marvel staff layoffs. Some were staffers whom DeFalco himself had hired for Marvel, and he felt partly responsible for the company letting them go like this. Per "The Life of Reilly": "In his Daily Bugle scenes, Tom D. worked in a lot of in-jokes and references to what was going on at Marvel, all of which probably went over the heads of people on the outside, but were glaring obvious to anyone who was working (or had been working) at the company." Peter David has expressed displeasure over the fact that Christopher Priest killed off Ned Leeds in the Spider-Man versus Wolverine one-shot without consulting him, as David had planned on revealing that Leeds was the Hobgoblin. In the tie-in issue of The Amazing Spider-Man that dealt with the aftermath of Ned's death, The Kingpin angrily tells the Foreigner (the man who arranged Ned's murder) that he should have consulted him first, and that such a rash move displayed a complete and utter lack of respect.
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Reality Subtext / int_b5134390	comment	In the infamous My Immortal, this happens to the character Willow, who is based on the author's real-life friend Raven. When Tara and Raven have a falling out over a sweater and a poster of Gerard Way, Willow fails all her classes and is expelled, after which she is killed by B'loody Mary Smith, and has her corpse raped by Loopin. When the two make up, Willow is brought back with no explanation. It's that kind of fic.
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Reality Subtext / int_b5ad49c5	comment	On the Superman radio show, Collyer's vacation times were covered by having the series focus on Batman and Robin instead.
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Reality Subtext / int_b5c89107	comment	Heck, Stephen King's work in general is one giant Reality Subtext. He's a teacher who used to work at an industrial laundry? His first novel deals with school life with a protagonist whose mother works at an industrial laundry. He makes it big as a writer? 'Salem's Lot has a writer protagonist (as do many of his other stories) and The Shining has a teacher-turned-writer protagonist. He lives in Maine? His stories take place in Maine. He moves to Colorado? His stories take place in Colorado. He becomes an alcoholic and addicted to different meds? His stories start featuring metaphors for addiction or outright addiction. Seriously, just track the recurring features in his work and you've basically written a biography for him.
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Reality Subtext / int_b61bbe0a	comment	Facebook's 7teen Fanfiction Series did this with the Dunphy clan of Modern Family, creating an Expy for each Dunphy family member and giving them similar first names (exceptions being Terry and Susan to Phil and Claire, respectively). Each story arc that features them has Michael, Jonesy's Dad, give Susan a "The Reason You Suck" Speech on why she is a terrible person and why Terry (as well as anyone who associates with her) deserves better. Why? Because the author of 7teen despises Claire Dunphy's character and includes legitimate gripes that he (and other people who hate Claire) have with her character in Michael's speeches. However, he has also openly stated that Phil is his favorite character because of his goofy, laid-back, genuine Nice Guy demeanor and always felt as though he was often mistreated by her.
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Reality Subtext / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	Disco Elysium: One of the main ways (and most useful ways) you can have your detective act is by making him become an Art Cop ("the worst kind of cop!") who sees art in everything, lords his Actual Art Degree over people, and is savagely critical of all other attempts at art that don't fit his vision. This is perhaps a reference to how ZA/UM was previously famous for taking over an Estonian fine art magazine in the mid-2000s in order to (in ZA/UM's view) fight True Art Is Incomprehensible, "give a more normal view of this country to its residents" and cover more video games, or (in the view of the staff they replaced) mean-spirited, undemocratic and not taking the remit seriously. Robert Kurvitz (the director of Disco Elysium), was editor of the mag, and got into trouble for printing a poem written by one of the departing magazine staff with line-by-line commentary making fun of how bad it was (he did not have permission to print the poem). The storyline to do with Fortress Accident, a computer game developer trying to make a groundbreaking fantasy RPG, somewhat analogises the struggles the team had trying to put the game together, complete with the game having a staggeringly overambitious remit despite being based out of a tiny office in a (potentially literal) economic black hole.
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Reality Subtext / int_bc4bdc50	comment	Grim & Evil: "Chicken Ball Z" ends with Mandy buying Bunny Island. After that segment, Evil segments phased out entirely.
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Reality Subtext / int_bd3f6ba4	comment	Gensokyo 20XX: The instance in 20XXV where Reimu gets a hold of rat poison was based on a recent time when the author, Amoridere, had found her young nephew, who likes to get into things, with Windex, though that ended differently than what had happened in the story. NoteIf you're curious and if asked, she will reassure you that her nephew is fine and that she's taken it from him as soon as she has seen him with it. Yume Ni beating up or otherwise fighting with the other kids is based on the fact that Amoridere does not have a good relationship with her siblings. Chapter 82, where Yume was stabbed with a pair of scissors, highlighted the fact further in what partially motivated her to write was a spat she had with her sister. Some of Reimu's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Baka was based on something Amoridere wanted to tell her older brother, the relationship with whom is strained.
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Reality Subtext / int_be456694	comment	Champions (1975) was probably Marvel's most notorious flop of the 70s, with many readers even at the time arguing that the book had no reason to exist. In Peter Parker, the Spectacular Spider-Man #17, written by the book's main writer Bill Mantlo, it was revealed that the team had split up. Though the characters voice a lot of actual critiques of the book (they had no reason to form a team or stick together, they spent more time defending their headquarters than helping people), the thing that finally caused the Champions to break up was most telling: their headquarters was poorly-built, and its faulty defenses allowed supervillains to attack it, with the issue itself focusing on how Angel had basically gotten scammed. Meanwhile, the reason the book bombed was that it didn't have any kind of strong concept, being essentially a random assemblage of characters who weren't being used much at the time. In-universe and out, the Champions were built on a faulty foundation.
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Reality Subtext / int_c18e50e	comment	An issue focusing on a what-if of Annihilation had Nova acting utterly incredulous upon learning of the events of Civil War (2006), angered that at a time when the cosmic side of Marvel was fighting for its collective life in a war that saw the deaths of countless billions and the destruction of multiple planets, its Earth-bound heroes were at each other's throats over the passage of some law involving their secret identities. Once the heroes of Earth become aware of the events of Annihilation (which proved even more apocalyptic in this universe), they more or less forget the entire question of hero registration in favor of banding together to protect Earth from Annihilus. This echoed a gripe brought up very frequently at the time: Annihilation was perceived as a Bat Family Crossover at most, received relatively lesser treatment and promotion, and was barely acknowledged in the wider universe, whereas Civil War received tons of promotion and proved almost inescapable across Marvel's line for some time. Nova's anger is more or less a rephrasing of how many fans at the time felt that Annihilation, not Civil War, should have been treated as Marvel's big event of 2006.
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Reality Subtext / int_c40207f9	comment	In Duke Nukem Forever, the first level is the final boss from Duke Nukem 3D. After its defeat, it's revealed that it was Duke playing a video game based on himself. Someone asks him if the game was good and he says, "After 12 fuckin' years, it better be." This is referencing the fact that it took over a decade for Forever to be released. Also, the game actually takes place over a decade after 3D.
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Reality Subtext / int_c4282b71	comment	When Mykan explained his story of why he hated My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, he stated that one of the reasons why is because friends over time either used him as a means to an end, bullied him in secret, or moved on and even pretended that they didn't know him. Now compare that to one of the reasons why Beast Boy became Count Logan in The End of Ends, especially the last part.
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Reality Subtext / int_c524d51b	comment	Shang-Chi: The Marvel Comics hero was initially created as the son of the infamous Yellow Peril villain Fu Manchu. Since Marvel lost the rights to Fu Manchu in the ensuing decades, whenever Shang-Chi's father appears, he's never referred to by name. This is Played for Laughs in an issue of Black Panther, where T'Challa tries to speak Fu's name, only to be cut off before he can say it.
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Reality Subtext / int_c5ad6f3c	comment	The 2023 Fire & Ice: Welcome to Smallville mini-series takes the real world obscurity of the titular heroines and uses it as a major plot point. The first issue even has Fire bitterly lament how she's not famous despite having fought alongside the likes of Batman and Superman back when she was a member of the Justice League International.
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Reality Subtext / int_c61f3112	comment	Justice Society of America: Last Days of the Justice Society (the story used to write the JSA out of the DC Universe following Crisis on Infinite Earths) opens with the Golden Age Hawkman giving a speech about how the team has become redundant and irrelevant in a world full of younger heroes with the same powers (and sometimes even names), the exact editorial justification for getting rid of the Justice Society in the first place.
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Reality Subtext / int_c72c2d06	comment	For the fourth season of Star Wars Rebels, executive producer Dave Filoni's father passed away during the production process, which influenced the storyline with Kanan's death, as he'd been the Team Dad and a Parental Substitute to Ezra and Sabine. While he was always planned to die, Filoni noted that the story was a lot harder to write and there was more focus on the crew dealing with their grief.
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Reality Subtext / int_c9fea0c4	comment	Barefoot Gen is basically an adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's life in Hiroshima before, during and after the atomic bombing as he and his Author Avatar Gen were raised in a house of outspoken and ostracized pacifists and both of them lost nearly all their family members from his burning house except for his mother, elder brothers, and infant sister who died from malnutrition stemming from food shortages.
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Reality Subtext / int_cb16bae4	comment	When Barton Yarborough died, Ben Romero, his character on Dragnet, died as well. Romero wasn't killed in the line of duty but rather died at home of a heart attack. The cast responds to his death and spends the next several episodes grieving.
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Reality Subtext / int_ccf2f4fc	comment	The Legend of Total Drama Island: Izzy's (presumably) Imaginary Friend Sunshine is the alter ego of a certain Duncan fangirl, who created the characternote used in LTDI with permission in part to be a Parody Sue proxy for her fangirlism. The author describes himself and his wife as essentially a real-life Noah/Katie pair. Guess who Noah's crushing on?
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Reality Subtext / int_cd1550c5	comment	He wrote in his accident with a hit-and-run driver into The Dark Tower series, where his Author Avatar suffers the same accident.
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Reality Subtext / int_cd2a0a83	comment	Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus begins with Zim having disappeared for some undisclosed but apparently very long amount of time, playing on the show's sudden cancellation and decade-plus Sequel Gap. Dib has become a gross, overweight shut-in as a result. The comic (apparently set in an Alternate Continuity from the film) does the same thing.
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Reality Subtext / int_d336704f	comment	Tigana: After Devin kills a man for the first time, he is musing about deaths, and to what extent they do or do not define the lives that preceded them. He wonders if Stevan had lived and died so that Brandin might cause the destruction of Tigana. In a philosophical sense, probably not, but in a literary sense... yes—as a character, Stevan did exist for that purpose.
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Reality Subtext / int_d4f6f3fb	comment	The anime adaptation of F-Zero, F-Zero: GP Legend, underperformed in ratings and thus put the franchise on ice up until 2023 with the release of F-Zero 99. It's no surprise that the Grand Finale ends with the Heroic Sacrifice of Captain Falcon, the mascot of F-Zero, almost as if it was a goodbye to the franchise.
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Reality Subtext / int_d6b55b59	comment	Villainous Nights: One of the final scenes of Lorelei's last season has the Syndicate parting ways after a night of karaoke, with Juliette becoming distraught because she's not ready to say goodbye yet. This was the last release of the original four love interests, and at the time, the future of the series as a whole was uncertain.
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Reality Subtext / int_d8afd410	comment	Unico: Osamu Tezuka first designed Unico during a trip to Los Angeles, California on June 1976, while the manga begun publication on Lyrica during November of that same year. A central theme in the manga is the importance of empathy, compassion, kindness, and love. At the same time, The Vietnam War ended which quickly became a hot topic with the general public (especially in the United States) along with the conclusion of The '60s, which was a decade that was notably violent and cynical. Which explains why Unico carries a melancholy tone, but focuses on the titular protagonist's preferences of non-violence while encouraging compassion and kindness. The manga was also written during a darker period in Tezuka's life, with Unico being written the exact same time as his MW manga. "The Cat on the Broomstick" chapter was inspired from a brief period when Tezuka was hospitalized in 1977, causing the manga to enter hiatus on Sanrio's Lyrica magazine. The chapter features Unico alongside Chao/Chow befriending an unnamed old lady (referred as "The Old Lady", "Old Beggar Women" and "Granny") who's homeless, fragile, and losing her memories. The chapter ends with Unico using his powers to secretly heal Granny from the illness which she almost succumbed to. Other emotional and heartfelt moments between Unico and Chao were also influenced by Tezuka's mostly unpleasant hospital experiences, particularly when Chao cries into Unico's arms as the little unicorn reassures her by saying "Don't cry, at least you aren't dead". The scene in "The Tale of the Fangs of Athens" chapter where Unico witnesses Piro's mother dying, gently breaks the news to Piro/Marusu of his mother's death, and consoles Piro as he's mourning her death was influenced by witnessing his wife and children being very concerned with his health, while his two children feared that he might die.
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Reality Subtext / int_d8b36fad	comment	During the runaway success of H.M.S. Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan had huge trouble with people pirating their works on the other side of the Atlantic. They arranged to have their next show produced simultaneously in America and in a small English village, in an attempt to get better legal protection from such pirates. And what was that new show? The Pirates of Penzance.
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Reality Subtext / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park: Isaac Hayes, another member of the Church of Scientology, left the show after an episode ("Trapped in the Closet") parodied it. The following episode "The Return of Chef" used splicing to ridicule it much much more, as well as killing Chef off. "Terrance and Phillip: Behind the Blow" has a lot of hidden references to actual South Park fans' reactions to Terrance and Philip, such as people being confused whether they're supposed to be animated characters or real people and "Terrance and Phillip in: 'Not Without My Anus'" preempting a popular TV show (see the entry on the April Fools' Day page for an explanation of that one). "Death" was meant to satire how parents reacted when South Park first went on their air. The same thing goes to the movie. In "Fishsticks", Jimmy writes a joke that Cartman seeks to publicize as their joke, even though he sat on the couch and ate chips while Jimmy came up with the actual joke (although Cartman remembers it as being the other way around). Much of the episode is dedicated to this conflict, and the episode ends with Cartman apologizing to Jimmy - for not accommodating Jimmy's belief that he wrote most of the joke. The season that contains this episode was the first to not co-bill Matt Stone as a writer for the show, and during Jimmy and Cartman's interview with Ellen, Cartman is shown with the same hair and clothing that Trey Parker is seen wearing in interviews. However, nobody on the Internet has commented on this because everybody focused on the episode's treatment of Kanye West. Stan's whole final speech in "Ass Burgers". The previous episode, "You're Getting Old" had looked like it might change the show dramatically, and fans (mirroring Stan in-universe) were worried that the change would be bad for the show. So in-universe, Stan gets over his emo phase, gives a whole Aesop about how things can change for the better with the entire speech Leaning on the Fourth Wall... only to play Status Quo Is God, hit the Reset Button, and return the show to exactly where it was. And note that it's not the original status quo but, the last episode where Stan was depressed. Meaning that Stan is still, even if more so, depressed while everything else is the same. Meaning, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny still hang out with Stan, he lives in the same house, goes to the same school, his parents still live together and all this with the added bonus that Stan turned to alcohol to try and be happy. In "Mecha-Streisand", Barbara is portrayed as an egotistical, elitist, and power-hungry maniac, but this was because Matt and Trey truly hate her, after she publicly criticized the people of Colorado over a law which prevented gays from being a protected minority. Her response to the episode, claiming it only "contributed to the negativity of our culture" only made her easy to mock for the South Park creators.
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Reality Subtext / int_db30cf92	comment	Warrior Cats: The reason behind the characters Brightspirit, Shiningheart, and Braveheart in Long Shadows is that a ten-year-old Warriors fan named Emmy and her parents died in a natural disaster. The news eventually made its way to the authors, who shared the story with the online fandom so that the Warriors community could show support for Emmy's friends and family. The members of the site decided to honor the young girl and her parents by giving them warrior names, and Vicky was so touched she gave them a cameo as members of StarClan (the cats' Heaven) in the next book they were writing. Briarlight was originally not going to survive for too long after the falling tree paralyzed her in Fading Echoes. However, a few months after that was written, Vicky's cousin Dan was paralyzed similarly in a diving accident. The character became a lot more personal to Vicky, and so she decided that the young cat's journey would echo Dan's.
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Reality Subtext / int_db418e95	comment	Batgirl: In the Batgirl tie-in to Future's End, Barbara Gordon tells Cassandra Cain that she admires how Cass never gives up despite having gone through absolute hell. While this fits in-universe, it also references the fact that from 2005-2015, the character was put through a lot of shit by DC editorial. She was turned into an evil Dragon Lady, then stripped of the Batgirl title so that she could be replaced by Stephanie Brown, then dumped into Comic-Book Limbo, and then brought out of limbo and given a new identity only to be Retconned out of history after the New 52. It's been a roller coaster ride to say the least, but her fanbase never gave up on her.
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Reality Subtext / int_db8040cc	comment	Back in 1992, The Return of Barry Allen was written as something of a retraction to people who were refusing to accept Barry Allen's death, with the Reverse-Flash, Eobard Thawne, getting a backstory that explains he was a Loony Fan who stole Barry Allen's identity in order to 'fix the mistake' that was Barry's death and Wally taking over the mantle. The story ends with Wally proving himself not just Thawne's superior, but also proving to be just as good a Flash as Barry Allen, if not better. Something he would continue to prove for the next two decades.
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Reality Subtext / int_de279580	comment	In Secret Empire #7, Carol Danvers is lamenting to the comatose body of the female Quasar that she's the reason for Steve Rogers and HYDRA taking over the United States and Earth's most powerful heroes are stuck behind an impenetrable shield. That she started off the second superhuman civil war that divided the superhero community again because she was too stubborn to back down, that she wanted people to love her and instead gave them a reason to hate her. This is seen as reflecting on the Character Derailment done to Carol due to the story, as well as the fact that Civil War II was seemingly intended to help solidify Carol as an A-lister but resulted in her being far more widely disliked instead.
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Reality Subtext / int_e03d554a	comment	One of the grievances Dominik Mysterio aired about his father Rey Mysterio during their feud was the latter's Parental Neglect during the former's childhood in favor of his prioritizing his career, including missing Dominik's eighth grade graduation for WrestleMania. A close look at Rey's match record shows that Rey actually did have several matches during his son's various birthdays, meaning he likely missed other major milestones as well, which added a bit of realism to the feud since it was easy to imagine Dominik being legitimately bothered by this.
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Reality Subtext / int_e2b3cc8a	comment	Also in To Boldly Flee, the subplot about the proposed SUCKA Act was a direct riff on the SOPA and ACTA Acts that were being debated in Congress in early 2012 and was of particular concern to the reviewers on the site, since they feared that they could be used to shut down their site and damage their livelihoods.
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Reality Subtext / int_e362fe89	comment	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West: During the production of the film, Steven Spielberg had just finished a nasty divorce with Amy Irving, voice actress of Miss Kitty. What does the film introduce Miss Kitty doing? Breaking up with Tiger. Similarly, this was Jimmy Stewart's final film role, making his closing speech resonate for its Passing the Torch qualities.
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Reality Subtext / int_e365af07	comment	From Dino Attack RPG: After the 2009 BZPower Time Slip (also known as the Great Dataclysm), which erased six months of Dino Attack RPG content (including the entire Goo Caverns Story Arc up to that point), the Dino Attack RPG players agreed to start up again at a time and place shortly before the Time Slip occurred. Since this led to rewriting several scenes that were erased by the Time Slip, Sauro-Hunter remarked that he was experiencing deja vu. During his time as a Stromling, Zachary aged at an accelerated rate. The amount of time he physically aged is equal to the time between the end of Dino Attack RPG and the start of Dino Attack: At War's End. According to Dino Attack RPG's timeline, LEGO Themes take place during their year of release unless otherwise noted. Some Dino Attack RPG players were confused on whether or not Pharaoh's Quest is one of those exceptions, since it was released in 2011 but some sources say that it takes place in 1924; however, 1924 was confirmed as the canon date by Word of God. As a result of this confusion, Lord Sam Sinister announced that he was going on an expedition to Egypt in 2011 to recover the golden treasures of Pharaoh Amset-Ra, unaware that Professor Archibald Hale's team had already uncovered those treasures in 1924.
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Reality Subtext / int_e41ea518	comment	pictures for sad children is set in a very cynical (and surreal) reality with a strongly nihilist tone where characters live meaningless, joyless lives. Considering that the author has expressed experiencing a rough childhood, lifelong identity issues, increasing drug use, and suffered from clinical depression for years, which culminated in a severe mental breakdown that brought the comic down with it, it can be easy to see the whole thing as one long Author Tract.
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Reality Subtext / int_e4ed33fb	comment	In the early days of The Lone Ranger, Reid's voice actor, Earle Graser, died in a car accident. As a result, The Lone Ranger was laid low for about a week and a half, and could only speak in whispers, until they found Brace Beamer, who would keep the role for the rest of the radio run.
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Reality Subtext / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: Several episodes have poked fun at Chris (Seth Green's character) about Robot Chicken. In "Something, Something, Something Darkside" Chris proclaims he won't let it get to him. In "Trump Guy", Donald Trump tells Peter that people have gotten their favorite jokes about Jews, blacks and gays from his show, to which Peter responds "In fairness, we've been trying to phase out the gay stuff." A day later, the show's producers confirmed that the show will be phasing out the homophobic jokes that have long been an infamous aspect of the series.
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Reality Subtext / int_ed422854	comment	No Man's Sky: In-Universe, even. Many aspects of the NMS universe are extrapolations of what the Atlas sees in the real world. For example, the Korvax are based on brain-scanning technology.
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Reality Subtext / int_ef8c6142	comment	Closer Than Ever has several songs inspired by the authors' personal experiences: At the time Richard Maltby Jr. wrote the lyrics of "Fandango," his son was one year old, his wife, Janet Brenner, was co-producing Closer Than Ever and Maltby himself was simultaneously working on Miss Saigon. "Another Wedding Song" was originally written and performed by David Shire at his own second wedding to actress Didi Conn. The cast recording's liner notes on "If I Sing" bear quoting in full:
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Reality Subtext / int_efc923b	comment	Partway through Captain America and the Mighty Avengers, the Big Bad is revealed to be CEO of the Beyond Corporation, prompting Monica to go off on a rant over how everybody acted like the things she went through with Beyond never actually happened. For years, the editors of Marvel have made it clear that Nextwave (of which the Beyond Corporation was the main antagonist) is strictly non-canon, so this was just as much Monica airing her grievances as it was the writers airing theirs for keeping one of the most beloved comics among Marvel staff on the shelf.
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Reality Subtext / int_f00467dc	comment	Speed Metal and Infinite Frontier #0, have Wally and Barry discuss the things Wally has endured in recent years, and how they were largely the result of Wally being pushed aside by Barry's return. In-universe, this is because they started with Flashpoint, an event Barry caused, and that many of them could have been mitigated had Barry put in the effort to help Wally. Out-of-universe, it's because Creator's Pet and Creator's Pest treatment for the two caused Barry to be given preferential treatment at Wally's expense. Barry makes amends by stepping aside and letting Wally be the Flash again, just as Joshua Williamson steps aside to let a new writer take over the Flash book with Wally as the lead once more.
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Reality Subtext / int_f01496c4	comment	Done many times in The Archers: it's such a long-runner that a number of characters have been around long enough to become elderly - as have their actors. Dan Archer (the original patriarch), Tom Forrest and Mrs. Antrobus were all given radio deaths because the actor had died of old age. This hasn't always been played straight; when the actor playing Nelson Gabriel died, the character was Put on a Bus instead and other characters continued to refer to him as alive for some months. (News of his death was eventually mentioned.) A non-death example is that sometimes actors become well-known and aren't often available: Tamsin Greig's character, Debbie, has moved abroad but comes back every so often. However, in a similar situation with Lucy Davies (Dawn from The Office, Shaun of the Dead) her character, Hayley, was recast.
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Reality Subtext / int_f2dcf0cd	comment	The second part of the 100th episode of The Music Video Show ends with the third season host argue with the second season host and calling her out for the quality of the latter's season. This reflects Kiara's attitude towards the second season. The second season host calling out the third season host could be interpreted as Kiara regretting letting the show lay dormant for two years. In Episode 226, the host wonders why she's still in his season nine clothes, only to be told on the phone because of arson, alcoholism and anger management, leading her to extend the season for a while longer. She then, once again, apologizes for seasons five through seven. At one point, she checks his wrists and then her neck, saying, "Yeah...I feel the marks." According to an earlier video, she had attempted suicide years earlier and had suicidal thoughts during season five. The season 10 premiere has the host look at the clothes she is wearing for the new season, which is a woman's shirt and a skirt. She then feels it, smiles and says, "This feels nice." Months earlier, the creator of the show came out as genderfluid and then, after the show ended, came out as transgender.
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Reality Subtext / int_f5799bd9	comment	In Season 2 of The Critic, Jay mentions in a few episodes that his in-universe film review show Coming Attractions previously ran on ABC before getting cancelled and moving to another network—a nod to the show's Real Life Channel Hop from ABC to Fox.
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Reality Subtext / int_f634206e	comment	Ratatouille: Janeane Garofalo plays a woman who had to fight tooth and nail to become successful in a career dominated by latently sexist traditions. She famously left the writing staff of Saturday Night Live after one season because the male-dominated team made it what she called a "boy's club."
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Reality Subtext / int_f6388eca	comment	VeggieTales in the House: In "A Gift for Singing", Ichabeezer performs a rap bashing Pa Grape's store that, despite its nasty lyrics, is too much of an Ear Worm for anyone to resist. This may be a reference to the controversy that surrounded the "Bunny Song" from the VeggieTales video Rack, Shack & Benny, which was a Villain Song that, despite its nasty lyrics, was too much of an Ear Worm for children to resist singing aloud (to their parents' dismay).
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Reality Subtext / int_fb173de	comment	The Phantom of the Opera and Love Never Dies closely follow the relationship of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Sarah Brightman. The first one is more of a case of Harsher in Hindsight, as it premiered in 1985 and the pair separated in 1990. In the first show, the Phantom fell in love with Christine when he heard her sing, made her the star of an existing opera, then wrote an opera for her to star in. But as Christine realizes he's a murderer and stalker, she leaves him for the Viscount Raoul de Chagny. Lloyd Webber met Brightman when she auditioned for Cats and was cast in the role of Jemima. He wrote a successful classical song for her, Pie Jesu, and specifically wrote the part of Christine for her (keeping the character design close to her style, added dance moves in Hannibal so that she could show off her footwork, and the cadenzas in the title song and Think of Me for her vocal range). He left her for another woman after six years of their marriage, and as Christine clearly still loves the Phantom but cannot stay with him, which the Phantom also acknowledges, the feeling is supposedly identical between Brightman and Lloyd Webber. In the sequel, Raoul became an alcoholic and a gambler (metaphorically cheating on her with his addictions), and his marriage with Christine deteriorates. Christine gets fatally shot by a jealous Meg Giry after an accidental slight from the Phantom, professing her undying love for the Phantom with her last breaths. He gets acknowledged by his son with Christine, Gustave, who was previously thought to be Raoul's son. This mirrors the prevalent attitude of the fandom - that Erik (the Phantom) and Christine are the real crowd-drawer of the show, and that Christine should have chosen to stay with the masked composer in the first place. Raoul's character is completely out of line with his portrayal in the first show, as Erik/Christine shippers tend to turn him into Ron the Death Eater or make him Die for Our Ship.
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Matinee / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
MrKruegersChristmas	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
My Favorite Year / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
My Sassy Girl / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Ran / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
School of Rock / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Sleeping On Floors / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Soapdish / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Spider-Man 2 / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Artist / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Mill And The Cross / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Muppets (2011) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
You Nazty Spy! / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Men Drinkin Coffee (Lets Play) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
At Swim-Two-Birds / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Florante at Laura / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Heir Apparent / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
It / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Disaster Artist / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Dunwich Horror / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Manchurian Candidate / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Prince / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Stand / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
BRIANBLESSED	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
ChrisColfer	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
JohnRitter	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
Once	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
Professional Wrestling / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
REALITYSUBTEXT	sameAs	Reality Subtext
TheSavageDetectives	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
ptitles8ulp7dp	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
act-age (Manga) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
My Monster Secret (Manga) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The ComiQ (Manga) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Bad Lip Reading (Music) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Destroyer (Music) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Destroyer (Album) (Music) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Roger Waters (Music) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Sporadic Phantoms (Podcast) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Les 2 Minutes du Peuple (Radio) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Town (Roleplay) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Boy Meets World / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Callan / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Fraggle Rock / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Hannibal / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Mystery Science Theater 3000 / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
NCIS: Los Angeles / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Shouf Shouf / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Day Today / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Red Green Show / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Young Pope / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Brand (Theatre) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Cymbeline (Theatre)	seeAlso	Reality Subtext
The Sultan of Sulu (Theatre) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Devotion (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Ghost Trick (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
No Man's Sky (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Sunless Skies (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Total War: Warhammer II (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
WWE Video Games (Video Game) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Battle for Dream Island Again (Web Animation) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Dimensional Prophecy of Zohar Redux (Web Animation) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Moonkitti (Web Animation) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
A VHS Christmas Carol (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Abridged (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Ross's Game Dungeon (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Super Eyepatch Wolf (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Cynical Brit (Web Video) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
L's Empire (Webcomic) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Skin Horse (Webcomic) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
TV Tropes (Website) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Editing Room (Website) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Vampire Reviews / Webvideo / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Father of the Pride / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Bray Wyatt (Wrestling) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Katsuyori Shibata (Wrestling) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Montel Vontavious Porter (Wrestling) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
The Third Man / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Being Human (UK) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext

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