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The Real Life counterpart to Revenge via Storytelling, and a specific form of Take That!. Similar to No Celebrities Were Harmed, this is when a writer creates a character based on someone they have a grudge against in real life in order to vent their frustrations on that person, and, in some cases influence the public's opinions on them. These characters will typically be highly obnoxious or unlikable, if not outright villainous. They will almost always receive a humiliating comeuppance at the end of the story. Depending on how the character is written, and the nature of the real-life conflict, this can either be done well or come off as petty and juvenile. Often, if there's someone who likes the character in question, other characters will lampshade how said character is that character's Only Friend. More often than not, however, there will be occasions where the author adds several bits of hatefulness into the character that may not really be related to the targeted person. Note that authors must have the required skill to pull this over without attracting legal teams, as otherwise they'll be Screwed by the Network or The Laywers. Subtrope to Write Who You Know and Creator Breakdown. Supertrope to Take That, Critics!, Take That, Audience!, Straw Critic, and Straw Fan. Compare Muse Abuse, where the creator doesn't hate the people he takes inspiration from for their history but still chooses to portray them in a negative light. Compare Unperson, where instead of a Take That! the character/person is excised from the world's history. Tends to overlap with Tuckerization, though some authors are known to defy it in order to not raise suspicions (and avoid possible lawsuits), in whose case they indulge in Roman à Clef. If the targeted person actually likes the character, it's Actually Pretty Funny. When the whole work is done as a single piece of Take That!, it's either a Revenge Fic, an Allegory or an Author Tract. Contrast Friendly Enemy: there, both the creator and its target remain on friendly terms while exchanging potshots with each other, while here they hate each other. Note that, due to the controversial nature of the trope, there should be a Word of God (not Word of Saint Paul and much less fan speculation) statement attached to any example in the form of a link or the name of a documentary/biography or even an interview. And the examples should also describe the feud while still remembering that Weblinks Are Not Examples. |
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Dream Theater: As drummer Mike Portnoy told on an IRC conversation, he wrote the lyrics of "Honor Thy Father" (from 2003's Train of Thought) as a potshot towards his step-father. He outright claimed in an interview that he couldn't write a love song, so instead he decided to pen a hate song. | |
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Hercules: While the inspiration for the design of Hades was never made clear an interview with co-directors John Musker and Ron Clements and character animator Eric Goldberg do mention that his chant "Guys, guys, listen to me" is inspired by Jeffrey Katzenberg, who left the company following a tenuous stay under Michael Eisner.note Amongst Katzenberg's acts, he had nearly cut "Part of Your World" out of The Little Mermaid, forced everyone to work overtime on Beauty and the Beast (though in his defense, he forced it due to the news that Howard Ashman, the film's composer, was on his deathbed and wanted it done before he passed), disregarded Robin Williams wishes on Aladdin regarding him voicing the Genie, put greater faith in Pocahontas while dismissing The Lion King (1994) as a one-off, and, most infamously, ordered Toy Story be "edgy and cynical" to the point that PIXAR followed their directions to a tee and brought a disastrous test screening that nearly destroyed the film. The final straw, however, was Katzenberg demanding the position of the late VP Frank Wells, who died in a helicopter crash in 1994, when Wells was a close friend of Eisner and often had to mediate the spats between the two men. | |
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Goldfinger: Ian Fleming named the titular villain after architect Erno Goldfinger, whose work Fleming despised. When Erno threatened to sue, Fleming suggested changing the name of the villain to Goldprick, instead. | |
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Back to the Future: As revealed in a Q&A with director Robert Zemeckis & producer Bob Gale found in the "Back to the Future" DVD, Biff Tannen was named after Ned Tanen, a former executive at Paramount Pictures, whom Zemeckis and Gale had a bad experience with while making I Wanna Hold Your Hand. | |
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Harry Potter: According to an interview with PotterCast, JK Rowling based Pansy Parkinson on the girls who bullied her in school. She considers her the "anti-Hermione", who is her self-insert. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: JK Rowling once mentioned at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2004 that Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character in the work based on a real personnote she insists it's not her ex-husband who she claims is an enormous blowhard just like him, and that she barely exaggerated his real personality; even if she dropped hints, she refused to comment on who, because she didn't want to give him the satisfaction. |
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Calvin and Hobbes: According to the Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, Moe is based on Bill Watterson's childhood bullies. | |
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SCP Foundation: The author of SCP-4493 was harassed by a pair of users from a rival website for another work they wrote, and incorporated their usernames into the article as the names of police officers that were killed by the anomaly. | |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street: According to the film's DVD audio commentary, one of Wes Craven's inspirations for Freddy Krueger was a school bully. | |
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In audio commentaries on the DVD release of Press Gang, Steven Moffat explains that the breakdown of his first marriage affected his writing, including an episode featuring an Expy of his wife's new lover who had various unfortunate events happen to him, such as a typewriter being dropped on his foot. This also formed the basis of his semi-autobiographical sitcom Joking Apart. | |
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Nineteen Eighty-Four: The Infamous Room 101 in the Ministry of Love is named for Room 101 in BBC's headquarters at Broadcasting House, where George Orwell had to sit through several tedious meetings. | |
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As described in CGP Grey's video "Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again", Alexander Pope criticized Thomas Hearne's writings as pointless. When Hearne complained, Pope wrote a caricature of Hearne in one of his plays. | |
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As he confessed to the Rolling Stone Magazine in an interview, "Brain Damage" is about his grade-school nemesis, D'Angelo Bailey, who once battered him so severely he ended up comatose from a cerebral hemorrhage. | |
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Riverworld: The Author Avatar Peter Jairus Frigate meets and takes vengeance on a cheating publisher called "Sharko" who's resurrected from the dead and immediately joins a gang seeking to exploit other resurrectées. Philip José Farmer noted in the work's end-note that he based him on a real-life publisher called Melvin Korshak who cheated him over a contract while Farmer was signed to Shasta Publishing. | |
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: JK Rowling once mentioned at the Edinburgh Book Festival 2004 that Professor Gilderoy Lockhart is the only character in the work based on a real personnote she insists it's not her ex-husband who she claims is an enormous blowhard just like him, and that she barely exaggerated his real personality; even if she dropped hints, she refused to comment on who, because she didn't want to give him the satisfaction. | |
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The Wire: Writer and former newspaper reporter David Simon based two different characters on Bill Marrimow, his former editor with whom he had a bitter feud while working for the Baltimore Sun newspaper. The first, Lt. Charles Marrimow, is an utterly incompetent and hardass police lieutenant whose true purpose in being appointed the new commander of a special police unit is to disrupt the unit and make it so impossible for the unit to function that it disintegrates, thus quietly halting their investigations into various corrupt politicians and shady businessmen who are power players in the city. The second character, an editor at the fictional version of the Baltimore Sun within the show, is a stuck-up prig who protects a journalist who is fabricating stories and is noted to be engaging in hiring attractive young women for their looks. The executive editor in charge of the fictional version of the Sun, James Whiting, is based on an executive editor from Simon's time at the real Sun, John Carroll. Whiting is a Pointy-Haired Boss and Upper-Class Twit who also goes out of his way to protect the reporter fabricating stories. Another character speculates that he does it purely in hopes that the sensationalist fabricated stories can win a Pulitzer Prize and raise Whiting's profile within the newspaper industry, so even if the Sun goes under, as many fear will happen, Whiting and company can easily secure their next job. |
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South Park: As revealed in interviews, Trey Parker's real-life sister provided the basis for Stan's bully sister Shelly, who was abusive to him when they were kids (while the violence was nowhere near as bad as it was on the show, the real-life Shelly did punch Trey, push him down the stairs and lock him out of the house on occasion).. | |
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One of the villains in Goblins is Dellyn Goblinslayer, a Fantastic Racist, Sadistic Torture Technician, Rapist and general Hate Sink. The author, Ellipsis, has stated that Dellyn is based on a group of four men who kidnapped and gang-raped her mother. | |
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The Rescuers: As revealed on Walt Disney's Nine Old Men and the Art of Animation, Madame Medusa was based on Milt Kahl's ex-wife Phyllis Bounds Detiege (who was related to Walt Disney as the niece of his wife Lillian) Milt was married 3 times and she was the only wife he divorced (the other two died from illness). He made sure to include traits of hers such as her flamboyance, fake eyelashes, and what he called the "aging sexpot attitude", as well as her favorite style of boots. Another animator, Jane Baer (who knew both) later told historian John Canemaker, "Phyllis wore boots. Medusa wore the same boots." | |
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Captain Underpants: According to Dav Pilkey himself, Melvin Sneedly, the stuck-up nerd, is based on an arrogant tattletale child that Pilkey Dav knew in sixth grade, who has been given the alias "Michael Sneedman" to conceal his identity. | |
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