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Writer on Board	comment	Obvious authorial intrusion. When the characters start behaving like idiots or acting against their established characterization because the writer damn well needs them to tell the story in a particular way, often to make a point. Who cares if the characters become less believable as a result? May also occur when a character is accused of being used just to show a particular point of view, and not because they actually have it. The technical literary term for a character designed to express the author's preferred opinions (often the Only Sane Man) is the raisonneur—here at TV Tropes the preferred term is Author Avatar. At best, the only difference is a rather heavy-handed Aesop. At worst, the narrative is put aside so that an Author Filibuster can be conducted. When you agree with what the author has to say, but feel that their method of conveyance is detrimental to the work, it becomes a case of Don't Shoot the Message. Creator Breakdown occurs when personal issues within the writer's life drive the authorial intrusion. Paradoxically, this can both result from and result in a Writer Revolt. A minor subtrope of this is "Actor On Board", a related phenomenon in which an actor in a work has, for example, the script of a program changed to suit his beliefs (e.g. Munch's issues with child abuse). Author Appeal is a specific form of this. Author Tract is when the main purpose of the work is to push the author's opinions. Translation with an Agenda is what happens when a translator imposes this trope on somebody else's story. See also Creator Breakdown, and Idiot Plot. Compare Out-of-Character Moment. If a fan does this to facilitate a romantic pairing, Ron the Death Eater, and Die for Our Ship may ensue. When multiple writers on board become embroiled in conflict and take it to the work itself, this becomes Armed with Canon.
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Writer on Board / int_11282746	comment	William S. Lind, author of Victoria: A Novel of 4th Generation War lampoons much of modern society, in a mean-spirited way. Many characters agree that things went wrong for civilization around the early 1960s, some say the 30s and by the end, the heroes have agreed to restrict their nonmilitary technology to that level. So Victoria flourishes while more advanced US successor states fail.
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Writer on Board / int_11d0af1	comment	In the His Dark Materials series, after bubbling under the surface for the first two-thirds of the trilogy, the final volume explodes into a massive Take That! against Christianity. Philip Pullman's admitted intention with his series was to set up an atheist response to the fantasy novels of Christian writer/philosopher C. S. Lewis.
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Writer on Board / int_1463a028	comment	In an instance that might be called "Actor On Board", Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has Detective Sergeant John Munch, whose utter devotion to the civil liberties of every human being stops rather abruptly at the right to end one's own life. This character is played by an actor (Richard Belzer) whose own father committed suicide, as did Munch's in-universe, thus explaining this inconsistent stance. Munch in one episode attempts to explain his feelings because of this to the assisted suicide advocate (Marlee Matlin) they've arrested, convincing her not to kill herself on a hunger strike.
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Writer on Board / int_15870207	comment	Several episodes of El ChapulÃn Colorado, Los Caquitos and at least one in El Chavo del ocho deal with rehabilitation of criminals. Chespirito strongly believed that criminals should be rehabilitated by society and treated in a humane way and ex-convicts should be given second chances. He also was a strong opponent of the death penalty (and his characters too, of course).
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Writer on Board / int_176e6280	comment	In We Are Our Avatars, there were several moments of this trope in action. One infamous example included "The Rant", where Andros (yes, that one) tried to destroy the Touhoumons and stated how they were evil. All because his player didn't even like them at first. And coupled with Creator Breakdown, she gave the Grayson family a chance to voice her negative opinions. Midna used his characters to voice opinions about Mana, among others. The Writer is also a bit vocal at times. For instance, there was the Writer arc, where several members were chosen to be killed and their wishes reversed because they represented something that the character—and Lemurian himself—didn't even like. And then there was the "Two Sentences" incident in the Incarnates arc... This sometimes happens with Daionusthe23rd.
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Writer on Board / int_17e6cb15	comment	It'd be easier to count the times that Bojack Horseman doesn't use a Compressed Vice to say exactly what the writers' opinions are on the subject ("Thoughts and Prayers" actually having a character outright say that that gun violence is the literal direct result of violent movies), especially when it comes to feminism, which is rarely challenged if even questioned (if it is, it's usually by a Straw Character and thrown away). The show has actually been accused of its seemingly careless use of other, more controversial topics as a springboard for a feminist agenda, such as an episode where whales in captivity are used as metaphors for how sexist and dehumanizing strip clubs are.
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Writer on Board / int_1858fe06	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): During the latter half of Ken Penders' period as head writer, many of the stories either revolved around his own anti-gun views or would come to a screeching halt for a few panels for an Author Filibuster about the same. An example of the former was an entire story devoted to showing how the great Overlander vs. Mobian war began: two children - one Overlander, the other Mobian - meet between the two kingdoms to play, one of them brings a gun one day and accidentally shoots the other while they're horsing around, war engulfs both races, After School Special credits roll. An example of the latter has one of the less scrupulous members of the Freedom Fighters (Fiona, who goes on to betray the team and join the bad guys in a later issue) ask why they don't just use guns to solve their current dilemma and is given a verbal bitch-slap by Rotor Walrus about how they have never used guns and never will use guns. This sudden Mood Whiplash is made even more jarring by the fact that Bunnie Rabbot, a character that had worn six-shooters holstered in a bullet belt up until the issue in question, can be seen in the background, without the pistols but still wearing the belt. Further, not but twenty or thirty issues previous, Rotor had developed a huge bazooka-like laser cannon that purportedly operated much like a hand-held Wave-Motion Gun and which Rotor actually fired directly at Dr. Robotnik at one point.
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Writer on Board / int_1a875be1	comment	Tides of War, a novel for World of Warcraft, was apparently upset about how fans reacted to the Alliance faction firebombing Taurajo, a hunter's camp composed of Tauren (minotaur people). As a result, the book takes time out of the narrative to have Baine Bloodhoof, the leader of the tauren, complain about how the Alliance firebombing Taurajo was entirely justified, claim everyone whom died there was a military target, and subsequently exile any of his tauren subjects that were upset about it. Not only is it illogical for any leader to react like this to their own people being upset about their families being killed by the enemy in a war, there was no way for Baine to know the information he quoted as they were only revealed to the Alliance Player Character in a private conversation with the General whom firebombed Taurajo.
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Writer on Board / int_1aacbbc9	comment	The writers of Dragon Age had an obvious bone to pick with the Planet of Hats trope. They could have gone with the typical BioWare tradition of setting up the kind of conversation that allows a peripheral topic to come up naturally; instead, they did this: Dragon Age: Inquisition counters this with Iron Bull, who's much more forthcoming. He's also a member of a social caste rather than Sten's military, which may account for the difference. Of course, how much you want to trust a guy whose name translates as "liar" is up to you...
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Writer on Board / int_1ad92ed2	comment	One of the most common criticisms from Overlord DVD in his reviews is when the creators of a work prioritize a particular message or set of values over actually telling a good story, especially when an existing franchise historically known for good storytelling is altered to preach the message or values. Contrariwise, when a work surprises him with the quality of its storytelling and the lack of any agenda behind it, e.g. The Mandalorian, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, or Werewolf by Night (2022), he makes it a point to praise it.
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Writer on Board / int_1bd623c5	comment	A bizarre and infamous example of this trope appears in the Doom Comic when Doom Guy suddenly rambles about the dangers of nuclear power and the need to preserve the ecosystem for the children of mankind, in the middle of shooting demons and zombies left and right. Probably Played for Laughs, though, but who knows...
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Writer on Board / int_1f140feb	comment	His beliefs regarding Catholicism also drip heavily into his work, through its cosmogony. In particular, the Valar are effectively a way to integrate polytheism into Middle-Earth, while also showing monotheism as "correct." His later writings on the Elves essentially show them as Catholic on a biological level; for one, non-marital intercourse is somewhere between disgusting and physically impossible for them. The Oath of Feanor (the primary plot driver for The Silmarillion) is derided not simply because of its murder-happy consequences, but because Feanor and his sons blasphemously swore it to God.
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Writer on Board / int_2250e67e	comment	She was also contracted to write episode novelizations. Her last one (and last Star Trek novel to date), for the pilot episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, was actually brought to the attention to Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the showrunners, who felt that it was openly critical of the script, declaring it to be 'reeking of hatred' for the show.
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Writer on Board / int_225c51e0	comment	The Naked Gun 2 Â½: the Green Aesop is laid on pretty thick when the villains outline their devious plan. Ironically, David Zucker would become a hard-line conservative and write a whole movie on the opposite side of the political spectrum.
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Writer on Board / int_23445d5f	comment	The earlier seasons of Weeds would toss in several ostentatious diatribes against George W. Bush, none of which had any bearing whatsoever on the plot. Not just a few little Take Thats here and there; the writers would practically pull the handbrake on the story just so they could whine at-length through a character's mouth about how much they hated him. The best (worst?) example being the kid winning a debate competition by using Bush's name as his sole argument against the Electoral College; his teammates, his opponents, the judges, and the entire audience all cheer him on in agreement.
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Writer on Board / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington makes it abundantly clear what David Weber thinks about any number of issues. At the start of the series, Haven is the antagonist, and explicitly a welfare system is taken to absurd extremes. The need to provide for masses on the dole makes them turn conquistador. One character later internally ponders at length how Haven's education system turns out poorly trained soldiers because it focuses on "validating" the students rather than really teaching them. The evils of socialism and flat taxes are also discussed. Nearly all star nations have capital punishment, the bad guys included, and it's always done by hanging. Abortion is also considered unethical, though it's obsolete now as babies can be "tubed". Both Conservatives and Liberals are initially not portrayed well (some good examples come about later), with the protagonists being centrist. This makes sense as the series also pushes what are usually more left-wing views, like sexual liberation and women's rights.
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Writer on Board / int_24a62796	comment	Why would the producers of Dallas make an entire season All Just a Dream just to bring back one character? Answer: They didn't. Executive producer Leonard Katzman wanted that entire season retconned out of existence because he's misogynistic and hated that the women on the show had been made into much stronger characters during his absence from production. Bringing back Bobby Ewing was just a bonus.
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Writer on Board / int_261c8d3f	comment	Lisa Simpson has frequently been used as a mouthpiece on The Simpsons, though she is occasionally acknowledged as being annoying to those around her. Some episodes have very overt liberal themes, such as "Bart-Mangled Banner," a straw man caricature of America's political culture during the George W. Bush years, and "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson," a similar denunciation of the Tea Party.
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Writer on Board / int_27a2d64a	comment	Much of Series Two of Extras is Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant giving their thoughts on show business and celebrity. Andy is regularly faced with a dilemma between seeking riches and fame or artistic honesty, and he ends up having not much of either by shooting for riches and fame. It ends with an Author Tract by Andy against modern society's obsession with celebrity.
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Writer on Board / int_2b21b24c	comment	I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream is about as blatant as it gets, too. Ironically, it would go on to be adapted into a computer game which Ellison himself collaborated on.
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Writer on Board / int_2c57b2d0	comment	Hidden Agenda is pretty obviously a Take That! against the government of Margaret Thatcher, going much further than most. The plot involves a conspiracy where she, with the aid of factions within big business and the military, used black propaganda to discredit Conservative Party leader Edward Heath so she could replace him in 1975. After this she was successfully elected Prime Minister, taking hard-line measures to fight their foes: the labor unions and IRA.
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Writer on Board / int_3127e38	comment	The Newsroom is largely a vehicle for Sorkin to comment on politics of the moment, with his ire generally focused on Tea Party Republicans.
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Writer on Board / int_35c619e2	comment	Green Arrow #61, in which newly elected Mayor Oliver Queen sums up his plan for rebuilding Star City with two words: gay marriage. In exchange for living in the city for two weeks, gay couples can have a free wedding on the steps of city hall - the hope being that all of these couples will stay and settle in the city, bringing money which will go into the local economy. Sadly, the plan is a bit of a non-starter seeing on how it is dependent on finding gay people who are so desperate to be legally married they will willingly move to a city that is currently divided by a massive wall built to separate the poor side of town from the rich side of town in the wake of a super-villain attack. Ollie does privately admit, however, that the main purpose of the announcement is as a headline grabber, designed to keep media attention on Star City and its problems, and that he doesn't expect it to do much else.
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Writer on Board / int_375e8f14	comment	The only way for a religious figure to be depicted positively is for him to rebel against his religion and tell his god, in effect, "Fine, we'll worship you but we don't want you to do or say anything ever again" or accept that Granny Weatherwax is right and the best use for his holy book is as firelighters. Similarly, when Cohen meets The Lady in The Last Hero he gets to give her, personally, a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that renders her dumb (although, ironically, it was Cohen's poorly-thought-out revenge plot that stood to doom the entire Disc right down to the Turtle itself).
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Writer on Board / int_37f1c1bb	comment	The various writers of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (IDW) were obviously very thirsty for the idea of a reformed King Sombra ever since his introduction in the Reflections arc, as they outright reference it every chance they get. It actually bordered on Writer Revolt, as they at first wrote a follow-up to Sombra's FIENDship issue that ended with a rather abrupt Heelâ€“Face Turn for Sombra that turned him into a Suspiciously Similar Substitute to their version, complete with a reference to their version of the character. When the show instead had him come back, evil as ever, and capped it off with Sombra being killed off for real in the Season 8 finale, the comics responded with an entire issue about Spike being the author of the comics... that quite literally ends with Andy Price and Katy Cook's OCs declaring it would have been better if Sombra was redeemed while taunting a Straw Man of fans of MLP.
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Writer on Board / int_39fe00f1	comment	Dragon Age: Inquisition counters this with Iron Bull, who's much more forthcoming. He's also a member of a social caste rather than Sten's military, which may account for the difference. Of course, how much you want to trust a guy whose name translates as "liar" is up to you...
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Writer on Board / int_3b88d68c	comment	Dante has a couple of characters in The Divine Comedy who suddenly have really strong opinions on the Ghibellines and Guelphs only because he wants to express his own views. This makes sense for a couple of his contemporary Italians, but when the Emperor Justinian starts having strong takes on Florentine politics, you know it's really Dante doing the talking.
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Writer on Board / int_3c4ddc1e	comment	For Better or for Worse: Johnson's anti-feminism drips from this strip. One example: Anthony convinces Therese to have a baby, even promising to take care of it. However, when Therese wants to go back to her high-paying job, Anthony admits he doesn't want to care for their kid; he expected "maternal instincts" to kick in. Anthony's later Wangsting over Liz causes Therese to seek a divorce. The other characters view her as a harpy for wanting a good job rather than staying home and popping out kids. She also clearly portrayed female characters (and it was never male ones) who had sex outside marriage as inherently very bad, with doing so irrevocably staining them. Granted, in the main case the character is a teenage girl, but that just makes it worse as her narrative blames the character rather than most likely a victim of statutory rape (it's not entirely clear what age she or the boys she'd had sex with were). This would be a dark subject of course, but the strip had never shied away from that.
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Writer on Board / int_3feaedd	comment	It's absent in the film, but if you read the novel The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven, it seems rather clear that Traven really didn't like the Catholic Church.
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Writer on Board / int_413d2e95	comment	Her Halo: Glasslands, The Thursday War, and Mortal Dictata novels provide a very alternate perspective on everything we know about Dr. Catherine Halsey and has most of the characters (including characters who were on her side in all previous Halo media) treat her like the worst human being who ever lived. Even Halsey herself starts to think this way at times. As far as the author is concerned, stealing children from their parents is the worst atrocity anyone can commit. Even if you happen to save your civilization (and every sentient being in the galaxy) by doing it. Not to mention that Dr. Halsey's inquisitors are none other than the Office of Naval Intelligence, the very same people who recruited her and approved of everything she did, including the "kidnapping young children to be turned into indoctrinated supersoldiers" part, all to crush what at the time were only human rebellions. Traviss also tries to paint the Director of ONI as a hero, despite the fact that she has done even worse things than Halsey, like approve of the SPARTAN-IIIs, which were recruited en mass from war orphans and made into expendable commandos by their early teens. This got to the point where Halo's main writers had to give official explanations in later media like Halo 4's prologue for why ONI decided to condemn Halsey in the first place. As it turns out, ONI's problems with Halsey have nothing to do with morality; they just want a convenient scapegoat for the sins of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as to make the SPARTAN-IV Program look better in comparison.
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Writer on Board / int_44127c7c	comment	Many people believe the famous/infamous Power Rangers episode "Forever Red" was essentially used by Promoted Fanboy Amit Bhuamik to force his fanfic hoax "Scorpion Rain" into canon with the series. Although actually, Bhuamik only provided the voice of Tommy in the fanfic, which was actually created by Derik Smith. Still, Bhuamik admitted that he considered the fanfic "completely in canon" when writing Forever Red, taking advantage of what was originally supposed to be a sequel to Countdown to Destruction (but got changed due to Executive Meddling from Jonathan Tzachor and Koichi Sakamoto) to put his old friend's fan works into continuity. Jackie Marchand did the same thing with Thrax.
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Writer on Board / int_4456bfc2	comment	Klaus Mann does this in his novel Mephisto. There is a middle part where the narrative is abandoned for a heated anti-fascist rant and then the novel resumes without breaking stride.
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Writer on Board / int_468bebb0	comment	It doesn't stick out as painfully as most other examples, but you can easily use the collective Discworld novels by Terry Pratchett to teach a child about the basic values and ethics of secular humanism. It's more obvious in the more serious novels like Small Gods, Hogfather or the later Watch novels, but subtly permeates the entire setting and standard narrative. Note for example how the only people ever truly condemned and removed from society for the greater good are obvious sociopaths — other types of antagonists get some chance of redemption and are depicted as just misguided or scared or stupid, but not outright evil. And the gods are there to be mocked, not venerated; or in the case of truly benevolent higher powers (like Death), they don't care what people believe. And basic human (dwarvish/trollish/undead/etc.) kindness and decency always, always wins the day in the end. All this is no real surprise, considering that Sir Terry was an outspoken member of the British Humanist Association. The only way for a religious figure to be depicted positively is for him to rebel against his religion and tell his god, in effect, "Fine, we'll worship you but we don't want you to do or say anything ever again" or accept that Granny Weatherwax is right and the best use for his holy book is as firelighters. Similarly, when Cohen meets The Lady in The Last Hero he gets to give her, personally, a "The Reason You Suck" Speech that renders her dumb (although, ironically, it was Cohen's poorly-thought-out revenge plot that stood to doom the entire Disc right down to the Turtle itself). This also goes double for Good Omens, even if that's obviously not secular humanism. There's also a strangely subverted example involving gun control. At first glance Men at Arms appears to be an unusually heavy-handed diatribe against gun ownership, to the extent that the Big Bad is in fact the gun itself. However, later books have a considerably softer outlook on the issue; Sam Vimes in Night Watch even espouses a version of the pro-gun proverb, "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns." (Although not about actual guns, the only one in the books continuing to be the one in Men at Arms. In The Fifth Elephant, Vimes isn't even happy about the existence of springgonnes, which are basically just stripped-down crossbows, claiming "That's not a weapon! It's for killing people!")
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Writer on Board / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood's writing staff comes off as aggressively atheist. Jack refers to religion as superstition and rants about how primitive cultures cling to anything that denies the randomness of existence. It's repeatedly stated that there is no afterlife, and anyone with a belief in some form of deity is shot down as naive or just wrong. There's also the fact that Everyone Is Bi. The series was created by Russell T. Davies, who also wrote Queer as Folk (UK), and is openly gay along with being atheist. In series one, a number of the people the team resurrected had memories of darkness and a hungry thing which turned out to be quite literal, real, and verifiable (and, at one point, summoned into the living world). This wasn't a minor plot point, either; it was the first series arc, making every character around before series 2 that says something like "this life is all there is" something of a Flat-Earth Atheist. Admittedly the Torchwood afterlife is apparently extremely boring, but nonetheless.
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Writer on Board / int_4ca29f1f	comment	He was also on board for much of Rising Stars, the latter half of which was often devoted to JMS lecturing through the Poet. The latter third of that run was essentially an extended Take That! to rightwing politics, to such an extent that it derailed the existing plot.
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Writer on Board / int_4e588869	comment	Aydin Marcos of Darwin's Soldiers shares the same values as his devoutly Catholic creator, Noname.
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Writer on Board / int_4e7cac32	comment	The Supergirl episode "Blind Spots" was created because writer/actress Azie Tesfai was fed up with being relegated to playing the token supportive black girlfriend who's constantly Trapped by Mountain Lions, and thus has Kelly stop the rest of the team and demand that they actually help her with the metaphorical mountain lions before they go back to dealing with the A-plot. If one reads between the lines, it's also an episode-long vent about how much it sucks being a black actress whose career exists at the mercy of a whole lot of white people.
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Writer on Board / int_5079f984	comment	Inside Man has a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment featuring a little boy playing an ultra-violent, black ghetto-themed handheld video game that commands the player to "kill that nigga," this in a heist movie that is not at all about the black ghetto, or new media, or even race. What do you think the odds of seeing this would have been if Spike Lee had not been the director?
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Writer on Board / int_513f5832	comment	In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Leonard Nimoy preaches his pro-environmental views and gives a nonsensical justification for it. Yet by not putting those views front and center, and keeping the movie strong on character and humor (also thanks to the screenplay by four skilled writers), the trope is barely noticeable when watching. It helps that he avoids demonizing the opposition with strawmen or a cackling, anti-environmental villain. In fact, except for the probe that starts it all (which can hardly be considered malevolent), this is the one of the relatively rare Star Trek stories that can be considered to have No Antagonist.
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Writer on Board / int_518b056d	comment	The Da Vinci Code has been criticized for having a protagonist with no personality, who simply serves as a mouthpiece for Dan Brown's theories. And it's not just the protagonist, either. Brown repeatedly pauses the plot for Author Filibusters that would give Ayn Rand a run for her money, if not in length or research, then certainly in obviousness. It is helped at least somewhat by the fact that the Big Bad Conspiracy Theorist is the main proponent and spokesman of the "secret history", which the protagonist disagrees with over major details. In fact, the filibusters primarily focus on religious ideas and symbols rather than practical facts, often going out of their way to defend the same conservative Christian beliefs they would appear to be criticizing. The Ancient Conspiracy ends up being a subversion, and the ending is ultimately ambiguous as to whether the theory is true or not. It's simply another belief system with its own interpretation of Christ.
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Writer on Board / int_549bc5da	comment	In Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Payne can eavesdrop on two cops who mock the idea that video games cause violence.
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Writer on Board / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: Roger Stern openly said in an interview that the reason he killed Starhawk and Aleta's kids when he took over the title from Mike Gallagher is he simply felt they didn't fit the characters (and with a note that if someone wished, there was a way to undo their deaths. In the five decades since, no-one actually has.)
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Writer on Board / int_58907201	comment	The "Patriarchy" arc of Sinfest is a hefty, hefty example of this, with characters being drastically altered to make the arc work out in a "feminists are good, nearly all men are useless misogynists and there are no male allies in this world" way. Some of the biggest examples of this alteration are Slick and Squig. A lot of anti-transgender writing followed.
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Writer on Board / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas has Ulysses, the game's Kreia, as he too is written by Chris Avellone. Throughout the game and 3 out of 4 DLCs, Ulysses is talked about being the biggest badass that has ever lived but when you face him in Lonesome Road he dumps the Courier with Avellone's opinions on the seriesnote Basically to revert the series back to being people struggling to eke out a life in the wastelands before you fight him. When/if you fight him he is the hardest boss in the entire game.
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Writer on Board / int_5c3ec7f1	comment	While Year of the Griffin from Dark Lord of Derkholm is normally a Fantastic Comedy about the trials and tribulations of Wizarding University students, it takes one moment in a chapter to get Aesoptinial about sexism and women's education. Thankfully, rather than disrupt an existing character, it creates a new one—a horrifying misogynist gangster—to serve as its designated vice-target. Since the author has autobiographically noted that she was seen as a weird girl in her childhood for wanting to be smart and intellectual, it's somewhat understandable why she would feel strongly about this.
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Writer on Board / int_5d769a65	comment	Roberto GÃ³mez BolaÃ±os aka Chespirito was a very complex man. On one hand, he was very socially conservative and a vocal opponent of abortion and gay marriage (though he was OK with gay civil unions) but much more progressive on economic issues and social reform, probably because he was a devoted Catholic.note Notice that is very common in Latin America for political Catholicism to be left-wing in political and economic issued but more conservative in social issues, as most Christian Democratic Parties would show. His views went into his shows in many ways: Several episodes of El ChapulÃn Colorado, Los Caquitos and at least one in El Chavo del ocho deal with rehabilitation of criminals. Chespirito strongly believed that criminals should be rehabilitated by society and treated in a humane way and ex-convicts should be given second chances. He also was a strong opponent of the death penalty (and his characters too, of course). Several episodes of El Chavo del ocho deal with discrimination against poor people, the need for solidarity in society, the unfairness of class differences and how people might accuse easily an orphan like Chavo of being a robber than theyâ€™ll do to other people of a better social status. As a pacifist he hated violent sports, particularly boxing. El Chavo del ocho gets Anvilicious sometimes with his treatment of boxing as the worst thing in the world. In several episodes one character would say: â€œNo one, no one has the right to take another human beingâ€™s lifeâ€� (if this is an anti-abortion or anti-death penalty or both statement is up to the viewer).
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Writer on Board / int_5e150650	comment	Lunars: Fangs At The Gate, unlike previous editions of the splatbook, had a sidebar paragraph where the authors point out that they haven't used the word "barbarian" anywhere in the book and congratulate themselves for it. The gameplay details that readers paid for are put on hold.
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Writer on Board / int_6108ba8d	comment	The Last Jedi - the eighth episode of the Star Wars saga was directed by Rian Johnson and deconstructs and criticizes a number of long-standing Star Wars tropes. Johnson uses a burnt out and depressed Luke Skywalker to discuss his thoughts on the negative aspects of the Jedi Order, the nuances of the Force, and the fan's mythologizing of Luke. Additionally, he uses the hopeful, but bitter Rose Tico to espouse his personal politics such as condemning slavery, war profiteering, and a giving speech about how the military-industrial complex gets richer from the suffering of others and how they will always support those who will benefit the most.
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Writer on Board / int_67917017	comment	Marat/Sade: In-Universe. The Marquis de Sade is the writer of the play-within-a-play being performed by his fellow inmates of Charenton and is a character within the play, as well.
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Writer on Board / int_69a00c38	comment	Funky Winkerbean usually dips only occasionally into Tom Batiuk's views. However, in mid-September of 2009, he suddenly ran a plot line in which a group of angry parents protests a production of Wit, a play about "cancer" and "death". As Batiuk's own dip into these two topics was a source of mockery and harsh criticism (mainly due to his lack of skill in shifting a gag-per-day strip into heavy drama), it was pretty obvious that he still had a chip on his shoulder.
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Writer on Board / int_69fad9a5	comment	Redskin122004, author of The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum, has also written Deconstructions for the "Fall of Equestria" universe (wherein the ponies are forced into sexual slavery by the patriarchal caribou). He has stated an explicit hatred for the universe to rival his distaste for The Conversion Bureau that stems from his own hatred of what goes on in real life.
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Writer on Board / int_6ab1b49f	comment	Council Wars includes things like cheerleading for the American 2nd Amendment, dislike of welfare, and other political views that at least make sense given the context in which they come up in the story and are worked in logically. Stopping dead to explain why believing in human-caused climate change is stupid, going on at length about the sexual kinks of Herzer, and a completely nonsensical explanation of American "strategy" in the "War on Terror"? Not so subtle.
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Writer on Board / int_6bbd5e69	comment	The Man with the Iron Heart takes this to extremes about his feelings on the Iraq War. Reinhard Heydrich lives to run a partisan campaign. Body bags are showing up as everyday Germans become radicalized and engage in terrorist acts. It's subtle as a brick when you have mothers of dead soldiers acting just like a certain famous protester and it leads up to the Republicans winning control of Congress and getting us out from the Democrats' war — after which the Nazis are poised to take over again.
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Writer on Board / int_6cb2d709	comment	Very common in Harry Potter fanfics: In the infamous My Immortal, everyone turns into a goffik Stanist who swears a lot and sticks their middle finger up at preps. They also develop an unhealthy preoccupation with slitting their wrists. However, due to its status as a (possible) Troll Fic, this ridiculousness is likely quite intentional.
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Writer on Board / int_6e1b85a0	comment	Revolver (2005) seemed set to be the next awesome Guy Ritchie crime film, but what had appeared at first to be a rather promising plot eventually turned out to be a Mind Screwy delivery system for the Kabbalistic beliefs Ritchie picked up during his marriage to Madonna.
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Writer on Board / int_6e60e73a	comment	My Little Pony: Friends Forever: Friends Forever Issue #14 was written for the sole purpose of pushing the author's views on racism, specifically the ending of Dragon Quest which the author thought had Unfortunate Implications. Unfortunately the fan consensus is that it did an incredibly poor job of it by being far too preachy, being riddled with Unfortunate Implications, having little to no actual plot, an outright lying covernote It depicted Luna and Spike in a fierce battle against fire-breathing adult dragons, which don't even appear in the comic, putting no focus on Princess Luna and Spike's friendship, having Luna only be present for about two pages, and having Spike's role delegated to "listening to Anvilicious Author Tracts from a bunch of Canon Foreigners who never appear in the entire franchise again".
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Writer on Board / int_6ecd1807	comment	He often used Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip as a soapbox to air his thinly disguised personal grievances, particularly to vicariously lecture his ex-girlfriend.
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Writer on Board / int_70814599	comment	The fourth episode of the first season of Stargate SG-1, "Emancipation", was centered on Samantha Carter becoming a Blithe Spirit on a planet where women were oppressed in every way possible. The feminist message was conveyed with all the subtlety of a naquadah explosion. This episode was noteworthy for being written by the same writer as the fourth episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Code of Honor" which incorporated many similar plot points. The events from it were never mentioned again.
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Writer on Board / int_729ba28f	comment	In one very uncharacteristically blatant and unmistakable example, several characters near the beginning of Ender in Exile espouse the view that monogamy is the only and best successful means of human society, using the exact same phrasing consistently enough to put conservative pundits' talking points to shame. Thankfully, he drops this act soon enough to make the book as a whole still enjoyable. Likewise Ender's Shadow series has some moments during the arc of Bean's Character Development. In Shadow Puppets in particular, the adamantly childfree Beannote (the same genetic engineering that makes him a genius also dooms him to a short lifespan ending an unpleasant death before middle age and he was determined to not have children who would be similarly Blessed with Suck) turns around on the idea of reproducing very suddenly after getting lectured by a Straight Gay man who married a woman simply so he could have kids, because a heterosexual marriage with children is the only way to be truly happy, and all other reasons a person might not want that are just lies they tell themselves.
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Writer on Board / int_755b343f	comment	This got to the point where Halo's main writers had to give official explanations in later media like Halo 4's prologue for why ONI decided to condemn Halsey in the first place. As it turns out, ONI's problems with Halsey have nothing to do with morality; they just want a convenient scapegoat for the sins of the SPARTAN-II program, as well as to make the SPARTAN-IV Program look better in comparison.
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Writer on Board / int_77ce7c3a	comment	Love Stinks does this within the plot itself. When Seth gets sued by his ex-girlfriend for "palimony," he expresses his feelings about it through his job as a sitcom writer. This ultimately leads to the actors eventually throwing down the latest script in disgust to chew Seth out for derailing the show because of his personal issues.
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Writer on Board / int_7e05f763	comment	Rick Remender has been accused of doing this in his Uncanny Avengers. Remender is outspoken in his belief that the mutant-rights movement within the stories is a poor metaphor for real-world civil rights, because, unlike real minorities, many mutants are legitimately dangerous, and several characters within the story express the view that the mutant rights movement is completely different from, say, the African-American or gay rights movements. Particularly controversial has been his handling of Rogue and to a lesser extent Wolverine and Sunfire, who hold the view (shared with the majority of writers and fans) that the parallels do work, and who are portrayed as unreasonable for it.
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Writer on Board / int_8125b468	comment	The Batman mythos character Anarky exists to be a vehicle for his creator Alan Grant's political views. This is why Anarky's ideology abruptly shifted from libertarian socialist to Neo-Tech between appearances (matching Grant's own conversion) and why few other writers use him (one of the exceptions being Kevin Dooley, who himself used Anarky as a mouthpiece for his views on gun control.) In particular, Grant's 1997 Anarky miniseries is essentially a four-issue-long Author Filibuster, delivered via Anarky's Inner Monologue, long philosophical debates with Batman, Darkseid, and Etrigan, and occasional pauses in the action to allow Anarky to break the fourth wall to lecture the reader directly on his alternative view of human history and development. Ironically, one of the few times Anarky has ever appeared in an adaptation (in Batman: Arkham Origins), he was revealed to be a clueless teenager trying desperately to act grown up by spouting talking points with no understanding of what they mean, possibly hinting at how other writers feel about him.
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Writer on Board / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Gene Roddenberry expressly made The Federation an aspirational utopia. Some of its characteristics include secularism, multiculturalism, and a Post-Scarcity Economy. Most episodes penned by the Berman/Braga team, as they have the opinion that the future is going to be a bad place, taking the franchise away from Gene Roddenberry's vision of hope and optimism. Many of their episodes are rather dark, depressing, and pessimistic. Their episodes introduced corruption and hypocrisy into the Federation and questioned whether it really deserved its characterization as a moral good. Jeri Taylor is often accused of this since she often wrote episodes with Janeway being a bland powerhouse and how everyone on the ship loved her. In a Taylor-made episode in which Janeway apparently (but not really, of course) died, the crew had a memorial service in which every cast member made a speech about how awesome Janeway was. This scene was twice as long as Spock's funeral in Wrath of Khan.
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Writer on Board / int_8529459f	comment	As a pacifist he hated violent sports, particularly boxing. El Chavo del ocho gets Anvilicious sometimes with his treatment of boxing as the worst thing in the world.
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Writer on Board / int_869a0304	comment	Stieg Larsson was obviously not a fan of guns. In a chapter of The Girl Who Played With Fire, told from a veteran policeman's perspective, he criticizes hollow-point ammunition. The character calls it "hunting ammunition" and says that it is "unclear" why law enforcement uses it. A real police officer would be well aware of the reasons, such as reducing the chances of the bullet passing through a target and hitting bystanders, or the fact that shooting someone constitutes "deadly force" and is thus done with the intent of killing the target (hence why it's the last resort for police officers), even if he didn't agree with them. Shortly thereafter, another policeman calls a Colt handgun a "cowboy pistol" and says they should be banned outright because apparently, some guns are somehow "more" bad than others.
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Writer on Board / int_8727bf22	comment	A somewhat humorous example: Animal Man. Grant Morrison used it to constantly pitch for animal rights, particularly stating that Humans Are the Real Monsters and eating animals is wrong. Part of the plot was also the fact that the main character was slowly realizing he was in a comic book. In the last issue of Morrison's run, Animal Man and Morrison talk face to face, and Animal Man points out that animal rights are all well and good - but sometimes they verged on eco-terrorism. And that sharing minds with animals shouldn't automatically make you a vegetarian since half of the time you're going to be sharing minds with a carnivore. And all of this felt like Character Derailment. Morrison admits they has some good points but wonders if the next writer will take that too far and have Animal Man run down a zebra and eat it alive. As both a Continuity Nod and a Take That!, the next writer had him do just that in the very next issue.
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Writer on Board / int_88db465c	comment	In the Video Game Edition Series, some roleplayers obviously don't like the other guys, and as such make it their objective to beat up constantly on the other characters using their own. But since almost everything in the RP is Played for Laughs, and the sense of True Companions is so thick you couldn't cut it without a Giga Drill Breaker, people usually get over it. SteakHeart, being the Yuri Fan he is, usually takes it upon himself to increase lesbian factor amongst various characters. The others either Love It or Hate It, but it's still Played for Laughs and Sexiness.
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Writer on Board / int_8910e361	comment	Spider Robinson's Very Bad Deaths occasionally lapses into sermons about why marijuana is great and conservatives are evil. Fortunately, it doesn't dominate the book. However, at one point the Big Bad has a conversation with the narrator, whom the villain intends to torture to death for fun. They both agree that as evil as the Big Bad is, at least he's not as utterly loathsome and without any redeeming moral qualities as the worst human in recorded history, Vice President Dick Cheney.
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Writer on Board / int_8ae8bad8	comment	The protagonist of Strong Medicine, Dr. Lu Delgado, is just a mouthpiece for the Lifetime Channel's ridiculously black-and-white view of the interactions between "the evil" men and "the defenseless" women.
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Writer on Board / int_8d22345f	comment	The Neanderthal Parallax descends into this, what with the Neanderthals' perfect society that is wholly devoid of crime. Not like us nasty humans, eh? Of course, it's based on sex segregation, plus eugenics -- sterilizing not only violent criminals but their near relatives, and, in the past, those with low intelligence...
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Writer on Board / int_8d7f29ec	comment	When Glee did a brief story arc in the third season where Beiste was being abused by her new husband Cooter, it was quite clear that the whole thing was orchestrated by NeNe Leakes, the actress playing Roz since domestic violence is her pet cause. Besides the fact that Beiste's Aesop of "Big burly people have feelings too" had been run into the ground in the second season, the storyline resulted in out-of-character moments for almost everyone involved, from Cooter—previously portrayed as a nice guy—suddenly becoming a wife-beater offscreennote Yes, it's truth in television that most abusers come across as nice people in public, but from a narrative standpoint, it came out of nowhere, to the girls of New Directions acting completely nonchalant towards Beiste's plight and claiming that their own boyfriends would never hit them (even though two of the girls in the group were dating each other), necessitating Roz to set them straight.
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Writer on Board / int_8dfbdff2	comment	Pretty much the last three years of Law & Order. In particular, Jack McCoy's vendetta-like attacks on defendants who use religion as a defense. It is stopped just short of being completely anvilicious by being well within his character and having him regularly being called out on it. Highlighted in the extreme in Law & Order: Trial By Jury were Dick Wolf's negative views toward defense attorneys who were at times portrayed as more immoral than their clients (who were all inevitably guilty). But the polarity of the integrity of the DA's office vs. the sliminess of defense attorneys can often be seen in all of the Law & Order series. Curiously subverted in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit where Elliot Stabler enjoys his rants about how violating his morals is evil and horrible. In an instance that might be called "Actor On Board", Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has Detective Sergeant John Munch, whose utter devotion to the civil liberties of every human being stops rather abruptly at the right to end one's own life. This character is played by an actor (Richard Belzer) whose own father committed suicide, as did Munch's in-universe, thus explaining this inconsistent stance. Munch in one episode attempts to explain his feelings because of this to the assisted suicide advocate (Marlee Matlin) they've arrested, convincing her not to kill herself on a hunger strike. One particularly blatant example: Stabler and Benson are investigating an attempted castration when they discover the victim made parts for military drone planes, and speculate that the controversy surrounding said planes could be a motive. Said possibility is ruled out in the very next scene, but not before Benson tells the guy's wife point-blank, "Your husband kills people for a living!" This angle is then never mentioned again. In The Mothership's original cast seasons (before the network-mandated cast overhaul and before the show settled into its standard Body of the Week format), any crimes with a sexual angle (that weren't rape) were treated with visible disgust by both the senior detective (Phil Ceretta or Paul Greevy in those seasons). Ben Stone would tend to be more professional about things - unless the porn industry was involved somehow, then the moral gloves came off. The biggest example of the latter may be "Aria" (Season 2, Ep. 3), where Stone prosecuted a Stage Mom for the suicide of her daughter: she killed herself rather than perform a hardcore sex scene, and Stone charged her with having driven her to it via pressure to perform. The porn pros were all portrayed as sleazy borderline criminals or victimized women with various substance abuse problems.
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Writer on Board / int_8e0265d8	comment	In Clerks II, the "Star Wars versus The Lord of the Rings" argument is obviously Kevin Smith's personal opinions on the subject. In fact, Randall's monologue in the film was an almost verbatim repetition of a speech that Smith had given previously when a Q&A attendee asked him about the trilogy.
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Writer on Board / int_9068877a	comment	Red vs. Blue, in its fifteenth and sixteenth seasons, introduced new head writer Joe Nicolosi. Unlike the personality-driven comedy of seasons past, Nicolosi's primary outlets of humor involve pop culture references, and constant dialogue centered around movie tropes and cliches — regardless of whether or not said jokes fit with the characters who say them, which is especially prominent once Author Avatar Jax leaves the main cast. Season 17, conversely, which was penned by Joe's co-writer Jason Weight and the main writer of The Chorus Trilogy, Miles Luna, all but removed the referential humor in favor of returning to character dynamics and loads of Continuity Porn.
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Writer on Board / int_90c73dda	comment	The Animorphs book The Experiment was ghost-written and a heavy-handed anti-meat screed, so much that the primary author and series creator K. A. Applegate stepped in to rewrite the final chapter so that the Animorphs are happily chowing down on hamburgers (except Cassie, for whom vegetarianism is in-character). Though Applegate herself doesn't have much room to throw stones, as The Secret is just as much of an excuse to rant about the logging industry.
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Writer on Board / int_956cb36b	comment	At the end of his career, State of Fear is an anti-climate change screed about environmentalists planning mass murder to cause a climate change panic and receive funding, and when he got called out on his blatant misuse and misrepresentation of science, he turned one of his critics into a child molester with a small penis in Next.
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Writer on Board / int_982fa89f	comment	Robin Hood: Pacifists Dominic Minghella and Foz Allan's created whole plotlines about Robin's anti-killing mantra. Fine for modern-day folk at home, but in a ruthless, medieval setting it produces an Idiot Hero who prefers endless slaughter to killing the one man responsible for it. The most glaring example is early in Season 1 when Robin's reluctance to just shoot the Sheriff (who is about ten feet away from him) causes the death of one of his own men.
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Writer on Board / int_9aac0273	comment	There's also a strangely subverted example involving gun control. At first glance Men at Arms appears to be an unusually heavy-handed diatribe against gun ownership, to the extent that the Big Bad is in fact the gun itself. However, later books have a considerably softer outlook on the issue; Sam Vimes in Night Watch even espouses a version of the pro-gun proverb, "If guns are outlawed, then only outlaws will have guns." (Although not about actual guns, the only one in the books continuing to be the one in Men at Arms. In The Fifth Elephant, Vimes isn't even happy about the existence of springgonnes, which are basically just stripped-down crossbows, claiming "That's not a weapon! It's for killing people!")
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Writer on Board / int_9e876c22	comment	This also goes double for Good Omens, even if that's obviously not secular humanism.
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Writer on Board / int_a058fdcf	comment	Jackie Marchand did the same thing with Thrax.
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Writer on Board / int_a183d57f	comment	Just like The Simpsons, Futurama can engage in this at times; one of the most blatant examples is "Decision 3012", which is about a Presidential candidate (who's Barack Obama in all but name and ethnicity) who is portrayed as a messianic genius who could save the universe if only the drunken idiots of America and Fox News (which is somehow still around 1000 years in the future) would stop obsessing over minor things like his "foreign-sounding" middle name and just let him do his job. Unsurprisingly, it's near unanimously considered the series' worst episode.
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Writer on Board / int_a24ccc75	comment	A monologue in Puyo Puyo!! 20th Anniversary, that has Maguro going on a long, unprompted rant about how he feels that Tabletop RPG sourcebook-scalpers are robbing him of his chance to pass his childhood hobby on to younger children makes a lot more sense once you read tweets of the game's scenario writer stating that she is a passionate Dungeons & Dragons player. Crosses over into Self-Deprecation, since Risukuma, who the rant is directed at, is absolutely terrified by how serious his underclassman is taking the issue and wishes out loud to never relive the experience once Maguro is out of earshot.
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Writer on Board / int_a2f77c77	comment	Jim Cornette, when given creative control and sometimes even when he's not. Two of his more standout victims are Jillian Hall (who received a change in gimmick purely because she got breast implants after he told her not to) and Boogeyman (who Jim refused to portray as the actual Boogeyman against WWE's wishes) while he ran OVW. However the angles may have suffered from these abrupt changes, Jillian and Boogeyman were still booked strongly during OVW when it came to winning matches and beating people up, which is more than can be said of their WWE runs, where they were reduced to jobbers before long.
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Writer on Board / int_a32b6a64	comment	The West Wing: He references a disagreement with the website Television Without Pity.
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Writer on Board / int_a33d74a4	comment	The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind begins as a typical sword and sorcery series, but becomes increasingly a vessel for the author to express his Objectivist beliefs. For example, the central struggle in Faith of the Fallen is between free-market capitalism and socialism. The main character Richard delivers a number of Author Tracts in which he states Goodkind's Objectivist opinions, which often contradict views the character expressed earlier in the series—or even the story's reality itself, such as claiming that belief in the afterlife is unfounded, when Richard has been there and back himself. The afterlife thing is particularly noteworthy, since Goodkind's attempt to justify it is more baffling than any Retcon could be. It is revealed in a later book that since the world was devoid of magic for a time the afterlife, magical in nature, has ceased to exist. So now belief in the afterlife is unfounded, even though it could be proven to exist before. This overwhelming change in the world and its profound impact on the human condition is mentioned exactly once, and after that, all the characters behave as if they had always lived in a world where there was no life after death. This is not so coincidentally in line with an Objectivist view, which disbelieves in any afterlife.
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Writer on Board / int_a346e791	comment	NUMB3RS suffered from this with the eco-storyline and the minority-treatment arc at the end of last season. Nothing like a good Green Aesop to pull the handbrake on a perfectly decent whodunit. In fairness to the writers, this was during a period where just about all Prime Time tv shows had some awkward and obvious addition of greenness to it; being uber earth-friendly was like the chickenpox for all the major networks, with many of the networks forcing the green line on the people who made their shows. Also in line with the trope, at many various points the main characters talk about what they're doing to be eco-friendly, up to and including building a windmill in the backyard for power and including a filter-collector for rainwater.
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Writer on Board / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd constantly references his (as in James') childhood in many of his videos. For one example, his childhood hatred of Ghostbusters for the NES not only resulted in a longer-than-usual episode, but it also resulted in the very next episode being another review of the same game.
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Writer on Board / int_a54eef52	comment	While labeled as Hetalia: Axis Powers fanfics of all things, the stories Israel's workout and The Two Americas are really very extreme Conservative and racially insensitive propaganda at that. The first depicts the Anthropomorphic Personification of Palestine as an Ax-Crazy thug and ends with the protagonist, Israel, ranting about how Palestinians are Always Chaotic Evil. The Second depicts a Barack Obama as a Straw Liberal that antagonizes the "real" conservative America.
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Writer on Board / int_a5a0dd85	comment	Aldous Huxley set a new standard for this, as well as acting as an inspiration for later writers such as Rand, Heinlein, and Card. Almost all of his post Brave New World novels feature an author stand-in who lectures the reader about the Way Things Should Be (e.g. Propter in After Many A Summer). This reached its ultimate point of absurdity in Island, which is essentially a several-hundred-page lecture on the perfect society bookended by a couple of chapters of narrative.
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Writer on Board / int_a5d88e5c	comment	Annie Hall parodies it, by having Alvy Singer write his failing relationship into a play he's working on. In real life, Singer and his girlfriend break up, but in the play, he delivers a poorly-written speech about how their relationship was far too superb to end in a hell-hole like Los Angeles. Singer lampshades it by turning to the screen and saying, "What do you want, it was my first play."
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Writer on Board / int_a993be1f	comment	Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords might better be called Kreia Is Right: The Game. It essentially takes a sledgehammer to the good/evil divide of the Force seen in basically every other piece of Star Wars media. Audience reactions varied. Subverted, possibly intentionally, by the fact that you absolutely cannot actually follow her advice or philosophy in the game; the good/evil divide is enforced by the game mechanics. Also by the fact that she's proven to be a Consummate Liar and Unreliable Expositor by the events of the game.
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Writer on Board / int_aab02655	comment	Civil War (2006) has been accused of this, with people saying Mark Millar made just about everyone in the Marvel Universe into idiots just so he could pit them against each other. The fact that some writers seemed to agree with this only compounds the problem.
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Writer on Board / int_b0183e04	comment	Parodied in Garth Marenghis Darkplace, in which the Show Within a Show is frequently derailed by the arrogant head writerâ€™s nonsensical and bigoted Author Tracts. Amongst other things, he grinds the plot to a halt to moralize about buying name brand batteries and devotes the plot of an entire episode to a bizarre racist screed against Scottish people.
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Writer on Board / int_b2bd761b	comment	Troy Rising the protagonist got to be wealthier than the rest of the planet through hard work. Also we're treated to his views on taxation, unemployment and welfare. At one point an alien takes time to complain directly about "liberals".
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Writer on Board / int_b373a206	comment	Green Lantern #154, in which we learn the very important lesson that Beating People Up For Being Gay Is Wrong after Green Lantern Kyle Rayner's personal assistant Terry Berg is beaten up by a group of random thugs while leaving a club with his boyfriend. Despite having lost his first girlfriend to super-villain violence in the incident which defined the Stuffed into the Fridge trope and seeing numerous other violations of basic human decency on a daily basis, THIS particularly display of man's inhumanity to man is so bad that it inspires Kyle Rayner to abandon the Earth in favor of wandering outer space and helping random non-human species.
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Writer on Board / int_b4709254	comment	TV Tropes itself has shades of this. Editors will frequently inject their opinion about something they don't like. YMMV pages have plenty of these, but they pop up occasionally on trope pages as well.
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Writer on Board / int_b4996199	comment	Spider-Man: The series has many mostly in the form of Shipping Wars as each writer tries to pitch their own ship: Stan "The Man" Lee himself, particularly during his run. It's a somewhat well-known fact that, originally, Mary Jane Watson was introduced as merely a foil for Gwen Stacy. However, Mary Jane was infamous for stealing every scene she entered, largely overshadowing Gwen's softer personality. Stan made numerous attempts to downplay MJ's character, mainly by simply excluding her from the story, but he once gave MJ a ridiculous haircut that even the characters hated. In a featurette on the Spider-Man 2 DVD, Stan admits that despite his efforts, he just couldn't make Gwen as interesting as MJ and he knew it. John Romita is on record saying that he did all he could to make Gwen as interesting as MJ but to no avail. MJ was an immediate hit — readers started writing letters asking for her to be made Peter Parker's girlfriend on the strength of the iconic panel that first showed her face as well as her long-introduction and the fact that Aunt May, Peter's mother in essence, was a Shipper on Deck and saw MJ as "the one" for Peter. Lee's and Romita's best efforts to make Gwen prettier and feistier were not enough especially since a lot of these fans didn't forget that when artist and co-plotter Steve Ditko was around, Gwen Stacy was a narcissistic arrogant Alpha Bitch who found Peter attractive but was otherwise too proud to act on it and basically played mean pranks and social bullying to "express her affection" and they saw Lee and Romita's rewrites to make Gwen stick for the transparent Character Shilling they were. Dan Slott notes this about the famous Revision of Parallel Lives, the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to Amazing Fantasy #15, arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Gerry Conway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, given Spider-Man's Hero with Bad Publicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views which Mary Jane never did, this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically deconstructed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up handsome (as repeatedly told in stories in the Ditko era, and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but the Black Cat. Co-creator Steve Ditko a few years after he finished Spider-Man became known as an Objectivist, and his abrupt departure is often seen as a result of a political disagreement between him and Lee. Much of which is conjecture and unverifiable because Ditko was a famous Reclusive Artist who refused to discuss Spider-Man in detail after he quit. After Ditko left, Lee who was himself quite apolitical at the time but tended to go with general social trends once they became mainstream, in later years would use Spider-Man to put out Very Special Episode most notably the "drug trilogy" and where Ditko in The '60s made fun of college protestors as Bourgeois Bohemian, Lee trying to tap into the college crowd he had come to know on the campus lecture circuit showed them more sympathetically.
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Writer on Board / int_b5134390	comment	In the infamous My Immortal, everyone turns into a goffik Stanist who swears a lot and sticks their middle finger up at preps. They also develop an unhealthy preoccupation with slitting their wrists. However, due to its status as a (possible) Troll Fic, this ridiculousness is likely quite intentional.
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Writer on Board / int_b6c15d0	comment	Chatoyance uses her Conversion Bureau fics to espouse her views.
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Writer on Board / int_b9b796cf	comment	Fate/stay night's protagonist has no interest in any religion and never attended a sermon in his life, yet cannot go near a church without describing how judgmental and inhuman it feels.
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Writer on Board / int_b9da52e1	comment	In Empire, characters will pause during the action to explain exactly why any disrespect for the military whatsoever is unpatriotic and therefore evil. Not to mention the fact that, despite apparently being a warning against partisanship, the Big Bads are still liberals.
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Writer on Board / int_ba3a52fb	comment	One episode of Judge John Deed featured a No Celebrities Were Harmed version of Andrew Wakefield as a heroic campaigner against dangerous vaccines being pushed by sinister government and pharmaceutical figures. When a letter to the Radio Times complained about this slanted treatment of the subject, the showrunner responded with vague remarks about "Big Pharma" that bordered on conspiracy theory. The episode was subsequently found to breach impartiality guidelines and the BBC undertook not to repeat it or release it on DVD.
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Writer on Board / int_ba88530b	comment	In the Maximum Ride series, the fourth book - The Final Warning abruptly switches to a clumsy Aesop about Global Warming, completely ignoring whatever semblance of a plot and characterization the previous books had. Among other things, the Big Bad is defeated by a random hurricane, which is explicitly linked to Global Warming.
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Writer on Board / int_bcadd7cb	comment	"A Crushed Empire" is a long-gone Warhammer 40,000 fanfic where the Emperor is evil, all non-humans are trying to be friendly and everyone converts to Christianity. The sequel is just as bad, as the races well known for their Fantastic Racism and Omnicidal Maniac tendencies are being nice to each other, and the Marty Stu Dark Angel-wannabe somehow banished the Chaos Gods. The cause of all this? The Bible.
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Writer on Board / int_bd310eaa	comment	Usually lampshaded in El Goonish Shive when Dan wants to make a point, such as "Val Kilmer is not an excuse for spoilers." Done more subtly with some points, like the EGS:NP arc about "real fans".
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Writer on Board / int_be03a5ee	comment	Left Behind: While the entire franchise is a massive Author Tract, the Writer On Board aspect comes into play when a previously independent, scientifically minded character is suddenly touched by God, converts, and from that moment on reminds us repeatedly how happy they are now that they got rid of their delusions and bloated self-importance brought on by education (self-importance through Holier Than Thou is fine). Another example is how the authors keep trying to cram anti-abortion plot points into a story that starts with the Rapture, an event where every child and fetus on earth magically vanished. Not only are the pro-choice arguments often ridiculous caricatures, but they make even less sense in the context of the story. Every parent on Earth lost their young children, but Planned Parenthood grief counselors can't find any job except wait for new pregnancies to abort. Neither can the gynecologists, despite the billions of formerly pregnant women who'd need examinations and would want to know if they even can get pregnant again. And the government wants to promote abortion as population control, despite an entire generation having been wiped out overnight.
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Writer on Board / int_bfa1d565	comment	Most episodes of Boston Legal involve at least one case where the Crane, Poole & Schmidt firm takes on The Government / MegaCorp over a Ripped from the Headlines controversial scandal or policy. Guess who always wins?
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Writer on Board / int_c2297a9c	comment	The "Emerald Isle" arc in Judge Dredd, The Authority: Kev and the "Kitchen Irish" arc in The Punisher MAX are his way of delivering his opinion of the IRA (hint: he doesn't like them).
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Writer on Board / int_c41875bc	comment	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, wherein Christopher Reeve was given creative control of the story, is a thinly-veiled veneer for his anti-nuclear, anti-corporate media philosophies. In one particularly jarring scene from the movie, Superman saves the passengers aboard a runaway subway car, then gives a speech to a crowd of pedestrians about the benefits of mass transit. Amusingly, Reeve himself later admitted the final product of the film was terrible but reminded people it had a So Bad, It's Good quality.
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Writer on Board / int_c4282b71	comment	The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Fame and Misfortune" is seen as mostly a retort against criticisms of the show by the Peripheral Demographic. It's really telling that even people who like this episode tend to only defend the potshots it takes at fans and you would honestly be hard-pressed to find people actually praising or even commenting on the near non-existent plot itself. In this case, the writer on board isn't the actual writer; M.A. Larson, who wrote the episode, has gone on record saying the executives ordered him to write the episode, and he has disowned the episode due to them not allowing him to make the episode less mean-spirited.
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Writer on Board / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: There's two stories by vegetarian writers which promote vegetarianism - "The Green Death", which takes a less judgemental Veganopia approach (being about a group of scientists trying to develop a perfect fungus-based meat substitute, similar to then-new Quorn); and the more Anvilicious "The Two Doctors", written by Robert Holmes, which compares meat-eating to cannibalism and has the Doctor explicitly convert to vegetarianism at one point. "Carnival of Monsters", also Holmes, contains the Doctor ranting at the villains and audience about the evils of keeping animals in zoos. Season 12-14 has a lot of anti-religious and pro-rationality themes, especially in Season 14 where every villain was a cultist or a Dark Messiah. Tom Baker, who'd been a monk as a young man (in an environment that had left him with a certain amount of psychological damage) before losing his faith, enjoyed the opportunity to work out his religious issues. Robert Holmes' "The Deadly Assassin" contains some pretty vicious commentary on the British political system, the British public school system and the Catholic Church. There's also an unflattering reference to Harold Wilson's resignation honours list and the Doctor espousing anti-politics views. Holmes' "The Sunmakers", which has the Doctor make all kinds of sizzling one-liners about the evils of taxation and has an evil taxman as the villain, was inspired by his own tax problems (as he was both a writer and a script editor on Doctor Who, he had to pay double the amount of tax on a single income). Russell T. Davies was all about this trope, particularly in the Ninth Doctor's run, where most episodes had a criticism of some sort. The man himself has acknowledged putting his beliefs on religion into his work, pointing to its banning in "The End of the World" as an example. The Slitheen two-parter is one long Take That! against the then-current Iraq War. Sylvester McCoy is quite open about how he and script editor Andrew Cartmel used Doctor Who to protest against Margaret Thatcher's government. When writing "The Tenth Planet", Kit Pedler (himself a doctor) wrote the Cybermen based on his views on what scientific medicine like pacemakers and artificial limbs would eventually do to a person. However, this is what makes the Cybermen (in particular that story's incarnation of them) so appealing/terrifying to many viewers. The Thirteenth Doctor tends to have episodes which focus more on modern social critiques rather than actual sci-fi adventure, with the two most prominent examples being "Rosa" and "Demons of the Punjab". "Rosa" was co-written by Malorie Blackman, who is known to base her stories around the subject of racism. "Demons of the Punjab" was written by Vinay Patel, who has done work criticizing honor killings.
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Writer on Board / int_c59ec4c1	comment	The In Name Only adaptation of Fast Food Nation is basically a two-hour rant by director Richard Linklater on why people shouldn't eat meat. Bizarrely enough, the author of the book (who isn't a vegetarian) was one of the film's producers.
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Writer on Board / int_c5bf9810	comment	In the third book of the Legacy of the Aldenata series, When The Devil Dances, a very large artillery piece happens to have been named and decorated after Bun-Bun, from Sluggy Freelance. One of the crew members suggested it and talked the commander into it, after introducing him to the comic. They don't have time to consult anyone to see if they'll have to take it off before the fecal matter hits the fannote Yet later on, a general refers to Bun-Bun, meaning he knew about the nickname and decorations, and either didn't care, or actively approved.. Later on in the book, one character refers to "Bun-Bun", and the complete stranger he's talking to knows what he means. He happens to not only read the comic but is a "big fan".
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Writer on Board / int_c6f7e804	comment	All three of the Blake's 7 episodes written by Ben Steed trample characterisation for the sake of sexism. In "The Harvest of Kairos" Supreme Commander Servalan goes meekly along with the manly Jarvik (rather than killing him, which was statistically more likely). "Moloch" had women as helpless victims; Servalan is briefly added to their number, and she doesn't do much more than look outraged. "Power" featured a war of the sexes and an uncharacteristic sermon from Avon — usually an equal-opportunity misanthrope — about how he, as a man, would always be stronger than a woman.
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Writer on Board / int_cb2ac371	comment	The first issue of Earth-Prime is ostensibly a Batwoman story, but heavily features Lena Luthor, a character from Supergirl who has never met either the original Batwoman or the current one, and who keeps making comments implying that she and Kara Danvers are a couple. Incidentally, the issue was co-written by Natalie Abrams, a former Supergirl writer who also ships Kara and Lena.
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Writer on Board / int_cbbb2270	comment	Halfway through Tears to Tiara 2, Aemilia and Hamil has a short discussion on the social causes of the decline of The Empire that doesn't fit the themes, adds nothing to the plot, and is never mentioned again.
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Writer on Board / int_cc12d4c0	comment	Dan Slott notes this about the famous Revision of Parallel Lives, the story which revealed that Mary Jane knew Peter's secret identity from all the way back to Amazing Fantasy #15, arguing that it made a "lie of all the stories that came before" and that it made MJ into someone who fell in love with Peter because he was Spider-Man and not for just being plain old Peter. Slott said that he disagreed with that change but since it is canon he has to go by it, even if the author Gerry Conway building on work done by Roger Stern and Tom Defalco saw it the other way. Slott referred to this in ASM# 652, where Peter and MJ share a moment talking about Peter's current relationship with Carlie Cooper and why he won't tell her his secret. Peter reveals that he wants to make sure that she falls in love because he's just plain ol' Peter, and not because he's Spider-Man as he feels that MJ did with him. As others point out, given Spider-Man's Hero with Bad Publicity status and the fact that both of Peter's first girlfriends (Betty Brant and Gwen Stacy) uncritically accepted Jameson's views which Mary Jane never did, this amounts to misreading the entire context and shoehorning a sexist Silver Age Lois/Superman dynamic on a setup that specifically deconstructed it, and given that Peter is canonically someone who grew up handsome (as repeatedly told in stories in the Ditko era, and shown when Romita made him good looking) and notably rejected Sally Green's advances in college after she praised his brains by insisting that he doesn't want girls to like him just because he's "an egghead" rather than the other qualities in himself he valued. He hasn't been "plain ol' Peter" since he got bitten by a spider and the character who preferred Spider-Man to Peter isn't Mary Jane (as she says in Slott's story Peter and Spidey are one and the same) but the Black Cat.
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Writer on Board / int_ccf875f7	comment	All the characters of Criminal Minds go out of their way to express the fact that homeless people, prostitutes and other kinds of transients and vagrants are still people worth helping and protecting just like those who do have their lives in order.
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Writer on Board / int_cf69b21e	comment	Though it's undoubtedly a fact that Bob Skir derailed almost all of the Beast Wars characters, the matter cannot be entirely blamed on him alone. On his website, Skir admitted that Hasbro specifically hired him because he had no prior experience with Transformers and they even ordered him not to watch Beast Wars. Bob Skir receives the most flack for Beast Machines because out of all the writers and producers on the show, he was the one who made himself the most accessible to the fans (which resulted in him having to cancel a Botcon appearance due to death threats). Others such as Marty Isenberg and many other writers on the show received no such backlash from the fandom, even though they played an equal part in making Beast Machines what it is.
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Writer on Board / int_d1710608	comment	The Sharpe series by Bernard Cornwell gives us the impression that Mr. Cornwell really, really dislikes aristocrats, particularly when they hold military rank. This is very obvious in his other books, usually aimed at the Church (though generally just its leaders. Various characters, particularly Uhtred get on quite well with the quirkier/better priests/devout Christians, e.g. Fathers Pyrlig, Beocca, Willibald, and Cuthbert, Galahad and Bishop Bedwin.) with it being presented as an often corrupt institution. Cornwell was raised in a very strict Christian sect called the Peculiar People, who are, well, peculiar. He says his portrayal of religion (individual parish priests=good, hierarchies=bad) is intended to reflect both the historical realities (there were and are good bishops and bad bishops, but the bad ones are more fun to read about) and his views on religion in general: he recognizes the comfort value, communal benefits, encouragement of virtue, etc. but also dislikes the way in which organized religion can become corrupt and self-defeating.
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Writer on Board / int_d3ec742	comment	Johnny Hart became a born-again Christian later in his life, and afterwards B.C. became notorious for its occasional pro-Christian sermonizing, including one infamous Easter strip showing a menorah transforming into a cross (Word of God was that this was merely his way of expressing a new religion coming into its own). What made the whole situation rather bizarre was that the strip is ostensibly set in the Stone Age, as the title B.C. would indicate. One fan theory tried to account for this by speculating that it really takes place After the End. After Hart's death his daughter and grandson took over the strip. They dropped the preachiness and returned to secular gags.
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Writer on Board / int_d461f757	comment	Battlestar Galactica (2003) did this at least twice, with one episode in which Laura Roslin was forced to weigh the consequences of protecting a woman's right to an abortion with the need to protect the small amount of human life that was left, and again with another episode where Tyrol was used to champion the greatness of organized labor (he later became a union leader). In the Battlestar Galactica podcast, Ronald D. Moore admitted that he was engaging in this trope with these two episodes, but that he basically didn't care.
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Writer on Board / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park has, in later seasons, become nothing but a vehicle for Trey and Matt to dispense whatever magical wisdom they feel obliged to share with us. This goes beyond politics. For example, there have been two episodes that express their disapproval of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. Also Cartman's promiscuous mother is named Liane after an ex girlfriend of Trey's who he walked in on having sex with another man (and in Cannibal! The Musical Packer's faithless horse who gets ridden by the entire town is called Liane). Even more blatant in the whole arc of the 20th season, where Trey and Matt heavily relied on the presidential elections, to the point of being forced to re-write at least one episode from scratch after the IRL elections results showed up.
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Writer on Board / int_d9e5ee89	comment	Jamie Delano's run on Hellblazer is quite blatant about its left-wing politics, with subtle nods like demons celebrating Margaret Thatcher's election (since it will result in more miserable people looking to sell their souls), tracts against nuclear power, and active promotion of "free love" hippie lifestyles, to the point that the Final Boss of the run, a giant dragon god, is defeated by Constantine and his two love interests having a threesome under the right mystical circumstances. Delano's run on Animal Man also features the titular hero and his daughter founding a hippie commune.
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Writer on Board / int_dbbf2001	comment	The Prince Roger series' primary overarching antagonists are a bunch of radical "environmentalists" employing Green Peace marines. Also the environmentalists don't shower or use deodorant.
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Writer on Board / int_ded0e62f	comment	The Count of Monte Cristo: All of the good characters are or were supporters of Napoleon, and nearly all of the bad ones are royalists. Alexandre Dumas' father was a famous general in Napoleon's army.
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Writer on Board / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Marti Noxon herself generally had a men are bad vibe to her episodes as early as Season 3 when she made her debut as a writer. Prominent examples are the episodes "Beauty and the Beasts", "Consequences", and "Wild At Heart". A lot of her episodes tended to feature males as villains or be the bad character in a relationship. It gets so extreme that Willow's reaction to Oz's cheating comes off as not quite as sympathetic as intended considering what Willow was doing with Xander the season before. Not to mention the tendency of anything remotely resembling a Christian (with the exception of Riley — whose religion is given in a throwaway line, holy water and crosses — which are never explicitly stated to be Christian) in the series to be either a Knight Templar, Sinister Minister, or some other form of evil, reflecting a prejudice that Joss Whedon is at least honest enough to admit to; he joked in one interview that he was doing it to undo the work of 7th Heaven. When Marti Noxon became showrunner in season six, it was around the same time Buffy and Spike began their dysfunctional relationship, and suddenly Buffy became a hyper sexual sex goddess that could go for hours and was heavily into BDSM. Given her past episodes, it seemed to come across that she was writing Buffy and Spike as a reflection of a past relationship, using the characters as substitutes for herself and her ex. According to James Marsters, the bathroom scene in Seeing Red was based on a real life incident involving a female writer: â€œIn the case of that scene, one of the female writers, in college, had been broken up with by her boyfriend, and decided that if she went over to his place, and if they made love one more time, everything would be fine. And so she tried to do that, and really kind of jumped the guy, and he had to push her off and say â€œNo, you have to leave now.â€�â€� It's never been officially confirmed but most fans assume the female writer in question was the self-same Marti Noxon.
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Writer on Board / int_e365af07	comment	Dino Attack RPG skews the portrayal of Agents, Power Miners, and Plastic Serpent to be cast in a negative light because the writers don't like them and want to preach about how much they don't like them, even though they are all fighting for the same cause as the heroes.
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Writer on Board / int_e5ea79ee	comment	A few reviewers have accused Giffen of trying to co-opt Midnighter, one of the only openly gay superheroes, after reading their run wherein Midnighter disbands the team, leaves his husband, Apollo, and moves to a tiny apple-pie town where he lives with a young woman named Mindy. The Reset Button was pounded so hard after that it nearly cracked.
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Writer on Board / int_e71cf1f6	comment	He hates superheroes, and with the exception of Superman, Daredevil, and Spider-Man, usually writes them as complete morons. Thor: Vikings is his best example.
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Writer on Board / int_e72eeaec	comment	Towards the end of its run, Li'l Abner became dominated by Al Capp's potshots at contemporary celebrities, which alienated many of his Baby Boomer fans and, in the long run, contributed to his once-popular strip fading into obscurity. (Interestingly, although he expressed them less and in a more subtle way during the '50s, Capp's politics were much more liberal then, leading some to theorize that he was simply a contrarian against prevailing social attitudes.)
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Writer on Board / int_e936047a	comment	Hey Arnold!: "Eugene, Eugene!" demonstrated this and Adaptation Decay with a Show Within a Show, by having a guy who's just been spurned by his girlfriend direct a production of a musical, and completely changing its ending to reflect his own life.
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Writer on Board / int_e9cb2780	comment	The Gears of War novel Aspho Fields that she wrote pretty much beats the reader about the head with the idea that "weapons developers = war criminals." Traviss' Mandalorian "super tribal warrior" fixation carries over into the novel as well, with its hyper-competent, misunderstood, absolutely perfect Pesanga warriors, who are pretty much Mandalorians with machetes. Bonus points? This a setting where these so-called "war criminals" are the only reason the human race is still alive.
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Writer on Board / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy, especially post-revival, is infamous for this. Brian is frequently a mouthpiece for the writers' liberal political views, and other characters occasionally fill the role as well. Characters with dissenting views — conservative Christians, pro-lifers, Republicans, Southerners, people who practice abstinence, radical feminists, etc. — are frequently portrayed as being dumber than dirt. Though in the episode "FOX-y Lady", Brian's flaws are pointed out perfectly. Lois was ordered by her new employers at Fox News to expose Michael Moore's (theorized) homosexuality. When it is discovered Rush Limbaugh is (possibly) his lover, the exposÃ© is cut. Brian is repulsed by Fox News avoiding the truth to protect a fellow conservative, but urges Lois to do the story anyways to nail Limbaugh. Lois asks why this is any different than Fox trying to discredit Moore. Brian stammeringly claims it is OK because he is admitting his hypocrisy. At the end of the episode, it transpires that former child star Fred Savage invented both Limbaugh and Moore out of whole cloth (which, of course, is totally untrue in real life), and then the Family Guy team made "Excellence in Broadcasting" and got Limbaugh a guest spot as himself on the episode. As well as playing a giant version of himself in the Return of the Jedi parody "It's a Trap" taking the place of the Rancor. In Real Life, Rush Limbaugh and Seth MacFarlane were good friends, despite their opposing political views, and Limbaugh considered the show's satirical Strawman Political version of himself to be Actually Pretty Funny. Then "Jerome is the Brand New Black" came around, where near the end Quagmire verbally rips Brian a new one, and is basically dead on. Although he actually was a really good father, until his son's biological mother came to take him back. And occasionally Brian is also depicted as a great writer, and wasn't originally an atheist. In addition, he comments on Brian always trying to hook up with Peter's wife (which is inappropriate) but leaves out the fact that Quagmire (particularly in earlier seasons) was constantly trying to hook up with Lois in far more egregious ways than Brian ever has. Exaggerated in "Tea Peter", which paints the Tea Party as stupid, insane anarchists who would destroy the country if they had their way; somewhat ironically, the episode's writer is a loud-and-proud supporter of the Occupy movement. In "Meet the Quagmires", Peter accidentally creates an alternate timeline where Al Gore won the 2000 US Presidential election instead of George W. Bush. This alternate timeline is presented as a utopia where all the Democratic Party's desired (but highly controversial) policies such as universal healthcare and strict gun control are implemented. Climate change is solved and Al Gore also personally killed Osama Bin Laden. In addition, many of America's most prominent Republican supporters die in a very violent and humiliating accident.
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Writer on Board / int_edabe912	comment	Ever wonder why none of the characters in Thank You for Smoking are ever seen smoking, even though that's what the entire movie is about? That was an idea enforced by the director, Jason Reitman, and the intrusion shows. Granted, he did this in order to subvert Do Not Do This Cool Thing, but not having a single visible smoker in a film that is almost completely about smoking steers the film straight into... a few other tropes.
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Writer on Board / int_ef076a36	comment	Jeri Taylor is often accused of this since she often wrote episodes with Janeway being a bland powerhouse and how everyone on the ship loved her. In a Taylor-made episode in which Janeway apparently (but not really, of course) died, the crew had a memorial service in which every cast member made a speech about how awesome Janeway was. This scene was twice as long as Spock's funeral in Wrath of Khan.
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Writer on Board / int_ef0c089b	comment	Also Cartman's promiscuous mother is named Liane after an ex girlfriend of Trey's who he walked in on having sex with another man (and in Cannibal! The Musical Packer's faithless horse who gets ridden by the entire town is called Liane).
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Writer on Board / int_f0a6e5cf	comment	The biggest failing of Lady in the Water was that it was just two hours of M. Night Shyamalan rubbing his self-indulgence in our faces. The movie is pretty much centered around inspiring a writer (not surprisingly, played by Shyamalan himself) into writing a book that will change the world for the better at the cost of being martyred in a Heroic Sacrifice. He also includes a Take That! against the film critics who gave his earlier movies negative reviews by putting in a film critic character who is an arrogant, unlikeable man who dies a horrible death... and was one of the most popular characters among viewers.
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Writer on Board / int_f12f9b66	comment	A light example in the Wander over Yonder episode "The Cartoon". Hater tries his hand at animation and fumes, "Animation is hard work! People who do this for a living deserve more respect and credit!" It's done rather tongue-in-cheek, as he's really hamming it up while looking directly at the audience.
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Writer on Board / int_f18a9d9c	comment	The Highway to Heaven episode "A Child of God" features the story of a young professional woman who has just been diagnosed with terminal cancer and attempts to reconcile with her estranged father, a minister, who is still angry because she had an affair with a married man 7-8 years prior, had a daughter from the affair, and never repented of it. The woman's affair is treated sympathetically by Jonathan, who emphasizes that there was no sin at all on the woman's part (even though she ostensibly slept with a man against the wishes of said man's wife). In the end, the woman's father has a change of heart and admits that he was in the wrong, delivering an Anvilicious Aesop about how being kind to others is more important than an explicit belief in God. Given that this episode was written and directed by Michael Landon, it's hard to imagine that his rather sympathetic portrayal of adultery was not influenced by Landon's own recent life experiences, which included having an extramarital affair with a woman he met on the Little House on the Prairie set, then later divorcing his second wife so that he could marry her as his third.
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Writer on Board / int_f3ef0f86	comment	Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer. The entire book is about rescuing a lemur from being killed by the Extinctionists. Artemis' having sent this lemur to its death is continually treated as a horrendous act, even though he did it in an attempt to save his father. There is virtually no disagreement on this point. Holly is horrified (as are the other fantasy creatures present), Artemis is filled with remorse, and even Artemis' younger self feels a twinge of guilt that apparently never bothered him during any of his other countless criminal escapades. The sheer magnitude of the overreactions of the characters when they learn that Artemis sent the lemur to die makes this an Author on Board. The series, in general, is fairly loaded to the gills with Green Aesops, with heaping helpings of Humans Are Bastards for good measure. Even amoral characters like Mulch Diggums expressing disgust at how humans are destroying the Earth.
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Writer on Board / int_f4313238	comment	Likewise Ender's Shadow series has some moments during the arc of Bean's Character Development. In Shadow Puppets in particular, the adamantly childfree Beannote (the same genetic engineering that makes him a genius also dooms him to a short lifespan ending an unpleasant death before middle age and he was determined to not have children who would be similarly Blessed with Suck) turns around on the idea of reproducing very suddenly after getting lectured by a Straight Gay man who married a woman simply so he could have kids, because a heterosexual marriage with children is the only way to be truly happy, and all other reasons a person might not want that are just lies they tell themselves.
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Writer on Board / int_f5dd2e87	comment	The original English language manga Dramacon has an OEL manga artist pause to commiserate about people who think OEL works aren't "really" manga. She's immediately set upon by a representative of the opposing view: he's ten, dressed as Naruto, only able to talk by shouting... oh, yeah, and racist.
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Writer on Board / int_f6236e31	comment	Even when he wrote for 2000 AD, this was pretty clear, particularly in some of his Judge Dredd stories, most notably The Muzak Killer which showcases a rant against pop music.
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Writer on Board / int_f6c05e8e	comment	Friends: The reason why the story with Phoebe and the stray cat exists is that Marta Kauffman (one of the show's key writers) lost her own mother just before work on Season Four began. Normally such a plot would have been rejected, but because of the circumstances surrounding Kauffman and her mother's then-recent death, the plot was allowed to slip past the writers' room.
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Writer on Board / int_fb9c177d	comment	Transformers: Beast Machines. The author outright admitted that he deliberately ignored aspects of the prequel series Beast Wars because he wanted to "tell his own story", as opposed to, for instance, an actual Beast Wars story. The result wasn't pretty; near-universal Character Derailment is just the start of the problems. For the most part, he acted as if this were a completely new series, and not a sequel to another. Though it's undoubtedly a fact that Bob Skir derailed almost all of the Beast Wars characters, the matter cannot be entirely blamed on him alone. On his website, Skir admitted that Hasbro specifically hired him because he had no prior experience with Transformers and they even ordered him not to watch Beast Wars. Bob Skir receives the most flack for Beast Machines because out of all the writers and producers on the show, he was the one who made himself the most accessible to the fans (which resulted in him having to cancel a Botcon appearance due to death threats). Others such as Marty Isenberg and many other writers on the show received no such backlash from the fandom, even though they played an equal part in making Beast Machines what it is.
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Writer on Board / int_fd0b756	comment	There is also a pointed dig on both themes in The Hobbit in Goblin-Town: "It is not unlikely that [goblins] have invented some of the machines that have since troubled the world, especially the ingenious devices for killing large numbers of people at once [...] but in those days and those wild arts they had not advanced (as it is called) so far."
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Writer on Board / int_febc4d2c	comment	The Fugitive had a case of a costume designer trying to put her beliefs on screen. Actress Jane Lynch of Glee had one scene in the film as a doctor friend of Richard Kimble. She writes in her memoirs that the costume designer insisted that her lab coat have buttons that were for "pro choice" and other issues.
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Writer on Board / int_ff9ab17f	comment	She also had a well-documented dislike of Star Trek: The Next Generation (no doubt because it was TNG that made it quite clear the Federation is socialist), which was made apparent when she actually was contracted for novels for the series, often finding ways to justify writing around the characters/setting (re: Ancient Blood, separating Worf from the rest of the crew with a B-plot of Picard and Alexander experiencing a Revolutionary War period holo-program, and Ship of the Line, separating Picard from the crew and putting a captain pulled forward from the 23rd century in command of the Enterprise, complete with his own crew taking positions on the ship).
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Skins / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Star Trek: Voyager / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Strong Medicine / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Golden Girls / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Newsroom / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Orville / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Thick of It / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The West Wing / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Whitest Kids U' Know / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Twin Peaks / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Upstart Crow / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
War of the Worlds (1988) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Westworld / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Hunter: The Reckoning (Tabletop Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Marat/Sade (Theatre) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Buddy Simulator 1984 (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Caveman2Cosmos (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Civilization (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Fable (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Game Dev Tycoon (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3 (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Silent Hill 2 (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Tears to Tiara 2 (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Tower of Fantasy (Video Game) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Grim Tales from Down Below (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Overlord DVD (Web Video) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Critical Drinker (Web Video) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Chopping Block (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Girls Next Door (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Irregular Webcomic! (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Least I Could Do (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Nip and Tuck (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Sinfest (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
TheTruthAboutBleach	seeAlso	Writer on Board
Vegan Artbook (Webcomic) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Editing Room (Website) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Batman: The Killing Joke / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Duckman / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
M.A.S.K. / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
The Life and Times of Juniper Lee / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Jeff Jarrett (Wrestling) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Jillian Hall (Wrestling) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Jim Cornette (Wrestling) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Sheamus (Wrestling) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Vince Russo (Wrestling) / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Thursday Next / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board
Torchwood / int_e88e8a8f	type	Writer on Board

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