History AuthorAppeal / SurnameIToQ

* Creator/CSLewis was apparently fond of characters who go barefoot, due to [[BarefootSage religious and mystical]] [[MagicalBarefooter symbolism]] behind it, and probably also [[BarefootLoon free-spiritedness and nonconformism]] (besides, Lewis drew inspiration from his idols Creator/GeorgeMacDonald and Creator/ENesbit, whose writings also feature plenty of barefoot characters). The number of barefooters is especially high in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' (the Narnia wiki even has [[https://narnia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters_who_go_barefoot a specific category for them]]): Lucy Pevensie (her brothers and sister also like to do it sometimes), Coriakin and Ramandu from ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', Ramandu's daughter and Queen Jadis (at least in the illustrations), Shasta and the Hermit of the Southern March from ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'' (though with Shasta, it's just BarefootPoverty), and Puddleglum from ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. Merlin from ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy That Hideous Strength]]'' is also barefooted.

** It shows up in every ''Manga/GhostInTheShell book'' and in ''{{Anime/Dominion|TankPolice}}'' as well.
** [[Anime/GhostInTheShell The 1995 film]] is particularly graphic in this regard as Project 2501's female chassis loses both arms and is destroyed ''from the waist down''. At no point does he wear clothing while in that body.

* Surprisingly, Todd [=McFarlane=]'s run on Spider-Man inverts this: Fans assumed all the webbing he drew was for this trope, when he actually ''hated'' drawing webbing, but couldn't bring himself [[DoingItForTheArt not to include it]].

* Creator/CSLewis was apparently fond of [[DoesNotLikeShoes characters who go barefoot]], due to [[BarefootSage religious and mystical]] [[MagicalBarefooter symbolism]] behind it, and probably also [[BarefootLoon free-spiritedness and nonconformism]] (besides, Lewis drew inspiration from his idols Creator/GeorgeMacDonald and Creator/ENesbit, whose writings also feature plenty of barefoot characters). The number of barefooters is especially high in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' (the Narnia wiki even has [[https://narnia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters_who_go_barefoot a specific category for them]]): Lucy Pevensie (her brothers and sister also like to do it sometimes), Coriakin and Ramandu from ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', Ramandu's daughter and Queen Jadis (at least in the illustrations), Shasta and the Hermit of the Southern March from ''Literature/TheHorseAndHisBoy'' (though with Shasta, it's just BarefootPoverty), and Puddleglum from ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. Merlin from ''[[Literature/TheSpaceTrilogy That Hideous Strength]]'' is also barefooted.

* Hidetaka Miyazaki, the director of ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls'' and ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' is a big fan of DarkFantasy, ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'' in particular, and difficult games. This definitely shows in his work with the Souls games. He's also stated on record that part of the reason for the [[NintendoHard punishing nature of the Soulsborne genre he pioneered]] is that he's, in his own words, "a huge masochist". On top of this, several characters in the games he directs are conspicously [[DoesNotLikeShoes barefoot]], especially female characters. Regardless if it's a fetish or just an artistic and symbolic design choice, it's been noticed by fans. Exaggerated when he reportedly wanted to make [[VideoGame/EldenRing Malenia's]] 2nd phase design barefoot, but was told by his team members not to, because Western audiences might make fun of him. As such, despite Malenia going FullFrontalAssault in Phase 2, she still continues to wear her greaves... [[LoopholeAbuse which merely]] ''[[LoopholeAbuse look]]'' [[LoopholeAbuse like lovingly detailed bare feet]].

* Creator/MohiroKitoh, creator of ''Manga/ShadowStar'' and ''Manga/{{Bokurano}}'', seems to have a thing for feet with long, almost finger-like, flexible toes. Most of his characters, especially the younger ones, have them and show them off [[DoesNotLikeShoes by being bare-footed a lot]], even though such feet are relatively rare in reality.

*** His "Lightning Saga" crossover brought back the Pre-Crisis ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. His ''ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds'' was a last hurrah for the 90s and 00s Legions before restablishing the original Legion as the mainstream one.

** He also tends to write a rather interesting kind of pornography. Clothing Pornography - Just read some of his later books where he goes into pages-long descriptions of clothes that are ''never mentioned again''.

** Lying. Marston was also the inventor of the first lie detector. Lying was in interest of his, and Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth is inspired by that. Lie detectors of the scientific type that Marston developed make some appearances in the stories as well. However, the way that the Lasso ''compels'' the truth has more to do with submission, which leads us too...

* Kinoko Nasu of [[Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} Type-Moon]] fame apparently has a thing for eyes, especially the evil ones: at least two of his famous works (''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'', ''LightNovel/TheGardenOfSinners'') revolve around a main character with abnormal eyes, and guess how his {{Anime/Canaan}}'s powers manifest themselves. He lovingly describes [[FoodPorn cooking]].

** He also loves strong female characters. Most of his films have girls as protagonists but even his guy protagonists will have some awesome ladies in the lives. His last film and upcoming one have male protagonists but partially this is because he doesn't like the sexualization of the female characters by denizens of the internet.

* Creator/AlanMoore certainly is fond of depicting (often non-consensual) sexual relations between young women and older/uglier men or non-human abominations whenever he can. He does it in ''ComicBook/VForVendetta'', ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'', ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}'', ''ComicBook/FromHell'', ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Providence}}'' and ''ComicBook/{{Neonomicon}}'', ''ComicBook/SwampThing''... He also seems very fond of pornography. Old-time, classic pornography, usually from the Victorian era or the 'Tijuana Bible' style of pornography, granted, but pornography nonetheless. References to and appearances of pornography tend to appear in almost all of his works.

* George Kamitani, of Creator/{{Vanillaware}} fame, likes women that are, to say the least, voluptuous. Nearly every game he helped develop feature women with curvacious figures, often with breasts larger than their heads. In addition, he likes to incorporate food into games, as seen in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' and ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade''[='=]s farming/cooking system and hub world restaurants, or ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown''[='=]s use of food to overheal and campfire minigame.

* George Kamitani, of Creator/{{Vanillaware}} fame, likes women that are, to say the least, voluptuous. Nearly every game he helped develop feature women with curvacious figures, often with [[GagBoobs breasts larger than their heads]]. In addition, he likes to incorporate food into games, as seen in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' and ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade''[='=]s farming/cooking system and hub world restaurants, or ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown''[='=]s use of food to overheal and campfire minigame.

* Creator/StephenieMeyer: The driving force behind characters in the ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' series, but most especially the protagonists Bella and Edward, is that they have a predestined OneTrueLove with whom they are paired, even before ''conception''! Though Meyer gets a lot of accusations of this, Creator/CleolindaJones had a more humorous hypothesis. In her summary of ''[[Literature/{{Twilight}} Breaking Dawn]]'', Cleo suggests that Renesmee being a "perfect baby" (sleeps most of the day, never cries, can communicate psychically) sounds like the fantasy of a woman who's had three kids ("I haven't slept in days, please God send help").

* George Kamitani, of Creator/{{Vanillaware}} fame, likes women that are, to say the least, [[BuxomIsBetter voluptuous]]. Nearly every game he helped develop feature women with curvacious figures, often with [[GagBoobs breasts larger than their heads]]. In addition, he likes to incorporate food into games, as seen in ''VideoGame/OdinSphere'' and ''VideoGame/MuramasaTheDemonBlade''[='=]s farming/cooking system and hub world restaurants, or ''VideoGame/DragonsCrown''[='=]s use of food to overheal and campfire minigame.

** The Sneaking Suit in MGS has straps that draw attention to Solid Snake's crotch. The Sneaking Suit in [=MGS2=] has straps that draw attention to Solid Snake's crotch. Raiden's "Skull Suit" has a prominent crotch bulge for no good reason. The Sneaking Suit in [=MGS3=] has straps that draw attention to Naked Snake's crotch. Volgin's [[spoiler:"cage match"]] outfit has bandoleers that cross his hips just above his crotch, and one that hangs down right in front of it. In [=MGS4=], Old Snake has the straps and a bulge. Raiden has a bulge, which is especially odd considering he's a cyborg with no reproductive abilities whatsoever. The art for the Audio Drama? Crotch straps. Big Boss in Peace Walker and the Portable Ops series? Crotch straps. ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter Freedom 3''? Well, Snake doesn't appear. But you can get the outfit for your cat. And yes, crotch straps. [[http://metalgear.wikia.com/wiki/File:FelyneSnake.png Despite not actually wearing any pants.]] Raiden in ''Revengeance''? No, [[SubvertedTrope of course he doesn't have crotch straps, that'd be silly]]. [[DoubleSubversion He does have a codpiece]]. [[ZigZaggingTrope With straps leading to it]]. [[RuleOfSexy On his cybernetic body]].

* Creator/SrPelo includes frequent references to ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' in his ''WebAnimation/SpookyMonth'' videos due to his love for the franchise; in particular, the mall and most of its customers in "Unwanted Guest" were deisnged after ''Touhou'' characters to celebrate the 25th anniversary.

* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} promoter Mike Quackenbush: Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger, Wrestling/ManamiToyota, ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Mexican wrestling, British wrestling legends Johnny Saint and Johnny Kidd, [[Wrestling/SatoruSayama Tiger Mask]], ''Series/{{Lost}}'', ComicBooks, {{Anime}}, Music/TalkingHeads, ''Franchise/JusticeLeague'', ''Franchise/{{X Men}}''...[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and]] references to failed early 1990s Wrestling/{{WWE}} gimmicks Kwang and Max Moon. He once said in an interview that, with everyone trying to be "xtreme," he wanted CHIKARA to be "wacky."

* Creator/StephenKing nearly always has a reference to a character farting in his books. Goodness knows why.
** Perhaps a strange one, frequently in his novels a classic song of some sort will repeatedly be played.
** Characters pee in their pants.
** There is usually at least one fat woman in his books, and she's always a [[BigEater greedy]], [[FatSlob lazy]] {{Jerkass}}.
** His greatest fetish is Creator/StephenKing. Seriously, take a look at his stories' [[AuthorAvatar main characters]] and check the following list: writer, ''famous'' writer, smoker, had a car accident, alcoholic or drug abuser (sometimes recovering).
*** And if that wasn't enough to convince you...well, can we just say ''Franchise/TheDarkTower''? You write what you know, right?
** Lessee, other fetishes Stephen King has? Small towns in Maine, sex for the sake of sex, religious Christian fundamentalism that'd make even ''real life fundies'' call child abuse, DisproportionateRetribution, TeensAreMonsters, AdultsAreUseless, AbusiveParents...Really you can go on and on. [[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/28239-it Let's see what]] WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFcC5xi2W1o has to say about the matter]].
*** In the rare instance one of his books isn't set in Maine, it will probably take place in Colorado.

** It's not just the thighs. When you compare the character models and renders to artwork and sprites from previous games, ''SFIV'' and ''[=SFxT=]'' have really [[SequelEscalation ramped up]] the HeroicBuild for the cast to what was previously seen in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha'', if not beyond. This goes for not only the men, but [[AmazonianBeauty several of the women]] as well. Chun's legs have always been thick (and she was drawn with an overall strong build in ''Alpha''), but now no description other than '''massive''' would suffice. [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Makoto]] is shown to have surprisingly well-developed arms, possibly out-muscling even [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Cammy]] (who is incredibly buff herself, as is her [[CloningBlues literal]] and [[MovesetClone figurative]] clone Decapre in ''Ultra''), and the previously slender [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Ibuki]] isn't doing too badly in that department either if one takes a quick glance at her broad shoulders and fairly large biceps. ''Super'' newcomer Juri is at least at figure model levels of muscularity. [[VideoGame/FinalFight Poison]] gets six-pack abs and muscular legs. As said before, even ''Tekken'' girls like Nina and Julia, usually nothing more than athletic, are affected in the same way (Nina's legs are the most notable aspect of her physique thanks to her SpyCatsuit, but one of her alts. [[BareYourMidriff exposes her washboard stomach]]). However, it's hard to say if Capcom's tastes rubbed off on Namco: ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' presented some of the ladies, Nina and Julia included, with notably heftier builds and Nina was previously shown to be particularly muscular in ''4'' (most evident in artwork).

** They love taking ideas from UsefulNotes/{{the Golden|AgeOfComicBooks}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages]] of comics [[ReimaginingTheArtifact and reappropriating them for a modern context]]. Their [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Batman]] run is filled with nods to the campier, sillier Batman stories of the '50s, often considered a DorkAge by many fans and writers, and their ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' series had many of these same elements.

* Milton Pool, artist behind ''VideoGame/AdventureQuestWorlds'' and the {{N|otSafeForWork}}SFW web series ''Akumi'', definitely has a thing for women who look like young girls with {{Gainaxing}} boobs, in {{stripperiffic}} costumes or {{leotard|OfPower}}s, thigh-high boots; and hair as straight as that of Music/LadyGaga. He also depicts all women with [[BritishTeeth crooked teeth.]]

* Hiraku Kaneko loves two things in his anime series: Gigantic breasts and copious amounts of fanservice...usually involving gigantic breasts, so expect a lot [[MaleGaze boob shots]] and [[{{Gainaxing}} bouncing breasts]]. All of the series he's directed (''Seikon No Qwaser'', ''Manga/ManyuHikencho'', ''Kagaku na Yatsura'', ''Manga/MakenKi'' OVA and season 2) are adaptations of extremely raunchy works with multiple characters sporting breasts at least the size of their heads.

** He has apparently been pushing for an incest angle for years now, and, at one time, even proposed a storyline that would show himself as the on-screen father of his daughter Stephanie's child (thankfully, Stephanie, as head of WWE's creative committee, was able to veto that one). Allegedly he also tried to book an incest angle with Stephanie and her brother Shane (they both refused to do it). He finally did the gimmick with Paul and [[Wrestling/KatarinaWaters Katie Lea Burchill]], a brother/sister pairing who, when they debuted, had waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too much {{Subtext}}. Fortunately, the incest portion of the gimmick was eventually dropped, and the Burchills were re-cast as a British RichBitch and her overprotective brother. And then became {{Jobber}}s, now that they no longer had Vince's interest.
** He likes big men and extremely muscular men, an obsession that most infamously led to his disastrously short-lived World Bodybuilding Federation. His most favored wrestlers tend to be whoever is biggest and buffest (i.e. Wrestling/{{Batista}}), and he will push them, regardless of whether they're talented or not. Curiously, he hates it when big men do agile moves, and forbade Paul Birchill (see above), Wrestling/{{Mike Awesome}} and Sean O'Haire from doing the high flying moves they got popular from doing. Conversely, he has a notorious dislike of cruiserweights and smaller wrestlers - the only true cruiserweight he ever pushed in WWE was Rey Mysterio, and even in Mysterio's case Vince demanded that Mysterio not be booked too strongly.
** Vince also loves ToiletHumor, which is why you see promos and segments that involve pee and poop jokes (Especially during the Attitude Era). On ''Series/DarkSideOfTheRing'', Wrestling/JimRoss even mentions that if you're a writer that comes up with anything that involes puking, peeing, taking a dump, he'll buy into it.
** Vince also thinks that having only one name makes wrestlers sound tougher. See also: (Dave) Batista, (Antonio) Cesaro, (Alexander) Rusev, Sheamus (O'Shaunessy), (Fit) Finlay, Big E (Langston), (Adrian) Neville, Elias (Samson), (Luke) Harper, (Erick) Rowan, Apollo (Crews), (Buddy) Murphy. Wrestlers will often have a full name in developmental and drop it when they get called up, but it isn't rare for wrestlers to simply drop half of their name apropos of nothing.
** This one's more alleged than confirmed, but Vince supposedly has a soft spot for wrestlers who partake in the older tradition of going out and partying with drugs after the shows rather than hanging out in the locker room or motels and playing videogames like a lot of the newer wrestlers do. It's said to explain his obvious soft spots for locker room troublemakers like Alberto Del Rio and Enzo Amore.
** Vince is also something of an old school conservative, and rarely passes up a chance to throw rocks at the Democratic party and liberals in general. {{All American Face}}s tend to be well received, but other than that his attempts at inserting politics into wrestling usually come out poorly. Examples of this include having stereotypical smug ivory tower liberal and Harvard graduate Wrestling/ChristopherNowinski debate notoriously inarticulate Scott Steiner over the merits of the Second Iraq War[[note]]Vince assumed all it would take for the crowd to back Steiner was that he'd take the conservative position; instead the fans were noticeably more supportive of Nowinski[[/note]], and a match between a fake Rosie O'Donnel and a fake Donald Trump that was so terrible the fans ''chanted for TNA''.

* Daigo Ikeno, the artist behind the ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' series (specifically ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Third Strike]]'', ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterEX EX3]]'', and the ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV IV]]'' series), is responsible for Chun-Li's [[ShesGotLegs thighs]] increasing in girth with each game, as he loves him some big ol' thighs. The producer of the series, Yoshinori Ono, prefers thinner women, so Ikeno has admitted that he's often delivered thinner designs at the start of development and slowly made [[VideoGame/StreetFighterII Chun-Li's]] legs thicker with each new drawing. Then, once he's sent his final design to the 3D model crew, it would be far too late for Ono to do anything about it. (It's all in good fun, though, and the two men have had a good laugh about it.) So prominent is Ikeno's love of thick thighs that ''VideoGame/StreetFighterXTekken'' featured Nina Williams as having some pretty thick thighs herself, even though they are more slender in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}''.

* Creator/HidekiKamiya loves ShootEmUp games, particularly ''Videogame/SpaceHarrier''. As such, almost all of his games have at least one rail-shooter segment.

* In the same way Creator/GregRucka and Creator/ChrisClaremont have a thing for [[ActionGirl strong women heroes]], Creator/DwayneMcDuffie loved working with well-developed non-white superheroes. Aside from his work on ''WesternAnimation/StaticShock'', he helped make the John Stewart Franchise/GreenLantern into a more prominent character in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', and while running Creator/MilestoneComics, he introduced a number diverse characters such as Comicbook/{{Hardware|1993}}, ComicBook/{{Icon}} and Blitzen (a Japanese lesbian). He was a major proponent of more diversity in superhero comics, as well as film and television, and this is quite evident in his work.

** Vince is also something of an old school conservative, and rarely passes up a chance to throw rocks at the Democratic party and liberals in general. Main/{{All American Face}}s tend to be well received, but other than that his attempts at inserting politics into wrestling usually come out poorly. Examples of this include having stereotypical smug ivory tower liberal and Harvard graduate Wrestling/ChristopherNowinski debate notoriously inarticulate Scott Steiner over the merits of the Second Iraq War[[note]]Vince assumed all it would take for the crowd to back Steiner was that he'd take the conservative position; instead the fans were noticeably more supportive of Nowinski[[/note]], and a match between a fake Rosie O'Donnel and a fake Donald Trump that was so terrible the fans ''chanted for TNA''.

** [[SwampsAreEvil Poison swamps]]. It's telling that the only Soulslike game [=FromSoft=] has made to lack a proper poison swamp is [[Videogame/DarkSoulsII the only one he wasn't in charge of]] (it still has poison areas, just not in swamp form). In [[https://www.pcgamer.com/elden-ring-has-multiple-poison-swamps-because-i-cant-help-myself-miyazaki-says/ an interview]], he has stated that he knows how much [[ThatOneLevel everybody hates his poison swamp levels]], but he just loves making them so much that he literally can't help himself. Which is why ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has ''multiple'' poison swamps in it.
* Kenji Miyazawa really loved trains and the stars. But he was also obsessed with death. Not unsurprisingly, his most popular work is Anime/NightOnTheGalacticRailroad.

** They love taking ideas from UsefulNotes/{{the Golden|AgeOfComicBooks}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages]] of comics [[ReimaginingTheArtifact and reappropriating them for a modern context]]. Their [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsBatman Batman]] run is filled with nods to the campier, sillier Batman stories of the '50s, often considered a DorkAge by many fans and writers, and their ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' series had many of these same elements.

** He also really likes cats - Mari and Takashi spend the better part of the night talking to each other outside a café and Mari is cuddling a kitten the entire time in Literature/{{After Dark}}, in Literature/{{KafkaOnTheShore}}, Nakata can speak to cats and makes a living by reuniting cats with their owners and the bad guy of that book is a cat SerialKiller.

** Suicide tends to get brought up a lot and it's an important plot point in Literature/NorwegianWood and Literature/ColorlessTsukuruTazakiAndHisYearsOfPilgrimage.

** Most every episode also has at least one song from a VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog or Franchise/MegaMan game. If it doesn't, it's usually an episode with a particular theme, or just a huge oversight. Eventually they just decided to embrace it and do a dedicated "Blue Hero" Mega Man/Sonic episode, which was kind of justified, because their guest that week was Comicbook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics and ComicBook/MegaManArchieComics comic writer Creator/IanFlynn.

* ''Comicbook/ElfQuest'' didn't start out this way, but gradually introduced Wendy Pini's ideas, which might best be described as a fixation on a FreeLoveFuture. By the second series, practically EveryoneIsBi including the hero. Although actual scenes never went beyond PG-13 or a mild R, it must have made things interesting for the parents who'd been reading ''Elfquest'' to very young children.