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* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' seems to have a thing for equal-opportunity submission. Almost half of the Season Two promos had the pretty-boy leads in hooker poses, at least three quarters of episodes (so far) have had bondage or wall-pinnage of some description and you also have Dean's relationship to John (which is D/S in a nutshell), Sam and Dean's powerplay in ''Hunted'', anything involving mind control (whether it was making the girl undress in ''Simon Said'' or forcing Ellen to put the gun to her head in ''All Hell Breaks Loose''), Gordon going after Dean in ''Fresh Blood'', Meg-In-Sam's near-rape of Jo in ''Born Under A Bad Sign'' and the monsters' treatment of the female victims in both ''Skin'' and ''No Exit''.

** The author's desire to have his graphic designer lead use an ''UsefulNotes/{{Amiga}}'' computer, just like him. To put this in perspective, ''Linux'' would be more appropriate.

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* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'': Transformation, transgender, age changes, and the occasional [[TakenForGranite statue-ifying]]. While notorious for such, there are also signs of anatomy fixation: Jason's [[HeroesWantRedheads love of redheads]] is just his "thing," but when you consider just how many redheads the series has, you've gotta wonder if it's ''really'' the writers' thing. The overwhelming majority of girls who didn't begin the series as boys are redheads.

* Right from the get go ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' had some BDSM undertones, but being a shounen manga it never really got overtly sexual and there was enough ambiguity to make it questionable whether it was actually meant that way or not. Then along came the villainous New Bloodline, and with it...[[EvilIsSexy Mistress Genuine]].

* ''Podcast/GilbertGottfriedsAmazingColossalPodcast'' was created out of a combined love of old movies and TV between Frank Santopadre and Creator/GilbertGottfried, and their guest list reflects that. Gilbert in particular likes Franchise/UniversalHorror movies and will be unusually reverential towards anyone related to those movies.

*** To be fair, that's not unusual among Muslim circumcision ceremonies, though it's rare in modern countries.
* The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', non-stop. Every member of Team Kimba is [[GenderBender gender-bent]] in varying ways. Everyone living in Poe Cottage (the secretly LGBTQ-exclusive dorm) have admitted on their Whateley Academy entrance forms that they're LGBTQ, which is why they are assigned there. Even a lot of the non-Poe Cottage major characters are LGBTQ. And most of the other fetishes mentioned on this page show up there too. Hilariously, most people linking to the comic don't mention the fetish aspect, presumably assuming it might be mistaken for porn, meaning that readers tend to run headlong into issues you don't normally find in superhero-related works. [[ConvenientlyCommonKink Not that they necessarily complain]].
** Judging from the website, LGBT is the (expressly stated) whole ''point'' of the Literature/WhateleyUniverse. While it should be noted on this page for the sake of completeness, for anyone who's even aware of what the Whateley Universe is it's rather like noting that many Transformers stories involve robots.

* What is true for ''Nippon Ichi'' also applies to ''Franchise/TouhouProject''. Although that might be due to the creator's inability to draw non-loli characters rather than this trope. The other big Author Appeal of ''ZUN'' is alcohol (obviously), going so far that he made a game that is solely about alcohol-themed BulletHell.
** Though the artwork ingame IS getting better -- this gets particularly noticeable in UFO: even before you even get onto the new characters in that game, clever use of shading shows ''visible breasts'', specifically for Sanae. The fact it's a frontal view probably helps. And indeed, when other people do the artwork (for example, the fighting games), the sudden breasts on some of the characters can be jarring. Just look at Sakuya in [=EoSD=], [=PCB=], [=IN=] or [=PoFV=]. Then look at her [=IaMP=]/[=SWR=] art. you'll see why a meme arose from it.

* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has a lot of spanking going on. JD spanking Turk. Turk spanking JD. Turk spanking Elliot. Elliot spanking JD. Neena spanking JD so hard, and for so long, that he can't sit down. Various characters spanking themselves. You name it.

* ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' and the author's obsession with [[{{Moe}} emotionally fragile young women]], which happen to make up half of the cast. The author himself has all but admitted this, making joking comments that it's practically the contents of his soul detailed on paper. The series also shows his ''{{VisualNovel/Kanon}}''-influenced obsession with SnowMeansLove, despite being set during fall; it appears that his next work, however, is going to completely focus on it.
** While on the subject, almost every female character just happens to wear a choker at some point. Also, the character Piro has a female online avatar.

* The designers for ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games. Only the character designers, though. Yoshitaka Amano has a ''huge'' preference for pale, willowy men with frizzy white hair and blue lips. And Mascara, too. Almost ''every'' hero he designed for ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' looks like they could be related... except for Zidane. (Instead, it's ''Kuja'' who's the Expy) Everyone else? With the exception for ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'', as often as possible, he puts on capes, catsuits, spiked armor, and other such {{Rummage Sale Reject}}s. His monsters look like what you would think a monster would look like, an EldritchAbomination. Tetsuya Nomura, on the other hand, goes for a more modern-looking anime-like approach compared to Amano's traditional Japanese watercolor style. As you can see, despite that his males look ''more'' masculine than Amano's (In that they ''don't wear make-up'' and instead look to be teenagers) he puts about as much detail into their clothes inspired by modern-day Japanese (and recently American) fashion trends as Amano put into their armour. Whenever he designs monsters, they look like an EldritchAbomination... but instead of something from the world of Faeire, something more like a mix of inorganic features (like zippers and obviously painted-on-features) and organic features, often leading them to look horrific for a different reason than Amano's. Oh, and Nomura also loves black coats and zippers - especially zippers. Longer the better - especially with hoods, too! Akihiko Yoshida, designer for the tactics series as well as ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'' likes tight pants on men, painted-on-abs, greasy faces, bondage gear, and did I mention that he ''loves'' really tight pants?

* Starting from 2018 onwards, The Game Awards[[labelnote:*]](as well as the Developers Showcase of 2020)[[/labelnote]] featured at least one of [[Franchise/TheMuppets the Muppets]] as a guest. Geoff Keighley even once openly admitted that the main reason he started the event was so that he could eventually host Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker.

* Creator/NimbusLlewelyn is a self-admitted particular fan of [[Literature/TheDresdenFiles Harry Dresden]], ComicBook/BlackWidow, ComicBook/BuckyBarnes, ComicBook/CarolDanvers, ComicBook/JeanGrey, and interpretations of the Phoenix Force that ''don't'' boil down to AlwaysChaoticEvil EldritchAbomination, which is why all of them tend to have increasingly prominent roles in his writing (and even if they don't directly appear, they get referenced).

* Dark Mark's fanfics like ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', ''Fanfic/APrizeForThreeEmpires'' or ''Fanfic/XMen1970'' show he's fond of continuity-rich fictional universes with a long-storied history and [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} powerful]], [[ComicBook/JeanGrey heroic]] [[ComicBook/PowerGirl action]] [[ComicBook/CarolDanvers girls]].

-->"Stop injecting your horrible fetishes into our game."
-->"I am going to punch you."

** The ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' films lack a TokenRomance, as does ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'', but even then there's some subtle hints. Tigress and Po get some noticeable ShipTease in the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2 sequel]], and both Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D and the Missing Link are implied to have crushes on Susan. ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' also has some ShipTease between Jack Frost (a human, albeit [[Really700YearsOld immortal]] boy) and the Tooth Fairy, who's sort of a [[BuffySpeak feathery hummingbird person]]).

* ''Webcomic/{{Shadownova}}'' features {{action girl}}s with the MostCommonSuperpower constantly and the majority of the males are at least slightly {{Bishonen}} and are also fairly badass. Also almost everyone wears a [[BadassLongCoat long jacket or coat]] at some point. EVERYONE. Most of the cast are also in their late teens but that may have more to do with the author's own age than any kind of fetish. Iris also gets injured a ''lot'' and is extremely angsty and emotionally vulnerable most of the time.

* ''Webcomic/DrawYourOwnStory'' bases its insane plot upon, among other things, an insane mish-mash of a thousand works with little or no explanation as to why are they all here together. Let's quote from the work page: ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'', ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'', ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}}, ''Franchise/StarWars'', ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'', ''Webcomic/OzyAndMillie'', ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'', ''VideoGame/HalfLife'', ''VideoGame/Left4Dead'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'', ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', ''VideoGame/DeadOrAlive'', ''Anime/CowboyBebop'', ''Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex'', ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquer'', ''VideoGame/{{Civilization}}'', and more.

* ''Webcomic/SabrinaOnline'' illustrates the difference between "FunnyAnimal comic" and "FurryComic".

** The title character in ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' has a romance with [[LateArrivalSpoiler what he thinks]] is a human woman, and Donkey [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction infamously]] ends up in a relationship with Dragon. ''That produces offspring.'' In the [[WesternAnimation/Shrek2 sequel]], Queen Lillian is married to King Harold, who is secretly [[spoiler: [[BewitchedAmphibians the frog prince.]]]]

* Anyone who has seen a few Creator/JCStaff shows can tell their artists really, really, really like big breasts and nothing else. In the best case of LaserGuidedKarma... er, MisaimedFandom ever, [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana every]] [[Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex single]] [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero one]] [[Literature/{{Toradora}} of]] [[Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo their]] [[Manga/DreamEaterMerry most]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler popular]] [[Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes anime]] [[LightNovel/OkamiSan series]] [[LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad nowadays]] has a flat chested tsundere girl as its most popular and/or leading girl. ALL OF THEM.

** Back in the original flavor, Littlepip seems to get publicly embarrassed and teased about her romantic life (or lack thereof) an awful lot. Maybe once does she ever seem to ask them to stop, and then the person in question keeps doing it, but on "friendlier" terms [[note]]instead of being TheTease just to mess with Littlepip, despite having no actual feelings toward her..[[/note]] This culminates, perhaps, in her girlfriend talking about their sex life on the most popular radio station in Equestria. [[ThisIndexTouchesItself She also, ahem, "mares off" with her crush lying in bed next to her]].

* Spoofed wonderfully on ''Series/{{Extras}}'', where Creator/PatrickStewart ([[AdamWesting playing himself]]) explains his idea for a new movie he's been writing. He says it's an exploration of what would happen if there were one person in the real world who could control people's minds. In actuality, though, the only thing his character does is go around making women's clothes fall off and "seeing everything." When Gervais explains his own idea for a script, Stewart only becomes interested when Gervais claims that there's nudity in it.

* Anyone who has seen a few Creator/JCStaff shows can tell their artists really, really, really like big breasts and nothing else. In the best case of LaserGuidedKarma... er, MisaimedFandom ever, [[Literature/ShakuganNoShana every]] [[LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex single]] [[LightNovel/TheFamiliarOfZero one]] [[Literature/{{Toradora}} of]] [[Literature/AriaTheScarletAmmo their]] [[Manga/DreamEaterMerry most]] [[Manga/HayateTheCombatButler popular]] [[Anime/TanteiOperaMilkyHolmes anime]] [[LightNovel/OkamiSan series]] [[LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad nowadays]] has a flat chested tsundere girl as its most popular and/or leading girl. ALL OF THEM.

* A vast majority of those who make WebAnimation/YouTubePoop videos seem to have a thing for ''[[RunningGag sauce]]''.

** Back in the original flavor, Littlepip seems to get publicly embarrassed and teased about her romantic life (or lack thereof) an awful lot. Maybe once does she ever seem to ask them to stop, and then the person in question keeps doing it, but on "friendlier" terms [[note]]instead of being TheTease just to mess with Littlepip, despite having no actual feelings toward her..[[/note]] This culminates, perhaps, in her girlfriend talking about their sex life on the most popular radio station in Equestria. She also masturbates with her crush lying in bed next to her.

* Several {{doujin|shi}} artists and {{fan art}}ists have a fetish for [[AmazonianBeauty muscling up their girls]] (whether {{original|Generation}} [[SelfFanservice or not]]) and then having them [[{{Fanservice}} show off their physique]] and/or [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Herculean-feats of might]]. [[note]]These are most likely the fetishes known as sthenolagnia (the display of muscles) and cratolagnia (the demonstration of strength).[[/note]] A common secondary effect that the females are blessed with [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure figures]] that would make [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Jessica Rabbit]] blush: [[RuleOfGlamorous gorgeous faces]], ([[GagBoobs outrageously]]) large busts, killer legs, wide hips, shapely rears, [[RuleOfSexy the whole package]]. [[ButWaitTheresMore That's not even all of it]], as other possible kinks like {{Cute Monster Girl}}s and [[{{Hermaphrodite}} futanari]] are sometimes thrown into the mix.

** In ''WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}}'', Roxanne Ritchi is in a relationship first with Metro Man (who's from another planet but looks like a [[HumanAliens normal human]]), and later with the [[RubberForeheadAliens title]] [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation character.]]

** In general, practically every woman will either be an ActionGirl or a LadyOfWar, or failing that, a suitably awesome NonActionGuy, [[SleepCute there will be lots]] [[SecurityCling of hugging]], [[WorldOfSnark sarcasm will be a primary means of communication]] [[LemonyNarrator (even by the narration)]], [[GambitPileUp both good and bad guys will weave increasingly complex plots and constantly try to get an edge on each other]], there will be an astonishingly (but plot explained) [[OneDegreeOfSeparation degree of connection between certain characters]], more than one BadassFamily, ThePhoenix motif will be heavily featured, there will be epic amounts of {{Foreshadowing}}, and it will be ReferenceOverdosed with {{Shout Out}}s galore.

* ''Fanfic/HereWeGoAgain'', a FixFic of the web novel ''[[Literature/{{Gate}} Gate - Thus the JSDF Fought There]]''. The author of this particular fan fic is a retired [[SemperFi US Marine]] [[TankGoodness tank crewman]] and an [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror Afghanistan veteran]], as such many of the characters and events are based on his own personal experiences in the Marine Corps as well as a WhatIf scenario if his retirement had been interrupted by the events of ''Gate''.

** Or to explain it for the tropers [[FanMyopia unfamiliar with all the series]]: it's a story about {{Magical Girl}}s in a world where [[TheUnmasquedWorld their existence is public knowledge]] and [[LegendaryInTheSequel all the characters from the source material are in-universe celebrities]] [[CoolVersusAwesome fight]] alongside [[EmpoweredBadassNormal cybernetically enhanced soldiers]] against [[BugWar inscrutable]] ScaryDogmaticAliens [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]] in order to ensure the future of humanity.

* inserthedgehog, who wrote ''Fanfic/TheProgenitorChronicles'', is a fan of strong female characters and sprinkling [[ShoutOut Easter egg]] [[MythologyGag references]] throughout his works. He also wrote [[https://videogameshrines.weebly.com/ the Video Game Shrines]], and he shows this there too.

** Eventually a later comic does admit Sabrina had been using Linux and sometimes even Microsoft machines most of the time at work since even in WebcomicTime TechnlologyMarchesOn, and that her Amiga had been long relegated for home use only. Eventually even the Amgia is put in storage with a small compact Raspberry Pi emulator taking its place.