Creators

All about the people and organizations who actually create works of media.

If you want to create a page for one, the Creator Page Guidelines are recommended reading.

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Creators:

Creator indexes

Companies

• Companies
  • Comic Book Companies
  • Film & TV Companies
    • Animation Companies
    • TV Networks
  • Music/Record Companies
  • Tabletop Game Companies
  • Toy Company Index
  • Video Game Companies

Creators by demographics

• Creators by ethnic/national origin
  • African-American Creators
  • Asian-American Creators
  • Jewish Creators
  • Latino-American Creators
  • Native American and First Nations Creators
  • Pacific Islander Creators
• Creators with mental/physical disabilities
  • Autistic Creators
  • Blind Creators
  • Deaf Creators
• LGBT+ Creators

Creators by genre

• Horror Story Creator Index
• Mystery Story Creator Index
• Speculative Fiction Creator Index

Creators by medium

• Comic Book Creators
  • Webcomic Creators
• Names to Know in Anime & Manga
  • Mangaka
• Pinball Creators
• Theatre
• Video Game Creators
  • Video Game Scriptwriters
• Web Video Creators
  • YouTubers
    • YouTube Let's Players

Creators by role or job

• Actors
  • Voice Actors
• Artists
  • Animators
  • Cartoonists
  • Fan Artists
  • Illustrators
    • Album Cover Designers
  • Painters
  • Sculptors
• Authors (literature writers)
  • Fanfic Authors
  • Poets
• Critics and Reviewers
• Dancers
• Entertainers
• Filmmakers
  • Directors
  • Producers
  • Screenwriters
• Journalists
• Models
• Musicians
  • Composers
• Philosophers
• Photographers
• Presenters
• Production Design
• Puppeteers
• Sportspeople
• Stand-Up Comedians
• Visual Effects Artists

Miscellaneous

• Double Acts and Groups

Other creators

Tabletop game creators

• Greg Costikyan
• Crystal Frasier
• Gary Gygax - creator of Dungeons & Dragons.
• Kenneth Hite
• Ryo Kamiya - Japanese tabletop RPG designer.
• Robin Laws
• Phil Masters
• Sandy Petersen
• Jonathan Tweet

Miscellaneous creators

• C. M. Atanasio - Writer and Novelist.
• Agouti-Rex - podcast host and furry cartoonist.
• Billy Birmingham - sporting humorist, creator and actor in The Twelfth Man Albums.
• Jon Bois - multimedia creator and humorist, whose oft-surreal works tend to focus on American sports.
• Botnik Studios - a "machine entertainment company" that uses AI to remix text.
• Gary Brecher (The War Nerd) - web columnist.
• The Chaser - Australian satirical comedy team responsible for a parody newspaper and various TV and radio shows.
• Leonard Chess - Record Executive and co-founder of Chess Records.
• Julia Child - world-renowned chef, author of several cookbooks, and the first television cooking show host.
• Cara Crocker - aspiring porn star and internet celebrity, best known for her "Leave Britney Alone" video.
• Francis E Dec - conspiracy theorist and a schizophrenic famous for his mass-mailed, typewritten rants.
• Mike Duncan - history podcaster.
• End Master: creator of online Gamebooks.
• Sigmund Freud - Austrian psychologist and cultural theorist, known as the father of psychoanalysis.
• Hero of Fire : Zelda Classic quest author who is best known for the scripted Zelda Randomizer quests.
• Rémy Julienne - Very prolific French vehicular stuntman and second unit director.
• Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist known for his writings on archetypes, the collective unconscious, and personality typologies.
• Kibo - one of the earliest internet celebrities.
• Mark Musashi - wushu martial artist and stuntman.
• David J. Peterson - conlanger
• Reaver - 4chan quest gamer and roleplayer.
• Seanbaby - Cracked writer.
• Lore Sjöberg - internet humorist and creator of the original Geek Hierarchy Chart◊.
• Alexander O. Smith - Japanese-to-English translator and founder of translation company Kajiya Productions.
• Ivan Strasburg - Cinematographer.
• The Weaver - 4chan quest gamer and roleplayer, creator of Ruby Quest.
• Voxus - amateur voice acting troupe.
• Stefan Zweig - novelist.
• Alexi Vandenberg - Pop Culture Businessman/Entrepreneur

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Creator tropes:

Also see:

• Creativity Leash
• Creator Speak
• Creator Standpoint Index

• Actor-Inspired Element
• Actor-Shared Background
• Alter-Ego Acting
• Author Usurpation: The creator is heavily associated with a specific work for the rest of their life.
• Comic Book Run: Period when a specific author worked on a comic book.
• Con Recap: Creator devotes an episode to recounting their experiences in a Fan Convention.
• Creator Couple
  • Music
• Creator's Oddball
• Creator Worship
• Deaf Composer: The creator has a handicap that prevents them from enjoying their own work.
• Descended Creator: The creator plays a character in their own work.
• Died During Production: A work is cancelled, put in Development Hell, or forced to make do with replacements because the creator died before they were able to complete it.
• False Credit: Someone was credited on a work they did not create.
• Follow-Up Failure
• Genre-Prolific Creator
• Golden Translator: Someone who's a well-regarded writer in their own right translates a foreign work into their own language.
• House System: A company has a common set of rules for all games that they produce.
• "How I Wrote This Article" Article: Writing about not knowing what to write anymore.
• Lying Creator: The creator deliberately lies about what happens in their work.
• Meta Casting
• One-Book Author
• Pen Name
  • Anonymous Author
  • Moustache de Plume
• Reclusive Artist: The creator is very asocial and secretive in real life.
• Reused Character Design
• Same Face, Different Name
• Teasing Creator
• Trolling Creator
• Uncredited Role: The actor who played the character was not credited.
• Why Fandom Can't Have Nice Things: The creator gets sick of complaints from the fans, leading to rather drastic means of retaliation.

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