Creative Revenge

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Any examples? By famous people or from personal experience.

I just found this on Wikipedia about Michael Crichton and figured I’d share:

Michael Crowley of The New Republic alleged that, in retaliation for his having written a negative review of Crichton's previous novel State of Fear, Crichton named a character with a small penis who rapes a baby after him. From page 227: "Alex Burnet was in the middle of the most difficult trial of her career, a rape case involving the sexual assault of a two-year-old boy in Malibu. The defendant, thirty-year-old Mick Crowley, was a Washington-based political columnist who was visiting his sister-in-law when he experienced an overwhelming urge to have anal sex with her young son, still in diapers." Both the real and the fictional Crowley are Washington-based political columnists who had graduated from Yale.

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

[Spider2024]

When rapper Future was young, he once asked NBA great Scottie Pippen for an autograph. He refused and was quite rude to young Future.

So when Future grew up and became famous, he slept with Pippen's wife.

[Spider2024]

Feb 20, 2023 23:31:08 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

[Red Mage Riot]

Feb 20, 2023 23:34:04 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

When rapper Future was young, he once asked NBA great Scottie Pippen for an autograph. He refused and was quite rude to young Future.

So when Future grew up and became famous, he slept with Pippen's wife.

That's long term booking, and you gotta respect it.

[El Pollo Guerrera]

It's rumoured that the 1995 Jet Li movie "High Risk" (directed by Wong Jing) has a character that is a lazy, lecherous action star who pretends to do his own stunts because of the director's negative experiences working with Jackie Chan in the 1993 "City Hunter" movie. The bad feeling caused by that is why it took until 2008 for Chan and Li to work together in "The Forbidden Kingdom".

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[Cranjis McBasketball]

Feb 20, 2023 23:34:04 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

When rapper Future was young, he once asked NBA great Scottie Pippen for an autograph. He refused and was quite rude to young Future.

So when Future grew up and became famous, he slept with Pippen's wife.

You've probably seen the footage of teenage AJ Lee sobbing when she met Lita at an autograph signing, she grew up to marry Lita's ex, CM Punk.

Revenge for something we don't know? You decide.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

In the 80s Jim Shooter was made editor in chief at Marcel and set about pissing off creators by *gasp* making them put books out on time, even if it meant filler issues or vetoing their ideas. He also created the New Universe, a series of titles intended to be down to earth, with events playing out in real time between issues. Shooter was ousted due to management politics. Well adjusted individuals like John Byrne threw parties where the burned effigies and, in a final act of pettiness, blew up Shooter's home town in his pet project and turned it into a radioactive pit.

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Jack Kirby had issues with Stan Lee over him taking too much credit for their work at Marvel Comics.  When he left the company to work for DC he created a clear parody of his former partner named "Funky Flashman"

"House Roy" was meant to be a dig at Marvel creator Roy Thomas.

[Cvslfc123]

Feb 21, 2023 0:47:04 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Feb 20, 2023 23:34:04 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

When rapper Future was young, he once asked NBA great Scottie Pippen for an autograph. He refused and was quite rude to young Future.

So when Future grew up and became famous, he slept with Pippen's wife.

You've probably seen the footage of teenage AJ Lee sobbing when she met Lita at an autograph signing, she grew up to marry Lita's ex, CM Punk.

Revenge for something we don't know? You decide.

Maybe she was a huge Matt Hardy fan.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Feb 21, 2023 0:34:54 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

It wasn't that much of shot when Gene Siskel called out Godzilla (98) director Roland Emmerich in his review saying something to the effect of: "You put Roger and Me in the film to get back at us for trashing your previous work... ok fine, but I'm surprised you didn't follow through on the gag to its natural conclusion by having the monster squish us or eat us or something like that."

And it's true both of those comic relief characters make it to the end of the movie in tact.

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Stephen King wrote the idiot who caused the car wreck that almost killed him into The Dark Tower as an illiterate drug addict who tries to kill Stephen King. He also bought the guy's truck at an auction and smashed it to bits with a hammer.

[Mozenrath]

Feb 21, 2023 3:34:32 GMT -5 The Dark Order Inferno said:

In the 80s Jim Shooter was made editor in chief at Marcel and set about pissing off creators by *gasp* making them put books out on time, even if it meant filler issues or vetoing their ideas. He also created the New Universe, a series of titles intended to be down to earth, with events playing out in real time between issues. Shooter was ousted due to management politics. Well adjusted individuals like John Byrne threw parties where the burned effigies and, in a final act of pettiness, blew up Shooter's home town in his pet project and turned it into a radioactive pit.

There was more to it than that, but yeah, there was also a ton of pettiness involved.

It's still much better taste than whoever put Dave Cockrum's resignation letter in an Iron Man comic as being from Jarvis. Like, that's absolutely disgusting and personal.

[Feyrhausen]

Feb 21, 2023 6:01:37 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

Feb 21, 2023 0:34:54 GMT -5 tirtefaa said:

It wasn't that much of shot when Gene Siskel called out Godzilla (98) director Roland Emmerich in his review saying something to the effect of: "You put Roger and Me in the film to get back at us for trashing your previous work... ok fine, but I'm surprised you didn't follow through on the gag to its natural conclusion by having the monster squish us or eat us or something like that."

And it's true both of those comic relief characters make it to the end of the movie in tact.

Lucas named the dragon in Willow the Eborisk after Siskel and Ebert. And General Kael after Pauline Kael.

So is pooping in someones bedside Kleenex box and taping it back up creative?

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The Amazing World of Gumball had an episode called “The Copycats”. The whole thing was a giant dunk on a Chinese rip-off called Miracle Star, which not only copied the style of Gumball but stole scenes from the show to use for themselves. The biggest difference between the original and the rip-off is that because of Chinese laws limiting the number of kids a family can have, they only have two kids instead of three, so the originals use this to their advantage by having Anais save them from danger, leaving the copycats with nobody to save them from the exact same danger.

Saberspark has a pretty detailed video about the whole thing.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Feb 20, 2023 23:31:08 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

“Don’t do that! Don’t do that!”

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Steve Gerber and Erik Larsen did an issue of a Marvel comic together and then did a Savage Dragon/Destroyer Duck comic for Image that was the same story from a different perspective.

In the story, they basically "free" Howard The Duck from Marvel, so that he can live out his days as Leonard The Duck in indie comics.

[pinja]

"Tod eines Kritikers" ("Death of a Critic") is an abomination of a novel by Martin Walser because he didn't like critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki. It's chock-full of anti-semitic stereotypes.

[Sephiroth]

A particular Godzilla movie, sorry I don’t remember which one. But in a particular scene the evil alien controlling the monsters unveils a secret weapon to destroy Godzilla-the CGI version from the 2000 Matthew Broderick movie. The rubber suit Godzilla dispatches the imitator in seconds, leaving the alien to grumble “I should have known that wouldn’t work!” A none too subtle middle finger from Toho.

It’s been a while so feel free to correct me if I get any details wrong: Grigori Rasputin was at one time pretty tight with Father Iliodor, a prominent official in the Russian Orthodox Church, but they had a hard falling out and Rasputin used his influence with the royal family to have Father Iliodor banished to one if true most remote parts of the Russian Empire in what today is Georgia. From there, serving as the chief administrator for local seminary schools, Iliodor signed the expulsion papers for one Joseph Vissarionovich, who later adopted the name Stalin. Intentional or not, Iliodor got the last laugh and then some.