Freud Was Right/Video Games

"Dr. Kwong: The cannon's massive barrel thrusts into the sky above Paris like an engorged pillar of masculine flesh! While the women of the city cower in the eclipsing shadow!"
 * Give anyone any form of artistic freedom within a game...and you'll be surprised how many people make nude or sex mods, name the character something sexual, post sprays of pornographic images, make icons be blatant freudian imagery...
 * Spore was anticipating this. The game gives you freedom over evolution of your creatures in many aspects. Naturally, the devs anticipated how many people would make penis-monsters.
 * Second Life. You have the power to do just about anything you want in this game. And what do people do? Why, set up sims for nearly every fetish available!
 * In The Saboteur, Dr. Kwong describes this about the massive cannon the Nazis have constructed in the city

"Sean: Whoa! Dr. Kwong wasn't wrong about the size of that thing. Ever hear of "overcompensating"?"
 * Later Lampshaded by Sean himself when he first sees it


 * Second Life is KING of this trope. People have the ability to, once they know to code, create anything they want. What do they stick to, first? Make penises and enact out cybersex. One of the most popular forms of griefing is to send a flying storm of penises in somewhere.
 * This is half of what makes the undead enemies of The Legend of Zelda -- the mummy Gibdo and zombie ReDead -- major sources of Nightmare Fuel. Their attacks involve paralyzing, grabbing, and biting you, but most people think it looks and most of all sounds like they're raping you. To death.
 * Ewww.
 * In fact, many of the enemies and even the bosses seem to be giant, one-eyed monsters...
 * Reborn in MinishCap. It's a narrow cylinder with a head and shoulders at the top (although the shoulders could just be part of the cape), and its one giant leg opens up vertically to reveal a giant eye between the "knees", above the ankle and below the hip-level.
 * The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess: Those noises Link makes as he's turning into a wolf for the first time sounds more like he's having sex.
 * In EarthBound, the dialogue of the Eldritch Abomination Final Boss Giygas was taken from writer ShigesatoItoi's traumatic memories of seeing what he thought was a rape scene in a movie as a child.
 * The title of the whole series makes Freud turn in his grave bust out from his grave at escape velocity.
 * Actually, no, it doesn't.
 * Eve Online has the Phobos class heavy interdictor] while it is one of several ships that can easily be described as a "Marital Aid" it is the only one that is actually pink.
 * Also this picture. Brings new meaning to the words "docking procedure".
 * Kreia has some interesting things to say in Knights of the Old Republic 2 about the "male preoccupation with the lightsaber." The first game manages to avert this almost completely, unless you feel like being literal about the ending sequence on the Star Forge.
 * Final Fantasy VII has a scene in the Temple of the Ancients where Sephiroth is sitting down thinking about becoming one with his mother. Note the position of his sword at 4:31. There's also the whole concept of Sephiroth trying to become one with the Planet.
 * Final Fantasy VIII Seifer does a Face Heel Turn and joins Edea after she tells him he is just a little boy, and she will make him a man.
 * It's said that Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2 is the living incarnation of James Sunderland's repressed lust, among other emotions. PH is famous for raping the town's monsters and carrying a BFS so huge that he literally has to drag it behind him (and later an enormous spear). Subtle. The official interpretation is that he's a supernatural executioner out to make James realize that he . Note that a second one appears after
 * The whole game Silent Hill 2 can be seen as James having to face that his own repressed sexuality during his wife's illness
 * For the more explicit sexual elements of the game, the Mannequins are a pair of sexy legs attached to another pair of sexy legs, the Bubble Head Nurses are incredibly busty women in skimpy nurse outfits with horribly deformed heads, the Abstract Daddy/Doorman resembles two figures bent over a table or a bed and attacks by swallowing James' head, the Flesh Lips grab James with a tentacle and pulls him towards its vagina-mouth, and then there's the continual attention paid to holes, several of which James must jump down in order to reach the next area of the game.
 * In the third game meanwhile, the Closers have vaginas for faces and penises for arms (out of which a blade extends), the Numb Bodies heavily resemble sperm, the Slurpers knock down the player character and climb on top of her in an act of quasi-rape, the Split Worm is an enormous penis that burrows through various holes and whose head splits open vertically in a vulgar representation of childbirth, and in the latter part of the game there are pulsating walls and vertical holes everywhere, in particular the enormous hole that leads to the "birthplace" of the Final Boss.
 * The fourth game has relatively subtle examples regarding Walter and his "mother" (actually the protagonist's apartment). The entrances and exits to Walter's otherworld are long tunnels with a light at the end (more childbirth symbolism), giant worms connect the different sections of the otherworld, umbilical cords connecting him to "mother", and the first step in defeating Walter in the Final Boss fight is to use the remains of his actual umbilical cord.
 * Not to be left out from the party, Homecoming has its own contributions to this trope: the Lurkers have Vagina Dentata for a face, the Needler has its head between its legs, another symbol of childbirth, the Bubble Head Nurses make a reappearance, the Schisms' head is a giant penis split down the middle, Asphyxia is a mass of female bodies fused together to resemble a centipede with arms for legs, several of which are always groping it, and as for the Siam... well, just look at the damn thing. Hilariously, there are absolutely no sexual elements in the game's plot whatsoever, meaning all of this was apparently added for the lulz.
 * And now we have Shattered Memories, which manages to make things a whole new kind of disturbing:
 * At least one interpretation of Portal brings up the fact you're a woman fighting an alternately caring and lashing female-voiced overmind with a weapon that opens passages through space. Oval passages. 'Portal' is for Lesbians] indeed.
 * And let's not forget, she even arranges the murder of her perceived rival for the player's affection. Psycho Lesbian in more ways than one.
 * "If you love it so much, why don't you marry it? Well, I won't let you!"
 * An invisible lesbian Stalker with a Crush? Hmmmm...
 * See this interpretation about what GlaDOS's central core looks like.
 * Another major theme running throughout both games is motherhood. GLaDOS is very reminiscent of a passive-aggressive, nagging mother, makes references to "bring your daughter to work day" (a significant event in the backstory), and most especially this spoilery song. Turn on the closed captions for the Italian subtitles and... wow.
 * In a more visual (and non-story-related) example, when you've finished the final co-op chamber in Portal 2, look back up at where you came from. Then think of how you got to where you are. You'll never see that chamber the same way again.
 * According to Psycho Mantis, the reason he hates all of humanity is because every time he looks into someone's mind, he finds the same "disgusting" desire to reproduce at the heart of their motivation for every single thing they do.
 * Metal Gear Solid also has a lot of sexual imagery mixed in with violence, to symbolise how killing arouses Snake more than sex (which is canon, if Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is to be believed). Snake, who is hot, smokes a cigarette after every boss battle. He punches a sadomasochistic zombie ninja to orgasm at one point. He fights the beautiful Sniper Wolf through the sniper scope of a Male Gaze, twice. Metal Gear REX has a penis that shoots lasers. The final battle is a boxing match between him and his sexy twin, both dressed only in very tight trousers with their waxed muscled chests on full display.
 * Speaking of REX, one of his combo attacks involves . There's also the Shagohod, which aside from a possible Double Entendre name which makes sense when you consider who's piloting it has an enormous phallic rocket launcher on its back and... well, look how it moves.
 * The most horrific scene in the series involves a man, previously named Solid Snake, now known as Old Snake, crawling down a tunnel, having to use all his might to avoid going limp? Or the BB Corp members draining Snake's health when they hug him for no readily apparent reason?
 * The whole plot is basically about men named after penises fighting over a fortress named after a clitoris. Solid Snake ("erect penis") destroys Outer Heaven (clitoris); let's point out that his two vague female romantic attachments both ended in him leaving them (in one case without a goodbye) and he ends up in a close relationship with a man, wanting nothing except that (and, to boot, all his outfits throughout the series draw specific attention to his buttocks). Big Boss ("large penis") builds Outer Heaven and had a female lover who he saved when she was in trouble and who was dedicated to him until the end of her life (and all his outfits throughout the series draw specific attention to his crotch). The series casts Snake in the right, and Big Boss in the wrong.
 * Revolver Ocelot could practically write this trope. In the first Metal Gear Solid, during the gunfight with him, he says: "There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well-greased chamber". Sweet mother of Freud.
 * Then there's the fight between Vamp and Raiden in the fourth game which has some extremely, though somewhat disturbing homoerotic imagery: the grappling, the almost rutting-like motion when Raiden stabs himself to nail Vamp — and don't forget the white blood and the crotch-knife licking.
 * One that's easy to miss is that the Boss has the habbit of shutting up men who are getting to uppity with her by taking away their pistols, breaking them apart, and throwing the pieces back at their feet. Ouch.
 * Koishi Komeiji, the BonusBoss in Subterranean Animism, has a whole arsenal of spellcards based off of Freudian concepts... but then you get to "The Embers of Love" and then your brain just sort of shuts down. Seriously, ZUN, phallic heart bullets?
 * Many, many moments in the Devil May Cry games, not to mention that every weapon and use thereof is some sort of phallic metaphor.
 * Vergil's prologue in Devil May Cry 3 provides us the image of Arkham very... suggestively stroking Vergil's sword.
 * Two words: Lucifer scene (does it count if it's obviously intentional?)
 * Not to mention that Trish is the spitting image of Dante's mother
 * Devil May Cry has an early cutscene where Dante is pinned to the ground by the Alastor sword and he slowly slides his body up the blade. The heartbeat in the background and the fact that it's showed from two or three different angles makes me wonder if it isn't deliberate. See it here, from 4:50 to 5:15.
 * Considering Alastor appears to initially be impaling a statue vagely resembling The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, and the fact that it's a "lightning charged" sword it might just be intentional.
 * Jester calls Temen-ni-Gru "a thick shaft that causes women to shudder". Yeah.
 * Pokémon. Diglett? Cloyster? Stunky? Beedrill in particular has a rather suggestive entrance in the Pokémon Stadium (and other 3D) games that involves thrusting its stinger...
 * Two guys in Sootopolis City ask you to bring them big Barboach and Shroomish. Barboach and Shroomish.
 * There's something about Steel-type Gym Leader, Jasmine, from the Generation 2 games and her choice of Pokémon. Her team consists of nothing more than two Magnemite and a Steelix. Two steel balls and a giant metal snake.
 * Uuuggh...
 * She's got balls of steel, hmm?
 * HeartGold and SoulSilver feature a young couple with said Onix and Cloyster in a tag battle.
 * And, of course, Generation 5 reveals the legendary Pokémon Reshiram. Did you have to put it right there?
 * Which is hilarious considering Reshiram itself is meant to represent femininity, while Yin represents masculinity.
 * The same could be said for Blaziken of Generation 3 and Beartic of Generation 5.
 * Speaking of, mixing this with Rule 34 gives you Oshawott with its "shell emblem" replaced by a penis. Brain Bleach is next door, thank you very much.
 * The "legs" of Victini and Combusken come to mind.
 * The Platinum sprite for Skuntank appears to have... a hole between its legs. Yeah.
 * And Krookodile's nose. Doesn't take much imagination to work out what's wrong with that.
 * Sure, don't mention the most obvious of them all, because it's so obvious where I'm going with this.
 * In the first episode of Sam and Max Freelance Police: Season One, Sam has a dream and the player can choose what he does in his dream. It is possible to make a hot dog appear in a rat hole. The therapist then says, "A weenie in a rat hole... nothing symbolic there."
 * The (in)famous Creepers from Minecraft look very...well lets just say that some people call them "penis monsters" for a reason...
 * It's probably cheating considering the nature of the game but Fate Stay Night has tons of Freudian undertones. The entire "stabbing the Holy Grail" thing...
 * In Katamari Damacy, one of the many Royal Cousins is Odeko, whose most striking feature is his long head. While most cousins have cute little pill-shaped heads, his extends straight up. He's explicitly very proud of his height, and is even prone to exaggerating its size. This has been the subject of many, many jokes.
 * Not to mention the character named "Johnson" who is long-headed like Odeko, but sticks straight forward instead of up.
 * In Kingdom Hearts II, there's a heartless comprised of a small body and a golden beak which repeatedly stabs Sora if he doesn't kill them. Think that's bad enough? The name of it is Rapid Thruster.
 * The DS interquel has the most blatant Freudian imagery I've ever seen.
 * Wesker from Resident Evil... especially the fifth game. Lord, what to say about him and Chris? It gets to the point where, at the final battle, Wesker ends up sweaty, shirtless, and growing a bunch of tentacles. He uses these tentacles to grab ahold of Chris (which can only be described as looking like very violent tentacle rape). And each time he has a hold on Chris, he transforms his other arm into a very phallic tentacle drill that will... penetrate impale Chris if he doesn't break free. And all of this while he screams Chris' name. Wesker has issues...
 * First, Brad Vickers gets caught by Nemesis and impaled through the mouth nose with a Naughty Combat Tentacle, seven years later Luis Sera dies of impaling from behind with the huge stinger Saddler had concealed under his robe... Does This Remind You of Anything?
 * {{Haunting Ground]]. The entire game's plot was pretty much about proving that Freud Was Right. Let's see here - so it turns out that Lorenzo {{spoiler|wanted to screw his son and clone, Urgo, because he was his preferred child and contained the Azoth. However, Urgo ended up running away and marrying Ayla, Fiona's mother. Lorenzo ends up harboring a bunch of hate towards Ayla for it. But then he finds Fiona, who inherited the Azoth, so now he wants to screw his granddaughter}}. And then there's Riccardo, who apparently hates Lorenzo, since {{spoiler|he's also Lorenzo's son and clone. Except he didn't have the Azoth, so Lorenzo thinks of him as a useless and troublesome son}}. He also feels competitive towards Lorenzo, and wants to assert his domination and possession over Fiona, who is {{spoiler|his niece}}. Riccardo's goal is to, quite simply, rape and impregnate Fiona so he can have the Azoth. This is made all the worse when one realizes that he's pretty much her {{spoiler|father's clone, meaning that he has the exact same DNA as her father}}. So to put it simply -- all of Fiona's {{spoiler|remaining relatives}} want to screw her.
 * What, no mention of Daniella?
 * Thankfully not an official level, but take a look at around 1:31 in this LittleBigPlanet video. Where, exactly, is that Creature Brain? The only way it could get more phallic is if there were two of them, or if the level creator got "crafty" with the Corner Editor. At least it was a Protected Creature Brain...
 * Ar Tonelicos major dialogue is filled with innuendos... especially the "Diving" process that is uncomfortable for the Reyvatails (girls) and one is iffy about her "first time." Another states that "it's okay if it's with you." Plus many villagers find it odd that guys and Reyvatails go into the Dive Shops during the day and they "wonder what goes on in there."
 * Of course at one point the game just bypasses all innuendos when you change Reyvatails and the girl Krusche's first line to the new one is "Wow Misha, you grew tits!"
 * The Gomander boss from R-Type. Consists of what appears to be an alien uterus being penetrated by a giant worm.
 * Also, the Giant Warship's phallic core.
 * R-Type III had a boss that shot what appeared to literally be giant sperm cells at your fighter ship. Was probably intentional.
 * In Final, the first boss is a techno-organic penis thing that shoots lasers, and Dobkeratops now has a phallic tongue that shoots sperm cells.
 * During the final level two human silhouettes appear in the background. What are they doing throughout the level? Well, it looks... intimate.
 * The final boss of Delta is a giant ovum that shoots sperm at you. It also combines itself with a piece of your ship. Top that.
 * Try playing World 6-Tower of New Super Mario Bros. Wii without making a joke about the, ahem, "thrusting" spike columns. To make matters worse, {{spoiler|Morton Koopa}}'s room has two of them coming down from the ceiling during the fight.
 * Daryan Crescend's torpedo-like hairdo from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has gotten popular with the fans for this very reason -- he's a "dickhead" in more than one sense.
 * The Gonarch in Half-Life, has an interesting growth on it's underside. Apparently, it came about when someone at Valve asked "Why don't we put a giant testicle on a 20-foot-tall armored spider?"
 * In the online game N The Way Of The Ninja episode 25 level 0 looks like the basic structure fallopian tubes, a uterus, and a vagina.
 * This video shows that Meta Knight's ship, the Halberd, looks... "pretty gross".
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 * Metroid: Other M gets a lot of flack for making Samus appear weak. Some believe that Samus talks almost obsessively about the Metroid Hatchling, referring to it as The Baby, as if it were her own child.
 * Thrusters and Micro Mike from Action 52. Both involve phallic spaceships fighting other phallic spaceships and dodging phallic obstacles. Also, Silver Sword has an enemy shaped like a cock and balls.
 * In Skies of Arcadia, Galcian has this going on a lot. In addition to his BFS, there's also the questionable relationship with Ramirez, and his ship later in the game. His new ship, the Hydra (replacing his earlier ship, the Serpent) has a main cannon that is originally hidden behind scaffolding. After the scaffolding comes off, it initially hangs down beneath the ship, but swings up to about 45 degrees above the horizontal to fire.
 * Parodied with Vigoro, whose innuendo is very explicitly mentioned.
 * Also, Belleza's rather...ergonomic ship.
 * Star Control barely even tries to hide it. Phallic space rockets called 'Penetrators' piloted by an entire species of blue-skinned space women in bikinis? What other explanation could there be?
 * Wiimote movements in Zack and Wiki when using tools can be suggestive, especially the one involve sawing a tree, as shown in Zero Punctuation's review.
 * In Dead Rising, female zombies dressed in lingerie attack the protagonist by grabbing his waist, falling to their knees and moving their heads back and forth as they try to bite him.
 * A death movie for survivors attacked by female zombies basically looks like a very canabalistic version of the 69 position (although it is slightly satisfying to see Ronald get it...)
 * Dead Rising 2 pretty much beats the player over the head with sexual imagery as soon as they start playing the game.
 * Super Mario Land 2 gave us a Mario robot. One level is in his crotch, and it involves balls for platforms.
 * Bioshock. Let's start with the Big Daddies who wield either giant drills or bolt guns, how they watch over the "Little Sisters" who are also blissfully unaware of what's really going on, sing songs, and flutter around their "Mister Bubbles".
 * Ramped up terribly in the sequel when the PC is referred to as "my knight in shining armour" by a little sister. Repeatedly.
 * Shadows of the Damned is filled to the brim with this. Considering it's Suda 51, not surprising. Here are some... easier to swallow examples.
 * The big bad who steals your girlfriend uses a large pole of wood. He seems to like thrusting his wood around just to show you he is the bigger man.
 * Your sidekick is named "Johnson", and the pistol is named "the boner". The upgraded is named "the big boner", and it must be welded at crotch level to be steady enough to shoot.
 * In Ragnarok Online, Hodes are long, pink... two-eyed monsters.
 * Shall we even get started on World of Warcraft? Even if we just go with the quests for the Sons of Hodir in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, we have the following, very sexual connotated, names: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Mounting Hodir's Helm (which is a rounded, purple/blue helm mounted on a stiff shaft of ice), Polishing the Helm, Raising Hodir's Spear, Thrusting Hodir's Spear. Then we also have quests for other groups with names like: "Just the Tip", "Camel Tow", "Going Bearback", "If Size Mattered...", and many... many more.
 * If you ask most people who've played Team Fortress 2 as the Medic, they'll tell you it's kind of like having sex. Well, you stand behind someone, pointing a cylindrical object that stuff comes out of (the Medigun) at them. Everyone wants you to do it to them (because it heals them). And if you do it to them long enough, something great happens to both of you (you both become temporarily invulnerable), but hopefully it won't be over too soon. See this comic. It also probably says something that there's some Ship Tease in the game between Medic and Heavy, the character who it's generally considered particularly strategic for the Medic to heal. And the idea that the Medic Really Gets Around is a bit of a thing in fanworks (totally NSFW). No wonder the supplemental materials say that Freud himself was the first Medic.

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