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* Despite [[Douglas Adams]] explicitly saying that the number 42 was randomly chosen with no intended hidden meaning in ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'', [[Epileptic Trees]] involving everything from base thirteen to Tibetan monks continue to live on.

** In-universe example: When Vogon Jeltz asks Arthur and Ford what they thought of his poetry, they attempt to save their own necks by going into excruciatingly sycophantic analytical detail. At one point they comment that the poem serves to "counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor." Jeltz doesn't buy it, and sentences them to being tossed out the airlock, grumbling: "'... counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor.'... Death's too good for them."

** There are those that argue that ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is symbolic of gay society. To support this, some people simply replace the word "wand" with [http://bash.org/?111338 something else], and reflect upon how it seems almost as many scenes were written with that substitution in mind ([[Fridge Logic|despite the fact that female characters also use wands]]). Ignoring that the series only has one (informed by [[Word of God]] ''only'') gay character.

*** The "wand" thing, actually, is mostly a game. There are much more logical arguments about the possibility of it being the story where Harry is symbolically gay, analyzing everything from his literal living space in a closet to the treatment of non-human magical beings. Correct or not, people have thought it through quite thoroughly.

** Close, but not exactly. The trick is that Xenosaga is based on Gnostic philosophy and mythology, not contemporary Christianity. {{spoiler|chaos}} is not Jesus. Jesus was just a prophet and a preacher; just a man with no actual divinity of his own. {{spoiler|chaos and Mary (or Anima and Animus)}} were the actual power behind him, though, who worked all of "his" miracles. Xenosaga's fun like that.

*** {{spoiler|chaos}} is called Jeshua, which is the Aramaic name for Jesus, and was close to Mary Magdalene in a previous life, so he's at least ''a'' Jesus, if not ''the'' Jesus.

* ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]''. There is an [http://www.gamesradar.com/pc/f/portal-is-the-most-subversive-game-ever/a-20071207115329881080/g-2006071916229527001 article] claiming that the game has feminist/lesbian themes: The only male presence (or at least, the only thing ever referred to with a male pronoun) is the Weighted Companion Cube, an inanimate object; the way your "gun", rather than being a weapon of destruction, shoots oval-shaped "openings"; nearly all aggression on GLaDOS's part is passive aggression, or aggression by proxy via the turrets; and the fact that the player character, Chell, is neither male nor [[Stripperiffic]] eye-candy for male players like nearly every other female video game character. To be fair, it wasn't entirely clear whether the articles were serious or not ...

** On the other hand, there's also a theory that GLaDOS [http://www.game-ism.com/?p=91 desperately wants to die] and that the whole maze was just a [[Thanatos Gambit]] to make Chell hate her enough to do it. Subsequently, 'Still Alive' expresses her disappointment when she finds out there's a backup.

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