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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."
* Take your pick with ''[[Harry Potter]]''. An allegorical polemic against the UK's strict gun laws. A diatribe against Thatcher's Britain. A foaming defense of fascism. Praise for a class society. Subversive feminism. Subversive racism. Subversive Marxism. Damaging society by making nerdiness cool and desirable instead of a cause of beatings to minimize its destructive influence. Damaging society by projecting and propagating the domination of sport over superior influences such as nerdiness.
** 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.
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*** In the commentary tracks ([[New Game+]], in the chamber for the final fight), GLaDOS' voice actress states that she needed to get back into character to sing "Still Alive". Said character is: "A lonely little AI who's angry that everybody comes to kill her."
*** It's hardly surprising that GLaDOS's voice actress was more sympathetic to her when [[Sympathetic POV|she was the one playing her]].
** Not to mention another site claims that [[
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' as noted elsewhere, is a fun game about two teams of soldiers killing each other, with no plot whatsoever. This hasn't stopped Tropers on the [[Fridge Brilliance]] page from making comparisons to the [[Cold War]], claiming it represents Change vs Stagnancy, and many more. These claims have almost ''nothing'' to base themselves on, because there is ''no plot''.
** Valve released [http://www.teamfortress.com/loosecanon/index.html a comic] before the "Engineer update" came out that sketches a plot around the "characters" of the game. It's quite amusing but even Valve admit it was created retroactively. Note that the comic does not reference the cold war at all, but rather seems to have more of a steampunk/western theme.
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** Also, in the song "[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|There's a Platypus Controlling Me]]";
{{quote|'''Crowd''': DON'T STOP, DON'T STOP!
'''Doofensmirtz''': Well, I would if I were able/[[It Makes Sense in Context|There's a platypus controlling me/he's underneath the table]].
'''Crowd''': Say whhhhhhaaat?
'''Person''': Oh, I get it! Platypus is a metaphor for whatever's keeping you down. The corporations are a platypus, the government's a platypus, your teacher is a platypus, ITS ALL JUST PROPAGANDA. }}
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