Freud Was Right/Anime and Manga: Difference between revisions

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* On top of the usual [[Studio Gainax]] [[Mind Screw]]ing, ''[[FLCL]]'' has more sexual symbolism and [[Double Entendre]] than you can shake a suspiciously phallic baseball bat at. At times, it's like [[Faux Symbolism]] with sexual symbols instead of religious ones. Somewhat justified in that ''FLCL'' is a coming of age story, but still..

** Like the moment in episode 5 where a conspicuously phallic... gun hammer, forms in the back of Naota's head. Now, what makes this Freudian is the fact that there's a (nearly) naked Haruko on top of him, close enough for the little phallic... hammer in the back of his head to bring their lips together... [[Oedipus Rex|in front of his father]]. Yeah, you decide.

** Spiral Power is a metaphor for evolution. People with more Spiral Power can take more [[Evolutionary Levels]]. And we ''know'' how evolution works......

** And not just drills. [[Dark Action Girl|Adiane]]'s Gunmen talked through its crotch and had eyes right about where its nipples would be. Her Gunmen's teeth (used as cockpit displays) are also rotated 90 degrees from the usual orientation. And there was a scene where the Dai-Gurren (which is ''[[Visual Innuendo|really, really]]'' [[Gag Penis|phallic]]) gets torpedoed in the bridge... cut to the male crew members wincing.

** In the episode where Team Dai-Gurren is imprisoned by General Guame, Nia is in the bridge handcuffed. Ultimatly Simon and Lagann [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|penetrate the floor with its "giant drill"]]. In doing so, Lagann "liberates" Nia from her shackles.

** There's also the battle with Cytomanter's Dai-Gunten, which Cytomanter was rammed by Dai Gurren's bow, [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|who then proceeded to charge into the Dai Gunten with said bow while the bridge's gunman face was screaming out loud.]]

** Don't even get started on the mother and Oedipus Shinji thing. The souls in the Evas, Misato's relationship with Shinji, rivalry between Shinji and Gendo, Ritsuko going after the same man that... look, just ''don't even get fucking started''.

*** Shinji is inside his mother, which is Ferenczi.

*** Actually, since they're in the Sea of Souls, they're one. Therefore, their bodies are merged by the crotches and she is actually sitting ''in'' him.

** The [[Assimilation Plot|Human Instrumentality Project]]. {{spoiler|While it is an orgy of trying to initiate [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|the mass suicide of humanity]], the assimilation process basically involves Rei going to every point in space and time, and when a human is encountered, she takes the form of his most loved one, which then embraces the human and tangs him while said human becomes one with Rei and die in bliss. Also, the metaphor of Instrumentality as basically becoming all as one. Yes, [[Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum|the suicide of humanity]] [[Death By Sex|basically involved]] [[Everybody Has Lots of Sex|everybody having a lot of sex]].}}

** In a particularly [[Ho Yay]] scene in the manga, Kaworu enters Shinji's shower stall looking for soap and gets ''really'' close while both are naked and getting wet from the shower spray. There's even the word "tension" used to describe the scene. Another Freudian scene in the manga has Kaworu giving Shinji CPR when he starts hyperventilating.

*** In the anime, we don't get Kaworu that far, but we do get Shinji in the shower looking down and toward Kaworu, and blushing. Yes, Shinji is falling in love upon seeing Kaworu's penis.

** This might be a bit overanalysis (of course, given the nature of this trope, that's impossible), but sperm competition. Only one angel can penetrate Lilith. "Only one life form may inherit the future."

** The manga goes extremely far in making all the [[Freud Was Right]] explicit when Shinji, trapped in the Eva, is "tempted" by a seductive apparition of naked Yui, or rather Unit 01's Angelic side in her guise.

** Pride is a shadow-tentacle monster who is "watching you from the shadows". In one scene, he possesses Al's body and Al comments that Pride "came inside him" and that his soul felt icky afterward.

** And then there's Father's behavior during the [[Apocalypse Wow|"Eclipse"]]. Not only does he act like he's having an orgasm the whole time, but there's also the fact he comments that his "sacrifices" struggling just makes things better for him (since it provides more alchemical power).

** Also, near the end of the anime, Edward defeats Pride by transmuting himself as a philosopher's stone and "forcing his way inside" Pride. Note that both Ed and Pride are having an out-of-clothes experience for this scene.

** Here's a fun one: the main characters are trying to give life to their mother by bringing her through a mystical gate. Sure, sometimes a {{spoiler|portal between alternate realities}} is just a {{spoiler|portal between alternate realities}}, but, to paraphrase [[George Carlin]], sometimes it's a ''huge gaping vagina!''

* In ''[[.hack//Sign]]'', Tsukasa, a player of a virtual reality MMORPG, gets trapped in the game and is given amnesia. He is also given "the Guardian"; a giant pair of floating yellow balls that stab other players with tentacles. Shortly after Tsukasa rebels against the Guardian and it is destroyed, he regains his memory and realizes that {{spoiler|in the real world, "he" is really a girl.}}

** To be fair, though, he's perfectly normal compared to Knives, who seems more interested in going after {{spoiler|[[Twincest|his own twin]]}} and is into slicing people (with ''giant blades'', no less... ahem). Also note that he {{spoiler|absolutely hates Rem}} and thus doesn't share in the "ordinary" Oedipal schema of the manga (we might even wonder if, in Nightow's logic, it doesn't explain why he's so batshit insane).

*** The end of the first ''[[Trigun]]'' manga dares you to see Knives 'rebirth' scene and ''not'' [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|to think of anything involving gynecology or rape]]. It actually seems to involve [[Death By Childbirth]]. Then [[It Got Worse|it gets worse]] when {{spoiler|Knives grabs Vash and forces him to deploy his Angel Arm}}. ''[[Squick|While standing nude behind him and obviously enjoying his pain very, very much]]''—which, by the way, isn't the only time he goes full frontal. It's even more [[Nightmare Fuel|disturbing]] when you know that {{spoiler|men who get raped anally by other men get an erection}}. And that it's {{spoiler|his effing twin brother}}, of course.

*** Let's not forget the overtones of sexual rivalry that his feud with Vash tends to take, especially when {{spoiler|Dr. Conrad}} teaches him that "Vash's gate is larger than [his]". His face is priceless when he {{spoiler|nearly gets overpowered by the "size" of said "gate"}} and, much later, when Vash calls him "a wimp with a bulldozer" once he {{spoiler|has fused with thousands of plants, which makes him without a normal lower body but also a guy "fused" with thousands of girls. Who are all his "sisters"...}} Also, note that Knives's "power" tends to disturb everyone in the area (notably Wolfwood). For the sake of the argument, let's just say that pretty much everything Knives does and thinks has a Freudian subtext.

** In the manga, {{spoiler|Nicholas D. Wolfwood}} sounds creepy when he has an imaginary conversation with {{spoiler|Auntie Melanie}} about {{spoiler|what an amazing guy Vash is}}. Also fits into [[Ho Yay]], oddly enough. Also, he has obvious [[Oedipus Rex|daddy issues]] too, both in the anime and in the manga.

*** Speaking of Vash and Wolfwood, the amount of disproportionately huge weapons in the show is truly mind-boggling. And let's not even get into the details of [[Ho Yay|the relationship between our two favorite, erh, gunmen]].

* ''[[Sora wo Kakeru Shoujo]]'''s Leopard, a living space colony, needs a pair of golden orbs (and in Japanese, golden balls also means "testicles") so that he can successfully fire his [[Wave Motion Gun]]. In the first episode, he tells Akiha, his new lady friend, to use his "golden gun". Oh yes.

** And in the third episode he looks decidedly... ''pleased'' after she does. There's really no mistaking that one.

** Her dialogue and reactions during her trial to overcome her superpowered Berseker side in Volume 2 of the manga counts.

** Lucia dislikes Sumire's boyfriend. ''[[Clingy Jealous Girl|a lot]]''. {{spoiler|So much that she [[Murder the Hypotenuse|kills]] him with a giant log object to "[[Psycho Lesbian|protect]]" Sumire. Of course, she does that due to the fact he is [[The Heartless|a]] [[The Virus|virus]].}}

* Lelouch from ''[[Code Geass]]''. He ''hates'' his father, has ridiculously saint-like memories of his mother, and the only women in all of his [[Unwanted Harem]] that he openly admits his love for were both his [[Brother-Sister Incest|sisters]].

** Adult Swim's website made fun of the scene where Lelouch is holding a champagne bottle pointed up at an angle that sprays its contents all over Kallen.

** Also Mao is in love with C.C. who gave him his Geass when he was six, making him completely dependent on her for ''all'' his social needs. She then isolated him from the world for several years, effectively raising him. When he got older, he fell [[Wife Husbandry|in love with her]]. And he also listens to a recording of her voice over and over.

*** There's also the statement by C.C. that she became his "best friend ''and lover''". Fans have [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6129393/1/Kisses_and_Wishes already] used this line to it's full potential.

** It also seems to be the fact that their eyes are nowadays drawn exactly the same... Now why would the [[Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls|mangaka]] do [[Lampshade Hanging|that]]?

** There's also Glo Xinia's [[Foe Yay]] with Chrome. Considering how during his fight with Chrome he grabbed her hard enough to cause her pain, kept getting in her face, and told her things like: "You seem to like being touched by men. Your blushing cannot betray your desires." "Give me ''more''!" (after hearing her screams of pain) and "It's time to eat... that ring and you!" It's hinted he might've done something to her had Mukuro not shown up, allowing her time to escape. Also, when fighting Mukuro he comes out with this line: "Is that girl so precious to you? Then I'm going to take my share of such a precious girl right before your eyes. This could just be the best situation, don't you think? My appetite for that girl just keeps getting better!" and "Don't worry Chrome, I will take good care of you for ''Mukuro to see!''"

* The [[Non Action Guy|male lead]] in ''Equation Of The Immortal'' is a subversion in his [[Mommy Issues|obsession]] with [[The Hero|Sayoko]] as while she's damn near a clone of his recently deceased mother ([[You All Look Familiar|though "every" female in the series does,]]) this ''saves'' his life as his refusal to do anything with her beyond ogle her (even when she's naked, amnesiac and flat out ''offering'' him some) due to [[Power Incontinence|her]] [[Out with a Bang|power.]]

* ''[[Soul Eater]]'': The longer Giriko's fight goes on with Maka, the more it descends into this. It gets to the point that you could replace "chainsaw" with "penis" and it would make just as much sense. He threatens to rape her at one point only to remember that he [[Gender Bender|does not have a penis]] anymore.

* ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'': The animated rendition of "England is about to die" strips have the bed-ridden England with feverish eyes, fever-reddened cheeks, slurred speech, slow breathing, etc. [[media:arthur_has_an_orgasm.jpg|But it can also look like he's having an orgasm]]. [http://mizumimi.livejournal.com/19602.html Same goes to icons.]

* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'''s Cell [[Dragon Ball/Nightmare Fuel|literally drinking and eating people through his tail]] was disturbing enough even ''before'' the manner in which he did to it Android 18 invoked this trope. What with the constant up-and-down motion, the absolutely awful sucking noises, and 18 moaning and crying out in fear, which began in a horrible scream just before all this even started… is there ''any need'' to say what this is symbolic for?

** While speaking of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'', did you see the way Goku and Vegeta merged together with their [[Fusion Dance]]?

** The chisels owned by Yuri's dad are other examples. The less said, the better.

 

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