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[[file:p23lk4.png|thumb|400px|link=Neon Genesis Evangelion|"Giant Naked Rei"]]
* 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.
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** 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.
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*** 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]].}}
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** 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.
*** Kaworu's [[Leitmotif]] is "Ode to Joy". Much of the choral part can be overanalyzed. Particularly "Himmlische, dein Heiligtum" (We enter your shrine.), "Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele/Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund/Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle/Weinend sich auf diese Bund" (Indeed, whoever can call even one soul his own on this earth! [[A Man Is Not
** 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.
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** 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).
** The [[Big Bad]] is [[Only Known
** 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!''
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[Venus Versus Virus]]'''s [[The Berserker|Sumire]] is "attracted" to [[Elegant Gothic Lolita|Lucia]]'s [[They Have the Scent|scent]] while in her [[Super Powered Evil Side|Berserker]] mode. Of course we know the real reason to this, but he manga/anime ''is'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20150510074850/http://www.gomanga.com/news/features_vvv_01.php yuri], [[Romantic Two-Girl Friendship|subtext only]] but still yuri.
** 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]].}}
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** The chisels owned by Yuri's dad are other examples. The less said, the better.
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