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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.

** 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]].}}

** 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!''

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

 

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