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** 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.]]

** 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]].

* ''[[Kodomo no Jikan]]'': Rin once [http://crazymanga.be/reader/show/4901b317-731c-4ef5-bc04-06ca425a6735/0/83 tried to milk a cow] [[But You Screw One Goat!|by getting intimate with it.]]

* ''[[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]]?