Incest Subtext: Difference between revisions

* Many in ''[[Code Geass]]'' -- of—of course, everybody already knows about Lelouch and [[Memetic Mutation|memetic]] [[Big Brother Instinct|siscon]], who started a war for his sister Nunnally's sake, but an even better example of this trope would have to be the last episode, where they both tell each other "I love you" using the Japanese terms ''aishiteru'' and ''aishite imasu'', which are generally used for romantic affection. Lelouch has this with his half-sister Euphemia, as well.

* Episode 10 of [[Hidamari Sketch | Hidamari Sketch x Honeycomb]] has a scene where Sae and, her younger sister, Chika are sleeping together. Sae offers to tangle legs with Chika.

* In [[How I Became Yours: Rise of the Agni Army]], brother-and-sister Kuzon and Lilith share a room despite being in their late teens/early adulthood, their beds not five feet away from each other. And Kuzon's dialogue to Lilith regarding her bad dreams sounds closer to what a concerned ''boyfriend'' would say, not a big brother. And hell, there hasn't been much more [[Incest Subtext]], but the WMG folder for the page already has theories that the siblings will marry their cousins due to there being ''no other cast members in the [[Five-Man Band]].''

* The Prentiss family in ''[[The Manchurian Candidate|]]''The Manchurian Candidate'']]. (There was a novel, too, in which the incest is quite explicitly mentioned) The original film version showed a very possessive and not at all chaste kiss between Eleanor and her son Raymond, and the 2004 remake featured heavy subtext in every scene that showed them together, including some very ambiguous touching and kissing moments.

** Even worse if you take in the fact that "I Can't Keep My Eyes Off of You" (Never made it to the movie -- itmovie—it only appears on the first CD) is a quartet with duets between "Troy" and "Gabriella" and then "Sharpay" and "Ryan" (with only a few parts being the four singing together).

* ''[[House of Wax]]'' is filled with the [[Twincest|twincestytwincest]]y subtext between Nick and Carly. Obvious from a mile away.

** Raymond also teases Zac by proposing to give him a blowjob, although that was probably supposed to be an attack to his sexuality rather than an in-university acknowledgment of the [[Incest Subtext]].

* ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]'' (2011). [[Daddy's Little Villain]] tells her father (who is seeking to resurrect his dead wife) that she can do everything her mother could -- shecould—she's referring to her magic powers, but there's a clear sexual vibe as well.

* The 1992 French movie ''L'Amant'' (''[[The Lover]]'', adapted from the eponymous novel by Marguerite Duras). The female protagonist has a sexual vibe with her younger brother -- thebrother—the sight of the two of them dancing closely is enough to drive the titular character to a jealous fury.

** The comic book adaptation - which came out ''after'' ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' - doesn't have nearly as much [[Incest Subtext]], since it has much less in the way of narration. But the twins hold or touch each other often, and when Luke thinks he's dying he tells her he loves her.

* Pick a Eugene O'Neill play, any Eugene O'Neill play. Odds are you're going to encounter a seriously dysfunctional family vibe, owing to O'Neill's own deep-seated mommy issues, and the fact that he was heavily influenced by Greek theatre, home of the original Oedipus and Electra. The [[Incest Subtext]] is particularly heavy in ''[[Mourning Becomes Electra]]'', a theatrical trilogy which moves the plot of the classic Orestia to Civil War era New England. To try to sum up the tangle of dysfunction: Lavinia Mannon appears to be totally in love with her father, General Ezra Mannon, and hateful to her mother-in-law Christine. Christine murders Ezra, so she can be with the handsome young sailor Adam Brant, but also dotes on her son Orin in an entirely unmotherly way. Orin (suffering mental trauma from his time on the battlefield) returns the affection, but Lavinia manages to enlist him against his mother by informing him about Christine's affair, which sends him into a rage which clearly has more to do with jealousy than any kind of familial loyalty. After Christine is driven to suicide, Orin seems to waver between wanting to kill his sister, and wanting to sexually dominate her. Suffice it to say, Eugene O'Neill was not a happy man.

** When Tyrion is confronting his sister, Cersei, about her [[Twincest|Twincestuous]]uous relationship with Jaime, he says that it "seems unfair that she should open her legs for one brother and not the other". While he was clearly trying to enrage and mock her, if he had been aware of their incest while growing up with them, it would make sense that his own sexuality might be affected by it.

* This is joked about several times in ''[[Supernatural]]''. In "The Monster at the End of This Book", Sam and Dean discover a series of novels detailing their exploits has accumulated a fandom, including in-universe Sam/Dean shippers. In the episode "The Real Ghostbusters", the two guys [[Cosplay|Cosplaying]]ing as Sam and Dean turn out to be a couple.

* Jimmy and Gillian Darmody on ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' are frequently mistaken for husband and wife or brother and sister. They're actually mother and son; Gillian was fourteen when she got pregnant with Jimmy. The subtext was never really "sub" - Gillian is introduced [[Glomp|glompingglomp]]ing Jimmy while wearing only pasties and a g-string - but they've really been playing with the [[Hamlet]] and [[Macbeth]] parallels in season two as Jimmy's taken over Atlantic City and Gillian's become a world-class combination of [[Lady Macbeth]] and Gertrude.

* Liquid Snake and Solid Snake. Not so much in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'', although he's such an enormous [[Large Ham]] that most of his lines sound flirty, but in ''[[Metal Gear Solid]] 4'' there's [[Squick|Squicky]]y scenes where he sniffs Snake's hair, blows kisses at him, and grapples him from behind [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|while Snake is helpless and simply begging him to stop]]. Although, when they do actually kiss, Liquid is definitely not Liquid any more.

* Furiae toward Caim (one-sided) in the US version of ''[[Drakengard]]'' -- in—in the Japanese version, it was less subtext and more text.

* There is some of this with Sally and Dr. Finklestein in ''[[The Nightmare Before Christmas]]'' [[Alternative Character Interpretation|possibly]]. In the [[DVD Commentary]], [[Tim Burton]] refers to Sally as a daughter -- yetdaughter—yet there's lines in-film like "You're mine, you know!" and "You can make ''other'' creations!" that really doesn't sound like a rebellious-daughter/overprotective-dad relationship, but like something else entirely. Consider that the creation Dr. Finklestein makes to replace Sally looks awfully like a wife -- [[Screw Yourself|that looks exactly like him]] -- and—and that an alternate ending had [[Big Bad|Oogie Boogie]] be [[The Man Behind the Curtain|Dr. Finklestein]], jealous that Sally chose Jack over him. In [http://nightmarebeforechristmas.net/nightmare/script/2 an earlier script], the father/daughter relationship was a lot more obvious with lines like "I'm grown up now. I'll have to leave sometime" . . . yet there are bits like ''The scientist smiles, feeling Sally under his sway again'' that sounds [[Parental Incest|rather creepy]].

* This trope creeps into ''[[An American Tail]]'' in an eerily interesting and [[Squick|squickysquick]]y way when you consider the song that the two siblings Fievel and Tanya sing to each other, "Somewhere Out There", was turned into a straight love song by Linda Ronstadt in an effort to make it a [[Breakaway Pop Hit]], and not a ''single word'' needed to be changed.

* Affection between [[Angelina Jolie]] and her brother James Haven (including some rather fond words and a kiss at the Y2K [[Academy Award|Academy Awards]]s) raised enough scandal to [[Tabloid Melodrama|feed the tabloids]] for the rest of the year.