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{{trope}}
''You're my kind of guy!''|'''Madame Peep''', ''Oedipus Tex'' by [[PDQ Bach]]}}▼
The Oedipal archetype deals with any conflict between father and son, particularly where the son must supplant the patriarch or must extricate himself from his father's shadow and find his own place in the world.
▲{{quote|''You murdered your father,<br />
▲You married your mother.<br />
▲You rascal!<br />
▲You're my kind of guy!''|'''Madame Peep''', ''Oedipus Tex'' by [[PDQ Bach]]}}
Much of the time this presents as the son's aim of removing his father to further himself in the eyes of his mother, not necessarily into her bed. This archetype shares some themes with both the [[Messianic Archetype]] (rebirth and renewal) and [[Tricksters]] (out with the old, in with the new).
▲The Oedipal archetype deals with any conflict between father and son, particularly where the son must supplant the patriarch or must extricate himself from his father's shadow and find his own place in the world.
The female equivalent, of wanting to kill the mother and sleep with the father, was called the Electra complex by Carl Jung, but this term was rejected by Freud, saying that 'feminine Oedipus complex' sufficed.<ref>a bit [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] since most modern Freudian apologists claim girls ''also'' want to supplant their fathers</ref>
▲Much of the time this presents as the son's aim of removing his father to further himself in the eyes of his mother, not necessarily into her bed. This archetype shares some themes with both the [[Messianic Archetype]] (rebirth and renewal) and [[Tricksters]] (out with the old, in with the new).
▲The female equivalent, of wanting to kill the mother and sleep with the father, was called the Electra complex by Carl Jung, but this term was rejected by Freud, saying that 'feminine Oedipus complex' sufficed<ref>a bit [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] since most modern Freudian apologists claim girls ''also'' want to supplant their fathers</ref>. This makes sense, since the character of Electra in the plays of both [[Electra|Sophocles]] (who wrote Oedipus) and Euripides saw her more in filial love and deep mourning for her father and in need of some good revenge against her murderous mother. The story of this family is another trope altogether, anyway.
It's fairly difficult to use this trope explicitly, since the psychological aspects of the mother figure involved are usually lost to [[Freud Was Right|cruder imaginations]].
Compare [["Well Done, Son" Guy]], [[Calling the Old Man Out]], and "Atonement With The Father" from [[
''[[Oedipus Rex]]'', the Greek Tragedy dramatized in 429 BCE by [[Sophocles]], is the [[Trope Namer]], and [[Sigmund Freud]] is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Oedipus, however, is not a true example of the trope because Oedipus ''never'' knew who his mother and father were until it was too late. He does not discover until long after the fact that he has killed his father, or that he has married his mother, and is horrified on both counts.▼
▲[[Oedipus Rex]], the Greek Tragedy dramatized in 429 BCE by [[Sophocles]], is the [[Trope Namer]], and [[Sigmund Freud]] is the [[Trope Codifier]]. Oedipus, however, is not a true example of the trope because Oedipus ''never'' knew who his mother and father were until it was too late. He does not discover until long after the fact that he has killed his father, or that he has married his mother, and is horrified on both counts.
{{examples}}
== Anime and Manga ==
* Shinji Ikari from ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' is an interesting example. His mother is dead and he wants approval from his father, and resents him for not giving said approval. It would be a lot healthier for Shinji if he just straight up hated his father. And while he doesn't want to sleep with his mother, Shinji is {{spoiler|[[Powered by a Forsaken Child|piloting her]]}}, which is all sorts of intimate.
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* Baki from ''[[Baki the Grappler]]'' starts off wanting to beat his father to make his mother happy, then because he figures out his father is out of his damn mind after he does crap like getting one step from killing an important governmental figure just to prove he can and {{spoiler|killing his mother.}}
* In ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', although Ed and Al both have [[Freud Was Right|crushes on mother figures]], Ed is the one who seems afflicted with the full Oedipal syndrome complete with a love-hate relationship with his father, whom he emulated to become an alchemist (originally ''to please his mom'') but also repeatedly insults and beats up (the fact that he also suffers from a bad case of [[Parental Abandonment]] only makes matters worse for him... and for Hohenheim).
** In the anime, {{spoiler|the homunculus Envy's goal in life is killing Hohenheim. At the same time, he's immensely jealous of Edward because he is Hohenheim's ''real'' son -and, presumably, because he is the most similar to Hohenheim and [[Fan Nickname|Hoju]] in appearance and personality. In the movie, he even succeeds not only in killing Hohenheim before Ed's very shocked eyes, but also in ''not'' crying "Daddy, why don't you love me?". Interestingly, Ed looks absolutely shell-shocked for about ''two minutes'' and he later doesn't seem to care much, which might or might not mean a lot about how he really feels towards his old man. Then again, he doesn't seem to care much about Alfons's death either and [[Canon
** In the manga, {{spoiler|Greed also has issues with his dad and seems complacent about his role as 'daddy's rebellious son', even going as far as to tell him something along the lines of "Father should be the one who understands best, ain't I the manifestation of his greed?". To be honest, though, Father is one hell of a tyrannical father}}.
* Seishiro Sakurazuka of ''[[X 1999]]'' had an... interesting relationship with his mother, Setsuka, who was one disturbed woman. {{spoiler|Setsuka implies that her soulmate was her own son. The relationship, however, was one-sided, as Seishiro's soulmate was very obviously (and reciprocally) Subaru. The non-reciprocated soulmate theme also appears with Tomoyo and Sakura in [[Cardcaptor Sakura]].}} Oh, and he killed her. At her request.
* Dr. [[Black Jack]] has some issues to work out concerning his parents. For example: when his [[Disappeared Dad|estranged father]] contacts and hires him to conduct reconstructive plastic surgery on his second wife Renka to make her the "most beautiful woman in the world," Black Jack decides to makes her look exactly like ''his mother''
* "Syaoran" of ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'' has been recently revealed to have this, being in love with what appears to be an ''alternate universe clone'' of his mother. Played with a bit in that instead of wanting to ''kill'' his father, he wants to ''be'' him. To the point that he's been going by his father's name since he was seven {{spoiler|his real name is Tsubasa}} and for several years (until it was revealed that he was the ''son'' of Syaoran) he was thought to ''be'' his father by most of the fandom, as he looks exactly like him, acts similarly, has identical abilities, etc.
** The problem has later been justified or muddled, its hard to tell, by the fact that his father is apparently [[My Own Grampa|his clone]], and his mother is a clone of his own Sakura.
*** At precisely which point in the either 4-man or 2-man loop (which one it is depends on perspective) this trope sets in is a matter best left to philosophers on illegal substances with mental disorders. The philosophers have the mental disorders. [[Mind Screw|Probably]].
* [[The Lancer]] of ''[[Digimon Savers]]'', Touma, is very cool to his father, Franz Norstein, but is endlessly devoted to Relena, his younger half-sister, and clearly adores his [[Missing Mom|deceased mother]]. This is both made obvious and foreshadowed by his almost instant "crush" on Masaru's [[Hot Shounen Mom|mother]] and younger sister. {{spoiler|While it's never stated outright, it is heavily implied that Touma was born out of wedlock, and his mother was a foreign exchange student who had an affair with his father. Touma's hatred of his father stems from Franz's weakness of character: his inability to defend his son from his judgmental mother, and to do what is right to save his [[Ill Girl|daughter]], rather than what is ''there'' and easy.}}
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** And it went from implied to outright confirmed in HeartGold / SoulSilver.
** No mention of Falkner and Janine? Those kids have got some very apparent daddy issues, not only in the games (in which they're the new gym leaders to their respective gym, overshadowed by their fathers, who were the previous gym leaders), but also in the manga (same issue as above, but [[Disappeared Dad|both fathers are currently missing]], which adds frustration to both of them at one point in the manga). A call from Janine on the Pokegear in HGSS even lampshades this:
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* Lelouch Lamperouge, the protagonist of ''[[Code Geass]]'', has the ultimate goal of learning who killed his mother, and then killing his father the Emperor, whether or not he's responsible. Of course, since momma Marianne is portrayed as [[Purity Sue|only two steps short of sainthood]], and poppa Charles is a [[Social Darwinist]] [[Jerkass]], his attitude may be justified.
** Episode 21 of R2 plays it straight: {{spoiler|His mother Marianne, who wasn't really dead, doesn't give a damn about either Lelouch or his sister, who in turn was actually crippled by their dad Charles, all because she was Charles' co-conspirator the whole time. In fact she spins around giddily while talking about their shared plans, not even greeting Lelouch. Talk about [[Abusive Parents]].}}
*** Somewhat twisted in that {{spoiler|Marianne and Charles ''did'' love their children. Said love, however, [[Love Makes You Evil|turned both of them into]] ''[[Love Makes You Evil|horrendously]]'' [[Love Makes You Evil|extreme]] [[Knight Templar Parent
*** {{spoiler|Especially ironic since the whole plan was based on lying to and tormenting the children they [[Love Makes You Evil|loved]], with Charles altering his daughter's memories and crippling her as well as ''traumatizing them for life'' in an attempt to keep V.V. from going after them and killing them too. Lelouch also calls them out for abandoning him and Nunnally in Japan and not bothering to look for them, instead focusing on finding C.C. and going forward with the plan, on the basis Lulu and Nunners didn't need to be ALIVE to be reunited with their parents in [[Instrumentality]].}} [[Big Screwed-Up Family]], indeed.
* The main theme of the manga ''[[Kamisama Kazoku]]'', as main character Samataro wants to prove that he doesn't need his father, a god, doing everything in his omnipotent (and [[Bumbling Dad|bumbling]]) power to make Samataro's life easier. Samataro's [[Hot Shounen Mom|goddess mother]] self-admittedly [[My Beloved Smother|adores her son like a lover]], and repeatedly shocks and embarrasses him with her [[Innocent Fanservice Girl]] ways.
* Female example from ''[[Iono the Fanatics]]'', the titular character's love of black hair was because of her mother. Made rarer by the fact that there is no father in the equation. And even weirder since Iono has black hair ''herself''.
* [[Mahou Sensei Negima]] may very well have this is the basis for lead Negi's need to chase his father (or it could just be a [[Parental Abandonment|traumatic need for love]]) Also {{spoiler|if you want to take the hints seriously, Negi may very well be getting paired with ''all'' of his mother/[[Cool Big Sis|big sister]] figures}}.
** And on the subject of people who love their parents, almost disturbingly, we have Yuuna and her feelings for her father. This is taken to a disturbing level in the most recent chapter; when Haruna brings up the subject of "deep, passionate kissing" (supposedly for Pactio purposes), Yuuna remarks that [http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mahou_sensei_negima/v28/c253/11.html she wouldn't mind if it were her dad.] The other girls are quite [[Squick
* [[Mobile Suit Gundam 00|Andrei Smirnov]] utterly loathes his father, who he blames for the death of his mother.
** In the same series, [[The Hero|Setsuna]] is attracted to Princess Marina Ismail on account of her resemblance to his mother {{spoiler|whom he killed, along with his father, while a [[Brainwashed and Crazy]] [[Child Soldier]]}}.
* [[Person of Mass Destruction|Nataku]] of [[Houshin Engi]] has some serious daddy-issues surrounding the nature of his existence, and his mother is more or less his [[Morality Chain]].
* Tsuna from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''. He develops a huge crush on Kyoko, whom he [[Shallow Love Interest|hardly interacts with]] or [[Extreme Doormat|knows much about]]. One thing is very noticeable about her, however: [http://
* Seto Kaiba's competition with his adopted father forms his [[Backstory]] in the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' manga and is given its own arc in the anime version.
* Kaiba's third [[Expy]] on ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX]]'', Edo Phoenix, also undergoes this when he duels his adopted father in revenge for killing his biological father.
* In ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'', Sakura has a crush on Yukito who looks like her father. She even [[Lampshade
* ''[[Gankutsuou]]'': The manga implies that Albert is looking for a father figure in the Count because he has issues with his authoritarian real father. He also has an interesting relationship with his mother.
** There's also Andrea who takes this to the logical extreme: {{spoiler|although he doesn't kill his father, "only" gives him a poison that destroys his mind, he has sex with his mother and tries to rape his half-sister.}}
* Cygnus Hyoga from ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' with his dead frozen mother Natasha.
* Hare of [[
* Subverted in the case of [[Fruits Basket|Tohru Honda]], whose love of her mother reached near-worshipful levels. This lead to her secretly considering her father to be a "bad man" simply because she feared he'd take her mother away (her father loved her very much, and she remembered that he took good care of her). Played straight with {{spoiler|Akito, who loved her father but hated her mother. Given that Ren Sohma was an [[Evil Matriarch]] and Akira actually loved his daughter, this makes sense.}}
* In ''[[FLCL]]'', Naota's father Kamon is constantly making passes at Haruko and Naota keeps catching them in [[Not What It Looks Like]] situations. Meanwhile Haruko is aggressively flirting with Naota. In the fourth episode, Naota snaps and accidentally kills Kamon, but it turns out to be a robotic duplicate of him, and his actual father is a decaying corpse in the closet. He comes [[Back From the Dead]] later in the episode and they make up.
* In [[Gun X Sword]], we have [[Alliterative Name|William Will Woo]], {{spoiler|who ended up killing his own mother when he tried to kill his father while he was a kid (She jumped in the way of the blade).}} Because of this, he seeks redemption by blindly following his father ( {{spoiler|Who is [[The Claw]]}}) to [[The Atoner|to atone]] for what he did, telling [[The Hero|Van]] he did it all 'for his sake'. Is of the 'worships his mother to extreme levels' type, which allows him to use [[The Power of Love]] in his battle against [[The Hero|Van]], although it's debatable whether it's lust or love, as he is seen naked around her portrait most of the time.
* In ''[[Free Soul]]'', an Electra complex is what drives a good deal of {{spoiler|Nikki's}} behavior.
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* The DCU is full of this also it is strictly subtext.There are Batman-the first Robin-Catwoman Batman-the second Robin-Talia Batman-the first Robin-Batgirl Aquaman-Tempest-Dolphin Green Arrow-Arsenal-Black Canary Superman-Superboy-Lana/Lois.
** To simplify it somewhat, anyone who's A: a sidekick or B: a younger/alternate version of a hero has had iffy subtext with ''someone'' they shouldn't have had it with. This goes double (triple?) for Batman and the Robins (even after they've stopped being Robin).
*** And you thought Ultron was sick.
* [[Rule of Three|AGAIN]] with [[DC Comics]]: Each [[Legacy Character|Brother Blood]], the leader of the [[Religion of Evil|Church of Blood]], has ascended to his position by killing his father (the previous "Brother Blood") and making his mother the new High Priestess.
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* ''[[Back to The Future]]'' has a lot of fun with this, but most obviously comes down on the side of 1inversion; neither Lorraine or George are aware that 'Calvin Klein' is their future son Marty, but Lorraine wants to get very close to Marty (much to his horror), and rather than supplanting his father Marty has to do the exact opposite and build him up to make sure that his family fortunes end up okay.
* Amusingly mentioned in [[Analyze This]]:
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'''Boss Paul Vitti''': [[Double Entendre|Fuckin' Greeks]]. }}
* ''Junior'', also known as ''Engine Trouble'', featured a bizarre version where the protagonist attempts to seduce the mentally disabled title murderer, by dressing as his mother and then proceeding to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFdmKi3A1fA grab his crotch to get him to drop his weapon.] She then sets him on fire. This works.
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* The main character's son in [[Boris Johnson]]'s ''[[Seventy Two Virgins]]'' is referred to as having an Oedipus complex; the book opens with a number of examples of his sinister behaviour towards the protagonist.
* Nicholas Harpole and Alec Checkerfield from [[The Company Novels]] have a real doozy of a situation: {{spoiler|Once upon a time three guys were cloned, two died and became virtually undead, sharing the third body. Deciding to (a) claim their mutual girlfriend for himself, and (b) make sure that the two extra guys got bodies of their own, Edward takes over the body and arranges for Mendoza to bear twin sons and sticks digital Nick and Alec inside them. They grow up, again, with Edward and Mendoza as their parents. Remembering the whole time that "Mommy" is really their girlfriend. Yeah, issues much?}}
* An inversion occurs in ''[[Washington Square]]''
* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[The Golden Oecumene|The Golden Age]]'', the amnesiac Phaethon learns that he is suing to have his father Helion declared dead. Later he offers Helion the information he needs to restore a lost hour to his memory and so be the same
* [[Haruki Murakami]]'s ''[[Kafka on the Shore]]'' has this...plus 1.{{spoiler|Kafka's father prophesied that he would murder him, sleep with his mom '''and''' sleep with his sister. He does all three, if that's the way you interpret it (Murakami purposefully made the father and sister part something that you had to interpret yourself, as there's evidence for sleeping with and killing his sister/dad and ''not'' sleeping with and killing is sister/dad}}
* [[Older Than Dirt]]: The ancient Hittite story called "The Kingship of Heaven" tells the myth that may have inspired Hesiod's ''[[Theogony]]'': The god Alalu is overthrown by his son Anu, he's then overthrown by his son Kumarbi, and he in turn gets overthrown by his son Teshub. Teshub is a thunder god like Zeus, and Kumarbi bites off sky-god Anu's genitals, just as Cronos later castrated the sky-god Ouranos. Like Cronos, Kumarbi produces some of his children from his own body, though in this case it's male pregnancy resulting from said castration.
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** And {{spoiler|Cavil}} on the Cylon side, complete with [[Unusual Euphemism|frakking]] his humanoid Cylon "mother".
* ''[[Lost]]'' is chock-full of this. Nearly every character has some sort of paternal baggage, and {{spoiler|Ben kills his father; Kate kills her father; Locke gets Sawyer to kill his father for him}}
* Jim Profit, on ''[[Profit]]'', takes this archetype to the logical
* Possibly Matt McNamera on ''[[Nip Tuck]].''
* Connor on ''[[Angel]]'', paralleling Oedipus to an unusually large
** It's lampshaded by the captured [[Manipulative Bastard|Angelus]]: "Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hmm. There should be a play." Of course this taunt is clearly meant for viewers; Connor was raised in another dimension and has no idea what he's referencing, and in any case from his perspective has no reason to see Cordelia as someone maternal.
* In a rare maternal case, in ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' Charlie and Alan loathe [[Evil Matriarch|their mother, Evelyn]]. Although not shown or implied to hate their father(s), considering how many husbands she went through (at least four) during their childhood, it's not likely that they'd actually care about him/them, either.
** In one episode, Charlie dates a woman who dresses and acts eerily similar to Evelyn.
* ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' - {{spoiler|Arthur in ''Sins of the Father'' borders on this. He meets a (young and beautiful) ghost of his mother, who tells him that his father is to blame for her death. So he tries to kill Uther.}}
* In ''[[The X-Files]]'', Scully once admitted to being turned on by men who reminded her of her father.
* Inverted with Francis in ''[[Malcolm in the Middle]]'', he absolutely hates his mother, yet doesn't seem to mind his dad too much. He does, however, end up dating and marrying an Eskimo lady who had a very similar demeanor as his mother, though.
* The [[Monk]] episode Mr. Monk and the Three Julies had the [[Red Herring]] suspect, a schizophrenic man named Matthew Teeger, being almost completely obsessed with his mother, almost to [[Psycho|Norman Bates]] levels, once even severely injuring his stepdad under the belief that the stepdad was hurting her, and even taxyderming his mother after she died in order to keep people thinking that she was still alive, including himself apparently. However, despite these facts, it turns out that he's completely harmless, or at least not the person targeting the various Julie Teegers.
* ''[[Boardwalk Empire]]'' features James Darmody, who is extremely close to his (thirteen years older) mother, Gillian. Eventually, we learn that {{spoiler|Jimmy slept with his mother while both were drunk. He then kills his father, the Commodore, in the same episode.}}
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* "Momma's Boy", by Chromeo.
* Erika Shevon in Twista's [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWTTGl5NUzA&feature=related "Wetter"]:
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Can you be my daddy
I need a daddy
Won't you be my daddy }}
* [[Tom Lehrer|There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex/You may have heard about his odd complex/His name appears in Freud's index/'cause he]] ''[[Tom Lehrer|loved]]'' [[Tom Lehrer|his mother...]]
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== Theater ==
* Though ''[[Oedipus the King|Oedipus Rex]]'' is not a true example, the story of Phaedra is more Oedipal. Kinda. Phaedra, wife of Theseus, is in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. He is appropriately [[
** [[Euripides]]'s tragedy ''[[Hippolytus]]'' recounts this myth, though with the monster sent from Poseidon causing Hippolytus's chariot to crash and Phaedra hanging herself.
* [[Harold Pinter]]'s plays. Though, to be honest, ''everybody'' hates ''everybody'' in the Pinter verse.
* ''[[Hamlet]]''. Although the title character ostensibly wants to kill his stepfather/uncle in order to avenge his father, generations of [[Shakespeare]] scholars, directors and actors have seen a deeper, less conscious motive. Let's just say that Hamlet may have more than the normal filial affection for Gertrude. [[Mel Gibson]]'s 1990 film version especially plays up this aspect of their relationship.
* Eugene O'Neill's ''Mourning Becomes Electra'' adapts a classic Greek tragic trilogy, the Orestia, relocating it to New England after the end of the Civil War. Incestuous undertones are a major motivation of the murderous actions of the
* In ''[[Peter Pan]]'', Wendy had subtle undertones of an electra complex.
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the 2003 movie.
* [[The Phantom of the Opera]] - part of Christine's attraction to The Phantom is that he reminds her of her father.
* Pointed out in [[The Producers]] song "Keep It Gay"
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== Video Games ==
* ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'' is the most Oedipal game ever. Tidus, [[The Hero]], hates his father, [[Jerkass|Jecht]], with a passion. Not only has his entire blitzball career played out in the shadow of his famous father, as a child he was also constantly competing with him for the mother's attention. The fact that his father was basically an insensitive, alcoholic bastard might also have had something to do with it, though... and of course, {{spoiler|Tidus ends up killing his father in the semi-final boss-fight -- in the very best Oedipal tradition.}} Compounding the Freudian <s>sub</s>text is one of the game's primary antagonists, [[Corrupt Church|Maester Seymour Guado]]. To sum up: He loved his mother deeply, but she out of misguided love for him felt that the only way for [[Half-Human Hybrid|him to be accepted in a xenophobic world]] would be for him to become a [[Heroic Sacrifice|High]] [[Senseless Sacrifice|Summoner]] and use [[Heroic Sacrifice|her]] as his [[Metamorphosis|Final]] [[Cosmic Horror|Aeon]]. The end result was Mommy dearest becoming [http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/14008/images/ffx_s_anima.jpg this]. As for his father, Jyscal, Seymour kills him before the game even starts to [[Klingon Promotion|gain his position]] as Maester (think fantasy!pope, or maybe just a cardinal) as part of a long and convoluted [[Evil Plan]] to [[Mercy Kill]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|the]] [[Dark Messiah|entire]] [[Nietzsche Wannabe|planet]], and presumably as revenge for his father exiling him. In addition to the practical gains made by removing Jyscal, the backstory hints at how Jyscal was not a loving
** Of course, by the end Tidus' mother is long since dead and he {{spoiler|''does'' manage to reconcile with his father, who in turn genuinely repented of his actions before becoming Sin}}. It's more explicit in ''Dissidia'', where Tidus is explicit about his feelings. {{spoiler|"I'd always thought I'd prefer if you weren't there, but honestly... I only became strong so you would approve of me. ... That's all I ever wanted."}}
* ''[[Persona 2]]'' had a [[Five-Man Band]], and their fathers... {{spoiler|[[The Lancer|Eikichi]]'s disapproves of him wearing makeup and starting a [[Visual Kei]], [[The Smart Guy|Jun]]'s died and was impersonated by Nyarlathotep, [[The Big Guy|Lisa]]'s tried to raise her as a traditional Japanese girl, and acted "Japanese", [[The Hero|Tatsuya]]'s was forced to resign from the police force, and [[The Chick|Maya]]'s was a war correspondent who died during a conflict. Not to mention Yukino, Tatsuya Sudou...}}
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* Like Luke Skywalker, it goes for Lloyd Irving from ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' (although, of course, considerably less famously).
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' bleeds Oedipal subtext, no shortness of thanks going to Dante's love interest who looks exactly like his mother. The new game looks poised to continue this tradition with the new main character's non-blood mother-figure.
* [[Disgaea: Hour of Darkness/Characters|Laharl]] has shown signs of this, claiming that he wanted to kill his father. (How much of that is just bluster is unknown). His [[Implied Love Interest]], Flonne, is also stated to be very much like his dead mother, and this trope is brought up when Thursday and '''Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth!''' find a picture of the late Queen in Laharl's bedroom in [[Disgaea Infinite]].
** Mao spends almost all of ''Disgaea 3'' training to '''kill''' his father. Subverted when it turns out that {{spoiler|his hatred for his father came from Aurum's brainwashing, he actually admired him.}}
* Sasha Nein of ''[[Psychonauts]]'' has no mother, as the player finds out when accessing his memories. He remembers her death, and as a child practised his unfamiliar psychic abilities on his father, who was tight-lipped about his mother. His father unknowingly supplies many of his own memories of Sasha's mother via psychic means, including one nearly-explicit memory that makes Sasha retreat like a bat out of hell.
** Raz himself also has this going on, since he states that his father has him train constantly as an acrobat and rejects his attempts to use his psychic powers, as well as psychic gypsies cursing his family with [[Super Drowning Skills]], which leads to Raz's mental image of his father as a psychic-hating sadist. {{spoiler|Turns out at the end that his father is actually a psychic himself and was merely trying to help train Raz to control his powers, even helping him combat his [[Freudian Excuse]] incarnate.}}
** Coach Oleander, as a child was traumatized by the fact that {{spoiler|his father was a butcher who chopped up any bunnies that he kept as pets, which along with the fact that he's never been able to get into the military leads him to try and [[Take Over the World]]. The final boss in fact is a monstrous combination of both Raz and Oleander's mental images of their fathers.}}
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* The simplest way of describing the entire plot of the ''[[Metal Gear]]'' saga is this trope. For every major character in it. Yes, all of them.
** Bonus points to Naked Snake for having an Oedipus complex plot with a woman who is, biologically, unrelated to him.
* Electra complex in ''[[Silent Hill: Shattered Memories]]''. "I love my daddy," indeed.
* A good part of the reason why {{spoiler|Lord Alvis of Velthomer}} from [[Fire Emblem Jugdral]] is so fucked up comes from this, since {{spoiler|his father Viktor was a philandering asshole who killed himself once he found out his wife Cigyun cheated on him with Kurth Prince of Grandbell, and said mother ran away in shame afterwards and never returned (She was pregnant with Kurth's child, and ultimately fell victim to [[Death by Childbirth]]). All of this happened when Alvis was seven years old: he grew up into a conflicted [[Magnificent Bastard]] with ''serious'' issues with almost every female (except for his aidé Aida and his half-brother Azel's mother) to the point of ''killing'' whoever mentioned his idealised [[Missing Mom]] in a bad light in front of him.}}
** But wait! There's more! It's pretty much all but stated in the Oosawa manga and side materials that {{spoiler|one of the reasons why he married Diadora was because of [[Replacement Goldfish|how much she looked like Cigyun]]. (And for worse? Diadora ''was'' the baby whose birth killed Cigyun. So yup, [[Brother-Sister Incest]] here too.)}}
*** [[It Got Worse]]. That was ''planned'' by a [[Complete Monster]] [[Magnificent Bastard]], and {{spoiler|the child that resulted from this union turned out to be the host for a [[God of Evil]]. [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|An "incest is bad" metaphor, much]]?}}
*** But then again, {{spoiler|the ''[[Half-Identical Twins|other]]'' child that resulted from the union became the host for [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|the holy god Narga]], so, bit of a mixed message there.}}
* It's not explicitly stated in the story itself, but ''[[Akai Ito]]'' can be approximately summarized as
* There's an interesting example in [[Metal Gear Solid]]. The members of the Cobra Unit all regard [[Action Girl|The Boss]] as a mother figure... including The Sorrow who would go on to become her [[Love Interest]] and the father of her child. This is, unsurprisingly, made fun of in [http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=333 this] strip of [[The Last Days of Foxhound]].
* In ''[[Double Switch]]'', {{spoiler|Eddie}} gives off very strong vibes of this, because he apparently wishes that his father was dead, and he loves his mother. In fact, he did say something like "Why don't you just get out of our lives?!" to his father.
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* In ''[[The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob]],'' Molly the monster goes through a brief period of this with Bob, but concludes she was just [http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061010.html confused about her feelings.]
* In ''[[Blip]]'', one of the girls gets set up on a blind date with a guy who ends up mentioning his mom a little bit too much. This turns out to be one of the ''least'' creepy things about him.
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130609111146/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter003/ib014.html the father tries to foil the son's plots by persuading him to give them up.]
* In ''[[Endstone]]'', [http://endstone.net/2009/09/10/issue-2-page-13/ father and son argue about the Banestone].
* In ''[[Our Little Adventure]]'', [http://danielscreations.com/ola/comics/ep0248.html Julie's big brother quarrelled with their father and left home.]
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== [[Web Original]] ==
* [[Slowbeef]] pointed this out in [[Retsupurae]]'s [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TttcEFhFYdk A Son's Revenge Retsuflash]
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The ''[[South Park]]'' episode "201" retcons "{{spoiler|Scott Tenorman Must Die}}" into this: {{spoiler|[[South Park|Eric Cartman]] kills his father without realizing it's his father.}}
* While not biologically his dad, this is pretty much textbook example of this trope between [[Danny Phantom]] and Vlad Masters/Plasmius. The fandom couldn't be happier.
* Another [[Two Words]]: [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|Prince Zuko]].
** His sister, Princess Azula, could be argued to have something of an [[Electra Complex]] herself.
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* Thailog of ''[[Gargoyles]]'' is an [[Evil Twin]] of Goliath, cloned by Doctor Sevarius and trained by Xanatos; his goal in life is to upstage all three fathers (or at least Goliath and Xanatos, Sevarius not so much). Taken to unsettling extremes concerning the women in Goliath's clan, as he has seduced Goliath's ex-mate Demona and made a pass at his daughter. At one point, he cloned Evil Twins of the rest of the clan, and while he was at it he cloned a concubine, Delilah, for himself, made from a combination of DNA from both Goliath's previous and current love interests. ''Creepy...''
** The latter was one of Thailog's major [[Kick the Dog]] moments, since Demona had no idea he would create Delilah (she was involved with the cloning of the others), and he more or less stated outright that Delilah was her ''replacement''.
* Tai Lung and Shifu of ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]''. Though never explicitly stated in the film (par for the course for this trope), both the [[Subtext]] and [[All There in the Manual|information revealed elsewhere]] imply that by [[Meaningful Name|naming Tai Lung "Dragon"]] and filling the snow leopard's head with dreams and fantasies about becoming the Dragon Warrior, Shifu was living vicariously through his
* Clay from ''[[Moral Orel]]'', largely courtesy of the fact his mother spoiled him rotten and ignored his father to the point of leaving him to eat Clay's leftovers. His
* Walt from [[Futurama]]. It's supposedly what keeps him in line, although he's not especially bright in any case. Most worryingly, when he shamelessly admits it, his brothers actually smile in a manner that suggests they agree with him.
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* In an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer fears that Marge and Bart have fallen in love. Lisa brings up this term when talking to Homer.
* [[American Dad|Stan]] seems to ''[[Yandere|really]]'' like his mother.
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