Inkblot Test: Difference between revisions

Note that any inkblot seen in a movie and TV show will ''not'' be one of the actual Rorschach blots, but a blot made up for that production. The American Psychological Association [[Spoil At Your Own Risk|has attempted to keep them reasonably secret]] so that when the test is actually administered, the patient's reactions will be spontaneous. However, at this point the test has been widely distributed on the internet and is now considered defunct. Also, fictional blots are almost universally simple black ink on white paper -- but in the actual test, two of the ten blots are black and red, and three are multicolored.

 

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

 

== [[Comics]] ==

* Gary Larson did a ''[[The Far Side (Comic Strip)|The Far Side]]'' cartoon in which a hulking individual is being given the test, and all the blots look like a silhouette of him strangling the tester.

* A Gahan Wilson cartoon has the patient addressing a weird blobby shape-- "No, doctor, the resemblance is ''amazing!''"

** Then again, it could just be a joke or an inside reference, as viewers at that time likely wouldn't be too familiar with the Rorschach test.

* The titular character in ''[[Sledge Hammer]]'' received one, where he identified each picture as some violent scene... except for the last, which he claims is, "A duck handcuffing a naked woman". The psychologist remarks, "Funny, I've never seen the duck."

* On ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', Sophia is taking an inkblot test in an attempt to become a nun. She identifies all the blots as increasingly elaborate religious imagery: an angel, a dove perched upon the throne of God, the Blessed Virgin smiling as she pours love upon the hearts of the righteous, until Dorothy interrupts exasperatedly that the blot is obviously "[[Dynasty|John Forsythe]] lying naked in a pool of honey." The nun administering the test agrees.

* During TNA's Paparazzi Championship Series, when the X-division guys were made to jump through all sorts of comedic hoops, Kevin Nash administered an inkblot test, browbeating Sonjay Dutt by suggesting the images reminded him of steroids, and reacting with incredulity when [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|resident obsessed martial artist]] Senshi saw ever blot as being a warrior.

* In the tutorial/character creation part of ''[[Fallout New Vegas]]'', inkblots are one of the tests Doc Mitchell gives the player character in order to determine your tag skills, along with a word association test.

** [http://newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=36850 A humorous mod] to the game adds an additional, rather obvious answer to one of the ink blots. Once you see it, it can't be unseen...

{{quote| '''Joker''': ''"Do you want me to look at the ink blots again? The first one is a kitten I had when I was a child, the second is, hmmm let's see... a dead elephant."''}}

* A variation occurs in one of the psych tests in [[Silent Hill Shattered Memories]]. The player is given a selection of ink blots and asked to sort them into two piles: sexual images and non-sexual images. After this is done, the psychiatrist reveals that each image has a second meaning: {{spoiler|death.}}