History Main / OedipusComplex

** Hamlet is actually a male version of Electra; the Oedipus complex is a result of AdaptionDecay and LostInImitation. Case in point: their fathers were both murdered by cheating wives, and then Hamlet/Electra killed off the cheating wife and her lover for revenge.

** The line "Papa-Paparazzi" in, well, Paparazzi, ''always'' spelt "Papa" and not "Pa-Pa".
** Speechless is aparently about her father.

->''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 ''[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean loved]]'' his mother!''\\
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''His rivals used to say quite a bit''\\
''That as a monarch he was most unfit''\\
''But still in all they had to admit''\\
''That he ''[[ParentalIncest loved]]'' his mother!''\\
-- TomLehrer, "Oedipus Rex"

->''That play... that ''Oedipus'' thing? Man, I thought ''I'' had problems!''\\
-- Disney's ''{{Disney/Hercules}}''

-->"I want my mommy"\\
--Oedipus

OedipusRex is the TropeNamer, but not a true example. Oedipus did not know he had killed his father and become his mother's lover until later, at which he was horrified.

OedipusRex is the TropeNamer.

* HarukiMurakami's ''Kafka at the Shore'' has this...plus 1.[[spoiler:His 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 theirs evidence for sleeping with and killing his sister/dad and ''not'' sleeping with and killing is sister/dad]]

** 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/c253/11.html she wouldn't mind if it were her dad.]] The other girls are quite {{Squick}}ed by this revelation.

[[quoteright:275: ''There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex''\\

-- TomLehrer, "Oedipus Rex"]]

->''That play... that ''Oedipus'' thing? Man, I thought ''I'' had problems!''
->--Disney's ''{{Disney/Hercules}}''

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* In [[FatalFury Garou: Mark of the Wolves]], Rock Howard is pretty much ''defined'' by his hate of his DisappearedDad, Geese.

* Electra complex in SilentHillShatteredMemories. "I love my daddy," indeed.

* In CardcaptorSakura, Sakura has a crush on Yukito who looks like her father. She even {{Lampshade}}s it.

*** Somewhat twisted in that [[spoiler: Marianne and Charles ''did'' love their children. Said love, however, [[LoveMakesYouEvil turned both of them into]] ''[[LoveMakesYouEvil horrendously]]'' [[LoveMakesYouEvil extreme]] {{Knight Templar Parent}}s: their plans were about bringing {{Instrumentality}} to create a new world free from lies, where Lelouch and Nunnally would be "happy". Only they were willing to destroy the world as they did so and never ever bothered to ask their kids what they thought of, even going as far as doing... well, what they did to Nunners and Lulu.]] SoYeah.

* Basically deconstructed as Raziel's entire character arc in ''{{Legacy of Kain}}''. His entire motivation initially seems to be to exact revenge on his father Kain after an apparently very Oedipal preventive attempted infanticide. However, [[spoiler: it turns out that the entire chain of events was set into motion by Kain himself as a very complex {{Xanatos Gambit}} involving {{Time Travel}} to induce a {{Screw Destiny}} to actually, in the end, save Nosgoth from corruption and Raziel himself from becoming a soul attached to a sword, meaning that Kain more or less killed Raziel [[MercyKill out of love]] to prevent him from suffering a {{Fate Worse Than Death}}.]] {{So Yeah}}...

** It's lampshaded by the captured [[ManipulativeBastard Angelus]]: "Doing your mom and trying to kill your dad. Hmm. There should be a play." This taunt is clearly meant for viewers, since he's talking to Connor who, having been raised on another dimension, has no idea what he's referencing.