History Main / OedipusComplex

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. 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, but maybe, into her bed. This archetype shares some themes with both the MessianicArchetype (rebirth and renewal) and TheTrickster (out with the old, in with the new).

The supplanting part is key here. Without it, you've just got CallingTheOldManOut -- when someone calls his dad out for his transgressions but doesn't supplant him. If the supplanting takes the form of murder, it's {{Patricide}} and MurderInTheFamily. If there's an explicitly sexual relationship, see ParentalIncest. If there's a partner who's ''like'' their parent, see LikeParentLikeSpouse. And if there's incestuous subtext ''without'' wanting to supplant anyone, then it's just IncestSubtext. See also ArchnemesisDad, which makes the father figures into outright villains while leaving out the Freudian implications. Compare JealousParent. Also compare WellDoneSonGuy--who actually ''wants'' his father's ''approval''.

''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''--the Greek Tragedy dramatized in 429 BC by Creator/{{Sophocles}}--is the TropeNamer. The TropeCodifier, however, is UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, as Oedipus himself is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not an example of the trope]]. Oedipus ''never'' knew who his mother and father were [[ProphecyTwist until it was too late]]. King Oedipus was '''not''' someone who secretly wanted to kill his father and sleep with his mother--he was a man who ''desperately didn't want either to happen'', but ended up doing so anyway because YouCantFightFate.

* Baki from ''Manga/BakiTheGrappler'' 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.]]

* Guts from ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' almost averted this as he actually did care and want the [[WellDoneSonGuy approval]] of his adoptive father Gambino... [[AbusiveParents who treated him like shit]], while his adoptive mother Shisu treated him with genuine love. Moreover Guts actually [[{{Patricide}} kills Gambino]] (in self-defense) and later after The Eclipse Guts's LoveInterest Casca has a [[https://i.redd.it/bk3zefy6s9101.jpg striking resemblance]] to Shisu. So yeah, it's played straight-ish

** Ed seems afflicted with the full Oedipal syndrome complete with a love-hate relationship with his father Hohenheim, 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 ParentalAbandonment only makes matters worse for him… and for Hohenheim).

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], [[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 [[FanNickname 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?"]].

* In ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'', Gaara's conflict with his father, the Fourth Kazekage, is perhaps the main reason why he went insane and stayed that way until he met Naruto. The man sealed a well-known psychotic demon into his pregnant wife Karura, killing her in the process, in order to make Gaara into a [[TykeBomb weapon]]. To say nothing of when he forced Gaara's maternal uncle and caretaker to make an assassination attempt on his nephew in order to judge his worth as a weapon for the village. His treatment of his son was so bad that it was enough to get an entry on the ArchnemesisDad page. Ironically, though, Gaara's not the one who kills him--Orochimaru is. At the same time, [[spoiler: Karura loved her son enough to be the driving force of his automatic sand defense, even though she had long since passed from the world.]]

* In ''Anime/EurekaSeven'', Maurice gains a crush towards his adoptive mother Eureka to the point he [[spoiler:''pulls a gun on Renton for stealing his mom's attention'']] near the end of the series.
* Manga/MyHeroAcademia: When he was first introduced, Shoto Todoroki absolutely loathed his father and adored his mother, with his ultimate goal being able to make it to the top without using the power he inherited from his father. It is justified however since said father subjected Shoto to brutal TrainingFromHell in order to satisfy his own ambitions ''since he was five'' and his mother was his only real emotional support through it all. His father's abuse was too much for his mother to handle and in a MomentOfWeakness, threw scalding hot water onto Shoto and his father had her sent off to a mental ward, which naturally led to Shoto (justifiably) deepening his hatred for his father. After a [[WarriorTherapist fight]] with TheHero, he learns that he shouldn't hold himself back just to spite his father and that his power belongs to him, even if it's inherited. While he hasn't completely let go of his hatred for his father, he has learned to tolerate him as he understands he can still learn from him.

* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} is an extra twisted example of this as seen in ''Thanos Rising''. He never got on with his father Mentor who neglected him in his childhood while he often visited his mother Sui-San when she was institutionalized ''after trying to kill him as a baby''. [[spoiler: After snapping and [[StartOfDarkness becoming murderous]] Thanos eventually kills Sui-San but unlike his other victims, he apologises before doing so, he doesn’t even hold it against her that she tried to off him as an infant only wishing people had let her. To hammer the point home [[TheGrimReaper Lady Death]] initially appears in the form of an attractive dark-haired green-eyed woman whose near identical to Sui-San and who implores him to kill his father Mentor, which he does in a later comic]].
* The 2000 ComicBook run of ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' has said hero destroy the universe at the behest of Entropy and Epiphany, actually AnthropomorphicPersonification children of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the universe. Later he dies and beats up his own dad on the other side.
* Marvel provides a strange example with Nate Grey (ComicBook/XMan), who has a close--it is never outright stated whether it was platonic or romantic, but the general implication is much more the latter than the former --relationship with the psionic ghost (made physical by his vast psychic power) of Madelyne Pryor when he instinctively reached out for his biological mother, Jean Grey (from whom Madelyne Pryor was cloned, making Maddie to be Jean's identical twin sister-daughter) when he arrived in Marvel-616 reality from the Marvel-295 (Age of Apocalypse) reality. Nate and Madelyne are effectively alternate reality biological mother and son or nephew and aunt and/or older sister-younger brother. While Nate backed off, hard, as soon as he found who she was, she... [[{{Yandere}} didn't.]]
* Speaking of ''ComicBook/XMen'' a lot of them fall under this trope:
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} didn't quite get along with his mother Elizabeth, he did however love Rose O'hara who looked after him since childhood and guess [[ComicBook/JeanGrey who]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/d2/f4/80d2f46ba610e18514b879a04e0c57ef.jpg she resembles]] explaining why he [[HeroesWantRedheads loves Jean]] so much. Plus Wolverine’s jealously of [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott]] echoes his jealously of Smitty who almost married Rose like Scott married Jean. If this wasn't enough Wolverine plays the other part of this trope straight as [[{{Patricide}} he kills his biological father Thomas Logan]] albeit unknowingly.
** ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} probably thanks to his mother, well [[MsFanservice being]] ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is often considered a variation of this. Especially since while Mystique treats him poorly at times, Nightcrawler still cares for her... his father [[BigRedDevil Azazel]] on the other hand he outright [[ArchNemesisDad hates]].
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} would seem to avoid this trope, until you notice his mother Kathrine [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/92/Katherine_Summers_%28Earth-616%29_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100307084819 looks]] near identical to his second main LoveInterest ComicBook/EmmaFrost. If that wasn’t enough [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen one]] of the times he was [[UnholyMatrimony coupled with Emma]] [[spoiler: he killed ComicBook/ProfessorX whose his father figure]].
** You could make a good argument for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} having an Electra Complex. She has a very troubled relationship with her adoptive mother ComicBook/{{Mystique}} who has [[EvilMatriarch abused her greatly]] in quite a few comics, Rogue eventually left and was taken in by ComicBook/ProfessorX whom she greatly admires and looks up to. Rogue also finds another paternal mentor in ComicBook/{{Magneto}}... who [[MayDecemberRomance she has a sexual relationship]] with. Notably while Rogue has no problem dealing out justice to Mystique, she’s showed reluctance when fighting Magneto.

* This seems to be at play in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. [[spoiler:Norman Bates' mother deliberately isolated her five-year-old son from the outside world and made him utterly dependent on her after Mr. Bates' death. Naturally enough, the twelve-year-old, completely co-dependent Norman then reacts rather badly to her remarriage.]] One of the sequels outright shows in flashback that [[spoiler: Mrs. Bates was sexually abusing Norman until she remarried]].

** Anakin Skywalker was very obsessed with his mother. He marries an older woman who looks like his mother. His mother's death is one of the things that drives him to the Dark Side. He supposedly doesn't have a biological father, but Palpatine is hinted to have used the Force to create him and acts as a father figure. Obi-Wan is also a father figure to Anakin. He kills both of them. Ironically, [[PapaWolf being a father himself had helped him turn away from the Dark Side]].
** Oedipus Complex seems to run hard in [[InTheBlood the Skywalker line]]; just take a look at Anakin's grandson Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren, who definitely has a case. Despite his contempt for and murder of his father, Kylo ultimately can't bring himself to do the same to his mother. He also fixates on Rey, a woman who bears a strong resemblance to his mother, [[spoiler: and kills his ''other'' father figure, Snoke, to save her life.]]

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki genuinely loves his mother Frigga, [[spoiler:and overthrows his father Odin--whom he now loathes after being disowned and nearly executed--usurping the Asgardian throne in the process.]]

* ''Film/TheWorldIsNotEnough'': [[spoiler:Elektra King hated her father and arranged to have him murdered, but she clearly adores her mother, and Elektra's actions are partially fueled by her love for her mother's side of the family, as she claims that she is taking back the kingdom that her father stole from her mother. The Electra Complex plays into her relationship with Renard, even though he's not much older--watch the positively girlish way that she runs to the window to see him arriving, flings herself into his arms when he enters, then leads him off to present the captive M to him as a gift. M herself is somewhat of a maternal figure towards Elektra because M was a close friend of Elektra's father, and Elektra wants M dead for leaving her at the mercy of her kidnappers.]]

* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''[[Literature/TheGoldenOecumene 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 person--at a price. Only in ''The Golden Transcedence'' does Daphne reveal to Helion that [[spoiler:in that hour, he had [[IGaveMyWord promised]] Phaethon the price that Phaethon had set for the memory.]]

* The Warhammer 40,000 spin-off Literature/HorusHeresy novels tend to present the eponymous rebellion of Warmaster Horus against the Emperor in very oedipal terms. The Primarchs, and Horus in particular, constantly refer to the Emperor as their father (and since he created them all with genetic manipulation and arcane science, he is the closest thing to a biological father any of them have). Horus becomes disillusioned with the Emperor's plans for humanity and the galaxy in the aftermath of his near-death experience on Davin, and ever after determines to overthrow his father and rule humanity in his stead. His brother Primarchs are split down the middle, some staying loyal to their father, others having nursed similar hatreds and disillusionments and siding with Horus against him. The maternal aspects of the trope do not apply, however, as the Primarchs were vat-grown from synthetic genetic material and thus do not have a mother.

* {{Creator/Haruki Murakami}}'s ''Literature/KafkaOnTheShore'' 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]]
* A recurring theme in Creator/DennisLehane's ''Literature/KenzieAndGennaroSeries''. TheHero, Patrick Kenzie, hates his abusive father more than anybody else on Earth. Also, the first book features gang leader Roland Angeline and his father Marion Socia, who end up waging a brutal gang war against each other. And the third book subverts it by featuring [[spoiler: CorruptCorporateExecutive Trevor Stone waging a war for control against his psychopathic daughter Desiree]].

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers--to this farther tryal of their noble independance, however, they never were exposed.''

* An inversion occurs in ''Literature/WashingtonSquare''--Lavinia Penniman and Morris Townsend correspond heavily throughout the story (she fancies herself a matchmaker for her niece), and while she finds him attractive and charming, she also loves him like the son she never had with her late husband. Morris, on the other hand, despises her.

* Connor on ''Series/{{Angel}}'', paralleling Oedipus to an unusually large extent--to many viewers' disgust. No, Cordelia wasn't Connor's mother, but she did change his diapers. [[PlotRelevantAgeUp The previous year.]] It's lampshaded by the captured [[ManipulativeBastard 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. Even after Angel made a DealWithTheDevil to give Connor fake memories and a new family, Connor still LikesOlderWomen. Angel complains that "they were supposed to fix that."

** Lee Adama is presented as forever looking for a way out from under his father's influence. As Lee is a fighter pilot and his father is his commanding officer, this is more than a little difficult. He gets a bit closer to actually doing so in Season Four [[spoiler:when he resigns from the military to become a politician]].

* ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' is plenty incestuous--but Cesare's into his sister, not his mother. Cesare's Oedipus complex toward Rodrigo is all about supplanting him.
-->'''Cesare:''' A son exists to glorify the life of his father--as meaningless and worthless and that life might be. But if a boy is to become a man, he must glorify himself… and make a name even greater than his father's. A name… that will shout throughout history. '''I am ''Cesare Borgia''!'''

* ''Series/{{Merlin|2008}}''--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.

* ''Series/OneLifeToLive''. Victoria Lord apparently had some version of this. She idolized and adored her father and seemed flat-out jealous of his marriage to her rival Dorian--who at one point once told her "Watch it, Viki. Your Electra Complex is showing". It's also implied that a large part of her attraction to Sloan Carpenter was due to his physical and personality resemblance to her father. When it's revealed that Victor sexually abused Viki from when she was 7 until she was a young adult, the reasons for her feelings become quite disturbing.
* Jim Profit, on ''Series/{{Profit}}'', takes this archetype to the logical extreme--by murdering his father and having sex with his (step)mother.

* Tragic version in ''Series/StrangerThings'' Season 3 [[spoiler: as it turns out JerkJock Billy deeply loved his mother having treasured memories of being with her in his youth. However, Billy couldn’t protect her against his abusive father and [[MissingMom she left]] breaking Billy’s heart and ensuring he’d turn out like his cruel father. This also explains Billy’s attraction to Karen [[LikesOlderWomen an older woman]] who resembles his mother. In the FinalBattle Eleven making Billy remember his mom causes his HeelFaceTurn from evil and perform a HeroicSacrifice]].

* In the German satire mag "Titanic", they had a report from the Balkans claiming you don't need GPS to identify the state - just note whether mothers, sisters, or daughters are the sex object of curses and insults. (Probably GPS is still preferable...)

* Creator/{{Euripides}}' ''{{Theatre/Hippolytus}}'': Kinda. Phaedra, wife of Theseus, is in love with her stepson, Hippolytus. He is appropriately {{squick}}ed out, and [[LoveMakesYouEvil this drives her crazy]] so she tells Theseus that [[YouKnowWhatYouDid Hippolytus raped her]]. It all ends with Hippolytus being eaten by a [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere sea monster in the middle of the grassland]], and Phaedra drinks some poison to kill herself.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'' has ''tons'' of this. Tidus, TheHero, 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 subtext is one of the game's primary antagonists, [[CorruptChurch 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 [[HalfHumanHybrid him to be accepted in a xenophobic world]] would be for him to become a [[HeroicSacrifice High]] [[SenselessSacrifice Summoner]] and use [[HeroicSacrifice her]] as his [[{{Metamorphosis}} Final]] [[CosmicHorror 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 [[KlingonPromotion gain his position]] as Maester (think fantasy!Cardinal) as part of a long and convoluted EvilPlan to MercyKill [[OmnicidalManiac the]] [[DarkMessiah entire]] [[NietzscheWannabe 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 parent--nor even a presence in his life, really, as he spent his childhood in seclusion with his mother--hence Seymour grew to resent and hate him. And none of this is going into [[WhiteMagicianGirl Yuna's]]... relationship with ''her'' father. Truly, the ''issues'' of the characters in this ''Final Fantasy'' iteration are staggering.

* It's not explicitly stated in the story itself, but ''VisualNovel/AkaiIto'' can be approximately summarized as Oedipus Complex meets GirlsLove. Of the girls that the main character (a girl named Kei) can end-up living together with, two of them are as if mother to her. Another one come from a family of her mother. [[spoiler:Kei has the memory of killing her own father. The memory is real… [[FakeMemories just not hers]].]]

** Clay, 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 Oedipus Complex is played quite disgustingly in the episode [[RuleOfSymbolism Nesting]], in which [[spoiler:he has a High Octane NauseaFuel moment in which he imagines himself naked climbing the legs of a chicken--[[AnimalMotifs representing his mother]]--and bathing in the egg fluids. Also Miss Censordoll takes advantage of him, only adding more {{Squick}}]]. Clay's antagonism towards his father is also very intense.

-->'''Black Jack:''' Dad ... Do you know how sad mom was, how she wept, when you never came back from your overseas stint, having run away with a woman? Do you know how badly I wished, in my child's mind, to find and murder you until the day she died?
** Pinoko has her own Elekra Complex when it comes to Black Jack. Formerly a tumor-like parasitic twin until Black Jack removed her and gave her a doll-like artificial body, Pinoko hates her twin sister, the one who "gave birth" to her, for trying to kill her by having her surgically removed, and adores Black Jack, her guardian and the man who "created" her. She constantly insists, [[OlderThanTheyLook despite looking like a child]], that's she's not Black Jack's daughter, but his ''wife'', and does not take kindly to being corrected.

** It's briefly implied that [[NotSoDifferent Bloberta]] might have had an Electra Complex herself. Her mother was very strict with her and showed ParentalFavoritism towards her siblings. When her [[HenpeckedHusband much more understanding father]] tried to "try" to help her, she says "I love you, Daddy," then he looks notably uncomfortable and leaves. Not to mention how she tries to make her husband, Clay, pattern her father’s behavior, such as his habit to constantly have a drink in his hand. Unfortunately, this in turn would turn him into an alcoholic, and to put it lightly, would end up ruining both theirs and their family’s lives.

* ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'': [[Literature/FateOfTheJedi Fate of the Jedi: Allies onward]], Luke's son Ben likes a girl who's similar to his (dead) mother and sides with her over his father in every argument…

* In the German-Italian movie ''Film/TheDamned1969'' this is taken UpToEleven by the love-hate [[ParentalIncest relationship]] between [[PsychopathicManchild Martin von Essenbeck]] and his [[EvilMatriarch mother]].

** This is taken UpToEleven in ''Literature/TheOnceAndFutureKing'' when Mordred decides to get as close as he can to re-enacting the complex by [[spoiler: pretending that Arthur was dead so that he could marry Guenevere (the first thing noted when word of this gets out, is how the queen is old enough to be Mordred's mother).]]

* The Oedipal conflict between KingArthur and his son Mordred is what brings down the Round Table.

* A good part of the reason why [[spoiler: Lord Arvis of Velthomer]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral'' is so fucked up comes from this, since [[spoiler: his father Viktor was a philandering asshole and rapist 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 DeathByChildbirth). All of this happened when Arvis was seven years old: he grew up into a conflicted MagnificentBastard 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 MissingMom in a bad light in front of him. It is heavily implied that the reason Arvis [[SurpriseIncest unknowingly]] fell in love with his half-sister is because she so greatly resembles their mother.]]

** Steve with Francine became, in later seasons, an object of his confusing Oedipal emotions. In "Rubberneckers", Steve literally sings twice about how he would have sex with Francine if she wasn't his own mother.

** Oedipus Complex seems to run hard in [[InTheBlood the Skywalker line]]; just take a look at Anakin's grandson Ben Solo aka Kylo Ren, who definitely has a case. Despite his contempt for and murder of his father, Kylo ultimately can't bring himself to do the same to his mother. He also fixates on Rey, who bears a strong resemblance to his mother, [[spoiler: and kills his ''other'' father figure, Snoke, to save her life.]]

** It's briefly implied that [[NotSoDifferent Bloberta]] might have had an Electra Complex herself. Her mother was very strict with her and showed ParentalFavoritism towards her siblings. When her [[HenpeckedHusband much more understanding father]] tried to "try" to help her, she says "I love you, Daddy," then he looks notably uncomfortable and leaves.

* Marvel provides a strange example with Nate Grey (ComicBook/XMan), who has a close--it is never outright stated whether it was platonic or romantic, but the general implication is much more the latter than the former --relationship with the psionic ghost (made physical by his vast psychic power)of Madelyne Pryor when he instinctively reached out for his biological mother, Jean Grey (from whom Madelyne Pryor was cloned, making Maddie to be Jean's identical twin sister-daughter) when he arrived in Marvel-616 reality from the Marvel-295 (Age of Apocalypse) reality. Nate and Madelyne are effectively alternate reality biological mother and son or nephew and aunt and/or older sister-younger brother.

''Theatre/OedipusTheKing''--the Greek Tragedy dramatized in 429 BC by Creator/{{Sophocles}}--is the TropeNamer. The TropeCodifier, however, is UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud, as Oedipus himself is [[ThisIndexIsNotAnExample not an example of the trope]]. Oedipus ''never'' knew who his mother and father were until it was too late. King Oedipus was '''not''' someone who secretly wanted to kill his father and sleep with his mother--he was a man who ''desperately didn't want either to happen'', but ended up doing so anyway because YouCantFightFate.

* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, the killer robot nemesis of ComicBook/TheAvengers, hates his "father" [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] and loves his "mother" [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]]. This is due to the fact that Ultron's A.I. was patterned after Hank's own mind.
** Ultron at one point created a sexy fem-bot using Janet Van Dyne's psyche as the template for her robotic intelligence. As a shout-out to the TropeNamer, he named this fem-bot Jocasta, which is the name of Oedipus' mother.
*** The obsession has gone far enough that in a more recent appearance, Ultron made himself into a ''herself'', using [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s body/armor in order to form a biomechanical clone body of Janet.
* The DCU is full of this although it is strictly subtext. There are Franchise/{{Batman}}-[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]-[[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Catwoman]], Batman-[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]]-[[ComicBook/RasAlGhul Talia]], ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}-Tempest-Dolphin, ComicBook/GreenArrow-Arsenal-ComicBook/BlackCanary, Franchise/{{Superman}}[=-=]ComicBook/{{Superboy}}[=-=][[ComicBook/LanaLang Lana]] / [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]].

* TheLancer of ''Anime/DigimonSavers'', Touma, is very cool to his father, Franz Norstein, but is endlessly devoted to Relena, his younger half-sister, and clearly adores his [[MissingMom deceased mother]]. This is both made obvious and foreshadowed by his almost instant "crush" on Masaru's mother Sayuri and younger sister chika. [[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 [[IllGirl daughter]], rather than what is ''there'' and easy.]]

* Tsunayoshi Sawada from ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' shows to have shades of this. He often acts coldly whenever his father Iemitsu comes home, and is deeply angry with how often he neglects Tsuna’s mother and him to the point that Tsuna himself had assumed the man had already [[DisappearedDad passed away]], since he has never heard from Iemitsu for a long time. Also, Tsuna’s [[SatelliteLoveInterest crush]] greatly resembles and even acts similarly to Tsuna’s mother, Nana Sawada.

* ''LightNovel/KaraNoKyoukai'': While Mana Ryougi loves both of her parents, deep down, her greatest wish is to defeat her mother Shiki so she can have her father Mikiya to herself.
* On the subject of people who love their parents, almost disturbingly, we have Yuna from ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' and her feelings for her father. This is taken to a disturbing level when Haruna brings up the subject of "deep, passionate kissing" (supposedly for [[AMagicContractComesWithAKiss Pactio purposes]]), Yuna remarks that she wouldn't mind if it were her dad. The other girls are quite {{Squick}}ed by this revelation. She also carries a picture of her kissing her father around [[VictoriasSecretCompartment in her cleavage]], ''even while trapped in an AlternateUniverse for several weeks''.

[[Rule63 On the other side]], known as the ElectraComplex, where the conflict is between mother and daughter which is just as common if a bit different in its execution, it is also named after one of Sophocles' tragedies, ''Theatre/{{Electra}}''. Here the trope is PlayedStraight as Electra was [[SelfMadeOfphan quite vengeful]] after her father Agamemnon was murdered by her mother Clytemnestra, and she ruthlessly plots to commit {{Matricide}}. Also, see [[OffingTheOffspring "Laius Complex"]] and [[ParentalIncest "Jocasta Complex"]] for the parents' perspectives.

[[Rule63 On the other side]], known as the ElectraComplex, where the conflict is between mother and daughter which is just as common if a bit different in its execution, it is also named after one of Sophocles' tragedies, ''Theatre/{{Electra}}''. Here the trope is PlayedStraight as Electra was [[SelfMadeOrphan quite vengeful]] after her father Agamemnon was murdered by her mother Clytemnestra and the supplanting part is just as present, just done differently. Also, see [[OffingTheOffspring "Laius Complex"]] and [[ParentalIncest "Jocasta Complex"]] for the parents' perspectives.

[[Rule63 On the other side]], known as the ElectraComplex, where the conflict is between mother and daughter which is just as common if a bit different in its execution, it is also named after one of Sophocles' tragedies, ''Theatre/{{Electra}}''. Here the trope is PlayedStraight as Electra was [[SelfMadeOrphan quite vengeful]] after her father Agamemnon was murdered by her mother Clytemnestra. Also, see [[OffingTheOffspring "Laius Complex"]] and [[ParentalIncest "Jocasta Complex"]] for the parents' perspectives.

[[Rule63 On the other side]], where the conflict is between mother and daughter, it is also named after one of Sophocles' tragedies, ''Theatre/{{Electra}}''. Here the trope is PlayedStraight as Electra was [[SelfMadeOrphan quite vengeful]] after her father Agamemnon was murdered by her mother Clytemnestra. Also, see [[OffingTheOffspring "Laius Complex"]] and [[ParentalIncest "Jocasta Complex"]] for the parents' perspectives.

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' adds the titular character to this as Broly has an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] controlling relationships with his father Paragus while he has ShipTease with Sheelai who literally [[RomanticSpoonfeeding feeds him like a mother]] at one point. The only part of that’s left out is the {{Patricide}}... which Broly did in his original movie.

* Ironically subverted with Oedipus, the TropeNamer himself. In Oedipus’s story, when he killed his father to take his place as kind and married his mother, he didn’t know that they were his parents. He only learned the truth about it later. And when he learned that he had killed his father, married his mother and had several children with his own mother, he freaks out and gouges his eyes out. Then, he exiles himself. And for the record, his mother didn’t know that she had married and banged her own son either. And she didn’t know that he had killed her husband the king. When she learned the truth, she also freaked out like Oedipus did and she killed herself. Basically, it’s a subversion in that the ideas of surpassing and succeeding your father and being in love with your mother are both there, but unlike most examples on this page, Oedipus didn’t do it intentionally, because he didn’t know that the man he had killed was his father and he didn’t know that the woman he had married was his mother.

In the German satire mag "Titanic", they had a report from the Balkans claiming you don't need GPS to identify the state - just note whether mothers, sisters, or daughters are the sex object of curses and insults. (Probably GPS is still preferable...)

* Joseph Joestar from ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ''Battle Tendency''... look, we can give Joseph some leeway since his [[DisappearedDad dad died]] and much like Oedipus, he didn't actually ''know'' [[spoiler: Lisa Lisa was his mother]]. Thirdly it doesn't really help thanks to [[PowerOfTheSun Hamon]] your 50 [[OlderThanTheyLook year old]] mother [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MG53dNxz4SE/UMFE8DCt8mI/AAAAAAAAFFE/6uoF0le2QTQ/s1600/c8_c1.png looks like this]]. Still, it was a FridgeHorror for Joseph when he realized he'd [[PeepingTom spied]] [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/975/281/3aa.gif on his mother bathing]]. You also could argue it was destined for this to happen to Joseph since he was such a MommasBoy to his grandma Erina.