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Animorphs

  • Dæmorphing:
    • Having a large daemon is akin to a physical disability; people with them need special accommodations such as ground-floor classrooms, and can't fit in normal-sized cars.
    • The author's notes for The Abyss liken the quantum virus to COVID-19. The symptoms include reduced or increased senses of taste and smell, and the Yeerks aren't sure how serious it will be at first.

Batman

Crossover

  • In A Doll's Heart, Yesod has a secret that resurfaces once in every four weeks or so. During this moment, he'll grow more irritable and his body will be in disarray until it's over. The other characters call it 'the once in four weeks thing'. When Malkuth asks what it is, they say that she should ask him herself because it is supposedly very personal to him. The fact that he is named after a sphere associated with the moon and he also wears a moon charm does not help the matter. In reality, he will die if he doesn't eat memories during that time; the effects are simply caused by his body breaking down.
    • All automata are hard-coded to call their creator, Ayin, by the title 'Master'. Even if they try to call him 'Ayin', their internal system defaults back to calling him 'Master'.
  • In Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?, Peep from the legend was a woman with godlike prowess who was eventually imprisoned within the Earth for her treacherous antics, her attempts at freeing herself causing earthquakes on Berk. This is the same fate Loki suffers in Norse Mythology, this being the Viking's explanation for earthquakes.
  • The True Monster by lord of the land of fire includes a Whole-Plot Reference to World War II. (Warning: some content is NSFW. Sex scenes are not essential to the plot, so it is possible to skip over them without missing anything.)
  • Child of the Storm:
    • A fair degree of the usual Marvel Cinematic Universe themes shown in the post The Avengers (2012) films feature, but Operation Overlord is very familiar. MI6 is destroyed, with thousands killed. The response is a stripping away of usual protocol to allow SHIELD and its allies to enact a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown of HYDRA, with every base but one being destroyed, but not quite getting to the leaders, who hole up in secret, right under the noses of the British government, and respond with an attack designed to devastate London. Stripped of its fantasy/superhero trappings, does this or does this not sound like 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and declaration of an international 'War On Terror', arguably doing more harm than good, partly leading to the London Bombings?
    • What Harry Dresden suffered at the hands of the Red Court, with him saying flatly, "They did things to me," which draws a horrified silence and a supportive squeezed hand from his companions, emphasising the gang rape connotations of what happened to him.
    • Chapter 66 has Sean Cassidy bluntly compare what Riddle's diary did to Ginny to grooming by a pedophile over the internet, right down to the rape and murder (in terms of the draining of her lifeforce) afterwards.
    • One chapter in particular has Tony bluntly explain to Thor how Love Potions in the Wizarding World are no different than date rape drugs in the real world. Especially as both leaves the victim at their mercy to the attacker.
    • On a lighter note, the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, has Harry perform a little psychic therapy on Carol (who's suffering from PTSD style Trauma Induced Nightmares), with her consent. Two teenagers. At night. In their nightwear. With a history of epic UST. Engaged in one of the most emotionally intimate activities possible. It's not for nothing that when Natasha discovers the resultant Sleep Cute the next morning, her first response is to leave them be, and her second is to inform the breakfasting Avengers that they're sleeping together. Cue Steve's Spit Take.
      • Later on, Harry ends up using the psychic link that resulted from the above incident to temporarily possess Carol, with her consent. Carol, feeling his mind, ahem, penetrating hers, enjoys the feeling - and the innuendo isn't lost on either of them.
    • In general, psychic powers and connections are treated as being extremely intimate, even if not explicitly or implicitly sexual, with consent being reiterated as being incredibly important. As a result, Mind Rape is described as being very much like actual rape (the treatment of Ginny by the Diary Horcrux is explicitly and grimly compared by Sean Cassidy - who, as an ex Interpol Agent with decades of experience, would know - to grooming and a thankfully unsuccessful rape/murder attempt) and having similar psychological effects.
  • In the Gamer/Worm crossover fanfic Co-op Mode, when James first learns <Massage> to relieve Taylor of a bad muscle sprain, this is what results. This leads Lisa to tell them to Get a Room!.
    Taylor: "Ooh, aah. Please, don't stop."
    James: [freezes] "I-is that... better?"
    Taylor: [blushes] "It's better, but it still hurts, please keep on going."
    Lisa: [laughs] "You two should get a room."
    • James' perspective on the matter only makes this scene even funnier!
      James: *thinks with a Luminescent Blush* Does she not hear what she is saying?
  • A truly disturbing scene from Sky Rose shows us Ottabio - a Varia subordinate - talking about how Rosabella can trust only him and how she's adorable while he tries to enter her personal space. When she tries to get away, he screams "How dare you?!" and reveals he was the one to betray Xanxus, as he was corrupting his precious Rosabella and now she belongs to him. To ramp up the creepiness factor, Rosa is a preteen girl.
  • In Yugioh EQG: XX, the concepts of Soulinking and Dominating are introduced, and once they are finally explained they sound almost like a sexual activity between a Duelist and Duel Monster. A Soulink is described as a "great miracle", where a Duelist and a monster they share a close bond with, usually their ace monster, end up Sharing a Body. It is meant to demonstrate the strong bond they share with each other, due to it being consensual from both sides, and how much they trust each other, as an act of bringing them even closer together. A Dominate on the other hand is when a monster forces a Soulink on a duelist without their agreement, and takes full control of the body for themselves. When this is described to everyone, they find the term "Dominate" to be "violating" and feel sick just hearing it. It is also clear that anyone who has been Dominated is deeply tortured and traumatized by the experience, and their real partners are all worried over their safety.
  • In The Serpent’s Vow, Seto as a Goa'uld queen is physically female yet has a male host body and is deeply attached to it. It makes the scene in which Heru'ur just won't stop calling him "Nephthys" (in spite of Seto's loathing for the deadname) and threatening to deprive him from his current body and forced into being a breeding queen mightily uncomfortable, reinforced by Seto's utter horror and panic at this prospect.
  • Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi: When the Cluster Bots are using Jenny as a battery to power a portal for them to invade, she's visibly struggling to resist, at which point one of the robots watching over her pulls her jacket off while she begs for someone to save her. The rape similarities are clear.

Death Note

Final Fantasy X

  • Aftershock describes Tidus hugging Yuna just before he fades away:
    As his lips pressed against her hair, she closed her eyes, savoring the warmth of his body against her back; and then, it was almost as if he melted into her. A heat unlike anything she had ever known, save perhaps for that night at the spring, enveloped her as he filled every corner of her being for a single moment in time. It was all she could do not to cry out when he pulled away...

Fullmetal Alchemist

  • In Son of the Desert Trisha has to hide in a small crawl space whenever the military visits Resembool to avoid being rounded up and killed with other Ishvalans, and later a law was signed deeming that anyone with Ishvalan heritage or ancestry was to be killed. We're sure this has nothing to do with the Holocaust.

Godzilla

  • Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
    • Some of San's personality traits and tendencies are reminiscent of the long-term effects of suffering child abuse, which furthermore fits with how his brothers treated him.
    • The course of Alan Jonah's efforts to psychologically break down Monster X are disturbingly similar to brainwashing and mental defense-breaking tactics historically described in Real Life.
    • Ghidorah psychically stalking Monster X in episodes and causing them distress by doing so seems not unlike an obsessive stalker's behaviour and impact.
    • Vivienne Graham's human friends' observations about the Shell-Shocked Veteran change in her character after her resurrection call to mind a soldier returning home from war to their loved ones for the first time. Even Vivienne's Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated since Ghidorah ate her seems vaguely similar to a soldier who was reported KIA to their family subsequently turning out to be alive and coming home.
    • The Many strongly and disturbingly call to mind a cult in their behavior, coupled with their Hive Mind and The Assimilator physiology.
    • Ghidorah's endgame for Monster X is to ultimately assimilate Vivienne and make her Shi (a fourth head on Ghidorah). Becoming forcibly chained to a vicious abuser and unable to leave their side (literally in this case) for the rest of one's foreseeable life — And Now You Must Marry Me anyone?
    • In Chapter 16, Ichi, Ni and San-2 intending to "have their turns with [Vivienne]" on top of their intentions to use her as a monster Baby Factory makes Ghidorah's three heads sound like a gang of rapists. The subterranean (basement-like) environment closed off from the world doesn't lessen the effect one bit.
    • And for an extra bit of Squick, Ghidorah's heads considering Vivienne their "child" and "sister" in one works two more ways — it makes Monster X sound like both the victim of domestic sexual abuse and the product of it.

Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed

  • For What, For All But Myself: The "blessing" by the river spirit is a pretty thinly veiled metaphor for sexual assault, between the experience itself and the resulting pregnancy.
  • If I Had The Strength: Wei Wuxian's departure for the Cloud Recesses has strong vibes of a disturbed family member being forcefully locked away in a mental hospital or rehab — something that isn't helped by his siblings finding him drunk and telling him they asked for Lan Wangji to come and take him immediately after.

Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Choosing Life Verse: It's lampshaded multiple times that Aloy's feelings of jealousy and resentment she has when Elisabet prioritizes Beta's safety or attention is not unlike a child who resents their new baby sibling because of all the attention their parents give them.

Harry Potter

  • In Biting the Hand That Feeds You Snape responds to the threat of a future income shortage by developing the perfect potato chip. The scene where Draco offers free samples to a couple of street toughs in exchange for word-of-mouth advertising strongly resembles a pusher scouting for new customers, right down to one of the toughs wondering who he has to rob to get more chips.
  • In Forced Maturity Part I: The Chamber of Secrets, Ginny's refusal to tell her family, especially her mother, that the experience with Riddle's diary artificially matured her — meaning that Mrs. Weasley's "little girl really is gone forever" — is disturbingly reminiscent of the reactions of some sex abuse victims.
  • The Meaning of One series by Sovran features a soul bond between Harry and Ginny. Let's see, they are different from either of their parents, they didn't choose their circumstances but are happy with them, they face initial hostility from some of Ginny's family, especially Molly, who (unjustly) suspects them of engaging in various perverted acts, and they have to keep their relationship a secret from all but their family, closest friends, McGonagall, and Dumbledore. Could this, perhaps, be an allusion to the experience of gays and lesbians?
  • Trolling the Toad: In-universe; Anthony Goldstein and Colin Creevey compare Harry giving them Numbing Potions to join him on his Blood Quill tattoo scheme to a drug deal. Harry immediately refutes the claim as he's giving them the potions for free.
  • The Very Secret Diary shows all of Ginny and Tom Riddle's correspondences in the diary during Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, which we know happened but the reader didn't get to see in the original book. The whole thing reads eerily similarly to an internet pedophile befriending, manipulating, and abusing a young girl, presenting himself as a friend before revealing himself to be a sadist who doesn't care an ounce for her and is only out for his own personal... gratification. By the time Ginny realizes what's happening, it's too late, and she's at his mercy.

Gravity Falls

  • In All The World's a Toybox, Bill leaves a letter for the captive Ford Pines that sounds like something written by an abusive boyfriend-turned-rapist to their victim, even adding a very nasty dose of "Not If They Enjoyed It" Rationalization.
    You liked being possessed. You liked waking up naked in the woods with no idea how you got there. You liked finding all those weird little cuts and bruises on your body and not knowing how you got them. You liked being alone. You liked being helpless. You liked being MINE.

Homestuck

  • In Before I Sleep, the scene where Silas is beaten to within an inch of his life, and eventually fatally shot, while out on a date with Dessie is disturbingly reminiscent of a young black man being attacked for going out with a white woman, especially due to the setting and time period the story takes place in. The parallel is made even stronger when his attackers try to rationalize it by deluding themselves into believing they were 'protecting' her.
  • HSETAU: Karkat's albinism in this AU is analogous to his status as a mutant in Homestuck.

Jackie Chan Adventures

  • In Queen of All Oni, After Jade breaks the Dog Talisman in her mouth and gets blasted by its released energy, she briefly acts a little high before passing out.

Miraculous Ladybug

  • Fortune Favors the Brave:
    • Gabriel's disapproval of Nino's friendship with Adrien is supposed to be rooted in classism, but can easily be read as anger over his son having a Black Best Friend. He derisively asks why Nino thinks he'd allow Adrien to hang out with 'his sort' of people, questions how he could be attending the same school as the mayor's daughter, and calls him a bad influence.
    • Tikki's insistence that Nino isn't allowed to express any negative emotions for fear of attracting akumas can be read as claiming that Men Don't Cry. Particularly since she also states that the Cat Heroine Chartroux doesn't have to deal with as much pressure to control her emotions.

My Hero Academia

  • In Bloodstained Heroes of Humanity Sumi attempts to force Izuku to embrace his predator nature as a vampire by forcing him to drink directly from a human despite Izuku's pleading and refusal. He allows Shiragaki to attempt to force Izuku into biting him. While Izuku manages to get Shiragaki to lose interest by putting too much of a fight, Izuku is left distraught and feeling violated. The situation is uncomfortably reminiscent of a parent attempting corrective rape on their child.
  • Quirk: Incubus: When Izuku discovers that he has a quirk that makes him stronger and seem more "normal" (by his world's standards) through sexual contact, he allows Taya's sexual abuse to go on as a means of maintaining that power. This can be read as a number of ways, whether it is abuse victims developing a dependency on their abusers or people allowing others to use their bodies in order to uphold an addiction.
    • From the way Izuku describes it - as using him in the same way as he is being used - also sounds like a form of toxic codependent relationship.
  • One for All and Eight for the Ninth. The backstories for the Second and Third Wielders of One for All share similarities with persecution against the LGBT community. The fact that both wielders are gay married men only drives the comparison further: Ryouji Futatsuya, the Second Wielder and Isamu Mitsunami, the Third Wielder were both Quirked boys that grew up in Quirkless families (Isamu grew up in a rich and wealthy one), but were both forced to hide their gifts in order to be accepted by society and their loved ones. The reactions of their families upon finding out perfectly reflect the typical reactions to a coming out experience. Isamu's family kicked him onto the streets, Ryouji's still loved and supported him no matter what.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

  • Actually, I'm Dead: While taking Trixie's measurements, after her second revival, Trixie gets very uncomfortable when Twilight tries to measure her horn. When Twilight brings up the last time she did that, in which Trixie apparently kicked her into a wall, Trixie responds that she shouldn't have snuck up on her, instead of asking or taking her out for dinner first. Not to mention, Twilight's reaction to when she realizes that Trixie's horn was bigger than.. something that's none of her business.
  • The Assassination of Twilight Sparkle: Twilight's coronation apparently sparked a backlash among the people who were afraid of the change and what it would bring to their lives while the few people who tolerated it kept quiet. More than a little like how the fandom reacted when it happened in canon, eh?
  • Contraptionology!: There's an extended scene in which Derpy is unable to buck a cloud to Rainbow's satisfaction, forcing Applejack to buck them both at once, which is written as a parody of cheesy sex-scene dialogue. This is lampshaded towards the end, when Bell Pepper nervously asks if he should step outside.
  • The Last Adventure, According to Chimera, the land where Ponyville is used to be part of the Everfree Forest, before Celestia gave it to the ponies, forcing the creatures that lived in those lands to move further in the forest or to the swamps. American colonists, anyone?
  • Little Sun has a rather dark scene where Princess Celestia tortures, and then launches a full-scale slaughter on, members of Nightmare Cult, a murderous group of ponies who pledge allegiance to Nightmare Moon, following an assassination attempt on her and her daughter Sunset Shimmer at the latter's birthday party. The cult is clearly a stand-in for terrorist groups like Al-Quaeda and ISIS, and Celestia's moral crisis in dealing with them is not unlike the U.S. government's controversial decisions regarding terrorism.
  • Magnetism has a ball with this in its fourth chapter. We keep seeing Angel's imaginings, which sound very sexual but end up being decidedly not, never mind the dream at the beginning, which ends when Fluttershy served breakfast in bed instead.
  • My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic: The Unicornicopians settle in and remake Equestria, treat its original citizens as inferior and suppress their culture and language, particularly making them use "everybody" instead of "everypony". All that's missing is a residential school!
  • Shell Shock features a retaliatory war and occupation of a country on vague objectives with the rationale of having been attacked first. Chechnya? No, we've never heard of that place.
  • Sunset's Recovery Arc mentions "those occasional light-skinned kids who seem to have polar bear powers", riffing off the stereotype that white people can withstand cold weather easily.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Omen IV: The Awakening

  • Always Visible: Essentially, doctor Baselard removes Delia's uterus. In some ways, this can be interpreted as meaning that he actually raped her.

Odd Squad

  • Ships Ahoy!:
    • Throughout the story, Oprah is shown to have breakdowns and relapses whenever she thinks about O'Donahue, who broke up with her and simultaneously quit his job at Odd Squad. She shakes and trembles, feels intense pain, and her body goes completely limp. It's all but stated to be a sign of her being mentally ill with severe depression, which can commonly occur after a breakup. Likewise, her constant drinking of juice evolved to the point where she became a Functional Addict.
    • In Part Three, Octavia begins to act distant around Oz when he manages to accidentally turn himself invisible, but assures him that him being invisible will change nothing between them in spite of Oz having romantic feelings for her. It draws parallels to a boyfriend or a girlfriend becoming disabled in some way and watching their partner ignore, and eventually leave, them because they're disabled.

PandoraHearts

  • Beyond the Winding Road has a moment early on where Lewis has to tell his family he's the reincarnation of a famous martyr, and he's afraid they won't believe him or treat who he is as real because his past identity and memory issues were diagnosed as Dissociative Identity Disorder (AKA Multiple Personality Disorder). But before we know much about this, Lewis explaining who he is to his parents can easily be read as him coming out. In fact, that's exactly what his mother thought it was.
    • Despite essentially being an extended epilogue focused on the aftereffects of the manga, Beyond the Winding Road can also be read as an exploration into how people with disorders affect those around them and how different approaches to dealing with disorders can affect the people who have them.

Power Rangers

  • Truncated Power Rangers has a monster who is a unicorn with a high pitched voice. When Jason cuts off his horn, Rita complains that without his "large protruding extra", he's virtually useless

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

  • In Persephone's Waltz, the audience knows full well that Homura has no intention of harming Madoka and just wants to keep her safe. But that doesn't stop it looking like she wants Madoka as a Sex Slave when she kidnaps her and imprisons her in an underground room with Homura as her only human contact. This is exactly what Sayaka fears, and is why she's so desperate to find her.

RWBY

  • Arc Royale: Emerald's toxic one-sided dependence on Cinder versus Ashari's efforts to turn her away from Cinder. The situation is reminiscent of a concerned parent or other elder trying to get through to a loved one who's been brainwashed and alienated from them by groomers and/or an other, Abusive Parent.
  • RWBY: Scars:
    • Remnant doesn't seem to put much emphasis on ethnicities, instead focusing on whether someone is a Faunus or a human. Despite this, Weiss and Blake's relationship is still coded as an interracial relationship. Weiss is white and predominantly Fantasy Counterpart Culture German, while Blake is at least half Fantasy Counterpart Culture Japanese. This element adds more allusions to their mixed-species relationship and the troubles they receive from both humans and Faunus. For example, a Faunus calls Blake a Category Traitor for dating Weiss and Velvet makes a snide comment that Blake wishes she was human because Blake hides that she's a Faunus.
    • The story takes inspiration from real world racism and discrimination. For example, it's not uncommon for stores to put up signs that say they have the right to decline Faunus.
    • Faunus have a Classical Tongue different from the Common Tongue of the humans. They rarely speak it around humans because they've historically been discriminated for it. This emulates real world languages like Hebrew.
    • Humans have been known to demonize the Faunus' main religion and their Ethnic God. It's a common myth that Faunus are Grimm worshippers.

  • In Redemption, the Mountain Glen assignment goes slightly different than it did in canon. Specifically, a terrorist group plants an IED—using a tactic that would be familiar to Iraqi insurgents or the Viet Cong—that comes within a whisker of killing Blake.
  • The First Times (NSFW, since it's Exactly What It Says on the Tin) includes none-too-subtle parallels to the trafficking industry, and the abuse of gay teens by their families.

Sherlock Holmes

The Smurfs

Sonic the Hedgehog

  • Sonic X: Dark Chaos:
    • The Jewish Republic and the Emirate of Mecca are ancient enemies and are constantly at each other's throats despite being technical political allies in the Angel Federation. The fact that both sides are blatently in the wrong just makes it even more Anvilicious.
    • A superpower gets involved in a foreign civil war that it partially started in the first place and invades the galaxy, prompting another major superpower to invade in response, and the conflict quickly bogs down into bloody stalemate. Korea? Nope, definitely not.
    • According to Word of God, the Jewish Republic is a far right wing society obsessed with Jewish racial purity and often exterminates worlds with toxic gas. What major world event could that be an ironic reference to?

Star Trek

Thomas & Friends

  • In Chapter 5 of Thomas and Emily's Relationship, Thomas gushes over how beautiful he thinks Emily is. When he mentions how big her wheels are, Annie and Clarabel blush and cry out in protest, as though he was talking about the size of Emily's breasts.

Touhou Project

  • At Chirei plays out the drama of Koishi leaving to explore the surface as almost exactly like a divorce, with Okuu and Orin caught between their two Parental Substitutes, desperate to make one of them happy again and to get the other one to return. At the same time, Koishi sealing her Psychic Powers is very reminiscent of dementia.
    "The inside of my head is light... like it's gone somewhere. The old me is gone. She's gone somewhere else, far away."

The Twilight Saga

  • In Before The Dawn, as well as the obvious idea of blood being a drug to vampires, Bella takes part in a debate with Carlisle and other vampires where they compare human blood to the equivalent of sweets to a vampire while animal blood is the equivalent of vegetables. As Carlisle observes, human blood tastes better but animal-drinking vampires are more civilised, characters speculating that animal blood encourages the vampires to expand their intellectual horizons and think about more than just their next meal.

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