A particularly unsubtle ad on British TV for (beat) "Virgin Railways" features a girl travelling to her boyfriend using Virgin Railways. At one point, the train she's in plunges into a heart-shaped, pink love-tunnel. Any more explicit and they would have to resort to raping the viewer on the spot.
Clairol "Herbal Essences" shampoo commercials showcase the woman using their product in the shower and screaming in delight. "An organic experience," huh? Riiiight...
They also have one where the woman's male partner uses it, and gets to the point of his "organic experience" much faster than if the woman were washing her hair.
Arby's recently put out one were a guy in bed, obviously waiting for... something to happen, gets his wife dressed as an Arby's worker entering with a plateful of Arby's food. To sexy music. The Arby's symbol over his head springs up with a boing sound effect and he says "Meeee likey." see for yourself
One has to include the infamous ED ad with the guy trying to throw a football through a tire (only succeeding after he's used the product).
An advertisement in Malaysia asks if the consumer have not cut "it" off yet. Cutting "it" off will make "it" faster, smoother and more enjoyable. It's an ad for a wireless broadband service.
Further proof that the advertisers know exactly what they're doing, here's the commercial for the new T Core. For those who can't click through, it's a penis pump-esque exercise machine for men.
This old commercial for Squeezit drinks took this to a whole new level. Not only did the drinks themselves and the "squeezing" have some phallic reminders, but there is a boy squeezing a football that is positioned covering his pants, a boy holding a camera with a blub for the flash that extends upward, a boy squeezing a giant hotdog, wait it gets better, that suddenly shoots out of the bun, and to top it off a girl has a bucket of popcorn that sprays popcorn over all of the kids present.
Nostalgia Critic: Here's a fun game to play at home. Count all the phallic symbols.
The Enzyte commercials are this trope incarnate.
Anime & Manga
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-chan: Dokuro-chan has a one foot long cone-shaped magic cell phone, which she keeps in her panties. The way she retrieves it makes it very obvious that it looks the way it does completely by intention.
In Persona: Trinity Soul, every time "drawing out shadows" (you'd have to see the show to understand) is mentioned or shown it is used as an Anvilicious metaphor for sex. Oh, and it can feel good, but it can also be dangerous, so teenagers shouldn't do it with just everyone.
The show as a whole bears a good bit of resemblance to Revolutionary Girl Utena in overall structure, to the point where some call it an Alternate Universe version of that show.
The show is set on an island where an evil underground organization, The Glittering Crux, wants to "break the seal" of "pure maidens" to unlock "a great power"... the ability to pilot their Humongous Mecha in this world instead of their Pocket Dimension! Of course, they have to be completely nude in order for the ritual to take place...
The Glittering Crux as a whole either dress like Dominatrixes or the gay stereotype, depending on the gender.
At the end of episode 8, an entire scene consists of Takuto and Sugata panting and breathing heavily... after a big fight.
During episode 9, Sugata tells Takuto that his Kendo stick is longer while holding it at a... suggestive angle. The kicker? He says it completely seriously and nobody even lampshaded or discusses it. Did we mention that this is a Shounen series where everyone is ostensibly straight?!
The fact that Takuto is inadequate at swordplay unless he's dual-wielding... AKA has more overall "sword". Get the picture?
The constant references to "Kissing through the glass" could mean kissing or... something else.
Let's just say that the show overall is one giant Innocent Innuendo with a lot of references to other shows.
Fullmetal Alchemist: In an episode of the first anime, Riza Hawkeye is lying in her bed and moaning. It happens that she was sleeping and her dog was licking her feet to wake her up and have food.
She was also moaning "Stop that" and "That tickles." Some fans have commented (although perhaps jokingly) that she was having a sex dream about Mustang.
In Vandread, we have the three female pilots chasing after the one male pilot to "combine" throughout the entire first season.
Played with very little subtlety in Princess Nine. They team is on a trademark training trip and their Bottle Fairy coach has decided to honor the occasion by going on the wagon. Of course, he's also doing it to try to get into the good graces of his star pitcher's (widowed) mother. Team delinquent Seira Morimura is having none of this. She strides over to his table the first night, pours him a beer and tempts/forces him to drink it (where'd a 15-year old get beer? She's a delinquent, don't ask). The dialog between coach and player makes it sound like she's tempting him with, well... other things. "It's going to be soo good." The subtext is real enough, Seira and the coach have a complicated history. She's looking for a father figure (possibly the George Michael kind) to make up for her (divorced) dad. She thought she was being hit on when he recruited her. Once the coach takes a drink, several of her teammates ask Seira what THAT was all about, and remark about the dangers of tempting older men.
In the climax arc of the first season of Shakugan no Shana, the villain Hecate (cute girl with a Nice Hat) floats above (and parallel to) main character Yuji, "synchronizing" with him and absorbing his memories, as a white "energy", which apparently feels really good, judging from the noises she makes and the way she throws her head back. The dialogue can also be easily construed to a sexual encounter.
The DVD omakes turn this into a running gag on Yuji's part - when parodying that scene, Yuji's previously chest-level flame has been moved to his crotch and Yuji moans in pleasure and begs for more while Hecate-tan glares at him and calls him a pervert.
Evangelion, the anime that gives a whole new meaning to "Freudian *ahem* metaphors". Just an example: do you remember when the cigar-shaped Entry Plug is inserted diagonally into the Eva? Then immediately fills with an amniotic-like liquid?
Also, absolutely anything to do with one Rei Ayanami. Her relationship with Gendo, her relationship with Shinji, her over 9000 nude scenes, her "encounter" with the sixteenth angel...
The manga has Ka(w)oru giving Shinji mouth to mouth. Also, the two boys are in the same shower stall, inches away from each other, facing each other. It even has the kanji for "tension" between them. Yeah.
In the mouth-to-mouth scene, both of the boys were on Shinji's bed. Shinji was lying on it since he felt feverish, and Kaworu took it upon himself to climb onto the bed and position himself over Shinji's body before administering the little "re-oxygenation."Subtle, Mr. Sadamoto. Very... subtle.
Also by Gainax, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has "power drills" as proof of manliness and the sentence "yours is a drill that breaks through to the Heavens!"
Episode 12 has a particularly blatant-and hilarious-example; Gurren Lagann drills into a port on the bottom of the ship. Cut to the bridge, where the very, very Camp Gay Leeron rises a little bit in his seat and goes "Whoo!" Cut right back to the outside of the ship.
In the same episode, Adiane destroys the Dai Gurren's lower observation deck. Cue all the male characters (curiously minus Leeron) grasping their crotch in pain when this info is relayed to them.
In Episode 15, after Lordgenome's defeat, he states the reason he lost was because Simon's Spiral Energy was bigger than his. It doesn't get any less subtle than that.
The scene in the last episode where the TTGL absorbs the power of a Big Bang in order to defeat the Anti-Spiral makes it look like the pilots are having an orgasm.
And let us not forget that all through the series, the titular mecha uses its drill to become one with other robots.
The second episode has a fairly blatant example of this as well — when Yoko leans over to admire the Core Drill Simon is holding, he looks up at her, blushes... and his drill suddenly starts glowing. Combine this with the fact that Spiral Energy is explicitly stated to be the power of evolution...
"Our manly combining must be stylish!!"
Episode 7, when we first see the big Ganman, the angle of the camera, the comments from the characters, and the overall shape simply scream "Does THIS Remind You Of Anything?!?"
Basically, Gainax forgot to fire the Freudian Psychoanalyst from the team after Eva was made.
"I want to get into that body of yours" Oh, how subtle.
Nia:No matter how deeply you probe my body, I won't give in!
And then in Lagann-Hen, Anti-Spiral pretty much creates a bunch of tentacles and straddles Nia... Fer God's sake, Gainax.
Dai Gurren looks extremely suggestive already, it's sort of a centaur-thing, with the bow of the battleship part being where the... ahem... would be on a human body. Now, in Episode 14, the thing rams Cytomander's ship with the bow of the battleship, penetrating it. And the explosion looks... kind of...
Episode 197 of Keroro Gunsou just decided to stop being subtle and created a virus that is spread by drilling unsuspecting victims in the butt.You have been warned. As if it wasn't bad enough already, Giroro gets two drills when he gets infected instead of one, and that they get bigger when he thinks of Natsumi...
Speaking of Giroro, apparently his favorite method of dealing with the UST between him and Natsumi is... polishing his guns.
Chachamaru from Mahou Sensei Negima! has to be wound up, on occasion (she's a Robot Girl, after all), something which she states "feels good". When Negi winds her up, he puts waaaay too much magic into it, and she can hardly stop herself from screaming with pleasure.
The entire Pactio system seems to exist for two reasons: 1. An excuse to give "normal" girls magical powers. 2. This trope. *
Additionally, when Pactio cards get brought up it will often be "Negi has already done it with seven girls!?" (Read: Anya finding out) or "Two girls in 45 minutes!? Aren't you popular." Chachamaru also danced the line between this and a Three Is Company when speaking about her martial arts training sessions with Negi ("I've been serving as Negi's partner every night and he appears to be very happy about it.") to Chisame. Chapter 253 takes the subtext to its logical conclusion. If you read it without knowing what a "pactio" is, it pretty much sounds like all of the girls are contemplating a romantic relationship with Negi or Kotaro.
The Winding is explicitly compared to the energy transfer from the Magister to his Ministra and it apparently has the same effect on all the girls.
One of the two OVAs has a scene where Negi and Nodoka are in a sauna room, and their panting from the heat is rather played up, although it's rather obvious nothing's happening.
TriGun has sentient plants (the power generating kind) that are experimented on, exploited, and killed in mind-boggingly dreadful ways and that can irradiate everyone if they go berserk as metaphors both for nuclear power and vivisection. And let's not forget that in the anime, Knives is portrayed more explicitly as a kind of psycho ecoterrorist who wants to prevent humans from destroying the environment of Gunsmoke as they did to the Earth. This is quite similar to the use of Mako energy in Final Fantasy VII.
In El-Hazard, Efurita/Ifurita is awakened when a man turns her "power key" into her...
One episode of Gunslinger Girl features a character named Elsa, who describes her obsession for her handler Lauro, as the camera focuses on her polishing an assault rifle in a rather... suggestive... manner.
Even more suggestive is when Henrietta sneaks into her handler's room and finds his shirt, which she hugs to her body while lying on his bed.
Gunslinger Girl makes it very explicit that everyone who knows about the Social Welfare Agency considers the fratello relationships to be pedophilic. Some of the agents that work there even make crude jokes about it.
In Gundam 00, Setsuna is fighting Ali Al-Saachez, the mercenary who used him as a child soldier. He pins Setsuna's Gundam Exia against a rock wall with his own mobile suit, and then begins to attempt to rip out Exia's cockpit in order to crush the pilot. The cockpit is situated exactly where its name suggests it would be. "Don't touch me!" indeed.
Boy meets girl. Boy and girl are mutually attracted and spend a lot of time together. Girl has a very dangerous secret that the boy accidentally stumbles on. The boy has trouble dealing with the secret, and his fumbling reactions to it cause the girl great amounts of pain. Finally it's too much and they part ways. To the boy, it feels like the end of the world... But then the girl comes back to him. Their relationship will never be what it once was, but they have each other and a chance at something new. This is a description of a high school relationship. This is also the plot of Sai Kano.
During the finale of Full Metal Panic!, Gauron grabs Sōsuke's Humongous Mecha with his own and pins it to the floor. Sōsuke's mecha struggles to get away while Gauron says things like "let's be friends" and "I'm so happy, you've stuck with me till the end." Sōsuke is shown sweating and panting, and Gauron's broken down mecha starts leaking white liquid onto him. Of course, Gauron's ultimate intention is to detonate his mecha with 300 kilograms of explosives and kill both of them (which might very well be his idea of getting to fourth base with Sōsuke), but it looks for all the world like giant robot sexual assault.
The fact that Gauron keeps calling Sōsuke "honey" does not improve things. Neither does the fact that his last words happen to be "I love you, Kashim!" (Kashim being one of Sōsuke's aliases).
And it probably doesn't help that in the novels, Gauron literally started moaning and crying out things like "RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT! FASTER! MORE! MORE!!" It would probably be safe to assume that, at least in the novels, he actually didget aroused and probably orgasmed from it.
The following novels take this even further. In Sōsuke's last encounter with Gauron, the latter admits to having fantasized about screwing Sōsuke's dead body. And he says he always thought Sōsuke has beautiful eyes... "like a saint of war". Kinda romantic, really...
The episode of Genesis of Aquarion in which Tsugumi discusses, and experience combining for the first time is just... damn. The entire episode.
Every combination in Aquarion has the pilots experience "becoming one" in a similar manner.
Every second of every episode.
In Hellsing, Integra gets budding vampire Seras to drink blood from a live human for the first time by cutting her finger and ordering her to lick it clean. Cue Les Yay moment.
Not to mention Seras is blushing and panting very heavily during that whole ordeal.
Have we really forgotten Rip Van Winkle's death?
Alucard's earlier kills were very...''interesting''. In his battle with Alhambra, for example, he hooks both of his thumbs into his mouth and he looks at him rather...wistfully.
In the first episode of Karin, Karin's vampiric attraction to her (female) best friend Maki is reminiscent of a lesbian attraction. She even leans in to bite Maki's neck, which looks very much like an attempted kiss.
There was also the picture of Karin when she gushed blood for the first time. The caption read: "Karin's a big girl, now"
Revolutionary Girl Utena had an episode in which the seventh grade age Nanami woke up to find that she had laid an egg, and spent the following day wondering whether this was something that happened to many girls or not. It is generally assumed that this is a metaphor for menstruation, although it gets a bit confusingwhen another character almost cooks and eats the egg.
In episode 5 of Black Cat, Train gets into a... rather compromising position on top of Creed, and Creed gets really excited and breathless. More alarming are Creed's following words (especially in the Japanese version), said very much in ecstasy, "Oh, Train, you are the best!" Hmmm, sure he's only referring to Train's nimble body and fighting skills...
Pretty much anything regarding Creed and his obsessive stalkerish love for Train. Also, Creed even begs (in a very perverted way) for Train to shoot him in the head, that he will take any bullet he has because, in Creed's words "once I have taken it you and I will be bonded forever."
And then there's Germany and Italy'swhole relationship. They've seen each other naked often, share a bed, and in one strip, Italy bursts into Germany's shower to ask him if he "likes" him and demands that Germany tell him he loves him. When Germany does, he shouts, "Yahoo! I love you too!" Then their friend Japan catches them both naked in the shower. Italy's reaction? He says "I did it, Japan! I got closer to Germany!" while naked and laying underneath an equally naked Germany.
In Hetalia Bloodbath 2011 the Spain/Romano strip; Romano has some work he has to do, and Spain offers to give him his "cheerfulness for a charm", while Romano says he "doesn't want it"... then Spain crawls under the desk, there's a pause... then Spain does something and Romano snaps "I told you not to!". Fans were not shy at all about the dirty implications of all this, especially before the strip was translated.
In Bleach, Kariya force-feeding some purified spirit energy t a reluctant Mabashi — by shoving an engorged, bulbous object into his mouth and forcing him to swallow the fluid that comes out, complete with muffled choking, sputtering noises. Make what you will of Mabashi's subsequent attitude change.
Pesche keeps his sword in his loincloth. When he goes to pull it out, he severely Squicks Uryuu and Renji.
In the anime, when Neliel bear-hugged Ichigo after turning into an adult, the camera is positioned in such a way that it looks like she's humping him◊. Orihime's expression says it best.
During the Soul Society Arc, Ichigo is repeatedly referred to as "having a zanpakutou big as he is tall" and made fun of for having no control over his big, flashy powers. This is reinforced when Ichigo's dad dispatches of Grand Fisher by telling him that Captain-league shinigami have to consciously control their reiatsu, or they'd be running around with swords the size of skyscrapers. It's because of such statements that zanpakutou earned the Fan Nickname "Soul Penis".
Extend, Hozukimaru!
In that vein, doesn't Ichimaru Gin's Shinso...?
"Bankai, Kamishini no Yari"... It extends up to 13 kilometers. Without a doubt Gin has the longest in all of Soul Society. Then after that he has a technique that repeatedly extends and contracts his blade.
Ichigo and friends are told that one of them is an impostor. Ichigo tries to get Renji to get out of his gigai to prove that he is the real Renji, and they end up rolling around on the ground with Ichigo screaming "Take it off!" Their classmates are rather shocked.
Ishida and Ichigo discuss how to fight a Menos Grande.
Ulquiorra has a speech where he tells Orihime he will "tie you up and force it down your throat" He was talking about food, but still...
Also, Hisagi has "69" tattoo on his face (and as shown in the "Turn Back the Pendulum" arc, former Ninth Division captain Kensei Muguruma's chest).
Yumichika has a "secret" (power) he very carefully hides out from everyone for fear that, if it got known, he would have to leave or even be expelled from the squad. It can be read as "not having a manly enough shikai". It's so important to him that he's willing to die sooner than have it revealed. Replace "power" with "sexual orientation" and it's easy to see how some of the fanbase interpret his hidden personality. Given that Japanese and American straight/gay stereotypes are often reversed, some of the fanbase regard this as an example of Unfortunate Implications or Values Dissonance instead.
Chapter 435: Riruka says, "Just now I gave you 'permission', and 'invited' you into this beloved box of mine." The entire chapter has tons of innuendos with Riruka explaining what she loves.
Anything about Espada member Nnoitra Gilga. It's quite clear what he wants to do to Orihime, something for which even Ulquiorra repremends him. In the transition from manga to anime, some of the subtext was toned down; for instance, where the manga has Nnoitra shove his fingers in Orihime’s mouth during Ichigo’s fight with Tesla, in the anime he covers her mouth with his hand.
May your attention be directed to this page of the Inu Yasha manga? More specifically, the second panel. Although it makes sense if you've been following the story, there's something rather disturbing about having both Kagura and Naraku sweating, and Naraku asking "Do you want to return into my body again?" Just for added Squick, be sure to note that the sound effect reads "Slide forward".
At the very end of the second movie, in the scene where they discuss the fact that Kagome kissed Inuyasha, the way they talk around the fact gives the impression that they're talking about sex.
Not to mention most of the series is dedicated to make Inuyasha's sword better and more capable... The sword that has a hairy ruff at the base, something like independent preferences, and yeah, a pulse.
In the seventh episode of Yami No Matsuei, Muraki has a very... odd way of holding his wine glass. Let's just say he keeps moving his hand up and down while holding it (all the while leering at Tsuzuki and talking about how beautiful Tsuzuki's eyes are).
This page from Chapter 34 of the manga. (It's vomit.)
Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo has this with Leopard's antimatter cannon. It requires two "Golden Orbs" to fire, does not function when said orbs are cold, results in a flurry of some white (ashlike) substance covering everything inside Leopard (including the female protagonist) when fired, and has a "relaxing", so to speak, effect on Leopard, while the effect on the female protagonist is a bit more exhaustive.
Death Note's foot massage scene. Other than the biblical symbolism and context of it, there can be other implications. Of course, the entire thing isn't helped by how the anime made it seem like L had a foot fetish. Both Light and L are soaking wet, drying themselves off, and their dialogue and actions go something like this:
Light: What are you doing, Ryuuzaki?! L: At least allow me to atone for this. I'm not all that bad at it, you know. Light:(looking away) Do as you please. (L presses Light's foot, and Light cries out) L: Oi, you'll get used to it quickly. Light: You're still wet. L: Sorry...
There's also one of Mikami's Sakujo-gasms in the anime which includes slow motion, a fall backwards, and a very, very joyful look on his face that resembles an orgasm more than a killing. The same Sakujo-gasm also has what appear to be large drops of shiny white sweat, with a spotlight on his crotch seen at the end of this video, which includes every instance of his Catch Phrase.
Light's usage of the Death Note in general can be seen as a sexual release. And then there's the fact that he completely ignores the incredibly hot woman throwing herself at him...
A tragic, non-Freudian example: In episode 7 of Haibane Renmei, Rakka's reaction to Ku taking her Day of Flight feels very much like somebody's reaction to suicide.
In chapter 412, we see Karin's Heal Bite for the first time. Basically, people heal when they bite her. Her face when Sasuke bites her... is... well...
Naruto and Sasuke's entire battle at Valley Of The End had some instances which can be interpreted as this. Dubbed!Sasuke makes it even more apparent. Shortly after meeting up with Sasuke at Valley Of The End Naruto tackles Sasuke to the ground, straddles him and punches him across the face. Sasuke then spits blood at Naruto's face and they grab each other by the shirt pulling their faces close to the others. Then Sasuke laughs and, in the dubbed version says "Remember how thrilled you were at the thought of beating me to a bloody pulp? What's wrong? Where's your smile now?" And, in the anime only, there's a scene where Sasuke finds Naruto, grins, rushes at him, grabs his wrists, and gets really close before kicking him away.
When Naruto and Sasuke had their first reunion after the Timeskip Sasuke half-hugging Naruto as he whispers in his ear and attempts to plunge his sword through Naruto's back looked more like he was preparing to have sex with him than that he was trying to kill him.
And for a touch of Fridge Horror, Pain's plan for world peace involves extracting the tailed beasts and using them to create a WMD that could annihilate an entire country in a single blow, and then use it, causing MAD to avert war UNTIL PEOPLE FORGET HOW DEVASTATING THIS WEAPON IS, at which point wars will resume, they will use the weapon, and the cycle repeats. The Fridge Horror of course, is the fact that it has been 65 years since the Nagasaki bombing.
In a filler arc, Kabuto and Yukimaru, a young boy, are isolated in the middle of a lake. They have a conversation that goes something like this.
Yukimaru: I have a feeling something fun is about to start. Kabuto: Yes, we're going to have some fun. Can you put this on? He then proceeds to give him a strange pill. Cut to a few seconds later, Yukimaru is screaming.
Given that Kabuto is the right hand man to a guy who is known for taking little children away from their parents, this seems rather bad.
From the same arc, one from hallucination-Orochimaru: "Sasuke will have the power he desires... and I will have him." *groan*
Several fans have noticed Ho Yay / Foe Yay between Kisame and Killer Bee. You see, both of them getting really close to each other's faces, Kisame's sword Samehada REALLY, REALLY likes Killer Bee, and Killer Bee did say that Kisame had "pretty eyes". Kisame goes shirtless during their fight and they both end up soaked with water and splattered with Killerbee's ink. Then Kisame attempts to cut off Killerbee's feet so he won't be able to get away but the way it looks... with a shirtless Kisame standing overtop Killerbee who's on the ground struggling to get away...
Suigetsu once threatened Sasuke from behind while naked.
In Claymore, during the first battle in Pieta, one of awakened beings looks like a giant turtle with a slightly phallic head. Jean doesn't help any when she states "One blow isn't enough, he's too hard".
Lucky Star has a scene with Konata lying on her back and choking on Cherry Blossoms. It's all the more suggestive for the few seconds her face is off-screen.
Are you sure about this one? Surely it's just a Shout Out to Da Capo...
Speaking of Da Capo, Miharu's first "wind-up" in episode 3 of the first season is similar to the trope pic. Needs a key to wind-up. Key goes in a hole (on her back). Tickles when her hole is touched. You get the idea.
Just about everything with Hyatt in Excel Saga. Excel also has a memorable scene where's she's rolling on the floor with a Mannequin dressed up as Ilpalazzo while kicking her feet in the air and screaming his name.
Hyatt? Hell, she's at it from the opening credits onwards. That shot of her eating a banana is about as unsubtle as can possibly be done. Fanservice seems a positive understatement...
To not mention the scene where Excel is watching the guy 'play his guitar' through a curtain, That's really as unsubtle as it gets.
Corrector Yui's transformation sequences have the girls (Yui, Haruna and Ai) making pretty... orgasmic faces when they get the chest jewel of their virtual costumes put on them. Here's the proof.
Everything involving Hisoka and his "interest" in Killua and Gon, what with all his talk of "waiting until the fruit is ripe" and basically getting 'aroused' when both of them happen to see him naked and making moaning noises as he stares at their butts.
In the Magical Girl show Prétear, the main character transforms by merging her life energy with one of the seven bishounen Léafe Knights. The Transformation Sequence shows both Himeno and the Knight naked, embracing, with the girl making a rather orgasmic face, before the knight turns into a ball (or "seed" if you will) of energy that implants itself into her body. You can see one of them here. This is lampshaded to hell in back in the series—from the Knights describing it as "becoming one" (with the flirty one of the bunch describing it in flowery, innuendo-filled detail) and Himeno exclaiming before one of her earlier transformations that she's "not sure if I'm ready for that sort of emotional commitment yet!"
This possibly has further symbolic consequences. Since Prétear's Applied Phlebotinum is effectively Life, the entire "becoming one" thing is understandable (since this is how people create new life in reality). However, one could note that the anime's Grand Finale Himeno manages to achieve the form of the Legendary White Prétear without merging with a Knight. Think about it for a second. Doesn't help that she further gets into the territory of Messianic Archetype by sacrificing herself. Well, temporarily, anyway.
A Rurouni Kenshin filler episode where Yahiko had to impersonate a foreign prince. The way they force him to wear the prince's clothes looks like they're about to rape him.
Hayate the Combat Butler almost pulls this off without a sexual context that's usually displayed. When Hinagiku gains donkey ears◊ (no, even in context it doesn't make sense), she comments that she can't let Hayate see her. Guess who shows up.◊ Every other time a character (usually her sister) bursts in on her without knocking, she's in the middle of dressing/undressing.
Most likely not intentional, but the dubbed version of the second to last episode of Moribito when Balsa and Tanda are getting the egg out of Chagum. "Put your hand in him" "IT HURTS!" The grunting in pain Chagum makes certainly doesn't help. Chagum is twelve by the way...
Actually, it looks a lot like a birth scene... which it sort of is.
In Jungle De Ikou, there are the girls' transformations... they make very sexual motions (our heroine moves like she's being slammed against a wall, her friend moves up and down), and immediately to transforming, they have a very orgasmic face, complete with a loud "Ohhhh!"
Air Gear: Arthur is a masochist who pelvic thrusts against his male opponent Agito and nibbles on his ear while fighting him. He also has flamboyant mannerisms, speaks in a polite manner, and frequently releases heart marks whenever he's reveling in the feeling of pain. Shalott is a loli who wears a frilly looking dress and drops a Bridget on Agito, revealing that he's actually a girly-looking guy who is in a BDSM type relationship with Arthur. The end of chapter 279 has him pin Agito to the ground and straddle him, saying after he tortures him then Agito can "lick it" if he wants.
Get Backers: Anything Takuma Fudou says to Ban. After Ban ripped off Fudou's arm, Fudou becomes completelyobsessed with Ban. He even keeps his own severed, rotting arm with him to constantly remind himself of Ban - which made him feel "incredible chills rising up throughout his body." And when he isn't talking to Ban, every word coming from his mouth is normally about Ban. Some notably lines include: "COME, COME, COME, COME, your eyes, your flesh, blood, your screams, GIVE YOUR BODY TO ME! MEET MY DESIRES!" "Don't die yet, Mido - I'm not finished. You still need to quench my thirst - I'm not done. Let me enjoy myself." "What was my job again? My mind goes blank whenever I see you." "The only thing that can stop this shaking... is for me to slurp up your blood!"
Katekyo Hitman Reborn!: Glo Xinia's Foe Yay with Chrome. Considering how during his fight with Chrome he grabbed her hard enough to cause her pain, kept getting in her face, and told her things like: "You seem to like being touched by men. Your blushing cannot betray your desires." "Give me MORE!" (after hearing her screams of pain) and "It's time to eat... that ring and you!" It's hinted he might've done something to her had Mukuro not shown up, allowing her time to escape. Also, when fighting Mukuro he comes out with this line: "Is that girl so precious to you? Then I'm going to take my share of such a precious girl right before your eyes. This could just be the best situation, don't you think? My appetite for that girl just keeps getting better!" and "Don't worry Chrome, I will take good care of you for MUKURO TO SEE!"
Also, in Lussuria's words his favorite bodies are the "wasted, cold, unmoving" ones. Unfortunately, Ryohei goes topless during his fight against Lussuria and this only serves to make Lussuria his hardcore fanboy. In fact, Lussuria actually openly ogles Ryohei's muscular physique and refers to his body as "pretty nice", says that he's "just his type" and promptly decides to take him home and make him a part of his "collection" after he beats him up.
All throughout Byakuran's battle with Tsuna we see Byakuran ruthlessly attack Tsuna and taunt him with things like "Very scary, ain't it?" while clearly enjoying the nervous/shocked expressions on Tsuna's face. Also, from the ending of Chapter 275 all throughout Chapter 276 we see Byakuran stealing a page out of Mukuro's book by grabbing Tsuna from behind and suffocating him - meaning Tsuna's all flushed, gasping, weakly fighting back, etc. while Byakuran never stops smiling, calling him Tsunayoshi-kun, and breathing things like "look at how helpless you are..." into his ear.
And the part during Mukuro's fight with Tsuna where he suddenly grabbed Tsuna from behind, whispered into his ear and looked like he was resting his chin on Tsuna's shoulder was oddly reminiscent of a I Have You Now, My Pretty ploy. His Grand Theft Me tactic where he wants to possess Tsuna's body so he can cause a rift within the mafia which has him repeatedly telling Tsuna to "give me your body", "I'm going to have some goddamn fun with you, and "With my ultimate technique you will be mine." Not to mention if you replay that part it in the anime it looks like he's raping Tsuna/having sex with Tsuna.
In episode 46 when Gokudera and Belphegor are trying to take each other's rings, at one point, Belphegor straddles Gokudera and all the struggling they're doing makes it look like they're having sex or that Belphegor is raping Gokudera.
Yamamoto got a Shirtless Scene in episode 100 of the anime, which verged on Shower Scene. With more Fanservice of the gratuitous Ho Yay sort, as Gokudera (again) comes in the changing room and starts taking off his shoes while sitting in front of a standing, still shirtless Yamamoto. The angle also makes it look like his head is level with Yamamoto's crotch.
D. Gray-Man has this with Tyki "killing" Allen (which resembled a sort of "violation," with Tyki sticking his hand into Allen), the suggestive dialogue with Tyki telling Allen, "Don't be so cold, boy. An Exorcist made a Noah strip down to his underwear. Was that the first time you did it? Do you think it was destiny for it to be us?" and Tyki seeming miffed when Allen tells him that he'd done it to many people before. During their fight later, there's another Does This Remind You Of Anything moment with Tyki telling Allen, "This is giving me the thrills. I'll break you, one more time, with this hand!" Road tells Lavi that Tyki likes Allen as much as she does (this being after it was established that she likes Allen enough to kiss him).
In one of the first episodes after Allen is defeated by Tyki in the anime, he says that he "lost his Innocence to Tyki". At least, that's how one fansub-group decided to translate it.
In one episode of the anime, Mimi holds up Lavi's hammer in its small form and says "Looks like someone lost his Innocence!" He gets it back.
Any reference to collecting, losing or destroying Innocence could be interpreted as this.
WORKING! episode 13 features Takanashi going through a complicated analogy the end-result of which is to confirm Inami's cuteness. Inami (who is holding a pair of soda cans at the time) goes red-faced, crushes the cans with her fists and has her face covered with white liquid...
Vampire Knight: Although it's not obvious, the Kiss of the Vampire serves as a metaphor for sex. Especially with regard to the "secret relationship" between Yuuki and Zero during volumes 3 and beyond. In other words, Zero is "boning" both Yuuki and Kaname. Seen in this light, the final scene with Zero and Ichiru is quite symbolic as well.
Also, Takuma Ichijo and Senri Shiki. There is one scene in the manga, at Ichijo's birthday party, where Shiki "accidently" cuts Ichijo with the knife while attempting to cut the cake. Cue Shiki, who prefers real blood over blood tablets, commenting on how they shouldn't waste it, licking Takuma's blood off his hand. With an almost lustful expression on his face.
Ultimate Girls. The anime is made out of this trope. From the "transformation rod" to monsters' weak spots, you can't watch it without your mind looking around and saying, "Gutter, gutter, and more gutter."
Karin: The biting. "It'll only hurt for a moment" indeed...
Or one of the most recent chapters where Karin's brother is forcing Bridget to be burned by sunlight by bending her over and sticking her head out the window while he is bent over her from behind, grabbing her so she can't struggle. That doesn't seem like rape at all, right? Oh, and then he and she later confirm that he spent the rest of the night forcing sex on her. But apparently, Rape Is Love in her case. She also calls later to say she's pregnant.
The bleeding. When Karin and Anju's respective first times at biting a victim are shown, both of them have the fronts of their white dresses conspicuously covered in "virginal" blood. Afterwards, both are referred to as vampires and adults.
Also, that certain time of the month where Karin's blood begins to multiply is reminiscent of... a certain other time of the month.
Episode 11 of Seitokai Yakuindomo has the girls (along with Tsuda's little sister) decide to go to Tsuda's room to play board games. Naturally, they barge into his room with what can only be called "rape faces◊," declare while giggling evilly that "You won't be getting any sleep tonight," and the scene ends with Tsuda screaming.
Seen in episode 6 of Ichiban Ushiro No Daimaou. Keena finds a sea cucumber in a tidal pool and happily begins playing with it to the horror of Junko. Rhythmically pumping her hands along its length, it eventually sprays Junko with a load of stringy, white ooze. And the fans of bukkake go wild.
Texhnolyze: All over the place, thanks to a heavy reliance on symbolism and metaphor to convey the story. Perhaps the most disturbing moment of this was when Onishi discovered Michiko after she had been beaten and raped by a bunch of thugs, and she grabs his sword in a disturbingly suggestive manner.
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt is at least 50% this. Notable examples include: a scene in which Panty and a guy are sticking their fingers into each other, talking about how great it feels...and then it turns out that they're picking each other's noses; and a scene involving Scanty,Kneesocks, figs, milk, and some very suggestive silhouettes...
Really. Wasn't it enough that the main characters are called Panty and Stocking? How about the fact that Panty's gun is her panties? It's fine with Stocking, but Panty is basically fighting semi-naked.
The manga Kamisama Dolls features an... interesting scene between the evil character, Aki, and an older woman, Kuuko. The latter involves herself in the Secret War because she wants to study the titular dolls (which are actually the "shells of gods" controlled by select humans called Seki). She does this by kidnapping, stripping and imprisoning Aki at her home then interrogating him by firing an air-soft gun at him until he agrees to show her his doll (called a Kakashi). He quickly gets pissed off at her violent, insane tactics and does indeed call upon his servant, having it phase through the floor, knocking Kuuko on her back and slicing her clothes right down the middle. As he's redressing, Aki makes the following exchange (made all the more suggestive by Kuuko panting and blushing the whole time):
Aki: How was it? I showed it to you, just like you wanted. (smiles) What do you think?
And the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga actually has a really uncomfortable variation with Dark Malik; all his duels are set up to seem reminiscent of rape. It doesn't help that he's literally getting off on the pain he's experiencing during the duel...
Dantalian No Shoka: Girl opens up her clothing; guy introduces his key in her lock; red liquid spurts out. (Episode 1, 17:30)
This chapter in a horror anthology: A young girl who thinks herself to be ugly gets a magic mirror that makes her pretty. But she soon becomes obsessed with being the prettiest girl in school, so she keeps using it, even long after she's advised to stop. Her classmates, teachers, and parents begin to look shocked when they see her, though she herself doesn't see anything wrong (only when using the magic mirror, of course). Eventually we see what everyone else is seeing; she's lost a tremendous amount of weight so she looks like a walking skeleton, her hair is falling out, she's deathly-pale, and can barely stand up.
Tiger & Bunny. Maverick drugging Barnaby and then showing himself as a Complete Monster in front of a semi-paralyzed and emotionally broken Bunny in episode 19. And in episode 20, Barnaby wakes up all disoriented in Maverick's home, while the other is making him breakfast. Date rape comparisons, anyone?
In Sailor Moon, the Amazon Trio looking into people's dream mirrors is pretty reminiscent of rape. How so? They look into the mirrors via forcibly sticking their head into them. While the victim screams in pain or discomfort. After seducing the poor Jane/John Doe to draw him/her to a secluded spot — and having them bound and helpless.
Not helped by the fact that each one of them (Fish Eye, Hawk Eye, and Tiger Eye) have a particular type they like to target.
In Koharu No Hibi the scene where Koharu enthusiastically licks the recorder of the guy she's in love with while breathing heavily and blushing.
Kuroshitsuji: In episode 6 of season 2 the line which Sebastian says to Claude, "That white, sticky spider's thread of yours tarnished bocchan's... soul."
Rust Blaster: Referring to a vampire bite "It hurt the first time you did it. Can you be more gentle this time?"
Hisoka of Hunter × Hunter has a particular fascination with Gon and Killua, stares at their butts while moaning in one scene and calls them "unripe" fruit that he wants to pick, meaning he wants to kill them at the end of a fight where they would be strong, but still...
Vassalord features a lot of this. Particularly memorable was the scene where Charley fed from Rayflo by kneeling in front of him and sucking on his... inner thigh. All with Rayflo blushing and breathing heavily.
D.N.Angel: The "pendants of eternal friendship" that Mio gave Riku to use with Daisuke. Also, there's a scene in Stage Four (manga volume 15) in which Satoshi's adopted father forces Satoshi to transform while holding him down over a table - yes, the entire has very disturbing rape undertones.
Ultimo: "Please put your hand inside me Yamato-sama."
Code Geass: The second season reveals that during the Time Skip, the Emperor used his own Geass to give Lelouch Fake Memories. The scene gets almost uncomfortably close to an actual rape, with Suzaku holding Lelouch down and Lelouch begging for him to stop.
In Code Geass R2. Suzaku, trying to find out if Lelouch has regained his memory and become Zero again, attempts to use the Refrain drug on Kallen to make her tell him the truth. Kallen is so disturbed and shaken that she begs for him not to, as though she were about to be literally raped by him. Just before dosing her, Suzaku realizes he is becoming Not so Different from Zero, and stops. When you think back to season one and how the mind of Kallen's biological mother was nearly destroyed by the drug, it's not that much of a stretch to believe that poor Kallen would liken a forced dose of refrain to a sexual violation.
Geez, Suzaku is a borderline rapist.
Zero no Tsukaima is full of this. Take for example: In episode 2 of the fourth season you get the feeling that Joseph was about to rape Louise for a second when he said she was gonna "lose her honor" then you see his robe lowering and how he kneels in front of her while she's tied up on the ground and touches her face...
In the past, the situation of mutants in the X-Men comics was compared to racial minorities. More recent books have shown a tendency to make discussions of being a mutant sound like they're about homosexuality.
The classic (if Anvilicious) EC Comics story "Judgment Day", in which an examiner comes from Earth to see if a planet inhabited by sentient robots is ready to join The Federation. It's revealed that the robots are split into two groups identical except for the color of their outside casing, and the educational programming given to each color. One group of robots is given less useful programming, forced to live in inferior housing in a segregated part of the cities, relegated to less desirable jobs, etc., all based on the casing color. The examiner is forced to flunk the civilization, and the guide whines that he is "only one robot" who can't change the system. The examiner consoles the guide by mentioning that Earth used to be like this too until its people got their act together. Then the examiner gets into his spaceship, takes off his helmet, and is revealed to be black. Read it here!
In an arc of Iron Man, the armor is struck by lightning; this, in combination with Y2K, made it sentient. Tony wants to transfer its mind to something less dangerous, or kill it, but then the armor tells him that it loves him. "How would you define the feelings I have for you? Because, if what I learned from your mind is true — it feels exactly the same as what you feel — for Ms. Fujikawa." Tony then decides to see if he can be a better Iron Man while in the sentient armor, but can't control it... The armor claims to be protecting Tony, and then it stops letting his friends over. He puts on an older Iron Man suit to try and escape, whichenrages the armor, and it takes him to an island and tortures him, then apologizes.... Evidently, Steve Rogers taught Tony how to escape from being tied to a tree, and the thought of him gives Tony strength. Still, Tony has a heart attack during the fight, and the armor, horrified, does a Heroic Sacrifice/Redemption Equals Death. Among many comic!Iron Man fans, the sentient armor is generally called "Tony's abusive boyfriend".
My god. It's like somebody loaded Lifetime and the Sci-Fi Channel into opposite ends of a particle accelerator.
One of the now-obliterated comments on the original post for this arc went like: "So if Peter × Symbiote = OTP, and Tony × Armor = OTP... Peter×Symbiote×Tony×Armor is?"
Wait wait wait... according to the armor, Tony wants Ms. Fujikawa inside of him?
Apparently whenever She-Hulk has a transformation from her puny human state into the green goddess, it is the equivalent of sexual orgasm to her, as was showcased in not only the recent Ultimate incarnation, but on the classic 90's cartoon as well, which was supposedly for the "younger" set.
After Superman gets temporarily de-powered in the events of Infinite Crisis, Lois' assurances that she loves him, that it's perfectly understandable, that she's sure he'll be back to normal in no time, and even that she loves him for who he is and not how well he can perform, sound rather like Superman is having a different kind of performance issue.
In a Dilbert comic, Tina got in trouble for sending a dirty e-mail and Catbert decided to look the other way if she rubbed his belly. It has a hell of a subtext:
Tina: This seems so wrong. Catbert: Try using both hands.
A Far Side panel had the Big Bad Wolf on a psychiatrist's couch, confessing that "on and off I've been dressing as a grandma ever since."
This becomes even more blatant, or perhaps just more up-to-date, in Bizarro's take on it.
A 1973 Peanuts sequence has Charlie Brown horrified to learn that the neighborhood adults had created "snow leagues" for kids, where teams competed with each other to build snowmen, including playoffs and the chance to play teams from other countries. Y'know like how sandlot baseball and other activities kids used to do for fun ended up becoming the basis for organized, hyper-competitive Little Leagues.
Warning: some content is NSFW. Sex scenes are not essential to the plot, so it is possible to skip over them without missing anything.
In Stargate Atlantis, the main villains the Wraith feed by sucking out people's life forces through an orifice in their hands. That this orifice resembles female genitalia has not gone unnoticed in the fandom.
Lampy (original): It's just like that feeling I get when I think about the master.
Lampy (Goes to Mars): I like being used!
Re-watching Disney's Cinderellaas an adult, the scene where the step-sisters rip apart Cinderella's dress now eerily reminds me of rape.
An interesting one between two stories used by Disney: Mufasa's death in The Lion King is actually quite similar to how Shere Khan dies in the book version of The Jungle Book.
In Tangled, in the campfire scene, replace the crown with Rapunzel's virginity. Mother Gothel tells her that Flynn is only after one thing and once he gets it, he will leave her.
Rapunzel's hair can also be seen as a symbol of her virginity, having gotten its power from a magic flower. Thus, Flynn "deflowered" her when he slashed her hair with a pointy object. It's even worse if you listen to the reprise of "Mother Knows Best" on the soundtrack. Without almost totally visual context, this is exactly what it sounds like. This is even worse when you think back to the original story.
This adds a even creepier factor to the Stabbington Brothers' "We want her" line. It's already pretty misinterpretable, but they want her 'magic hair', when they first wanted the 'crown'.
Also, when Flynn tries to use "the smolder" on Rapunzel and it doesn't work, he remarks "This is kind of an off day for me, this usually doesn't happen," as if he were talking about something other than merely trying to charm a woman.
Not to mention the scene where the Stabbington brothers encounter Rapunzel and try to capture her. The ominous atmosphere made it seem more like they were trying to rape her.
Re-watching Disney's Fantasia as an adult, I realize, the alligators that I thought were trying to "eat" the hippos and other female animals? No, look at those looks in their eyes and the way they flirtatiously dance with their targets. They have something else in mind entirely. *wink*
In Gnomeo and Juliet, the height of a gnome's hat seems to parallel with the size of something else. Made especially apparent when Nanette asks Juliet about the size of Gnomeo's hat, and when a jealous, small-hatted Tybalt deliberately smashes Benny's especially large hat.
In The Incredibles, when Mr. Incredible is out rescuing people from a burning building, Helen spots something on his collar and says, "Is that... rubble?" in the same tone of voice one would say "Is that lipstick?"
And his response goes with this too, in a terribly funny way: "It was just a little... workout. Just to stay loose!"
The entire scene depicting Esmeralda's dance from The Hunchback of Notre Dame. First she appears out of a puff of smoke onto a stage, then starts to perform a sultry dance, then runs up to Frollo, wraps her scarf around him and kisses him, then runs back onto the stage and continues her dance, then splits and winks at the viewer, revealing a brief closeup of her Green Eyes, then gets back up and grabs a spear from one of the guards' hands, before finally driving said spear into the stage and dancing around it as if it was a pole!
At the end of the film, just right after Frollo falls to his doom, Quasimodo actually looks like if he is marrying Esmeralda (whom because of her almost being tried and sentenced to death by burning by Frollo for a crime she did not commit, is now left with a long, white dress since all of her other outfits were presumably destroyed by Frollo so that she would be executed properly before the trial) to Phoebus.
In the first Toy Story, Buzz's Heroic BSOD when he realizes that he is a toy seems like someone who has just realized they have mental health issues.
The final battle between Rourke and Milo at the end of Atlantis: The Lost Empire is reminiscent of a bully beating up a nerd. Guess which is which!
Another Disney example: in The Little Mermaid, when Ariel is first transformed into a human and swims up to the surface, she bursts from the waves gasping for breath, nude but for her Seashell Bra, her head flung back, her back arched, looking for all the world as if she were having an orgasm. Since the entire story can be interpreted as a metaphor for a young girl becoming a woman and discovering her sexuality, and the potential perils of love and sex, this may very well have been intentional.
Ursula, while not a good character, was sane and composed during most of the film. However, when she transforms into Vanessa, its implied that she lost quite a bit of sanity (to the point of becoming a borderline Ax Crazy) when turning into her, as she talks to her mirror in a manner similar to a schizophrenic, emits a psychotic grin when throwing a pin at a mirror's head with enough velocity to knock the mirror back, and most certainly kill a person had that been a human being, not to mention her cackling.
The movie Brick takes place in a modern high school, but sounds and plays like a 1940's/50s's Film Noir; one of the students who hangs out by himself is the know-it-all informant, and the principal is the police chief or DA threatening to rein in the hero.
In X-Men II: X-Men United, Bobby "comes out" with his mutant powers to his parents, who respond, "Have you tried ''not'' being a mutant?" Director Bryan Singer is gay, as is actor Ian McKellen, who was asked for assistance in writing this scene, basing it on a "coming out" conversation.
BRUCE DAVIDSON: I am a bigot! I am very much against mutants! Mutants should die! Do you want mutants in our schools? Do you want mutants raising your children? God commands that mutants are abhorrent! I propose a bill which will immediately outlaw the Mutant Pride Parade and blow up San Francisco, home to many mutants!
FAMKE JANSSEN: Mutants are just like regular people. Except with powers. They should have the same rights as everyone else.
In New Moon, one of the wolf pack's wives gets her face nearly clawed off because she made her wolfman angry. But she forgives him, and acts like it never happened, because that's what good women do. Unfortunate Implications abound whether or not this is meant to be taken literally (and with Stephenie Meyer's writing, who can say?)
In Transformers, Frenzy spread-eagling himself over a computer terminal he'd plugged into, twitching and yelping, got a groan from the audience when this editor was in the theatre.
In Spider-Man 2, Peter Parker's problem with, ah, "shooting blanks".
Considering how James Cameron's original screenplay tried to present Peter's growing powers as a metaphor for puberty (complete with him waking up in bed and covered in sticky white webbing!), this is actually quite mild.
Well, what about Spider-Man and Mary Jane's first kiss in Spider-Man? You know, the one where he's hanging upside down in the rain...
Depending on the audience, the following dialog might lead to snickers.
Peter: Picking up where we left off. Mary Jane: Where was that? We never got on. You can't get off if you don't get on, Peter.
Spider-Man:(pinning Venom down) You have to take off this suit! Venom: You'd like that, wouldn't you?
A classic example is from the late 80's comedy The Couch Trip where on a radio call-in show, John Burns (Dan Aykroyd) suggests to a man trying to overcome a problem with premature ejaculation, to imagine working on his car instead. His description of taking apart a transmission... well, if the caller had had the opposite problem, it would've helped.
The opening scene of Film/Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban has Harry exuding a white light from the tip of his wand. Under his covers. With Harry hiding the evidence when Uncle Vernon comes into his room.
Harry:(playing with his wand in the middle of the night) Uncle Vernon: Stop playing with your wand in the middle of the night! Harry:(continues playing with his wand in the middle of the night)
Later in the third movie Harry learns the Patronus Charm which makes a pure white creature come out of his wand when he thinks of his "Happiest Memory" (Total Freudian imagery.)
But don't the girls also learn the Patronus Charm?
Then we have the sixth movie, in which Ginny notices Harry's shoelace is untied and kneels down to fix it. Since we only see the top of her head near his waist... it's not hard to see what the makers were alluding to/making fun of.
How about Tom Riddle's comments in Chamber of Secrets?: "You'll find I can be very... persuasive. Not that she knew what she was doing..."
Sir Ian McKellen's film version of Richard III. The setting is established right off as 30s Europe. Sure, why not? Then we come to Richard's coronation scene... and down come the long, red banners with his black-and-white emblem and fervent background chanting. Oh, right.
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country is a big, honkin' allegory about the end of the Cold War. It starts off with the horrible disaster on the Klingon moon Praxis, (not in Chernobyl); which forces the Klingon Empire, (not the Soviet Union) to reach out to the Federation (not the West). Conservative hard-liners then kill (not attempt to kill) Gorkon (not Gorbachev) for his trouble. From there, it diverges a bit from actual history, but you get the picture. The greatest irony is that history ultimately proved the Conservatives right, given Russia's involvement with Iran, partial renunciation of democracy and so on.
Don't Be a Menace features gangsta Loc Dog receiving a package of white powder from his friend, promising him that he'll get some when it's ready. Loc then measures, tests, and puts the powder in an apparatus on the stove. Of course at the end of the scene, it's shown that he's not processing heroin but rather baking a tasty cake instead.
In one version of the Dracula movie, Jonathan cuts his finger while dining with the Count, who gets a little too... excited about this and wants to suck Jonathan's finger.
In the Coppola version, Lucy enthuses about Quincy's big "thing" - namely, his bowie knife.
In Iron Man, Tony Stark is trying to unsuit himself...
Tony: Hey! Ow, ah, ah! Jarvis: It is a tight fit, sir. Tony:(pained grunting) Jarvis: Sir, the more you struggle, the more this is going to hurt. Tony: Be gentle. This is my first time.
Tony's line when Pepper shows up immediately following the previous exchange sold the scene:
Tony: Let's face it. This is NOT the worst thing you've caught me doing.
Makes one wonder what the worst thing she caught him doing was.
Hardly.
According to Entertainment Weekly's review of The Jonas Brothers' 3-D concert movie, there's one part where the brothers spray foam at the audience — out of a hose, if I remember the article correctly. The reviewer only hopes that the target audience doesn't see the symbolism in this.
I'm pretty sure the Jonas Brothers spray foam in the other direction.
It's not sexual, the hose was wearing a purity ring.
Confederate States of America, an Alternate History where the South won the Civil War, features several false propaganda films supposedly from the Fifties that portray those favoring the abolition of slavery as evil ("Watch out, because your neighbor could be an Abby!"). Later in the Mockumentary there's another propaganda piece that asks "Have you now, or have you ever been, a homosexual?" Both are intended to be similar to the Red Scare fear of communism.
Revenge of the Fallen: The girl who aggressively hits on Sam gets squirted in the face... just not by Sam. Of course, Sam doesn't really help the scene by yelling, "Oh my God your face! Lemme get some wetnaps for your face!"
There was a scene in City Slickers where Mitch and Phil are talking about what seems to be impotence but they're really talking about using the VCR. And they've been at it for four hours.
Connie Swail (who has just been rescued from becoming a virgin sacrifice): How come his is so much bigger than yours?
Officer Joe Friday: Miss?
Connie Swail: The gun.
Officer Joe Friday: I've never needed more.
Max drank about nine milkshakes with several party goers cheering him on in Max Keeble's Big Move in a manner that is very reminiscent of a binge drinking contest.
All the Boys Love Mandy Lane contains a very dark example: the scene wherein Mandy murders Chloe is heavily sexualized.
The song Breakin' Out in Shock Treatment plays over scenes of Brad escaping from the asylum. But listen to the words, and it seems to be about another kind of coming out entirely...
Hoo boy, this exchange in Commando when John convinces the villain (who looks like both a member of the village people and Freddy Mercury) to let go of his daughter and have a knife fight with him.
John: "You don't want to pull the trigger. You want to put the knife in me and look me in the eye and see what's going while you turn it. That's what you want to do, right?"
Bennett: (With an orgasmic expression on his face.) "I can kill you John."
John: "Come on, let the girl go, just between you and me, don't deprive yourself of some pleasure, come on Bennett, let's party!"
Bennett: "I can beat you, I don't need the girl hahah, I DON'T NEED THE GIRL! I don't need the gun John. I can beat you. I DON'T NEED NO GUN! AND I'LL KILL YOU NOW!"
The fights ends with John impaling Bennett on a long hard steam pipe.
In Muppets from Space, the scene where Gonzo talks about being an alien sure sounds an awful lot like coming out of the closet...
Star Trek: First Contact. Picard's "The line is drawn here!" scene sounds like he's hell-bent on avenging his own rape especially when he uses euphemisms like "I will make them pay for what they've done!"
In Police Academy 2, gun obsessive Eugene Tackleberry loses his virginity, for which he and his equally gun obsessed girlfriend have to take their guns out of their holsters etc and put them on the floor. As they do, the lights go off, and but a moment or two later a gunshot is heard.
Literature
In the eighth Light Novel of Suzumiya Haruhi, Haruhi tries to get the last page of Kyon's short story because she wants to know the aftermath of the date. He unconsciously touches his blazer, and Haruhi, being the Genre Savvy girl, immediately works out where he hid it and wrestles him to the floor, in this position. Followed soon after by this position. Guess what came to Mikuru's mind when she walks in on this. You're right.
In Jasper Fforde's The Fourth Bear, the MP Sherman Bartholomew built his reputation on being the first openly gay Member of Parliament, but is secretly straight. His husband is aware of his dalliances with women, and has agreed to support him if any of them were to become public knowledge. The same book also featured talking bears who developed addictions to honey and porridge, which were therefore controlled substances.
The prejudice shown by traditionalist dwarfs to those who admit to being female is portrayed in a way that reflects reactionary attitudes to feminism, homosexuality, and transsexuality.
In Thud!, on the other hand, the clash of ideals between moderate and extremist dwarven factions closely resembles similar conflicts in the history of religion, Islam being the most prominent one recently.
The Fifth Elephant makes the point in the same Dwarvish context that "conservative" does not necessarily mean "extremist".
Jingo! was centered around a conflict between the Westernized Ankh-Morpork and the Arabia-metaphor country of Klatch. Anti-Klatchian prejudice bore a remarkable similarity to the xenophobic ignorance shown against Middle Eastern peoples, and the illogic of this stance is lampooned many, many times.
Though the prejudices were less about the modern religious terrorists angle, but about the old British colonial stereotypes.
In Guards! Guards!, drunk Vimes says (paraphrased): Ah, life... it grabs you... kicks you in the... in the... y'know, thingies... that you have in the mouth... Teeth. That's it.
Angua wears a leather collar as a part of her everyday clothing and calls her boyfriend "master" (albeit not to his face). She's a werewolf, and has a mild case of dog-like instincts towards humans.
In the Taltos novels, the Teckla rebellion is clearly reminiscent of a communist revolution. In fact, in one book, a ridiculously long-lived character actually seems familiar with Marx's text and makes this comparison.
Dune's whole "desert planet where everybody speaks Arabic with the most important substance in the galaxy" thing.
It's named Arrakis. *
Which comes from the traditional name of Mu Draconis, which comes from the Arabic al-Raqis, "The Dancer". Yes, we know that Arrakis orbits Canopus, another star entirely.
Harry Potter: See what this sounds like: An eleven-year-old girl exchanges messages with an older stranger she has never met in real life. It's so easy! She enters her thoughts and he immediately transmits back. She confides in him, but he's really using her and preying on her insecurities. He makes her do horrible things for him which she doesn't want to do, but she still doesn't tell anyone. Finally, he meets her in person and nearly kills her. After she's been rescued, her father chides her for knowing better than to trust someone like that.
More blatantly, the werewolf Fenrir Greyback seems to have some pretty heavy "sexual predator" undertones, what with all his salivating over young children and whatnot.
In John Green's An Abundance of Katherines, Lindsey has a cave. It seems like more of a short tunnel. She's never had anyone else in there, but she wants the protagonist to go in. She remarks that it's a bit tight, but she'll guide him in. She also notes that she must have overlooked that opening a hundred times before noticing something special around eighth grade, when she started using it whenever she was having "me time".
In John H. Ritter's Choosing Up Sides, 13-years-old Luke's left-handedness is treated in the same manner as homosexuality. His father has always tried to correct his tendencies, for fear he'll go to Hell, and Luke believes for a while that he can change if he tries hard enough. His uncle even tells him there's no point in trying; he's simply "oriented that way".
There was SF short story in which people would regularly have sex in public, pay for sex, and treat sex as a generally essential part of life... but ate in private and were ashamed if anyone found out they'd paid someone to cook for them.
Wasn't that part of Venerian culture in Heinlein's Space Cadet?
Anything and everything that happens or is discussed in Invisible Man has something to do with race relations, from the ingredients in the paint the main character helps to make, to the cast-iron bank he keeps trying to get rid of. It gets more than a little Anvilicious at times.
In Lord of the Flies, there is a scene with a mother pig, whom the boys force away from her piglets, and then spear. This is reminiscent of some soldiers who have just gone AWOL, as Jack and his tribe have just left the main group gang-raping a mother. A few quotes, in chronological order:
The spear moved forward inch by inch and the terrified squealing became a high-pitched scream.
Then Jack grabbed Maurice and rubbed the stuff all over his cheeks.
"Right up her ass!" [One of the boys is bragging about where he managed to get his spear.]
Toward the end of Dracula, the vampire forces Mina to drink some of his blood from his chest. The protagonists walking in on this event feel both awkward and enraged. Afterwards, Mina is traumatized and ashamed, and struggles to explain what happened to her husband. She laments her doomed soul and blames herself for "wanting" it.
There's a fair bit of this in the novel. Jonathan's little teeny tiny budding man-crush on his host (Wow, he'd make such a good lawyer! He's got such a big library! What a cool guy!) seems to disappear after the incident with the Brides — which comes across, for one not already expecting vampiric goings-on, to be the Count having a jealous fit about someone else getting to (ahem) kiss his guest.
Well, vampirism was a way to get away with writing sexual stories. And Bram Stoker, the author was known to have a correspondence with Walt Whitman that included a "dirty letter".
In The Dresden Files the eternal rivalry between the Summer and Winter courts of the fairies bears more than a passing resemblance to the Cold War between America and Russia. Both sides are pretty much equal in strength, and it's clear that a full scale conflict between them would, in the most likely scenario, largely wipe both sides out and send the world into a new ice age, but if it looks like one side's showing weakness ... well, they just have to exploit it. That's what archenemies do, right?
In The Witcher novels the presence of the Witchers can be sensed as a tingling sensation by sensitive people. There's a reason why they all seem to attract the opposite sex quite a bit. Likewise, in The Blood of the Elves a 13-year old girl learning to be a sorceress draws power from the earth, an experience that's described in a manner reminiscent of menstrual cramps and concluding in an orgasm.
Roald Dahl's The Witches includes a scene where the protagonist is dragged out of hiding by a group of witches and force-fed a potion as they hold him down.
A very, very likely unintended example:
Orion Pax listened, and cataloged, and archived, and indexed, but his mind was not on his work... Who was this Megatron, this gladiator thug, killer of criminals and criminal himself, who gave voice to a longing that Orion Pax had never known he felt?
Transformers: Exodus
Still, it's one of those things where you desperately want to ask how no one looked at it and went, "Hey, guys, this kind of sounds like a romance novel set-up..."
Goblin Market is full of this trope, sometimes disturbingly so, with multiple scenes that suggest a connection between the consumption of food and seduction or attempted rape.
In The Berenstain Bears book about the Beanie Babies, The Bears go over to the Bear City, to a Bears R Us, to a long line, and the narration actually mentions two dads who are being arrested for getting into a fight. That was probably one of the more grittier elements of the usually light-hearted books.
In another book, The Berenstein Bears and the Sleepover, the Sleepover that Sister Bear is attending ends up going way out of control to the extent that the police arrive shortly thereafter and the parents take the children home to punish them, and then they have to clean up the mess. Gee, that sounds like something from a stereotypical Party House from one of those high school films like Superbad.
Ever notice how, in the Redwall series, the male villains are always trying to steal the supposedly magical Sword, yet the female villains ignore it completely, with the exception of Tsarmina, who broke it in half and imprisoned its owner?
Detractors like to say this about the Inheritance Cycle, claiming that Paolini copied plot points or even the entire storyline wholesale from other, better books or movies. This is somewhat helped along by the fact that the plot synopsis on this very wiki's page for the series was constructed to read like a Troperiffic plot synopsis of Star Wars.
Dr. Seuss' The Butter Battle Book concerns two peoples split by a trivial ideological difference (which side toast should be buttered on), locked in an arms race that escalates to the point that if either side actually acts, both will be destroyed. If this sounds exactly like the Cold War as seen by its detractors, congratulations, you just got the point of the book.
DH Lawrence's Women in Love has Gerald Crich, the typical manly man. In one of the scenes, he's shown riding a horse, and a train comes by. The horse is naturally afraid of the noise, but Gerald holds her there and forces her to endure it. The way it's written makes it sound like a rape scene, and it's very unsettling.
Robbie doing a solo mate dance and dancing uncontrollably around a girl he likes = erections and masturbation
Charlene's growing tail = Breasts
The "Nut to War" episode = The Gulf War
Robbie using theroids = Steroids
Vegetarianism = dealing with drugs or having a homosexual in the family.
Blue-skinned mammals = black people
Potato-ism = Religion
iCarly: Carly meeting Nevel for the first time is oddly reminiscent of meeting an Internet pedophile. Obviously it's toned down for kids.
In "iQuit iCarly", the scene with the three main characters at school after Carly announces the show's cancellation resembles a conversation between a kid and his divorced parents.
In "iBeat The Heat" Freddie tries to lift Carly onto the kitchen bench. He fails, and ends up making it look like he's having (clothed, obviously) sex with her.
Mrs. Benson interrupting their webshow holding a bag which looks identical to a bag of weed and asking Freddie what it was. It turns out to be the asparagus that Freddie didn't eat for dinner, but it's obvious what it was meant to resemble.
When Carly stopped dating the guy in "iQ" Sam gives Carly the huge fork which she took from the Shays at the beginning of the episode. When Carly asks Sam why is she giving up her beloved fork, Sam pulls out a huge fork. Carly replies " That is comically big." Which reminds some of us of what one woman might give her now-lonely girl friend to compensate for not having a boyfriend any more. If you know what I mean? Probably the closest a kid show ever came to making a masturbation joke. And its with females at that.
After many of his jokes on The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson will say "Remind you of anyone?"
After Spike finds himself incapable of biting Willow due to the recently implanted chip in his head, there follows a very funny conversation between the two which could almost word-for-word be about impotence. Until right at the end, when Willow mentions that they could "wait half an hour and try again," does a take that needs no words to express, "What the hell did I just say?", and brains him with a lamp.
and just moments earlier "Honey are you sure you are a Vampire Slayer?" and moments later "It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?". You really can't get any more specific than this.
And in a later episode, she mentions how supportive she's been about the supernatural side of Buffy's life, saying, "I've tried to march in the Slayer Pride parade."
When Buffy does a meditative ritual to try to find out what's wrong with Joyce, it looks very much like she's getting high (she won't let Dawn into her room, burns incense and tries to cover it up by sticking a towel under the door, and afterward we see through her eyes and her sight is wonky).
When Dawn finds out that she's the Key, it's played as though she found out that she was adopted.
Which is, of course, true after a fashion, since she was literally retconned into the family via magic.
The whole "drive a stake into them" concept of vampire lore (by no means limited to Buffy) probably fits this trope.
Also done in the episode "Hush". With the characters unable to speak, Buffy mimes hand gestures that are supposed to represent staking the monster of the week, but that instead resemble masturbation. The rest of the Scoobies look at Buffy as though she's gone mad, and she hastily repeats the gesture with a stake actually in her hand.
There was also this conversation between Willow and Tara, before they started their relationship:
Willow: I had so much fun the other night, with the spells... Tara: Yeah, that was nice. Willow: I hope you don't think I just come over for the spells and everything, I mean, I really like just talking and hanging out with you and stuff. Tara: I know that. But you wanna do a spell, right? Willow: Yeah, but... Tara: Oh, you don't have to explain. I've been thinking about that last spell we did all day.
In another example of "magic as sex" for this relationship, Willow and Tara are seen doing a spell together, with Willow lying back against a pillow, panting and sweaty, with the shot showing her only from the waist up. The spell is aptly called "the passage to the netherrealm".
THEIR WHOLE SONG "Spread beneath my willow tree. . ."
"Sometimes I think about two women doing a spell. And then I do a spell by myself."
And in Dawn's diary / internal monologue in "Real Me":
"Willow's the awesomest person. She's the only one I know who likes school as much as me. Even her friends are cool! Like Tara. She and Willow are both witches. They do spells and stuff, which is so much cooler than slaying. I told Mom one time I wish they'd teach me some of the things they do together. (beat) A-and then she got really quiet and made me go upstairs. Huh. I guess her generation isn't cool with witchcraft."
When Angel bites Buffy in season 3, we see her crushing a helmet with one hand, as well as hearing her panting — another example of "biting as sex" within the Buffyverse.
Another "biting as sex" example in the Buffyverse is during the Season 5 premiere, when Dracula shapeshifts himself into Buffy's room by turning into mist that floats in through her window (like a secret lover sneaking in), remarking on Buffy's scar from where Angel bit her, and then biting her on the other side, after which he tells her to take a taste of him. The next day, she really doesn't want anyone, especially Riley, to see her scar, like it's evidence of a shameful one-night stand.
In the season six episode "Wrecked" Willow get addicted to visiting an extremely powerful wizard by the name of Rack. He's referred to as "dealing" and Willow's experiences are more than a little trippy. The people in the lobby are all strung-out and when Willow leaves with Dawn, her eyes are dark and she's a little "off." To make matters worse, Willow treats the demon as a hallucination.
Magic is also treated as sex in the same episode, with Willow writhing with her shirt open.
And combining the awakening lesbianism = magic and drugs = magic metaphors makes for some Unfortunate Implications.
Demonic possession stood in for drugs in a story from Giles' past as Rupert the Ripper. His friends would pass around the demon, and when it possessed them, they would get a kind of high.
Willow to Buffy: "You could do that thing with your mouth, that guys like so much."
In 4x12 Buffy and Riley discuss how many Demons they have both slain. Buffy of course has a lot more than Riley and the whole conversation could really also be about previous sexual partners.
When Buffy is let into the initiatives base for the first time it's first played as if Riley and she are going to have sex. Then when they are in, the conversation goes like this: Buffy: "You said it was big. You told me, but you never said it was huge." Riley: "I don't like to brag."
Giles comment to Riley and Buffy having sex in a haunted house: "In the midst of all that do you really think they were keeping it up?" *Stares from all the Scoobies* "Oh, for a different phrasing".
Willow & Tara's break up is treated like a divorce with Dawn as their child. When Tara and Dawn go for a movie and shakes an episode or two later, Tara assures Dawn that "I will always be there for you" and that her moving out had nothing to do with Dawn.
Vampire attacks on women look a lot like rape.
Spike's Enemy Mine alliance with Buffy is treated like infidelity.
Spike: I told her [Drusilla] it didn't mean anything, I was thinking of her the whole time, but she didn't care.
Angel 2x06: Angel: "Were you in Virginia?" Wesley: "That's besides the point."
In 2x17, "Disharmony", Harmony tries to explain to Cordelia that she's a vampire. Instead it sounds like she's coming out as a lesbian and expressing a crush on Cordelia.
In the episode "The Vision-Thing" Wesley mentions a Chinese herbal shop called Wang Ho Dong, getting a long look from Gunn.
In "Spin the Bottle" amnesiac Fred thinks she may have been abducted by aliens, and rambles about how they must have done terrible things to her naked, helpless body. In response Wesley's wrist-blade pops out spontaneously.
In Wizards of Waverly Place, episode Dollhouse, Justin and Alex fight again. Then, she suddenly jumps, laughs like a little kid and hugs him tightly. The conversation goes like this:
Alex: There you go, there's the fight I was looking for! (pause) Now you feel better? (she hugs him) Justin:(annoyed) Hm... Fine. (he tightens the hug) Alex: Ow... Justin... You're hurting me. Justin: Hmmm... Yeah... (he releases her)I do feel better now, thank you.
In one episode, Jerry's relationship with Keith Hernandez resembles a romantic relationship, in which helping him move is treated as "going all the way."
In another episode, Jerry makes a snide remark about dentists which gets him labeled an "anti-dentite". ("Next thing you know you're saying they should have their own schools!" "They do have their own schools!")
Later subverted in the same episode, When Jerry jokes with the Girl of the Week about dentists only to discover her non-metaphorical prejudice:
GotW: Hey, what do you call a doctor who fails out of med school? Jerry: What? GotW: A dentist. (they laugh) Jerry: That's a good one. Dentists. GotW: Yeah, who needs 'em? Not to mention the Blacks and the Jews.
Jerry leaving his barber for his more talented relative is portrayed as an infidelity of operatic proportions, complete with several music cues from The Barber of Seville.
Another episode had portrayed Kramer and Jerry as a married couple, when Kramer got a job, specifically portraying Kramer as the workaholic husband and Jerry as the neglected wife.
Even in one of the first series, a scene in which Jerry tried to stop seeing an annoying friend is played like a relationship break-up, with Jerry resorting to saying 'it's not you, it's me'
An episode where Kramer's shower breaks forces him to not bathe for days. His constant scratching and his desperate need for a new shower head makes him look and sound like a junkie. His dilemma makes Elaine's situation at work (she is mistaken for a drug dealer) a lot worse.
And, of course, the episode in which the facial/speech aftereffects of dental surgery result in Kramer being mistaken for a mentally-challenged person.
In an episode where Elaine happened to be involved with a man who had pro-life views, Kramer had the following discussion with Poppie, the owner of a pizzeria:
Kramer: A pizza isn't a pizza until it comes out of the oven!
Poppie: No, a pizza is a pizza the moment you stick your hands in the dough!!!
In Just Shoot Me!, Dennis replaces Ally as Jack's bridge partner; the plot is played out as an infidelity.
An episode strangely did one where a man revealing to his wife Phoebe that he was straight had almost the same dialogue as it would if he were revealing he was gay ("Have you told your parents?" "No, but they're pretty cool. My brother's straight"); it was a Citizenship Marriage and she had known him to be gay. Friends also did this a lot with Joey and Chandler acting like a married couple.
And an episode where Rachel discovers Monica has been shopping with Ross's new girlfriend, and it's treated like infidelity.
Let's not forget an episode fairly early on where Phoebe and her current boyfriend were infected with chicken pox. They couldn't resist scratching themselves, so they had oven mitts duct-taped on to their arms. Eventually, the itching became too severe for them to resist, Phoebe started saying how good it would feel to give in and her boyfriend was saying "We can't, we'd regret it!", and eventually he succumbed to temptation along with her in a clear parallel to a highly turned-on couple trying to resist the urge to...get it on.
And when they finally do, they end up rubbing their backs against each other, complete with groaning, until Ross and Rachel walk in and gasp in horror, with Ross saying "I expected this from you Phoebe, but you're a military man!" to the boyfriend.
Let's face it, Friends uses this trope about every second episode.
Monica admitting to Rachel that she went shopping at Bloomingdales with Julie. Monica redeveloping an addiction to cookies. Rachel and Chandler stealing cheesecakes, played off as having to commit multiple cover up murders to cover up their original crime. Chandler and Joey arguing about the care of their new "baby" chick. Joey's kidney stones needing to be peed out, when Phoebe cut Monica's hair, and many, many occasions of Joey and Chandler acting like a couple, including arguments about Chandler's ex-roommate Kip and buying furniture together...
One episode has Ross and Joey accidentally taking a nap together. It's treated like a night of drunken experimentation.
Joey: We have to talk about this!
Ross: We can't!
Joey: Why not!?
Ross: Because it's weird!
The Class: Nicole and Yonk go on a diet with no red meats. Duncan brings steak sandwiches to Nicole while Yonk is out for dinner, but Yonk comes home early while they're eating them together, at which point Duncan hurries out while they make excuses to Yonk. Particularly funny because Nicole and Duncan have actually cheated together before.
An episode of Lizzie McGuire has Gordo falling into the "forbidden world" of roleplaying games. Which are, as they often are, treated like drugs. (At least it's a step up from being portrayed as demonic or satanic.)
Boston Legal has played with the relationship between Alan Shore (James Spader) and Denny Crane (William Shatner), making them seem like lovers even though both are heterosexual skirt-chasers. They end each episode on a balcony, discussing life. In one episode, Alan brought an old friend out to the balcony to hold a conversation, but when Denny saw them there, he left in a huff, and later accused Alan of infidelity; they even discussed the fact that fidelity isn't restricted to romantic relationships alone. Alan said he didn't want to lose Denny, and promised never to let anyone else get in the way of their friendship. And called Denny high-maintenance.
They even have "sleepovers" on a regular basis. In one episode Denny was experiencing erectile problems and had an alarm on his crotch whenever he would get an erection...and when Alan proposed one of these "sleepovers" said alarm went off.
The finale has made the relationship canon. Seriously, they got married.
Which really doesn't mean anything, since while they use gay marriage as argument in support of their own, they're not gay, they love each other in a platonic sense and Alan wants to make sure he can always be there for Denny.
In Motor Skills Roz got a puppy and Martin offered to give her some of Eddies old toys, and it took about forty seconds before the whole thing disintegrates into an extended metaphor of a mother and a daughter disagreeing on how to raise the grand-child.
Damn it Martin! Just because I am not raising him your way doesn't mean that I am raising him the wrong way.
In the finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, the normally reserved butler Geoffrey is retiring from his position as the Banks family butler, and he seems just a little too excited about his employer's announcement that he's "officially off duty." Am I the only one who is reminded of the freeing of a household slave?
This may be a legitimate interpretation given that Geoffrey was always portrayed as resenting everything the family makes him put up with, and, more generally, American culture has always tended to feel that using a household servant comes uncomfortably close to using a slave.
Also consider that Geoffrey is working for his citizenship, which Will and Carlton hid and denied him, the show alludes to not only slavery but indentured servants, who often worked for the right to live in the United States (one way to raise the funds needed for your passage was to agree to a period of indentured servitude in exchange).
In The Tick episode "Arthur, Interrupted", coming out as a superhero is described the same way as homosexuality, and later as a drug addiction. They even stage an intervention.
One episode treated Dick's obsession with collecting a brand of plush animals curiously similar to Beanie Babies as a drinking addiction, culminating with an "intervention" from the other characters. Subverted at the end of the episode where Dick explains that he's given up on the collecting and taken up drinking instead.
In another episode, Harry's insurance agent refuses to return his calls. Sally gives him some tips on how to "make a man call you". Eventually, he gets another agent, which plays out as Operation Jealousy.
In another episode, Sally encourages Harry to join her in playing with the time-space portal, saying "c'mon, let's do it — you know you want to". They accidentally beam in another alien from the Home Planet and are forced to take care of him. Dick berates them, remarking "thirty seconds of pleasure and a whole lifetime of responsibility". The rest of this storyline involves Sally and Harry "parenting" the new alien, who quickly starts acting like a bratty child.
Then there's the time when Dick, while rifling through Tommy's sock drawer, discovers plastic bags full of dried green plants and learns, to his shame and disgrace, that Tommy knows how to cook.
Tommy: No, it's pot, I swear! I ... smoke it with my friends.
Dharma and Greg had an episode where the title characters decided that they needed "couple friends", i.e. other married couples to hang out with. They then went to the bookstore and tried to "pick up" other couples. After befriending a couple, Dharma found that couple with another couple and accused them of "cheating" on her and Greg.
A similar thing happened in How I Met Your Mother when Marshall and Lily found a new couple to hang out with after Barney and Robin dumped them. It even has a Redemption in the Rain scene.
A 30 Rock episode had Liz stressing out over a co-op board failing to call her. This is played out as though it's about a date ignoring her. Eventually, she tells them "You know what, I've moved on. I bought a whole bunch of apartments! I bought a black apartment."
The opening of Dexter shows Dexter's morning routine. Or is it his murder routine? Wait, what are you planning on doing with that dental floss?
It's his morning routine. The hilarious opening scene for the fourth season shows him do it while completely exhausted, and thus screwing it up, because he's a daddy now, and babies cause lack of sleep. The end of the second season also shows him doing his morning routine. I'd just like to know where he gets those terrifying oranges.
They're blood oranges (naturally), and they're not terrifying, they're delicious.
Dexter's serial killing has also been compared to cheating on his girlfriend, drug addiction and being a closeted gay man, the last one is Hilarious in Hindsight if you've seen Six Feet Under.
On Keeping Up Appearances, Daisy and Onslow recall their wedding night, when she finally told him she was a Liverpool supporter. It's set up as if she had revealed something far more scandalous: Onslow had to go for a walk to sort things out, and, he says, she's lucky he didn't divorce her.
Nick Knight's vampiric dependency on blood is treated like alcoholism in Forever Knight. It's said that he could even become human again like he wanted if he could just kick the habit. At one point, he even tries a 12-step program.
Ellen's relationship with her auditor in the 3rd season of Slings and Arrows is deliberately reminiscent of a therapist-client relationship. Up to:
Ellen: I think we're making real progress here. Maybe we could move to an hour-and-a-half session?
Later in the season, we see Anna on the phone with someone. "What do you mean you have to play with it?... Well, when will you be able to get it up again?... Is there anything I can do to help?" She's talking to tech support about the theatre festival's local area network.
In Black Books, Bernard and Manny have a falling out, and Manny goes to work at the bookshop next door. This is treated by both parties as if it were the break-up of a romantic relationship, with Bernard in particular reacting as if Manny had been unfaithful to him ("Go to him! Go to your fancy man! I don't need you anymore!"). Then again, there's more than a little Ho Yay between Bernard and Manny.
There was also a first season episode where Manny gets fed up with Bernard's abuse and moves out. Fran and Bernard react like parents to a child running away from home, each blaming the other—Bernard accusing Fran of spoiling him and Fran accusing Bernard of driving him away by being mean to him. Then they go to the police to report him missing, who assume he's their son—right up until they start describing his appearance and they mention his goatee:
Police Officer: Just how old is your son?
On a slightly more serious note, Farscape's treatment of wormholes, usable as both a rapid long-distance travel method... and a weapon of horrific destruction. The obvious allegory is probably made most blatant in the second half of season 3's two-part episode "Into The Lion's Den"/"Wolf In Sheep's Clothing".
Kokura: To stabilize a wormhole — to tame it, to tame its power — would have been the greatest scientific discovery anyone could imagine! Crichton: It is not! Just! Science! It is never just science! It's a weapon! It kills!
Aaaand on a more humorous note, in Farscape we have the large amount of torture, leather and sex... where you get lines like this:
Bad Guy for the week (season 4): I like interrogations... long, hard interrogations
Or pretty much any scene with Scorpius when he's being tortured. The torturer always looks like they're having way too much fun, and Scorpius is continuously pleading with them to keep doing it. Yes, I'm sure that doesn't mean anything at all.
Or that episode in season 3 where Talyn is... er... let's just say 'leaking' an leviathan adrenaline-filled gas, which enhances certain aspects of humanoid physiology. In essence, Crais starts threatening to shoot people if they don't give him a gun (and he doesn't seem to understand what's wrong with that request), Stark goes... more crazy (if that were even possible), and John and Aeryn get very turned on by the mist:
Aeryn: Bad, bad mist...
John: Naughty mist...
One episode of Malcolm in the Middle concerned Hal feeling out-of-place in a poker game because he was the only non-professional person there, and all the professional people were banding together and discriminating against him with their unique slang and culture. (They were also all black.)
Two torture sessions with a water theme or metaphor. A tiny nation invaded by a vast empire for uncertain reasons fights back with suicide bombers. And oh yeah, a surprise attack on an unsuspecting country that changes their entire political and cultural outlook. Watch Battlestar Galactica (Reimagined) long enough and it will remind you of something in contemporary American politics.
The HBO series True Blood contains so much subtext about vampire rights that some might find the not-so-subtle parallels a bit tiresome. "God Hates Fangs"? Even vampire puns are still bad puns. Besides, everyone knows that werewolvesare actually gay, while our favorite bloodsuckers prefer beautiful women.
Very much dramatic rather than comedic, but in season 3 of HeroesSylar breaks into Claire's house and succeeds in stealing her power, but does it without killing her unlike his previous victims. The experience visibly shakes Claire and she describes Sylar as "taking something that was hers." She then wants to learn how to fight so she can "help people", but after her biological mother Meredith puts her through Training from Hell, Claire finally breaks and admits she doesn't want to fight so she can help people, but to find Sylar and "hurt him for hurting me!" The whole thing plays out as if Claire was a rape victim instead of somebody who had her superpower stolen (or copied, whatever).
After a truly nightmarish chase through the house with doors slamming in her face by themselves, being immobilized on a table while a creepy guy sticks his fingers into squishy places is about as thinly-veiled as the metaphor can get without him doing his thing while on top of her.
"Stealing a woman's power" took on a whole new meaning.
In Volume 4 (the second half of Season 3), the Gitmo imagery strays close to the line between this and a Take That directed at the Bush administration.
One episode of Scrubs has Jordan telling Dr. Cox they're not going to fight anymore now that they have a baby. Dr. Cox ends up going a little crazy because Jordan won't fight with him anymore and it plays like as if she won't have sex with him anymore. This especially shows when he tells Carla about it.
Carla: What's going on with you? Dr. Cox: Let's see, Jordan and I aren't, uh... we're not fighting anymore. Carla: Oh, no. How long has this been going on? Dr. Cox: Since the baby came along we've been fighting less and less. Carla: Why don't you get a hotel room? Pour some nice champagne, get in a tub, and rip each other new ones. You know, make it special.
And then Dr Cox tries to pick a fight with Carla and she says, "Hey, I'm getting married!"
In The Mighty Boosh, Howard and Vince, who already posses huge amounts of Ho Yay (not helped by the fact everyone calls Vince "Howard's wife/girlfriend"), run into Vince's evil twin Lance Dior. Lance offers Howard the chance to become his... sidekick, and when Vince finds out he treats it as if Howard has been cheating on him.
The Spirit of Jazz has huge amounts of this trope when talking about how he plans to possess Howard. Repeatedly growling about how he's going to "Get inside him" and "Wear him like a glove". Howard even lampshades it by telling him to stop using terms which are such huge innuendos. The Spirit of Jazz has no idea what he means, of course.
Add to this the fact that when the Spirit of Jazz is trying to get inside Howard, the Spirit of Jazz is trapped in a hoover bag and is pointing the (rather phallic) nozzle at Howard's bottom.
One episode of The Big Bang Theory ends with a breakup between one of the main characters and a physicist he was falling in love with. They had already begun discussing having kids and everything, only it turns out that the breaking point was... one of them believes in string theory and the other in Loop Quantum Gravity, both different theories that attempt to solve the major modern problems in physics. To him, it doesn't seem like such a big deal, but to her, it was "How would we raise the children?!" The entire scene was played as of a strong religious disjoint between the couple that could not be reconciled. This parodies many real physicists' attitudes regarding String Theory — which makes absolutely no testable predictions and is so mathematically complex and diverse that it takes decades to be able to contribute — and any competitors.
A later episode involves an "intervention", staged to convince Sheldon that he needs to learn to drive.
In most episodes where Leonard and Penny fight Sheldon is often portrayed like the child of a dysfunctional family, with the previous two fulfilling the roles of argumentative parents.
In How I Met Your Mother, Barney refuses to support that his gay, black brother is going to marry a white guy. Not because of the gay marriage thing, but because it is a marriage. He tells everyone how it is going to destroy singles everywhere, and he ends up telling his nephew that "Just because you are being raised by married people doesn't mean that you got to choose that lifestyle."
Since Ted's narrating the series to his kids in the future, he occasionally censors the more adult things, but leaves the context completely unchanged. Hence the main characters' experiments with "sandwiches" in college, and the upstairs neighbours who wouldn't stop "playing the bagpipes" and Ted calling Lily a "grinch"
In one episode Ted is with a date and after a series of events you get this.
Barney: Kiss him! Kiss him! Kiss him!
Ted (Narrating): Yeah, he's not saying kiss.
And then a security guard comes to take Barney out of the theatre.
In 4x19, Barney's argument with the owner of the laser tag arena is like him quitting the police force.
That time Lily and Robin have to clean up Marshall's car is like they're trying to erase evidence of a murder.
Which is specifically a reference to a scene in Pulp Fiction.
In an episode of The King of Queens, Spence's wish to see The Film of the Book of one of his favorite fantasy novels is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction or alcoholism or some other social vice, something to be avoided. Either that or Doug and Deacon are just really big Fan Haters.
Yep, they're Fan Haters all right, because Men Are Uncultured. And let's not forget the number of argusations Spence and Danny had that made them sound like a married couple. It seemed like the writers were addicted to this idea.
Chuck vs. The Fat Lady. Chuck accidentally gets stuck trying to go through an air vent. During this part, his iPhone accidentally turns on... and speed dials his ex. To her, it sounds more like Chuck is doing... that.
It doesn't help that Chuck and Sarah are undercover as a business man and a hooker getting it on in a hotel, so the first thing the ex hears is something along the lines of "So long do you think it'll take for us to have sex?" "I don't know, maybe an hour or so." Followed by a bunch of stuff like "Move your hips forward" and "Bend the other way" when he gets stuck in the vents.
"Chuck vs. Phase 3" begins with him dreaming about Sarah getting turned off because he can't flash. Lester even lampshades it.
You know, they make pills for what you have.
In a Season 1 episode of Supernatural, "Something Wicked", the Monster of the Week — a shtriga, a witch from Albanian folklore that feeds off of human "life forces", especially those of children — is presented like a pedophile. The kids fall into comas and no one can explain why, and the shtriga is disguised as a male doctor that is supposed to be treating the children, which is similar to how many pedophiles try to position themselves so that the children's parents trust them. It should also be noted that the shtriga works its way through families, either from oldest child to youngest or vice versa.
In a Season 3 episode, "Fresh Blood", a lonely male vampire who wants to build a new nest of vamps lurks around nightclubs and picks out pretty blondes and tries to interest them in a new (thick, red, liquid) recreational drug (in Supernaturaleither digestion or direct blood contact turns a person into a vampire). They wake up back in his basement lair and have no idea where they are or what happened to them, not unlike rape victims who were given "roofies" like rohypnol, which cause blackouts.
Speaking of rape subtext in Supernatural, Michael in the Season 5 episode "The Song Remains the Same" attempts to justify his possession of John and his intent to possess Dean as if he were a date-rapist, including claiming that his intention to avoid causing unnecessary damage while inside Dean and John makes him morally superior to Raphael who left his victim catatonic.
Hell, pretty much all of Lucifer's dialogue with Sam in season 5 screams "rape."
Lucifer: I will find you. And when I do, you will let me in. I'm sure of it.
Sam: You'll need my consent.
And that's just the tip of the iceberg...
The following conversation from the Season 1 episode "Shadow" is actually about Monster Hunting, but sound like they're about something very different outside of context:
Dean: You and me. I want us to be together again. To be a family again. Sam: Dean, we are a family. I'd do anything for you... but things will never be the way they were before. Dean: They could be. Sam: I don't want them to be. I'm not going to live this life forever. Dean, when this is all over, you're going to have to let me go my own way.
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? features a man about to get married. His Heterosexual Life Partner then returns, feeling betrayed by his old friend, and very out-of-the-loop. His attitude towards his best friend's fiancée varies between amusement and outright resentment, and she also resents him, seeing him as a threat. The first series ends with the two men sleeping together on the wedding night.
Seacht has had Pete and Decko describing a guitar in terms more suited for a beautiful woman.
Doctor Who has had this over the years, but the best —and most horrifying— example comes from "Turn Left", in which the UK government collapses and puts on the Reich. Including the internment of foreign nationals. When one of Donna's housemates and friends is interned, Donna is oblivious to the parallel. Wilfred isn't, and he's absolutely horrified by it. And, coupled with Bernard Cribbins' emotive acting, it's enough to make the viewer cry.
And the Doctor's jaw drops when he sees the Master with a wife. And later refers to her as his beard.
Try taking "dances" out of "The Doctor Dances."
Before Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords had a secret organization operating outside their own non-interventionist laws to pursue their political ends. It was named the Celestial Intervention Agency.
Similarly, when the fake Prime Minister tries to persuade the UN to give him nuclear launch codes, he fibs about aliens poised to invade Earth, who have massive weapons of destruction capable of being launched within forty-five seconds...
The X-Files. Dana Scully getting a tattoo in "Never Again" is definitely played this way, from the expectant, hungry look of the man with her, to the gasps and expressions Scully makes. They then go back to his apartment and have sex for real.
Natalie walking on Sharona wiping Monk's face clean elicited the same lines from Monk as you'd expect him to say if he was having an affair.
In the Stargate SG-1 episode "Menace", the team encounters an android in the form of a teenaged girl, who thinks she's human. When Daniel decides to explain to her that she's a robot, it ends up coming out very much like the cliched birds-and-the-bees conversation. ("You're not like me. On the inside, I mean.")
Spaced: "What now?" "I think we should descale the teapot." "You filthy bitch." "You love it."
An episode of The Nanny has Fran and Maxwell play a rather, spirited, game of table tennis.
In Criminal Minds, the knife scene between The Reaper and Hotch. Depending on interpretation, it might actually have extended to out-and-out rape. Either way, the dialogue is highly sexualized. The Reaper strips off his shirt, goes up very close to Hotch on top of him, and slowly cuts him with a knife. Eventually, he tells Hotch that he's horribly wrong about how Serial Killers who use knives are impotent, and is going to change the way Hotch profiles. Cue The Reaper slowly moving his hand further down on Hotch's body, and Hotch moaning in pain. At the very least, it was pseudo-rape.
Being Human has another less than comedic example, wherein Tully's interactions with George near the end of Series 1, Episode 2 has the feel of a rape scene. The fact that Tully had sexually assaulted Annie earlier that episode did not help.
An episode of The IT Crowd revolves around Jen taking up smoking and being forced to smoke outside, where the smoking area keeps getting moved further and further away from the office, eventually forcing the smokers to walk across a motorway and bleak, wind-swept terrain. The whole thing gets treated like the smokers are a bunch of Soviet dissidents being forced into a Stalinist gulag in Siberia.
The Star Trek TOS episode "Metamorphosis" features Zefram Cochrane being looked after by a powerful energy being. When he realises that the energy being wants a physical relationship with him, he's repulsed, but Kirk, Spock and McCoy don't see what the problem is. Given Cochrane's actual words, the episode can be read as a metaphor against homophobia, or, given the time period, possibly against opposition to interracial relationships.
Cochrane: Is this what the future holds? Men who have no notion of decency or morality? Maybe I'm a hundred and fifty years out of style, but I'm not going to be fodder for any inhuman monster. (He leaves in disgust.)
Spock: Fascinating. A totally parochial attitude.
Star Trek has a lot; Enterprise has one in particular that paints religious people as bigoted homophobic monsters.I
In the ad episode of The Office, Michael says Andy's jogging scene is the pivotal moment. And if they don't nail it, they "will lose the whole triumph of the moment; the triumph of the will."
In experiment 703 "Deathstalker and the Warriors from Hell" on Mystery Science Theater 3000, a character is shown with snow matted in his beard and a doofy expression on his face. Servo's response? "GUESS WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING!"
Nigella Lawson in every one of her cookery programmes manages to make cooking sound like foreplay.
Abby: (to Gibbs, who has just walked in) McGee is rewiring my hotbox.
McGee : That’s er, er, a nickname for a bundle of receptors in the firewall. That regulates the flow of energy throughout the system. See when stimulated correctly it sends waves and waves of rhythmic pulses (Gibbs can't even look at McGee at this point) waves, waves that er that hypercrank the er transfer speed, er, that digitised infor- Abby?
Glee: Kurt's subsequent reactions to Karofsky "taking" his first kiss strongly evoke the feel of a rape victim.
On Smallville, Clark and other Kryptonians emit fire beams from their eyes when aroused. He first discovered this in "Heat".
During the Invasion storyline, Alliance member Torrie Wilson began dating WWF (and Japanese) wrestler Tajiri. Announcer Paul Heyman regularly mentioned how he didn't approve of such "interpromotional relationships".
The suntan lotion incident within the first five seconds of this promo for Bucket and Skinner's Epic Adventures.
In one episode of Boy Meets World, Eric discovering his mentor Mr. Feeny tutoring another student is played like Mr. Feeny is cheating on him:
Eric: He's a professional tutor! You mean nothing to him!
The Xena: Warrior Princess season 5 episode "Kindred Spirits" plays up the Ho Yay by portraying Xena and Gabrielle as if they're a couple whose marriage is on the rocks because of family vs. career. Gabrielle says that "they've" never had their own home and one of the Amazons mistakenly believe they've broken up. Xena even planned to leave Gabrielle and take Eve with her.
Happens in universe in an episode of The George Lopez Show. Carmen and Jason are on the debate team and debating about the use of gas-guzzling cars. Carmen is still mad at Jason for cheating at him and talks about how (paraphrased) "America has betrayed some people's trust by going and tapping a foreign oil source that other guys have already tapped". Jason responds with the fact that he's sorry he satisfied his need for resources elsewhere.
One episode of Will and Grace where they were arguing who should the homeless Karen stay with. They start acting like parents arguing in front of their kid.
Grace: We're not supposed to argue of the D-R-U-N-K!
Karen: May I have a martini now?
Both: No!
Music
"Christie Lee" by Billy Joel is about a woman who is impressed by a nightclub saxophone player's skill and takes him home with her to "perform." What keeps this from being merely veiled language is the fact that the lyrics explicitly make it clear she's not interested in him sexually, even in between the silly puns lampshading the obvious parallels to a very different situation:
He couldn't see that Christie Lee was a woman Who didn't need another lover; all she wanted was the sax!
"Ten Cents a Dance" really is about the trials and tribulations of a woman who rents herself out as a dance partner — a real phenomenon during the period it was written. That doesn't stop modern audiences, and possibly even the original listeners, from seeing a similarity to another, older profession. Bioshock 2 took it even further and featured it in the loading screen for Siren Alley, the city's red-light district.
"Firething" by Gudrun Gut, from the album Mortal Kombat: More Kombat. Intentionally plays up this trope, despite being about using a guy's lighter. Just take a look at the lyrics. http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858768604/
A lot of songs by the Lords of Acid invoke this trope, being just barely ambiguous enough to make you think they may not be about sex. A good example is one of the mixes of the song "Pussy" that even has cats meowing in the background.
''"When I hold you in my arms, and I feel your finger on my trigger I knooooowww nobody can do me no harm, because... Happiness is a warm gun, mama (bang bang, shoot shoot)""
Jimi Hendrix was famous for using his guitar for visual innuendos when performing.
Stand Up Comedy
A mid-'90s George Carlin comedy routine points out all of the phallic and sexual innuendos of the first Gulf War. "Imagine an American President using the sexual slang of a thirteen-year-old to describe his foreign policy."
Tabletop Games
Do not examine the biological principles behind Tyranid biomorphs too closely in Warhammer 40,000. You will regret it.
Absolutely anything to do with the Dark Eldar. Torturing people to death then eating their souls is essentially their version of sex, and it just gets worse from there. "My playthings break so easily."
And on a related matter, absolutely anything to do with Slaanesh.
In one of the Werewolf The Apocalypse tie-in novels, the signature characters Albrecht and the Margrave each take out their respective ancestral BFS. Albrecht is pleased to note that his is bigger.
Paranoia is loaded with political and social commentary, but while sticking to themes on the Red Scare does a variation with mutants. All of them are executed upon discovery except for a small few who are forced to wear yellow armbands at all times (black if their uniform is yellow) and not allowed the same privileges or freedoms as the rest of Alpha Complex, which already doesn't have much. Player opinion is out on whether or not this is meant to represent Jews or oppressed minorities in general.
Theater
There are parallels drawn in Angels in America between God's abandonment of Heaven and Louis' abandonment of Prior.
Belize: Abandoned. Prior: Yes. Belize: I smell a motif. The man that got away. Prior: Well it occurred to me.
In Finian's Rainbow, when Finian learns Og the leprechaun came to America without a passport, he threatens to have him deported. As Og starts to flee, Finian accuses him: "You're a member of a subversive underground group takin' its orders from Dublin!"
Wicked's "What Is This Feeling?" begins with this lyric: "What is this feeling so sudden and new? I felt the moment I laid eyes on you. My pulse is rushing. My head is reeling. My face is flushing. What is this feeling fervid as a flame? Does it have a name? Yes. Loathing. Unadulterated loathing". Sorry darlings, but that isn't loathing; it's lust. Then again, the author of the book did say they most likely didn't notice their hidden affections for each other.
In The Pajama Game, when Sid is trying to con Gladys out of the key to the account books (which is dangling around her neck), the dialogue makes it sound as if he's asking for the key to her chastity belt ("I'm a desperate man, and I hate to ask a cute kid like you to do me a favor, but...").
In Aida: The imprisoned Aida is alone with her captor Radames. He takes off his shirt, saying, "Do you know what's going to happen now?" Several actresses in the role play Aida as being VERY fearful that he's about to force himself on her. He instead orders her to wash his back, something that at the very least is meant to similarly degrade her, at worst, meant to symbolize a rape.
Video Games
The hidden scene in the cave between Eva and Snake in Metal Gear Solid 3, which can only be described as erotic pro-wrestling directed by Carry On. God help us.
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn has this conversation between Hawk King Tibarn and Wolf Queen Nailah if they battle... but it doesn't sound at all like what they're doing is fighting...
Nailah: ...I must confess, I've wanted this since I first laid eyes on you. I can hardly hold myself back right now. Tibarn: Lady, the feeling is mutual. Why do you think I winged my way over here? It looks to me like we can have a ** nice, private time right here. No interruptions. Just you and me. Nailah: Hawk King Tibarn. I think that a few more scars on your face will complete that rugged look you're going for. Tibarn: For a beautiful woman like you, I'll gladly offer my head. Of course you'll have to bring me down to the ground first. Nailah: Challenge accepted. I think you'll regret it once I add your feathers to my necklace, though. Oh, and let's ** not tell Rafiel about this, agreed? He wouldn't understand these urges of ours.
To make a point about perspective in Ever17, You (which is, incidentally, not a second-person pronoun, but a nickname for the character's incredibly long given name) has Kid try to put a pen back in its cap with one eye closed, leading to the above scene. This is made all the more amusing by the pair's UST, along with You being a good three years older.
To anyone listening to the conversation but not actually seeing what they're doing, it sounds exactly like a porn movie. You is probably aware of that.
This trope is exactly what the authors were aiming for in that scene; the things those two say in that scene are right out of a hentai.
In a different scene near the beginning of Kid/Coco's route, You attempts to make Kid laugh off his amnesia. If you refuse to do so, she'll resort to... sticking her finger up Sara's nose. Sara proceeds to moan sensually as "she and her senpai become one."
In the first Metal Gear Solid, the zombie cyborg ninja Gray Fox, during his boss fight against his old best friend Solid Snake, starts crowing things like "that's good, Snake!" and "hurt me more! More! More!" As the player continues to attack him, he starts to have difficulty standing, and his cries increase in intensity and frequency, until his life bar is finally emptied, at which point he makes a sound halfway between a sigh and a scream and trembles on the floor, half-sobbing, half-laughing, violently discharging electricity. Ick.
Also, from this same fight, "Make me feel it! Make me feel alive again!"
They managed to sneak that into SSBB, too. Strange thing is, you can't hurt him when he appears.
MGS also managed to make a fourth-wall breaking conversation about the player not using a stereo TV sound like a conversation about Snake having a small penis. "Don't be jealous, it's how you use it. There's more to being a good person than owning one, after all."
In MGS3 Ocelot calls out during the battle with Big Boss while reloading:
"I've never felt so alive!" "I've never felt a tension like this before! That's so different from simply changing a clip!" "This reload time is exhilarating!"
With both Snake and Ocelot making such a huge fuss about their pistols, this one is suprisingly easy to miss: But the Boss, probably the strongest woman in the world and the superior of both of the younger men, usually reacts to them stepping out of line by taking away their pistols, giving them a stern talk, and handing them back the broken pieces of their guns, which makes them feel very embarased.
In Metal Gear Solid 4, Snake confronts Ocelot besides a river. Ocelot soon gets the upper hand in the fight, and starts talking about how he's using Snake for his plan while grappling Snake from behind ambiguously. Snake struggles, but it's futile, and he eventually can do nothing but scream in pain and beg Ocelot to stop. It's clearly designed to look like a rape, even before Ocelot starts trying to kiss him.
The infamous dowsing scene in Metal Gear Ac!d 2. Venus, to Snake's disgust, decides to try finding the opening to a sewer by dowsing for it, leading to the pair working their way further back through a large, dark building. While she starts off referring quite clearly to the act of dowsing, as she gets closer and closer to the goal she becomes more... passionate, gasping in surprise and pleasure and demanding Snake go in further, further, she can feel it, Snake's so near the spot, come on, more, go deeper in, deeper in, hurry, she's never felt it this strong, she's nearly there... By the time they actually reach the sewer entrance she's practically rolling around on the floor in orgasm. It's probably the only time a scene about dowsing actually raised anything's Media Classifications.
One possible adventure in the "South of the Border" area in Kingdom of Loathing features your character walking into a drug store and encountering a doctor who gives them some Meleegraâ„¢ pills, which will allegedly increase the size of your weapon. While It Makes Sense in Context, the encounter plays out like someone hawking penis enlargement pills.
They explain the Evoker by saying that the act of putting a gun to your head and pulling the trigger evokes a visceral mental trauma that causes your Persona to manifest itself. Course, there's some Applied Phlebotinum crammed in there too.
Persona users rarely ever smile, especially when summoning for the first time considering how painful or awkward it is. The Protagonist is a special case in many ways, especially when you consider that the creepy-as-hell expression on his face looks very similar to that of the Nyx Avatar, who is, of course, a form of Ryoji, who is Death, who manifests as Thanatos in that cutscene.
Because we need at least one sex example here, the final social link event for Aigis in FES doesn't even try to be subtle about what touching her Papillon Heart is supposed to stand in for. For bonus points, the fact that she disables her arms and legs beforehand adds an additional, probably unintentionally creepy dimension to the encounter.
Aigis:Since you'll be coming in direct contact with my heart, I... I apologize in advance if I say something odd, or make unusual noises...
The special function given to Aigis and her 'sisters' makes them move twice as fast, do more damage, and leaves them overheated and immobile afterwards, and is called Orgia Mode. (That might seem like a bit of a stretch, but with a guy like Ikutsuki on the team, you can never be too sure.)
A famous spying-on-Kanji scene from Persona 4, has Yosuke standing over Chie as she crouches on her hands and knees.
Yosuke says this to the MC (after Izanami no Okami uses Thousand Curses) while he is lying on the floor and feeling exhausted: "Everything inside me changed after I met you. I'm glad we met. I wouldn't have made it this far if I hadn't done it alongside you..."
The University expansion pack for the PC version of The Sims 2 introduced new objects such as a bubble blower and a juice keg. Although the bubble blower does make actual bubbles, the fact that it's shaped exactly like a hookah and that it literally makes your Sims float in the air when they use it makes it pretty obvious what the creators had in mind. As for the juice keg... that one speaks for itself.
It's made more obvious by the fact that in the catalog, it's named the "White Rabbit Bubble Blower". Subtle, EAxis, subtle.
Ar tonelico seems to take every opportunity to put some Innocent Innuendo into Diving, Installing, and pretty much anything involving the main character and one of the three love interests. Just take a look at this scene.
Ar tonelico 2 takes this quite a bit further, with one love interest accusing another of taking the main character's 'virginity' and other such sequences. "She can't take a crystal that big!". Also, levelling up the party's Reyvateils requires them to bathe together.
Conker's Bad Fur Day includes a few of these, but one standout example would be the Barn Boys chapter, where the player needs to help a down-on-his-luck bee meet up with a sunflower lady with enormous... stigmas... so that he can "pollinate" her. Then again, what'd you expect, she's a sunflower, he's a bee.
The flicker of the Flickering Torch in Zork: Grand Inquisitor is played as a mental illness. He says he developed the flicker in response to his fear of the dark, that that's OK.
Probably unintentional, but depending on how you look at it, Ristar's signature attack can look a little bit like a Kiss of Death, or possibly even like something a bit more... intimate.
In No More Heroes, Travis recharges his beam sword by, well, pumping it up and down in front of his crotch and breathing heavily. The faster you shake the wiimote, the faster you ... uh ... finish.
In one of the trailers for NMH: Desperate Struggle, Travis gets his Beam Katana kissed, and it extends instantly.
The sequel ramps up the innuendo with Travis shouting "Faster! Faster! Oh yeah!" and his panting sounding even more sexual.
One of the new Beam Katanas you can buy is "the Peony": not only does it charge up in the usual way, but the thing extends as his Ecstacy meter goes up.
In the Super Smash Bros games where Mr. Game & Watch is a playable character, his neutral A attack consists of him spraying his opponent with an insecticide sprayer. Unfortunately, said sprayer is shaped vaguely like a penis and he holds it a groin level. Even more unfortunately, when he attacks the sprayer is being pumped with great vigor and a cloud of "insecticide" is spurting from the tip.
This is spoofed in this this scene. "Pumping" starts about 2 minutes into the movie.
In Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, a white powder that a washed up man keeps hidden in his office is supposed to improve someone's mood, and the man gets angry when his daughter touches it... fingerprinting powder, naturally.
There's a scene in Snatcher where Gillian ends up looking shocked with fluid dripping down his face after seeing an underage girl naked.
In Jedi Academy, one of the stock taunts from the Sith cultists is "The Sith will rise again!" Now, remember the episode of Friends where Joey gives his rendition of a slightly more famous line: "De South will rise again, mon!"
Silent Hill. In a series where symbolism is everywhere and Freud was a genius, everything inevitably resembles something. Perhaps the most obvious is a scene near the end of the second game, in which Maria is strapped to a rack and Pyramid Head stabs her from behind with his enormous, um, spear. Maria's expression is positively orgasmic.
Pyramid Head is, quite literally, this trope incarnate, being a hulking man-monster that wears nothing but a long robe, carries around a BFS so huge he has to drag it behind him and alternates his time between raping incredibly feminine monsters to death and hunting a skittish, sexually insecure man with women issues. Not at all surprising that he has also become a legendary Memetic Molester.
The World Ends with You: When Joshua sees a hole, he knows how to fill it. The announcer was talking about Tin Pin Slammer. Really. Then again, maybe not.
In Prototype, during Mercer and Greene's second confrontation, they leap at each other, fall to the floor with one atop the other, and Mercer shoves a long needle into Greene's body. (Before she notices, when their faces are mere centimetres apart, Greene is obviously smiling and Alex bares his teeth.) Said needle contains a mixture of both the genetic material created by Greene's virus and the same material from Mercer's body. Then, Greene gives birth to the Supreme Hunter. Admittedly by puking it up, but, but still... To make it exponentially more squicky, Greene earlier referred to Alex as her son, and she's right.
Resident Evil 3. Nemesis's ever so memorable preferred method of executing S.T.A.R.S. is holding them still and then... impaling them in the mouth. Mm-hm.
Resident Evil 5. Excella trying to seduce Wesker, with her touching him and telling him that she "has her eyes set on something much... bigger." Her eyes look down a bit too low on his body, and she eventually starts moving her hands from his chest to his... lower area. Nope, no Double Entendres there.
Another one from Resident Evil 5. The final battle between Wesker, Chris, and Sheva (though Wesker tends to ignore her). Wesker ends up shirtless, sweaty, and in tight black leather pants. He grows a bunch of tentacles, and constantly tries to grab ahold of Chris with them, in what looks way too much like tentacle rape.
Tsukihime: Makes Shiki's killing of Arcueid somewhat... questionable.
Arcueid:It was your first time and you were that skilled?
Also, during the scene where he stalks her prior to this, he makes several references towards getting excited about "wanting to *** her", and the "long hard object in his pants". After a couple screens of this, it's mentioned that the blanked-out four-letter word is kill, and the object he's talking about is his knife. Then after Arcueid has been killed by Shiki, she chases him down to "make him take responsibility" for his actions.
The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker has a cutscene where Link is watching Tetra and her pirates discuss burning and looting an island to find "the treasure" there. Tetra doesn't seem too happy (it's Link's home island). But when one of the pirates remarks in shock that she doesn't seem to want the loot, she replies with a jaunty smirk,
"Don't be stupid. Of course I want..." (looking at where Link is hiding) "... the treasure."
S.W.I.N.E.: General Irontusk leads a coup and takes over the Republic of Pigs with the people loudly celebrating it. Some governmental elements holed up in Pigsburg are quickly eradicated then the city is renamed in honor of the new leader. Next, the pigs cross the border without declaration of war and invade Carrotland, successfully doing a blitzkrieg and taking over everything except the capital, Rabbipolis. However, the rabbits retaliate and turn around the outcome of the war. In the English version, the pigs have German accents while the rabbits have French. I wonderwhatinspired them...
Touhou. Koishi Komeiji. Rekindled "The Embers of Love".
For explanation, the aforementioned attack uses heart-shaped projectiles flying point-first and leaving a trail behind them, resulting in a number of shapes not unlike phalluses flying around on the screen. To top that off, the character who uses that attack also has spellcards based on Freudian psychology.
Similar to No More Heroes, Mario Party 8 has a minigame where you must shake the Wii Remote up and down to shake up a soda can in order to make it build up enough pressure and shoot out like a geyser. No-one can say nothing dirty came to their minds the first time they played that at all.
The same can be said for GrabBag from the first one.
BlazBlue likes to play with this one. Switch the voice acting to Japanese, fight Litchi, then listen to how she sounds during one of your combos. Better yet, while its set to Japanese go watch Noel's arcade ending in Continuum Shift and try to tell yourself she doesn't sound like she's moaning in delight during her dose of mind rape. I dare you. Or even go play Ragna's story route in Calamity Trigger and see the way Nu-13 talks to him.
Pokémon Black and White features the Pokémon Basculin, which is labeled the "Hostile" Pokémon and comes in two varieties, one with a red stripe and one with a blue stripe. According to the Pokédex, the two varieties get along so poorly that they generally start fighting with one another on sight. Hmm...two hostile groups that are bitter rivals and are color codedred and blue, huh?
Beartic and Reshiram have rather prominent tufts of fur protruding from between their legs.
A female Venusaur has a seed in its flower/tree. No pregnancy allusions there, none at all...
In the Vulcanus epilogue of Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten, the game ends with Valvatorez telling Vulcanus that he still intends to keep his 400-year-old promise to not drink her or anyone else's blood until he shows her true terror. Vulcanus responds that both of them have waited for too long already, she has no intention of holding him to that promise, and he can just drink her blood right then and there. Considering the usualassociations vampire bites come with, as well as the illustration the scene ends on◊, we can think of hundreds of things this scene really represents. And by "hundreds of things," we mean sex.
Portal 2: After Wheatley takes over the Enrichment Center's mainframe, he makes orgasmic grunts and groans in response to Chell completing his test chambers. He then complains that he isn't really feeling it when the puzzles are solved too quickly and easily. GLaDOS later explains that the system rewards an A.I. with a euphoric reaction when a test is completed, but that the effect becomes less intense each time, causing withdrawal.
Certain Dummied Out lines where Caroline protests her Brain Uploading into GLaDOS sound unnervingly like a woman who is about to be raped (Ellen McLain was actually crying as she recorded them). The worst part? The reason the lines were dummied out in the first place was because Cave Johnson's voice actor, J.K. Simmons, found his lines too disturbing and refused to record them. The man played a Nazi rapist on Oz. It makes you wonder what they were...
Tsukiko: Is that him? Is that the one who turned you, my little one? Wight: Uh huh! He made me feel funny inside! Tsukiko: You big bully! He's just a child! I only made him four weeks ago!
Agatha:I hardly know him! Castle Heterodyne: What's to know? His family is powerful, his spark burns strong, he's already taken with you... Agatha: But— Castle Heterodyne: And you cannot deny that he has a magnificent death ray. Agatha: ... That's... That's hardly a basis for a stable relationship. [Blushes]
In post-hiatus Fans!!, due to a totally broken masquerade and a well-respected polyamorous "triad," the hot-button issues seem to be polygamous and vampire marriage. Gay marriage hasn't been mentioned, although it's been implied gay rights have made impressive leaps over the Time Skip. A point of irony is that both vampires and polygamists seem to enjoy Mormon support.
This installment of Sinfest is possibly the only thing in existence to blur the distinction between astronomy and sex.
Ash: I got it all set up for you. Just slip it in. Emily: All right already. Just give me a second. It's the first time I've done something like this. Ash: That's perfect. Emily: I still don't know what I'm allowed to touch and what I can't. It's so gross and oily. Ash: That's perfect. Now put in another one. Emily: This is making my fingers all slippery. Ash: You get used to it when you do this for a while. Rumisiel:(listens in, drooling)
In Coming Up Violet a mini-sex scandal develops around the titular character when her boyfriend starts spreading lies about their first date, the boyfriend is on the lacrosse team. Many Americans will most likely remember something similar happening at a certain university in 2006.
The whole "Comic in Crisis" mini-arc from Sluggy Freelance (beginning here) bares more than a few similarities to the Monica Lewinsky scandal that was going on at the time.
K'seliss the lizardman has an embarrassing instinctual reflex happen when he's threatened by mechanical bugs in the current dungeon crawl in Goblins; his head crest raises. Since he'd previously said that he doesn't "swing that way" (he only kills what he can eat, and considers fighting, eating and sex to be subsets of the same category,) he blames his reaction to inedible war machines to be caused by thinking of a "battle he had AGES ago." And he takes time out to see if the other party members have noticed his gallant reflex.
Ozy And Millie turned a Mattress Tag Gag into one of these; Llewellyn (who has declared his property to be a sovereign country) decides to legalize cutting tags off mattresses. The U.S. is not happy with this, and ends up deploying border patrols to prevent people from smuggling mattresses between the two countries. In case you're confused, this arc was written around the time Canada was considering legalizing marijuana. (It failed, but still.)
In Homestuck, the other trolls make fun of Karkat's tiny horn size. Karkat also has an unusual blood colour, which he believes is unnatural and destined to get him persecuted in society, and so 'closets' himself by using grey as his signature colour and getting extremely defensive whenever anyone talks about blood.
Much of the humor from troll-human conversations comes from the trolls not caring about homosexuality or incest, but getting very uncomfortable when someone mentions... buckets.
Errant Story has a few of these, one of the better ones coming when Sarine observes Jon fondling her Magic Sword, which has the cool property of expanding from a small crystal to a taut, vibrating focus for magical energy when turned on (so to speak). You couldn't possibly imagine that there might be Unresolved Sexual Tension between those two, could you?
At first glance the exploding building looks like the World Trade Center towers. Luckily for anyone's sensibilities, the game came out long before 9/11.
A non-comedic and Squicky example occurs in Survival of the Fittest, with Alex White torturing Rosa Fiametta. His sadistic delight at her suffering while making jabs about her sex life, and the emphasis on her struggling and how he repeatedly stabs her, very quickly starts to look like... something else.
Western Animation
In an episode of The Simpsons, Lisa's addiction to the Corey hotline is portrayed as similar to a drug addiction.
In another episode of the same series, where Homer moves into the treehouse with a woman he married while inebriated in Las Vegas, Marge overhears that woman making a sandwich to Homer's specifications... which to the audience sounds surprisingly like a certain sexual act. An appalled Marge exclaims, "Oh no! She's making him a sandwich!"
In the episode "Love, Springfield Style", in Bart's version of the movie Sid and Nancy, Lisa and Nelson become chocoholics in a way that is portrayed like a drug addiction, right down to using razor blades to divide small piles of chocolate milk mix, using cigarette lighters to melt pieces of candy bars in spoons, and flushing various chocolate candies down the toilet whenever the cops show up.
In the episode "Round Springfield", this classic exchange happens:
Bleeding Gums Murphy: I spent all my money on my $1,500 a day habit. (start flashback) Bleeding Gums Murphy: I'd like another Fabergé egg, please. Salesman: Sir, don't you think you've had enough? Bleeding Gums Murphy: I'll tell you when I've had enough! (changes to a scene of Murphy lying broke and destitute in an alleyway, surrounded by broken Fabergé eggs)
Burns: We don't have to be adversaries, Homer. We both want a fair union contract. Homer:(thinking) Why is Mr. Burns being so nice to me? Burns: And if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Homer:(thinking) Wait a minute. Is he coming onto me? Burns: I mean, if I should slip something into your pocket, what's the harm? Homer:(thinking) My God! He is coming onto me! Burns: After all, negotiations make strange bedfellows. (chuckle, wink) Homer:(thinking) Aaaaaagh! Homer:(aloud) Sorry, Mr. Burns, but I don't go in for these backdoor shenanigans. Sure, I'm flattered, maybe even a little curious, but the answer is no!
From "Brother From the Same Planet":
Homer: You've been out gallivanting with that floozy of a Bigger Brother of yours, haven't you? Haven't you?
Also this disturbing exchange...
Homer: Remember when I used to push you on the swing? Bart: I was faking it. Homer:(gasp) Liar! Bart: Oh yeah? Remember this? "Higher Dad! Higher! Whee!"
Yet another, in "The Haw-Hawed Couple": Bart becomes Nelson's "best friend", and it's played exactly like a relationship, with lines like "I've known him for ages, but we met at a party and hit it off right away" and jealousy over Bart 'flying kites' with another boy. Complete with a Brokeback Mountain homage at the end.
Nelson: Haw! Haw! I touched your heart!
South Park does this one a lot, for satirical purposes:
"Here Comes The Neighborhood" was devoted to the town's reaction when Token Black, the only rich kid in town, convinces a number of other rich families (such as those of Will Smith and Oprah) to move to South Park. The locals get upset, and try progressively more extreme plots to drive the "richers" out of town: burning giant lowercase letter Ts on their lawns (short for "time to leave"), dressing as peak-headed ghosts (because rich people are scared of ghosts, naturally), etc. This was all a plan by Mister Garrison to take over their property and sell it to make the South Park residents rich, which fell through because the others hated rich folk... to which he replies, "Well, at least we got rid of those damn ni—" before being cut off by the closing credits.
"Best Friends Forever" was a thinly veiled satire of the media hooplah over the Terri Schiavo case, with a battle against The Legions of Hell thrown in for good measure.
"Jared Has Aides", in which the mistaken phrase should be obvious.
"Red Man's Greed", the history of American colonization and Native American displacement... with roles reversed.
"Margaritaville", a Jew (Kyle) starts preaching and gathering followers. Check. Some adults start taking him as a threat. Check. He is betrayed by one of his followers (Cartman) who sold him out. Check. He does a (sorta) Heroic Sacrifice. Check. He is hailed as a savior. Subversion, Obama is the one.
Kyle: Awww! Come on!
In "Major Boobage", even with Kyle giving him hints Cartman didn't (or refused to) see any significance to his hiding of outlawed cats in his attic.
"Crème Fraiche": In Real Life, the Shake Weight already has this (see Real Life section below), taken Up to Eleven in this episode, combined with something that could only be described as literalFood Porn.
Rocko's Modern Life featured an entire episode with Ed Bighead having a closeted fascination with clowns, which is treated in the same way a more adult show might treat a sexual fetish.
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, "Mac Daddy": When Bloo discovers that Mac created another imaginary friend in his sleep (or so they think), the conversation plays out like an uncovered affair:
Bloo: How did this happen? Mac: I don't know! I don't remember anything; I just woke up and he was in my bed!
In another episode, Goo accidentally creating imaginary friends in her sleep is treated as similar to bed-wetting — made even more explicit by Cloudcuckoolander Coco suggesting solving it by having Goo wear a diaper on her head.
The relation may be even more similar than you think, as it had been demonstrated that sugar has an adverse affect on Mac.
The Powerpuff Girls played a candy addiction as a drug addiction (even going as far as hiring Mojo Jojo as their "fall guy" to commit some misdeeds to send him to jail so as to be rewarded with said candy).
Mojo Jojo thought he could weaken the girls by taking the candy away from the Mayor and holding it captive, but the sound beating he received really changed that perspective.
"The Route Of All Evil" portrays Bender brewing beer inside himself as awaiting a pregnancy, brought on by Bender realizing that there would be a living thing (yeast) inside him. He even goes so far as to sing lullabies and knit bottle covers. By the end, he's "giving birth" to the beer. Also notable for Fry declaring, "I hope it's a lager, so I can take it to a ballgame."
In an earlier episode, Bender gets addicted to injecting himself with electricity. Leela finds him doing the same in the bathroom and asks, "Bender, are you jacking on in there?" This could be interpreted as either an allusion to drug addiction or masturbation, making it a doubleDouble Entendre.
And the opening of the first movie, Bender's Big Score, combines a particularly over-the-top example of this with a vicious Take That against Fox, comparing Planet Express closing and re-opening to the series' cancellation, sometimes bordering on Metaphorgotten.
The episode "I Dated A Robot" has parodied the society's attitudes towards both interracial marriages and same-sex marriages. The episode also has the Subtext that file sharing is morally wrong.
"Proposition Infinity" has Bender and Amy fighting to legalise "Robosexual marriage".
More than one episode had an odd example: robots need alcohol to function properly, so when Bender was feeling particularly bad about something, he went for a while without drinking... and as a result, behaved as if he were drunk. Thus, Bender's sobriety reminds one of alcoholism in humans.
Which leads to:
Leela: Just promise me you won't get behind the wheel without some sort of alcoholic beverage in your hand. Bender: I promise nothing!
One of those episodes also has Bender's antenna treated like a certain part of male anatomy...
Masculine Police Robot: You call THAT an antenna?
The above also happens in the more recent Neutopia, where at first the only noticeable difference in Bender is that his antenna is gone.
The Boondocks episode "A Date with the Health Inspector" is a satire of the Iraq War. Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy represent George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfield, the X-Box killer which starts the whole episode is Osama Bin Laden, and the store clerk that Ed and Rummy rob for no reason is Saddam Hussein (in a No Celebrities Were Harmed). Several quotes are also made referencing the war, such as Rummy reciting Rumsfeld's "known unknowns and unknown unknowns" quote, and Wuncler telling the clerks to "Bring it, bitch" (a parallel to Bush's "Bring them on" speech).
In fact, pretty much every children's cartoon since 1995 has done at least one really, really G-Rated Drug and one thinly-veiled Coming Out Story.
Harvey Birdman Attorney at Law had an episode with Peanut gaining his superpowers. The episode treated the "changes" a lot like puberty and Harvey (among others) were concerned about who he would have his first superhero battle with...
An earlier episode has Apache Chief losing his superpowers due to spilling burning coffee in his lap (to grow tall) presented as if it were erectile dysfunction. Made worst by the fact that he regains his superpower by being turned on.... Multiple superheroes go on to play the powers-as-sexuality thing.
Harvey: Mr. Vulcan, tell us about your superpower. Black Vulcan: Pure electricity... in my pants. Harvey: Tell us, what would life be like without your powers? Black Vulcan: Well, you know when the power goes out in your house? It would be like that... but in your pants.
And who could forget the episode where Harvey, who gets his powers from the sun, needs to stay in the shade for medical reasons, ending up with a powerful addiction to self-tanning lotion, with Peanut as his "dealer".
In Drawn Together, Ling-Ling and his wife are having troubles: she never wants to battle him anymore, and when they do battle, she just lies there, unlike in the beginning of their marriage. Then, they decide to have sex instead. (Metaphorgotten!)
In the Captain Planet episode "Frog Day Afternoon", Dr. Blight manages to shoot Wheeler and Linka with darts full of her latest experimental mutation serum that unexpectedly causes them to shrink to about an inch tall... only hours later, in their sleep. And their clothes didn't shrink along with them. One can only imagine what the other Planeteers concluded upon awakening to wonder, and I quote, "Where could they have gone?" "Without their clothes?"
Phineas and Ferb features an episode in which Perry the Platypus discovers that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is having his evil plans foiled by another hero, which is set up like an affair, complete with Perry walking in and Doof having a pawprint (re: lipstick) on his face, with Peter the Panda hiding in the nearby closet. Not What It Looks Like indeed.
A similar situation takes place in "Hip Hip Parade", between Buford and Baljeet. A big part of the episode is about Buford breaking up with Baljeet, finding a "new nerd", then eventually dumping him and deciding to be Baljeet's bully again.
Buford even asks the new geek to speak in an indian accent.
As part of Getting Crap Past the Radar, in "Perry Lays An Egg", Doofenshmirtz begs Perry to "thwart him" after Perry leaves, seeing how his latest scheme was pretty pathetic. He chases Perry into town and just when Perry thinks he successfully escaped Doof ...
Doofenshmirtz: (appearing out of nowhere) "Thwart me Perry the Platypus!"
The Spectacular Spider-Man has Harry's addiction to the Psycho Serum Globulin Green, which causes black outs and turns him into the Green Goblin... or did it?. This is handy for adapting his actual drug addiction in the comics on a child-friendly show.
Pinky and the Brain has an interesting example. In the episode "Brinky", The Brain attempts to clone himself, which almost works until Pinky's DNA (from a clipped toenail) accidentally gets combined with Brain's, thus essentially making them parents of the resulting clone (and Pinky calling himself the clone's "mommy"). Most of the dialogue during the cloning process is scripted like an actual birth: for example, when the door on the cloning machine won't close (which is the reason Pinky's DNA is even in there), the Brain tells Pinky to help him "push", complete with Pinky doing Lamaze breathing.
A similar situation happens in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, when, prompted by Robotnik's comment that a complete idiot could make a better robot than them, Scratch and Grounder decide to create a robot of their own. The whole thing is played a lot like they're having a child together; first, they hug and say "We're gonna be parents!" Then, they put spare robot parts into the "Robot-Making Machine", and Grounder asks Scratch wistfully, "Oh, Scratch, I wonder what it'll look like?" When the robot comes out, Scratch cries, "It's a boy! He has my chin, and my eyes!" And, when the robot kid runs away from home, the two robots end up placing an ad in the paper that says "Parents Seek Missing Robot". It's pretty blatant.
In an episode of Disney's Lloyd in Space, Lloyd, a Martian, notices his antenna has been acting up a lot lately. As the episode is about puberty, it's all pretty obvious. It turns out that Martian boys will psychically project strange characters at the most inconvenient moments. The really strange thing, for a Saturday morning cartoon, is Lloyd's grandfather telling him that on Mars boys would get together to see who could project the weirdest character!
In the Grand Finale of Transformers: Beast Wars, Dark Action Girl Blackarachnia borrows Rattrap's rather lengthy sword for a mechanical purpose and swiftly snaps its blade in half. Cue to her paramour Silverbolt shuddering in sympathy.
A rather strange one of these appears in Code Lyoko, in which Jérémie is shown to have some computer magazines hidden under his mattress. Really. The French version makes it quite clear that Jim expected it to be a Porn Stash.
There is also the episode where Jérémie keeps using a helmet that boosts his brain power while ruining his physical and mental health. Steroid metaphor, anyone?
In Avatar The Last Airbender, the scene at the end of "The Headband" where Aang and Katara have a big dance number that ends with them sweating and panting, looking at each with big smiles on their faces was something. Granted that is what normally happens when people dance, but still.
In the beginning of the episode where Sokka meets his future girlfriend, Aang quite happily says the line, "Where we're going, you won't need any pants!" It makes you wonder...
And the scene in "Bitter Work", where Toph steals Aang's sack of nuts and then breaks a few with his staff and eats them. She even calls Aang a delicate instrument. This artist picked up on that.
The giant drill the Fire Nation used to pierce the wall of Ba Sing Se in "The Drill; it's kind of hard not to associate the drill with something very, very nasty. It gets worse with the rock/water slurry, which appears to serve as a lubricant for the drill, and has the consistency of very slippery mud. Not only that, but when Aang delivers the crushing blow to the drill by smashing the weak spot, the slurry splatters everywhere, but particularly towards the front of the drill. It's no wonder Mai doesn't want to go anywhere near the stuff. Of course, even when you think about what the drill exploding could be a metaphor for, the imagery is still more funny than disgusting.
Just in case it was still subtle as all, just before attempting to "penetrate the Impenetrable City", the Drill extends itself.
One episode of Batman: The Animated Series titled "The Ultimate Thrill" featured the character Roxy Rocket, a former stuntwoman turned jewel thief who rides rockets as part of her robbery plans. It's mentioned a couple of times that she is in it more for the thrill of the crime than the actual spoils, and adding Batman chasing her into the mix just made it more exciting. The episode ends with Batman cornering Roxy straddling one of her rockets which is about to crash into the side of a cliff, and her getting really into it.[1]
And in the episode Jerry the Belly Button Elf, Stimpy keeps playing with his belly button, which is treated similar to masturbation, but when Stimpy enters it (yes, he enters his own navel), he goes on an acid trip before meeting Jerry.
In another, one character is caught sneaking into the school bathroom, and Pepper Ann is horrified to find out that she has taken up gum chewing.
So, you're fighting your older brother over a gigantic acid spill with only a ridiculously small space to do so, eh? Mega Man ends up in this very situation in the Ruby-Spears Mega Man cartoon, and his first action is to wrap his legs around said older brother's (Protoman's) waist. While Protoman's lying on top of him. Nothing suspicious about that, no sir.
How about Roll vs. that female cosmetics robot? The makeup bot is under Wily's control, and straps her to a chair. Roll tells the robot to let her go, but Wily gives her a creepy look and goes "Not before I give you the beauty treatment!" Then the cosmetics robot produces an oversized powderpuff from her chest area (really) and tries to smush it in Roll's face. Roll acts like this is the worst thing in the world that could happen to her.
Transformers Animated had the Scrapper and Mixmaster watching a luxury car being dismantled while hooting and swilling oil.
Or how about when Meltdown was "experimenting" on Blackarachnia's body? She's pretty unsure, than the dude reveals his intentions to change her from technorganic to pure organic. The utter shock and terror at having her body violated beyond recognition, and her cries for him to stop. Thankfully Optimus saves her.
Disney's Doug has an episode revolving around a product touted as a "relaxant" that is not legal to sell to anyone under 18, but whose manufacturers are secretly trying to get kids hooked on it. The product, Nic-Nacs, does not exist in real life, but it's suspiciously similar to one that does...
ReBoot. Everything about Hexadecimal in Season 3 involved BDSM. Which was made even more disturbing when you realize the fact Megabyte is her brother...
One episode of Æon Flux manages to play Trevor performing back surgery on a Breen women like sex. The women moans ecstatically throughout the operation, and upon finishing, Trevor tells he that she was amazing and asks her if it "was as good for [her] as it was for [him]." While smoking a cigarette. And when Trevor's on-again-off-again lover Aeon learns of this, she reacts as though Trevor had cheated on her.
Aeon Flux was pretty much made of this trope. I can think of another episode in which Trevor caught Aeon atop his high-atmosphere platform; both were wearing pressurized air suits, and Trevor plugged the air hose from his suit into Aeon's and forcibly inflated her suit, then drained the excess air back into his, and repeat, causing each one to swell up in turn. She grunts in shock each time she's "filled up". Riiiight.
The Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Freaky Fred" features the eponymous barber, who has a compulsion to shave anyone and anything completely bald. However his creepy inner monologue, complete with delighted, drawn-out repetitions of "Naaaaauughty", and chorus of "La La La La"'s in the background (very similar to a certain song in A Nightmare on Elm Street) cause him to appear as something between a psychopathic murderer and serial child molester, making the series' least threatening villain into one of its most disturbing (which is quite a feat).
In an episode of Ed, Edd n' Eddy when Edd discovers a scientific magazine a page unfolds like a Playboy centerfold and he reacts "oh my" and smiles. The camera then reveals that the picture is of a praying mantis.
In another episode, Edd and Eddy are searching through Ed's room and Eddy finds a magazine called Chicks Galore. He gleefully remarks "Ed's been holding out on us!", only to discover that the magazine is about baby chickens.
Double D: I didn't even know they had magazines like that!
The Kankers' POV in the Christmas special. They found a moldy piece of bread, sausages and pennies, and a fur coat. Later, when Edd (dressed as an angel) was stuck to the top of Rolf's shed, Eddy was laying in a chicken's roost, and Ed (dressed as a shepard) was just standing there, the Kankers show up with the items in hand.
Edd: Can it be? 3 Kings who have traveled afar? Lee: Away in a manger, huh? We come bearing gifts. May: See? Mold! Marie: I brought Franks and Cents! Lee: And Fur!
Some scenes between Eddy and Edd in The Movie ( Eg. Edd questioning Eddy implying that he's impressing his brother, the entire fight after the "sandquick" prank — Ed's suggestion that the two tickle each other doesn't help) just scream... UST. Hell, when Eddy broke down after his brother'sNo-Holds-Barred Beatdown on him, it sounds like something out of a Hurt/Comfort Fic.
And let us not forget how Eddy's big brother asks if Double D is Eddy's girlfriend. If I recall correctly, this question was posed twice in the movie.
The Sword of Omens in ThunderCats. It's a weapon that Lion-O was given when he reached puberty. When he waves it around, it grows longer and longer until, with a great shout of "Ho!", its eye opens and a white beam shoots out and... oh, I can't go on, I'm disgusting myself.
In the Daria episode Jane's Addiction, Trent agrees to help Daria and Jane with a school project but flakes out on them. At the end of the episode he and Daria have a conversation about how "maye it wasn't such a good idea for [them] to get together...on this".
In the Kim Possible episode "Homecoming Upset", Ron and Bonnie are elected Homecoming King and Queen, and thus are forced to attend a number of public events together. At one of them, Ron is holding a fire hose and Bonnie comes up from behind and surprises him with a hug. The hose picks that exact moment to turn on and shoots water all over Kim.
Invader Zim's society is structured around height entirely, to the point that leaders are chosen solely due to being taller than everyone else. This definitely has parallels to real life.
Dib using water against Zim in "The Wettening" crosses over into BDSM territory on a few occasions, in particular when he merely opens a tap behind Zim and watches with a growing smirk of satisfaction as he twitches and shudders with every drop that hits the sink. In the same episode, Zim covers himself completely with paste, white and sticky paste.
Dib's domination tendencies don't end there, however. In the first episode, having just met Zim, Dib decides the most appropriate course of action is to handcuff him. With handcuffs that, in his words, render aliens "completely helpless". Handcuffs that he was carrying with him for the slight possibility that he might encounter an alien.
Sleep cuffs, to be exact. Oh, the date rape implications.
Zim's robot Pak-legs function just like Naughty Tentacles, one would assume - only sharper and more painful.
On The Venture Bros., when Brock and Lt. Baldovich coordinate over the radio to dock Dr. Venture's shuttle with the Gargantua I space station, it sounds like they're discussing a sexual encounter they're having.
Dr. Venture seems to realize it too, since he groans in exasperation and snaps at Brock to hurry up after a while.
In "Larry Upgrade," Tuddrussell and Larry argue like a married couple (but not before sending Otto out to play).
Then, there's the "break-up" between Lewis and Clark on "Lewis and Clark and Larry," along with Clark getting jealous that Lewis "went exploring" with Larry.
"Ex Marks the Spot" — Everything about this episode screamed, "Yes, this show has Ho Yay!" Some memorable moments include: Larry being super-nice to Tuddrussell (to the point that it becomes Did You Just Have Sex?-type behavior; further proven by the Visual Innuendo of Larry filling a turkey with gravy by shoving a funnel into the turkey and pouring the gravy in until the turkey looked like it would explode, then topping the turkey off with a cherry that sinks into the gravy, never to be seen again), then acting like a clingy jealous fembot when Tuddrussell and Sheila (his ex-wife, as revealed in "Kubla Khan't.") look as if they're going to get back together, and the icing on the cake: the ending with Larry being so upset and angry that he overreacted to the whole thing that he tells Tuddrussell that he's sleeping on the sofa tonight. The kicker to all of this is that it's all played straight. If this episode doesn't convince you that the show is fueled on Ho Yay, then nothing will.
A rare example that has nothing to do with the homosexual undertone of the show occurs in "Child's Play," where Shakespeare gets into creative differences between his agent (who wants him to do kids' plays for merchandise) and Larry (who acts as a Moral Guardian and keeps objecting to the plays' content). Considering how short-lived "Time Squad" was, one has to wonder if this wasn't Dave Wasson (the show creator) speaking out against the creative output of his show or if this was merely a satire on the mediocre quality of current kids' TV programming and movies due to greed and Political Correctness Gone Mad.
Another non-homosexual example: the two times Larry has acted drunk (in "Eli Whitney's Flesh-Eating Mistake," where his Non-Sequitur Thud after being beaten by angry townspeople is "I'm okay to drive. Just help me to the car." and in "Pasteur Packs O'Punch where Larry experiences wild mood swings after being electrocuted, where he drunkenly tells Tuddrussell that he loves him, offers to drive despite being in no condition to operate anything, telling off Otto with a slurred, "Hey, don't tell me what to do!", and embarrassing himself at a party by standing on a table and declaring himself, "The Queen of France").
In a similar vein, on the first episode "Eli Whitney's Flesh-Eating Mistake," there was Fantastic Racism in the form of the townspeople who were attacked by Eli Whitney's flesh-eating robots attacking Larry because he may be a flesh-eating robot and Tuddrussell taking offense to being called a "robot lover" (though the rampant Ho Yay begs to differ).
Though the whole scenario could be taken another way, because Tuddrussel only takes offence ("Hey! You watch who you're calling 'robot lover'!") when a townsperson labels Otto as a 'robot lover' ("This must be some kind of flesh eating robot lover trick!") right after Otto explains that Larry doesn't have any teeth. Tuddrussel having taken offence to someone other than himself being labeled as such can vaguely be interpreted as pure jealousy.
"Daddio DaVinci" (season one, episode three) had Otto opening Larry's gear box on his chest and Larry covering himself in the same way a woman would if her breasts were exposed.
The My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic episode "Call of the Cutie" concerns Apple Bloom being the last in her class to get her "cutie mark," a symbol that represents who she is and what she'll do with her life. The language used to describe getting a cutie mark ("It isn't something that happens overnight, and no amount of wishing, hoping, or begging will make a cutie mark appear before its time"), the way Apple Bloom is teased for not having one, and the fact that one girl has a cuteceñera to celebrate getting hers, is reminiscent of a girl getting her first period or breasts, depending on who you ask.
In the episode "Lesson Zero", Big Macintosh is holding onto a doll that Twilight enchanted so that anypony that looked at it, would desperately want it. First, Big Macintosh got a hold of it, and suddenly everypony from town starts chasing after him for it. They all end up crowding him and piling on top of him for it. Now, if the doll wasn't there...
Later in the episode we see that, once the spell is reversed, everypony stops caring about the doll except Big Macintosh who picks it up and gleefully runs away with it. A grown male genuinely infatuated with something intended for young girls, sound familiar?
How about in the episode "Owl's Well That Ends Well"? Spike (at about the 10:17 point) goes into Twilight's drawer looking for an extra quill, but finds a very frilly saddle which looks similar to panties.
The episode of SpongeBob SquarePants where Larry the Lobster mistakes SpongeBob for a lifeguard because he has "White Stuff" on his nose.
What, sun-lotion?
The episode "Dumped" where Spongebob is heartbroken after Gary (his pet snail) leaves him for Patrick is treated as if Spongebob and Gary were lovers until Gary eloped.
In Danny Phantom, overshadowing someone looks very much like possession (although more benign).
Stan: And the Number One dog on my fictitious dog list is Brian Griffin! (zoom out to reveal Brian, sipping a martini) Brian: Uh, do I know you? (walks off) Stan:(beat)STOP PRETENDING I DON'T EXIST!
In one episode of Downtown Jen and Alex have a "post-coital" scene where they lie on the bed, exhausted, and talk about how good what they just did was. The joke is that in the previous scene they weren't having sex, but playing children's board games.
In the Rugrats episode "Give and Take" Chuckie can't stop playing with Boppo. When the others tire of watching, they leave Chuckie with the toy. Phil comments, "A kid his age should be outside playing with his friends, not sitting alone in his room bopping his Boppo." Lil adds that her brother is right that Chuckie has a problem.
My Life as a Teenage Robot: "Daydream Believer". It's not hard to imagine it being about psychoactive drugs instead of daydreaming.
Codename: Kids Next Door: Knightbrace is a wannabe dentist who was rejected by the ADA for being too crazy. He is shown stalking the streets, ambushing children, and mutilating their mouths. His attacks are played out disturbingly like ''rape scenes. And then there's the episode where there's a place where all the teenage couples go. "You go up as a boy, but come home as a man!" It's eleven minutes of sexual innuendo.
The entire series runs on this.
Slade's Mind Rape attacks on Raven in the Teen Titans episode "Birthmark" was disturbingly similar to an Attempted Rape scene. Come on, every time he touched her some of her clothes would disappear!
And his Mind Rape of Raven so heavily resembles the other kind of rape that a short hentai movie was able to be constructed from the scene without changing his dialogue at all.
His partnership with Terra has so many BDSM overtones she might as well have been wearing a gimp mask, his propositions to Robin to "join him" are equal parts "we can rule the world" and "I have candy in my van".
