"It may interest you to know, fräulein, that the carrot and the cucumber are both very powerful sexuality symbols. They represent the masculine phallic member. And you are vishing either to chop it up or to pickle it!"
There's a mention of something to this effect in the Dragaera book Dzur. After experiencing pleasant feelings from his new Empathic Weapon, Vlad notes that he finally understands why his friends who possessed similar objects were always compulsively stroking them.
The various "stabbing implements" Slasher Movie killers use to "penetrate" the bodies of female teenagers.
Advertising
There's an ad on this very site featuring a sword (held by someone offscreen) pointing directly at a woman's ample cleavage. You'd never know it was a fantasy game and not eroge.
And Quizno's Toasty Torpedo. "Put it in me, Scott."
Nokia. "Connecting People".
This magazine ad (taken from a FOX News slide show for lousy advertisements) for Macho Cologne
Many ads featured there fit, such as one displaying a man pointing his cigarette at some voluptuous ladies, and numerous ones about the benefits of women smoking.
There was a particular Top Gear ad that actually had a bit of fun with this trope: A man drives by in his big fancy car, stops at the lights and gives a big grin to an attractive woman next to the street. She responds by flicking her little finger at him in a "Compensating For Something" manner. What does he do? Flicks his little finger at her, only it's HUGE.
In this Japanese commercial a guy shoots bananas into the lap of a sad women and she becomes happy again.
The "Property Virgins" commercial.
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.
SUVs. Just their design could not be for anything but this.
The Shake Weight Commercial
Anime and Manga
On top of the usual Studio Gainaxmind screwing, FLCL has more sexual symbolism and Double Entendre than you can shake a suspiciously phallic baseball bat at. At times, it's like What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic? with sexual symbols instead of religious ones. Somewhat justified in that FLCL is a coming of age story, but still..
Like the moment in episode 5 where a conspicuously phallic... gun hammer, forms in the back of Naota's head. Now, what makes this Freudian is the fact that there's a (nearly) naked Haruko on top of him, close enough for the little phallic... hammer in the back of his head to bring their lips together... in front of his father. Yeah, you decide.
I'd like to point that the gun hammer was the most subtle out of the other phallic items sticking out from his head... horns, anyone?
Most blatant? The horn/tentacle that extends out of Naota's head, shoots right between Mamimi's legs, slams into the pavement and starts writhing and burrowing. Uh. Er.
Continuing in the vein of Gainax and symbolism, Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann has drills. Epic, manly drills that will penetrate pierce the heavens. Made the jump from subtext to text in the fight with Lordgenome, where he remarks that "your Spiral Energy is bigger than mine" (technically he said, "Your Spiral Energy has surpassed that of my own.", but some people just want to take things the wrong way...). Spiral Energy. Right.
Well, we knew Simon was packin' from the Hot Springs Episode. He needed his whole damn drilling tool to hide his package.
In the manga, Kamina actually looks at it and comments "Drill Simon!". Also, manga Leeron lampshades the drills' symbolism by telling a frozen, blushing Simon "You thrust it in! How manly!".
Anime Leeron does the same thing. "Just stick it in! Give it a big, manly twist!" Also, in one episode where Dai-Gurren is sinking, Simon pushes it back out of the water... by pushing it with his drill. Cut to Leeron inside the Dai-Gurren, who feels the impact in his ass.
Spiral Power is a metaphor for evolution. People with more Spiral Power can take more Evolutionary Levels. And we know how evolution works......
And not just drills. Adiane's Gunmen talked through its crotch and had eyes right about where its nipples would be. Her Gunmen's teeth (used as cockpit displays) are also rotated 90 degrees from the usual orientation. And there was a scene where the Dai-Gurren (which is really, reallyphallic) gets torpedo'd in the bridge... cut to the male crew members wincing.
In the episode where Team Dai-Gurren is imprisoned by General Guame, Nia is in the bridge handcuffed. Ultimatly Simon and Lagann penetrate the floor with its "giant drill". In doing so, Lagann "liberates" Nia from her shackles.
Shamshel, the fourth angel, is suspiciously phallic-shaped. Ramiel, the fifth, penetrates NERV with a giant drill. Arael, the fifteenth, "rapes" Asuka's mind. Armisael (in episode 23), the sixteenth, literally physically penetrates Rei and her Eva while Rei arches her back and makes the sort of cute squeaky vocalizations than one might expect Rei to make during sex (if one were to spend time speculating about such things) .
Earlier in episode 23 when the angel Armisael tries to fuse with Shinji and Rei and Shinji stabs Armisael causing her to let out a horrific scream and then tiny Rei heads emerge from bloated veins that have appeared on Shinji's hands while calmly saying 'It hurts Ikari-kun. Doesn't it hurt'? And then Armisael takes Rei's form, and caresses Eva-01's face, causing veins to appear across it, in an attempt to "become one" with Shinji.
The Lance of Longinus is the only weapon capable of penetrating AT Fields and disabling God, said God being the mother of all humanity. Yeah.....
NERV HQ itself is built around a central shaft that Angels are always trying to penetrate.
Lilith. Just.... Lilith.
Entry plugs might be phallic, but are inserted into the upper backs of the Evas; not many people have vaginas on their upper backs, so draw your own conclusions.
The entry plugs kind of resemble wombs, which is still symbolic...and Freudian.
Don't even get started on the mother and Oedipus Shinji thing. The souls in the Evas, Misato's relationship with Shinji, rivalry between Shinji and Gendo, Ritsuko going after the same man that... look, just don't even get fucking started.
Shinji is inside his mother, which is Ferenczi.
One of this page's former images◊ was a scene from End of Evangelion with "Giant Naked Rei". Click the link, and note the pose and the phallic shape of the flow of souls into the Black Moon. To take that scene even further, not only does Rei/Lilith have a gigantic vagina in her forehead, she has vaginas in the palms of her hands. Also, near the end of the movie, Rei and Shinji are shown talking with each other about Instrumentality; both are naked, and Rei is sitting astraddle Shinji in a very suggestive manner.
Actually, since they're in the Sea of Souls, they're one. Therefore, their bodies are merged by the crotches and she is actually sitting IN him.
The Human Instrumentality Project. While it is an orgy of trying to initiate the mass suicide of humanity, the assimilation process basically involves Rei going to every point in space and time, and when a human is encountered, she takes the form of his most loved one, which then embraces the human and tangs him while said human becomes one with Rei and die in bliss. Also, the metaphor of Instrumentality as basically becoming all as one. Yes, the suicide of humanitybasically involvedeverybody having a lot of sex.
In the pipes in the endy bit of Episode 15... [1]◊ looks like a lady bit, eh?
In End Of Evangelion for Freudian imagery of the Les Yay variety, the figure who Maya sees is Ritsuko who types "I need you" on Maya’s with her hands over Maya’s, and then tenderly embraces her, with her knee planted in Maya's groin. Before she's turned into LCL Maya joyfully returns Ritsuko's hug and cries "Sempai! Sempai! Sempai! Sempai!" with a look of ecstasy on her face as tears flow from her eyes.
In episode 23, Misato is a barely-functioning mess in mourning for Kaji, and Shinji's faring even worse, in mourning for Rei (who soon gets better) and upset with his life in general. Misato enters Shinji's room, where he is lying on his bed, sits by him, and tries to hold his hand, telling him, "Right now, this is all I can do for you." The visuals of the scene, which are Freudian even by the ultra-Freudian standards of the series, suggest that she intends something sexual.
Also in episode 23 the sequence leading up to Rei's death uses imagery reflective of conception and pregnancy. When the Angel first breaches Eva-00, the monitors make sure to repeatedly display the word "Penetration"; Rei blushes and convulses in a sexual manner. Once the Angel has mostly invaded the Eva, its belly begins to swell in a manner very remniscent of pregnancy. This imagery is juxtaposed with Rei's realization that she wants Shinji.
In a particularly Ho Yay scene in the manga, Kaworu enters Shinji's shower stall looking for soap and gets really close while both are naked and getting wet from the shower spray. There's even the word "tension" used to describe the scene. Another Freudian scene in the manga has Kaworu giving Shinji CPR when he starts hyperventilating.
In the anime, we don't get Kaworu that far, but we do get Shinji in the shower looking down and toward Kaworu, and blushing. Yes, Shinji is falling in love upon seeing Kaworu's penis.
Kaworu's leitmotif is "Ode to Joy". Much of the choral part can be overanalyzed. Particularly "Himmlische, dein Heiligtum" (We enter your shrine.), "Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele/Sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund/Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle/Weinend sich auf diese Bund" (Indeed, whoever can call even one soul his own on this earth! And whoever was not able to, must tearfully creep away from this band.), "Freude trinken alle Wesen/An den Brüsten der Natur" (Joy all creatures drink at the breasts of nature.), "Wollus ward dem Wurm gegeben" (Pleasure was given to the worm.) and "Muss ein lieber Vater wohnen" (Surely there must be a loving father.)
This might be a bit overanalysis (of course, given the nature of this trope, that's impossible), but sperm competition. Only one angel can penetrate Lilith. "Only one life form may inherit the future."
The manga goes extremely far in making all the Freud Was Right explicit when Shinji, trapped in the Eva, is "tempted" by a seductive apparition of naked Yui, or rather Unit 01's Angelic side in her guise.
In Futakoi Alternative, the male protagonist and a couple of twins share a sequence of flying through the air together. Freud has theorized that flying dreams were a way to express sexual desires.
Referenced in Welcome to the NHK. Misaki tries to psychoanalyze Satou's dreams. Satou purposely gives her... well, we'll just quote it:
Satou: There was a robust snake that dived into the sea, then, stabbed an apple with a broadsword, and shot it with a large, black imposing gun.
In one episode of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha we have an animated tree, complete with root tenticles, that has a very... sugestive... mouth.
Done on purpose in Gintama with the "Neo-Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon" (It has a high quality finish).
Also, we should note that the title is one letter off from kintama, which means testicles.
Its better than that, golden balls or kintama is like family jewels, gintama is silverballs.
The Elric brothers in Fullmetal Alchemist love their mommy waaaay too much. This subtext is so obvious that the third episode of Full Metal Alchemist the Abridged Series is appropriately dubbed Motherf*cker. In the anime, Al even develops a crush on Psyren precisely because she reminds him of his mother (and let's not even talk of the scene near the end of the anime where Sloth practically seduces him). In the anime, Wrath even fuses with his substitute mom and is welcomed to the Gate by Loving Naked Izumi in the movie. Ed, Selim, and the Tringham brothers have daddy issues and so do Greed in the manga and Envy in the anime. And most of the homunculi have strange mommy or daddy issues in the anime and adore almost masochistically their terrifying father/God figure in the manga. Add some Replacement Goldfish syndrome and Evil Counterparts and stir.
And let's not forget that in a healthy (??) display of Oedipal neurosis, evil stepmom Dante in the anime explicitly tries to trick Ed into sleeping with her because Hohenheim wouldn't. But this is nothing compared to how creeped Edward would've felt.
Roy's repeated freezing when Riza Hawkeye tells him that he's "useless by rainy weather" is bound to make us think that this statement is actually not about his alchemy skills. The Japanese word used in this context, "munou" (with "mu" meaning "nothingness", as in The Nothing After Death) also means incompetent or inefficiency — "impotent."
And it has been translated as "impotent," in some fansubs. Blogger inulovinkit put it best: "She would know, I guess."
Not to mention towards the end of the manga, when he's getting really frustrated about not being able to help everyone fight the Big Bad (he'd just been struck blind) and gripes about how he's useless at the worst moment possible. Izumi 's response: "It's okay, it happens." Roy is clearly aware of the subtext, since his expression just screams, "Oh, shut up."
Lust takes the form of a beautiful, curvaceous woman... who turns her fingers into blades that can penetrate anything. This power is refered to as the Ultimate Lance, and considering how often spears are used as phallic symbols, ... yeah.
Pride is a shadow-tentacle monster who is "watching you from the shadows". In one scene, he possesses Al's body and Al comments that Pride "came inside him" and that his soul felt icky afterward.
And then there's Father's behavior during the "Eclipse". Not only does he act like he's having an orgasm the whole time, but there's also the fact he comments that his "sacrifices" struggling just makes things better for him (since it provides more alchemical power).
The Big Bad is known only as "Father." In a series in which, as a previous editor noted, the main characters "love their mommy waaaaaaay too much." We don't need Oedipus Rex to solve this riddle.
Also, near the end of the anime, Edward defeats Pride by transmuting himself as a philosopher's stone and "forcing his way inside" Pride. Note that both Ed and Pride are having an out of clothes experience for this scene.
In .hack//SIGN, Tsukasa, a player of a virtual reality MMORPG gets trapped in the game and is given amnesia. He is also given "the Guardian"; a giant pair of floating yellow balls that stab other players with tentacles. Shortly after Tsukasa rebels against the Guardian and it is destroyed, he regains his memory and realizes that in the real world, "he" is really a girl.
Vash the Stampede in Trigun worships his adopted mother too much, which is particularly disturbing in the light of his hallucinations about her in the anime and apparent lack of 'adult' sexuality.
To be fair, though, he's perfectly normal compared to Knives, who seems more interested in going after his own twin and is into slicing people (with giant blades, no less... ahem). Also note that he absolutely hates Rem and thus doesn't share in the 'ordinary' Oedipal schema of the manga (we might even wonder if, in Nightow's logic, it doesn't explain why he's so batshit insane).
Let's not forget the overtones of sexual rivalry that his feud with Vash tends to take, especially when Dr. Conrad teaches him that "Vash's gate is larger than [his]". His face is priceless when he nearly gets overpowered by the "size" of said "gate" and, much later, when Vash calls him "a wimp with a bulldozer" once he has fused with thousands of plants, which makes him without a normal lower body but also a guy "fused" with thousands of girls. Who are all his "sisters"... Also, note that Knives's "power" tends to disturb everyone in the area (notably Wolfwood). For the sake of the argument, let's just say that pretty much everything Knives does and thinks has a Freudian subtext.
Oh yeah, in the anime, as a one-year-old boy/the rough equivalent of a twelve-year-old human boy, he induced in one of the crew women an illusion that she was being raped by one of her fellow crew members.
In the manga, Nicholas D. Wolfwood sounds creepy when he has an imaginary conversation with Auntie Melanie about what an amazing guy Vash is. Also fits into Ho Yay, oddly enough. Also, he has obvious daddy issues too, both in the anime and in the manga.
The whole deal with the Humpty Lock and the Dumpty Key in Shugo Chara!. One time during the series, he attempts to put his Key in her Lock. While doing so, Ikuto hilariously comments: "It looks tight, would it fit?"
Shugo Chara is also the only children's anime where sharing an ice cream looks like having an orgasm. To be fair, until Party!, Shugo Chara seemed to push the boundaries of children's anime.
In Zettai Karen Children, when The Children are singing at a karaoke bar, the Chief's camera lens zooms in and out in a very suggestive way. Definite lolicon subtext there.
In a scene in the Ah! My Goddess manga, a dimensional door vaguely shaped like a malicious girl falls in love with Keiichi and accepts to open herself... provided he is the one who puts the key into her keyhole. Yeah, that's subtlety for you. The subtext becomes explicit when he slowly inserts the key into her, she moans, and Belldandy very nearly goes into a destructive fit of jealousy.
Revolutionary Girl Utena. Phallic symbols abound, from swords to the tower, and Akio makes it pretty obvious we're not just imagining it.
Not to mention that the activity in which the series mainly concentrates is people sticking swords in roses on their opponents' lapels. Can you say "deflowering"? And then there's that time Shiori polished Ruka's sword, or the one when Akiobreaks his sword (ouch)...
Heck, what about the scene in episode 12, where Touga, having become the new head duelist, makes Utena (who has ditched her boy's uniform) watch Anthy kneel down and kiss the Sword of Dios that he's wielding (to top things off, it Turns Red and gives him the power to deal huge amounts of Clothing Damage to Utena). It's like Freud is one of the scriptwriters!
Akio's car, Akio's car, Akio's freaking car. He takes almost every character in a show on a ride in it at some point. He also sleeps withevery character in the show at some point. After the third or fourth car scene, you can't not think it's indicating something else. And even if that was too subtle for you, there's a scene of Akio driving with Anthy that mirrors his...habits towards her way too much.
Instead of outright talking about sex, the characters pull swords from each other's bodies, get dressed after "encounters", have shirts-open, sexually-charged photography sessions, kiss the tip of a sword to give it superpowers, throw their heads back and moan at the throb of a car's engine, and, oh yeah, roll around shirtless with their flies open on beds with each other.
Studio Ghibli's Tales from Earthsea had some of the most laughable Freud Was Right moments ever seen in anime —which makes sense, given the main character manages to kill his dad in the first few minutes of the movie. Arren's shadow gives the sword to Therru and rubs it very suggestively while it is in her arms. Therru gives Arren his sword and his 'manliness' by the same token. Therru looks moved to tears when Arren draws his 'sword of light' before her for the first time. Sword of light... right.
Maybe the director (Goro Miyazaki) was trying to compensate for his father issues?
Mimi's giant cactus mirage. Then, later that same episode, a real giant cactus gives her her Crest. Are we sure she's only 10?
Yes, I know that the real cactus opening up to give her the crest is supposed to evoke the beginning of Togemon's Digivolution sequence to Lillymon, but Togemon was never that big.
Not that it should matter with that Digivolution. Anyone else see "Poison Ivy" as a plant-based Naughty Tentacles? Then, of course, there's the Fetish Fuel factor of the Ultimate and Mega form...
Digimon is full of those moments. Girls always squee in awe when they are attacked by anything with... "vines".
DNA digivolving in the games is a replacement for monster breeding. Daiken and Taito Ho Yay ensues.
The character William Will Wo in Gun X Sword is one gigantic walking Oedipus complex. He spends most of the episodes that center on him walking around his family's mansion in nothing but a sheet held over his naughty bits wailing about his mother, whom he killed accidentally while trying to kill his father as a child. At one point, as he's thinking about her, his collapsible sword (which he is holding over his crotch) extends. When Van finally gets over his Heroic BSOD and kills him, it's a relief.
Do I even have to start with Gundam? Let's just throw in some examples...
The Strike's Launcher Striker equipment pack. Just tell me what the BFG looks like when it's being aimed.
The Apsaras mobile armor series in The 08th MS Team, which looks more than vaguely vagina-esque and is referred to as an "iron womb" in canon (and acts as such for a character with some pretty extreme Mommy Issues).
Also, the Cybernewtypes of UC were pretty much Mind Raped into submission. And Zeta's Scirocco wasn't just 'nice' to all the girls he talked into working for him. Amd Dorothy's admiration towards Relena is not even a little sexual. Or Treize attitude towards Milliardo and Wu Fei. Or the Tallgeese (GWING TAS is right). Let's don't even start with Domon's admiration towards Master Asia (canon's wrong anyway) or Tieria's attitude towards stupid, sexy Lockon. (Yeah, not much of an order here but Gundam's just so full of them I can't get them organized by any means not even talking about them being close to complete).
Let's not forget the most obvious example. In Gundam Wing, Duo, in his Gundam, heads on down in the ocean to Wing Gundam. How does he shut off Wing's self destruct mechanism? By switching his scythe to a more phallic shape and sticking it into Wing's ass, that's how.
This poster once read a line by line analysis of the Lucky Star opening song which concluded that it was all about the main girls losing their virginity. He's never been able to listen to said song in the same way again.
If you thought all the drills in Gurren Lagann were suspicious, you should watch the also Hiroyuki Imaishi-directed work Dead Leaves, where a dude has a similar looking giant drill for a penis!
One guy tried to prove that Pokémon should be banned because he ranted about Jigglypuff being the Pokémon representation of breasts. Oh, yeah, he tried to prove that there was an upskirt shot and that it should be banned. The scene is so fast, he could only have noticed it if he was looking for it.
"Maximum hardness, Metapod!" Oh come on, do I really have to spell it out for you? "Metapod, harden like his." "Maximum hardness, Metapod!" They aren't having a battle, folks, they are having a masturbation race. The ending proves it, they both fall backwards in defeat when interrupted. Another weird battle later, Swellow, glowing gold, using Quick Attack, piercing right through a Light Screen.
There was an episode where Steelix, the giant Iron Snake Pokémon, invades a valley inhabited by Bidoof, a group of beaver Pokémon. It may have been less a subtext in Pokémon and more the translators trying to screw with the audience, as the translators have been known to do.
Freud would have a field day with Dio Brando. His very reason for being evil stems from his daddy issues. Later on in Part 1, he literally wants his adoptive brother's body in order to "live gorgeously forever." The creepy obsessions many of his servants have with him in Part 3 (extending well beyond his mind control over some of them). And let's not get started on the creepy subtext in Enrico Pucci's flashbacks.
"Do you believe in gravity, Enrico?"
Gyro Zeppeli, who fights with a pair of steel balls.
One name: Zorc Necrophades. Really, that dragon head on his crotch has to be the most phallic-resembling thing in existence and how the hell did it get past the radar is what I'll never know.
Seto Kaiba from Yu-Gi-Oh! has some Freudian moments. The fact that he flies around in a jet that looks like a dragon has been made fun of enough, but it gets really Freudian when you see him clutching the joystick positioned right next to his crotch. The viewer sees this from a very... interesting angle.
In a duel, Seto Kaiba's XYZ-Dragon Cannon got a ring equipped to its "Dragon head" ... eh ... yeah ...
Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds: Yusei's first duel with Sherry is a metaphor for sex. There's no way around it. You'll see it in both the original and the dub. Slightly moreso in the dub, in fact.
Honjestly this one is a MAJOR stretch even by this trope's standards.
Sora Wo Kakeru Shoujo's Leopard, a living space colony, needs a pair of golden orbs (and in Japanese, golden balls also means "testicles") so that he can successfully fire his Wave Motion Gun. In the first episode, he tells Akiha, his new lady friend, to use his "golden gun". Oh yes.
And in the third episode he looks decidedly... pleased after she does. There's really no mistaking that one.
Her dialogue and reactions during her trial to overcome her superpowered Berseker side in Volume 2 of the manga counts.
Lucia dislikes Sumire's boyfriend. A LOT. So much that she kills him with a giant log object to "protect" Sumire. Of course, she does that due to the fact he is avirus.
Lelouch from Code Geass. He hates his father, has ridiculously saint-like memories of his mother, and the only women in all of his Unwanted Harem that he openly admits his love for were both his sisters.
And in the Grand FinaleLelouch is impaled on the long, thin sword of Suzaku, with whom he has been the subject of muchHo Yay/Foe Yay. Which he asks Suzaku to do to him (admittedly for the purpose of killing him). This has been Lampshaded by fans.
Adult Swim's website made fun of the scene where Lelouch is holding a champagne bottle pointed up at an angle that sprays its contents all over Kallen.
Also Mao is in love with C.C. who gave him his Geass when he was six, making him completely dependent on her for all his social needs. She then isolated him from the world for several years, effectively raising him. When he got older, he fell in love with her. And he also listens to a recording of her voice over and over.
There's also the statement by C.C. that she became his "best friend and lover". Fans have already used this line to it's full potential.
In Katekyo Hitman Reborn!, Tsuna is attracted to and has a crush on Kyoko, despite hardly even talking to her or knowing her. But there's one thing that stands out as being extremely suspicious: she looksexactlylike his mother. Of course, if you start analyzing and looking deeper into the Art Evolution where they both start looking exactly like each other, the possible explanations can be rather disturbing...
It also seems to be the fact that their eyes are nowadays drawn exactly the same... Now why would the mangaka do that?
There's also 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, aint 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.
Byakuran also smiles constantly, loves * symbolic flowers* , and has signature moves where he 'penetrates you'. Oh and let's not forget his image song where he asks you to 'give him your body'.
And Tsuna's battle with Mukuro had Mukuro spouting such lines like "I'm going to have some goddamn fun with you" and he kept telling him to "give me your body" and "with this ultimate technique you will become mine." (He's referring to possessing Tsuna's body in order to cause a rift within the mafia, but still...) And how he suddenly grabbed Tsuna from behind, got close enough to rest his chin on Tsuna's shoulder and whispered into his ear while Tsuna had a strained expression on his face.
And Mukuro has the ability to take control of people's bodies by slicing or stabbing them with his phallic-looking trident. He even tries to throw Tsuna onto it at one point.
Plus, the part where he head-buts Tsuna and pulls him back up again by the arms to rest his chin on Tsuna's shoulder during their fight. If you replay that part in the anime it looks like he's 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.
Any scene about Gokudera and his obsessive loyalty towards Tsuna. One example being this scene with Gokudera jumping fully clothed into a pool where Tsuna is swimming when concerned for Tsuna's health, getting close to Tsuna's face, and shaking him. And in episode 138 we have this scene. (Note the sounds Gokudera makes as Tsuna's trying to hold him back).
And this scene where Gokudera gets sick after catching sight of his sister. It looks more like he's getting screwed up the ass.
Halibel's release form◊ in Bleach. Considering that it looks like a giant vagina, it could have been avoided had her sword been held another way.
Tousen's vaizard mask put the fandom in a tizzy. Considering what he did in that chapter, it also counts as a Visual Pun. *
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Let's not forget that Mayuri Kurotsuchi's zanpakuto has a pink hilt and it hangs off from his belt right over his crotch.
Or his supposed use of "sexual healing" to revive his daughter. We don't see anything of course but we see Mayuri moving back and forth and Nemu moaning loudly in response.
Let's not forget that panel in chapter 388 with Aizen getting really close to Ichigo and resting his fingers on Ichigo's chest while saying "I can practically touch your heart". Aizen has a perfectly calm (and somewhat seductive) look on his face while Ichigo looks incredibly creeped out. (He's mentioning how easy it would be to stab Ichigo through the heart, but COME ON.)
Nnoitra with his constant Slasher Smile and perverted nature towards Orihime, which was best demonstrated by his nicknaming her "pet-sama" and the one scene where he grabbed her and stuck his fingers in her mouth to keep her quiet while he forced her to watch as Tesla beat the crap out of Ichigo.
Szayel Aporro Granz has lots of Freudian aspects to him. Lets start with the fact that his Zanpakuto sword is called Fornicarás which is Spanish for "You Will Fornicate" and Japanese for "Lewd Concubine". Szayel releases his Zanpakutō by calling out its command ("Sip") and then swallowing it, and in doing so, he emits a glow from his mouth. His body then swells to enormous proportions and releases spiritual energy, which then fills in immediate vicinity in a fine mist as he transforms, revealing his released form. In the anime he appears to moan as this happens too. In his released form by grabbing an opponent with one of his "wings" and then spitting them out, one of the strands of his "wings" becomes engorged and bursts with purple liquid, creating a small doll that has the victim's likeness. Szayel apparently absorbs some of the victim's spiritual power in the process. Ishida was noticeably disoriented after the process, and Szayel stated, "Thanks for the feast." before licking his lips.
His final ability allows him to be reborn if he is injured beyond repair by "impregnating" an enemy. When he has physical contact with the victim he can implant a portion of himself inside their body. He then "devours" his way out of their body, by way of absorbing all the fluids and chemicals of the victim killing them in the process, like an insect leaving a cocoon or husk when he matures and develops his body back in a matter of seconds from a liquid-like casing coming from the victim's mouth. When being reborn the manga has him laying his egg inside of Nemu and emerging head first from her mouth. In the anime he is resurrected from an embryo that emerges from Nemu's mouth and develops into him.
Ishida: (to Ichigo) "Let me hold your sword... It got so big!"
Ishida's desperate attempt to stop Ichigo from tearing up what he believes is Ulquiorra's corpse. Then he gets impaled on Ichigo's sword.
Tsukishima's power is rewriting your memories and inserting himself into them — as someone whom you dearly love. How does he use it? Via running you through with his katana. In few words, he penetrates you with his sword and is so good at it that soon you're fawning all over him.
Then there was this one (anime-only) fight with this snake-themed badguy. From that same episode Kariya the leader of the Bouts offers We Can Rule Together and "wants to get into his body."
Ichigo: I WILL NOT LET YOUR SNAKE TAKE MY BODY!
Ryo Utagawa: You're full of openings.
Full Metal Panic!. Season 1's showdown between Gauron and Sousuke. Gauron's sudden grappling of Sousuke's mecha starts looking suspiciously like he's raping him and they're having hatesex. And please don't say that the thick white liquid that starts dripping down on Gauron while he's grinning doesn't represent anything at all. If one were to look deeper into it, in the novels, a very probable explanation is that Gauron was subliminally (or maybe not so subliminally) enacting out exactly what he wanted to do - fucking Sousuke up the ass. Only, he was in his mecha while he was doing it.
The manga even has him yelling out happily, "Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! Ah, what a rush!" And as impossible as this sounds, Gauron's moaning and loud orgasms are actually more pronounced in the novels, where he literally yells out happily, "RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT! FASTER! MORE! MORE!!"
You know what's really creepy? In the novels, Gauron was saying those things in "an effected, feminine voice". Oh, and he was the one who ended up at the bottom, too, "shuddering and clinging to the Arbalest". Not sure what that's supposed to mean, but Freud would sure have a field day with Gauron...
Hell, even Sousuke's actions and noises could be read as having sexual connotations - everything from him thinking how "when I stand before [Gauron], my knees shake", to the blood rushing to his head, to his stabbing, thrusting moves accelerating more and more, to him "not being satisfied"(said repeatedly, no less), to "violently heaving for breath" when he finally stopped, and Arbalest ending up in an exhausted mock embrace with Venom... yeah, a field day, indeed.
Gunsmith Cats has two rather affectionate females working together in a male-dominated enterprise with a gun shop as a front.
Oh, the kicker here is while Minnie-May has Ken, Rally might have Bean (it's complicated...). Paraphrasing Minnie, Rally compensates "... with those big 'ol guns..."
A rather blatant example: in the manga, Goldie drugs Rally with a halllucination-inducing drug. Her first halllucination? A xenomorph-looking monster popping out the hammer of her gun...
Kenichi Sonoda does so enjoy this trope. Cannon God Exaxxion... jeez. The symbolism is everywhere, even thicker than Gurren Lagann. What else can you expect from a story of a mecha built around a cannon?
Ahem..."winding". Because it would be too blatant if they referred to it as "screwing".
What about the entire series itself? A group of blossoming young women all feeling an attraction to a ten-year-old boy (some moreso than others), the Pactio process... heck, one could probably do an essay on Evangeline alone. Let's face it, Negima is chockful of Freudian fun.
Hellsing. Vampirism as a substitute for sex is at the very least Older Than Radio, but Alucard takes to a new level entirely. Manages to achieve Beyond the Impossible status in his "fight" with Rip Van Winkle, which was probably the closest thing to rape without involving genitalia in all fiction.
He also likes to impale his victims for Integra...and then basically ask her if it aroused her.
In Naruto, the true form of Kisame's sword Samehada manages to be both phallic (the shape of most of it, grows in size when excited, which is described as a "way to show happiness") and a case of Vagina Dentata (at the end of it) at the same time. Then Killer Bee rams a hole through it with his horns.
Also, in the Kidoumaru Vs. Neji fight, there's a flash back to the other sound nin, where they are saying that Kidoumaru tends to get too excited when he fights, and that he likes... playing... with his victims. Add that to the fact that he can make... well, distinctly phallic-shaped objects out of his spit, webs that can bind, and six arms... And during the fight, Neji gets his hair tie snapped and his headband off, both things probably designed to showcase his vulnerability against the evil, six-armed spiderman. Neji manages to defeat Kidoumaru but not before Kidoumaru penetrates him with one of his phallic shaped arrows, which, as mentioned above, he had made from his spit.
During the Pein/Naruto fight there was a scene where Pein impaled Naruto with his black chakra rods then kneeled in front of him. And shortly after that and getting more of those black rods stuck in him, Naruto winces and thinks "Pain's chakra...is inside me..." And its even more suggestive in the anime◊.
Also Karin can heal people if they bite her and she seems to... enjoy it. In the anime, when Sasuke bit her she gained a Luminescent Blush and thrust her head back while moaning amidst a bubbly, sparkly pink background. And a later scene revealed that she has bite marks all over her torso and arms.
During Orochimaru's Shower Scene Kabuto was in the room watching and downright pleading Orochimaru to "Take him instead".
Not to mention Kabuto has absorbed Orochimaru's remains so Orochimaru is literally inside of him.
Following the Pain fight Sakura heals Hinata by opening her jacket which reveals her ample bosom and she places her Healing Hands above Hinata's breasts.
In one scene Anko throws a kunai at Naruto, teleports behind him while his face bleeds, and asks him while holding a hand to his face "You tough enough to handle this? You're not afraid, are you? Tough guys like you usually leave their blood all over this forest." She then starts to lick the blood on Naruto's face up when Orochimaru, in disguise as a ninja student, returns Anko's kunai with his ridiculously long, phallic tongue. He then says "With the sight of blood and your blade slicing through my hair, I'm afraid that I just became a little excited." Not to mention Anko's about twice Naruto's age.
During his battle with Tayuya, Shikamaru attempts to restrain her with his new Shadow technique. Thanks to her expression and the fact the shadows take on the appearance of a hand, it looks like he's molesting her. Also, the technique he used on her has the word "shibari" in its name. Shibari is a type of Japanese bondage.
And then there's Hidan's sadomasochistic stabbing ritual, which seems to give him a hard-on.
And then there's Sasuke and Naruto's Ho Yay-tastic relationship which is taken Up to Eleven in the infamous scene from the "Konoha Sports Festival" OVA where Naruto and Sasuke are competing in a relay race and Naruto's waiting for Sasuke to hand him the baton. Sasuke comes up behind Naruto and shoves the tip of the baton up Naruto's clothed butt. The next scene shows Naruto laying on the ground in pain with the baton stuck in his ass and Sasuke standing above him (either not realizing what just happened or ignoring it).
In the Crossroads OVA there's a part where Sasuke tackles Naruto to save him from an attack and when the smoke clears he's shown to have landed with his face in Naruto's lap. If you replay that part it looks like he's giving Naruto a blow-job.
Chapter 486 was called "Fists;" the sexual implications of the word were not lost on fans. "We can understand each other with our fists, and there's nothing wrong with that!"
When Sasuke and Naruto have their first reunion after the Time Skip Sasuke appears to be half-hugging Naruto as he whispers in his ear and attempts to plunge his sword through Naruto's back.
And then there's anything involving Orochimaru and his "interest" in having Sasuke's body. There's also his final fight with Sasuke, which had Sasuke approaching a ill Orochimaru resting in bed and penetrating him with his sword. Orochimaru sweats and struggles against being pinned against the wall before reverting to his true form, a giant snake comprised of a bunch of tinier snakes, and trying to wrap his snakes and curl himself around/smother a half-naked Sasuke while screaming "Give me your body, Sasuke-kun!"
Then there's the chapter where Naruto finally meets his mom, Kushina, which seemed uncomfortably flirty in certain parts of their conversation. Here's a protip, Naruto: Calling your own mom a "babe" really does not help.
Who can forget Guts and his huge sword held at crotch level so many times. And then there's the H.R. Gigeresque Apostles and God Hands.
InuYasha's sword grows, pulses, turns red, is usually held at crotch-level, and even has hair on the hilt.
Also, did we mention that it turns from old, rusted and small to that gigantic and hairy form mostly when he's trying to protect his Love Interest?
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 notable 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!"
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 andKaname. Seen in this light, the final scene with Zero and Ichiru is quite Freudianly symbolic as well.
Most of anything involving Train and Creed in Black Cat. For example, in episode 5 Train smashes Creed's, er, sword with his gun and 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!" And in the english version he says "That's it...it's shocking..." with tears in his eyes. Train seems deeply creeped out by this response.
In another episode after smashing Train into a wall Creed (while holding a rose between his teeth) goes on about how his emotions running high in disappointment and anger towards Train has caused his sword to grow enormous in strength and size and he even tries to penetrate Train's body with said ridiculously phallic-looking sword.
There's a particular scene in the anime of Fruits Basket where Tohru is sick and Hatori needs to give her an injection of some sort. Shigure makes comments about the size of Hatori's needle, and Momiji says something along the lines of "You have to stop if she says it hurts!" The entire scene is just one giant innuendo.
Girls Bravo: Episode two features a fruit vendor crouching down and holding out a banana for Miharu to eat. She looks at it in awe, caresses it, and licks it with a blush on her face and the fruit vendor watches her do so with a blush on his face. She then proceeds to repeatedly suck on the bananas to highly suggestive camera angles making it look like she is giving the fruit vendor a blow-job. When she finishes eating the bananas she licks her lips, still with a blush on her face, and the fruit vendor is shown panting.
And the 12th episode features the perverted Fukuyama (guy) who's stuck in Miharu's (girl) body getting the Naughty Tentacles treatment by an octopus. At one point a tentacle rubs Miharu's boobs and another goes up her swimsuit and comes out from between her breasts, while Miharu has a blush on her face and appears to enjoy it. And Yukinari (in the big breasted body of Kirie) gets grabbed by the tentacles and we get a view of Kirie's legs stretched apart as a tentacles goes in between her legs and up her bathing suit, while Kirie struggles against the hold.
La Blue Girl is what you get when you apply literally this trope to a ninja action flick.
Kuroshitsuji has Sebastian's sex scene with Beast. He's doing it with her to get information on her father figure. And is doing the deed with her while having a nice little conversation about her father figure. Not to mention the fact that Beast also is in (unrequited) love with her elder/eldest brother figure.
Not as prominent in the manga, but the anime version of Ciel's subconscious definitely had some choice words for Vincent.
Episode 6: The line in which Sebastian says to Claude, "That white, sticky spider's thread of yours tarnished bocchan's... soul."
Episode 7: Claude practically having an orgasm over the taste of Ciel's blood.
Episode 9: Claude, while knitting, stating how he's going to "pierce Ciel's soft skin with his needle and slowly suck out his sensual soul."
Sebastian putting Ciel in a corset.
The male lead in Equation Of The Immortal is a subversion in his obsession with Sayoko as while she's damn near a clone of his recently deceased mother (though "every" female in the series does,) this saves his life as his refusal to do anything with her beyond ogle her (even when she's naked, amnesiac and flat out offering him some) due to herpower.
Soul Eater: The longer Giriko's fight goes on with Maka, the more it descends into this. It gets to the point that you could replace "chainsaw" with "penis" and it would make just as much sense. He threatens to rape her at one point only to remember that he does not have a penis anymore.
D. Gray-Man: The whole "Tyki Mikk destroyed Allen's "innocence", then made a hole in his heart and left him alone in the forest" sounds like he raped him. Well, it makes sense in context , but is hard not to think the worse, with Tyki and his interest over Allen.
Dragon Ball's Cell literally drinking and eating people through his tail was disturbing enough even before the manner in which he did to it Android 18 invoked this trope. What with the constant up-and-down motion, the absolutely awful sucking noises, and 18 moaning and crying out in fear, which began in a horrible scream just before all this even started… is there any need to say what this is symbolic for?
While speaking of Dragon Ball, did you see the way Goku and Vegeta merged together with their Fusion Dance?
Star Driver: Episode 9. Sugata tells Takuto to be careful because his kendo sword is a bit longer, while holding it out in front of Takuto. Generally, much of the show could qualify, as it's about a group of teenagers trying to "break the seals" of "pure maidens" to unleash their hidden powers.
Goshuushou-sama Ninomiya-kun: Hinako takes this Up to Eleven in Episode 8 when she strips and forces Mayu into a swimsuit and apron while cooking ramen. Irori subsequently walks in on them and then the two of them force her into one too. Later when Shinobu shows up, the three of them force her into one as well and at this point they're all doing with way more gusto than required. To top it off just before Shungo returns home with ingredients for the ramen, they've been thinking certain thoughts about how big and hard that wooden spoon they're stirring the ramen with is. And they certainly don't spare many details on the individual stripping of each girl, mind you.
Brianna from Gold Digger (Season II) REALLY SCREWS up on one of her Mobile Manual Turret designs. Lampshaded by EVERYONE who sees her gun in action... in the wrong place.
Scryed has more than its fair share. Kazuma's basic ability is forming an enormous red/flesh-colored fist, then thrusting from a jet in his back to pound into things. Ryuhou's blades and edges are all about penetrating, and we can't forget Tachibana's previous treasure balls.
Sela "Platinum Hurricane" Miranda from Basquash! is more-or-less made of this trope. Her reaction of "it feels good" after she spills her milkshakes on herself in the first episode and her masochistic pleasure over Iceman pummeling her during mecha-streetball games are her most prominent character traits.
A meta-example: Psychoanalyst Lloyd de Mause once analyzed the entire country of Japan by looking for phallic humor in manga. He concluded that all Japanese mothers taught their sons how to masturbate. What?
Pandora Hearts: See Elliot in chapter 26 here where he holds a sword at crotch level. Oz does it too. There's also Vincent's obsession with his older brother Gil and Gil's apparent feelings for Oz.
D.N.Angel: Occurs at the end of episode 20 when Mio Hio worriedly watches as Daisuke tries to put his key shaped pendant through Riku's heart shaped pendant so that they'll be bonded forever.
Art
Georgia O'Keeffe denied that her flower paintings contain vaginal symbolism; many critics believe it's there even if she didn't place it there intentionally. The problem is that a flower is actually a sex organ; it doesn't just look like a vagina, it's as close to a vagina as a plant can get. O'Keeffe brushed off the accusations by essentially saying, "If that's what you notice in my paintings, then that's your business." She had a point: many artists - including the designers of knitted lace - have faced the same accusation, and for as little reason.
The claims that she did it intentionally are especially bizarre given how meticulously realistic her flower paintings are.
There is a collection of Hungarian cartoons, many of which had themes of impotence—slumping trees, limp smokestacks, and to make the meaning blatant, an artist drawing something matching this flaccid theme and looking down the front of his pants, presumably at his model.
Comics
During the much reviled One More Day story arc in Spider-Man, many fans claimed that Peter Parker must have an Oedipus Complex to choose Aunt May over Mary Jane. Keep in mind, Peter is not choosing to date Aunt May over M.J, he's choosing to save her life rather than stay married.
It's worth mentioning that there IS another squick factor which stems from this story arc. Many fans, and critics alike, have noticed that the artwork for Peter Parker has come to resemble Joe Quesada during his run as Marvel's Editor-in-Chief much more closely, and Parker's new love interest closely resembles Quesada's own daughter.
Pretty much any death involving a female character getting run through by a male character with some type of long, sharp weapon, it will usually end up going right through her body, for added effect, of course. Elektra and Phantom Lady both suffered this one.
Something like this happens in Canon Fodder. Fodder, Deacon Blue, and Sigmund Freud go through a portal into the dark matter universe, which is shaped by human psyches. They see a whole lot of statues of Greek gods and mythological figures, and Freud is aghast — because this means Jung was right all along!
Carrie Stetko Are you aware that all your guns look like giant penises?
Barry Ween: Oh, yeah.
Carrie Stetko: So it's intentional, then?
Barry Ween: Oh, yeah.
Walking through Washington DC in Y: The Last Man, Yorrick can hear singing. Why?
355: They turned one of the monuments into an impromptu memorial for all the men. Yorrick: Which one? 355: Guess. [Behind her is the Washington Monument.] Yorrick: Ah. It's all about that with you ladies, isn't it? 355: Hey, we didn't build it.
Yorrick also discusses phallic architecture with his girlfriend Beth in a flashback where she says "Women don't build monuments to their cooters." When they meet again in Paris, five years later in the final volume, it's at the rather yonic Arc d'Triomphe. (Built by a man, of course, but still...) They might have taken this Brick Joke even further in the Distant Finale. In an aerial shot of Paris sixty years in the future, the largest new buildings are curvy Futuristic Pyramids with open holes in the centre. The architects would certainly have been women; are they building such monuments now?
When The Authority visit a gender-flipped Alternate Universe, their version of the Twin Towers has a distinctly oval profile.
Butcher Baker, the Righteous Maker has phallic knockers and cigars that look curiously like phalluses.
Film
The Boondock Saints: A detective accidently says "fag man" instead of "fat man" in front of Straight Gay Agent Smecker. Smecker even comments, "Well. Freud was right."
The Tremors series is basically all about this trope - giant phallic-shaped monsters that burst out at people, wiggling long slimy muscular tongues that are constantly creeping towards their victims.
This was actually worse in preproduction, according to the featurette. At one time the graboids were supposed to extrude sticky white innards to capture people, but apparently the producers (and their giggling officemates) thought it was too blatant.
In the Made-for-TV Movie, Highlander: The Source, it's revealed that "There Can Be Only One" really means that only one Immortal can have a child, so all the running around cutting people's heads off really is overcompensating for their self-perceived lack of sexual potency. I wish I could say this came out of nowhere, but the movies and TV series have mentioned this occasionally.
A late scene in the first movie has the Alien's tail sliding up a woman's leg, to the sound of her moaning and crying in terror. Word Of God in the audio commentary is this was actually intended to be perceived as the Alien raping her.
Which makes sense, as, being the only other female character, Lambert serves as a foil to Ripley. Ripley is the strong female character who can stand up to domination, by males or by symbolic monsters. Lambert, on the other hand, has done nothing but scream and dither inefficently for the entire movie. Too bad about her fate, though.
Apparently the monster was taken from his chronic night terrors, which also inspired H.P. Lovecraft.
One should also mention that Giger's original design for the alien was to include a grotesquely overlarge penis: he was talked out of it. Fortunately.
Also, the original design for the alien egg — from which hatches the ultimate Vagina Dentata, facehuggers — had a single slit in the top, but it was changed because it was just. Too. Fucking. Obvious.
The pose◊ of the alien pilot in whose ship the eggs were found is...suggestive.
And despite the alien's phallic-shaped head, it also posesess a vagina-like mouth.
How so? The mouth opened up and sent out a long inner mouth, which, as is seen near the end of the film, is normally limp, but when the alien is "aroused," leaks clear fluid, and becomes larger and stiff enough to penetrate skin and bone via flushing the veins of the mouth with the alien's blood. In other words, exactly like how an erection works (minus the whole "murder" thing). Hell, in the sequels, it could also spurt corrosive acid from this mouth.
In Jiri Menzel's adaptation of Closely Watched Trains, the dispatcher invites women over to the station house to have sex with them on the station-master's couch. Menzel has a nice suggestive shot of the ripped oilcloth of the couch with its filling coming out that looks remarkably like an unshaved vagina.
There's one scene where the main character talks to a woman who's stroking a chicken.
Trains, of course, are phallic symbols (just imagine one going into a tunnel).
Most of the time, the symbolism in Inception is very subtle. For example when Ariadne choses a chess pice as her personal test to see if she's still dreaming, of the 12 different pieces she picks a white bishop, the most phallic looking one. With all the skyscrapers in the movie, it might be easy to miss, but when Cobb an Mal build their dream city, the movie shows thousands of giant skyscrapers bursting from the ground.
And then there's the train, which is as subtle as Pyramid Head: A massive freight train suddenly comming out of nowhere at great speed, crushing everything in its path, leaving a trail of destruction behind it. And it only shows up when Cobb is alone with a woman.
Lampshaded in The MovieStar Trek: First Contact: Data and Picard are musing about the repurposed nuclear missile that later becomes the first Warp-capable Earth vessel, and stroke it in awe— whereupon Troi throws out, "Would you three like to be alone?"
Ghostbusters. "I am the gatekeeper." "I am the keymaster." Yup, nothing symbolic there.
Boy, I for one am glad that the gatekeeper wasn't the horse, as Vinz originally thought.
Goo goo g'joob.
In the ending of North By Northwest, there is a love scene aboard a train, and the very last shot shows the train entering a tunnel. Alfred Hitchcock actually once said that this was a phallic symbol.
Good old Alfred did this a lot. Just watch Strangers on a Train. You gotta be sneaky to get around those censorship laws!
And in Psycho. It's done throughout the film (Marion wears white underwear before stealing the money, black underwear afterwards), but most notably in the infamous shower scene—the phallic-shaped knife, repeatedly stabbing Marion, the entire murder being born of the killer's sexual repression. . .
Note the scene in Rear Window where the photographer is spying on his neighbors. Unable to see with one camera, he replaces it with one with a telescopic (that is to say, LONGER) lens.
Played for humor in Shrek; when they first see Farquaad's castle, Shrek slyly asks Donkey, "Do you think he's Compensating for Something?" Sure, Farquaad is The Napoleon, but Shrek didn't know it at that moment so it's more of a Parental Bonus than anything else.
Donkey: ... Which I think means he has a really small—(Shrek stomps on his hoof)
A lot of critics have pointed out that an alien character's head in the animated kids' movie Space Chimps looks a lot like a boob.
There are several IMDB posts speculating that Maxwell "Wizard" Wallace, the Fagin-type character from August Rush, was a pedophile.
In case the X-Men movies didn't have enough issues, has anyone looked carefully at Xavier's platform in the "big round room"?
The design is not exclusive to the movies, it's comics canon.
Idiocracylampshades this by having weaponized monster trucks blatantly phallic in design. To punctuate it, Joe's small truck has a rubber, flaccid penis attatched to the hood.
Parodied in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. During the scene at the mall, Freud himself is seen holding a corndog. As he meets young (hot) women, it rises, but when he gets shot down, it flops over in his hand.....
Beautifully parodied in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, when Captain Barbossa in full, picture-perfect "captain of the ship" pose extends a telescope. Jack Sparrow imitates him and then shamefully slinks away when his telescope turns out to be noticably smaller. About half an hour later the scene repeats, only this time Jack managed to come up with a telescope of almost a yard in length.
And again sort of, later in the movie. During Jack and Davy Jones' sword-fight, Jack's sword breaks without him notices, resulting in Davy Jones brandishing his sword at Jack, while smiling, who then tries to threaten him with his broken sword, now a quarter its original length.
The Descent: Chicks with picks probing tight, wet tunnels.
"Wedge! Pull out! You're not doing any good back there!" "Negative, negative, it didn't go in!" "Luke, at that speed do you think you'll be able to pull out in time?"
Speaking of Star Wars, George Lucas has specifically said Vader cutting off Luke's hand is a castration scene.
Lampshaded in The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear. When the main characters start doing the horizontal lambada, they cut away to scenes of girders being raised, trains going into tunnels, hot dogs getting placed in hot dog buns, rocket launches, and eventually a Roman fountain.
And numerous shots of flowers blooming, then of missiles firing and fireworks exploding.
Dr. Strangelove is full of these, including various characters names (such as... well, Strangelove), General Ripper's insecurity about the Communists and our "precious bodily fluids", Kong Riding The Bomb when they drop it culminating in a "massive atomic explosion" and the way the plane in the very first scene is being fueled.
Kia decides to invoke this on Freddy during Freddy vs Jason, comparing his tiny knives to Jason's great big machete. Unfortunately, she wasn't paying attention and promptly meets said machete.
Molly Brown: Hey, uh, who thought of the name "Titanic"? Was it you, Bruce?
J. Bruce Ismay: Yes, actually. I wanted to convey sheer size; and size means stability, luxury and, above all, strength.
Rose De Witt Bukater: Do you know of Dr. Freud, Mr Ismay? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you.
Parodied in Spaceballs, with the lightsabers physical manifestation of the Schwartz emerging from rings... which happened to be held right about level with Dark Helmet and Lone Star's crotches...
Dark Helmet: I see your Schwartz is as big as mine.
Avatar by James Cameron has a very offending scene. The protagonist has to tame a beast by sticking his hair-braid into the creature's own braid. The creature resists, and he is fighting to stick it in. After restraining the monster, he sticks it in. After he does it successfully, the beast is his for life. That's right — these aliens basically rape their animals into submission.
Also, whoever 'tames' the giant phallic symbol Toruk is automatically respected by everyone.
The "taming" in question is a merging of minds through the intertwining neurons, and can't truly be considered rape.
Considering the highly suggestive imagery with the whole "phallic symbol" stuff, it's surprising that it wasn't used in the sex-scene with the protagonist and Neytiri.
Apparently the sex-scene was originally longer, more suggestive, and involved the hair braids, but it was cut to ensure PG-13 rating. It's supposed to be back in the DVD release, however.
Stephen Colbert had a blowout with the use of braids in both the deleted sex scene and the animal taming:
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me literally had the line, when Austin says "paging Dr. Freud" when walks in on his time-clone "Past Austin" in bed with Felicity Shagwell. At first he's shocked, but he reaffirms he doesn't blame her as they're both quite handsome and contemplates a threesome.
This is more a case of people seeing what they want to see combined with poor artistry; that's supposed to be the priest's knee.
Ariel gasping for breath once reaching the surface after being changed into a human is very orgasmic-looking.
Also, she was near completely naked during that part too, making it that much more awesome.
Wendy in Peter Pan is often interpretated to have a crush on Peter and an attraction to Hook. The actor who plays Hook normally also plays her father. Yikes. Turned Up to Eleven in the 2003 film.
It could have been worse. In the stage play, Hook was originally meant to have been played by the actress also playing Wendy's mother. This only changed because the actor playing Mr. Darling was very popular, so Barrie got overruled.
In Kieslowski's "Dekalog IX" Roman, who has found out a couple of days before that he would no longer be able to have sex, helps a man fuel his car. Apparently, inserting a hose in the car's petrol tank looked like something quite different. Roman, sadly, hasn't failed to notice this resemblance.
Played with in the original Dirty Harry when Scorpio demands to know if Harry is carrying any guns. When Harry complies and shows his Magnum .44, Scorpio quips, "My, that's a big one."
Said line was actually an ad-lib. The director, once everybody stopped laughing, decided to keep it in
Agent K of the Men in Black wields a huge chrome raygun, and Agent J is quite put out when he's issued with a tiny one.
Not to mention that the tiny gun ends up being extremely powerful. It's not the size that counts.
In Dragnet (the 1987 movie) there is this bit:
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.
Critters 2 has Charlie as a bounty hunter. He'd been a nerd on Earth with little chance of having a girlfriend. He points out that he became a bounty hunter because he would go "wherever the wind will blow me." He demonstrates his lack of sex by having his shapeshifter friend take on the shape of a Playboy model.
Does The Human Centipede count? For god's sake, people are fused together ass-to-mouth. And the villainous Mad Scientist looks like he has a massive fetish.
But there's nothing symbolic in it - just an idea - however crazed - that is played as if for real. The reason it is so un-powerful is that there are no deeper resonances.
Lair of the White Worm moves at a rate of one obvious penis metaphor per four minutes. Then again, anyone familiar with Ken Russell might expect this from any of his films.
Subtle and tasteful: the cello in "Truly, Madly, Deeply"
In Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly" a spilled pail of milk quite clearly stands in for a spontaneous ejaculation.
Bonus points for Lovecraft being inspired by chronic night terrors, in other words, what you see in his prose is straight out of the very abysses of the Subconscious Mind. Freud would be highly amused to psychoanalyze ol'H.P.
Aldous Huxley satirizes this concept mercilessly in Brave New World. Not only does this concept dictate the New World State (for example, the Oedipus Complex is used to justify destruction of the family), but Freud himself is fused with Henry Ford and worshipped as a God. Huxley also parodies his good friend, D.H. Lawrence, via John the Savage who shows shades of this in his Oedipus Complex (mildly echoing the protagonist of Sons and Lovers).
Large swathes of the works of D.H. Lawrence. Hell, he wrote a short story where a rocking horse has Freudian overtones. His novel Sons and Lovers is pretty much a treatise on the Oedipus complex, and there's a very, very sexual nude wrestling scene in Women in Love.
Parodied in Sharon Creech's Young Adult novel Walk Two Moons. A teacher reads a student submission complaining about the endless subtext analysis of poetry in school, and concludes The Long List with "Maybe the forest doesn't represent sex. Maybe the forest is just a forest."
The high fantasyKingdoms of Light by Alan Dean Foster deserves special mention for a truly brilliant lampshading. Each main character has a different magical power, and the self-consciously macho Rival can make his sword double in length. The first time he uses it in combat, the Shallow Love Interest thanks him for saving the group, and he responds that he's always happy to extend his sword for her.
In Golding's Lord of the Flies, the scene in which Jack and Roger kill the pig is written exactly like a rape scene, complete with very phallic descriptions of the boys' spears.
Brian Jacques' Redwall fits this trope perfectly. The hero of the first book is a thirteen-year-old mouseboy, who is told in cryptic messages and the odd bizarre dream sequence, including one involving a really big snake and a rose bearing swords instead of thorns, to go hunting for a very famous Sword (with a capital S). When he has it and has finished using it to defeat the villain, his dying mentor gives him permission to marry the girl he's been chasing for most of the book. The villains are all insanely jealous of this Sword and spend half their time trying to steal it. At one point in the prequel Mossflower, the female Big Bad Tsarmina breaks the sword and locks up its owner in a very obvious case of castration symbolism. If one wants to read it this way, Cluny's recurring nightmare about being chased by the Abbey Warrior and stabbed to death takes on a whole new and deeply disturbing meaning. Might also explain why so few of the Big Bad characters are actually killed with the sword. To the Mooks, who don't get involved with the symbolism, it's just a sword, so they can be killed with it, but with the enemies who are more deeply involved, symbolic rape isn't a very heroic thing for the protagonists to do.
If we're going to go this route with the weaponry, Russa Nodrey's song about "me liddle stick o' wood" could be read as involving gender-confusion issues.
Oh, and a couple of people have claimed that Slagar the Cruel comes across as a paedophile, particularly in the Nelvana cartoon. He had perfectly good reasons for choosing child captives (they last longer, they can't fight back as well, and in the case of the Abbey kids it was "revenge" on their parents), but ... And then there's Ublaz's pink pearl fixation.
In Doomwyte, a very large blind snake gets trapped in a tunnel, and proceeds to inject poison into everything in reach. Then goes and dips his head in a pond.
As Russa Nodrey and Tammo are journeying to Redwall, the first words out of her mouth before they leave are "I hope my pancakes aren't getting squished in there."
The Spenser novel Crimson Joy by Robert B. Parker (which draws its name from William Blake's poem) features a man who kills black women in a particularly "symbolic" way and leaves a red rose at each scene. His mother's name was Rose Black, and she had molested him.
The second book is called Harry Potter and the CHAMBER OF SECRETS, for God's sake. Harry travels down a long slimy tube into a mysterious, dangerous chamber in which he finds a giant snake. He uses a big shiny sword to kill this giant snake, thereby saving his friend's sister, who he later marries.
The extremely effeminate Lockheart is terrified to go down that long slimy tube? Until the two pubescent boys force him down, that is.
Harry stabbing the open diary with a fang that's squirting venom.
And the secret entrance was in the girls' bathroom.
Too bad Word Of God later corrected reader who thought the little sister's name was Virginia.
Isn't it actually mentioned somewhere in the books than her name is Ginevra?
Also, in the first and third books, everyone is jealous of Harry's new broomstick. It's so much better than all the others. Everyone congratulates him on it and wants to stroke it. Ron can't wait to ride it. Malfoy is jealous until he gets super-brooms for all the Slytherin team. Hermione buys Harry a "Broomstick polishingServicing kit". In contrast, Ron's wand breaks in two in the second book and won't work properly. He also only gets crappy broomsticks. Prof. Umbridge has an "unusually short" wand, and she punishes Harry, Ron and Fred by locking up their broomsticks. In general, Harry likes anything phallic (towers, brooms, wands) and hates anything resembling a womb or vagina (chambers, tunnels, dungeons, lakes, eggs, baths).
In The Tales of Beedle The Bard, Word Of God says that no witch (i.e. woman) has ever been known to claim the Elder Wand.
Not to mention Harry spends his childhood in a closet under the stairs, forced to stay their by his intolerant family. Then, he is rescued and taken to a magical land where everyone is just like him. JK Rowling has denied that Harry Potter is an allegory for homosexuality - but come on, he was living IN THE CLOSET. Plus, Dumbledore's Gay.
Technically that little space under the stairs is a cupboard. You couldn't hang a lot of clothes in there (I don't know if it's American usage to call it a closet, but since J.K.R. is a brit, she almost certainly wouldn't have that association in mind when she wrote it - in the UK, as far as I know, it's always called "the cupboard under the stairs.")
Also, before Harry got his Hogwarts letter, he was supposed to go to Stonewall High.
When Cormac and Ron are conversing about Hermione, and it's clear to see that Cedric's broomstick is much, much larger than poor Ron's.]
Cormac's broomstick. Freudian slip much?
The entire game of Quiddich. There are balls, brooms, and hoops. Any professional Quidditch player with a grain of intelligence will be able to hit on any witch or wizard with enourmous ease. Come on, they're really asking for it.
In the fourth book there's that scene in the graveyard where Harry and Voldemort are firing spells at each other and "their wands connected and a shock of electricity ran between them. Time seemed to hold still."
In Order Of The Phoenix the villain, Umbridge, wants to deal with the problem of dark wizards by pretending they don't exist and teaching "Avoidance and Theoretics" instead of teaching the kids how to protect themselves.
The Room of Requirement from the same book? A hidden area where teenagers sneak off to engage in the forbidden activities Umbridge wants them not to do and risk getting into huge trouble if caught.
And let's not forget Book 7, when Hermione snapped Harry's wand in half. Sure, it was an accident, but Harry made it perfectly clear that he felt pretty much emasculated. He had to borrow Hermione's wand, and later a stolen wand, yet neither was able to replace the one he'd lost, and it just felt "wrong" to have them in his hand. Hermione refused to really believe any of this, as she had never had it happen to her, and didn't understand. Later, he's able to dominate Malfoy, and so claims his wand (and also, the Elder Wand), both of which allow him to defeat Voldemort, who threw away his own wand in order to gain a more powerful one. Harry later repairs his wand... which glows in joy and grows warm, ecstatic to be reunited with his hand. Ron also has his wand broken in the 2nd Book, and goes through similar feelings of impotence until he gains a new one that's properly his. It helps that the wand he used before was his brother Charlie's, symbolizing Ron's jealousy of his brothers' successes and masculinity, and his desire to get out from their shadows and be as "Alpha" as them.
In the movie, Cormac MacLaggen's deluxe-model broom, as compared to Ron's smaller thinner hand-me-down one in Half-Blood Prince.
When Voldemort takes Lucius' wand in Deathly Hallows (snapping off its cane handle), Lucius flinches as if he had just been castrated.
The scene where Hermione is tortured by Bellatrix Lestrange. It happens offscreen in the book, but you get to see plenty of it in the film adaptation, and it strongly resembles rape.
Legilimency, end of. It's even worse in the movie, mostly because of this speech.
In Order Of The Phoenix, Neville Longbottom's cherished plant ejaculates sap when handled roughly.
In that last movie there's the incredibly awkward moment where Voldemort moans while hugging Draco and saying his name making it seem more like they're having sex.
Pick a story about vampires. Any story. In fact, start with the classic: Dracula forces a young woman to drink his blood, after quietly invading her bedroom. And consider the two violent stakings of female vampires.
Well, one could easily interpret the basis entire vampire mythos has Freudian subtext. Consider: a strange gentleman or lady with a mysterious, seductive allure that feeds off of people by penetrating them with their oversized fangs and inducing blood flow to a certain part of the body (wherever they bit). The vampire will then proceed to feed off their "precious bodily fluids". This ritual can either cause pain (usually when forced) or a sense of euphoria (when done willingly), and will usually cause the victim to be enthralled to their attacker and/or become just like him/her. And they can only come out at night (Dark is a common symbol for deviancy). The "Horny Devils" interpretation for Vampires worked well in the time "Dracula" was published, given the contrast between the prudishness of society at that time and the deviant nature of Vampires.
It's actually worth noting here that the most common interpretation, and one supposedly even supported by Stevenson himself, is that the story is a metaphor for cocaine addiction. During the time when the story itself was written, people were just starting to become aware of the psychological effects of such addiction and how the dependence on the drug (the formula) became more dominant over time (Hyde), and begn to subjugate the more normal individual (Jekyll) to its dependence. Of course, when one also takes into account the effects cocaine has on sexual ability (e.g., impotence, repressed libido, and more...), the story itself is still not completely inappropriate as an example here.
The Discworld novel Equal Rites really is full of this stuff. From the magic manifesting itself as "hot dreams", to the wizard reincarnated as an apple tree "innocently" commenting that the heroine likes apples, to the phallic broomstick on the cover. The Annotated Pratchett Guide gives the details here. (In Lords and Ladies, however, a footnote dismisses the idea that the broomstick is a Freudian symbol as a "phallusy".)
Within the Discworld novels Nanny Ogg has written a recipe book, a book of traditional folk tales, and a book of etiquette and household management. All of them are really about sex (although the third one, which exists in the real world as Nanny Ogg's Cookbook isn't quite as much about sex as the first two, since the publishers had to recall them).
Granny Weatherwax: Maids of Honour? Nanny Ogg:Weeelll, they starts out as Maids of Honour... but they ends up Tarts.
Not to mention the first and foremost of Discworld sexual innuendoes, the wizard's staff. And the various jokes surrounding it, such as the famous Ankh-Morpork song, "A Wizard's Staff has a Knob on the End". (Jokes that the wizards themselves, being mostly old fat academics traditionally not allowed to dally with women, never get. So what, they say, if a wizard is very proud of his staff and gives it a good polish and charges it with mystical energy every day? And the fact that the knobs on the ends of their [usually wooden] staffs grow there by magic, and by mystical resonance take on a shape symbolical of their owner? We really don't know what you laymen find so funny about it.)
The female witches ride broomsticks, but the wizards seldom ride their staffs (although technically they could get them up in the air...). And it's considered bad taste for a wizard to handle another wizard's staff.
And Lord Vetinari, Ankh-Morpork's Patrician (and iron bachelor), Does Not Have Balls. In fact, there's even a famous saying about it in Ankh-Morpork. And a humorous song. Ankh-Morpork's citizens take their amusement where they can find it. Only not during state balls because there aren't any. Obviously.
Neither do the wizards. They do not have balls. They do have their annual Excuse Me, though.
In the novel Things Fall Apart, the staple crop of the igbo village is yams, they're long, cylindrical and the more you have, the more manly you are percieved. You can probably figure out the symbolism here.
Apples are actually very common in Christian imagery because they evoke the account of Adam and Eve. For example, C. S. Lewis's Words To Live By, pictured here.◊
Dragonfly in Amber, of Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is full of this, but especially in the second book when Jamie enters a brothel armed with an enormous Dordogne sausage.
"The Ball Poem" by John Berryman, a poem about a boy who is grief-stricken after losing his ball. After all, it is irreplaceable.
Leaving aside monthly-transformation-into-a-monster cracks, the connection between menarche and the onset of lycanthropy is explored in a short story called "Boobs" where a schoolgirl deals with bullies picking on her for developing by tearing them to shreds when she turns into a werewolf. The movie Ginger Snaps covers similar ground.
Dune: Come on, admit it; the sandworms are Heighliner-sized penises. Even the rite of manhood for a sandrider is when he first mounts and then controls a worm. This has Unfortunate Implications given women who undergo this ceremony are basically treated no differently to men.
Horses have commonly been associated with female sexuality; the taboo against women riding astride was rooted in men's fears that their wives would enjoy the activity a little too much. Towards the beginning of Mansfield Park, a big deal is made about the death of the heroine Fanny's pony. She was afraid to learn to ride at first but grew to love it and is extremely thrilled and grateful when Edmund — with whom she is currently falling in love — gives her a new horse. Then Fanny's romantic rival for Edmund's affections Mary Crawford moves in, and their relationship first begins causing Fanny pain when Edmund begins using the horse to teach Mary how to ride...
While Lem's linked opinion in English does not clarify which critic he is lambasting so, the original Polish entry makes it clear.
Sextus Tarquinius and Lucretia in Ovid's Fasti. Sextus comes into Lucretia's bedroom at night... and what does he say? "I have a sword, Lucretia." He does have a nice shiny sword out too, but that isn't what he's talking about... He rapes her, she commits suicide, her father and husband get really pissed and overthrow the monarchy and usher in the Republic.
Pick any Mary Renault novel you want, it's guaranteed to have Freud all over it. Return to Night: A young man falls in love with an older woman because she's his idealised mother-figure. He also likes to hang out in an underground cave with water in it, which resembles the womb, and his idea of heaven is pretty much the womb turned into a garden with a river. At the end, after a showdown with his mother, he is about to drown himself in the water in the cave, a "final return" to the womb, when his mother-figure lover turns up and saves him.The Last of the Wine and The Charioteer: Schoolboys fall in love with older guys who look like Dad. The Last of the Wine: A young man subconsciously sexually desires his stepmother, who has lived in the household since he was eight, and is angry at his father for sleeping with her; as a result of the stepmother thing he likes to sleep with older women. The Charioteer and Fire From Heaven: Four-year-old boys announce that they are going to marry their mothers. One of them also says he'll kill his father, and grows up with a subconscious wish to do it, which he cannot consciously face. There's also a scene in which the boy at age four sits on his mother, both of them naked, and it's described in a way that makes it sound a lot like sex, though it isn't. In both books, boys grow up gay because they identify with their mothers and resent or cannot respect or have little contact with their fathers. The King Must Die and The Bull from the Sea: Struggle between worship of Mother and Father goddesses. She puts Freudian symbols in her characters' dreams: a broken climbing tool stands for a lack of phallus, running up a mountain like running upstairs stands for sex.
People like to do this with Shakespeare. Hamlet gets the treatment a lot. Hamlet's in love with his mother, which is why he wants to kill Claudius. His unresolved Oedipus complex has made him homosexual, and he's also in love with Horatio.
It should be noted that there is no textual evidence for this (well, there may or may not be some Ho Yay between Hamlet and Horatio, but that's reaching). Hamlet wants to kill Claudius because Claudius murdered Hamlet's dad, and the ghost of said dad is urging him on, simple as that. Some of the blame for the popularity of the "Hamlet has an Oedipus complex" interpretation, at least in recent years, can be laid on the Mel Gibson film, which turns the concept Up to Eleven with maximum Squick.
It's Older than They Think - just check out the 1948 Olivier version, in which not only is Hamlet conflicted over his feelings, but his Mom is coming on to him like Mrs. Robinson(!). And the critics had been complaining about this kind of (mis)interpretation for at least two or three decades before that!
At least one teacher has made a point of interpreting the vial from which Romeo drinks poison as vaginal, and the dagger with which Juliet kills herself as phallic.
Ian Fleming's James Bond novels probably have plenty of this, given Bond's propensity to have sex with almost every women he meets.
John Garnder's continuation novels have a female version of Q named Q'ute. Bond has a casual sexual relationship with her. Leaving looks aside for a second, John Gardner basically seems to be saying that Bond wants to have sex with Q.
Wheel of Time: Take a look at the map of Tar Valon, where the (all female) Aes Sedai live, in a big tower...
Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault. A sexual symbol is not only limited to the protagonist's personalcolor, but there is a scene where Little Red Riding Hood strips for no reason whatsoever before she gets onto her grandmother's bed then the wolf eats her up.
Live Action TV
Deliciously satirized in a sketch from the first season of Saturday Night Live with Laraine Newman as a young Anna Freud (Sigmund's daughter) innocently describing to her father (Dan Aykroyd) a series of dreams she had about him that are fraught with increasingly obvious "Freudian" symbolism and content, all centering upon multiple men offering her their bananas, but she only ever wanted her father's. Meanwhile, Freud practically goes into seizures as he reacts to the implications he's reading into them; at the end, when she inquires what it all means, he reassures her that "sometimes a banana is just a banana".
And followed up with a cautionary "Don't tell your mother".
The Zande from Deadliest Warrior has the Kpinga, a multi-edged throwing knife-sawblade-thingy, and the Makraka, a large sickle. They are both intentionally forged in the shape of penises as a sign of the wielder's masculinity.
In a similar vein, Wolf's tail in The 10th Kingdom. The scene in the beanstalk forest, where he practically dares Virginia to touch it, she asks why he keeps it hidden, and especially the positively orgasmic look on his face when she brushes against the fur rather than with it, is extremely Freudian in nature. In a bizarre twist, however, the size of his tail apparently changes due to the time of the month, suggesting a connection to the female menstrual cycle. (Werewolves, after all, are tied to the typically feminine moon...) The fact it is hanging out of his pants following his 'hide-and-seek' in the forest with Virginia near Wendell's castle, and that this lets Tony disapprovingly know what they were up to, doesn't help.
The Fifth Doctor story "Earthshock" has Scott, a tough sergeant-type, tell a female scientist, "I realize going down again must be hard..." He's referring to taking her down into the caves after she's watched someone die down there, but what makes this one notable is the fact that Scott's actor pauses for a moment between "be" and "hard," as if he realized just how wrong it sounded as he said it.
The Made-for-TV Movie has the Master take the form of a snake, overtaking the mind of a man by slithering down his gullet, then proceeding to kill the man's wife, (not long after the two had sex, no less), make a naive young man his servant, fire acid semen at an unsuspecting female, and attempt to steal the lives of his long-time arch-nemesis by tying him to a rack (in a crossover with What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?) and forcing him to stare into the gaping hole at the heart of the TARDIS while screaming "I'm alive!" at the top of his lungs. And he does all this clad entirely in black leather. Damn.
The Master's pretty awesome when it comes to stuff like this. His name, Ainley!Master's Tissue Compression Eliminator being shaped like a dildo (and DVD commentaries rife with mentions of the cast joking about this at the time), everything about the Simm!Master, ever, TOMTIT and phallic crystals, beard jokes... really, the Master owns this trope.
On the subject of the Tissue Compression Eliminator, let the record show that the Master invented a device whose sole purpose is to make people smaller. Nope, not Compensating for Something at all.
The actors themselves once noted that, when hiding undercover as a human, the Master had a desire to be chauffered around in very large limousines, whereas the Doctor was happy enough to drive around in his humble little car "Bessie". It was suggested that maybe the Master was compensating for something the Doctor didn't need to...
The little rivalry that Captain Jack and the Doctor have about their respective sonic devices in "The Doctor Dances" (Jack's big, flashy sonic blaster versus the Doctor's humble little sonic screwdriver) also seemed to be a little competitive in... other ways. Amusingly, however, Jack's flashy device is revealed to be completely useless when the 'extra features' end up draining the battery, whilst the Doctor's humble little thing is a bit more... durable. And while they had to Nerf the Doctor's, Jack'sstill works on wood.
Then there's the Master claiming his screwdriver is much better than the Doctor's. "Who'd have sonic?" Not to mention the fact that the prop department intentionally made the Master's laser screwdriver longer than the Doctor' sonic.
Resulting in a gloriously outraged text message from David Tennant to Russell T. Davies: "His is bigger than mine!" and a very smug John Simm...
Speaking of sonic, er, tools: The Doctor, disliking guns, replaces the sonic blaster Jack Harkness is holding with a banana in "The Doctor Dances". While still pretty phallic, at least he's not out-teched any more by the guy who keeps hitting on Rose. Masculinity issues, anyone?
According to the same episode, he "like[s] bananas. Bananas are good." And they're a "good source of potassium". Yeah, and potassium is one of the main ingredients in a number of fertilizers ...
And then there are the Freudian monsters. Alpha Centauri, Vervoids... and Erato.
In the Series 5 episode "Vampires of Venice," Rory pulls a flashlight out of his pocket. The Eleventh Doctor then pulls out a much larger and brighter light stick. Rory looks at it and says, "Yours is bigger than mine." "Let's not go there," the Doctor advises.
Additionally, in Series 6 episode "The Curse of the Black Spot," the Doctor says to the captain when he pulls out his gun, "You're big on the gun thing, aren't you? Freud would say you're compensating. Ever met Freud? No? Comfy sofa."
Faith of Buffy the Vampire Slayer describes her dreams seriously, then adds with her tongue (probably) firmly in her cheek, "That, and some stuff about cigars and a tunnel."
The Buffy episode "Doublemeat Palace", already a not-so-satisfactory venture in its own right, became downright ludicrous when the monster of the week was revealed to be... a phallic demon-thing that emerged from the back of an old woman's head and which ate people. And then it shot paralyzing gunk all over Buffy. And then Willow, a lesbian, cut it off with a meat cleaver.
In a later episode, Willow starts to describe the monster "Let me put it this way. If I wasn't gay before..."
The Freud Was Right moment the writers cite is in "Reptile Boy" where frat boys feed teenage girls to their giant snake demon that they worship. It gives them money!
In "Seeing Red" Straw Misogynist Warren gets his hands on two demon orbs which give him great power. Buffy defeats him by busting his balls...err, orbs.
The Sanctuary episode "Requiem" finds Will and Magnus trapped in a phallic symbol...er, submarine. And then there's the conversation they have after Magnus ties Will to a chair. "We're gonna have to go deeper." "SO much deeper!" What? They're just talking about the sub, right?
Frasier has an erotic dream about a male co-worker ("In this dream of yours, were there any cigars, bananas, or short, blunt swords?") and tries desperately and implausibly to interpret it any way but sexually. Eventually he comes to the conclusion that his subconscious created a dream that defied interpretation just to give him a challenge. The following night Sigmund Freud appears in his sleep to congratulate him for figuring this out. Frasier is pleased until Siggy sprays breath freshener in his mouth and climbs into bed with him, arms held out expectantly.
On Samantha Who, in the episode where she realizes that she can't remember what sex feels like, everything has sexual connotations. Like pencil sharpening.
On Wings, Lowell comes to Brian with a baffling dream about riding a train speeding towards a tunnel with a cigar in one hand and a snake in the other. Suddenly, his train jumped the track and another train entered the tunnel. And another. And another. And another. When a thoroughly weirded out Brian informs him that it means he is afraid of heights, Lowell agrees, saying that that would explain the one about sitting atop the Washington Monument.
Another time, Brian explains dream interpretation to Joe when the latter has nightmares, saying that if you dream that you're underwater, it's about sex. Joe says there was a clown in his dream. According to Brian, that too is about sex. Then Joe was trampled by tigers. Well, that's about group sex.
Murphy Brown: Miles spends the episode worrying he is gay after dreaming about shooting out the top of the Washington Monument with a male friend and then frolicing in the reflection pool. Eventually he realizes that sometimes a long, pointy monument is just a long, pointy monument.
In another episode, Frank mentions to Murphy how he's afraid to touch his Corvette since the therapist he's dating said it was a phallic symbol while Frank was waxing it. Later on, when she's annoyed at Frank, she tells him to "Go wax [his] car!"
Lampshaded in an episode of M*A*S*H, when Hawkeye asks the psychiatrist, Dr. Friedman, what the rationale for gambling is during a poker game. "Sex," he replies, and when pushed on why it's always sex, he responds, "They told me to say that. Sex is why we gamble, sex is why we drink, sex is why we give birth."
Then he takes $5 from the pot and explains, "That was a house call."
Which is even worse considering that Freud classified money as a phallic.
Queenie in Blackadder II is a parody of Queen Elizabeth the First, AKA the Virgin Queen. So it's not too surprising that she has dreams about being a sausage roll or sitting in this enormous tree...
The Blackadder writers have a bit of a thing about sausages. See Season 3 and the Dictionary episode.
Dr. Johnson: Sausage? SAUSAGE?! Oh blast your eyes!
The joke in that instance was that Johnson, who had just compiled his "complete" dictionary of the English Language, had forgotten to include the word sausage.
Baldrick's obsession with turnips would like to be this but falls flat. This is due, according to Tony Robinson anyway, to Ben Elton thinking turnips were penis-shaped and gleefully writing them in. He was actually thinking of parsnips.
On the other hand one could imagine that Baldrick's own appendage might be turnip shaped...
According to Blackadder II, it is, which is why he's especially amused at finding a "thingy"-shaped turnip.
During the poker game in the "An Echolls Family Christmas" episode of Veronica Mars, Weevil comments on how comfortable Logan looks with a cigar in his mouth. As if they didn't have enough Foe Yay already... Logan, for his part, shoots back with a racist remark.
Madan Senki Ryukendo has a bizarre example. The town is, in one episode, forced into worshiping a UFO cult whose leader takes the form of a little girl who puts collars around people's necks. Then it gets freakier when her true form resembles, by all means, a giant golden phallus.
In How I Met Your Mother, a famous architect in Ted's firm (who also happens to be his boss) designs a building consisting of a tower of pink marble with rounded top, with two domes at the bottom.
Not to mention he asks Ted to make sure there are a lot of trees and vegetation around the base. Specifically, brown and leafy trees. He apparently had no idea what it looked like.
Second season finale of The Sarah Connor Chronicles. John, after being told that he needs to "understand this body", is lying on top of a shirtless Cameron, their faces centimetres apart while he's panting and exploring the inside of her with his hand. He is, of course, checking her power supply for leaks.
One episode of Top Gear featured a discussion on the relationship between the flashness of one's car and the size of it's engine and the "endowment" of its owner. When James May, who drives a modest Fiat Panda, called Jeremy Clarkson out on the fact that he has a Mercedes SL Black (huge engine, swollen wheel-arches, the lot), Richard Hammond says May has a point. Clarkson simply countered by pointing out that Hammond dives a Ford Mustang, causing an extremely abrupt insistence that the subject be changed.
Don't tell me no one noticed Stargate SG-1's ring transporters. More specifically, how they descend sequentially indoors to scoop up the target then ascend back into the ceiling. Also, Ha'taks use pyramids as landing sites; as such, they have a hollow underside. Or the fact that the snakelike Tok'ra take hosts through the mouth - usually via kissing...
Heck, the gates themselves. You have to fiddle with a roundish device located nearby so that the gate opens into a waterish surface enabling travel; if it's not available, you can dial the gate by manually rotating it by hand. Also, fighters designed to go through a gate are either pointy (Wraith darts) or rounded (Puddlejumpers and Goa'uld gatefighters).
Wraith have a vaguely vagina-like sucker on their hands. At least one victim had a similar chest wound.
Overhead view of a Daedalus-class battlecruiser. There, I said it.
Mad Men does this on purpose, with two men lighting each other's cigarettes. The symbolism goes over the heads over everyone present, but viewers can hardly miss it.
Castle's sixth episode "Always Buy Retail" plays with this not very subtly in the beginning. The usual shots of Manhattan are arranged a little different. Rockefeller centre up and down and up again, buses driving through tunnels back and forth... if that made you think of something you will love the following scenes.
From Babylon 5, we have the Minbari Fighting Pike, a metal Simple Staff that collapses into a small cylinder about the size of your hand and grows rapidly when firmly shaken. It is most prominently used by a virgin who says that playing with it helps him relax.
So how did they overlook the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde?
Is it just me or does the second verse of the Kool & The Gang song "Jungle Boogie" sound suspiciously like the bass singer is masturbating? (Note all the grunting and the sudden wail at the end.)
The video for the No Doubt song "Spiderwebs" features a phone on a long cord menacingly flying towards Gwen Stefani at about 2 minutes and 25 seconds.
In Pink Floyd's The Wall, most of the female symbols are depicted as twisted, horrific, carnivorous or a combination of all three. This is due to the main character Pink having a warped view of women and sexuality in general.
Similarly, the kids' show Big Wolf on Campus theme tune included the following ...Do you think/ It's just a phase I'm going through?...
Christine's increasingly high cadenza at the end of Phantom of the Opera's title song sounds suspiciously...orgasmic.
As does the Phantom's high note during "The Music of the Night" ("Let your soul take you/Where you long to BEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!").
Listen to "A Whole New World" and tell me it isn't about losing one's virginity.
"I'll take you wonder by wonder, Over, sideways, and under on a magic carpet ride... A dazzling place I never knew... Indescribable feeling; soaring, tumbling, freewheeling... Don't you dare close your eyes... Hold your breath, it gets better... I can't go back to where I used to be... A thrilling chase, a wondrous place, for you and me."
It's not. Think about anal sex, and then read it again.
Adam Duritz of Counting Crows recounted in a VH1 interview how a fan came up to him after a performance to proudly announce that he'd figured out the meaning of "Mr. Jones", their first single. "Mr. Jones is your penis!" That wasn't it, but Freud Was Right about the fan, at least.
This idea actually constitutes Mind Rape, not least of which is the implication that the singer character is competing with his own penis. (Then there's the I Call Him "Mister Happy" angle, which also hurts).
The video for Shakira's "She Wolf" features her going into her closet, to enter some sort of... pink, slightly-fleshy looking tunnel-like room, which she then dances around in. Subtle.
The classic gospel-infused choir song "Elijah Rock" by Moses Hogan. Sure, it's a spiritual, but if you ignore the lyrics and just listen to the melody, it sounds like a couple having sex. Even with some of the lyrics (the multiple "Hallelujah!"s, "I'm comin' up Lord", etc.), and especially the ultra-high soprano note at the very end of the song.
To be fair, this is the same religion who wants to please and serve their god. So yeah...
The video for Bad Romance. As far as I can tell, it looks like she sold to a man, who intends to...well, use your imagination.
George Carlin had a bit on sex in commercials and how subliminal some are:
Carlin: Should gentleman offer a lady a Tiparillo? Now the big scene in the Tiparillo commercial is a train going into a tunnel, man. (makes train bell sound fading into tunnel) You don't have to be Fellini to figure that one out.
Ego by Beyoncé. It's too big, it's too wide, It's too strong, it won't fit, It's too much, it's too tough, He talk like this 'cause he can back it up, He got a big ego, such a huge ego, I love his big ego.... Double points for Ego being a Freudian*
Lovesick, by Emily Osment. For a song that appeared on Disney channel by a Disney Star, it was...suggestive. Your so mono/together we could be stereo, getting high, gambling with that delicious thing, it takes two to dance, four on the floor, and so on...wow, how did that get past the radar?!
Tom Lehrer's song Smut provides what might be this trope's motto:
When correctly viewed/EVERYTHING is lewd
Religion and Mythology
Even The Bible and Christianity in general isn't immune from this. The almighty "God The Father" and the eternal rivalry between him and the perverted sinfulness that is humanity, which he himself created through breathing "life" into the earth? Obviously an Oedipus Complex archetype, simple as that (Carl Jung would even acknowledge this, given the implications that the archetypes are basically common subconscious tropes turning up in mythos everywhere, whether they are related or unrelated). In Genesis, the Serpent (also known by Christians as Satan the tempter) tricked Eve into eating the Tree of Knowledge, making her experience the pain of childbirth. Serpent. Satan. Right....
Everywhere, there's the numerous heavy messages that Sex Is Evil and about Jesus turning the other cheek and loving your enemies. Jesus, The Messiah of the story, was also stripped off his clothes, whipped, humiliated and crucified. And was pierced by a spear in his final moments. And he all accepted it. And it's not just the Jews and Romans, it's all of us who crucified him. So, Jesus in a nutshell: If someone raped you, just submit.
More like Jesus is the "anima", the repressed unconscious femininity in all men.
A Centurion came to Jesus because a slave "who was dear to him" was sick to the point of death. The servant was his sex slave! Heterosexual Life Partners David and Jonathan? They're Gay!. What about Ruth who refused to leave behind her mother-in-law who had no one left after her husband and sons died? Les Yay! What about Mary Magdalene who was happy to see Jesus Back from the Dead? She was really in love with him! Gotta love thoseEpileptic Trees.
Among Christian Identists, such as Aryan Nations, the serpent actually mated with Eve and produced Cain, ancestor of the Jews. Aryans are descended from Adam via Seth.
How about the part where God randomly attacks Moses, but his wife drives the crazed deity away by circumcising her baby son, and throwing the foreskin at Him?
Abraham sacrificing his own son.
Even worse, fundamentalists claim that bad people will be sent to eternal punishment and torture yet at the same time say that God is everywhere and all loving. Which reminds me....
Christian fundamentalists have a fanatic obsession with "pleasing" their God.
Greek Mythology, even if you completely disregard Oedipus Rex, has a lot of Freud in it. Heck, the reason why Zeus became one of the most powerful deities in the pantheon is through deposing his father, Cronos (who tried to eat the rest of Zeus' siblings! Also, Cronos himself deposed his father Uranus. By castrating him. Uranus' castrated penis eventually became Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty and sexuality.) And that's not even getting into the personalities of the gods themselves like Zeus....
Worse than Zeus is Priapus, who has a large permanent erection.
Well Greek literature did inspire Freud himself. Oedipus, anyone?
Tabletop Games
Warhammer 40,000. Dark Eldar. Sweet merciful crap, Dark Eldar. Their entire society is based around captured slaves (they're even used as currency) and torturing them so they can consume their soul energy... except every single thing they say makes them appear more like an entire society of serial rapists instead, the Haemonculi in particular continually referring to their victims as "playthings". Every single piece of their vehicles, equipment and weapons are incredibly jagged and pointy, with as many blades attached in as many places as possible. As opposed to their mostly female Craftworld Eldar counterparts, their leaders and soldiers are mostly male (the leaders having the largest and pointiest headwear), while their main female units (Wyches) wear about three scraps of clothing and prefer to fight with whips that cause extreme pain with even a single touch (Agonisers).
Every single servant of Slaanesh lives on Freud Was Right and Nightmare Fetishist. When one of the Renegade Chapters devoted to it call themselves the Violaters and one of the Dark Eldar Cabals is named the Emasculators, it's sort of inevitable. Then there's Lucius the Eternal and his Lash of Torment...
The Imperium of Man's standard architecture consists of mile-high Gothic cathedrals with skulls as far as the eye can see. And of course you have the Imperial Guard, an army made up of ordinary, puny humans. Naturally, they need more and bigger cannons, tanks and field guns so they can stand a chance in a fight. Check out the size of this gun.Or this tank, but let's be fair here. The Imperial Guard are ordinary humans fighting the sci-fi versions of every Always Chaotic Evil race you've ever heard of — cranked Up to Eleven. They clearly already have nuts of steel. Sometimes a seven meter long cannon is just a cigar.
Slightly less blatant are the Sisters of Battle, the all-female militant portion of the resident Church Militant that use equipment (Powered Armor, bolters etc.) otherwise used exclusively by the all-male Space Marines. Then the usual level of WH40K absurdity appears with the Sisters Repentia, mobs of near-naked penitent young women equipped with two-metre longchainswords driven into a combat frenzy by their whip-wielding "mistresses".
It needs to be pointed out that the Sisters do NOT use "equipment otherwise used exclusively by the all-male Space Marines" for two reasons: First, the geneseed does not respond to female hormones, so the Sisters have none of the implants of the Space Marines, and specifically do not have the "black carapace" that allows the Marines to interface with their armor. Secondly, the fluff points out that even with the assistance of the armor's artificial "muscles", it's impossible for anyone without the strength of a Space Marine to even move in that armour. Therefore, the Sisters' power armour is less powerful, and their bolters are lower caliber. (To wit, a Space Marine bolter is approximately 20mm, while the Godwyn-pattern bolters used by the Sisters is probably somewhere between 12.7mm and 14.5mm.) It's the same type of equipment, but not the same equipment.
Space Marines are all men, and they live on space-rocks with other big burly marines. They've got no lives outside of training with each other, eating, sleeping, bathing, and fighting alongside other giant bald supermen. Space marines then go to feral worlds looking for young boys to indoctrine into their chapters. They're like the army, the navy, and the clergy combined.
Also, Space Marine pauldrons. Seriously, those things are huge. Of course The Emperor, being the bestest human of all time and a paragon of sheer manliness, has the largest pauldrons of all.
However materials from the second edition suggest that it gets absorbed by their own growing muscle mass during the conversion from human to Space Marine, making them virtually compensating for something.
There are two moons in the background. One moon is a menstrual symbol, but two white orbs, white being the color of semen, yeah.
Spoofed in one Big Eyes, Small Mouth sourcebook, where a piece of incidental art shows a woman wielding a scaled-up revolver, which has "Freud THIS!" written on the side.
Theater
Once upon a time, some guy decided to do a production of Shakespeare's classic play Hamlet with some seriously Oedipal subtext thrown in. Through a combination of Popcultural Osmosis, and Mel Gibson, this is now frequently considered to be the official, canonical "true meaning" of Hamlet. A careful examination of the script will not yield a single quote to support this interpretation. In fact, Hamlet shows more signs of an Electra Complex. Now that would be an interesting production...
Actually, the latter is the interpretation favored by both Freud himself and Joseph Campbell. "All neurotics," Freud said, "Are either Oedipus or Hamlet." (Italics mine.)
The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) includes this line, whose context is better left unexplained:
"Yes, and then they discover that the talking ponies are just a phallic extension of a woman's desire for sexual domination, and when they get home their mother says Freud was right...!"
Regarding Der Rosenkavalier, it has often been observed that the prelude reaches its climax (with horns blasting) before the music is ready to cadence. As the prelude subsides, the curtain opens on Octavian and the Marschallin in bed.
Give anyone any form of artistic freedom within a game...and you'll be surprised how many people make nude or sex mods, name the character something sexual, post sprays of pornographic images, make icons be blatant freudian imagery...
Second Life. You have the power to do just about anything you want in this game. And what do people do? Why, set up sims for nearly every fetish available!
In The Saboteur, Dr. Kwong describes this about the massive cannon the Nazi's have constructed in the city
Dr. Kwong: The cannon's massive barrel thrusts into the sky above Paris like an engorged pillar of masculine flesh! While the women of the city cower in the eclipsing shadow!
Later Lampshaded by Sean himself when he first sees it
Sean: Whoa! Dr. Kwong wasn't wrong about the size of that thing. Ever hear of "overcompensating"?
Second Life is KING of this trope. People have the ability to, once they know to code, create anything they want. What do they stick to, first? Make penises and enact out cybersex. One of the most popular forms of griefing is to send a flying storm of penises in somewhere.
This is half of what makes the undead enemies of The Legend of Zelda — the mummy Gibdo and zombie ReDead — major sources of Accidental Nightmare Fuel. Their attacks involve paralyzing, grabbing, and biting you, but most people think it looks and most of all sounds like they're raping you. To death.
In fact, many of the enemies and even the bosses seem to be giant, one-eyed monsters...
Vaati Reborn in Minish Cap. It's a narrow cylinder with a head and shoulders at the top (although the shoulders could just be part of the cape), and its one giant leg opens up vertically to reveal a giant eye between the "knees", above the ankle and below the hip-level.
EVE Online has the Phobos class heavy interdictor while it is one of several ships that can easily be described as a "Marital Aid" it is the only one that is actually pink.
Also this picture◊. Brings new meaning to the words "docking procedure".
Kreia has some interesting things to say in Knights of the Old Republic 2 about the "male preoccupation with the lightsaber." The first game manages to avert this almost completely, unless you feel like being literal about the ending sequence on the Star Forge.
Final Fantasy VIIhas a scene in the Temple of the Ancients where Sephiroth is sitting down thinking about becoming one with his mother. Note the position of his sword at 4:31. There's also the whole concept of Sephiroth trying to become one with the Planet.
Final Fantasy VIII Seifer does a Face Heel Turn and joins Edea after she tells him he is just a little boy, and she will make him a man.
It's said that Pyramid Head from Silent Hill 2 is the living incarnation of James Sunderland's repressed lust, among other emotions. PH is famous for raping the town's monsters and carrying a BFS so huge that he literally has to drag it behind him (and later an enormous spear). Subtle. The official interpretation is that he's a supernatural executioner out to make James realize that he Mercy Killed his wife. Note that a second one appears after James kills someone else.
The whole game Silent Hill 2 can be seen as James having to face that his own repressed sexuality during his wife's illness was the primary reason why he killed her.
For the more explicit sexual elements of the game, the Mannequins are a pair of sexy legs attached to another pair of sexy legs, the Bubble Head Nurses are incredibly busty women in skimpy nurse outfits with horribly deformed heads, the Abstract Daddy/Doorman resembles two figures bent over a table or a bed and attacks by swallowing James' head, the Flesh Lips grab James with a tentacle and pulls him towards its vagina-mouth, and then there's the continual attention paid to holes, several of which James must jump down in order to reach the next area of the game.
In the third game meanwhile, the Closers have vaginas for faces and penises for arms (out of which a blade extends), the Numb Bodies heavily resemble sperm, the Slurpers knock down the player character and climb on top of her in an act of quasi-rape, the Split Worm is an enourmous penis that burrows through various holes and whose head splits open vertically in a vulgar representation of childbirth, and in the latter part of the game there are pulsating walls and vertical holes everywhere, in particular the enourmous hole that leads to the "birthplace" of the Final Boss.
The fourth game has relatively subtle examples regarding Walter and his "mother" (actually the protagonist's apartment). The entrances and exits to Walter's otherworld are long tunnels with a light at the end (more childbirth symbolism), giant worms connect the different sections of the otherworld, umbilical cords connecting him to "mother", and the first step in defeating Walter in the Final Boss fight is to use the remains of his actual umbilical cord.
Not to be left out from the party, Homecoming has its own contributions to this trope: the Lurkers have Vagina Dentata for a face, the Needler has its head between its legs, another symbol of childbirth, the Bubble Head Nurses make a reappearance, the Schisms' head is a giant penis split down the middle, Asphyxia is a mass of female bodies fused together to resemble a centipede with arms for legs, several of which are always groping it, and as for the Siam... well, just look◊ at the damn thing. Hilariously, there are absolutely no sexual elements in the game's plot whatsoever, meaning all of this was apparently added for the lulz.
And now we have Shattered Memories, which manages to make things a whole new kind of disturbing: since Harry died in the car crash at the start of the game, and everything that occurs during the course of the game is Cheryl's delusion, she's fantasizing about her father, who's been dead for almost two decades: running all around Silent Hill to be reunited with her; having sex with a girl who looks, if anything, even younger than Cheryl herself is when the game takes place (twenty-five); and sneaking up on her and taking surprise pictures of her while she's in the shower, or while she's making out with a man old enough to be... her father. And that's not even mentioning the Rawshocks, which may well be manifestations of Cheryl's longing for her daddy...
Another major theme running throughout both games is motherhood. GLaDOS is very reminiscent of a passive-aggressive, nagging mother, makes references to "bring your daughter to work day" (a significant event in the backstory), and most especially this spoilery song. Turn on the closed captions for the Italian subtitles and... wow.
In a more visual (and non-story-related) example, when you've finished the final co-op chamber in Portal 2, look back up at where you came from. Then think of how you got to where you are. You'll never see that chamber the same way again.
I was fighting the Thresher Maw in Mass Effect 2 as an Infiltrator, when a friend observed "So...you're killing a giant phallic symbol...with another giant phallic symbol?"
According to Psycho Mantis, the reason he hates all of humanity is because everytime he looks into someone's mind, he finds the same "disgusting" desire to reproduce at the heart of their motivation for every single thing they do.
Metal Gear Solid also has a lot of sexual imagery mixed in with violence, to symbolise how killing arouses Snake more than sex (which is canon, if Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake is to be believed). Snake, who is hot, smokes a cigarette after every boss battle. He punches a sadomasochistic zombie ninja to orgasm at one point. He fights the beautiful Sniper Wolf through the sniper scope of a Male Gaze, twice. Metal Gear REX has a penis that shoots lasers. The final battle is a boxing match between him and his sexy twin, both dressed only in very tight trousers with their waxed muscled chests on full display. I could go on but I won't.
Speaking of REX, one of his combo attacks as he fights the slender, almost feminine RAY in Metal Gear Solid 4 involves biting the latter's neck and ejaculating onto its torso. There's also the Shagohod, which aside from a possible Double Entendre name which makes sense when you consider who's piloting it has an enormous phallic rocket launcher on its back and... well, look how it moves.
Should I point out that the most horrific scene in the series involves a man, previously named Solid Snake, now known as Old Snake, crawling down a tunnel, having to use all his might to avoid going limp? Or the BB Corp members draining Snake's health when they hug him for no readily apparent reason?
The whole plot is basically about men named after penises fighting over a fortress named after a clitoris. Solid Snake ("erect penis") destroys Outer Heaven (clitoris); let's point out that his two vague female romantic attachments both ended in him leaving them (in one case without a goodbye) and he ends up in a close relationship with a man, wanting nothing except that (and, to boot, all his outfits throughout the series draw specific attention to his buttocks). Big Boss ("large penis") builds Outer Heaven and had a female lover who he saved when she was in trouble and who was dedicated to him until the end of her life (and all his outfits throughout the series draw specific attention to his crotch). The series casts Snake in the right, and Big Boss in the wrong. I really am worried about Hideo Kojima's marriage.
Revolver Ocelot could practically WRITE this trope. In the first Metal Gear Solid, during the gunfight with him, he says: "There's nothing like the feeling of slamming a long silver bullet into a well-greased chamber". Sweet mother of Freud.
Then there's the fight between Vamp and Raiden in the fourth game which has some extremely, though somewhat disturbing homoerotic imagery: the grappling, the almost rutting-like motion when Raiden stabs himself to nail Vamp — and don't forget the white blood and the crotch-knife licking.
One that's easy to miss is that the Boss has the habbit of shutting up men who are getting to uppity with her by taking away their pistols, breaking them apart, and throwing the pieces back at their feet. Ouch.
Koishi Komeiji, the Bonus Boss in Subterranean Animism, has a whole arsenal of spellcards based off of Freudian concepts... but then you get to "The Embers of Love" and then your brain just sort of shuts down. Seriously, ZUN, phallic heart bullets?
Many, many moments in the Devil May Cry games, not to mention that every weapon and use thereof is some sort of phallic metaphor.
Vergil's prologue in Devil May Cry 3 provides us the image of Arkham very... suggestively stroking Vergil's sword.
Two words: Lucifer scene (does it count if it's obviously intentional?)
Not to mention that Trish is the spitting image of Dante's mother although she was created by Mundus that way on purpose.
Devil May Cry has an early cutscene where Dante is pinned to the ground by the Alastor sword and he slowly slides his body up the blade. The heartbeat in the background and the fact that it's showed from two or three different angles makes me wonder if it isn't deliberate. See it here, from 4:50 to 5:15.
Considering Alastor appears to initially be impaling a statue vagely resembling The Ecstasy of St. Teresa, and the fact that it's a "lightning charged" sword it might just be intentional.
Jester calls Temen-ni-Gru "a thick shaft that causes women to shudder". Yeah.
Two guys in Sootopolis City ask you to bring them big Barboach and Shroomish. Barboach and Shroomish.
There's something about Steel-type Gym Leader, Jasmine, from the Generation 2 games and her choice of Pokémon. Her team consists of nothing more than two Magnemite and a Steelix. Two steel balls and a giant metal snake.
In the first episode of Sam And Max Freelance Police: Season One, Sam has a dream and the player can choose what he does in his dream. It is possible to make a hot dog appear in a rat hole. The therapist then says, "A weenie in a rat hole... nothing symbolic there."
It's probably cheating considering the nature of the game but Fate/stay night has tons of Freudian undertones. I mean, the entire "stabbing the Holy Grail" thing...
In Katamari Damacy, one of the many Royal Cousins is Odeko, whose most striking feature is his long head. While most cousins have cute little pill-shaped heads, his extends straight up. He's explicitly very proud of his height, and is even prone to exaggerating its size. This has been the subject of many, many jokes.
Not to mention the character named 'Johnson' who is long headed like Odeko, but sticks straight forward instead of up.
In Kingdom Hearts II, there's a heartless comprised of a small body and a golden beak which repeatedly stabs Sora if he doesn't kill them. Think that's bad enough? The name of it is Rapid Thruster.
Wesker from Resident Evil... especially the fifth game. Lord, what to say about him and Chris? It gets to the point where, at the final battle, Wesker ends up sweaty, shirtless, and growing a bunch of tentacles. He uses these tentacles to grab ahold of Chris (which can only be described as looking like very violent tentacle rape). And each time he has a hold on Chris, he transforms his other arm into a very phallic tentacle drill that will... penetrate impale Chris if he doesn't break free. And all of this while he screams Chris' name. Wesker has issues...
First, Brad Vickers gets caught by Nemesis and impaled through the mouth nose with a NaughtyCombat Tentacle, seven years later Luis Sera dies of impaling from behind with the huge stinger Saddler had concealed under his robe... Does This Remind You of Anything??
Haunting Ground. The entire game's plot was pretty much about proving that Freud Was Right. Let's see here - so it turns out that Lorenzo wanted to screw his son and clone, Urgo, because he was his preferred child and contained the Azoth. However, Urgo ended up running away and marrying Ayla, Fiona's mother. Lorenzo ends up harboring a bunch of hate towards Ayla for it. But then he finds Fiona, who inherited the Azoth, so now he wants to screw his granddaughter. And then there's Riccardo, who apparently hates Lorenzo, since he's also Lorenzo's son and clone. Except he didn't have the Azoth, so Lorenzo thinks of him as a useless and troublesome son. He also feels competitive towards Lorenzo, and wants to assert his domination and possession over Fiona, who is his niece. Riccardo's goal is to, quite simply, rape and impregnate Fiona so he can have the Azoth. This is made all the worse when one realizes that he's pretty much her father's clone, meaning that he has the exact same DNA as her father. So to put it simply - all of Fiona's remaining relatives want to screw her.
What, no mention of Daniella?
Thankfully not an official level, but take a look at around 1:31 in this LittleBigPlanetvideo. Where, exactly, is that Creature Brain? The only way it could get more phallic is if there were two of them, or if the level creator got "crafty" with the Corner Editor. At least it was a Protected Creature Brain...
Ar Tonelico's major dialogue is filled with innuendos... especially the "Diving" process that is uncomfortable for the Reyvatails (girls) and one is iffy about her "first time." Another states that "it's okay if it's with you." Plus many villagers find it odd that guys and Reyvatails go into the Dive Shops during the day and they "wonder what goes on in there."
Of course at one point the game just bypasses all innuendos when you change Reyvatails and the girl Krusche's first line to the new one is "Wow Misha, you grew tits!"
The Gomander boss from R-Type. Consists of what appears to be an alien uterus being penetrated by a giant worm.
Also, the Giant Warship's phallic core.
R-Type III had a boss that shot what appeared to literally be giant sperm cells at your fighter ship. Was probably intentional.
In Final, the first boss is a techno-organic penis thing that shoots lasers, and Dobkeratops now has a phallic tongue that shoots sperm cells.
During the final level two human silhouettes appear in the background. What are they doing throughout the level? Well, it looks... intimate.
The final boss of Delta is a giant ovum that shoots sperm at you. It also combines itself with a piece of your ship. Top that.
Try playing World 6-Tower of New Super Mario Bros Wii without making a joke about the, ahem, "thrusting" spike columns. To make matters worse, Morton Koopa's room has two of them coming down from the ceiling during the fight.
Daryan Crescend's torpedo-like hairdo from Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has gotten popular with the fans for this very reason - he's a "dickhead" in more than one sense.
The Gonarch in Half-Life, has an interesting growth on it's underside. Apparently, it came about when someone at Valve asked "Why don't we put a giant testicle on a 20-foot-tall armored spider?"
In the online game N The Way Of The Ninja episode 25 level 0 looks like the basic structure fallopian tubes, a uterus, and a vagina.
Metroid: Other M gets a lot of flack for making Samus appear weak. Some believe that Samus talks almost obsessively about the Metroid Hatchling, referring to it as The Baby, as if it wereher own child.
Thrusters and Micro Mike from Action 52. Both involve phallic spaceships fighting other phallic spaceships and dodging phallic obstacles. Also, Silver Sword has an enemy shaped like a cock & balls.
In Skies Of Arcadia, Galcian has this going on a lot. In addition to his BFS, there's also the questionable relationship with Ramirez, and his ship later in the game. His new ship, the Hydra (replacing his earlier ship, the Serpent) has a main cannon that is originally hidden behind scaffolding. After the scaffolding comes off, it initially hangs down beneath the ship, but swings up to about 45 degrees above the horizontal to fire.
Parodied with Vigoro, whose innuendo is very explicitly mentioned.
In Dead Rising, female zombies dressed in lingerie attack the protagonist by grabbing his waist, falling to their knees and moving their heads back and forth as they try to bite him.
A death movie for survivors attacked by female zombies basically looks like a very canabalistic version of the 69 position (although it is slightly satisfying to see Ronald get it...)
Dead Rising 2 pretty much beats the player over the head with sexual imagery as soon as they start playing the game.
Super Mario Land 2 gave us a Mario robot. One level is in his crotch, and it involves balls for platforms.
Ramped up terribly in the sequel when the PC is referred to as "my knight in shining armour" by a little sister. Repeatedly.
Shadows Of The Damned is filled to the brim with this. Considering it's Suda 51, not surprising. Here are some... easier to swallow examples.
The big bad who steals your girlfriend uses a large pole of wood. He seems to like thrusting his wood around just to show you he is the bigger man.
Your sidekick is named "Johnson", and the pistol is named "the boner". The upgraded is named "the big boner", and it must be welded at crotch level to be steady enough to shoot.
In Ragnarok Online, Hodes are long, pink... two-eyed monsters.
Shall we even get started on Worldof Warcraft? Even if we just go with the quests for the Son's of Hodir in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion, we have the following, very sexual connotated, names: Blowing Hodir's Horn, Mounting Hodir's Helm (which is a rounded, purple/blue helm mounted on a stiff shaft of ice), Polishing the Helm, Raising Hodir's Spear, Thrusting Hodir's Spear. Then we also have quests for other groups with names like: "Just the Tip", "Camel Tow", "Going Bearback", "If Size Mattered...", and many... many more.
Web Comics
A (not exactly graphic, but still Not Safe For Work) example from Trapped In A Comic. It's all in the hand gestures.
The decidedly worrying "autobiographical" side-plots of Kit 'n Kay Boodle, described by Crush Yiff Destroy as "a storyline involving [the cartoonist], his woman, and his mother-in-law, which, while it may not be entirely true, cannot be read as anything other than a reflection of the author's deepest Freudian issues". The cartoonist's Author Avatar and his girlfriend have sex in front of her mother, and later on the girlfriend's mother has cybersex with the cartoonist's father in front of a chatroom full of their friends.
A Running Gag in Bob and George is the sexually suggestive names of the Mega Man Robot Masters, who include Hard Man (who fists people), Wood Man, Air Man (who sucks and blows), and Junk Man. The Robot Masters are completely oblivious to this, to Mega Man's frustration.
When The Cinema Snob discusses The Last Airbender, he spends the first few minutes on the only thing that entertained him, Yue's penis shaped hair.
In an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, Joey tries to brush off Tea's comment about the abundance of "phallic imagery" in the ongoing duel. Yugi then says to him: "Now quiver in fear as my knight's mighty lance penetrates your moist cocoon!"
Youtube Poop - It's probably easier to count how many Youtube poops don't have the characters spout sexual innuendos.
Broken Saints contains a number of very blatant sex jokes, but there is one linguistic pun that writer-director Brooke Burgess says nobody seems to catch: "Kingdoms are fickle things, old friend... like passion's emissary. Rising without word, collapsing without warning." Word Of God: "It's a penis, folks!"
Code Lyoko: In the penultimate episode, Jeremie's Cannot-Fail-Kill-XANA-Real-Dead program is visually represented by an army of sperm. You really have to wonder what goes on in that boys head...
Some of XANA's monsters fall into this category as well, such as the flying Manta rays that poop mines. And the Scipozoa, with its mighty Combat Tentacles. Suuuure...
After all, the Scipozoa's primary purpose is to Steal Aelita's Memories. And it does so by putting the tentacles around Aelita and "Levitating" her. Also, the only other character the Scipozoa attacked was another girl, Yumi.
In Futurama, 31st century Washington D.C. has, right next to the phallic Washington monument, a similar but taller Clinton monument. One episode even had an alien spaceship cutting its tip off with a giant claw.
Space aliens with Yiddish accents, nonetheless.
Roxy Rocket from Batman: The Animated Series, a stunt-themed jewel thief whose gimmick is riding a rocket clutched between her legs like a broom... or, ah... anyway, she became so excited after Batman tackled her that the rocket starts going out of control.
A literal example, Played for Laughs in Clone High. Right after Joan's completely incomprehensibleLe Film Artistique has finished at the film festival, we see a shot of the auditorium, in complete silence. Until the boy sitting next to Joan — a clone of Sigmund Freud himself — starts singing "Joan loves Abe! Joan loves Abe!"
Used in Bromwell High, when Keisha is making a speech about the school. She begins quoting Martin Luther King's speech, and then goes on to say "Latrina has a dream about a tunnel and a series of bigger and bigger trains! Let's make those dreams come true!"
In Invader Zim, all Irkens are judged and placed in society based on on their height. So the largest guys are the unquestioned leaders, despite being incompetent, and the main character will never amount to anything because he's "very small...he's a tiny thing." Right.
In the episode of Avatar the Last Airbender where Aang has trouble standing his ground and being an earthbender, Toph steals a bag of nuts◊ from his satchel, and then uses his staff◊ to crack them◊, finally commenting how Aang's staff "isn't the only delicate instrument around here".
The Drill For shame. Details of this episode can be found on the Double Entendre page.
There's also the matter of Zuko's eye, as this comic so eloquently pointed out to me: [3].
In ATLA, Freud was not right just about sex. Zuko's story, his relationship with his father, his mother, his sister and his substitutional father, AKA uncle. Really, Dr Freud was on the board.
In Phineas and Ferb, it appears that Dr. Doofenshmirtz was an excellent hand puppeteer, so much so that it impressed a girl. Said girl eventually left him for a guy who was a sucky puppeteer but had huge "fingers". Real subtle, Disney.
Uh, no. They didn't say the word "fingers" even one time. It was for his "hands" (stated many times) and is that really so sexual?
Yes. Yes it is. There's a saying if a guy has big hands (and big feet), well, then....
Another one of Doofenshmirtz's girlfriends left him for a whale.
Then there's the Backyard Aquarium episode with a battle between Perry and Doofenshmirtz involving long, cylindrical pieces of meat. It's meant as a reference to Yoda vs Dooku from Star Wars, but taken a complete other way... well, see for yourself here.
The thousand foot cliff in Total Drama Island. The cliff in TDA might be larger.
An episode of Total Drama Action is based off of fairy tales, and one part of the challenge involves the three males getting wooden swords. And Harold, the geek, gets one notably smaller than the rest.
There's also the... wooly beavers...
In The Simpsons episode 'That 90's Show', Marge's college professor/boyfriend view on lighthouses.
In "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy", Homer sends the kids to the movies so he and Marge can have sex. What are they watching? The aforementioned train/tunnel scene in North By Northwest, a Rocket taking off, and a hot dog assembly line.
Lisa: What do you think Mom and Dad are doing?
Bart: I dunno.
Scrooge gives a whole new meaning to the term "Money Fetish." He has his giant money bin (penis shaped phallic symbol), which is hollow (womb symbol), filled with money (representative phallic symbol). Further, his greatest fears are the destruction of his money bin or the loss of his money (castration fear). His favorite pass time is to swim around in the money bin. His female Arch-Enemy is obsessed with stealing his Number One Dime. He met his first (and presumably only) sexual partner after she stole his first gold nugget. Not to mention he has a rival who constantly competes with him over the "size of their wealth."
In one Justice League episode, a pyromancer villain talks of a fellow bad guy's flamethrower-size symbolically. He insists that he makes up for size with skill, only to get quickly beaten and she pats his head sympathetically.
She immediately emerges from cover and burninates everything in sight. His flamethrower discharges as he declares, "I'm in looooove."
Time Squad meets up with the actual Sigmund Freud, whom they have to convince that psychoanalysis works better than hypnotising people into acting like animals. While there's little sexual subtext, Freud notes that Buck and Larry act like a married couple with Otto as their son, who will be traumatized by their constant bickering later in life.
Time Squad has a lot of Freudian imagery (besides the obvious one of having Freud on the show — twice, I might add). How much? Let's see:
The Larry 3000's phallic-shaped head paired with his skinny, hourglass-figured body.
A lot of the food they show is either phallic-shaped (French bread, sausages, carrots, Cheez Whiz from the can [which Tuddrussel shakes up and squirts into his mouth on "Day of the Larrys"], and the always-popular banana), treated as a vagina-like receptacle or is representative of a vagina (pies [none of which were cherry], a turkey which Larry pumped full of gravy on "Ex Marks the Spot" [even the gravy stains all over the walls, Larry, and Tuddrussel's hands looked suggestive and wrong], muffins [Tuddrussel ate one on "Sandwich By Any Other Name" and said, "My tongue feels like it's wrapped in a lace doily and headed off to the ballet!"]), testicular in appearance (grapes and nuts), or resembled ejaculate (whipped cream and gravy).
Tuddrussel's phasers (in "Kubla Khan't," Tuddrussel is reading a magazine that has a centerfold of a gun in much the same way as what you would see in a copy of Playboy; in "Hate and Let Hate," Larry gets a temporary, more macho change in personality after he handles one of Tuddrussel's phasers and it goes off in his hands)
A Genius Bonus example on "Old Timers' Squad": Larry asks his future self for his favorite piece of binary code to prove that it's really him. The Old Larry replies: 0010110100111110. Translated from binary, it's an arrow (—>), which is phallic in shape.
In "Day of the Larrys," when Larry is arguing with one of his clones over who gets to play croquet, there is a very interesting foreground event where a croquet ball rolls over to one of the wooden posts, making it look like an erect penis and testicle. And this came after the Big Lipped Alligator Moment sequence at the gay robot disco (which had its share of questionable moments — i.e., the butt-dancing Larrys, the Larry clone "riding" a mechanical bull, the Larry clone dressed as a shirtless cowboy and his nonverbal flirting with Tuddrussell — all with Otto watching).
Tuddrussel and Larry's penchant for getting in Head-Tiltingly Kinky positions as seen on "Cabin Fever" (when they were playing Twister), "Napoleon the Conquered" (after Josephine beats up Napoleon's army, Larry is bent over with Tuddrussell's foot on his crotch), and "Out With the In Crowd" (When J.T. Laser parks the Lance 9 Trillion, Otto lands first, then Tuddrussell lands in a different spot face down, and finally Larry lands in the same position, only he's on top of Tuddrussel)
Interestingly, in "Day of the Larrys", the body portrait painting of Larry in blue Renaissance-style ◊ is a Larry-fied replica of a famous painting, The Blue Boy. Even more interestingly, Blue Boy is also the name of a well-known naughty magazine targeted at homosexual men (as mentioned in the Cyndi Lauper song, "She Bop"). It also doesn't help that someone (possibly Tuddrussel) wrote the words, "Weenie Boy" on the picture.
It's no wonder too that Tuddrussel had those words written. There's some serious Freudan imagery going on there. That circle that Tuddrussel drew by the side of Larry's face is meant to be a testicle, essentially rendering Larry's head to resemble an erect penis. (Even more so).
Venture Brothers unveiled Jonas, Jr.'s "late 60's ultra death ray"... a gigantic and blatantly phallic engine of destruction. Every man in the room desperately wants to use it.
"If that thing were a woman, I'd marry it." "And I'd jeopardize our friendship by nailing your hot wife."
Following in the footsteps of his father's phallic rock ship, and the Drill Tank which Rusty calls "a monument to his repressed sexuality".
These are far from the only examples from The Venture Brothers; Dr. Venture's oedipal complex is perhaps the most obvious, but every major character has some serious issues.
Rusty once had a dream about his father, where his father's penis became his umbilical cord.
90% of the humor and 50% of the violence on The Powerpuff Girls is disturbingly Freudian. Just try to watch the episodes "Members Only" and "The Boys Are Back in Town" without wanting to take a cold shower. Seriously — "Whenever their masculinity is threatened, they shrink in size." Apparently, this is what happens when an action series stars little girls.
Family Guy's Peter Griffin used this to persuade the US Government that the FCC's censorship was unjustified, pointing out that Washington, DC is full of Freudian landmarks (including the Lincoln Memorial, which depicts Lincoln sitting on a toilet).
Teen Titans: Slade. 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", and his Mind Rape of Raven so heavily resembles the other kind of rape that a short hentai movie (very NSFW) was able to be constructed from the scene without changing his dialogue at all.
On Danny Phantom given Vlad's obsession with Danny's mother and desire to make Danny his son, Freud would definitely have something Oedipal related to say about it. Not to mention all the Foe Yay between Danny and Vlad...
Real Life
Shift the letters in "Freud" up the alphabet by three. You get the word "Cobra", which can itself be viewed as a euphemism for a penis. Your mind is now blown.
The Florida State Capitol Building◊ in Tallahassee, Florida, is one immensely tall center building, flanked on both sides by smaller domed wings, giving the entire capitol complex the look of an erect penis and a pair of testicles when seen straight-on (and in order to prevent people from seeing it straight on, strategically placed trees were planted all around its base... giving it green pubic hair, unfortunately). In Florida, the building is often referred to as "Askew's Erection", after the governor who authorized the capital building's construction.
The film "Manfast", set at the University of Central Florida in Tallahassee, is a sex comedy about a group of college-age women who dare each other to abstain from sex. The film opens with a long helicopter shot over the Florida Capitol Building that emphasizes its phallic nature.
May have been intentional in the film, but the University of Central Florida is in Orlando. Florida State University is in Tallahassee.
Geographically, the state of Florida does somewhat resemble a you know what.
IReadThatAs "PERVERT" instead of "PREVENT". Ironically, it still kinda works.
Spoof interview on radio with the supposed architect who designed Toronto's CN Tower.
"What did you have in mind when you were designing it?" "A big dick!"
For reference, this is the CN Tower. Why, that hardly looks suggestive at all. Incidentally, it was preceded by about 10 years by the Skylon Tower, which is much shorter, but also much closer to the Canada/US border. I'm sure this is all purely coincidence, of course.
The clock tower in a particular New England town is a bit too suggestive◊ to be an accident. It has a frenulum, I tell you!
The two euro coin used to look like this◊. Newer versions added Norway◊ for the sake of ending the penis jokes.
Unsuccessful; it looks even more phallic now. Doubly phallic, actually, as the land part looks like a head-on view of a dick and the water looks like a side view of an erection.
This particular water tower◊ in Ypsilanti, Michigan. It's like the architects were trying as hard (no pun intended) as possible to make it look phallic.
The Mull of Kintyre test used as an unofficial guideline as to whether a depiction of a penis was acceptable to the British Board of Film Classification or not. Anything that stuck out at a greater angle than this outcropping of land was unfit for release in the UK.
Obelisks.
Entirely intentional. In Egyptian mythology Geb and Nut, the earth and the sky respectively, were lovers and were constantly, er, together. Ra was understandably annoyed at this because it prevented anything from living and so commanded Shu, the air, to separate them. Therefore, obelisks were built to represent the earth's constant desire to rejoin the sky. Clearly, we can all learn many things from the Egyptians.
In the same vein, Karen Armstrong's book A Short History of Myth supports the thesis that farming—the union of sky and earth—represented sex and seeds represent semen. This made tenth grade English very fun.
At the main entrance to Converse College, an all-women's school in Spartanburg, SC, is a monument to the founder◊, a Mr. Dexter Edgar Converse. You would have to see it to believe it. It is nothing less than the frontal silhouette of a 20' erect penis.
Torre Agbar. If you say "See you in front of the giant cock" while in Barcelona, everybody will know what are you talking about.
That thing up top? Yeah, it's not a Photoshop, that's an actual artillery sound suppressor. The sides are expansion chambers for the sideways blast from the muzzle brake.
It was build and used at a german artillery training site, simply because the nearby villagers where annoyed from the sound. The unit was dissolved, rendering these obsolete and probably scrapped already. It reduced the sound by about 20Db.
When we're talking about weapons, some trebuchets. Especially the aptli-named "couillard" with its twin counterweights.
Designer Donna Karan asked that her first include the smell of the back of her husband's neck. However, the bottle, as seen from certain angles◊, would seem to suggest another body part.
My, so many phallic symbols! Is there no love for the Pentagon as seen from above? Or maybe a pretty conch shell open just barely enough to see the smooth pink inside...
Stereotypical slash fans can come off as seeing Ho Yay in everything.
The existence of this Real Life section is itself and instance of the trope - so many people assuming that any object several times taller than it is wide must be a penis.
From Psychotherapy by Melanie: "A thing's a phallic symbol if it's longer than it's wide."
To the tune of "If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands": If it's longer than it's wide, then it's a phallus! clap clap! If it's longer than it's wide, then it's a phallus! clap clap! If it's longer than it's wide, when you turn it on its side, if it's longer than it's wide, then it's a phallus! clap clap!
Mascot of 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta continues to be used very reluctantly to this day (to the point of omitting him in Olympic museum) thanks to media ridicule about it looking like a sperm.
You show me a man whose sperm looks like Izzy, and I will show you a very infertile man.
H.R. Giger - Take one look at his artwork and if you don't see penises, you're not looking hard enough.
Not every picture of his has a penis in it. Some have vaginas or fetuses instead.
Worms.
Hence why they are one of the squickiest things to ever exist.
A real-life example that has nothing to do with buildings. Recently an AP psychology high school teacher in Florida has found himself in hot water for quizzing his students with a set of questions laced with innuendo, aptly called the "Sexual Tension Quiz". This trope was actually the whole purpose of said quiz, as the whole challenge was to get past the innuendo and to the correct answers. Among those true answers: a nose, peanut butter, and a crane. Most kids with unrestrained TV and internet access (or otherwise "innocent") would probably get those right within five minutes. Most parents were not amused.
The Sperm Whale.
The Dwarf Sperm Whale and the Pygmy Sperm Whale (No, seriously).
Nancy Pelosi handing the Speaker's gavel to John Boehner: This gavel, which is larger than most other gavels here...
Upside-down hearts.
Rightside-up hearts!
This man apparently has the maturity of a twelve-year-old boy, insisting that anyone who designs something the least bit rectangular or L-shaped will have to answer to God for their crimes against humanity. (The best part might be the end, when he says the cross is more powerful than the phallic symbol. Sorry, but have you looked at a cross?)
The most common password on computer systems, after sequences of numbers and the word "password" itself, is apparently "pussy". It's doubtful whether it's always (or even usually!) in reference to a cat.
In German, a nut is called Mutter, which litteraly means mother. So, there is the terminology to "screw a screw into the mother". This sounds extremely oedipal. (The use of the word Mutter in that context was even topic of the work of some german psychoanalysts.)Note: The word screw doesn't have that Double Endendre in german, so, in german, these connotations aren't as explicit as in english. Of course because of the form of a typical nut as a metal ring with a hole where a screw is put into, there is of course still a connection.
The coco de mer, an endangered tree species from the Seychelles, produces the world's largest nut. Stripped of its outer husk, this nut bears a shocking resemblance to a woman's pelvic region, complete with buttocks, thighs, and pubic hair. Just to complete the picture, coco de mer trees can be male or female, and the male trees bear elongated florets that look remarkably phallic.
During a quiz show, german feminist Alice Schwarzer once criticized the showmaster Guenther Jauch because he wore a Necktie and she claimed his Necktie would be a symbol for his Penis.
Everything tall is a penis! Putting anything into anything else is symbolic of sex! Ha ha haha ha ha ha ha!!
