Maybe we should have a "lampshades/subversions only" rule on the examples. I've Seen It A Million Times, but I agree this can't turn into every use of a gun ever because that's People Sit On Chairs.
edited 12th Mar '14 3:32:11 AM by needsanewhobby
It needs to be two things: 1) Actual phallic symbols used as weapons (a dildo sword happens in later chapters of Girly, for example) and 2) discussions/lampshades of the weapons' phallic imagery. Anything else needs to go.
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Wouldn't those be covered by Compensating for Something?
Given that any weapon longer than it is wide is going to get construed by someone as a phallic symbol (because Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory and Freud Was Right), we need to have some method of limitation, although I'm undecided on precisely what.
edited 12th Apr '14 4:30:04 PM by Pig_catapult
I agree with that. If the characters in a work perceive some weapon as phallic shaped, then it should count. However, the audience thinking that a weapon is such a shape is highly subjective. People have a tendency to see sexual things everywhere.
Obvious weapons, however, like the Saints Row Dildo Sword, should also be added.

Sent this trope through TRS before, but didn't fix the main issue. There are several problems, but the rest can't be dealt with until it's determined if it's tropeworthy (because of People Sit On Chairs). From the description: "Guns, cannons, swords, daggers... they're all penises." Sums it pretty well, not to mention getting into how it's used really and symbolically which adds to the qualifying examples.