History Main / OedipusComplex

* A good part of the reason why [[spoiler: Lord Arvis of Velthomer]] from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral'' is so fucked up comes from this, since [[spoiler: his father Viktor was a philandering asshole and rapist who killed himself once he found out his wife Cigyun cheated on him with Kurth Prince of Grandbell and said mother ran away in shame afterwards and never returned (She was pregnant with Kurth's child, and ultimately fell victim to DeathByChildbirth). All of this happened when Arvis was seven years old: he grew up into a conflicted MagnificentBastard with ''serious'' issues with almost every female (except for his aidé Aida and his half-brother Azel's mother) to the point of ''killing'' whoever mentioned his idealized MissingMom in a bad light in front of him. It is heavily implied that the reason Arvis [[SurpriseIncest unknowingly]] fell in love with his half-sister is because she so greatly resembles their mother.]]

** The members of the Cobra Unit all regard [[ActionGirl The Boss]] as a mother figure... including The Sorrow who would go on to become her {{Love Interest|s}} and the father of her child. This is, unsurprisingly, made fun of in [[http://www.gigaville.com/comic.php?id=333 this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysofFoxhound''.

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

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' bleeds Oedipal subtext, no shortness of thanks to Dante's hot blonde love interest Trish who ''looks exactly'' like his hot blonde mother Eva albeit extremely sexualised. It also doesn't help that Dante [[MommasBoy prefers Eva]] over his father Sparda and shuns his demon-side in general. Creator/HidekiKamiya, seeing this trope in effect, has tried counterclaims of Oedipus by [[WordOfGod saying]] the relationship between Dante and Trish isn't romantic or sexual in nature. Unfortunately, this message didn't spread across all titles as in ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'' Dante and Trish can [[https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcT_n8tIPyRWbUbDQee1dJ6Ak-cab2JXdwTQrx5wLXtNAq-dgj6j replace Joe and his girlfriend]].

* Joseph Joestar from ''Anime/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' ''Battle Tendency''... look, we can give Joseph some leeway since his [[DisappearedDad dad died]] and much like Oedipus, he didn't actually ''know'' [[spoiler: Lisa Lisa was his mother]]. Thirdly it doesn't really help thanks to [[PowerOfTheSun Hamon]] your 50 [[OlderThanTheyLook year old]] mother [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MG53dNxz4SE/UMFE8DCt8mI/AAAAAAAAFFE/6uoF0le2QTQ/s1600/c8_c1.png looks like this]]. Still, it was a FridgeHorror for Joseph when he realized he'd [[ThePeepingTom spied]] [[https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/975/281/3aa.gif on his mother bathing]]. You also could argue it was destined for this to happen to Joseph since he was such a MommasBoy to his grandma Erina.
** While not as extreme in regards to this trope as Joseph, Jotaro in ''Stardust Crusaders'' dislikes his father figures such as grandfather Joseph and his entire motivation for stopping DIO is because his mother Holly was [[IllGirl dying]] because of DIO's actions.

** Charlie once claimed that Evelyn drove his and Alan's birth father to an early grave, implying they were somewhat attached to him. In another episode, Charlie began dating a woman who looked and acted exactly like Evelyn, though he was the only person not to notice it. Rose gives him a copy of ''Oedipus Rex'', but gives away the ending because [[genius bonus "You'll probably be blind by the time you get to it."]]

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** Interestingly Manga/{{Boruto}}’s main beef with his father Naruto is that Boruto perceives his dad neglecting his mother Hinata and his sister Himawari [[WhenYouComingHomeDad by working too much]]. Though to be fair Boruto is a SpoiledBrat.
** Hell, you could argue Sarada has an Electra Complex given she antagonizes her mother Sakura to the point where she didn’t believe Sakura actually gave birth to her and yearns for her absent father Sasuke. Bonus points as Sarada latches on to Naruto as a [[ParentalSubstitute father substitute]] and is attracted to his son Boruto who has a similar personality to her father Sasuke.

* ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' is no stranger to some Oedipus Complex, thanks to a lot of the male heroes being a MommasBoy(s).
** Gohan’s reasons for being attracted to the hot-blooded and bossy Videl become suspect when he [[LampshadeHanging reflects]] how similar Videl is to his mother Chi-Chi. [[spoiler: To be fair to Gohan, it isn't really his fault since [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Super]] reveals it's right down in his Saiyan [=DNA=] to be [[AmazonChaser attracted to]] fiery women]].
** Future Trunks plays this straighter than Gohan since thanks to TimeTravel he runs into the same problem as [[Film/BackToTheFuture Marty Mcfly]] did when he meets his attractive younger mother Bulma. She even winks at Trunks when she meets him and acts flirtatious around him leading to Trunks getting a LuminescentBlush. Trunks even starts to [[CallingTheOldManOut resent Vegeta]] for neglecting Bulma ([[MyFutureSelfandMe and himself]]).
*** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' if anything makes this trope more apparent for Trunks since it makes Mai his LoveInterest, a woman 40 years [[LikesOlderWomen older than him]]. A bit less squicky though, because Mai got turned physically as old as Trunks prior to the events of Super.
** ''Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly'' adds the titular character to this as Broly has an [[AbusiveParents abusive]] controlling relationship with his father Paragus while he has ShipTease with Sheelai who literally [[RomanticSpoonfeeding feeds him like a mother]] at one point. The only part of that’s left out is the {{Patricide}}... which Broly did in his original movie.

** Interestingly Manga/{{Boruto}}’s main beef with his father Naruto is that Boruto perceives his dad neglecting his mother Hinata [[WhenYouComingHomeDad by working too much]]. Though to be fair Boruto is a SpoiledBrat.

** ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' not only features a streamlined (but ultimately less hostile) version of the above Tidus/Jecht conflict but has another example that you need to read in between the lines to uncover. [[OriginalGeneration Cosmos]] and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Chaos]] have a substantial amount of FoeYay going on between the scenes. It is later on revealed that despite their status as the [[OrderVersusChaos Goddess of Harmony and God of Discord]], the two once benevolently ruled the world together in bliss, [[BeastAndBeauty apparently as lovers]]. [[UnfortunateImplications Now here comes the]] {{Squick}}: [[spoiler:It is heavily implied that Cosmos is some permutation of [[InteractiveNarrator Cid of the Lufaine]]'s wife, [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence her memories transferred into]] [[ArtificialHuman a construct made in her image]]. This was done to soothe the soul of Garland, Chaos' [[TheDragon Dragon]] and a former {{Tykebomb}} [[ChildSoldiers Kid Soldier]] who was HappilyAdopted by Cid and his wife. [[LateArrivalSpoiler For those not in the know]], Garland and Chaos (via a StableTimeLoop {{plan}}) ''are one in the same''. In other words, Chaos' [[LikeParentLikeSpouse partner is also]] [[ParentalIncest his adoptive mother]]. When he kills her, his act throws the multiverse into whack and [[DespairEventHorizon shocks him]] into a SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum, as [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds he]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone didn't want to live with the atrocities he committed]]. [[LoveMakesYouCrazy Without the presence of Cosmos]], [[DeathSeeker he saw no more meaning in his existence, actively seeking for the heroes to kill him, not only as a way to restore the balance, but to ease his torment]], and perhaps [[TogetherInDeath allow him to reunite with his beloved once more]].]] There are so many Freudian and Oedipal overtones just ''oozing'' from this.

* Franchise/TheDCU is full of this, although it is strictly subtext. There's ComicBook/{{Batman}}-[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]-ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, Batman-[[Characters/BatmanJasonTodd Jason Todd]]-[[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia]], ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}-Tempest-Dolphin, ComicBook/GreenArrow-Arsenal-ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Superman}}-ComicBook/{{Superboy}}-Lana Lang/[[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]].

* The 2000 run of ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'' has said hero destroy the universe at the behest of Entropy and Epiphany, actually AnthropomorphicPersonification children of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the universe. Later he dies and beats up his own dad on the other side.

*** [[Characters/MarvelComicsCyclops Cyclops]] would seem to avoid this trope, except that his mother Kathrine [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/92/Katherine_Summers_%28Earth-616%29_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100307084819 looks]] near identical to his second main love interest Characters/{{Emma Frost}WhiteQueen}}. If that wasn't enough, [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen one]] of the times he was [[UnholyMatrimony coupled with Emma]], [[spoiler:he killed [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]], his father figure]]. However, Cyclops gets along pretty well with his biological father Corsair.
*** There's a good argument for Rogue having an Electra Complex. She has a very troubled relationship with her adoptive mother Characters/{{Mystique}}, who has [[EvilMatriarch abused her greatly]] in quite a few comics -- Rogue eventually left and was taken in by [[Characters/MarvelComicsProfessorX Professor X]], whom she greatly admires and looks up to. Rogue also finds another paternal mentor in [[Characters/MarvelComicsMagneto Magnato]]... who [[MayDecemberRomance she has a sexual relationship]] with. Notably, while Rogue has no problem dealing out justice to Mystique, she's showed reluctance when fighting Magneto.

-->'''Melisandre''': I am reminded of a red priest in Asshai, who had an… interesting… theory about men and their mothers.\\
'''Stannis''': About men and their mothers?\\
'''Melisandre''': He claimed that every man secretly wishes to kill his father and to bed his mother.\\
'''Stannis''': ''[scoff]'' Utter nonsense! A complete and utter nonsense.\\
'''Melisandre''': Possibly. Though, I have always been puzzled by the… causality, shall we say.\\
'''Stannis''': Causality?\\
'''Melisandre''': Does every man wish to kill his father so that he could finally be free to bed his mother, or is it the other way around?\\
'''Stannis''': The other way around?\\
'''Melisandre''': Does he wish to bed his mother in order to vanquish and then replace his father?.

* ''Film/EightMile'' dramatises this, in line with the existing subtext in Music/{{Eminem}}'s music (mentioned below). Rabbit's mother is introduced in a scene where Rabbit [[PrimalScene enters her trailer to find her having sex]] with her worthless boyfriend, who Rabbit instantly hates, and, after he hits his mother, eventually fistfights. It's implied he gets into fights with all of his mother's boyfriends. His mother is grateful to him for his protectiveness, but behaves inappropriately towards him, such as stroking his face and calling him "her little Rabbit" in a romantic tone, and checking him out shirtless. There's also a scene where Rabbit's girlfriend Alex is amused and kind of horrified to find out that Rabbit's mother calls him "Rabbit", since she'd been told the name was a reference to his promiscuity (apparently, it's just what his mother called him because of his big ears).

-->'''Dr. Ben Sobel''': Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father and married his mother.\\
'''Boss Paul Vitti''': [[DoubleEntendre Fuckin' Greeks]].

* Franchise/TheDCU is full of this, although it is strictly subtext. There's ComicBook/{{Batman}}-[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]-ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, Batman-[[Characters/BatmanRedHood Jason Todd]]-[[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia]], ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}-Tempest-Dolphin, ComicBook/GreenArrow-Arsenal-ComicBook/BlackCanary, ComicBook/{{Superman}}-ComicBook/{{Superboy}}-Lana Lang/[[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]].

* ComicBook/{{Ultron}}, the killer robot nemesis of ComicBook/TheAvengers, hates his "father" [[ComicBook/AntMan Hank Pym]] and loves his "mother" [[ComicBook/TheWasp Janet Van Dyne]]. This is due to the fact that Ultron's A.I. was patterned after Hank's own mind. Ultron at one point created a sexy {{Fembot}} using Janet Van Dyne's psyche as the template for her robotic intelligence. As a ShoutOut to the TropeNamer, he named this {{Fembot}} Jocasta, which is the name of Oedipus' mother. The obsession has gone far enough that in one appearance, Ultron made himself into a ''herself'', using [[ComicBook/IronMan Tony Stark]]'s body/armor in order to form a biomechanical clone body of Janet.
* The DCU is full of this although it is strictly subtext. There are Franchise/{{Batman}}-[[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]]-[[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Catwoman]], Batman-[[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]]-[[ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul Talia]], ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}-Tempest-Dolphin, ComicBook/GreenArrow-Arsenal-ComicBook/BlackCanary, Franchise/{{Superman}}[=-=]ComicBook/{{Superboy}}[=-=][[ComicBook/LanaLang Lana]] / [[ComicBook/LoisLane Lois]].
** To simplify it somewhat, anyone who's A: a sidekick or B: a younger/alternate version of a hero has had iffy subtext with ''someone'' they shouldn't have had it with. This goes double (triple?) for Batman and the Robins (even after they've stopped being Robin).
*** And you thought Ultron was sick.
** In ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' Carrie Kelly's parents are neglectful to the point of not even remembering they have a kid, so she latches onto Batman. She makes no bones about loving him before she comes out and says it in the sequel.
* The 2000 ComicBook run of ''ComicBook/{{Captain Marvel|MarvelComics}}'' has said hero destroy the universe at the behest of Entropy and Epiphany, actually AnthropomorphicPersonification children of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the universe. Later he dies and beats up his own dad on the other side.
* '''[[RuleOfThree Again]]''' with Creator/DCComics: Each [[LegacyCharacter Brother Blood]], the leader of the [[ReligionOfEvil Church of Blood]], has ascended to his position by killing his father (the previous "Brother Blood") and making his mother the new High Priestess.
* It appears Marvel just loves this trope, see several ''ComicBook/{{Avengers}}'' characters:
** ComicBook/CaptainAmerica loved his mother Sarah while his father Joseph was a drunken, gambling scumbag who [[AbusiveParents physically abused his wife and son frequently]]. It’s telling that Cap gets his {{Determinator}} attitude from Sarah, also it helps Sharon Carter Cap’s LoveInterest resembles her.
** ComicBook/IronMan ''got this trope twice over'' as while Howard Stark frequently put Tony down, Maria loved him unconditionally and protected him from Howard’s drunken mood swings. [[spoiler: Then it’s revealed Howard and Maria were just Tony’s adoptive parents and his real father Jude was an evil ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} agent, but Tony’s mom Amanda is a good SHIELD agent, who again loves Tony unconditionally]].
** ComicBook/{{Hulk}} is of course [[CentralTheme in the same boat as Cap and Tony]]. Hulk’s father Brian was an utter asshole who frequently abused his son while Rebecca adored Bruce which only made Brian a JealousParent. When Rebecca tried to escape with Bruce, Brian killed his wife [[HarmfulToMinors right in front of little Bruce]] which awakened Hulk deep inside him. Maternal themes later in Hulk’s life with Betty Ross doting over Bruce and her father GeneralRipper Ross antagonising Bruce are likely intentional.

* Zigzagged in ''ComicBook/ThanosRising''. Thanos never liked Sui-San, who attempts to kill him moments after he's born. Throughout his youth he visits her in the madhouse almost every day while she can do nothing but weep for the monster she knows he will become, almost as if he were mocking her. Then he truly crosses the line when he [[SelfMadeOrphan dissects her for his studies]]. Whether he likes or hates his father Mentor is up for debate; he's hesitant about hurting him and spares his life at the end, but only to invoke CruelMercy. Thanos appears [[TheSociopath so anti-social]] that it's questionable if he sees his parents as actual people instead of objects. However, Death is apparently convinced that Thanos still secretly wants his mother's approval, materializing before him as a reflection of what Sui-San might have looked like when she was Thanos' age.
* Speaking of ''ComicBook/XMen'' a lot of them fall under this trope:
** ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} didn't quite get along with his mother Elizabeth, he did however love Rose O'hara who looked after him since childhood and guess [[ComicBook/JeanGrey who]] [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/80/d2/f4/80d2f46ba610e18514b879a04e0c57ef.jpg she resembles]] explaining why he [[HeroesWantRedheads loves Jean]] so much. Plus Wolverine’s jealously of [[ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} Scott]] echoes his jealously of Smitty who almost married Rose like Scott married Jean. If this wasn't enough Wolverine plays the other part of this trope straight as [[{{Patricide}} he kills his biological father Thomas Logan]] albeit unknowingly.
** ComicBook/{{Nightcrawler}} probably thanks to his mother, well [[MsFanservice being]] ComicBook/{{Mystique}} is often considered a variation of this. Especially since while Mystique treats him poorly at times, Nightcrawler still cares for her... his father [[BigRedDevil Azazel]] on the other hand he outright [[ArchNemesisDad hates]].
** ComicBook/{{Cyclops}} would seem to avoid this trope, until you notice his mother Kathrine [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marveldatabase/images/9/92/Katherine_Summers_%28Earth-616%29_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100307084819 looks]] near identical to his second main LoveInterest ComicBook/EmmaFrost. If that wasn’t enough [[ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen one]] of the times he was [[UnholyMatrimony coupled with Emma]] [[spoiler: he killed ComicBook/ProfessorX whose his father figure]].
** You could make a good argument for ComicBook/{{Rogue}} having an Electra Complex. She has a very troubled relationship with her adoptive mother ComicBook/{{Mystique}} who has [[EvilMatriarch abused her greatly]] in quite a few comics, Rogue eventually left and was taken in by ComicBook/ProfessorX whom she greatly admires and looks up to. Rogue also finds another paternal mentor in ComicBook/{{Magneto}}... who [[MayDecemberRomance she has a sexual relationship]] with. Notably while Rogue has no problem dealing out justice to Mystique, she’s showed reluctance when fighting Magneto.
** Marvel provides a strange example with Nate Grey (ComicBook/XMan), who has a close -- it is never outright stated whether it was platonic or romantic, but the general implication is much more the latter than the former -- relationship with the psionic ghost (made physical by his vast psychic power) of Madelyne Pryor when he instinctively reached out for his biological mother, Jean Grey (from whom Madelyne Pryor was cloned, making Maddie to be Jean's identical twin sister-daughter) when he arrived in Marvel-616 reality from the Marvel-295 (Age of Apocalypse) reality. Nate and Madelyne are effectively alternate reality biological mother and son or nephew and aunt and/or older sister-younger brother. While Nate backed off, hard, as soon as he found who she was, she... [[{{Yandere}} didn't.]]

** Balem's main goal is to kill Jupiter to retain his claim to Earth. Pretty standard villain fare, until [[spoiler: his VillainousBreakdown culminates in the reveal that he murdered their mother in the first place, and he screams '''''"SHE BEGGED ME TO DO IT!!"''''' That's more than a little obsessed with her]].

* Pointed out in ''Film/TheProducers'' song "Keep It Gay"

* This seems to be at play in ''Film/{{Psycho}}''. [[spoiler:Norman Bates' mother deliberately isolated her 5-year-old son from the outside world and made him utterly dependent on her after Mr. Bates' death. Naturally enough, the 12-year-old, completely co-dependent Norman then reacts rather badly to her remarriage.]] One of the sequels outright shows in flashback that [[spoiler: Mrs. Bates was sexually abusing Norman until she remarried]].

* ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'': Loki genuinely loves his mother Frigga, [[spoiler:and overthrows his father Odin -- whom he now loathes after being disowned and nearly executed -- usurping the Asgardian throne in the process.]]
* Also in the [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse MCU]] there’s Peter Quill from ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy''. As in the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 sequel]] [[spoiler: we learns his father Ego killed his mother Meredith by putting a tumor in her brain... and Peter doesn't waste a second blowing Ego's human body away and then [[{{Patricide}} destroying]] him utterly. Plus the parallels with Quill's LoveInterest Gamora and his mother Meredith are [[https://youtu.be/TQcFJ2KYjmU?t=89 exhibited]] in the FinalBattle of the first Guardians movie]].

** In [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist the 2003 anime version]], [[spoiler:the homunculus Envy's goal in life is killing Hohenheim. At the same time, he's immensely jealous of Edward because he is Hohenheim's ''real'' son -- and, presumably, because he is the most similar to Hohenheim and [[FanNickname Hoju]] in appearance and personality. In the movie, he even succeeds not only in killing Hohenheim before Ed's very shocked eyes but also in ''not'' crying "Daddy, why don't you love me?"]].

* ''Series/{{Borgia}}'' is plenty incestuous -- but Cesare's into his sister, not his mother. Cesare's Oedipus complex toward Rodrigo is all about supplanting him.

* ''Film/EightMile'' dramatises this, in line with the existing subtext in Music/{{Eminem}}'s music (mentioned below). Rabbit challenges and fistfights his mother's worthless boyfriends, and there are scenes implying an incestuous dynamic between Rabbit and his mother, with her inappropriately stroking his face and calling him "her little Rabbit", and the scene where Rabbit's girlfriend Alex is amused and kind of horrified to find out that Rabbit's mother calls him "Rabbit", since she'd been told the name was a reference to his sexual promiscuity.

* The 2000 ComicBook run of ''ComicBook/CaptainMarVell'' has said hero destroy the universe at the behest of Entropy and Epiphany, actually AnthropomorphicPersonification children of the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the universe. Later he dies and beats up his own dad on the other side.

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

* ''Film/EightMile'' dramatises this, in line with the existing subtext in Music/{{Eminem}}'s music. Rabbit challenges and fistfights his mother's worthless boyfriends, and there are scenes implying an incestuous dynamic between Rabbit and his mother, with her inappropriately stroking his face and calling him "her little Rabbit", and the scene where Rabbit's girlfriend Alex is amused and kind of horrified to find out that Rabbit's mother calls him "Rabbit", since she'd been told the name was a reference to his sexual promiscuity.

** In "My Name Is", Slim Shady shames his mother (depicted in the music video as a video-ho posing for his amusement in a slutty nightgown) for having small tits, then asks us to tell his father that 'I slit his throat in this dream I had'.
** In "Kill You", Slim tells his mother to 'bend over and take it like a slut'.
** In "Cleaning Out My Closet", Eminem claims he just wishes his father would die, then mocks his mother for wanting him as if she was an ex-lover - "it's cold when you're lonely".

* In ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'', Agent Carolina hated Agent Texas and constantly competed against her for the Director's favor. It is later revealed that [[spoiler:the Director is Carolina's father and Texas is an AI based on her mother Allison.]]

* In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Molly the monster goes through a brief period of this with Bob but concludes she was just [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20061010.html confused about her feelings.]]