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Applicability	comment	When it comes to writing thematic stories, there are essentially two methods to go about it: allegory or applicability. Which method you use will depend on how obvious you want your theme to be. In an allegory, it's the author who supports only one interpretation of the work as canon. J. R. R. Tolkien himself hated formal allegory because the reader was forced to see nothing but the author's point of view on what they considered the theme. In answer to the many allegorical readings of the The Lord of the Rings — which he eventually got tired of getting letters about — he stated the book was not an allegory, but had applicability — the story simply happened to be comparable and applicable to many Real Life issues. Applicability encourages the reader to interpret what the theme of any given work is. Sometimes a reader's interpretation of the meaning of the story is very different from the authorial intent. Anvilicious works with high applicability can see alternate interpretations on part of the audience. Put another way, applicable works support multiple interpretations, only some of which are those that the author specifically intended. Applicability can give a fictional work different interpretations even on different readings, and is one reason Alternate Character Interpretation, Alternate Aesop Interpretation and Wild Mass Guessing are such active topics in fandoms. The Rainbow Lens and the Trans Audience Interpretation are particularly common versions of this. Since stories that are explicitly about LGBTQ+ people and issues were rare in the past and, to a lesser extent, still are today, LGBTQ+ fans would often gravitate to stories that could be read as metaphors for their own experiences even if the characters were canonically straight. Compare Lowest Common Denominator. Death of the Author is the enforcement of this trope, regardless of authorial intent. Contrast with The Walrus Was Paul, where the audience tries to find meaning in a work when in fact the work isn't supposed to have a hidden meaning — the author's just messing with them. Often leads to Periphery Demographic, Shipping, and/or Broken Base. A Misaimed Fandom can emerge when the message people read into a work is precisely the opposite of what the author intended. This is the root of many an Epileptic Tree. When this happens on a national level, it's a common cause of Germans Love David Hasselhoff. See also Does This Remind You of Anything?, Everyone is Jesus in Purgatory, What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?, Values Resonance.
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Applicability / int_117116ef	comment	The Penguins of Madagascar: The episode "Miss Understanding" has been interpreted as an anti-sexism episode, a commentary on gender stereotypes or internalized misogyny, an Rainbow Lens metaphor on what is like to be an trans person being typecast on a gender they don't identify with, or a simply an episode of Skipper acting like a woman that doesn't have any deeper meaning beyond Rule of Fun and being Played for Laughs.
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Applicability / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time has loads of this. Many of the plots and characters are ambiguous enough that multiple interpretations can be made. For example, "All The Little People" can be viewed as an affectionate jab at Shipping, a parody of the creative process, or a metaphor for puberty all at the same time. A lot of things about the show just depend on the viewer's personal interpretation.
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Applicability / int_1253f289	comment	Dream Theater's songs are well known for being able to be interpreted in different ways.
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Applicability / int_17293dfa	comment	The (rather infamous) ending of Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony sparked a lot of discussion about its intent and meaning, leading to various different interpretations: Is the entire ending the author effectively torching the franchise by making it as alienating as possible, venting out his frustrations at feeling 'stuck' in writing the same type of story over and over? Is it a critique of the shallow consumption of violent fiction? Is it poking fun at the series' fanbase specifically? Is it none or all of the above? The fact that Kodaka, the main director of the series, went on to leave Spike Chunsoft after the release of the game to pursue his own projects only threw fuel to the fire.
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Applicability / int_1bdeba5a	comment	Anti-mutant prejudice in X-Men can stand in for a metaphor for any number of Real Life prejudices. Fans have tended to take this very literally and argue about what the "original meaning" was and how it has changed. Word of God has confirmed, upon occasion, that individual writers have used it for a specific metaphorical purpose; Grant Morrison, for one, has said that they used their run to comment to the demonization of young people. Not even this squares completely with his comics, but it makes a lot more sense if you sympathize way too much with Quentin Quire. But that does not mean that every writer has used it as a metaphor, or has used it for the same one every time. That it has been so readily used as allegory for such diverging issues as racial tensions, LGBT struggles, McCarthyism, the Cold War, and generational conflict is proof enough of this. Interestingly, the movie series takes it at face-value: normal humans are terrified of going extinct, and the prospect of actually siring the species that will replace us is unthinkable, thus the fear and hatred. Analogies are also drawn in the film with the debate over American Gun Politics, with some mutant powers seen as threats to society by their very nature due to how useful they are for killing people.
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Applicability / int_234035fa	comment	Warhammer: Age of Sigmar: The Stormcast Eternals are powerful heroes who fight against the Ruinous Powers, but are "blessed" with a flawed form of Resurrective Immortality; each time a Stormcast dies, their soul is prevented from passing on into the afterlife and is instead "Reforged," brought back into the Mortal Realms in a new physical body. Unfortunately, each time they come back, part of their soul is "chipped away," resulting in them slowly transforming into stoic Knight Templars when they Reforged too many times. Multiple critics and players have noted that this is most likely intended as an allusion to the dehumanizing effects of war upon its participants. Others, however, have instead interpreted it as akin to living with a chronic disease/disability, particularly in how desperate many Stormcast are in searching for any possible way to stave off the flaws of Reforging and/or look for ways to help them learn to live with their flaws and better manage them so they're less harmful to both themselves and those around them (i.e., some Stormcast have taken up writing autobiographies so as to remind themselves of certain treasured memories as the Reforging process "eats away" at their long-term memory). The Tithe of Bones inflicted upon mortals by the Ossiarch Bonereapers has been interpreted by many fans as a pretty blatant pun on the apocryphal phrase "The only inevitabilities in life are death and taxes," and have also been likened to the protection rackets practiced on certain businesses by The Mafia. Others, however, have noted that the Ossiarchs' callous disregard for the mortals within their territory and ruthless harvesting of the bones of the living if not enough dead bones are provided can be read as a barbed critique of factory farming, with the Ossiarchs essentially "farming" mortals for their bones and forcibly taking them regardless of the long-term dangers this places on both the mortals & Ossiarchs since the Ossiarchs aren't concerned about much aside from the short-term. The Idoneth Deepkin have been read by some fans who have been victims of Domestic Abuse as a dark metaphor for the cycles that trap numerous abuse survivors, with the soul-harvesting conducted by the Idoneth due to their own souls having been "withered" by the hunger of Slaanesh being akin to how most patterns of abuse in families are Vicious Cycles where an abused child becomes the abusive parent for their own children. Most notably, a Black Library story centered around the Idoneth mentions that they find it difficult to be around each other in general, with it setting them on edge in a manner described as akin to how abuse survivors are instinctively uncomfortable with physical contact. Other fans — particularly leftists — have noted the Decadent Court politicking of the Idoneth based around the soul-harvest raids and the painfully fake but still-adhered-to family trees constructed to justify their Fantastic Caste System when virtually all of them are born as The Soulless (and thus are in the bottom rung of their society) can be read as a criticism of the pointlessness and wastefulness seen in capitalist societies where moral value is often equated with wealth despite everyone involved still being just flawed humans.
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Applicability / int_242967e1	comment	A very dark example comes with Drowning Pool's "Bodies". It was originally written as a mosh-pit anthem, but its lyrics, particularly the chorus line of "let the bodies hit the floor", caused it to be interpreted by many as a mass-murder anthem about a man Going Postal. Association with real-life murderers who played the song,note The most infamous was a Spree Killer in Tucson, Arizona who, in 2011, killed six people (including federal judge John Roll) and wounded fourteen others (including US Representative Gabrielle Giffords) at a political rally. Before the shooting, he uploaded a YouTube video of himself burning the American flag set to "Bodies". as well as its use for Enhanced Interrogation Techniques at the Guantanamo Bay prison, burned the alternative interpretation into people's minds, and now, when most people think of the song, they think it's about killing people. (The song was also used as the theme song of WWE's revival of ECW, until the Chris Benoit murder/suicide happened, at which point it was pulled.)
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Applicability / int_257f783b	comment	Bobby Alcid Rubio wrote the Pixar short Float as an allegory for his struggle to accept his son's autism diagnosis. However, the son's ability to fly can be easily symbolic of any sort of difference that would set a child apart from other children and their parents' struggle to accept that their child doesnâ€™t fall into the norm.
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Applicability / int_26698c5a	comment	The Name of the Rose itself is about this. The detective character is constantly trying to interpret the clues in their proper contexts. There are so many ways to read the book that, like the symbolic rose, the conflicting interpretations make it practically meaningless. All the interpretations any reader gets are all valid.
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Applicability / int_26fd83f	comment	For starters, the makers of the 1956 version insisted that they did not intend any subtext, but many people have read into it a metaphor for both communism and, alternatively, McCarthyism. The former metaphor, incidentally, was the one that Robert A. Heinlein made explicit in his very similar 1951 novel The Puppet Masters.
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Applicability / int_26fd87f	comment	The 1978 version, meanwhile, turned it into a story about urban alienation, pop psychology, born-again Christianity, and post-Watergate paranoia in the streets of San Francisco at the tail end of the counterculture.
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Applicability / int_295048d5	comment	Bloodborne, on top of adhering to the usual FromSoftware formula of having a strict Figure It Out Yourself relation in regards to its plot and lore, is crammed shock full with Symbolism, Motifs and Mind Screw, by far eclipsing its predecessors in all regards. As a result of all of the above, and many other things, the applicability is through the roof: The game world could easily represent the corruptive effects organized religions and/or science have on their surrounding societies. On the other hand, it could also represent the ailing body of someone struggling with a disease and their desperate prayers for salvation and search for a medical treatment that can cure them of their condition. The lore and gameplay could be a brilliant case of Gameplay and Story Integration, or they could be a closely intertwined Post Modern reflection on what it takes to get through a FromSoft title. The characters could be commentaries on the relation between gamers (the playable character), game creators (like FromSoft) who want to provide something special that the players will appreciate (much like the Plain Doll does), and big corporations (like Sony) who wish to enslave the gamers and take as much of their resources as they possibly can (much like what the Moon Presence does). The game could be the single greatest tribute to the works of H. P. Lovecraft yet, or it could be the single greatest Take That! in regards to everything the man stood for as a person. Heck, it could be both.
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Applicability / int_2ba1d958	comment	The Matrix, a film about the reality we know being a lie designed to enslave us, has attracted fans from all over the spectrum, from LGBT people who see it as a metaphor for being trapped by heteronormative sexual norms (the film's creators both being transgender, albeit closeted at the time), to far-right activists who embraced the Red Pill, Blue Pill scene as a rallying cry, to plain old teen outcasts wishing to escape from their boring suburban life. This episode of Really That Good goes into more detail on how the film's applicability made its message so universal for a generation of '90s teenagers.
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Applicability / int_34542bbc	comment	In the same vein, the two worlds can represent different races, either with the merfolk as the minority race and the humans as the privileged majority who snubs them (the easier interpretation of the original tale, which again, Once on This Island makes explicit), or with the merfolk as the bigoted majority and the mermaid as an open-minded individual who sees the value in a different culture (as in the Disney film).
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Applicability / int_35bceb50	comment	Does Hamlet really love Ophelia at all or does he just barely tolerate her — and what's the deal with Hamlet himself? Why can't he get his act together — or is his act always together?
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Applicability / int_3b34143f	comment	Several books have been written on the subject of Harry Potter symbolism, to the point where there is now a greater body of work devoted to explaining Harry Potter than there is Harry Potter to explain. Whether Harry goes on a Grail Quest, sacrifices himself as a Christ figure, purifies his soul with alchemy, or re-enacts a mythological journey to the Underworld, there's probably a book explaining it somewhere.
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Applicability / int_3c38c613	comment	The Merchant of Venice: And what about Shylock? Does the play really condone casual antisemitism, or is Shylock driven to villainy by society?
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Applicability / int_3cf0c5c5	comment	Imagine Dragons has produced several songs that encouraged multiple theories about their meanings. To quote the frontman:
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Applicability / int_3d6e4e50	comment	The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1962) was made long before global warming and climate change became big issues, but is still about climate change which has been caused accidentally by technology (simultaneous nuclear tests at the north and south poles change the tilt of the Earth's axis).
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Applicability / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in Masahiro Imamura's debut novel Death Among The Undead, as every character in the book discusses at one point or another what the zombies "mean" or "represent" in their own minds, always influenced by their own worldviews or prejudices: The Casanova compares them to people who believe in love because they're both stupid and ruled by their base impulses, the detective views them as a particularly difficult puzzle to solve, the narrator, who had previously lost his home to an earthquake, interprets them as a reminder of mankind's powerlessness before disasters, and the obligatory zombie movie fanboy, while admitting that he personally just views them as a source of excitement, is the first one to observe the way zombies are only ever "discussed" as reflections of the speaker's own ego, a view the narrator agrees with after the culprit submits their own view: the zombies were a convenient plot device to enable them to commit an unprecedented crime.
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Applicability / int_405243c7	comment	The 100 features a lot of political, cultural, and military conflicts that people have compared to World War II, the colonization of the Americas, modern generational conflicts, China's One Child policy, American slavery, and others. However, in most cases it's hard to make a one-to-one parallel line up, and even if you could, the show generally refuses to make definitive moral statements, preferring to have characters take conflicting stances on various issues, and leaving it up to the audience to decide who's right.
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Applicability / int_45c45f17	comment	The 1992 version moved the setting to an Army base in Alabama, and used that setting to satirize suburban alienation and military regimentation.
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Applicability / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: Sylvanas comes off as a rape/abuse survivor to many people, particularly women, with the way her being raised into undeath is often framed as a particularly obscene act. This is often reinforced by the way Sylvanas' treatment is so different from most Undead. Arthas raised her entirely out of spite for putting up a fight against him, and kept her self-awareness in tact so that she could witness his destruction of her people and to torment her further. The narrative even frames it as if his decision to wipe out the elves is a supposed punishment for her defiance. Her body is even kept in an iron coffin for the specific purpose of preserving it so it can be used to further torture her. Arthas even went as far as to keep a vial of her blood among all of his supposedly "sentimental" trinkets. Arthas' line "After all you've put me through woman, the last thing I'll give you is the peace of death" is delivered in an especially creepy way for many people. Sylvanas is not only profoundly affected by what has happened to her, she is frequently blamed and looked down on for what happened to her, with many people claiming that she is simply an obscene mockery of who she once was and people who were her friends, family or colleagues in life treating her with disdain even before Battle for Azeroth. Many people, especially women, see the way she is treated by others and even her own sisters as being frighteningly similar to victim-blaming and gaslighting tactics used on victims of rape or abuse.
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Applicability / int_49f4c1ab	comment	Man Seeking Woman is a surrealist show that initially presents itself as a relationship drama but quickly goes down the path of Ancient Conspiracy, Alien Invasion, All Myths Are True and other fantastical events which shifts multiple times in a single episode, all treated with at best mild surprise. But there is a through-line that anchors all of these things into something relatable and comprehensible, instead of being absurd for its own sake there is an analogy at the heart of it all. Josh's mother inquiring about his love life is treated as actual Electric Torture, after being drugged and shackled to a chair with clamps to his nipples and testicles (in his childhood room, no less).
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Applicability / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory is a show that runs with nerd stereotypes but does so in such a way that they don't all fall into the exact same character mold. As a result a lot of people are able to find themselves in the characters despite being on the extreme end of "smart people." Sheldon's rampant Schedule Fanatic and Obsessively Organized behavior lead many people to assume he is autistic, and there's much debate about whether he's a positive or negative portrayal of the condition. Leonard is timid and a pushover while trying to stay a Nice Guy. Howard is a Casanova Wannabe who has a hard time understanding why women aren't falling for his excitable energy. Raj is painfully shy around women to the point he can't even speak in their presence, though he later gets somewhat better. And Penny, the only non-nerd/non-genius of the cast, is easily overwhelmed by the nerd topics and science talk and often ends up the odd one out. It's covering this wide spectrum of personalities that lead many reviewers to speculate this is the reason behind the show's success.
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Applicability / int_4ed37970	comment	Superman Smashes the Klan is a series that focuses specifically on racial prejudice, peopleâ€™s right to be accepted, and how people who spread racist rhetoric are looking to make money off gullible people who want to feel better about themselves by thinking they are better than someone else. However, the themes of prejudice can easily apply to any other oppressed minority. Supermanâ€™s own character where he is initially ashamed of being an alien and fears being seen as a monster if people learn he is not human before learning to accept what he is can also be applied to the struggle of any minority who has to mask their true selves from the rest of society.
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Applicability / int_56392a58	comment	Elsa has a personal secret which isolates her from her family, and is never seen eating. This did not go unnoticed by anorexics. It especially stands out in "Frozen Fever": Elsa has organized the treasure hunt for Anna, and one of the "treasures" Anna gets (and is seen eating) is a sandwich — but where is a sandwich (or anything else to eat during this day-long event) for Elsa? Much of the short involves Anna trying to get Elsa to take care of herself, while Elsa pretends to both others and to herself that everything's fine in her desire to see the day as "perfect." The short ends with Anna finally convincing Elsa to let her help after Elsa nearly gets herself killed with this attitude, and how do we see Anna taking care of Elsa during this ending? Feeding her.
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Applicability / int_5921531b	comment	Persona 4: Naoto is a girl disguising herself as a boy. Her canon reason for this is to fit in the male-dominated work environment of the police, but wanting to change her gender and her Shadow almost attempting a dangerous sex-change operation makes her come across as a transgender man to some people. Shadow Kanji's effeminate behavior is supposed to represent Kanji's interest in things that aren't considered masculine, but its led Western fans to wonder if he's actually a closet homosexual.
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Applicability / int_5921531c	comment	Persona 5 features societal problems that are shown from a primarily Japanese point of view, but that have also resonated with millennial players overseas: systematic corruption, the older generation not having any concern for the well being of young people today, and the fact that anyone with enough money, influence, and fame is essentially above the law.
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Applicability / int_594b85e4	comment	Alex Haley intended for Roots (and its better-known 1977 miniseries adaptation), an epic historical novel about generations of an African-American family from their ancestors in Africa to slavery in the Deep South to the Civil War to Haley himself in the present day, to get Black people more interested in exploring their heritage and ancestry as a way of rediscovering what had been lost due to slavery. That message wound up resonating far beyond the Black community and led to a wave of White Americans doing the same. In the wake of both the book and the miniseries, various European countries that sent large numbers of immigrants to the US saw waves of tourism from the descendants of those immigrants seeking to reconnect with the homelands of their ancestors, often called "roots people" once the locals figured out what had influenced many of them to start coming over. Today, the show Finding Your Roots, whose connection to the legacy of Roots is visible in its very title, features celebrity guests of all races and ethnicities.
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Applicability / int_59896121	comment	Similarly, mother! (2017) is a Surreal Horror movie that's seemingly built for all manner of metaphorical readings. People have read into it Biblical themes (particularly concerning the Fall of Man), a Green Aesop about climate change, a Capitalism Is Bad message, a metaphor for misogyny, and a Humans Are Bastards message. Writer/director Darren Aronofsky has intentionally kept mum about any "correct" interpretation of the film's allegory, except to say that people shouldn't overthink it.
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Applicability / int_5b3356f8	comment	Turning Red: Some fans have related to Mei's struggles as being a metaphor for being closeted and LGBT by how Mei initially sees herself as a "freak" and is terrified what everyone will think of her when they find out. Her friends ultimately showing they still love Mei for who she is and how she gradually gets accepted by everyone else is even more heartwarming in that context. This has also struck a chord with those in the Furry Fandom who see Mei's story being parallel to that of a young teen who is a furry and struggling to grow up as one while trying to come to terms with it and seeking acceptance from friends and family. Disabled, neurodivergent, and mentally ill viewers, especially those who are also female or AFAB, and even more so if they're East Asian (or from cultures with similar ideals about conformity, achievement/perfection, emotional control, and normality in general), have seen parallels with the transformation also being a genetic thing that is an intrinsic part of them, to be managed and coexisted alongside, not "cured" or repressed until the point of a meltdown that may endanger themselves and/or others.
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Applicability / int_5cec267a	comment	Defiance: The backstory bears a resemblance to the European refugee crisis of 2015: an international coalition (Earth/the European nations) finds itself having to deal with large numbers of desperate people (the Votan/refugees and migrants). This is despite the fact that the show began in 2013. Of course that could be as much Values Resonance as this trope: The Syrian Civil War is far from the first war to displace a large number of war refugees, and nor will it be the last.
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Applicability / int_5d4da367	comment	Yume Nikki is a game built around this. Is it an ambiguous character study? An allegory for Japan's social problems? A simple Wide-Open Sandbox that isn't supposed to be analyzed deeply? Kikiyama's official website suggests the latter, but its lack of plot and abundant symbolism make fans think otherwise.
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Applicability / int_608516dc	comment	Mars Attacks!: The scene where the president tries to form a truce with the Martians and delivers a great Rousing Speech to do so, only for them to kill him is nowadays often compared to attempts to form peace with other countries.
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Applicability / int_65073206	comment	Is Titus Andronicus supposed to be his darkest, most disturbing work, or is it a Dead Baby Comedy that mocks over the top morbidity in theater?
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Applicability / int_7164f636	comment	Goodbye Volcano High's themes and tone are strongly reminiscent of growing up in a period of climate change and the COVID-19 Pandemic, but the heavy focus on a queer-majority cast also brings in mind queer teens about to leave school and enter a world that's hostile to them. 2023, the year that the game released, had seen a wave of anti-LGBT legislation across the United States.
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Applicability / int_72262aee	comment	Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, much like The Lord of the Rings, have many historical inspirations without ever falling into straight allegories of any particular events.
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Applicability / int_73383fee	comment	Chihiro Fujisaki from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc tends to be seen by Western fans as transgender, but his backstory is intended to address the issues of bullying and strict enforcement of gender roles in Japan, since Chihiro was ruthlessly bullied for his frail and unmanly physique and crossdresses to avoid the ridicule.
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Applicability / int_76c6fb6f	comment	Everyone agrees that Beastars is about discrimination, but no one can agree on what the different groups in the series are analogous too. What are Carnivores? Black? White? Men? Pedophiles? What are Herbivores? White? Black? Women? Children?
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Applicability / int_774aac31	comment	District 9 is either a political movie giving a scathing indictment of South African Apartheid with some cool sci-fi elements for flavour, or it's a kick-ass action film with a strong underlying moral warning of the dangerous of systemic racism and corporate overreach.
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Applicability / int_7832b74c	comment	In Steven Universe, Gems can perform a Fusion Dance to become a new individual. Word of God describes this as "the space between people becoming its own character," and has been used to represent romance, friendship, toxic relationships, a horrific war crime committed by the villains and sheer utility over the course of the series.
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Applicability / int_78fe4d55	comment	Promethean: The Created has an infamously niche appeal, but has been known to resonate with autistic people and others with social disorders, who find the Prometheans' struggle to Become a Real Boy and learn how to fit in amongst the "normal" humans to be an apt - if unintentional - metaphor for their own experiences.
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Applicability / int_791e7b7f	comment	Zootopia was intended to examine the effects of bias in a society where two groups (predator and prey) had a historical tension between them. While the creative team worked hard to avoid any direct racial analogues in the film, that didn't stop many from seeing implications of simple racism, white supremacy, social justice circles, police brutality, the LGBT movement, patriarchy, political conflict between the right and left wings, election debates, and even the War on Drugs.
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Applicability / int_7c802b66	comment	Brazil: Liberals, conservatives, communists, anarchists, objectivists, and others have gotten all kinds of different ideas about the film and who it's supporting. Terry Gilliam has noted that the reason the film has such broad appeal to people all over the political spectrum is expressly because he didn't favor any particular group. The film is anti-authoritarian in general rather than targeting anyone specifically, allowing many different people to empathize with the characters and their situation, because the setting and story are vague enough they could be applied to any number of situations.
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Applicability / int_7e9d1a6c	comment	Frozen: The song "Let it Go" is about the joy and relief of no longer hiding a secret about yourself. This is open to interpretations including, but not limited to, coming out of the closet, either as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or asexual. Elsa's lack of love interest or any romantic inclinations in the films has added to this. It could also be interpreted as coming out of the closet as transgender. John Lasseter has also spoken about seeing parallels between Elsa's struggle with her powers and his own son's struggle with diabetes. Elsa has a personal secret which isolates her from her family, and is never seen eating. This did not go unnoticed by anorexics. It especially stands out in "Frozen Fever": Elsa has organized the treasure hunt for Anna, and one of the "treasures" Anna gets (and is seen eating) is a sandwich — but where is a sandwich (or anything else to eat during this day-long event) for Elsa? Much of the short involves Anna trying to get Elsa to take care of herself, while Elsa pretends to both others and to herself that everything's fine in her desire to see the day as "perfect." The short ends with Anna finally convincing Elsa to let her help after Elsa nearly gets herself killed with this attitude, and how do we see Anna taking care of Elsa during this ending? Feeding her. Autistic people often identify with Elsa and her "Let It Go" song. She was just born different from the rest, the majority of people who weren't born different react negatively to her difference, and she just wants to be accepted. In the same vein, people with mental illnesses often identify with Elsa's journey. Director Jennifer Lee has described "anxiety and depression" as major themes of the film, and while she didn't necessarily mean "clinical" anxiety and depression, the applicability is still there. People with disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder can also relate to her, as they deal with the fear of having violent psychotic episodes and hurting loved ones as Elsa fears hurting Anna and others with her emotion-fueled ice powers. On a simpler level, Elsa and Anna's relationship also reflects a typical coming-of-age journey shared by older and younger siblings, as director Lee did with her own older sister. As small children the siblings are close; then the older sibling shuts out the Annoying Younger Sibling as s/he becomes a teenager, develops more "grown up" interests, and becomes absorbed in his/her own adolescent moodiness and coming-of-age process; but when they're both mature adults, they can become close again.
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Applicability / int_80dd8f2a	comment	The Eagles's song "Hotel California" has several interpretations due to the way the lyrics were written. Don Henley called it "our interpretation of the high life in Los Angeles" and later reiterated "it's basically a song about the dark underbelly of the American dream and about excess in America, which is something we knew a lot about." Still it's interpreted as an allegory of cocaine addiction, Satanism, or a mental hospital.
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Applicability / int_816181cb	comment	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a case of confusing applicability with allegory. The connection between The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the then-contemporary American political landscape was not even raised until 1963, when summer school teacher Henry Littlefield, while trying to teach the 1896 Presidential election and the turn-of-the-century Populist movement to bored history students, stumbled upon the idea of using the characters and events of The Wizard of Oz as metaphors to teach the concepts. He and his students made a number of connections — the Scarecrow represented the farmers, the Tin Woodman the factory workers, the Wizard was President Grover Cleveland or Republican presidential candidate William McKinley, the Cowardly Lion was Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan, the silver shoes were the silver standard, the yellow brick road the gold standard, and so on — and Littlefield eventually wrote an article, "The Wizard of Oz: A Parable on Populism", which was published in the magazine American Quarterly in 1964. Unfortunately, this was eventually taken to mean that L. Frank Baum wrote the book as an allegory for the political landscape at the turn of the century, despite the fact that Littlefield believed Baum had no political agenda when he wrote the book.
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Applicability / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek originated as being able to tell compelling social commentary through a sci-fi angle, sidestepping social taboos of the time with something (hopefully) not too obvious in parallel. In turn, the Long Runner nature of the franchise means that a number of topics they addressed take on new meaning as society evolves. Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon" had two societies deciding that war was too expensive and destructive, so they created computer simulations and then systematically executed the people who would have been killed in the fake bombings. This was initially directed to media reports on The Vietnam War and how desensitized it was for people halfway around the world to grasp the loss of life. In later years as drone warfare became technologically feasible, the episode was even more relevant. Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Outcast" involved a One-Gender Race who produce asexually and appear largely androgynous. One named Soren falls in love with Riker, who reciprocates, and desired to be considered feminine. This was heretical to the culture, telling Soren they are mistaken and assign them to a rehabilitation treatment. The episode was intended to be a discussion of homosexuality and the stigma in society, but at the time was considered to have missed the mark through a number of unfortunate choicesnote The genderless society was largely played by women with short haircuts, making their judgement of Soren come across as a council of Butch Lesbians harassing their own. Similarly, Soren was played by an actress as it would have been a difficult sell to have Riker fall in love with a male actor, but such a move would have improved the message. As transgender rights became a bigger topic, Soren's desire to affirm the gender they feel closer to changed much of the tone.
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Applicability / int_8192cba	comment	The Toy Story films have at least two possible interpretations: "toys as children" and "toys as parents." In the first interpretation, Andy (and later Bonnie) is like a parent to the toys. The tension about "Who is the favorite?" that dominates the first film parallels Sibling Rivalry, in particular with Buzz's arrival and Woody's jealousy of him mirroring Infant Sibling Jealousy, which eventually gives way to a close bond as Woody becomes Buzz's Big Brother Mentor and realizes that Andy still loves him too. The next three films, which deal with the issue of toys being left behind when a child grows up, parallel a child's fear of growing up and leaving the security of their parents' home, but accepting it when it inevitably happens and embracing adulthood, knowing that their happy childhood memories and their parents' love will always be with them. The fourth film can even be seen as encouraging young adults not to let a sense of duty to their parents keep them from following their own dreams and desires â€“ note that Woody eventually leaves Bonnie to be with his Love Interest Bo Peep, i.e. leaving his "mother" and cleaving unto his "wife". In the second and more popular interpretation, Woody is like Andy's father. The fact that Andy has no father of his own makes it all the more convincing that Woody should fill that role. The fear of being "replaced" in the first film arguably parallels a parent's fear of being incompetent, embarrassing, or not "cool" enough for their child. Woody's jealousy of Buzz might mirror a divorced father's jealousy of a stepfather, or any father's envy of another man (teacher, coach, celebrity, etc.) whom his son seems to idolize more. The next three films then deal with a parent's struggle as their child grows up and leaves the nest: first accepting that it will happen (the second film), then facing it when it does happen (the third film), then finding a new purpose in life afterwards (the fourth film). Bo Peep's independent life in the fourth film can also be seen to champion women who defy cultural expectations and choose not to have children.
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Applicability / int_829e388b	comment	As the documentary Schlock! The Secret History of American Movies notes, it's probable that the makers of The Brain That Wouldn't Die had no idea that their film, which they cranked out on a five-day shooting schedule, could be interpreted as a feminist parable. Taken on its own, the film (almost accidentally) makes a powerful statement on idealized feminine beauty and male desire in how it portrays the suffering of Jan, the owner of the titular brain, at the hands of her womanizing fiancÃ©.
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Applicability / int_856ca68d	comment	The same holds true for Foucault's Pendulum. In one of his essays, Eco wrote that even giving a work of fiction a name is to determine the reader's interpretation of it too much.
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Applicability / int_89ce309d	comment	A more minor example regards Macbethâ€™s â€œtomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrowâ€� monologue. In context itâ€™s a Despair Speech in which the eponymous character says that life is meaningless and weâ€™ll all cease to exist anyway, but since the final line happens to be, â€œIt is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,â€� in the current age of completely justified Caustic Criticism on the Internet, those in the MSTing community like to quote the line to describe the prose they are making fun of.
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Applicability / int_9257f03b	comment	Midsommar is a movie filled with pagan imagery whose plot lends itself easily to metaphor, so naturally, there are many different takes on what it all represents. The most popular interpretation is that it's about a couple slowly realizing that their relationship is falling apart, with Dani abandoning her boyfriend Christian over the course of the film. It's also been described as a satire of white supremacy and nativism in its portrayal of the HÃ¥rga, a commune of conspicuously Nordic-looking people engaged in traditional, pre-Christian European pagan rituals who are willing to murder outsiders who threaten their way of life. Likewise, this article by Emily VanDerWerff for Vox notes that Dani's journey in the film reflected her own as a transgender woman before she came out: feeling like the "odd man out" amidst the all-male friend group around her, and becoming much happier and more at ease as she connects with the HÃ¥rga women.
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Applicability / int_967347ea	comment	In Revolutionary Girl Utena, there are a lot of feminist themes revolving around the character of Anthy, but because she is dark-skinned, westerners (particularly Americans) may see racial themes there as well.
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Applicability / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series episode "A Taste of Armageddon" had two societies deciding that war was too expensive and destructive, so they created computer simulations and then systematically executed the people who would have been killed in the fake bombings. This was initially directed to media reports on The Vietnam War and how desensitized it was for people halfway around the world to grasp the loss of life. In later years as drone warfare became technologically feasible, the episode was even more relevant.
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Applicability / int_9b1c2acd	comment	Fahrenheit 451, a story of a society that burns all books, has seen many interpretations as to what Ray Bradbury's main satirical target was, especially since Bradbury himself has lent credence to all of them. The first and most obvious, given the history of book burning as one of the most notorious and blunt methods of censorship, is that Bradbury was criticizing censorship. This was Bradbury's original interpretation, specifically citing the repressive intellectual climate of both the Red Scare in the US and Stalinism in the USSR. It has also been read as a critique of the growth of mass media (especially television) in the postwar years, which its critics felt was dumbing down the public and creating a culture of Anti-Intellectualism where the kind of Moral Guardians and mass censorship portrayed in the story were able to run amok in the first place. This was the interpretation that Bradbury himself eventually gravitated to, to the point of pushing back against readers and critics who focused on the anti-censorship message. In more recent years, it's also been embraced by conservatives as a critique of Political Overcorrectness, thanks to its depiction of its society's book ban as the logical conclusion of attempts to sanitize all culture so it was no longer offensive to any of its many small special interests. Here, too, Bradbury voiced his approval. Beyond all that, it has also been interpreted as a tale about holding onto one's individuality in a conformist society that rejects those who step out of line.
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Applicability / int_9bb469a4	comment	The Book of Mormon, by the same guys who created South Park. Word from the creators is that they didn't want to insist that one particular lesson should be learned from the show, and prefer to leave it open for people to interpret any way they'd like. Even Matt Stone's own philosophy of "religion is a tool, not a rulebook" is presented rather ambiguously. In-universe, however, Elders Price and Cunningham conclude from their experiences that it's more important to have a religion that helps people improve their lives than to follow the dogma of an established church.
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Applicability / int_a3c14f85	comment	Don't Look Up is a satirical Disaster Movie with an Anvilicious Climate Change Allegory. But given that between its announcement in 2019 and its release in 2021 the COVID-19 Pandemic hit the world, audiences had seen many of its criticisms (denialism, greed, questionable government response) applied to the disease as well. Some, in fact, argued that it was more effective as a film satirizing the response to COVID than Global Warming.
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Applicability / int_a5b2a1f7	comment	The Crucible by Arthur Miller. First staged in 1953 at the height of an anti-communist witch hunt, at the time Miller strenuously denied (in no small part to avoid getting blacklisted) that it was written as an allegory for the activities of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which became notorious for their excessive zeal in rooting out communist sympathizers. That said, the metaphors were obvious to anybody willing to read between the lines, and he would later admit that it was indeed meant to be allegorical. When it was first staged in China in the early 1980s, however, people had just recovered from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, during which time Mao Zedong had a policy of stamping out the "Four Olds" (old customs, culture, habits, and ideas) that he deemed old, useless, and "anti-proletarian". This led to the destruction of a great deal of Chinese culture, as literature, paintings, temples, and classical architecture were burned and countless scholars, intellectuals, and other "revisionists" were murdered. The Chinese found similarities between the events of the Cultural Revolution and The Crucible, which is why the play received such a warm welcome there. The play was certainly a reaction to and commentary on American politics, but Miller dealt with it as a series of broad, timeless themes, and as such, very little can be read as directly symbolic of any contemporary event; rather, the content is archetypal in nature.
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Applicability / int_a8150af4	comment	The Amazon show struggles with the Flip-Flop of God about Middle-earth being and not being a representation of the modern world, or simply a fantasy world without ulterior parallelisms. Both lines of argumentation can be found regarding the casting choices, the usage of political allegory in the case of Numenorians fearing that the Elves are there to steal their trades and lands, and the debate around the perceived Irish stereotypes in the hobbits.
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Applicability / int_aabf6d1d	comment	invoked Darkest Dungeon can be read as a Lovercraftian horror where the inspiration and source of the world's horrors is slowly revealed to be how much of a piece of garbage H. P. Lovecraft turned out to be. Not all of humanity or the universe itself. There were problems and horrors in the world all along, without question, but the Cosmic Horrors encountered throughout the game are all a direct result of him proving his complete disregard for anyone who isn't him, and as such the game series has been interpreted as a scathing critique of Lovecraft's viciously xenophobic politics and worldview.
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Applicability / int_ae0145a9	comment	The Collector is a book written by John Fowles about an unloved man called Frederick Clegg. Frederick wins enough money to buy a house and kidnaps a beautiful art student called Miranda, keeping her prisoner in a house that he refurbished into a Gilded Cage for her. Frederick, due to him being an isolated young man with a poor grasp on social cues, a need to control and a desire to collect things in addition to his intense desire yet aversion to having sex with woman can either be interpreted as Frederick either being autistic, suffering from limerence or that he is a proto-incel. The Collector as a whole can function as a metaphor for a limerent attraction to someone. The first two parts of the book show Frederick being obsessed with Miranda -his limerence object-. He's awkward around her yet intensely attracted, is utterly devoted to her despite her lack of interest and later animosity. Then she does something to make him lose all respect, causing his "love" for her to turn into smouldering hate. Eventually, his hate for her dies along with their relationship with the ending showing the limerent cycle starting anew. In regards to Frederick being a prototypical incel, it's noted that early in the novel, he mentions having sex with a prostitute but takes no joy in it; which contrasts to his intense desire to have the reciprocated love of Miranda. His subtle misogyny (e.g his Madonna-Whore Complex) later turns to open hatred of Miranda, using her to create degrading images much like how an incel views women as whores who degrade themselves for other men because they were rejected by women they were interested in.
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Applicability / int_af552e7e	comment	Nintendo called Metroid Prime a first-person adventure to specifically break up the "Is it a first person shooter, or an adventure game done in first person?" arguments that surrounded its launch. The exact same thing was done with Geist, another game that can be interpreted as a First Person Shooter or an adventure game done in first person.
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Applicability / int_b23379ff	comment	The Taming of the Shrew: Does it really say that a man should break an unruly wife like a horse, or is it a Stealth Parody that leaves the two main characters ready to live as real partners? It's further confused by the framing device of the story being told just to screw with a random stranger.
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Applicability / int_b36c82c6	comment	Juno was embraced by activists on both sides of the abortion rights debate in the United States. Pro-choice activists saw it as a film that showed the pressure that Teen Pregnancy can cause and why a teenage girl might want to abort the child, while also poking fun at the other side in the form of the obnoxious protester in front of the abortion clinic. Pro-life activists, meanwhile, saw it as a Good Girls Avoid Abortion story in which Juno ultimately opts to have the baby and put it up for adoption. The film's writer Diablo Cody staunchly supports abortion rights, and said that she was shocked by the embrace it got from opponents of abortion.
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Applicability / int_b3c9e076	comment	Each version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers follows the same basic plot, but uses the aliens as a metaphor for different contemporary fears, illustrating how that basic plot can be reinvented and reinterpreted in different ways over the decades. For starters, the makers of the 1956 version insisted that they did not intend any subtext, but many people have read into it a metaphor for both communism and, alternatively, McCarthyism. The former metaphor, incidentally, was the one that Robert A. Heinlein made explicit in his very similar 1951 novel The Puppet Masters. The 1978 version, meanwhile, turned it into a story about urban alienation, pop psychology, born-again Christianity, and post-Watergate paranoia in the streets of San Francisco at the tail end of the counterculture. The 1992 version moved the setting to an Army base in Alabama, and used that setting to satirize suburban alienation and military regimentation. The Faculty, a 1998 film inspired by the above that moved the story to a contemporary High School, used it to comment on the conformity imposed on teenagers by a rigid school system and by the Popularity Food Chain. The 2007 version used the story as a metaphor for the paranoia of The War on Terror, with the setting moved to Washington, D.C. and the protagonists unable to trust anybody around them because they might be a terrorist... sorry, pod person.
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Applicability / int_bb6e204f	comment	Sheila on 7: "Lapang Dada" was written by Eross with his late father in mind, but it was purposefully written to be applicable to any kind of acceptance, which led to most interpreting it as I Want My Beloved to Be Happy, including the official music video.
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Applicability / int_bc109059	comment	Freddie Mercury always refused to explain what "Bohemian Rhapsody" was about, and other members of Queen continued to do so after his death. Common interpretations include being about a murder, a Deal with the Devil, an exploration of Mercury's queer identity, or all of them at once.
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Applicability / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: Is the game an adventure or a mystery? The one that draws you into the story (or out of it) will directly have an effect on how much you enjoy the experience. The dungeons and subplots, when played in order, line up with the five stages of grief. The entire plot is shaped by apocalyptic cataclysm coming on the fourth day. Is the game a metaphor for death, or even Link's Dying Dream? Or is it just a tale of a wanderer, in a far-off land, trying to do the best he can?
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Applicability / int_c38f0b33	comment	Lloyd in Space: Cindy the two-headed girl - where one head is nice and the other is aggressive - could be considered a parallel to someone with bipolar disorder or other mental illness.
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Applicability / int_c43df4d8	comment	Though Doctor Who occasionally goes into straight-up political allegory, such as Seventh Doctor story The Happiness Patrol bashing Margaret Thatcher, the show generally stays on the applicability end of things-it's a Science Fiction Fairy Tale with an ever-changing cast and stories that can be set anywhere from Earth's distant past to a planet halfway across the universe, and the stories vary from horror to comedic, so anyone with any political, economic, social, ethical, or religious view can find something in the show's 50+ year history to back it up. And that's not even counting the colossal expanded universe.
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Applicability / int_c9125d76	comment	In Home on the Range, the song "Will the Sun Ever Shine Again?" was written as a reflection of songwriter Alan Menken's thoughts post-9/11 and The War on Terror. It can be interpreted as a metaphor for depression, and also fits how many people feel about the seemingly never-ending COVID-19 Pandemic.
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Applicability / int_d269ede1	comment	The Lighthouse is either a Period Drama-slash-character study about two lighthouse keepers who are stranded on an island during a bad storm and driven to madness by the isolation, or it is a Cosmic Horror Story about two men who are cursed by the gods of the sea for violating maritime tradition, being plagued by supernatural occurences on a haunted island. Or maybe the whole film is just the last, guilt-induced Dying Dream of Canadian explorer Thomas Howard as he dies of frostbite, as Wake suggests near the end.
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Applicability / int_d2bab5bc	comment	The song "Secret Love" from Calamity Jane. In the context of the film, it's about Calamity finally admitting her feelings for Wild Bill Hickok. Out of context, it's a woman singing about her secret love without saying a man's name or using male pronouns. This allows people to think that she really means "the love that dares not speak its name."
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Applicability / int_d55f8bad	comment	The Faculty, a 1998 film inspired by the above that moved the story to a contemporary High School, used it to comment on the conformity imposed on teenagers by a rigid school system and by the Popularity Food Chain.
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Applicability / int_dd3bb51c	comment	The 2007 version used the story as a metaphor for the paranoia of The War on Terror, with the setting moved to Washington, D.C. and the protagonists unable to trust anybody around them because they might be a terrorist... sorry, pod person.
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Applicability / int_e290dce3	comment	Watchmen. Go to the Headscratchers page for it, and you'll see people who see Rorschach as the only heroic character, people who see Rorschach as the least sympathetic of all the characters, people who argue over exactly how long Ozymandias's peace will last (and whether or not he was justified), people disgusted by Dr Manhattan's revelation over the Comedian and Sally Jupiter getting together after he attempted to rape her, and people who see that moment as a heartwarming moment. Alan Moore has officially stated that he was very much aiming for this, and compared his vision for the book to a diamond with many different facets, where any reader can look through any of the facets that they choose and still get a completely consistent and coherent view of the story and all the events in it.
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Applicability / int_e46d33d6	comment	Encanto: Mirabel can be seen as an allegory for somebody born with a disability, as she doesn't have any magical powers unlike the rest of her family note Except for her abuela, father, and Uncle Felix, the former who was too old to recieve a power when the miracle the Madrigals received was created and the latter two whom married into the family and as a result feels unaccepted by and excluded from her family, even though this is unintentional on the Madrigals' part. Indeed, many disabled viewers found that Mirabel's struggle with self-worth and acceptance resonated strongly with their own experiences. Adding onto this are a few Innocently Insensitive comments - such as being given an "Extra special gift basket" for an "Extra special" person (her) because she didn't get any gift. Many people who had disabilities grew up with such Innocently Insensitive comments. The concept of the Madrigals having magical gifts can also serve as a metaphor for "gifted children" and the negative side effects for both those who are considered â€œgiftedâ€� and those who arenâ€™t. Mirabel is constantly brushed off because of her lack of a magical power, which makes her feel insecure, depressed, and as if sheâ€™s not truly part of the Family Madrigal. Meanwhile, her older sisters are forced to constantly live up to the high expectations placed onto them by their family and community because of their magical powers. Luisa has to use her Super-Strength to perform Herculean chores daily with no breaks, Isabela has to maintain her image as the perfect golden child, and both can't dare disagree with the roles forced onto them out of fear of disappointing others or losing their identities.
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Applicability / int_e7e37776	comment	Firefly creator Joss Whedon is a staunch liberal, but tried to keep the show apolitical outside of his usual Creator Thumbprints. This helped it attract a considerable following among American libertarians who see its Greater-Scope Villain, the Union of Allied Planets, as metaphorical for American "big government" liberalism, a subverted take on the United Space of America whose shining utopian cities are built on imperialism (with strong overtones of both The City vs. the Country and The American Civil War) and whose attempts at social engineering destroyed River Tam's life and also produced the Reavers. Whedon has stated that, if Firefly does have an anti-government message, that is because the story is essentially that of Captain Malcolm Reynolds, and it all comes from his perspective as a disaffected veteran who watched his side go down in defeat to a government that he personally considered evil.
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Applicability / int_ebfefbc1	comment	In the US, thanks to the English-language dub glossing over some of the less family-friendly parts of penguin behavior, March of the Penguins proved oddly popular with religious conservatives, who saw in it lessons for humans about monogamy and family values and even suggested that the penguins were an argument for "intelligent design" against evolution. Director Luc Jacquet found this interpretation amusing and strongly criticized it, noting that, in real life (and as the original French-language version pointed out), penguin pairings only last a single mating season, meaning that they have an astronomical "divorce rate". National Review editor Rich Lowry invoked the MST3K Mantra, claiming in the conservative magazine's blog that The BBC had been bugging him to make a statement about the film as a political statement about rescuing America.
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Applicability / int_ec28245c	comment	Believe it or not, Dragon Ball Z. Some fans within the Black community relate to Goku as an underdog who discovers his true heritage and learns more about his culture, and see themselves in him and his group of friends, whereas some fans within the Latino community see him as a hardworking immigrant, Gohan as his first-gen immigrant son, and Vegeta as someone who immigrated as an adult and struggles to adapt. Read this article (and some of the comments) for more details: link
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Applicability / int_ecf31fa3	comment	Battle Royale (2000). The story is about the Japanese government and school system, in an attempt to battle juvenile delinquency, forcing classes of high school students to kill each other until only one emerges victorious. The movie attracted multiple interpretations from reviewers, who read into it a satire of the harshly competitive nature of exams and education, of the poor state of the Japanese economy at the time, of the Japanese economy shifting towards elitism and dividing people into castes based on intelligence, and of hostile relations between the young and old. And that's just how it was viewed in its home country of Japan (and by those versed in modern Japanese culture). For Americans in the wake of the Columbine massacre just a year prior to the film's release, and especially amidst the wave of school shootings in the 2010s, it was very easy to read a metaphor for violence in schools and political apathy towards the plight of the young people who suffered from it, even though Koushun Takami wasn't thinking about life in the US when crafting the story.
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Applicability / int_ee61ac1f	comment	3Below: The premise of the series is about two teenaged siblings who are forced to flee for their lives when a dictator stages a violent coup on their home planet, and get separated from their parents in the process. They wind up hiding out on Earth in the United States of America, struggling to adjust to an entirely new culture and way of life, which is made easier by them meeting and befriending one alien who's been living on Earth for a while now and gladly teaches them human customs. Some humans also discriminate against them due to being aliens in, depending on who's in the loop, either the foreigner or the extraterrestrial sense of the word. Through it all, the siblings try to hold onto hope they can return home, reunite with their parents, and the dictatorship over their home collapses. That story, without any of the alien sci-fi elements, can be easily applied to any refugee seeking asylum in better-off countries. In the first episode Krel is marked as the king-in-waiting by his father in a public ceremony that was used by his ancestors for centuries, with his father telling him that he did this with his father. In the second episode, Aja is marked queen-in-waiting by Varvatos, who would be present in the normal ceremony but not in this role, and with only her brother looking on, and in a completely different setting without much of the ritual. This has a lot of applicability to trying to maintain customs and traditions after being displaced and trying to connect to a sundered heritage. In the series finale, Krel decides to remain on Earth because he considers it his new home and wants to remain with the human friends he made. Meanwhile, Aja chooses to return to Akaradion-5 to accept the planet's throne and help repair the damage Morando had done during his rule. This reflects the two choices refugees have to make when the trouble in their home countries subside; either remain in their adopted homelands and continue with the lives they had created there or return to their original homelands to help rebuild them.
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Applicability / int_f078635	comment	Battles Without Honor and Humanity is both a Genre Deconstruction of yakuza films and a look at how economic downturns and trickle-down economics affect poorer classes, with much of the Yakuza violence in the beginning being sparked by class inequality and desperation.
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Applicability / int_f1da64b5	comment	On the cast commentary for the Lord of the Rings movies, Sir Ian McKellen makes tacit reference to the "innocent physical affection" displayed by Sam towards Frodo in the book and the rather famous modern interpretation of it. Sean Bean and Elijah Wood also comment on a specific scene, mentioning a fan who wrote in to thank them for including a nod to this rather than avoiding it.
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Applicability / int_f481d3e4	comment	Prometheus was designed for Wild Mass Guessing. One moment of Idiot Ball could mean an hour of theorizing behind why it is so.
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Applicability / int_f70c0e06	comment	In Fullmetal Alchemist, the Amestrian war of genocide against the Ishbalan minority is so widely applicable that nobody can seem to agree on which real-life conflict it's supposed to be referencing. Is it Nazis vs. Jews? The West vs. the Islamic world? Arakawa herself said that the Ishbalans were partly inspired by the Ainu, an indigenous ethnic group who suffered persecution and cultural genocide in Japan.
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Applicability / int_fa89a1ac	comment	Frozen II: Anna's song "The Next Right Thing" shows her overwhelmed with grief, yet finding the strength to carry on with the mission one step at a time after Elsa and Olaf both die. It obviously reflects the grieving process after the death of a loved one, and co-director Chris Buck has stated that it was largely inspired by his own experience with grief after his son died in a car accident. But Anna's voice actress Kristen Bell has also pointed out that the moment parallels her own struggle with clinical depression and anxiety (in fact "do the next right thing" is her personal self-motivating mantra), so there's applicability there too. The plot involves finding out why the Northuldra and the residents of Arendelle broke out into a fight 34 years prior, even when Arendelle built a dam to bridge them to the Northuldra's forest as a peace offering. However, as they dig deeper, Elsa and Anna discover that their grandfather, King Runeard, actually built the dam because he knew it would deplete Northalda's resources. He didn't trust the Northuldras because they practice magic, so he decided to sabotage their resources so he could force them to trade with Arendelle in order to submit them to his rule and forcibly assimilate them into his kingdom. Runeard then killed the Northuldra leader in cold blood to cover this up, while the Northuldra leader was tricked into letting his guard down underneath the impression there were going to have a peaceful conversation, no less. While the story was written with the historical and current discrimination the SÃ¡mi people suffer from the dominating Nordic cultures in mind (since Northuldra and Arendelle are Fantasy Counterpart Cultures of the SÃ¡mi and Norway, respectively) this can be easily applied to any ethnic group that has a history of being persecuted because their traditions and way of life was viewed as "wrong" by a dominating culture note Such as the Indigenous Americans and Australians having their cultures systematically destroyed and threatened by European settlers, religious minorities being persecuted for not following the mainstream religion (regardless of which region of the world they live in), Japan's cultural genocide against the Ainu people, etc..
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Applicability / int_fab472d2	comment	Dark Souls: One common interpretation of the work is that it is about living and dealing with depression. Another common take on the greater Dark Souls franchise is that it's about the ethics of euthanasia (as noted here in a video essay by Jacob Gellar).
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Applicability / int_fc6e6f70	comment	Likewise, the anti-bullying message of The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part has also been interpreted as a criticism of toxic masculinity, specifically with the villain Rex Dangervest's obsession with surface-level markers of maturity that instead reveal him to be grossly immature, even though this wasn't the filmmakers' intent.
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