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Like building an Evil Tower of Ominousness or wielding a BFS or BFG, there are just some things that have to make other characters wonder if a male character must be compensating for certain other inadequacies. Despite the joke, sometimes bigger really is better, in a non-Freudian way, especially in fights. In these cases, you're not Compensating for Something, you're sane. Usually. Theorized by some to be the reason Heroes Prefer Swords. If you actually have a small penis, it would unfortunately make you an Acceptable Target. See also Phallic Weapon, Mid-Life Crisis Car. This can be Gender-Inverted, though rarely, if a woman is trying to compensate for something like A-Cup Angst by padding her breasts to invoke Buxom Beauty Standard or a ticking Biological Clock. And of course, a similar phenomenon can occur with male or female examples of The Napoleon, who often try to compensate for lack of inches in a different context (cf. Small Girl, Big Gun). The examples are limited to In-Universe. Please do not add your own speculations. |
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Sad variation in Hivefled; Eridan was sleeping around as much as possible with the fleet to compensate for the fact that he found sex repulsive and terrifying, and if anyone suspected he wasn't perfectly normal he would be killed. | |
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In Noob, the second novel only Mauve Shirt Shaadö has a two-meter long BFG. Later, Omega Zell, while asking about him, refers to him as (paraphrasing) "the guy with a big gun who, if you want my opinion, must have been compensating for something." | |
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Big Eyes, Small Mouth: A piece of art in the Hot Rods Gun Bunnies suppliment humorously referenced this trope by depicting a woman wielding a massively scaled-up revolver (about the size of a bazooka) that has "Freud this!" written on the side. | |
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Colonel Richard Strickland from The Shape of Water is a veritable study in Freudian overcompensation; he is driven to depravity by his bland, mediocre home life; he conforms obsessively to societal standards of masculinity (namely regarding violence, sexuality, and "being in charge"); he's aggressively preoccupied with asserting his dominance over others and proving his superiority to women (even having a perverse sexual attraction to women who don't talk); he carries around a long cattle prod as his weapon of choice (even calling it a "dingle" at one point); he buys a fancy new Cadillac to feel better about himself; and he desperately craves the approval of his superior officer. | |
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We Are Our Avatars: Whether it is true or not, Levin is constantly mocked in this way, particularly by Longram. | |
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Dragon Age: BioWare also hit this one with Dragon Age: Origins, where Morrigan, Sten, and Oghren may all comment on how the Circle Tower is a giant phallic symbol. Sten will actually say "Humans, overcompensating as always." Party banter between Anders and Carver in Dragon Age II: Dragon Age: Inquisition has a humorous example with regards to the dwarves. While exploring a series of tombs in the Hissing Wastes, Varric remarks on the fact that, despite being unable to use magic themselves, dwarves incorporate a lot of magic into their technology and are capable of making very powerful runes. He thinks they're compensating for something. The fact that Varric himself is a dwarf only makes it funnier. In the Inquisition DLC Trespasser, this is Blackwall's suggestion when Sera wonders why dwarves make their tunnels so tall. Sera asks what that says about Blackwall's big sword. |
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While the various Disgaea games aren't exactly subtle with the indications that Laharl is overcompensating for his short height, the guidebooks are quite explicit that the whole reason he styles his Antenna Hair so high and wears such a billowing scarf is to present himself as bigger than he is. While not as explicit, it's worth noting that his weapon of choice in official artwork is a BFS (though he's equally adept with axes and fists in the game itself). | |
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Titus has Ken take child Titus into a sporting goods store, where Christopher is in awe at the gun another customer is holding. | |
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In the Cheers episode "From Beer To Eternity", Diane confronts Gary, the arrogant rival of Sam's who has made it an obsession to prove his own bar as superior to Cheers. In a polite and classy "The Reason You Suck" Speech which for the most part consists of rebuking him for choosing "silly competition" over art and music, Diane innocently throws in a speculation that "perhaps you are compensating for some physical shortcoming"... | |
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In Cybill, Cybill refers to a sportscar as a "driveway penis". | |
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In the second season of Krypton, when Lobo isn't threatening, mocking, and/or trying to kill Seg-El and Adam Strange, he's complaining about Brainiac. One of his rants mentions Brainiac's "massive, clearly overcompensating for something, ship". | |
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In The Simpsons, Rev. Lovejoy just comes right out and says it. | |
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Kevin & Kell has had fun with the SUV and this trope on a couple of occasions, including one that was owned by a flea (don't ask how it could reach the wheel and the pedals at the same time, please), prompting a comment about "The bigger the car, the smaller the man", and Ralph Dewclaw, who was obviously compensating for his complete lack of hunting-ability. | |
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Titanic (1997): Ismay brags that the Titanic is the largest manmade mobile object in history, and says he named her so to express her "sheer size". Rose is unimpressed and asks "Do you know of Doctor Freud, Mr. Ismay? His ideas about the male preoccupation with size might be of particular interest to you". | |
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It's explicitly stated by the narrator. K (Vice's master) from Karakuridouji Ultimo buys impressive vehicles and weapons to make up for his low intelligence and lack of physical power. | |
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In Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite's story mode, Iron Man notices Arthur's lance and mockingly asks the small knight if he's compensating for something. | |
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Salvador, the vicious "Gunzerker" of Borderlands 2, stands at a tiny 5'4" due to steroid abuse stunting his growth. His ability to wield Guns Akimbo is called "gunzerking", and he knows exactly what it looks like. "TIME TO COMPENSATE!" Whether he's compensating for his height or that other thing is open to interpretation. | |
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Shrek: The first movie includes this exact phrase as a joke, with Shrek talking to Donkey about Lord Farquaad's giant castle. Kids take away the meaning of compensating for being short, and adults take away the other. The less innocent interpretation is apparently how Donkey understood the comment, as when he later reports it to Fiona he adds "which I think means he has a really—" before Shrek silences him mid-sentence. Shrek later reprises this joke in Shrek 4D (the 3-D Movie that plays at Universal Studios) upon seeing Lord Farquaad's particularly massive grave site. |
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If you choose to upgrade The Ravager spear in the Baldur's Gate II expansion Cespenar wonders if this is why. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Parodied and deconstructed, then played straight in this strip. In the 2860th strip, one guy tries to bring up this trope about someone with a big car, but another argues through a bunch of statistical correlations that the opposite is more likely. |
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Dragon Age: Inquisition has a humorous example with regards to the dwarves. While exploring a series of tombs in the Hissing Wastes, Varric remarks on the fact that, despite being unable to use magic themselves, dwarves incorporate a lot of magic into their technology and are capable of making very powerful runes. He thinks they're compensating for something. The fact that Varric himself is a dwarf only makes it funnier. | |
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Discussed in Wilhuff Tarkin, Hero of the Rebellion, in which Tarkin uses it as evidence that the Emperor is not a paedophile: according to him, a paedophile is trying to compensate conscious or unconscious doubts about themselves by dominating their victims, " and if Palpatine has one uncorrupted virtue that is an unshakeable belief in himself". | |
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Randy from Dead Rising 2 uses a giant pink chainsaw. He revs it when he gets excited about losing his virginity, he occasionally screams "Mine's bigger than yours!" when you fight him... The only way it could be more obvious is if the game told you it. | |
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In the Saints Row series, a giant truck called "The Compensator" is used by two "macho" gangs, first The Brotherhood gang of Saints Row 2, fans of excessive tattoos and demo derbys, and then by the Luchadores of Saints Row: The Third, a gang of muscled masked wrestlers. Apropriately, it's a Hummer Dinger. The Compensator has sluggish acceleration, low top speed, terrible handling, and it's rather fragile. | |
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Used hilariously in The Dresden Files: Harry has a standard revolver (it's really the only gun he can use due to being a Walking Techbane), while Psycho for Hire Kincaid has an entire trunkful of weapons of all different sizes, all clearly built for this exact sort of mission. Harry looks at Kincaid's guns, looks at his gun, then looks Kincaid in the eye and says "My dick is bigger than your dick." In White Night, Harry questions Elaine's use of a chain as her magical focus; Elaine responds by joking that wizards who use traditional staffs are just obsessed with phallic imagery. |
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Supernatural: Happens in the episode "Playthings". On another occasion, Dean implies that Cas is doing this when Cas boasts to another character about how large his true form is. |
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Whateley Universe: During her first job as a art thief in training acting as lookout for her mentor, Imp spots a Super Hero called The Ram, whom she'd had to run away from previously. In order to lure him away from the gang that had adopted her, she taunts him into chasing her instead with: | |
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Gronkh discussed this in his Let's Test Atlantica Online, where he called the cannnon "compensation cannon". | |
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Shrek later reprises this joke in Shrek 4D (the 3-D Movie that plays at Universal Studios) upon seeing Lord Farquaad's particularly massive grave site. | |
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What Tony thinks about all the guns strapped on the War Machine armor in Iron Man 2. | |
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Analyst Bronies React: One of the analyst wonders, if a dragon is using a smaller lava surfboard than the other dragons, is he undercompensating? | |
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Iceland in Scandinavia and the World has disturbing ways of dealing with a severe insecurity complex related to his small... population. His severed penis collection is based on a Real Life phallus museum in Iceland. | |
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Jingo: Angua says "You know what they say about men who like big weapons." Her boyfriend Carrot says he doesn't know what they say, and Angua says, "They're, er, rather small." Carrot still doesn't get it and thinks she's referring to their height, since dwarfs and short watchman Nobby love big weapons. (Specifically, he says dwarfs love a big "chopper"... one of those points where the reader wonders if Carrot is really as naive as he lets on.) | |
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Naoto of Persona 4 is a rare example. Naoto is actually a girl, who both dresses up and acts like a boy as she feel that her being a private detective would be ridiculed by the authorities due to gender bias. Her shadow manifests as her desire to be accepted for who she is, and attempts a (possibly fatal) gender change operation on Naoto. It doesn't help that her Persona, Sukuna-Hikona and its evolutions, Yamato Takeru and Yamato Sumeragi, have extremely long swords compared to their small bodies. Not to mention they are based on male legendary figures, making her the only one in the game that has Personas not in the same gender. | |
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In Fallout: New Vegas, Rose of Sharon Cassidy thinks that Caesar's choice of a Bull for his insignia means he's compensating for something. She also thinks the Two Rangers Shaking Hands statue at Mojave Outpost is this as well. | |
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In Doom Patrol, one minor villain was an impotent man with a... size problem... who designed a phallus-shaped multi-purpose crotch weapon and dubbed himself "Codpiece" before a short-lived crime spree. He was defeated by Coagula, a woman with the power to turn liquids to solids and vice versa. Guess how? | |
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In Shibumi, we have this passage: | |
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The Man with the Golden Gun: M reads a psychiatric report on Scaramanga speculating that he uses a Hand Cannon because of his ambiguous sexuality. Which explains why the manly James Bond only has a Beretta .25 at this point in the novels. Bond does keep a long-barreled Colt .45 in his glove box though; does that imply he might "come out of the glove box" some day? | |
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In Exalted the City of Lux is a Genius Loci whose prior life was a woman. When he became a city, he decided that it was vitally important that his design incorporate a 3 mile tall golden tower surrounded by rounded plates. | |
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Scott The Woz opens his Call of Duty (for Wii) video by suggesting an alternate title for the franchise: | |
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One of the villains in a recent arc of Fans! was a Middle-Eastern property developer who had a tendency to build extremely tall structures emblazoned with his initials on them. When time comes to battle him in the climax, the heroes have difficulty until they hit upon the idea of taunting him for his obvious efforts at compensation. He doesn't take this so well. | |
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Parodied in the xkcd strip "Red Car". A character comments on someone driving a bright red car that he's compensating for his cyan penis (red and cyan being on opposite ends of the color wheel). The Alt Text provides another parodied example: | |
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In The Last Days of FOXHOUND, Vulcan Raven has a pet peeve for "Compensation" jokes made at him because of his weapon of choice. Later on, Grey Fox outright asks him if he's got a small penis, to which Raven responds that he's officially made his death 25% more painful. | |
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American Dad!: Stan drives a big black SUV because he's "a big man who needs a big SUV so everyone will know how big he is". An episode from 2010 parodying the changing car market had Francine telling the family to cut back on expenses because the economy has caused the family to lose all its savings in the market. Roger tells Francine that Stan spends over $400 a day fueling his SUV, and so Francine demands that Stan trade it in for a hybrid. Stan refuses and the rest of the episode focuses on him trying to come up with the money to keep his SUV, only to end up deeper and deeper in debt. | |
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In Dragon Ball Z Abridged, Raditz unzips his fly after Goku and Piccolo remove their weighted clothes because he concludes that nudity makes you stronger on Earth. Piccolo observes, "So that hair does compensate for something." | |
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Outright admitted in Real-Time Fandub's Sonic Adventure 2 Team Dark run. Eggman is unable to sexually satisfy his wife due to his oddly-shaped (and painful) penis. When he finds out that she's been cheating on him with nearly everyone in the cast but him, he snaps, summons a Kill Sat he directly refers to as his penis, and declares he's going to "fuck the Earth" with it. | |
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The series Click & Clack's As the Wrench Turns milks this joke for all it's worth in one episode with an SUV that's literally called the Compensator, which looks more like a tank than anything else. | |
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Bob and George: ObviouslyCompensatingForSomething Man of the subcomic Jailhouse Blues sports "More Ammunition than God" as his special power, and was defeated by Yo Momma Man's Jazz's Smack Talk power regarding his... deficiencies. Done in the main comic, also; upon seeing Wily's gigantic fortress, a character remarks that he must be compensating for something. When he targets them with an absurdly large laser cannon (shaped suspiciously like a phallic symbol), one says "He IS compensating for something!" After the character Dive Man destroys the cannon, he says something along the lines: |
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Vow of Nudity: One of the many insinuations Haara uses to get under Petrichor's skin. The older titan in one story also suggests that his younger brother's tyranny comes in part due to size insecurities. | |
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In White Night, Harry questions Elaine's use of a chain as her magical focus; Elaine responds by joking that wizards who use traditional staffs are just obsessed with phallic imagery. | |
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In Fallout 4, if you're carrying a large weapon the Diamond City guards will occasionally ask you if you're compensating for something. Even if you're a woman. | |
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Megatron denies it in Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: | |
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Farscape: In "Green-Eyed Monster", Aeryn gets annoyed over the Testosterone Poisoning between Crais and Crichton and asks the Living Ship they're on: "Talyn, you've seen them both naked. Perhaps you can tell us who's bigger?" | |
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Stargate SG-1: Shortly after returning as a regular cast member, Vala makes an accusation of this to the chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations. General Landry is not amused. | |
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Black Ops II's Zombies mode has Marlton make jokes along these lines when he receives the Colt Python from the Mystery Box, directly calling it a "penile substitute" and noting that "I have reproductive organs of my own" or claiming Russman would have better use for it. | |
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Whenever you destroy a statue of Di Ravello in Just Cause 3, Rico may say that "You know what they say about a guy with a big statue." | |
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Noah's Arc: This exchange between Noah and Wade in the first episode: | |
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In Mass Effect, Joker seems to make a snarking comment about it when his tiny Normandy passes the absolutely humongous Destiny Ascension by saying that "size isn't everything". But he then clears it up that he didn't meant to imply that he was feeling inadequate, but that the Ascension's firepower is even more impressive. | |
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Orlok the Eternal from The Hierarchy in Universe at War will frequently decree "I compensate for nothing." | |
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A rare female version in Steven Universe: All of the Diamonds have personal murals/symbols depicting themselves surrounded by worlds they've conquered and with a sphere behind them. Pink Diamond's background sphere is almost three times bigger than the others, obviously to draw attention away from the fact that Pink only had one planet (for comparison, Yellow and Blue have about a dozen each). Pink was a Royal Brat who was obsessed with making the other Diamonds respect her, so the insecurity subtext is pretty blatant. She was also significantly smaller than the other Diamonds (Though still large by human standards). | |
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The Palaververse: Invoked with the names of the three new enormous, top-of-the-line and very heavily armed dreadnaughts of the Asinial navy: the Fear Nowt, the Actually, Fear Lots and the No, You're Compensating. | |
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Destiny 2: During the Arm Dealer raid, Hawthorne jokingly psychoanalyzes Bracus Zahn by suggesting that the reason he has so many underlings is because he has to surround himself with others like himself to feel important. Cayde-6 immediately chimes in that this is true for all insecure men, which is why he works alone. Xol, the smallest and weakest of the Worm gods, feels the need to give himself grandiose titles like "the Will of Thousands" (in contrast to his siblings, who mostly use simple titles like "Honest Worm"). He also picks up Nokris as his Dragon, mirroring Hawthorne's above-mentioned joke about insecure men surrounding themselves with similar people. |
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Averted in Dragnet: | |
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One of the more expensive cars in The Sims 3 is called the "VFN Kompensator". | |
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Female example in Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online. Karen Kohiruimaki is explicitly ashamed of her unnatural height and lack of feminine charm, so when she fires up GGO, LLENN is deliberately made to be as small, cute, and pink as possible. | |
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Charlie's Angels (2000): Corwin says some people accused him of compensating for a weak libido when he entered the racing business and he fired them for it. The people he tells about it laugh until he explains it wasn't a joke. | |
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One episode of A Bit of Fry and Laurie has a hospital patient who has just had his genitals removed. The doctor, in order to help him cope, gives him a pet Doberman, a rusted white van, a subscription to Guns and Ammo, and a lot of camouflage clothing, telling him that it's standard policy. This joke doubles up when the patient complains about needing to urinate. The Doctor's response? If he drives around in that car, in those clothes, with that dog, people will be taking the piss out of him all the time. | |
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Examining the Emir's throne in Al Kharid in RuneScape generates the message "Someone's compensating for something!" | |
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Discussed in I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, when a Mook questions why the heroes have such bigger guns than they do; his compatriot replies, "It's a phallic thing, I dunno." | |
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In Iron Sky, The absurdly large Götterdämmerung moon fortress, as pointed out by Vivian. | |
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Girl Genius: The comic implies this about the Wulfenbach household here, in particular taking note of the giant floating Castle. There are lots of jokes about this in general, involving "death rays" or "tool belts". One of participant brought to the assault on Mechanicsburg troops riding something between a Walking Tank and the lower half of Powered Armor. That is, "vehicles" looking like wide pants... with a big gun set on the fore end. |
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One of the group victory quotes of Talesof Xillia 2 has its resident BFS wielders Alvin and Gaius perform Demon Fangs one after another with Gaius' being larger. Alvin immediately says he feels inadequate, and Gaius informs him that the difference is in the size of the blade. | |
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In classic Greek play Lysistrata, the men of Sparta and Athens are portrayed as fighting with each other because of this, and all the women decide to hold a sex strike to get them to stop. Notably, the original play called for all the male characters to wear oversized phalluses as part of their costumes, the implication being that they're doing all their thinking below the belt. | |
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In the pre-credits sequence from Goldfinger, a girl asks James Bond why he always carries a gun. He just shrugs and says he has a "slight inferiority complex". | |
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In Stranger Than Fiction, this trope is invoked in reference to a double-necked guitar. | |
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In Recess, 3rd Street School's identical cross-town counterpart 98th Street School has a 50-foot flagpole installed, intentionally trying to "outsize" 3rd Street, as part of an ongoing rivalry between 3rd Street principal Peter Prickly and his brother Paul, principal of 98th Street. | |
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In Xenosaga, Shelley Godwin implies that this is precisely why Jr. is so fond of his gunslinger heroics. | |
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Mentioned by Wayne in Letterkenny. | |
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Played straight and inverted in the CollegeHumor skit Guys With Crappy Cars Must Have Huge Dongs. First, a group of three women see a man in a business suit getting out of a sports car, causing one of them to quip that he must have "shortcomings in other departments," Then, they see another man with an extremely banged up car (inlet for gasoline is duct-taped closed, screeching noise when turning, and much more), which the three take to mean he must be undercompensating. | |
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The first movie includes this exact phrase as a joke, with Shrek talking to Donkey about Lord Farquaad's giant castle. Kids take away the meaning of compensating for being short, and adults take away the other. The less innocent interpretation is apparently how Donkey understood the comment, as when he later reports it to Fiona he adds "which I think means he has a really—" before Shrek silences him mid-sentence. | |
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Exaggerated by dance duo Captain Ahab on "I Don't Have a Dick", in which the singer brags wildly about his material possessions (all of which have Axe Cop levels of awesomeness, but lack in terms of practicality) in between shouts of the Title-Only Chorus. Subverted in the studio version, which features a monologue in which the singer points out that there is absolutely no connection between his lack of genitalia and his ridiculous levels of awesomeness. | |
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In Pony POV Series, Makarov's airship is absurdly huge and looks like it is made of solid gold, causing Princess Cadance to make this joke when she sees it. | |
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In a Fanboys page lampooning the Doomed Hometown trope, the generic RPG hero complains that he has a sword that can "compensate for the entire village's manhood". | |
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In The Unfinished Spelling Errors of Bolkien, Martin Pearson notes that Saruman's Evil Tower of Ominousness is completely hollow, and wonders if he could be compensating for something. | |
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RiffTrax's Alternate DVD Commentary for Spider-Man 3 suggests this is why Harry bought M.J. a bigger bouquet of flowers than Peter. | |
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A rather dark female example occurs in Moral Orel: Ms. Censordoll's obsession with eggs is her compensating for the fact that her Abusive Parents made sure her own eggs got scrambled when she was a child. | |
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Futurama: In an episode, the crew visits Washington, D.C. We see them fly by the Washington Monument, and the Clinton Monument, which looks just like Washington's except twice the size. "Into the Wild Green Yonder" has a television advertisement for the MagnaPhallix three hundred two inch TV. "It's bigger!" Lrrr is given horn extensions when he informs a plastic surgeon that Omicronian horns house their testes. |
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A non-sexual example in Ultimate X Men. Sabretooth has a reputation as the "poor man's Wolverine" and feels deeply insecure about being compared to his rival. As such he had four adamantium claws implanted in each arm. | |
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Herr Starr from Preacher develops an obsession for large handguns after he gets his junk bitten off by a trained dog. He poses in front of the mirror holding one in front of his crotch and goes: Doom cock. DOOM COCK! DOOOOOOM COOOOOOCK!!!!!!!!! | |
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In the original Ice Age, Manny is introduced going in the opposite direction of the migrating herd. A Moeritherium shouts at him to "MOVE YOUR ISSUES OFF THE ROAD!" Manny responds "If my trunk was that small, I wouldn't draw attention to myself!" | |
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Hobo Johnson: Discussed in "Subaru Crosstrek XV" where Hobo justifies not getting a fancy car by imagining himself and his future family: | |
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In Freddy vs. Jason, Kia tries to distract Freddy by trash talking him. Among other things, she says that the knives on Freddy's glove are probably his way of compensating for the obvious. She also notes that in contrast to him, Jason wields a huge machete instead. She meets said machete a few moments later. | |
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Exterminatus Now in the strip named after one stunt from Predator: | |
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Likewise, Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords has Kreia commenting that males seem to want lightsabers for some reason. | |
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In The Amazing World of Gumball episode "The Guy", Gumball encourages Josh to rag on the fat purple cowboy by saying he wears a big hat to compensate for... Josh doesn't guess right. | |
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In the Father Ted episode "Night of the Nearly Dead", the character Eoin McLove is an arrogant manchild who gets what he wants regardless of the effect it has on other people. Eventually, his PA makes him apologize and he confesses to Ted and Dougal: "I haven't got a willy." | |
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In Xanauzumaki's Ocarina of Time: the Abridged Series, Ganondorf wishes to take over the kingdom to compensate for his unbelievably small penis. His logic behind this is that if he can't have a big dick, then he shall BECOME one! To quote the Great Deku Tree, "You see, Ganondorf's penis is so small that the only way to compensate for it would be to obtain the powers of a god and conquer the entire kingdom of Hyrule." | |
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Batwoman (2019): Tommy Elliot has a lifelong jealousy towards Bruce Wayne. In "Down Down Down", Tommy steals a handheld railgun that Bruce Wayne developed to kill him, knowing that he's Batman. When Kate discovers this Tommy pulls a Glock on her, whereupon Kate quips that Bruce's gun is clearly bigger. | |
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The Saturday Night Live recurring character Guy Who Just Bought a Boat is some sort of strange hipster who, in-between loads of nigh-incomprehensible slang and misogynistic plans for dates and whatnot, constantly says how small his penis is. He says it so much and so casually it makes you wonder if he has some sort of mental condition. | |
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Used openly on Robot Chicken, when a dweeb who's shopping for a new vehicle demands something appropriate for a guy with an extremely small penis. | |
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Cake's song "Race Car Ya Yas", a sarcastic critique of obnoxious drivers: | |
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True Potential: During their first meeting, Etoro smirks and asks Hidan if the latter's scythe is compensating for something or if it's just 'absolutely necessary' for the Akatsuki member to have something like that for his fighting style. This does not put Hidan in a good mood. | |
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In Jets'n'Guns, there is a spaceship shaped like a long cylinder with a dome on the end opposite the engines. Its name is the USS Impotence. | |
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In Undercover Brother, after noticing the size of Undercover Brother's car, hair, and jewelry, Sista Girl believes that he is "overcompensating for something." And of course, there's the matter of his "big, black, fuzzy balls" hanging from his car's rear view mirror. | |
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In Taken, Bryan Mills implies this is what his ex-wife's new man is doing when pointing out all the ways to rescue the girls that involve him utilizing his wealth. | |
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Friday: The title character on seeing a policeman (who's come to arrest a member of the family she's staying with) notes that he's a big guy in appearance but that he has a "little soul". She Neck Snaps him and takes his Ray Gun—noting that it's "powerful enough to kill a mastodon", she wonders why men with little souls have to have big weapons. | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History has this line from Dumbledore to Gandalf: | |
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Averted in Warhammer 40,000 as far as Orks are concerned: True, they fervently believe Bigger Is Better applies to every aspect of their lives, including ridiculously oversized guns and vehicles, but seeing as they reproduce asexually, there's nothing to compensate for (indeed, they reproduce by dying, so their oversized guns tend to help with that by making them priority targets). | |
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In Exit Fate, Trevor's ridiculously-huge sword is mocked by both Daniel and Sick for this reason. | |
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Death Proof: Lee and Abernathy watch Stuntman Mike burn rubber out of the service station in his Dodge Charger R/T 500 and conclude, "Little dick." Given that he gets his kicks by killing women with his car, and is later shown sitting with the hood ornament between his legs, they may be right. | |
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In Low-Life, this is the name of an Edge which grants a bonus to Spirit rolls whenever the character in question is wielding an oversized weapon. | |
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In This Bites!, Soundbite tells a variation of this to "Big Knife" Sarquiss; that his knife isn't big enough for him to compensate with. Even members of Bellamy's crew thought that was funny. | |
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Doctor Who: In "Robot", the Doctor, speculating about what the robot's motivation could be, starts talking about Freudian psychology and "compensation". Cut to the Brigadier blasting the robot with a disintegration ray by firing from the hip, causing the robot to get taller. In the reboot series, the Master's "Laser Screwdriver", longer, thicker and more dangerous than the Sonic Screwdriver. It's never brought up in the show, but the producer claims that on the first day the prop was brought on set, he received a text message from David Tennant saying "His screwdriver is bigger than mine." When the Eleventh Doctor meets his earlier incarnation in "The Day of the Doctor", they whip out their sonic screwdrivers to establish each truly is the Doctor. Ten is disconcerted to see that Eleven's sonic screwdriver is bigger and fancier than his, even after he extends the tip. In "Revolution of the Daleks", Yasmin Khan (having been the Doctor's companion for a while) regards Jack Harkness' square gun as an Unusually Uninteresting Sight. When he acts miffed, she asks if he's feeling insecure, "'cause you do seem to need a lot of praise". |
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In MeatShield, Ch'p wonders if the two huge snake statues at the entrance of the port of Vedris means the city is compensating for some shortcoming. | |
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Person of Interest: Detective Carter is threatening a wife-beater. In "God Mode", our heroes break into a lockup to find a Ferrari. Shaw promptly hands her SPAS-12 shotgun to Reese. |
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Call of Duty: Zombies: When looking at Richtofen's portrait in the Kino Der Toten map of Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, if you are playing as Dempsey, he will say, "His portrait's bigger than anyone else's. Must be trying to compensate for somethin'." Black Ops II's Zombies mode has Marlton make jokes along these lines when he receives the Colt Python from the Mystery Box, directly calling it a "penile substitute" and noting that "I have reproductive organs of my own" or claiming Russman would have better use for it. |
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When looking at Richtofen's portrait in the Kino Der Toten map of Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, if you are playing as Dempsey, he will say, "His portrait's bigger than anyone else's. Must be trying to compensate for somethin'." | |
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Minor Superman villain Barrage constantly gloats about his massive Arm Cannon. Maxima asks, "Why do so many Earth males measure their masculinity by the size of their weapons?" | |
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City Hunter has a variation with a one-shot character who, upon seeing Ryo's giant erection, reacts by hypnotizing him and everyone in town into believing he has a bigger penis... And then, once Ryo realizes the truth, hypnotizes him into impotence. He got a snapping turtle in his throusers pocket for this. | |
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In Ignited Spark, upon finally meeting Katsuki at the entrance exam, Itsuka notes that she had thought that Ochako was overstating it, but then realizes that Katsuki really did have 'small dick energy'. Katsuki does not take that well. | |
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Later, Amber makes a reference to this to Vadim ...and then Kasey repeats it later, just to be a dick. | |
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Uzu Sanageyama of Kill la Kill wears a uniform with three large metal spikes jutting from the belt, and his Nudist Beach attire has three suggestively placed guns instead of the usual one. Now combine that with his canonically confirmed "size", and you got a guy covering for some obvious insecurities. | |
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Margin Play: At Thom Cullens's, Amber compares his skill with his weapon to his ability with his, ah, gun. Later, Amber makes a reference to this to Vadim ...and then Kasey repeats it later, just to be a dick. |
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In Halo 4, The Mammoth is the size of an ocean liner, with wheels the size of houses, and the biggest gun right on top of it. Cortana being Cortana... | |
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Adrian from Pain & Gain, who gets involved to pay for ways to make his penis work again. | |
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Top Gear: They stick nearly all flashy supercars in the "Uncool" section of the Cool Wall for this very reason: Hilariously, the Hummer H3, one of the most flashy and preposterous cars they ever had on the show, ended up being an exception to this rule because it is a giant middle finger to political correctness and it pisses off environmentalists. More hilariously, the H3 is just a soccer-mom's Chevrolet Colorado/GMC Canyon cosplaying as a military vehicle. It has about as much in common with a military Humvee as a Prius does. |
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Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The war veteran in "NIGHT CRUISE" appears to be a potential "lone gunman" assassin, brandishing a Desert Eagle and fantasizing about killing a politician. When he's thrown out of a brothel after failing to perform with a prostitute, his pistol is taken off him by a Yakuza thug whom he cowers in front of. At the end of the episode, we discover that his lower regions are prosthetic thanks to a nasty STD virus he caught during the war, and he'll never carry out his assassination fantasies. | |
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The entire message of Dr. Strangelove in one sentence: "Men make war to prove they have big dicks and it'll destroy the world now that there are nuclear weapons." In particular, General Ripper launches World War III specifically to compensate for his own sexual impotence, which he has blamed on the Soviets using Insane Troll Logic. | |
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In one episode of Barney Miller, Wojo finds out that he's sterile after being hit with a paternity suit, and then gets sent out on a call to deal with an armed suspect. As usual for the show it's described after the fact, by Dietrich, who starts the story of Wojo running into an alleyway and throwing a full trash can at the suspect like this: | |
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A Mage's Power: Because Culmus carries around a BFS, he is subject to many of these jokes. When Tiza makes fun of him for joining a joust (and using a lance), Basilard tells her to knock it off. | |
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Party banter between Anders and Carver in Dragon Age II: | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Averted when Spike fights Buffy for the first time in "School Hard". They're both holding weapons and Buffy asks if they're really necessary. Spike replies "I just like them. They make me feel all manly." He then tosses his weapon aside. In "The Zeppo", Xander, trying to establish a cool identity for himself, shows up at school in his uncle's flashy '57 Chevy convertible, referring to it as "my thing". Buffy asks "Is this a penis metaphor?" Giles gets the Mid-Life Crisis Car version in "Real Me" when he replaces The Alleged Car with a red BMW M3 convertible. Vampire Spike gets a Restraining Bolt that prevents him from attacking humans, and a Running Gag involves this situation being compared to impotence. In one episode he tries out a pistol, but finds he can't even aim it at someone. He responds by demanding a bigger gun. In "Seeing Red", Warren gains strength and power via two magic orbs that he wears on his waist. After Buffy beats him by breaking his balls... err, orbs, Warren then goes and buys a gun to take her on. |
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Used as a joke while TB Skyen was playing Dark Souls II and used a double-BFS setup to kill two enemies who each also had a BFS: | |
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Family Guy: The episode where Peter discovers that Chris is well-endowed has an absolutely beautiful riff on this. Peter gets a Mid-Life Crisis Car that is decidedly phallic, taunts a motorist with a normal carnote "Hey, when you park that thing, does your garage ask 'Is it in yet?', then upon coming to a tunnel repeatedly backs in and out of it...until it gets flattened by an oncoming bus. Which is full of bikini models who laugh at him, causing Peter to hurtfully say "Ow, my pride." The same episode also suggests that everyone in the NRA is a member for this reason. Also in the episode "Peter's Progress", Stewie (who is a baby) is King Stewart of England. When someone asks Brian why the King is so nasty (which is normal for Stewie), Brian replies it is due to Stewart having an extremely small penis. He describes it as "that one grape in a group of grapes that never really became a grape." |
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In the Dangerverse, Draco Black discusses this trope with Lucius Malfoy in regard to the 18-inch Malfoy Family Wand. | |
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Empires SMP Season 2: Being an 11-foot god who is almost twice as tall as the average player, Joel has a tendency to build enormous builds, likely to accommodate his great height. However, several of his server-mates do not believe this to be the case. On his very large empire portal on the Nether roof hub: On his empire in the sky, Stratos, albeit in a tamer sense: |
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A chase scene in Need for Speed begins with Julia (who's driving) and Tobey getting boxed in on a narrow road; a car carrying a shotgunner is pressing them forward, while two big off-road vehicles come at them head-on, blocking the road. Tobey advises Julia to drift onto the shoulder, but Julia aims at the more blinged-out off-roader, pointing out various mods the driver uses to make up for his "inferiority complex". She's proven right when the off-roader swerves at the last second to avoid getting hit and runs into a cliff. | |
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In the Rurouni Kenshin spin-off prequel To Rule Flame, the prostitute Yumi mocked Shishio, Soujirou, and Houji when she first met them, implying they used their swords to compensate for something. | |
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This idea permeates just about everything to do with the sleazy stripclub owner/porn czar Mars from Broken Saints, from the way he talks to (surprise) his gun. | |
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Invoked in A Dance with Dragons. In the previous book, Cersei burned down the Tower of the Hand after her brother Tyrion killed their father, believing he might still be hiding in it. Upon being informed that Mace Tyrrell, the new Hand and head of her family's archrivals, is going to rebuild the tower twice as tall as the old one, she jokes that maybe he's hinting at something. | |
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Interceptor: While threatening to unleash his stolen nuclear missiles, Rogue Soldier Alexander Kessel tries during his Motive Rant to get Corporal Shah to say something bad about the United States. Shah responds that he's seen Kessel in the base showers and can guess where his obsession with missiles came from, so thanks to Kessel pulling a Do Not Adjust Your Set, the entire world knows he has a Teeny Weenie. | |
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BlazBlue: "That is quite an impressive body you've built. But I believe only 30% of it is truly necessary. Are you perhaps, compensating?" — Rachel Alucard on defeating Iron Tager. | |
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Frasier gets into an argument with his neighbor and Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Cam Winston when Cam parks his Humvee in the space next to Frasier's BMW and blocks him in. Cam accuses Frasier of using the car as a "substitute for masculinity". When Frasier insinuates that Cam's doing the same thing, Cam simply replies that his is still bigger. | |
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In the Friends episode "The One Where They All Turn Thirty", Ross buys himself a sports car: | |
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From Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: | |
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Deadpool once had a gun actually called "The Compensator", as per the quote: | |
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In Curtailed, some random guy tries to compensate for the fact that he drives a Prius by plastering it with a bunch of "manly" bumper stickers. Now, notice that the comic is tagged "really happened." | |
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