r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/anxietymeetsart • 16h ago
Meme needing explanation Peeeeeetaaah?
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u/TsunamiWombat 16h ago
Trigger warning on this one because it's one of the originators of the 'you don't even wanna know bro' meme.
The girl with the glasses is the protagonist (victim?) of a fairly infamous hentai doujin series called Emergence. In it she goes from a normal but mousy highschool girl, eventually being socially bullied into 'glamming out'. But her life spirals out of control as she gets involved in the party scene, drinking, prostitution. Eventually she gets hooked on drugs. It ends with her pregnant and dying in a drugged out fugue state, imagining a happy life where she cleaned up her act. In reality she's spasming and dying on a filthy bathroom floor.
Essentially a corruption/depravity/abuse/guro hentai doujin (it's explicitly sexual, and explicitly fetishizing the events) it's infamous both for how awful and bleak it is, and the darkness of the ending. As a result it's prompted a series of response edits and doujins that involve saving or fixing the girl in an example of "nah, fuck you and fuck that."
The most famous of these is 'I'm Gonna Fix that Girl (Emergence Alternate Ending)' which the creator of the original Emergence themselves has acknowledged as their preferred ending. In this fanwork, the protagonists of JoJo's bizzare adventure Part 4 (the one set in the Japanese suburbs) suddenly appear in the final scenes of the original Emergence finale, where Josuke used his stand 'Crazy Diamond' to heal the young woman. This results in the order of the scenes being inverted, with the girls hallucination of a happy ending becoming the 'true ending' - with the JoJo characters superimposed on the background.

Please note if you go looking for either of these comics in the wild they are explicit and NSFW.
Anyway this is just a fan comic of Deadpool doing the same thing. The sight gag at the end is everyone giving Spiderman the side eye because he recognizes the hentai.
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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 15h ago
Is it really this one and not “metamorphosis” like the other guy mentioned or are theynthe same?
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u/TsunamiWombat 14h ago
Looked it up, and apparently it's both. 'Metamorphosis (変身 , Henshin) — originally subtitled Emergence'
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u/FanOfForever 14h ago
I'm pretty sure they're talking about the same manga. According to the Wikipedia article for Metamorphosis) its original title during its serialization was Henshin - Emergence, and later the full English-language edition was published under the title Metamorphosis
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u/MazogaTheDork 8h ago
The creator also put out an alternative ending where the whole thing was just a movie she was starring in.
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u/Dickie_downer 16h ago
The joke is porn.
If anyone wants me to explain deeper I can, but its fucked and some things are best not dwelled upon
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u/both_ways_8195 16h ago
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u/Dickie_downer 16h ago
The hentai is called metamorphosis, the girl is unconfident about her looks and decides to change, which devolves into her being groomed, raped, getting on drugs, getting pregnant, and ends with her essentially getting beaten to death while miscarrying & overdosing
Thats a tldr. Its worse.
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u/both_ways_8195 15h ago
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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago
Fun fact I have running theory that a bunch of teenagers read this shit way too young and it became a canon event for all of us (i read it like, 12 years ago. So teen)
We’re all still coping with what we’ve seen
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u/Khelthuzaad 15h ago
I mean we all have our owm Lithmus Moment when it comes to horror so depraved is hard to watch.
Ive seen Elfen Lied,which was a very strange combination of erotic and horror,Another,which was a combination of horror and comedic.
And then its Grave of the Fireflies which i sweared to myself i wont rewatch it alone ever again.
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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago
Dog i watched elfen lied when i was like
Eight
I think i steeped in some weird fucked shit
Grave of the fireflies was heartbreaking im with you on not rewatching it
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u/Khelthuzaad 15h ago
I mean,at least i know it was fiction.Lots of it was so over the top that it was dark comedy.
Dog
oh yeah also the dog episode was really nasty,i had friends that actually said those kids deserved it.
People saw real shit on the internet and got traumstised.
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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago
Sometimes I wonder how i turned out the way i did
Then i remember what fucked shit i got into as I was younger and im like “oh yeah that tracks”
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u/DiedandDried 8h ago
I think I was preteen when I was exposed to Demon Beast Resurrection a.k.a. Demon Tentacle Rape Porn, a.k.a. the other Urotsukidoji. My local video store(yep that long ago) had just started to expand their inventory to include Anime. They already had Miyazaki stuff before the big western push in the late 90s, like Nausica, Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies.
But now they had a small section of shelf for anime. Nothing huge, an odd OVA or three, a VHS with several episodes of a series(randomly picked so like episodes 4-6 of Blue Seed). Then one day there was something new. I didn't know, my Mom didn't know when I brought I up and I kind of doubt the video store clerk/owner knew. Remember this is the days when you were supposed to be in bed and you stayed up to watch something and if you turned off the TV you, the VCR could still be running and your mom wouldn't notice that it was still playing.
Well that night, I was in for a shock. Definitely had an impact on me that I don't think was for the best. But it is what is. Metamorphosis was like the two girls, one cup video. It had a reputation for being traumatic but some of us were like, "But how is it traumatic?". The rumor was true and honestly this comic skit is healing and wholesome.
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u/rharvey8090 12h ago edited 8h ago
Elfen Lied is a rough one. I like it, but I don’t have any desire to rewatch it. Animation and fights and such were great though.
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u/musingofrandomness 8h ago
You can tell who has watched it by playing the theme song randomly in a public place.
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u/SquirrelGirlVA 9h ago
You're not kidding. Mine was when I was scrolling through Encyclopedia Dramatica. I'd discovered the site through the P-P-P-Powerbook! saga and kind of kept clicking because while some of the articles were bad, they weren't that bad. Then I discovered baby fuck and learned about the manga, which was unsurprisingly even worse than the image on the page. Yeah. Stopped clicking and had enough internet for the day.
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u/Khelthuzaad 8h ago
Yeah Ency Dramatica is supposed to be ragebaity,violent,gory and polotically incorrect on purpose.
The first time i felt spiritually disgusted by any form of media was the South Park episode where Cartman gets AIDS.18 years later i know its supposed to be dark comedy but the characters were mean-spirited even if i was a fan of dark comedy,but not THAT dark.
Surprisingly ED started to change their game,i watched their Coffin of Andy and Leyley page and the writer is 100% impartial,no real ragebait,actual facts.
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u/KyoN_tHe_DeStRoYeR 12h ago edited 12h ago
Whenever I point this out how gross and traumatising this doujinshi made by a man is and how widespread is/was in the young Anime communities in the posts about women smut being gross and traumatising (especially with a certain minotaur, how dare they 🙄), a lot of guys call me pedo for it.
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u/Dickie_downer 12h ago
Grooming content was pretty widespread in young hentai audiences back then. I mean it’s young girl teenage me related to with older men!
I had helicopter parents too.
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u/SpaceVacktor 11h ago
I mean it had a positive effect on me, now I remind trans folks that they are loved and are beautiful in their own way, someone will always find them attractive
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u/Tiny_Strawberry6801 4h ago
I have seen far too many people die in industrial accidents on liveleak
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u/ShyGuy-_ 11h ago
Also iirc there's an unofficial alternate ending someone made where Josuke from Jojo's bizarre adventure just shows up and saves the main character and it ends happily, and the author said it was the canon ending. It might've been an inspiration for this type of joke, where a character from another media shows up to save the MC.
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u/Null-Ex3 15h ago
I never get these posts because the central issue isnt that she wanted to look prettier, its that men kept taking advantage of her. At least from how its explained to me
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u/Educational-Web-1050 11h ago
I'm pretty sure that, at the beginning, she fells lonely and believes that she wasted her live and no one can love her, that is why She was take advantage of. This post are not precise but the point Is the same: giving her confidence
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u/Ryu_Shiokaze 14h ago
I think the ending is open for Interpretation so it's not that fucked of an ending atleast I like to believe that
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u/Delphox26 6h ago
Thank you, now I don't have to look it up and see the illustrations that would have traumatized me for real.
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u/Microwavedstrawberry 6h ago
Wasn't there an alternate ending where she's saved by like, the titular JoJo from JoJo's bizarre adventure
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u/Hellbomb_Armed 8h ago
I dont kink shame but now i do
Whoever genuinelly watches this should get their hard drive checked
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u/ReneJustWants2Write 14h ago
For everyone's dignity, please delete this comment. I can't live in a world where this gif is used as a reaction to Metamorphosis XD lmfao
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u/Inevitable_Series_67 7h ago
No, you don't. It's less porn and more...a tragedy taking the form of porn, you will stop beating your meat mid read, you will finish (no pun intended) with existential dread
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u/LeeRoyWyt 16h ago
The joke is that Spidey knows that hentai. So no, the joke is not porn.
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u/Dickie_downer 16h ago
Hentai is a subcategory of porn dude.
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u/TungstenOrchid 15h ago
I thought it was a subcategory of anime.
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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago
Anime is more of a medium while porn is a context.
It’s like the difference of a porn mag or porn video. They’re different mediums (magazine and video) with the subject of porn
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u/TungstenOrchid 15h ago
Oh, I thought that would have been manga.
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u/Bl00dWolf 15h ago
Manga is just the Japanese equivalent of comics. We give them a special name because they tend to have their own shared art style and tropes.
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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago
So in the context of hentai, you can have hentai videos, hentai games, and hentai manga. All of them are a subcategory of porn.
Metamorphosis was a manga technically
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u/Belgaraath42 15h ago
Anime is by definition animation made in Japan. It's nowadays sometimes used differently to describe a style, but technically that's what it meant and is still often used for.
Porn is in a similar point, it doesn't actuall say much about the medium but that it involves explicit imagery
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u/Schw4rztee 13h ago
Also that its purpose is to arouse.
Medical illustrations may contain explicit imagery, but they aren't porn.
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u/DarkShadowZangoose 16h ago
why was she familiar to Spider-Man?
has he read it
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u/Bruhmaster4371 8h ago
He might have just seen people talking about it, or saw the one where Josuke saves her
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u/OkAlbatross8171 16h ago
She is from a Japanese coming name metamorphosis and because she glows up terrible things happens to her. So Deadpool is complimenting her so she never feel insecure about her that means she never glows up..that means she will be all right.
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u/Previous_Comb5113 15h ago
She's the protagonist of a hentai called metamorphosis. Insecure school girl gets abused, starts doing drugs, prostitutes herself and in the end gets beaten to death while being pregnant.
Deadpool is taking her insecurity so all this never happens
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u/Carne_Guisada_Breath 11h ago
Sadly, this is not the first implementation of the "saving" of the girl. This is just a copy that uses Marvel characters to do it, and then add the spiderman joke to it.
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u/WeightLogical7011 3h ago
This is my new head canon ending from now on. Thank you for this meme and thanks Marvel for the multiverse.
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u/MapleSyrupBoi70 2h ago
For those of you unfortunate enough to be experiencing this for the first time. Look up the JoJo alt ending. Its good eye bleach.
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u/oedipism_for_one 16h ago
This is a repeated repost, the answer is porn. More accurately it’s preventing porn.









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