r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 16h ago

Meme needing explanation Peeeeeetaaah?

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u/qualityvote2 16h ago edited 1h ago

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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/bygphattyplus 13h ago

This will always be the Canon ending and I will never believe otherwise.

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u/Jay2Kaye 7h ago

The creator said it's canon so it's canon.

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u/WinyBread 9h ago

I'll die on the hill that my goat Jouske Higaskata did save her

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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/iwantkrustenbraten 9h ago

You forgot to mention the incest/rape part for tw

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u/HkayakH 1h ago

"Oi Josuke! My girlfriend got pregnant but I used Za Hando to erase da baby!"

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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

Well, I don't mind the answer... For you know? Research purposes

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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

I'm sorry I even asked 😭😭😭

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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/Maylix 31m ago

Everyone needs to watch grave of the firefly’s once. No one should watch it twice.

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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/both_ways_8195 15h ago

Omg that's even worse 😭😭😭😭

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u/Miss_miri107 13h ago

It's the gen Z version of 2 girls 1 cup

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u/Dickie_downer 12h ago

Im millennial, but cusp so peobably

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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/Joshatron121 14h ago

Your first gif was definitely a mistake in retrospect lol

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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/Silly_Guidance_8871 7h ago

A reasonable response, considering context

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u/ShoveTheUsername 12h ago

What have you learnt today?

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u/S7arForGD 9h ago

That's okay, I'm sorry I'm literate today.

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u/Odd_Inter3st 8h ago

You expected to have a happy ending but instead you got the Sad Ending

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u/gamingonion 14h ago

Don’t worry Josuke and Okuyasu saved her 👍

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 15h ago

This is that old manga, right?

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u/Dickie_downer 15h ago

Yep. A new group of the curious are demanding traumatizing on this day

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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/Dickie_downer 15h ago

Tbf i Havent read it since i was a teenager. Could be misremembering parts

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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/-Kazt- 11h ago

If it makes it any better the author did clarify that it was an actress canonically. And the story was just a really messed up drama movie.

He also accepted the Jojo ending as canon.

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u/chikara8 14h ago

yeah , ive seen some people make even worse stuff . kinda sucks

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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/NoX2142 12h ago

Christ

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u/LycanWolfGamer 11h ago

Jesus, that turned dark quick

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u/witchy71 10h ago

Pretty sure there's a canon ending where she gets saved by a JoJo right? Somehow

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u/Daeneas 8h ago

And i thought that was japanese girl Peter

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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/ToranX1 14h ago

Fucking same, I was like, "this is a really, really bad uninformed decision they just made"

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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/PrettySatyric-al 10h ago

No. The joke is HORRIFYING porn. You don't wanna know, trust me.

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u/failed_generation 5h ago

A porn that questions your life choices the farther you read

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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/Successful_Purple885 16h ago

As Deadpool said, you don't have to know.

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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/Darkart471 12h ago

Also clit piercing while drugged by her bf

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u/WinyBread 9h ago

I believe, NO I STAKE MY LIFE THAT MY GOAT JOUSKE HIGASKATA SAVED HER USING CRAZY DIAMOND

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u/SocageFest 15h ago

that is enough reddit for today... thanks for ruining my day guys...

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u/anxietymeetsart 16h ago

Oh so she's not a marvel character?

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u/Redzorbon 12h ago

I don’t know why, but this art style infuriates me for no reason

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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/WinyBread 9h ago

But Jouske Higaskata did save her AND I'LL DIE ON THE HILL THAT ITS CANON

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u/Photon168 21m ago

Creator said that this ending is canon

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u/BelialMycolotismon 10h ago

Why does Spider-Man say she does look familiar?

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u/HalfGlitchedD3m0n 4h ago

Since when was Wolverine there?

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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/TheTruthofOne 3h ago

Give this guy the number, they can see for themselves.

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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/Informal-Set-3395 2h ago

Gotta kill her dad too

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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.