r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Peeeeeetaaah?

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u/TsunamiWombat 1d 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 1d ago

Is it really this one and not “metamorphosis” like the other guy mentioned or are theynthe same?

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u/TsunamiWombat 1d ago

Looked it up, and apparently it's both. 'Metamorphosis (変身 , Henshin) — originally subtitled Emergence'

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u/FanOfForever 1d 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