 The Medical Mechanica building featured is in the shape of a large iron . The character Amarao describes Medical Mechanica 's goal as the destruction of all thought . FLCL uses the iron as a symbolic breakdown of " thought " by smoothing out the wrinkles as equated to the removing of the brain 's wrinkles . For English localization , the Japanese team had to explain the concept because a direct translation of script did not convey the ideology . 
