Text is too small, can't even tell that's a person in the fridge: Stuffed Into The Fridge

I can understand the desire to go with the Trope Namer (if that even is the Trope Namer), but as an image, it's pretty bad.

I think we should use a picture playing with this trope. Showing the real thing could be a too squicky.

Here from the webcomic examples: Maybe to much text dependend panel 7 [1] or the last two [2]

edited 1st Feb '11 8:09:43 AM by Osmium

The last one might work.

Here's a crop from the second one:

edited 1st Feb '11 1:20:20 PM by troacctid

Wouldn't putting a picture of sex doll on a page be a bit NSFW?

I honestly have no idea if that counts as NSFW.

The doll in that image doesn't look that NSFW.

I personally don't think it's that bad either, but I'd rather figure this out now than have this page get sent back here next week because somebody took issue with the picture.

The important part of the trope is not the "fridge" part. It's the "loved one killed horribly for the purpose of insulting or taunting the hero" part

edited 1st Feb '11 6:08:14 PM by Madrugada

The sex doll in the fridge works pretty well. Nothing NSFW about the picture, unless you work in an abbey or something.

In that case I would love Travis finding Bishop's head in a brown back thrown through his window.

Though...they never explicitly show the head, and even if they did, it'd probably be NSFW.

I'm going to tell the Sisters about this. And they'll come with rulers.

Anyhow, sex doll's good.

edited 1st Feb '11 6:14:56 PM by helterskelter

Actually, looking over at the No More Heroes 2 footage again, it works, since you can tell it's a head, but it's not overly graphic.

Though I didn't know which 2 frames to go with, or if I should just go with all 3.

That doesn't capture the "someone close to the hero is killed" part of the trope. It looks more like a mob hit or something.

Doll in the fridge works fine.

+1 for the frigid doll.

Not sold on the doll, but it's at least better than what's there now, so a good placeholder until we find something better.

On a related note, the page quote isn't anywhere near this trope; it involves taunting the protagonist verbally, and absolutely nothing to do with anyone finding anyone else dead.

I like the doll. It's making fun of the trope, but it's at least clear. Perhaps we will find something better later, but it's good for now.

The current one works fine. Picture examples should work for people who haven't seen the show the picture is from. The current one is easy to understand. I don't think we need a change.

^I see someone getting a note about a surprise in the fridge then looking surprised. If I didn't know the trope, I'd assume it was one of those "the fridge hasn't been cleaned out in so long the stuff growing in there is sentient" jokes.

Just use sex doll in the fridge.

Not sure whether one or two frames should be used, though.

I like the current one most of all. The scene is set up very well, the use of the note we've seen several times with the trope: I get that this is about a set up that is meant to inflict great emotional damage against a particular character and I get that it is an almost absurdly gruesome death because we use the actual fridge with the "pushed in" corpse.

Whereas that cropped picture was bad at making me even realise it was meant to be a fridge.

Like I said earlier, looking at the current image, I cannot tell there is a corpse in it. It's just too small and low-quality.

There has been a request to unlock this thread. Complying.

Eh, I'm actually okay with the current pic. It's kinda blurry, but like Some Sort Of Troper mentioned, it does convey the emotional impact fairly well, and that's what this trope is primarily about.

The fact that the corpse isn't clearly visible isn't necessarily a problem; we can consider it a Gory Discretion Shot and that's fine. It's not exactly a difficult leap to make.

edited 7th Nov '11 11:34:51 AM by troacctid

If we keep the current, I'd much prefer a cleaner version.