It's blurry, it's bloody, and it's just not that good. I see what it's going for, but still.

edited 1st Aug '11 8:22:14 PM by Zikiel

I agree. It's just some guy who's angry and bloody and holding some form of weapon. I don't get any sense of him "running out of time" or "on a mission to fuck shit up before he dies" or whatever, he's just an angry guy in armor. That describes every soldier ever on a medieval battlefield. A case could be made for that and Ax-Crazy, but I feel that it doesn't illustrate the current trope as well.

Agreement.

Just because you can never have enough of it, I suggest an image or two from Cowboy Beebop. You know what I'm talking about.

Spoiler thought isn't it. Is there any real famous examples that where sleds?

The showdown between Obi Wan and Vader?

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Would anyone mind if I did a good scrub down and removed most of the spoilers? Or should I start a TRS for it?

edited 2nd Aug '11 2:45:36 PM by Deboss

I'll admit I'm new at this, but since it's suppost to be a Death Trope, with a note that spoilers abound, I fail to see the need to try to mess with the content too much...

As for the Star Wars example, I may not remember much, but other than to ensure Luke could get away and the Empire be defeated, and maybe his old age (which I don't see even remotely referenced once in the list of examples for any character), Obi-Wan doesn't seem to have much reason to have taken on Darth Vader. It doesn't seem like the picture would fit the trope (although Heroic Sacrifice or Last Stand, it seems like it would work).

It seems like it would be hard to have an image for this trope that people didn't know about, especially a spoiler heavy one. Knowing you're going to die and deciding to enjoy it / do things you couldn't do because you'd have to face the consequences / finishing that final mission, or at least planning out your death. (I could be very much well missing the point of the trope, though). I am new at this, though. Just providing my 2 cents.

If I may continue to be stupid, if anyone has the capacity to load images from a movie, Tony Stark litterally goes on a Last Dance in Iron Man 2...

I meant the spoiler coding, not the spoilers themselves. On most of our spoiler pages, we have a "no spoiler text after this line" policy.

Well, maybe we can get some way to disable spoiler code on certain pages...

If people hate spoilers that much, they can turn them off in their profile. Personally, when I'm adding an example to a trope, I just word it in such a way to have as few spoilers as necessary, which I thought was the policy.

Policy is to hide spoilers, but only the spoilery bits.

Yeah, the first couple of examples are pure white followed by natter.

Cleaned up some. Also, what the hell is wrong with people that they don't understand to put the name of the work out front in something covered in spoilers?

edited 2nd Aug '11 8:15:52 PM by Deboss

Motion to pull

JAFAAC; doesn't display the trope at all.

Bump, anyone else for/against the pull?

edited 4th Oct '11 6:55:06 AM by Willbyr

I'll second the pull.

I think the Battle of thermopolye from 300 would do nicely. It is a sled afterall.

I personally like the Star Wars one, but unless you're familiar enough with the work that you know he's gonna die beforehand, it doesn't work that well.

Took me a bit to figure out the password for my name.

Yeah, between the image doing -nothing- for the Trope and not even knowing where it's from, I'll vote for a pull.

I think the Spoiler Heavy Tropes should be pictureless in the first place. Auto spoils a series. (unless it's a horrible picture that doesn't really explain it in the first place, like the attrocious picture I remember on the Appocalypse Maiden Page)

Nthing pull.

Pulled.

Clock is set.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.