Text is illegible: Villain Sue

I propose this:

Courtesy link: Villain Sue. You need to write the title in CamelCase like you would when editing the wiki.

He's actually saying "Most fun I've had with my clothes on." Urghhhh.◊ Could be resized I guess.

The new image is not my favorite.

I like that, I just wish the guy's speech bubble was more legible.

I thought we had a policy on no pics on the sue pages except like 4 of em.

AFAIK it's not really a set policy; we just try to avoid it because it's hard to do. That being said, I like the proposed pic because it's a good combined visual parody of and Shout-Out to the Trope Maker.

In case anyone's not catching it, the transporter operator's fallen victim to the "transporter creates a duplicate of a character" plot device, only this time it's made an evil copy of the original Mary Sue (specifically from the Mirror Universe), which is why he's saying he's gonna get fired.

edited 7th Aug '11 9:27:52 PM by Willbyr

If you want a smidgen of more room for a better scalling effect, you can crop a touch off the left side.

I like the Red Hulk better.

What say you of this crop?

Back it out a little bit so the end of her speech balloon and that bit of her hair aren't cropped off and it'll be better. Is it taken from something?

edited 8th Aug '11 7:59:38 AM by Willbyr

Ensign Sue Must Die:

this strip.

I tried messing with it, I can't crop it well enough to make it legible. Anyone with photoshop want to play with the text?

Give me a bit, I can rearrange the text in the last panel of the Empress Sue comic.

How is this◊?

I did some editing on the full size Hulk image Zikiel posted, and put it up on the page (since it hasn't been agreed to pull it, and quality improvements are a fair go). Here it is:

That works fine.

Why do we even need to change this? I mean, just because the text is hard to read doesn't mean you need to cut the entire image. Just alter it a bit. Just an idea :/

I like the Ensign Sue Must Die pic better for a couple reasons:

• I think "Most fun I've had with my clothes on" is a stupid line.
• This is a subjective trope, meaning that some people will disagree with the use of a real character. Having a parody of the trope as the image is much better, as it is not subjective.

Well, I wouldn't say it's a "stupid" line, but it certainly doesn't add anything to the scene. Your second point is spot on.

Prefer Red Hulk FAR more. The other one feels just more parody, joking kind while Rulk just sums it up perfectly. We have fixed the small words, so seems settled now.

And how is anyone that's not familiar with comic books supposed to gather the trope from the Red Hulk pic?

Looking at the image...what the hell does it have to do with the trope? The text being illegible has nothing to do with why it's a horrible image.

Don't like the parody one either. I'm for not having an image at all.

edited 8th Sep '11 7:49:50 PM by INUH

Crowner's hooked. Vote away!

I'll be frank, all the options are pretty bad. They just show a villain; they don't show them being ridiculously overpowered. To anyone in the dark of the marvel universe, the Red Hulk one just looks like a big red guy riding a surfboard and holding some kind of axe; nothing drastically overpowered about that.

IMO the Red Hulk pic is just plain bad, as it relies on the viewer recognizing both the Silver Surfer's board and that other herald's axe thing to get the "overpowered" aspect, plus the dialogue makes no sense. The Ensign Sue pic, at least, works as a combined visual parody and nod to Star Trek.

A character being named "Sue" doesn't show them as overpowered.