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I'm going to call foul just because it's so damn big...
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The top two rows are all that apply to the trope. The bottom two rows are pointless.
Crop it thus:
edited 24th Aug '11 4:31:45 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
BWAAAH!
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It was too adorable to pass up
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BWAAAH!
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Demonstrative and funny.
I definitely like that one.
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That works well enough for me.
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Well, in the meantime, while we wait for more suggestions, I'm going to go with...
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As per OP reasoning: too wordy, too big of a picture, and not enough of it is relevant.
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Maybe just this part of the comic?
edited 25th Aug '11 3:10:24 AM by Osmium
I see the Awesomeness.
I like it. The machine dealie on the left really gets the trope across. We could probably crop the rest of it out if we wanted.
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I like the 'adorable' one above.
Goal: Clear, Concise and Witty
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That's better, but it's still kinda meh for me.
I think that Schlock Mercenary page is not a good image source. Isolated panels are wordy and need stuff coming before and after to make proper sense.
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Bump. This is my original suggestion, the "adorable" one...
edited 3rd Sep '11 2:37:53 PM by USAF713
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I love the adorable one, it gets the idea across and is easy on the eyes.
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The problem is that "test-tube babies" is only part of the trope, and the smallest part, to boot. The important part is "deliberately altered before birth through genetic manipulation."
How about this one?
this one
edited 3rd Sep '11 8:58:50 PM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
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Accurately encapsulating the trope is the main point — surely more important than a visual pun, even if it is nice. I'm with Maddie on this one.
I find the test-tube image works against the trope in that the happy chap crawling out of the tube says "normal / ordinary" to me. Gattaca Babies are are modified.
edited 3rd Sep '11 11:16:47 PM by Camacan
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That's an interesting pic, I like it.
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Well, I'm not finding anything that's better than what Mad has—curse you, slow internet!—so, I'll support that one...
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I like Madrugada's fractionated baby picture more each time I see it. A baby divided into parts is definitely in the right area.
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this picture
◊ was suggested after an unrelated discussion in the 40k thread.
But I think Madrugada's pic looks better.
edited 16th Sep '11 12:47:55 PM by Medinoc
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That might be good for Uterine Replicator.
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God yes, whoever put up the Sclock pic clearly didn't know what they were doing.
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Over sized, wordy, and esoteric. Why, just why?
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