Better pic yet (What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids?): What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids

While Pans Labyrinth is definitely a good example, I think it might be better still to use something that indicates the trope itself in the image. This◊ poster for Fritz The Cat does just that; showing one funny-looking animated cat groping another, with a tagline saying it's not X-rated for nothing.

Tag fixed (you have to put the actual location of the page in the little box).

That's toeing the NSFW line.

The Pan's Labyrinthe image is ideal. If a picture isn't broken, don't fix it. And that Fritz the Cat picture is a bit too raunchy for this site's policy.

The page image is fine as it is.

Actually, the current picture just shows a film poster. Unless you know it's a photoshop, it doesn't really show the trope.

It might be best to find a picture of a parent handing his/her kid something really bad to watch.

edited 15th Oct '11 11:20:07 AM by WackyPancake

Where did you get that? It's a great example; I'm just curious.

I dunno, I just remember seeing that pic a while ago. When I saw your suggestion I inmediately remembered it, so I searched "la blue girl kid" on Google Images and this was the first image that came up.

edited 15th Oct '11 12:21:12 PM by WackyPancake

We have that already on Animation Age Ghetto.

That actually works better here, since the picture shows mistaking an adult work for kids, rather than showing someone insisting all animation be for kids.

Huh.

I like the proposed La Blue Girl suggestion.

Yes, so do I.

Meh, I prefer the current one.

I can't be the only person here who doesn't know what this LA Blue Girl is. How does the image indicate that it's for adults? I can't see anything on the DVD cover.

I think we can leave it up to the caption to spell out that it's porn.

La Blue Girl. Have fun.

Caption "What clean and wholesome tentacle porn."

Isn't it generally frowned upon to rely on the caption to get images across?

edited 24th Oct '11 12:30:05 PM by redhed311

The fact that it's in the hands of a kid in front of a christmas tree establishes somebody thought it was for kids - the caption combined with that knowing smirk gives the "what do you mean it's not?".

This isn't getting the image across, but the context. On the other hand, we could pair it with a scan of a part of the box description that makes it clear it's not for kids.

Captions can be necessary, they just can't pull all the weight to the point that the picture itself is unnecessary. In this case, the image adds some important context.

If we do end up putting the La Blue Girl image on this page, I think I have a good replacement for Animation Age Ghetto.

Relying completely is frowed upon. Relying partially is not. Some view it that way, but the official stance seems to be "use it if you must, it's all right."