So this trope is about getting a Frill upgrade with a new form for a Magical Girl. The current image is just one form

So Showing the line would be the only real way to show the trope.

Many options here from the Pretty Cure Series. (raiding their wiki...)

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All one image but for the life of me I can not find bigger... even Tin Eye is failing me. (really making me mad)

edited 24th Oct '11 6:56:18 AM by Raso

All the replacements are pretty terrible. I can't tell which one is supposed to be the fancier outfit... the first four always have a pair that looks like a palette swap....

And the last two are blurry as all hell.

[1]◊ to [2]◊ or [3]◊ [4]◊? I mean how can ya not tell there...

edited 13th Sep '11 7:05:54 PM by Raso

Bumping.

Hmm maybe the moment they realize it happened and its assoicated powerup? [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊ [4]◊

edited 24th Oct '11 6:59:45 AM by Raso

How about a picture showing all 3 of Sailor Moon's main forms?

Twenty-four links is a bit much. It would be helpful if you'd do some filtering before posting all those links. Ideally, present one good image that very clearly demonstrates a costume progression.

Sorry, I just like to throw out all options I can think off and have available.. Deleting then.

How about this? [1]◊ [2]◊

Or this Taken Up to Eleven with 21 of them in the same picture.

[3]◊ [4]◊

EDIT man that turned out too small...

edited 25th Oct '11 9:56:40 PM by Raso

It might be better to have an outfit with "Season 1" written above it, and then clearly fancier outfits with "Season X" written on it.

It's not restricted to Seasonal upgrades though... As a matter of fact seasonal upgrades are the weakest and least noticeable Frill Upgrade the major ones are reserved for Eleventh Hour Superpower or next stage transformation (like DBZ) which is what those are.

edited 25th Oct '11 9:56:26 PM by Raso

Then swap "season" for "episode". My point still stands.

Episode? Nah Eleventh Hour Superpower versions are like you get your ass kicked and then transform due to some power like a Spirit Bomb effect. They beat the crap out of the bad guy then back to normal their normal in the span of a single movie or episode sometimes said outfit is never seen again. (I have seen the opposite end of the spectrum where it become a Once an Episode thing for a second transformation sequence.)

The key to this trope IMO is when a Magical Girl gets a power upgrade and bam your costume got frillier and fancier and running on even more Costume Porn, It just can happen a lot of different ways. (So Last Season, Mid-Season Upgrade, a Second stage Transformation Sequence, Eleventh Hour Superpower etc.) This is just how it shows visually.

Anyway I really like the three panel one 5 posts up now that I really look at it, it clearly shows the outfit upgrade and associated power up (with Power Glows, no longer banged up and other things.)

edited 24th Oct '11 1:48:32 PM by Raso

"Episode? Nah Eleventh Hour Superpower versions are like you get your ass kicked and then transform due to some power like a Spirit Bomb effect."

That is not what I meant. I meant "this is what her costume is like episode one, and this is what it's like when it upgrades in episode X".

edited 24th Oct '11 1:50:58 PM by DragonQuestZ

Oh... that wouldn't show the power up though.

On a different tangent there is this a transformation in progress [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊

edited 25th Oct '11 9:56:10 PM by Raso

The image doesn't have to show the power up, just that the dress is upgraded.

But that is not the trope this is the Magical Girl equivalent to Mecha Expansion Pack. "When they get their powerup they get more frills." That is the trope.

edited 24th Oct '11 3:18:56 PM by Raso

Are we doing this for what is being transplanted into Frills OF Justice, or the Frilly Upgrade trope, were were moving this to?

For the former, I think the ideal picture would be one that shows many Magical Girls with different costumes, preferably actually doing something heroic. Any of these with just one, or all the same, I say no to.

For the later we need to see multiple upgrades I think, of the same character.

edited 24th Oct '11 3:19:00 PM by NoirGrimoir

The thread is for the present "Frill Upgrade" trope not the trope that is being transplanted on top of it.

On the Trope Transplant thing I agree lots of various magical girl costumes in one image [1]◊ [2]◊ or composite... I would prefer to wait till that is up and running though.

Multiple upgrades isn't this trope "its a Power-Up equals more frills".

edited 24th Oct '11 3:38:04 PM by Raso

The upgrade is mainly the justification for the trope.

No, it is the heart of this trope, this is how Powerups are expressed visually like this in Magical Girl shows as no one actually gets Instant Muscles or anything like that.

It is literally the Magical Girl Equivalent to Mecha Expansion Pack (Frills instead of more parts) even that and this trope say so.

The reason why its called Frills of Justice is that Dark Magical Girl's do not get them till their Good Costume Switch then after that each powerup gives more frills.

Hence why I think this would be perfect they look more powerful after the transformation.

edited 25th Oct '11 2:49:30 AM by Raso

I don't see the upgrade that much. The glowing hides any increased details, and being beaten up looks more like something is just healing them.

What about seeing Sailor Moon with her locket as the Transformation Trinket, seeing her first outfit, seeing the Holy Grail as the transformation trigger, and seeing her upgraded outfit. That would help show that she gets a better costume with a better powerup.

It might help if you cropped the 2nd picture more, or found one where the background wasn't so bright. It makes the additional frills less obvious.

That last version's pretty good, but is there a shot of them upgraded that's not so fuzzy?

Hmm. This? NVM that didn't work.

edited 25th Oct '11 9:43:24 PM by Raso

It's too hard to tell that one is different. It just looks like a more dynamic pose. Please try a different series, Raso. This one isn't working.