Fan Myopia: Knight Templar

Go ahead with the crowner, if you must. I personally think we've got more than enough support for the two-bubble image, though.

edited 5th Oct '11 3:50:11 AM by tropetown

Crowner y/n?

I say go for the crowner.

Blank crowner's hooked, no time to fill it right now.

One bubble or two?

I feel like I'm asking people what sugar they want in their tea.

I'll have mine with one bubble, please. Flavored with some milk if possible.

I dunno, I think it really loses something without the second one.

The two-bubble image seems more along the lines of Glory Hound or Villain with Good Publicity. That, and it seems almost like the voice is coming from some communications device in his left leg.

The one-bubble image is fine. It is concise, and it goes well with the page quote.

edited 28th Oct '11 11:40:06 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

I like the one bubble too. The second one draws the pic into The Extremist Was Right territory because of 'fixed' as in past tense.

Things the second bubble adds:

• Clarifies the ideal he strives for and its scope ("Fixing the world")
• Emphasizes how noble he thinks he is ("The people worship me")
• Clarifies that his idea of the "Greater Good" is perhaps misguided ("The people worship me"—are you sure that's the greater good?)
• Helps distinguish from just an Anti-Hero who is willing to kill—the first bubble doesn't really get us past Shoot the Dog territory.

I think you really want the second one to get the correct reading of the trope.

Agreed 100%.

I can see how one bubble may seem insufficient (he can seem to be just vanilla anti-hero because of it), but it feels like the second bubble suggests that he's quite a megalomaniac instead of striving for a noble, yet (supposedly) misguided goal.

A Knight Templar in a position of authority is almost guaranteed to be of the megalomaniac variety, as that's the most common interpretation. We might want to split up the upper levels from the lower levels.

Definitely needs the second bubble to be fully effective; the added delusion implied by the second one really gets at the soul of the trope better than the first bubble alone.

If anyone wants to know, the work is ComicBook.The Infinite.

Well, this one has become rather decisive, so we can call it. The new pic is up, potholed, and tagged; if anyone wants to put a caption on, go for it. Locking up.