A couple suggestions.: Passive Aggressive Kombat

Found these while web surfing. They're from the Archie Comics series Katy Keene. And since catty put-downs can count for this trope, I thought either of these would work well.

Costume party.

Meeting on the street.

The second has more text (and the title splashed over it), but the look on their faces shows the "passive" part better. On the other hand, the first is much easier to crop out.

edited 27th Sep '11 10:50:36 AM by DragonQuestZ

Anyone have some comments on these?

I think I like the first one better.

The first one is a better illustration of true passive-aggressive combat — all the nastiness in the first speech bubble is purely implication.

Yeah, I agree with that. If a few more comments support it, we can just put it up (and thus avoid making an image picking backlog).

It'll be an hour or so before I can look at the links, but I trust everyone's judgment, so count me as a tentative +1 vote for that first pic.

edited 28th Sep '11 2:28:41 PM by Willbyr

Actually, I don't think the second one would work that well anyway, not without heavy text adjustment (it doesn't shrink well), so here's the first one cropped.

That works great.

Let's use the witch one. The second one crops like crap.

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edited 28th Sep '11 6:51:56 PM by Zikiel

Well I would have done a bit better, but the first one works on its own.

The witch one, definitely.

Well we might have a consensus already. Any caption suggestions?

"Stealth bitches in action."

"Ouch, burn."

"And I see you got the Queen of Hearts character down."?

"Someone get that lady a saucer of milk."

We're going with the witch one, not the cat one.

It's still a catty remark.

"Looks like the verbal claws are out" (applies to either pic, but it's for the costume one).

edited 28th Sep '11 9:04:59 PM by DragonQuestZ

Or "Katy wins! Insinuatality!" (as the Trope Namer work also played with those terms from the games).

I think the Kombat thing needs to die in a fire. It really just confuses what this trope is supposed to be about and it's causing the trope to stagnate. It hasn't picked up more than a couple of wiks since the last time it was in TRS. I'm vetoing adding any more of it to the page.

edited 29th Sep '11 10:37:24 AM by shimaspawn

Nevermind, doesn't work as well as I thought...

edited 29th Sep '11 10:41:13 AM by Willbyr

You can vote against something, but veto powers require some actual position that grants it. Not sure even the mods can go that far. Just the admins.

Not that your comments about the name hurting the wicks are invalid.

edited 29th Sep '11 10:57:56 AM by DragonQuestZ

I didn't mean official veto, more of, please don't let that be an option. The name really needs a trip through the TRS when it gets unlocked.

"Looks like the verbal claws are out" is probably my favourite of the suggested captions.

edited 29th Sep '11 11:01:37 AM by shimaspawn

Think we should have a crowner for the caption?