Image already used, not an example, and carry unpleasant implication: I Did What I Had To Do

A soldier shooting civil, especially with the caption Just Following Orders doesn't strike me as a justification of questionable action for the greater good. In fact the implication of this are very unfortunate(the holocaust was for the greater good ?). I ask for an immediate pull which may be followed with a reflection of whether or not we can find better.

edit: picture already used at the trope Just Following Orders.

edited 1st Oct '11 11:53:12 AM by VioletOrange

I have to agree that it's not a good page image, because Just Following Orders is quite different from I Did What I Had to Do.

How about Krunch killing the gnome in Looking For Group?

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

Is that a real life picture? If so, I think it should be pulled immediately from both pages.

This implies, quite correctly, that my mind is dark and damp and full of tiny translucent fish.

Image is too big. Crop and focus on most demonstrative panel(s).

edited 1st Oct '11 5:05:19 PM by TweedlyDee

I TELL YOU HWAT!

Be more precise, please? The first panel is necessary to explain why he had to kill the gnome. The second line is the action. The third line is the actual "I did what I had to do." line. What do you suggest be eliminated?

...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.

I'd be fine with pulling the current pic from both pages. The LFG pic is fine for this page.

I suppress the previous picture
LFG picture is fine.
image remove :

Looking For Group works.

I have no idea why there is not a picture of Jack Bauer already up for this trope.

Kidnap civilians. Check. Torture my brother/girlfriend/friends for info. Check. Give myself up to the Chinese to be tortured and then be rescued so I can be given to some Muslim extremist. Check.

Do you have an image that captures that? I like the Looking For Group image.

Yeah, unwritten rule number one: follow all the unwritten procedures. - Camacan

The fuck is that?

"I like girls, but now, it's about justice."

Not necessarily, it at least demonstrates the Just Following Orders one.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

@ violettglass: simply being an example isn't good enough to be the page image, since the image isn't a written example, it's supposed to visually express the trope.

Fight smart, not fair.

I don't know; using a Real Life atrocity for something like this is in pretty bad taste.

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It's not even a good example of this trope, either; the LFG one is much better.

edited 30th Oct '11 10:57:39 PM by tropetown

I wasn't recommending it for this one. I was recommending it for Just Following Orders.

"The Daily Show has to be right 100% of the time; FOX News only has to be right once." - Jon Stewart

If you wish to discuss a picture for Just Following Orders, then you should start a new thread to avoid derailing this one. Until then I hope it will not be considered impolite to keep the article unchanged for now.

Clock is set. I'm good with the LFG pic.

Hearning no objections, the pic is up, potholed, and tagged. Locking up.