Supporting the pull—that's def'ly a JAFAAC there.
I'm not sure how this is picturable.
Rhymes with "Protracted."
Caption does all the work. Supporting pull.
Supporting pull.
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I suggest this needs two screenshots from the same game, possibly from Rayman. The first shows the cutesy friendly beginning (such as this shot). The second shows a horrendously difficult screen later on. For example, a shot from The Hard Rocks or the Pencil Pentathlon, where you have to meticulously hover between spikes, spikes, and more spikes.
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Pulled after vote. Also, the description has examples in it.
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Gentleman Troper!
Here we go. How about we combine the pulled shot with this hard one to show the contrast?
this one
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edited 23rd Oct '11 3:41:42 AM by Spark9
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No idea what's going on there.
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This is not the game alone. It's the expectation of low difficulty due to the apparent content, and the game delivering the opposite.
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Exactly. So you see a cutesy cartoonsy game which looks to be very easy from the start (i.e. the first image) and it turns out to become horrendously difficult later (i.e. the second image with all the spikes).
edited 23rd Oct '11 11:53:46 AM by Spark9
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The Other Troper
No, this isn't that the game objectively looks like that, but that a viewer thinks so. This is a reaction trope. Plus we don't see the difficulty there.
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Then how about a four-pane one?
| Typical early-game/"cute" screenshot | Content/confident reaction |
| Typical hard-spot screencap | Confused/surprised/shocked/frustrated reaction |
We don't have to use Rayman, as much as I love that game, but that's the way I envision this being picturable.
edited 27th Oct '11 8:16:29 PM by AweStriker
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Clock is set.
I would actually say the second picture alone would do. Have a caption along the lines of "See those whimsically large pens and pencils? They kill you in one hit."
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Okay then. How about a more illustrative picture, like, say, Rayman dying on one of said whimsically large pencils? It gets the point across: here is a cute fairytale creature in a land of giant pencils, which are deadly to the touch.
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Clock's up; locking for lack of consensus. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.
I'm not going to argue that Rayman isn't an example. It definitely is, but the picture doesn't show that. I'm not sure if there is a way to properly illustrate this trope with a picture, though.
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