JAFAAC: Giant Space Flea From Nowhere

This seems like a textbook example of just a face and a caption. We've got a guy armed with what looks like a rocket launcher, and some worm thing. The caption says he spends most of his time fighting poachers, but how am I supposed to know that without it? I mean, for one, a rocket launcher isn't the weapon that comes to mind when I think of combatting poachers.

I'm not sold on your argument... For one, you can clearly see the body that used to be the monster prior the "coming out from nowhere" part, and the fact that it doesn't feel "right" compared to the rest of the game pretty much is the trope. You might argue that the pic is a bit too literal, so what we should do is maybe add a first panel with the regular gameplay prior the boss battle, but aside for that, it doesn't look bad enough to pull, so I'm calling Keep Until Better Image Suggested (Keep Until Better Image Suggestion)on it.

edited 28th Oct '11 8:37:00 AM by plenum

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

(I feel so good writing that. It's a beautiful word.)

Honestly, I don't think it's even possible to lampshade or have someone talking about the Giant Space Flea unless it's a webcomic that is Genre Savvy about TV Tropes, and actually read about the article.

In other words: The point of the trope is that it's designed to be JAFAAC. Take Our Word for It has to apply, because it just comes out of nowhere without anyone suspecting it to happen.

Seconding the Keep Until Better Image Suggested. The fact that you can see the giant worm popping out of the guy's body makes it not JAFAAC because it implies the "coming out of freaking nowhere" bit of the trope. It's not the best explanation, but it's not bad enough to pull.

Seconding Thirding Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 28th Oct '11 9:40:58 AM by Bookyangel2438

Liking the Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

I don't know anything about whatever that's from, but it looks like the confrontation with the bad guy ended in the revelation that his body was a puppet for some alien thing — likely out of nowhere.

+1 for Keep Until Better Image Suggested

What about first having a bunch of frames of the normal game, and then finishing with this, to show that it's out of nowhere?

I looked up the game in question on youtube, and let me say that, it's... Busy. I'm not sure anymore that's worth doing.

The trope isn't about busy or not. It's that "this weird thing came out of nowhere, and has almost nothing to do with the story beforehand". So it doesn't matter what the other screens show, as long as they clearly show a setup other than the example of the trope.

Here's a nice-looking first panel◊. Interestingly, if you watch this video around 7:30, the game itself tells you "this is the final boss". Maybe we can go with a screenshot of that with the caption being "That's so out of nowhere that even the game itself feels the need to explain what's going on"?

I've put togheter a first draft:

I would prefer another picture or two of the normal game, and make the middle panel the last panel.

Tomorrow I'll see what I can do.

Here I am. So, what I actually did was taking a whole bunch of screens◊ and put them in a panel, 1 through 12. What I'm asking is to take a look a them, and then choose like 2 or 3 of those, then we can put them togheter as a single image to use on the page. Personally I'd go with 9-10-11, (I can remove the tank from pic 9 if that's distracting).

I actually think four panels would do better, going with 1, 2, 3, and 11.

We might even do that, since the page description is pretty long anyway and the image wouldn't clash at all.

And we can crop them if needed.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested?

Keep Until Better Image Suggestion. We came up with this term because of the allarming pull rate of the last weeks, it pretty much reads as "The image is not perfect, but it's not worth pulling either, especially if there is no replacement".

Basically a shorthand for a motion to keep image, but with a willingness to commence image hunt.

So. 4-6-1-11? It's kinda harder than I thought, since the game is quite unusual in its premise.

I think the eleventh picture is all that's really needed.

No, because that doesn't say "the hunters you don't see in this frame were normal humans with no hint of those beforehand".

I think it works okay with the caption.