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#1: Nov 5th 2011 at 5:00:29 AM

Well, it's just a lady in bondage gear, but isn't doing anything that looks remotely evil.

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#2: Nov 5th 2011 at 7:11:23 AM

Motion to pull

Doesn't demonstrate the trope.

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#4: Nov 7th 2011 at 1:43:52 AM

Pull. It's just an S&M pinup and a caption.

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#6: Nov 9th 2011 at 5:30:03 PM

"Motion to pull"

So appropriate for this thread. evil grinevil grinevil grin

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#7: Nov 9th 2011 at 7:15:00 PM

I think it's supposed to work in tandem with the caption. That is, it provides a conventionally attractive (i.e. smoking hot) woman in bondage gear and declares in the caption that if you find her attractive, you are a bad person.

Not sure it that's optimal, but you have to give it credits for that.

Anyway. Mental image: Obviously Evil character harrassing someone in bondage gear. Are there even worksafe versions around for that?

edited 9th Nov '11 7:16:30 PM by Catalogue

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#8: Nov 9th 2011 at 8:24:58 PM

[up] Maybe something from the Hellraiser series?

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#9: Nov 9th 2011 at 9:06:36 PM

Pulled.

If you think this woman is sexy, then YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON! FOR SHAME.

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#10: Nov 10th 2011 at 2:04:27 AM

Well, I'm sure whoever put that picture there didn't intend it as an actual illustration. More like a joke regarding the trope.

Suggestion for more serious illustration: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossover_%28Star_Trek:_Deep_Space_Nine%29

In summary: The linked page is about a Star Trek DS 9 episode where Kira come to the settings Mirror Universe. In this world she meet her evil Alternate Self, who's evil is communicated to the audience by her wearing a dress that would fit at a fetish club. The page illustration for this page might do, but I'm sure there's better images in the actual episode.

Caption would be something like: "Which Alternate Self is the evil one? The one dressed as if she's at a fetish club, of course!"

Another idea could be to find one of those drawings where the regular Good Angel, Bad Angel has been replaced by a woman in cutsey clothes and a woman in bondage gear.

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#11: Nov 10th 2011 at 2:07:28 AM

Buh? How does that show the trope? She's not even showing any skin, it looks like generic alien clothing.

edited 10th Nov '11 2:07:36 AM by Deboss

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#12: Nov 10th 2011 at 6:11:59 AM

I have to agree with Deboss on this.

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#14: Nov 10th 2011 at 6:55:40 AM

If anything that shows bondage is good, as angels apparently practise it.

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#15: Nov 10th 2011 at 9:28:50 AM

That, and it's borderline NSFW.

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#16: Nov 10th 2011 at 10:19:05 PM

...I'm afraid to google "demon bondage".

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#17: Nov 10th 2011 at 10:35:46 PM

[up]Well I'm not!

And it's not that much. Sure there's a lot of NSFW, but nothing that really shows the trope.

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#18: Nov 10th 2011 at 10:37:57 PM

A lot of Yaoi "Yaoi" Chains of Love and preachy church type pictures....

and this.

edited 10th Nov '11 10:38:30 PM by Raso

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#19: Nov 10th 2011 at 11:06:31 PM

@18

Yeah!

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#20: Nov 11th 2011 at 1:26:19 AM

Sadly, I don't think the original picture was a joke. We've had a rash of completely non-indicative photos off Google Image Search with a caption telling us how the supposedly illustrate the trope. (The picture on Humans Are Ugly was a similar kind of thing.)

EDIT: Wait, that picture is still up on Humans Are Ugly.

The demon/angel picture probably doesn't work either.

edited 11th Nov '11 1:26:54 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash

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#21: Nov 11th 2011 at 4:00:00 AM

The caption on this one could have come later as an attempt to repair, but honestly it's not that rash in my opinion. They use this technique of setting up a different context via the caption, which is valid, although probably won't be too popular around IP unless very good (e.g. the one on My Greatest Failure).

On #18, that's quite nice, however (correct me if I'm being Red Paint Defense-ish here) wouldn't it imply that the angel is a masochist? That is, she's into S&M just as much as the demon, only on a different role?

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#22: Nov 11th 2011 at 5:38:02 AM

[up] If that is the case then it would imply that she is having a relationship with something that is obviously evil.

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#23: Nov 11th 2011 at 7:38:00 AM

The one in 18 is a little better but I still don't think it works. The fact that the angel is wearing lingerie for no apparent reason implies that she really doesn't have a problem with what's going on.

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#24: Nov 11th 2011 at 8:08:21 AM

Just asking for clarification here. Does the trope means bondage itself is bad, or does it means people who practice bondage are bad people?

edited 11th Nov '11 8:38:38 AM by Blurring

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#25: Nov 11th 2011 at 8:37:29 AM

I think it explicitly says the latter, and implicitly suggests the former.

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