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MrTerroFace Destruction!!!!! Since: Aug, 2011
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#1: Nov 12th 2011 at 8:50:47 AM

The image shows no context on how this is considered a Big Damn Heroes. I know it's the trope namer, but isn't their a better pic to fit the trope?

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#2: Nov 12th 2011 at 8:52:22 AM

I THINK we had a discussion over this. Not that I like this pics anyways.

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#3: Nov 12th 2011 at 6:54:20 PM

I'm gonna say Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Catalogue A pocketful of saudade. from where the good times are Since: Sep, 2009
A pocketful of saudade.
#4: Nov 12th 2011 at 7:48:38 PM

Unless it's grandfathered in, I say pull that thing.

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nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#5: Nov 12th 2011 at 8:22:22 PM

I'm reasonably certain this has the Grandfather Clause behind it. Not going to shed many tears if it goes, though.

Minister Do Not Go Gentle Since: Jul, 2011 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#6: Nov 14th 2011 at 2:52:14 PM

Replace it, maybe? Though it'll be a new kind of hell finding a better picture for Firefly.

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ChaoticNovelist Since: Jun, 2010
#7: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:32:05 PM

When I look at the pic, I imagine them bursting in some place. I like it; I think it works. Unless of course someone has something better.

KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#8: Nov 14th 2011 at 3:41:42 PM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
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#9: Nov 14th 2011 at 4:59:21 PM

What DOES Keep Until Better Image Suggested mean, by the way?

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#10: Nov 14th 2011 at 5:19:52 PM

Keep until better image suggestion

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#11: Nov 14th 2011 at 5:41:32 PM

We really should make a page for Keep Until Better Image Suggested, just so we can link people to it.

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nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#13: Nov 14th 2011 at 6:13:34 PM

[up]It's listed on that page, but it doesn't have it's own page like everything else does. It's not a matter for this thread, though.

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ArtemisStrong Wizard/Father of Tom from The Mended Drum Since: Jun, 2011
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#14: Nov 14th 2011 at 7:18:29 PM

I don't think this is even KUBIK (or whatever the hell you youngsters are callin' it these days). It's people with guns drawn and serious, ready-for-fight expressions who are posed dynamically in dramatic lighting that lends the figures a feeling of forward momentum, as if they just burst through the bay door behind them. It shows what the trope page describes—the moment and not the heroes.

Heck, I like it, and I've never even seen Firefox, or whatever this show is called.

Get a slant at this glossary of Pulp Detective terms. It rates. Pipe that?
nrjxll Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Not war
#15: Nov 14th 2011 at 7:55:09 PM

It doesn't show them actually rescuing anyone, though. Fits better for something like Dynamic Entry.

That said, I'm not going to mind terribly if this is allowed to stay. But I'm not going to try particularly hard to defend it, either.

Edit: Okay, Dynamic Entry isn't the trope I thought it was, but you get my point. This definitely shows heroes (well, a group of characters, but I think the page is context for that) showing up in a dramatic fashion, but it doesn't show the fact that they're coming to the rescue, which is the key part of the trope.

edited 14th Nov '11 7:56:42 PM by nrjxll

Catalogue A pocketful of saudade. from where the good times are Since: Sep, 2009
A pocketful of saudade.
#16: Nov 14th 2011 at 10:28:03 PM

(Disregard)

edited 14th Nov '11 10:39:18 PM by Catalogue

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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