Is this actually an example?: Lampshade Hanging

I can't tell if that's supposed to be a meta-gag in response to another trope that took place beforehand, or what. There's not enough context.

I don't remember the exact context, but I really like that pic...at most, I'd say Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

It's from Oot S comic 546; the Dragon of the Big Bad has a Paladin captive and is trying to torture him for information. Information that the Paladin insists he doesn't have. The dragon mocks him with something along the lines of "You expect me to believe that generations of paladins have [risked the safety of the world] for the sake of some stupid promise?!"

Why don't we pair it with the relevant panels then?

Yeah, the comic really should be in context

Maybe we can try adding the previous panel.

Also, a link to the comic the picture comes from: HERE.

Nope, because then someone will just complain about the amount of text.

What's being Lampshaded in the picture is Lampshade Hanging itself, so it's delightfully recursive with just the one panel. No need to spoil it by adding irrelevant context.

The context is telling us what's being lampshaded, and then the pun is further handing a lampshade.

So the context isn't irrelevant. It's telling us how it's recursive.

But it's already recursive as a single panel. And the caption provides context much more cleanly and unobtrusively than a second image would.

It's only recursive because the previous comment actually was a lampshade hanging. If you don't know that, it's just a visual gag.

x4 Oh sh-

I'm'a go ahead and clock this.

It already has context: it's lampshading lampshading. Who cares what that's lampshading.

No, there isn't any context. There's a lampshade and a mention of hanging it, but I don't see any lampshade hanging in the sense that we know it as (calling out a trope).

I guess you could say that this is taking it too literal, at least this panel by itself. I don't see why we can't add the previous panel so it makes sense.

edited 14th Jan '12 11:52:33 PM by KaiserMazoku

No no, see, Lampshade Hanging means calling attention to a convention or device or whatever, and this frame is calling attention to that.

It's calling out Lampshade Hanging. It's an example.

edited 14th Jan '12 11:56:26 PM by troacctid

It's not clear that's the case though. It says it is, but we don't actually see it.

If you think that you don't get it.

At any rate, suggest an improvement.

I'm okay with adding a second panel.

"If you think that you don't get it.

At any rate, suggest an improvement."

The previous panel...pretty sure I've already said this several times

edited 15th Jan '12 2:37:03 AM by KaiserMazoku

"It's calling out Lampshade Hanging. It's an example."

But the hanging that it's calling out still comes from a previous panel.

No! Lampshading_1 is calling attention to a previous panel. Lampshading_2 is calling attention to Lampshading_1.

Adding a panel would not be an improvement. If you think it would be, you don't get it.

By suggestion for improvement, I mean a different image.

edited 15th Jan '12 10:47:28 AM by rodneyAnonymous

First of all, claiming someone doesn't get it is not that good a defense for a picture. Second, the first lampshading is still on a panel other than the second lampshading. That is what I mean. I'm not claming we bring the point the first lampshading is calling on, but that we include the point the currently used lampshading is calling on.

Suggest... a... replacement...

(And by that I mean "post an image", not "describe an image".)