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The previous picture was taken off a while ago claiming it was JAFAAC. (Jayne holding his gun endearingly, which I thought was okay, even before I started watching Firefly ) Any ideas?

edited 4th Dec '11 7:05:05 PM by hotrods4ben

Here it was. Personally, I agree with the zap. It doesn't show anything, just a face and a caption.

edited 4th Dec '11 7:13:35 PM by FinalStarman

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

I don't like this pattern. Joss Whedon JAFAAC is still JAFAAC.

That said, I got nothing. I never got anything. I tend to just be the pull-suggester and the Me Too! parasite on Image Pickin'.

EDIT: Well, that pic was eventually pulled after all.

edited 4th Dec '11 7:32:47 PM by FinalStarman

It's a guy with a gun, with no indication that there's anything more then that.

Support the pull wholeheartedly.

I swear, we had this discussion before and I brought up The Heavy, but nothing came of it.

Here he is, again.◊

edited 4th Dec '11 10:07:08 PM by ThePope

Also supporting the pull. Just shows a guy holding a gun.

I still like The Heavy better. See, that is how you caress a gun.

Supporting the pull. The Heavy is much better.

edited 5th Dec '11 1:43:06 AM by DoktorvonEurotrash

The one with Heavy looks much better.

Still just a guy with a gun tbf. Lets have some more suggestions...

We would need to rely on a caption for this, or at least a picture from a comic or something.

Dang, technically the Heavy picture doesn't actually show the trope (Naming your gun) but it certainly strongly hints at it. (Hugging it affectionately.) I do want to vote for it, but no, it's not directly indicative.

Pretty close, though.

The trope isn't so much just about naming a weapon, it's about the emotional attachment that naming a weapon implies.

Plus, he does call in the Minigun Sasha in his meeting video. I think The Heavy is a better picture.

He's a better picture, but is he good enough? Seems open to question.

I think the Heavy is Not JAFAAC.

Yes but then you need to have seen the vid to get the image's connection to the trope.

edited 5th Dec '11 4:38:08 PM by Falco

I like that page, very helpful.

I think Heavy pic is good, as long as it has a good caption to back it up; preferably a quote from him about it.

edited 5th Dec '11 4:39:47 PM by hotrods4ben

Quote, eh? Offhand, all I can think of is "Kiss me..." Which is one of the quotes he may say when he hugs his gun like that. Not sure how fitting it is.

Wait, wait, isn't the trope specifically about naming a weapon? The description doesn't in any way suggest that the naming aspect is optional.

We can always make the caption and image work in tandem a la My Greatest Failure, and it has visual cues, stronger than the Firefly image, but let's make decisions with that "named weapons" requirement in mind.

OK, if it's expressly about named weapons, then the Heavy isn't good enough. Unless we can find a comic or something of him calling the gun Sasha...

Yes, the trope is specifically about characters who are so attached to their weapons they give them a name. The named weapon is an integral part of the trope.

It's expressive enough, so why bother finding a comic of him if we can just put it in the caption?

I say it's not picturable, unless there's some image of a gun with a name tag.