Bad Image: Sirens Are Mermaids

It's low quality and I have absolutely no idea what's going on in it.

Motion To Pull

edited 6th Dec '11 3:53:07 AM by KyleJacobs

Yup, seconded. That pic tells me nothing about the trope.

Thirded.

I see a guy, a woman with an odd flute, and some blubbles. I see neither mermaid nor siren.

edited 6th Dec '11 12:41:23 PM by ArcadesSabboth

Singing Mermaids = sirens, eh? Why not a pic of Ariel ?

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Just an idea..

edited 6th Dec '11 5:20:41 PM by MissMarionette

Sirens specifically means beings whose singing is a Brown Note that makes you obsessed with getting closer, somehow resulting in death, capture, or other bad things.

Bird-women and fish-women seem to be the two main ways to depict them.

+1 pull. Blurry and it doesn't adequately show the trope.

Support pull.

Some stuff I found searching around. They're not the best, but they're probably better than the current.

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edited 6th Dec '11 10:11:35 PM by Camacan

Really like that last one. Clearly a mermaid and the skulls help cement the whole "siren" aspect. It'd be better if she were singing.

Pulled current:

I prefer the first two myself... If their mermaidness had been more evident.

Post 9 #2 could work. It's got the mermaidness and lure-to-doom aspects down. Specifically indicating she's a siren who looks like a mermaid is tricky but the background shipwreck isn't bad at all.)

For reference, here's a cropped version at wiki size.

edited 7th Dec '11 7:54:38 AM by Camacan

That is a good pic, any other ideas?

I'm okay with that. It's a mermaid with skulls and shipwrecks, clearly confusing the two.

That looks great!

This trope has tons of issues really that pic really that is a real Siren in the way later folklore portrays them there are two types the original Human/Bird and Mermaid-like. (even though a Siren isn't a sea dweller no matter what they look like.)

Hell I dont see any Sirens in the trope itself, this trope has nothing to do with actual sirens really it's just Mermaids Like To Sing...

edited 7th Dec '11 8:23:50 AM by Raso

That's only true of the anime examples. Most of the rest of the page is talking about what are called Siren's in media. The anime examples just need to be cut for not fitting the description of the trope.

When I saw this topic, Siren◊ from Final Fantasy VIII immediately came to mind.

Yeah, she's more of the original bird-woman.

I kinda like this.◊

No so fond, the thing we care about is practically a background element.

Post #13 works for me.

Clock is set.

Post 13 looks very good to me. It's perhaps a pity that it lacks depiction of the musical aspect, but seems to me to show the core of the trope well enough that the lack isn't a serious problem.