A suggestion : Armor Piercing Slap

The problem with the current picture is that

• 1. It looks too much like an example of Get A Hold Of Yourself Man.
• 2. The character in question being slapped (even if most of him is out of the picture) is not known for being physically strong and thus lacks the "armor" portion of this trope.
• 3. The picture itself doesn't show the hero in pain, and thus it lacks the "piercing" portion of the trope.

Currently the trope has a discussion do to the fact that too many people were misusing it in place of what would properly be Get A Hold Of Yourself Man, and I have a feeling that this image has contributed to that misuse by giving people the wrong idea of what the trope is about.

So my suggestion is this◊ image. Admittedly, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that great, but it gives the visitor to the page a better idea of what the trope is about.

edited 2nd Feb '12 12:31:03 PM by StubbyPenguin

"Admittedly, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that great, but it gives the visitor to the page a better idea of what the trope is about."

That's exactly what I was going to say. It isn't perfect, but your suggestion could seriously cut down on the misuse of this trope.

Motion to replace. (unless someone comes up with an even better suggestion)

edited 2nd Feb '12 1:45:49 PM by abk0100

I can't look at it right now, but I agree that the current pic doesn't represent the trope very well.

The concept of the suggestion is vastly superior to what's up there now, although the image quality itself isn't that great. Is there another version out there with less artifacting?

Found a clearer version with TinEye◊ Doesn't have the text, but that may as well be the caption, right?

Sounds good to me. Definitely better than what's up there now.

Sounds good. It would also mean that we don't have to have a picture with improper grammar on it, as I'm pretty sure that the plural of Anime is Anime.

It's definitely better than what's there, but I'm not completely sold on it either.

To be honest, I really dislike the new suggestion.

A few more:

[1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊

edited 3rd Feb '12 9:23:15 AM by redhed311

I think 2 and 3 would work.

Is there any more you can draw on from those pictures' sources? The trope isn't limited to slaps and we want to avoid pictures that are just a woman slapping a man (that's not this trope) this trope is more like "The forces of evil hath no fury like a woman scorned"; when someone supposedly strong pisses of a woman it will hurt him no matter what, possibly more than the villains (hence armor-piercing).

That is not taking trope-decay into consideration, unless we want to embrace it.

So basically we want to avoid the same problems that the current image has.

edited 3rd Feb '12 11:47:48 AM by StubbyPenguin

Got one of Superman being slapped by Lois Lane? That'd probably work.

I usually think of Lina Inverse whacking Xellos on the head when I think of an Armor Piercing Slap.

edited 3rd Feb '12 10:55:20 PM by evilneko

You know, that would be perfect, but the only problem is that I can't think of anywhere that happens. I'm pretty sure it has happened, but I can't think of where. I mean the superman thing,I don't know who Lina and Xellos are.

edited 4th Feb '12 7:04:08 AM by StubbyPenguin

I think in the All Star Superman comics Lois slaps Superman when he reveals his scret identity to her, I'm not sure though, but there are a few continuities where she slaps him when he reveals the whole façade to her.

Alternatively, there is a widow who slaps Superman, complaining that he could have saved her husband.

In both cases, don't have any picture with me.

There's the scene where Rachel slaps Bruce in Batman Begins, but I dunno how well it would make for a static pic.

I looked up that scene and its an actual example of Get A Hold Of Yourself Man,

My Google-fu turned out to be too weak in my search of a picture of Lois slapping Superman, also, the widow slapping superman is a bit of a subversion in that it doesn't hurt him physically but deeply effects him psychologically afterwards.

edited 7th Feb '12 7:49:52 PM by StubbyPenguin

Yeah, I also couldn't find Lois slapping Supes. Disappointing really.

Chichi slapping Goku? James Bond getting slapped?

Bump. (Are we changing the image?)

Clock is set.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.