Not only is she not talking to herself, she's not talking. Period.: Talking To Themself

@Catbert, It's not ad hominem, it's ad equus. I'm not attacking Adannor, I'm attacking the suggested image.

edited 15th Feb '12 4:50:26 AM by Martello

If you guys are done bickering, should we have a crowner, or wait for more suggestions?

My counts may be off, but we've got 7 definites and two sort-ofs for the Osborn pic, while the MLP pic has way too much contention for consideration (good for Image Links, though). That's enough for me to call this, but if people are dead-set on a crowner, I'll put one together.

As somebody who supports the pony pic, I'd rather you just roll with the Osborne one. This is why we have Image Links, of course.

edited 15th Feb '12 7:05:20 AM by ShadowHog

Add the pony to Image Links. It is better than extending the argument about it.

I don't like the newspaper one.

Surely there is an example out there where the reflection looks like it's something more than the guy just looking at their reflection? Something that makes it look like he's talking to himself. Like, say, the reflection being in even a slightly different pose than the guy in front of it? Mirrors don't normally work like that, to be sure, but that's a common visual shorthand to show the mental instability that brings about this trope.

...aw dang. There's a perfect sequence of Talking To Himself in The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya, but there are no direct frames of the two Kyons facing each other.

edited 15th Feb '12 7:20:38 AM by Enlong

I'm fine without a crowner. I hadn't counted the posts, so I didn't know what the overall opinion was.

I think we should keep looking if the best we have is that newspaper one.

I like the Osborn pic.

Can anyone think of any appropriate pictures from a comic that would at least include speech bubbles?

I'll check after I get home from work, but there is Momoka from Sgt Frog, who has an overly-assertive (if not outright evil) split personality known simply enough as Dark Momoka. She has a noticably different hairsyle from Momoka, and in her introduction episodes, actually become her own person. I think there was a scene where Momoka is looking in a mirror and Dark Momoka is her reflection.

If I still had Shuffle, I could look up the example shown there too.. though that one is a huge spoiler, while the Momoka example is more pronounced.

Ok, here's a comic:

That could work, I suppose. I'll see if I can find any good Deadpool images.

Oh, wait, I just had the perfect idea for this: Panel 4.

I generally dislike that comic, but that panel is great.

Yes.

Yes that is it!

Cropped the bottom off and UL'd to the wiki. Not sure how to format it as nicely as rodney did (using the default wiki formatting doesn't work in here for some reason), but for a caption I'd probably use the alt text: "Don't forget! Dr. McNinja is CRAZY."

edited 15th Feb '12 9:56:34 AM by ShadowHog

RARRRG, DEBOSS HATE DIAGONAL BOXES!

Okay, the Dr. Mcninja one is really good.

Adding my vote for the ninja.

Removing the black border from the rest of the image for a sense of symmetry...

edited 15th Feb '12 11:34:51 AM by HiddenFacedMatt

Upvote for the ninja. Downvote for the horse.

Hmm. I guess my Sgt Frog example was more of an Evil Twin / clone example, and not this trope. I don't really get the ninja one either.

Vote for this

edited 15th Feb '12 6:28:29 PM by Willbyr