Needs Help: You Are Not Alone

This is my first time doing this, so I'm sorry if I mess something up.

The image on You Are Not Alone is spoilers, and I feel should be immediately pulled (which I don't know how to do, but I think is what should be done, as per the sticky?). I'm personally a bit upset, considering I'm halfway through the series in question (Puella Magi Madoka Magica), and that scene is nowhere in sight, and I'd been trying to avoid spoilers.

I don't have any ideas for suggestions, since the only two examples I can think of off the top of my head are Rebuild of Evangelion (one of the movies is titled "You are [not] alone") and Doctor Who (as the trope name plays a major role in Series 3), but I strongly feel that spoiler image needs to go.

[edit] Reading (well, browsing) the Anime folder, it seems that the image comes from the second to last episode of the series, and considering that the entry for the series is 12 lines long, and only one line and 3 partial lines are NOT spoilered, the image is very inappropriate.

edited 27th Mar '12 11:25:19 PM by Mokona

Spoiler image soft-pulled (commented out) for now. Can anyone else confirm?

Thanks :) Although your suggestions seem to be about the words "you are not alone", which isn't how images are picked. (They should explain or illustrate the trope without any external context except possibly the caption, not merely be an example that someone who isn't familiar with the work wouldn't understand.) Links to actual image files, even if you're not sure the suggestion is good, are a kajillion times better than just a description.

That's why I said I didn't have ideas... those were the only two examples of the trope I could think of off the top of my head.

And the image isn't showing up for me now, thank you. Like I said, this is my first time doing anything like this, so I'm a bit lost at how it works ^^;

No, no problem, that's fine. Mostly the intent there was to link to How To Pick A Good Image and Just A Face And A Caption, which are recommended reading :)

The current page image was picked in an IP thread. Thoughts?

• reads the original post*

After reading all 7 pages, it seems that the first image that fit and people liked was used, and I heavily disagree with the notion that it's only "minor spoilers" that won't make sense if you're not at that point (I'm at episode 6 of 12, that's from 11 of 12, and I can tell exactly what's going on in that scene).

Trying to think on possible images, I can rewatch the last episode of Tales of the Abyss, to see if there might be an option in there. I just added an entry down in Video Games from that ("Even if the whole world rejected you, I'd still be here, by your side."), so I might be able to get something from that scene.

Awww, the current image gives me the warm and fuzzies.

If it really must be changed...

I've looked through the old thread and can't find anything I like as much. Maybe if someone could go through the beach episode of Ouran High School Host Club and find the thunderstorm. There, Haruhi is hiding trembling in a closet and Tamaki comes and comforts her. I'm not sure where the scene is within that episode and I haven't the time at the moment to look.

That's a lot better idea than my Abyss idea, but I don't remember where in the episode it is either (I wanna say after the eyecatch, but not long after?) and I don't have access to the series myself.

Crap, I can't think of what series it is now, but I wanna say that there's a scene in an anime (fairly recent, can't be older than 2000, and it was definitely released in the US) where one character (wanna say female) is curled up into a fetal position, and a bunch of characters reach out to her. It /might/ have been Ouran, but I think it was more fantasy-based.

Given that Nanoha is a Defeat-Means-Friendship series (or so I've been told), there are probably options there, too, with Nanoha and Fate.

edited 28th Mar '12 5:13:28 AM by Telcontar

I see several Funimation bugs on there.

Bugs are alright, though it's best not to have them. It was Funimation who uploaded the series to You Tube, and they put a bug in the corner of everything. It's a bit odd when the images are cropped and resized, though.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:10:20 PM by Jicragg

I'm glad that someone else hasn't seen all of Madoka. *On american fantime as well*

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:10:13 PM by Jicragg

Neither of those address the spoiler issue though.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:10:04 PM by Jicragg

I like the second Ouran image better than the first one (I think, for the trope, that the second party should be showing support over the first party going to the second party), but I think we should look for a few more options.

As for this image, I've read the previous discussions. Perhaps the image isn't what it appears to me. Obviously, if you've seen the whole series, it's not spoilers. And maybe if you haven't seen the series at all, you won't think twice on what's going on for it to be spoilers or not. But if you're partially way through the series, if it's not spoilers, it certainly appears to be. Please spoiler out any responses to this, so that I don't have to read them and become more spoiled, but it certainly appears that that image shows Homura dying, which I certainly consider spoilers.

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:09:56 PM by Jicragg

As somebody who's seen the whole show, I don't think it's a spoiler; without the context it doesn't look like anything other than her getting injured.

For, the record Homura isn't dying in that scene.

If it isn't a spoiler, then I'd much rather keep the current image. Without being told that it's a spoiler, would someone know that it was from the end (I assume) and spoiling and all, or could it conceiably be from elsewhere in the show?

I personally don't think so. The show has so much plot density that you wouldn't be able to guess the context of that image until about 2 minutes before it actually happens in the show, at which point it's pretty obvious what's going to happen anyway.

Then it should be okay, I think. (I've never seen the show in question.)

Mokona said "I'm at episode 6 of 12, that's from 11 of 12, and I can tell exactly what's going on in that scene", but Japanese Teeth said "The show has so much plot density that you wouldn't be able to guess the context of that image until about 2 minutes before it actually happens in the show, at which point it's pretty obvious what's going to happen anyway." Unable to reconcile. Maybe it implies or looks like something it's not? Is it a spoiler even if the apparent reveal is not true?

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edited 23rd Jul '17 2:09:10 PM by Jicragg

I don't think it necessarily looks like she is dying in the image alone, but the rest of the page might give that impression, it is not a Death Trope but it's pretty closely associated.

(Trying to reconcile the accounts so far, they seem completely contradictory, "it's a huge spoiler and I figured it out immediately" versus "it's barely a spoiler and nobody would figure it out unless they're that far anyway". Maybe it seems like a spoiler to someone who is partway through but not to someone who has seen the whole thing? But I am completely unfamiliar, can't say, just think "no spoilers in images" should be taken pretty seriously, can't avoid or un-see page images.)

edited 28th Mar '12 4:47:01 PM by rodneyAnonymous

@Rodney: Mokona wasn't correct about what she thought it was. What she thinks is going on in the image isn't what's actually going on in the image.

You basically nailed it there; it kinda looks like she's dying, but there's so much plot stuff that happens between where Mokona is in the show and when that scene actually occurs that the context is totally different.

edited 28th Mar '12 5:12:04 PM by JapaneseTeeth