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petrie911 Since: Aug, 2009
#1: Apr 11th 2012 at 3:10:21 PM

Apparently the image is supposed to depict her in Hell, but I'm not getting that at all. I feel we could definitely do better than this.

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#2: Apr 11th 2012 at 3:53:54 PM

That's a pretty bad picture. Low quality, and it doesn't show that it's hell, and it's hardly apparent that she's a Pollyanna either.

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#3: Apr 11th 2012 at 4:01:56 PM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

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#5: Apr 11th 2012 at 5:55:17 PM

[up] Not really...it definitely fits something, but I don't think it's this trope, not with just the character and no other context.

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#6: Apr 11th 2012 at 7:05:16 PM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

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DoktorvonEurotrash Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Apr 13th 2012 at 1:30:13 AM

Keep until better image is suggested. This trope has a history of bad images; the current one is at least decent.

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#8: Apr 13th 2012 at 1:48:29 AM

A panel or two of Kafuka from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei? (needs flipping and some of the smaller images in links would need some cropping (the latter I can do) they are normally much bigger.) we can move some text around too.

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edited 13th Apr '12 2:38:19 AM by Raso

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#9: Apr 13th 2012 at 3:15:46 AM

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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#10: Apr 13th 2012 at 3:18:18 AM

[up] I like it.

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#11: Apr 13th 2012 at 3:34:57 AM

[up][up] That's pretty good. The single panel of her with the trashcan is good too.

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#13: Apr 13th 2012 at 5:45:41 AM

The hanging one has too much text. The trashcan is much better.

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#14: Apr 13th 2012 at 9:19:20 AM

They're both good, but the trashcan one is far more succinct.

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#15: Apr 13th 2012 at 9:31:19 AM

Yeah, huh. The "growing taller" comic's got one of those mangatastic "busy scene" syndrome. (Negima is particularly bad about that.)

I... Don't get that trashcan panel though.

edited 13th Apr '12 9:52:01 AM by Catalogue

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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#16: Apr 13th 2012 at 9:49:55 AM

[up] I don't remember the exact context of that scene, but she's trying to put a shiny spin on a full garbage can...it's pretty self-explanatory.

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#17: Apr 13th 2012 at 1:53:20 PM

The trash an does not show that she has gone though a lot of crap though (one of the big things about this trope.)

If Stepford Smiller is wearing a Happy mask The Pollyanna is someone who basically Is The Mask, anything bad happens they deny it or put a happy spin on it.... Nothing is ever bad to them. (Some are stupid, some it's a coping mechanism but they really think that etc.)

The four panel does the deny, Happy spin and backstory. The can does just the spin. The current image shows Nothing

edited 13th Apr '12 2:02:52 PM by Raso

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KaiserMazoku Since: Apr, 2011
#18: Apr 13th 2012 at 2:00:55 PM

I prefer the current pic. The comic suggestions are too wordy and could be mistaken for Cloud Cuckoolander.

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#19: Apr 13th 2012 at 3:36:19 PM

There's Robot from Gunnerkrigg Court

Here in the last two panels, the dialogue is good, though the accompanying images aren't the greatest fit.

edited 13th Apr '12 3:37:13 PM by ArcadesSabboth

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#20: Apr 13th 2012 at 4:26:15 PM

[up] I actually like the dialogue from that better than the current quote.

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#21: Apr 13th 2012 at 10:14:12 PM

Speaking of the current quote, I tried to trace the source to LXE, but it's no good. Truly is better as a quote.

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#23: Jun 1st 2012 at 8:37:45 AM

Pre-weekend bump for votes; the leader's the only one in the green.

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#24: Jun 4th 2012 at 12:41:16 PM

With the crowner as it is, and being one day away from a week old, I think we can call this. The new pic's up, potholed, and tagged; caption or no?

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#25: Jun 7th 2012 at 7:13:40 AM

Hearing nothing, let's lock up and move on.

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