Needs Help: Fighting A Shadow

Regarding https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FightingAShadow

The trope describes a second projected existence; the defeat of which does not prevent the main existence from existing. The most common example would be one killing a demon; it goes to Hell, but comes back after a period of time.

I read the original "discussion."

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=1312842059016560800

"The image has nothing to do with the trope." "Uuuuuh." "No consensus, locking the the thread."

Is there any reason NOT to remove the picture that has nothing to do with the trope unless you take it literally? (Don't do that.)

The very nature of complexity of the trope requires complexity that a single image would not have. I recommend just not having a picture.

edited 20th May '12 8:21:50 PM by Andyzero

I think the general consensus is people would rather have an image that works of the trope than not have one at all. A visual representation can be more telling than a paragraph about it, or could cause people to want to learn more about it based on what they see in the picture.

As for the trope itself, I thought it meant that it was people really fighting a shadow creature of sometime. Inside it's about supposedly defeating the Big Bad, but you didn't really? But that's for another section. About the image itself, I don't know if it actually fits with what the trope is describing. I'm sure there is an image that can better represent it, I just can't think of what it is.

Well, my original title was Projected Avatar, referring to the religious/mythological term. (There's a description at Avatar). It was changed, not by myself, to "Fighting a Shadow" For a while, someone gave a picture of a monster Angel from Evangelion where the enemy was really the shadow and what they were fighting didn't exist, but no one understood the context of the picture.

Then someone changed it to the literal Fighting a Shadow" from One Piece picture which is NOT a case of this.

edited 21st May '12 12:08:08 PM by Andyzero

If the picture isn't an example, it needs to be pulled. (I haven't seen One Piece, so for all I know, the picture could be an actual example that just happens to look like a shadow-creature.)

Based on the villain reclining in the background while a shadow of him fights, I am inclined to say that it is an example of the trope. (Presumably of the fourth type listed in the description.)

edited 22nd May '12 2:16:01 PM by troacctid

Clock is set.

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