Does Not Illustrate: Delayed Explosion

The image essentially is another trope altogether (that "I don't look at the explosion behind my back" image). Now don't go say saving this image because it's TTGL, shame on you.

An image that shows a different trope is misleading, and should be pulled.

This one I'm not sure exactly what it's showing, other than an explosion and something that looks vaguely like a character. There's certainly no delay visible in the image.

No obvious delay —> doesn't demonstrate the trope well enough —> needs a go buh-bye

I agree, it just looks like something blew up real good. There's no sense of "delay".

Pulled it.

Wouldn't a three or four panel picture make sense for this? Like from the Dark Knight; One of the Joker triggering the bomb, one of him looking back wondering why nothing has happened, one of him fiddling with the detonator, and one of him looking startled and bailing after the bomb goes off.

That works.

EDIT: Does the image size rule apply separately on each pic or must the three pics be put into a single pic with that size?

edited 13th Jun '12 6:47:04 AM by Ookamikun

The total pic can be no wider than 350 px.

Yeah, the uploader complains if you try to upload anything larger. I bumped into that on accident within the last week, even.

Barring the Joker example, I've got an idea but it's gonna be tonight before I can work on it.

Any image, not just the image that was pulled, would look bad as a one-panel thing, when you consider that the trope inherently requires a beat berfore the explosion.

Just my two cents. I don't think it is that the previous image was bad so much as it is that any image that's one panel would be just as bad for this trope.

Okay, how's this?

Hey, somebody grab a shot of Mario blowing up the World 5 castle in Super Mario World.

Well to be fair TTGL is a legit example and I'll go and try to get screencaps that show the delay The one panel fails honestly.

Veeeery much not a fan of mspaint pic up there >_>

edited 19th Jul '12 6:51:23 AM by Adannor

Just curious - because of the concept or the art? Paint's all I have to work with.

The art =/
It works, but I'd prefer something more substantial if it could be found.

(Not saying that TTGL would be instantly perfect - it's usually quite unfit for illustrations - but it's went and grabbed the first spot on the things to check.)

edited 19th Jul '12 7:11:58 AM by Adannor

I'd rather have a picture from a work, if it's all the same to you.

I'd much prefer the Joker example, personally, or any media example, but until we get one...

Took a few shots of SMW castle #5: [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊ [4]◊ [5]◊ [6]◊ [7]◊ [8]◊ [9]◊

Here's the combination I liked best: [10]◊ but I'm not sure about it. Which panels do you guys want?

Sorry about the quality, this was the best video I could find right now. I'll redo it if someone can find a better vid.

edited 19th Jul '12 8:14:19 AM by bananasloth

Looks good. Could be smaller, though.

Really, REALLY blurry. Good concept, but I think we'll need an emulator rip, not a video rip.

edited 19th Jul '12 8:40:20 AM by ShadowHog

In the interest of giving them all a fair shot, here's a two-panel version of the thing that was cut. As I said, a one panel example would make any example look bad for this trope.

edited 19th Jul '12 9:08:19 AM by Enlong

(work in progress)

edited 19th Jul '12 9:29:27 PM by Stratadrake

Clock is set.

23 or some variation of those panels is good, I think.