NSFW/Image Macro: Death Of A Thousand Cuts

Even if it doesn't illustrate, I like the picture. It's funny. It's just that it's got impact-font text awkwardly tacked to it.

edited 31st Oct '12 10:46:50 AM by TropeEater

I don't think that is a good page image at all. I didn't even notice the character in the middle for a good minute. It's way too busy.

It also looks more like Zerg Rush to me. The way I understand it, Death of a Thousand Cuts is caused by one opponent doing a tiny amount of damage over and over, not a horde of them doing it at the same time. I can see from the example list that this is an Imagine Spot that is based on an actual example of the trope, but that is not what the pic illustrates. I think it should be pulled.

edited 31st Oct '12 9:38:13 AM by lu127

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Wow, that's awful, not to mention misleading. Pull.

The description doesn't say anything about it having to be a single unit that's attacking, and multiple examples are about a bunch of attackers.

The current image is not misleading, since it illustrates the trope, and gives the numbers for it. It's also a funny pun.

Keep.

Gonna have to disagree with you there. I can't tell for the life of me what's going on in that pic.

The Impact type seems sort of... image-macro-looking.

If you can't see what's going on, how is it misleading?

But it's not.

edited 31st Oct '12 1:02:05 AM by AnotherDuck

Don't get cute. All I see is a bunch of cats and some hard to read text that makes it look suspiciously like an image macro. I don't know what the scene is about or what it has to do with the trope at all beyond a groan-inducingly bad Visual Pun. It's not like this is a hard trope to illustrate, we can do way better than this mess.

Then don't use arguments that contradict each other. You either can see what's it about, or you can't. You can't simultaneously think it's misleading while you can't see what it is. The Visual Pun in itself is an example of the trope, so if you can see that, it illustrates the trope.

Also, looking like an image macro doesn't mean it is, and it's no argument against the image.

Now, if you have a better suggestion, feel free to present it. "We can do better" holds as much water as someone actually brings.

It's not an image macro. It's Akamatsu writing like that and the scanlators just translated it.

While I can see what's happening in the pic and get it, it's just not clear enough at a glance.

edited 1st Nov '12 9:35:23 AM by shoboni

I support a pull. This image is terrible.

It's not an image macro, that's the actual text from the manga panel. Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

If we replace the image, I suggest moving it to Zerg Rush.

edited 31st Oct '12 1:13:27 PM by burnpsy

Zerg Rush is about disposable combatants, which this isn't, so it fits much better here. Might still work, though, as it would be better than no image.

If it does not matter if something is an image macro but does not look like it is, I submit that it does matter if something is not an image macro but looks like it is.

In other words: the "no image macros" rule is because looking like an image macro is bad... whether it is or isn't, given context, is not relevant.

edited 31st Oct '12 4:23:54 PM by rodneyAnonymous

For those whose only problem with the pic is the macro-ish font, here's the same panel from a different group's scanlation, with a different font: [1]◊. The sfx and that shout's translation in even less legible in this one, though.

Heck, if it's that much of a problem, I'll fetch my copy of Negima! Volume 22 and scan the panel, since the official release looks even less like an image macro. Not that such a thing would be necessary when we have that (though I'll be honest and say I prefer the current).

Now, is the font the only problem we have here?

edited 31st Oct '12 6:45:53 PM by burnpsy

The other problem is that it's a rather busy image, from what I gather.

I don't have the cartoony art skills to pull it off, but what just came to mind was a strip as follows:
- First panel: Character on left w/dagger noted as dealing 20 damage vs. big character on right noted as having 500 HP
- Second panel: Left casts something like "Enhanced Rapid Strike" on himself; Right looks surprised.
- Third panel: Left hits Right with a flurry of stabs.
- Fourth panel: Left in victory pose; Right on ground with something indicating 500 damage over him.

Anyone think this could work, provided someone could draw it up?

Here's a suggestion.

[1]◊ "You start with 8000 Life Points. He'll get you...eventually."

That's probably the worst suggestion possible.

edited 1st Nov '12 5:24:18 AM by burnpsy

It IS bad. But at least it's legible, which the current image is not.

You're the first person to claim the current isn't legible.

I was thinking something like Franchise/Castlevania's "Thousand Blades" Item Crash. Unfortunately, good images don't seem to exist of it on the Internet. Fortunately, a lengthy fan comic◊ does; we could probably crib a few of the earlier panels, particularly the one showing it not doing a whole lot of damage.