Does Not Illustrate: The Assimilator

This image really does not illustrate the trope. It's a freaky woman in a red dress trying to either envelope or absorb this guy. That tells me nothing, aside from maybe depicting someone with polymorphic qualities.

If I might make a suggestion, perhaps a compound image of a person pre-assimilation (by one Assimilator or another), the assimilation process (or initiation), and then that former individual as part of the Assimilator.

edited 14th Dec '12 9:01:59 PM by Colonial1.1

Please CamelCase the article title next time. I already fixed for you, but for future reference you can use the blue page icon by the "stale discussions" button to do so yourself.

As for the image, I can't really tell what's going on because of the size. Is there a larger version available?

edited 14th Dec '12 8:23:01 PM by tdgoodrich1

It looks like... it could potentially, maybe illustrate the trope, in a non-misleading way.

T: Thank you.

Duck: Explain, please.

She does look like she's absorbing him. That's part of the trope, but it doesn't do a whole lot to illustrate the other and more important aspects of the trope. In other words, I don't think it's harmful to the page, so it shouldn't be pulled without replacement, but it's certainly not a good image.

I think that a bigger and brighter form of current bring Another Duck's arguments better through. Current, by the way:

Was this meant to be pulled so soon?

Edit: Oh, Eddie removed it as non-illustrative. Fair enough.

edited 18th Dec '12 3:45:27 AM by Telcontar

IIRC, that's Madame Rouge, and she's a Rubber Man, not an Assimilator. So Fast Eddie was right to pull it.

Maybe the Borg running off with Captain Picard◊, juxtaposed with the resulting Locutus of Borg◊?

If that's what it was, then it was definitely misleading.

Not entirely sure about that, since that looks more like brainwashing to me, which is a different trope.

If I remember right, Madame Rouge was trying to incapacitate through suffocation, not absorb.

Spitballing here, how about Hydra from Earth X?

edited 18th Dec '12 7:54:09 PM by Earnest

Hog: Hmm. If we want an additional illustrative Borg picture, do you have a shot of that one guy from First Contact with black material racing through his veins?

Hydra: Hmm. Makes me think only Puppeteer Parasite when just looking at it.

I think of Buu from Dragonball but cannot find a good picture.

This guy?◊ (Fetched from here)

I dunno, not fully feeling that one as "assimilated" - and the shot of him being assimilated looks more like he's being stabbed in the neck to death.

Here's a mashup of Buu absorbing Gotenks. Sorry it's messy, just kind of tossed it together.

It's very large, but it works downsized too, since it's not too detailed.

Here's a resized, cleaner version.

Still large, but it works.

Is the first panel necessary?

I'd say so, in order to establish exactly who's been assimilated.

You guys made me realize that the first panel, while necessary, doesn't need to be that big. Did some cropping and scaling, how's it look now?

250:

Better composition, but I prefer the previous last-frame, since his expression further illustrates the trope. It's as if he's saying that the new powers (or whatever he got out of it) are his.

That version is good, but taking it to 300 would make the smaller panels a bit more clear...either of the last panels is fine.

edited 20th Dec '12 3:46:57 AM by Willbyr

Currently I prefer 17, but 20 will be better with the changes suggested by and . Both illustrate the trope well.

Okay, here's the 300 pic with the old Buu.

Best so far.