Suggestion: Down The Drain

There is a collage of this trope on Absurdly Spacious Sewer. Why don't we bring it here?

Because the current image looks good enough?

I don't understand the suggestion. Both articles have an image. Is it "swap them"?

I see no reason to fiddle with either pic.

Absurdly Spacious Sewer applies to non-video game examples, right? Why does it only has video game examples for its image, when Down the Drain is video game exclusive?

Absurdly Spacious Sewer is about all media. Down the Drain is a trope about video game levels.

Both pages are fine.

Absurdly Spacious Sewer's video game section is not excessively long either, so I don't think the image is confusing readers.

I propose do nothing.

My point is that this is a textbook case of the ol' Subtrope Image Syndrome: where a page gets an image that fits on a subtrope just as well. (Another example that im to lazy to go fix rite now is I'm a Humanitarian vs. Eats Babies.) Since the collage is overall more detailed than the one up here, I think it should go on the most specific page that it fits on.

And IIRC, don't most of the Video Game Settings have collages?

The suggestion is put the current image for ASS on DtD. "Swap them" could be done, but I'd prefer to get a non video game example for ASS.

edited 18th Jan '13 3:30:33 PM by TropeEater

Some Video Game Settings have a collage. Not all of them.

I could agree to an image antiport under the understanding that the current image on Absurdly Spacious Sewer doesn't show much in way of a sewer (less than Down the Drain) while Down the Drain doesn't show much in terms of levels or video games (less than the current one on Absurdly Spacious Sewer)

Enlighten me please; what's an antiport?

Might as well add a couple pics from sewers so big you can give boat rides◊ and hold parties in them.◊

EDIT: More illustrations.

edited 21st Jan '13 3:41:51 PM by justanid

The first upper and the second don't look like a sewer.

Antiport means image exchange.

Actually, I have to say, if Down the Drain is the Video Game-specific subtrope, then it kinda makes sense to put the Video Game-only collage onto it and let another medium handle the image for Absurdly Spacious Sewer, considering it is decidedly not Video Game-specific.

Which is what's been argued, up to this point, as best as I can tell. So... yeah. I agree with that assessment.

Maybe some actual photos? London◊ sewers are rather large as the above illustrations attest, but Saitama, Japan might take the cake.

I was going to suggest the Saitama storm drains myself, actually, but I think London's might be more recognisable as sewers.

Saitama... Or you can get a screenshot from Mirror's Edge. Which goes straight back to those video games we were avoiding...

Video Games shouldn't be totally avoided; If a screenshot from a game conveys the concept of spacious sewers best, it deserves to be the page image. The problem isn't that the current image is from a game, the problem is that a collage of sewer levels implies that the trope is exclusively about Video Game Settings - Many other game setting tropes use similar images.

Also, the Down the Drain image seems fine to me.

I agree there is a minor problem using only videogame images to create a collage for a non-videogame trope (when a videogame counterpart exists). Mostly being that we tend to use videogame collages strictly for videogame tropes (compare Minecart Madness, Level Ate, etc).

edited 6th Feb '13 6:54:03 AM by Stratadrake

Clock is set.

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