Suggestion: Soul Jar

I don't know why it was pulled but the accuracy in the prime epitome of the very trope "Soul Jar". I think it should be put back.

I fixed the link, it's supposed to be just to the work/trope page in question. As for the image, I'm neutral on it...it's a great example, but there's nothing to exactly indicate to anyone not familiar with LOTR that Sauron's soul is actually in the Ring.

That is just Just A Face And A Caption (JAFAAC ought really to be autoexpanding)

There's absolutely nothing about that picture that shows the trope. Being the "prime epitome" of a soul jar is just Fan Myopia. It doesn't matter how famous YOU are with it, that doesn't mean it'll demonstrate to anyone else just by looking at the image.

edited 27th Feb '13 2:42:50 PM by DRCEQ

Yeah, there's nothing that shows its properties in the picture.

The imagery would make it suited for Artifact of Doom, but not Soul Jar.

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Oh hey, what do you know? I did not know it was actually ON Artifact of Doom.

edited 27th Feb '13 3:23:17 PM by Enlong

All the more reason why it can't be used on Soul Jar.

Ha - I was going to say I remembered it having issues with not having artist permission before, but I see that it has it on Artifact of Doom. XD

Okay - GIS turned up this◊, which is not very illustrative once we crop out the text but is entertainingly already on TV Tropes' servers; and this, which is utterly amazing but needs permission.

I then thought to look up Rasputin, and found a picture of him telling you exactly where his soul is◊, and a picture which shows a looks-plausibly-like-a-soul coming out of it magically◊.

Okay, he second Rasputin picture looks pretty great. The only possible problem is that it might look like him capturing someone else's soul, but otherwise it's great.

Would it matter if it's someone else's soul?

edited 27th Feb '13 5:32:52 PM by AnotherDuck

Yeah. The Soul Jar trope is about a wizard or whoever containing his own soul in an object to keep himself from being killable.

I'm not sure if we hve a trope about trapping someone else's soul.

It's about the object containing the soul which makes the person immortal. I don't think the creator is relevant to the trope, though it's most frequently the same person.

Crystal Prison is the closest thing we have, I think.

This◊ is really cool. (From here)

that's actually really spooky. I like it.

Ooo, that's good.

That is pretty awesome.

That only illustrates the 'spirit in a jar' part, though... Rasputin at least implies it belongs to him, and shows he's a wizard.

It would be really good for Sealed Evil in a Can if we weren't already using Pandora's Box there.

edited 27th Feb '13 8:27:50 PM by Noaqiyeum

Eh. I'm kinda neutral to it.

My opinion is Rasputin > Soulcatcher > Headless Horseman Soul >> Soul Jar card

7.4

I'm worried 7.4 won't look good at wiki size.

Well, let's give it a look.

edited 28th Feb '13 7:08:36 AM by Enlong

There's some way to connect Conspicuous CG to that soul jar somehow.

I think you can crop out his whole hand in the right of the image, which will allow the soul bit to be larger.

Saw some◊ with his eyes glowing that may be more demonstrative (windows to the soul and such).

Not bad... Not sure if it's better, though.