Suggestion: Animalistic Abomination

Does anyone have a good picture of the Captain(Hellsing)? He's a) recognizable as lupine, and b) more obviously eldritch than the Beast, the current image.

Personally, I vote for Ungoliant or Coyote, who are more than just humans with a Lovecraftian Superpower.

Coyote would probably be simple to screengrab, but I don't think there are any "official" images of Ungoliant. Just fan art.

Well, I for one would like to see a better one first. Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

Also voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

This is true... though there is some really good fanart.

Coyote.

Coyote.

Coyote.

Coyote.

Coyote.

edited 28th Feb '13 6:21:54 PM by Noaqiyeum

There are a LOT of good ones from Naruto, but I couldn't find a terribly great pic.

I am rather fond of this one, though:

[1]◊

(The other reason I lean against Hellsing and Berserk is that they are likely to be removed from the page in future cleaning, much as they were from Humanoid Abomination.)

From Perdido Street Station: Slake-moth, slake-moth, slake-moth, slake-moth, slake-moth◊, slake-moth - Weaver! Weaver!

Ungoliant, Spider of Night, Gloomweaver, Wirilomë.

edited 28th Feb '13 7:22:05 PM by Noaqiyeum

All the pics in 6 are good examples but I don't think they'd translate well into page pics.

7 looks a little too humanoid.

edited 28th Feb '13 7:45:16 PM by Willbyr

How about this?

edited 28th Feb '13 7:51:13 PM by Noaqiyeum

Possibly.

Of 8, I like this and this best.

I love that version of Ungoliant - it's very obviously spider-like while still obviously being scarcely anything like an actual spider - but I think it might be hard to fit to page-size and keep all the details.

Oh - there's also Urgo-hem◊.

edited 28th Feb '13 7:53:17 PM by Noaqiyeum

I don't like those because of the fact we've already got a Giant Spider trope. I see that they're different tropes and all, but I think avoiding them is a good idea. Though the first is better, since it has little tiny human-looking arms too, but those are too subtle, especially once it gets shrunk to size.

edited 28th Feb '13 7:54:54 PM by Larkmarn

This image of the Captain is unfortunately a GIF◊, but it has what I'm talking about. Maybe take a single frame from it?

That is just a monster. This trope requires more.

A still from the manga may be better because yeah, in the anime it was a bit... wisp-monster-y.

[1]◊ Something like that? I still think that there are a lot better examples out there, and in this topic. Honestly, the Captain is not a very good example. Hell, Alucard himself in some of his "doggy" forms would be better.

This isn't just a trope about appearance... it's true that a good illustration doesn't have to be an example, but with a set of tropes that keep causing problems with shoehorning and a lot of good examples, we really should be able to find a good illustration that is also a proper example.

I mean in appearance. Most of the time he looks more like a Big, Badass Wolf or, in the anime, too undefined to be much of anything.

I hope this isn't thread necromancy, but...

http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1070

Would that image of Coyote in his true form work?

Technically not a necro, but it's at the clocking point, so tick tock tick tock...

As far as the image goes, I think it's too stylized. That said, the Mhoddy-doo (sp?) in #1072 might be a good option, especially if combined with the shot of Coyote above him.

edited 22nd Mar '13 6:33:51 AM by Willbyr

I meant on the top right.

I don't know what a mod-whatever is, nor what you mean by "too stylized." It's 2D art, they're kinda stylized by definition.

Coyote from 1070 is in a nice corner that's easy to crop, and I don't think it's too styalised (it's certainly less so than Coyote from two pages later). Good as the red-eyed black dog Mhoddy Doo is two pages later, I don't think it will make for such a neat image. Ergo, here is the Coyote suggestion.

edited 22nd Mar '13 7:17:34 AM by Telcontar

Actually, the regular coyote being there is probably also a good thing. It shows that Coyote (with a capital C) is both similar and incredibly different from the creature.

That's excellent. Put it up.

I dig it.