Just a Face and a Caption: Breakout Mook Character

Breakout Mook Character. Speaking as someone who is not family with the game, I have no clue who any of the characters are and the picture really doesn't give any context on which one is the breakout character. I'm assuming it's the slime thing?

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edited 26th Mar '13 6:26:29 PM by Willbyr

JAFAAC, sorry, unless that blob is meant to be funny.

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The article has Left 4 Dead's infected mode listed as an example, as it lets you play as the special infected in the game and your goal is to stop the survivors. While I don't think it exactly fits the spirit of the trope unlike what is implied with the current image, there are a few screenshots to show this.

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edited 26th Mar '13 4:36:54 AM by DRCEQ

These all look JAFAAC to me.

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I actually like the Current.

Never played the game, but it's clear that the Slime is a mook, and yet somehow on the same level as the PC-looking people. I think that's as close as we're going to get in a single image.

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Ditto. I don't think it's that big of an "assumption". Heck Blob Monster are a common type of mooks for us to have a trope page for it.

So Keep Until Better Image Suggested

It really isn't though. It could just as easily be seen as a Non-Human Sidekick with one of the humans formerly being a Mook. And the picture doesn't demonstrate how the blob is a "breakout."

edited 26th Mar '13 6:26:27 AM by Lionheart0

None of the humans look like mooks (All look like stereotypical JRPG characters) and the breakout part is implied by him being the center of a V-Formation Team Shot.

I suppose he could be taken for a sidekick, but that alone, to me, isn't bad enough to pull without a better replacement.

edited 26th Mar '13 6:29:42 AM by CobraPrime

The mook isn't just in with the team, he's actually front-and-center. He's about a mook-looking as they get, being an amorphous slimeblob, but being put front and center shows that he's something of a major character.

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This is pretty solidly Keep Until Better Image Suggested to me. I'd probably alter the caption to make it more apparent that we're talking about the blob in the center, but otherwise...

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I like it. For such a hard trope to illustrate, it does it rather well, even without the caption.

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One character have been removed from that picture for some reason...

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Easier to show the pic within the 350x parameters.

I never played the game that the characters on the current picture are from, so yeah, I agree that we should pull it.

Firmly Keep Until Better Image Suggested on this.

edited 26th Mar '13 2:23:49 PM by Ghilz

I've never played the game in question, but I got it immediately—all of the other characters have really detailed costumes and looks and they're human, and then you just have this bland monster thing right in the middle. The caption even clarifies it's a main character.

Perhaps it requires some amount of familiarity of game design conventions, but it's clear generic monster blob is normally a mook, while costumed humans are usually heroes. Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 26th Mar '13 2:28:24 PM by helterskelter

Keep Until Better Image Suggested. Same reason as

"Yeah, it's a shame. Here we are in an underground cave with all these lasers, and instead of having a rave we're using it for evil."

Everything Helter Skelter said.

Changed my vote to Keep Until Better Image Suggested. The consensus is swinging toward that, so a couple more votes for that and we can roll with it.

edited 26th Mar '13 6:28:36 PM by Willbyr

Here is the image from #13, with the sixth character:

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(That is better than the current◊, I think, which is not max width.)

edited 26th Mar '13 6:36:36 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

I actually think that kinda obscures it...the witch character being so different from the other humans makes her stand out just as much as the blob.

... eh. I like the current better. The pink... thing is just visually distracting.

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As previously mentioned, Blob Monsters are a common type of mook, and she... isn't. I think the more, the merrier in a playable character lineup.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

I also prefer the current, if only because the way the blob and girl are posed in the replacement makes it look more like a pet.

edited 26th Mar '13 6:42:00 PM by Ghilz