Does Not Illustrate: Hold The Line

The trope here is about trying to survive a situation or undefeatable boss until a time limit runs out. The picture here does nothing to illustrate this trope. Is there a better one out there?

The image is here:

edited 26th Mar '13 10:53:59 AM by Beed28

Doesn't fit the trope, and you can't tell what's happening on the right side aside from the guy on the horse. +1 to pull...not sure how we'd go about doing this.

Pull ASAP. It's actively misleading, makes me think that the trope is more about a Dying Moment of Awesome or something where you're facing impossible odds but you fight anyway.

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That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.

Yeah, not quite a good choice for page image. Send it to the firing squad.

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It doesn't help the trope title doesn't make it clear this is basically a video game trope. It sounds like any scenario where a group of people have to bunker down and...well, hold the line.

A good image would probably be one where a timer is on the screen counting down till rescue. But none come to mind...

The pic is pulled.

I can think of an example from Command And Conquer, but the timer isn't very prominent.

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Does it illustrate the bits aside from the timer well?

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Probably depends on the screenshot, but it'd probably be difficult to distinguish from any other moment of gameplay. RTS games tend not to wikisize well.

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Well, some action + a timer isn't really illustrative. Can just as well be an objective you have to reach within that time.

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...wouldn't having an objective to actively attain fall more under Timed Mission? Hold the Line is more of a defensive/reactive goal.

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That's what I meant. It wouldn't be illustrative enough, since it can apply to more than just this trope, and thus cause confusion.

edited 27th Mar '13 2:39:56 PM by AnotherDuck

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Oh! Right. Sorry, misread your post.

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How important is that distinction?

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I don't know; do we have a trope for non-video-game examples?

That might be a job for the Medium-Specific Tropes thread.

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Currently, the entire premise of the trope is based on that concept. But as pointed out, it might be best to determine whether it should be a video game trope.

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Clock's up; locking for inactivity. No further action is to be taken based on this thread.

edited 1st May '13 6:08:40 AM by Willbyr