Suggestion: Reverse Arm Fold

While dealing with Stock Poses (link), I've noticed that Reverse Arm-Fold doesn't have an image. I think this one from Hornblower could work.

That looks good. It has my support.

I like. I'd prefer this over the the thumnail on Stock Poses as well.

to the image both here and as a replacement for the thumbnail on Stock Poses.

Hrm, they're not as clear as I would like, but this trope just makes me think of Pai Mei:

Like this◊

Or this◊.

They both really sell a lot more of the description than the other suggestion, fitting the first two numbered points. They're just... not as clear as I'd like.

Oh, I knew the Hornblower example reminded me of something, but couldn't remember it until now:
General Iroh from The Legend OF Korra

edited 6th May '13 9:27:01 PM by Rethkir

The bad thing about the images is that he's shown from his side.

Captain Pellew sells the last numbered point perfectly, and I really like how his young protegé imitates this stock pose.

I get that Pai Mei is more known to mainstream and if we find a good picture of him, I'll probably be ok with it. But I'd also like to point out that in old image pickin' threads I read complaints that some fandoms are always preferred for page pictures, like the Pony show, The Simpsons and anime/manga in general. I personally don't mind those, and I usually like The Simpsons because they're very recognizable and people can connect them with the characters as the show is watched nearly everywhere and nearly everyone has watched it at some point.

That said, I would welcome more diversity. Quentin Tarantino's films are chosen as image pages a lot, so why not to have something little more obscure?

If that's my inner crazy fan girl talking, please forgive me. As I said above, if you find a good picture of Pai Mei, I wouldn't mind at all.

Bump; any objections to just rolling with the OP?

Nope

Love it. Go for it.

I thought I'd be home tonight to work on this, but such ain't the case. Can someone upload and add the OP? Thanks in advance.

Uploaded and potholed. It's already at wiki size, so I didn't do anything besides rename the file. BTW, there is something wrong with images being displayed today. This seems to be resolved by removing "static" from the link, which I did for this, but it seems to be affecting everything else. I first thought my phone was acting up.

edited 8th May '13 7:42:31 PM by Rethkir

There's a hardware/software manipulation thing going on that's causing some short term wonkieness but should result in better performance long term. There's a headline to that effect over <——— there. Taking out the "static" from the URL may have fixed it now, but it will be broken when that chamgeover is complete. I've restored it.

edited 8th May '13 7:49:20 PM by Madrugada

Caption or no?

Hrmm, I was just coming over to say Contemplative Boss had a pretty good image for this trope (if you ignore how friggin' artifacted it is - quality upgrade needed there desperately). Guess I'm a little late...

I'm not familiar with the source, so I'll start a discussion for a better quality image.

But the thing is that we don|t want the same picture for two distinct tropes.

I'd like a caption on the page. I'll try to think of something.

Obviously. My intent would've been to move that image here and find a better image for that trope there.

I actually quite like the pic on Contemplative Boss for that page...the suit, overall environment, and his posture convey the trope very well to me.

The new pic looks much better by the way.

Bump; anyone else?

Hearing nothing, let's lock up.