Duplicate Image (sort of): Artifact Of Attraction

Yeah, very funny. The image on Artifact of Attraction is completely blank. Now there are a number of tropes where it makes sense to illustrate it with a blank picture, but this really isn't one. The trope isn't about stealing, as the caption might indicate, the trope is about an enchanted object that everybody wants and fights over.

Motion to pull, the joke doesn't fit the trope and isn't funny enough anyway (and technically, this image is a duplicate )

edited 23rd May '13 6:12:57 AM by Spark9

...duplicate of what? I'm voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested until that gets established.

This one: Invisible Monsters

Ah-so...yeah, that's a genuine issue. I'll change the page tag.

Hmmm. How about this one?

That's a good start...and, IIRC, about all of that strip that's SFW.

How about these panels from The Ring Of The Nibelung?

edited 23rd May '13 8:10:39 AM by Earnest

Honestly, I think the first two panels of Oglaf would work on their own. It's... a pinecone. And he wants it more than anything.

The mermaid one is a bit hard to follow.

Don't forget Blatant Lies, which is also a blank white space.

There are literally infinite things you could do for that. S Uch as putting a beautiful and colorful image and saying that it's blank.

I honestly don't like the blank image for Blatant Lies. The joke got old on me very quickly.

Yes, Wilbyr, that is about all of that strip that's SFW.

Larkmarn: I put in the last frame because it's the box that's the actual artifact, not the pinecone. The first two frames alone don't indicate that.

I'm unsure about the box. It's basically an artifact that creates Artifact of Attractions, but isn't necessarily one itself. I think the pinecone itself illustrates the trope better.

I think #7 is better.

edited 23rd May '13 9:29:36 AM by AnotherDuck

I think the Nibelungen is actually a better example; the key here is that everybody wants the item (except Tom Bombadil, of course) and in Oglaf's case it's only the apprentice that wants anything, and then temporarily. It's not a bad example but Nibelungen is better.

(also, I opened a thread on Blatant Lies)

edited 23rd May '13 9:22:42 AM by Spark9

Gollum and the ring?

http://imgur.com/6W197uJ

That works nicely without having to state what the object is or his attraction to it.

Is there a better quality version of Gollum?

I don't think you're going to get a better quality image. I cropped that directly out of a HD quality screencap and didn't shrink it at all, so there's no image quality loss.

I do have another one with Gollum viewed through the ring's opening, but it's not clear that he's holding it or that it's the ring he's looking at. I think the one I've provided is the better.

Edit, also his emotion in the mentioned pic is rather ambiguous. Another reason why I prefer the pic I first suggested.

http://imgur.com/TQlzNwH

edited 24th May '13 3:48:08 AM by Melkior

The current doesn't work at all.

First Gollum is good, as is Maddy's suggestion. 7 is nice (oh, and be sure to view it at 350, peeps) but I don't care for it as much.

edited 24th May '13 6:27:29 AM by Telcontar

Is the pic just of Gollum? I can't look at them right now...if it is, maybe a collage of him, Boromir, and Frodo in Mount Doom might get the point across more clearly.

Just him looking at the ring. I don't like it since it's pretty myopic. I mean... it's a creature happy about a shiny ring (that's not that easy to see).

Is there a decent screenshot of him holding the ring, content, while falling into lava? I think that would get across that it's an attractive item since, well, he cares more about it than sinking in lava.

edited 24th May '13 6:29:43 AM by Larkmarn

How about "Our Precious"?

That's a good start.

It's a bunch of people looking at a golden ring. Only the guy who looks dirt poor is really excited about having found something really valuable to pawn off.

And here's an all hobbit edition.