Suggestion: Forgot About His Powers

I suggest one or two panels from this comic for on Forgot About His Powers, but I would like some agreement and some help cropping and scaling the image properly.

That could work, but it's a little too texty. I'd wait pending other suggestions.

A suboptimal amount of text, but not awful.

A single panel version:

http://imgur.com/SgBhpXc

What do the visuals add?

Very little that I can see.

I could add the following panel where Elan casts an illusion. Would that help?

http://imgur.com/iAVel80

edited 23rd May '13 11:37:30 PM by Melkior

The single-panel one is out. It's literally all text.

Edited and added.

That works for me.

I don't think the comic works at all. Is there no way we could do this without words?

I don't think those visuals adds to the relevant part of the trope.

The OOTS pic is alright, but just alright.

Yeah, none of the other panels really add anything to it, which leaves a not-very-good quote.

Hate the Oo TS ones. Even with him casting the illusion, it adds absolutely nothing. Given the massive amount of Oot S on the site, I think throwing in another one that adds absolutely nothing is wholly unnecessary.

Don't judge an image by its source unless the art style makes the image difficult to understand.

That said, the extra panel doesn't really add anything, leaving this as little more than an illustrated page quote.

and I can't see how a pic for this page could be anything but "an illustrated page trope" without ceasing to illustrate the trope.

The problem we have here is the universal logical problem that "you can't prove a negative". After all, no matter who we show "not using" a power, it will rely on the viewer knowing beforehand that the hero has that power. But no matter how well-known the hero, we can't rely on the viewer having that foreknowledge.

It would be possible to use two panels, the first showing the hero using a power and the second with him in a situation where that power would be the obvious solution but he's not using it, but that produces its own problems.

Are we willing to go to the amount of trouble required to find and illustrate this trope without using "just an illustrated page trope"? If not, we may have to settle for the OOTs illustration.

It's surely at K'UBIS level.

"Keep Until Better Image Suggested" is about images that are already on the page, isn't it? There is a difference between adding a mediocre image to a page that doesn't have one, and removing a mediocre image from a page leaving it without one.

edited 27th May '13 2:50:18 PM by rodneyAnonymous

True, but a lot of people use the same vote for both things.

I haven't ever seen that. "We should put up a lame image because no one has suggested anything less lame"?! That's preposterous.

"We should put up a lame image because no one has suggested anything less lame" is not what is being suggested here. Rather, "this image is bad, but it would not be pullworthy if it were already up, thus it's better than nothing".

I disagree that it's better than nothing.

Let's leave this Blank Until Pretty Kickass Image Suggested.

What I mean is simply that if somebody would have put up this image without discussion, a thread to remove it would not be succesful (on grounds of K'UBIS) and therefore this image is acceptable.