Agree. If a good image isn't suggested for Accidental Hero, it should be left without a page image, I think.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
No, the other one.
It's just text, and a word-trope fits that much better.
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The picture on Accidental Hero should replace the one on Person as Verb since it is better quality.
edited 27th May '13 7:04:10 PM by Rethkir
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Agreed...I'm not seeing how that fits Accidental Hero at all.
I moved the pic from Accidental Hero to Person as Verb.
edited 28th May '13 9:09:06 AM by Rethkir
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Good. Now, does anyone have ideas for a replacement picture on Accidental Hero?
^^^ Because it says "To succeed despite idiocy." Weak.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
If we could find a pic of a surprised-looking person catching a falling small child, I think that would illustrate the trope the best. I can't imagine any other pic which would come close.
This is a difficult trope to illustrate, especially in a single picture and without using explanatory text.
Absent-minded professor and Neverwinter Nights DM Speaking of The Simpsons, there was an episode when Moe saved Maggie that way. That might work.
edited 30th May '13 8:26:05 AM by Rethkir
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That might work, but I don't have a video to extract the image from and the best I can find online is an image which I presume is just after Moe has caught Maggie, but it's not obvious that he saved her from falling. You'd need to either know the episode in question or have a caption explaining the pic, which seems to defeat the purpose of the pic.
These are the only images I can find of that.
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2 is the one I was referring to, but I really don't think any of them illustrate the trope well enough to bother using them.
The page image should be as obvious an example of the trope as possible. All the images I can find are not obvious at all, including the above.
Absent-minded professor and Neverwinter Nights DMHaving a frame of Moe holding his arms out, then Maggie landing in them would be ideal, but alas, GIS is a harsh mistress.
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Bump. Any more progress?
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This is the type of freeze frame you can only get by downloading the video first. Moe catches Maggie. Eyes aren't even open. Completely accidental.
edited 8th Jun '13 10:26:42 AM by Rethkir
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No, the other one.
That works. It's not perfect, but it does manage to convey a relatively hard-to-illustrate trope in a single frame without text.
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I can live with that pic/caption combo.
It's alright.
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17.2 is it, I think. It illustrates the trope fairly well.
If space allows, perhaps a 2-panel montage of 17.2 followed by Moe looking at Maggie with astonishment (or maybe 12.2) would work better? But 17.2 works well enough on its own if a 2-panel version would be too large or too difficult to make.
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A few more votes for 17.2's caption-pic combo and we can roll with it.
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Accidental Hero and Person as Verb have the exact same image. I figure it illustrates Person as Verb more, but it could go either way.
Any input?
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