Does Not Illustrate: I Believe I Can Fly

It's... a dude floating in the air. Menacing two other people on the ground. With a vaguely meme-sounding caption from an Abridged Series that vaguely sounds like the trope name but is potholed to a trope that might fit the image better (and would still be Just A Face And A Caption even there). Could someone track down an image from Super Friends or something showing a bunch of heroes flying in formation (possibly including Flash)?

I don't know how you would show this beyond having multiple characters flying but the current obviously isn't good.

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(Aquaman is flying and Wonder Woman isn't using her invisible plane. (5 out of 8 flying.))

edited 13th Jul '13 3:54:40 PM by m8e

It's better than the current. Something with higher contrast between foreground and background would help, though.

Now that I think about it I can't tell in the current if he's flying because it's his ability or if someone put him into the air. for 3

Suggestion, since it's practically the trope namer:

edited 14th Jul '13 1:07:26 AM by Melkior

Also no mention of him on the page.

So put him in. Be my guest! Or did you expect me to do it? I've never had a chance to see the whole movie! (I know, I had a deprived childhood. Don't remind me!)

The trope is "Nearly everyone with superpowers can fly." Flight is a very common superpower, although the mechanics/explanation varies. Peter Pan and the Darling family aren't an example really.

#3 is pretty great. (BTW Wonder Woman acquired the power of unaided flight—and the invisible plane thing was discarded—in the late 80s reboot. Aquaman flying is weird though.)

edited 14th Jul '13 1:58:30 AM by rodneyAnonymous

That doesn't show the trope. laconic: Nearly everyone with superpowers can fly.

This trope is when you have a whole bunch of superheroes with different sources of power and different abilities. But for some odd reason most of them can fly.

Huh. I didn't bother reading the trope description because the name made it sound so obvious. This might be a candidate for TRS for a new trope name, because if I was fooled it's not such a stretch of the imagination to believe that others will be also.

This is a candidate for TRS just because of dialoguey trope name and underuse concerns. I will probably take it there soon.

Many tropes cannot be understood by their name alone, and that doesn't mean it needs TRS, a lot of those names are great. People should always read the article before suggesting images. Always.

Point taken, but a good rule of thumb for TRS is to assume people will never actually read the trope page and use the name for what they think it means regardless, because history has shown that that tends to give tropers too much credit. Imagine if Melikor had first encountered the name in another context and added it to a work page as an example or a trope page as a related trope.

edited 14th Jul '13 4:04:44 PM by MorganWick

That would be misuse, then. The "acceptable" level of misuse is greater than zero.

Besides, my main point is: always read (at least skim) the article before suggesting an image. "I was misled by the name" will never elicit sympathy in IP.

This is the trope I think should have the name Most Common Superpower.

Anyway, 3/9 is a good improvement.

edited 14th Jul '13 8:06:00 PM by AnotherDuck

9 is enough of an improvement over the current to get a .

for 9 unless someone can come up with a better image.

The point I'm making on the trope name is that "I believe I can fly" is practically identical to the theme phrase of the song used in the Disney Peter Pan movie when Peter uses Tinkerbell's "pixie dust" to give the children the power to fly.

Anyone who even knows about that movie is likely to know that phrase and therefore mistakenly believe that this trope has some connection to the movie. In particular, it sounds like the trope is "I can fly because I believe I can". It certainly doesn't sound at all like "most super-heroes can fly".

The mallard's suggestion of "Most Common Superpower" fits the trope better I believe.

Now see, I associate I Believe I Can Fly more with Space Jam. Which also leads to a misleading conclusion. And even without the Peter Pan connection, I would still think "all it takes to fly is to believe you can" if I had to play Guess That Trope. But again, this is IP, not TRS.

9 looks good to me.

Who's the mallard?

The coroner on NCIS.

One or two more votes for 9 and we can launch it.

& Also the super-genius scientist from Endtown. A duck by any other name would still be a quack.

edited 16th Jul '13 8:30:02 AM by Melkior

I like 9. Possible caption:
"Flying: the second Most Common Superpower"

edited 16th Jul '13 9:21:04 AM by Rethkir

"Flying: actually the Most Common Superpower."