Just a Face and a Caption: Tomato In The Mirror

I don't get what I'm supposed to be seeing here, it's just a guy looking at a mirror with something written on it. The caption doesn't help either. No suggestions come to mind, but I think the current should be pulled.

Current picture:

I don't get it either.

Old thread. Conclusion there was to change the caption.

I think it's a weak Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

I don't get it either. It also looks like a spoiler. Then again, it is a spoiler trope.

It's kind of a Late-Arrival Spoiler... as in, the very first episode. I wouldn't worry about that.

But it's a tremendously weak image. It illustrates "mirror" and it is an example of Tomato in the Mirror, but the image itself just illustrates a hate crime, nothing about it being surprising to her that she's a tomato.

I'd be fine with a pull.

EDIT: It's a Bad Snowclone off of Tomato Surprise. It's bugged me for a while too.

edited 1st Sep '13 7:59:21 PM by Larkmarn

I don't understand the picture or the name. The quote doesn't make it make sense why we're calling the character a tomato. It feels like the picture should be meaningful but it's not telling me anything.

You pretty much have to know the backstory of Battlestar Galactica (human/Cylon enmity) and have seen the pilot of the new series for the pic Boomer is eventually revealed to be a Cylon; that that model of Cylon exists is The Reveal at the end of the pilot that to completely make sense. The overall package works for me, so I'm voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested, but if someone can come up with something more generic that's effective then I'll consider it.

edited 1st Sep '13 8:19:30 PM by Willbyr

does this work◊?

Pooooooossibly.

That's much better. Maniac is much more straighforward than "Cylion".

I see "maniad."

I like the Sponge Bob pic, but failing that would still suggest pulling the current. Also, this should go to TRS to get a better name.

Pul the current image. As for the rename - with over 1000 inbounds, I'd like to see a good reason.

Don't forget that inbound counts are shared with redirects, in this case "monster in the mirror". If google is any indication, that is the commonly accepted term for this phenomenon.

Go with the Spongebob one :3

Caption should be his dialog. I think it was something like "''I'm’’ the maniac.”

Monster In The Mirror has no inbounds and no links. I admit I've been confused by this trope's name.

Yes, it does. Due to the way the software works, all inbounds and links for a redirect are counted towards its target.

I like that Sponge Bob pic.

If the page was titled Monster In The Mirror the Spongebob pic would work nicely. He's saying that he's a wanted man and a "MA Ni Ac," an insane person. Cylon on the other hand doesn't mean anything.

I see no monster in the current. I see no tomato in either and didn't see it in what I would pretty much have to know to make sense of the title. Having to try to explain it mean that the pic doesn't work for all those of us who haven't seen the show and thus not work in general.

Please don't speak for people who aren't you or have expressed their opinions. By "all those of us who haven't seen the show" you're including me, and I understood it before I heard what the term meant.

Sorry, but how do you understand it without watching the show? and please tell me what a tomato has to do with being a fake person or a monster. I don't know why I'm the only one in the dark in this.

Nothing, of course. It's a case of Everythings Worse With Snowclones, and a tomato surprise is actually an appetizer made of tomatoes.

edited 3rd Sep '13 5:55:54 AM by Spark9

Variation of the Tomato Surprise, hence the name.

If you look at yourself in the mirror and see a tomato, you are an tomato that can see.