Poor Image: Waif Fu

Page image is terrible quality; both the image and contained text are very pixellated, and the explosion colors seem off (though this may be due to a color filter).

Anyone know of the source so a better quality replacement can be found?

Honestly, it's not a very good image in general. The idea of the trope is that the girl can take down guys bigger than her because Muscles Are Meaningless. River's... kinda just posing there. Plus, she's got swords and no matter how big you are, a stab to the face is going to slow you down.

Possible replacements:

From Chocolate◊

Ditto◊

She's not beating anyone up, but... that's a lot of bodies◊

Ty Lee◊

Again, not fighting, but a lot of bodies.◊

May Chang◊

Maka from Soul Eater◊

edited 29th Oct '13 8:13:08 PM by Larkmarn

How about Black◊ Widow◊?

edited 29th Oct '13 9:57:43 PM by theAdeptrogue

The first two and the Fullmetal Alchemist pic are best IMO, although a cleaner version of the FMA one would be better. Not down with either in , Black Widow is not my idea of a waif at all.

I figure the May pic will look clearer at Wiki size.

FYI, the Chocolate pic is the page image for that page... but I'd like to replace that with a movie poster anyway, so that's really two birds with one stone for me.

The girl in Chocolate don't look like a waif either, IMO. In fact, in the first two takes, I thought it was a guy.

Personally, I prefer the current. None of the suggestions in 2 are really good improvements in terms of quality/clarity.

EDIT: Found this◊ image of Xiaoyu. Will it work?

edited 30th Oct '13 7:26:57 AM by theAdeptRogue

• Sakura from Street Fighter 1◊
• Attack on Titan action shots: 2◊ 3◊
• Cassandra Cain: 4◊
• More May Chang (my favorite from the suggested) from that scene:5◊ 6◊ (I'll try to get clearer caps of this when I get home).

You gotta be kidding.