Just a Face and a Caption: Our Founder

It's just a statue. It doesn't say anything about it being a founder, just that it's a statue of a guy. In fact, the caption makes it more confusing.

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Would work with a caption saying "The Founding Fathers"◊

if it's just the "founding fathers" i suggest a pic of mount rushmore or the Naruto equivalent.

EDIT/NOTE: i'm not actually sure if the faces in Mt Rushmore were founders.

but it's a very obvious memoriam for people that screams "these guys were so important in our history we put their faces in a mountain".

edited 10th Nov '13 12:36:50 PM by ShanghaiSlave

I was thinking a somewhat tongue-in-cheek lampshade, putting up a picture of Fast Eddie and saying "Our co-founder"... but thinking about it, that'd just make it a prime vandalism target.

Jebediah Springfield, maybe?

I looked into that. No pics I found showed "founder"-ness, just "A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man."

http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Statue_of_Jebediah_Springfield

I like Jebediah Springfield. He has a good exaggeratedly heroic pose, and he's in period dress that places him in pioneer days. He's also from a popular TV show (and in the Title Sequence no less), which definitely embiggens the image's appeal, since a lot of people will already know the context.

We don't need a plaque telling us the title of the trope. The title of the trope is right there at the top of the page already, and if we need a caption, we can write our own.

(For the record, the current is not JAFAAC; conveying that the trope is about statues is definitely relevant.)

The pic is fine but having background might help◊ with the caption "John Harvard, benefactor and namesake of Harvard College."

I like that latest pic.

That works well enough for me.

Well, 7 is an improvement, at least.

If it's just founders with a background. how about these?

Hokage Monument [1]◊ [2]◊ [3]◊, Republic City & Aang, Kamina City and it's namesake.

I might be shoehorning em though. as none seem to be founders. Kamina and aang are in the trope page at least.

edited 20th Nov '13 9:43:37 AM by ShanghaiSlave

What's with the "anonym.to" stuff? I've never seen it before, but surely it's not necessary for a link to a Photobucket image of all things.

edited 20th Nov '13 10:20:48 AM by ShadowHog

7 seems like a lateral move.

Here's Jebediah Springfield.

13 seems like a worse move. Same concept, less nice/more common art. Variety is good. Also lacks prestige.

That seems more fitting for something other than this trope.

It makes me think of beast-slaying heroes.

@12 — i've been getting complaints that some images i link gets 404s because of hotlinking. so i simply put it in everything to avoid that.

anonym.to bypasses that by removing the referer and making the server think you're accessing the image directly.

i know a site that modifies ALL links people post to have anonym.to. well, it's a private site, so it makes sense they don't want referers. but that's not relevant here.

no comments on 11?

edited 21st Nov '13 11:08:19 PM by ShanghaiSlave

That's three votes for post seven. Anyone else?

still skipping 11?

OK, on 11: Some pics there have image quality issues.

Clock is set.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. Locking up.