Suggestion: Winter Royal Lady

What if we changed the trope's image to something a little more iconic? One character I have in mind would be Elsa the Snow Queen from Disney's Frozen. She seems to fit Winter Royal Lady to a T.

Current could use a replacement but I don't think it's bad enough to pull.

I do like Elsa... 1◊ Or 2◊, since she's standing at a balcony?

3◊ - art of the Snow Queen.

The Ice Queen from Adventure Time: 4◊ 5◊

Aaaand the White Witch from Narnia: 6◊ 7◊

edited 28th Nov '13 10:16:32 PM by Synchronicity

I have a problem with this trope to begin with. It seems to be about people who are more glamorous because of their association with ice and winter, with any snow powers making them a combination of this and An Ice Person...but almost all of the examples are basically of the "Snow Queen" archetype.

So do we have a separate trope for that archetype? If so, those pictures are better off there. If not, that description definitely needs a rework to focus on what most of the examples are about.

"A more iconic image would be better" strikes me as a bad reason to have a thread. I do not know of any "snow queen" archetype much less about any trope like that.

I think the trope really means an ice and/or snow-themed princess or queen, regardless of powers. The reason I set up this thread was that I thought the page image needed to be changed to a more well-known example of the trope. So far, my top two choices are Elsa and Ice Queen.

Considering how new Frozen is, I think calling the Snow Queen from that work "iconic" or "more well-known" is a bit premature.

edited 29th Nov '13 9:38:49 AM by Madrugada

I'll look at the suggestions later; the current needs to go for ambiguity alone.

Just to throw another suggestion into the mix, how about this image of Princess Oyuki◊ from Urusei Yatsura?

edited 29th Nov '13 12:56:19 PM by Yotsuyasan

If we're going to have a replacement it should look distinctively like she's noble or royal. A tiara would be great.

This being, "about people who are more glamorous because of their association with ice and winter," sounds right but I don't know what you would call just the archetypal Snow Queen.

"What if we changed the trope's image" is a bad way to start any thread. The current isn't actually pull worthy and if you think it is then just say so and why. I don't think there's anything in How To Pick A Good Image that says that the image should be iconic.

Of the suggestions (so far), this◊, this◊, and this◊ are my favorites. The second White Witch pic isn't loading for me.

Here's some of the Snow Queen from Oglaf.

I really like the first one Willbyr linked to — the one by Elena Rigo.

Sorry about that. This◊ link should work.

That's a little better than the one of her in the sleigh.

There's quite a number of good images of the Snow Queen, actually. Some other suggions:

[1]◊[2]◊[3]◊

edited 30th Nov '13 4:23:59 PM by theAdeptrogue

I like the first two...not enough royalty in the third.

First panel of this very NSFW comic?

11.3 has that panel (and only that panel, really got to take NSFW warnings more seriously because... yow, that is not safe for... it's porn basically)

edited 30th Nov '13 7:33:21 AM by treelo

I probably laughed more than I should've at that joke.

Anyway, I don't think I'll make up my mind before a crowner here.

... how in the heck did I miss that? It's not even like I didn't click the link, I just... managed to miss the three embedded pictures.

Crowner?

Sounds good.

Crowner's hooked.

Bump for votes.

This is ready to call. The new pic's up, potholed, and tagged, and the rest are on an Image Links page. Caption or no?