Does Not Illustrate: Game Breaking Injury

I'm not quite sure what the person who put this up was thinking, really. Yes, it's a pic of somebody who had just gotten a gamebreaking injury, but he's just sitting there with a little bit of blood on his face, looking kinda dejected. There's nothing there to illustrate any real injury that would kill his career or even make the rest of the game hard for him.

I googled "soccer broken leg" and came up with some that are a lot better. Just take any of these and add a caption like "Doesn't look like he'll be playing any time soon, does it?"

This◊

or this◊.

In fact, here's a whole batch of pics.

edited 3rd Dec '13 5:15:30 PM by Erivale

I'm not sure it's a good idea to have an image that makes a lot of people want to look away.

I agree with the criticism but those images are... ugh.

Maybe something from this page of Hajime No Ippo: http://imgur.com/ZEkNidw

Here's the upper two thirds at wiki size. Pretty readable, I think. My biggest issue is that it's right to left... but it will works pretty well if you just read it left to right, honestly. http://imgur.com/ZEkNidw

edited 3rd Dec '13 7:13:52 PM by Larkmarn

to the broken leg pics...the squick factor is too high with those. Not really crazy about either.

The current isn't great, but the blood and his dazed expression lead me to vote Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 3rd Dec '13 8:16:41 PM by Willbyr

He's an example but given no context (remember having to look through the examples to find what relevance he had) it's not great but Keep Until Better Image Suggested. Also, agreed with everyone else, OP's suggestions are not better (though it's hard not to deny they work). Not so swayed by 4.1, bit tough to read.

edited 4th Dec '13 1:39:17 AM by treelo

double.

edited 4th Dec '13 1:37:50 AM by treelo

Fair enough. If most of you think that the current works fine, I won't argue.

If you have better suggestions, we're still open to it just that what is there isn't entirely terrible.

Yeah, the current isn't great, but it works, and doesn't make people cringe.

There are probably hockey images with people bleeding that illustrate the trope well, but I'm not sure that'd be better. While most people don't find blood as bad as bones sticking in the wrong direction, others have worse reactions.

I'm glad you mentioned hockey and bleeding in the same sentence, this◊ will never work...

On the other hand, perhaps something◊ less◊ life-threatening◊ and humorous◊ even?◊

edited 4th Dec '13 7:05:03 PM by Paktra

But it doesn't seem to be injuries that would prevent you from continuing to play.

Well, except for the throat getting slit part...

Perhaps some kind of wicked bail◊ or post-game aftermath◊ even?

This◊ is pretty cool, has facepalm!

I like your hot coffee... pardon the pun.

edited 4th Dec '13 8:40:23 PM by Paktra

That's one of those I was thinking of, actually.

The last one works. Doesn't show an actual injury, but being carried out kind of heavily implies it.

13.1 is good, but the reputation soccer players have for diving makes me think that could hurt it. American football, on the other hand, means business when players are carted off the field; here's some pics of that: 1◊, 2◊, 3◊

Those are great!

I'd 'em all if you'd let me.

edited 4th Dec '13 9:49:42 PM by Paktra

I'm unable to take that argument seriously due to how ridiculous some discussions about Am. football vs soccer gets, and that line fits right in one of those.

Not an argument I'm willing to entertain here. Speaking strictly from the pics' merits, would you at least agree that the football pics are more indicative of an extremely serious injury than the soccer pic?

Why must we neglect rugby?◊

And I'd hate to see to who all this◊ belongs to.

And people aren't the only ones◊ with game◊ breakers.◊

edited 4th Dec '13 10:30:40 PM by Paktra

I don't agree that more extreme is necessarily better. Otherwise we have those in OP.

Well, why must we limit ourselves to human injuries? This◊ might avoid any squick, and looks .

edited 4th Dec '13 11:57:24 PM by Paktra

Personally, I don't equate "mechanical failure" with "injury", and the definition is all about physical injury.

edited 5th Dec '13 9:50:01 PM by Willbyr

True, they aren't the same... but I was just invoking the parallel between them both as forms of "Catastrophic failure that force the participants out of commission, for the remainder of the event.", since I feel obviously, machines can suffer "Game-breaking Damage".

Is that even a trope here? If it isn't, It should be.

edited 5th Dec '13 10:30:04 PM by Paktra

Maybe something cartoony enough not to be Squick inducing, like this.

Think that's a good idea, let's pursue that direction. 1◊, 2, 3◊, 4◊