Suggestion: Million Mook March

Hi everybody, this the first thread I ever started, so I'm probably gonna need help. Anyway, I have an image I'd like to suggest for Million Mook March

It's from Transformers: Dark Cybertron, where the green dudes, Ammonites, descend on the planet en masse.

edited 17th Mar '14 2:50:13 PM by DrPsyche

That's pretty busy. I can just barely make out the army. Any chance you have the full sized image? Or if you can, make it 350x? The current picture is 315x.

edited 17th Mar '14 2:40:34 PM by DRCEQ

Yeah, I'm having trouble with this, how do I find out its 315x? I kept having to shrink it to fit the 2ooKB.

edited 17th Mar '14 2:49:58 PM by DrPsyche

Uh, pardon, but I can't tell what is going on there.

Can you post a link to the original?

I found the same image on Tumblr◊

My problem is getting the size to fit, I'm still messing around with the cropping tool.

edited 17th Mar '14 3:00:32 PM by DrPsyche

all you have to normally do is copy or crop whatever part of the image you want to use for the image, resize it to 350, and if you save it as a Jpeg file, it should be within the size limits. I haven't encountered a pic that didn't meet size limitations yet.

Also, seeing the full size of the image, at least we can tell that all the business in the picture really is the entire army.

edited 17th Mar '14 3:22:32 PM by DRCEQ

I'm not sure that that is going to look good at wiki size, honestly.

Ooh, that looks really nice.

Caption: All that grey and green in the background? Thousands of robots.

edited 17th Mar '14 5:30:19 PM by DRCEQ

That's great.

That turned out a lot better than I thought it would...works for me.

@ 11: I was going to put "Starscream's got the right expression" Or just put in a quote from the issue "And to defend my becoming, from across the universe comes my army of Ammonites—seventy billion strong." or some variation thereof, but I like your quote too.

General rule of thumb is that if a caption is needed to explain what is going on, then it's a bad image. However in this case, others seem to agree that they can make out what is happening, even though it is still a bit busy. So in these cases, it doesn't hurt for the caption to explain a give a little more context.

*Edit*

Just thought of a caption that gives detail and context.

"Like a swarm of locusts blotting out the sun, thousands of Ammonites descend upon Cybertron."

edited 18th Mar '14 9:00:41 AM by DRCEQ

Seventy BILLION ammonites.

Just being a bit technical about it.

Ok then. BILLIONS!!!

@ 15: Yeah, I participated in enough of these IP's, I know about the context, your new suggestion and edit look good.

, Reading that line in Carl Sagan's voice is just funny to me.

I like the image. It gets my vote.

Just throwing in my 2 cents, when I read the trope name I think of a more formal military style march. How's something like a nazi/Soviet parade like this◊ or this◊ seem?

edited 18th Mar '14 9:24:05 PM by arbiter099

Considering how this wiki defines Mooks as "Evil soldiers that exist for the sole purpose of being mowed over by The Hero." I'd really be against using real life examples.

I'm inclined to agree. Both those images look great though, but the second captures an armies scale better.

I don't know if people would still be looking for image candidates, but the first+third panels of [1] seems to do a fairly good job of showing the trope. (Yes, I know that the 8 bit graphics are sort of meh.)

Bump. Not keen on Transformers suggestion. Not very visible. I immediately though of the Uruk hai army from Two Towers. [1]◊[2]◊[3]◊ (can be cropped)