Poor Image: Your Size May Vary

This picture looks too cluttered & it's hard to tell if any of the characters really change size or not.

Current:

edited 18th May '14 2:37:42 PM by TheJojolion

I can tell the size change, but if we end up keeping this one, it'll need a bigger version. The text is almost illegible in the current.

Aye, needs far more legibility.

Looks fine to me.

Legibility would make it worse, I think; the text is irrelevant.

There are two important characters, in the second and third panels, and if you actually look at them, it's pretty clear. The only real problem is the first panel, but just having the two latter ones wouldn't look very good.

Text might as well be cut out for all it does for illustrating the trope.

Since this is pretty much... well, the entire schtick of the Transformers franchise, I do need to throw some contenders in:

We are Optimus Primes!◊

Omega◊ Supreme◊

G1 Optimus Prime vs. Beast Wars Megatron◊.

Minicons◊.

I don't think those are particularly good, and some are of awful quality.

The Omega Supreme comparison is the best of the TF ones, but the current is more succinct.

How about Ira◊ Gamagoori◊

Hmm... That doesn't look too bad, actually. Still busy, but you can spot the difference.

edited 20th May '14 3:28:23 AM by AnotherDuck

I don't think that's even an example of this trope. This is about characters who are not drawn to scale that their sizes appear different from scene to scene, and not about the characters literally changing size.

Yeah, I find it hard to believe that that example is accidental.

What about these two statues of Optimus Prime: 1◊ 2◊ Not the same ninja in both cases, but the viewer should be able to figure out that they're both human-sized.

edited 20th May '14 2:46:47 PM by tbarrie

I don't like it for a page image, but the statue of Stormshadow standing on Optimus's head is neat.

For ^^ reason, I prefer something that is already in a multi-panel format; current is fine.

Is it better if it's just the first two panels?

edited 23rd May '14 12:16:52 AM by rodneyAnonymous

What about some screencaps from the Heroboy sequence from Freakazoid, where this trope is intentionally parodied?

This is about characters who are not drawn to scale that their sizes appear different from scene to scene, and not about the characters literally changing size. If the page image is multi-panel but made from something that wasn't, it is harder to tell the subject does not actually change size.

I went ahead and found a larger version of the Wolverine/Sentinel pic.

Good, but it could use a captain.
"Wolverine demonstrates his unexplained Sizeshifting ability so that he can rip off a Sentinel's arm."

edited 27th May '14 5:20:26 AM by Rethkir

"Sentinel powers include mass reduction to give opponents a fair fight."

That's probably better.

The first suggestion for this trope that come to my mind is to look for pictures of Pantyhose Tarô's monster form from Ranma ½; the random size-changes are very blatant in the manga.

"Size reduction" though?

Looking through the examples, I think I can shore up some comparison examples for Toyotomi Hideoshi, the Big Bad for the 2nd season of Sengoku Basara.

Gamagoori does not literally change size, just FYI. It is just that part of Kill la Kill's style involves giving no fucks about size consistency. It is deliberately inconsistent, but not, like, canonical size changing.

Clock is set. Crowner?

Apparently not. I've swapped in the larger 2-panel version for legibility's sake and because the bottom part of the old version is pretty much irrelevant; locking up.