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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#1: May 29th 2014 at 12:32:53 PM

First off, the image is basically just a talking head rather than actually demonstrating the trope at all. Second, it shows the character making a decision between millions of robots or a dozen wolves... but it never says what she's choosing to do with who. She says "I have to go with the robots", but it doesn't show any context. It could mean that she'd have to kill the robots, save the robots, go on date with the robots, etc. Once you know what the trope is you can kinda see how the image is related (She's choosing to save the wolves over the robots because there are so many robots the trope kicks in), but you have to understand the trope to make heads or tails of the image.

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Madrugada Zzzzzzzzzz Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: In season
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#2: May 29th 2014 at 2:46:58 PM

I'm opening this one, but in fact, the current page image is poor not only for the reasons stated in the OP, but because the choice she's making is which group to protect — and she's choosing to protect the robots over the wolves. If she takes the action she needs to to save the robots, she will reveal that she can override the safguards that were programmmed into her species when it was uplifted. If she does that, all of the wolves may well be destroyed as defective. Here's the strip setting it up. So it's not even an example.

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m8e from Sweden Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
#3: May 29th 2014 at 3:10:52 PM

[up]That's pretty much irrelevant as it'd impossible to see it in the image.

Still needs a replacement though.

edited 29th May '14 3:12:58 PM by m8e

AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
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#4: May 29th 2014 at 3:40:29 PM

Pull for being misleading.

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Rethkir A Trusted Friend in Science and Ponies from the gap between dimensions Since: Mar, 2013
#5: May 29th 2014 at 6:32:08 PM

Completely missing the point. Pull

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#6: May 29th 2014 at 9:45:06 PM

It's gone.

She did have to resist the temptation.

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#8: Jul 10th 2014 at 4:11:18 AM

Oh crap, I forgot to actually clock this one...well, it's sat idle since then, so I think it's safe to lock up.

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