Just a Face and a Caption: Tim Taylor Technology

Ok. So I see some guy holding an unidentified electrical object. How does this remotely show that whatever problem it has can be fixed by increasing its power?

I think he's holding a nail or staple gun. I agree that the pic isn't demonstrative, it relies on the caption to get the point across.

Aye, it's just a page quote with a random image attached.

Would panels 1+3 of this◊ comic work?

Yeah, I don't even think it's an example, just an image of Tim Taylor.

Kind of looks like a jigsaw due to the shoe.

Anyway, suggestion in 4 does work, even if it's a lot of text. Though it's really closer to Explosive Overclocking, so maybe not a good idea.

edited 26th Jun '14 7:26:49 AM by AnotherDuck

Suggestion 4 appears to be a subversion of the trope (since "more power" doesn't actually work in it), would be nicer if the illustration shows a straight example.

edited 26th Jun '14 7:45:30 AM by Tuomas

That, or a failed Oven Logic.

Forget the suggestion then, but I still think the current image needs to go.

Clock is set; voting to pull the current for JAFAAC regardless of replacement.

Second.

Seconded - and maybe something from The Whiteboard would work? Been reading that today, and http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autowb442.html might be functional for it, or possibly the third panel of this one, or this single-panel one.

edited 26th Jul '14 8:46:06 AM by ironballs16

Both are just talking heads (the art is irrelevant to the words they are saying), and there is a copyright problem with using single-panel cartoons anyway.

This page provides an ongoing example. For instance, we could use the first panel of any of the moon lighting strips, then the "more power" guy, then the first panel of the next set of strips.

Also, who the hill is Tim Taylor anyway?

Lead character on Home Improvement.

This one may fit as a replacement - http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1216.html

It fits the overall theme ("Why fix what you can upgrade?") and shows how unreasonable such a "fix" might be.

Is that even this trope? I mean, trying to chainsaw the gun to fix it isn't the same as trying to increase its powers, at least for me.

I was referring to the juxtaposition between the first and third panels. The second would be more of a Doom It Yourself, I think.

Edit: Though I think I see the objection anyway - the way the trope is described, it's just about more power, whereas I've been thinking it's doing more, bigger, and better with whatever is being worked on (putting an actual, working engine inside a downhill derby car, for example), since that's what I tended to see on Home Improvement.

edited 1st Aug '14 1:15:37 PM by ironballs16

Well, it may work with the third panel, since bigger usually means more power (although, I didn't really see what was happening there at first). I suppose it's better than nothing, so that gets a tentative

This one might be a bit more clear than the other, though there isn't the juxtaposition factor - http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1483.html

That seems to be illustrating Awesome, yet Impractical, though.

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How about this? Nuclear battery?

There's also a real line of gasoline-powered blenders, which would fall into this trope.

edited 15th Aug '14 12:46:34 PM by bitemytail

Aside from not looking particularly good, just because it's nucular doesn't mean it's absurdly strong, considering the main selling point for batteries is lifetime.

That battery looks really poorly photoshoped. But the gas blender◊ is a good idea. Also this razor◊ from GTA V.

That battery doesn't look photoshopped, but it doesn't look like the trope either.

I like that boat-motor blender, actually.