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The problem with both the current and the suggestion is that they're a Bag of Holding...not sure if either should be there, and that trope page already has a really good pic.
Yeah, the suggestion looks like Bag of Holding.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Both are not quite this trope. This needs a before and after of something like Akane Tendo from Ranma pulling out a giant mallet literally out of nowhere.
Motion to remove current for not being the trope.
edited 2nd Oct '14 4:40:49 AM by Memers
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Ah, I see.
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They'll make good Image Links material, though. ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
Possible replacement:
This panel
◊ from a bigger comic
◊. Might be considered text-heavy, though.
iRidescence
I like that one better than the current, really.
![[up]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/smiles/arrow_up.png "[up]"){kind=icon}
That explains the trope but doesn't show it.
It needs to be a 2 panel comic of before a weapon's appearance and after, maybe with lampshading with someone asking 'where did that come from?'. The only good example I can think of is such a bad quality scan it would never work as an image sadly.
iRidescence
Easy solution, crop the first panel and put it over the second one. Paint out the sign board if necessary.
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Last two panels
(is this on another page?), Some combination here
IMO the last 2 panels in that first one is perfect.
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I concur.
Zzzzzzzzzz
As do I.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
Can we use it though? That whole copyright sign makes it seem like we can not.
As long as it's not the entire strip, it's fine.
Image Source. Please update whenever an image is changed.
These last two panels are already on Hyperspace Mallet.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
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Nuts...oh well, that answers that question. What about the Dominic Deegan example?
EDIT: I used the EGS strip to make a quality upgrade to the Hyperspace Mallet pic.
EDIT #2: The first strip here is arguably better for Hyperspace Mallet since it's lampshading that very object; I'd be fine with using it on that page and moving the EGS pic to this page barring another pic being chosen.
edited 3rd Oct '14 3:53:40 AM by Willbyr
iRidescence
Even if we change the picture on the Hyperspace Mallet, I'd rather not move the old one here, since it's making the two trope seem interchangeable. I'm not actually sure what the distinction between the two is, at the moment...
Hammerspace is the supertrope for all places that can produce objects much larger than themselves when the story requires it.
Hyperspace Mallet is when the object in question is a hammer or somesuch.
edited 3rd Oct '14 7:00:10 AM by SeptimusHeap
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
I was the same till I read both tropes carefully. Hammerspace covers all instances of Instant X From Nowhere but from the angle of the location from where the X came from exists somewhere or it is just a plot tool or something. Hyperspace Mallet is the actual occurrence of an Instant Weapon From Nowhere and seemingly is a subtrope of Hammerspace.
Cross-eyed yet? Cause I am.
edited 3rd Oct '14 7:04:42 AM by Memers
Now I kind of want to get rid of Hyperspace Mallet and just move the examples to Hammerspace.
Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
Zzzzzzzzzz
Hyperspace Mallet is a Subtrope of Hammerspace. Please read that page.
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
It looks less like a Sub-Trope and more like The Same But More Specific to me.
Hammerspace is the physical phenomenon where objects can be stored in a space that is physically too small to hold them.
Hyperspace Mallet is when the object in Hammerspace is a literal hammer and is also used for comedy purposes. If the hammer isn't being used for comedy purposes, it's not Hyperspace Mallet and is instead Drop The Hammer.
edited 3rd Oct '14 1:55:57 PM by ObsidianFire
The current page image is okay. More than okay, in fact.
Then I stumbled across this image, from RWBY:
I just found this image to be too amusing; the amount of food cans that is coming out of the small brown bag is clearly far larger than the bag's size.
I think it might work as a better replacement, because it demonstrates the trope in one shot of image. I'm not too confident about the quality of the image, though.
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