Just a Face and a Caption: You Wouldnt Hit A Guy With Glasses

You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses is a trope about the stock phrase where people with glasses ask this, usually before getting socked in the face.

The current page image... just shows a guy with glasses in a wig and fake mustache. True, he kind of looks like he's nervous, but still doesn't accurately fit the trope.

I suggest that, even though I can't think of any series off hand that has uses this gag that we can screen cap from, it be replaced with a sequential image of the most common way the aggressor replies to this trope. By pulling off the guy's glasses, then hitting him in the face. Now, I don't think it's prefect, but at least it gives the general idea the guy with glasses was trying to invoke this trope, which I feel is at least a tiny bit better than the current image.

Forgot to open this one...+1 to pull regardless of replacement, that's completely relying on the caption.

edited 27th Jan '15 1:48:57 PM by Willbyr

Agreed. Pull.

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You got a pic of batman withholding a punch with that?

In the movie, IIRC he goes ahead and hits him.

Well trying to invoke the trope is an example IMO. But really unless we get something like that I dont think we will be able to get a good image.

What is up with not considering words at all?

Because it is just words? It is just saying the trope name and that is it, no one is even trying to hit him in the image.

I agree, relying on the words in the image is as bad IMHO as relying on the caption. The first thing that came to mind was that bit in Wreak-it Ralph, but that's an amusing subversion and therefore not a good example. An internet search revealed nothing I could find, I suppose the problem is that this is such a cliche that I can't recall seeing it played straight, so getting an image might be hard.

I think relying on words too much is a problem, but there is a lot of ground between that and not at all.

Is there? What's the difference, really, between words in and words under the picture?

Dialogue is a part of the scene, captions aren't. Also, there are a huge number of tropes that rely in part or in full on dialogue to be conveyed, and trying to portray them in picture form would be impossible without it. In this case, the character's statement of the trope name is part and parcel of the trope, and I can't see a way to capture it in picture form without that, unless someone's willing to come up with something on their own.

You can definitely have pics where there's too much text, but portraying dialogue between characters in a pic isn't a bad thing in and of itself. Captions, on the other hand, are generally just to add flavor to the pic.

Also, you have to consider that choices for page pics are usually limited to what can be found through search engines, as it's very rare that people come up with their own art for trope pages. If we can't find something for a dialogue-dependent trope that has the words in the pic, then a caption can fill that in, but it's best if the actual pic does that. The IP thread for Inspector Javert is a good case; the best suggestion so far (to me) would need a caption stating the dialogue between the characters to get the trope across completely, but the pic has enough context in it to keep it from being a case of JAFAAC if that's the route that's taken.

edited 28th Jan '15 6:19:39 AM by Willbyr

Maybe Wreck-It Ralph hitting King Candy with glasses◊? Although I'd admittedly prefer a frame with less motion blur.

"What's the difference, really, between words in and words under the picture?"

Not much IMO, but the same thing goes for captions: relying on them a bit is fine. There is a middle ground between "too much" and "not at all". Captions are part of page images.

A less blurry version of the King Candy pic can be found here◊.

I'd like to see a two picture sequence of the Bugs Bunny cartoon where the vampire bat puts on glasses to try to avoid being hit by a baseball bat. It doesn't work.

The Joker image seems just fine to me. You've got to be incredibly lucky to find an image where it is clear from the image alone that the glasses-bearer is about to get hit and is looking for a way out. Taking an image where the glasses-bearer is already getting whacked seems like the wrong choice to me. The core of trope has already been played by then. Whether he gets punched or not is not essential to the trope. Therefore, if you'd go with the Wrecking Ralph one, I'd go with the top panel, and not the one Shadow Hog posted.

Clock is set.

If it comes down to a choice, I'm okay with 4 (Joker).

I think the caption should probably be "Yes, he would (and did)"

I kind of like the Wreck-It-Ralph example better myself. Maybe just cut it down to King Candy with glasses, then getting hit with the glasses. Caption would either be his quote from the scene, or acknowledging the Exact Words in some way.

Well, I don't know of it was when I proposed it, but the pagequote already is the dialog from that scene, so

Re-clocking. I've pulled the current...since the King Candy dialogue is the page quote, I'm good to use the Joker pic if another suggestion isn't found.

Old pic:

The new clock's way up and there's not enough consensus on the Joker pic to go with it. Locking up.