Suggestion: Just Eat Gilligan

Recipe for Success made by Awkward Zombie can make a decent image.

An image compilation of Where are my Pants from The LEGO Movie that ends with Wyldstyle throwing a pair of pants at the lead actor while declaring the series over could also work.

Opened...not really feeling the suggestion.

Not seeing the trope in the suggestion either. How does it reflect characters forgetting the simple solution of an otherwise simple plot-conflict?

The astronauts who are lamenting their lack of food ignore the (comparatively) gigantic foodstuffs the Pikmin are carrying and instead cook and eat the Pikmin themselves, who are much smaller. Seems clear enough to me.

That said, it's a full comic, and it would take up an awful lot of space besides.

Yeah, that image is space-demanding. It does illustrate, but space demandingly so.

I have to agree with and ; a fair illustration, but we'd need the entire comic.

I would strongly prefer an illustration that does not involve eating characters.

I find the suggestion misleading for that reason. There's a whole slew of implications other than the actual trope in the suggestion.

Actually it's the opposite, according to the author's blurb below the comic. She's pointing out that the astronauts could have just gorged themselves on the infinitely reproducible Pikmin rather than hunting to and fro for those fruits. So it's not a very clear pic choice, then.

edited 3rd Feb '15 6:22:08 PM by Tuckerscreator

Both interpretations illustrate the trope, however. Does it really matter if people don't interpret it the way the author intended (which is probably the author's fault to begin with), provided that they get the idea of the trope?

Yes, yes it does. If there's constant argument about what in the comic is the "Just eat gilligan" simple solution, then it's not a simple solution.

And in this specific case it's less the author's fault for the ambiguity. The comic requires one to be familiar with the premise of Pikmin 3, i.e. "the characters are using the Pikmin to harvest fruit for their homeworld" and on what Pikmin are, i.e. "Pikmin are completely subservient plant-animals who can be bred by the hundreds and collect treasures for their masters." If the reader isn't aware of that, as likely many if this pic is posted won't, then the joke gets misread as it did above.

edited 4th Feb '15 12:05:32 AM by Tuckerscreator

I don't see why there would be "constant arguments." There's no reason different tropers should even suspect that they're not interpreting the image the same way. They'll just make an assumption one way or the other, get the correct idea of what the trope is (which is the entire goal here), and carry on without ever knowing that they or other tropers might have gotten the "wrong" idea about the comic.

edited 4th Feb '15 12:09:40 AM by MrL1193

Clock is set.

I don't like it because the trope isn't necessarily about eating, and that image would imply that it is.

Clock is up with no progress; closing.