Suggestion: China Takes Over The World

Noticed this page didn't have an image, wanted to offer up a suggestion. It's not the most funny or flashy but it's a real book and it's not restricted for use and it clearly illustrates the point:

edited 2nd Apr '15 9:09:23 AM by Black_Diesel

I'm not gonna that right away, but I think I'd prefer something from a fictional work if a good example can be found.

A little bit of "World = America", but what about the poster for the film "Dragon Day"; featuring a statue of Chairman Mao in the place of the Statue of Liberty, with the New York skyline in the background?[1]◊

Cropped down to size, it looks something like these:[2]◊[3]◊

edited 2nd Apr '15 11:18:30 AM by peasant

The caption would need to say that's the New York skyline or that was the Statue of Liberty, that is unclear.

Not sure that would make it a good page image, though.

How many tropers are not going to recognize that that's supposed to the Statue of Liberty? Certainly less than 0.1%

I don't know if I would have, if it hadn't been pointed out.

80% of all statistics are made up on the spot, and 99.9999% of them are ridiculously stupid.

I don't like the statue at all.

I thought we had one here similar to Japan Takes Over the World, or was that another page?

Either of those Statue of Mao pics would work for me. I think a parody of the "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" poem on the statue would work great as a caption.

I wouldn't have known that was supposed to be New York, but I don't think it matters. A giant statue of Mao looming over a skyline illustrates "China Takes Over the World" pretty well IMO. Caption can add context.

Perhaps:

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
And together, we shall overthrow the bourgeoisie and the capitalists"

Or even just:

"Give me your tired, your poor..."

edited 5th Apr '15 8:02:34 PM by peasant

Give me your lazy, your entitled, your greedy capitalists striving for a hopeless dream.

:D

I whipped one up in the same style

I like that one.

Shíjiān zài liúshì.

The remade flag works.

This has been languishing for ages. Thus far, I say that the best candidates are the Mao Statue of Liberty and the image of the flag of China superimposed over a map of the world. The downside of the latter, though albeit a very minor one over the former, is that it's not based on a piece of fiction.

That has never been a standard. Like, ever.

Plus I'd say the upside is that it matches the Sister Trope Japan Takes Over the World's page image while the statue doesn't.

edited 18th May '15 1:29:37 PM by CobraPrime

It's a personal preference thing.

If possible, I'd prefer the illustration be an example of the trope rather than a picture made-to-order by someone for the sole purpose of putting it up on the page.

^^ It has never been mandatory, but it's been a consideration virtually forever.

I prefer the flag, because I can't tell the Statue is Mao Zedong.

The statue is more evocative in my opinion.

Flag works for me.

I like the statue. Even if you don't know it's New York, the text on top of the poster says it's in America.

Even so, it's hard to tell that the statue of the guy is Chinese, and not other East Asian ethnicity. I only knew it's supposed to represent Chinese takeover, because we're in discussing a page called China Takes Over the World.

Besides, America =/= The World, so the flag communicates a stronger influence.

edited 20th May '15 5:51:58 AM by Adept