Poor Image: Fatal Method Acting

The current image on the page is of a real-life person's death. At best (to someone who isn't familiar with NASCAR and didn't read the caption identifying it as a fatal accident), it's just a picture of a pair of wrecked racecars.

I'd like to propose pulling the image until an alternative from a work of fiction is suggested.

I question whether this needs to have Real Life examples at all...I'd definitely prefer an example from a fictional work if one can be found.

I don't see how race car driving=acting. Pull.

I don't think sport cases are examples at all. The trope is about acting, not sports. I don't think the image belongs, nor any of the sport examples (except wrestling due to being scripted).

Sports examples can remain (even if it's not "acting" it fits as a death when people wouldn't expect it). But the image is hardly illustrative and has to be pulled.

When do people expect death? Outside war, that is. Well, inside too, to an extent.

This is trivia, not a trope. I am not sure the image needs to be pulled; most of the page is about real deaths also, onstage and such. I looked through the "in fiction" examples but didn't find any that I'm familiar with that I think would make a better image.

edited 22nd Apr '15 8:28:30 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Not sure what your point is about most of the examples being from real life. There's a difference between a written description of a person's death and a photograph of it; the former is fine, but the latter is in bad taste.

It's not even a good illustration of the concept (person dies during a performance) unless you're familiar with early 00s NASCAR. For everyone else (including me), the only thing that indicates that this was a fatal crash is the caption. Even if people disagree about whether it's appropriate to have a real-life image on the page, that alone makes it a bad image.

I'm gonna have to agree, seeing someone die just feels wrong to me. I think this is one shouldn't have an image unless it's an In-Universe example.

Do we at least agree on pulling the current image, regardless of replacement?

I don't think so, no. The image shows a crash on a racetrack. Its caption says it was fatal. Extremely weak but better than nothing. It's not like it's just a photo of Dale Earnhardt. There is no rule or custom that says important information can't be communicated by the caption alone. He died while performing: that is (with help from the caption) evident from the image and illustrative of the idea, of the trivia.

A better image would have someone more clearly dead, and more clearly performing (ideally onstage, but flexible).

edited 24th Apr '15 1:01:47 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I think the matter at hand is less whether it's a good illustration and more that it's just in bad taste to have a picture of an accident where a real person was killed, regardless of how well it shows the trope.

Even if it were an unambiguously good illustration, I don't know whether we should have a real life image of something that resulted in someone's death. The fact that it's not that good of a picture only adds to that.

edited 27th Apr '15 8:28:36 AM by JapaneseTeeth

I realize that.

Clock is set.

I'm gonna vote to pull, I just don't think this one needs an image. In brighter news, I think your new picture is adorable, Duck.

I like it too.

Thinking about setting a crowner on whether or not to pull the current.

Pull. Apart from showing a real person's death, it doesn't really illustrate the trope.

Pull. Knowing that a real person died in the picture gives me the creeps.

I vote pull the current. It's certainly "fatal", but it's missing the "method acting" part. If it had been a scene from a movie being filmed, it would be "method acting". But it wasn't acting at all.

That's enough consensus for the pull; the page is tagged. Since the clock is almost up, I'm gonna go ahead and lock this. A new thread can be made for a new suggestion.

Old pic: