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Both have their strengths and weaknesses. I can tell what's being blocked in the current, but I don't care for how closely it's cropped. The suggestion is funny but the text is barely legible and despite the size the text in the corner seems grainy.
edited 7th May '15 9:56:46 AM by Willbyr
Yeah, the main problem with the suggestion is how tiny the text boxes are.
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I like the suggestion, and it doesn't really matter to me that the contents of the speech bubbles are illegible. The trope is not in what the speech bubble says, but how it's shaped and/or placed. In the suggestion, there are plenty of other places those two bubbles could have been placed...
edited 7th May '15 11:01:03 AM by Madrugada
...if you don’t love you’re dead, and if you do, they’ll kill you for it.
No, the other one.
I like both the current and the suggestion. Not partial to either.
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edited 7th May '15 1:29:58 PM by eroock
better version of current
I like the OP suggestion better.
OP is barely OK for me. I think one could say unreadable speech bubbles actually emphasize the "censoring" aspect.
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Yeah, I think a traditional Western style speech bubble with that little "tail" is better for clarity than free-floating manga style bubbles.
I like the suggestion better than the original too.
Possible caption: Hercules took the original meaning of "gymnasium" a little too literally [note: It means "to exercise while naked"]
edited 8th May '15 4:00:04 AM by Melkior
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Oh, ick. That larger version of the current one looks like she's being sodomized behind the bubble. Definitely prefer the suggestion in 1 to it.
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Yikes...yeah, agreed 100%. ![[tup]](https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Thumbs_up_emoticon_3268.png "[thumb up]"){kind=small}
for Hercules.
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
I feel like the Hercules picture is asking for a caption of the form "Better a wise crack than the alternative".
I agree that it's okay (maybe even better) that the contents of the speech bubbles are illegible.
Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.
Not a fan of Hercules.
I am a fan of Hercules. For one thing, his nudity feels more incidental and less sexual which I prefer for wiki pages.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. Dick
The cropping of the current makes it too hard to see what the bubble covers, and the uncropped version has that grey thing that looks like its doing something very NSFW.
For OP.
As an aside, looks to me like the "grey thing" is one of the fingers of the POV character in the foreground (you can see another finger to the right).
I'm sure it is. But it can be too easily interpreted as something... less SFW, so I'd definitely go for the Hercules suggestion.
edited 11th May '15 3:41:46 AM by Adept
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I'm for Hercules. The uncropped original is giving me the wibblies.
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That's enough consensus to go with Herc; he's swapped in. Caption or no?
Old pic:
No, the other one.
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That's a great line, but it feels like it belongs with a trope other than this one.
It's a joke on the ages of comic books. Herc is a Silver Age hero.
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I think that for the current image it is too unclear what is being blocked, and what is doing the blocking. And I think that the picture should be replaced with this.
edited 7th May '15 9:21:50 AM by Mullon
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