Suggestion: Hollywood Mirage

This is from the Donald Duck episode "Crazy with the Heat". Does it work? Other suggestions?

Edit: The category should be "Suggestion".

edited 12th Sep '15 7:41:03 AM by eroock

Opened.

Fixed title. They look fairly solid for a Hollywood Mirage despite the transparency, though.

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

It's not bad. They could stand to be a little more obviously transparent, though. I don't think it's a problem that they're solid, though. That's just reinforcing the unreal aspect.

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I think I prefer the first, despite Goofy actually being able to sit on the mirage in the second.

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Either's good for me, now that I'm not looking at them on my phone.

support the first.

Honestly because of the quality both look like they are real.

There is this◊ from Love Hina. we could compare it to a real mirage.◊

edited 13th Sep '15 1:07:34 AM by Memers

I'd sooner think that was a real building as seen through someone's delirious vision than Goofy's desert soda bar.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

That is the way its usually presented in media though.

They talk about something then it cuts to their delirious vision of the object and usually it then cuts away and shows what is really there.

Interaction with a mirage does not usually happen, in fact its extremely rare.

Well sure, but it's the fact that the OP is more unrealistic that I think it's a better illustration. I suppose it depends on whether you prioritize the "How it's usually depicted" aspect versus the Hollywood Style aspect.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

An image should show the typical way the trope is portrayed. Not an outliner that is so unusual its hardly represented, hell it goes against many examples since most mirages usually disappear as soon as they get closer to it.

Here is it with subtitle of what was said.◊

edited 13th Sep '15 3:53:12 AM by Memers

"...in the middle of the desert. Right, Keitaro, right."

IMO, just "...in the middle of the desert." Or change the second sentence to positive: "Probably not, Keitaro." I think sarcasm in writing is poor style.

Becky: Who are you? The Mysterious Stranger: An angel. Huck: What's your name? The Mysterious Stranger: Satan.

I don't like any of the suggestions so far. The first two look too real and the slight transparency isn't noticeable enough to denote them as mirages.

I'm sure I've seen cartoons of someone trying to dive into a mirage oasis pool and the water vanishing just before they hit the sand. I think a two-image before and after would work well for this trope.

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Well Love Hina does have a before during after,

Before◊[1]◊

The mirage◊

What he was really looking at.◊

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Too many panels.

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^^ 1 and 3 together can work.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

A mirage shows up in this Happy Tree Friends cartoon, but unfortunately the reveal is probably too gory.

Also came across this Mario comic◊, though I'm not sure how much it shows the trope.

edited 19th Sep '15 1:46:17 AM by Morgenthaler

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

The last two panels of that Mario comic could work.

^^ The monitor frame is distracting.

Would this example◊ from a coke commercial work?

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

I really like it.

Not bad.