Suggestion: Unfinished Untested Used Anyway

League of Super Redundant Heroes has this◊. It's actually a subversion, but I wonder if first panel is enough.

Opened.

First one is enough. The trope does not really require a consequence.

The first panel is good.

I don't like it. They are basically just talking about it, and kind of repeating the trope name. The lone piece of visual-only information is that one of the two speakers is wearing a lab coat, and that's not much.

Eh, we'll add the legs later◊.

The first panel of the OP is weak but alright. The Gundam suggestion looks like it was designed that way.

Maybe we could include the second panel?

6 doesn't look like it's untested, it just looks like a weird robot design with thrusters intsead of legs.

edited 9th Oct '15 12:33:16 AM by Karxrida

6 does not look unfinished to me at all.

Here's a crowner for the suggestions.

On one hand I appreciate the time spent making the crowner, but on the other I don't think anything suggested so far deserves that sort of consideration. Crowners should probably only get made as a "second" to someone's motion for one.

edited 12th Oct '15 1:32:17 AM by rodneyAnonymous

I have to agree, this one seems a mite premature.

Yeah, we are not close to reaching a consensus.

I only could really think of one idea for this.

It might be better as a page quote and not an image. I don't know what do you guys think?

[1]◊[2]◊[3]◊ with a caption 'you don't really need legs in space'

edited 12th Oct '15 10:10:35 AM by Memers

Then let's continue this discussion.

^ I don't know; for those at least it's basically the text doing all the work.

Agreed, not really feeling any of those.

Yeah, all those are just... text. As far as a constructive suggestion of my own, though, despite wracking my brains I'm stumped. How on earth can this kind of thing be conveyed by a picture, bar something that's.... I dunno, half-painted and obviously missing parts. Like The Death Star II or something.

Well, how about that, then?

^ It's a decent illustration, but I'm not sure the Death Star is really an example. IIRC, it's only made to appear unfinished to the Rebels to lure them into a trap, as Palpatine reveals that it's actually "fully operational". It's probably better than nothing, but I think we should keep looking for something better.

Well, not exactly. It really was incomplete but the principal systems, including the superlaser, were up and running.

Yeah, it's incomplete, but less incomplete than the Rebels were led to believe.

Not sure if it was tested, though. Presumably the Rebels would've noticed a moon disappearing.

Star Wars has enough Pop-Cultural Osmosis that people will know it's not truly an example.

edited 28th Oct '15 12:42:01 AM by Karxrida

edited 27th Oct '15 11:54:10 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I think this is one of those tropes that is almost impossible to convey by static images alone. Well, at least not without a lot of text. That's hardly ideal, is it?