Suggestion: Mars Needs Women

Opening suggestion: Marge and Kang from a Treehouse of Horror episode.

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

Opened. Previous threads.

Hmmm, there's several good alternatives in those threads, although I think some look too much like Touch of the Monster or Monster Misogyny.

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

This one is my favorite so far.

The last panel of the first image works.

I really like , but that pic was pulled in the previous thread with the agreement that the trope needed to go through TRS for definition tweaking. The Simpsons pic is pretty good.

They should have changed the trope name during TSR cleanup. It still sounds like Martians are in need for human females for breeding. This is asking for trouble.

That said, I would prefer a real human female for the trope pic.

edited 4th Nov '15 1:01:29 AM by eroock

To recapitulate the options from the previous thread, there's 1◊, 2, and 3◊, which are Touch of the Monster, not this trope.

The King Kong (2005) Empire state building pic◊ is more Interspecies Romance. The composition also makes me think of a specific visual style trope, though I'm not sure which.

This◊ from Metal Slug was the only other viable example.

edited 14th Nov '15 6:11:08 AM by Morgenthaler

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

Bump. Other thoughts or suggestions?

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

Metal Slug in lieu of anything else, I guess.

(Annoyed grunt)

Bump. I like 6.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?

I like it from a visual standpoint, but it's too focused on the title and doesn't really get the trope right. I think I'm going to have to go with the OP, as the Metal Slug pic is just a little too kludgy...if a differently-colored version existed, it might get my vote.

Not a different coloured version as such... It's worse, isn't it?

(Annoyed grunt)

That's actually a little better...the brown background really made the whole thing hard to figure out, that takes away that problem.

Here◊ is one without the compression artifacts.

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

Even better still, then.

(Annoyed grunt)

The page mentions King Kong◊ as a possible example. Looks out of place with the other suggestions, but only because of the misleading trope name.

14 looks too much like Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? for my liking.

^ Good point.

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

Crowner?

Just to expand the options, here are some from the Mars Attacks trading cards 1◊, 2◊, and from Judge Dredd a kindhearted Klegg marrying a human◊. The Mars Attacks ones in particular really capture the antiquated tone of the trope without overlapping with Touch of the Monster cover art.

And crowner's made.

edited 8th Dec '15 12:25:15 PM by Morgenthaler

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

And hooked, thanks.

Votes bump; two in the green.

Calling this one for Marge and Kang; can someone please do the honors? Thanks in advance.

Caption?