Does Not Illustrate: Driven To Suicide

There is no indication of what drove the character to commit suicide. If anything, this is a case of Barefoot Suicide.

Previous thread

for moving Daisy to the main page.

I don't think the reason behind the act is strictly necessary in an illustration. That said, since all the examples already have their own medium subpages, for moving the current to Anime and Manga.

ETA: Also, Daisy was unilaterally removed from Western Animation.

edited 13th Nov '15 4:57:36 AM by Morgenthaler

"I don't think the reason behind the act is strictly necessary in an illustration"

Well, current is not misleading but it also doesn't add anything to the trope.

How so? It shows somebody having committed suicide by hanging. Now if we had a trope for Stumble Upon Suicide or similar I think it'd be a stronger illustration for that one, but I'm really not seeing how it doesn't add anything.

Did we forget to update the Daisy one? The pulled image was the low quality one, while we found a better one in the thread.

Apparently. And, just in case, for Daisy.

7

That ones good for the western animation page.

"It shows somebody having committed suicide by hanging."

The first paragraph says this trope is about desperate and tormented characters committing suicide. Just hanging there is weak. I wouldn't even consider it for the Manga subpage.

7 is good.

Current picture doesn't illustrate the trope at all. The trope is about a person deciding to commit suicide due to tragic circumstances. Current image just shows a guy hanging from a noose while a schoolgirl watches, with no indication of what led him to do so.

I don't think any single picture, unless made for the purpose, can illustrate both the suicide and the "driven to" part. Certainly none of the pictures suggested so far do more than show a suicide with no reason given, and so I don't think any of them are suitable, including the current.

I think we need a montage of pictures. Probably we need at least two and more realistically three pictures, showing the suicide as the final event leading from the events depicted in the first one or two.

It may be possible for me to compile a sequence from The Bully's Bully story 5 where a young boy is bullied until he kills himself because of it.

It would take a lot of work, but there wouldn't be any issues with unreadable text since the web comic is intentionally textless.

I'd like some input on whether or not I should attempt this.

If you believe you can make it work, then go ahead.

edited 21st Nov '15 10:38:31 AM by TheUnsquished

I would suggest SMT IV, but that would be spoilers so... >_>

Well, after a lot of thrashing around I came up with something which I think is at least halfway toward acceptable. See what you think. I've got a full-size version and a wiki size version (350px wide).

Wiki size

Full size

I just wish it was more obvious that he's buying a gun in that fourth panel.

For what it's worth, I can make out that it's a gun. I personally think it'd work, but obviously I can't speak for the others.

OK, I guess, but I would prefer something simpler. A complicated picture will be hard to make out, detail-wise, in wiki size.

^ Agreed.

19's a little cumbersome but I think it's better than nothing.

I have a wiki-sized version in my post above. If that's clear enough, then it shouldn't be any worse once it's on the site.

I think the current on Suicide as Comedy would be a better fit for the DrivenToSuicide.Film page, as it's JAFAAC on that page.