Suggestion: Hollywood Torches

Opening suggestion: torches used by Nic Cage◊ in National Treasure.

Good choice...that's some serious lumens.

Two important aspects of Hollywood Torches: brighter than is realistic, and no smoke. Nails it. (Perhaps the caption should mention those attributes?)

^^

edited 22nd Nov '15 4:14:13 PM by rodneyAnonymous

The brightness is not the point of the trope. That is Nuclear Candle.

Tropes can overlap. A Hollywood Torch is very often also a Nuclear Candle, as mentioned by the description.

Suggestion works. That doesn't look like torches I've handled.

A better image would be spontaneous combustion lighting a torch, anyone got anything like that?

What?

This trope is about incorrect usage of torches. The Nuclear Candle is related trope, it can be used with any kind of light source, it would best to show more than just that.

Other uses are torches activating without a spark, smokeless, do not light other very flammable things on fire, do not consume O2 in tight spaces, burn out far too quickly than they should (Video Games) or last forever, no use of lampshades or lanterns and such.

If we can get as many of these as we can in an image then it would work, or multiple images covering everything, I dont think the suggestion covers enough of them.

edited 22nd Nov '15 4:18:22 PM by Memers

"This trope is about incorrect usage of torches."

No it's not, not exactly.^note (I see this is probably a language thing. FYI what you said has an importantly different meaning than intended. Still don't understand what #7 is supposed to mean, though.) It's about common and unrealistic attributes of torches in fictional works. Good luck clearly illustrating "lights too easily", "lasts too long", and "does not consume oxygen".

The image in the original post is easily the best suggestion so far. Perhaps the other attributes can be mentioned by the caption alongside "too bright" and "no smoke".

edited 22nd Nov '15 4:35:57 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I'll go with the OP's suggestion.

Features of a Hollywood Torches as applying to OP:

• Emits no significant smoke: [X]
• Fully illuminates a room: [X]
• Never burns out: [ ]
• Cast their own shadow (nice-to-have): [ ]

So are we looking for examples not yet present in OP for a montage? I'd love to see the casting it's own shadow effect somehow.

Clock is set. Anyone else for/against the OP?

OP

Yeah, I feel the OP works well enough for this trope.

OP

That's enough consensus, let's light it up.

It's been added and the page tagged. Caption?

"20 million lumens and they're not even squinting."

edited 8th Dec '15 5:19:30 PM by Willbyr

"Burning just as brightly as when they were first made in 1776."

(I think that's how old the torches are, and ridiculously old torches working perfectly is part of the trope.)

I think I like that one.

^^ Adds further context, I like it.

It doesn't make sense to me, though. They weren't burning when they were made.

It's okay but I think I prefer my take.

^^ "They weren't burning when they were made."

What does this have to do with the caption proposed?

edited 13th Dec '15 4:01:57 AM by eroock