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Deadlock Clock: Dec 16th 2016 at 11:59:00 PM
AsForMyHandle No crack, Gromit! We’ve forgotten the crack! from Hell, Michigan, US Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#1: Nov 26th 2016 at 9:12:34 PM

It's just a picture of two kids dressed as Spider-Man and Batman. The caption doesn't do a great job at explaining either and I'm having a really hard time trying to figure out how the trope is illustrated.

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#2: Nov 26th 2016 at 9:27:30 PM

Valid point about the current page image.

Suggestions:

Third frame of this El Goonish Shive

or if anyone has the comic books mentioned on the page, nearly all of those sound like there should be a good page image hiding there.

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#3: Nov 26th 2016 at 11:03:00 PM

[up] Hmmm...I can see people arguing that that's not much better than a page quote, but it works for me pending other ideas.

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#5: Nov 27th 2016 at 8:00:14 AM

Not feeling the suggestion. We should at least pull the current.

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#6: Nov 27th 2016 at 6:27:26 PM

I think the current image is fine. That's pretty clearly two ordinary kids who want to be superheroes, IMO.

It helps that the trope name describes what the trope is pretty clearly, so we can get away with an image that's not precisely on the nose.

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#7: Nov 27th 2016 at 6:41:34 PM

[up] Problem is that there could be a number of reasons why they're wearing those costumes. They could be getting ready for Halloween, for example.

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AsForMyHandle No crack, Gromit! We’ve forgotten the crack! from Hell, Michigan, US Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#8: Nov 27th 2016 at 6:46:35 PM

[up] Or they could be doing some Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny as a lot of kids love to do.

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#9: Nov 27th 2016 at 7:02:31 PM

"Could be" is a mug's game. The important question is, how are people likely to interpret it, sitting under the page title that it is?

AsForMyHandle No crack, Gromit! We’ve forgotten the crack! from Hell, Michigan, US Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#10: Nov 27th 2016 at 7:22:25 PM

Apparently not the same way you do, given that this thread exists in the first place.

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#12: Dec 12th 2016 at 1:20:02 PM

I don't think the original pic is bad but maybe something like The Sword In The Stone. [1]

edited 12th Dec '16 1:20:24 PM by lexicon

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#13: Dec 12th 2016 at 1:23:39 PM

I vote we pull.

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#14: Dec 13th 2016 at 3:03:20 AM

^^ I don't get I Just Want to Be Special so much as The Chosen One from that one.

I agree on pulling the current, but not much else.

edited 13th Dec '16 3:03:32 AM by Morgenthaler

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AsForMyHandle No crack, Gromit! We’ve forgotten the crack! from Hell, Michigan, US Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#15: Dec 13th 2016 at 4:46:14 AM

Maybe put 12 for The Chosen One?

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#17: Dec 13th 2016 at 9:35:07 PM

12 is at least a solid quality upgrade for Only the Chosen May Wield.

Pull current, iffy on the other suggestions.

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#18: Dec 14th 2016 at 3:47:31 AM

[up] I like the holy light coming from above in current on Only the Chosen May Wield which is cropped away in 12.

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#19: Dec 18th 2016 at 4:57:38 PM

The clock is up. I've done the upgrade on Only the Chosen May Wield; locking for lack on consensus on this page.

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