Does Not Illustrate: Posthumous Character

Apparently the current pic was voted in via suggestion thread. Can somebody explain how the image is representative of the trope? All I see is a jaded detective character drowning his sorrows.

There are 34 pages of post in that thread. Short of someone reading all of them, it's impossible to say whether there was even any discussion of this image.

Eh? The woman is transparent. She's someone who's dead but still haunts his memories.

I honestly didn't see her as transparent until you pointed it out.

That said, I am not even sure how illustrative it is. A picture of a ghost doesn't indicate the character was dead when the story began, which is entire point of the trope.

edited 16th Dec '16 1:01:46 PM by Ghilz

I don't remember which crowner that pic was in, but it got enough votes to use, so I'm voting Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

The thing is, actual ghosts don't count for the trope, and fall in the same category as undeads, which are explicitly excluded. It's not so much that they're physically dead as they're not present in the current story (although flashbacks are okay).

For that reason, I think it's misleading, and should be pulled.

The thing is, in the story she's explicitly not a ghost. The comic opens with her corpse being discovered, and she only appears in flashbacks. So the example is metaphorical, but since that might not be apparent from the image we should at least look for something better.

Yeah, that's the problem with some tropes, since just showing a picture of it can show a different picture than what's actually in the story. Metaphors are often too easy to take literally.

I wonder what would make for a good image. A photo of someone dead?

Man, that transparency effect is really subtle. The question to ask here is if the image adds anything to our understanding of the trope and I cannot say that it does.

edited 18th Dec '16 9:28:48 AM by eroock

Two possibilites, both from Sunset Boulevard:

The guy in the pool? He narrates the whole film.

edited 16th Dec '16 2:46:55 PM by Madrugada

Wouldn't that be Posthumous Narration?

Pull regardless of replacement.

Anybody else for pulling?

Yes. Remove the current.

The clock is up and the way the votes fall out, there's not enough consensus for pulling the pic. I'll tag the page for the thread; locking up in the meantime.