Just a Face and a Caption: Brown Note

This current page picture depends on one's knowledge of Greek Mythology. We also actually have a specific trope for Medusa, people with snake hair based off her.

There were two previous threads, btw. One in which the current was put up to replace a worse previous pic, and one in which the current was kept because no replacement options were offered whatsoever.

Here's a replacement suggestion that both illustrates the trope and adds the funnyz.

Opened.

Three previous threads, in fact (The third one is this one

That said, I laughed out loud at the suggestion and whole-heartedly support changing the page image to it.

I can go with the OP's suggestion.

Not sure if suggestion in OP works without knowledge of the Medusa mythology.

Suggesting panel 2 and 4.

[wrong thread]

edited 20th Jan '17 4:06:39 PM by eroock

"...works without knowledge of the Medusa mythology."

I think objections along this line of thought are giving readers too little credit. It's not like you need to be familiar with the details of a particular story. "Medusa's gaze turns people to stone" is generally well-known, isn't it? And anyway the caption could mention it somehow.

edited 20th Jan '17 4:41:44 PM by rodneyAnonymous

If we assume the majority is familiar with it, then current is not such a bad pick after all.

Also, Medusa is not an example of this trope; Medusa's severed head is an example of this trope. That isn't nearly as widely-known, but the current caption mentions it.

The effect coming from an object (rather than a creature) is part of what makes it a Brown Note.

edited 20th Jan '17 4:59:11 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I like the OP suggestion, provided it looks good at wiki size.

Possible crop:

11 looks good to me.

11's good. For 5, panel 4 alone is enough, I think. But both are good.

I personally like the OP/11 best.

Clock is set. Any other thoughts on 11?

I liked the one in 11 when it was first suggested. I like the crop in 11 even better, so forom me.

The clock is up and we've got consensus on OP/11, so it's up and tagged. This makes the third IP thread for the page, so it'll go on that list. I've added the source image as a caption; actual caption beyond that?

Old pic:

I predict that image will lead to misuse: more examples of creatures with a petrifying gaze, when the article describes effects from inanimate objects, like a book that blinds anyone who reads it.

Medusa's head was a so-so example, Medusa herself is a bad one.

edited 10th Feb '17 4:48:45 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Depending on which translation you use, it can be either Medusa's gaze that causes the petrification, or looking directly at her (Hence why Perseus using his shield as a mirror worked and why her severed head could still do it.) Is much of the misuse people using it for an active power that the holder must use? If not, then I don't see that as a problem.

edited 10th Feb '17 5:39:11 PM by Madrugada

It's been a few days and no one brought up a caption idea. Calling this done.