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Deadlock Clock: Mar 13th 2017 at 11:59:00 PM
Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#1: Feb 28th 2017 at 1:22:10 PM

So, the image for Show Some Leg has a woman showing some leg... but she's not doing it to distract anyone. In fact, it seems like she's doing it for the exact opposite reason, she's trying to get people to pay attention to her for a ride.

Last two panels?

... okay, wow, this is harder than I thought. There's a ton of examples of "just flashing for no reason" and Shes Got Legs mixed in here.

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#2: Feb 28th 2017 at 5:12:36 PM

Those last two panels suggested could work.

Gosicrystal Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#3: Feb 28th 2017 at 5:50:38 PM

Um... No skin is really seen in that suggestion (you could get technical in that some pixels show, but it's still tiny) when it should be clearly visible. Also, is this trope limited to legs?

edited 28th Feb '17 5:55:15 PM by Gosicrystal

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#4: Feb 28th 2017 at 6:03:07 PM

[up] It's obvious in the next-to-last panel that the person is being flashed. Also, the trope isn't limited to just showing leg.

Gosicrystal Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#5: Feb 28th 2017 at 6:05:13 PM

That's only half of the trope. The skin needs to be shown clearly in a trope about showing skin.

edited 28th Feb '17 6:07:49 PM by Gosicrystal

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#6: Feb 28th 2017 at 6:39:00 PM

I half-jokingly suggest we use an image of the Joker showing leg in Superman: The Animated Series S2 E16-18 "World's Finest".

edited 28th Feb '17 6:41:58 PM by Karxrida

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Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#8: Feb 28th 2017 at 7:31:52 PM

[up][up][up] Er.... Going to have to disagree with you there. This isn't a fanservice trope, the "showing" can be completely offscreen. Or it doesn't necessarily need to be "showing" since flirtation explicitly counts.

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#9: Feb 28th 2017 at 7:58:45 PM

[up][up] That looks like another trope; she's not doing any distracting, she's trying to trick him into giving up information by coming on to him.

geekgecko Since: Jan, 2016
#10: Mar 1st 2017 at 3:02:45 PM

What about Sally Skellington showing off to Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas?

Larkmarn Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#11: Mar 3rd 2017 at 8:03:57 AM

That's a good idea and a great example, but I would much prefer to avoid a literal example seeing as this gets misused as Shes Got Legs already.

4th and 6th panels?

A cropped version of the first panel?

edited 3rd Mar '17 8:10:46 AM by Larkmarn

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#12: Mar 3rd 2017 at 9:09:09 AM

I like those 4th and 6th panels suggestion.

edited 3rd Mar '17 9:09:19 AM by Gosicrystal

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#13: Mar 3rd 2017 at 10:18:53 AM

Isn't 11.1 more in the Brain Bleach territory rather than a sexy distraction?

Gosicrystal Since: Jun, 2016 Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
#14: Mar 3rd 2017 at 11:06:31 AM

[up] No. The guy is distracted by the girl's boobs. His eyes are like that in the last panel because he lost the game due to that trick.

edited 3rd Mar '17 11:07:47 AM by Gosicrystal

Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#15: Mar 3rd 2017 at 11:18:13 AM

I was considering something from the pre-credits scene of Goldfinger where Bond is distracted by a dancer so an assassin can sneak up on him, but it would probably require a reaction shot to get her culpability across effectively.

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eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#16: Mar 3rd 2017 at 11:49:27 AM

^^ The character on the left just doesn't strike me as female which undermines the meaning of what I see in those panels. Is it only me? ^ I am afraid, the girl's participation in the ploy is not clear enough even with the second shot.

eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#17: Mar 3rd 2017 at 11:54:11 AM

This trope has serious misuse (Shes Got Legs).

Also there seems to be a third trope at play which I would call "hitchhiker honey trap". Would it be alright, if I single those examples out and open a TLP thread along with the current image showing the Trope Maker? Or must such action go through TRS?

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#18: Mar 10th 2017 at 8:04:09 PM

Clock is set. I like 11.1, 11.2 could work but I dunno how good it would look at wiki size.

[up] No objections here.

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#19: Mar 14th 2017 at 8:49:20 AM

Clock expired; closing.

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