Poor Image: Jerk With A Heart Of Gold

The speech bubbles are illegible and the whole strip relies on the caption. Is this worth keeping? I'd say no.

Yeah, we need to find something more concise.

Not only that, but it was also changed without discussion. I'll message the culprit.

What it used to be:

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For what it's worth, I always thought the Simpsons pic wasn't a good illustration.

edited 11th Jul '17 2:33:10 PM by Gosicrystal

That and even within the Simpsons universe, it is edited.

Any panel arrangement from this◊ that might work?

edited 11th Jul '17 3:12:34 PM by neoYTPism

^ This may be the best combo but it's still lacking in the jerkiness part.

It's okay, but just okay.

Better than the Simpsons one, though?

Yes, mainly because the "heart of gold" part is more visually evident in the last panel.

Well, it'll make a good replacement in case we don't come up with anything better, then.

Eh. 6 is okay.

''“You want a planet? I’ll give you a planet! Heck, I’ll give you your own solar system! No, I’ll give you a house... in Boca Raton!

I like 6

6.

Spiral out, keep going.

6 is alright, I think.

(Annoyed grunt)

Nothing about 6 remotely suggests "jerk", so I'm not a fan of it.

Maybe it'd work better if we use the second panel from the source strip instead of the first one?

Even the second panel makes him look silly rather than a jerk. The text even says that it's a lovable trait of his.

Right. The image we seek must clearly show he's a jerk.

Do we really need an image? Half the trope pages here don't have one.

I'd show you my signature, but then I'd have to kill you. Oh wait...Sorry.

Crowner's hooked.

I wasn't expecting to see a crowner this soon, so I never did get around to looking into alternative panel arrangements until now. Here's one I came up with:

Of course, I don't mind this being imageless either (it's more about avoiding that Simpsons entry than pushing the Sonic one) but I figure it'd be a waste of a mention of that option to not give multiple panel arrangements a chance.

edited 27th Jul '17 7:05:48 PM by neoYTPism

^^^ That's not really an argument. No, strictly speaking none of the wiki pages need an image. The reason they're there is to get the meaning of a trope across more quickly.

I'm good to leave this imageless anyway. Sonic doesn't look like a jerk, and Homer is a victim of Manipulative Editing.

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"

Benefactor, actually. He's edited to look like he isn't strangling Bart.

I'm having some second thoughts about the Sonic entry myself, actually.

While we're on the subject of page images, the one for the subpage "other" is JAFAAC, and none of the rest of the subpages have page images, so we may as well leave that imageless too for a sense of symmetry until we can come up with page images for at least a few of the others.

edited 29th Jul '17 4:24:53 PM by neoYTPism

That one's indeed Just a Face and a Caption. It should be pulled.