Just a Face and a Caption: Wham Episode

The current image on Wham Episode was added without going through Image Pickin' and it's just a single panel of a comic that only depicts the standard reaction to the trope and not the trope itself. The whole comic the image comes from is linked in the caption, but you shouldn't have to go to the source to get the full context behind the image. However, if one or two panels from the comic where included in the image before the reaction, it could make a good image.

That comic is already being used on Deconstruction. I'm inclined to say pull, but at the same time them sitting there shocked while he's holding a box that's marked "Lost Episodes" makes me think it could work somewhere else.

Twilight's Kingdom, Part 2, MLP:FIM

^ Some overlap with Sugar Apocalypse. Not that it would disqualify it.

edited 25th Apr '18 5:01:08 PM by eroock

I see the overlap but I think the scene's limited enough to cover this trope better.

3.1.

I'll go with 3.1, unless someone can suggest something better.

3.1.

3 lacks context in my opinion... How does it convey that it's a before-and-after in the series? An explosion alone doesn't. I'd rather vote Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 8th May '18 10:53:58 AM by Gosicrystal

I still think it's better than nothing.

But for the sake of a further alternative...

That one is better.

Not sure I get it...something bad happens (2nd panel), so there's a new castle that crops up (3rd panel)?

I'd rather blank this page for now, to be honest.

Maybe just use the first two panels?

Also, a suggestion (link because my Kindle won't let me upload images): https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/steven-universe/images/5/5a/Steven_Reacts_037.png/revision/latest?cb=20161019102104 From Steven Universe, "Steven Reacts".

edited 11th May '18 12:58:51 AM by Crossover-Enthusiast

It's too similar to the one in the work's Wham Episode subpage.

The trope is about an episode that changes the status quo permanently, and the viewer's shocked reaction to this episode is a huge factor. The current illustrates the latter very well. The suggestions aim to illustrate the former, but fail to do it clearly (I even doubt that the MLP is even example, but I didn't watch the show).

Strong Keep Until Better Image Suggested.

edited 11th May '18 6:09:38 AM by Millership

Me Too!

Does shocked reaction necessarily imply change to status quo? It could mean the show went overboard on the Nightmare Fuel, Nausea Fuel, or had some kind of moment primed for controversy.

Likewise, change to status quo wouldn't necessarily cause a shocked reaction, especially if someone anticipated it, and/or didn't feel too strongly about it.

Point taken, but the audience reaction is still a big part of the trope. And the MLP pic, if anything, illustrates the Status Quo Is God, since everything goes back to normal in the last panel.

...Status Quo Is God would be Twilight getting her house back exactly the way it was, not a new castle being built on a freaking crystal tree.

Tropes Are Flexible. His point is that the catastrophe was reverted.

11 could work, but just the first two (the top and middle images), since they clearly show how the place was changed and work on their own... Don't understand what the castle in the 3rd shot has to do with it?

It shows that they didn't give her back her old house. Not sure whether it was helpful or not, but I generally aim to err on the side of "more panels" so that if we need fewer they can be removed, rather than fewer panels so that they didn't even know the third one existed.

Even though it's kind of mild for a Wham Episode, I still figure the "drastic change" communicates it more than just a shocked reaction would, given what I mentioned about the distinction involved.

I'm inclined to say the current image works perfectly fine for what it is, and I'm not entirely convinced anything suggested is a whole lot better.

(Also this one is way past the clocking point, innit.)

edited 23rd May '18 10:17:19 AM by ShadowHog

Keep until better image image suggested.