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This thread is meant to be a place for people to ask questions and request discussion about existing page images they have concerns about; this can be used to determine if a thread should be made to replace an image.

For example, questions about Just a Face and a Caption concerns, whether a picture requires additional context, whether a picture demonstrates all of the necessary aspects or a trope, or whether a trope better demonstrates a related trope can be asked here.

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#1: Jul 20th 2020 at 7:34:42 PM

This thread is meant to be a place for people to ask questions and request discussion about existing page images they have concerns about; this can be used to determine if a thread should be made to replace an image.

For example, questions about Just a Face and a Caption concerns, whether a picture requires additional context, whether a picture demonstrates all of the necessary aspects or a trope, or whether a trope better demonstrates a related trope can be asked here.

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#2: Jul 21st 2020 at 4:38:42 AM

Opened and pinned. Are there any currently unlocked threads that need to be run through here?

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#3: Jul 21st 2020 at 9:36:09 AM

In theory the initial discussion for Oddball in the Series and No Eye in Magic could have gone here. In practice, those threads have already progresses on a bit.

The Calling Me a Logarithm thread which hasn't been opened yet was one of my impetuses for creating this thread.

I haven't done a full scouring of existing threads, however.

Twiddler (On A Trope Odyssey)
#4: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:47:35 PM

The Calling Me a Logarithm image is in fact an example (see the full strip here), but I can see why it'd be confusing. The setup which explains why the word homophone is being used is in a different panel. Note the character's emphasis on the word "you're", which implies it is a response to the word 'homophone' being used by the other character. However, the fact the other character was using the word correctly is not clear without context.

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#5: Jul 21st 2020 at 12:57:23 PM

Right. I think the solution is to add the half of the previous panel (the half with Belkar speaking), but that suggestion can be made here without necessarily starting a new thread.

jandn2014 Very Spooky from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
Very Spooky
#6: Jul 21st 2020 at 2:58:02 PM

Is Cover Identity Anomaly too redundant with Funny.Superbad? The one on the latter page does look a bit nicer visually, though.

Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 21st 2020 at 5:58:32 AM

back lol
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#7: Jul 21st 2020 at 3:06:38 PM

^ I have no issue with the duplication.

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#8: Jul 23rd 2020 at 2:46:25 PM

The image for Summon Bigger Fish appears to be a rogue image swap in May. I think it's simple to just revert it to the previously picked image.

WarJay77 Bonnie's Artistic Cousin from The Void (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
Bonnie's Artistic Cousin
#9: Jul 23rd 2020 at 2:47:03 PM

The current also has some distracting white lines that are probably only visible on Night Vision.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#10: Jul 23rd 2020 at 3:11:20 PM

[up][up] The former pic is this...I can at least get the trope from the current, I have no idea how this is supposed to fit.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/graug_5688.jpg]]

Edited by Willbyr on Jul 23rd 2020 at 3:11:38 AM

petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
#11: Jul 23rd 2020 at 11:43:14 PM

The current for Summon Bigger Fish is way too dark. I think we should open a thread on it.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
#12: Jul 24th 2020 at 1:25:47 PM

I can get behind former pic. Its overlap with The Beastmaster or whatever trope there is about mindcontrolling a beast is concerning. And both images miss the summoning part.

Brighter version of current:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bigger_fish_9.png

The clip. Is that summoning?

Edited by eroock on Jul 24th 2020 at 1:36:15 AM

jandn2014 Very Spooky from somewhere in Connecticut Since: Aug, 2017 Relationship Status: Hiding
Very Spooky
#13: Jul 24th 2020 at 1:36:16 PM

[up] [tup] That’s better.

Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 24th 2020 at 4:37:52 AM

back lol
thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#14: Jul 24th 2020 at 2:10:14 PM

The actual summoning is a bit earlier, but it's a bit confusing since Trigon first gets to possess Superman, and only later shows up in his full demonic form.

Edit: somebody should also add the example to the page; it's from Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.

Edited by thok on Jul 24th 2020 at 2:13:44 AM

Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#15: Jul 25th 2020 at 11:49:43 AM

What's happening in Pupating Peril? Somebody being eaten? Somebody emerging from a cocoon?

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#16: Jul 25th 2020 at 12:13:39 PM

[up]I think the latter; the big brown mass is a cocoon and the humanoid thing is emerging from it.

petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
#17: Jul 25th 2020 at 12:57:07 PM

It's not clear enough for me.

The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.
eroock Since: Sep, 2012
Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#19: Jul 25th 2020 at 3:34:03 PM

[up] Definitely.[tup]

You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Gentleman Troper!
#20: Jul 26th 2020 at 5:25:53 AM

It strikes me that Oven Logic is an image macro and JAFAAC (i.e. a random portrait accompanied by a bunch of text in a fancy font). What do people think of this?

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#21: Jul 26th 2020 at 5:40:41 AM

[up] I'd feel better about changing it if there was an obvious replacement. I'd argue the housewife's confused look makes it not quite Just a Face and a Caption, but the Image Macro argument is stronger.

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#22: Jul 26th 2020 at 5:43:17 AM

It was selected here and kept here; I won't be opening a new thread on it without a replacement suggestion.

thok That's Dr. Title, thank you! (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Non-Canon
That's Dr. Title, thank you!
#23: Jul 26th 2020 at 5:54:07 AM

Spark9 should get points for consistency on his opinion of the Oven Logic picture (he created the 2014 thread).

Edited by thok on Jul 26th 2020 at 5:54:11 AM

Spark9 Gentleman Troper! from Castle Wulfenbach Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Pining for the fjords
Gentleman Troper!
#24: Jul 27th 2020 at 3:56:23 AM

[up] Hm, I had forgotten about that.

See, this is why I think a cutoff point for earlier threads is good. If more people than Thok and myself agree that this is really an image macro, then it should be pullable by current IP standards even if it was fine by the standards of six years ago.

Rhetorical, eh? ... Eight!
Morgenthaler Since: Feb, 2016
#25: Jul 27th 2020 at 5:00:07 AM

So, start a separate thread for Pupating Peril?

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

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