The photograph is shot as very dramatic. It uses Chiaroscuro and the subject is very serious and brooding looking. However, he's also wearing clown makeup - providing the juxtaposition of the dramatic with the ludicrous. Instant bathos.
Waiting on a TRS slot? Finishing off one of these cleaning efforts will usually open one up.
Just to add to what ccoa said - you can practically imagine him, without the clown make-up, getting ready to discuss something with another individual almost as if he's in a noir production. He's smoking, under being the focus of the light, and you'd not need much to change it to a still-image from a archetypal noir scene. As is though, it becomes silly due to the clown-make up, hence providing bathos.
Edited by 212.105.160.110 "Did you expect somebody else?"
I think The Stay Puft Marshmallow man would be a better picture for the Bathos page.
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Bathos can be both intentional and unintentional, but unintentional bathos is narm?
No, it's not. Narm is a meme from Six Feet Under. Unintentional bathos is still bathos.
That's why he wants you to have the money. Not so you can buy 14 Cadillacs but so you can help build up the wastes
Is there any horror counterpart to this trope? I know that some works juxtapose the horrifying with the humorous, but it's just right so that the humorous part becomes even more horrifying than the traditionally horrifying part.
I don't get the image.
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