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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:03:43 PM

This is a death trope, so having an imagge will invariably be an spoiler.

Personally, I was spoiled by the current pic which is this one:

edited 5th Mar '11 12:03:58 PM by shark33

troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#2: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:05:04 PM

Pulled for being a spoiler.

I think this one should have an image because it's a very visual trope. We just need to find one that isn't a death spoiler.

edited 5th Mar '11 12:05:43 PM by troacctid

shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#3: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:10:02 PM

Maybe something that is well known that falls into It Was His Sled territory?

edited 5th Mar '11 12:10:14 PM by shark33

troacctid (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#4: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:12:55 PM

I was thinking more something like "Not a spoiler because the character is, like, a Red Shirt or a Mook".

shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#5: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:14:31 PM

That would be harder to find, since RedShirts and Mooks don't usually get this treatment, they just die with out any focus.

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#6: Mar 5th 2011 at 12:43:36 PM

Except that had you actually read the corresponding example, you'd know that Tohsaka gets better. And last time I checked, characters getting injured in an action-y story wasn't a spoiler. In fact, that was the reason why that picture was selected for that page in the first place. But hey, who cares about the context, right?

edited 5th Mar '11 12:45:58 PM by Koveras

Ronka87 Since: Jun, 2009
#7: Mar 5th 2011 at 1:27:56 PM

I personally think this pic is perfect for the page— the trail of blood shows that she hit the wall and then slid down, which would normally be hard to convey in a static image.

On the subject of spoilerishness: Normally I'm averse to spoilers, but considering she's not even dead in this pic, it seems a bit much. I'm not sure how big a spoiler this is for the series, considering I don't watch it, but it seems the pic is less of a spoiler than a form of Never Trust a Trailer.

Then again, I'm not terribly informed about the show— I just watch the trope and would hate to see a good image go to waste.

edited 5th Mar '11 1:29:20 PM by Ronka87

SakurazakiSetsuna Together Forever... Since: Jun, 2010
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#8: Mar 5th 2011 at 1:51:58 PM

But she doesn't die.

Hell, she's like the one character in the entire franchise who doesn't die. Period.

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#9: Mar 5th 2011 at 2:50:51 PM

I don't see anything wrong with the current image...

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#10: Mar 5th 2011 at 3:36:44 PM

Someone that haven't seen the series, wouldn't know the context of the situation. I know it exemplifies the trope perfectly, but it's an spoiler no matter what. If you don't know the context, then you would think she dies, if you read the spoilered mark part or are explained the situation, you would know that she doesn't die, and that she doesn't die at all in the series, so this scene wouldn't be as powerfull as it was meant becuase you already knew the result, which what a spoiler is.

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#11: Mar 5th 2011 at 6:12:42 PM

It's not a spoiler though, it's at best a false spoiler since people think that's whats going to happen but doesn't. It's a good image for the trope IMO.

Pulling it was way jumping the gun there

edited 5th Mar '11 6:14:34 PM by Raso

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#12: Mar 5th 2011 at 6:21:41 PM

[up]A "false spoiler" it's a spoiler, specially if the reader has to go trhough the spoiler block in the example to get the concept(which someone who thinks has already been spoiled, could probably do), and anyway the caption had a Pot Hole to Only a Flesh Wound.

Atz Since: Jan, 2001
#13: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:00:27 PM

We could probably find a decent picture from an FPS or horror game. They often have dead guys slumped against walls to show that the mutants (or whatever) have been killing people. Also, a lot of modern ones have ragdoll physics that occasionally result in a wall slump.

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#14: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:11:42 PM

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Its not a spoiler.

Its perfect for that very reason.

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#15: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:15:38 PM

Considering the gems she uses all the time before that scene it's not a spoiler that she desnt die.

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#16: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:18:57 PM

So you are telling me having a picture of a character bleeding profusely, which lead everyone who sees it without previous knwoledge, to believe she dies, and a Pot Hole to Only a Flesh Wound which confirms to everybody that she doesn't, isn't an spoiler?

Either way, I' guessing this happens on a very important part of the show, probably the resolution of something, but with that knwoledge once i'll see it, I'll know that she gets wonded but doesn't die it won't be as impactfull as it would with no knwoledge of it at all. That sounds like a spoiler to me.

I already said it, The image ilustrates PERFECTLY the trope, but it's an spoiler no matter how you see it.

edited 5th Mar '11 7:20:15 PM by shark33

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#17: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:19:53 PM

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Remove the pothole then.

Due to the context of this scene, its pretty much perfect.

the fight where this happens takes place "offscreen", when you find her, she hands over a magic dagger she hid (somewhere...), and says she'll be fine, go kill the bad guy. And then it turns out that she was right, she will be fine!

edited 5th Mar '11 7:21:23 PM by SakurazakiSetsuna

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#18: Mar 5th 2011 at 7:35:25 PM

Damn, I was hoping to get a good shot of Neo sliding down the wall after Smith shoots him in the first Matrix movie but he ends up lying down on the ground.

Uerian Since: Jul, 2009
#19: Mar 6th 2011 at 12:05:23 PM

It isn't invariably a spoiler; what about Buddy Faith?

edited 6th Mar '11 12:10:40 PM by Uerian

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#20: Mar 6th 2011 at 12:19:06 PM

Oh, that's a good one as it's in the first five minutes.

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#22: Mar 6th 2011 at 1:14:46 PM

Very nice. If it's from the start of a work, it's perfect.

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#23: Mar 6th 2011 at 1:47:23 PM

Not to nitpick, but this image actually has a wall, and since it's just a drawing and not an actual part of any story, it has a zero chance of spoiling anything.

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#24: Mar 6th 2011 at 1:50:59 PM

Like it. More than the other suggestions.

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Ronka87 Since: Jun, 2009
#25: Mar 6th 2011 at 1:56:30 PM

I like it. Maybe we can put the old one and the Ace Attourny pic in the Image Links wiki.

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