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Ultimatum Disasturbator from The Wiggle Room (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Who needs love when you have waffles?
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#76: May 28th 2011 at 3:21:34 PM

Try now

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#77: May 28th 2011 at 9:52:52 PM

I don't find those All About Evil twins even remotely creepy.

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#78: May 29th 2011 at 1:59:57 PM

[up]Opposite feeling here, their pale faces and coloring around their eyes give me a creepy feeling the pic should have.

I know the twins from the Shining are this, but they don't come off that way in their picture; they look like normal kids.

AzureLeaf Since: Nov, 2009
#79: May 29th 2011 at 5:07:38 PM

How about the twins from Fatal Frame 2? Like These?

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#80: May 29th 2011 at 5:18:18 PM

I like it. But the lack of background make it seems it is one image copied to two. Anyway, I added to the crowner.

edited 29th May '11 5:18:58 PM by Heatth

FastEddie Since: Apr, 2004
#81: May 29th 2011 at 6:04:49 PM

Hell, no. No idea what you guys are going about.

The image is the Grady twins from The Shining.

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#82: May 29th 2011 at 6:43:28 PM

But they are not really an example, the actresses are twins but not the characters.

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#83: May 29th 2011 at 6:45:13 PM

I personally thought that the dialogue was the Plot Hole in that case. He just lifted the conversation from the novel while forgetting to change that detail.

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#84: May 29th 2011 at 6:51:13 PM

But we can't go making up justifications when confronted with a fact. If Kubrick did intended them to be twins as opposed to the novel, we will never know, so for all purposes they are 8 and 10 years old, therefore not twins, and not an example.

edited 29th May '11 6:52:43 PM by shark33

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#85: May 29th 2011 at 9:00:27 PM

Kinda late in the game, but I added the bodyguard twins from The Triplets of Bellville.

They aren't conjoined, they just stylistically "glomp" into a two person Faceless Masses... with faces.

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#86: May 29th 2011 at 9:02:15 PM

[up] Yeah umm it takes 5 minutes to find the guys in there..... probably not.

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#87: May 29th 2011 at 10:12:41 PM

In a way, it does seem like people recognise the Grady girls as twins. Google confirms that people consider them to be "creepy twins". Therefore if they serve as the page image they will still get the point across; it's not going to mislead people. Just note in the caption that "SURPRISE NOT AN EXAMPLE".

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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#88: May 29th 2011 at 10:33:41 PM

I would prefer not having a Beam Me Up, Scotty! for a trope image as it will invite debates, random pulls and crap but whatever.

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shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#89: May 29th 2011 at 10:51:21 PM

I'm not saying it could be misleading to people unfamiliar with the work, it is misleading to those familiars with it. Like an Inverse JAFAAC.

I pointed out that in here.

Catalogue A pocketful of saudade. from where the good times are Since: Sep, 2009
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#90: May 29th 2011 at 10:59:23 PM

I don't think it will mislead people familiar with it. Makes them go "Hey that's not an example!" maybe, but I think the fact that the term is called "creepy twins" is very self-explanatory..

And by the way, since it's not possible to verify age in most fictional works, I would argue that it's reasonable that the trope should be expanded to instances where the "twins" look like twins. They are executed in narratives to produce exactly the same effect.

(And even if we don't expand it, the Grady sisters would still be an example under Played With or Subverted Trope, since in the narratives they are executed to produce the same reactions.)

edited 29th May '11 11:02:07 PM by Catalogue

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
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#91: May 31st 2011 at 10:32:21 AM

Bump for more votes. As of right now:

  • Close up twins from The Shining: +9 (yeas:16 nays:7) 2.29 : 1
  • Hansel and Gretel from Black Lagoon: +3 (yeas:10 nays:7) 1.43 : 1
  • White haired twins: from The Matrix Reloaded: +1 (yeas:6 nays:5) 1.20 : 1
  • All About Evil twins: +1 (yeas:9 nays:8) 1.13 : 1

edited 31st May '11 10:34:06 AM by Willbyr

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#92: May 31st 2011 at 12:24:19 PM

Make that one more vote for Hansel and Gretel. I also found a picture we could use. It might need some resizing though: http://safebooru.org/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=136457

edited 31st May '11 12:26:36 PM by Nightraid

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#93: May 31st 2011 at 12:26:49 PM

Don't post hotlink images in the forum (or the wiki, for that matter). Either upload the image in the server or link them, instead.

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#94: May 31st 2011 at 12:29:02 PM

I suggest cropping it and uploading it to imageshack and putting an entry in the crowner. You don't just vote for characters, you vote for specific images.

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#95: May 31st 2011 at 2:20:16 PM

I already suggested it way back in page one. I guess it is not in the crowner because the general consensus preferred to other picture over it.

shark33 Since: Nov, 2010
#96: May 31st 2011 at 2:26:39 PM

I think it's not in the crowner becuase we missed it. I filled the crowner(well, there was someone else filling it while I was doing it too), so I guess it was human error.

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#97: May 31st 2011 at 3:56:20 PM

Nevermind. Is the other H & G pic official art or a Deviant Art / ___booru original?

edited 31st May '11 3:58:07 PM by Willbyr

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#98: May 31st 2011 at 11:21:23 PM

I found it on safebooru. But it looks like the shining twins will win this one, even though they just look kind of... plain to me.

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#99: Jun 1st 2011 at 8:42:39 PM

Bump...as of right now:

  • Close up shining twins: +10 (yeas:18 nays:8) 2.25 : 1
  • All About Evil twins: +3 (yeas:11 nays:8) 1.38 : 1
  • Hansel and Gretel: +3 (yeas:13 nays:10) 1.30 : 1

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#100: Jun 3rd 2011 at 4:08:19 PM

Alright, it's been about a week, the votes haven't changed much, and the Shining twins have been the consistent leader, so I think this is ready to call. The new pic is up, potholed, and tagged, and I moved the quote to work as the pic's caption. Do Hansel and Gretel have a good quote that could work for the page?

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