Just a Face and a Caption: Nerves Of Steel

The header says it all. Really doesn't illustrate anything if you don't know the source material.

A good picture would be someone staying stoic while pretty much everything explodes around...

edited 17th Jan '13 10:22:49 AM by StFan

That's a horrible JAFAAC. Pull with extreme prejudice.

That's even worse than I was expecting when I clicked the link to check it. Nuke it.

Current image is pretty bad, especially when weighting the caption ("Pretty much"):

It doesn't even make the page prettier.

Annoyingly, the image was added alongside a Zero Context Example in the article itself... I'm really at a loss as to how this guy relates to the trope at all.

Somewhere, somebody knows who it is and why we should care, but they didn't even bother to tell us in the page. Classic JAFAAC, pull with extreme prejudice.

It's a Zero Context Page Image.

I've tagged the page to point people here.

edited 17th Jan '13 3:52:49 PM by Willbyr

How about Tank Man as an image? It's quite cliche, but one dude in front of a line of tanks certainly evokes this trope.

Tank Man◊ has a lot more tropes attached to it than Nerves of Steel.

Plus, I think it's in use somewhere on the wiki. Not sure, though.

I agree that Tank Man is a little too ambiguous.

I like it, pending something better.

Since it didn't get any bites in Mundane Solution, maybe this guy◊ taking on a Gundam with just a rocket launcher?

edited 30th Jan '13 12:10:11 AM by justanid

Uh? I don't see how it fits here.

I don't think it's nearly clear enough that that's what he's doing...and that's a Zaku.

edited 30th Jan '13 6:59:32 AM by Willbyr

I wonder if we could find a couple panels from Zebra Girl that would fit — Sam Sprinkles facing off against the werewolves is a pretty solid example. Maybe the four panels preceding the Distant Reaction Shot?

Okay — here's a first attempt at mashing the panels together in a 2x2 grid:

edited 7th Feb '13 12:51:43 PM by RobinZimm

I don't see it.

Not enough context? The reason I picked the example is because Sam Sprinkles is basically a normal being hunted by a pair of werewolves who — when he sees that they are strutting rather than simply mauling him — takes advantage of their human nature to catch them off-guard. That kind of improvisation in the face of danger is something I associate with having Nerves of Steel, so I thought the page had some potential as an image.

edited 7th Feb '13 5:40:17 PM by RobinZimm

I don't think that's very clear.

Okay, fair enough.

I'll go ahead and give the comic one more shot — here's Panel 1, by itself:

That works better. I'm not entirely sold on it, but it does illustrate the trope, so it would be an improvement to use it.