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This is the thread to use if you feel that the page image itself is good but the caption needs help.

If you think that both the image and the caption are poor, please make a thread in Image Pickin' for the page, and we'll work on the image and caption both at the same time.

As with other TRS and IP threads, please state your reasons and make your case in your first post. Don't make the other posters spend time trying to pry it out of you.

Edited by Willbyr on Jun 21st 2021 at 9:42:03 AM

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6426: Mar 6th 2025 at 2:09:09 PM

[up][tup] But maybe move the current caption to be page quote, it feels more page quote sized? Might want to run that by the page quotes thread.

BlueMonday1984 Since: Jan, 2020 Relationship Status: In another castle
#6427: Mar 6th 2025 at 3:29:53 PM

Regarding the caption for Amanda the Adventurer's Nightmare Fuel page:

Would bluelinking it to What the Hell, Player? be okay? In-context, Amanda's blowing her lid at the player for refusing to help a stray kitten.

Edited by BlueMonday1984 on Mar 6th 2025 at 11:30:32 AM

Pbskidsfan Oona the Gadget Lady Since: Feb, 2021 Relationship Status: All is for my lord
Oona the Gadget Lady
#6428: Mar 6th 2025 at 10:40:40 PM

[up] Don't think it needs the bluelink, but you can add it if you want.

The caption for the What An Idiot subpage of Captain Underpants was originally this (decided here):

...Melvin only had one rule, guys!

but was since changed to this:

...Melvin only had one rule, guys! You suffer paid the consequence price of evil doppelgangers framing you in your world, bringing back the old professor that comes to take his revenge, and let an evil robot toilet return to Earth.

Can we revert it to the original version? It was much more concise and extra context isn't needed for that image.

My plan is to trick you into thinking this is my signature when it’s not, then confuse you silly. Doubting my plan? Then it's working!
Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6429: Mar 7th 2025 at 10:50:48 AM

Yeah, that's so much text.


The Extremist Was Right

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/doom_was_right.png
In Earth 9871, DOOM was right all along.note 

  1. The pic is potholed to ComicBook.Fantastic Four, but the caption links to the precise source which is pretty atypical.
  2. Chained Sinkhole in the caption
  3. Gratuitous reference to Music.MF Doom in the note

My thoughts:

  1. Pothole to ComicBook.What If Marvel Comics
  2. Tweak the caption to something like:
Doctor Doom's megalomaniac tyranny made this world a nice place to live.

That way you still get the Fantastic Four link without getting bogged down in universe numbering, while giving more context to the 'extremist' part of the trope.

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
taotruths Live Jet Reaction (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#6432: Mar 7th 2025 at 7:58:58 PM

@Gracie Lizzy

The song and that exact lyric is already used as a page quote on WesternAnimation.Beauty And The Beast 1991, so I don't think that's an option unless we want to change the quote on the film page.

RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6433: Mar 10th 2025 at 12:30:22 AM

So I saw the caption of Extreme Omnivore which has been discussed a while back. While the caption is alright, I find the note in the end a bit too snarky and unnecessary...

We were robbed of this awesomeness in the movie.

In fact, the note is never exactly stated in the discussions at all. Should it be removed?

Edited by RuckusHearts on Mar 10th 2025 at 10:20:54 PM

Currently semi-active.
MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
taotruths Live Jet Reaction (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: I sleep in a big bed with my wife.
Live Jet Reaction
#6435: Mar 11th 2025 at 8:26:40 PM

Question, while WebVideo.Yu Gi Oh The Abridged Series is kinda ingrained to Yu-Gi-Oh, does using references to it as captions count as referential captions? In the same vein as how a caption to WebVideo.Real Time Fandub was removed from Funny.The Murder Of Sonic The Hedgehog because it was a reference to it.

By that logic, the captions for Funny.Yu Gi Oh The Dark Side Of Dimensions and Awesome.Yu Gi Oh The Dark Side Of Dimensions are referential and should be changed.

Proposal for Funny.Yu Gi Oh The Dark Side Of Dimensions:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/yugioh_the_dark_side_of_dimensions_trailer_joey_tristan_headlock_hot_dog.jpg
Never change, guys.

Proposal for Awesome.Yu Gi Oh The Dark Side Of Dimensions (the current caption is also kinda backloaded, like wow):

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/c2f706c2865cecf34aec23a9605cf1a2578a8cda_hq.jpg
It's no monster. It's a god!

Edited by taotruths on Mar 11th 2025 at 8:28:37 AM

Reymma RJ Savoy from Edinburgh Since: Feb, 2015 Relationship Status: Wanna dance with somebody
RJ Savoy
#6436: Mar 12th 2025 at 9:12:19 AM

[up] I agree they would be better without in-jokes.

The caption on Animal Jingoism puzzles me; it seems to be a tangent about common knowledge that distracts from it purpose of illustrating the trope. It was added without discussion in 2020. I suggest cutting it.

Stories don't tell us monsters exist; we knew that already. They show us that monsters can be trademarked and milked for years.
AwkbutTVT Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me) from Gaia, in no current need of help Since: Sep, 2023
Nyan-Binary (The picture, not me)
#6437: Mar 12th 2025 at 9:18:41 AM

People forgot Spike was in the show?

Ey, migi vuru?
Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6438: Mar 13th 2025 at 7:51:48 AM

Not even sure how one could validate that assumption. +1 to pull

Hooked a crowner for Fire-Forged Friends.

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Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#6440: Mar 14th 2025 at 11:44:46 PM

Just Train Wrong has had its caption unilaterally changed from this:

If you think he's about to transform and roll out,
you'd only be half-right.

To this by Railman 1225

If you think he's about to transform and roll out,
you'd only be half-right. Would've been better than what we got...

Besides it being unilateral, the last part feels like an unnecessary potshot and reeks of complaining (which is coming from someone who isn't too fond of AEG either).

Do I have permission to cut out the last portion?

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Mar 14th 2025 at 1:45:29 PM

ilovewildkratts1 Local Odd Squad Connoisseur from a nice breezy expansive meadow (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
#6441: Mar 15th 2025 at 1:37:08 AM

[up] Hit the nail on the head with it being complaining. Cut it and send a notifier.

Edited by ilovewildkratts1 on Mar 15th 2025 at 4:37:22 AM

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Tylerbear12 What you see is what you get, just a guy. from The Green Hills. Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
What you see is what you get, just a guy.
#6442: Mar 15th 2025 at 2:06:36 AM

[up] Caption cut and notifier sent.

Edited by Tylerbear12 on Mar 15th 2025 at 4:06:52 AM

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#6443: Mar 15th 2025 at 7:53:33 AM

Is Meido caption a reference to something? What's surprising about an image of a maido on the maido page?

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#6444: Mar 15th 2025 at 8:06:51 AM

[up] Having not watched Steins;Gate, I have to assume it's some kind of reference to the character's personality. It's self-referential, anyway.

Caption options for Tilting Tower of Pisa for a future crowner:

  • It seems Norse gods don't respect Romanesque architecture.
  • Somehow the "Horizontal Tower of Pisa" doesn't have the same ring to it.
  • Loki is a does not likes mortals. Remember that.

RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6445: Mar 15th 2025 at 3:15:57 PM

[up][up]I've seen Steins;Gate and I don't exactly get it either. Voting to pull.

[up] Voting for the first option.

Edited by RuckusHearts on Mar 15th 2025 at 11:18:13 PM

Currently semi-active.
number9robotic (Experienced Trainee)
#6446: Mar 17th 2025 at 1:27:02 PM

Proof Dare:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mrproveit_3.png

The first, but not the last, time someone tries to call Phoenix's bluff and pays for it with their freedom.

The caption is a bit too prosaic, and was seemingly added unilaterally a year after the image was suggested, ignoring the "don't change or remove" marking. If I could make a suggestion just because I'm surprised it isn't being acknowledged:

At the very least, you can definitely say he's Sahwit.

Edited by number9robotic on Mar 17th 2025 at 1:28:17 AM

Thanks for playing King's Quest V!
Synchronicity MOD (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6447: Mar 18th 2025 at 11:20:25 AM

Closed the crowner for Fire-Forged Friends;

Through terrible trials, together, the toys make a terrific team.

is in and tagged as the caption.

Hooking a crowner for Tilting Tower of Pisa.

ilovewildkratts1 Local Odd Squad Connoisseur from a nice breezy expansive meadow (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Local Odd Squad Connoisseur
#6448: Mar 18th 2025 at 11:21:56 AM

[up][up] I'm not sure what the pun is in the proposed caption.

Wuewuewuewuewueing my way to the bank.
number9robotic (Experienced Trainee)
#6449: Mar 18th 2025 at 11:31:02 AM

The character's name is "Sahwit", as in he "saw it" (he saw the murder). Ace Attorney has a tradition of making Punny Names out of its one-shot characters to make it clear what their involvement in certain crimes is.

Thanks for playing King's Quest V!
MB74 Since: Feb, 2024 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
#6450: Mar 18th 2025 at 11:37:49 AM

Hate to be a Grammar Nazi but then shouldn’t the caption be "he Sahwit" instead of "he’s Sahwit"?

I’ll lift my face, and run to the sunlight.

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