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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

RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6651: Jun 14th 2025 at 1:20:01 PM

[up]I actually don’t mind the referential captions. Tons of creator pages have at least one reference to their characters (I think it's one of the things that made me like this site in the first place). I think the only issue is that the caption didn’t exactly pothole to the work it's referencing.

Then again, stuff like this are probably a product of how things rolled back then when rules were looser and heavily falls under Fan Myopia.

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Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6652: Jun 14th 2025 at 2:57:23 PM

Well, if it'd been an iconic line or Character Catchphrase I can see the entertainment value, but this specific case is not one. It's a random line from the movie.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jun 14th 2025 at 5:57:45 AM

Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#6653: Jun 14th 2025 at 3:04:08 PM

Removed.

[up] Yeah I am okay if it is iconic.

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isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#6654: Jun 15th 2025 at 3:17:02 PM

For Solar-Powered Magnifying Glass the image is of Bart Simpson burning a plant with a magnifying glass.

For the caption, I was thinking the either

1.1 "Burn, Baby, Burn."

1.2 "By the Power of the Sun, Burn!"

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#6655: Jun 16th 2025 at 1:23:03 PM

[up] How about:

Glitch Episode's original caption:

Gives "integer overflow" a whole new meaning.

Was selected in it's IP thread: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=16894174530.66899100

It was unilaterally tweaked here to:

Gives "buffer overflow" a whole new meaning.

Revert?

MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#6658: Jun 18th 2025 at 2:59:12 AM

Cool. "Burn, Baby Burn, Plastic Inferno" it is.

Lynn1391 (Newbie)
#6660: Jun 19th 2025 at 5:56:44 AM

Without any knowledge of the webcomic of Out of Focus' image, the current caption is hard to understand the arc's role for the character in the current.

Current:

Gil Wulfenbach's lament during the Sturmhalten arc.

petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
#6661: Jun 19th 2025 at 6:12:47 AM

[up]Pull the caption, it relies too much on knowledge of the work.

Edit: also, the page might need a new image for quality reasons, but that's a topic for another thread.

Edited by petersohn on Jun 19th 2025 at 3:13:42 PM

Fjón þvæ ég af mér fjanda minna rán og reiði ríkra manna.
Eggy0 Wizards Don't Own Cats (she/her) (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Wizards Don't Own Cats (she/her)
#6662: Jun 21st 2025 at 12:14:06 AM

I would like to suggest this for They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot as I suggested it in the IP thread but there was no response to it whatsoever before it closed:

Just you wait until they reboot the show and say the fight wasn't worth talking about.

isoycrazy Lord of the Blue Star Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Abstaining
Lord of the Blue Star
#6663: Jun 22nd 2025 at 12:18:47 PM

For Romantic Wingman, the image is from How I met Your Mother, showing Ted kissing a girl and Barney looking smug at his help securing the outcome.

I would suggest the simple caption, "Mission Accomplished."

RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6664: Jun 23rd 2025 at 3:01:31 AM

[up][up][tup] for They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot

[up] I find the caption slightly generic and could literally apply to any kind of trope so [tdown].


A caption was unilaterally added in Baccano!.

The story has no beginning. And it has no end. All there is is a performance of people — connecting, living, influencing each other, and departing.Characters

While I'm not really against the quote and listing the characters could be helpful, there are way too many characters in the poster for all of them to be labelled making the caption slightly bloated.

In the meantime, I also made a slight adjustment due to pointing out the wrong character (in fact the character labelling itself is still pretty inaccurate but I would like some other thoughts on the whole caption itself before I can edit it furthermore).

Cut or keep (or just cut the character note)?

Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 23rd 2025 at 10:06:20 PM

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Bullman Enid Sinclair Since: Jun, 2018 Relationship Status: Longing for my OTP
Enid Sinclair
#6665: Jun 23rd 2025 at 8:05:10 AM

Am I the only one who finds the caption for TearJerker.Batman Arkham City to be a little long and wordy:

How does it feel, Wayne? To stand on the very stones that ran with your parents' blood? Do you feel sad? Full of rage? Or does that outfit help bury your feelings, hiding your true self? Oh, you are a truly extraordinary specimen. I look forward to breaking you.

I feel like you cut it down to this and it would work much better:

"How does it feel, Wayne? To stand on the very stones that ran with your parents' blood?"

Thoughts?

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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
idkwhatiamdoingatp What's your function? from Hooking up the country helping business rise (Series 1) Relationship Status: I'm in love with my car
What's your function?
#6668: Jun 25th 2025 at 6:28:28 AM

Current image (and caption) provider of Going Critical here. I'd like to report that the current caption,

, isn't entirely accurate. The actual phrase is , so can we change it to that?

Also, I have three other caption ideas which are from the same game. The ideas are

, and

WHO PUT A DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE ON THE ROAD!?
Lynn1391 (Newbie)
#6669: Jun 25th 2025 at 9:01:05 AM

Current caption in What Is This Feeling? is an in-joke of Penny Arcade. However, the in-joke itself is hard to understand without knowledges of the comic.

Current:

Suggestions:

It might be a new emotion that scholars should name.
"Perhaps a new emotion that scholars should name?"
Perhaps a new emotion that scholars should name?

Edited by Lynn1391 on Jun 25th 2025 at 4:06:10 PM

RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6670: Jun 25th 2025 at 12:45:00 PM

[up][up][tup] to "Warning: Core overheating. Nuclear meltdown imminent."

[up][tup] to "Perhaps a new emotion that scholars should name?" (the one with quote marks)


Bumping this which was a bump from this yet again because I still haven’t got any reply regarding this at all.

I'll probably quote it right here anyways:

Anyways, continuing on from stuff I said here regarding snarky, meme-ish captions, an example would be some characters in MLP which have these as captions:

    MLP Character Captions 
Twilight Sparkle
Our Mane Protagonist (wings sold separately)
Fluttershy
Don't stare too long; you may die from cuteness.
Rarity
Not just another Jane Doe.
Applejack
Old school and country!
Rainbow Dash
Always flies in style.
Pinkie Pie
"Fill my heart up with sunshine, SUNSHINE!"
Spike
Fillies love him, bronies want to be him.
Apple Bloom Scootaloo
Not a chicken.
Sweetie Belle
She has a song in her heart.
Celestia Luna
The original dark horse, literally!
Cadance Flurry Heart
That's one heck of a wingspan.

Some of them like Rarity's, Applejack's, Dash's, Pinkie's, Sweetie Belle's, and Cadance's ones are kinda okay (maybe some fixing with the potholes), but the rest are not that great with some falling under YMMV captioning. For consistency's sake, I'm willing to pull all of these but what do you think?

There are some other series I can think of that have these but I'll go pop them up later on.

Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 26th 2025 at 7:55:12 AM

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Eggy0 Wizards Don't Own Cats (she/her) (Holding A Herring) Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
Wizards Don't Own Cats (she/her)
#6671: Jun 25th 2025 at 3:13:05 PM

Bumping this since it's been a few days with just a single response.

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
ozchess cat bastard (she/her) from quadling country Since: Jun, 2024
cat bastard (she/her)
#6673: Jun 26th 2025 at 7:47:23 AM

the Sherlock Homage thread closed before i finished discussing this, so i'll pick it back up here. someone first suggested:

"I deduce that this bug has been magnified by my glass!"
but they were asked to change it to:
"I deduce this bug has been magnified by my glass!"
since the former has a lone word in the second line. except, despite what you might expect, the text wrapping isn't consistent for everyone. it's the latter that has a one-word second line on some devices. i don't think we should make decisions around something that's not even consistent so i'd suggest changing it back to the former, since i think it flows a little better

it's beginning to look a lot like christmas...
DrNoPuma Bud and Lou(ise) from the land of Humorous Hyenas (Ten years in the joint) Relationship Status: Married to the music
Bud and Lou(ise)
#6674: Jun 26th 2025 at 6:49:45 PM

This is kind of a minor thing, but I think the caption on Pushy Gun-Toting Villain should pothole to Faux Affably Evil instead of Smug Snake, as I feel FAE fits the quote in the caption much better. Is it okay to change that?

Please make this canon, DC. I love the idea of the Joker and Harley's hyenas acting like them.
RuckusHearts Xiaomao from Middle Earth IRL 🇳🇿 (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
Xiaomao
#6675: Jun 29th 2025 at 4:03:57 PM

Bumping this once more, as well as this which also had no replies.

I've bumped the former three times already and still no reply sad

Edited by RuckusHearts on Jun 29th 2025 at 11:06:52 PM

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