^ They're a start, but I don't think they're ideal for various reasons:
- The first is only half the trope. It only shows the affectionate mother-son relation, it lacks the hostile father-son relation.
- The second does capture that part (and also shows it ocurring during the supposed phallic stage of child development), but the quality isn't very good.
- The third requires too much familiarity with the play methinks. Otherwise it's not really clear what's happening or who these people are. Plus, Oedipus himself is Not An Example, so using him will probably be a bit misleading.
Doing a more complicated search cough I found this: [1]
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Which is actually pretty cute. It's from Deviant Art, though, and has that copyright symbol. (link to artist's page
)
Clock is set. If we want to go for something that's actually from a work, there's this
...the specific one I'm thinking of is the next-to-last one on the page, specifically either the first and last or last two panels.
Cleaner quality version here
, but it's a NSFW site so peruse with caution.
edited 28th May '17 3:55:38 PM by Willbyr
Calling the crowner. I've tweeted the artist to see if we can get permission to use the winner; if he turns us down then the other option in green will default to the page. He hasn't done anything on Twitter or FB since February so hopefully I hear back from him soon.
edited 14th Jun '17 4:10:14 PM by Willbyr
Crown Description:
Nominations for replacement images:

This pic
◊ did not get enough consensus in the Image Suggestion thread. Other ideas?
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"