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Spyspotter Master Spy from Spying on you Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
Master Spy
#1: Jun 10th 2018 at 4:27:23 PM

The image doesn't really explain the trope very well, just looking like a group of movies out-of-context. Plus, it doesn't even seem like a good example of this, as Spaceballs is possibly Mel Brooks's most famous movie and Robin Hood: Men in Tights is pretty well-recieved too.

edited 10th Jun '18 8:48:22 PM by Spyspotter

Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#2: Jun 10th 2018 at 8:07:37 PM

Yeah, that's not only not a good example, it's sabotaging itself with its own caption. Pull regardless of replacement.

Berrenta How sweet it is from Texas Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
How sweet it is
#3: Jun 10th 2018 at 9:31:25 PM

I favor nuking it.

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ADrago Since: Dec, 2015
#4: Jun 10th 2018 at 9:33:57 PM

Pull regardless of replacement

Karxrida The Unknown from Eureka, the Forbidden Land Since: May, 2012 Relationship Status: I LOVE THIS DOCTOR!
The Unknown
#5: Jun 10th 2018 at 9:44:40 PM

Kill it.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody remembers it, who else will you have ice cream with?
jameygamer Since: May, 2014
#6: Jun 10th 2018 at 10:51:37 PM

Looks rather useless without the caption. Pull it.

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#7: Jun 10th 2018 at 10:57:41 PM

Yeah, and the top row of movie posters are so small it's hard to see what would make them "good" compared to the bottom rows. Pull.

TheUnsquished Filthy casual from Southern Limey Land (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Married to the job
Filthy casual
#8: Jun 11th 2018 at 3:22:26 AM

Pull.

(Annoyed grunt)
AnotherDuck No, the other one. from Stockholm Since: Jul, 2012 Relationship Status: Mu
No, the other one.
#9: Jun 12th 2018 at 12:13:11 PM

Bad example, worse image. Pull.

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bitemytail from Arizona Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#10: Jun 12th 2018 at 12:43:57 PM

Pull.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#11: Jun 12th 2018 at 2:39:07 PM

Done.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Brooks_slump_4084.png
The rise, the slump, and the killers.note 

Lymantria Tyrannoraptoran Reptiliomorph from Toronto Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Historians will say we were good friends.
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OlfinBedwere Heir to the throne of Condo Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
Heir to the throne of Condo
#13: Jun 16th 2018 at 2:42:41 PM

Here's one suggestion: [1]

Would probably need a suitable caption to make it clear that the picture's referring to Sofia Coppola instead of Kirsten Dunst, however.

AmourMitts Since: Jan, 2016
#14: Jun 23rd 2018 at 11:28:36 AM

I'd rather go BUPKIS on this one due to how difficult this is to illustrate.

Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#15: Jun 23rd 2018 at 3:24:38 PM

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mnsfall.png
It would be a while before he could recover from that one.

In the same vein as the original, but I think it gets the point across better.

70Jack90 Since: Feb, 2015
#16: Jun 23rd 2018 at 3:58:28 PM

I agree with Primis's idea. That illustrates a creator killer well!

Synchronicity (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#17: Jun 23rd 2018 at 4:55:11 PM

The Village is the Creator Killer here, right? In that case M. Night works well enough, I think.

bitemytail from Arizona Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: [TOP SECRET]
#19: Jun 23rd 2018 at 9:12:22 PM

15 works

Health sure is versatile. It's possible to be both light-headed and dim-witted. At the same time, no less.
costanton11 Since: Mar, 2016
rjd1922 he/him | Image Pickin' regular from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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#21: Jun 23rd 2018 at 10:39:22 PM

[tup] 15. It wouldn't hurt to include Signs and After Earth too (they were still poorly received, though not as bad as The Last Airbender), but that might be too much.

EDIT: I meant to say Devil and After Earth, not Signs (though Shyamalan only did the original story of Devil, its failure showed how much audiences had turned against him).

edited 24th Jun '18 8:34:16 AM by rjd1922

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Primis Since: Nov, 2010
#22: Jun 23rd 2018 at 11:07:09 PM

[up] I thought about including After Earth, but after reading that it was largely Will Smith's project and that Shyamalan's involvement was pretty incidental, I decided to leave it off. His name wasn't even in the marketing for the movie, so most people probably don't even realize he was involved at all.

And Signs was an all-around success, critically and financially. It's still his second highest-grossing movie, just behind The Sixth Sense. Not a Creator Killer at all.

TheUnsquished Filthy casual from Southern Limey Land (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: Married to the job
Filthy casual
#23: Jun 24th 2018 at 1:09:54 AM

I guess 15 works.

(Annoyed grunt)
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Goku Black
#24: Jun 24th 2018 at 7:55:31 AM

[tup]15

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rjd1922 he/him | Image Pickin' regular from the United States Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: Love is for the living, Sal
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