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TroperNo9001 Braids From S286 Not Included from ZDR for now Since: Oct, 2014 Relationship Status: Sinking with my ship
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#1: Oct 31st 2018 at 2:41:30 AM

Image seems to be added recently, but I might be wrong. Looks caption-dependent.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#2: Oct 31st 2018 at 4:18:21 AM

Yeah, not really feeling that.

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#3: Oct 31st 2018 at 4:23:31 AM

Any replacement image chosen would have to have a caption, wouldn't it?

(Annoyed grunt)
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#4: Oct 31st 2018 at 4:29:59 AM

This would be difficult to illustrate short of having a lampshade or a movie poster.

Pull the current, at least.

Spiral out, keep going.
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#5: Oct 31st 2018 at 7:07:40 AM

Caption also seems like a better description of Straight Man.

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#9: Oct 31st 2018 at 9:23:44 AM

Pull and BUPKIS.

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#11: Oct 31st 2018 at 12:43:15 PM

Pull and BUPKIS.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#12: Oct 31st 2018 at 1:47:31 PM

Wait...I have an idea, but it might not come to anything. I've seen ads on YouTube for a Animesque mobile game where all the characters are anthropomorphized foods. If there's a vanilla ice cream in that bunch, maybe it could be a Visual Pun.

Edited by Willbyr on Oct 31st 2018 at 3:47:40 AM

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#13: Oct 31st 2018 at 2:44:31 PM

I was thinking a Visual Pun could work for this but didn't have anything. That's fine if you can get a good picture.

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Memers Since: Aug, 2013
#14: Oct 31st 2018 at 3:08:06 PM

My idea was have the cast be doing something crazy then have an arrow pointing to the plain main character....

Best I can find is the cast of Genshiken second gen but 2 are not being crazy instead of just the MC. bah.

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#15: Nov 1st 2018 at 4:27:50 AM

I don't think my idea's going to work...there's a vanilla ice cream character, but he's paired with a strawberry ice cream character and I couldn't find an in-game pic of them for dialogue.

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#16: Nov 1st 2018 at 5:16:14 AM

[up][up]Even if it only shows one guy, I think it would illustrate Only Sane Man rather than this trope.

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#17: Nov 1st 2018 at 5:28:31 AM

This trope is basically Only Sane Man as the protagonist though. Heck that page's image is also this trope.

Edited by Memers on Nov 1st 2018 at 5:29:04 AM

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#18: Nov 16th 2018 at 8:04:35 AM

Clock is set. I'm good to make this a BUPKIS page.

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#19: Nov 17th 2018 at 12:00:03 PM

I can see this illustrated with a generic/bland-looking protagonist surrounded by a visually more interesting supporting cast, but nothing's coming to mind for that. (EDIT: Sonic X from the examples? On the other hand, I don't much like the overlap with Token Human...)

Edited by Synchronicity on Nov 18th 2018 at 2:14:51 PM

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#21: Nov 22nd 2018 at 10:30:43 AM

Is that kid the actual protagonist?

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

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#22: Nov 22nd 2018 at 10:35:02 AM

[up] It's an ensemble cast, and he is a major character. He gets more screentime than Sonic himself at times.

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#23: Nov 22nd 2018 at 12:54:05 PM

Pull, maybe also BUPKIS.

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#24: Nov 26th 2018 at 12:17:37 PM

The clock's up and there's consensus to pull the current but not enough definite votes to BUPKIS it as well. The page is tagged; locking up.

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