Suggestion: Death Ray

This page was BUPKIS'd a year and a half ago, which surprised me when I found out because it seems fairly straightforward to illustrate.

Apparently, it turned out to be difficult to find images for it that didn't illustrate its subtropes or any related ones (wait, how is that a problem anyway?), so I took ~20 minutes working on a bare-bones illustration:

Additionally, the following adjustments would be fairly trivial:

• Adding "before" and "after" labels to the panels.
• Changing the beam color.
• Removing the green smoke in the second panel.

I can go with that.

Works.

Simple but shows the trope in action.

It works.

Alternate version with a different beam style:

I like that.

The "smoke" in the second pic should indeed be removed, because beams don't cause smoke, so it makes it look like the gun shoots projectiles.

I suppose I can go with the second take. Minus the smoke, of course.

Edited by TheUnsquished on Feb 19th 2019 at 7:52:06 PM

Either take works for me, although I like the more focused beam in 6, just from an aesthetic standpoint. I have no strong feelings about the smoke.

Take 2 minus the smoke:

Works for me.

12's good.

12.

Good enough. The latest version's up and tagged, and I'll take it off the BUPKIS list. ~Some Person, do you want your credit in the tag or on the page?

Caption?

How about the original caption suggested:

In the tag is fine. I actually really like the caption from the OP, it plays off the simplicity quite well and I think an image credit might get in the way of that.

I'm good with that caption, too.

Same.

Yep

Done and tagged; locking up.