Needs Help: A Birthday Not A Break

This image◊ did not get enough consensus in the Image Suggestions thread. Thoughts/ideas/other suggestions?

Opened. There might be some good examples on the page but I couldn't find anything that works well for our purposes.

Panel 1◊ (from For the Man Who Has Everything) seems like a reasonable image.

That works all right, but it relies on text, unlike the original suggestion. Was it just too morbid?

Works

Personally wasn’t fond of the OP for quality, and is truer to the trope since something bad happens to a character on their birthday.

Eh... I'm not feeling 6.1. There's nothing visually birthday-related about it. It's too reliant on the quote.

I kinda have to agree. I would like to see something more birthday-ish.

Something involving a cake or a party.

Although if no other suggestion comes in, it will work as a "better than nothing" suggestion.

Edited by Drope on May 28th 2019 at 5:35:55 AM

6, until something better comes along.

Edited by bitemytail on May 28th 2019 at 8:16:04 AM

OP shows a cake; why don't you like it?

Not the person you're asking, but I dislike the OP's due to a lack of personal connection between the event and the birthday-haver.

As a concept, from findagrave-dot-com:

I don't get it?

Look at the birth and death dates

Slightly bigger crop:

Edited by Millership on May 29th 2019 at 10:07:41 PM

I could've swore we had a TLP or something to the effect of "died on their birthday". Regardless I think 6 is stronger, but still in better-than-nothing territory.

I see that the guy died on his birthday, but is that really this trope?

Crowner?