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#26: Feb 20th 2020 at 3:35:46 AM

[up] In 8.2, they are in some outer dimension or possibly floating in space, carried in green outhouses, accompanied by an equation that has nothing to do with time travel...

...none of that fits the trope of Floating Clocks.

This trope is specifically about depicting time travel with clocks and more clocks and lots of clocks. 8.2 doesn't do that.

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#27: Feb 20th 2020 at 4:29:25 AM

I also haven't played the game 8.2 is from, but fair enough on the lack of clocks in the image.

Edited by GastonRabbit on Feb 20th 2020 at 6:29:49 AM

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#28: Feb 20th 2020 at 8:22:52 PM

19 is the best illustration IMO. It has a watermark in the bottom right unfortunately.

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#29: Feb 21st 2020 at 12:06:57 AM

8.1.

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#31: Feb 21st 2020 at 4:56:09 PM

Yeah, I'll go with 8.1.

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#32: Feb 21st 2020 at 10:51:59 PM

I don't think my suggestion is too busy. The details are still visible enough at wiki size.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/polish_20200222_134946929.jpg

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#33: Feb 21st 2020 at 11:58:42 PM

[up]That crop might actually work.

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#35: Feb 22nd 2020 at 7:55:01 AM

The trope isn't just time travel in general, it's specifically the floating clocks, and the dinosaurs are the most prominent part of 19 / 32. [tdown]

I'll go with 8.1. [tup]

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#36: Feb 22nd 2020 at 8:07:51 AM

[up]I disagree. The trope is not simply about floating clocks, but the use of said clocks as a visual indicator of a transition between different time periods. Hence, the suggestions in 8 illustrates the trope name, but not the actual trope.

Edited by Adept on Feb 23rd 2020 at 12:10:28 AM

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#37: Feb 22nd 2020 at 8:37:10 AM

The trope is about floating clocks appearing during time travel. The current image has clocks, but no time travel. 19/32 has floating clocks, and the dinosaurs show that there is probably some time travel involved. The problem with 19 is that shrinking it to wikisize the details would be lost and the dinosaurs would dominate the scene so much that the clocks become hard to see. However, 32's crop is much better as it focuses on the time travellers themselves, the clocks are easier to see, and the dinosaurs are still there.

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#41: Feb 23rd 2020 at 4:53:30 AM

32, then.

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#43: Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:16:18 AM

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#44: Feb 23rd 2020 at 3:05:24 PM

Go ahead with 32. Caption?

EDIT: I see the pic was changed but the tag wasn't added and the old pic wasn't posted; doing so.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/floating_clocks.jpg

Edited by Willbyr on Feb 23rd 2020 at 8:33:17 AM

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#45: Feb 25th 2020 at 7:30:26 AM

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