Needs Help: City In A Bottle

This image◊ was downvoted in the Image Suggestion thread. Other ideas or suggestions?

The trope is on the BUPKIS list; previous thread that voted for it also said that literal cities in a bottle don't count. Did the TRS effort for this trope ever go through?

Opened.

I suggested the image because I thought a Visual Pun would work, but I regretted it after I saw that the previous thread for the page was against the idea of a Visual Pun for a page image.

The issue is that, in this case, a Visual Pun may be too misleading; it may convince people it's about literally cities in bottles and contribute to more misuse.

I vote to maintain BUPKIS. How would we depict "walled-in city"?

This picture [1]◊ from Attack on Titan seems OK?

The OP suggestion is great.

As discussed, it does not illustrate.

Doesn’t have the “unaware of everything outside the walled location” part though.

It's obviously a community in a bubble that doesn't know there's an outside world. So yes, it illustrates. Keep.

Actually, that wasn't what I was going for- since the concept of the trope is very difficult to illustrate, I tried doing a Visual Pun. In reality, there's actually nothing to show in the image that this community is unaware that there is a world outside the community.

That's not at all what the OP is illustrating; it's just a "city in a bottle"; a literal city in a bottle. Are there people in there? We don't know. It might even be fake. It's not like ships in bottles have actual sailors on them, right?

Not only does OP not illustrate, it's actively going to mislead people.

Agreed; keep this BUPKIS.

If it's called "city in a bottle," and it's neither about cities in an odd shape nor microbe-cities in a Petri dish Simpsons-style, it picked a stupid name and that name needs to be changed.

That’s why I asked if the TRS effort mentioned in the previous thread ever went through... guessing it didn’t. I’ll add to Tropes Needing TRS.

And yes, maintain BUPKIS for now.

The poster for City of Ember does a good job, imho.

Æon Flux has a few good ones. The walls coming down separating the last human city and revealing a lush jungle outside.

The model city, and the city sterilizing the jungle outside so it doesn't encroach.

I don't find the first one illustrative enough. The second one leans in the good direction, but it's too unclear. The third, being a model city, doesn't show that it's really cut off from the rest of the world. The fourth is better, but the shot is too close, which again makes the point unclear.

I think the second might work with a strong caption. They seem to be well-dressed and oblivious at the crash(?). Meh on the first one; I don't think the third and fourth are particularly clear.

Tentative to 15.2.

I'm not sure that anything in 15 is going to look good at wiki size, even with cropping.

The Lorax could potentially work as well:

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Hmm... spoiler much?

Oh yeah, good point.

Found a higher quality version of 15.2◊; attempts at cropping:

Edited by Synchronicity on Apr 15th 2020 at 10:53:57 AM

23.2 seems like the best way to crop (wide, but that's just how movies are made nowadays).

23.2 seems like the best way to crop (wide, but that's just how movies are made for cinemas).