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For example, questions about Just a Face and a Caption concerns, whether a picture requires additional context, whether a picture demonstrates all of the necessary aspects or a trope, or whether a trope better demonstrates a related trope can be asked here.

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Edited by Synchronicity on Aug 7th 2024 at 10:00:48 AM

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8226: Sep 6th 2025 at 2:34:13 AM

[up][up] & [up][up][up] I know This Image Is Not an Example is a thing but even with me intuiting that's Bruce Wayne on the right I'm not sure it's this trope? Isn't it supposed to be that the source of angst is a lot less? Both Batman's had his parents murdered in front of him as a child it's just right hand Bruce has better mental health about it than the one on the left.

Adaptational Angst Downgrade feels more like how in Conan the Barbarian (1982) his family is slaughtered in front of him as a child and he is enslaved until he escapes as an adult but in Conan the Adventurer his family is turned to stone when he's already an adult and he sets off looking for a cure knowing one exists.

Edited by GracieLizzy on Sep 6th 2025 at 10:34:35 AM

BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#8227: Sep 6th 2025 at 6:27:33 PM

Is Nouveau Riche too caption reliant? I feel like this would be stuff old money might also do…

Edited by BigBadShadow25 on Sep 6th 2025 at 9:28:04 AM

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WarJay77 It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (3,795/50,000) from My Writing Cave (Troper Knight) Relationship Status: Armed with the Power of Love
It's NaNo, Bay-beeee! (3,795/50,000)
#8228: Sep 6th 2025 at 9:33:19 PM

Nah, old money is stereotypically less flashy and gaudy and more classic. It's the whole stereotype of someone throwing their money around (new money) versus someone who is born into wealth and is shown to be tasteful and responsible with it (old money).

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MyFinalEdits Delete message from Parts Unknown (Spin-off Series) Relationship Status: Cast away
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#8229: Sep 7th 2025 at 12:54:34 AM

Also, the image was kept after an IP thread. I oppose pulling without a superior replacement.

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RadioContactLine Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet from the land of Mormons and Swig (Utah, U.S.A) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#8230: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:24:17 AM

Is Symbiotic Possession relying too much on the caption to illustrate? Without looking at it I just kind of see a guy with a ghostly Superpowered Evil Side.

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GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8231: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:39:16 AM

Yeah that feels not only caption reliant but the caption itself is very clunky due to doing nearly all the explanation.

BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#8232: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:42:42 AM

I’ll open a thread to pull, then?

You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.
GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8233: Sep 7th 2025 at 7:49:38 AM

[up] I like to try and leave that to the person who raised the question in these cases but sometimes it is good to do it on their behalf if you notice a slot open. If I do that I try to tag the person in the OP.

RadioContactLine Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet from the land of Mormons and Swig (Utah, U.S.A) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#8234: Sep 7th 2025 at 2:22:39 PM

Started a thread for Symbiotic Possession here. Thanks for offering to start it, though.

Edited by RadioContactLine on Sep 7th 2025 at 2:23:06 AM

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BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8236: Sep 7th 2025 at 4:12:17 PM

Does Literal Data Transfer demonstrate the trope to none Halo fans? I think most people can see Cortana is a hologram but it feels a bit... random to me and and I am familiar with the franchise.

StalkerGamer That's All, Folks! Since: Dec, 2021 Relationship Status: Love is an open door
#8237: Sep 13th 2025 at 11:50:26 AM

Maybe I already asked that but, does the Uncomfortable Elevator Moment pic shows that they are on an elevator ?

Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#8238: Sep 13th 2025 at 2:01:33 PM

Is Fighting for a Homeland understandable?

I've looked over, but could find the image in better quality and the MMO is defunct.

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RadioContactLine Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet from the land of Mormons and Swig (Utah, U.S.A) (Life not ruined yet) Relationship Status: love is a deadly lazer
Not The Kind of Worm You Wanna Meet
#8239: Sep 13th 2025 at 3:55:21 PM

Is it clear what's happening in Elevator Action Sequence?

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MurlocAggroB from the second-most ridiculous province of Canada Since: May, 2015
#8240: Sep 13th 2025 at 3:59:08 PM

[up][up][up], [up][up] No, I don't think those are clear.

[up] I see a fight scene in a crammed elevator. It's definitely messy, but I'd say keep until there's a better suggestion.

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GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8241: Sep 13th 2025 at 4:15:04 PM

[up][up] it's clearer for me on my phone than it is on my desktop monitors, I can make out the elevator buttons and door but it's vaguer on desktop.

Kroetski Flessenkoning van Stiens from my Bottle-Deposit-Shed (Handed A Sword) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Flessenkoning van Stiens
#8242: Sep 13th 2025 at 5:12:19 PM

[up][up][up] I'm on desktop, and it looks clear to me. (Though that could be just me, of course.)

Uncomfortable Elevator Moment and Fighting for a Homeland, however, are not in the least clear to me.

Edited by Kroetski on Sep 13th 2025 at 2:13:11 PM

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BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#8243: Sep 13th 2025 at 7:52:45 PM

Not sure it’s really clear what’s going on in Adopt-a-Prodigy. I’m pretty sure it’s mostly a battle sequence. Not much adopting.

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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#8244: Sep 13th 2025 at 8:14:33 PM

[up] Textbook JAFAAC. There's plenty of slots so I'll start a thread for it.

GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8245: Sep 14th 2025 at 8:59:25 AM

Are these cases being way too wordy and not adding anything?

BigBadShadow25 With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg. from Basement at the Alamo (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded) Relationship Status: Desperate
With my last breath, I curse Zoidberg.
#8246: Sep 14th 2025 at 10:30:10 AM

[up]To me, they overcomplicate it.

You’re Gonna Carry That Weight.
Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
Hi
#8247: Sep 14th 2025 at 12:19:47 PM

[up] Agreed, both are pretty clunky.

number9robotic (Experienced Trainee)
#8248: Sep 14th 2025 at 10:24:25 PM

For The Great Repair:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap_2024_06_24_13h22m28s418.png
On the plus side, this probably isn't that much more dangerous than piloting his regular Type 40.

Is it clear to anyone else what's actually being repaired? Or how it's illustrative of the actual trope? ("A character trapped somewhere must repair a vehicle to escape.") I don't see a vehicle or a need to escape.

Thanks for playing King's Quest V!
petersohn from Earth, Solar System (Long Runner) Relationship Status: Hiding
Amonimus the "Retromancer" from <<|Wiki Talk|>> (Sergeant) Relationship Status: In another castle
the "Retromancer"
#8250: Sep 15th 2025 at 12:42:43 AM

I've watched the episode, but the image is very context-reliant.

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