Just a Face and a Caption: Marathon Boss

Without the caption, it's hard to tell what, exactly, is happening. The caption is also extremely long, even after I revised it, and without it, there's nothing to indicate that this boss is particularly long (In fact, it feels more like That One Boss instead of Marathon Boss). I personally think that this page doesn't need an image, though I'm fine with doing the good-old "Keep Until Better Image Selected".

I'd pull for quality issues, it's very grainy.

I suggest moving to That One Boss, it's better than the image there.

It might work better on That One Boss, but I think it's still too bad quality for that.

If we do that, I'd recommend putting it on ThatOneBoss.Final Fantasy instead of the main trope page.

Edited by Willbyr on Dec 21st 2020 at 8:20:56 AM

Well, the current image on Main.That One Boss is just plain bad (imho), so I'd rather replace that. Most of its subpages appear to be imageless.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested; I don't mind the long explanation since it's hard to show that a boss fight is excessively long.

Edited by rjd1922 on Dec 21st 2020 at 12:39:05 PM

I'm fine with it staying, as that health bar looks pretty massive. Definitely needs a quality upgrade, though.

We can shorten the caption to just "Yes, those are 50 health bars you're looking at". (or however many it actually is, not counting). 50 health bars already display "a long boss battle", we don't need to list every single thing in the boss fight. If we want to keep the rest, put it inside a note.

A simple Google Search turns out plenty of higher quality images, like this◊.

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

Link doesn't work. Otherwise, agree.

It’s a keep with a quality upgrade and a shorter caption.

Weird, for some reason it only works in Incognito mode

Here it is in wikisize.

I don't find it an improvement over the current.

I find that rather unclear

Presumably we can have something like the image on Wolverine Publicity, with the health par being given it's own enlarged panel so you can see the multiple life bars distinctly.

Would the page image for Damage-Sponge Boss work better for this trope instead. after all it's easier to show that a boss has a lot of health rather than a boss that you just need to keep hitting.

No, that is not the distinction between these two tropes, and that image works better on Damage-Sponge Boss.

Pull current.

Edited by Drope on Dec 25th 2020 at 10:52:51 AM

Too busy.

is less busy than the current, and the HP sticks out so much that my eye is drawn to it.

But the other stats are also ridiculously large, which suggests more "this is a game that uses large numbers for no good reason" than "the boss takes a very long time to defeat".

I'm for Keep until better suggestion but I took a gander at another image of Yiazmat.

This one is a bit tricky since it can easily overlap with Damage-Sponge Boss.

Edited by Drope on Dec 26th 2020 at 5:20:17 AM