The point is that the trans character has sexually themed powers, while the cis one doesn't. There is no problem with the illustrativeness. Still, the composition is rather clumsy, borderline JAFAAC / image macro, so I can get behind a pull.
Exactly. It's hard to show a character is trans without being NSFW. Keep Until Better Image Suggested.
It can be accomplished without being NSFW (Queer Colors, etc), but we shouldn’t pull an otherwise serviceable pic and go out of our way to find something less texty but that would probably be less clear.
Edited by Synchronicity on Dec 26th 2020 at 3:00:03 AM
I did find comics discussing the concept from Trans Girl Next Door (which might end up illustrating most of our imageless trans tropes at this rate but it's the only comic I know to illustrate this stuff in depth) but they're mostly based on text.
- Panel 2 of this
but we'd need Panel 1 or 3 for it to make sense.
- There's also this
but it's very busy.
- And then there's this
but it's just a bunch of faces and text, so it's pretty lousy.
From the first paragraph of the trope description (emphasis mine):
Edited by petersohn on Dec 27th 2020 at 3:33:15 PM
Fjón þvæ ég af mér fjanda minna rán og reiði ríkra manna.
Right. The sentence explains, "Fetishization is the practice of placing a transgender character in a hypersexualized role".
And then it goes to give two examples, stating that it is "often" (so not necessarily) someone that does it more "than the other characters in the setting."
The contrast is an example but not a requirement of the trope, per that very sentence you're quoting.
I mean, that could have been worded more clearly. But a lot of the examples on the page are, indeed, "sexy transgender character". And we do have many other tropes just like that.
Edited by Spark9 on Dec 27th 2020 at 6:41:17 AM
I'm wondering if Frank N' Furter would be a decent illustration, actually...the only issue is that he's (in the original), not even really trans, just an alien from the planet Transexual.
Working on: Author Appeal | Sandbox | Troper WallHm...using Laverne Cox's take on the character might mitigate some of the funky wunkyness regarding gender identity. Here's her FNF contrasted with the more straight-laced-looking Brad and Janet. It doesn't explicitly point out that Frank is trans, but one of those three characters is obviously more sexualized.

I feel like this relies too much on Fan Myopia, since without the captions desiginating what the characters are, people not familiar with Street Fighter or Final Fight wouldn't get that Poison is a trans character just by looking at her.
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