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Heartwarming Moments, Funny Moments, Moment of Awesome, Awesome Music, Tear Jerker, and Nightmare Fuel subpages tend to attract low-quality and unillustrative images that don't evoke the emotions they should, even if the scenes are examples in context. While it is very easy to pull them, the Image Pickin' forum has trouble finding replacements most of the time, leaving most of these threads to close due to inactivity and take up room while doing so.
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- Start a thread in the following cases
- Removing an image because you already have an alternative suggestion on hand
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
Tearjerker.Klonoa is JAFAAC. There are better candidates such as Grandpa’s death or the ending of the first game.
Once Upon A Time.
Are those suggestions spoilers? Current doesn't look too bad as at least the character looks distraught.
Funny.Coraline has two images. The first is pretty much just a face and some dialogue (it appears to be a frame from a gif as well), while the second is incomprehensible.
We haven't reached 15 suggestions yet. So far, we have 11.
Edited by MacronNotes on Jul 12th 2022 at 5:55:10 AM
Macron's notesNightmareFuel.Anastasia: Just Rasputin looking menacing.
Funny.RoboCop1987: In context the scene is funny, but the image only shows the ED-209 without hint that it was going to fall down the stairs.
Heartwarming.RoboCop1987: Just shows Alex Murphy (Robocop) smiling.
NightmareFuel.SuperSmashBros: Nothing scary in this image. Also, Master Hand is the least threatening character in the franchise.
NightmareFuel.LuckyLuke: JAFAAC
NightmareFuel.LawrenceOfArabia: JAFAAC
Edited by StalkerGamer on Jul 13th 2022 at 1:57:20 PM
Funny.Lucky Luke is another "characters just laughing" pic.
Thoughts on NightmareFuel.Grand Theft Auto V? Out of context, it's kinda just "Trevor being menacing". I know it's from the infamous Cold-Blooded Torture scene, but you can't see the tortured guy in this pic, and it's also not clear that the things he's holding are electric shockers, they just kinda look like rods.
Speaking of Cold-Blooded Torture, NightmareFuel.Reservoir Dogs isn't super clear that he's holding the famous severed ear in this pic and it just looks like a slightly bloody man.
Awesome.Twitch Plays Pokemon Red doesn't make sense without the context that throwing a Master Ball was a coordinated effort by thousands of people.
Back to the main series, Awesome.Pokemon Gold And Silver isn't any more awesome out of context than any other random battle in the game. This pic doesn't show the cool journey up the mountain that led here or that Red was the previous games' player character.
There's a lot of Twitch Plays Pokemon Moments pics that are super lame but I'll hold back on them till the next crowner.
Edited by MissConduct on Jul 13th 2022 at 1:35:30 PM
- Awesome.Super Mario Sunshine: Not really awesome out of context.
- Awesome.Mario And Luigi Bowsers Inside Story: The flash obscures what's happening.
- Awesome.The Legend Of Zelda Skyward Sword: Not clear what's going on.
TearJerker.Robo Cop 1987 is just a character looking mildly forlorn.
NightmareFuel.Bug 2006 - Not really scary out of context, more gross.
NightmareFuel.Yume Nikki - The scary face is very small, and the scariest part of the scene (the scream) can't be conveyed in the picture, so I'm inclined to say this doesn't work as a still.
Funny.Rayman doesn't work as a still.
Edited by MissConduct on Jul 14th 2022 at 1:36:52 PM
Heartwarming.Super Mario Sunshine: The heartwarming moment doesn’t occur until after the image.
Does Awesome.A Hat In Time look clear to anyone? I feel the action's obscured here.
The screenshot is from the boss fight, but it's obscured by explosions. And the caption is from the cutscene that follows it. In other words that's a
from me.
Not to mention, the page has Awesome Art and Awesome Bosses entries in it, and there only two actual entries regarding Moment of Awesome. Should we just cut the page and move the entries to the YMMV page?
Edited by Inky100 on Jul 15th 2022 at 5:11:47 PM
Waiting to have my head melted and mounted on a wall.I just added an item to the crowner and then read the rules and realize I wasn't supposed to do that. Can you remove it? MacronNotes
Check out my forum game: Rate the above YMMV.NightmareFuel.Raving Rabbids isn't particularly scary.
TearJerker.Raving Rabbids doesn't work out of context (and, guessing from the caption, might be a spoiler?)
TearJerker.The Undertaker is just a pile of clothes.
Funny.The Undertaker doesn't work out of context.
Edited by MissConduct on Jul 16th 2022 at 10:44:37 AM
- NightmareFuel.Super Mario 64: Unclear out of context.
- NightmareFuel.Super Mario Galaxy 2: Hard to make out.
- NightmareFuel.Mario And Luigi Partners In Time: Unclear what's happening.
- NightmareFuel.Yoshis Story: The expression is too goofy to be scary.
Personally I could vouch for everything but the Partners in Time one, which looks too bright. The fact that Galaxy 2 is hard to make out works in its favor here as you can still see some shadowy creature with no clarity as to what it is.
Funny.Banjo Tooie is unclear what’s going on out of context (they’re playing a game of kickball with Grunty’s head) and really isn’t particularly funny. Awesome.Banjo Tooie is similarly quite bad, being Talking Heads, multi panel, and not very awesome. Finally NightmareFuel.Banjo Tooie is extremely dark and isn’t very scary (in fact the scene deliberately deflates the tension by having Zombie King Jingaling spouting funny dialogue).
Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Jul 17th 2022 at 1:31:35 PM
Once Upon A Time.
Crown Description:
This crowner covers posts from October 7 2025- After 24 hours, anything with +10 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 3 days, anything with +8 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 5 days, any remaining items with a positive ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled, all items below the 2:1 ratio will be kept, and the crowner will be closed.
- If an item has a (CLOSED) note, there is no need to vote on it; the result has already been decided.

TearJerker.X 2 X Men United
TearJerker.X Men 1
TearJerker.Transformers Revengeof The Fallen
NightmareFuel.Transformers The Last Knight
TearJerker.Deadpool 2016
TearJerker.The Sound Of Music
Funny.Diamond Is Unbreakable Retold
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
NightmareFuel.Hunter The Vigil
Funny.Osmosis Jones
Keep
Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsEdited by MacronNotes on Jul 8th 2022 at 6:15:39 AM
Macron's notes