HI! If an automated Image Pickin' thread-related PM for a page you are following sent you here, that means the image is being considered for removal. If you would like to vote for/against it, please familiarize yourself with the following guidelines then scroll down to the crowner.
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.
In order to free up slots, this thread is designed to handle moments subpages with a single bad image.
This thread is not for:
- Start a thread in the following cases
- Removing an image because you already have an alternative suggestion on hand
- Removing an image that was kept on the page by a previous Moments Images crowner.
- Moments page images that are duplicated somewhere else
- Moments pages with multiple images
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- Images on Moments pages for unreleased works aren't permitted. If you see one, simply pull it, add the IP comment later in this post, and post in the thread to say it's been removed. It doesn't need discussion or a crowner.
- Images that you personally don't find funny/sad/heartwarming/awesome/scary, or can't fully glean the context of, but still have some visual element of the Moment they're supposed to evoke (for example, a messy explosion might still be worth keeping on an Awesome/ page even if you don't understand what's exploding, because of Stuff Blowing Up). Remember that these are YMMV items.
- If the only problem is that it's low-quality, try the quality upgrade thread
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- If the problem is that the on-page examples are bad, please see the Moments cleanup thread
and the specific Nightmare Fuel cleanup thread
.
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- Similar to the Image Suggestion thread
, a crowner will be run containing the proposed pulls. Each crowner will run about 15 items at a time and last for 5 days. Please do not add items to a crowner once it's running.
- After 24 hours, anything with votes at +10 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 3 days, anything with votes at +8 or more and a ratio of at least 2:1 will be pulled.
- After 5 days, all remaining crowner 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.
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If you think of a replacement image after an image has been pulled, you can use the Image Suggestion thread
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- Pulled images will be tagged as:
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Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 27th 2025 at 5:33:56 AM
Re: TearJerker.Matthew Santoro: If it's a video about his real-life experience then should it be troped at all? Tear Jerker is NRLEP.
I do some cleanup and then I enjoy shows you probably think are cringe.- NightmareFuel.Pokemon Generations: JAFAAC.
- NightmareFuel.Pokemon Glitches: Unclear out of context.
- TearJerker.Pokemon Ultra Sun And Ultra Moon: Just a character looking sad. The caption does most of the work in explaining the situation.
- TearJerker.Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: The sadness isn't readily apparent out of context.
- TearJerker.Pokemon Heroes: Reliant on the caption to explain the sadness.
- TearJerker.Earth Bound Beginnings: The size of the sprites make it unclear what's going on.
NightmareFuel.Pokemon Glitches should probably go the way of Characters.Pokemon Glitches (aka rendered defunct because glitches aren't characters).
90% of the bullets on Matthew Santoro's TJ page are about videos about his real life (and potholing to NRLEP tropes like The Woobie), so I think I'm going to take the page to the Moments pages cleanup thread and probably Cut List too.
- Awesome.Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain: Just the characters looking determined.
- Funny.Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain: Unclear what's funny.
- NightmareFuel.Metal Gear Rising Revengeance: JAFAAC.
- TearJerker.Metal Gear Solid V The Phantom Pain: Difficult to make out which character is sad.
- Awesome.Sonic The Hedgehog CD: Unclear what's awesome.
- Awesome.Shadow The Hedgehog: Unclear out of context.
- Awesome.Sonic The Hedgehog Sat AM: Unclear out of context.
The image, or the page?
If the latter, the dedicated cleanup may be of use.
Works That Require Cleanup of Complaining | Troper Wall- Funny.Sonic Adventure 2: Reliant more on the text, which is difficult to see at wiki size.
- Funny.Sonic The Hedgehog 2020: Humor isn't readily apparent.
- Heartwarming.Shadow The Hedgehog: JAFAAC.
- NightmareFuel.Sonic Adventure 2: It's not clear that the character is about to be executed.
- NightmareFuel.Sonic Heroes: Just a character looking intimidating.
Synchronicity: Even if glitches aren't characters, what does that have to do with the Nightmare Fuel subpage? I wonder if ZZAAZ glitch
◊ would work better on NightmareFuel.Pokemon Glitches (maybe link to a video in the caption showing what it sounds like).
The image on NightmareFuel.Sonic Mania is just Heavy King looming over Tails. It’s intimidating, but nothing about it screams nightmarish.
Edited by Tylerbear12 on Aug 11th 2022 at 8:43:31 AM
NightmareFuel.Nomad Of Nowhere isn't scary out of context - I can't even make out what the white thing in the middle is, and the red lights aren't distinct enough to look like Red Eyes, Take Warning or something else scary.
NightmareFuel.Petscop - neither clear nor menacing, just some white pixels. If there's a shape I can't make it out.
Heartwarming.Super Mario Bros Z is just Luigi.
NightmareFuel.Sponge Bob Conspiracy relies too much on Nothing Is Scarier and is just a door.
Edited by MissConduct on Aug 10th 2022 at 8:07:01 AM
- NightmareFuel.Animal Crossing: Doesn’t look especially scary
- NightmareFuel.Mega Man Classic:. Was previously pulled from another page
.
- TearJerker.Mega Man: Not much sadness to infer from the picture.
- Awesome.Street Fighter II: Looks more intimidating than awesome.
- NightmareFuel.Street Fighter: Just a character looking intimidating.
Edited by costanton11 on Aug 17th 2022 at 2:57:39 PM
We'd pulled that Mega Man Nightmare Fuel image
, it's just that someone re-added it to another page. Why do people do that?
Edited by FernandoLemon on Aug 10th 2022 at 11:20:12 AM
I'd like to apologize for all this.08/11 pulls


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.

The Journeys pic is
very clearpretty clear out of context.Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Aug 7th 2022 at 3:25:04 PM