Does Not Illustrate: Unrequited Tragic Maiden

Neither an unrequited love nor a tragic demise can be seen, just a textbook JAFAAC. Also, and more importantly, it's the same image as the one on Art.The Lady Of Shalott Waterhouse.

Pull

Pull it.

Apparently, a trope page is allowed to duplicate a work page's image, but it's still un-illustrative.

Sink it.

Here's a few possibilities.

6.1 From Unrequited Love, the english poster.


6.2 From a vintage romance comic I can not locate. In the process of trying to ID the below comic, this blog post came up, and there's a whole lot of possibilities in there, these were just the ones that caught my eye.

6.3

6.4

See, the trope isn't only about a girl in an unrequited love, that's chairs. It's about a girl who unrequitedly loves someone and then meets a tragic end, death.

6.2 would be perfect for Unrequited Love Tropes, but we don't know its source. The others don't illustrate this trope or even unrequited love at all.

I see, I'll try to find the source for 6.2 but it's probably more of a deep comic book lore question.

Given the tragedy necessary, maybe these stills from the 1975 anime of The Little Mermaid? (source) I can redo them as 3 panel combos, but thought to include these 4 panel combos to see which y'all think work better.

8.1


8.2

It's really difficult to understand.

Some finagling from this graphic novel:

There's an unhealthy overlap with Spurned into Suicide and, in fact, it would make for a good illustration there.

4x

5x edit: in context of the story, she's doomed anyway as a condition of the spell to turn human (failing to marry the prince), and for refusing to use a magic faster to kill the prince. Iirc she would turn into sea foam, so jumping into the sea was more to return home. We could address that in the caption

Edited by Earnest on Jan 25th 2023 at 12:44:24 PM

Agreed. I prefer a pic of a character dying naturally rather than committing suicide to avoid that confusion/overlap.

True. I'm changing my vote to put 10 on Spurned into Suicide, as it has no image.

I feel 10 suits Spurned into Suicide more and it should be moved there instead.

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Jan 25th 2023 at 10:45:16 AM

The page needs a deep clean if this is really the restriction. I started a thread about the scope here.

Corpse Bride

It's not a requirement. The trope description says that Unrequited Tragic Maidens often die, but not always.

I like it, maybe with the scene of her dissolving into butterflies to finish showing her Undeath Always Ends?

I had fun making this one, the original is John William Waterhouse's Echo and Narcissus, adding Echo disappearing. If I were better at Gimp I'd add droplet effects as she dissolves into sound.
20.1

20.2 This one is a plate from Les Misérables. Here's the original◊ if anyone else wants to try a different caption.

Edited by Earnest on Jan 26th 2023 at 4:18:02 AM

for 10 for Spurned into Suicide

Don’t like either of them. You can tell they’re edited, especially the second, which is just a sans-serif font imposed over the original.

I actually thought of using the unedited Echo and Narcissus by itself. The story is an example but the painting doesn't show her fading away. So my Trope Talk thread linked above was spurred by "would it actually be enough to show a pretty girl looking wistful and sad, or do we have to see her suffering?". Until that discussion is cleared up, I would go so far as to vote for 21.1's first panel alone (with a crop) as it already clearly shows "unrequited" and "maiden" and let the caption pull some weight for "tragic". (See "Not actually JAFAAC" category on that page)

(The painting is also on Narcissist but "guy in love with his reflection" seems replaceable).

Edited by Synchronicity on Jan 27th 2023 at 8:55:01 AM

I agree, I think the Narcisus painting does a good job at showing the unrequited love.