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PurpleEyedGuma Since: Apr, 2020
#1: Jan 30th 2023 at 10:34:16 AM

This one’s been brought up multiple times on both IP & Projects. It’s one of those “shot of villain -> burning place” images, and it relies on a barely legible subtitle to have any correlation between the two panels.

Got no suggestions as I don’t play the games, but it’s better to have no image than one that harms the page.

Edited by PurpleEyedGuma on Jan 30th 2023 at 3:01:06 PM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#2: Jan 30th 2023 at 12:18:23 PM

I'm fine with the current one over nothing, but if we can find a better one, that's fine. Here are two from the main CM image page:

If we use Kotch, we can use the current page quote as the caption (maybe trimmed) and make the current caption the new page quote.

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#3: Jan 30th 2023 at 12:18:29 PM

I agree with pulling it because (out of context) it doesn't look like "villain does something monstrously evil". Instead, it looks more like "a collage of two unrelated photos" or "character looks at destruction from afar with it being unclear if the former has any connection with it".

EDIT:[up]I prefer the Kotch one personally.

Edited by RandomTroper123 on Jan 30th 2023 at 12:19:19 PM

ACW from Arlington, VA (near Washington, D.C.) Since: Jul, 2009
#4: Jan 31st 2023 at 7:40:20 AM

If we use Kotch, I like this part of the current page quote for the caption: "We will break them! Their cities will burn along with the pages of their history."

And if we do that, the new page quote:

"This man Makarov is fighting his own war and he has no rules. No boundaries. He doesn't flinch at torture, human trafficking, or genocide. He's not loyal to a flag or a country or any set of ideals. He trades blood for money."
General Shepherd on Vladimir Makarov, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Edited by ACW on Jan 31st 2023 at 10:40:27 AM

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#5: Jan 31st 2023 at 8:58:32 AM

I personally don’t like the images but that may just be because shooting people is extremely common in Call of Duty (and the main character usually has a body count in the triple digits by the point the villain is introduced) while the nuking shows that Makarov is a significant step above the rest. Could No Russian, where Makarov leads a massacre of innocent civilians at an airport, work?

Edited by TheLivingDrawing on Jan 31st 2023 at 12:02:36 PM

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#6: Jan 31st 2023 at 9:02:35 AM

I can kind of get the image. The guy is holding a walkie talkie, and the second image is an explosion. I assume he called in a nuke. But still pretty unclear.

[up]That sounds monstrous enough. It will work if it can be conveyed in image form.

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#7: Jan 31st 2023 at 9:04:32 AM

The image is currently on MoralEventHorizon.Video Games but I think it would work better here.

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#8: Jan 31st 2023 at 1:47:46 PM

See, my issue with that is, it's not clear which one's Makarov.

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#9: Feb 1st 2023 at 8:46:00 AM

Eh I got a possible tweak of the No Russian image

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/no_russian.png
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Makarov's the foremost of the 3 guys but because it's not his perspective in the bottom shot I'm not too sure?

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#10: Feb 1st 2023 at 1:35:06 PM

I honestly don't like any of these replacements. Every one of the collages suffers from that "looks like two unrelated pictures welded together to create context" and both of the single-issue replacements are just "guy shooting someone" which as another poster mentioned could mean anything in Call of Duty. The image on Video Games is the best, but I still don't think that works without Makarov being the only one in the picture.

I'm voting cut and leave the page without an image, unless we can find a really, really good one.

Edited by Scraggle on Feb 1st 2023 at 2:36:58 AM

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#11: Feb 1st 2023 at 2:40:18 PM

Pull current regardless of suggestions.

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#14: Feb 6th 2023 at 2:30:09 PM

Votes bump, one in consensus range.

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