The Yggdrasil Cretin
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That's not illustrative at all. Pull.
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Pure JAFAAC, pull
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Not sure if this illustrates enough but I'll throw it up to see what you guys think:
Edited by GracieLizzy on Feb 22nd 2024 at 9:39:34 AM
Or this (might need to quality upgrade it though, on phone so editing capacity is limited):
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There's enough consensus to pull the current, so it's gone and the page is tagged for this thread.
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Not really feeling either of the suggestions.
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I found this bit from The Weekly Roll:
E: Posting it without wiki-size for now so it's clearer
Edited by Coachpill on Feb 23rd 2024 at 3:26:25 PM
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Maybe just panels 1 + 4?
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Does 13 illustrate though? Isn't this trope about codebreaking and wartime message interception. 13 is failed message interception and I don't know if the orc in panel one is on an opposing side or just a bandit trying to steal the postman's packages?
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Honestly, I'm kind of perplexed in that regard. The description and some examples imply that it's about codebreaking fulfillments/intercepting (like you said), but Mail and Delivery Tropes and other examples just mention the more broad "learning the enemy's secrets".
(To clarify though, this is making fun of the dumb tactic of people attacking the mailman knowing that he has a 3.5 Sorcerer Build in D&D despite him being really rare, but I think it works in an "opposing side" context as they're trying to get the scoop on him; Bucket heavily implies that this has happened like hundreds of times before lol.)
Edited by Coachpill on Feb 23rd 2024 at 12:21:58 PM
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This trope description isn't helping to be honest. It's a bit... waffly? It almost doesn't describe a trope. Its more like "communication espionage exists".
Clock is set, consensus seems to be swinging towards "no pic".
I'd like to apologize for all this.
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Yeah, I think I'm at a point where I don't want to run the risk of obfuscating the trope more with any picture. Looking at some of the examples it does kind of seem that this is being used chairs-ily, since a lot of the examples are just about a third party very briefly (half of the Literature section, I think all of the LTV section; the Tora! Tora! Tora! example actually feels more like an aversion if anything) reading the mail or even just "a character goes through mail that's ambiguously the enemy's, but the audience isn't shown the contents of it", which seems like shoehorning.
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No pic and maybe we need to run this by trope talk for it's chairsyness?
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This might not get traction due to the ambiguity posted above, but at least the Real Life examples seem more or less consistent, which is where this is from.
Youtube channel Extra History 25.1
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25.3 Source
, less than 50% of original. Artist is R. Fresson. 
Edited by Earnest on Feb 29th 2024 at 12:57:14 PM
A good historical example; less so a good image.
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