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GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#1: Mar 30th 2024 at 2:45:33 PM

As discussed here current is a picture of the fable but it doesn't show the key part of it, the good deed being betrayed.

Possible suggestion:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/loudmusicpublictransit.png

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Edited by GracieLizzy on Mar 30th 2024 at 9:46:05 AM

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#3: Mar 30th 2024 at 2:52:47 PM

Suggestion works.

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#5: Mar 30th 2024 at 4:41:13 PM

I'm probably just having a brain fart, but I don't get how OP illustrates the trope?

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#6: Mar 30th 2024 at 4:45:32 PM

I also don't get how OP shows the betrayed part.

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#7: Mar 30th 2024 at 4:47:42 PM

It does come across as mere mild callousness rather than an intentional and malicious backstab (the lady being given a battery by a man and then playing loud music that annoys him isn’t what I would call a betrayal), and I believe the character who is being shown the kindness has to be established as a villain beforehand, the point being that the character is choosing to Save the Villain only for that to be a big mistake.

[down] But I feel a good image would be one in which the receiver of the kindness does something deliberately, straight-up malicious to the person who helped them. Maybe a Save the Villain moment where the villain tries to kill the hero afterwards - there should be quite a few of those.

Edited by MasterN on Mar 30th 2024 at 5:18:05 AM

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GracieLizzy from Sunderland, UK (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
#8: Mar 30th 2024 at 4:53:12 PM

[up] I am not sure it does it just needs a good deed to be returned with a bad one by the person who got the benefit of the good deed, I think?

[up][up] & [up][up][up] He loaned her a battery pack then she repaid his kindness by using the power to obnoxiously play music loudly on public transport without headphones

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#9: Mar 30th 2024 at 5:33:17 PM

I agree with the above; it took me a bit to get it. Pull the current, but I'd prefer a more straightforward replacement.

Here's a depiction of "The Scorpion And The Frog" from Sluggy Freelance, but I don't think it's legible enough:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/thescorpionandthefrog.png

Though we could try it vertically:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scorpionandfrog.png

Edited by jandn2014 on Mar 30th 2024 at 8:42:36 AM

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#14: Mar 30th 2024 at 8:48:18 PM

[tup] 9.2

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#15: Mar 31st 2024 at 12:46:38 AM

9.2. This trope seems hard to convey in a single static image with no text, but that’s not the only option.

Edited by Lymantria on Mar 31st 2024 at 3:47:36 PM

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#18: Apr 2nd 2024 at 3:46:57 AM

[tup] 9.2

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#19: Apr 2nd 2024 at 5:25:39 PM

9.2 is in and tagged, caption?

Old pic:

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/serpens_griset12.jpg
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#20: Apr 2nd 2024 at 8:48:03 PM

The moral of the story is: Don't accept rides with strangers.

Edited by Weirdguy149 on Apr 4th 2024 at 4:37:16 AM

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#21: Apr 2nd 2024 at 11:37:23 PM

[up][tup]

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#22: Apr 3rd 2024 at 1:14:55 AM

[up][up][tup]

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#24: Apr 4th 2024 at 1:28:05 PM

[up][up][up][up][tup] Maybe pothole "rides with strangers" to Alternate Aesop Interpretation?

Edited by Earnest on Apr 4th 2024 at 2:28:56 AM

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#25: Apr 4th 2024 at 1:37:31 PM

Good idea, I've gone ahead with it.

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