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#1: Jun 18th 2024 at 4:54:38 PM

EDIT NOTE: Page was meant to be Our Liches Are Different. I forgot to add the title.

Just a "variety" suggestion for the current, I've tried to use different forms of media (western animation, a game, table top and anime.)

Current

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Vecna_by_jdillon82.jpg

Suggestions

Works top left clockwise: Valeena, a Dragon Priest, a Lich,Ainz Ooal Gown.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cloud_14.jpg

Works top left clockwise: Valeena,Ainz Ooal Gown, Lord Hater, Karthus, Gruntilda, a Lich.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cloud_17.jpg

Edited by WetFlannels on Jun 18th 2024 at 12:56:48 PM

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#3: Jun 18th 2024 at 4:59:34 PM

1. Also, just Hollar the first comment and ask the mods to fix it.

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#6: Jun 18th 2024 at 5:12:10 PM

[up][up]. I don’t know if Lord Hater (middle right) counts as a Lich.

Edited by CanuckMcDuck1 on Jun 18th 2024 at 6:12:45 AM

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#7: Jun 18th 2024 at 5:30:53 PM

[tup] 1.1

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#11: Jun 19th 2024 at 3:37:15 AM

In this instance, I'm not so certain how useful a collage would be since they all look like skeletons in dark robes anyway.

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#12: Jun 19th 2024 at 9:14:20 AM

I don't like the collage. They all just look like Skeletons. The current one is doing magical stuff, which illustrates what makes a Lich a Lich better.

The 1.1 collage looks like a vampire, some mummy, an undead librarian, and a skeleton.

1.2 only has 1 out of 6 actually doing something.

Make it a collage that shows them doing something lich-like, and yeah that'd be better. It's otherwise just a collage of faces illustrating nothing.

Edited by Ghilz on Jun 19th 2024 at 12:16:07 PM

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#13: Jun 19th 2024 at 9:36:48 AM

[up][up], [up] Agreed. Unless you're specifically showing differences, not every "Our X Are Different" needs to be a collage.

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#14: Jun 19th 2024 at 5:19:07 PM

Yeah, there's no contrast between the images to highlight the different takes on this trope. It's all just the same skeleton in a robe.

You'd have to throw some curveballs in, like the Madoka Magica's magical girls or something.

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#15: Jun 19th 2024 at 7:47:31 PM

Keep Until Better Image Suggested

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#16: Jun 20th 2024 at 12:02:55 AM

[up][up]I dont even see how the Madocka girls would make this more illustrative. Coz they don't look like Liches. It'd be textbook Just A Face And A Caption because the only way you'd see the relationship is by being deeply familiar with the work.

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#17: Jun 20th 2024 at 2:25:01 PM

Coz they don't look like Liches.

You answered your own question here, it would be the most extreme case of Our Liches Are Different since they do not display any typical Lich characteristics of being a skeleton in a robe.

Although I admit I was grasping at straws here, as liches really don't have much creative diversity the way dragons or other popular monsters do. I'm merely suggesting that if we wanted to do an image collage the examples should have higher contrast between each other. Otherwise keep the current.

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#18: Jun 20th 2024 at 4:25:50 PM

To me they look different enough personally with the art styles helping differentiate them.

I'm not gonna bawl over the image not being changed in the end though.

Edited by WetFlannels on Jun 20th 2024 at 12:26:23 PM

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#19: Jun 20th 2024 at 4:51:05 PM

No argument that the art styles aren't different. My argument is that none of them really illustrate what a Lich is compared to a bog standard undead.

Again, a collage of them doing magic would be at least more illustrative.

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#22: Jun 21st 2024 at 9:23:57 AM

[up][up][up] That's a very good point actually.

In 1.1, none of the skeletons appear to be spellcasters except possibly the bottom left. In 21.1, top left is good but bottom left looks like a regular skeleton again, and the two images on the right look like regular Evil Sorcerer rather than a lich.

...Ok, I'm convinced to keep current.

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#23: Jun 21st 2024 at 1:08:18 PM

Forgot Wiz was a lich

And am mostly surprised THE END hasn't been featured in any of these Collabs yet

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#24: Jun 21st 2024 at 2:05:16 PM

20 is the best suggestion so far. Though I'd probably swap Szass for something not monochrome and easier to make out. Maybe swap him for the D&D 4th edition Lich art (which is doing magic).

Edited by Ghilz on Jun 21st 2024 at 5:08:13 AM

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