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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#1: Dec 21st 2010 at 2:51:31 AM

Star Scraper just screams for a good picture. Fortunately it's best done with more height than width. But it should still be wide enough to show the scale of the ground area this is towering above.

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ThePope Since: Oct, 2010
#2: Dec 21st 2010 at 7:50:42 AM

Maybe something from Coruscant.

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#3: Dec 21st 2010 at 11:03:06 AM

Those are more deep than tall, since we almost never see ground level.

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Iaculus Pronounced YAK-you-luss from England Since: May, 2010
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#4: Dec 21st 2010 at 4:43:33 PM

How's about the mind-boggling enormousness that is a space elevator?

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SeanMurrayI Since: Jan, 2010
#5: Dec 21st 2010 at 4:57:02 PM

^ That wouldn't exactly be the trope, and it's difficult to tell that it's what you just told us it is.

ButterflyFairweather Since: Dec, 1969
#6: Dec 21st 2010 at 5:14:51 PM

The article is very short. Technical limitations might not restrict image height, but practical limitations do. The image should look good on the page. (Maybe use a Sandbox version of the article to check.)

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#7: Dec 21st 2010 at 5:24:14 PM

[up][up][up] Did you read the full description?

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#8: Dec 21st 2010 at 7:26:24 PM

From Star Wars:

The Jedi Temple ? 2

The Galactic Senate

Could not find a nice image of Xanatos' tower looming over new york in Gargoyles

Cybertron from The Transformers has lots of this.

edited 21st Dec '10 7:34:18 PM by Ghilz

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DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#10: Dec 21st 2010 at 7:43:57 PM

I think you're confusing this with just any tall sci fi or fantasy building.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#11: Dec 21st 2010 at 7:56:34 PM

That's what the trope is. I quote:

"A Seriously Tall building"

"Common in Speculative Fiction, these buildings tower over their surroundings, or may be part of a city of similar buildings."

"Must be over 1000m tall"

Barad Dur is 2km tall in the film.

If a building is visible from space, then odds are it's more than 1000m tall.

edited 21st Dec '10 7:57:21 PM by Ghilz

DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
The Other Troper
#12: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:06:49 PM

Well those pictures don't really show it that well.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#13: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:10:39 PM

We have buildings poking out of a planet and visible from space

We have a tower looming higher than mountains who are in the foreground

We have the temple who clearly stands above an entire urban landscape.

I'll admit the Senate one is prolly the least clear, but seriously, what more do you want to show a building is big?

Eitherway, was just making sugestion. If you got better images, throw em in.

edited 21st Dec '10 8:11:57 PM by Ghilz

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#14: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:13:18 PM

I got an idea. John's house, as it currently is, in Homestuck.

Give me a few minutes, and I can have a picture of John sitting on a ledge of it, looking down through the clouds.

And perhaps add another panel, showing a view of the planet (and the house) from space, as a bonus.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
Perpetually Confused
#15: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:16:43 PM

Did a crop of The Dark Tower, showing it and the mountains in front of it.

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#16: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:19:24 PM

To anyone not familiar with LOTR the Barad Dur looks more like a geological feature with a floating eye on top.

Edit: The second and third look like a building though.

edited 21st Dec '10 8:21:03 PM by Blurring

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Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#17: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:20:55 PM

Here is John's house.

For bonus points, there's John and a bunch of similarly-sized imps all over it, showing the relative scale.

I could shrink it down to a 350 width, but the resulting picture would be extremely tall, if I don't crop it.

My question is, is an extremely tall picture really a bad thing, for this trope?

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#18: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:21:43 PM

Some Arcology

edited 21st Dec '10 8:22:17 PM by Ghilz

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#19: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:25:13 PM

Just for example, here's the picture without cropping. I can crop it to whatever size you want: this one is basically to get the idea of the scale across with the subtlety of a Wrinklefucker to the face.

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#20: Dec 21st 2010 at 8:51:58 PM

I did a taller crop of the Barad Dur pic to show it against the mountains and the forest in the foreground...it may not be any better than the ones before.

Naw, Sauron wasn't compensating for anything...

edited 21st Dec '10 8:54:22 PM by Willbyr

helterskelter Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#21: Dec 21st 2010 at 9:23:08 PM

My understanding of this trope is the size of the thing. Barad'Dur is a pretty bad example since it doesn't look particularly tall. There's no reference points in the original, and I do think the one next to mountains goes a bit too far in taking it out of context.

All of the images I've seen thus far are either unclear, not tall enough, or focus on something other than the scraper.

edited 21st Dec '10 9:23:38 PM by helterskelter

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#22: Dec 21st 2010 at 10:13:01 PM

Out of curiosity, which of those mistakes does mine fall under?

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helterskelter Since: Nov, 2009 Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#23: Dec 21st 2010 at 10:24:50 PM

[up] Actually, I sort of glazed past yours—but looking at it now, it's a bunch of stacked houses, and not exactly this trope. I think people would be able to understand it as a visual example, and if we can find no better, it's not a bad choice.

Enlong Court Dragon from The Underground Facility Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: is commanded to— WANK!
Court Dragon
#24: Dec 21st 2010 at 10:34:05 PM

Actually, it's not stacked houses, but rather a single house that's had massive additions made to it.

But thanks for telling me that it at least kind of works visually.

...just in case you felt like seeing the thing from space, here it is. The thing in the crystal ball is the planet. That white line is the house-tower.

Not the picture I want to use for it, just showing this off.

edit:

Just remembered another tower of comprable size. It looks less like stacked houses, but it's at a bit of a different viewing angle. It might be nice because you can see the planet below it.

edited 21st Dec '10 10:38:04 PM by Enlong

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Mattonymy Mr. Dr. from The Evils of Free Will Since: Jul, 2010
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#25: Dec 21st 2010 at 10:43:17 PM

I'm seriously not seeing any problems with Enlong's first picture. The picture is seemingly repetitive but other than that the trope's presence is extremely clear in the image and it's a very good visual representation. It didn't really look like bunch of stacked houses as opposed to something from MC Escher. Plus, I'm loving the y-axis of that image.

Not quite sure what I'm looking at in his second one though.

edited 21st Dec '10 10:44:12 PM by Mattonymy

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