From Star Wars:
The Galactic Senate
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Could not find a nice image of Xanatos' tower looming over new york in Gargoyles
Cybertron
◊ from The Transformers has
◊ lots of this
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edited 21st Dec '10 7:34:18 PM by Ghilz
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
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
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.
Hang on:
I have a message from another time...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
If a chicken crosses the road and nobody else is around to see it, does the road move beneath the chicken instead?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?
I have a message from another time...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
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
I have a message from another time...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
You are displaying abnormally high compulsions to over-analyze works of fiction and media. Diagnosis: TV Tropes Addiction.
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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.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.