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Anaheyla Since: Jan, 2001
#1: Sep 25th 2010 at 1:10:59 AM

What's going on in this picture? Some sort of weird fire monster(possibly a fox?) about to attack a blind girl? I've never encountered this Gunnerkrigg Court thing before but I assume this picture makes sense if you've read it.

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#2: Sep 25th 2010 at 2:45:11 AM

Needs a picture showing the original host body. It would be even better to have a sequence: person A possessed, changing bodies, person B possessed.

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Smokie Since: Jan, 2001
#3: Sep 25th 2010 at 3:23:04 AM

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Possibly too long and maybe the black shadow is too hard to make out.

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#4: Sep 25th 2010 at 3:28:37 AM

It's all a bit hard to make out, to be honest.

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#5: Sep 25th 2010 at 4:47:39 AM

Yeah, it's way too dark.

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#6: Sep 25th 2010 at 9:15:22 AM

Darker Than Black deals with people who can switch out bodies. One particular criminal just has to look into someone's eyes to take over their body, then make them commit suicide by falling off a building and switching back to his original body just moments before gravity takes over.

edited 25th Sep '10 9:37:00 AM by DRCEQ

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#8: Sep 27th 2010 at 9:42:42 PM

^^That's going to be too confusing for people who haven't seen the show. I've watched Darker Than Black and I still took a minute to figure out what was going on in that picture.

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shimaspawn from Here and Now Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: In your bunk
#9: Sep 27th 2010 at 9:49:04 PM

It makes it look like the trope is something about glowing eyes.

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Vree Since: Jan, 2001
#10: Sep 28th 2010 at 7:16:59 AM

We definitely need a pic about the spirit leaving/entering the body if possible. Questionable if we have one with both the former and the new body in the picture, but maybe we can do the montage.

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#11: Sep 28th 2010 at 9:22:30 AM

What about putting in a caption saying this criminal just forced his victim to commit suicide by falling off the building and switching back?

Anyways, it's the best I could find that shows body surfing in action (the glowing red eyes is the activation of the power.)

Acritdy Since: Dec, 1969
#12: Sep 28th 2010 at 10:03:42 AM

If we're going to explain with a caption we might as well not bother with an image in the first place, tho'.

DRCEQ Since: Oct, 2009
#13: Sep 28th 2010 at 1:48:15 PM

Ahh well, at least I tried.

Medicus Sierra 117 from Australia Since: Sep, 2009
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#14: Nov 7th 2010 at 4:43:58 AM

I was thinking an image from Red Vs Blue of Church possessing someone. You can clearly tell what's going on (Spartan overlaid with translucent, white Spartan), plus the caption...

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#16: Dec 9th 2010 at 11:13:27 PM

It's the best one I've seen so far.

petrie911 Since: Aug, 2009
#17: Dec 10th 2010 at 9:16:52 AM

2nd panel, perhaps? A bit text heavy, but she's describing the trope pretty well, and it conveys the idea of possession pretty well.

Actually, it'd be even better to have the 2nd panel with the 4th panel's dialog, as it's even more on point.

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#18: Dec 10th 2010 at 11:13:04 AM

The problem with the Daredevil Image as well as the Genius Girl Image is that they seem to fall under that "Has to rely on text, image alone is unclear" complaint that keeps the Heroic Sociopath discussion going. If we're going to give an image to this, it should be instantly recognizable that it's the same Body Snatcher across differen hosts- perhaps a recognizable trait or something definitive.

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GiantSpaceChinchilla Since: Oct, 2009
#19: Dec 10th 2010 at 2:36:43 PM

Anyone have a screen capture of the Gargoyles episode Possession? It showed the spirits leaving the bodies with faces and everything.

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#20: Dec 10th 2010 at 4:27:09 PM

Question: how does a picture of a single body swap make this Body Surf?

Isn't a single possession just Grand Theft Me?

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#21: Dec 10th 2010 at 4:29:38 PM

Article: "[W]hen a Body Snatcher is constantly switching from body to body, they are said to Body Surf."

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#22: Dec 10th 2010 at 4:32:59 PM

Yes. So isn't a picture of just one possession misleading?

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rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#23: Dec 10th 2010 at 5:42:39 PM

[up] Absolutely, was providing a "laconic" since there isn't one for the article.

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#24: Dec 10th 2010 at 5:56:27 PM

I believe The Phoenix from the X Men has possessed a number of people. Rachel Summers, Jean Grey, Emma Frost, not to mention all the previous Phoenix Forces.

rodneyAnonymous Sophisticated as Hell from empty space Since: Aug, 2010
#25: Dec 10th 2010 at 6:01:58 PM

Was thinking the Beast with a Billion Backs, but that is simultaneous (and not serial) possession. Can anyone think of a frame (etc) where a Body Snatcher is hopping between two or more bodies? (Looked through the examples, nothing I am familiar with has such a frame afaik.)

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