If you can find an even better picture, okay. Heck, there are plenty of Miko strips in Order Of The Stick that might show the trope better.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.
Which was moved to the page for the Knights Templar, since the trope is about an attitude, not the order.
Perhaps an image of a Black Templar on the attack, with the caption being one of their writs of Righteous Hate?
"He could not know it. For it was not all a joke."I'd upload a few Judge Dredd examples, but they're all pretty text-heavy.
Miko Miyazaki is possibly the best, most easily pictured example of this trope ever, that image is her most Knight Templar moment in the comic, and her line is possible the most perfect definition of the Knight Templar trope ever uttered in any work of any medium. What other image could possibly top it?
A Knight Templar doesn't have to be a villain. Characters like Rorschach can be Knight Templars.
What matters is just that a character shows an extreme commitment to a specific ideal that they'll take extraordinary measures to achieve their ends. A character supposedly committed to good (as the dialogue in the current picture demonstrates) vowing to strike death blow on a helpless, obviously defeated adversary in order to punish an "evil-doer" is just the kind of exaggerated, extreme form of justice this type of character is supposed to dispense.
edited 7th Dec '10 7:41:48 AM by SeanMurrayI
This seems to have been going on for some time. I think we need to vote on a crowner
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Incidentally, if we vote for the alternative that I offered, it would be necessary to find a new image for Mattress-Tag Gag.
See you in the discussion pages.I went ahead and put up the others on the crowner.
Someone said they had some Judge Dredd examples, but I don't see them anywhere.
Heh; seems like I'm adding a ton of One Piece examples.
Probably because the entire villainous organization is comprised of Knight Templars.
edited 7th Dec '10 3:19:27 PM by ThePope
^I only said that I could bring forth stuff from Judge Dredd, only it would all be very text-heavy.
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So, you've got a picture from The Order Of The Stick. It shows a swordswoman getting ready to administer the deathblow to a grizzled and scarred person on the floor, all whilst screaming something to do with smiting evil.
...See something wrong here?
"He could not know it. For it was not all a joke."