The following Comic Book, Film, Live-Action TV and Western Animation examples have been deleted because they don't fit the trope. This trope is about naturally occurring cut/faceted/polished gems, not artificially created ones.
Note that half of these examples are also Zero Context Examples because they don't say anything about the diamond being cut/faceted/polished.
- Superman in the Silver Age and Bronze Age was known for squeezing lumps of coal into diamonds. Aside from being bad science for other reasons, the diamond produced was always a cut diamond with facets.
- In an episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Christopher Reeve, there was a sketch
showing how Reeve got the Superman part. He screws up the "turning coal into diamonds" bit by using too much pressure, but gets the part anyway.
- In an episode of The Adventures of Superman, Superman made a new diamond to replace a diamond in a native statue in the jungles of the Amazon.
- In Smallville, Clark squeezes a lump of coal into a cut diamond and uses his heat vision to set it in a ring for Lana. Of course, that whole episode ended up not happening.
- Superman III: Toward the end of the film, stopping off at a coal mine, Superman picks up a lump and crushes it into a perfectly faceted diamond for Lana Lang.
- In the Justice League Action episode "Follow That Space Cab!", Hawkman gives Superman a piece of coal to crush into a large diamond to give to Space Cabby as compensation for his cab being trashed.
Is there any page for the stock gemstone shapes? Diamonds are pointed, emeralds are rectangular, plus all these cool other shapes you find when playing Bejeweled
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Them appearing in Bejeweled that way doesn't make them "stock" shapes.
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I don't think the pixelated graphics of the minecraft screenshot are very clear. Maybe a differntly position one? Or something from Terraria?
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Yeah, the MLP one is much better.
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I don't think so. IMHO, we should use an image from something with a small(er) hatebase, and I certainly know how large the one of MLP is compared to Minecraft (think Jupiter compared to the Moon), so I'll change it back. Personally, I like the Minecraft one. Plus, there wasn't a true consensus for changing the Minecraft one back, so I don't see why it got changed back.
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First, Please do not keep changing this image without an Image Pickin' thread. I've gone ahead and made one here — please do come along and chime in. When it has concluded, its result will stand until the next IP thread and changing the image to anything else won't be kosher.
Second, See How To Pick A Good Image. "This work has a smaller hatedom" doesn't matter for images from it or from other works. What matters is how well the image itself shows the trope, after which other factors may come into play, but a work's hatedom isn't one such factor.
In this case, I personally think the MLP image works better at showing the trope because the gems clearly come right out of the ground. In the Minecraft image, they're carefully pre-arranged in a fancy room, which doesn't make them look natural.
Third, The image got changed back because there wasn't true consensus for changing the image to the Mincraft one. Image changes without an IP thread may be reverted.
That was the amazing part. Things just keep going.
The following straight Literature example has been deleted. It's not about naturally occurring cut/faceted/polished gems, so it's Not an Example of the trope.
- (Almost) Mentioned by name in Artemis Fowl, where Mulch carries a small bottle of dwarven rock polish, used to, well, make gems shine, whereas humans have to throw half of it away by cutting it.
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