TVTropes won, and it was awesome

Who knows how many lives Cracked ruined by having that image on their article.

I'd buy whoever made that a drink.

• Mind is blown*

Added it to Notable References To TV Tropes, but didn't take it off The Movie.

If everybody else wants to, go ahead, but I don't really care about the duplication.

From the comments, because it also made me laugh:

Fun fact: When "TV Tropes: The Movie" came out on DVD, 108 people starved to death just browsing through the special features disc.

edited 13th Oct '10 4:10:59 PM by KnownUnknown

We should talk to the maker of the poster. I'm sure he'd be willing to sell it and split the sales to the site to keep it running.

"We should talk to the maker of the poster. I'm sure he'd be willing to sell it and split the sales to the site to keep it running."

Maker of The Expendables?

edited 13th Oct '10 4:14:19 PM by Meophist

Make sure you check the small print and the rating.

You mean Rated M for Manly? Another thing that made me crack up.

edited 13th Oct '10 5:38:33 PM by KnownUnknown

^^^No, just photoshop in some user icons or generic artwork over the bodies and it's ready to go. Duh.

If we could actually make that into a real poster, I would totally buy one. It's about time we started selling The Merch.

If we can't use the material from The Expendables' poster, it wouldn't be difficult to find a decent artist to draw similar characters.

EDIT: Do we know if the guy who made the poster is an active troper. He's obviously lurked around a lot.

edited 13th Oct '10 6:31:58 PM by JapaneseTeeth

It shouldn't be on The Movie. That's in too many threads, I'll make an image pickin' thread.

Swapping the The Expendables characters for expys might be worth doing anyway, since someone would have to create a higher-resolution version of the poster to print at poster size.

I would absolutely see that Pixar XKCD movie.

I am, however, disappointed by the lack of Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You.

Well there was only so much room on the poster without making it entirely unreadable.

And besides, Sean Connery (even if only present in trope name) might well have pushed the awesomeness over the top and made your computer screen explode.

edited 14th Oct '10 6:10:19 AM by Nohbody

Wow, even the POSTER is Trope Overdosed. And lampshades said tropes.

That said, I like the Snopes one too. From the referenced websites I'm familiar with, the Snopes one seems to come closest to matching the feel of the website... let's face it, trying to discern truth from myth can be overwhelmingly difficult when it's hard to tell who to believe, and there's already movies out which SORT OF capture this theme. (The Matrix comes to mind.)

Swapping the The Expendables characters for expys might be worth doing anyway, since someone would have to create a higher-resolution version of the poster to print at poster size.

On a whim, because I have the week off and because my art supplies arrived with much of my other stuff on a Fedex truck this week, I'm attempting something like that. I have no idea how to visually stereotype The Napoleon and The Dragon, and in my first rough sketch the guy who's The Lancer lacks distinguishing features and fades into the background and The Mighty Glacier at actual glacier proportions causes me to run out of room on the paper (which is about poster-wide). If I made the Scarry Black Guy The Lancer though and perhaps turn the Fragile Speedster into The Chick, we'd have a Five-Man Band...