Automoderated users, Autopatrolled users, Bureaucrats, Comment administrators, Confirmed users, Forum administrators, Interface administrators, Moderators, Rollbackers, Administrators
116,442
edits
m (Mass update links) |
Looney Toons (talk | contribs) (→Video Games: markup) |
||
(5 intermediate revisions by 3 users not shown) | |||
Line 8:
Not to be confused with the "''Atlus'' pose", a look of sheer despair that one gets after staring at their [[Nintendo Hard|millionth]] [[Game Over]] screen in an [[Atlus]] game.
Bears minimal relation to ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]'', though this pose is [[Title Drop|mentioned once]] and shows up on the cover of some versions.
----
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Dragon Shiryuu in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', when the tunnel underneath the Sagittarius House collapses and he stays behind to support it as the others escape.
Line 18:
* This pose is one of the iconic images of [[Superman]]. He's lifting a car on his [[wikipedia:Action Comics 1|very first cover]]; some more early examples are [http://www.coverbrowser.com/covers/superman here] (including #28, where he seems to be helping out a statue of Atlas himself!). These covers have been homaged countless times since. In ''[[Superman Returns]]'', he even does an Atlas pose catching the Daily Planet's giant metal globe.
* [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|The Thing]] has been known to do this when moving lab equipment around for Mr. Fantastic.
* The cover to ''[[Incredible Hulk
* [[Spider-Man]] did this while trapped under a bridge (later homaged in a simmilar scene with him in a subway). While he has super strength, it is not as vast as someone like Superman so for him, this was a monumental feat.
== [[Film]] ==
* in ''[[The Incredibles
== [[Live
* There was a British sketch show from many years ago, the title of which has long since fled this troper's memory, which had a scene where a man was under the delusion that he was Atlas - so he was posing ''upside-down'' on the ground. Think about it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Rayman 2:
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has their very own superhero named Atlas. He died defending Paragon City during the sneak attack that started World War II, and was immortalized with a life-sized statue of
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[Karate Bears
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* In [[Chaotic]], a [[Combining Mecha]] that went on a rampage [[
* Done by ''Megatron'', of all bots, in episode 5 of ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' (but it's with {{spoiler|a chunk of Dark Energon}}).
Line 42 ⟶ 41:
[[Category:Older Than Steam]]
[[Category:Atlas Pose]]
[[Category:Stock Poses]]
[[Category:Art Tropes]]
[[Category:Cover Tropes]]
[[Category:Shout-Outs Index]]
[[Category:Art Subjects]]
|