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Exactly What It Says on the Tin. One of the oldest tricks in advertising is using the face of a celebrity to sell your product. Films, cartoons, comic books, video games and TV series will put the main actors or characters on the posters, ads or DVD covers. Novels and non-fiction books will use the author or a main character. Music albums will just show a photograph of the band or the lead singer, especially after the transition from large LP covers to smaller cassettes, CDs, and digital music at the same popular music became more personality-driven. It's the easiest and most uninspiring way to sell your product. Doing something artistic, like making a Design Student's Orgasm cover where the actual creators or cast may not be seen at all, may be more clever and intriguing, but also confusing to the potential audience. Why show just a picture of a location, an abstract color or motive or something unrelated to the lyrics or music if these things will just confuse potential clients? Just put the face of the creator or main cast on the cover and people will immediately identify it as their latest installment. It's Show, Don't Tell in its most blatant form. The face will often be a close-up, but can also be full frontal. If the creator or cast member is identifiable by silhouette you may show him on the back. Usually he, she or them will be shown prominently on the foreground so that other elements (other people, animals, buildings, nature,...) will not distract. When its just a floating head it's Floating Head Syndrome. This is rarely used for animation and video games as the characters are entirely fictional and probably not recognizable to anyone that doesn't know the franchise already. There are exceptions when the character is absurdly popular and well known or has a famous actor and is heavily based on them. Compare with Wolverine Publicity (when one person is always put on the cover, despite hardly being in the work half of the time). Contrast Anonymous Band. |
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The cover of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain only features a side shot of Venom Snake's face, with a big red ! with a V for a bar over it. | |
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Many Looney Tunes featured book and magazine covers which come to life at night after the store that they're in closes. A lot of them are covers that feature celebrities, which gives the animators lots of opportunities to create celebrity parodies. Have You Got Any Castles? and Book Revue are two examples of these cartoons. | |
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The Cracked article "The Ten Most Ridiculous Album Cover Trends of All Time" features several oddly specific variations on portraits. #9: Posing with just one arm on the top or back of their head. #8: Posing in a specific wicker chair with a large, round back. #7: Female singer with bizarre face jewelry. | |
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Sesame Street actually has an unwritten rule that no matter how little he may be involved in the product, Elmo has to be featured on the covers of books and DVDs, otherwise they won't sell (overlapping this trope with Wolverine Publicity at times). Case in point: When the 25th anniversary edition of Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird was released, Elmo was included on the DVD cover art, despite Elmo only appearing in a very brief cameo toward the end of the movie.note This pre-dates Kevin Clash's Elmo at that. Similarly, the direct-to-DVD special A Sesame Street Christmas Carol also has Elmo on the cover, though the special is about Oscar, and Elmo only appears in flashback clips. | |
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Resident Evil: Code Veronica X's European box art is simply a large close-up of Claire's face. The European cover for Survivor 2 has a similar close up, except a lot more gross since it's a zombie. |
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Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand, has the NCR Ranger Armor on it. | |
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MAD Magazine. You'll always know you're looking at a Mad magazine issue, because Alfred E. Neuman's face is nearly always visibly present. | |
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Fallouts 1, 2 3, and 4 have power armor helmets; specifically, the T-51b, Advanced Power Armor, T-45d, and T-60, respectively. | |
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Every Fallout game has had this: Fallouts 1, 2 3, and 4 have power armor helmets; specifically, the T-51b, Advanced Power Armor, T-45d, and T-60, respectively. Fallout: New Vegas, on the other hand, has the NCR Ranger Armor on it. |
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The cover of Dead or Alive 5: Last Round does this, only showing main protagonist Kasumi and her clone Phase 4's faces. | |
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The Complete Robot: Most authors aren't famous enough for their face to sell the book. However, Dr Asimov's portrait is included on the back cover of the Science Fiction Book Club edition because this was supposed to be the definitive collection of his robot stories. (He wrote more, he's addicted to writing more.) | |
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Rich Uncle Pennybags is featured prominently on the box of every Monopoly game. | |
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The Japanese and European cover of Tekken Tag Tournament features this, with Kazuya menacingly looking back at the camera. | |
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