>Character is electrocuted
>Their skeleton is seen
Where does this come from? Electricity is not X-rays.
>Character is electrocuted. >Their skeleton is seen
>Character is electrocuted
>Their skeleton is seen
Where does this come from? Electricity is not X-rays.
its like their skin temporarily turns to a crisp and only bone is seen. plus not all semiotics makes sense
It is an artistic choice to make a character look like a lightbulb
The skeleton is effectively the flickering filament
If I had to guess, it's because of something like what described. Makes the most sense to me.
Might also be related to something like, when you put your hand against a strong enough light, it sort of shows through it. In the case of cartoons, the energy from the zap is so intense that it shows all of them bones.
Though maybe not, since you can usually just see the blood vessels, mostly.
Home Alone 2
it's zany
it's flashy
it's kinda funny
it's kinda amusing
that's all there is to it
it's like asking why does wile e coyote not immediately fall and hit the ground
But the cliche has to have an origin that created the correlation, like how concussions/head blows are symbolized by tweeting birds flapping around a character.
Does anyone know of the first cartoon or comic that did this?
I don't know but its one of my favorite gags.
I have no idea, but while googling it I found this youtube channel who categorizes this single trope:
https://www.youtube.com/@AnimeElectrocution
oh god, tell me this isn't a fetish
We may never know...
I'm sure it is to someone.
YouTube should be deleted
Spider-Verse accurately shows the nervous system when Peter B. got electrocuted.
That's not accurate at all
Irl, if enough energy goes through your body it can make incandescent like a lightbulb which you can see in slowmo vids of explosions. The amount of electricity would need to be WAAAAY in excess of a lethal dose though, more on the level of a lightning strike.
It has to be post Golden Age cartoon because those didn't became skeletons when electrocuted.
Could also just be because it is something you feel coursing through your whole body, going bone deep, hence why the bones are shown.