Figures
Shadows
Both words in one sentence
- In The Order of the Stick, the characters, being Stick Figures, have no shadows — a fact lampshaded by one character when another one was so foolish as to become a shadowdancer.
Source: Casts No Shadow -
From Sin City onwards, his style would contain mostly large shadows and blocky figures, with a lot of large splash pages.
Source: Creator / Frank Miller -
The Deep Sleep Trilogy has the protagonist stuck inside of a lucid-nightmare, being chased by figures who resemble moving shadows.
Source: Nightmare Sequence
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Shadows and Figures. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/figures/shadows
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Shadows or Figures. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/figures/shadows.
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