For menacing tribunal uniforms, you have three main archetypes: the Spanish Inquisition black robes with simple knotted rope belt; the Gulag gymnasterka tunic with jackboots; or the death’s head Nazi. But I’d prefer to take a different and, IMHO, more effective approach
But I’d prefer they wear pastel blazers, embroidered with something similar to those bad modernist logos that churches and hospitals adopted in the 1970’s. The panelists should be female, but otherwise sexless, perky but not interpersonal, conscientious but not compassionate.
In short, they should not startle nor upset the patient, but rather present a familiar figure from his or her past: the college administrator, the real estate agent, the civil servant; all ostensibly in helping professions but in practice facilitators of disappointment. This will be a comfort to the patients, as he or she will look back on all these and many similar figures of this archetype and take consolation that life was indeed a piece a shit and he or she is well out of it.
No, the squirting lapel flower woiuld be amandatory requirement, so when you say “No, you must die!” you can squirt them in the eye and you’d hear that “disappointment sound effect” on a trombone that goes “wah, wah, wah, waaaaaaaaah.”
I’m thinking for the logo, a skull and cross bones design, but with a pair of syringes underneath the skull, and a hammer and sickle emblazoned on top of the skull.
Nazis are a bit passé. Instead, I’d go with some kind of African theme. You know, feathers, loincloth, some kind of funky Africa inspired death masks. Lots of vibrant colors and ceremonial Death spears*.
[sub]*Buy one now! Available in the Deathpanel[sup]TM[/sup] lobby.[/sub]
I think that if we’re ever going to have that one piece unisex STAR TREK suit then we should get to it, so I think red and black for the routine panelist, and something like Q at Far Point for the supervisor. Red of course not only says ‘blood’ but adds a much needed hint of color.Pic with both.
Really muscular guys, barechested, tight black pants, black hoods and executioner’s axes.
For the supervisor I’d designate a classic SS-style uniform. And right before he issues his decision, I’d have him light a giant gourd pipe like what Col. Landa had in “Inglourious Basterds.”
Oh, and when you walk into the death panel room, you’d hear Gregorian chanting.
I like the idea of a logo that combines all of the current health insurance company logos, since they’re controlling our lives at the moment. Perhaps a round patch with a tombstone in the middle, and all of the company logos in an outer ring around it.
