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Sometimes a meme about a work, that wasn't in the work before, catches the eye of the people responsible for that work, and they decide to actually put it in the work. Note that this is not one work referencing another work's memes, which would just be a Shout-Out. Can be an in-joke for an Ascended Fanboy character, or a Promoted Fanboy who makes sure it'll be in the show. Can also be a result of Approval of God, where the creator would approve of fanworks and memes derived from the source material. Now just to tell if an example fits: Not an example: M. Bison (Vega in Japan) saying "Of course!" in any Street Fighter material. It could reference the Running Gag in The Nostalgia Critic, but Bison still actually said it in the 1994 film. At best, it's a Mythology Gag. Proper example: Bison saying the line in the context of Take Over the World. That's because this was not the context of the original line, but how it was repurposed by The Nostalgia Critic.note In the movie, it was a response to Sagat's confused reaction to finding out Guile faked his death; unlike Sagat, Bison wasn't fooled. A Sister Trope of Ascended Fanon, Meme Acknowledgment, Continuity Nod, Mythology Gag (the latter two are references to things that were in the work). Compare Watch It for the Meme, Appropriated Appellation, Pandering to the Base, Official Fan-Submitted Content. Not to be confused for a work making a Forced Meme itself. |
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One comic of The Far Side had a caveman teacher explaining to a class that the spikes on a stegosaurus's tail are "called the 'thagomizer'... after the late Thag Simmons". Years later, the scientific community realized they didn't have a name for the spikes on a stegosaurus's tail, and adopted "thagomizer." | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: One bonus mode allows for characters across the three main games to interact with one another. The second game's Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu acquired the name Boss Baby before the third game's release for his youthful appearance and fiery temper. In this mode's English localization, Kokichi Oma (who, incidentally, is voiced by the same actor as Fuyuhiko) calls Fuyuhiko exactly that, much to the latter's anger. | |
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Donkey Kong says the memetic "It's on like Donkey Kong!" in The Super Mario Bros. Movie. | |
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It became a mild Facebook meme for a while to ask Applebee's's page for Battletoads. Then this happened. | |
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Teaching Feeling: Due to a large number of people wishing to be a father figure role, than a lover. Even having a mod that stops you from being locked out of game content because you didn't want to have sex with Sylvie, allowing you to be a father figure. A later update on the game led to you being able to have Sylvie call you by a different name. If you choose to be called "Daddy" or "Papa" she'll ask if you think of her as a daughter. | |
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Perhaps the most famous joke among Escape from Vault Disney! fans occurs in the episode discussing the episode of The Little Mermaid (1992) called "Island of Fear". It is a drastic tonal shift compared to the expectations of the show, being a quasi-horror parody where a mad scientist named Dr. Vile wished to make crabs bigger and tastier. In it, he gleefully describes his "CRAB EXPERIMENTS", which became the most repeated meme to come from this podcast. A year later, the episode on Unidentified Flying Oddball has Dr. Agatha Vile, proclaimed great-granddaughter of the scientist, hijack the show as a guest. | |
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Adept Castus Grendel (a scholar character who killed several Daemons and an Ork Warboss through luck of the dice) was referenced in one of the same game's supplements by an Inquisitor's document discussing his exploits. | |
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A typo in a discussion about Blade Bunny and her phobia of tentacles ultimately led, via the normal Memetic Mutation, to an official illustration of when Bunny meets the Octobus. | |
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In the February 2017 issue of White Dwarf, the conclusion of a Warhammer: Age of Sigmar battle report where the Tzeench player won was titled "Just As Planned!", referencing the Death Note meme which was adopted into Warhammer, especially in reference to Tzeench. | |
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Age of Strife: The players often joked that whenever the dice rolled a 99, the resulting critical success was the result of Tzeentch intervening as part of a plot.(The sacred number of tzeentch being 9). This impression picked up speed when a number of 99 rolls ended up giving the protagonists forbidden knowledge and mutations. In the final battle of the pilgrimage arc, which takes place in an expanding warp rift, Tzeentch blatantly assists Mirande by amplifying her Burning Blood mutation to cover the battlefield in mutagenic flames whenever her biomancy construct is cut. | |
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Around the time the legalization of marijuana started gaining real traction in some states, someone made a sarcstic Tumblr post featuring a picture of a woman named "Becky" with a claim that she died from overdosing on marijuana. One (seemingly dense) poster pointed out that the pictured woman was obviously Taylor Swift, which drew a (tongue in cheek) simple and terse response from someone else: "No it's Becky." This phrase instantly became a meme, culminating with being printed on a t-shirt worn by - yes, Taylor Swift herself. | |
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One series of early Dilbert strips featured a nameless cat who showed up at Dilbert's house, harassing that character and trying to eat Ratbert. Scott Adams soon started receiving emails demanding "more Catbert," and ultimately made him a regular character. | |
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Mage: The Ascension has the infamous "Vampire Lawn Chair" combination from first edition; since vampires were not considered "living material" it was possible to use low level magic to turn them into any substance, though the meme was lawn furniture. Come the release of the 20th anniversary edition, and the combination is now clearly outlined for players to use - but with clear advice on, if you're powerful enough to be able to do this, you should be wise enough not to because the transformation is not permanent and thus the mage will now have to deal with a very pissed off vampire once they revert back which, considering that for all their reality warping power, mages are still pretty squishy human beings, will not end well for the mage. Additionally, even if the transformation was permanent, other vampires would still be capable of making sure such a practice doesn't become common. And that's not even getting into the Paradox Backlash that comes from using such blatant magic. | |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse maximizes the absurdity of the "Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man" meme when the Spider-Society is told to apprehend Miles Morales via an order to "stop Spider-Man". As the Spider-Society is comprised of hundreds of Spider-Men, everyone stops and points an accusatory finger at each other due to general confusion about which Spider-Man they're supposed to go after. | |
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After Iron Man, the characters of Tony Stark and Pepper Potts garnered the nickname "Pepperony," and after a while, it started being used to refer to the actors themselves (who have been good friends for years.) Somewhere along the line, actors Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow started calling◊ themselves "Pepperony." RDJ encourages his fans in creating memes of him. He uploads them directly to his social media, giving due credit of course. |
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One of the more popular AUs is Trollcops, depicting Sollux and Terezi as, well, troll cops. When the AlterniaBound album came out, there were two tracks themed around the AU, both called Trollcops. | |
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Homestuck embraces this trope. Like its predecessor Problem Sleuth, the author listens to his fans and goes out of his way to support and/or mock the most popular fan theories. One of the more popular AUs is Trollcops, depicting Sollux and Terezi as, well, troll cops. When the AlterniaBound album came out, there were two tracks themed around the AU, both called Trollcops. In one panel, a faraway Karkat is drawn with less detail and no visible arms, making him look like he's wearing pants up to his neck. Fans referred to him as Pantskat and began drawing fanart of him in his long pants. This made its way back into the comic: when fedorafreak combines a shirt and pair of pants in the Alchemiter, he gets a pair of absurdly long pants. And at another point, Karkat self-deprecates spectacularly about wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. And then, when Karkat's ancestor is finally shown, he is indeed wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. Said pants become holy relics of his followers. And the original Pantskat pixel of him has been inserted into at least two later flash animations. And the Beforan version of Kankri wears a red sweater because Porrim got tired of looking at his "stupid hiked-up pants". Which is itself a reference to the fan depiction of Karkat wearing a sweater or turtleneck in a lot of fan art. A fan animation on YouTube that lip-synced Gamzee up to the Double Rainbow song became enormously popular in the fandom and cemented Gamzee as the Ensemble Dark Horse amongst the trolls. So, later on, Gamzee mentions a 'double metaphor all the way, across Skaia :o)'. Early in the comic, there's a short scene of Gamzee and Tavros chatting to each other like close friends, using each others's emoticons and rapping together (although we don't actually see the rap). This acted as enough Ho Yay to make Gamzee/Tavros a popular ship in the fandom, and it picked up the Idiosyncratic Ship Name "Peanut Butter and Jelly-shipping" or just "PBJ" (since Tavros is associated with the colour brown and Gamzee with purple). Later on, we see the second half of their conversation, in which Gamzee is flirting obviously with Tavros, and he affectionately calls Tavros the 'emotional peanut butter to [Gamzee's] royal jelly'. This also served as Andrew's constant Running Gag of referencing gay pornography in most of his works. The second Easter Egg joke flash called [S] Ride has a Shout-Out to "Cotton Candy," the fan nickname for Roxy/Jane which is based on their pink and light blue chat colors. Also, pretty much everything concerning fedorafreak's role in anything since his first brief mention. Several of the walkaround flash games had an Easter Egg called "Trickster Mode" that did assorted weird things. From this, fans came up with the idea of Trickster versions of the characters, usually depicted in pastels and bright colors, covered in candy, and generally Sickeningly Sweet. Then along came "[S] Jane: Engage," and now it's a rather terrifying Super Mode. A popular fan voice-actor popularized the word "nyeh" in association with Eridan, to the point where some fans think it's something he actually says in canon. When the dancestors, who partly exist to lampoon fandom's stereotypes/misconceptions of the characters, rolled along, of course Eridan's dancestor Cronus used the word. The "Ministrife" update also canonized "March Eridan". The silly nicknames "Homosuck" and "Hamsteak" were used by Caliborn and Karkat respectively. This◊ Mind Screw of a fandom secret got a reference in the form of a recurring alternate Vriska referred to for clarity as (Vriska), in parentheses. A common joke line spread by fans was "Homestuck is my favorite anime." The final animation is a fully-animated anime-style short film. |
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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: After years of how memetic the pain of stepping on LEGO bricks has been, the movie finally has someone actually stepping on one. Finn and Bianca's mom. She does this TWICE. She claims it's really close to the pain of childbirth. | |
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Since the beginning of the game it was a popular story of a power-hungry player that hoards all powerful magic items to be tricked - either by Dungeon Master or fellow players - with "head of Vecna" - supposedly an artifact not unlike Eye and Hand of Vecna, that, to work, need to replace a character's actual eye or hand. Head of Vecna, however, is a normal skull - something power hungry player finds out after getting their own character beheaded. In adventure Die, Vecna Die! it turns out Vecna himself heard that story and found it so hilarious to actually make a - still entirely mundane - Head of Vecna and spread rumors of its immense power. | |
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Only War quotes one Commissar Daniel Sterne, who orders the crew of a Basilisk Self-Propelled Gun to ram an enemy Defiler, a reference to fan character Commissar Dan whose quirk is the same thing (the quote even ends with a Curse Cut Short of Dan's catchphrase). | |
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By The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout, Isabela started to own the "witch" moniker after being called one as a Running Gag in The Dragon and the Butterfly. | |
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College Roomies from Hell!!!: Hazel Green's Maximum Fun Chamber (and hence the trope of the same name) was initially named as a Shout-Out to a comment made by Darren Bleuel to Maritza Campos in the fan forums. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Since the beginning of the game it was a popular story of a power-hungry player that hoards all powerful magic items to be tricked - either by Dungeon Master or fellow players - with "head of Vecna" - supposedly an artifact not unlike Eye and Hand of Vecna, that, to work, need to replace a character's actual eye or hand. Head of Vecna, however, is a normal skull - something power hungry player finds out after getting their own character beheaded. In adventure Die, Vecna Die! it turns out Vecna himself heard that story and found it so hilarious to actually make a - still entirely mundane - Head of Vecna and spread rumors of its immense power. |
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In the localized version of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice, which definitely doesn't take place in Japan, Maya begins talking about how her favorite food is burgers, only for her to then debate with herself over whether it's actually burgers or ramen. When she can't decide when she wants to eat when she eventually gets released, she decides to just go for "a burger topped with ramen". A bit of subtle one occurs in the fifth episode of Spirit of Justice. Armie Buff, via her "Sergeant Buff" drone, presents Apollo and Dhurke with a meal in commemoration of their newly founded bonds. The meal in question is a tray of what could be taken as either burgers or dorayaki. It's designed in a way where it could realistically be seen as either despite leaning slightly towards the thinner dorayaki, complete with a side that's supposed to be a side for a dorayaki but is also designed in a way that makes it resembles the kind of designed drink cartons typically gotten with kid burger meals.note This is especially subtle, and fitting, as a plot twist later on actually reveals Sergeant Buff to be a child. Although it's not exactly confirmed, it's a safe bet to say this was done on purpose by the developers, either as a way to aid the localization, poke fun at it, or probably both. Another similar reference, as well as a subversion of sorts, actually occurs in the same case as well. The meal that Dhurke has prepared for Apollo is a plate of sushi, which the localization keeps as is, and it's also revealed that Apollo used to quite regularly eat sushi during his childhood. This is mainly due to him having actually lived for most of his childhood since birth with his Asian adopted family, in the Asian country, the Kingdom of Khura'in which means that he isn't your entirely 100% American-home-and-breed attorney, and actually has an Eastern background of sorts. Moreover, at the end of Spirit of Justice, Apollo actually begins living in Khura'in, to run his own law office.note A quote from an Awkward Zombie comic that became a meme is Phoenix saying towards the "American attorney" Apollo Justice, "eat your hamburgers Apollo", in reference to what is quite obviously a plate of sushi, while they sit in their "American" house in "Los Angeles". In the original game, the case "Rise From the Ashes" contains a sequence where, if Phoenix fails to provide the correct evidence to the judge, he penalizes him and threatens to throw a shoe at Phoenix. For the 3DS rerelease, the line was changed to include "boot to the head", referencing a fan video of Ace Attorney characters reenacting a famous Frantics routine. An otherwise heartbreaking ending in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All turned memetic with the misspelled line "The miracle never happen." In the next game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Phoenix recounts the sequence of events for one of his cases with this phrasing: "...But on that day, a miracle happened. The kind that Mr. Tigre would prefer to say never happened." In The Great Ace Attorney, Barok van Zieks refers to Ryunosuke as a clown, and that he's putting on a circus act. Likely referencing the popular image of Miles Edgeworth saying "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus."◊ |
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In The Great Ace Attorney, Barok van Zieks refers to Ryunosuke as a clown, and that he's putting on a circus act. Likely referencing the popular image of Miles Edgeworth saying "You are not a clown. You are the entire circus."◊ | |
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Spider-Man: Spider-Verse: In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, several shots in Peter B.'s origin flashbacks and the Creative Closing Credits homage the infamously memetic poses and screenshots from Spider-Man (1967), including a recreation of the "And I'm just sitting here" meme, albeit without the usual masturbation joke. In particular, The Stinger recreates the "Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man" meme when Miguel O'Hara encounters the Spider-Man of Earth-67. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse maximizes the absurdity of the "Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man" meme when the Spider-Society is told to apprehend Miles Morales via an order to "stop Spider-Man". As the Spider-Society is comprised of hundreds of Spider-Men, everyone stops and points an accusatory finger at each other due to general confusion about which Spider-Man they're supposed to go after. |
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At the floor meeting in QUILTBAG, Lisa makes a joke about her disembodied head walking on her pigtails, which had been seen in several Penny and Aggie fanarts. | |
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In Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, several shots in Peter B.'s origin flashbacks and the Creative Closing Credits homage the infamously memetic poses and screenshots from Spider-Man (1967), including a recreation of the "And I'm just sitting here" meme, albeit without the usual masturbation joke. In particular, The Stinger recreates the "Spider-Man Pointing at Spider-Man" meme when Miguel O'Hara encounters the Spider-Man of Earth-67. | |
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Dark Heresy acknowledged the fanfic Love Can Bloom by featuring a quote from one of its main characters and a picture of a Vindicare Assassin watching a Farseer. | |
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BattleTech: The toy for the Mauler from the animated series had an ejection seat that triggered when a panel on the lower-center torso was hit. This would eventually lead to the "Daboku" (The prototype for what would become the Mauler in canon) having a faulty ammunition safety feature that would trigger the auto-eject system at an impact to the lower center torso. | |
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Disney apparently noticed the popularity of the "Hipster Disney Princess'" meme, because they made official Funko Pop! Hipster Ariel, Belle, and Jasmine figures. Others, like Cinderella, followed. | |
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Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is an infamous film trivia game started by a group of college students while they were watching films Kevin Bacon appeared in. The game had penetrated pop culture enough to be referenced by Kevin Bacon himself in commercials and in a charity website that he created. | |
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Newer versions of the Pokémon romhack Moémon have switched the Charmander line's shiny palette from black (like the canon shinies) to white in reference to the starter from Twitch Plays Moémon. | |
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Magic: The Gathering has an infamous Game-Breakernote At the time, combat damage used the stack, meaning that you could pay to morph him from 3/3 to 5/1, wait until damage would be dealt, and then pay to morph him in the other direction to survive the damage that the attacking creature would do. Admittedly, that requires a lot of mana, but this was in Standard with Tolarian Academy and Skirge Familiar, so getting "a lot of mana" wasn't that hard. Without that trick, it's still a reasonably powerful card, but nowhere near as broken as it once was. called Morphling, which was dubbed by fans as "Superman". When the card designers later decided to create an Enchant Creature that granted all of Morphling's abilities, they gave it the name "Pemmin's Aura." How is this an example? Pemmin's Aura is a Significant Anagram for "I am Superman". Morphling's fellow infamously-broken creatures, Masticore and Psychatog, got similar shout-outs: Deep Analysis shows a dissected Masticore with the flavor text "the subject appears to be broken," while a later version of Shock fulfills fan dreams everywhere by having a bolt of lightning zap the Psychatog. Back in the old days, when the Internet was still not widely used and card lists were rare, some people talked about an ultra-rare "Throat Wolf" with, among other abilities, "firstest strike". In Visions the designers, inspired by Throat Wolf, included "Talruum Champion" which has first strike that beats other creatures' first strike. Throat Wolf is also mentioned in the novels. There's a card in Homelands called Heart Wolf. And a cut card in Unglued was going to be called Butt Wolf. Throat Wolf was finally released in 2019 as a Mystery Booster playtest card (not legal in any official format), with all the abilities that Throat Wolf was believed to have. Unhinged had a card called "Mise," a reference to M:tG slang meaning "to get a lucky draw." There was also a "real" card called "Savage Beatings", at which point M:tG parody site Misetings accused WotC of trying too hard. Storm Crow is famous for being treated as a Memetic Badass by the MTG community, despite it really being just a mediocre creature.note The joke behind Storm Crow is that it was released at the same time as the incredibly powerful Force of Will, which can counter any spell for the low cost of 1 life and exiling a blue card from your hand. Force was so powerful that people joked that every blue card in the set was powerful because you could exile it to pay for Force. Storm Crow got singled out due to both its mediocre stats and the fact that in-universe they were supposed to be bad omens. Wizards of the Coast first acknowledged this meme by giving the 6th edition of Storm Crow a custom rating of 6 out of 5 on its Gatherer website, then released Crow Storm as an Unstable card that does nothing but make copies of Storm Crow. An Urban Legend says that a player in a championship game was so desperate to win they played a card called "Chaos Orb" with the ability to destroy other cards by being dropped onto the opponents field and destroying any card it touches. If you're lucky you might destroy 3 or 4 cards, but instead of simply dropping the card they shredded it and sprinkled the pieces over the opponents field, wiping it out and the judge ruled it a legal move (incarnations of the story from there vary, some say the player won and other say the opposing player called for a count of cards in the players deck). Regardless of the truth to the story, the Unglued set introduced a card called "Chaos Confetti" with the exact same abilities of "Chaos Orb", except it specifies to tear the card apart and sprinkle the pieces over the field. The Flavor Text even says "And you thought it was an urban legend."note Fun fact: the rulings for Chaos Confetti specifically disallow attempting to tear it into "one peice" (i.e., not at all) Fake CCG cards themselves. They date to 1994, albeit in text-only format, and were the basis of the "Un" sets. At this point, the creators lampshade infinite combos. Back in 2013, they printed a card called Totally Lost that depicted a lost homunculus named Fblthp. Since then, he's become a fan favorite, appearing in the artwork of multiple cards, as well as having fans clamoring for him to have his own card. Six years later, they finally gave him his own card. Appropriately, it shuffles itself back into your library, so you have to go find it again. He then got so lost he ended up in a comedy set and teamed up with Borborygmos, leader of the Gruul Clans, to fight Phyrexians, who apparently has a good enough sense of direction that they can get themselves only somewhat lost as a defensive measure instead of ending up completely lost. In late 2019, there was a special booster set called Mystery Boosters, which had a number of fake 'test cards' that riffed on famous in-jokes from the Magic community, such as this card, which makes fun of "One With Nothing," a famously useless rare card. |
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Garfield Minus Garfield, the webcomic that made new comedy out of old Garfield strips by removing the title character so it seemed that Jon was a lonely delusional weirdo, was made into a book. One actually endorsed by writer Jim Davis, too, and complete with several Garfield Minus Garfields actually made by Davis himself. Turns out he's quite good at it. Shortly after, he seemed to realize that Jon did seem depressed and hopeless, so Jon/Liz was finally made canon and he was able to interact with other human characters more regularly, while the animals had their own strips — making new strips harder to convert for the webcomic, but responding well to the issues it brought up. | |
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An otherwise heartbreaking ending in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All turned memetic with the misspelled line "The miracle never happen." In the next game, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations, Phoenix recounts the sequence of events for one of his cases with this phrasing: "...But on that day, a miracle happened. The kind that Mr. Tigre would prefer to say never happened." | |
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Warhammer 40,000: "The Regimental Standard", a tie-in website written in the style of an Imperial propaganda piece, references the meme of referring to Lasguns being flashlights, and thus being "twin-linked" if given a flashlight attachment, in one article. According to it, referring to a Lasgun as such in-universe is punishable by flogging. Another one to use the "lasguns are useless" joke, which was written in-character as an Ork, has the Ork propose bolting a lasgun to your regular gun so you can use it as a laser sight. Not that it would necessarily do much good. Orks wearing purple camouflage "becoz you've neva seen a purpul Ork" was a common meme among Ork players. On the release of the 2018 Codex, the official Warhammer Youtube channel did a painting tutorial for purple Ork camouflage. |
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On an episode of Two and a Half Men, when Alan starts thinking he's Charlie, he exclaims "Winning!" at one point. | |
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The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic collectible card game references a few memes, such as Doctor Whooves. The Canterlot Nights set introduced a card based on the "Twilicane" seen in "Princess Twilight Sparkle, Part 2". | |
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Kemo's "Attention Duelists" catchphrase from Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series was adopted Konami EU Commentator Ed Templer during official Yu-Gi-Oh! tournaments, and has been used multiple times on the official Yu-Gi-Oh! European social medias when announcing new products or banlists. | |
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The first video uploaded to Nancy Pelosi's official government YouTube account ended up being a Rickroll. Likely a staff member's idea. | |
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A common joke line spread by fans was "Homestuck is my favorite anime." The final animation is a fully-animated anime-style short film. | |
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After Josh Fruhlinger of The Comics Curmudgeon began making jokes about the Archie newspaper comic strip being written by an antiquated mainframe computer called the "Archie Joke-Generating Laugh Unit 3000" (AJGLU-3000 for short), AJGLU-3000 references began cropping up in the strip. | |
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Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms opens with a Logo Joke featuring Scorpion in place of Daffy Duck in the WB Animation vanity plate, only for Shaggy Rogers to grab onto him and take him away, in a nod to the "Ultra Instinct Shaggy" meme, glowing eyes, aura and all. | |
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Mystic Messenger: The memetic phrase "Does Jumin Han Is Gay?" ascended in the Christmas DLC, where it appears at the bottom of a fake news report Seven whipped up to troll Yoosung. | |
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Katawa Shoujo: The entire game is based on an image by the artist Raita (proposing many of the female main characters) that became memetic on the /a/ board of 4chan before 4 Leaf Studios decided to make it a reality. Rin (a girl who has no arms) "hugs" Hisao by moving right next to him and declaring "I'm hugging you, Hisao". This had previously been a meme originating in a fan-sketch. Towards the end of her route, in her bad ending, it becomes Harsher in Hindsight. However in her good ending this meme takes another meaning as she randomly stretches her arms which Hisao interprets it as her hugging the world. Toward the end of Lilly's route, the meme in which she asks "Who's there? No answer, it must be that deaf bitch"note Lilly, being blind, can't see Shizune, and Shizune, being deaf-mute, cannot hear or respond to "Who's there?" gets referenced when she asks Misha, Shizune's interpreter, to get something for her. Shizune does so instead, but there's a twist; the two have put aside their differences. |
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Undertale: Papyrus's Belief: Some early pieces of Undertale fanart portrayed Papyrus as having a Gaster Blaster of his own, similar to Sans. However, Papyrus treated his far more like a pet, and a few fans chose to call it "Frank." In this game, Frank is used as Papyrus's Special Attack, and he even has reactions to Papyrus's dialogue. In addition, the Boss Remix that plays during your battle with Papyrus is named "Frankness." | |
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