Memetic Mutation/Comics

This Captain Obvious moment may have contributed to its meme status.

Memes and catch phrases, like a lot of other things, can also be Born in the Funny Papers...or your local comic book store.

Batman is memetic enough to have his own page.

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• The meme. <ref>The explanation behind the meme.]]</ref>
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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DC

Batman is memetic enough to have his own page.

• Frank Miller likes "WHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORES
  • This meme comes from Shortpacked Thanks again, Shortpacked!
• "Superman is (such) a dick."
  • This started with a forum thread about Silver Age comics covers.
  • He's even got a trope and a website named for it.
• "While no one was looking, Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes. He took forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And That's Terrible."
  • They were clearly PIES. And That's Terrible.
  • Ascended in Superman #709
• KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!
  • The original quote is from Superman II. Its sheer epicness has elevated it to meme status.
  • This meme culminated in a website dedicated to Zod running for president.
• "An Amazon attack. A deadly bee weapon... Bees. My God."
  • From the 2007 DC Comics miniseries Amazons Attack.
  • And what's funny about that one is that even other characters in the DCU have parodied that line.
  • The meme has since become heavily associated with the character Arakune from Blaz Blue who has an incredibly unpleasant attack that involves attacking his opponent with bees.
• Why are there plotholes? Because Superboy-Prime PUNCHED TIME!
  • At least that's what DC's Infinite Crisis tried to tell us.
  • "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"
  • "Everything was better on my Earth!"
• I did it 35 minutes ago.
  • From Watchmen. It was The Reveal at the ending which defied the conventions of the genre.
  • Warning: A blue... penis is shown. Never erect though
    • Never erect? "So impotent."
  • Possibly homosexual? Must remember to investigate further.
    • Hurm
    • RRAAAARRL (must be spelt exactly that way).
  • MY SON IS A POLICE OFFICER YOU FAGGOTS!
  • I'm not locked up in here with you...you're locked up in here with me!
  • :)
• Evil Mary Marvel smacking Donna Troy with Kyle Rayner. WHAP WHAP WHAP!
• "Please Help Me Green Lantern, I have no arms." * WHAM!*
  • Also, Hal Jordan doesn't have yellow as his only weakness. He can easily be waylaid by a simple blow to the head.
  • Also Green Lantern vs THE SIGH
  • This meme was brought to you by gratuitous shots of Green Lantern's ass.
    • Case in point.
    • Also, Hal Jordan will F* vk ANYTHING! See how he dealt with Star Sapphire.
    • Batman punches out Guy Gardner with just One Punch
    • Just after Hal Jordan comes back to life, he gives Batman a taste of One Punch awesomeness.
  • For the last time, I'm not Green Lantern! If I were, my costume would be GREEN!
  • Hal Jordan. Loves. Hamburgers.
  • You're Green Lantern! No, I'm not. 'Bye
  • "Surprise for you in the fridge."
  • Hal Jordan has the IQ of guacamole.
  • Shut your mouth, you stupid little troll!
• "I AM A MAN! (punch)",
  • Quote from Superman: At Earth's End. Advocated by Linkara as the best way to settle an argument. Yes, even if you're a woman.
  • Of course! Don't you know anything about science?
• James Robinson's Justice League: Cry for Justice miniseries quickly developed a meme of fans derisively posting "JUSTICE!" in relation to it, after several characters in the first issue all ended extended monologues by yelling "I want JUSTICE!"
  • Also, due to an unfortunate choice of font, this troper has heard the series referred to as "Gay for Justice" from several discrete sources.
• FLESH.
  • RISE
• "That's right. He makes his pants out of GOES FAST."
• "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings ina single bound!
  • "Look! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! IT'S SUPERMAN!!
  • "...fights a never ending battle for truth, just and the American way!"
• Larfleeze sez: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!
• ALL IS ONE IN DARKSEID.
  • Nobody can save you.
• I believe in me!

Marvel

• "I'm With [X]"
  • Marvel's Civil War miniseries's catch phrase was "Whose side are you on?", referring to the conflict between Captain America and Iron Man. This spawned a lot of messageboard signatures proclaiming "I'm with Cap", "I'm with Tony", and other, more absurd, choices, such as (this editor's favorite, featuring Deadpool) "I'm with Stupid" and "We don't care".
  • And for those American tropers who took it a little too literally, "I'm with Lincoln," or "I'm with Davis."
    • And in order to take it one step further, I saw an "I'm with Oliver" and "I'm with Charles" version. This troper even saw I'm with Durruti or Francisco.
    • Dear God. This troper totally made a/the Cromwell one. Whoa.
    • "I'm with Palpatine" and "I'm with Organa" also worked well.
  • They're all fucked when the Hulk gets back.
  • The Appendix to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe website had "I'm down with Howard", a Call Back to an earlier "Howard for President" meme.
  • "I'm with Internet Jesus: ANAL SKRULLS."
  • "I'm with Snob."
  • Der Eisenfuhrer!
• Tony Stark is everyone.
  • This apparently came about when an internet denizen asked if anyone had seen him without his mustache. An obliging photoshop revealed that he looked very much like Bruce Wayne, and with glasses, Clark Kent. From there, it snowballed. More details here. (Link and especially ads are NSFW)
• Tony also has a penchant for building in a CAVE! With a BOX of SCRAPS!
  • Let's be honest, it's not the worst thing you've caught him doing.
• HE/SHE/IT IS A SKRULL! (lesser-used DC variation: It's a White Martian! or It's Clayface! or It's a Skrull! regardless)
  • Even better: ANAL SKRULLS! (What separates them from regular Skrulls is known only to Warren Ellis.)
  • YOU'RE A SKRULL!
  • And if it isn't a Skrull, it's probably a Doombot.
  • Or it could be Everyman.
• "It's magic. We don't have to explain it.", "BONG!" and "Parkour Luck" are all memes that spawned from Spider-Man: One More Day, Brand New Day and comments from Joe Quesada regarding the continuity change.
  • Bitches Love Spider-Man.

J.J. Jameson: I don't need [x], I need pictures — pictures of Spider-Man!

• • Even parodied on The Simpsons, where the Jameson Captain Ersatz is the editor of a poetry magazine. When reminded of this, he demands Petrarchan sonnets about Spider-Man.
    • Even voiced by JK Simmons himself.
  • In all honesty, Spider-Man really doesn't have many memorable me-OH WILL YOU SHUT UP!
  • And here's another meme, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
  • "Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a Spider can..."
    • "SPIDER-MAN! SPIDER-MAN! RADIO-ACTIVE SPIDER-MAN!..."
  • "*THWIP!*"
  • "One for J.J.!"
  • How Do I Shot Web?? (Granted, the phrase originated completely independently of Spidey. The image meme is of him because it's funnier that way.)
  • 60s Spiderman
• Why are there plotholes? Because the Scarlet Witch is messing with her chaos magic again.
  • Scarlet Witch: "No more mutants."
• He did it Magnetically
• Thanks to Sally Floyd, My Space had Captain America killed. By being hit with a NASCAR racecar driven by an American Idol contestant. And this was uploaded to YouTube. Isn't that right, Sally?
• People also had a lot of fun with Captain America's last letter to Iron Man.
  • Dammit, Steve.
• Nick Fury's god has a hammer.
• Captain America's shield-toss sound effect: "I command you to-- * wank* "
• "Only one of us is gonna walk out of here under his own steam - and it won't be me!"
• In regards to Cyclops' Eye Beams not being heat beams, more just beams of concussive force; "They're punches! From the Punch Dimension!"
  • Similarly, Wolverine's healing factor is sometimes explained as obtaining "Meat from the Meat Dimension."
  • Thus there is flyclops.
    • By association, when Scott appeared in Dark Avengers and the captions declared him "Cyclops. Leader of the X-Men. Owner of a jetpack.", it got a bit of attention too.
  • Don't forget Colossus. He isn't made of steel. HE IS MADE OF RAGE!
  • "Whoof. Just a moment, not done with 'whoof'."
  • And Kitty Pryde would like to remind you that PROFESSOR XAVIER IS A JERK!
• Every hero was bitten by a radioactive X and every villain fell into a vat of Y.
• Ever since she defeated Thanos off-panel, "Squirrel Girl is the most powerful being the Marvel Universe."
• Ha-Ha! Doctor Doom is the MASTER of the world!
  • DOOM WOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE IN ALL-CAPS ALL THE TIME IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT ACCURSED RICHAAAARRDDSS!!!
• And Thor would have words with thee, Ultron.
  • The hammer doth be his manhood.
• You just made Bruce Banner angry. You won't like him when he's angry.
  • The term "HULK SMASH!" has spawned similar phrases like "RAMSAY SMASH!" or "BOND SMASH!"
• The Punisher punched a bear in the face.
• Giant-Size Man-Thing!
• "Bob, I want this page thrown into the sun."
• RESPAWN LOL.
  • Huh? Do my thoughts still appear in little yellow boxes? I'm good. I missed you, little yellow boxes! We're gonna have so much fun together!
  • Nice scooter, freak!
    • It's a motorbike! It's 100% manly!
  • Shoryuken!
    • Yay, now is fighty time, fighty time, blood blood blood!
• Here's a definitive one:

Mary Jane Watson: "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"

• Beast being a "war criminal" seems to be picking up steam at CBR.
• I do what I want, Thor!
• Cool Story Bro.

Other

• The images for the Sandwich Chef meme originally came from this Chick Tract.
• From Doom: YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR!
  • "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good..."
  • WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF! A BERSERKER-PACKING MAN AND A HALF!
  • CHAINSAW! THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR!
  • STUPID STUPID STUPID IMP! YOU'RE STUPID AND YOU'RE GONNA BE STUPID AND DEAD!
• Thanks to the dubious quality of his artwork, any picture posted that was drawn by Rob Liefeld is invariably met with the scream of "LIIIIEEEEEFFFFFFIIIIIEEEEELLLLLDDD!" The same is also done for Greg Land LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!! This may or may not have been started by the user "foxhack" at scans_daily, but he sure helped popularize it.
  • In the same vein as Frank Miller, POUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHES (also Liefeld)
  • While we're on the subject of Greg Land: Pornface!
  • Similar screams have been made as Take Thats against Joe Quesada (one of the minds behind the much-hated One More Day storyline in Spider-Man), DC's Dan Didio, and 4Kids Entertainment executive Al Khan.
    • This troper would like to remind you that Dan Didio hates you Dan Didio hates you.
      • Also, he's a mass murderer of heroes.
  • This troper's favorite, glimpsed on the Superdickery.com forums: "In Soviet Union, Crimson Dynamo is with YOU!"
• From the Star Wars comics, we have K'Kruhk's freakin' sweet hat. Know that the Hat is all powerful. Know that it is the reason its wearer has survived so many near-death experiences.
  • ALL DOSE POIPLE, ALL DOSE HAMBOIGAHS
• STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!!
• Certain comic book covers become so often homaged and parodied by later cover artists, that showing someone the original cover elicits the response "So that's how (such-and-such an artist) came up with the cover of (some other comic)!"
  • This happens with Jim Steranko's covers. A lot
  • And Crisis On Infinite Earths #7
• "Samantha Brown! You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!"
• Similar to the aforementioned Marvel Civil War messageboard banners, the recent "I Am An Avenger" posters depicting new teammembers have spawned numerous joke versions, such as this one.
  • Image Comics took this to a ridiculous extreme, using their parody posters to promote a fake "Guardians of the Globe" cast including a very thinly disguised Harry Potter ("Gary Popper"), Rick Grimes and Barack Obama as new members. The campaign was popular enough to get a back-up strip in the actual team's comic.
• Invincible is a MURDERER
• HA HA HA, OH WOW
  • Billions of blue blistering barnacles!
• HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!
  • YOU'RE NOT FUCKING WITH MY FRONT PAGE!
  • * PUNCH*
  • LISTEN TO THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH! IT DOES NOT LIE!
• The world can be saved by STEAM!
• HORSECOCK!
• I'm in lesbians with you.
  • Wallace! Again?
  • Bread makes you fat?
    • YOU PUNCHED THE HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF HER HAIR!
  • "You're incorrigible." "I don't know the meaning of the word."
• Suicide Squid

Newspaper Comics

• Lots of people on the Internet consider the last few years of Garfield to be the blandest, most mediocre comic strip in the newspapers today. Then in January 2006, someone created The Garfield Randomizer, which automatically selected three random panels from the entire Garfield online archive and mashed them together as a strip, turning it into Dadaist nonsense. It was praised as the funniest thing to happen to Garfield in years. Then Paws, Inc., told the creator to cease-and-desist. In a small measure of revenge, however, the creator made the code publicly available, and a few Garfield randomizers persist to this day (like this one).
  • Silent Garfield was born shortly after the Garfield Randomizer, when Mack J of the Truth and Beauty Bombs forum pointed out just how surreal Garfield becomes (and how pathetic Jon really is) when you remove Garfield's thought bubbles.
    • This has been taken to the next logical step with Garfield Minus Garfield, which makes it look like Jon is conversing with imaginary playmates. Unlike the randomizer, Jim Davis actually found this one quite entertaining.
      • Garfield Minus Garfield mashed up with the Sad Keanu meme here.
      • Someone took the Garfield Minus Garfield concept to a great extreme, taking the Garfield and Friends Christmas Special and editing out Garfield and Odie almost seamlessly. Then you get to the ending at 8:30. Have fun...
      • In the same spirit as Silent Garfield is Realfield, which replaces Garfield with a silent, photorealistic cat and does a good job of making Jon look pathetic...well, more pathetic.
      • In a similar vein to Garfield Minus Garfield is Lucy Peanuts, which is basically Peanuts with everyone removed except for Lucy. Sadly, it got orphaned after about 30 strips.
      • There's also Peanuts Minus Snoopy, which lasted a bit longer.
  • Yet another variation is Tailsteak's Arbuckle, in which anyone is invited to redraw a Garfield comic in a different or more realistic art style, again with the thought bubbles removed.
  • "Lasagna Cat" takes the deconstruction even further. Real life strips are acted out in live action. The strip and the its date of publication are shown. The skit is acompanied by a brief music video. (Its the highlight, Post-modernism at its best)
  • Go back to bed, Garfield. o_O
  • Garfield is so malleable that they did one...just on Garfield barfing (then fart jokes, then crude sexual humor... sadly, it works) (warning, gross)
  • Garkov is Garfield + Markov chains.
  • And then there's Square Root Of Minus Garfield, which does a different thing to Garfield with each strip.
  • "I hate Mondays"
  • "I'm putting you on a diet."
  • "GARFIELD!!"
  • "*SPLUT!*"
  • "Hello! I'm Nermal, the world's cutest kitten!"
    • "Shut up, or I'll mail you to Abu Dhabi."
  • Pooky, Garfield's teddy bear
  • Jon's ferns (or any other plants for that matter...)
  • Garfield kicking Odie off the table
  • There was a strip a few years ago with Garfield eating a banana, then dropping the peel on the floor so that Jon would slip on it. Garfield uttered the line "a banana has two uses" and internet message boards have had a field day with it ever since.
  • None of that matters- It's all just a hallucination as he slowly dies of thirst in an abandoned house.
• A similar but much darker idea to the randomizer is Nietzsche Family Circus, which puts a random Nietzsche quote with a random Family Circus panel.
  • And now, Jersey Shore Circus has gotten in on the act...
• Marmaduke is an asshole.
• Mary Worth birthed a meme in Aldomania thanks to the Comics Curmudgeon.
• "Life is short, play naked!"
  • The Noodle Incident
• The Phantom was king of memes even in the forties:
  • PHANTOM SPEAK WITH THOUSAND TONGUES: OLD JUNGLE SAYING!
  • PHANTOM ROUGH ON ROUGHNECKS!
  • PHANTOM'S VOICE CHILL'S TIGER'S BLOOD: OLD JUNGLE SAYING!
  • FOR THOSE WHO CAME IN LATE...
  • Mr Walker (for "The Ghost Who Walks"): "It's not a dog, it's a wolf!"
• "Cancer cancercancercancer?" "Cancercancer cancer."
• WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?
  • THE SHADOW KNOWS...
• I have no hooooooooome!!
  • She's roadside.
• A simply staggering number of character or situational nicknames invented in Dilbert actually become professional corporate terms for those very situations.
  • Classic example: the Bungee Boss. "HiI'myournewbosslet'schangeeverythingbeforeIgetreassignedoopstoolategoodbye."
• If everyone gets a nickname based on their appearance, where does Dick Tracy's come from?
• Oh, you blockhead!
  • Good grief!
  • I got a rock.
  • Stop calling me 'Sir!'
  • *sigh*
• The phrase "keeping up with the Joneses" originally derives from an early-20th-century newspaper strip of that title.