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| 7 | Due to the wide cast of characters and combination of both a NewbieBoom and veteran fans, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'' has its fair share of memes. |
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| 12 | * The fact that the player character's 'weapon', Breidablik, is a ''[[AnachronismStew gun]]'' in the [[MedievalStasis mostly medieval setting]] of ''Fire Emblem'' has not escaped fans' notice. The constant jokes mostly died down after it was revealed that the player is unusable in battle and that Breidablik is not an ordinary gun [[AbnormalAmmo by any means]]. Now revisited since in the trailer of Book II of the main story we can see the Summoner fighting Veronica with said gun. Some joked it shoots full speed [[ComMons Bartres]]. |
| 13 | ** Book III Chapter 13 aggravates the situation when [[spoiler: the Summoner dealt the killing blow to Hel by shooting her with the Breidablik]] |
| 14 | ** Taken to its logical conclusion with the 5.2.0 update, which allows us to use our Summoner in Mjölnir's Strike. |
| 15 | * Alfonse: |
| 16 | ** [[MemeticLoser Alfonse]] [[TheLoad the Bench Lord.]][[note]]Alfonse's quiet, peaceful disposition combined with his LowTierLetdown status thanks to his low speed has caused him to become a meme in and of himself. Whenever he’s discussed, expect a lot of bench jokes.[[/note]] |
| 17 | *** [[WhosLaughingNow Bench Lord promoted]] [[TookALevelInBadass to Bench Presser!]][[note]]This suddenly turned on its head with the introduction of weapon refines for the Askr Trio, of which Alfonse arguably got the best: the coveted Brazen Atk/Def 3 ''on his weapon''. This stacks with a Brazen Atk/Def 3 in his A slot ''and'' potentially a ''third'' Brazen Atk/Def 3 as his Sacred Seal, turning him into a melee tank with upwards of 70 Atk and 50 Def. Suddenly Alfonse saw a lot more use in conventional teams.[[/note]] |
| 18 | *** [[WhosLaughingNow Bench Lord ]] [[ThrowTheDogABone wins CYL 2024!]][[note]]In a surprising turn of events, Alfonse managed to score 1st place in the Men's Division of CYL 2024, earning Alfonse a Brave variant.[[/note]] |
| 19 | ** Alfonse, you dipshit.[[note]]Gustav's stern and stoic attitude towards Alfonse, combined with Alfonse's eagerness to [[WellDoneSonGuy please his dad]] yet stumbling here and there, tends to make the fandom think that Gustav is actually disappointed at Alfonse acting like an idiot against his advice. The phrase became the go-to phrase for Gustav basically saying another meme, [[MemeticMutation "Son, I am disappoint."]][[/note]] |
| 20 | ** Alfonse’s Weakness [[note]] In the mode’s first year, Askr lost Mjolnir’s Strike to Navarre, Lyon, Sais, Julius, Naesala and Conrad - all pretty, young men. As Alfonse being gay was already a meme, the joke became that Alfonse was letting them win entirely because he’s attracted to them. (Travant breaking the pattern is simply Alfonse expanding his tastes.) [[/note]] |
| 21 | *** The Pretty Boys Club [[note]] Since the first year, more and more losses in Mjolnir’s Strike have been to characters who break the pattern. However, victors are still often referred to as having joined the ‘Pretty Boys Club’, with an increasing sense of irony [[/note]] |
| 22 | ** Alfonse: [[TooPowerfulToLive Too OP To Live]][[labelnote:Explanation (Book IV Spoilers)]]The end of Book IV, Chapter 12, reveals that the Alfonse in the story has been the ''Summoner'' all along, and that the real Alfonse was supposedly smited out of existence by the ''Allfather himself'' for killing Hel. This instantly led to players realizing just ''how'' much of a badass Alfonse truly is. [[spoiler: Although this turned out to be false, much to many fans’ disappointment.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 23 | ** Tall Alfonse[[note]]The first volume of ''Fire Emblem Heroes'' Character Illustrations was released on Christmas Eve 2021, and it contains a height chart for all of the game's original characters introduced between books I and III. However, despite predictions that Alfonse was, at least, short, ''nobody'' was expecting that Alfonse's actual height is, in fact, 180 cm (about 5'11'') tall. Nonetheless, players had a field day with this.[[/note]] |
| 24 | ** I'm going to kill you too. :D[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]Alfonse gets a chilling moment in Book VI, Chapter 5, where he tells Letizia that he's going to kill her and her god, and nothing can save her, and he says it all with a smile on his face. Players straight up cheered Alfonse on for getting another "chad" moment in the otherwise dull story.[[/labelnote]] |
| 25 | * Sharena's mom has got it going on.[[labelnote:Explanation]]There's a good number of people who find Henriette, Alfonse and Sharena's mother, ''quite'' [[StacysMom attractive,]] leading them to quote the famous "Stacy's Mom" song.[[/labelnote]] |
| 26 | ** Alfonse's dad is actually pretty rad![[labelnote:Explanation]]The exact same meme above, but with Gustav, Alfonse's and Sharena's father, instead.[[/labelnote]] |
| 27 | * '''[[TitleScream FIRE EMBLEM: HEROES!]]'''[[note]]The app opens with one of the voice actors of the five new characters (Alfonse, Sharena, Anna, Veronica, or Bruno) announcing the title of the game. Many times, this has caught people off-guard, particularly in public, by how loud it can be, especially if they play the game with the sound off or turned up the volume on their mobile device for something else. This meme is strongly associated with Sharena due to how loud and high-pitched her version of the TitleScream is.[[/note]] |
| 28 | * Alolan Ganondorf[[note]]Most people have compared Surtr to Ganondorf due to their burly appearances and their fiery themes. This meme is based on Alolan Forms in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon''.[[/note]] |
| 29 | ** Alolan Camilla, Alolan Severa[[note]]The same joke noting the similarity of Loki and Laevatein to the aforementioned characters from Fates and Awakening respectively.[[/note]] |
| 30 | ** Alolan Junkrat[[note]]The Alola form jokes resurfaced when Helbindi's artworks were leaked before the story update. His deranged looks beared some similarities to Overwatch's Junkrat.[[/note]] |
| 31 | *** Helbindi is a good boy![[note]]However, when the chapter became available, it was revealed that Helbindi had a JerkWithAHeartOfGold personality, as he showed concern to his prisoner Ylgr and stated that he only was in the army to support his family.[[/note]] |
| 32 | * Fjorm: |
| 33 | ** Fjorm is a masochist.[[note]]Fjorm's injured portrait had her expression look like she's having an orgasm, leading people believe that [[TooKinkyToTorture she's secretly into torture kinks.]][[/note]] |
| 34 | ** "Did you know you can make Fjorm an ally if you complete the first chapter of Book II?"[[labelnote:Explanation]]In response to the confusion of players trying to obtain their free Fjorm following the release of the 2.0 update, the developers pinned the above quote as a post on the notification board and it stayed there until mid January 2018. Doesn't help that the notice itself sounds vaguely [[CondescendingCompassion passive aggressive.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 35 | ** "[[UnexplainedRecovery Oh, yes. Sorry to... alarm you. I am, as it happens... still alive.]]"[[note]]Towards the end of Book II, Fjorm has supposedly suffered an IncurableCoughOfDeath. Regardless, her continued presence in the Forging Bonds events depict her as perfectly healthy, with the aforementioned quote coming from the Shape of a Spirit having her recover from [[LethalChef Female Kris' cooking]].[[/note]] |
| 36 | ** Fjorging Bonds [[note]]Forging Bonds often has Fjorm appear in support conversations with a character, often developing her own character in the process. In the A New Future Forging Bonds with Lysithea, Fjorm explained how her days are numbered and just like Lysithea, she could perish at any moment. This causes the latter to search for a way to extend the former's life. As a result, people have nicknamed the event "Fjorging Bonds".[[/note]] |
| 37 | ** Fjorm sings "Let it Go" [[note]]A video with a new song called "Flower of Ice", sung by Fjorm, was released to promote the Ice & Flames Tempest Trials series, which would continue the story of Book II. Fans instantly compared Fjorm to [[Franchise/{{Frozen}} Elsa]], which soon let to memes regarding Fjorm singing Elsa's "Let it Go" song.[[/note]] |
| 38 | ** [=FjormDev=] [[note]]Much like the [=EphraimDev=] joke below, this joke started to take on a life of its own once Fjorm was given the spotlight in the Ice & Flame Tempest Trials series, but magnified once Ascended Fjorm was revealed, with new art and voice lines, helped further by her being involved in many Forging Bonds before and after.[[/note]] |
| 39 | * Gunnthrá: |
| 40 | ** Gunnthrá and fire[[labelnote:Explanation (major spoilers for Book II Chapter 7)]]Gunnthrá was killed by Surtr by being burnt to death. Just like Sigurd, Flora and Rinea. If you don't know about ''Fire Emblem'' and [[Memes/FireEmblem jokes about people dying by fire...]][[/labelnote]] |
| 41 | ** [=GUNnthrá=]. [[note]]An obvious play on her name and the 'gun' meme. Usually used by Gunnthrá fans who were displeased at [[SacrificialLion her role]] in the story.[[/note]] |
| 42 | * Nope.[[note]]This is one of Helbindi's quotes when you select him in battle. Already funny that he says no upon being called, but taken further as it is being used as a response to other units' select quotes, mostly questions ("Wanna grab tea?" "Nope.")[[/note]] |
| 43 | * Bladeblade.[[note]]There are special tome weapons that are suffixed with "-blade" that grant extra damage equal to the unit's field buffs. Laevatein, a sword unit, has this effect in her unique weapon that happens to be [[ICallItVera named after herself]] (or is it [[TheyCallHimSword the reverse]]?), resulting in "Bladeblade" as a FanNickname for both the weapon and the character.[[/note]] |
| 44 | * Ylgr has two sets of voice lines that have come to define her -- |
| 45 | ** "Okay". [[note]] All of her selection lines are this. Not only does it make using her for "conversations" between units easy, it's also characterized her as someone with a flippant attitude towards fighting.[[/note]] |
| 46 | ** "Boring, boring, boring" is said in some of her lines, most notably as one of her Special quotes. It further defines her flippancy. |
| 47 | * Sharena the Leaker[[note]]Images in the examples of "Learn with Sharena" show off features in which new players can learn from, but sometimes they show off more than what IS intends to by mistake. So far this includes: the [[https://i.redd.it/isaospvvv9121.png Light and Dark Seasons]] for Legendary Heroes (exclusive Mythic Seasons for Aether Raids after the release of Book III), and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/br6am5/new_skill_leaked_via_learn_with_shareena/ the special ability of the May 2019 Mythic Hero]] (it grants allied units Dragon effectiveness, leading to many to predict Naga as the Mythic), as well as hinting players that Sothis would be the Mythic Hero of July 2019 in Byleth: Proven Professor's hero profile.[[/note]] |
| 48 | * Jelly Skelly [[note]]The character designs for Lif, Thrasir, and Hel all have colorful transparent flesh on parts of their bodies which reveal their bones, due to them being undead. When the character designs were revealed in the Book III Feh Channel, people started making jokes about how the colorful flesh they have looks like jelly.[[/note]] |
| 49 | * AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA / ONLY WANT ONE FUTURE, ONLY WANT ONE WORLD [[labelnote:Explanation]]The Book III theme is memetically popular thanks to its screaming vocals. Expect the lyrics to show up when Hel, Líf, or Thrasir are mentioned.[[/labelnote]] |
| 50 | * G-26 Lance Fighter [[note]] In the 26th map of Tactic Drills' Grandmaster difficulty, there is a generic Lance Fighter enemy with ridiculously high stats. Fans quickly associated this enemy with the already famous 3-13 Archer from Radiant Dawn and other overpowered mooks from the series.[[/note]] |
| 51 | ** Dancing Thief [[note]]A thief from Book 2’s 12-2 who has Firestorm Dance despite having Shove as his assist skill (and not Dance or Sing) has been memed along with the above Lance Fighter.[[/note]] |
| 52 | * Plumeria, unamused manager of lewd dreams.[[note]]Plumeria's title of Lewd Dream thrusted her into a position where she managed dreams that are inherently Fetish Fuel, and she is portrayed to have SeenItAll and is generally not amused with the increasingly lewd and horny dreams she's requested with.[[/note]] |
| 53 | ** Everyone is horny for Plumeria[[note]]Despite her recency in the story at the time, Plumeria managed to achieve a spot in the Female Top 10 in Choose Your Legends 4, in 6th place no less. The then-recency bias of ''Three Houses'' making its characters flood the polls (yes, ''four'' 3H characters took the top spots in the female side, followed by Eirika from ''Sacred Stones'') is the only reason Plumeria doesn't have a Brave alt today.[[/note]] |
| 54 | * Mirabilis the Undying [[note]]Mirabilis's debut banner "Book IV Midpoint: Mirabilis and More" has lasted longer than any other banner with the rerun polls on Twitter. The way the Twitter poll goes is that the most-voted banner is rerun at a later date, the banner in last place is permanently off the list for reruns, and the 2nd and 3rd place banners are carried over to the next poll. Mirabilis's banner has survived long enough to the point where people started to vote for her banner on purpose to see how long it would last; the answer turned out to be ''a year and a half'', lasting through eight preceding polls before finally dropping out in the May '22 poll.[[/note]] |
| 55 | * "Oh, Freyr..." [[note]]This is Freyja's death quote during her BossBattle in Book IV Chapter 9-5. Considering a total of '''9''' Freyjas are fought during this chapter, players who have battle animations on will hear this a '''lot'''.[[/note]] |
| 56 | * [[https://i.redd.it/ry1m22639v361.png Fáfnir's insane screaming face]][[note]]Ever since the Book V announcement was made in early December 2020, the shot of Fáfnir's face when he was screaming in the Book V movie quickly became a reaction image for people to use, commonly in frustration, such as when someone forgets to use their arrows in Mjölnir's Strike.[[/note]] |
| 57 | ** Fáfnir's SlasherSmile has also been subject to a lot of memes due to how hilarious and creepy it is at the same time. Most memes include splicing the face onto another character. |
| 58 | ** In the same vein, [[spoiler:Eitri's]] SlasherSmile after revealing their true colors has been memed up by the fanbase. [[https://i.redd.it/nlfciubv43081.jpg Her special art]] in particular gained popularity for being so unhinged. |
| 59 | * Green Unit = True Villain.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers!)]]It's noted that the [[ArcVillain main antagonists]] of Books I-V (Veronica, Surtr, Hel, Freyja, and Eitri) are all Green Units, which will lose in the TacticalRockPaperScissors with Red Units... and that's the unit color for Alfonse, also prepping up for his MemeticBadass credentials so he can beat them more easily in-game (while at the same time prepping up Sharena's MemeticLoser credentials as she has a disadvantage against them). When Fáfnir's class was revealed to be a Blue Lance Cavalier, people doubted that he truly was the true villain or FinalBoss material for Book V, aside of how he might be just merely BrainwashedAndCrazy by his looks and attitude. This made the fandom at first throw their suspicion to Ótr, who's a Green Axe Cavalier, predicting that eventually he's going to be TheStarscream for his own brother or revealed as a ManipulativeBastard, the true villain of Book V (he's not the true villain, but he IS an unrepentant villain). When Dagr made her first appearance in Book V, people jokingly said she was actually the main villain. Chapter 6 however, reveals that Eitri was the true villain after all, and she continues this trend as a Green Tome unit. Book VI once again headed to this trend to which Letizia is a Green Unit, but after her death, Embla came in and was revealed to be a ''Red'' unit, finally ending this trend once and for all.[[/labelnote]] |
| 60 | ** Anna is a villain because she's a Green Unit![[labelnote:Explanation]]The extension of the above. The fact that Anna has been there all along, and she's wielding axes, therefore a Green Unit, and she's kind of OutOfFocus and having her signature money fetish, fans speculate that she's going to be a twist villain that will betray the Order of Heroes when no one expects it.[[/labelnote]] |
| 61 | * The April Fools Day 2021 video that featured Fáfnir and Reginn dancing has spawned numerous edits that replaced the techno remix of Book V's map theme with another song, such as [[VideoGame/Persona4 Specialist]] and [[VideoGame/Yakuza0 Friday Night]]. |
| 62 | * Nifl: |
| 63 | ** Haha! The idiots have fallen right into my trap! ''In Alaska!''[[labelnote:Explanation]]Nifl's skillset as a playable character bears a similarity to Kempf's skillset. Cue the referencing of Kempf's infamous "In America" meme, but with Alaska instead.[[/labelnote]] |
| 64 | ** [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith You are a goddess, but we do not grant you the title of Mythic.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]In a very surprising twist, Nifl as a playable character is ''not'' a Mythic Hero, being part of the regular summon pool instead despite being called the ''Goddess of Ice.'' Might be justified, however, due to the playerbase's complaints about releasing too many ''Heroes'' original characters as Mythic Heroes, and that Nifl [[StopWorshippingMe doesn't really see herself as a goddess.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 65 | * Male ''Heroes'' OC? Say goodbye.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers for all Books)]]A trend that has not escaped the fanbase's notice is how male original characters from ''Heroes'' tend to be treated in the story. They're either lacking in screentime (Hríd and Elm), dead (Surtr, Helbindi, Freyr, Fáfnir, Ótr, Bruno, and Njörðr), or both (Gustav, Askr and Müspell). Alfonse and his alternate universe counterpart Líf are exceptions to this trend and have been noted to have PlotArmor, due to the former being the main protagonist and the latter being an AlternateSelf of the protagonist and being crucial to the plot.[[/labelnote]] |
| 66 | ** Older Sibling Syndrome.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers for all Books)]]On a similar note, players have noticed that whenever a new character is introduced as the character's older sibling, they are doomed to die later in the story (so far this includes Gunnthrá, Laegjarn (until Ice & Flame), Triandra (before she was revived), Ótr, Fáfnir, Nótt, Letizia, and Bruno). This led to many people saying that both male characters and older sibling characters are cursed to die. So far, the only older siblings to remain unscathed are Hríd and Seiðr, as Heiðr (Who acts as her "younger sibling") was the one who died instead, and even then, Seiðr's still screwed.[[/labelnote]] |
| 67 | * We called Askr "daddy" too much and tempted fate![[labelnote:Explanation (Book VI Chapter 10 spoilers!)]]In the end of Book VI, Chapter 10, Askr asks Ash to call him as her father before he fades away. The fanbase had already been calling him a "daddy" when he was first revealed, only to [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone realize in horror]] that they triggered the "[[RecurringElement Dead Fire Emblem Dad Syndrome]]". Cue many fans lamenting how they tempted fate and got Askr killed.[[/labelnote]] |
| 68 | ** Cow Daddy's dancing lessons[[labelnote:Explanation (Book VI Chapter 10 spoilers!)]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFhdwUJJJP8 The 2023 April Fool's video]] features a dancing lesson involving [[CuteClumsyGirl Seiðr]], [[FitnessNut Alfred]], [[CuteButCacophonic Timerra]], The Summoner, and... '''Askr?!''' Considering his death in the aforementioned chapter, Players joked that Askr single-handedly [[BackFromTheDead resurrected himself]] to make a sick dancing lesson for his nation.[[/labelnote]] |
| 69 | * grrgh... Alfonse im dying.... ''rips my shirt off''[[labelnote:Explanation (Book VI Chapter 11 spoilers!)]]Bruno has already been a bit of a meme for how his clothes rip off when he's injured to show off how strong he is. With him dying in Book VI, his shirt is COMPLETELY destroyed as he bids farewell to Alfonse before dying. Parts of the fandoms ran with it and began to crack jokes about Bruno's habit of losing clothes when he gets injured slightly, as well of how it [[{{Narm}} took people out of the seriousness of the scene]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 70 | * [=#GullveigSweep=][[labelnote:Explanation]]Gullveig is the main villain of Book VII and has a [[MsFanservice very sexy design]], and was available as a voting option in the seventh Choose Your Legends. The event notably excluded units from ''Engage'' which had launched around that time, which may have demonstrated what would've happened if ''Three Houses'' didn't accost Plumeria in [=CYL4=]: when the [=CYL7=] results were announced in the 6th Anniversary stream, Gullveig was revealed to have won '''''first place''''', [[DarkHorseVictory managing to beat out rising contenders like Bernadetta and Female Robin]]! The result was... quite the spectacle to behold. Even Yoshiku, her artist, was surprised at how she managed to top the rankings.[[/labelnote]] |
| 71 | ** [[spoiler:Everyone is Gullveig]] [[labelnote:Explanation (Major Book VII Spoilers!)]]The Book VII midpoint opening cutscene reveals that Seiðr is Gullveig from the present. This spurred a number of exaggerated jokes that most, if not all, of the characters in Book VII (except for with Njörðr and Nerþuz) are actually just Gullveig, owing to the fact that the whole situation with Kvasir/Seiðr/Gullveig is considered by many to be [[MindScrew very confusing.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 72 | * [[BabiesEverAfter "Would you create a child with me?"]] [[labelnote:Explanation (Book VII spoilers!)]]This line from Seiðr in chapter 8 garnered a wide range of mockery for the sheer awkwardness and bluntness of the delivery, which doesn't help that in context, she wants to have a baby with the ''Summoner'' through magical means, [[MandatoryMotherhood per Njörðr's request to bear a child]]. It also caused WildMassGuessing about ''Gullveig'' potentially being the Summoner's child, immediately causing {{Squick}} reactions to both her flirty behavior towards the summoner in the Book's opening movie as well as her victory in [=CYL7=] (though that last one [[HoistByHisOwnPetard is the playerbase's own fault]]), and this is later followed by the release of chapter 2, with the reveal that '''''Kvasir''''' is the younger version of Gullveig who resembles both Seiðr and the summoner, causing another group of people to think that she's Seiðr's daughter. Both of them ended up being Jossed, when it was confirmed that Seiðr's own sister, '''''Heiðr''''', is her daughter from the future, and both Kvasir and Gullveig are just Seiðr from different points in time, though that ended up generating a ton of confusion.[[/labelnote]] |
| 73 | ** Njörðr [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Redfield]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]A sister meme of the above. Since Njörðr is the one who requested that Seiðr have a child with the Summoner in the first place, some players have compared this scenario to [[Memes/ResidentEvil Chrisposting]], with Njörðr replacing Chris Redfield, Seiðr replacing Chris's sister Claire, and the Summoner replacing Leon Kennedy.[[/labelnote]] |
| 74 | * [[NonMammalMammaries Sniddies]][[labelnote:Explanation]]The breasts visible on Heiðr's monster form has spawned a joke nickname from players for looking a bit too out of place on a monster design with multiple snake heads. The fact that the design looks very humanoid doesn't help.[[/labelnote]] |
| 75 | * Ratatta [[labelnote:Explanation]] The new free unit from Book VIII is named Ratatoskr, but being a CuteMonsterGirl classified as a Beast unit caused players to nickname her after the Pokémon Ratatta. It seems that [[AscendedMeme even the devs realized this,]] as her visitor line has her mistakenly introduce herself as "Ratatata" before correcting herself. |
| 76 | [[/labelnote]] |
| 77 | * The April 2024 FEH Channel introduces a new Mythic variant of Loki. However, the way her art had parts of her body [[CensorSteam covered by steam]] ended up being widely mocked by the playerbase to the point that there was a trend where players either edited preexisting art by censoring it in the same method or drew fanart of other ''Fire Emblem'' characters with the censorship slapped on it. It even got to a point where some players ''deliberately'' censored the top of various bald characters' heads. |
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| 80 | [[folder:Archanea (''Shadow Dragon'' and ''Mystery of the Emblem'')]] |
| 81 | * "Uwee hee hee!" [[note]]Legion's SignatureLaugh has become popular amongst the fandom, due to how ridiculously silly it sounds. It helps that Legion himself is an EnsembleDarkhorse who is well liked for his use of HulkSpeak, {{Pluralses}}, and IAmLegion speaking habits, general [[LargeHam haminess]], and introduction of [[HarderThanHard Infernal difficulty]] with his Grand Hero Battle.[[/note]] |
| 82 | * Def Ploy Est. [[note]] After the [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Inheritance_Tier_List Gamepedia tier list]] was updated on August 10, 2017, players noticed that several heroes jumped up with Def Ploy being the reason cited. Perhaps most egregiously, Est and Peri both jumped ahead of Camus.[[/note]] |
| 83 | * Camoo[[note]]During the April 9, 2018 Feh Channel, that’s how Feh pronounced Camus’s name, similar to French philosopher and writer Albert Camus. However, few fans expected this to be the official pronunciation. And because it has 'moo' in its pronunciation, Cow jokes spawned minutes after the stream ended.[[/note]] |
| 84 | * Marth: |
| 85 | ** "I refuse to yield!" [[note]]One of Legendary Marth's Special lines, which became an instant hit only days after his reveal. Jokes about Marth running over the dragon characters with a car, to him responding to one of Ephraim's quotes ("Yield or perish!") has been made.[[/note]] |
| 86 | ** "Pantless Marth for CYL!"[[note]]After Brave Celica was revealed to have a design based on her ''Gaiden'' appearance, fans started clamoring for Marth to become a Brave Hero wearing infamous pantless design from the original ''Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light''. However, when the 30th anniversary rolled around, the original pathless design was used for a young version of Marth, and since that design covered Pantless Marth, his Brave version had him dressed as his ancestor Anri.[[/note]] |
| 87 | * King Navarre of Askr.[[note]]During the fifth installment of Mjölnir's Strike, Navarre managed to defeat Alfonse and his army during the Counter Phase, to the surprise of everyone. This meme quickly spread jokes about Navarre being the new ruler of Askr, having usurped Alfonse from the throne.[[/note]] |
| 88 | * "[[WebVideo/ProZD Prince Marth sends his regards.]]" [[note]]Fans had a field day when they found out that Creator/SungWonCho ([=ProZD=]) would be voicing Darros.[[/note]] |
| 89 | * "I am Vyland of Aurelis, one of the Coyote's Men." [[note]] This bit of dialogue plays at the beginning of Chapter 12-4, just after the extremely serious Chapter 12-3 in which [[spoiler: Nótt is killed protecting Dagr from Fáfnir]]. Fans were very quick to mock this line for its [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] due to coming after such a tragic moment, and it's often used to illustrate how poorly integrated the summonable characters are in the story. And of course, all of this is helped by Vyland being a FountainOfMemes in his home game. [[/note]] |
| 90 | * "You can't win against Gharnef." [[note]]In the "Becoming the Master" Voting Gauntlet, Gharnef managed to [[UnderdogsNeverLose somehow]] pull a victory out of his ass against Legendary Lilina and Summer Leonie, which quickly led to people quoting this line from the original ''Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light'' game. The meme died as quick as it was formed, as Gharnef was defeated by Halloween Rolf in the final round. The meme came back with a vengeance as Gharnef reached the finals of the "Masters of Magic" Voting Gauntlet in May 2024, once again as an underdog, and this time he won the Gauntlet by defeating Brave Lysithea in the finals. [[/note]] |
| 91 | * Senator Maria [[VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance Armstrong]]. [[note]]Spring Maria has DamageReduction built into her weapon like many units, but unlike most DamageReduction that compares difference between unit/enemy stats, hers reduces damage by a fixed amount based on only her own stats -- a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] that ignores all anti-Damage Reduction skills since those only negate the ''former'' formula. With enough buffs from allies, Spring Maria is ''[[https://youtu.be/n91kH_MpuJs practically immune to physical damage]]'' if there isn't a Def-reducing Special involved (Luna, Lethality, etc.). The linked video is [[NotHyperbole not an exaggeration]], having gone off of an actual '''99x4''' damage forecast where GameBreaker Legendary Marth broke the damage scale, has color advantage, and activated his Special ''twice''; Spring Maria still took 0 damage.[[/note]] |
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| 94 | [[folder:Valentia (''Gaiden/Shadows of Valentia'')]] |
| 95 | * [[NamedWeapons Berkut's]] [[ICallItVera Lance]][[labelnote:Explanation]]When Berkut was added into ''Heroes'', players saw he came in with just a generic lance named after him and not his end-game weapon, the Kriemhild. This made many memes about the weapons name, which was made more of a meme when Clarisse came with a bow named after her as well, and it was furthered when Laevatein came in with her swords being named after herself. Generally seen by the community as a joking TakeThat at how disappointing the weapon tends to be, even if Berkut's Lance is considered good for fodder. The reveal of the Barrier Lance, which is pretty much the same in every way except name, certainly did not help matters. His refinement later in July 2020 did somewhat help to discredit this meme, however.[[/labelnote]] |
| 96 | ** Berkut himself is also the source of memes in regards to how [[LowTierLetdown poorly]] he was seen as a playable unit before his refine, but how good his Lance is, leading to many jokes about not foddering him off such as; "[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Berkut is friend, not fodder!]]". |
| 97 | * "Dong Armor for [=CYL3=]!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Following Brave Celica's design being based on her ''Gaiden'' appearance after Choose Your Legends 2, many players hope for Alm's brave variant to be based on his UnfortunateCharacterDesign seen in ''Gaiden''. Made even better when he actually won Choose Your Legends 3, making his Brave variant a guarantee, and his Legendary Variant being based on his Conquerer attire, narrowing the options of his Brave attire down more. Indeed, when [=CYL3=] rolled around, Alm's outfit was based on his ''Gaiden'' appearance.[[/labelnote]] |
| 98 | * Alm is just a Tomas alt.[[labelnote:Explanation]]A minor meme after Legendary Alm came out, in which fans noted that his art looked very similar to Tomas, an obscure ''Shadow Dragon'' character whose sole defining trait amongst the fandom is having absolutely no personality. Cue jokes about how normal Alm is just Tomas's sword alt, or how ''Tomas'' of all people got a Brave alt before more popular ''Shadow Dragon'' characters like Nyna even got into the game![[/labelnote]] |
| 99 | * Mila's art.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Upon Mila's debut on ''Fire Emblem Heroes'', many noticed that she [[NonStandardCharacterDesign wouldn't look out of place for a]] ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' game. This has led to multiple memes involving her artwork, especially her attacking pose.[[/labelnote]] |
| 100 | * '''[[UnexpectedCharacter BRIGAND BOSS?!]]'''[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Brigand Boss was a voteable option in Choose Your Legends, in spite of his total lack of character as a one-off early game boss fight in ''Shadows of Valentia.'' Naturally, a bunch of fans decided to vote for him for shits and giggles, actually getting him to place quite highly among the [=SoV=] cast. And then the trailer for Book VI, Chapter 9 dropped, revealing the ''Brigand Boss as a Grand Hero Battle.'' Needless to say, following the inclusion of Jorge and the Gatekeeper, the fanbase ''exploded'' in utter shock and amusement.[[/labelnote]] |
| 101 | * [=#DesaixSweep=][[labelnote:Explanation]] Starting in mid 2022, Website/{{Reddit}} user [=ChancellorDesaix=] began to post daily memes on several ''Fire Emblem'' meme and shitposting subreddits centered around Desaix, the relatively unpopular ArcVillain of the first two chapters of Alm's story, all for the purpose of raising his votes during that years [=CYL=] event so he could get into Heroes. Come Choose Your Legends 7 and the efforts to hype Desaix up would pan out, as the ironic following Desaix had was enough to not only win him the Rising Heroes award, but also resulted in him placing 3rd in the Valentia category and 80th overall (For the record, Choose Your Legends 6 had him 52nd in the Valentia section and 496th overall, which was a rise so dramatic that many thought bots were used). The effort [=ChancellorDesaix=] and Desaix's fanbase put in to rise him this far resulted in him being hyped up by the community as a whole, and though he was passed over for the [=CYL7=] Grand Hero Battle in favor of [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Cyril]], the fanbase at large still hope for him to get a spot on the next Valentia banner. [[/labelnote]] |
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| 104 | [[folder:Jugdral (''Genealogy of the Holy War'' and ''Thracia 776'')]] |
| 105 | * After the full list of results for the Choose Your Legend poll were released, fans quickly noticed that the lowest ranked hero was Glade from ''Thracia 776'', with a measly 17 VOTES to his name! [[ButtMonkey He has since been "crowned" the least favorite character]] in all of ''Fire Emblem''. |
| 106 | ** Vote Glade for Choose Your Legends 2018.[[note]]When the second Choose Your Legend event was revealed in January of 2018, many people began claiming people should vote for Glade so that he can become a MemeticBadass. While he didn't score highly, he DID manage to escape last place.[[/note]] |
| 107 | * Reinhardt: |
| 108 | ** Magic is everything![[note]]One of Reinhardt's Special quotes, and his most well-known one. It's often used to reference how frequently used and [[GameBreaker/FireEmblemHeroes oppressive]] he was in ''Heroes''[='=] early metagame. While he's sadly fallen off due to PowerCreep, no one, and we mean '''no one''' has forgotten just how much of an impact he had.[[/note]] |
| 109 | *** Magic ''isn't'' everything![[note]]The second version of Reinhardt released uses a sword and his reveal is accompanied with him saying "In battle, a Mage Knight should be equipped with more than just magic", almost as a way to make fun of his most famous line.[[/note]] |
| 110 | *** Dancing is Everything![[note]]When A Splendid Soiree was announced with Reinhardt as a Dancing flier with a brave weapon like his Dire Thunder in September 2019, players ''immediately'' embraced this phrase as a result.[[/note]] |
| 111 | ** Fans noticed that Regular Reinhardt's art has surprisingly tiny hands. It's fairly common to see Reinhardt referred to as some variation of "Tiny-Handed Man". |
| 112 | ** Smiling Reinhardt [[note]]Someone has [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DGvVxayXsAAiwtL.jpg edited]] Reinhardt's portrait with [=FaceApp=] to give him a smug grin, and it has been commonly used to depict him since in fan communities, usually to refer to his status as ''[=FEH=]'''s signature HighTierScrappy at the time. The meme saw a resurgance upon the reveal of Rearmed Reinhardt, whose art was also edited by applying the exact same grin in [=FaceApp=].[[/note]] |
| 113 | ** "I now use [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The]] Reinhardt" [[note]]After the reveal that Ayra was part of the Tempest Trials banner instead of being with the rest of the new ''[=FE4=]'' units, one Twitter user [[https://i.redd.it/c1l0r2u66tsz.png replied on the game's official Twitter]] that they will start using Reinhardt out of spite. Along with the claim that Arden and Ayra are causing a PowerCreep in the game, more and more are heralding Reinhardt as the game's savior after months of being the most disliked unit in the game in that he can instantly kill any red-unit in the game, including Arden and Ayra, with only a small handful of red-coloured enemies able to survive an attack from him. This can be substituted with 'The Lukas', since he's known for his uber StoneWall traits and being a Blue unit means that while the likes of Ayra could one shot [[GlassCannon Reinhardt]] in case they got lucky to get in range... not so much on Lukas. This meme made a resurgence when Ayra's refine managed to help her regain some of her glory days that were swept by power creep... only for Reinhardt's Resplendent version to be announced shortly after, with some fans joking that history repeated itself.[[/note]] |
| 114 | ** "I cannot stand the sight of [[GameBreaker Reinhardt]]."[[labelnote:Explanation]][[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Julius]] says this as one of his interactive quotes. It instantly became a meme due to the frequent use of Reinhardt in Arena. Even better, it turns out that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/8jhaig/julius_keep_his_promise_and_kill_every_reinhardt/ his unique Loptous tome allows him to tank and kill Reinhardt despite the color disadvantage.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 115 | * :D [[note]]Tailtiu's facial expression bears some resemblance to this emoticon.[[/note]] |
| 116 | * [[https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Arden Arden's...]] unique artwork has been received in some circles with a fair amount of horror. |
| 117 | ** Arden is a good boy.[[note]]Thanks to his role as a cheerful GentleGiant and his...[[FaceOfAThug quirky art style]], people often play up Arden as an innocent goofball who is just trying to do his best. This was encouraged a bit by the backlash surrounding Ayra souring some people's opinions towards Arden due to him being a free unit instead of Ayra, as Arden fans began to insist that no one should take their frustrations out on poor Arden [[MisBlamed because it wasn't his fault]].[[/note]] |
| 118 | * Eldigan and Fury 6[[note]]Eldigan in this game is sometimes characterized as very angry as the special upgrade for his Mystletainn weapon is a built-in Fury 3, which stacks with his base Fury skill (note that both Bartre and Hinata have the same upgrade on their refined weapons, but Eldigan was the first one to get it). It has some players hoping that a Sacred Seal for Fury comes out so that he can get ''extremely'' angry. As of the Tempest Trials event, [[SerialEscalation he can now get even angrier]].[[/note]] |
| 119 | ** Made even more relevant with the release of Fury 4 on Greil, allowing Eldigan to attain ''Fury 7''. |
| 120 | ** The meme reaches its peak with the release of the Fury Sacred Seal, allowing Eldigan to achieve '''''Fury 10!''''' |
| 121 | * Rich Homie Quan/"Hit the Quan!" [[note]]Nicknames/titles given to Quan after his inclusion to the game; after rapper Rich Homie Quan and the [[https://youtu.be/JrCUEjSzLAk song]] that was created by another rapper by the name of [=iLoveMemphis=] after the dance that Rich Homie Quan did in his music video for one of his songs.[[/note]] |
| 122 | * Leif, a side character of that Reinhardt game. [[note]]As Thracia 776 is one of the lesser known titles of the series and Leif being overshadowed by Reinhardt in many ways (such as the latter being a GameBreaker and getting two alts (one of them being Seasonal) before the former), Leif is often joked to be a side character instead of being the main lord of Thracia. Now considered a DiscreditedMeme due to Leif receiving a Legendary variant and that variant being one of the best {{Horse Archer}}s in the game thanks to his exclusive weapon, special, and Duel blessing to allow him to score higher in Arena modes.[[/note]] |
| 123 | * Lachesis'd[[note]]A go-to word to describe a character that used to be a great unit in the original game, but [[AdaptationalWimp was severely nerfed or looked too different than in their original game, but bottom line, they're no longer the uber unit they were before.]] The term Lachesis was used because Lachesis was the first and most egregious example of this: She used to be a great example of MagikarpPower, starting with the all-rounder JackOfAllStats Princess class, and then promoting into the all powerful Master Knight class. And in ''Heroes'', she's a ''ground healer'', and not even a particularly noteworthy one in regards to her statline and skillset. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Some were also rather offput by how the artstyle used for her portraits made her look more like a little girl than a dignified, taciturn princess.]] One that comes very close to this would be Lucius, who was a light magic user in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade his home game]], only to end up as yet another mediocre ground healer. An extension of this can be seen in the 'IS hates male wyvern riders' below, as a similar effect happened to many male wyvern riders.[[/note]] |
| 124 | * Seliph? Who's Seliph?[[note]]Seliph [[MemeticLoser unfortunately]] had a history of being shafted by IS (especially for alts), often to the point where people poked fun and said that Seliph doesn't exist. The joke began when there was no Jugdral alts for anyone, until soon came Legendary Julia (who got a Legendary version before her half brother and main Lord of the second half of the game), Fallen Mareeta, as well as Dancing Reinhardt and Ishtar (and by extension, Legendary Leif, despite him representing ''Thracia 776'' for that). The joke got a new breath of life when Fallen Julia was revealed in May 2020, where her pre-chapter battle quote stated that she couldn't remember Seliph. Much like the Leif example above, this is now considered a DiscreditedMeme come June 2020, where Seliph '''''finally''''' received an alt, and a Legendary one to boot.[[/note]] |
| 125 | * Arvis (examples include spoilers for [=FE4=]): |
| 126 | ** [[NeverLiveItDown Arvis's Best known feat]][[note]]To be exact his burning Sigurd and his party to death at the end of part one. Whenever he and/or Sigurd are mentioned, there will usually be some remark about it, like "Arvis's Barbecue". His English voice actor even lampshaded it in a [[https://twitter.com/XanderMobusVO/status/1047514273428135936 Tweet]].[[/note]] |
| 127 | ** Arvis did nothing wrong. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to Sigurd's status as a HighTierScrappy (having two top tier versions, one of which was the game's first cavalry dancer and the other being the meta-breaking Legendary Sigurd, the most dominating Aether Raids unit in the game's history) some players like to jokingly suggest that maybe Arvis's killing of him was actually pretty understandable.[[/labelnote]] |
| 128 | * Twin Brother Is Now Twin Sister![[note]]Larcei's brother originally was named [[Myth/CelticMythology Scathach, the female combat teacher of Cu Chulainn]], but then, when the ''Holy War'' characters were brought into ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'' Spotpass scenarios, his name was changed into Ulster. When ''Heroes'' was released, some of the name changes were reversed back to the original (eg: Raquesis back to Lachesis), but some like Larcei and Ulster remained the same as in Choose Your Legends. But shortly after the release of [=CYL4=] heroes, someone changed Ulster back into Scathach, as seen in the dialogues of Larcei and Shannan. This causes many people to think that Larcei's twin brother (whatever his name is) just had a change in gender (especially since Larcei didn't get reverted to her original male name Lakche/Luchtaine).[[/note]] |
| 129 | * SHE. DOESN'T. HAVE. FURY![[note]]A follow-up to the original game's "She. Has. FURY!" meme. When Erinys (original name: Fury/Ferry) was included into the game... she didn't come with any variant of Fury. But as unfortunate as it may, the [[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi Fawful]] quote cannot be repeated full force.[[/note]] |
| 130 | * Leif and friends went to Burger King but left Ares behind.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Many people noted the similarities between the crowns worn in the Scions of the Twelve seasonal banner and Burger King crowns, leading to a lot of joke fanart depicting them eating there. (Particularly from fans who were extremely happy to see Jugdral generation 2 finally get their own seasonal banner.) This banner also lead to many jokes pitying Ares, as he is part of a fan-popular trio with Leif and Seliph and fans had been wanting for him to get an alt, but he was left out so Nanna could be included instead as each character on the banner is supposed to represent one of the Twelve Crusaders and they both share Hothr holy blood.[[/labelnote]] |
| 131 | * Sigurd: |
| 132 | ** Sigurd has soup on head?[[labelnote:Explanation]]A newbie player [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/wkghxn/sigurd_has_soup_on_head/ posed this question to Reddit]], wondering why their Legendary Sigurd had a soupbowl accessory equipped on his sprite (likely automatically equipped by Forging Bonds for the extra event points). The innocence of the question and the way it's asked, and the cute goofiness of the image (not to mention the potential for referencing *other* popular Sigurd memes...) have caused Sigurd and soup to be associated in the fandom's hivemind.[[/labelnote]] |
| 133 | ** Sigurd's flat butt [[labelnote:Explanation]]Shortly after the reveal of a Sigurd alt on the ''Invitation to Tea'' banner, ''[[https://guide.fire-emblem-heroes.com/wp-content/uploads/siglud_proper_pourer_slide04.png his damaged art]] was revealed to the fanbase's amusement due to [[FemaleGaze its emphasis on his posterior]], which many noted to appear quite flat.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 135 | |
| 136 | [[folder:Elibe (''The Binding Blade'' and ''The Blazing Blade'')]] |
| 137 | * "You may wonder what I am doing, standing here, right now. I am waiting for time to pass—peacefully." [[note]]One of the things that King Zephiel can say when you talk to him on the home screen. Many fans have taken a shine to it, and consider it tradition to post a picture of the quote on social media while waiting for something involving the game, most notably during maintenance hours where the game can't be played at all.[[/note]] |
| 138 | * Narcian's ''hilarious'' damaged portrait has become a meme, and it's popular to draw fanart of other characters with that expression. |
| 139 | * Nino: |
| 140 | ** "I'll do my best! / Do my best!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Nino says this when selected on the maps or learning a skill. The fact that she's a fairly powerful unit means this line may be heard quite often. Her voice actress, Sarah Blandy, is aware of this memetic CatchPhrase and has taken to using it as a hashtag on Twitter whenever she brings up something related to Nino.[[/labelnote]] |
| 141 | ** "Bet ya didn't know that, did ya?!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]The release of Nino: Pale Flower came with that new memetic line (very similar to one of Felicia's memetic quotes), coming from one of her lines on the status screen (and featured in the "Scattered Fangs" trailer) where she says "A horse with wings is called a pegasus!" before it. It's used whenever Nino is brought up along with an [[CaptainObvious incredibly obvious fact]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 142 | ** "Nino? She's trash! Garbage! Human refuse!" [[note]]One of Sonia's quotes about Nino, which is quoted by some who have difficulty using Nino as a unit or are overall unsatisfied with her stats and overall performance.[[/note]] |
| 143 | ** "What if my belly gets cold?" [[labelnote:Explanation]] A bizarre line uttered by Nino in Book VII, Chapter 1-4 at the beginning of the chapter which quickly spawned jokes due to the sheer MoodWhiplash of the finale, similar to the Vyland situation above.[[/labelnote]] |
| 144 | * Lloyd is a meth addict. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Lloyd's art makes him look older and more haggard than he did in his home game, resulting in this joke.[[/labelnote]] |
| 145 | * Bartre appearing where he's least wanted or expected. He's been spotted in images appearing from colorless stones, the free Brave Heroes, and even other games such as ''VideoGame/PokemonGO'' and ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder''. |
| 146 | * Hector: |
| 147 | ** "Oho!"[[note]]One of Hector's selected phrases has dramatically grown in meme popularity, to the point where it's counted as Hector's unofficial CatchPhrase. Alternatively it's used in this form: ''"'Oho' intensifies."'' This later became an AscendedMeme, with Legendary Hector's 4+ stat level up quote starting with "Oho!" and the same thing is said during Brave Hector's 'Learn/Inherit Skill' quote.[[/note]] |
| 148 | ** [[MemeticBadass Hector]] always [[GameBreaker stays relevant]].[[note]]Hector is one of the few units added from the games launch that is always, regardless of PowerCreep, a strong unit that everyone wants. The fact he has one of the best A skills, great stats, and in general has the ability to improve with each new summoning focus, has made him a memetic badass for how relevant he has been. This leads to memes about how strong Hector is and how useful he is. This was taken even further after the reveal of a Quick Riposte seal - a skill which is built into Hector's weapon and the seal was initially considered to make him less relevant. As it turns out, giving Hector the seal was found to make him even ''more'' dangerous when combined with the right skills. It's to the point where the only characters able to reliably PowerCreep him... are his own Valentine's Day and Legendary counterparts. Predictably, his Brave variant is widely considered the best lance unit in the game by a good margin, to the point of displacing other lance armors to be below him. [[SerialEscalation and then Brave Hector got one of the best weapon refines.]] [[OverlyLongGag Then Halloween Hector (duo with Lilina) came around to break the game balance with the first Duo skill.]] Plus, even Launch Hector is still relevant years later thanks to ways of buffing his stats and access to the Berserk Armads. In summary, Hector isn't leaving the metagame any time soon.[[/note]] |
| 149 | ** "Armads."[[note]]During the Love Abounds event, the rest of the major Elibe characters show up to the event wielding typical event joke weapons. Hector?... He brings his legendary weapon. In-universe. His deadpan, straight delivery of the answer to being asked what he brought as a weapon became instantly memetic, helped by Hector being quite a FountainOfMemes already.[[/note]] |
| 150 | ** X Armads[[labelnote:note]]With Legendary Hector's unexpected release, alongside with his Thunder Armads, many fans states that for every new Hector released, a new Armads gets released as well, with some absurd ones from fans being Giga Armads, Sword Armads, Dagger Armads etc.[[/labelnote]] |
| 151 | ** Seductive "Oho"[[note]] One of Resplendent Hector's voice lines is a rather smooth variant of his memetic "Oho!"[[/note]] |
| 152 | ** Armored Bacon. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Hector, alongside Eliwood, Rebecca and Mark+Lyn, was one of the kid units of 2023, and he came with a new armor-exclusive special called Armored Beacon. Removing the e gives "Bacon", and as this is a new hot skill for armors, comments akin to "GET THE BACON!" ensued.[[/labelnote]] |
| 153 | * Lyn: |
| 154 | ** "The enemy!"[[note]]One of Brave Lyn's lines when she is selected has her say this, which, like Hector above, is being counted as her unofficial catchphrase. Bonus points for Lyn sharing a voice actress with [[VideoGame/Persona3 Fuuka]], who also had a tendency to say that exact line in battle.[[/note]] |
| 155 | *** "The enemy is everything!"/"Magic is the enemy!"[[note]]Brave Lyn is a meta-wise powerful ranged horseback unit just like Reinhardt. So their phrases often get combined to show off their [[GameBreaker "Gods of the Meta"]] credentials and that [[ComplacentGamingSyndrome you will have a hard time counting Arena battles where you're not fighting a team without any of them or both in it.]] Gets even more hilarious when a character named Linhardt who very much looks like a fusion between both characters is slated to appear in ''Fire Emblem: Three Houses''.[[/note]] |
| 156 | ** Legendary Lyn in Find and Vote. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Find and Vote Heroes was widely seen as an event where people could vote for units that had amazing skills to inherit, mostly because of the disappointingly random nature of the subsequent summon that this event would generate. However, while everyone expected a unit like Legendary Hector or Surtr to take the spot of the Green hero in the Find and Vote event, Legendary Lyn ended up stealing that place to everyone's confusion and shock. As the other three Find and Vote winners are very powerful, some people thought that getting Lyn in the special summoning banner of Find and Vote is unlucky.[[/labelnote]] |
| 157 | *** Speed Tactic won Find and Vote.[[note]]Many theorized that it was because Legendary Lyn was among the first heroes to appear on the Find and Vote Heroes starting screen and that many players, out of laziness or [[GuideDangIt ignorance that they could in fact make the screen scroll]], ended up picking her by default. In comparison to the other winners, she has nothing going for herself aside from the (at that time) rare Speed Tactic skill, hence the joke.[[/note]] |
| 158 | *** Also, as the Find and Vote banner is the first and so far only banner with yellow orbs, yellow orbs had been associated with Legendary Lyn. |
| 159 | ** Lyn's Alts/Lyn Emblem. [[note]]Lyn is notorious for having a lot of alts in Fire Emblem Heroes, currently having the second most alts out of all units behind Camilla with a total of nine so far: Normal, Bridal, Brave, Valentine's, Legendary, Summer, Ninja (duo with Florina), Flame Tribe, and Young (as the cheerleader for Mark, but since Mark doesn't have any voice lines, [[LoopholeAbuse she's arguably the more prominent of the two]]). This has been very controversial in the community, with many people complaining that Lyn has too many alts.[[/note]] |
| 160 | ** Wolt vs Lyn [[note]]During the Beach Battle Ballot, [[UnderdogsNeverLose Wolt defeated Lyn]] during Round 2, giving him a spot in the finals against Ursula, when most people didn't predict either of the boys (him and Helbindi) to even get past Round 1. For a comparison, Wolt is an [[MemeticLoser infamously weak unit]] in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBindingBlade'' and only has ''one'' mandatory line (which makes him extremely forgettable), while [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Lyn]] won first place in [=CYL1=], and has a bikini to boot, making people think that she would have easily beat Wolt. Memes ensue from this battle. He ended up losing against Ursula in the finals, which is still a better performance than what his reputation suggests.[[/note]] |
| 161 | ** Lyn's imaginary friend[[labelnote:Explanation]]2023's "child" banner featured Mark and Lyn as a Duo Hero...which was widely considered a strange choice, due to Mark being a near non-entity of a character who ''didn't even have a canon appearance'' before the reveal, and when combined with the fact that he's a HeroicMime who [[VoiceForTheVoiceless has Lyn speak for him]], [[LoopholeAbuse most people saw it as a transparent attempt to sneak Lyn into the banner without getting critcized for making yet another Lyn alt.]] As a result, jokes about Mark being an ImaginaryFriend, ghost or {{tulpa}} that only Lyn and her friends can see have become common among fans.[[/labelnote]] |
| 162 | * Lilina: |
| 163 | ** SAAAAAAAAD Lilina.[[note]]Thanks to a [[https://smgold.deviantart.com/art/Lilina-s-Insurance-715516059?ga_submit_new=10%3A1510927893 fanart]] of Lilina which contains happy and sad faces of her, the last two panels becomes easily exploitable to showcase good events and bad events and Lilina's reactions to it. [[https://i.imgur.com/CcJ45vI.png For example.]][[/note]] |
| 164 | ** If Lilina can get a legendary alt, then so can X.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Near the end of December 2020, Lilina was announced as the 26th Legendary Hero, and the fifth non-lord/avatar to do so, something that became [[BrokenBase very divisive amongst the fanbase]], despite her story relevance in ''The Binding Blade'', [[OlderThanTheyThink the fact that previous non-lord/avatar characters have already gotten one before]], and the game having very few main series lords left without a legendary alt ([[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Claude]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Sigurd]], and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Micaiah]]) at the time. However, in light of this, it did lead to many players making predictions of other non-lord/avatar characters getting Legendary alts (Especially if Lilina herself is taken into account), with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight Caeda]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Soren]], and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Xander]] being notable candidates. While this isn't a new thing, you're bound to here this line quite often every time there's a discussion about predicting the next legendary hero.[[/labelnote]] |
| 165 | ** [[ContentLeak Blue Dress Leak]][[note]]An alleged winter variant of Lilina in a blue dress was leaked in November 2021, and it was a source of discussion before being debunked once the actual lineup of 2021's winter banner was both leaked and revealed. However, it was still being talked and joked about by other players post-debunking before Lilina eventually got a bridal variant on May 2022, which actually depicts her in a blue dress, albeit with a faint red gradient. As a result, many joked that the Blue Dress leak was real all along.[[/note]] |
| 166 | * Roy's Legendary version has a couple: |
| 167 | ** Racist Roy.[[note]]When Roy’s Legendary version was released, he came with a skill called Human Virtue, with beneficial effects worded to specifically exclude Dragons and Beasts. This did not go unnoticed.[[/note]] |
| 168 | ** [[https://twitter.com/RayChase/status/1100294541750358016 IT'S LIT, FAM! *DAB DAB DAB DAB DAB DAB DAB DAB* #SquadGoals!]][[note]]Also during Legendary Roy's release, when Ray Chase (Roy's voice actor) posted Legendary Roy's full in-game artwork on Twitter, someone wanted to hear Ray Chase say "it's lit, fam" in Roy's voice. Ray Chase fulfilled their request and replied with the above tweet. Afterwards, the voice clip in question immediately became meme material.[[/note]] |
| 169 | * Eliwood's Legendary unit and his unique Vision of Arcadia skill[[note]]Grants attack and defense bonuses to the highest attack ally only if there's a beast or dragon unit on the team, essentially an inversion of Roy's Human Virtue[[/note]] caused an evolution of the above-mentioned Racist Roy meme, depicting Roy as going through teenage rebellion against his more progressive father, typically including Eliwood demanding that Roy apologize to Ninian. |
| 170 | * Fjorm and Fiora's Forging Bonds conversations have been a source of a lot of memes, notably because of [[{{Hypocrite}} Fiora calling Fjorm out because of her skirt being too short]]. People bemusedly link this moment to Fiora's Summer alt where she doesn't even wear a skirt at all to begin with. As well as this, people have jokingly called Fiora a [[SlutShaming slut shamer]], shutting down anything remotely lewd, or jokingly referred to as lewd, such as hand-holding. |
| 171 | * That one ? in the Log. [[note]]It's Larum. Due to her banner having just been randomly released without a story chapter, paralogue or even Tempest accompanying it, and her status as a dancer (the AI doesn't use dancers in randomly generated levels), and there being generally better dancer choices in [=PvP=], she's EXCEEDINGLY rare. As such, many players still have one ? Mark in their hero logs that isn't even a shadow, due to the inability to fight her or summon her.[[/note]] |
| 172 | * Kentucky Fried Fae [[note]]On top of the preexisting chicken jokes, this began circulating in response to Fae receiving a Legendary alt, which magnified even ''more'' upon the reveal of Resplendent Fae, with an outfit based on Múspell, of all things.[[/note]] |
| 173 | * ''Fire Emblem Heroes'' x ''VideoGame/MarioKartDoubleDash'' crossover. [[note]]When Elimine was revealed as a Mythic Hero, the internet lit up with ''Mario Kart'' references because Elimine's first and ''only'' appearance was not in a ''Fire Emblem'' title, but on a demo disc that came with ''Double Dash!!'' as a bonus, of all things. This led to ''Double Dash!!'' trending on Twitter. The devs were almost certainly aware this would be the response too, as Elimine inflicts a unique debuff called ''False Start''.[[/note]] |
| 174 | * '''Gee'''[[note]]During the June 2022 Feh Channel, Guy was confirmed to be one of the units to appear as a free unit in the Book VI Midpoint quests, but Feh pronunces his name in a similar manner to how she pronunced Camus'. Like Camus' case, almost nobody expected the name to be pronounced like that, as many thought it would be pronounced as just "Gai". Nonetheless, people had fun with it.[[/note]] |
| 175 | * With Noah's appearance in the fourth chapter of Book VII, Ouroboros, fans jokingly made comparisons to it and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3'', due to starring a character and group of heroes with the ''exact'' same names as them, with said group and the chapter both being called "Ouroboros". |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
| 177 | |
| 178 | [[folder:Magvel (''The Sacred Stones'')]] |
| 179 | * Ephraim: |
| 180 | ** [[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/222/718/bb5.png Ephraim's]] [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial suspiciously specific]] "[[http://i2.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/222/718/bb5.png Disgusting]]" quote about people spreading lies about him and his sister Eirika's relationship. It eventually mutated into a series-wide affair: [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7zocffW4AEDGWn.jpg:large for example]]. |
| 181 | ** X Siegmund[[note]]With Winter Ephraim's announcement, like Hector and his Armads, players say that whenever there is an Ephraim released, a new variant of Siegmund is released as well, the only outlier being his Brave variant, which is part of another meme in itself.[[/note]] |
| 182 | ** [=EphraimDev=] [[note]]A nickname that many fans give to Shingo Matsushita (the Nintendo director of Fire Emblem Heroes) based on [[https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/30/16227082/fire-emblem-heroes-interview-choose-your-legends this]] interview with him and Kouhei Maeda (The Intelligent Systems director of Fire Emblem Heroes), where he cited he was a huge fan of Ephraim. Generally, fans say something along the lines of "[=EphraimDev=] is at it again" whenever Ephraim is involved in any sort of way.[[/note]] |
| 183 | ** "I don't pick fights that I can't win." [[note]]The BadassBoast quote from Ephraim became a meme after Brave Ephraim [[UnderdogsNeverLose managed to beat all of the [=CYL5=] winners]], Brave Eirika, Brave Marianne, Brave Marth and Gatekeeper in the August 2021 Voting Gauntlet. It came back after the Voting Gauntlet of August 2023 where his Summer variant defeated Summer L'Arachel, Summer Ivy, and Summer Ymir in the Beachside Brouhaha, once again as the underdog.[[/note]] |
| 184 | * Myrrh: |
| 185 | ** [[http://68.media.tumblr.com/4b551a9afd982798634a808dd7f9784d/tumblr_inline_ol8an5ZkbN1r5298w_500.png The orbs... Please. Return them to me.]][[note]]A line said by [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones Myrrh]] to Selena, typically used after a bad summoning session.[[/note]] |
| 186 | *** [[https://i.redd.it/ohm0gd2am4c01.png A Reverse version has started to spread with the Summoner asking Myrrh to return the orbs]][[note]]Now that she can be summoned.[[/note]] |
| 187 | ** Whenever Myrrh is brought up in the context of ''Heroes'', expect a chain of "This way?" and "That way!" to follow, based on what she says when you select her on a map. |
| 188 | ** Halloween Myrrh is a cannibal/Halloween Myrrh eats women.[[note]]Halloween Myrrh's Skill Inheritance line is "Om nom nom! Thish candy ish deelishush!" Since the Hero you use as fodder disappears after inheriting a skill, some players noticed the [[ThatCameOutWrong implications of cannibalism]], with one going on an essay-long rant about [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/rt3o4v/seven_hundred_and_fifty_four_individual_characters/ how Myrrh is the most evil character in the franchise because she eats women.]][[/note]] |
| 189 | *** [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/v1aqsz/what_makes_a_legendary_hero/ Followed up with how '''her eating women''' is how she somehow justifies being a Legendary Hero]]. |
| 190 | *** If you're wondering why Myrrh is "eating women" specifically it's because the author of the two above linked rants is a huge fan of Beruka [[https://i.redd.it/zdujane6p8391.png and the anguish caused by the sight of her being completely powerless when fighting Myrrh led to the eventual public meltdowns.]] |
| 191 | * Due to his disheveled long hair and overall creepy attitude, fans have begun comparing Valter to Creator/TommyWiseau. [[Film/TheRoom2003 "Oh hai, Marth!"]] |
| 192 | * Knoll got robbed.[[note]]Once it was revealed that Eirika got a variant that has Gleipnir as her personal weapon, a lot of fans were REALLY displeased that she took a spot in the Sacred Memories Banner instead of Knoll, even though he is the supposed canon wielder of Gleipnir AND has plot-importance within the story.[[/note]] |
| 193 | ** Grado got robbed![[note]]A small continuation of the Knoll got robbed meme, whereas Brave Ephraim's weapon turned out to be Garm, which is also a Grado-based weapon and most likely would've been equipped by Duessel.[[/note]] |
| 194 | ** Feh got robbed too![[note]]During the January 30th Feh Channel stream, Feh was excited to eat her birthday cake. Unfortunately, as the video progressed, the Order of Heroes (and Effie) proceeded to eat her entire cake without her. Fans near universally joke as if this was a MoralEventHorizon for at least Effie (the first to try to eat the cake), sending her home as retribution.[[/note]] |
| 195 | ** Somewhat confirmed in that with Book 5's release, Knoll... was given a few generic skills and a generic tome. |
| 196 | * Orson: |
| 197 | ** Just Monica. [[note]]Orson, who was added as a Grand Hero Battle, had a ([[{{Necromantic}} dead]]) wife named Monica. People who also played ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'' were quick to match the syllables of "Monica" to "Monika", [[Memes/DokiDokiLiteratureClub who birthed her own "Just Monika." meme]].[[/note]] |
| 198 | ** Corpse Husband [[note]] Orson is sometimes called this (after the popular musician and internet personality Corpse Husband) due to his love for Monica even [[spoiler: when she is a resurrected corpse.]] Popularized by a video by FE [=YouTuber=] Pheonixmaster. [[/note]] |
| 199 | * "Congrats to Lyn for winning [=CYL5=]!" [[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke Lyn already won Choose Your Legends]]; this meme is about Brave Eirika when her art was revealed. As her hair was in a long ponytail and her hair color is very close to green, the fans ran with the joke that Lyn won Choose Your Legends twice.[[/note]] |
| 200 | * The Magvelpuff Girls[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Resplendent versions of Eirika, Tana, and L'Arachel all have their outfits related to the Ljosalfar in Book IV, leading to numerous comparisons of them to WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls.[[/labelnote]] |
| 201 | * Fomortiis: |
| 202 | ** Naga have mercy, [[MrFanservice Fomortiis is hot.]][[labelnote:Explanation]]The reveal of the Demon King Fomortiis as a Mythic Hero was met with lots of hype, with one side in awe of his loaded skillset, another side praising his incredible artwork, and the other side... being ''quite'' horny for the hulking muscular demon, even going so far as to nickname him "Formussy".[[/labelnote]] |
| 203 | ** [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants "AND THEN COMES A GIANT FIST!!"]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Fomortiis' main method of attack, be it directly from Ravager or via Fallen Lyon's Blood Tome, is to throw a massive punch at the foe.[[/labelnote]] |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Tellius (''Path of Radiance'' and ''Radiant Dawn'')]] |
| 207 | * Ike: |
| 208 | ** Ike the thot slayer.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Ike beat Camilla in the ''Choose Your Legends'' Voting Gauntlet. Camilla has a fanservicey design and lots of support. This has given Ike the nickname '''THOT SLAYER''', and memes focusing on the fight between them is called '''THOT SLAYED'''. Exercise caution using this one, though, as many people feel it feeds into SlutShaming and thus take offense to it. Additionally, due to this meme, people started discrediting another similar non-FE exclusive meme "BEGONE, THOT" out of disgust.[[/labelnote]] |
| 209 | ** Bike.[[note]]Brave Ike can be shortened into 'Bike', and thus fans like to add on bike jokes on him, like the [[https://i.redd.it/gmlmnbkkvhnz.png 'stole my bike']] joke from ''VideoGame/PunchOut''[[/note]] |
| 210 | *** Following naming conventions, Vanguard Ike has been named "Trike" or alternatively "Like" ('''L'''egendary '''Ike'''). |
| 211 | * Black Knight: |
| 212 | ** Burger King.[[note]]FanNickname of the Black Knight, as the initials "B K" match, and so Black Knight often gets to replace the Burger King, promoting burgers in joke arts, sometimes [[https://78.media.tumblr.com/6c0a3190e54ec5a37f5912d73bb1b898/tumblr_p2xgut5w8V1tuov15o1_1280.png even dragging along Gwendolyn]], since her Japanese name is 'Wendy', also similar with a fast food chain.[[/note]] |
| 213 | *** The $4 Burger King meal.[[note]]There's a bonus pack for $3.99 USD which includes 12 Orbs, 12 Stamina Potions, 12 Light's Blessings, and 1 5-Star Black Knight. People have compared it to a fast food combo, and deemed it a 'Burger King' meal because of the Black Knight.[[/note]] |
| 214 | ** [=#BlackKnightTweets=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Like Sothis, Hilda and Lysithea/Lute in 2019, 2020 and 2021 respectively, 2022 saw one of the current Winter Banner units take over for a while. To the surprise of many, it wasn't Cordelia and Selena (the Harmonic), nor was it Dorothea or Annette (the Fódlan girls)... but instead, the Black Knight got to take the reins! Yet again, like previous years, everyone was sad to see him go, and he left summon tickets in his wake.[[/labelnote]] |
| 215 | * Oliver saved us from the drought.[[note]]After a lack of new content for quite a while in January 2018, a new update was launched, starring characters from ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn''. [[{{Gonk}} Senator Oliver]] is among said characters as a Grand Hero boss. Combining his existing memetic EnsembleDarkhorse status with a new audience and hilarious damaged artwork that shows him in all his FanDisservice glory promptly led to him [[MemeticBadass being hailed as the savior]] of new ''Heroes'' content.[[/note]] |
| 216 | ** Oliver died for our sins.[[note]]Oliver's wounded sprite is apparently a 'serene' CrucifiedHeroShot and in combination of his memetic status makes him look like he's saving the players like UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}}.[[/note]] |
| 217 | ** Now an AscendedMeme, as Oliver's new personal tome features an animation of ''an angelic version of him with HolyBacklight, [[GoldAndWhiteAreDivine white robes]] and [[WingedHumanoid wings]] in the same pose, descending from the heavens to attack''. |
| 218 | * Micaiah: |
| 219 | ** Micaiah Fights Cancer. [[note]]With the advent of Aether Raids, the most common enemies that show up on defense teams are cavalry, such as Reinhardt, Brave Lyn and Veronica, and armors, such as Legendary Tiki, any form of Hector and Surtr. Micaiah in either of her variants has effective damage against both cavalry and armor, and as such is an exceptionally useful unit on any offense team. This trend continues with Micaiah's third variant, and in fact takes it up to eleven; between all three variants, Micaiah now covers the entire Weapon Triangle. With Bridal Micaiah, who's a colorless mage, it now allows a full Micaiah Emblem that always busts armors and horses, covering all colors as well. Legend Micaiah is, like her Bridal variant, a colorless armorhorsebuster, keeping the trend alive. Summer Micaiah is ironically on a horse herself, but like all of her incarnations before, is an armorhorsebuster.[[/note]] |
| 220 | ** Micaiah [[MemeticMolester groomed Sothe for marriage]].[[note]]Micaiah and Sothe were already a controversial pairing in ''Radiant Dawn'' because Micaiah was Sothe's ParentalSubstitute, which some believe makes their relationship feel too much like WifeHusbandry. When Micaiah and Sothe were revealed to have Bridal alts as a Duo unit, some people, whether jokingly or not, started calling her a child groomer.[[/note]] |
| 221 | ** Micaiah is a Pokemon Trainer.[[note]] A joke on the fact Creator/VeronicaTaylor voices Micaiah in Heroes and her most famous role of Ash and May from 4kids Pokemon anime fans had a field day with this fact.[[/note]] |
| 222 | * Zelgius, where's Alondite?[[labelnote:Explanation]] Around the time the "Battle with Fjorm" quests started, it seems that all iterations of Zelgius always had a weapon other than his own weapon, Alondite. Zanbato, Brave Sword+, Silver Sword+... This is taken even further in the Valentine Tempest Trials, [[ZeroEffortBoss in which Zelgius wields no weapon at all]]. This could not go unnoticed. Became HilariousInHindsight when Altina, the original wielder of Alondite and Ragnell, joined ''Heroes'', leading to further mutations that she stole back Alondite.[[/labelnote]] |
| 223 | * Soren's Harem[[note]]Given the popularity of Ike/Soren as a pairing, the fact that it is possible to build a team with Soren and three variants of Ike has not gone unnoticed by fans, with several jokes and fanart running with the idea. Made even more relevant with Soren's weapon refine, where his stats increase the more allies he is adjacent to. While Soren himself has received variants of his own since then, his Brave variant receives [Assign Decoy], which was demonstrated with Legendary Ike, thus giving a variant of the meme.[[/note]] |
| 224 | * "Wah!" [[labelnote:Explanation]] Halloween Mia says this incredibly awkwardly as she attacks. It's been compared to [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Waluigi]], and has become something of a catch phrase for her.[[/labelnote]] |
| 225 | * "You called me a dark god again!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Yune [[BerserkButton does not like]] being called a "dark god". Unfortunately, her Mythic affinity is ''Dark''. The {{Irony}} has not gone unnoticed by the fanbase.[[/labelnote]] |
| 226 | * [=*growl builds to a crescendo*=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]The subtitle for one of Bertram's special lines where he growls ferociously at his foe. Despite the growl itself being intimidating, the subtitle is so ridiculous that it was memed in ''seconds'', especially when similar special lines are not subtitled that way. This was changed in the "New Heroes & Ascended Idunn" update in Februrary 2022 to "Rrr-RAAAH!", to the disappointment of fans of the previous quote.[[/labelnote]] |
| 227 | * Bridal Mordecai [[labelnote:Explanation]]Mordecai's Flame Festival variant has him wear a white-haired oni mask on his head. Due to the way his artwork is facing, it greatly resembles a ''bridal veil'', leading to jokes at how Mordecai went to the wrong seasonal event, or that he is the best bride.[[/labelnote]] |
| 228 | * No items, Lucia only, Final Destination / 1v1 me, bro [[labelnote:Explanation]]Lucia's Queensblade disables so many effects in combat in reference to her Parity skill, and excludes both her and her opponent from getting any outside support from any allies, leading to people making comparisons to the whole "no items, Fox only, Final Destination" meme from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'', and how you'd have to 1v1 Lucia without ''any'' help.[[/labelnote]] |
| 229 | [[/folder]] |
| 230 | |
| 231 | [[folder:Ylisse (''Awakening'')]] |
| 232 | * Jokes about Winter Tharja only being able to move one space because she's [[ExposedToTheElements out in the snow]] while wearing [[{{Stripperific}} what amounts to lingerie]]. |
| 233 | * Dark Olivia[[note]]Created by this [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/6tpt09/i_decided_to_give_a_wo_dao_to_my_olivia/ post]] which led to an entire saga of Olivia's corruption to the dark side as a result of equipping the infamous Wo Dao.[[/note]] |
| 234 | * Robin's abs.[[note]]Specifically, Fallen Robin's abs, shown off rather blatantly in his "damaged" artwork. In spite of one of Grima's throwaway lines cursing his human host's frailty, Fallen Robin is rather shredded.[[/note]] |
| 235 | * "I'm being helpful!"[[note]]Branded King Chrom has an... interesting voice line for his special activation. [[/note]] |
| 236 | * Grima: |
| 237 | ** Grima the Babysitter[[note]]Due to Fallen Male Robin's powerful synergy with other dragon units thanks to his Ward Dragons skill, many jokes have sprung up depicting the Fell Dragon as a [[PapaWolf protective]] if reluctant babysitter to the younger looking manakete characters, particularly Fae. With the advent of armored dragons that weren't Male Grima, ''Female'' Grima also fell victim to this due to being a potential Guidance user to ferry the other dragons across the map.[[/note]] |
| 238 | ** Grima the '''Sole''' Colorless Legendary[[note]]Starting from Legendary Robin's release in late March 2018, she held the distinction of appearing on every Legendary banner that followed for '''9 months in a row''' due to there being no other Colorless Legendary Heroes. It wasn't until Eir (a Mythic Dagger unit) was introduced at the beginning of Book III that this finally stopped... but started again for Legendary Hero Remix banners, as Female Grima remains the only old Colorless Legendary that does not have a "Duel"-type blessing.[[/note]] |
| 239 | ** Submit to Grima[[note]]Both male and female Fallen Robin got hit hard with fanservice, leading to most posts with either of them having fans agree to join Grima due to looks alone. After the Halloween banner of 2020, this meme came back with a vengeance [[PopularWithFurries for obvious reasons]]. The meme returned once again in maximum overdrive in October 2022 with the reveal of Rearmed Female Grima sporting a ''very'' sexy design.[[/note]] |
| 240 | ** Grima has a sweet tooth[[note]]Starting from clever use of a username and a Friend Unit visit message, Legendary Robin (possessed by Grima) briefly had a meme of liking pudding, which some artists ran away with in addition to depicting her with general sweets. Come October 2020, Halloween Robin was introduced with a fondness for sweets, and her attempts to deny it are both miserable and hilarious. '''Yes, the BigBad EldritchAbomination of ''Awakening'' having a sweet tooth became an AscendedMeme.'''[[/note]] |
| 241 | * Morgan and Morgan, for the people.[[note]]A Bound Hero Battle featuring both genders of Morgan quickly spawned jokes related to the Morgan&Morgan company, usually accompanied with Downhill's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D36FqQ8cuo humoristic]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYtQXtUMWvQ montages]].[[/note]] |
| 242 | * The all females banner[[note]]Due to ViewerGenderConfusion of Libra (who is actually male), some players, especially those who did not experience ''Awakening'' yet, thought that the "Ylissean Travelers" banner was this when it was announced. Like in his home game, both his [[CrossDressingVoices voice actors]] (Creator/CindyRobinson and Megumi Yamato) being female and his [[DudeLooksLikeALady feminine appearance]] did not help quench the confusion.[[/note]] |
| 243 | * A few paralogues themed after ''Awakening'' have been subjected to memes: |
| 244 | ** Paralogue 69[[note]]The 2022 Day of Devotion event based on the ''Awakening'' cast landed on Paralogue 69. Being a festival modeled after Valentines, the duo being [[HoYay Chrom and Male Robin]], and the [[LOL69 meme involving the number]], players went wild with this.[[/note]] |
| 245 | ** Paralogue 97-2 [[labelnote:Explanation]]This paralogue's title being "[[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Worst Mistake of my Life]]" caused a resurgence to the meme of the same name, as aside from the usual warning about things like webpages having unpleasant and unexpected content, is also used as a reaction to something they immediately regret, such as downloading ''Fire Emblem Heroes''.[[/labelnote]] |
| 246 | * Vaike the forgotten[[labelnote:Explanation]]While other characters from ''Awakening'' have been steadily added to the game over the years, the fanbase noticed how the fairly popular Vaike ''still'' has yet to make an appearance even after nearly ''six'' years. The trailer for Rearmed Female Grima and Ascended Eir further kicked this meme into overdrive by adding in ''Phila,'' a rather forgettable minor character who quickly gets killed off in the story, instead of the much more recognizable Vaike, with Vaike being one of the five Awakening characters votable on Choose your Legends still not in the game after that banner, as well as being the last first-generation Shepard still absent after Kellam got on the 2023 Halloween Banner, making Vaike's absence all the more noticeable.[[/labelnote]] |
| 247 | ** Laurent/Validar/Excellus? Who's that? [[labelnote:Explanation]] Similar to the above meme, the remaining members of ''Awakening''[='=]s cast still not in ''Heroes'' have become straight up {{Memetic Loser}}s, being the last characters yet to be added of the game most likely to finish its core cast off first, thus making them the bottom of the barrel in terms of ''Awakening''[='=]s popularity, at least according to I.S. As such, memes making fun of these four for being forgotten are very common, though these memes were retired for Laurent and Validar when the Feh channel for the December 2023 New Heroes banner saw the release of Laurent as the four star focus and Validar as the Grand Hero.[[/labelnote]] |
| 248 | * Why didn't we get a Tempest Trial unit? [[labelnote:Explanation]] The 2023 Halloween banner would feature Kellam, making his ''Feh'' debut, as the Tempest Trial reward. Given his status as TheNondescript in his home game led to a widespread meme of the fanbase pretending that Kellam didn't even exist, this would immediately be carried over upon his reveal, with the fanbase acting as if the banner didn't give out a Tempest unit. |
| 249 | [[/folder]] |
| 250 | |
| 251 | [[folder:Hoshido/Nohr (''Fates'')]] |
| 252 | * [[http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/fireemblem/images/9/98/FEH_Yato.png/revision/latest?cb=20170216034712 The way the Omega Yato looks in this game]] inspires even more Corrin and corn comparisons. |
| 253 | * New Years Takumi and Soup jokes.[[labelnote:Explanation]]While Takumi's title is referencing how Miso soup is his favorite food, many people immediately linked it to the soup conversation in ''WebVideo/CodeMent''. Why? Thanks to this [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=surFHQYsh_E video]] that came out about two years before.[[/labelnote]] |
| 254 | * Warrior Princess.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Hinoka, Blue Sky Warrior, has her own bow named "Warrior Princess". While the naming was not met with the highest of praises, it did spawn edits of Hinoka firing herself as an arrow, as her original version was known as "Warrior Princess".[[/labelnote]] |
| 255 | * "I'm Siegbert!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Each of the children characters from ''Fates'', with the exception of the Kanas, Selkie and Velouria, have a voice line in which they say their own name upon being selected on the map, [[MythologyGag a nod to how their fixed parents have voice lines saying their childrens' names in order to avoid pronunciation problems]]. These lines were deemed to be some of the most obnoxious in the game, Siegbert's in particular, due to how the line is said, being mocked to high heaven.[[/labelnote]] |
| 256 | * The Transfiguration of Odin Dark![[labelnote:Explanation]]Odin's ''ridiculous'' tier jump in the September 12th, 2018 Gamepedia tier list update (from B, which was the lowest of any blue mage except Ursula, to S-, with only Bridal Ninian, a flying dancer, and Love Abounds Lyn, an armored mage, being higher tier) thanks to his exclusive weapon.[[/labelnote]] |
| 257 | * Fury Master[[labelnote:Explanation]]While Hinata is only an average unit compared to many other sword infantry heroes, he is more desired to summon strictly for his A skill Fury 3 (+3 in all stats for 6 damage recoil after a battle) for skill inheritance, which he has unlocked at four star rarity, while others who have the skill requires them to be at five star rarity, being expensive for players who want Fury 3 but did not summon any Hinatas to fodder off. This was later acknowledged in ''Webcomic/FireEmblemHeroesADayInTheLife'', where in Chapter 10 the summoner calls him as such, instead of his actual name. This has become even more relevant now that Hinata's personal weapon can be refined with the Fury 3 effect, making him one of 3 units (alongside Eldigan and Bartre) to be able to essentially have Fury 6.[[/labelnote]] |
| 258 | * NEVER FORGET THAT YOU CHOSE THIS PATH. YOU CHOSE DEATH AND DEFEAT. YOU CHOSE DOOM.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Garon's intro to his Grand Hero Battle is taken from ''Birthright,'' where he says this as a blight dragon. With just his normal portrait, it turns into extreme {{Narm}}. As a result people have been using this as a response to people doing something that they'll end up regretting later, whether they're aware they will or not.[[/labelnote]] |
| 259 | * Drunk Kagero [[labelnote:Explanation]]Upon seeing Halloween Kagero revealed, many were confused as to why she is an armor unit in spite of wearing a maid outfit that was exactly the same as Felicia and Flora's. After considering the bottles of booze she carries in a bucket of ice and uses as her weapon, fans immediately claimed that she was drunk, describing how she frequently goes into drunken rants about how her base Infantry self had gotten grossly powercrept, and that she had returned with a vengeance as a coveted Armor unit with a high BST, strong weapon, and powerful skills.[[/labelnote]] |
| 260 | * The Cult of Dreams[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to the dissonant sincerity of all the characters about dreams in the banner trailer, as well as all of them wear near-identical white clothing, players believe that all of them joined a cult, lead by [[spoiler:Anankos]]. [[FridgeHorror Given that who lead this cult actually did something similar to this in canon...]][[/labelnote]] |
| 261 | * Camilla the Hoshidan[[labelnote:Explanation]]Despite being Nohrian, Camilla has 4 of her versions be in the Hoshidan-primary banners "Happy New Year!", "Adrift", "Hostile Springs", and "Wyvern Ninja" lineups, which led to jokes about Camilla secretly being Hoshidan as well.[[/labelnote]] |
| 262 | * Camilla's alts/Camilla Emblem.[[labelnote:Explanation]]With the most alts of all units, Camilla holds ten alts so far: the base Camilla, Spring, New Year, Summer, Adrift, Hot Spring, Brave, Pirate (albeit as the cheerleader for Hinoka), Ninja Wyvern, and Legendary. This has also been very controversial among the community, especially for those who wanted a stop to Camilla alts, yet managed to give her 2nd place in CYL 3, giving another alt.[[/labelnote]] |
| 263 | ** Corrin Emblem.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Similarly, Corrin has the most alts in the entire game, with a total of fourteen: both the base male and female Corrins, Summer Female Corrin, New Year Male Corrin, Adrift variants of both, both variants of Fallen Corrin, Legendary Female Corrin, Ninja variants of both, Halloween variants of both, and Brave Female Corrin. Like Camilla and Lyn, Corrin was criticized for having too many alts.[[/labelnote]] |
| 264 | *** "But Male and Female Corrin are separate characters!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]A common argument against people who don't like Corrin (and by extension Robin) alts.[[/labelnote]] |
| 265 | * Corrin's refine [[labelnote:Explanation]]Despite being a mediocre unit since launch, requiring a LOT of skill inheritance to use her, and having been powercrept by later dragons, she still doesn't have a personal refinable weapon, despite many other less-relevant units and even some newer units having gotten access to them over time. Being the ONLY main protagonist ever released without a legendary weapon makes it even more jarring. The meme was put to rest on July 2020, when the 4.7.0 update finally gave a personal weapon and refine for Female Corrin. [[/labelnote]] |
| 266 | ** Azura's refine [[labelnote:Explanation]]For similar reasons as Corrin, Azura has been highly requested for a weapon refine since day one, and not been given one even years after refines were introduced, leaving her stuck with ether her useless Saphhire Lance, or needing another weapons entirely. Any time a new batch of refines are announced, various memes or comments will point out how badly she needs it.[[/labelnote]] |
| 267 | * Bright Naginata+[[labelnote:Explanation]]Shiro's personal weapon consistently gets powercrept hard by new, inheritable variants that feature superior effects or a refine that makes them offensively stronger, which has fans often demand that Shiro get a refine to catch up again with the competition.[[/labelnote]] |
| 268 | * "Fallen" Corrin[[labelnote:Explanation]]The "Darkness Within" banner is a follow up from previous year's Fallen Heroes, which features characters under some in-universe demonic possession. However, Female Corrin is featured in this banner despite not being possessed at any point of Fates' story. Instead, her Fallen alt is based on the chapter where she went berserk at the loss of her mother.[[/labelnote]] |
| 269 | ** "Fallen" Corrin has a stomach problem.[[labelnote:Explanation]]The way this Corrin is drawn makes it look like she is sick, and not in a feral state like how she seemed to be trying to convey. This becomes more apparent when compared to how Male Fallen Corrin is drawn. Combined with how she almost looks like she is holding her stomach, people often joke she is just not feeling well. She can be put together with Brave Celica's injured art as the Indigestion Duo.[[/labelnote]] |
| 270 | * Much like Valter in ''Sacred Stones'' above, Iago also came with disheveled hair, thus people saw him as the second coming of Creator/TommyWiseau. [[Film/TheRoom2003 "O hai Marx!"]][[labelnote:Explanation]]Xander's Japanese name[[/labelnote]] |
| 271 | * Worth waiting 25 turns [[labelnote:Explanation]]Toward the end of April 2021, Legendary Ryoma was announced to be receiving some new skills. On top of that, a few days later, IS announced they would be giving refines to all of the Book 1 weapons with built-in Distant Counter, Raijinto included. Since this means Legendary Ryoma is getting a total of ''three buffs in one update,'' people began comparing it to the infamous "waiting 25 turns" meme from his boss fight in ''Conquest'' -- except this time they said it was well worth the wait.[[/labelnote]] |
| 272 | * Kaden: [[ShapedLikeItself Kaden]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Kaden, who should have "Kitsune Braggart" as his title, was typoed as "Kaden: Kaden" during an upcoming skill banner (compared to Brave Camilla and Lilith, who had their actual titles with them).[[/labelnote]] |
| 273 | * Charlotte ''finally'' gets to remove her wedding dress![[labelnote:Explanation]]After nearly ''5 years'' of Charlotte only being playable in her Bridal variant, her original version was ''finally'' announced to be summonable in Book V, Chapter 9's story banner alongside Nyx, Orochi, and Nifl, much to the universal delight of players who've been playing since the start.[[/labelnote]] |
| 274 | * Xander Sweep[[labelnote:Explanation]]Legendary Xander, while being a long awaited alt for his fans, was one of the worst selling banners of 2022, even lower than the former bottom man Ótr. The fact that he was released recently after the ''extremely'' popular Summer Dimitri, has the ''exact same unit type and statline as him'' (both being axe cavalry units), and most of his bannermates not being very popular picks likely contributed to this. Jokes were immediately made in the same air as Film/{{Morbius|2022}}.[[/labelnote]] |
| 275 | * Godlike Reflexes Laslow[[labelnote:Explanation]]The SpiritualSuccessor to Def Ploy Est, Gamepress's tier list update on September 2022 had Laslow jump up to ''Tier 1'' of all things, with the new Special Godlike Reflexes being stated as the reason. This somehow meant that Laslow was on par with juggernauts like ''Summer Edelgard and Legendary Sigurd.'' While Laslow and his refined Prf weapon is considered quite great for a Year 1 unit, he still requires a lot of investment and support to make it work well. Unsurprisingly, players reacted with a mix of amusement and annoyance.[[/labelnote]] |
| 276 | * You are my child now.[[labelnote:Explanation]]Much like Grima before him, Garon is jokingly referred to as a doting father/grandfather to his many adoptive dragon children due to his weapon making him immune to the normal effects of anti-dragon effective damage, and as a result making him a good check against them on dragon compositions.[[/labelnote]] |
| 277 | [[/folder]] |
| 278 | |
| 279 | [[folder:Fódlan (''Three Houses'' and ''Warriors: Three Hopes'')]] |
| 280 | * Byleth has been hit with quite a few memes since the release of the first ''Three Houses'' banner: |
| 281 | ** The Creator Sword. [[note]]Byleth's weapon from the ''Three Houses'' banner ''completely nullifies'' all of an enemy's skills affecting follow-ups '''and''' special acceleration/blocking, making it arguably one of the most powerful weapons in the entire game. People then started making the description more absurd and sometimes even as overpowered as [[PurposelyOverpowered Feh's Talons]], an AprilFools joke.[[/note]] |
| 282 | ** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind This is...Requiem.]][[labelnote: Explanation ([=JoJo part 5 spoilers!)=]]]Creator Sword nullifies a ''massive'' amount of skills considered to be essential to most units, much like how Gold Experience Requiem can nullify any actions its enemy would have made. Considering that the episode featuring Gold Experience Requiem was animated only a little bit before Byleth was revealed, comparisons and memes ran rampant almost instantly, including snowclones of [=GER=]'s quotes such as "You will never reach your special".[[/labelnote]] |
| 283 | ** No. [[note]]Speaking of the Creator Sword's nullifying skill, some others just say that it nullifies just about ''everything''.[[/note]] |
| 284 | *** In a similar vein, people have started referring to it as [[NoYou No U: the weapon]]. |
| 285 | ** Racist Byleth [[note]]Like Legendary Roy and Human Virtue, both versions of Byleth come with a new skill named Ruptured Sky, which boosts the attack of the user by 20%, or 40% if the user is against a beast or dragon opponent. Unlike Human Virtue, Ruptured Sky isn't exclusive, however, but since Byleth was the first unit to have this skill, they were called racist. It got worse with Byleth's Legendary version having Sundered Heaven, which is a stronger variant of Ruptured Sky.[[/note]] |
| 286 | ** Random Bullshit '''GO!!!''' [[note]]Legendary Byleth's Special attack animation involving him summoning a gust of wind that also carries along the various lost items of the students and faculty of Garreg Mach. Fans were quick to meme about the silliness of a finishing move tossing random junk at an opponent, as well as the similarity to a comic panel from ''ComicBook/MoonKnight''.[[/note]] |
| 287 | * Edelgard: |
| 288 | ** The fact that Edelgard's skillset makes her at her strongest when no allies are nearby has spawned even more edgelord jokes. Carries over to her Legendary version, which comes with multiple skills that work when she isn't near an ally. |
| 289 | *** Edelgard practices social distancing [[note]]In light of the COVID-19 pandemic plaguing all around the world, people are encouraged or requested to maintain distance from others in order to minimize the virus from spreading. Legendary Edelgard was released around the same time the virus went at large with a kit that heavily encourages her to be nowhere near her allies, leading to jokes she's simply following common real-life procedures.[[/note]] |
| 290 | *** Edelgard stuffs her bra [[note]]Whilst Edelgard in ''Three Houses'' is relatively flat-chested, Brave Edelgard in ''Heroes'' is given a FanservicePack by artist Cuboon, including prominent [[ChainmailBikini Boob Plate]]. This has led to jokes about how someone as lacking in assets as Edelgard can't possibly be filling out that armour naturally.[[/note]] |
| 291 | ** [[MemeticLoser Curse of Edelgard]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Since 2020, Edelgard has become infamous for always losing in each ''A Hero Rises'' Voting Gauntlet, with none of her variants going past the first round no matter how high any of them ranked, thus becoming a running gag in the fandom. The 2023 edition is especially a one two punch for her, with both her summer (With AHR 2020 winner Altina) and fallen variants losing to Legendary Veronica and Ninja Camilla respectively.[[/labelnote]] |
| 292 | * Dimitri: |
| 293 | ** "No matter what the reason, it is evil to kill. I cannot forget that so easily." [[labelnote:Explanation]]The reveal line for Dimitri in the ''Three Houses'' banner became HilariousInHindsight as almost everybody knew that he, after the time skip, plans to [[Memes/FireEmblemThreeHouses kill every last one of them]], clearly contradicting that line.[[/labelnote]] |
| 294 | ** "Buy my father's lance!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of Brave Dimitri's special activation quotes is "By my father's lance!", which you'll likely be hearing a lot considering how powerful his Brave version is, especially after he recieved his refine. It eventually evolved into a joke about Dimitri trying to sell the lance to everyone.[[/labelnote]] |
| 295 | * Fallen Claude[[labelnote:Explanation ('''SPOILERS!''')]]The reveal of fallen versions of Dimitri, Edelgard, Rhea, and Female Byleth, all of which are based on either them after their TraumaCongaLine (Dimitri), driven mad via transformation/DemonicPossession (Edelgard, Female Byleth in ''Three Hopes''), or lost control of themselves (Rhea), have led to a joke Fallen variant of Claude, except it's him having [[PunnyName fallen off of his wyvern]]. It helps that in ''Three Houses'', he's the OnlySaneMan of the main game house lords, and at no point has anything bad happen to him.[[/labelnote]] |
| 296 | * Sothis: |
| 297 | ** Sothis and large objects. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Sothis' regular art depicts her sitting on her throne and a giant sack for her regular and winter versions, respectively. This leads to jokes about Sothis hauling them around the map.[[/labelnote]] |
| 298 | ** #[=SothisTweets=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]For a day in the Fire Emblem Heroes Twitter, Winter Sothis took over Feh's role announcing the news, leading up to a distribution of summoning tickets to the three Christmas banners as her gift. Sothis quickly became a meme in the community, with some people being sad that she had to leave the Twitter.[[/labelnote]] |
| 299 | ** Sothis took over FEH [[note]]As of the April 2nd, 2020 edition of Feh Channel, Creator/CassandraLeeMorris, who is also Sothis' English voice actress, now voices Feh in the English version. This led to many fans to state that Sothis did not have enough with taking over the official Twitter account and now has become the game's mascot[[/note]] |
| 300 | ** Local time gremlin found dead, Nemesis denies all involvement [[labelnote:Explanation (Three Houses spoilers!)]]Sothis got her weapon refine added to the game with the September 6, 2022 version update, and fans were shocked to find that it was ''extremely'' [[PowerupLetdown underwhelming]] (It grants her +4 to each of her stats and a 40% damage reduction to the first attack she receives as long as she starts combat with her HP over 25%...and that's all) when everyone else had refines that were ''[[GameBreaker utterly bonkers]]'' (Brave Edelgard, Brave Dimitri, Brave Claude), [[BalanceBuff helped them fulfill their role better]] (Brave Lysithea, Legendary Julia), or [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap rescued them from]] LowTierLetdown status (Haar). Fans joked that IS left Sothis to die, and with Nemesis, who was her killer in the original game, [[NotMeThisTime denying all responsibility for killing her a second time]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 301 | ** Time gremlin is back and she's pissed [[labelnote:Explanation (Major spoilers for Three Hopes!)]] Early May of 2023 saw the release of the annual 'Fallen Heroes' banner, and one of the summonable heroes was Female Byleth from ''Three Hopes''; more specifically, from the moment where Sothis takes full control over Byleth's body to exact her vengeance on Shez. Due to how absolutely ''[[GameBreaker busted]]'' Fallen Byleth is as a unit, fans took this as Sothis getting revenge for her underwhelming remix several months prior.[[/labelnote]] |
| 302 | * The winners of [=CYL4=] are Dimitri, Claude, Edelgard, and Female Byleth. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to their massive popularity, some people expect the four of them to win [=CYL4=] against others with large fanbases like ''Awakening'' Anna and Marth. The prediction turned out to be 75% accurate, since Female Byleth got 7th place (4th place for females) and the 2nd place spot was taken by [[BlackMagicianGirl Lysithea]]. Female Byleth however, did eventually win, during [=CYL6=].[[/labelnote]] |
| 303 | * Seteth: |
| 304 | ** How hard is IS going to ruin Seteth? [[note]] Fans have expressed their worry about how underwhelming of a kit Seteth could possibly receive due to how many male wyvern riders from Grand Hero Battles having received one in the past. Now HilariousInHindsight when the Goddess's Servants banner would feature Seteth as a demote, who tend to be underwhelming units. However, said banner would also give him his Spear of Assal, which boosts the Atk and Spd of him and his allies, as well as neutralizing any Atk and Spd bonuses on the foe as long as he's near said allies, and he gets a decent base kit with Brazen Atk/Spd and Drive Atk. As such, while he isn't supremely overpowered, he also wasn't completely ruined, making him a pretty good supporting unit that can also put up a fight, and is seen by many as a great unit by demote standards.[[/note]] |
| 305 | ** Buff Seteth [[labelnote:Explanation]] Fans were quick to note upon Seteth's release that [[https://twitter.com/marhvee/status/1316960977007554561 his art]], in particular [[ClothingDamage his damaged art,]] shows him to have ''quite'' the HeroicBuild. [[AllWomenAreLustful Certain]] [[BaraGenre fans]] took this and ran away with it, sometimes cranking his musculature up.[[/labelnote]] |
| 306 | * Due to how his art shows him with two drinks, but his injured art shows only one, Summer Sylvain quickly became the source of memes as people edited him to appear like he was having his drink thrown back at him. |
| 307 | * The Azure Moon Gauntlet [[labelnote:Explanation (Spoilers!)]]The Brave Reprisal Voting Gauntlet in September 2020 has the candidates be the three house leaders go up against each other, with Brave Claude knocked out in the second round by Brave Dimitri, and the final round ending with Brave Edelgard and Brave Dimitri going up against each other, with the final rounds with the multiplier in Dimitri's favor, even though he has the lesser support at the beginning of the final round. Naturally, this has been compared with the Azure Moon route in ''Three Houses'', where Claude was defeated in Gronder Field by Dimitri and later retreats to Almyra, and the ending with Dimitri kills Edelgard in self defense at the end of the Azure Moon route. Even the last cutscene was jokingly used to describe the final hour of that Voting Gauntlet.[[/labelnote]] |
| 308 | * Winter Bernadetta's attack animation has her conjure up a house to shut herself inside in, letting the raging blizzard deal with her enemy instead. Comparisons were instantly made to other media where houses were deadly or played a major role, such as [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII the Hell House]], or building in VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}. |
| 309 | * [=#HildaTweets=] [[labelnote:Explanation]] Like in 2019, someone else took over Feh's Twitter in December 2020, namely Hilda. Like Sothis, this event eventually lead to another summoning ticket giveaway, and people were eventually sad when she left.[[/labelnote]] |
| 310 | ** Feh's [=DMs=][[labelnote:Explanation]]Just before [=HildaTweets=], Fire Emblem Heroes reminded people that regardless of the DM function being open, the staff won't respond to sent [=DMs=] regarding Fire Emblem Heroes matters, leading up to an event where Hilda and other Three Houses characters gave cards to people via the DM feature. This eventually got people to get creative with their [=DMs=] to Feh and/or Hilda, requesting various stuff, sending them memes, or [[ExactWords asking completely unrelated questions]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 311 | ** During Hilda's time in the Twitter, there have been many people commenting in her posts about rather NSFW requests regarding her. |
| 312 | * Bravekeeper [[labelnote:Explanation]]Choose Your Legends 5 introduced the [[Memes/FireEmblemThreeHouses Gatekeeper]] as a unit that can be voted. Thus, many players voted Gatekeeper for the meme, eventually propelling him to win [=CYL5=].[[/labelnote]] |
| 313 | ** Gatekeeper has something to report! [[labelnote:Explanation]]A variation on the Gatekeeper's catchphrase, referencing his popularity in [=CYL5=].[[/labelnote]] |
| 314 | ** Gatekeeper brought the entire gate with him. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Gatekeeper's regular art goes the extra mile. Rather than just having him standing, he has the gate of Garreg Mach Monastery behind him and he's surrounded by several animals that roam the monastery. Better yet, his weapon, Charging Horn ''summons the gate'' for his attack.[[/labelnote]] |
| 315 | * Dedue: "No."[[labelnote:Explanation]]Dedue's very basic simple quote which was used as a [[PreAsskickingOneLiner Critical Quote]]. It finds use in a lot of ridiculous manners, being considered one of the most absurdly best critical quote ever.[[/labelnote]] |
| 316 | * Leonie is top tier. [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of Summer Leonie's quotes is proclaiming she's top tier. Naturally this lead to people quickly making tier lists and placing her at the top, or making gameplay tier lists and putting her at the top. Ironically enough, Summer Leonie is, at the time of her release, one of the best non-Legendary/Brave/Mythic archers, so in a sense she is right.[[/labelnote]] |
| 317 | * Marianne: "Is this a mount?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Marianne's weapon gives her extra boosts if she's within three spaces of a flying of cavalry ally, meant to reference her affinity for caring for animals. Trouble is, this also works for flying and cavalry units whose mounts don't need to be [[{{Magitek}} living beings]]... [[PowerFloats or even exist]].[[/labelnote]] |
| 318 | * [=#LysitheaLuteTweets=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Again, the Twitter page for the game was taken over by a ''Three Houses'' character in 2021, this time being Lysithea (and Lute, as they were a Duo Hero). And again, there was a ticket giveaway and again, people were sad when they left.[[/labelnote]] |
| 319 | * Game Boy Popsicle [[labelnote:Explanation]]Summer Claude's weapon, shown by his art, is literally a popsicle. However the coloration of it as well as the angle at which Claude holds it makes it look so much like an original Game Boy that [[https://twitter.com/JoeZieja/status/1537109982482685957 even his VA can't unsee it.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 320 | * "Shez was three months ago..."[[labelnote:Explanation]]The unveiling of Legendary Female Shez left many players in shock, because both Shezes were added to the game three months prior, making this the shortest time gap between a non-OC character getting added to the game and getting a Legendary variant. Because of this, this line, or any variant of it, was uttered upon reveal.[[/labelnote]] |
| 321 | * Racist Santa/Grumpy Santa [[labelnote:Explanation]]The second part of Dedue's Forging Bonds storyline features Felix disparaging Dedue for his UndyingLoyalty towards Dimitri, then implicitly calling the Duscurians violent when Dedue stands up for himself. This scene quickly became [[NeverLiveItDown infamous]]: not only were fans of Felix enraged by his depiction as an icy, borderline-racist bully, but the larger fanbase found the scene hard to take seriously due to Felix being dressed in a Christmas outfit (due to his only playable appearance at the time being in 2020's Christmas banner), making what should have been a tense confrontation look more like Dedue was being insulted by an angry MallSanta.[[/labelnote]] |
| 322 | * Free Beast Units [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Ingrid in her ''Three Hopes'' design was revealed to be a Rearmed Hero in April 2023, her Arcane weapon was shown to be a variant of her Hero's Relic, Lúin. However, in ''Three Houses'' lore, [[OnlyTheChosenMayWield anyone without a Crest who tries to wield a Hero's Relic is turned into a Demonic Beast]] instead. Even though [[GameplayAndStorySegregation this never happens to playable units]] in either of the Fódlan games or ''Heroes'', many players immediately began joking that inheriting Arcane Lúin will turn its recipient into a Beast unit to keep consitent with its lore.[[/labelnote]] |
| 323 | [[/folder]] |
| 324 | |
| 325 | [[folder:Elyos (''Engage'')]] |
| 326 | * Chloé wants Gullveig for dinner. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Chloé from Fire Emblem Engage has [[BizarreTasteInFood strange tastes in food]], including deep fried snakes. Given that Book VII’s main villain [[GorgeousGorgon has snakes in her hair]], it’s joked that Chloé wants to cook and eat her.[[/labelnote]] |
| 327 | * Engage with me, Marth- '''''Caeda would like to know your location.'''''[[labelnote:Explanation]]The Forging Bonds introducing the ''Engage'' characters has Alear attempt to "engage" with the actual Marth, to his very understandable confusion. Given how the term "engage" already has some [[ThatCameOutWrong flirty undertones to begin with]], this led to jokes about a ''very'' angry Caeda hunting Alear down for daring to make a move on her husband.[[/labelnote]] |
| 328 | ** ''Alm/Deirdre/Nanna/Lilina/Florina/Ephraim/Soren/Sothe/Chrom/Camilla/Edelgard would like to know your location.''[[labelnote:Explanation]]The meme promptly expanded to include the angry reactions of the characters particularly close to the Emblems, chasing Alear down for trying something funny.[[/labelnote]] |
| 329 | * DRAGON BLAST[[labelnote:Explanation]]August 2023 saw the release of Legendary Alear, who came with a unique special named Dragon Blast. The special's name quickly resulted in a cornucopia of "[[WebVideo/RealTimeFandub Biden Blast]]" jokes, helped along by the special's animation featuring a glowing white orb that looked similar to Rayquaza's attack.[[/labelnote]] |
| 330 | * [=#FEHZappyHolidays=] and [=#YunakaWasHere=][[labelnote:Explanation]]Winter 2023 heralded another round of FEH Santa, much like Sothis, Hilda, Lysithea/Lute and Black Knight in prior years. This time, playing off one of her catchphrases and the phrase "Happy Holidays," Yunaka took the reigns. Unlike previous years, however, Yunaka did ''not'' give the players free tickets, [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks much to the fanbase's disappointment from being given what they thought were a set of mediocre gifts.]][[/labelnote]] |
| 331 | * Engage Sweep[[labelnote:Explanation]]Due to being excluded from [=CYL7=] and by virtue of being the latest ''Fire Emblem'' game in the series, practically everyone expected all four of the winners of [=CYL8=] to be characters from Engage, much like how ''Three Houses'' swept [=CYL4=]. In particular, everyone expected the likes of Yunaka, Ivy, and/or Female Alear from the Female's Division and Diamant, Alcryst, and/or Male Alear from the Male's Division to win. But amazingly, ''not one single character from Engage actually won [=CYL8=]!'' Instead, the winners were Bernadetta, and Female Robin from the Female's Division and Alfonse and Felix from the Male's Division.[[/labelnote]] |
| 332 | * Evil is stored in the boobs. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Fallen Lumera's artwork has a very noticeable bust size increase compared to her Grand Hero and Mythic versions, which did not escape the notice of many players.[[/labelnote]] |
| 333 | [[/folder]] |
| 334 | |
| 335 | [[folder:Crossovers]] |
| 336 | * Xander protecting Lucina in the opening movie and his continued presence by Veronica's side due to her lonely nature has spawned many 'Dad Xander' jokes, including his father's own memetic "You are my child now." line. |
| 337 | * There are more ____ than there are ''Sacred Stones''/''Radiant Dawn''/''Thracia 776'' characters.[[note]]In response to the lack of characters from ''Sacred Stones'', ''Radiant Dawn'', and ''Thracia 776'' other than the ones from the "Family Bonds" and "Sibling Bonds" focuses, the fanbase decided to roll with how many things in ''Heroes'' surpass the amount of characters from those games. Now a DiscreditedMeme now that more characters from those games are available.[[/note]] |
| 338 | * [[VideoGame/Persona5 Phantom Thief]] Innes.[[note]]The reveal that Innes is voiced by Creator/XanderMobus ''and'' Creator/JunFukuyama immediately sparked jokes involving [[VideoGame/Persona5 Joker and the Phantom Thieves]].[[/note]] |
| 339 | ** Sigurd will never see it coming. [[note]]Creator/XanderMobus also ends up voicing Arvis, and [[NastyParty the nature of the Battle of Belhalla]] comes off like a complete surprise like the lyrics of "Last Surprise" imply, so the Phantom Thief/Joker joke can be applied to Arvis too.[[/note]] |
| 340 | * Players tend to play along with "Marth's" and Performing Arts Azura's [[PaperThinDisguise Paper-Thin Disguises]], as well as Zelgius's blatant LateArrivalSpoiler reveal as the Black Knight, making posts wondering who these "mysterious people" really are. |
| 341 | * "______ Draug"[[note]]Many fans have taken notice to a number of characters who bare some resemblance to Draug, namely being green-haired, sword-wielding, blue armored males, and have started naming them variations of "something" Draug. Such examples being Sexy/Young Draug (Alm), Thin Draug (Luke), and Scary Draug (Arden).[[/note]] |
| 342 | ** Girl Marth[[note]]The same meme exists with Marth who have set the appearance trends for ''Fire Emblem'' main characters. Yet actual Marth is labeled "Girl Marth" and Lucina (who impersonated Marth in [[VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening her game]]) is called "Marth".[[/note]] |
| 343 | * Ayra = Edgy Eirika[[note]]Both of them share the same artist with similar armor (just different colors) and known to have flowing long hair, but because Ayra's gruff, no-nonsense and tomboyish personality and dark hair contrast with Eirika's kind, graceful and a bit naive personality and light blue hair, Ayra is jokingly thought as Eirika who's in an edgy phase.[[/note]] |
| 344 | * "[Then] Perish!"[[note]] The ''[[TheBadGuyWins Fallen Heroes]]'' banner features a [[DemonicPossession possessed]] [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Celica]] who shouts this line as one of her specials. The similarity to a meme of a [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/then-perish bizarre role play]] featuring former US president [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Barack Obama]] did not go unnoticed.[[/note]] |
| 345 | ** "Sorry, but I can't perish right now!"[[note]] As a response, people have used Ike's deadpan snarker response to Bertram in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]''.[[/note]] |
| 346 | * [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} "It's high Noontime..."]][[note]]Shigure shares his voice actor (Creator/MatthewMercer) with the character Cassidy from ''Overwatch''. In that game Cassidy's ultimate triggers the voiceline "It's high noon" to play, and Shigure's base kit comes with the special skill Noontime. Many fans saw it as a humorous coincidence and the meme stuck.[[/note]] |
| 347 | ** Shinon introduced a new bow exclusive inheritable Special called Deadeye, the exact same name as Cassidy's ultimate. Legendary Chrom (who is also voiced by Creator/MatthewMercer) can either inherit it from Shinon, or you can summon for Duo Valentine's Chrom who already has it, and the jokes write themselves. |
| 348 | * "Gunnthrá killed Canas" / using Gunnthrá to defeat Canas in battles. [[labelnote:Note (spoilers for Blazing Blade)]]Canas' ending in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' notes that he and his unnamed wife perished while trying to stop a snowstorm and Gunnthrá's unique weapon is a tome simply called 'Blizzard', leading to fans making jokes that it was actually Gunnthrá that killed Canas. When Canas was actually added to ''Heroes'' the jokes only increased in popularity and quantity.[[/labelnote]] |
| 349 | * The arrival of Quan with Gae Bolg and [[CharacterDeath his eventual fate]] has brought in ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'' memes (thanks to [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder their own gacha game]] rivaling Heroes), namely involving [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight a certain Lancer in a blue skin-tight outfit.]] The meme usually takes form in variations of [[Anime/CarnivalPhantasm "Quan died!" "You aren't human!"]] |
| 350 | * Fire Emblem Heroes: [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate World of Light]] [[note]]Moments after Book 3's Teaser at the end of November 7, 2018's Feh Channel, people compared it to the "World of Light" mode from Smash Bros Ultimate, due to the headline "That day, the light died".[[/note]] |
| 351 | * Due to the Book of Shadows resembling a pack of playing cards, jokes have been made about Adrift Azura being a TabletopGame/YuGiOh player. |
| 352 | * Eiriana Grande[[note]]As soon as Eir was revealed, some fans quickly took notice of how her hairstyle made her resemble the singer Ariana Grande and jokes were made almost instantly. HilariousInHindsight as Ariana herself had actually made an appearance in [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyBraveExvius another gacha game.]][[/note]] |
| 353 | * Usually serious characters having bright smiles, leading people to declare that they will protect those smiles. Examples include Winter Cecilia and Valentine's Titania. |
| 354 | * [[Film/AvengersEndGame Avenge the fallen.]] [[note]]As soon as this meme template spread, it has been used in context of several losses in Fire Emblem Heroes. One includes characters that died or are set to die in the story of the game. Another involves an April 2019 update that removed Gen 1 5-star exclusive units from New and Special Heroes banners, including those which were mainly used as fodder for valuable skills, such as Hector for Distant Counter, Takumi for Close Counter, and Brave Ike for Steady Breath.[[/note]] |
| 355 | * There are plenty of crossover memes with ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'': |
| 356 | ** Stand users in FEH [[note]]This case started with both Fallen Robin and Legendary Robin, as Grima is reminiscent of a Stand and their portraits look like poses from that series. In addition, the Fallen Robins were called the Hierophant, and there was a stand called Hierophant Green...making their Stand Hierophant Grima. This returned with Brave Micaiah and Fallen Berkut, thanks to their spirits (Yune and Rinea). Their fight in the "Brave Rivalries" voting gauntlet has been compared to a fight in [=JoJo=], spawning a lot of fanart overlapping then over [=JoJo=] scenes (namely Jotaro and Dio walking towards each other). This meme saw another resurgence with the addition of heroes from ''VideoGame/TokyoMirageSessionsFE'', whose mirages are highly reminiscent of Stands.[[/note]] |
| 357 | ** Ike the breathing master/"Ike is a Hamon master!" [[note]]Ike's Brave, Legendary and Fallen alts all come with a variant of the Breath-type skill for their default build's A slot (Steady Breath for Brave Ike, Warding Breath for Legendary Ike, and Darting Breath for Fallen Ike). The only exception being Fierce Breath that is used by Legendary Tiki, although it can be given to Ike through Skill Inheritance. This spawned a meme of Ike being a Hamon user, as Hamon is powered by breathing.[[/note]] |
| 358 | ** Garon goes "WRYYY!"[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://i.imgur.com/6BBohbH.png Garon's attack pose]] along with how he had his voice actor [[TheOtherDarrin changed]] from Creator/TravisWillingham to Creator/PatrickSeitz opened the floodgates for DIO-related jokes.[[/labelnote]] |
| 359 | ** [[Memes/JoJosBizarreAdventurePhantomBlood KONO EITRI DA!]][[labelnote:Explanation (Major Book V Spoilers!)]]On June 5, 2021, the trailer for Book V: The False Monarch dropped. [[EnfantTerrible Eitri]]'s face is zoomed in on letting out a SlasherSmile as Reginn commits SiblingMurder on Fafnir for Alfonse with a face that would make people think she's one of Dio Brando's children.[[/labelnote]] |
| 360 | * [[Literature/KonoSuba Aqua]] in ''Fire Emblem''[[note]]Thus far, ''Fire Emblem'' had several characters with the 'connections' with the Useless Goddess from ''Literature/KonoSuba'', and all of them have been included in ''Heroes'': [[Creator/SoraAmamiya Japanese voice of Eir]], [[Creator/FayeMata English voice of Petra]] and [[DubNameChange Japanese name of Azura]]. So if anyone is applying any Aqua memes, (either her [[https://i.redd.it/mj9cq2lim6q11.gif crying]] or [[https://archive-media-1.nyafuu.org/vp/image/1540/22/1540225024629.png freaking out]] face), they would also use these characters for result.[[/note]] |
| 361 | * Alfonse in [[Franchise/KingdomHearts The World That Never Was]][[note]]In the Book IV - Realm of Nightmares cinematic, Alfonse is seen in a black area filled with modern skyscrapers, as a result of being in the Summoner's nightmare. People joked how Alfonse somehow got into Kingdom Hearts and is confronting the Nobodies of the same franchise. The fact that the Summoner is a hooded figure like most of the Nobodies and attacks Alfonse in the same scene didn't help. [[/note]] |
| 362 | * Did Kelik debut in ''Heroes''?[[note]]Kelik originated from the ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade'' romhack ''VideoGame/TheLastPromise'', in which he was notorious for being an edgy OC even by romhack standards, and his endgame title was "The Fairy King". Naturally, when an ''actual'' fairy king made an appearance in ''Heroes'', jokes about Kelik debuting in Book IV were made. This meme had a minor resurgence after the December 2020 FEH channel, in which Feh introduces Caellach... and his name is pronounced ''exactly'' like Kelik's name is.[[/note]] |
| 363 | * [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers AHHHH! AFTER 10,000 YEARS, I'M FREE! IT'S TIME TO CONQUER ASKR!]][[note]]Hel is voiced by Creator/BarbaraGoodson, who voiced Rita Repulsa in ''Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers''. With both of them being wicked villains, the jokes wrote themselves.[[/note]] |
| 364 | * Freyja is the [[VideoGame/GenshinImpact Cocogoat]][[note]]When parallels between Freyja (who turns into a goat) and the character Ganyu's designs were drawn, the former also gained the Cocogoat nickname within the FEH fandom.[[/note]] |
| 365 | * Tailtiu maining [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Jigglypuff]][[note]]Tailtiu's blank eyes are often compared to be that of Jigglypuff's eyes, therefore making ways for jokes that she got those eyes because she got too close with Jigglypuff or mains it when playing ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros''.[[/note]] |
| 366 | * Silesse is a Palla-verse[[note]]In Silesse, every Pegasus Knights, good or bad, always have one thing in common: Green hair (but not all women: Queen Rahna was black haired). And by this point, the Jugdral games' NoExportForYou status start to rear its head for the international players that they mistake not just Erinys, but ''everyone'' as a variant of Palla (the original green haired Pegasus Knight), enough that they think Silesse is a new world/universe filled with nothing but Pallas.[[/note]] |
| 367 | * "Fool! Gatekeeper toots as he pleases!"[[note]]Unexpected to many players, Gatekeeper arrives with a green tome in the form of a horn that he toots to call upon the people of the monastery and attack the enemy. This made players reference the memetic shot of ComicBook/DoctorDoom tooting a horn, but it can also be used to reference Doom's DOOT meme.[[/note]] |
| 368 | * [[Series/WandaVision It's been Eitri all along.]] [[labelnote:Explanation (Major spoilers for [=WandaVision=] AND Book V!)]]When Book V, Chapter 6 revealed that Eitri was the true villain of the story, fans noted the similarities between her and Agatha Harkness from the show. As the twist villain of the show was a witch with a catchy VillainSong, fans were quick to compare Eitri to Agatha. It also doesn't help that Eitri was also the one who summoned Fáfnir in the first place with her imitation Breidablik, meaning that everything that happened within Book V really was all her doing.[[/labelnote]] |
| 369 | * Yuri/Eirika/Ninja Female Corrin is [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Lando-T/Genesect/Dragapult!]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]With the release of Summoner Duels, Fire Emblem Heroes gained its first real-time [=PvP=] mode, which was immediately compared to competitive Pokémon battling, due to the similar mechanics and overlapping fanbase. This lead to many jokes comparing [[HighTierScrappy High-Tier Scrappies]] from both games, or suggesting that FEH utilize Website/{{Smogon}}'s rules, such as suspect tests and usage tiers.[[/labelnote]] |
| 370 | * [[WesternAnimation/{{Encanto}} We don't talk about Bruno.]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]After the release of ''Encanto'' and its SignatureSong, fans immediately connected it to ''Heroes'' due to the existence of Bruno and how OutOfFocus he is. Thus, whenever he gets brought up, expect a reference to ''Encanto'' to follow.[[/labelnote]] |
| 371 | * [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Speedy Gonzalez]] [[labelnote:Explanation]]The February 2022 Grand Hero, Gonzalez from ''Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade'', has a surprisingly decent base speed of 35 (or 38 with a Speed Asset). Combined with his base kit which focuses on boosting his Atk and Spd stats even more (Atk/Spd Push 3, Rein Axe, and Threaten Atk/Spd 2), people were quick to make Speed-focused builds for Gonzalez with the name "Speedy Gonzalez", a reference to the ''Looney Tunes'' character Speedy Gonzales.[[/labelnote]] |
| 372 | * Adrift Mikoto is [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Shadow]]. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The March 2022 refine batch gave Adrift Mikoto the Doting Staff, and its exclusive refine introduces a new status effect called Canto Control... which sounds ''very'' similar to the SignatureMove of Shadow the Hedgehog. Combined with its actual effect (it restricts 1-range Canto users to 1 space of movement with Canto, while 2-range Canto users have their action outright stopped) not being unlike [[TimeStandsStill that of Chaos Control]], the jokes practically wrote themselves.[[/labelnote]] |
| 373 | * '''''KILL THE PRETENDER, HILDA.'''''[[labelnote:Explanation]]The reveal of [[HateSink Jugdral's Hilda]] as a Grand Hero Battle was met with equal parts of pure rage and a sadistic desire to utterly destroy her, ''especially'' with Fódlan's Hilda, in order to establish her reign as the only Hilda around.[[/labelnote]] |
| 374 | * Tactician Sweep[[labelnote:Explanation]]CYL 7 on the men's side has received some notice due to the top two winners (Male Robin from ''Awakening'' and Soren from the Tellius games) being tacticians for their games' respective main protagonists. Fanart cropped up with the two posing together, occasionally as BackToBackBadasses.[[/labelnote]] |
| 375 | * '''[[VideoGame/FaithTheUnholyTrinity MORTIS]]'''[[labelnote:Explanation]]Upon his release, Fomortiis become notable for being a very powerful Save Tank thanks to his skill set and statline. Because of this, it's not uncommon to hear this whenever some unit happens to be unfortunate enough to be in the Demon King's range, especially how the latter part of Fomortiis' name sounds like.[[/labelnote]] |
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| 378 | [[folder:Misc.]] |
| 379 | * After a Tumblr post of a player making a pentagram with Marth-related items in it in an attempt to "summon" Marth, many other players began doing the same for their favorite characters, often with the caption of "X come home". |
| 380 | * Girl Pose™[[note]]Referring to how the most common pose for the characters is placing one of their hands on their chest. Fans have noted that it is mostly used by female characters, though male examples crop up as well.[[/note]] |
| 381 | ** Guy Pose™ [[note]]Referring to how a common pose for male characters is to have one hand on their hip.[[/note]] |
| 382 | * Fear Me[[note]]An image of Lissa with cropped versions of two skills, Fear and Mend). These memes only increased with the reveal that she uses an axe in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriors'' (which in turn is an AscendedMeme from the NUNSWITHAXES joke) and the healer update, where their weapons got upgrades and the weapon refinery could give them built-in Wrathful Staff.[[/note]] |
| 383 | * Desperation 3.[[note]]Shanna's upstart victory in the Short-haired Ladies vs. Long-haired Gents Voting Gauntlet led to many jokes that it was due to her innate Desperation 3 skill, with many jokes spinning off it such as being desperate enough to win.[[/note]] |
| 384 | * "'''Armored'''" units[[note]]Referring to how most of the seasonal/variant armored units are anything but that with their lack of armor in order to justify the BST powercreep and to make up for the lack of canonically armored units in the roster. Winter Tharja wearing only a bikini and a coat is the most notorious whenever the disparity between her appearance and her movement class is brought up.[[/note]] |
| 385 | * Choose Your Legends Propaganda Posters.[[note]]As a way to rally the fans of certain characters, people began posting posters of various levels of quality on Reddit, all designed to invoke people to vote for said character.[[/note]] |
| 386 | * Russian/Communist Emblem.[[note]]Due to various lines of dialogue throughout the game, many people have jokingly called the game Communist Emblem. This can range from Ike being voted the "people's champion", Arvis' stating his goal is to "tear down divisions" and make things more equal, Zelgius/Chrom calling the player their comrade, and Hardin resembling UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Usually these memes involve cropping in Soviet Union flags or symbols of some kind.[[/note]] |
| 387 | * The enemy phase theme is sometimes part of an InterruptingMeme. This is more prominent if the regular map theme has lyrics, like the last map of the "Stepping into the New Year" Tempest Trial and the Grand Hero Battle against Fallen Takumi. Update 2.5.0 adds the option to disable enemy phase music, lessening the meme's hold. |
| 388 | --> ''You are the ocean's gray wa-- (enemy phase theme)\ |
| 389 | You are the ocean's gray wa-- (enemy phase theme)\ |
| 390 | You are the ocean's gray waves-- (stage cleared)'' |
| 391 | * "X banner is bait for Y".[[note]]Anytime a summoning focus was dropped shortly before a highly anticipated one, such as a seasonal focus, players would frequently refer to such ones as "bait banners" that are only intended to get players to spend all their orbs and then have no choice but to buy more orbs for the new summoning focus.[[/note]] |
| 392 | ** Every banner is a bait banner![[note]]This quickly grew out of hand, to the point that ''all'' banners nowadays are referred to as bait banners.[[/note]] |
| 393 | * With every update, IS kills our memes![[note]]Some updates addressed concerns and memes within the community, especially on Reddit. Marth and Ryoma finally got alts, Enemy Phase music can be turned off, Linde appeared on a banner after a whole year of hiatus, and even a new favorites system to better organize one's heroes. IS seems to be determined to kill memes with each passing update, and even nowadays, it continues; Luke's absurd rarity was fixed by having him get a New Power banner for his refine and later become part of a summoning banner rotation, and perhaps one of the most iconic memes of Anna being forgotten by IS and never getting alts anymore was given a rightful end by New Year 2020 - She ''finally'' received an alt! Given some months, IS then kills another long standing meme in September 2020: They added Jill![[/note]] |
| 394 | * Intern-[[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics kun]][[note]]With new banners being leaked early increasingly often since mid-2018, jokes have surfaced about a supposed intern or group of interns whose incompetence is responsible for them, but somehow always avoids getting fired. The biggest one, however, is information about Legendary Julia's Banner in early August 2019, which is supposed to be released at the end of August 2019, nearly a month later. It's gotten to the point where [[ContentLeak/FireEmblemHeroes there's a whole page for leaks]], many of which are attributed to Intern-kun.[[/note]] |
| 395 | * Several memes have appeared regarding the absence of certain units: |
| 396 | ** It's been X since Y appeared[[note]]Many players note when a character, event, map, or rarity demotion has appeared, and the time period since then. Luke and Saber are such examples, both are five star exclusive, since their introduction, and as such they have never appeared again in any summoning focuses (and due to the unpopularity with some of their default skills, and the more desirable ones being on other units who are more readily available, it's easy to see why), making them the rarest heroes in the game. Before Camus' [=GHB=] daily rotation, he was included in this meme as well.[[/note]] |
| 397 | ** Missing Linde[[note]]Linde is a 5-Star exclusive unit that appeared in a banner ''exactly'' once, during the "Battle of the Mages" Voting Gauntlet. She wouldn't be featured again until a whole year later, when she got her own weapon refinement. How she got no banner for a year became a meme in of itself and she's FEH's 'super rare popular character who got no banner for a damn long time' similar to [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Brynhild or Mysterious Heroine X]]. (Linde is capable of appearing as an off-focus unlike both of them, but the chance of her even spooking in banners that don't highlight her is slim to none)[[/note]] |
| 398 | ** Saber? Who is that?[[note]]Saber had not appeared on a banner since the banner introducing him. This made him one of the rarest units in the game period, so many joke of not knowing who he is because of it. It was until his refinement for his Golden Dagger in November 2018 that he finally appears in another banner other than his first, leaving Luke in the dust from being the rarest unit in the entire game, until Luke himself received a refinement in July 2019, and as a result another focus banner for him.[[/note]] |
| 399 | *** [[VisualNovel/FateStayNight Wrong Saber!]][[note]]And the cherry on the top of Saber's meme is that he shares name with the primary swordsman class of the ''Franchise/FateSeries'' and especially the original Saber, Artoria/Altria Pendragon. In conjunction with the above joke and how ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'' became a rival game of ''VideoGame/FireEmblemHeroes'', the mention of Saber may instead net you Artoria/Altria instead of Valentia's Saber.[[/note]] |
| 400 | ** Luke? You mean Lukas?[[note]]Since his release, Luke has never appeared in another banner since his first one, even though he is the first hero to naturally learn Panic Ploy, a sought-after skill in the Arena MetaGame. Saber's reappearance in a refinement banner in November 2018 has since made Luke the '''rarest''' summonable unit in the entire game. On top of that, the update in April 2019 has removed him for the 5* pool for new Special and New Heroes banners released past that update, making him ''more'' difficult to summon now. Ironic, considering his aspirations for being a legendary, famous hero. It was until the June 2019 Feh Channel announcement for Revival Banners that he ''finally'' received another focus banner (albeit being in Week [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]] of those banners), as well as receiving a refinement in July 2019 means that he will be in another banner as well.[[/note]] |
| 401 | ** Red bow unit when?[[labelnote:Explanation]]Prior to November 2019, ''Heroes'' had not released a playable red bow unit, leading people to speculate when it will happen and who would be the first such unit. Some found it frustrating, especially since enemy red bow units exist and multiple blue and green bow units have been released. This meme is now retired since the release of Igrene in the "Guardians of Peace" banner, who is a Red Bow Infantry unit.[[/labelnote]] |
| 402 | ** Anna alt when, IS?[[note]]Before New Year's Day 2020, Anna was the only one of the Askr trio to not have an alt. A common practice with this meme was "When X gets an alt before you do", where people pointed out that other characters got an alt, but not Anna. Awakening Anna also ended up losing to Camilla in Choose Your Legends 3, failing to net Anna an alt. Later, when everyone expected her to appear on 2019's "Farfetched" banner, it turned out that there was no Farfetched banner at all, once more failing to give Anna an alt. Eventually, after almost three years, Anna obtained an alt in the "Renewed Spirit" banner, ending this meme once and for all.[[/note]] |
| 403 | ** Jugdral seasonal alt when, IS?[[note]]Similarly to the above two examples, the Jugdral characters never really had seasonal alts. The only alts they had are just Sword Reinhardt, green tome Olwen and later Legendary Julia. This causes players to believe that the Jugdral continent in a way gets shafted that they're not allowed to do seasonal fun stuffs. Finally retired with the "A Splendid Soiree" Banner in September 2019, which released both Dancing Ishtar and Dancing Reinhardt.[[/note]] |
| 404 | ** Jill when??[[note]]By the start of 2020 (with the release of New Year's Anna), Jill was the SoleSurvivor of the '(unit of desire) when??' series of memes. Jill had been a popular character that hasn't gotten into ''Heroes'' despite being greatly desired for. She even made it to the Top 20 female of CYL 2019. Many people thought that she would be part of the Farfetched Heroes in 2019, but it turns out that IS never bothered for that perfect chance to put Jill in, quietly retiring the Farfetched Heroes series. Until the next Tellius banner (Despair and Hope, on September 2020) was released, the fans were left frothing for the addition of Jill. With the release of Jill stated above, the meme is now officially retired, although the fact that Jill has been desired since the beginning and only got in that late made her the official record holder of 'longest time to get added despite fan desire'.[[/note]] |
| 405 | *** Meanwhile, Boyd...[[note]]During the Forging Bonds of Timeless Ties, Mist greets Shinon, Gatrie, Jill and Ilyana and claims that everyone from the Greil Mercenaries have been reunited, conveniently forgetting Boyd, who has been ''there'' even before Ike joined up and also could possibly become Mist's husband in ''Radiant Dawn'', and he's the only one from the original Greil Mercenaries roster who hasn't been included in ''Heroes'' in any form (Even Rhys and Rolf have been included via Summer and Halloween alternates). Fans then takes it that Mist either forgot Boyd on purpose for some NoodleIncident, Boyd getting dejected for being left out and forgotten at first. This escalated when the Book V Finale banner, released over a year after Jill's addition, was another ''Path of Radiance'' banner ''that still didn't feature Boyd'' despite him getting more votes in [=CYL5=] than any of the characters that made the cut. Fans then made Boyd the successor of the Jill meme, being dejected that he was forgotten despite being there since day one with Ike. He finally receives a child variant in April 2022, putting the meme to rest.[[/note]] |
| 406 | ** Ignatz when?? [[note]]Ignatz is the last student character to not have either a base or seasonal ingame, likely due to his unpopularity compared to the other students. This also feeds into IS's perceived bias towards the Black Eagles and Blue Lions classes; most Three Houses banners predominantly feature those two houses with about two characters from that class per banner, while the Golden Deer class does not have a dominant Three Houses banner. As of the Summer Vibrance banner, the Golden Deer still have 4 students without a base form in game compared to the the Blue Lions' 3 and Black Eagles' 2. Some Golden Deer fans have vowed to vote for him in Choose Your Legends 6 to hope that he finally gets his debut into Heroes. Finally retired as of December 2021, when he got a seasonal variant.[[/note]] |
| 407 | * Compensation Orbs.[[note]]Any time a glitch, major oversight, or technical difficulty causes problems for players, expect to see players demand orbs as compensation. This will extend to things such as a minor misspelling, to units coming in with designs or skills that fans don't like.[[/note]] |
| 408 | * X Fodder[[labelnote:Explanation]]Some heroes have very desirable skills, but are sometimes not up to par on other heroes who share the same movement and weapon type due to their stats, especially those released later on and {{Power Creep}}ing them as a result, so players designate them as their skill available at 4 stars or even 3 stars, such as Klein for Death Blow 3, Abel for Swordbreaker 3, Fates!Selena for Reposition, and so on.[[/labelnote]] |
| 409 | * Dark Clouds over Awakening Tempest Trial final map PTSD[[note]]As the very first Tempest Trial, due to the hefty requirements to reach 50000 score for the Quicken Pulse Sacred Seal (and the optional but more difficult 99999+ score to get all the orbs), Veronica being an SNKBoss, the ridiculous stat inflation of enemy heroes on Lunatic before it was {{nerf}}ed, and the final map layout and unit composition, many players shudder whenever this map is brought up in discussions, especially when the new changes made all the later Tempest Trials much easier. When the "Chaos Named" Tempest Trial+ brought back that map, players could finally get their revenge, especially with all the quality-of-life changes that had happened ever since.[[/note]] |
| 410 | * [[FunWithAcronyms BST]][[note]]Short for Base Stat Total, but players often use that acronym to stand for something else, usually for derogatory purposes. One such is named the Bullshit Tier, due to the changes in Arena scoring making units with high BST have a higher scoring value than lower ones, and as a result, many melee armor units teams dominate the very high tiers of the Arena ever since.[[/note]] |
| 411 | * Death Blow 4[[note]]Being the first 4 skill, Death Blow 4 has attracted a lot of infamy for the game's astonishingly quick level of power creep, inadvertently becoming the icon for it in the process.[[/note]] |
| 412 | ** "Death Blow 4 is just 2 extra damage guys!"[[note]]With the release of Death Blow 4 on [=CYL2=], which gives the user +8 Atk if they initiate, compared to the +6 from Death Blow 3, some players state this as they feel like it's an over-rated skill, not knowing that player-phase focused heroes like Reinhardt and Bold Fighter users really want this as the A slot skill, and that it gives as much score as Distant Counter and Close Counter in the Arena scoring system. It later resulted in some players using this phrase ironically when certain enemies, especially on maps with Abyssal difficulty, ''just'' survive battles because the attacking unit only had Death Blow 3 equipped.[[/note]] |
| 413 | ** "Swift Sparrow 3 is worse than Atk/Spd Solo 3!"[[note]]Like the Death Blow 4 and 3 argument above, with Summer Laegjarn revealed to have Swift Sparrow 3, which gives the user +6 Atk and +7 Spd during combat if the user initiates combat, people have been claiming that it's not better than Atk/Spd Solo 3, which gives the user +6 Atk/Spd during combat if the user is not adjacent to an ally, apparantly not learning from the same lessons from Death Blow 4, in both that it gives more score in the Arena scoring system, and many player phase focus units want this skill due to its reliability, especially in tight fighting areas where being far from allies is sometimes not possible.[[/note]] |
| 414 | * Due to units like Legendary Lucina getting Future Vision (Swap, but after she gets to act again), and Quan revealed to have Speed/Defense Rally+, players quickly went wild with speculation that the Assist skills would be the next area to be victims of PowerCreep, leaving to jokes like Reposition+, and Smite+. |
| 415 | * Skill Descriptions in 20XX[[note]]Starting with Fjorm's Ice Mirror description in her intro video being 5 lines long, players joke that skills descriptions will get longer as the game goes on, to the point that it is comparable to ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'' levels of text. It all started with Flora's Hoarfrost Knife description in the [[https://i.redd.it/f82ru8sx8xl11.jpg Nohrian Dusk video]], which would later be dethroned a few weeks later by Halloween Mia's Witchy Wand+ description in [[https://i.redd.it/28dch5comvq11.jpg The Land's Bounty video]], where the text is so long that the font size had to be made ''smaller'' to fit the textbox. Since the introduction of beast units, the text has only gotten smaller, with it being most notable in Kaden's and Selkie's (and especially New Year Selkie's) text boxes, and from there on, statuses and effects of certain weapons such as [Isolation] and [Dagger 7] just keep making the text boxes in-game larger to the point it reaches the bottom of the screen. It has gotten so long that in the Hop-and-Go-Seek banner trailer in March 2022, Spring Delthea's skills are listed [[https://youtu.be/1FmOHp0Nt44?t=26 ''on two separate pages'']], but ever since Legendary Nanna's Banner in March-April 2022, skill descriptions in the video just cut out the template description of effects such as [Canto] and [Null Follow-Up] to fit everything in one page, but still lists the full description ingame, but the New Heroes & Rearmed Chrom's banner reveal trailer in May 2023 brings it back into full force, this time [[https://youtu.be//l0Y3sv4Fj3k scrolling the description between skills]] for both Fallen Maria '''and''' Fallen Rearmed Chrom.[[/note]] |
| 416 | ** Nailah's and Duo Ephraim & Lyon's novel-length weapon descriptions.[[labelnote:Explanation]]As of late 2021, weapon descriptions were getting incredibly long, often being compared with Yu-Gi-Oh cards. In particular, Nailah's refine clocked in at ''over 300 words''. Most of that was made up of the glossary entries for beast transformations (which for infantry beasts like Nailah had just gained a new effect) and Canto, but clocking in at four whole paragraphs it was almost too big for the screen. However, in December 2022, Duo Ephraim & Lyon would go on beat Nailah's record for the longest weapon description in the game, with [[https://i.redd.it/hfj5gbi2n04a1.jpg the unique refine for their Reginleif]] having the text box reach '''the bottom of the screen''', and even listing the effect of what a [Bonus] is ''[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment twice]]''. Naturally, many joked that these refines constituted a novel, or splicing them into the ''Franchise/StarWars'' opening scroll.[[/labelnote]] |
| 417 | * X is the obvious demote[[note]]A common phrase for players who deduce which hero will be available at 4-5 stars instead of being exclusively at 5 after a banner they're released on, especially if they have less powerful skills than the other heroes in the same banner. There are rare occasions that this is not the case, such as the "Fallen Heroes" banner not demoting anyone, even though Fallen Celica has less good skills compared to Hardin and Male Fallen Robin, Ares being demoted rather than Lene after the "Genealogy" banner, where she has less appealing skills and stats than Ares in the same banner, in which players learn that IS values Valor skills more on heroes as a result. However, this meme soon died down since the release of the Lovely Gifts banner in February 2020 with the release of 4 star focus units, as well as New Heroes summoning video trailers starting from The Dread Isle have ended confirming which focus unit is the 3-4 star demote, taking out the guess work for the fanbase.[[/note]] |
| 418 | ** The No Demote Salt[[note]]Whenever someone is not demoted to a lower rarity after the end of a New Hero Banner, or a specific character is not demoted, people would cause an outcry, to say the least. The biggest ones are the "Adrift" and "Kitsune and Wolfskin" banners, where ''nobody'' was demoted.[[/note]] |
| 419 | * "You can't spell Salt without Alt"[[note]]With the release of IS planned alternative units already included in ''Heroes'' since early 2018 (not including seasonal units, which itself is another can of worms), some players were upset when an alternative unit is released in a new banner instead of an entirely new hero, noting that they occupy a space for heroes who are not in the game yet, the earliest example being that players believe that Sacred Memories Eirika replaced Knoll for a banner spot in "The Sacred World".[[/note]] |
| 420 | ** ""New"" Heroes[[note]] Banners with new units in the permanent summoning pool, are announced as "New Heroes", as compared to "Special Heroes", the limited time seasonal banners. Along with the above alts situation, players use this title ironically when alt units are the main focus of the banner, the biggest one being the "Adrift" banner, where there are 3 alt characters compared to the 1 new one.[[/note]] |
| 421 | * "That silhouette's obviously X."[[note]]Intelligent Systems teases the next seasonal banners by releasing a picture containing black silhouettes of two characters before the video trailer comes out. While some obvious features of certain characters can be seen in some of them, others are not as obvious. When there are still speculations of who those characters are, fan jokingly use it to fit anyone, or anything, in that pose, from a pick of likely, to unlikely, to completely ridiculous and impossible. For two examples of the latter, fans jokingly said that one silhouette on the Summer Returns banner (which was revealed be Summer Helbindi) was [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Donkey Kong]], and for a then-unnanounced Winter banner for 2023, the center silhouette was often joked to be Mario, as it bears an uncanny resemblance to his Mario Party 6 jumping render.[[/note]] |
| 422 | * "Quick everyone, act surprised!"[[note]]A common reaction on Reddit and forums whenever a banner trailer is shown, but the units revealed were leaked or datamined from an update that was released before the trailer, and spoiling players curious of the contents of the datamine beforehand. Examples include the leaked New Year's alts upon Legendary Azura being released, and the leaked Legendary Julia notification. This meme saw a resurgence when ''everyone'' knew that the next Mythic Hero in late September 2021 was going to be Ótr, due to how A: The next Mythic Hero was most likely Green due to Legendary Male Byleth being rerun on the same banner, and B: Ótr had just died in the story of Book V.[[/note]] |
| 423 | * "I suppose I'll get my chance another day."[[note]]Chrom's line from Robin's trailer in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'', where he lamented that he didn't make it onto the roster, until ''Ultimate'' at least. It's ''extremely'' relevant for ''Heroes'', used for everything from a character not making it into the game to a character not getting a Brave variant. This became even more relevant thanks to Choose Your Legends 5, where Chrom supporters were saddened by the sudden rise of Gatekeeper votes, although Chrom eventually ''did'' get his chance another day, namely as the winner of Choose Your Legends 6.[[/note]] |
| 424 | * [[OhMyGods May Naga help you.]][[note]]As one of the physical gods in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' franchise, Naga is often used in place of god, and as such, this phrase is commonly used by online users, especially if matchup problems become much worse with {{Elite Tweak}}s and new skills upon release. Becomes HilariousInHindsight when Naga was released as a Mythic Hero of Astra in May 2019, where her Divine Fang grants all adjacent allies "effective against dragons" at the start of her turn, where if the problem is dragons in the MetaGame, then Naga will ''[[NotHyperbole literally]]'' help you.[[/note]] |
| 425 | * Some memes are linked to accessories: |
| 426 | ** Tinted Glasses [[note]]Brady's Tinted Glasses basically is a pair of sunglasses, which is often used by "cool" people. With this, people made "cool" units get the glasses, or making Daniel and Cooler Daniel memes with it.[[/note]] |
| 427 | ** Academy Cap [[note]]Female Byleth's Academy Cap looks like a police hat, so people put it to units and act like they're a police officer. In addition, it's drawn comparisons to the hat worn by [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Jotaro]].[[/note]] |
| 428 | ** Røkkr Remnant [[note]]These various multicolored accessories are obtained upon dealing 150,000 total damage to a Røkkr in a single battle. Since it covers up one of the eyes of the wearer, it has been compared to [[VideoGame/{{Undertale}} Sans]], especially the Lance Røkkr Remnant, which matches the color of Sans's eye.[[/note]] |
| 429 | ** 8-bit Veronicas[[note]]The 8-bit Veronica, Legend Veronica, and Friends (featuring Veronica and Sharena) accessories are generally regarded as being the hardest accessories to acquire as they costs 5,000 R&R Affinity each to buy in Aether Resort's Accessory Shop. Being able to buy all three of them is often joked as "winning the game" as you would have to play the game for a long enough time to finally afford all of them.[[/note]] |
| 430 | * Calculus Emblem[[note]]As new skills get released, fans began remarking how increasingly complex the requirements, especially for in-combat stat boosting skills, are getting. The game also started using letters instead of lengthy descriptions for new skills (such as the AR-exclusive A skills), essentially sliding algebra into its skill descriptions. The increasing mathematical complexity of skills combined with this lead to many jokes on the matter.[[/note]] |
| 431 | * +Res/Def -Atk/Spd[[note]]A specific combination of Asset and Flaws, which is both very undesireable and unoptimal for many units where Res or Def is usually the DumpStat for those units and is therefore a desired Flaw for them while an Atk or Spd Asset is more useful to them. Whenever you see someone pull a specific hero at 5* and reveal their [=IVs=], expect to see this a lot.[[/note]] |
| 432 | * Win in Aether Raids.[[note]]A quest in Heroes' Path introduced on September 2019, whose difficulty stems from how far the player is when they take the quest. Most players by this point already are very far into the game, where winning is very hard. Thus, most players in this point are stuck in Rank 12, unable to advance further.[[/note]] |
| 433 | ** In a similar note, Aether AIDS. [[note]]A [[FanNickname nickname]] for Aether Raids that describes its metagame, as many players in higher tiers run overpowered and cancerous units like Fallen Edelgard and Dancer Sigurd.[[/note]] |
| 434 | * The Lance Cavaliers with +4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res Lances[[note]]Some players noticed that many lance cavaliers have their exclusive weapons give +4 Atk/Spd/Def/Res with different activation conditions since the reveal that Perceval has his Prized Lance give those stat boosts in the "Guardians of Peace" banner in mid-November 2019. The list currently includes Peri with her Peri's Lance, Brave Eliwood with his Ninis's Ice Lance, Death Knight and his Scythe of Sariel, Sirius and his Sable Lance, and Perceval and his Prized Lance. The fact that Ferdinand was released without a lance like this was memed as well.[[/note]] |
| 435 | * Free copy of Fire Emblem: Three Houses! [[note]] When Three Houses was released, Heroes gave out a free five star Male Byleth as a promotional gift for people who had purchased the game. Naturally, jokes about spending $60 to get Male Byleth and receiving Three Houses as a free bonus gift were made. [[/note]] |
| 436 | * "Let's do math with [Unit Name]!"[[note]] Sometimes, skills involving damage reduction, special spamming, etc. tends to really mess the built-in damage calculator over, leading to situations where the displayed amount of damage dealt does not match up with the end HP of the opposing unit at all. Notable examples include [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/echgbu/use_altina_they_said_she_destroys_bike_they_said/ Brave Ike]], [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/a5i577/math_lessons_with_reinhardt/ Reinhardt]] and [[https://www.reddit.com/r/FireEmblemHeroes/comments/eizwgi/close_call_skills_were_a_mistake/ New Year Lethe]]. [[/note]] |
| 437 | * Is it just me, or do a lot of these Heroes use swords? [[labelnote:Explanation]]A quote from Feh in the Feh Channel on April 2, 2020, talking about how most of the Focus Heroes in the 30th Anniversay Free Summon banner use swords. This has been compared to Sothis saying [[Memes/SuperSmashBros "Too many swordsmen, are there?"]] from ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'', and that they share the [[Creator/CassandraLeeMorris same voice actor]] doesn't help.[[/labelnote]] |
| 438 | * [=Pheonixmaster1=] is well known in the community for making guides dedicated to people who avoid spending orbs in the game, so he and his guides were memed occasionally. |
| 439 | ** [=Pheonixmaster1=] is in the game! [[labelnote:Explanation]]When Itsuki was released as a Tempest Trial hero, people noticed the similarities between him and Phoenix's avatar, leading people to say that Phoenix made it into the game.[[/labelnote]] |
| 440 | ** Punished [=Pheonixmaster1=] [[labelnote:Explanation]]Ótr, one of the antagonists in Book V, also resembles [=PM1=]'s avatar, but because of his dour expression, he looks like an edgier or darker version of him, to the point where some people jokingly stated that this version of [=PM1=] would make ''pay to win'' [[https://twitter.com/negative_nac/status/1336129444562362368 guides]] as opposed to free to play guides. [=PM1=] himself even approves of the comparison, and when Ótr actually released as a playable hero, [=PM1=]'s videos covering him played up the idea that Ótr is just his dark or fallen counterpart, right down to [[https://youtu.be/5UAFt8UG6K8 making a "pay to win" guide]] video as Ótr himself as part of a bit.[[/labelnote]] |
| 441 | * Narcian is the best Whitewing[[labelnote:Explanation]]For Starter Support log-in bonus, the community was given a choice to vote between Palla, Catria, Est, [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Narcian]] as a free Hero to be given away. The fans went with it, saying that Narcian is the fourth member of the Whitewing. Further emphasised when Narcian and Est ended up sharing a banner in the 2020 Easter event and even the same colour. [[/labelnote]] |
| 442 | * [[VideoGame/TokyoMirageSessionsFE TMS]] Emblem [[labelnote:Explanation]]With a new mode and filter that sorts teams based on the games they're in... people have noticed that Tokyo Mirage Sessions not only has the least representation - most people would probably only bother having Itsuki, as he's a Tempest reward unit while the others were 5 star exclusives.[[/labelnote]] |
| 443 | * Welcome to Alt-only Hell [[labelnote:Explanation]]Some heroes debuted with a seasonal alt, which started with Bridal [[VideoGame/FireEmblemFates Charlotte]], and took a ''very'' long time to have their default version added to the gacha (such as [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTheBlazingBlade Fiora]], [[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Sigrun]] and even Charlotte, ''years'' after being stuck in there), but a lot of these characters do not receive their normal versions ''at all''. The phrase is uttered whenever a hero debuted with an alternative version, preferably a seasonal alt, because they'll likely only have that version for a ''long'' time. [[VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses Dorothea]] takes this to a new level (but since she's the only one, it's not enough to warrant a new bullet point), where she got THREE alts (one Summer, one Desert in which she pairs up with [[VideoGame/FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWar Lene]], and one Winter) before any one of her default versions (pre or post TimeSkip) was ever announced.[[/labelnote]] |
| 444 | * Milk Truck[[note]]From a [[https://twitter.com/cuboon/status/976475630035333120 tweet of Cuboon's]] about the duo unit of Summer Female Byleth and Rhea, noted for both women's curves being emphasized quite well. The term would return when Brave Edelgard whom he rendered rather curvy as well, but with "Armored Milk Truck" as the curves comes from her boob plate armor. While mainly ''Three Houses''-related, there' a good chance it may be used on a future Cuboon-drawn hero.[[/note]] |
| 445 | * "There is no trailer/Feh Channel, go to sleep." [[note]]Whenever a New Heroes Trailer, Legendary/Mythic Hero Trailer, or a Feh Channel is drawing near, people will wait in anticipation for it to come out. 4 hours before each daily reset, one of these will drop a few days before the banners actually come out. Whenever a day passes when nothing is announced, the fans will often drop the quote stated. This meme saw a resurgence when no Fire Emblem-related news or game was announced at both Nintendo Directs in 2021.[[/note]] |
| 446 | * "Another GHB with a Red Tome"[[note]]With Veld's release as a Grand Hero Battle unit in January 2021, many players noted that Red Tome users being released as a Grand Hero Battle unit often have either substandard or gimmicky tomes, average skills by default, and a statline with low Spd and Def, and good HP, Atk, and Res, with only a few exceptions, such as Arvis and Aversa. As a result, whenever a Red Tome unit is released as this and have those traits, players will declare this phrase or a similar variant. It gets worse when throughout Book V, there has been a slew of Red Mage GHB units starting with Veld: Solon, Arete, Pelleas, and Aelfric. However, while Solon and Veld at least have a niche regarding their gimmicky tomes, the others listed only have generic tomes, rendering them next to useless compared to strong, more viable red mage units.[[/note]] |
| 447 | * Meanwhile, the females' division... [[labelnote:Explanation]]During Choose Your Legends 5, some players noticed that the females' division has been given less attention than the males' division where many players were cheering for Gatekeeper, Marth, or Chrom, unlike where the females' division usually got more attention.[[/labelnote]] |
| 448 | * Weekly Revival 52[[note]][[https://i.gyazo.com/cd51f8e1e2a2d0187c30acce509f60a4.jpg The image of this banner]], featuring Brave Camilla, Regular Male Byleth, and Brave Eliwood, became a source of various memes for unintentionally scaring many players upon either booting the game or opening up the summoning tab on July 3rd, 2022. This is due to the fact that all of them are staring directly at the screen, but the way Male Byleth was positioned, with his whole body facing forward, is the biggest cause of the jumpscare. The banner continues to rerun sporadically, and not without this infamous banner image. I.[[/note]] |
| 449 | * Distant Counter Tax[[labelnote:Explanation]]In terms of weapon refines, those with Distant Counter as an innate trait tend to be lacking to those that don't have that trait. Exceptions tend to be notable, such as Brave Dimitri's Moon Gradivus.[[/labelnote]] |
| 450 | * "Accelerates Special trigger (cooldown count -1)". [[note]]Although a modifier that has been in the game since launch, most heroes that are considered premium and is on a banner will have this effect on their exclusive weapons due to how it is easier to trigger specials and are a cut above other heroes, especially ones released earlier on and have similar weapon effects, whereas the other common modifiers on exclusive weapons such as Atk+3 and Spd+3 are either given to many free or non-premium units released alongside them, but starting from the Brave banner in September 2022 it became the most common modifier on premium units, and as such, for banners after that one, expect to see this modifier on many of the banner heroes.[[/note]] |
| 451 | ** "At the start of combat, if unit's HP ≥ 25%," [[note]]In a similar vein to the above meme, most premium units have this condition, often giving them +5 to all stats or adding a very powerful effect, all for the requirement of what is essentially staying alive. Many players often rephrase this as "If unit exists," due to how extremely easy it is to fulfill this condition.[[/note]] |
| 452 | * [Character]Dev [[note]] Soon, the [=EphraimDev=] and [=FjormDev=] memes above started to become something of a Mad Libs, where people put any character in their place followed by "Dev", often a character accused of [[CreatorsPet receiving too much attention from the developers]]. Examples include [=IlyanaDev=], [=EdelgardDev=], [=HildaDev=], [=VeronicaDev=], and [=LynDev=].[[/note]] |
| 453 | * Twitter / Elon Musk Skills[[labelnote:Explanation]]Following the reveal of attuned heroes, which introduced X skills, many begin to compare the name to Twitter's then-current branding (X). This even led to people jokingly call them these names[[/labelnote]] |
| 454 | * Due to its longevity, it has become quite common for people to joke about ''Fire Emblem Heroes'' outliving all other Nintendo Mobile Games that aren't ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' because as of writing, it is the one of the few that still gets content at least once a month. The fact that it is Nintendo's most successful non-''Pokémon'' mobile game to date, despite slumping in popularity over the years, adds to this. |
| 455 | ** With the rise of jokes pertaining to ''VideoGame/Persona5'' causing end-of-service to any gacha game it crosses over with, it also caused jokes that the reason the game is still up and running is because it has yet to cross over with any other franchise that isn't ''Fire Emblem''. |
| 456 | * Colorless Hell[[labelnote:Explanation]] The pool of demote units in colorless is not only very large since it contains all staff and the majority of bow/dagger units, but most demote units in colorless are basically worthless without an extreme amount of investment. Players will often cite colorless hell with extreme frustration whenever a unit they desire is added to the colorless pool.[[/labelnote]] |
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