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"I am hilarious and you will quote everything I say."
You know this person. We all do. Ohhh yes. Even though you haven't even watched the show, even if you have no idea which video game they're from, you know them and have every one of their lines memorized. Their every word has a place in lulzy eternity.
This person — nay, this god(dess) of popular culture, can come in many forms, but regardless of form, He or She is known as a Fountain of Memes.
Be it due to Narm Charm, Large Ham-ness, or simply due to their own glorious Badassery, every line this sacred being spouts is an instant Memetic Mutation, to be repeated by the Internet-savvy throughout the ages.
For more information regarding these characters' holy exploits, see Memetic Badass, Memetic Sex God, and similar pages. See also Youtube Poop for practical applications of their blessed dictions.
When in doubt about examples, keep in mind the Rule of Three. There's no specific cutoff point for awesomeness, but three Memetic Mutations is generally a good baseline. It is also recommended, though not required, that you give us a sample of the character's works, so we too may revel in their awesomeness.
The name is a pun on the Fountain of Dreams from the Kirby series.
Compare Reference Overdosed.
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- Kamina of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. Nearly everything he says is a meme. And putting his epic sunglasses on anyone (or anything) makes them instantly badass. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK HE IS?!
- Hell, he's even a Fountain of Memes in-verse. His Team Gurren symbol, his Catch Phrases, his glasses, his speeches, his very methods of speaking and posing are all adopted by the human species as the very pinnacle of manliness, to the point that they named the first city on the surface Kamina City.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure has Dio Brando and his infamous Finishing Move:
- Osaka from Azumanga Daioh. So many scenes featuring her have become memetic; there are at least three YTMND memes
 involving her. And then there's the Macintosh ad parody from AMV Hell. And none of those are even actual lines of dialog; though she's got a fair number of those as well, she's far more well-known for her Crowning Moments of Funny, up to and including her knife-Yukari scene.
- Jan Fuckin' Valentine.
- Tsuruya, nyoro~n.... :3
- Everyone in Code Geass.
- Dragon Ball Z. Vegeta. Seriously, practically ANYTHING Dub!Vegeta says, there is a meme for it, to over 9000 levels. Indeed, one person created an entire YouTube account solely to organise all of Vegeta's meme-worthy moments, and there are well over a thousand of the things. Can't be bothered to Archive Binge? Well SAD FOR YOOOOOOUUUUUUUU!!
- The freakin' Goddess of Memes, Suiseiseki — NO! Her name is DESU! Shame on you, desu~!
- Aizen from Bleach, nearly everything he says has meme potential.
- Anything Uchiha related in Naruto, most notably any Not So Stoic facial expression done by Sasuke or Itachi.
- HONHONHONHON~ Prease do not forget the VUNDERBAR Hetalia (especially the Dub, da?), you nutburgers. It is just a SHITSTORM of memes. And that is not a euphemism for anything.
- Death Note has Light Yagami, who will be the GOD OF THE NEW WORLD as he takes a potato chip AND EATS IT!!! He KNEW IT! All according to keikaku. (Translator's note: keikaku means plan)
- Just about anything from Neon Genesis Evangelion, but especially Gendo. Kaworu is also popular for memes.
- Kyubey of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, due to his narrow range of facial expressions, cute and fuzzy appearance, stalkerish behavior, and downright creepiness. Memes range from posting ASCII Art of his face wherever possible to anthropomorphizing him as a nubile young girl or bishounen with cat ears to depicting him pestering Magical Girls from other canons to finding new and creative ways to kill him and depicting him molesting the protagonist. In fact, the memes seem to be engaged in a power struggle.
- Cilan from Pokémon has been spouting these like crazy: He whips his Stunfisk back and forth; he's a rapist; he eats his Pokemon; "It's Tasting Time" and "It's Lunch Time;" he's FABULOUS~; screams like a girl...
- The mochi comics in ''HetaliaAxisPowers. Especially anything said by America-mochi. "It's okey, I'm American!"
Comic Books
Fan Fic
Film
- Samuel L. Muthafuckin' Jackson. If he's in it, he'll not only create a few memes but also a Memetic Badass in the process. And that certain scene in Pulp Fiction is a meme from start to finish.
- Said scene (starting from about 4:30) really deserves to be expanded upon—there are five memes*
"What ain't no country I ever heard of! Do they speak English in What?" "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?" "I dare you, I double-dare you, motherfucker, say "what" one more goddamn time!" "Does he look like a bitch?" and "Marcellus Wallace don't like to be fucked by anybody except Mrs. Wallace" in 58 seconds.
- He also needs to know where his super suit is, because he needs it for the greater good!
- Leonidas' "THIS! IS! SPARTAAAA!" and "Tonight we dine in HELL!", the former being a (former) Trope Namer.
- Tony Montana: "Say Hello to My Little Friend!"
- Dr. Evil of Austin Powers could buy this trope if he had *pinky raise*... one miiiillion dollars!
- Seriously, someone throw him a frickn' bone here!
- Bruce Campbell has spawned more than a few. Notably, "This Is My Boomstick!" is a classic meme of geekdom that existed even before the internet.
- Humphrey Bogart, especially in Casablanca. Indeed, lines like "Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine." and "Here's lookin' at you kid." are so iconic most people who've heard of them have no idea of any context.
- Star Wars. Oh God, Star Wars... Darth Vader in particular is a Meme Lord, while Yoda in memes speaks as well.
- And then, Yoda's style of speaking is even more of a meme in itself than any of his many memetic lines...
- Kirk Lazarus, LEAD FARMER, MOTHERFUCKER! (Never go full retard.)
- Les Grossman who asks you to take a step back, and literally fuck your own face, or he'll fuck you up!
- R. Lee Ermey has spawned many, many memes, as various characters and as himself.
- Mel Brooks has made a career out of memes, with nearly all of his films containing at least a handful.
- Jim Carrey is another who has made a career full of memes.
- The Joker in The Dark Knight, as played by Heath Ledger, to the point that literally every line he says in that film is a meme. Every. Line. Hell, Heath Ledger's entire script in that movie was one big meme.
- Considering that the Nolan-verse Joker has been theorized to be a personification of lulz itself, this may not be so surprising.
- Monty Python films are filled to the brim with memes of all kinds, with Monty Python and the Holy Grail in particular quoted and repeated so frequently that it has become a meme itself to mock people who quote it.
- The Blues Brothers. It's 106 miles to Chicago...
- Mae "Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" West. Both as a character and herself.
- Apparently, Betty White is the current meme-of-the-week for the internet. No one's quite sure why.
- The Princess Bride is so meme-worthy that it named five different tropes.
- For you, the day Bison graced TV Tropes with his presence was the most important day of your life... But for Me, It Was Tuesday.
- Did Bison keep producing memes in the cartoon that followed? YESSSS!! YESSSS!!
- Of Course!
- The meme power of Office Space was so large it created brand new consumer demand.
- Agent Sands from Once Upon a Time in Mexico. In fact, it's probably easier to list a Johnny Depp role that isn't one of these.
- BRIAN BLESSED can create memes FROM HIS SHEER PRESENCE!
- uh-Christopher. uh-Walken. He's un-FUCKING-believable!
- Arnold Schwarzenegger. 160 Greatest Quotes.
- The Big Lebowski. Every single line of that movie is a meme.
- Plan 9 from Outer Space. Because all you of Earth... are idiots!
- The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra
- "Manos" The Hands of Fate, especially TorGo.
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Even long before the Internet, thanks to the Audience Participation. "It's just a jump to the left..."
- Sixty percent of the time, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy creates memes every time.
- The Aliens mostly come at night. Mostly.
- Mean Girls. On deviantART, Facebook and Tumblr (especially Tumblr), there is not a single line that is not memetastic.
- The Room, due to epic, unrelenting levels of Narm.
- The Narmtastic remake of The Wicker Man
- The dramatic finale of Silver Streak, the eponymous train crashing through the walls of the terminal, was repeated ad-nauseum by other movies including Airplane!
- Bonecrusher hates that he wasn't on this list.
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2 — Hundreds, if not thousands, of Facebook pages were created overnight.
- Zoolander: Let's just say this movie is "very quotable" and leave it at that.
- "Blue Steel" has probably gotten more pop-culture nods than any other joke in the movie.
- "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!"
- "What is this, a center for ANTS!?!"
- "Well you can dere-LICT my balls!"
- "You think I don't know what a eugoogoly is?"
- "Hansel is so hot right now!"
- Nobody mentioned Napoleon Dynamite? GOSH!
Literature
- The answer to The Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is...42.
Live Action TV
- Star Trek: The Original Series gave us Captain Kirk, Mister Spock and "I'm a doctor, not a..." Doctor McCoy.
- Dwight Schrute, Assistant (to the) Regional Manager.
- Firefly. All of it.
- Andy Samberg and The Lonely Island. Hell, SNL in general.
- Whose Line Is It Anyway??
- Glee has Brittany, the cheerleader in desperate need of a brain transplant saying at least one meme-inducing one-liner per episode.
- How I Met Your Mother: Barney Stinson continually spouts lines that are legen... wait for it, and I hope you're not lactose intolerant because the next part is DARY.
- Papa Lazarou only appeared on three episodes of The League of Gentlemen, and he has reached this status. Isn't that right, DAAAAAAAAAAVE?
- Monty Python's Flying Circus is to this day copied, quoted and imitated extensively, its meme power only increasing over the years. By far the most popular are The Spanish Inquisition, The Dead Parrot, and The Ministry of Silly Walks.
- The Ultimate Warrior. Just about any sentence that comes out of his mouth (provided you can understand it)
- Doctor Who has the one, the only, the Doctor, who offers people jelly babies while wearing a vegetable, will reverse the polarity of the neutron flow and declare it "Fantastic!", and while bow ties and enormous scarfs are cool, pears are absolutely rubbish. And do shut up, K9.
- The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon Cooper.
- Conan O'Brien thinks this trope LOOKS GOOOOD!
Music
Professional Wrestling
Sports
- The 2010 San Francisco Giants produced all kinds of memes as they slowly made their way to and won the World Series.
- The great-grandaddy of sports meme generation has to be Yogi Berra, who gave us such gems as "It ain't over until it's over", "Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded", and "When you come to a fork in the road, take it." Also, "It ain't over until the fat lady sings." And, famously, "I never said most of the things I said."
- Ilya Bryzgalov of the Philadelphia Flyers seems to be on his way to this after his appearances in NHL 24/7. "The solar system...it's so humongous big" and his meditations on the similarities between his Siberian Husky and a hot blonde in particular are experiencing Memetic Mutation.
Standup Comedy
Tabletop Games
Video Games
Webcomics
- VG Cats may have slowed down production, but they were pumping out memes by the week a few years back. Face full of alien wing wong, Jenova's Witnesses, and so forth.
- As you can see from tvtropes, Penny Arcade.
- XKCD, as well.
- Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff would love to be a useless piece of shit all day and make all these memes, but it's falling down all these stairs! It keeps happening!
- Homestuck has come into possession of all of the memes. All of them. You're 0k with this for now, but any more of these shenanigans and shit might just fly off the handle.
- Sonichu.
Web Original
- Red vs. Blue.
- Ben Croshaw of Zero Punctuation has inspired quite a few himself, largely due to his idiosyncratic style of humor. Notables include "pants-on-head retarded", mumorpuger, Press X to Not Die, and triple-cunted hooker.
- The Nostalgia Critic has spawned several in his short time of internet fandom; "Big lipped alligator moment" and "I was FROZEN today" are among his more popular.
- LINKARA! He is a man! *PUNCH*
- Powerthirst takes Testosterone Poisoning to unheard of levels.
- The state of Alabama, in conjunction with YouTube, has unleashed the Mobile Leprechaun, the Mini Mall rap, and the biggest hit yet, Bed Intruder by Antoine Dobson on the unsuspecting internet. Only God knows what'll come out of the South next.
- Dr Horribles Sing Along Blog has incredible meme density.
- Approximately 80% of I'm a Marvel... And I'm a DC.
- Strong Bad has unleashed many memes upon the world, including Trope Namers on This Very Wiki such as Your Head A Splode and You Gotta Have Blue Hair. However, no one has yet discovered how he manages to type with boxing gloves on.
- We are one as well. Many, many trope titles have become memes, including Crowning Moment of Win.
Western Animation
- The Simpsons. For a starting point, "My eyes! The Goggles Do Nothing!" (Milhouse, however, is not a meme.)
- "Milhouse is not a meme", however, is.
- Luigi's lines in the Mario cartoons are hilariously over-the-top, particularly in the "Mama Luigi" episode. "That's Mama Luigi to you, Mario!" *wheeze*
- "Well excuuuuuse me, Princess!"
- Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog is this. He really hates that PINGAS!
- South Park in general tends to generate memes, but Eric Cartman is a particularly active meme fountain. "Screw you guys, I'm going home" and "Respect my AUTHORITAH" were popular very early on, and the Memetic Mutation list ends with a crack about sand in vaginas (which came from Cartman's remarks about Kyle in the "shit" episode.)
- Cheese of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
- Noah from Total Drama Island.
- Invader Zim and everything related to GIR. And everyone else, for that matter.
- The amount of memes in Batman The Brave And The Bold is OUTRAGEOUS!
- "Good news, everyone! I just invented a machine that makes you quote Futurama!"
- The Street Fighter cartoon, mostly due to "BISON!" *flames leap* YES! YES!
- My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic is about 20% more memetic than most shows.
- Especially Pinkie Pie. Pick any appearance of hers, no matter how short or long, and you'll probably be able to find it in one YouTube video, at the very least.
- Well, the show does have I, Photo Feenish, who eez always looking for... DE MAGIKS. *strikes pose*... I go! *poof*
- On Knowyourmeme.com, this show is the most viewed meme by a margin of a million compared to second place, has the most posted images of it, and has the most sub memes. Think about that.
- You're going to... LOVE ME!!! Also, mods are asleep, post ponies!
- 60s Spider-Man, aka the original Hanna-Barbera animated series, is notorious for two things: it is deeply ingrained in pop culture, and it features hilariously bad voice acting, writing and especially animation. As such, a macro series was born, where particularly stupid looking stills (usually of Spider-Man himself) get misleading captions, giving the Spidey an Alternative Character Interpretation of a Crazy Awesome, stupid sex-obsessed maniac. There are literally thousands of these macros.
- Sponge Bob Square Pants, especially in its pre-movie seasons. With the huge amount of memorable lines from the show, it's probably only surpassed by Friendship is Magic as the most memetic animated show ever. Patrick Star in particular has the most memetic lines in the show.
- How about Avatar; The Last Airbender?
- "My cabbages!"
- Or for that matter, Legend of Korra?
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