Memes / Comic Books

aka: Comics

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

Memes and catch phrases, like a lot of other things, can also come from your local comic book store.

• Batman
  • Batman: Arkham Series
  • The Dark Knight Trilogy
• Spider-Man
  • Spider-Man Trilogy

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Please add entries in the following format:

• The meme. [[labelnote:Explanation]]The explanation behind the meme.[[/labelnote]] ^ExplanationLike this.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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Examples:

DC

• Frank Miller likes "WHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORES
  • This meme comes from Shortpacked! Thanks again, Shortpacked!
• "Superman is (such) a dick."
  • This started with a forum thread about Silver Age comics covers.
  • He's even got a trope and a tumblr named for it.
• "While no one was looking, Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes. He took forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And That's Terrible."^ExplanationFrom The Super Dictionary. See the page image for And That's Terrible
  • They were clearly PIES. And That's Terrible.
  • Ascended in Superman #709
• KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!
  • Its sheer epicness has elevated it to meme status.
  • This meme culminated in a website dedicated to Zod running for president.
• "An Amazon attack. A deadly bee weapon... Bees. My God."
  • From the 2007 DC Comics miniseries Amazons Attack!.
  • And what's funny about that one is that even other characters in the DCU have parodied that line.
  • The meme has since become heavily associated with the character Arakune from BlazBlue who has an incredibly unpleasant attack that involves attacking his opponent with bees.
• Why are there plotholes? Because Superboy-Prime PUNCHED TIME!
  • At least that's what DC's Infinite Crisis tried to tell us.
  • "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"
  • "Everything was better on my Earth!"
• I did it 35 minutes ago.
  • From Watchmen. It was The Reveal at the ending which defied the conventions of the genre.
  • Warning: A blue... penis is shown. Never erect though
    • Never erect? "So impotent."
  • Possibly homosexual? Must remember to investigate further.
    • Hurm
    • RRAAAARRL (must be spelt exactly that way).
  • MY SON IS A POLICE OFFICER YOU FAGGOTS!
  • I'm not locked up in here with you...you're locked up in here with me!
  • :)
• Green Lantern:
  • Evil Mary Marvel smacking Donna Troy with Kyle Rayner. WHAP WHAP WHAP!
  • "Please Help Me Green Lantern, I have no arms." * WHAM!*
  • Also, Hal Jordan doesn't have yellow as his only weakness. He can easily be waylaid by a simple blow to the head.
  • Also Green Lantern vs THE SIGN
  • This meme was brought to you by gratuitous shots of Green Lantern's ass. Case in point.
  • Hal Jordan will fuck ANYTHING! See how he dealt with Star Sapphire.
  • Related: Hal Jordan is a pedophile.
  • Batman punches out Guy Gardner with just One Punch
    • Just after Hal Jordan comes back to life, he gives Batman a taste of One Punch awesomeness.
  • For the last time, I'm not Green Lantern! If I were, my costume would be GREEN!
  • Hal Jordan. Loves. Hamburgers.
    • HAMBOIGAHS?
  • You're Green Lantern! No, I'm not. 'Bye◊
  • "Surprise for you in the fridge."
  • Hal Jordan has the IQ of (a) guacamole.
  • Shut your mouth, you stupid little troll!
  • Larfleeze sez: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE! ^Explanation being the sole Orange Lantern, powered by Greed, Larfleeze says "Mine!" a lot.'
  • FLESH.
  • RISE. ^Explanation The Black Lantern Rings, when ressurecting their hosts, will say (Person) of (Planet), RISE.
  • Kyle Rayner has a poison dick. ^ExplanationA reference to the infamous Green Lantern issue #54, in which Kyle returns home and finds his dead girlfriend stuffed into the fridge. It's often joked that dating Kyle is the equivalent of signing your own death sentence.
  • Hal sure does get hit on the head a lot, doesn't he?
  • RAGECAT. He's in ur sector, killing ur Lanterns.
  • "Mogo doesn't socialize." ^Explanation Mogo is a living planet, so can't simply walk up to his fellow Lanterns.
  • The color-coded rings have spawned a takeoff of the "Advice Dog" meme. Examples:
    • (Larfleeze) Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? NO, IT'S FUCKING MINE!
    • (Atrocitus) FUCK GRAMMAR! PUNCH DICTIONARIES!
    • (Saint Walker) Don't worry, I'm sure your girlfriend will live...Kyle Rayner.
• "I AM A MAN! (punch)"
  • Quote from Superman: At Earth's End.^ExplanationThe full context of the quote is that the android Ben Boxer is calling Superman out for his no-kill policy contributing to the first apocalypse (there's been two), and how lethal force is the reality of this Bad Future. Superman responds, "You want reality, Ben? Reality is: you are an android - I AM A MAN!", and punches right through Ben's torso. Advocated by Linkara as the best way to settle an argument. Yes, even if you're a woman.
  • "Of course! Don't you know anything about science?" - from one of the twin clones of Hitler.
• James Robinson's Justice League: Cry for Justice miniseries quickly developed a meme of fans derisively posting "JUSTICE!" in relation to it, after several characters in the first issue all ended extended monologues by yelling "I want JUSTICE!"
  • Also, due to an unfortunate choice of font, it's also been referred to as "Gay for Justice".
  • The "Gay for Justice" meme also got appropriated by Alan Scott as of the New 52, where his character was rebooted as homosexual in the series Earth 2. (Coincidentally, both series are written by James Robinson.)
• "That's right. He makes his pants out of GOES FAST." ^Explanation The speed force has been said to generate Wally West's suit.
• "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound!
  • "Look! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! IT'S SUPERMAN!!
  • "...fights a never ending battle for truth, justice and the American way!"
  • "This looks like a job for Superman."
• ALL IS ONE IN DARKSEID.
  • DARKSEID IS.
  • Nobody can save you.
  • ALL HAIL DARKSEID! ^ExplanationAs of Nu 52, this appears to be the badass creed of Darkseid's forces when they enter battle. First used by Bruutal aka brainwashed Omega Force enhanced Earth 2 Superman.
• I believe in me! ^ExplanationThe motivational mantra of the Rainbow Raider.
• Snowflame feels no PAIN! (The New Guardians)
• Pants to be darkened! ^ExplanationIn the infamous Wonder Woman (2011 pilot), the words repeatedly appear on the screen, as an instruction to the post-production crew. It has since been used for anytime Wonder Woman is depicted as "a bit bonkers".
• Wonder Woman breaking peoples' necks a lot is commonly thrown around. ^ExplanationShe's snapped necks however not nearly as often as the jokes suggest.
• "Dammit, Barry!" ^ExplanationAs a reference to Flashpoint, alternate versions of the DCU will be shown, with some variation of that caption.
• "Because Speed Force. ^ExplanationThe Speed Force, starting with Geoff Johns' Barry Allen run on The Flash, was more and more used to pull convenient twists and retcons out of the writers' asses. While these were somewhat explained at first, eventually it reached the point that the Speed Force could just do whatever the writer wanted, often with the flimsiest of logic, at best. This got especially bad in the TV show.
• "IT WAS ME BARRY!" ^ExplanationEobard Thawne, aka Professor Zoom, takes Evil Is Petty to new heights by utilizing time travel to go back in time just to make Barry's life miserable. Naturally, this became a joke within a section of the DC fanbase, with Professor Zoom being cast as the sole cause of everything wrong in Barry's life.
• One Wonder Woman (2006) issue written by Gail Simone had Diana annoyed by a film loosely based on her. She was made into the daughter of Zeus and made into a Straw Feminist. Panels from this issue tend to get thrown around because just a few years later the New 52's Wonder Woman (2011) did just what the issue was making fun of (specifically Diana is Zeus' daughter and the Amazons were initially given Adaptational Villainy).
• Pulling a Jon Kent. ^ExplanationWhen a child character is forcibly aged up into a teenager or adult, in which most if not all of their developmental years are skipped over and their prior personality is totally erased. A result of the poorly received decision in Superman (Brian Michael Bendis) to turn Jon Kent from a kid into a 17 year old by having him spend several years lost in space before being held captive on Earth-3. Soon after, DC reintroduced characters such as Lian Harper, Lena Luthor, and Sin Lance as teenagers, while over in Marvel Spider-Woman's son Gerry Drew was artificially aged by Hydra and turned into a villain. Most if not all of these stories have been criticized by fans who're angry that characters like Jon, Lian and Sin didn't get to properly grow up after being treated so poorly by editorial.

Marvel

• Marvel's Civil War miniseries's catch phrase was "Whose side are you on?", referring to the conflict between Captain America and Iron Man. This spawned a lot of messageboard signatures proclaiming "I'm with Cap", "I'm with Tony", and other, more absurd, choices, such as "I'm with Stupid" and "We don't care".
  • For Americans who took it a little too literally, "I'm with Lincoln," or "I'm with Davis."
  • Taking it one step further, with "I'm with Oliver" and "I'm with Charles" version or "I'm with Durruti" and "I'm with Francisco".
  • The Appendix to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe website had "I'm down with Howard", a Call-Back to an earlier "Howard for President" meme.
  • They're all fucked when the Hulk gets back.
• "Tony Stark is everyone." ^Explanation This apparently came about when an Internet denizen asked if anyone had seen him without his mustache. An obliging photoshop revealed that he looked very much like Bruce Wayne, and with glasses, Clark Kent. From there, it snowballed.
• Tony also has a penchant for building in a CAVE! With a BOX of SCRAPS! ^ExplanationFrom the Iron Man movie. The Big Bad shouts to his underlings that Tony built his prototype Phlebotinum... well, see the meme.
• HE/SHE/IT IS A SKRULL! (lesser-used DC variation: It's a White Martian! or It's Clayface! or It's a Skrull! regardless) ^ExplanationFrom Secret Invasion, where a number of characters were revealed to be... well, Skrulls.
  • Even better: ANAL SKRULLS! (What separates them from regular Skrulls is known only to Warren Ellis.)
  • YOU'RE A SKRULL!
  • And if it isn't a Skrull, it's probably a Doombot.
  • Or it could be Everyman.
  • Or a Life Model Decoy.
• "It's magic. We don't have to explain it.", "BONG!" and "Parker Luck" are all memes that spawned from One More Day, Brand New Day and comments from Joe Quesada regarding the continuity change.
  • Bitches Love Spider-Man.
    J.J. Jameson: I don't need [x], I need pictures — pictures of Spider-Man!
  • Even parodied on The Simpsons, where the Jameson Captain Ersatz is the editor of a poetry magazine. When reminded of this, he demands Petrarchan sonnets about Spider-Man. Even voiced by J. K. Simmons himself.
  • In all honesty, Spider-Man really doesn't have many memorable me-OH, WILL YOU SHUT UP!◊
  • "Friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!"^ExplanationLyrics from the 1967 cartoon theme. Later became an Ascended Meme; it was used as the title for one of his series, and is frequently refererence in his appearances across various media.
  • "Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a Spider can..."^ExplanationLyrics from the 1967 cartoon theme.
    • "SPIDER-MAN! SPIDER-MAN! RADIO-ACTIVE SPIDER-MAN!..."^ExplanationLyrics from the 1990s theme, which is a metal update of the 1967 theme, right down to the repeated mention of "radioactive [spider] blood".
  • "*THWIP!*"
  • "One for J.J.!"
  • How Do I Shot Web? (Granted, the phrase originated completely independently of Spidey. The image meme is of him because it's funnier that way.)
  • 60s Spider-Man ^Explanation A Spider-Man cartoon from the 60s with tons of exploitable moments due to poor animation + captions = hilarious image macros.
    • 60s Spider-Man is actually Deadpool. ^ExplanationThe series is so bizarre that many have joked it was a Deadpool cartoon before the Merc with a Mouth was even a concept.
  • Ever since he sold his loving supermodel wife to Satan in exchange for saving her, it's become something of a dark joke in the fandom that Peter is actually in love with his elderly Aunt May.
  • Spider-Man: Threat or Menace?
• Why are there plotholes? Because the Scarlet Witch is messing with her chaos magic again.
  • Scarlet Witch: "No more mutants."
• He did it magnetically
• Thanks to Sally Floyd, MySpace had Captain America killed. By being hit with a NASCAR racecar driven by an American Idol contestant. And this was uploaded to YouTube. Isn't that right, Sally?◊
• People also had a lot of fun with Captain America's last letter to Iron Man.
  • Dammit, Steve.◊
• Nick Fury's god has a hammer.◊
• Captain America's shield-toss sound effect: "I command you to— *wank* "
• "Only one of us is gonna walk out of here under his own steam - and it won't be me!"
• Captain HYDRA aka Steve Rogers/Captain America ^ExplanationThe Reveal at the end of Captain America: Steve Rogers generated a huge backlash from fans accusing Marvel of turning the beloved American icon and superhero who started off fighting Nazis in World War II into The Mole for HYDRA, a subdivison offshoot of the Nazi regime, the entire time. As a result, fans nickname him Captain HYDRA to better reflect his "true" allegiance
  • The Joker now has more moral high standards than Steve Rogers.^ExplanationAfter The Reveal that Captain America was The Mole for his life-long enemy, HYDRA, some have taken to pointing out the image in Even Evil Has Standards from Batman & Captain America, where the Joker is incensed at learning the Red Skull was indeed a Nazi and not faking it as part of a gimmick, and as a result point out that the Joker has more of a moral high ground that Cap. Of note, the Red Skull himself was the one caused the Cosmic Retcon that created the HYDRA version of Steve
  • The "Hail HYDRA!" scene of Steve Rogers gets a meme to itself with various other characters revealing themselves to be secretly being the thing that goes against their nature.
• In regards to Cyclops' Eye Beams not being heat beams, more just beams of concussive force; "They're punches! From the Punch Dimension!"
  • Similarly, Wolverine's healing factor is sometimes explained as obtaining "Meat from the Meat Dimension."
  • Thus there is flyclops.
    • By association, when Scott appeared in Dark Avengers and the captions declared him "Cyclops. Leader of the X-Men. Owner of a jetpack.", it got a bit of attention too.
  • "JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!"
  • Don't forget Colossus. He isn't made of steel. HE IS MADE OF RAGE!
  • "Whoof. Just a moment, not done with 'whoof'."
  • And Kitty Pryde would like to remind you that PROFESSOR XAVIER IS A JERK!
  • Kitty Pryde loves Peters ^ExplanationThe most well-known boyfriends of Kitty were Peter Quill, Peter Wisdom, and Piotr "Peter" Rasputin. Besides that her Ultimate Marvel version also dated Peter Parker. This has led to the joke that she is attracted to anyone named "Peter".
  • "Welcome to the X-Men, [[X]]—Hope You Survive the Experience!" First used with Kitty Pryde's debut with the team, it was later used for Havok on the cover of Uncanny X-Men #219 and the Classic X-Men reprint of issue 171, amongst other places.
  • "To me, my X-Men!" It began as Professor X's Catchphrase and later was picked up by both people mocking the team and by actual leaders like Cyclops.
• Every hero was bitten by a radioactive X and every villain fell into a vat of Y.
• Ever since she defeated Thanos off-panel, "Squirrel Girl is the most powerful being the Marvel Universe."
• Ha-Ha! Doctor Doom is the MASTER of the world!
  • Toot!◊
  • DOOM WOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE IN ALL-CAPS ALL THE TIME IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT ACCURSED RICHAAAARRDDSS!!!
• And Thor would have words with thee, Ultron.◊
  • The hammer doth be his manhood.
• You just made Bruce Banner angry. You won't like him when he's angry.
  • The term "HULK SMASH!" has spawned similar phrases like "RAMSAY SMASH!" or "BOND SMASH!"
• The Punisher:
  • He punched a polar bear in the face.◊
  • Frank Face.^ExplanationThe nickname given to the surly expression the Punisher (and... nearly every other character) almost always has when drawn by Steve Dillon.
    • Frank the Frank.^ExplanationPortraying characters with the aforementioned Frank Face as using Pokémon Speak.
  • I don't pay taxes.^ExplanationWhile watching television, the Punisher utters this phrase; the panel is usually satirically posted to show how "badass" and "hardcore" he is.
  • It's a gun, Frank. A gun that shoots swords.^ExplanationThe most notorious of the Punisher's Impossibly Cool Weapons
  • Where do you live?
    • On the edge.^ExplanationAn infamous exchange in The Punisher 2099.
  • I don't need a jet pack—all I need is hate!^ExplanationAnother oft-repeated (in mad libs form) line from the 2099 spin-off.
  • Not even with a rented dick◊.^ExplanationThe Punisher's response to the come-ons of a cannibalistic Daddy's Little Villain. He says this while wearing Cool Shades.
• Giant-Size Man-Thing! ^ExplanationFrom the title of some old Man-Thing comics.
• "Bob, I want this page thrown into the sun."
• RESPAWN LOL.◊
  • Huh? Do my thoughts still appear in little yellow boxes? I'm good. I missed you, little yellow boxes! We're gonna have so much fun together!
  • Nice scooter, freak!
    • It's a motorbike! It's 100% manly!
  • Shoryuken!
    • Yay, now is fighty time, fighty time, blood blood blood!
  • I love the smell of 372,844 pancakes in the morning. Smells like victory.
• Here's a definitive one:
  Mary Jane Watson: "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!"
• Beast being a "war criminal" seems to be picking up steam at CBR.
• I do what I want, Thor! ^ExplanationLoki has a very childish moment.
• Cool Story Bro.
• ADAMANTIUM RAGE!!!!
• With the success of the New 52 at DC and Avengers vs. X-Men promising big changes, it became popular for a while to claim, whenever Marvel was about to make an announcement, that a Continuity Reboot was just around the corner. Marvel employees actually had to shoot this rumor down several times.
• Cyclops Was Right ^ExplanationMany fans think that Cyclops' thoughts about what the Phoenix Force would do in Avengers vs. X-Men was right and he was right all along — that mutantkind was to be restored by the Phoenix and that the Avengers' actions were indeed in the wrong. This also paints him as a more martyr-like figure à la the "Magneto Was Right" slogan of long ago. It saw a resurgence in Death of X when the Terrigen mists were released upon the atmosphere and it was discovered that it killing mutants. Cyclops' attempt to render it non-toxic for his mutantkind made him go down in history as the mutant equivalent of Hitler. All for wanting to save people.
• Snortblat ^ExplanationAfter the new female Thor was announced in 2014, a commenter on themarysue.com suggested that the original Thor be renamed "Snortblat". Site commenters gleefully adopted the new name.
• [Unsolicited opinions on Israel???] ^ExplanationFrom the short-lived Angela, Queen of Hell, which in one cringeworthy panel replaced things a Strawman MRA would say with [Trope Name]-style topic labels.
• "HULK SMASH PUNY MEME!!!"
  • "The madder Hulk gets, THE STRONGER HULK GETS!"
• No matter what team it is, Wolverine is there.^ExplanationFrom a Tumblr thread that was initially about the difficulty of fighting the X-men because the lineup is always so volatile. The only constant is Wolverine.
• Marvel Civilians and Canada are evil.^ExplanationFrom SpacebattlesWhere due to the less than stellar depictions of civilians in Marvel and villains like Sublime who was in charge of the Weapon X Program situated in Canada and Neverland, a concentration camp for mutants both Canada and Marvel Civilians have been given a less than stellar reputation in Spacebattles and a justification they they are horrible people who don't deserve to be saved
• You can't possibly have a crappier life than Matt Murdock. It's officially a tradition to make his life as horrible as possible.
  • Also, don't date him. You'll die Or worse.^ExplanationHeather and Glorianna were murdered, Elektra and Echo were also murdered but then came back, Milla is stuck in a mental institute, and then there's Typhoid Mary and the Black Widow. Kristen, Dakota and Mindy are fine so far, but who knows...
• Moon Knight:
  • "Giant fucking bird skull."^ExplanationKhonshu's more modern appearance.
  • "In this issue Moon Knight punches ghosts!"
  • Marc's "Mister Knight" persona has become rather memetic thanks to the snazzy, Badass in a Nice Suit style it has.
  • There exists a popular edited image of Moon Knight walking down some stairs, saying: "I know you're here, Dracula, you big fucking nerd. Where's my goddamn money?"◊ Frequently used by fans of works involving vampires, such as Castlevania.
    • This eventually ballooned to memetically◊ making Dracula Moon Knight's Arch-Enemy in spite of the two never, if not barely, interacting. Though considering Dracula is a public domain character and part of the Marvel canon, it's not out of the realm of possibility that eventually we'll get to see Moon Knight canonically confronting Dracula and demand his goddamn money.
  • In general, Moon Knight's reputation for being an insane character has led to edits of panels featuring him replacing his dialogue with Ax-Crazy or Cloudcuckoolander traits.
• "But I don’t want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into Dinosaurs!!"^ExplanationFrom Spider-Man and the X-Men, Sauron responding to Spidey questioning why the villain doesn't use his DNA-rewriting technology for something useful
• "House of Ideas!" ^ExplanationA sarcastic use of Marvel's old phrase of the company being the "House of Ideas," often used to mock Marvel's reliance on rehasing events throughout recent years such as Civil War II, a World War Hulk II arc spinning from the end of the Totally Awesome Hulk book, Miles Morales having a Clone Saga, and an apparent folowup to Heroes Reborn.
• The Tigra Paradox ^ExplanationThe name for a Morton's Fork in some corners of the Internet, invoked whenever someone finds themselves attracted to anthropomorphic animal characters or similar: "If you'd hit it you're a furry; if not you're gay." The "Tigra Paradox" is used to joke how people on the Internet — despite viewing the Furry community as acceptable to be mocked without mercy — actually enjoy Furry fanservice more than they would care to admit, to the point that a guy trying to deny being attracted to the sexy anthro woman in question would be Mistaken for Gay by others.
• Mentions of Hawkeye (2012) are prone to bring in the Tracksuit Mafia's Verbal Tic "Bro". This also extends to the Disney+ show Hawkeye (2021).

Other

• The images for the Sandwich Chef meme originally came from this Chick Tract.
  • Most people rejected His message.^*"Shut up!" They hated Jesus because He told them the truth. ^ExplanationOriginally from a Chick Tracts about Jesus's life. Specifically, there's one particular panel where it's stated that "Most people rejected His message. They hated Jesus because He told them the truth.", with one member of the audience simply yelling "Shut up!" to drive the point home. Just replace "most people" with a particular group and make Jesus say some uncomfortable truth about that group and you've got yourself an exploitable template for a meme.
  • blocked. blocked. blocked. youre all blocked. none of you are free of sin◊ ^ExplanationAn edited image of Jesus telling people they've been blocked is used as a reaction image.
• From Doom: YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR! Well-known enough as a meme that Doom 4 actually incorporated it into the opening lines of the game.
  • "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good..."
  • WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF! A BERSERKER-PACKING MAN AND A HALF!
  • CHAINSAW! THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR!
  • STUPID STUPID STUPID IMP! YOU'RE STUPID AND YOU'RE GONNA BE STUPID AND DEAD!
• Thanks to the dubious quality of his artwork, any picture posted that was drawn by Rob Liefeld is invariably met with the scream of "LIIIIEEEEEFFFFFFIIIIIEEEEELLLLLDDD!" The same is also done for Greg Land LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!! This may or may not have been started by the user "foxhack" at scans_daily, but he sure helped popularize it.
  • In the same vein as Frank Miller, POUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHES (also Liefeld)
  • While we're on the subject of Greg Land: Pornface!
  • Similar screams have been made as Take Thats against Joe Quesada (one of the minds behind the much-hated One More Day storyline in Spider-Man), DC's Dan Didio, and 4Kids Entertainment executive Al Khan.
    • This troper would like to remind you that Dan Didio hates you.
    • Also, he's a mass murderer of heroes.
  • This troper's favorite, glimpsed on the Superdickery.com forums: "In Soviet Union, Crimson Dynamo is with YOU!"
  • The satirical comic book blog ADLO! (which stands for "Association in Defense of Liefield and Others") insread go into calling Liefied 'ROB! (bolding and caps obligatory) each time they talk the man. The same goes for every comic artist whose glories they have to explain.
• From the Star Wars comics, we have K'Kruhk's freakin' sweet hat. Know that the Hat is all powerful. Know that it is the reason its wearer has survived so many near-death experiences.
  • ALL DOSE POIPLE, ALL DOSE HAMBOIGAHS
• STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!!
• "Is that a monkey?" "HE'S GOT A GUN!"
• Certain comic book covers become so often homaged and parodied by later cover artists, that showing someone the original cover elicits the response "So that's how (such-and-such an artist) came up with the cover of (some other comic)!"
  • This happens with Jim Steranko's covers. A lot
  • And Crisis on Infinite Earths #7.
• "Samantha Brown! You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!"
• Similar to the aforementioned Marvel Civil War messageboard banners, "I Am An Avenger" posters depicting new teammembers have spawned numerous joke versions, such as this one.
  • Image Comics took this to a ridiculous extreme, using their parody posters to promote a fake "Guardians of the Globe" cast including a very thinly disguised Harry Potter ("Gary Popper"), Rick Grimes and Barack Obama as new members. The campaign was popular enough to get a back-up strip in the actual team's comic.
• Invincible is a MURDERER
• Tintin:
  • HA HA HA, OH WOW ^ExplanationOriginally Captain Haddock laughing at the then-ridiculous idea of landing on the moon, from Destination Moon.
  • Billions of blue blistering barnacles!
• HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!◊
  • YOU'RE NOT FUCKING WITH MY FRONT PAGE!
  • * PUNCH*
  • LISTEN TO THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH! IT DOES NOT LIE!
• The world can be saved by STEAM!
• HORSECOCK!
• I'm in lesbians with you.
  • Bread makes you fat?
    • YOU PUNCHED THE HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF HER HAIR!
  • "You're incorrigible." "I don't know the meaning of the word." ^note HE REALLY DOESN'T
  • "If your life had a face, I'd punch it."^note In the balls.
• Suicide Squid ^ExplanationA poster in the rec.arts.comics newsgroup made a typo when asking about recent developments in Suicide Squad. Group members made up an entire storyline for the nonexistent character. The newsgroup's annual awards were even named "The Squiddies".
• "Well, back to the old drawing board!" ^Explanationoriginates from a 1941 New Yorker cartoon by Peter Arno.
• "Just give me FIVE MINUTES with the genius who decided _____!"^ExplanationThe first panel of Fish Police Issue 1 has Inspector Gill looking up a staircase and yelling, "Just give me FIVE MINUTES with the genius who decided fish should use stairs!''
• "I want to be Caliph instead of the Caliph!" ^Explanation The catchphrase of the titular Evil Chancellor, used in European countries when describing the goals of a leader's ambitious and unscrupulous underling, or said person's general Klingon Promotion tendencies, or to describe someone whose ambitions far exceed their abilities.
• "All? No. One village peopled by indomitable Gauls still continues to resist the invaders." ^ExplanationThe scene-setting narration on the opening page of most of Asterix's adventures; often parodied in French media. (The official English translation of this narration is not so literal as the one used here.)
• Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics):
  • Mighty Lips ^ExplanationMighty the Armadillo gets drawn with... odd lips◊ in a panel of Knuckles #11. "A Moment of Archie Sonic" pointed them out, and a swarm of Photoshops followed; they even eventually became an◊ Ascended Meme courtesy of penciler Evan Stanley.
  • "I had a bad dream... better microwave the baby." ^ExplanationA panel of Locke awakening from a nightmare is immediately followed by a shot of Knuckles's egg being bombarded with emerald radiation.
  • "NO FUN ALLOWED" ^ExplanationA picture of a SWATBot hammering in a sign with the phrase on it. Easily used when people tend to get super-serious about a topic.
• "I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it."^ExplanationFrom a caption penned by E. B. White for a cartoon by Carl Rose in the December 8, 1928 edition of The New Yorker, which has this as a child's response to being offered broccoli.
  • The 1932 Broadway musical Face the Music had the song "I Say It's Spinach (And The Hell With It)."
  • Fashion is Spinach, by New York dressmaker Elizabeth Hawes, began with a paraphrase of the cartoon caption.
  • George R. R. Martin, in Dreamsongs: "Fantasy? Science fiction? Horror? I say it's a story, and I say the hell with it."
  • Supervolcano: Eruption by Harry Turtledove:
    Microfiber, my ass, Louise thought. I say it's polyester, and I say the hell with it.
  • In the oral argument before the Supreme Court in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius (2012), Justice Antonin Scalia (echoing a popular argument that had been advanced by a federal judge two years earlier) said that the government "can make people buy broccoli" if it can make them purchase health insurance. Among the many mockeries of this argument (which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg would refer to as "the broccoli horrible" in her concurring opinion) was the inevitable New Yorker cartoon by Robert Mankoff: "I say it's government-mandated broccoli, and I say the hell with it."
  • From the play The Animal Kingdom by Philip Barry:
    Franc: I don't like the spring. I don't like May and the trees in bloom.
    Daisy: Nor do I. I say it's maple syrup, and I say the hell with it.
• Conversations regarding Brian Michael Bendis have a habit of devolving into parodies of his dialogue, meaning lots and lots of Department of Redundancy Department.
• Rob Liefeld's Shaft! 7" tall, fully poseable! ^ExplainationFrom an ad for an action figure of said character.
  • Coming soon: Rob Liefeld's Shaft vs Marvel's Giant-Size Man-Thing!
• Albedo: Erma Felna EDF:
  • Sociopolitical Ramifications ^ExplanationA phrase commonly used by the fandom for describing the consequences of the actions of all characters in the plot.
  • Erma with a crowbar ^ExplanationThis meme came out after an incident when a perverted fan asked the author to draw a pin-up of the titular heroine Erma pleasuring herself with a crowbar, and refusing to do so. In reality. this came out when some friends of the author decided to joke with him and one of them decided to imitate the stereotypical voice of a perverted nerd asking for this. For some reason, the whole situation became an urban legend inside the Furry Fandom due to the lack of reliable sources in the 80s and 90s and many people claimed that event happened.
  • Discussing ways about how to kill Tavas Ikalik^ExplanationDuring and after the events of the Dornthant sub-arc, many fans were discussing methods to kill Tavas Ikalik as not only he managed to ruin the titular protagonist (and also her family and many other people's) life's for good, but also he managed to get away with it.
• Jokes about the Electric Black Guy trope and how it's overused in comics are very common.
• Thanks to Diabolik's popularity, in Italian media a name that ends in "ik" (sometimes "ika" for female characters) indicates a character that is at best an Anti-Hero (such as Disney's Paperinik) if not an outright villain (such as Cattivik, Satanik, Chitarrik in the Italian dub of Miraculous Ladybug^note Based on "chitarra", Italian for "guitar". It's the best possible translation of the original name Guitar Vilain (literally "Guitar Villain" in French) and Diabolik himself).

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