History Memes / BaldursGateIII

* King Jellyfish[[labelnote:explanation]]The Netherbrain, the final main boss, has the design of an enormous brain with multiple large tentacles wearing the Crown of Karsus. It's supposed to be very intimidating, and it is, but it also is highly reminiscent of [[https://spongebob.fandom.com/wiki/King_Jellyfish King Jellyfish]] from ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''. Many people found the design hard to take seriously after that.[[/labelnote]]

* [=F##K=] WULBREN BONGLE [[labelnote:Explanation]]Wulbren Bongle, a deep gnome and resistance leader, is regarded as one of the biggest [[TheScrappy Scrappys]] and HateSink[=s=] for his being an UngratefulBastard and FantasticRacist who wants to kill the Gondian gnomes enslaved by Gortash for no reason than because he hates them (the fact that they are forced to build and maintain Gortash's Steel Watchers is only a secondary consideration). It got to the point that a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClezDg8n6uw full-fledged]] DissTrack was made disparaging him.[[/labelnote]]

* The Eclipse. [[labelnote]] One of the previews for the expanded evil endings in Patch 7 show the Dark Urge standing among a field of corpses with a blood-colored sky and total eclipse. The comparisons to the infamous Eclipse in Manga/{{Berserk}} quickly followed, with the Dark Urge's actions being compared to what Griffith did to his own countrymen- sacrificing them all to a bloody fate to earn an evil God's favor.[[/labelnote]]

* "My love life is none of your business, skeleton".[[labelnote:Explanation]]Some players who chose to romance nobody (Especially those on the ace-spectrum) feel like this is one of the most cathartic lines to say in the game - as it feels like the game is to "Fix" them (a common microaggression that asexual and aromantic people face) after not respecting that they said "No".[[/labelnote]]

* The Bear. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In the final panel for the game, a romance scene was shown with Halsin shifting into a bear and then proceeding to make love to the player character (while still in bear form).[[/labelnote]]

* "Desperate Gale"[[labelnote:Explanation]]Gale is so easy to romance that many do so ''on accident''. Some players have been unlucky enough to have to break up with him, or even be scolded by him for cheating, when they never intended to be with him in the first place. This has led to the joke that Gale is a desperate NiceGuy who takes any interaction to be romantic and gets wildly jealous when the PC shows interest in anyone else.[[/labelnote]]

* Gale eating shoes [[labelnote:Explanation]]Gale’s need for magic items to sustain [[spoiler:the Netherese Destruction Orb inside of him]] is often turned into a joke about him needing to eat the magic items the player gives him, with magic shoes being the most common item for him to consume.[[/labelnote]]

* God's Favourite Princess (and the most interesting girl in the world)[[labelnote:Explanation]]After the release of [[https://twitter.com/alionabaranova1/status/1693374982745686134 this]] clip of Shadowheart's voice actress, Creator/JenniferEnglish, reciting a shitpost as Shadowheart where she declares herself as such, it's became the unofficial title for the character; English repeated it for the D&D session the cast did with High Rollers, and fans have taken to calling Shadowheart this in posts, with or without the "most interesting girl in the world" continuation. This became an AscendedMeme as of the epilogue party in Patch 5, where Shadowheart can quote a very similar line, apparently as the final ravings of a Githyanki heretic.[[/labelnote]]

** Gortash misses the Dark Urge/Gortash has never been the same since dealing with Orin.[[labelnote:Explanation (spoilers)]]A popular fan theory is that Gortash really ''did'' look rather handsome and young...back when he was working with the Dark Urge, and then Orin replaced them and dealing with her insanity aged him up like crazy. In conjunction with this, Gortash and the pre-amnesia Dark Urge have also become a popular pairing, given the ample evidence in-game that they made a really good team and genuinely admired each other.[[/labelnote]]

* Sheepthazar [[labelnote:Explanation]]Balthazar in the Shadowfell is potentially a very tough fight -- he has numerous undead minions and powerful AreaOfEffect magic. Unless you decide to use a creative strategy, of which a very popular and highly meme-able one is to BalefulPolymorph him into a sheep and throw him into the abyss that surrounds the battle arena. The contrast between Balthazar's evil and arrogance, with the extremely UndignifiedDeath, immortalized this tactic.[[/labelnote]]

* Astarion Dating Sim. [[labelnote:Explanation]] Astarion's fandom has been notably vocal during the early access period of the game; he is by far the most common ship listed on fanfic sites like Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. He even gained popularity in non-gamer circles as he would wind up on the social media feeds of people who enjoy fantasy and romance literature. This spawned a meme amongst his fans wherein people joke that they only play the game to romance him.[[/labelnote]]

* "Did you know Baldur's Gate III is actually a turn-based RPG? I thought it was a ''porn'' game!" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Baldur's Gate 3 was ''notoriously'' famous for its pornographic aspects and very ''very'' horny party members (due to a glitch). As a result? Most people heard of it ''via'' the sex cutscenes and jokingly suggested "Wait, it's actually an RPG?"[[/labelnote]]

* God's Favourite Princess (and the most interesting girl in the world)[[labelnote:Explanation]]After [[https://twitter.com/alionabaranova1/status/1693374982745686134 this]] clip of Shadowheart's voice actress, Creator/JenniferEnglish, reciting a shitpost as Shadowheart where she declares herself as such, it's became the unofficial title for the character; English repeated it for the D&D session the cast did with High Rollers, and fans alike have taken to calling Shadowheart this in posts, with or without the "most interesting girl in the world" continuation.[[/labelnote]]

* "Thou walkest alone". [[labelnote:Explanation]] Should you choose not to pursue any of the romances, Withers will comment on it by saying this line. The phrase has since become popular in a similar fashion to the "[[VideoGame/EldenRing Maidenless]]" and "[[WesternAnimation/{{Megamind}} NO BITCHES?]]" memes before it. Some fans have even drawn versions of the latter meme with
[[https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15qvnxm/withers_is_savage/ Withers in the place of Megamind]].[[/labelnote]]