History Memes / Oppenheimer

** During the movie's release, a new meme has been spawned: ''Oppenheimer'' ended up being the movie to [[https://twitter.com/WrittenByHanna/status/1682848211919069184 set unrealistic beauty standards]] instead of ''Barbie'', with audiences looking into using jade rollers after seeing the movie in order to achieve Cillian Murphy's jawline.

* [[https://x.com/mannfacts/status/1683918393236152333?s=46&t=Ya28dCuMrNVqvQWWTs8NJA "I just know [General Groves] was demolishing chips and salsa at Los Alamos"]], a fairly simple joke about Groves as portrayed by Matt Damon looking like [[ShapedLikeItself a man who would really enjoy chips and salsa]], became a more general meme associated with the film (such as one Twitter user [[https://x.com/boyohwow/status/1700296435219005730?s=46&t=Ya28dCuMrNVqvQWWTs8NJA picking chips and salsa as a snack to accompany reading the screenplay]], or even suggesting that Paul Newman's Groves from ''Film/FatManAndLittleBoy'' would demolish [[https://x.com/oppietwt/status/1699629691617874002?s=46&t=Ya28dCuMrNVqvQWWTs8NJA Newman's Own brand chips and salsa]] instead).

* "Zoopers!" [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxLSFgFpPsw A Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon parody of the film]] created by WebVideo/SolidJJ in which Oppenheimer [[ForcedMeme insists on using]] a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley-esque]] exclamation of surprise has lead to an uptick in ironic usage by fans on Twitter.[[/labelnote]]

* Similarly to the above, using images of Oppenheimer being interrogated by Roger Robb at his security clearance renewal hearing has become a way of poking fun at feeling like one's embarrassing behavior or association with a group of people one doesn't want to be associated with is being dredged up (such as former Franchise/HarryPotter fans insisting they always preferred Franchise/PercyJackson). Some versions of the meme use an ordinary image of Robb looking suspicious (often, but not always, accompanied by an image of Oppenheimer looking vaguely uncomfortable on the stand), but more intense ones use the washed-out, distorted images from when Oppenheimer is so overwhelmed by being faced with the reminder of his lack of interest in preventing the bomb being dropped on Japanese civilians that he starts to vividly hallucinate the effects of the bomb in the interrogation room itself.

* "Zoopers!" [[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://twitter.com/bobgoochman/status/1690775974697127936?s=46&t=Ya28dCuMrNVqvQWWTs8NJA A Creator/HannaBarbera-style cartoon parody of the film]] in which Oppenheimer [[ForcedMeme insists on using]] a [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo Velma Dinkley-esque]] exclamation of surprise has lead to an uptick in ironic usage by fans on Twitter.[[/labelnote]]

* Oppenheimer’s [[ThePornomancer remarkable sexual history]] is another popular Twitter meme subject , with a few variations:

** A matched pair of edited posters for both movies (''Oppenheimer''[='=]s retitled ''Fuck Around'' and ''Godzilla]][='=]s retitled ''Find Out'') have been making the rounds.

* Toho Studios announced the release of ''Film/GodzillaMinusOne'' a week and a half before the release of ''Oppenheimer''. The Big G's new film will be set in post-war Japan and deal heavily with nuclear weaponry. The “''Oppenheimer'' is a ''Godzilla'' prequel” jokes wrote themselves.
** A matched pair of edited posters for both movies (Oppenheimer’s retitled “Fuck Around” and Godzilla’s retitled “Find Out”) have been making the rounds.