History Memes / Ward

* HALPING. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Per the Waste's interlude, shards often try to help their hosts in... questionable ways. "I'M HALPING" has become the go-to term for a shard trying to resolve their host's problems with a power that is harmful or even actively counterproductive.[[/labelnote]]

* It's handled [[labelnote: Explanation (Arc 14 spoilers)]]When Victoria visists Amy in Earth Shin and confronts her about her alleged healing fuckup, Amy continuously denies it being a problem, repeating variations of "It's handled". [[BelievingTheirOwnLies It becomes increasingly clear it is not, in fact, handled]]. Memes have then been made of Amy saying things that sound similar to "handled", and Victoria flipping out over it.[[/labelnote]]

* Defiant has entered Dad-Mode.[[labelnote: Chewing Breachthrough out for whatever world(s)-impacting rules-evasion they've been caught doing this time tends to get Colin pulling stereotypical Angry Dad behaviour and language out of storage. Including grounding everybody in sight, but ''especially'' Kenzie.[[/labelnote]]

* YEET (Or, Victoria's about to end this woman's whole career) [[labelnote: Explanation]] During Arc 12, Victoria gets into a fight with a group of villains including Etna, a woman who can shoot globs of molten glass from her hands and fly slowly. Antares, getting fed up with Etna's seeming disregard for how she might hurt someone with her power (and being a much better flier) manages to close to point blank range with Etna in midair, grab her, and [[HumanHammerThrow hurl her into a hillside shotput-style]]. Some arcs later, Antares discovers that this experience actually caused Etna to reconsider her life decisions, retire from villainy and [[HeelFaceTurn maybe even consider helping out the heroes.]] In other words, Victoria yeeted someone so hard they turned good.

* Blingalingadingding [[labelnote: Explanation]][[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/az4t4i/is_there_a_trend_in_the_arc_names_of_ward/ A commenter]] noticed that Gleaming and Blinding, the two worst arcs for the heroes, had their name end with -ing. Wildbow answered "Just wait for blingalingadingding." When Arc 14 was revealed to be named "Breaking", people quickly assumed the worst.

** [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Victoria the Stand User]] [[labelnote: Explanation]]It didn't take long for people to start comparing the mechanics of Victoria's wretch/forcefield to the stand powers of Jojo's Bizzare Adventure.[[/labelnote]]

* Fuck March. [[labelnote: Explanation]]March's timing power is incredibly potent, leading some fans to conclude that she's unrealistically overpowered or has PlotArmor. [[spoiler:Then she kills fan favorite character Vista and sets off another S-Class disaster]] all for a reason that's both petty and not even based on accurate information.[[/labelnote]]

** Heavens 12.4 added fuel to the fire with the reveal of [[spoiler:Cradle's "egg", and Victoria's subsequent plan to deal with it: using Rain's emotion power to "boil" it, affecting Cradle while inside, but leaving the "shell" intact. Some commenters have joked that her hatred of eggs would lead the heroes to victory.]]

* Why doesn't Victoria eat egg? [[labelnote:Explanation]]Daybreak 1.8 has Victoria mention that she doesn't normally eat eggs, which prompted a commenter to theorize whether eggs could remind her of her past self and/or Gold Morning. Wildbow's response? "Maybe she doesn't like egg?" Variations of this phrase have since been used to mock elaborate theories about tiny details that don't really mean anything.[[/labelnote]]

* Scroll all the way down [[labelnote: Explanation]]12.X's controversial [[spoiler: fake-out]] ending, lead to confused and bewildered people in the comment section, who got said phase as an explanation[[/labelnote]]

Due to a rich and active fandom, {{Literature/Ward}} has a small but growing number of memes associated with it. Both as part of the story, and as part of the story discussion.
Please include citation and links where possible. Unmarked spoilers below. This intro is taken directly from the [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Memes/Worm Worm Memes]] page.

* Cradle is [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/Caillou Caillou]]. [[labelnote: Explanation (Heavens 12.f spoilers)]]Wildbow has a notable dislike of Caillou and has explained several times how the show sets a bad precedent for kids that watch it. When Cradle's interlude released and showcased his sociopathy as well as general shittyness as a kid, particularly his tantrums, people jokingly said he was supposed to be a dark parody of Caillou.[[/labelnote]]