Memes / Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Well, that's a great way to spend one of your nine lives.

• "Hey, you wanna see something cool?" ^Explanation Clips of Puss saying the titular line before the bell whacks the giant in the face during the film's opening are frequently edited so that the bell itself is something else entirely, usually to comedic effect.
• Shrek's answer to Logan. ^Explanation IGN's review about the film caused a surprise to people since this was before the movie had aired in theaters, making people poke fun at a seemingly random comparison. Of course, the movie deservedly received praises from audiences making this comparison apt.
• The fact that this movie has a higher Tomatometer and Audience Score than Avatar: The Way of Water has also become a meme. Sometimes paired with M3GAN, as that movie similarly had higher scores than Avatar 2 as well.
• Some memes and jokes of this movie being the fourth Pinocchio movie of 2022 were made due to this movie featuring both Pinocchio and a talking cricket who serves as the conscience.
  • And when this movie lost the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature to Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, there were plenty of jokes about Jack Horner losing to Pinocchio again, like he does in his flashback scene in the movie.
• An image of Puss crying with his mascara running has been a new reaction image for the internet to exploit.
• The Wolf has predictably drawn a lot of attention.
  • Common reactions include him being described as hot or sexy, in spite or perhaps because of him being Death himself.
  • He's also seen crossover with various borzoi memes, being given its notorious long muzzle in fanart.
  • Him being Brazilian (in reference to his voice actor).
    • Jetstream Wolf. ^Explanation The final fight between Puss and the Wolf is shot in a very action heavy style reminding a lot of people of action games like Metal Gear Rising, and combined with the Wolf's alleged Brazilian nationality, makes him a Jetstream Sam counterpart to Puss's Raiden. There's even an edit that sets the final battle to Jetstream Sam's theme, to boot.
  • A black-and-white photo of him accompanied by his ominous whistle has seen frequent use as a reaction video on Twitter. It's often used as an omen, or even a straight up death threat, albeit in jest.
  • "What's the matter? Lives flashing before your eyes? Pick it up. PICK. IT UP." ^Explanation The Wolf menacing a terrified Puss in their first battle is often edited to fit other situations where the Wolf is forcefully demanding Puss to pick up or take something.
  • I'm Death. Straight up.^{Explanation (SPOILERS)} One of Death's iconic lines is famous that it gets mixed around or altered for jokes. Like "I'm gay, straight up!" or "I'm Death, gay down!"
    • "This is [X], and I don't mean it metaphorically, rhetorically, theoretically, poetically or in any other fancy way. This is [X], straight up."^Explanation The full version of the above quote. Often featured in appreciative comments about fan art, music, fiction, etc. featuring the character, such as "this is amazing, straight up".
  • Inside you are two wolves: One says slay, the other says SLAY. ^Explanation Out of the two wolf characters in the Shrek movies, one is a Wholesome Crossdresser, and the other is the literal embodiment of Death. This has led to memes comparing them to the "Inside you are two wolves" meme, and even Opposites Attract shipping.
• [speaks in Spanish] ^Explanation For whatever reason, a version of the official closed captions transcribe all instances of Spanish dialogue in the film as [speaks in Spanish]. Because much of the dialogue in the film is bilingual, this leads to instances where the dialogue becomes nonsensical because they didn't translate it. It resulted in a lot of jokes about people's favorite lines being [speaks in Spanish] or, because of how the subtitles handle Perrito's name, one of the film's main characters being named [speaks in Spanish]. There's an actual proper subtitle that does type out the Spanish lines, but it is still surprising that there's two versions of the subtitles.
• Jack Horner, too, has been subject to plenty of memes:
  • "Woah! Woah! What took you so long, IDIOT?!" ^Explanation Jack Horner's reaction to the Ethical Bug calling him an irredeemable monster, typically used to ridicule those who discover or realize something terrible about a person or character when others have known all along.
    • "You're horrible!" ^Explanation Ethical Bug screams this at Jack while dramatically pointing at him, leading to Jack's reaction above. Fan artist love drawing other characters in the same pose, pointing at other "irredeemable monsters".
  • "Y-y-you're not gonna shoot a puppy, are ya, Jack?" "Yeah, in the face, why?" ^Explanation The Ethical Bug's reaction to Jack Horner threatening to shoot Perrito and Jack's Blunt "Yes" response to him. Fans enjoy photoshopping the Ethical Bug onto the shoulders of other villains and people with him asking them if they're really going to commit their villainous acts, with them having the same response as Jack.
  • "Y-y-you're not gonna claim that T. rex was only a scavenger, are you, Jack?" ^Explanation "Big" Jack Horner has an almost identical name to a notable palaeontologist who's become infamous for his controversial views, most notably the "scavenger T. rex" claim he pushed in the early 2000's. Dinosaur enthusiasts who watched this movie took note of this fact and had a field day with it.
  • Big Jack Horner Grindset / Sigma Male Jack Horner. ^Explanation The Comedic Sociopathy of Jack Horner combined with his imposing stature made him a natural fit for the "Sigma Male" meme (think Übermensch meets Testosterone Poisoning). YouTube and TikTok saw semi-ironic Fanvids of Jack Horner with his lines put to various music mixes that made him look impressive.
  • Jack Horner pondering his orb. ^Explanation The shot of Jack Horner looking at the crystal ball during the Travel Montage has been used for all sorts of memes. Either crossing over with the "Pondering My Orb" memes or the crystal ball being greenscreened allowing all sorts of images, gifts or videos to be superimposed onto it.
  • "Jack Horner, You Don't Have To Be The Bad Guy." ^Explanation YouTube videos include Jack Horner interacting with Steven Universe about redemption. Steven plays the role exactly as the Ethical Bug with the goal of redeeming Jack Horner, but the latter is completely unrepentant. The result of Steven's and Jack's conversation creates lots of Black Comedy on how heinous Jack Horner can be compared to Steven's Wide-Eyed Idealist belief with redemption being possible to everyone can be, and a frequent comment in said videos is that Steven should have faced an unrepentant villain like Jack who would have challenged his philosophy- in particular, the controversial redemption of the Diamond Authority is brought up as something that should not have happened.
  • What did you do to deserve this? Umm, everything. ^Explanation Many fans' response to Jack Horner's last words is to either list all the crimes he committed in film or point out how hypocritical it is to claim that since he hasn't done a single good thing.
    • He means what specifically. ^Explanation This is immediately followed by fans who point that Jack Horner isn't avoiding responsibility for actions, but rather wanting to know which crime finally did him in to warrant his demise since he committed so many crimes. Many joke that Jack's one positive trait is that he's at least honest about being an evil bastard who deserves what's coming for him.
  • "Oi! I'm gonna bust you up, Plum Thumb, and then I'm gonna wear your clothes!"
    • "That was weird." ^Explanation The scene where Baby Bear is threatening Jack, who just responds by saying "That was weird" and blasting him, is often memed and edited to showcase when someone tries to be threatening, but the other person either ignores them or just blasts them in response.
• #PUSSYSWEEP ^Explanation In reaction to the rapidly growing profit increase the movie has been getting, someone tried to add The Last Wish to the growing list of snowclones of Morbius (2022)'s #MorbiusSweep with this hashtag to continue generating hype for the film. Reactions to the term ranged from those taking Refuge in Audacity and running with it, to doing a Double Take before stating "we're not calling it that".
• Uhh, I don't know, I never counted. I'm not really a math guy, you know. ^Explanation Puss's response when the doctor asks him how many of his nine lives he's lost. It started getting used in relation to how much time people have spent playing a game, where Puss starts out standing in the way of the answer before moving and revealing the thousands of hours spent on said game.
• Who is your favorite fearless hero? Who is your favorite fearless hero? ^Explanation Using the first lines of Puss' song in relationship to someone doing something heroic — or something they THINK is heroic.
• HE IS COOKIN SUM FR. ^Explanation An image of Puss making a meal in Mama Luna's kitchen which is now used as a reaction meme to praise someone for speaking an acceptable truth.
• Realistic animated panic attacks. ^Explanation Soon after the movie came out, people noted that Puss' panic attack is portrayed very realistically and compared it to the less realistic one in Velma. Later on, the Spider-Man: Spider-Verse short "The Spider Within" was announced to feature Miles having a panic attack, and some have mistakenly referred to a scene of Mario being hurt and afraid in The Super Mario Bros. Movie as a panic attack. Finally, ridiculous amounts of praise holstered onto the scene has led to jokes about every animated work released around that time having to feature a panic attack and arguing which is the most realistic one, or complaining about how they can't enjoy a movie that doesn't have one.

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