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• Action 52:
  • The Cheetahmen ran off... And now... The Cheetahmen ^Explanation The text on the last screen of the opening cutscene of "The Cheetahmen," which clumsily attempts to narrate an Excuse Plot. Whenever it is mentioned, it's common to jokingly claim that it is one of the greatest video game stories of all time.
  • The Cheetahmen theme song has received a lot of remixes, MADs, and other tributes across the Japanese web due to its high quality in contrast with the rest of the game.
• Age of Empires:
  • Wololo ^Explanation The sound that a priest makes in the first Age of Empires. Became a taunt for Age of Empires II. The Internet then ran with it, having various images being "converted" from red to blue for example.
  • Rogan? ^Explanation One of the speeches when selecting a villager.
  • The image of the king from the cover of Age of Empires II became an "advice animal"-style meme, often lampshading the strange logic of the games. Text accompanying him included "Attack stone castle. It catches fire" and "10 elephants fit in a boat. 11 archers don't."
  • Ze blood on La Hire's sword is almost dry!^Explanation La Hire's Third-Person Person speech patterns have become quite memorable among the fandom.
  • SEND FORTH THE FLAMING CAMELS! ^Explanation A memetic line said by Tamerlane at the start of the mission "Sultan of Hindustan" when he reveals his secret weapon to counter Shah Tughluq's War Elephants. This became an Ascended Meme when the Flaming Camels were added to the Tatars.
• Altered Beast (1988):
  • WISE FWOM YO GWAVE! ^Explanation This line is uttered in the beginning of the game and ends up sounding like it's said by Elmer Fudd due to hardware limitations.
  • POWER UP.
  • NEVER GIVE UP. ^Explanation Said when using a continue in the Arcade version only, as the Genesis version did not have enough space to recreate the quote.
  • WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM! ^Explanation The Big Bad's line before every boss fight.
• This whole video of Amnesia: The Dark Descent ^Explanation This reaction video has come to represent the level of fear you experience while playing.
  • What even is that thing? ^Explanation Whatever it is, it is not traditional fire.
    • The "Not a traditional fire" line actually became a Fun T-Shirt at one point, qualifying as an Ascended Meme in the process.
  • Oh GOD, I have to go into this next room. ^Explanation Is pretty much the unofficial tagline for the game. Every time the player enters a new room, they have to face a brand new horror. Or sometimes, nothing at all.
  • Oh shit, I have a bag of Milky Ways! :D
    • AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!! ^Explanation The video in question is taken from three friends playing simultaneously while chatting. One of them finds a bag of Milky Ways right before something scary happens to another, making it sound as though the player was in mortal terror of said candy.
  • The floor is made of terrible!
  • Go to (pick any level), NOPE. ^Explanation Another popular gif shows a player opening a door only to be confronted with a monster emerging from the shadows. Their reaction is to simply shut the door and briskly walk back the way they came.
  • Similarly, there's the shortest Let's Play ever.
• Anonymous Agony:
  • YE YE YE ^Explanation The first few words of a song called "Playback" by Nieve. About 80% of the game uses it, so it wormed its way into the players' heads.
  • YOU BETTER CHECK YO EXO SKELLO TEEN ^Explanation Another line from that song.
  • Ouch dad, isn't it society's fault I'm the way that I am? ^Explanation One of Haze's lines to his father, mocked as typical edgy gamer speak and for its relation to other "society" memes.
  • Stop being such an ass Haze! ^Explanation Clara keeps calling Haze an ass. Her high voice and young age make it rather funny.
  • Smoothie time. ^Explanation Craig's line after receiving a blender from Haze.
  • Haze is literally me. ^Explanation Haze is the logical conclusion of a Troubled Teen as an adventure game protagonist. Many people used this line ironically to point out how Haze's personality and worldview weren't too different from their own at his age.
• Antimatter Dimensions:
  • 5 hours until the update ^Explanation When someone asks when the next update's going to come out, "5 hours" is the standard response. For the time the Reality update was in Development Hell, it had become increasingly inaccurate, especially when the Steam version was given the release date of "In 5 hours™".
• Ar tonelico Qoga: Knell of Ar Ciel:
  • Buri Hamachi, Buri Hamachi... ^Explanation Buri Hamachi videos are set to a looped segment of a song from the game called "EXEC_HYMME_BATTLESPHERE/.#Saki extracting". A part of the song sounds like the singer is saying "buri hamachi", buri and hamachi both being words for the Japanese amberjack. Thus, Buri Hamachi videos involve a dancing character holding a fish. The stripping at the end comes from the "Purging" game mechanic, in which female characters strip to their underwear to power up their magic.
• Bad Dudes:
  • "The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?"^Explanation The famous plot screen. Also rendered as "President Ronnie" depending on which version you're playing (the latter appears in the arcade version; the former in the NES version because of Nintendo's censorship policies).
• Banjo-Kazooie:
  • An unexpected jinjo appeared!◊ ^Explanation ASCII art of a jinjo that pops up in ASCII art threads or discussions about jinjos. Always unexpected, similar to the Spanish Inquisition.
    • Another version of the meme.◊
• Batman: Arkham City:
  • TWO GUNS, BITCH! ^Explanation Two-Face says this after Catwoman scratches him, causing his gun to fall outta his hand, and she taunts him by saying "No gun, Harv? Shame."
  • BAM A HAM YUM / BAMHAM CITY ^Explanation Overly popular photoshops from the games's cover art with several letters removed. Brought to you by the letter /v/.
• Battle Garegga:
  • Doing x will increase the rank.^Explanation The game is notorious for its "rank" gimmick, as detailed here. This led to a lot of questions asking what raises the rank, and given that many things increase it (such as collecting powerups, firing your main weapon, and even just letting the game run) raise the rank and that there's no visible rank counter unless you mod it in, this led to some rank theories that were later proven false (such as so much as changing option formations), and some jokes about the game increasing rank for doing just about anything in-game.
• Battletoads:
  • "Do you have Battletoads?" ^Explanation A common prank call to GameStop or other game retailers.
  • "Is this Battletoads?" ^Explanation Used to feign confusion when discussing the game or others. Some claim that it's actually "Combat Amphibians," Doom³ or "GIMMICKS ARE DUMB, I SHOULD BE BANNED," the last one being an automatic filter to deter Battletoads spam.

• Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing:
  • "YOU'RE WINNER!"^Explanation In first-run copies of the game, crossing the finish line presented the player with a bizarre three-handled trophy and the Engrish phrase "YOU'RE WINNER". A later revision corrected this to "YOU WIN", but the three-handled trophy remained.
• Beyond: Two Souls:
  • "Game Overs are a failure of the game designer." ^Explanation Taken from an interview with developer David Cage, and has since become something that he'll never live down.
• BioShock:
  • FISTFULLALOITNIN! ^Explanation When you get your first Plasmid ability (Electro Bolt), Atlas remarks, "There's nothing like a fistful of lightning, now is there?"
  • MUCHAAAAASSS GRACIASSSSS, SENOR!!!^Explanation The ammo vending machine is just full of hammy Gratuitous Spanish.
  • WELCOME TO THE CIRCUS OF VALYEWZ!!! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!^Explanation The standard vending machine will scream this every time you use it.
  • Would you kindly? ^Explanation A Trigger Phrase used throughout the game by Atlas to get you to do everything.
  • Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?
    • "NO!" says the man in X, "it belongs to Y!" ^Explanation Both lines are from Andrew Ryan's opening speech.
  • "Goddamn Sploicers!"^Explanation Atlas' (fake) Irish accent is a target for mockery by fans.
  • You don't fuck Fontaine, Fontaine fucks you!
• BioShock Infinite:
  • "BOOKER, CATCH!"^Explanation Elizabeth helps you in combat situations by tossing you ammo, health, or salts (mana). She'll yell this line to get your attention once she's found something, and given the amount of combat, you'll be hearing it often. Quite often, fans depict Booker getting hit in the face by whatever she threw at him.
  • "X, will X, have X-ed."^Explanation The Luteces will repeat the various tenses of a word to show how arbitrary tense is according to their infinite Alternate Universe worldview.
  • "The bird?" "Or the cage?"^Explanation The Luteces gift one of two necklace brooches to Elizabeth at one point, and you have to pick which one.
  • WAIT A MINUTE, THAT CARD!
  • On a non-verbal example, Booker eating food he finds in trash cans.^Explanation It's not just the standard video game trope; once Elizabeth is with you, one can only imagine the weird impression she's getting from her rescuer.
• Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night:
  • "Kill those murderers dead!" ^Explanation Lindsay is an NPC who has become vengeful after watching her friends and family killed in a demonic invasion. She tasks Miriam with avenging her fallen loved ones. Her hammy delivery of this line, its grammatical redundancy, and the fact that she repeats it every time you accept a quest from her resulted in it gaining popularity.
  • "EEEEEEEEEE!" (Long pause) "OOOOOOOOOOH!" ^Explanation "Outsider" knights (i.e. Blood Grinder Knight, Shield Outsider, Axe Outsider and G Axe Outsider) utter this cry (a.k.a. Voice #813 in the Sound Menu) when they're killed. It quickly gained traction among fans for its hilarity.
• Borderlands series:
  • In Claptrap Web Series, we meet Steve. HEYOOO!!! *shot* ^Explanation He says that in response to Claptrap's "Hey Steve!", and shoots a fellow bandit down.
  • 'YOU WOKE THE WRONG DOG! AWW YEAH!
  • Borderlands:
    • Nine Toes! (Also: he has three balls!) ^Explanation First actual 'Boss' you face in the game.
    • ROAR FOR ME PANDORA!!! ^Explanation Moxxy. Need I say more?
  • Borderlands 2: Butt Stallion:
    • Early on in the game, Handsome Jack calls up the player to talk about a pony made of diamonds that he bought that he plans to name "Piss-for-brains" in honor of the player. He later settles upon the name "Butt Stallion". Comparisons to Rarity are inevitable.
    • Butt Stallion later appears in the Assault on Dragons Keep DLC... at least what Tiny Tina thinks the pony looks like.
    • "God, these pretzels suck!"^Explanation One of Jack's more memorable lines is an offhand comment about the quality of the pretzels he is eating, completely out of nowhere and preceding the "Butt Stallion" exchange.
• Bungo to Alchemist: Who are you calling granny? I am quite obviously a man!^Explanation Ozaki Kōyō's critical hit dialogue, which ends up making Granny his Fan Nickname
• California Speed:
  SoMETIMES
  God TaKes MOMMIES
  aNd PuPPIES AWAY…
  And SoMETIMES…
  Just SoMETIMES…
  
  I do.^Explanation This was a placeholder image for one of the billboards in the Nintendo 64 version that ended up not getting replaced.
• Captain America and the Avengers:
  • "You can't escape!" "YOU will be the one escaping!" ^Explanation A pre-fight conversation between the Avengers and Whirlwind.
• Captain Novolin, a diabetes-themed video game:
  • The creepy doctors. ^Explanation In between levels, Captain Novolin thinks of his doctors, who inform him of various guidelines he must follow. Their Unintentional Uncanny Valley appearances pushed them straight into meme territory.
  • "Hello, [name]! I have diabetes. Is there anything I need to know before [verb]ing this [noun]?" ^Explanation In the sixth level, the Captain encounters a ranger, and immediately tells him he has diabetes - a particularly narmy exchange.
  • "Check you feet". ^Explanation Right after the above exchange, the game promptly tells you to check you feet for blisters and sores.
• Catherine
  • "X has appeared. It's a killer. Do not die." ^Explanation The Boss Warning Siren.
  • "LOVE IS OVER" ^Explanation The Game Over screen.
  • "Edge. Edge. Edge. Edge." ^Explanation Blocks can be held up by the edges of other blocks. When a falling block is caught in this way, the announcer calls out "Edge."
    • "Undo. Undo. Undo. Undo." ^Explanation On Easy and Normal modes, the player can undo their last action, e.g. if the player gets stuck. Again, the announcer calls out every instance of this action.
• cat planet:
  • cat planet cat planet cat planet planet cat cat planet cat planet cat cat planet... ^Explanation In Raocow's Let's Play of Cat Planet... he repeated the name of the game. A lot.
• GameStop turning◊ Chrono Trigger into Napoleon Dynamite.
  • Let's not forget the singing robot Gato!
    "My name is Gato,
    I have metal joints,
    Beat me up,
    And earn fifteen silver points!"
  • HP/MP restored! ...but you're still hungry. ^Explanation Healing devices found in the gloomy 2300 AD give this message.
  • Good Morning, Crono!
  • But... the future refused to change. ^Explanation Text from the bad ending triggered when you die against Lavos.
  • You have been Robo-Rolled! ^Explanation Robo's theme sounded coincidentally like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up to some fans.
    • "Rocket Roll'd" is an alternate term for this. ^Explanation After the name of one of his techs.
  • Burn! Bobonga! had been used memetically, especially in YTMND, for Brian Peppers.
• Chzo Mythos: I JUST WANTED TO GO INTO SPAAACE!! ^Explanation The Narmtastic Motive Rant in 7 Days a Skeptic.
• Civilization:
  • Nuclear Gandhi. ^Explanation Players of the original Civ got a chuckle out of a noted pacifist using the same "Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" threats as other leaders, so that in later titles his leader AI was given a fondness for nukes. This wasn't helped by the rumor that Gandhi's original AI was subject to an overflow glitch that would cause his Aggression rating to "fall" from 1 to 255, which Sid Meier himself had to try to dispell.
    • Our words are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS! ^Explanation This threat was tacked onto dialogues (even friendly ones) in I and II when a civilization had the capacity to build nukes. Especially memetic and entertaining when it's the aforementioned Gandhi◊.
  • Spearman vs. Tank. ^Explanation Sometimes obsolete units get lucky with the RNG. Sometimes they get really lucky, as in the classic example of spearmen (one of the earliest, weakest units) defeating modern-era tanks.
  • Pledge to protect. ^Explanation One of the options for diplomacy with City-states is the option to pledge to protect them. Outside of the series, the screencap of this option on the diplomacy menu has been used on anything that is deemed worth protecting, such as cute characters.
• Command & Conquer:
  • "That was left-handed!" and "I got a present for ya!" ^Explanation Some of the original Commando unit's one-liners.
  • "PEACE THROUGH POWER!" and "KANE LIVES IN DEATH!" ^Explanation Some of the Brotherhood of Nod's slogans.
    • "KANE! LIVES!" ^Explanation A deliciously hammy moment from Tiberian Sun, when Kane makes his big reappearance to the Brotherhood.
  • "Be one with Yuri." ^Explanation A phrase associated with Yuri, the Big Bad of Red Alert 2. It is also heard whenever a Psychic Dominator is activated.
  • "AK-47s for everyone!" ^Explanation A You Have Researched Breathing quote from Generals, officially recognized as a meme by YTMND.
  • "I'm escaping to the one place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism...SPACE!" ^Explanation In the final level of the Allied campaign in Red Alert 3, Premier Cherdenko reveals his plan to escape the Allies, all while failing to keep a straight face.
  • "You are made of stupid". ^Explanation A not so eloquent insult from Emperor Yoshihiro.
• Contra:
  • The original game's US release coincided with the Iran-Contra affair, so jokes linking the two began to proliferate immediately. Konami locally retitled the following two games Super C and Operation C, perhaps worrying that the original title would be Overshadowed by Controversy. If anything, the opposite seems to have happened, if Our Dumb World is any guide, since its entry on the country of Nicaragua is almost entirely about Contra (the NES version, that is).
• Cory in the House is the greatest DS game of all time.^Explanation  The infamous video game from the TV series Cory in the House was a prime example of why licensed games often suck, but the Internet collectively decided to praise it and flooded Metacritic with high scores, making it the highest rated DS game on their site. It's still common for debates about "the greatest game ever" to include a link to Cory.
  • Cory, you a busta. ^Explanation  A truly ludicrous dialogue exchange from the game, with Cory deciding to "shoot some 3 point hoops to bring in the heat!" and Sophie responding as seen above. The phrase "Cory, you a busta" quickly reached meme status.
• "...but can it run Crysis?"^Explanation For many years, Crysis was the go-to benchmark for graphical fidelity in PC gaming. Even some of the most high-end computers of the time would have trouble running the game at a steady framerate with all graphic settings maxed out.
• Cybermorph:
  • "Where did you learn to fly?" ^Explanation Used repeatedly by the floating head AI Skylar when your spaceship bumps into a mountain. Popularized by The Angry Video Game Nerd.
• Cytus:
  • 1 Good ^Explanation Getting 1 Good is a source of frustration for many players. Except in this case, getting 1 Good doesn't mean a broken combo, it means coming frustratingly close to the Million Master rank. The Cytus 1 Good bot is dedicated to all of those frustrating 1 Good runs.
  • Cytus is awesome! I got rank (rank) on (song)/(difficulty) and scored (points)! ^Explanation When tweeting your score to Twitter from the game's built-in tweet feature, it will post a tweet in this format using whatever account you have linked up.
  • SHOTA4EVER ^Explanation In Chapter R, the Retro chapter, each song has an alternate name, shown when it is the next or previous song available for selection. When arranged in order, the first letter of each alternate name spells out [[cytus.wikia.com/wiki/Chapter_R?file=SHOTA 4 EVER.jpg "SHOTA 4 EVER"]], a nod to musician and Rayark staff member ICE being a fan of shotacon media.
• Dark Seed II:
  • What was your relationship with Rita? ^Explanation Retsupurae's riff on the second game inspired a million of these comments.
  • "Hey, you missed, pal!" ^Explanation Spoken by the man running the ring toss game at the carnival whenever Mike Dawson fails the ring toss. Often used to emphasize how much of a loser Mike Dawson is.
  • Here, Mike. This will explain everything. *SPLORTCH* ^Explanation During the end game, Mike's mother's head explodes with no forewarning... and all shock value from this is ruined by a sound effect best described as "similar to a quack."
• Daytona USA:
  • "DAYTONAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Let's Go Away!" ^Explanation Lyrics from the opening theme to the original Daytona USA.
  • "ROLLING STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART~!" ^Explanation Sung at the start of the beginner course theme, "The King of Speed." Has been made into a couple of memes over time, including this one by the creators of Super Best Friends Play
• DC Super Hero Girls: Teen Power
  • Persona 6^Explanation When the game was revealed in the February 17, 2021 Nintendo Direct, people were quick to joke that it was the next Persona game based on its gameplay, graphics, and teenage protagonists.
• Dead Island
  • The trailer for the game was CG film quality footage of a family's doomed fight against zombies. Between the Tear Jerker scenes and music it went viral with upwards of one million hits in the first day and homages, parodies and reaction videos quickly followed.
• Demon's Souls:
  • I'm in trouble! Please recommend this message! ^Explanation One of the pre-determined "help" messages that can be left behind by players.
  • Sticky White Stuff ^Explanation The English version's... odd name for a substance that can be used to enchant weapons.
  • YOU DIED ^Explanation Seen with alarming frequency due to the game's notorious level of difficulty. The same "YOU DIED" message would go on to appear in Dark Souls.
• Destiny
  • That wizard came from the moon. ^Explanation A line spoken by Peter Dinklage completely phoning it in. Bungie even put it on a T-shirt.
  • Where is Xur? ^Explanation The Exotic merchant, Xur, spawns randomly in the game's world every Friday, then disappears on Monday. The question, often asked by beginner players, led to the creation of a website that gives Xur's location and inventory for a given week, and several riffs on the question, like "Everyone asks where is Xur, nobody asks how is Xur".
  • ONE. FUCKING. GUARDIAN. ^Explanation The trailer for Season of the Chosen featured the Cabal leader Caiatl demanding Commander Zavala to "ally" with her, with Zavala and Osiris not buying it. Then, someone wrote a hilarious response to it on Reddit, and Zavala's voice actor Lance Reddick posted a video of himself reading it.
  • BABY FALLEN ^Explanation The trailer for Season of the Splicer in Destiny 2 featured a shot of an Eliksni carrying three swaddled baby Eliksni. People went crazy because of the Ugly Cute factor, comparing the Baby Fallen to Grogu from The Mandalorian.
  • You'll be a gun^Explanation After Eris Morn used Oryx's heart to craft the Exotic rifle Touch of Malice and the worm god Xol turned itself into the Exotic sniper rifle Whisper of the Worm, the players noticed the tendency and, apart from including it in the "One. Fucking. Guardian." meme, started using it on its own. As expected, in The Witch Queen DLC, Savathun's worm is used to craft the Exotic grenade launcher Parasite.
• Detroit: Become Human
  • "28 stab wounds!!" ^Explanation A line shouted by the usually stoic Connor while trying to get a deviant android to confess to murder.
• Diablo:
  • "Greetings, friend! Stay awhile and listen!" ^Explanation Deckard Cain's trademark line if you talk to him in-game. This quickly becomes annoying for players who just want to skip ahead to the next quest, as Cain loves to ramble on and on about various and sundry topics.
  • "GLORIOUS!" ^Explanation In Diablo III, a literal Knight Templar Non-Player Character named Kormac tends to chew the scenery very often, especially when you encounter unique enemies in the field. This particular line is sometimes used after defeating especially powerful opponents; Johanna from Heroes of the Storm even references it in one of her jokes.
• Dies Irae
  • Angry Day^Explanation Crunchyroll once translated the Latin wrong when they released an announcement regarding the series and the fans had a field day over this.
  • In extension, "Sakurai Hotaru"^Explanation A misreading of Kei's name
  • "You need to read Faust and Friedrich Nietzsche to understand Dies irae more than the surface level!"^Explanation This visual novel features a lot of references and Genius Bonus to many works of literature and mythology, but especially Faust and Nietzsche. Understanding of those works aren't exactly required, but a little knowledge helps one to enjoy this work more.
  • Battle Opera^Explanation The Visual Novel is widely known for its opera theme and insane battles,espiacally the last two routes, which both featured several Crowning moments of awesome and god-like action across the entire cosmos.
• Disney's Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge: "Game Over! Goodbye, [Hero] — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!" ^Explanation On the Game Over screen, Nasira gloats, "Game Over! Goodbye, Aladdin — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!" People have took to the comments section on YouTube posting this line as if it is quoted by other villains to their opposing heroes e.g. Aku: Game Over! Goodbye, Samurai Jack — FOREVER! Ha ha ha ha ha haa!
• Double Dragon:
  • "Bimmy and Jimmy" ^Explanation "Bimmy" is a typo that appears in the NES version of Double Dragon III in the opening prologue of the 2-Player mode. Curiously, the 1-Player mode spells "Billy" correctly, since it loads a different string of text. Popularized by The Angry Video Game Nerd.
• Dragon Ball FighterZ:
  • "Fursuits are like weighted clothing." ^Explanation One of the top competitive Dragon Ball FighterZ players is Dominique "SonicFox" McLean, a very open member of the Furry Fandom who has become famous for showing up at tournaments in his fursuit (and even, in some cases, competing in it). When he struggled during some of the early matches in EVO 2018, only to win the tournament after taking off the suit, the comparisons were inevitable.
• Dragon Quest
  • Meme draws near! Command?^Explanation Text at the start of each battle in the first game
  • "But thou must."^Explanation Also in the first game, selecting "no" when asked by Gwaelin to take her back to Tantegel or if the player loves her
    • "But thou must." ^Explanation She will repeat this until the player chooses "yes"
  • DARGON Quest IV ^Explanation When Dragon Quest IV was first released on the iTunes App Store, the title was misspelled as "DARGON QUEST IV".
• Dragster:
  • Starting in second gear to get a score of 5.51. ^Explanation Todd Rogers was known for being one of the top retro gamers, though attracted controversy due to his top scores being a little too good. His Dragster score was infamous for his claims of starting in second gear and having a top time of 5.51. Neither of these have been replicated by anyone else (Activision didn't think a score higher than 5.54 was even possible, but accepted Rogers's claim), and no videos of the legendary run are known to exist. The legitimacy of the score was debated for decades, not helped by 5.57 being the top score anyone else could get and Rogers being unable to replicate his run live, until tests gave evidence that both starting in second gear and a getting score better than 5.57 were impossible, culminating in Rogers losing all of his records on website Twin Galaxies, being permanently banned, and stripped of his Guinness World Records in 2018. While Rogers himself became a minor meme afterwards with some blatantly bogus speedruns in his name being posted online, Dragster is almost exclusively associated with Todd Rogers as his most famous "record."
• Dungeon Fighter Online:
  • YOU HAVE TO SPEND MONEY TO MAKE MONEY! ^Explanation Said by the masked shopkeepers who appear in every town.
• Duke Nukem:
  • "I've got balls of steel!"
  • "Blow it out your ass!"
  • "It's time to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of gum."
    • "It's time to kick gum and chew ass, and I'm all out of ass"/Dick Kickem ^Explanation A video of someone reading a butchered version of one of Duke's catchphrases, only to crack up halfway through.
  • "Hail to the king, baby!"
• Duke Nukem Forever:
  • "Always bet on the Duke!"^Explanation The game's tagline.
  • Release date: When it's done.^Explanation The game itself counts as a Running Gag meme, due to the fact that it took all but forever for the game to be released.
  • "Duke Nukem, Forever Delayed" ^Explanation When it was announced that the game would be delayed after finally getting a solid, firm release date, the fans immediately jumped on this, resulting in the aforementioned Incredibly Lame Pun.
  • Conveniently, "Duke Nukem" sounds like "do que nunca" - Portuguese for "than never". From this, the "antes tarde Duke Nukem"^note Alternately, "mais vale tarde Duke Nukem"(a pun on "better late than never") joke is created.
• Dynasty Warriors
  • "YOU FLAMING IDIOTS!!!" ^Explanation From DW3, uttered by Zhang Bao. Thank you, terrible English dubbing.
  • "Don't pursue Lu Bu!" ^Explanation Also from DW3, a warning from Yuan Shao at the Battle at Hu Lao Gate. Despite being an Optional Boss for the second story stage, Lu Bu is the most powerful character in the entire game. This has generally held up through the games' numbered iterations to the point that if you kill him in DW7, you get the achievement "Okay, you can pursue Lu Bu." In later games in the series, Cao Cao utters this line instead of Yuan Shao.
  • "In death, my soul will be my brethren!" [sic] ^Explanation From Guan Yu's death scene in 3 (again!), Guan Yu forgets a certain preposition between the words "be" and "my". Hint: it's not on, in, to, by, for, at, of, from, as...
  • "BENEVOLENCE!" ^Explanation As seen in 7, the Shu faction has an unhealthy fondness with the word "benevolence".
  • "IMBECILE!" ^Explanation Not unlike above, seen in 8, the Jin dynasty seems to think everyone against them is an imbecile.
• E3 2010:
  • Skittles and the dancing guy. ^Explanation A meme generated from a hilariously bad and cheesy presentation by Microsoft when revealing the Kinect. When the company demoed a Kinect game that lets the player interact with cute baby animals, they had a little girl play the game by interacting with a baby tiger and acted like as if she really was touching and being touched by the animal that she called Skittles. The "dancing guy" was an over enthusiastic man that was a bit too into the game he was demoing, Dance Central.
• Electronic Arts:
  • Pride and accomplishment. ^Explanation On Reddit, EA tried to defend the excessive grind behind rewards in Star Wars Battlefront II, which could be circumvented by purchasing Loot Boxes, by claiming they were there to give players a sense of "pride and accomplishment". People weren't impressed, and the comment became the most downvoted comment in Reddit history (for comparison, the second most downvoted has about 89,000 downvotes and actively asks users to downvote it for ironic amusement, this one has about 680,000 and earned all those downvotes entirely on its own lack of merit), now holding a Guiness world record.
  • Surprise Mechanics ^Explanation During a UK parliament panel, EA tried to defend themselves by claiming their games use "surprise mechanics", not lootboxes. People mocked this response by calling unethical or even criminal activities "surprise x".
  • It's the same game! ^Explanation  Games of EA Sports, more commonly FIFA, has been mocked for being mostly the same game every year since 2018, only the changes being cosmetic as well as greater microtransactions every subsequent year. This is especially prevalent with the Switch releases of the FIFA series (labelled as the "Legacy Edition" below FIFA XX for the Switch games), noting that every game since the first game's release on the Switch is literally the same game repackaged with updated rosters.
• Elemental 3 and similar fangames:
  • its time to stop ^Explanation An element which is used by players to end chains of elements being combined with themselves. Due to this, the its time to stop element has become the easiest element to obtain, being obtainable by combining many elements with themselves. Despite this, other people still get around this by combining it with the previous element in the chain. This may as well be the game's most iconic element.
    • Some fangames have their own variations of the its time to stop element. Examples include Elemental on Discord's You Should Stop Now and Loop (the latter of which redirects to itself), and Elemental Reborn's Everything Ends Here.
  • It is not uncommon for element chains to go astral, starting with planets, then solar systems, galaxies, universes, multiverses, and the chain just goes on and on to various forms of -verses.
• Epic Mickey: KILL THE MOUSE TAKE HIS HOUSE KILL THE MOUSE TAKE HIS HOUSE ^Explanation Back when the first details of the game were released, it appeared as if Oswald (Mickey's jealous half-brother) was going to be the villain. 4chan picked up the ball and turned Ozzie into a funky Disney mix of Liquid Snake and Alma, with him constantly dripping ink/blood. The meme is his Madness Mantra, which appears to be derived from House of Mouse.
• Etrian Odyssey:, F.O.E.! ^Explanation IOSYS made a famous music video parodying the Nintendo Hard nature of the game and the "Fucking Overpowered Enemies" contained within.
• Eversion:
  • READY! TO DIE
    • BEHIND YOU ^Explanation The usual "READY!" screen upon (re)starting a level is replaced at random with various ominous messages in the later levels, to chilling effect.
• Façade (2005): Trip hates melons. ^Explanation The game treats any use of the word "melons" as a reference to breasts, resulting in a game over as the player gets kicked out of the house.
• Far Cry 3: "BLITZKRIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEG!" ^Explanation Sam's warcry and preferred battle tactic is swiftly becoming one due to it being hilariously over the top and appropriate for a variety of situations.
  • Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? ^Explanation Ubisoft announced the game with a trailer showing this cutscene. Vaas would became an iconic villain almost instantly, and his Madness Mantra became the easiest way to reference him.
• Faxanadu:
  • This is not enough golds. ^Explanation Golds (with the trailing "s") is the unit of currency in Faxanadu's world.
• Feral:
  • Corn. ^Explanation In late 2021, several users reacted to WildWorks announcing the NFT blockchain-based game Cinder (which reuses Fer.al's assets) by sending CEO Clark Stacey pictures of corn and were subsequently blocked by him. The game's Discord community latched onto the sheer ridiculousness of a CEO blocking people over corn cobs and have taken to using corn imagery to poke fun at Stacey.
• Forza:
  • The average Forza player/Get Forza'd.^Explanation Players in Forza games' online modes, whether it's Motorsport or Horizon, are pretty notorious for their aggressive driving, usually trying to ram other players' cars out of the way.
  • "Built from the ground up."^Explanation Turn 10 Studios, the main developer of Forza Motorsport games since the 2005 original, claimed that the first new Motorsport game since 2017's FM7, the 2023 reboot of Forza Motorsport, would be made from the ground up. This statement caught flak when people noticed that despite FM2023 being made for the PC and Xbox Series X|S, some of the reboot's car models were recycled from the Xbox 360 entries, something that the past games from the Xbox One era were also guilty of, including the Forza Horizon spin-off series, which led to people accusing Turn 10 of lying to their audience.
• Frog Fractions:
  • "Is this Frog Fractions 2?" ^Explanation Long before it was proven that Frog Fractions 2 was indeed real, its dubious existence prompted people to ask this of any game that appeared to be too bizarre for words in hopes that it might secretly have been Frog Fractions 2.
• Fuga: Melodies of Steel:
  • "Get in the Soul Cannon, Shinji! It's the only way to defeat the Angels!"
  • Be honest: if you're interested in this game, you yourself have probably made jokes about which of the kids you'd like to sacrifice. As for specific trends:
    • Many have joked about sacrificing Boron to the Soul Cannon, using the logic that his fat will deal even more damage to the Berman tanks. It got to the point where Yoann himself started calling on people to stop sacrificing him.
    • And even before the game came out, those who didn't joke about powering the Soul Cannon with Boron's bio-energy instead joked about using Mei's instead, for no reason besides even crazier Black Comedy. On the other hand, at least one person has proposed doing the opposite: killing everyone except Mei to leave her to suffer in loneliness. We'll let you form your own opinions on which one of these is worse.
    • Both the above memes became even more egregious when CyberConnect2 announced the most common sacrifices to the Soul Cannon during their first anniversary stream on the game: Boron for Japanese players, and Mei for North American players.
  • On the flip side, veteran fans have joked about keeping Socks alive, and by extension, him being the only character to get laid, as he's the canonical ancestor to Merveille and Red.
  • "I'm the oldest!"^Explanation People were quick to catch on to how often Malt would say this, treating it as his Catchphrase and go-to response for whenever anything happens. It's not helped that Comedies of Steel exaggerated this trait for laughs.
  • Mr. Matsuyama's fetish^Explanation When Yoko Taro was brought on to play Fuga, he spent a good chunk of the beginning implying that the reason why they went with children as the main characters was so Hiroshi Matsuyama could satisfy his furry lolicon fetish.
  • afuga^Explanation A weird way of saying Fuga whenever major news about the game gets announced, be it new episodes for Comedies of Steel, manga chapters, or full game updates.
  • "MELT… THAT… CHILD!"^Explanation A joke that originated from one of Sean Chiplock's Iron Man runs, in which he plays up the use of the Soul Cannon like a game show. Unsurprisingly, the results are hysterical.
  • The ASS ranking^Explanation Another running gag from Sean Chiplock's streams of the game, where the post-battle Gameplay Grading reads "ASS" for getting an A in turns taken, an S in damage taken, and an S in use of techniques.
• Fuga: Melodies of Steel 2:
  • Malt's new jaded and aggressive personality in contrast to the idealistic Humble Hero of the last game became a meme in and of itself ever since the game's announcement.
  • "Okay, get in!"^Explanation The Soul Cannon was re-done so that when the Exo-Taranis takes a certain amount of damage, the AI Hax will abduct a child to use as fuel for the fatal weapon after enough turns have passed. Comparisons to the memetic coffin scene from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost" have been made, with Hax and Jeanne's aggressive side taking SpongeBob and Patrick's places.
  • "In you go, little one."^Explanation An alternative line to the above, this time using what Yoko Taro (yes, that Yoko Taro) said when he sacrificed Mei during his Chapter 1 demo of the first game, complete with Dissonant Serenity.
  • "You're not gonna shoot a puppy, are ya, Hax?" "Yeah, in the face, why?"^Explanation Again, some variations of this exchange showed up following the reveal of the new Soul Cannon. The person being asked this is typically either Hax or the devs at CyberConnect2 themselves.
  • "Sparkle on! It's Jin Tuesday! Keep on shining!"^Explanation An edit of Jin's updated design with a modified version of the "Sparkle Wednesday" meme involving Jerma985 that somehow caught attention within the Little Tail Bronx fandom.
  • "Weh!"^Explanation A line frequently said by characters like Malt throughout, possibly meant to be interpreted as "oui". Got popular thanks to Sean Chiplock's streams of this game.
  • Fuga foreheads^Explanation Britz, Vanilla, and Socks have ridiculously big forehead spaces, leading to jokes about people playing tic-tac-toe on them.
  • Johnny Depp's fursona.^{Explanation (Spoilers!)} Fans have taken notice of how Cayenne's goatee and hair in particular make him look like a Felineko version of Depp.
  • Only male Felineko can be truly evil.^{Explanation (Major spoilers!)} As of this game, fans have noticed that most major Caninu villains tend to be given a redemption arc of sorts no matter how evil they were beforehand— side-material has Bruno and Captain Grumpf survive (with the former giving up on evil and the latter outright turning good), and this game proper has Stollen and Baum be given redemption arcs while Flam Kish is revealed to have survived from the game prior. On the other hand, major Felineko villains like Fool, Kirsch from the "Kadenz" side-story, and Fuga's own Blutwurst and Cayenne are treated as Beyond Redemption, with Fool playing the same villainous role in side-material that he did in his debut game. While there is a sort-of exception to this trend in the form of Hax's original self being treated as irredeemable (since the second Fuga game wants to make it clear his AI incarnation is a distinct Morally Superior Copy), this has led some fans to joke (or outright dread) that the third and final Fuga game will feature the Berman Kaiser being redeemed despite him being the cause of anti-Felineko rhetoric across his empire, and/or him being given a Freudian Excuse in the form of some legitimately evil Felineko villains that came before him, making him interpretable as a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
• Gauntlet:
  • "Wizard Needs Food Badly!"^Explanation A quote said by the announcer when you start to run low on health.
  • "Red Warrior shot the potion."^Explanation The same announcer says this when you accidentally shoot a potion, which produces a lesser effect than picking one up and using it.
• Ghostbusters (NES):
  • "GOWSHT BUSHTER!" ^Explanation The game begins with a digitized voice sample shouting what's supposed to be "GHOSTBUSTERS!", but the voice quality is abysmal even by NES standards.
  • "CONGLATURATION !!! YOU HAVE COMPLETED A GREAT GAME. AND PROOVED THE JUSTICE OF OUR CULTURE. NOW GO AND REST OUR HEROES !" ^Explanation The ending screen is one of the most infamous examples of disappointing video game endings, due to this Porting Disaster being Nintendo Hard to the point of being nigh-Unwinnable without resorting to a cheating device like a Game Genie, and for the ending screen containing several spelling, grammar and punctuation errors on top of being a single screen of text.
• God of War:
  • Kratos falling off the tallest mountain of Greece in the opening cutscene of the first game, especially especially when paired with the chorus to "Dream On" by Aerosmith.
  • Kratos plays the lottery and loses. ("Rage of Sparta" begins to play in the background) ^Explanation Rage of Sparta is the music track that generally plays whenever Kratos kills one of the gods in the third game. People have started to apply it to whenever Kratos gets pissed enough to kill something.
  • "BOY" ^Explanation  Kratos, voiced by Christopher Judge, seems to always refer to his own son, Atreus, as "boy" and never by name. He says this a lot.
• Gran Turismo:
  • Pink Vitz^Explanation A pink-colored variant of the Toyota Vitz/Yaris that can be won as a prize car from several championships (such as the FF Challenge in the Beginner League) in Gran Turismo 3: A-Spec, which is widely regarded as a joke car. A Youtuber by the name of rynogt4 managed to win three pink Vitzes (and one cyan Vitz) during his playthrough of GT3, and he reacted in disgust when he saw the car's color for the first time.
  • GT 2000/Yellow Evo V^Explanation Youtuber BK4 made a video showing the intro to Gran Turismo 2000, the prototype of what would eventually become GT3 and playing its theme song, "Mirage" by Daiki Kasho, at a deafeningly loud volume. This meme is often accompanied by a distorted image of a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution V, the only playable car in GT2000, in yellow color.
  • The Pace Car^Explanation This refers to the pace car based on the Nissan Skyline GT-R R34 that first debuted in Gran Turismo Concept, but became well-known in Gran Turismo 4 thanks to the IA-15 licence test, which involves driving a full lap around the Nürburgring Nordschleife in a Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II. Said test is considered to be one of the hardest licence tests in the game and the entire series.
  • He's there!/He's not there!^Explanation A meme referring to the Rome Circuit race in the Historic Car Cup in Gran Turismo 2, which has a chance of spawning the Ford GT40 as an opponent. The AI opponent driving the GT40 is infamous for cheating, as the horsepower limit in the race is 295 bhp, but the GT40, a road-legal version of the LeMans racing car, has 305 bhp, exceeding the limit.
  • Nike ONE 2022^Explanation A car designed as a collaboration between Nike and Polyphony Digital which appeared in Gran Turismo 4 as a prize for completing the International "B" licence tests, showcasing what the cars might look like in the year 2022. The Nike ONE didn't make a return, even after the year 2022 had passed.
• Halo:
  • I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesn't afraid of anything. ^Explanation Originating from a post on the 4chan forums. It's an absurdly popular snowclone due to its highly exploitable nature, applied to absolutely everything. In fact, it's so exploitable that we had to close our "Pretty Cool Guy" page before it overran the Internet.
  • Wort wort wort! ^Explanation One line the Elites frequently say in their native language in the first game. Later games acknowledge this by having Elites occasionally call it out in battle, even when they're speaking English.
  • Craig the Brute ^Explanation When Halo Infinite had its first gameplay trailer, an image of a Brute◊ with a badly textured face that looked extremely bored and deadpan got memed around the Internet. The fans decided to name the Brute in question "Craig".
• Hatoful Boyfriend:
  • Hatoful Boyfriend is The Medic's favorite game. ^Explanation In "Meet the Medic", he's shown to keep pigeons which are just as enthusiastic about gore as he is.
  • Hatoful Boyfriend is Nikola Tesla's favorite game. ^Explanation Tesla wrote love letters for a pigeon that roosted near his flat.
  • For a while, due to a translation error accidentally saying Dr. Shuu had hands, there was a minor meme in which Shuu would be drawn or photomanipulated as a bird with human arms and hands sticking out of his body.
• Hatred:
  • My name is not important. ^Explanation The first line in one of the game's trailers, which led to the Fan Nickname "Not Important".
• Heavy Rain:
  • "PRESS X TO JASON" ^Explanation When Ethan's son gets lost in a crowd, pressing the X button causes him to shout "JASON!" over and over. Yelling this at a convention leads to an echo effect of repeated "JASON!"s.
  • Nahman, er, Nommin', um, NOMNOM, no, Norman Jayden's accent on his own name is becoming this and a source of several Fan Nicknames.
  • FUCKING ASSHOLE!
• HELLSINKER:
  • AN AWESOME PRAYER IS CONFLICT WITH US — KEEP YOUR DIGNITY ^Explanation The Boss Warning Siren.
  • YOU GOT INSANITY ^Explanation An excerpt from the Nonstandard Game Over resulting from timing out the Segment 7 boss with only one life left. The full text reads: "SPIRIT OVERLOAD. YOU GOT INSANITY. YOU MUST RESHAPE ONESELF FOR ONCOMING ASPIRANTS." The boss's final attack involves transferring its memories to the player character, driving them insane (with the heavy implication that the player is transformed into a Prayer themselves).
  • The game's barely-comprehensible plot and extensive use of proprietary terminology have become memes in and of themselves.
• Hitman: Allan please add detail◊ ^Explanation An infamous detail for a crate holster in Hitman: Blood Money, presumably a note to one of the programmers to add details before release. Spun off into its own meme to refer to unfinished moments in other video games.
• Horizon Zero Dawn
  • The following line of dialogue from Kung Fury has been memetically used to describe the plot of the game:
    "What time is this?"
    "It's the viking age."
    "That explains the laser raptors."
• The Idolmaster:
  • 72 ^Explanation Chihaya Kisaragi, being the flattest member of the 765 Pro idols, had her bust size turn into a meme rather quickly. Exacerbated when she turned out to be the only idol who didn't grow at all by iM@S2.
  • Nonowa ^Explanation Haruka Amami has been noted to have a peculiar expression whenever she is in thought, with her eyes and mouth resembling the Japanese characters　ののワ (nonowa). This led to a shift-jis art with said characters representing her face, which eventually evolved into a Super-Deformed caricature of her. This became an Ascended Meme in the anime, where one of Yayoi's siblings plays with a Nonowa doll.
  • Te Te Te ^Explanation Remixes of all different sorts are done with "Town", a BGM song from the game.
  • Mecha Chihaya ^Explanation Inspired by Chihaya's extremely staccato performace of "Ohayou! Asagohan".

• LOADINGU LOADINGU! ^Explanation Mami Futami's loading screen for the second game is memetic for how grating she is during it, as well as the lyrics she sings being Lampshade Hanging over the point of loading screens.
• Anime girl hiding from a Terminator ^Explanation An image of Nono Morikubo from THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls hiding behind a desk from a Terminator has become a popular object labeling template.
• BE MY BABY ^explanation Nana and Shin are often associated with the 1989 song "BE MY BABY" by Complex, all thanks to this weird video which depicts both members of the band in the music video overlaid with respective faces of SugarMin members (Shin for Tomoyasu Hotei, Nana for Koji Kikkawa).
  • *Both faces thrown away* A~HUHUN
• ちゃんみおっぱい ^explanation Romanized as "Chan-Mi-oppai", this was tagged by fan artists who often drew Mio as a (sometimes overly) buxom girl, though several of her official artwork◊ has them.
• #おっぱい大成功高校生美玲ちゃん ^explanation Translated as "Successful Busty High Schooler Mirei", this Twitter hashtag is often used on the artist's drawing of a grown-up Mirei as a high schooler...but with a bustier figure.
• "This is a message from Snake... I'm here to remind everyone to vote for Natalia for this year's Cinderella election. Huh, she's pretty good. Snake out." ^explanation  A Cameo commission from an overseas NataliaP for David Hayter, the original English voice actor for Solid Snake, to tell people to vote for Natalia in the 8th election lead to an outpouring of support from Japanese Metal Gear fans and Metal Gear related fanart and memes of Natalia. The original video on Twitter was taken down, but then here's another overseas NataliaP edit for the commisioned line, in the style of Metal Gear Solid's codec calls.
  • "Let's do it for Natalia! Campbell out." ^explanation  The same NataliaPs mentioned above did the same for Colonel Campbell's voice actor, Paul Eiding, right after the preeliminary results for the 8th election, in which Natalia placed 9th in overall ranking and 3rd in Passion ranking.
  • "Hey, that's Natalia! She's a Brazillian idol that's really talented at belly-dancing!" ^explanation  ... and so did for Otacon's voice actor, Christopher Randolph, a week later.
• Incoming meme votes.^explanation The fanbase seems to be so interested on voting towards a character that for some reason has a currently memetic presence in the net or something to do with Goroawase Numbers, to the point of that voting gauntlet is often lopsided towards x character's favor, resulting them be able to climb to either top 10 or winning the election entirely. Combined with the fact that most of the highly voted idols (or even the ones who won) will suddenly drop ranks to even UNRANKED (not reaching the top 50) gives the impression that most of these idol voters were only voting said idol for the meme. Once said idol finally got into the top 10 or even won the election, they will no longer be voted by it's "fans" and left to obscurity. Nana (won the 7th election because of her name can also means the number "seven") and Syuko (Won the 4th election because of her losing her previous poll against Arisu in the Anniversary Voice Idol election) were the well-known examples of this.
• Mio Honda's Step! Music Video/Mio Honda War Crimes.^Explanation A video animation tweet of Mio Honda dancing in the chorus of "Step!" (nicknamed "Mio Honda Fried Chicken Video" because of the word fried chicken shown by the second half of the video) was created by twitter user @hemoglosso during the heat of the second cour of the 2019 Cinderella Girls Yearly Election, supporting Mio. The video was reuploaded to iFunny.com by the user TazMazy and then was constantly republished by their spare account LinusTechTipsFanPage (named after Linus Tech Tips) to the point of spam. Starting approximately on October 10th, 2019, multiple iFunny users posted memes featuring the character, with other users posting memes expressing frustration with the post repeatedly appearing in their feeds, often associating her as an unstoppable empress who bends people's will by spamming promotional videos. Becomes eerily coincidental as she was just crowned as the eight Cinderella Girl. Later on February 2020, YouTube user AutisticYui cropped animation frames from the fried chicken video to depict Mio running through Team Fortress 2's 2fort, spawning a surge of similar video edits in Western internet corners of Mio marching in various situations while "Step!" blares in the background, with certain war scene edits making YouTube commentators brand her as a dangerous war criminal. That surge led @hemoglosso to suffer a Creator Backlash by the end of March 2020 over their animation being spread and repurposed far beyond their authorship and its original intent as a Cinderella Girl Election campaign by Western meme culture into Black Comedy videos (see Memetic Badass and Memetic Psychopath above).
  • need Tomboy.^Explanation Related to the fried chicken video above, the Mio Honda fried chicken video played behind a captcha re-enacting the same word played over a wojak struggling in frustration. Associating Mio as being a tomboy has become a common occurrence within the fandom, even though she's more of a Genki Girl than an outright tomboy herself
• Taberungo no Uta^Explanation A song featuring Akari Tsujino which became incredibly popular with video makers on Nico Nico Douga despite being very simplistic. The resulting surge in Akari's popularity led to her winning the Voice Audition later that year.
• "Hey you … Yeah you Queen … You’re gonna make it!" ^Explanation  A macro image of Sachiko Koshimizu saying "Hey you, yeah you king. You're gonna make it!" starts gaining a massive popularity thanks to Elon Musk tweeting the image on his feed. So much so that the stock numbers for Bandai Namco (Holdings) increases by 4% because of it.
• This is why Miura will never finish Berserk ^Explanation A recurring meme among the Berserk fandom to explain the long waits between chapters was that mangaka Kentaro Miura was busy playing The iDOLM@STER.

• Iji: "You promised me a pony... With missiles!" ^Explanation This is one of the more infamous lines said by Iji while under the effects of a secret unlockable, the Scrambler, which scrambles game dialogue and replaces it with either random nonsense or hilarity.
• I. M. Meen:
  • Oh look, what clever tschildren! Schee them schtudy, watch them learn! How I hate those goody-goodies! How they make my stomach turn! ^Explanation The opening song.
• Inazuma Eleven:
  • SAKKA YAROUZE! ^Explanation  The internet's view of everything that comes out of Endou's mouth. He is a soccer freak (which is what many characters call him and can be considered a meme itself).
  • WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE GOAL NETS MADE OFF? (or anything similar) ^Explanation The goal nets are always intact, no matter how many times they're hit by powerful shoots. In the anime, they only broke three times in over 200 episodes.
  • FIRE LEMONADE ^Explanation Goujin's misnaming of Fire Tornado.
• Judgement Silversword and its spinoff Cardinal Sins:
  • WARNING - HERE COMES THE JUDGE! ^Explanation Notably, "HERE COMES THE JUDGE" is lifted straight out of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
  • NO! ^Explanation In the Mercury stage of Cardinal Sins, the player must collect 1-Up items. If these extra lives are shot too many times, they explode and a "NO!" message pops up.

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