Meaning: A wonderful play on May the Fourth be With You also known as Star Wars day and Revenge of the Sith. Text: Watches the Jedi on May Fourth - They do Know in Two Days It's Revenge of the Sixth, Right? Meaning: I think we all have that friend or coworker that fits nicely into this character and this meme points out the self-delusion they may be under. …You can't just say that every time I beat you at Connect Four. Text: My Goal is not to be the best, but to inspire someone enough to one day surpass me. However, like Star Wars itself, many of the memes have a darker side that can be both fun and a bit freighting at times.Īlthough Star Wars Memes can be used to poke fun at recent events of just about any type, for the most part, this meme genre is used mostly between fans of Star Wars, with some overlap from other science fiction genre's. Mostly, Star War memes are an exercise in fun fandom glorifying this long-running space opera.
#STAR WARS MEMES MOVIE#
And that includes the movie which shall not be named that you think was the worse Star Wars of all times.
Starting off in 1977 the original Star Wars movie, now renamed Episode IV: A New Hope has a rich collection of pop culture references, which of course generated a large number of memes.īut it's not just the first movie, but all of the Star Wars franchise that is as adept at being fodder for memes as they are at being box office draws. As more sequel movies are released, starting with The Last Jedi this December, such rivalry is only likely to grow.Prequel? Sequel? The original trilogy? No matter which film or sequence of films is your favorite, Star Wars has made its mark on pop culture, from its video games to its Lego set and following video games.
It too is gaining subscribers at a rapid clip, though not quite as rapid as r/prequelmemes.Ī healthy rivalry is developing between the subreddits - to the point where the rivalry is becoming the subject of many of the memes themselves. For one thing, there's a new subreddit called r/sequelmemes based entirely on the Star Wars sequel trilogy - which currently consists of exactly one movie, The Force Awakens. But the subreddit has also come to celebrate obscure characters from the prequels ( Dexter Jettster, anyone?)Īnd then of course there are the regular old-fashioned jokes - but all told out of love for the prequels, not hate.Īnd the party is just beginning. Scenery-chewing Palpatine and forever brooding Anakin Skywalker are natural targets for humor, of course. If you've seen one of several widely-shared screenshots where a prankster has replaced the word "sorry" on a friend's phone with the entire Plagueis speech, you can thank r/prequelmemes.
#STAR WARS MEMES TRIAL#
Primarily, the memes revolve around relatively obscure quotes from the prequels - such as when Palpatine responds to his brief arrest by the Jedi and potential Senate trial by arrogantly declaring "I am the Senate!"Īs is the case with a lot of movie villains, Palpatine's dialogue straddles the line between scary (for the younger viewers) and unintentionally hilarious (for the older ones revisiting the movies of their childhood.)Īnd no chunk of dialogue does this like, "Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise?" - Palpatine's roundabout bid to reveal himself as a Sith Lord to his young would-be apprentice, Annakin Skywalker. This processing is happening in exactly the same way as it did with the original Star Wars trilogy, after which fans reused lines from "let the wookiee win" to "no disintegrations!" until everyone on the planet knew them by heart. Senator (later Chancellor, later Emperor) Palpatine is the ideal stand-in for our fears about Trump.īut there's a lot more going on in r/prequelmemes, which can best be seen as a forum to help process and reclaim three movies that don't get a whole lot of love from society at large. Why the prequels, and why now? Well, in 2017 the appeal of what is essentially a three-act story about a Republic turning into a dictatorship is obvious and well-represented by the meme above.
It has 134,000 subscribers and counting - not quite as big as r/Starwars just yet, but certainly bigger than r/Christianity - and perhaps most importantly, bigger than r/Startrek. Twice this month, r/prequelmemes has been crowned the fastest growing non-default subreddit on the whole site. Launched in December, this subreddit is well on its way to hyperspace. Star Wars Episodes I-III, explained in 3 minutesĬase in point: r/prequelmemes.
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