Memes / All Elite Wrestling

• How long can Justin Roberts hold Jon Moxley's first name for?
• After Shawn Spears adopted the Red Baron "The Chairman" due to his Establishing Character Moment of giving Cody a stiff steel chair shot to the head, some fans like to refer to Spears as a "false" Chairman, citing La Parka (who had that nickname in WCW) as the true owner of that title.
• Britt Baker's facial expressions have earned her notoriety, thanks to her memorable appearance in NXT TakeOver: WarGames 2019 in which she gave a worried Oh, Crap! when her boyfriend was hit by a finisher (by Tommaso Ciampa) from the top of the cage to a table.
• Excalibur's dramatic reaction to the debut of the Butcher, the Blade, and the Bunny (or as he put it, "THE BUTCHER! THE BLADE! AND THE BUNNY!") got this response, especially after it became clear that the vast majority of the audience wasn't aware of who they were.^note While the Blade and the Bunny were already known for competing in the independent circuit as Pepper Parks and Cherry Bomb, respectively (and in TNA as Braxton Sutter and Allie, respectively) by the time of their debut, the Butcher (aka Andy Williams) wasn't even known for being a wrestler at all, but rather for being the guitarist of the band Every Time I Die.
• Broken Matt Hardy and Kenny Omega chasing down and striking Sammy Guevara in a golf cart during a street fight became an instant meme due to the combined ham factors of the wrestlers (plus Chris Jericho as Guevara's partner in the match) and the absurdity of using a golf cart in a wrestling match.
• The use of "👉🤪" emojis as shorthand for "Japanese Deathmatch Legend and the Original Death-Dealer" Dr. Luther, whose almost invariably will mug before the camera by sticking his tongue out and pointing to his head◊. This has since become an Appropriated Appellation, with Luther adding it to his Twitter bio.
• [X] IS #ALLELITE, AEW's method of announcing new signings on social media, is a popular exploitable image format thanks to how simple it is to make anyone look like they've just signed to AEW. This meme is ubiquitous enough that people have thought actual signings, such as Paul Wight, were jokes at first.
• Dark days ahead for AEW.^ExplanationA phrase used by anti-AEW trolls around the early COVID-19 Pandemic days, having since been used by actual AEW fans to mock the idea of any minor setback meaning death for the promotion.
• From the March 31st, 2021 episode of Dynamite, MJF opening the door to find Inner Circle waiting for him immediately spawned parodies using pre-existing footage, including one featuring him as an extra during a WWE Samoa Joe segment.
• Cody's outfit◊ at Double or Nothing 2021 got many jokes comparing it to that of Homelander, not helped by the Patriotic Fervor theme of his feud with his opponent at the event, the British Anthony Ogogo.
• Armed Anderson^ExplanationAs Arn Anderson chewed out Cody Rhodes for losing repeatedly and meekly against Malakai Black on the September 29, 2021 Dynamite, he gave the example that if someone tried to carjack Cody, he'd let it go and ask not to be hurt, whereas Arn would pull out a gun and shoot the carjacker in the head. The extreme example surprised many online fans, who proceeded to make memes of Arn pulling a gun at the nearest opportunity. Special commendation has to go to Nyla Rose who speculates that Arn only named his son "Brock" because it rhymes with "Glock". Has became an Ascended Meme with not only a shirt, but also Arn threatening foes with the same gun hand gesture.
  • Armed Arsonist.^ExplanationThe week after the above promo, Arn made another promo from outside Cody's house where he burned some of Cody's wrestling items in a trash can. Needless to say, continuing the trend of extreme measures from Arn also resulted in the aforementioned name.
• MJF's "They call it the Midwest because everything in it is MID!" promo took off on TikTok, with users replacing the Midwest related items with things the uploader deems "mid."
• "It's Wednesday, you know what that means." ^Explanation The late Brodie Lee would tweet out "It's (name of day), you know what that means" every morning. After his passing, AEW fans and personnel took it on as a way to show their excitement for Dynamite every week. Notably, it became a Borrowed Catchphrase for Jim Ross, who uses it to open every episode of Dynamite.
• In Keith Lee's debut match against Isiah Kassidy, the former throwing his much smaller opponent from one end of the ring to the other spawned parodies including being compared to Uncle Phil throwing Jazz out of the house.
• John Silver explaining to Anna Jay. ^Explanation A picture of John Silver looking to be giddily explaining to a cornered Anna Jay has become popular for jokes to people trying to explain something to a friend who’s likely not interested in the subject matter. John Silver has even worn it on the 9th March 2022 Edition of Dark.
• ADRENALINE, IN MY SOUL, (insert something that rhymes with soul)^ExplanationVery prevalent on reddit, people like to make up their own lyrics to Cody's theme song, especially since Dark Order did it on BTE.
• An independent study had confirmed ... ^ExplanationWhen AEW Owner Tony Khan tweeted out "An independent study has confirmed that much of the staunch anti-AEW online community aren’t real individuals, it’s a staff running thousands of accounts + an army of bots to signal boost them. Look closely, these aren’t real people. Who’d pay for such a *wildly* expensive thing?", it was immediately turned into a snowclone meme with variants posted by people like Becky Lynch, Buff Bagwell and members of AEW like Evil Uno.
• This Fucking Guy!^ExplanationDuring a media scrum, Tony Khan responded to Eric Bischoff's claims that CM Punk has been a financial flop in AEW with a profanity-laced tirade on how much of an asset he has been to the company, getting more and more worked up as he speaks.
• Christian Cage hates orphans.^Explanation Following his Face–Heel Turn and betrayal of his former protégé Jack Perry in Summer 2022, Christian Cage got major heat from the crowd after he cut numerous promos taunting Perry about the death of his Real Life father Luke Perry, who had unexpectedly died of a stroke three years earlier at the age of 52. This later became something of a running theme when his feud with Perry was followed by a feud with Wardlow (who was raised by a single mother), whom he also taunted about his deceased father, and then his feud with Darby Allin and Nick Wayne, mocking the latter's dead father for never making it big as a pro-wrestler. Since then, many fans have joked about Cage having an irrational obsession with tormenting men who don't have fathers, predicting that it's only a matter of time before he starts feuding with Brodie Lee Jr.
• MEAT!^ExplanationDuring the match between Miro and Powerhouse Will Hobbs at All Out 2023, a highly-anticipated hoss-fest, the crowd started chanting "MEAT!" at every impact (a derivative of the "Big Meaty Men Slapping Meat" meme originated by Big E. Langston) and spinning it into new chant variants like "MEAT FOREVER!" instead of the usual "Fight forever!" chant. This became the new go-to crowd chant for major hoss matches, such as Samoa Joe vs Keith Lee on the November 8th episode of Dynamite.