Memes / Aquaman (2018)

Being the son of the queen may have helped.

• The first poster was very quickly turned into a target for Photoshops, either inserting other marine-based characters, putting Aquaman somewhere else, or mashing up with other watery movie posters such as Finding Nemo and The Meg.
• After seeing all the armored sharks, everyone started joking about how Dr. Evil finally got his sharks with Frickin' Laser Beams.
• A lot of fans still stick to Insistent Terminology about Aquaman's trident not technically being a trident because it has five prongs.^note To be fair, even Jason Momoa himself has been doing this during his press tours, as seen here in The Graham Norton Show.
• Orm riding a Mosasauridae species (Tylosaurus, as explained by James Wan) the same year as the release of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which featured the park's Mosasaurus escaping into the open ocean caused a lot of jokes about this being where it ended up.
• The Trench's resemblance to the Aliens earned them the fan-nickname of Seanomorphs.
• Jokes comparing Arthur and/or Mera to The Little Mermaid and other similar characters have been very common. (Mera is also a redhead princess of an ocean kingdom, who's clueless about land things, so it fits.) There have also been jokes comparing the film to Barbie in a Mermaid Tale which became even funnier when Zack Snyder, who cast Jason Momoa in the role, revealed that he is a big fan of the Barbie animated films.
• Of course, as with Justice League, Jason Momoa being Aquaman still draws a lot of Khal Drogo comparisons.
  • He also briefly rides a sea dragon in the final battle, so jokes of "His wife Daenerys would be proud" is commonplace.
• When Arthur states that he's not a "fish-boy", he's a "fish-man", comparisons were immediately made to Derek Zoolander saying "mer-man!".
• "Remember kids, alcohol is bad for you."^Explanation Mera takes out two Atlantean guards by using her hydrokinesis ability to manipulate wine, which she turns into spears to impale them.
• "Mary Poppins is a sea monster!"^Explanation Producer Peter Safran revealed to Entertainment Weekly that Julie Andrews is voicing the Karathen, a sea creature who guards King Atlan's trident. Naturally fans are quick to make memes and references to her other role. What's even funnier is that Aquaman competed against Mary Poppins Returns at the Christmas 2018 box office of all things, and that Julie Andrews refused to have a cameo in it to not overshadow Emily Blunt.
• Jokes about the song Pitbull did for the movie have already become extremely common, with fans jokingly inserting it into other movies.
• Wan-billion ^Explanation A portmanteau of the film's director James Wan and the film's box office results as of mid-January 2019.
• "Veteran Clone reminiscing about the Clone Wars." ^Explanation One scene has Tom Curry (played by Temuera Morrison, best known for his roles as Jango Fett and his Clone Troopers in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith) staring out into the ocean, which led many fans to joke that he's actually a Clone Trooper reminiscing about his past as a soldier.