Memes / Avengers: Infinity War

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Partially because of the film's immense popularity and partially because of the film's shocking Downer Ending, Avengers: Infinity War has become a Fountain of Memes that could rival SpongeBob. To keep track of the memes that are constantly becoming popular based off of this movie, please add new entries at the bottom. Thanks!

Please add entries in the following format:

• The meme. ^ExplanationThe explanation behind the meme.
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• The official promotional poster shows a now bearded Captain America. Fans immediately noticed the resemblance between him and Punished 'Venom' Snake from Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain as well as Solid Snake from Metal Gear Solid, leading to numerous fan edits pictures that add an eyepatch, a bandana, and occasionally a shrapnel horn◊ to Captain America to make him look like Venom Snake, Big Boss or Solid Snake. ^note  Which becomes Harsher in Hindsight because Bucky turns to ash after Thanos's finger snap, and not Steve; it's an uncomfortable reminder of how a good number of Venom Snake's soldiers were cremated after he had to shoot them following a deadly viral outbreak with Snake then rubbing the ashes on his face, and the mood in both instances is incredibly painful to watch.
  Captain America: A Fallen Legend
• Blonde Widow ^ExplanationIn this movie, Black Widow is, well, blonde.
• " And get this man a shield!" ^ExplanationT'Challa's line from the trailer directing others to get Cap a shield.
  • "T'Challa knows what everyone wants!" ^ExplanationMemes depicting T'Challa barking similar orders to the above in reference to other MCU characters. Ant-Man needs orange slices? "Get this man some orange slices!" Spidey's Uncle Ben died? "Get this kid an uncle!" Thor lost Mjolnir? "Get this man a hammer!" Sometimes, it doesn't even need to be an MCU character—Theon Greyjoy castrated? "Get this man a penis!"
• The shot of the hair on Peter Parker's arm standing up as his Spider-Sense detects Thanos arriving on Earth. ^ExplanationJokes about how Peter needed his spider-sense to tell him there was danger nearby... while there's a giant spinning alien disk right above the bus.
• Jokes about the film's title being Thanos: The Hand of Fate.
• The shot of Thanos without his headgear is ripe for fanmade edits. For example, some turn him into Donald Trump, Hank Hill, Homer Simpson, the Thumb-Thumbs, the Heavy, Rick Harrison or even Joss Whedon. Plus Josh Brolin, shown here.
• Jokes about the absence of Hawkeye from all the trailers and posters has led to sarcastic "corrections" from fan artists. Even other superhero actors have started getting in on the joke.
• "Hawkeye is powerful and useful, too."◊ "Is he, though?"^ExplanationOriginally dialogue from Thor: Ragnarok when Bruce insists that he's powerful and useful without becoming the Hulk, much to Thor's skepticism. Change Banner's name with Hawkeye to reflect Hawkeye's absence.
• Jokes about how a certain Spidey Super Stories comic featuring Thanos and the infamous Thanoscopter is actually how Infinity War would end, with him being arrested by regular cops. Such as this particular panel◊.
  • Following the film's release, the helicopter crashing in the post-credit scene has been dubbed the "Thanoscopter" by fans so they can claim that this meme came true.
  • Because Hilarious in Hindsight when the Thanoscopter finally appeared in Loki (2021).
• "What, Thor? Haha." ^ExplanationAn audience member at D23 said this in response to Thor's appearance in the exclusive trailer shown at the expo.
• "Fun isn't something one considers when balancing the universe... but this does put a smile on my face." ^ExplanationThis quote from Thanos (only in the first trailer) is typically used as an exploitable, changing what "Balancing the universe" is to something else, such as Net Neutrality being lost, Josh Brolin being described, or Disney buying 20th Century Fox or even DC Comics, with even their logos being photoshopped on Thanos's Infinity Gauntlet.
• X will return in Avengers: Infinity War.^ExplanationComes from the message shown from the end of the credits of every MCU movie leading up to the titular penultimate Avengers movie. Replace X with any character of your choice.
  • Thanos will return ^ExplanationInfinity War reverses this with this line at the end of the film.
• Vitas Thanos. ^ExplanationThe YouTube channel Aldo Jones created the "Avengers: Infinity War Weird Trailer" spoof; among other changes, the scene where Thanos emerges from the dark portal now has Thanos coming out singing Vitas's "7th Element", complete with the headwear and mouth animation. The scene is so memetic, it's now been parodied several times in other videos.
• "Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history." ^ExplanationA quote used in reference to the film, used in tandem with either an image of another Massively Multiplayer Crossover, or things that normally don't go together (orange juice and milk, students and good grades, etc.). There's also jokes about it being in competition with Ralph Breaks the Internet and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate to see which will be the biggest crossover of 2018, and 2019 added Season 3 of DuckTales (2017) to the mix.
• Stark's Thousand-Yard Stare from this scene◊ with Star-Lord is often used as a reaction meme towards Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
• Instantly after the release of this poster◊, Captain America's butt became a meme onto itself because of how much attention his pose centers on it. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight the following year with the introduction of "America's ass".
• Okoye expecting to see a Starbucks◊ in Wakanda as a sign of "opening to the rest of the world".
• The aversion of One-Steve Limit, extending to the cast members, was not lost on the fans. Cue all the Who's on First? jokes.
• Following Tom Holland's spoileriffic shenanigans and the reveal by various actors about how they weren't allowed to read the entire script, jokes abounded about how none of the actors actually knew what movie they were even filming.
  • Similarly, when the Russos revealed that Tom Holland was allowed to act out his own death scene unscripted, some people joked that the directors decided the only way Tom couldn't spoil the script for his death scene was if he didn't get one.
• [X] is the Soul Stone. ^ExplanationEpileptic Trees has led many fans to theorize that various characters are the Soul Stone given life, ranging from Tony Stark to Steve Rogers. The theories have become so ridiculous that people have started joking about how random, offbeat characters are the Soul Stone, such as Peter from Deadpool 2.
• "Where is X? Who is X? Why is X?" ^ExplanationBased on an amusing exchange between the Guardians and Iron Man.
  • "But nobody asks how is Gamora..."
  • 13 Reasons Why Is Gamora◊
• #thanosdemandsyoursilence ^ExplanationThe go-to hashtag/Catchphrase warning people against posting spoilers.
• Comparing Loki listing off all his titles to Daenerys Targaryen.
• [X] (unrelated character) is in Infinity War. ^ExplanationJokes about how a character (usually a Memetic Badass) who doesn't appear in Infinity War or even the Marvel franchise at all appears in Infinity War because of the Crisis Crossover nature of the movie. Jokes include One-Punch Man, All Might and the students of U.A. High School, Shrek et al.
  • Squidward is in Infinity War. ^ExplanationA fan joke based on Tony mockingly calling Ebony Maw by the character's name due to the resemblance between the two.
• [X] (unrelated character) dies in Infinity War. ^ExplanationUsually posted as a way to troll fans, people have been posting how random unrelated characters to the MCU died in Infinity War. However, this also becomes Harsher in Hindsight, as many many characters die thanks to Thanos completing the Infinity Gauntlet and making almost everyone vanish with the snap of a finger. This, essentially, could mean that all of those characters could have died offscreen as well. This has also evolved to unrelated characters that died in almost the same way as the heroes did.
• "Perfectly balanced. As all things should be." ^ExplanationThis line from Thanos revealing his plan has been used whenever a statement contains an equal result. Also used by gamers with regards to a different kind of balance.
  • "I'm proud to have been part of such a balanced event in human history." ^ExplanationOn YouTube, videos of the titular line had their like/dislike ratio "perfectly balanced" by users, with many other snowclones and lines from Thanos being used in the comments to reference the movie. In 2021, after YouTube's removal of the dislike button, many people came back to the videos to pay their respects, using this quote to send their regards and remorse over the fact that the like/dislike ratio was no longer "balanced".
• "You should have gone for the head." ^ExplanationThanos telling Thor that he might've won if he had struck his head instead of his body moments before unleashing his life ending finger-snap. Has become Hilarious in Hindsight because Thor does indeed cut off his head during the prologue to Avengers: Endgame.
• "T.H.A.N.O.S. Theory Confirmed." ^ExplanationBefore the film was released, a wild but popular fan theory was that all of the Infinity Stones made up an acronym for "T.H.A.N.O.S." — Tesseract, Aether, Necklace of Agamotto, Orb of power, and Loki's Scepter, with the Soul Stone being the unaccounted-for "H". After the Soul Stone was revealed, a common joke is that the theory was confirmed and "H" stands for "Hurling your daughter off a cliff", while more serious guesses are H for HYDRA since the Red Skull guards the stone, H for "Heartbreak" due to the sacrifice needed to obtain it, or H for the Helgentar system, the location of Vormir in the comics.
• [X], I don't feel so good..." ^ExplanationWhat Peter Parker says as he's vanishing into dust after Thanos's Badass Fingersnap, with [X] replacing "Mr. Stark" in this context. Examples include SpongeBob turning to ashes while being cradled by a resident of Bikini Bottom in SpongeBob SquarePants, Deku cradled in the arms of All Might in My Hero Academia, Chimera Nina Tucker from Fullmetal Alchemist, and the Soviet Union disintegrating. Look at the image on this very page.
  • Peter Parker steals the most heartbreaking "I don't want to go" from the Doctor. ^Explanation "I don't want to go" were the last words of the Tenth Doctor, and easily the most heartbreaking line in his run. Peter Parker's "I don't want to go" is widely considered to be sadder, both by Marvel fans and Doctor Who fans. It doesn't help that the next face on screen is that of a sad Karen Gillan (here as Nebula), as she also played the first (non-Doctor) character to speak in Doctor Who (Amy) after that line.
  • This meme gained somewhat of a comeback after the Adventure Time Grand Finale "Come Along with Me", in which Fern disintegrates into blades of grass and dies, not unlike how the MCU heroes turn to ash. The fact that Fern says "Hey, Finn, I'm not doing so good." just before dying adds to the similarities.
  • In general, the sheer soul-crushing sadness that is Peter's death in the movie is a meme in and of itself. It usually comes in the form of the quote "I don't feel so good" or "I don't want to go" followed by an image or GIF of someone crying hysterically.
• Groot is a monster! ^ExplainationDue to the characters disintegrating into dust, including Groot, many Undertale fans had joked about him having a monster SOUL, due to him not being a "human".
• Loki: "We have a Hulk." Thanos: "Not anymore." ^ExplanationAfter Thanos trounces the Hulk easily at the beginning of the film, Bruce Banner can't transform into the Hulk this time around, which he blames on the latter being terrified of Thanos, to the point that for the final battle Bruce has to compensate by using the Hulkbuster of Avengers: Age of Ultron.
• Infinity War Spoilers Without Context. ^ExplanationPosting images related to plot events (bubbles, piles of dust, a bunny, a donut, Squidward, Footloose, Zenyatta, The Tenth Doctor saying "I don't want to go" being popular) just to mess with fans who have yet to see the movie.
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp Spoilers Without Context. ^ExplanationA sister meme for Ant-Man and the Wasp, the next movie. Common images include magic card tricks, "World's Greatest Grandma" trophies, Hot Wheels, John Green novels, syringes, and question marks.
• Comparisons to the "Snap scene" and the Third Impact in End of Evangelion have become fairly frequent. You can't go into the comments section of videos of the latter without people saying things like "Congratulations, Thanos!" or "Infinity War in a nutshell". One fan even went as far as editing "Komm, süsser Tod" into the ending scene of Infinity War itself, as seen here.
• It's all Star-Lord's fault. ^ExplanationQuill's Unstoppable Rage ended up helping Thanos break out of the subduing hold Mantis had him in before his friends could remove the Infinity Gauntlet, leading large sections of the internet to blame him for the film's Downer Ending (such as captioning pictures of Star-Lord with "Local Man Ruins Everything") without thinking that it could have (and likely would have) happened even if he hadn't.
  • "Let me just say, from the bottom of my heart, my bad." ^ExplanationIn line with the above, this quote from Andy fits the situation a little too perfectly, as both he and Star-Lord are played by Chris Pratt.
  • Even Chris Pratt himself has noticed the meme.
  • An Ascended Meme as of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where Peter briefly acknowledges his loss of control helped wipe out half the universe.
• It's all X's fault. ^ExplanationSome people blame other characters beside (or instead of) Star-Lord for the movie's Downer Ending. Either Steve and Wanda for refusing to sacrifice Vision and destroy the Mind Stone right there and then, Shuri for being unable to remove the Mind Stone from Vision in time, Doctor Strange for giving up the Time Stone to save Tony, Steve and Tony for splitting up which divide the heroes, Wong for his Skewed Priorities to protect the Sanctum despite stating that he vowed to protect the Time Stone minutes prior, Thor for not aiming Stormbreaker at Thanos's head, Thor for opting to head to Wakanda to assist the Avengers instead of going to Titan to confront Thanos, Mantis for not shutting up when Thanos is in anguish, Nebula for indirectly telling Star-Lord about what happened to Gamora, Nebula for not knowing that her cybernetic eyes recorded her conversation with Gamora regarding the Soul Stone, Rocket for stealing the batteries which started a domino effect which ended with Thanos going to Xandar, Gamora for choosing to save Nebula over the half of universe by telling Thanos where the Soul Stone is, etc.
• After the movie ended with him as the Sole Survivor of the Guardians of the Galaxy, it's become popular to edit the cover of The Last Guardian with pictures of Rocket Raccoon.
• EXPERIENCE TRANQUILITY ^ExplanationAt one point in the film, Doctor Strange takes up a Multi-Armed and Dangerous pose while using his magic, and ends up posing like Zenyatta using his "Transcendence" ultimate in Overwatch.
• Hulk Spoils Movies ^ExplanationIn a July 2017 interview, while discussing the ending, Mark Ruffalo audibly says "Hal — everybody dies", with Don Cheadle seemingly chiding him for it, and Ruffalo asking if they can rewind that part. How It Should Have Ended shortly made a parody of the interview using Hulk and Rhodey in their place, where Hulk also spoils several other films. Fast forward to the film's release, where it's believed Ruffalo might have actually spoiled the ending of the movie almost a year ahead of time in some form or another as well as also spoiling that Thanos uses the Time Stone to rewind Vision's death.
  • This is why Hulk wasn't in the movie. ^ExplanationIt was joked that the reason Banner doesn't turn back into the Hulk after the beginning of the film was that Ruffalo got in trouble for actually spoiling the ending.
• Thanos is Griffith. ^ExplanationBerserk fans have caught on to the scene in which Thanos gets the Soul Stone mirroring the infamous Eclipse. The circumstances regarding sacrifice are somewhat similar, though they differ in that Thanos' scene happens after he sacrificed Gamora, while Griffith's takes place just before he sacrifices the Band of the Hawk.
• The Pepe Silvia sequence from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia made the rounds as fans tried to figure out the plot of Avengers 4. In particular, the scene of Charlie banging on the door screaming "CAROL!" has gotten a lot of play. ^ExplanationThe Stinger is a dying Nick Fury sending out a distress signal to Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel.
• Rabbit ^ExplanationThor constantly getting Rocket Raccoon's species wrong for the entire movie. This has led to fans jokingly calling actual raccoons rabbits, instead.
• Wong's Exit. ^ExplanationBecause Wong is absent for the rest of the movie after the first fight since someone has to protect the New York Sanctum, fans began to joke that he actually chickened out from fighting Thanos (as he is the only character introduced who could have fought him in the climax but didn't — e.g., the Dwarf King was still at his forge, Pepper was in New York) and now associate him with someone who ghosts out on others.
• Ignoring MST3K Mantra and half-jokingly asking why Thanos doesn't just create infinite resources or alter the universe's fertility rate instead of killing half of its population has become a meme in and of itself, often accompanied by Thanos considering the better solution for a moment before moving on with his plan.
• It's common to associate Death Note's JUST AS PLANNED/KEIKAKU DOORI with Doctor Strange's plan to defeat Thanos from beyond the grave.
• Wakanda Whatever◊ ^ExplanationFans noticed that one instance of Chadwick Boseman doing the "Wakanda Forever" salute at the movie's premiere has much less enthusiasm than in the past and rolled with it. Often times, this picture is used to compare your enthusiasm over getting a job against actually doing the job. Doesn't help that during some interviews, Boseman admitted to getting tired of doing the salute at fans' requests.
• Marvel's Red Wedding. ^ExplanationComparing the ending of this film to the infamous Red Wedding in Game of Thrones due to both having major cast members and characters killed off at the end to the shock of the audience (ironically enough, Robb Stark himself would join the MCU after Infinity War's release in Eternals).
• Marvel pulls a Rogue One. ^ExplanationJust like Rogue One, this film dispenses with Plot Armor and decides to kill off scores of major named characters. Bonus points for both films being distributed by Disney.
• Fans have also noted comparisons between the Wakandans and Outriders with the battle between Gungans and the Trade Federation in The Phantom Menace, down to the heroes using force fields and shields against the invading enemies◊.
• Thanos' obsession with killing people by half is also a meme of its own right.
• Similar to a popular meme about John Cena, people claiming that still images of Drax are empty, referencing his claim that he can stand so still that he becomes invisible.
  • "Hi, Drax!" ^ExplanationMantis' cheerful greeting to Drax after the Destroyer claims to have achieved stealth invisibility, usually used as a response the above meme.
  • Drax is not dead. He is invisible. ^ExplanationFans saying that Drax disappearing wasn't due to Thanos fingersnap-of-death, but because he'd managed to become invisible like he said he could.
• Due to the nature of how he died in the film adaptation, fans of Harry Potter tend to say that Voldemort is actually killed by Thanos's Badass Fingersnap when he disintegrated into dust in the final battle of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
• "Where are the Defenders?" ^ExplanationIt's very common to jokingly ask where the superheroes from the Marvel TV shows are (not necessarily the Defenders from the Netflix series, but Runaways (2017), Cloak & Dagger (2018) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) while this whole crisis is going down. Of course, the in-universe reasons are that there wasn't much the New York-based heroes could do when Ebony Maw was already gone from their city, Iron Man doesn't have any contact with them whatsoever (just because they are superheroes doesn't mean they know each other) and Team Coulson is off-world at the time; the meta-reason is that the movie's cast is already too big and adding even more could risk overcrowding, and the incredible difficulty it would be to coordinate with multiple showrunners with vastly different writing/filming schedules, on top of the movie and TV divisions being owned by different people.
• "Wakanda will no longer watch from the shadows." [Gilligan Cut to Outriders breaking through the force field during the battle for Wakanda] "I've made a huge mistake."
• Rocket Racoon will get Bucky's arm. ^ExplanationRocket asks Bucky how much Bucky's arm is to buy, but when Bucky walks away, Rocket insists that he will get that arm. Cue memes showing methods of getting the arm such as this◊ and this◊. To make it even better, Rocket really did get his arm in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special as a Christmas gift from Nebula.
• "T HANOS" ^ExplanationNamed for an infamous gif on Tumblr◊ featuring a rapidly rotating Thanos with his name written in a weird way. The gif itself is fairly old, but it's seen a rapid surge of use with the release of Infinity War. It's led to some jokingly insisting that "Thanos" is his full name, with his surname being "Hanos" and given name being "T".
  • "I will bathe the the starways in your blood." ^note From the same gifset as "T Hanos" came another gif with this odd corruption of his "I will bathe the starways in your blood" quote from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
  • The same set of gifs led to "uwu... bean...", a weirdly common lip-reading of Thanos' line.
• John Mulaney's Bit from Kid Gorgeous, a stand-up special, being incorporated into scenarios in the movie. For instance, when Captain America throws his shield, there will be screenshots of the scene labeled "STREET SMARTS" and fans saying things like "Now Thanos has been thrown off his rhythm"^Explanationa method used by the legendary J.J. Bittenbinder and "J.J. Bittenbinder would be proud".
  • A variation is joking that Loki should have thrown the Tesseract and had the Asgardians run away, as Mulaney describes being told to throw a hypothetical money clip as a distraction for muggers.
• "None of the Avengers died under the Obama administration." ^ExplanationAn obvious Take That! towards Donald Trump, who was President of the United States at the time of the film's release.
  • "And don't say Quicksilver did because he died during his interview."
• "The Toronto Police are doing what the Avengers couldn't do: stop Thanos." ^ExplanationAn image of Twitter of Toronto police arresting a Thanos cosplayer. The actual context is that the police were just posing with the cosplayer, as explained here. This was based on an infamous panel from Spidey Super Stories #39 where Thanos was arrested by the NYPD after being defeated by Spider-Man and Hellcat.
• Characters who could beat Thanos. ^ExplanationSeveral sites posted Top 10 lists from Marvel and beyond that could defeat Thanos (with the Infinity Gauntlet or not) including Odin, Superman, Darkseid or Son Goku. Fans took the joke and ran with it by adding even more bizarre characters◊.
  • Top 10 characters who could beat Thanos (even with the Infinity Gauntlet) in seconds ^ExplanationA meme similar to Watch Mojo parodies used to jokingly claim that various Memetic Badasses (such as Sans from Undertale or Shrek) are powerful enough to defeat Thanos in a one-on-one fight even with all six Infinity Stones in his possession.
  • Ant-Man will defeat Thanos. ^ExplanationIt's been joked since before the film came out that Ant-Man could easily defeat Thanos by shrinking down to microscopic size, crawling up his asshole, and returning to normal size while still inside of him (charming all onlookers in the process). It has been since infamously coined as the "Thanus" theory.
• "I have seen 14,000,605 futures."
  • "How many where [X]?" ^Explanation[X] usually being a highly unlikely situation.
  • "One/None"
• Tony: "We need to distract Thanos!" Peter: *starts playing "Umbrella" by Rihanna*^ExplanationPosting comments of this sort on videos of Tom Holland's Lip Sync Battle performance has become popular.
  • "Legend says that they're gonna defeat Thanos" *pictures of the MCU actors/characters making goofy faces or doing something equally silly* or "This how they'll defeat Thanos" *pictures of the characters doing dumb things like Star-Lord's dance-off or Thor and Loki doing "Get Help"*, both of which usually involve the Lip Sync Battle in some way.
• "Oh, we're using our made-up names." ^ExplanationWhen Spider-Man meets Doctor Strange, they use their real names, but Spidey assumes Strange's is his superhero name, not realizing that's his actual name. It's become a response to a comment with delusions of being something more than it actually is.
• On YouTube, it's popular to post "Infinity War as Vines" videos, which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Here's an example.
• "I know someone." [tribal music intensifies]
• "BRING ME THANOS!" ^ExplanationA Badass Boast issued by Thor after his Big Damn Heroes moment, commonly cited as one of the biggest crowd-pleasers in the film.
• Tony Stark's armour being created out of Nanomachines has led many fans to compare it to Senator Armstrong's powers in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. The similarities are aided by Tony taking very little damage from Cull Obsidian, with only Thanos being able to hurt him — even then, Tony constantly regenerates his nanomachines. Even after getting hit by an energy beam made by the Power Stone, Tony is able to guard it.
• "We don't do that here." ^ExplanationRhodes trolls Bruce Banner by making him bow to King T'Challa of Wakanda, as is customs for royalty in the rest of the world. T'Challa's response sums up the meme.
  • "Should we bow?" "Yeah, he's a king." ^ExplanationThe exchange preceding the above meme, made popular in 2020 as people started referring to men whose accomplishments/actions they were impressed by as "kings".
• Aunt May in Avengers 4 ^ExplanationUsually accompanied by a◊ picture◊ of someone (labelled Iron Man or Tony Stark) getting their asses severely handed to them by someone else (labelled Aunt May).
• How sweet, Nick Fury was thinking about his own mother in his last moment.^ExplanationDue to Samuel L. Jackson's curse being cut short in his death, some fans jokingly mishear them as only "Mother..." Not to mention that there are even those who (perhaps jokingly) thought that he was referring to Captain Marvel as his mother. Even more amusingly, in the official South Korean subtitles, it's literally translated as "Mom", causing much annoyance to Korean fans of Samuel L. Jackson.
• Loki is just hiding. ^ExplanationAside from some genuine belief for this (backed up by him faking his death at least once before), many fans have taken to joking that Loki is actually still alive. This ranges from memes about Loki laughing from afar as Thor mourns over his supposed dead body to Loki revealing himself to Thor, who is simply done with his bullshit at this point.
• The Great Reddit Snappening. ^Explanationr/ThanosDidNothingWrong, the subreddit devoted to praising the Mad Titan, announced that it would be paying tribute by banning exactly half of its users at random. The campaign went massively viral, to the extent that the subreddit octupled its subscriber count and nearly crashed the parent website from all the traffic from people signing up and subscribing to the subreddit solely to see if they were killed by Thanos. It even attracted the attention of some of the film's creators, including both the Russo brothers and Josh Brolin, who recreated the snap for Reddit (while shirtless, for some strange reason). Hilariously enough, both the Russo brothers subscribed to the subreddit, and Anthony was one of those snapped, while Joe survived.
• In keeping with the ending, associating this film with songs like Céline Dion's "Ashes", Kansas' "Dust in the Wind" and/or Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust".
• "I'm sorry, little one." ^ExplanationSaid by Thanos just before he throws Gamora off a cliff to obtain the Soul Stone.
• "What does this monster have to mourn?" ^ExplanationA line often misattributed to Star-Lord, this is actually spoken by Drax when Mantis feels Thanos's emotions during the Avengers' plan to get the Infinity Gauntlet off him. Memes have sprouted joking that Thanos was mourning any number of stupid things, such Club Penguin's shutdown or the ending to ShindoL's infamous hentai Doujin Metamorphosis.
• "Let me guess... your home?" "It was... and it was beautiful." ^ExplanationAfter Doctor Strange correctly guesses that Titan is Thanos's homeworld, Thanos uses the Reality Stone to show him a vision of the planet in its past, using it to justify his culling of the universe. Memers have taken to replacing Titan with various things that they feel have changed too much, such as Titan's destroyed state being modern Cartoon Network and Thanos's illusion being Cartoon Network during its heyday. The meme became increasingly ironic and meta and eventually devolved into jokes about Doctor Strange being Thanos' Uber driver asking him if he was taking him home, among other things.
• Thanos Car. ^ExplanationA modified purple pickup truck that somewhat resembles Thanos' face became popular with fans after it was shared on /r/thanosdidnothingwrong. The meme became increasingly meta over time, eventually devolving into associating anything colored purple with Thanos. Becomes Hilarious in Hindsight when an actual genus of dinosaur gets named after Thanos — ironically, said Genus is not purple (although that's probably for the best, considering that a purple dinosaur would invite unwanted comparisons to Barney).
• "What did it cost?" "Everything." ^ExplanationThe exchange Thanos has with a younger Gamora inside of the Soul Stone. This is most often used to parody the cost of overpriced products such as movie theater snacks or Microtransactions.
• "Doctor Strange saw Avengers 4 before the rest of us." ^ExplanationUsing the Time Stone, Doctor Strange looks into the future and sees over 14 million outcomes, with them being victorious in only one. It's assumed that this one victorious outcome is the events of Avengers: Endgame, so he may have actually "watched the movie" before anyone else.
  • "Be like Doctor Strange: He saw Avengers 4 before the rest of us and never spoiled it." ^ExplanationUsed as a general warning against spoilers for future Marvel movies and upcoming films in general.
  • "... and only spoiled the title!/ ...and only spoiled he would come back." ^ExplanationThe title for Avengers: Endgame was withheld for some time after Infinity War's release, as Infinity War Title Dropped the 4th movie's title. When it was finally announced that the title was was Endgame, fans quickly took note that the title comes from Doctor Strange's last words "We're in the endgame now". In-universe, it's assurance to Tony that they are on the one path to victory... but at a meta level, it spoils the title and somewhat ensures the return to the finale.
• *boom boom whoosh* ^ExplanationBased off of Doctor Strange's hand motions when he first summons the Rings of Raggadorr during the New York battle. Quickly became popular amongst Doctor Strange. It's even likened to the beat of "We Will Rock You" a few times.
• Hulk isn't afraid of Thanos. ^ExplanationThe Russo Brothers denied that Hulk's absence for the majority of the film was because of becoming scared of Thanos after their brawl, but rather finally being fed up with Banner constantly bringing him out to do what he wanted. A number of fans don't believe this explanation one bit.
• "I guide others to a treasure that I cannot possess." ^ExplanationThe line used by Red Skull as he leads Thanos to the Soul Stone, usually used in a situation where someone is helping someone else at their own expense, such as helping your friend get a girlfriend while you yourself are single.
• "This day extracts a heavy toll." ^ExplanationThis line is typically used on the internet for mourning, such as for Stan Lee's death. In the context of the film, it is Thanos' reaction to Ebony Maw being killed, right after Thanos kills Gamora.
• "All My Friends Are Dead" ^ExplanationThis infamous kids' book fits the movie a little too well, so jokes about it were inevitable. Usually said in reference to Rocket Raccoon due to him being the only Guardian still alive by the end.
• Fans have taken to call Thanos "rock collector" along with images and captions that make him look somewhat innocent such as this◊.
• Thanos is hot. ^ExplanationBecause of the impressive CGI which went into Thanos, along with Josh Brolin's performance, many fans shamefully admit that they find Thanos weirdly sexy.
• Some Transformers fans compared Star-Lord's actions with Hot Rod's, as both of them made similarly fatal mistakes that allowed the villain to win.
• "Did we just lose?" ^ExplanationAs with most other memes from the film, this line from Star-Lord after Thanos leaves with the Time Stone is applicable to a wide variety of situations.
• "This will be the end of Wakanda." "Then it will be the noblest ending in history." ^ExplanationConversation between M'Baku and Okoye before the battle of Wakanda, often applied to other Last Stand situations in media.
• "Reality is often disappointing." ^ExplanationThanos says this as he reveals his death at the hands of Gamora to be an illusion created by the Reality Stone. Again, this one's a fairly versatile reaction image.
  • "Reality can be whatever I want." ^ExplanationAnother Thanos line from the same scene, as he's inspecting the gauntlet.
• Thanos is Patrick. ^ExplanationThanks to this video, a lot of fans have brought up many of Patrick Star's memetic quotes from SpongeBob SquarePants, only this time in relation to Thanos.
• The secret behind Thanos' beauty. ^ExplanationJabs aplenty at the change in complexion in Thanos's skin from Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to Infinity War with this, which mutated to responses such as this and this◊.
• "They called me a madman." ^ExplanationThanos says this in his conversation with Doctor Strange. A go-to quote for They Called Me Mad! trope.
• Thanos was right. ^ExplanationOften used as a cynical response to stupidity that people find and lose faith in the world. Becomes an Ascended Meme in Hawkeye (2021) when those three words are graffitied on a urinal in the series premiere.
• "A small price to pay for salvation." ^ExplanationSaid by Thanos to justify his actions to Gamora. Used for whenever a beneficial solution comes at a cost, in a similar vein to Worth It. It's occasionally used in a more literal way, with someone making Thanos refer to an item as "not expensive".
• "All that for a drop of blood." ^ExplanationYet another Thanos line, this one directed at Tony Stark when he finally draws blood from Thanos' cheek after a long, drawn-out fight. Used as a response to perceived overreactions.
• "We're in the endgame now." ^ExplanationDoctor Strange's explanation for why he gave Thanos the Time Stone, used when a long event or experience reaches its end.
• "I'm sorry, but Earth is closed today." ^Explanation During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Tony's response to Ebony Maw became a common joke about how the sickness required everything to close.
• Thanos Rayman. ^ExplanationThe Fan Nickname for Ed of Tonic Trouble.
• A soul for a soul. ^ExplanationOften using the scene with Thanos opening his hand to reveal the Soul Stone, with an overlay of something that got "sacrificed" contained within, such as a team losing a game in one sport while another sports team in the same area gets its first win.
• Snap.^ExplanationTo "snap" has been genericized into any sort of large-scale instant massacre in video games and other media, referring to Thanos' fingersnap.
• "Dude, you are embarrassing me in front of the wizards." ^ExplanationTony Stark says this to Bruce Banner when the latter fails to transform into the Hulk to fight Ebony Maw, while Doctor Strange and Wong wait in anticipation. Used to reference any moment when technology suddenly starts working in front of the experts, such as your computer after you've called Tech Support, or your car once you get it in to a mechanic.
• Thanos VS John Wick ^ExplanationA typical meme is to take John Wick: Chapter 1 and change its revenge story to John hunting down Thanos for dusting his dog. May be accompanied with Thanos having an Oh, Crap! reaction with the knowledge that John is coming for him.

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Gamora: But nobody asks how are the memes...