Memes / Fire Emblem

Games with their own pages:

• Fire Emblem Fates
• Fire Emblem Heroes
• Fire Emblem: Three Houses
• Fire Emblem Engage

All spoilers are unmarked.

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Mainline games

Archanea (Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light, Mystery of the Emblem, and DS Remakes)

• "I am Wrys, a humble curate. I cannot fight, but this staff I carry can heal the wounded. Please allow me to join you." ^Explanation Wrys's recruitment line in the first game, oft-quoted in the Japanese fandom. In the original Mystery of the Emblem, Wrys was the first of many characters cut from the playable cast. However, unlike the others, he was given a cameo as a NPC, showing up at where he would have otherwise been recruited in Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light to give the army a Vulnerary and immediately leaving. Being the first healer in the game and making his absence all the more noticeable with his extremely brief appearance, he went on to became an Ensemble Dark Horse of ridiculous proportions. Naturally, the Japanese fandom rejoiced when he was revealed to return in Shadow Dragon. This quote, and Wrys in general, has become so iconic that it has achieved Ascended Meme status, with the quote being repeated word-for-word in Shadow Dragon and Heroes, and Wrys himself being one of few non-lord characters to get any merchandise.
  • MYRMIDON WRYS ^ExplanationOne of Wrys's reclass options in Shadow Dragon is to become a Myrmidon. As Wrys's natural bases and growths are terrible, making him anything but a healer is a bad idea, but the sheer silliness of an old bald healer being able to turn into the class associated with tough, edgy swordsmen makes it a common choice for challenge runs. Notably, became an Ascended Meme when his Cipher card art revealed that Wrys is wearing a myrmidon outfit under his robe and his healing staff is actually a Sword Cane.
• DOGA WILL CHOKE THIS POINT!!^ExplanationDraug is rather famous both in-universe and out for holding choke points with his massive base defense. This hilarious Let's Play, with its portrayal of Draug as a hammy Third-Person Blood Knight, definitely helped contribute to that.
• "Marth has no pants! What he has in Super Smash Bros. is just spray paint!"^ExplanationMarth's original design in Dark Dragon and the Blade of Light had him lacking pants.
  • Marth's very strange, Early-Installment Weirdness design in general is rather infamous and used as a somewhat common joke, representing the... odd, and often So Bad, It's Good, character designs in the first game.
• Win Spear ^Explanation Caeda's signature weapon in the remakes, the Wing Spear, is probably one of the most hilariously broken weapons in the franchise, boosting her otherwise very mediocre strength, piercing through the armored units and cavalry forces that seem to make up the vast majority of Archanea's forces like a hot knife though warm butter, and being able to be forged to make it even more powerful. Combined with Caeda's huge movement range due to being a flying unit and absolutely ludicrous speed growths on top of her already decent speed, she pretty much can kill anything and becomes a One Woman Army. Some fans even joke that Marth actually fell in love with the spear.
• You can't be Sirius! ^ExplanationReferring to Camus' various identities throughout the first three games, with the third one being a masked knight named Sirius. Often used to "point out" that Camus, Zeke, and Sirius are obviously separate characters. Gets a reprise when the Sirius form is included in Fire Emblem Heroes, and also mutates to the go-to joke word to replace 'serious'
• Matthis Syndrome ^ExplanationMatthis starts the longtime trend of enemy recruitable characters notorious for attacking the unit they are recruited by. This case is particularly ridiculous, as it's possible for Matthis to wonder aloud if he will ever see his sister again as he attacks her.
  • Matthis Moment ^ExplanationMatthis's status as a Memetic Loser has granted him an ironic fandom, with Matthis Moments being whenever he does something strange or questionable (usually attacking Lena).
• Caeda the original THOT. ^ExplanationCaeda's manner of sweet-talking (read: seducing) Roger (and later Jake) into Marth's army earned her a joking Flanderization that she is Fire Emblem's first seductress that seduces men here and there in the name of bolstering Marth's army while still being devoted to Marth, without Marth knowing. Even her appearance in Fire Emblem: Awakening kind of touches on this where she attempts the same strategy on Sumia (or in a lesser manner, her talk to Castor used against Kellam)
• Neat, free silver!^ExplanationNew Mystery of the Emblem is both famous and infamous for having a large cast, as well as being the game that introduced the Harder Than Hard Lunatic. This means that a lot of characters (most famously the entire Wolfguard) who join late Can't Catch Up, and tend to just hand off their weapons to one of your regulars and then warm the bench forever. Because of this, it's common to refer to these characters as "free silvers", because the most they contribute to the war effort is owning a silver weapon.
• "You can't win against Gharnef." ^Explanation Said by a very smug-looking villager in the very first game on the Famicom. The quote has become infamous in the community, with jokes commonly featuring, the quote on its own, the picture of the villager, or a combination of both.
• "Take This! Elephant!"^ExplanationThe boss of Chapter 13, Grigas wields an ballista. Having him attack in you in the Famicom version will have him utter this line. And no, it's not a mistranslation - The ballista is named exactly that in the original Japanese (the localization of Shadow Dragon renamed it to Pachyderm, a term for thick-skinned animals such as Elephants, making it less ridiculous-sounding). The absurdity of the line was popularized by Mangs, who made it an recurring joke during his playthrough of Shadow Dragon.
• Darros became sail. ^ExplanationA meme that deliberately cuts off Darros's ending text to rather hilarious effect, making it look like he became a literal sail after the war. This meme made a resurgence when Darros was announced for Fire Emblem Heroes.
• Vyland's Yaranaika face. ^ExplanationTo differentiate Vyland from Matthis, whom he looked very familiar aside from hair color, his Mystery incarnation was edited to look more serious. However, some Japanese users found out that his portrait looks too similar to Kuso Miso Technique's Yaranaika (Shall we do it?) face, resulting in this humorous art◊. Somewhat Ascended when his Heroes artwork came out, showing him with the same facial expression◊.
• Obtained Cancer!/Lang has cancer!/Lang gives you cancer!^ExplanationThe Star Shards in Mystery of the Emblem are named after zodiac signs. Early Arc Villain Lang drops the Cancer shard when defeated. The jokes kind of write themselves.
• Boah needs to lay off the Spirit Dust.^ExplanationA notable "0% Growths" run of the DS Shadow Dragon needed to give Boah, the game's main Bishop, a large amount of Spirit Dust to boost his magic and allow him to bring down certain enemies. Naturally, the playthrough ran with the idea that Boah snorted the dust like cocaine and is now addicted, which became a common joke involving Boah in general.
• To put it bluntly, Rad(d) Quetz was simply amazing.^ExplanationAn old fanfiction featured a main character whose name was strikingly similar to a certain playable Myrmidon. The quality of said fic led Radd to becoming something of a Memetic Badass in spite of his in-game performance.
• As a friend, you are replaceable. ^ExplanationA video depicting Marth accessing the gaiden chapter 6x by killing a unit[1] made by the YouTuber Excelblem in reference to the fact that some gaiden chapters require you to have a certain unit count (15 in this case) or less became a somewhat common meme among the fanbase, thanks to how comically out-of-character it is.
• The first game's character portraits get a lot of this for being So Bad, It's Good, particularly the hilariously smug Abel◊ and Cain◊.
• One particular, Let's Play spawned a lot of these in the English fandom, with its portrayals of the cast largely being used in any comedic telling of the game—Marth being The Neidermeyer who actively steals war funds, Caeda/Sheeda being a Yandere obsessed with "Marthipan," and Draug/Doga's obsession with CHOKING POINTS.
• Fire Emblem: (New) Mystery of Who Balanced Palla.
• Legion/Roro's laugh (WHEEHEEHEE)
• In the DS remakes, whenever detractors complain about the graphics of these games, expect fans (tired of the same argument) to post the infamous copypasta of "DSFE is bad and ugly and sucks because its bad and ugly"
• Hard 4 (H4) - Lunatic Reverse. A Harder Than Hard mode where enemies get to counter first on player phase. Recent playthroughs and discoveries have turned a once esteemed difficulty into a joke where players participate in a SOYO (screw over your opponent) in which they give each other the worse unit/class combinations to beat the game with. It's telling that someone has managed to complete this with unholy combinations such as Sniper Yubello, Warrior Astram, General Etzel and etc. It has also spread to Shadow Dragon's own Hard 5 as well.
• Really any way to push New Mystery of the Emblem to its limits with the amount of Challenge Run potential it has whether it be 0% Growths, LTC, the aforementioned Lunatic Reverse or all at once. It needs to been to believed.

Valentia (Gaiden and Echoes: Shadows of Valentia)

• "Don't worry. I'll crush these bastards." ^ExplanationAlm's use of the word bastard right before the final boss battle has reached memetic status among players, due to how out of place it is compared to the rest of the game's dialogue.
• "Heheheh, foolish bastards. What you defeated was just Lord Desaix's double!" ^ExplanationThe way the game handles defeating Desaix before you're supposed to is often quoted just due to how silly it is.
• The thumbnail of this trailer for Shadows of Valentia shows Alm during a Super Move Portrait Attack, but the frame that's shown makes the blue flames from the portrait look like Coral Blue #2 Semi-Gloss Lipstick on Alm's lips. Fans immediately took notice.
• "Shut up, Tobin."^ExplanationAfter Gray spends some time gushing about how amazing Clive is to Tobin, Tobin asks why Zofia's losing if Clive really is that great. Gray proceeds to sputter a bit and respond with this statement.
• 3rd Gender: Gold Knight^ExplanationDuring the Prologue stage, your unit classes consist of children versions of Alm, Celica, Gray, Tobin, Kliff, and Faye, all classed 'Boy' and 'Girl' depending on their gender... and Mycen, whose class is 'Gold Knight'. Fans ran with it, joking that 'Gold Knight' is the third gender of humans.
• 3-13 Mercenary^Explanation On one of the beginning chapters of the game, we have a boss (a Mercenary to be exact) that has much higher stats than a normal boss would have at that point, thus leading some people to believe that this Mercenary is considered a "divine" unit similar to Radiant Dawn's 3-13 Archer.
• Rinea and fire jokes, following up the examples of Sigurd and Flora.^ExplanationRinea is sacrificed by Berkut as a part of his Deal with the Devil, turning her into a screaming flame-wreathed Witch.
• BOATS!^ExplanationGaiden is the first Fire Emblem game to introduce boat maps. However, unlike most Fire Emblem games, where there is only one boat map, Gaiden has an entire chapter that is almost 100% boat maps, after which they are never used again. As a result, most Gaiden fans jokingly hype up the boat maps, even though in most games the boat map is usually the dullest point in the game due to their extremely simple yet tricky design
• "UNCLE!!!!!"^ExplanationAs the game goes on and Berkut undergoes a Villainous Breakdown, he begs Emperor Rudolf, his uncle, for one last chance to fight Alm, Chewing the Scenery at its finest.
  • "Nothing but lies! Lies, lies, lies, lies, LIES!!!!"^ExplanationRelated to the above.
• 2002 Toyota Celica^note A car model that, for some reason, shows up in place of the actual Celica whenever one searches up Fire Emblem characters on Google. The absurdity of its presence has led to people jokingly refer to the car as their favorite character.
• The rather perturbed expression of one of the generic soldier portraits has resulted in a number of jokes about him being spread.
• I'm Ready To Roll!^Explanation Genny's select quote on Full Health has became a source of memes.
• Because he appeared on the cover art of Gaiden despite having such a small role in that game, fans joke that Valbar is a lord character due to looking so out of place with the actual lords, Alm and Celica.

Jugdral (Genealogy of the Holy War and Thracia 776)

• "Kill X For Y"^ExplanationGenealogy's parent system is set up such that as long as the mother is married and made it to the end of the first generation, then their children will be in the second generation; otherwise, they get replaced with substitute kids. Not every original parent's children are considered superior to their substitutes (it's a YMMV); therefore this phrase is the act of making sure the mother gets killed in order to make way for the superior substitute children. The more common targets of this are either Sylvia for either Laylea and Charlot (Lene was considered rather inferior and... less obviously mature-looking compared to Laylea, whereas Charlot comes with the rare Berserk Staff), or Tailtiu for Amid and Linda (the only substitute characters with direct links to the main Granvallian group, and Linda actually having superior stats when compared to Tine, and Tailtiu herself being somewhat of an Est character that's considered a pain to train. Not to mention due to the heartbreaking nature of her demise if she mothered Tine... killing her off like this would count as a Mercy Kill).
• SHE. HAS. FURY!!!^ExplanationErinys's Japanese name (Ferry) can also be spelled as Fury, whereas Fawful is a neighboring villain known for his very quirky manner of speech; one of his many-many quotable sentences is "I HAVE FURY!".
• ZIGLUDO-CHAN-SAN-SAMA-SENPAI-SAN-SAMA-SAN-CHAN-SAN-SEMPAI-CHAN^ExplanationAn infamous troll edit◊ of the Fire Emblem Wikia rather vulgarly portrayed Sigurd as a Memetic Badass, replacing his name with this rather excessive version.
• Invitation to BBQ Party at Belhalla!^ExplanationThe Battle of Belhalla involves Sigurd's party getting smashed by flaming meteors and Sigurd himself getting roasted with Arvis' Valflame. Since Arvis made it happen by casually giving Sigurd a hero's welcome before springing his trap, BBQ Party is often a soft way to refer to that battle. Because something is getting roasted, at least... This eventually spawned a running Black Comedy joke about characters dying in fire, starting with Fates.
• Marty: The Man Whom Dagdar Loved.^ExplanationA translation of Marty's ending, due to the quality, became so unintentionally hilarious that it stuck to Marty. Though it's probably a good thing that he was given at least one quirk; otherwise, he'd be considered too bland.
• Dastard!^ExplanationFrom a rather old fan-translation of Genealogy, which rendered Sigurd's last words as "Alvis! You dastard!". It's actually a surprisingly archaic way to say 'bastard', rather appropriate considering the setting, and the base of words like 'dastardly'. It has since become a word which has a tendency to crop up in the localized games as a substitute for a... stronger word ending in "-astard", standing out even among the series' frequent use of Gosh Dang It to Heck! slurs such as "Craven cur". It's a term with a significant ironic love among the fanbase for its narminess (in much the same fashion as "youngling" for the Star Wars fandom), and has made it into several fan translations. This became an Ascended Meme after Fire Emblem: Awakening used it, becoming the universal go-to word among fans to replace "bastard" liberally.
• PUGIPUGIPUGIPUGIPUGI etc.^ExplanationThe Pugi/Vouge is an overpowered weapon obtained in Chapter 1 of Thracia 776, and the fandom loves it, with the phrase in question meant to hype the hell out of it. Like the Wing Spear from FE11/12, the fact that only one character (specifically Osian) can use it does nothing to detract from its awesomeness.
• "Those idiots have fallen right into my trap! In America!"^ExplanationMany of the various older fan translations for Thracia 776 are infamously bad. The quote in question is said by Kempf as he traps Leif's army, and many took note of the In America! for all the wrong reasons.
• THE POWER OF PURSUIT!!^ExplanationArden is capable of obtaining the Follow-Up Ring (Pursuit Ring in the fan translation) through a small sidequest that wasn't even told. The old translation had him utter this line that was so strange that it became memetic and attached to Arden, even if players would more likely have him sell the ring to someone else. Enough that when he appears in Fire Emblem Heroes, the Follow-Up Ring comes along as an Arden-exclusive skill.
• FUCC^ExplanationThe localized name for Pursuit, called Follow-Up had some rather unfortunate consequences, such as the Fire Emblem Wiki renaming Pursuit Critical Coefficient to Follow-Up Critical Coefficient. The fandom did not fail to notice the funny implications of the acronym and ran with it. The Project Exile translation later updated the name to Follow-up Critical Multipler, with the Fire Emblem Wiki changing its name to correspond with it.
• Travant's Shish Kebab party ^Explanation While not as memetic as Arvis's BBQ party, the Yied Massacre involves the deaths of Quan and Ethlyn by the hands of Thracian Dracoknights, who wield lances. Because of this, it's common to associate their deaths with shish kebabs, a type of skewered meat.
  • QUAN GA SHINDA! (KONO HITO DE NASHI!)^ExplanationQuan's holy blood allows him to wield the Gae Bolg, one of the 12 holy weapons that is named after the personal weapon of Cu Chulainn. Because of how his death was similar to Lancer (aka Cu Chulainn), a minor crossover meme was made, stemming off of Carnival Phantasm's LANCER GA SHINDA whenever Lancer dies.
• Sigurd the Babygirl^note A certain tweet made by a Three Houses fan received backlash from many Jugdral fans for using a strawman argument of elitists encouraging newcomers of the series to play the older games. The second half of the tweet itself, which mentions about elitists being upset with newcomers latching on Sigurd and begin calling him "Babygirl", garnered so much mockery that it caused the character to trend on Twitter for several hours, with many also jokingly refer Sigurd with this title.
• "I'm supposed to say something if ____ but it hasn't been translated yet." ^ExplanationThe game makes checks on whether or not certain characters are still alive at certain parts of the game, and the fan translation used the placeholder text of, "I'm supposed to say something if I'm alive, but it hasn't been translated yet".
• On some older Let's Plays of Thracia 776, YouTube comments giggled at how "Animation" was written as "Anime" on the fan-translation, and how it was one of the options (it's supposed to be an individual choice on how you want the character's animations to play out) alongside things like "Attack".
• Sigurd is frequently the butt of jokes about how his desire for Deirdre (forest lady) had catastrophic consequences, basically leading to the entire game after that point.
• The numbers "776" in Thracia 776 have become something resembling an Arc Number in the fanbase, with a particularly common joke being that, given Thracia 776's obscurity, it refers to its fans. Another common variant is "explaining" what happened to Thracia 1 through Thracia 775.
• In a tongue in cheek sort of way, ironically calling Thracia 776 the Dark Souls of Fire Emblem/Strategy games.
• MARTY PARTY ^ExplanationMarty is generally considered one of Thracia 776's worst characters, but he's also in a game that provides a lot of ways for weak units to catch up. Because of this, some Lets Plays ended up going out of their way to make him useful (usually by handing him a pile of Crusader Scrolls), leading to him becoming something of a people's favorite.
• Curse of Thracia^ExplanationThe fact that of all the various translation projects for this game, none of them got finished. Finally broken with Cirosan's "Project Exile" that was finally finished.
• Memes about the old shaya translation of Thracia 776:
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  • This one especially◊.
  • Calling defense "danc" and attack "swa."
• "ATTENTION, ALL THRACIA 776 GAMERS."^ExplanationA parody of a similar meme based on Fortnite, which involved Pete Accetturo declaring that "Reinhardt has EPICALLY taken children from Manster hostage!"
• Who is the babe? She looks like Lucina!^ExplanationThis was a comment made by a YouTuber on a now-deleted reupload of an unidentified Genealogy of the Holy War song on YouTube, which features fanart of Seliph as a thumbnail for the entire video. This particular comment became somewhat of a gag by the fandom due to the user mistaking Seliph as a girl despite being male, not helped by his androgynous looks and combined with the fact that Lucina is an Expy of him.
• Sexy Cain ^ExplanationThe official art of Cain (Yes, Judgral Cain) from Thracia 776 was drawn rather handsomely for a character with very little dialogue and also known to be quite miserable gameplay-wise, but despite this, the way it's drawn caused fans to get attracted by him all the while ignoring his flaws.
• "That's the one where the first map you only have swords and the enemy all use lances!" ^ExplanationA since-deleted tweet where someone explains why they don't wish to play Thracia using the previous statement, which is objectively incorrect as only three out of your eight starting units can even use swords. Though it's possible that the original poster had only seen Chapter 4 (where this is the case at the start) and assumed that was the first chapter, the tweet has still become infamous along with several other misconceptions about Thracia.
• This bizarre unused song From Genealogy of the Holy War became widely used in the early 2020's as a response to every Nintendo Direct not announcing a remake of this game. It also became associated with Seliph wearing clown makeup.

Elibe (The Binding Blade and The Blazing Blade)

• CANAS WAS KILLED BY CONTINUITY ERRORS!^ExplanationAs Canas didn't appear in FE6, he dies in a freak accident between the events of the two games. As the cause of death is a snowstorm, snow is heavily "associated" with Canas like fire is to Sigurd.
  • and then canas adopted nino and they lived together as a happy family, she was like an older sister to hugh and he hepled her raise her twin boys and most definley did not die in a snowstorm what the fuck ^ExplanationFans who were not satisfied with Canas's ending made up a paired ending with Nino and jokingly insist that this is what really happened to him.
• Raven is most susceptible to being RNG screwed.^ExplanationA certain user on GameFAQs posts and reposts a single topic with this title due to the fact that despite his high growths, he always seems to get low stats.
  • Seriously. ._.^ExplanationThe topic in question always has this as the entirety of the first post. It spawned a number of parodies.
• Critger^ExplanationRutger is capable of exceeding the 100% critical hit chance so long as he is holding a Wo Dao and all his possible Supports are at range, earning him the nickname of Critger by fans. This meme resurfaced after Rutger was added in Heroes.
  • Rutger's Gank Squad. ^ExplanationIn a game notorious for enemy reinforcements that immediately move, one of the first and most infamous screw-you's is Rutger and a squad of enemies suddenly materializing far away from the castle he's supposed to be in, likely to murder somebody like Roy. While it's announced ahead of time that he's coming outside to fight, it's where he spawns that catches people off guard. For added hilarity, they instantly appear from the side of the castle rather coming from the gate, making it look like they all dove out a window or something.
• Blazing Blade gives us Batta THE BEAST, and Glass, who is known for his peerless swordplay.^ExplanationBatta and Glass are overly hammy, incredibly easy warm up bosses that boast about how badass they are, and make quite an impression for appearing only once, making them Ensemble Darkhorses and propelling them to Memetic Badass status.
• This is a message from Lord Nergal. "I await you on the Dread Isle."^ExplanationA boss in the game by the name of Denning is sent as a messenger to the heroes by a villain who literally created him for the sole purpose of delivering that one message. This is all he is capable of saying, repeating himself over and over to maddening effect.
• Nomads can fly with their asses!^ExplanationThe Nomadic Trooper's critical hit animation for swords has them jumping high into the sky from the back of their horse (who is also jumping) while appearing to use nothing more than their buttocks.
• Wolt.^ExplanationDespite him being Roy's milk-brother and showing up very prominently on the packaging, due to his really poor base stats and merely above-average growths, Wolt is a character who usually becomes really irrelevant really quickly, especially compared to other archers, and he barely has any presence in the story. Because of this, the Japanese fandom tends to treat him as a Memetic Loser, albeit sometimes affectionately, and characters similar to him in this aspect tend to be called "Wolts" in some circles. Because of his Memetic Loser status, a somewhat popular Self-Imposed Challenge is playing through the game... using only him. The first person to complete such a seemingly impossible task, through sheer brains and strategic placement alone, has earned the eternal nickname "Placement General".
• This gave Roy further shock.^ExplanationA short line from the beginning of Chapter 5 of a Fan Translation, frequently used as a reaction template.
• "What happened to Dorcas?" "I put poison in his mutton!"^ExplanationFrom the North American ad for The Blazing Blade, Dorcas is killed at a dinner table in a live action segment via... poisoned mutton. Received a slight resurgence after the midterm reveal of the Fire Emblem Heroes poll, in which Dorcas placed in the top twenty. And eventually got him a place in the roster of Heroes, in which the meme ascended: One of his face-petting quotes mentions that he had some "bad mutton" earlier.
  • "I put steroids in his mutton!"^Explanation Dorcas was found to be a surprisingly powerful unit in Heroes, coming with both Quick Riposte and a signature weapon with built-in Distant Counter.
  • "Build an army. Trust nobody."^ExplanationThe tagline of the ad says this. While there are some people you cannot trust in the main game, overall, most of them are trustworthy (though the "build an army" part was mostly accurate, as a traditional Fire Emblem plot involves recruiting people to fight against the empire/cult). Whenever a massive controversy erupts that is related to Fire Emblem, expect this line to be uttered at least once. Much like the aforementioned poisoned mutton, One of Dorcas' face-petting quotes mentions to "trust nobody".
• Elisomething ^ExplanationA Japanese Fan Nickname for Eliwood. The name itself actually originated with a random villager calling Elincia this in Path of Radiance, but it then went on to often be used to mock the fact that Eliwood, despite being the main hero of The Blazing Blade, has very mediocre stats and growths, even (and often especially) after promotion, especially compared to his fellow lords Hector and Lyn, is basically a statistically worse version of a vanilla Paladin in every way, and has a weapon that severely weighs him down, quite literally.
• Hectare ^ExplanationA Japanese Fan Nickname for Hector, using the Japanese Katakana Unicode symbol for "hectare".
• Hectorcopter ^Explanation Hector's Critical attack animation for the Armads has Hector whirl the massive axe over his head and swing it downwards. The complete ridiculousness of Hector whirling the Axe over his head like nothing has lead to some interesting results from the fandom.
• "We need disguises." *put on Paper Thin Disguises* "Perfect!" ^ExplanationFrom a certain cutscene in The Blazing Blade, in which the party is required to disguise themselves... and proceed to put on extremely obvious Paper Thin Disguises that would give the Team Rocket trio of Pokémon: The Series fame a run for their money, consisting of brown capes on top of their usual clothing and nothing else. The disguises are so obvious, it spawned jokes of the characters insisting that their costume skills are perfect, and it especially latched onto Eliwood for some reason. Because of how cartoonish and silly the scene is, Fire Emblem fans sometimes overlay other characters who don obvious "disguises" or are obvious copies of other characters onto the portrait sprites, with a common response being "Wow, where did they go?!".
• "Craven cur!" ^ExplanationSomething shouted by Eliwood in The Blazing Blade. Much like "dastard!", this is actually a real archaic slur, but fans latched on to it because it sounds silly.
• "I'm ready to die." ^ExplanationA quote said by Nino in "Battle Before Dawn" where she tells her partner Jaffar to kill her when she is reluctant to assassinate the young Prince Zephiel as part of their Black Fang mission. While it is an emotional moment for the characters involved, it is frequently used out-of-context to express disappointment.
• "No mercy! No forgiveness!"^ExplanationAnother Nino line, coming into play if she fights her adoptive mother. The aggressive nature of the line contrasts with Nino's generally sweet and innocent personality so much that it became a bit of a joke, especially when a Photoshop of Nino holding a gun while saying it◊ started circulating.
• Pierced by Eliwood's Durandal! ^ExplanationReferring to the scene where Eliwood unwittingly killed a dragon with the Durandal sword that he just obtained, and said dragon is revealed to be Ninian. This gets a double meaning should players get to hook them up in the end.
• Sometimes, hips DO lie. ^ExplanationA meme referring to Lucius' feminine appearance and demeanor, despite being a male monk. Has confused people in and out of game.
• Wendy is a 9/10 unit. ^ExplanationA Gamefaqs guide rating various units in the game became well-known in the fandom due to its incredibly poor advice, which misled a lot of newer fans in the early days and became an embodiment of a lot of misconceptions from that era (it focused almost entirely on 20/20 stats, ignoring minor factors like availability, unique skills, bases, movement, or joining level). The most infamous was its rating of Gwendolyn/Wendy, who, despite being generally regarded as the game's worst unit, still got a 9/10 solely on the basis of her having decent growths. Consequently, the phrase "9/10" tends to pop up a lot when speaking of units with good growths but bad stats, units people defend as useful after working their butts off to make them tolerable, or just Wendy in general.
  • "The basics are everything." ^ExplanationA line from her support with Ogier, which became infamous due to its short length, incredibly bland and uninteresting writing, and the revelation that she apparently practices walking (which may explain her combat performance). Talking about "the basics" around her is quite common as a result.
• "With Hector gone, Pherae is now the greatest power in Lycia" ^ExplanationFrom an early narration cutscene from The Binding Blade that is accompanied by Eliwood's portrait. When taken out of context, it makes it look like Eliwood has usurped the authority position from his best friend Hector.
• Return to Monke.^ExplanationOne of the bosses in the Sacae route of Binding Blade is called Monke. Naturally, it didn't take long for memes involving Monke to be involved.
• Lilina is a lord character^ExplanationDue to sharing a lot of qualities with several lords of the series (I.e. Blue Hair, Dead Father, Becoming a ruler of their land, etc.), it's common for people to joke that Lilina is the real lord of The Binding Blade instead of Roy, whose father isn't dead and doesn't become the ruler of Lycia. Lilina receiving a Legendary variant in Heroes and a 1/7th scale figure only added to this.
• YOU ARE GOING TO SACAE^ExplanationThe Sacae-focused chapters of Binding Blade are notoriously frustrating: an enemy roster consisting mostly of extremely speedy and evasive Myrmidons and Nomads in very large numbers, enemies with status staves including Berserk all over the place, extremely difficult bosses, including Gel, who is considered the hardest boss in the game, and That One Level in 20xS, which features a randomized seize point. However, they can be circumvented entirely if Shanna or Thea are alive and have gained more experience than either of the playable Nomads, at which point the player will instead be sent to the Ilia route, where the level design is considerably more forgiving and the Nomads are swapped out for Pegasus Knights being weighed into the dirt by their own weapons. But since Shanna and Thea have shakier combat than Sue or Shin, particularly on Hard, this tends to require deliberate effort to use them as much as possible and avoid overusing Sue or Shin. Because of this, the idea of accidentally ending up on the Sacae route being treated as a kind of Fate Worse than Death is fairly common.
• For-twenty-blaze it!^ExplanationThe ultimate fire tome in both Elibe games is called Forblaze, which is easy enough to turn into a 420 reference. This line is often given to either Lilina (who tends to be the best Anima user in Binding Blade and thus an ideal Forblaze candidate) or Athos (Forblaze's creator, who natually comes with it equipped).
• Crying Eliwood◊^note A CG of Eliwood crying while his dead father, Elbert, rests on his arm, became subject to various shitposts in the early 2020s, normally consisting of the former saying out-of-place questions and/or dialogue to his father or just posted without any dialogue and context, instead of the usual "Open your eyes...... Faaaatherrrrrrr!!!!" in the original.
• YOU! Guess what? Money is important!^Explanation A memetic line from a villager in the first chapter (dubbed "The Money Man" by fans) who suddenly jumps into a discussion about using your money wisely.
• The scene where Zephiel wipes the floor with Cecilia is verging on this, with jokes about Zephiel kicking her ass in ridiculous ways becoming increasingly popular. For example◊.
• Lilina-Marcus S Support.^ExplanationLilina's support with Marcus is about her preparing to confess to Roy... which thanks to the game's Support Engine will never happen because a character can only have A Support with one character, and since Marcus is her A Support... But there is a workaround! Marcus can then get killed, freeing Lilina's Support slot, as long as Roy isn't taken. Fans takes Marcus' death this way as his S Support with Lilina, giving his life so she can finally confess and marry Roy.
• FE6 RNG BUGGED ^ExplanationThe low hit rates of weapons across the board, the very sturdy enemies, and the weapon triangle bonuses being lower than in the other GBA games produce a lot of extra misses in player phase (and in enemy phase, but players tend to remember their misses more than the enemy's). It also doesn't help that there is a genuine bug that makes a 100% hit missable, even though it's a Million to One Chance roughly speaking.
• "It's great that they made Roy accurate to his game counterpart!" ^ExplanationMost fans will usually consider Roy in The Binding Blade to be one of the worst units. Whenever he shows up in crossovers like Heroes and Engage, and wounds up as mediocre gameplay-wise, fans will often joke that his appearances are accurate to his Binding Blade portrayal.
• Elimine, saint of Mario Kart^note Though Elimine is one of the eight legends in the lore of Elibe, the only time she ever appeared in physical form is in a bonus disc issued with preorders of Double Dash!!. Here, when having a copy of Blazing Blade linked to the GameCube, she grants the player bonus items that normally wouldn't be found in-game, before vanishing off. Because of this, she became the butt of jokes to most Fire Emblem fans as she was only remembered for appearing in a Mario Kart game of all things, let alone a bonus disc of one. The meme saw a resurgence when she finally made her actual debut in the Fire Emblem franchise with Heroes in January 2022 as an Astra Mythic Hero.
• In Elibe, every day is Leg Day ^ExplanationThe Elibe duology is quite infamous for the unrealistically janky proportions on a majority of both games' official art, usually giving most of the cast unnaturally long legs, which tends to fall into Unintentional Uncanny Valley as the characters are still proportioned realistically otherwise. It is sometimes joked that some characters, such as Legault and Rutger, are among the leggiest characters in Elibe. Someone on Reddit also did an analysis for both The Binding Blade and The Blazing Blade, which concludes that Elffin, of all people, has the highest leg percentage of any Elibean at 67.17%.
• “Ninian is dead.” ^Explanation A message that plays at the very beginning of Sands of Time after Eliwood accidentally kills Ninian. It’s become popular as a reaction image, often swapping out Ninian for some other character.
• In the anglosphere, people were making joke supports... where both characters just say "..." to each other back and forth. Most people choose Jaffar (Who has several supports where he says "..." until someone says something to make him speak) and Rath (Who also says "..." on occasion). This became an Ascended Meme in Fire Emblem Fates.

Magvel (The Sacred Stones)

• "Eirika will break the rules to stab you in the face." ^ExplanationThe prologue battle of Sacred Stones, where Eirika gets a third hit just to finish off the boss. Possibly referenced in Awakening by having her special weapon (Eirika's Blade) have the same effect as the Brave weapons (i.e. allowing the user to attack twice, or four times if the user would double-attack normally).
• "Save me, Eirika!" ^ExplanationA Japanese meme based off of the default "Save me, anonymous!" screenname on 2ch's SRPG board, from a support conversation where Innes tells Eirika he will protect her, only for her to tell him that it is probably better that he stay behind her since he can only attack from a distance, to which Innes complains that it's like he's being protected by her.
• "Joshua is a Swordmaster now. He forgot how to do regular attacks." ^ExplanationSwordmasters are a class with a high critical hit chance. Joshua is infamous for his naturally high critical chance.
• Gerik lacks the proper CON to wield axes. ^ExplanationAnother topic spammed on GameFAQs regularly. This likely stems from the fact that in the Japanese version, Gerik had lower CON than the international versions.
• GHEB ^ExplanationGheb is a midgame boss who became a Memetic Molester due to his rather creepy plans for Tana, a childhood friend of the protagonists held captive in the fortress Gheb has command of. A hack was made entirely of the memes. And believe us, there are a lot of them, but most of them are NSFW.
• Seth-Tier^ExplanationSeth is probably the most broken character in the series, as he has good growths and is a Jagen.
• Ephraim: "I don't pick fights I can't win."^ExplanationAn abusable quote from Ephraim, said when he's attacking an enemy castle with just 4 units, including himself (one of whom turns out to be a traitor). This quote also became somewhat infamous years later in the Japanese fandom due to it being taken out of context in Fire Emblem Heroes.
• "Amelia is bad in General/Amelia is good in General."^ExplanationA line arising from an infamously long debate over the merits of Amelia, the game's most notorious Magikarp Power unit. Essentially, if raised fully and promoted to General, Amelia can become a very powerful Lightning Bruiser one-rounding things left and right... in a class with the worst mobility in the game, after raising her over 30+ levels of growth, when she joins at a point where she can't even damage most enemies, and reaches her full potential when most of her allies are maxing out anyway. All this means that Amelia is considered almost impossible to raise without Tower abuse, statboosters, or heavy babying, at which point any character becomes broken. However, Amelia is a very popular character, and Sacred Stones's low difficulty and the appeal of a General who can double makes people very defensive of her weaknesses. Not helping is that Amelia's other options are Great Knight and Paladin, which are much better than General but also more common among other characters, sparking questions over whether having another Paladin is worth it. Because of this, variants of the phrase tend to crop up a lot around Amelia, Generals, or characters who can become Generals.
• The Google-translated hack of Sacred Stones spawned a lot of memes due to the non-sensical sentences that came from it.
  • Very Seth ^ExplanationOne of the lines said by King Fado (properly translated, it's supposed to be "Good.", then Fado requesting Seth afterwards). Because of how humorously good it was, it's often used to describe either Seth's unique tier placement or just him in general (no pun intended).
  • The Russian Princess Eirika will ride his brother's tribute with force!^ExplanationOne of Eirika's lines has her proclaiming this (properly translated, she wants to ride to her brother's side with reinforcement), and when combined with the Russian Princess line, jokes are often made about her being lusting towards her brother- erm, comrade.
• "If I were not a holy woman, I would beat you senseless!" ^ExplanationThis line is part of her B-rank support with Innes, spoken after Innes mentions about L'Arachel's "wild behavior", in which L'Arachel returns with this line, thinking that Innes is being rude to her. This quote stands out even from L'Arachel's equally hilarious supports, that it is used as the base of similar memes applied to other characters both in and outside of the Fire Emblem's female characters that are mainly associated with a church/clergy, is a priestess, or the like or equivalent of being a holy woman.
  • "I am a holy woman, and I WILL beat you senseless!" ^ExplanationAnother meme created from the above quote meme, which also fits a Gameplay and Story Integration due to both of L'Arachel's promotions (specifically the Valkyrie in this case, though Mage Knight also fits in all but the "holy woman" part) are Combat Medic classes that can indeed smite her enemies. One video has used this quote as a basis for this meme.

Tellius (Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn)

• Radiant Dawn allows us to view the 3-13 Archer^note 6:48, 11:22, perhaps the only competent allied NPC in the game most powerful character in the universe, stronger than the gods. He does not die, he simply refuses to help you anymore. Truly, he is an hero. ^ExplanationAn allied A.I. Sniper helps you out in one of the game's most troublesome chapters, and almost invariably does far better than his stats indicate he should. The fandom has made him a massive Memetic Badass for it.
• "The beasts... The beasts wish to... CONSUME ME!" ^ExplanationAn enemy boss in Radiant Dawn runs away before your party even reaches him, with this line as his reasoning.
• "Danved, who is definitely not Devdan, will fight like ten men! Like a bear! Like a tiger! We don't need Largo and Calill, because Danved is pretty amazing." ^ExplanationDanved's combination of Cloudcuckoolander, Large Ham and high quoteability made him something of an Ensemble Dark Horse... all in just one speaking appearance (not counting Devdan in PoR).
• Edward tanks axes with his face. ^ExplanationRadiant Dawn character Edward is a victim of odd animation when he gets hit by axe-wielding brigands. His poor starting stats don't help much either.
• In Japan, two memes that spawned from Path of Radiance are especially popular: "Yaa", "Shikkoku House", ^ExplanationOriginates in a flash animation where Kieran thinks that if he stands in front of the house the Black Knight comes out of, it will prevent him from emerging. The Black Knight emerges anyway, passing through Kieran and standing in the space next to him, and says "Yaa ('sup?) Welcome to the Shikkoku House (Pure Black House, taken from the Black Knight's Japanese name "Shikkoku no Kishi")." On Nico Nico Douga, any video in which the Black Knight appears will invariably have "Yaa" comments flying across the screen, and almost every video featuring the level in question will be tagged with "Shikkoku House." and "Bolt Axe Shogun." ^ExplanationFrom another flash, in which Grommel, the boss of a late-game level, becomes a memetic dumbass. His subordinates roll boulders down the hill which hit their own units and miss the player's units. The general has an item (the Bolt Axe) which is completely ineffective against any unit with high-enough Resistance, his special skill which adds to his stats when at low health does nothing to his magic stat which powers the axe, and at the end of the flash he gets killed by one of his own subordinates finishing him off with a boulder. Someone points out they don't get the Bolt Axe that way, but is then shown that no axe user has even a half-decent magic stat, which would be necessary to use it effectively. tl;dr version, everything about the Bolt Axe Shogun is fail. As with Shikkoku House, almost every video on niconico featuring the level is tagged with "Bolt Axe Shogun."
• "Lord of the Dance" Pelleas. ^ExplanationThe character Pelleas in Radiant Dawn has the Miracle skill, which normally reduces a lethal blow to half damage when it activates. If it activates at 1 HP, however, the attack instead misses entirely. This repeated dodging provides a fairly amusing animation when used against Astra, which the fandom ran with. Now anyone who manages to dodge all 5 hits of Astra is said to have "taken dancing lessons from Pelleas." (Note: video contains a Rick Roll)
• Gorillaguz^ExplanationIt is popular in the Japanese fandom to mock Radiant Dawn Ike's design with this Fan Nickname, due to him being compared to a laguz more than a few times in-game and his bulked-up appearance.
• "Green Zephyr (lol)" ^ExplanationTaken from Sothe's Japanese in-universe Red Baron "The Green Zephyr". In Path of Radiance, Sothe is a character with really bad base stats for when he joins, with really good growths, making him seem like an example of Magikarp Power... except that his stat caps and lack of promotion screw him over again once he hits level 20, making him instead a glaring example of a unit with wasted potential. Because of this, when he was announced to return in Radiant Dawn as a main character, many were hoping that he would have Took a Level in Badass over the Time Skip... and while he initially seemed to live up to expectations, he proved to actually be an uber-Crutch Character who would give Jagen himself a run for his money, which, along with only being able to wield knives — the weakest weapon type in the game — and being a mandatory unit in every level he is present in the party currently being controlled, made him The Load for most of mid- to late- game. This and "I will protect Micaiah!" made him one of the most infamous examples of Low-Tier Letdown and Memetic Loser the Japanese fandom has ever seen for seemingly being screwed over by the devs twice. As if to add insult to injury, they then found out that for some really obscure reason he was one of few units to not get an exclusive weapon in the American version, making it so that he has officially been screwed over by the devs thrice. and "I will protect Micaiah!" ^ExplanationDespite his performance in battle, he constantly declares that he'll protect Micaiah throughout the story, this one being one among many others, making it look like he has a Small Name, Big Ego or is hilariously lacking in self-awareness.
  • "Micaiah will protect me!" ^ExplanationKind of similar to the "Save me, Eirika!" meme in meaning, except much less good-natured. A mutation of the above-mentioned quote "I will protect Micaiah!", used to mock his uselessness in battle after his usefulness as a Crutch Character wears off, making Micaiah, his Protectorate, actually a much better offensive unit than him.
  • "Know your place!" ^ExplanationAn oft-quoted line in the Japanese fandom from the Black Knight in Radiant Dawn, often used as an all-purpose retort to Small Name, Big Ego or overly high expectations of oneself. And especially in retort to Sothe's constant Declaration of Protections. If someone quotes "I'll protect Micaiah!", this quote is pretty much guaranteed to follow.
• "Moldy onions!" ^ExplanationSomething shouted by a generic soldier in Radiant Dawn when he is blocked from pursuing the Dawn Brigade by peasants. Much like "Dastard!", it is often seen as Narm Charm.
• Micaiah: Ike, "hero" of the Mad King's War, leader of the Greil Mercenaries, and father of Sothe's children... ^ExplanationSothe is somewhat of an Ike fanboy, and often gushes about Ike to his comrades. Micaiah does not like Ike, since he is partially responsible for the horrible state Daein is in (after all, he did kill King Ashnard, and most of Daein's military personnel, and he and Elincia struck up an alliance with Begnion that resulted in them taking over administrative duties of Daein after the war...) So after one too many "Ike is awesome" quips from Sothe, Micaiah decides she's had enough and snaps back with this hilariously snarky line. Eventually, Veronica Taylor voice of Micaiah in Heroes said the line for a video.
• "Of course... Interesting maneuver." ^ExplanationA line from Zelgius reacting to the Laguz Army's plan of dropping in their soldiers by air. Usually used as a reaction to something out of the ordinary.
• "You disgust me beyond words!" ^ExplanationA line from Ike when he chews out Sanaki and her advisors in Begnion.
  • "Look... would you mind rejoining the enemy?" ^ExplanationAnother line from Ike when talking to Oliver after recruiting him. Ike's baffled reaction and almost-desperate request for Oliver to rejoin the enemy army is often considered one of the funniest moments in the entire game, and as such has often been used to tell people who joins one community to leave because their presence makes said community look worse for having them be present.
• "This [long event] is about as long as one Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn enemy phase". ^ExplanationOne of the Tellius games' most infamous flaws is really long enemy phases on par with Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War, even with every available option to speed it up enabled, which gets particularly absurd on Maniac Mode. Fans often joke about reading entire books or running errands during the enemy phase.

Ylisse and Valm (Awakening)

• NUNSWITHAXES^ExplanationThe news that Lissa of Awakening, a Cleric, would be able to wield axes upon promotion was greeted very enthusiastically by the fandom. This also spawned MONKSWITHAXES for a short time (as the male equivalent uses axes, too), though the NUNSWITHAXES meme lasted a bit longer.
• Tharja, Head Priestess of the Yandere Goddess. ^ExplanationTharja, one of the playable Dark Mages in Awakening and a huge Yandere, makes this rather epic face◊ at one point. Which was actually taken from Future Diary's Yuno Gasai,◊ one of the most famous yandere characters in any media.
• Gerome's like Batman/Nightwing. ^ExplanationFans are very fond of comparing Gerome to Batman, due to them sharing many appearance and personality traits like dressing in black armour, preference for solitude, stand-offish attitude, gruff voice, dead parents etc. His face mask and hairstyle on the other hand make him look more like Nightwing. The fact that the Avatar's default name is Robin leads to even more jokes about this.
• Basilio is Nick Fury. ^ExplanationBeing a dark-skinned bald character with an Eyepatch of Power, Basilio bears a strong and presumably coincidental resemblance to the Ultimate Marvel version of Nick Fury, who himself is deliberately modeled on Samuel L. Jackson. Cue the jokes.
• "Pick a god and pray!"^ExplanationThis is one of Frederick's Critical Hit lines, and is widely regarded as the best line in the entire game.
• Everyone is Frederick for Chrom! ^ExplanationAn allusion to the meme born from Tomokazu Sugita (Chrom) and Daisuke Ono (Frederick)'s Those Two Actors status. Not helped by their Ho Yay and by how some fanboys are... rather taken with Chrom, so to say.
  • NTR'd by Chrom ^ExplanationAt the end of the Gangrel arc, Chrom will automatically marry the woman that he has the highest Support rank with, or a random female villager if he has had zero female supports, in order to father Lucina. If the player is playing as a male Avatar and they have a female Love Interest unit in mind, they must be careful about Chrom pairing up with said love interest, because if Chrom hasn't paired up with any other female units capable of marrying him as much, he will take her and marry her, resulting in an accidental Player Punch. This has been described by some players as getting "NTR'd by Chrom" or "NTR'd by the game".
  • Chrom'd^ExplanationUsed when a female Avatar accidenatally marries Chrom against their will.
• The shipping lord has come.^ExplanationThe Avatar is called the "Shipping Lord" because s/he is a main character, and is the one controlling the love relationships in the game.
• DON'T MESS WITH A BUNNY!! ^ExplanationYarne says this sometimes when getting a critical. Funnily, you should listen to him if you plan to do the Nintendo Hard DLC, as he usually has some of, if not the, best stat caps in the game for a Lightning Bruiser, and he's also capable of being an even better Berserker hard support than the Avatar is capable of being.
• I WANT TO BE MANHANDLED! ^ExplanationAn out-of-context quote from Inigo to Gerome during their Supports.
• Owain. ^ExplanationFor a couple of weeks, he almost reached Gheb-tier status on GameFAQs, with multiple (usually nonsensical) topics about him being made on a daily basis. Fortunately, the fad seems to have died down. His Large Ham nature turned his actual in-game dialogue into a Fountain of Memes. His sword hand twitching, which he can't control, were the two biggest ones, but his tendency to reference previous game titles did not go unnoticed, either.
• Sergecop ^ExplanationOne of Cherche's (Serge, her Japanese name) Critical Hit quotes is "Rest in Pieces!", a quote from Bad Cop.
• Walmart^ExplanationThe name of the second act's Big Bad is Walhart, and the similarity of his name to the shopping chain has not gone unnoticed by the fandom.
• "Hello. My name is Inigo. You killed my parents! Prepare to die!" ^ExplanationFans did not fail to notice that Inigo shares his name with the famous Dashing Hispanic from The Princess Bride, nor did they fail to notice that Grima did indeed kill his father (and his mother for that matter), and that he has the opportunity to fight him.
• Lucina is cute! CUTE! ^ExplanationAs Lucina is a very popular "waifu" character for her beautiful looks and dorky personality, fans occasionally posted about her on /v/ while incessantly harping on about how cute she is and posting cute fanart of her.
• "B-baka..." ^ExplanationSevera is a very stereotypical Tsundere in the Japanese version, and fans will have you know it. Baka roughly translates to "idiot", and it's probably the most famous insult used by tsunderes.
• Cherche and her virgin-killing armor.^ExplanationA type of sweater that heavily exposes the back gained prominence at around 2017; it is usually called 'Virgin-Killing Sweater'. Though Cherche has been wearing an armor that has the same effect since a long time before 2017, so she's making it cool before the Virgin-Killing Sweater became a thing.
• Chrom ate an unpeeled orange. ^ExplanationIn his B Support with Olivia, Gaius claims he might have seen Chrom eat an unpeeled orange. The fandom took it as fact, as most of them could actually see Chrom doing this. And then Matthew Mercer went ahead and actually ate an unpeeled orange.
• Peppa Pig Antagonist ^ExplanationA page from a fanon Peppa Pig wiki claimed that Lucina is the antagonist of the show, and that she hated the Pig family. Upon being discovered, this was turned into a meme within the Fire Emblem community. It doesn’t help that this is the top result when searching up "Peppa Pig antagonist".
• Emmeryn and cliffs. ^ExplanationEmmeryn's Heroic Suicide involved her throwing herself off a cliff (though as revealed in a Paralogue, she somehow survives). Because of this, it's not too uncommon to find jokes relating about her falling down and cliffs.
• Hooters Lucina. ^ExplanationThere's one person who has repeatedly commissioned this. It's become a meme due to how bizarre it is, and some others have proceeded to commission it as well due to the publicity.
• Lucina x Spider-Man^ExplanationStarting in 2016, a now-deactivated Deviantart user started to unironically ship Lucina and Spider-Man together, only to proceed making a ton of images consisting of the two together, and many of them either consist of them kissing or spending time together. The images also spiraled to Lucina and Spider Man having Marinette/Ladybug as their daughter for some reason. Due to how weird the ship is thanks to the images made by said deviantart user, it spiraled to people either mocking it with memes, unironically draw fanart of it, or even jokingly claim Alear as Lucina and Spider Man's child.

Spinoff games

Tokyo Mirage Sessions FE

• Nintendo's Half-Life 3^ExplanationFrom its announcement in January 2013 to the April 2015 Nintendo Direct, the game had no footage of it shown at all, with the only information about it being vague comments from interviews and assurances that it's still being made. Fans, either jokingly or seriously, believed the game was in Development Hell or Vaporware, and called it Nintendo's Half-Life 3 or The Last Guardian.
• There Has Been A Fusion Accident ^ExplanationFrom the SMT series, when demon fusions ended with a random demon rather then the intended one. When the first gameplay trailer appeared, fans were shocked by how different it was from the 2013 trailer.
• Chrom's Emo phase ^ExplanationBecause Chrom's mirage form looks edgy, a lot of fans say it's because he didn't get to be playable in Super Smash Bros.
• Tharja's in? Gonna buy this game! ^ExplanationAfter Tharja was revealed to be Kiria's mirage, many of her fans changed their minds.
• FAI-A-A EEEM-BU-REM^ExplanationFor some reason, the game contains the characters singing (a version of) the Fire Emblem theme. This quickly went memetic among the English-speaking fandom for sounding ridiculous.
• Vagina Bones. ^ExplanationA user who was reporting a change to the US version of TMS as censorship pointed out that, along with a character's cleavage, her "vagina bones" (referring to visible pelvic bones) were removed. The fandom took this and ran with it.
• KOWASHITAI ^ExplanationThe first word of "Reincarnation", the game's Signature Song, which played during the first real trailer for the game. Due to the massive backlash to the trailer, it became irrevocably associated with the backlash, and with all kinds of jokes arising from that bizarre first impression. It even got used as a kind of Rickroll.

Misc./Unsorted

• How BRAVE of you to volunteer for the front Lines.^ExplanationWhenever someone flirts with a Lord's Love Interest (or in the case of Caeda, doing the flirting), fans perceive the Lords seething in the background, and is plotting their death in the frontlines, such as Roger in Shadow Dragon, and Inigo in Awakening if the female Avatar's Chrom's wife.
• Man On Fire jokes.^ExplanationIt is increasingly very common to make jokes about certain characters dying by fire, which has become commonplace in a series called Fire Emblem. It started with Sigurd and the BBQ jokes (see above), but eventually is reprised starting from Fates onwards with Flora, Rinea, Gunnthrá, and then Bernadetta. They tend to get memetically bonded for that.
• OMFG MARCUS IS AN EXP THIEF!!!1!^ExplanationMarcus is a character that starts as a pre-promoted Paladin, causing him to gain less experience per battle. Newer players tend to think he "steals" experience from other units because of this.
• "Are Marth and Roy in this game!?"^ExplanationOne of the oldest memes. The seventh Fire Emblem game was the first to be released abroad, and it's actually a prequel to Roy's game (the hero is his father, Eliwood). Naturally, very few fans at the time were aware that the series consists of an entirely different universe and debuted in 1990.
  • This meme became less relevant with the remake of Shadow Dragon (aka THE ONE WITH MARTH) debuting in the West, and Ike, who had his games released in the west, replaced Roy in Brawl.
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening almost almost made it seem like it was playing with this meme to hell and back — both Marth and Roy (along with every other Fire Emblem protagonist) are available and playable as SpotPass or DLC units.
    • In fact, it directly plays with it in one of the DLC chapters, where the player faces off against a large army of protagonists and important allies from the previous games. Marth and Roy are right next to each other.
    • They were definitely playing with it in the Smash Brethren DLC maps, where the first two maps have the heroes siding with either Ike or Roy's army to fight off the other character's group, a not-so-subtle nod to the Fandom Rivalry between fans of each title, and, by extension, the question of who should rep Fire Emblem alongside Marth in Smash Bros. (Ironically, Smash Brethren 3 has the player taking on the combined forces of both armies.)
• "BUT MAAAAAAARRRS!"^ExplanationAn often mocked line from the dub of the OVA where Gordin whines over letting the enemies get away.
  • "FIVE POINTS!" ^ExplanationAnother quote from the OVA's version of Gordin. His shrill, over-the-top delivery of the line and general personality throughout the OVA has granted Gordin a level of popularity that otherwise wouldn't be possible for someone in his shoes.
• [Insert Character Here] is no hero. He/she's a [Insert Class or descriptor here]. ^ExplanationThe Class that Mercenaries promote into is called "Hero".
• The enemies suck 'cause they never spin. ^ExplanationMost of the units' critical hit animations involve them spinning their weapon in some way; most of the enemies rarely get off critical hits (at least compared to your units).
• "Let's call this character 'Vergil.'" ^ExplanationFor the New Mystery fan translation, the minor character Belf was renamed "Vergil", a move taken very seriously in a bad way by a select few people. The degree to which it was harped on about became something of a running joke. Later, when discussions arose about revising and tweaking the subpar fan translations of Genealogy, Thracia, and Seals, involving a couple of revisions of names, joking about renaming any given character "Vergil" became a traditional snark about people complaining about name changes in excessive detail.
• "What are you doing?! You had a 60% chance to hit! The odds were in your favor! YOU HAD A 40% CHANCE TO DODGE! THE ODDS WERE IN YOUR FAVOR!!!" ^ExplanationThe amount of times Fire Emblem has resulted in someone getting screwed over by the Random Number Goddess led Katie Tiedrich to make this Awkward Zombie comic. Anytime someone tells an RNG story, someone is bound to link to this comic.
• "You have to stop destroying your enemies!" "I can't!" ^ExplanationAnother one from Awkward Zombie, this time from this strip. Basically, it's distressingly common for powerful units (Hector being a common offender) to suffer Death by a Thousand Cuts by killing enemies too quickly for them to body-block each other on enemy phase.
• They have feet/no feet! ^ExplanationThe 3D models of the characters in Awakening had stubs in the style of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker instead of properly-proportioned feet, thus making it look like they only had stubs to walk on. The following game undoes this.
• We last left off where Seth decided to go to Valor on his black dragon Erath. And when he got there...And if anyone forgot the story, Kyan found his long lost friend Seth on Valor, and his black dragon Erath. Kyan is a mamkute that can still use swords as well as dragon stone attack. ^ExplanationAn oft repeated line from an old Fire Emblem fanfic. While the meme is quite old, it gained a resurgence in relevance after Fates introduced the protagonist who can do just that.
• "Chrom is FINALLY getting his chance!" ^ExplanationAfter Chrom was the first officially revealed playable character for Fire Emblem Warriors, references to his iconic line from Robin and Lucina's Smash 4 trailer (and general Butt-Monkey status in that game) were made in triumph of said reveal. Reappeared when Chrom made it into Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• I'M A GREEN UNIT! ^ExplanationOriginates in this video from Let's Player Mangs, but Green Units (NPCs) in the series in general are infamous for their...questionable AI, especially recruitable ones, where sometimes it feels like their AI is TRYING to get them killed. In chapters where you have to defend NPCs, this is especially frustrating. Expect to see this quote come up whenever anyone mentions Artificial Stupidity in the series.
• Thigher Emblem^ExplanationA nickname for the series, which refers to how a lot of characters wear either dresses with long slits or Zettai Ryouiki.
• ___Sexuals^ExplanationStemming from Fates but retroactively and proactively applied to other games with Avatar characters, Fan Nickname for the large pool of characters who can only romance them and not others. Hence, "Corrinsexuals", "Robinsexuals", "Krissexuals", and "Bylethsexuals".
• OR I COULD USE THE WARP STAFF / SPELL ^Explanation Due in part to YouTuber Bismix, and the flurry of memes that followed afterwards, it became common to see Fire Emblem 6, Fire Emblem 7, and LTC (Low Turn Count) videos to become flooded with comments of this and such for their common usage of the warp staff, and the likes. Also helps that the Warp Staff is quite the gamebreaker in some games, allowing you to clear maps on the VERY FIRST TURN.
• That's a Pitfall. ^Explanation It's become commonplace in some Fire Emblem Communities to use the term "Pitfall" (originally coined by YouTuber Mekkah) for general mistakes that newer Fire Emblem players make on their first play-throughs of Fire Emblem Games, usually ranging from benching promoted characters to hoarding valuable items for "later" usage.
• [Name] Fire Emblem ^ExplanationSince the characters tend to have Only One Name, it is common within the fandom to call the characters like this as if "Fire Emblem" is their last name, especially if it is a common name in real life or other media. This trend carries over even up to Three Houses, where most of the characters have full names.
• "Anime Chess" and "Weeb Chess" are common nicknames for the Fire Emblem series as a whole, especially after Awakening.
• Kirby ^ExplanationDuring the huge drought of no new games before Three Houses, fans started posting Kirby memes in Reddit to cope with the lack of new games, to the point where fans now jokingly call Kirby a Lord and the Kirby games as Fire Emblem games. Even after the release of Three Houses, the Kirby association sticks around. After the outrage of the inclusion of Byleth in Smash, fans joked that there were already 9 Fire Emblem characters (Kirby included).
• "The least celebrated holiday in Fire emblem? Father's day" due to how many main characters either have dead fathers or lose them over the course of the story
  • Eliwood survived the dadpocalypse^ExplanationJokes have been made pertaining to Eliwood being the only father of a main character to show up onscreen and somehow still survive the entire course of the game he appears in (In his case, The Binding Blade), making him a Memetic Badass for this reason, despite the fact that he spends most of the game with an illness. Sometimes Chrom may get lumped into these jokes, but his case is a complicated matter due to his daughter Lucina coming from a future that he and most other characters are dead in.
  • This gets even worse in Awakening, Fates, Gaiden, and Engage - in which the main character's father, or, in Alear's case, their real father, is an enemy and the player can make them kill their own fathers themselves. Sometimes people joke that this was why Gaiden got a remake on the 3DS.
  • Adding on more to this, Three Houses gives the player the chance to make Annette and Felix kill their own fathers.
  • "Time to die, daddy!"
• It became a common joke among the fanbase to write support conversations that couldn't happen in the game. Some featured certain characters staring at each other going "...", while others featured crack pairings. The former would become reality in Fire Emblem Fates where two characters (Saizo and Beruka) have the "..." support with one another. What's more, they are exactly the types of characters who got the "..." treatment back in the 2000s.
• One of the rawest lines in history and it comes from Fire Emblem of all things^ExplanationAn often-said line that started to sprout up from the early 2020s and was initially associated with one of Frederick's Pre-Mortem One-Liner, "Pick a god and pray!". The meme eventually began to mutate into other people using other lines from other Fire Emblem games they consider to be "badass".
• Kaga's Brainwashing Fetish / Kusakihara's Brainwashing Fetish ^ExplanationA meme by fans whom dislike the older games, about the Fire Emblem series' primary writer and game design director until his departure from Intelligent Systems in 1999, Shouzou Kaga. These fans claim a specific recurring trope that occurred at least once in every Fire Emblem game that he directed; a younger (or at least younger-looking) female character becomes Brainwashed and Crazy by a male Evil Sorcerer antagonist so he can take advantage of her magical abilities, and said female character then needs to be recruited by snapping her out of her mind-control with the help of one of her loved ones. Examples include Tiki, Delthea, Maria, Nyna, Lena, Elice, Julia, and Mareeta. Certain fans thus began to poke fun at this supposed trend, jokingly proclaiming that Shouzou Kaga has a sexual fetish for mind-controlling female characters. On the other hand, fans have also noted that this is more prominent in post Kaga games, with remakes such as Heroes of Light and Shadow with Eremiya, and Shadows of Valentia with every female witch and a new scene of Celica getting brainwashed adding alot more cases of female characters being brainwashed by villains, leading others in the fandom to says it is Kusakihara's fetish instead.
• Blue hair + Dead dad = Fire Emblem Lord ^ExplanationRelated to the jokes about Lilina being a Fire Emblem lord due to sharing similarities with the stereotypical lords of the franchise, it is common to make jokes that if a character has blue hair and a dead dad, they are automatically a Fire Emblem lord.