Memes / The Last Jedi

"Kylo Ren is probably the most interesting character in the whole franchise. Also, god damn, is he a thicc boi."

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WARNING: Spoilers ahead for both The Last Jedi and other Star Wars media!

Please add entries in the following format:

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

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• "Subverting Expectations!"^Explanation One of the most frequent defenses of the film from critics and supporters was that the multiple plot twists (some of which felt like they came out of nowhere) were deliberately done to subvert viewer expectations. Ever since then "subverting expectations" has become a mocking meme brought up whenever a creator tries to justify plot twists in this manner, such as when the Game of Thrones creators said they had Arya kill the Night King as having Jon do it would be too predictable, or the entire Godzilla anime trilogy. It's also frequently used as a general synonym for "disappointment". It's also reclaimed by fans of the film to mock those who claim the movie is subversive, instead positing the film very neatly sits within Star Wars' mythic cycle and that those who paid attention to the story beats of previous entries could follow the logic of the plot.
  • "... and that's a good thing!" ^Explanation  This has become a regularly occurring joke on 4chan's /tv/ board in response to article headlines defending the film's deconstructionist themes. The joke goes if an article is run about a big-budget franchise film that goes against the anon's beliefs, they follow it up with the aforementioned line.
• "Ahsoka is the wolf!"^Explanation The theatrical trailer for The Last Jedi revealed a new creature called the vulptex, a crystalline fox-like animal native to Crait, which at the time was believed by fans to be a wolf. Shortly before the movie was released, Rebels Season 4 introduced wolves linked to the Force, Ahsoka's fate was stated to be addressed in Season 4, and a common but ridiculed theory was that Ahsoka was somehow turned into a wolf after being last seen walking away to an unknown fate halfway through the show.
• Memes from prior films also gained new life:
  • The "Jar-Jar Binks is a Sith Lord" jokes from The Force Awakens continued, as fans have apparently found Jar-Jar◊ hiding in The Last Jedi's poster.
  • Continuing the trend of comparing Star Wars creatures to Pokémon, porgs and vulptices are now Rowlet and Alolan Vulpix.
  • From the SNL Undercover Boss starring Adam Driver, there was a joke where Kylo Ren, posing as "Matt the Radar Technician," goes on about how he's heard that Kylo Ren has an 8-pack and is shredded. It took on new memetic life when TLJ showed Kylo Ren shirtless and revealed that he wasn't kidding.
• "Disney, Sunrise just called..."^Explanation Upon release of the images of Supreme Leader Snoke's flagship for the movie, Gundam fans have immediately made comparisons◊ to the Peacemillion, thus calling the former an oversized ripoff of the latter.
• Porg memes:
  • Jokes about eating porgs.^Explanation A leaked image showed Chewbacca appearing to have a white feather in his mouth. Mark Hamill and Andy Serkis both came out to deny that porgs would be eaten, which turned out to be a lie or extreme case of Exact Words resp. Metaphorically True, since Chewbacca does indeed kill and roast some porgs, only to relent in actually eating them after several porgs shoot him Puppy-Dog Eyes.
  • The gaping-mouth porg in the trailer has become a popular candidate to photoshop into other pictures, mostly to express shock. Gail Simone has started a trend on twitter of posting song lyrics above the image, as if the Porg were singing.
  • There also have been quite a few fanmade pictures where the porgs turned Kylo Ren to the Light Side of The Force through sheer cuteness.
  • May the porgs be with you.
  • Porgis, Mix-and-Match Critters made by putting a porg face (often the gaping mouth one from the trailer) onto the body of a corgi. Less common porgis are corgi heads on porg bodies. The name is a combination of the words Porg and Corgi.
• RAWPOWAH and other jokes about the trailer's repeated use of the phrase "raw power."
• Hux gets a Howler ^Explanation Hux's failed attempt to take a forceful reprimand by Supreme Leader Snoke in his quarters to save face is reminiscent of Howlers in Harry Potter, angry letters from home that berate a hapless student for perceived failures, usually humiliatingly and in public. Of course, Hux is played by Domhnall Gleeson, who also plays Bill Weasley.
• "Skinny guy, kinda pasty." ^Explanation At the start of the film Poe pranks the First Order by pretending he can't hear Hux over the transmission, and keeps demanding to be put through to Hux, during which he describes Hux as a "skinny guy, kinda pasty". Fans have taken to using it self-deprecatingly as well as to mock the perceived ineffectuality of Hux compared to Kylo Ren.
• "I've seen this raw strength only once before." ^Explanation Luke notices Rey's power and mentions that he has seen similar strength in Kylo Ren. This has been parodied with Luke referencing other characters such as Jar Jar or other comic relief characters, as well as characters from the Legends continuity have also been periodically seen, such as Kyle Katarn, Revan, and Kyp Durron.
• BB-8's villainous counterpart, BB-9E, is sometimes referred to as "BB-H8" (pronounced "Bee-bee hate") by some fans.
• Sloth-Anakin. ^Explanation A fake, baffling leak described one of the film's plot points as Rey fighting a sloth-like creature on Ahch-To — a creature when, once defeated, transformed into the Force spirit of Anakin Skywalker. Fans jokingly referred to these creatures as "Anakins".
• "I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!" ^Explanation A joke used by detractors of both the film, and people who liked it but found this particular scene to be ridiculous, to describe the scene where Leia uses the Force to fly through space.
  • Other variants include "Super-Leia" or "Woman of Steel" due to the way she propels herself like Superman flying, in some cases cut with John Williams' Supermam theme.
  • Princess General Leia of Krypton ^{Explanation (spoilers)}  Leia's use of the Force to survive in space for a brief time and them fly back into the ship looked like the infamous Superman flying pose.
  • It's also been mashed up with the Shooting Stars meme.
  • And Led Zeppelin.
• Cockblock Luke. ^Explanation Luke barges in on an intimate moment between Rey and Kylo Ren, drawing comparisons to things such as an overprotective parent catching his daughter sneaking a boy into her room and the "right in front of my salad?" meme.
• Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo My Beer. ^{Explanation (spoilers)} Amilyn Holdo's spectacular, devastating stunt with the Raddus led to this appropriate pun on her name. "Hold my beer" is a memetic phrase uttered before doing something reckless or dangerous.
• It's salt. ^Explanation  During the Battle of Crait, one soldier briefly tastes the salt on the surface. This has been used to describes some of the fans' reception of the film. "Salty" is a slang term for "bitter" or "upset".
• Did you ever hear the tragedy of Supreme Leader Snoke the Red Herring?^{Explanation (spoilers)} This movie shows that Snoke is nothing more than just a glorified Disc-One Final Boss, much to the ire of many fans expecting him to be something more. The meme, which originated as a copypasta of Palpatine's monologue about Darth Plagueis the Wise in Episode III, also works as a reference to the popular fan theory that Snoke is the reincarnated Plagueis.
• Snoke's bathrobe/Snoke's smoking jacket ^Explanation Snoke's menacing cloak is revealed to be golden in color this time. The end effect is that it looks like Snoke didn't care about getting dressed and just put on a bathrobe. It probably didn't help that this particular costuming decision was revealed months before the movie came out via an action figure.
• Force Skype. ^Explanation Kylo and Rey's talks through their Force Bond birthed the comparison to teenage couples Skyping each other. Another name for this meme is "ForceTime", a pun on Apple's video call app called FaceTime.
• Pride and Porgs and Prejudice. ^Explanation  Fans have taken to calling the film this because of Rey and Kylo's blatant Foe Romance Subtext - hardly even subtext by the film's close, specifically because Kylo's We Can Rule Together speech has drawn comparisons to Mr.Darcy's proposal to Elizabeth Bennet. Other popular comparisons include Jane Eyre and just about any classic romance
• Sad Mark Hamill ^Explanation A vid of Mark Hamill looking completely dejected and depressed during an interview used to mirror Luke's state in the movie.
• "They RUINED Luke and they RUINED Star Wars!" – Your Equally Stupid Dad^Explanation With backlash inevitably comes backlash to the backlash, as demonstrated by this image◊ which pokes fun at the backlash caused by this movie while pointing out similarities to the post-release fan reception of The Empire Strikes Back.
• "Impressive. Every word in that sentence was wrong."^Explanation When Luke asks Rey what she knows about the force. Rey explains that it's a power that makes things float. Luke then says this quote to her; he also later says this to Kylo Ren during their confrontation.
• Ben Swolo ^Explanation  When Kylo Ren communicates with Rey, in one scene he is shirtless. Some fans expanded the width of his chest◊ to exaggerate his muscular build.
  • Do You Know Da Rey? ^Explanation  Fan art of Ben Swolo in the style of Ugandan Knuckles.
• There's another one after this? ^Explanation  Some fans pointed out the ending is too final. Luke and most of the Resistance are gone, but it's made pretty clear that they gave enough hope to the rest of the Galaxy that it looks pretty grim for the First Order. While there certainly is room for a sequel, it doesn't look like people will be counting down the days like they did between The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.
• Yoda, God of Thunder. ^{Explanation (spoilers)} When Luke meets the spirit of Yoda when trying to burn down the tree holding the Jedi Texts, Yoda helps out by summoning lightning to burn the tree, which raises all sorts of questions if Force Ghosts can interact with the physical world in such a manner.
• "Use the Force to attack the knowledge" ^Explanation Contrasting Yoda "burning" the Jedi Texts with his words from The Empire Strikes Back of "A Jedi only uses the force for knowledge and defense, not for attack"
• The sacred Jedi texts! ^{Explanation (spoilers)} Luke shouts this when Yoda burns the tree containing the sacred Jedi texts. Some people used this quote when having their Porn Stash or other possessions getting deleted. One particularly famous Tumblr post about it used the line to make fun of throwing out packaging for food with cooking directions on it.
• "I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut. Sorry."^{Explanation (spoilers)} Luke finally showing up after most of the Resistance is dead with a seemingly brand new haircut (as part of the Foreshadowing to him being an Astral Projection) caused quite a few references to a line from The Simpsons episode "Marge Vs The Monorail" that lampooned the last minute timing of Big Damn Heroes.
• “At approximately one hour and fifty-two minutes into the movie, there will be no sound for about ten seconds. This is a creative choice by the director. Thank you.” ^note The scene where the Supremacy is torn in half after Admiral Holdo's Heroic Sacrifice is an unexpected aversion of Space Is Noisy, and especially rare for a Star Wars movie. Before release, a leaked letter to the staff of one of the IMAX screenings used the above phrase to assure the staff and audience members that there was nothing wrong with their projector, apparently because they received a number of complaints from people mistaking it as such, leading to mockery from social media.
• Blow that piece of junk OUT OF THE SKY! ^Explanation Kylo Ren says this when he sees the Millenium Falcon during the Battle of Crait.
  • Finn: Oh, they hate that ship!
• Jake Skywalker ^Explanation Mark Hamill mentioned in an interview that Luke Skywalker in The Last Jedi is so different from his and Lucas' interpretation that he had to sometimes see him as "Jake" Skywalker. It became a Fan Nickname for many fans who hated the film's portrayal of Luke. Often, Jake Skywalker is described as an evil or cowardly clone of Luke.
  • #NotMyLukeSkywalker ^Explanation In that same interview, Mark Hamill said "[h]e's not my Luke Skywalker" to cap off the Jake Skywalker sentence. That too became a rallying meme among the disgruntled fans.
• The fight with the guards goes with everything. ^Explanation In an inversion of "Guile's theme goes with everything", fans discovered that Rey and Kylo's lightsaber fight against Snoke's guards works with an impressive number of musical accompaniments. The real key to it is the brief slow motion at the start, which provides a perfect launching point for when the music really gets going.
• Aren't you a little tall for a Stormtrooper? ^explanation In an amusing inversion of Leia's line from the first film, an intended cameo from Princes Harry and William as Stormtroopers had to be cut since at over six feet tall, they comically towered over all the others.
• BEN DO YOU WANT SOME BROWNIES BEFORE YOU GO TO BED?! ^explanation  The scene where Luke goes into Ben's hut and nearly kills him with his lightsaber is often compared to the Running Gag from the Simpsons episode Cape Feare where Homer barges into Bart's room with some kind of weapon, only for his intentions to be completely innocuous.
• Who would believe a story like that? ^Explanation A deleted scene extending Finn's duel against Phasma has the latter snap this line when Finn reveals out loud her cowardice led to Starkiller Base's destruction, much to the surrounding Stormtroopers' consternation. The line has since been used to deny implausible outcomes.
• No! No! You're still HOLDING ON! LET GO! ^Explanation  Kylo Ren says this to Rey when she refuses to join him. This quote has been used for different purposes, such as a dog refusing to let go of its toy.
• I want every gun we have to fire on that man.^{Explanation(spoilers)}  Kylo Ren says this when Luke shows up outside the base on Crait. This quote has been used when someone does something controversial and a forum turns on that person.
  • Luke Skywalker brushing dust off his shoulder.^{Explanation(more spoilers)}  Luke Skywalker survives the massive gunning unharmed (because he's using a force projection) and brushes dust off his shoulder. This scene has been used when someone appears to emerge unscathed from a controversial situation.
• "Disney paid the critics!" ^Explanation Much like the DC Extended Universe and its negatively-received movies, detractors of the movie have taken to accusing Disney of paying critics to give the movie positive reviews as an attempted means of justifying why critics had a much more positive attitude towards the movie than they did, despite how implausible it is.
  • "Russian bots were responsible for the audience backlash!"^Explanation A research paper from Morten Bay claims that half of the negative tweets of The Last Jedi were politically right-leaning or were Russian troll bots. Despite the various flaws within that research (namely that it was analyzing negative tweets to Rian Johnson rather than the film itself) fans of the movie quickly latch on to this claim to explain the low audience score on Rotten Tomatoes in contrast to the critics' score.
• The Last Jedi now has a Chinese bootleg edition with horribly translated subtitles, which resulted in a Fountain of Memes such as:
  • Powerful Kellog, Swiss, Finnland, Ross, Austria Wan Wan Kenobi, and Snooker Supremo as the characters' names
  • I am ready to ship
  • This is our chance to eliminate sex
  • The Final Hopeless Situation
  • Your parents abandoned you as mustard... really weird
  • You create Kellog it?
  • Wasteful Sky
  • Do not do this in class
  • And of course, "Do Not Want" has made a return, this time in Kylo's mouth.
• Throne room sex meta.^note A Reylo fan on Tumblr made an analysis post (that has since been deleted, although reblogs and images of it still exist) claiming that Rey and Kylo's fight against the Praetorian Guards is a Jungian metaphor for Rey's sexual awakening. People doubtful of the symbolism and who don't ship Reylo soon adopted it as an example of Shipping Goggles gone wrong.
• Arya Stark is Rey's mother.^note After the final season of Game of Thrones featured Arya memorably using the same fighting move as Rey of dropping her weapon from an immobilized hand into the other, it was joked that the character often referred to as "No One" was actually who Rey meant when she says her parents were nobody.
• Triple Kill ^Explanation Rey destroys 3 TIE fighters with one shot, references the use of the phrase in League of Legends MOBA game.
• More! MOOOOORE! ^Explanation A line yelled by Kylo while bombarding Luke, which became a very popular meme in 2020 for use in reaction images and video edits.
• Please become funny. ^Explanation A horizontally stretched still of Kylo holding his hand out to Rey with the caption "PLEASE BECOME FUNNY" is a popular image reaction for things a poster finds, well, unfunny. It's also the profile picture for the popular meme account "@TheFunny_mp4" on Twitter.
• A picture of Daisy Ridley (Rey) carrying Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker) on her back has caused people to create many, many edits of it.

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Luke: Impressive. Every meme on this page was wrong.