History Memes / TheRiseOfSkywalker

* "Palpatine fucks." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Using the existing "[X] fucks" meme to react to TheReveal that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter via his [[RememberTheNewGuy newly-revealed]] son, who is presumed to have been conceived via intercourse, though [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] later revealed that he was actually a clone. The idea of the [[{{Gonk}} not-so-attractive]] Palpatine having sex with ''anyone'' is {{squick}}y/hilarious.[[/labelnote]]

* "I don't care if X win. I just want Y to lose!" [[labelnote:Explanation]] General Hux's justification of pulling an EnemyMine with the Resistance. He doesn't actually care about them or their goals, he just wants to get back at Kylo Ren for treating him badly. This becomes a popular template for EnemyMine situations where both sides hate each other's guts but are willing to have a TeethClenchedTeamwork against a mutual foe.[[/labelnote]]

* "They fly now!?" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Finn, C-3PO and Poe's reaction after seeing First Order Jet Troopers chase after them is of bewilderment and surprise even though jet packs are nothing new in-universe.[[/labelnote]]

* Grievous would've been unstoppable! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Rey defeats Darth Sidious by reflecting his Force Lightning back at him with two lightsabers. People joke that [[Characters/StarWarsGeneralGrievous General Grievous]] would easily defeat Sidious since he wields ''four'' lightsabers.[[/labelnote]]

* "Palpatine fucks." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Using the existing "[X] fucks" meme to react to TheReveal that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter via his [[RememberTheNewGuy newly-revealed]] son, who is presumed to have been conceived via intercourse, though [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]] later revealed that he was actually a clone. The idea of the [[{{Gonk}} not-so-attractive]] Palpatine fucking is {{squick}}y/hilarious.[[/labelnote]]

** [[Memes/RevengeOfTheSith "(And) I am all the Senate!"]] [[labelnote: Explanation]]Blending this meme and the "I am the Senate" meme from ''Revenge of the Sith''[[/labelnote]]

* "He lost the star wars." [[labelnote:Explanation]]An alleged draft of ''Episode IX: Duel of the Fates'' by Connolly and Trevorrow has this quote: "Hux realizes the tragic truth. ''He lost the star wars.''" Memes use it with or without the original lowercase for characters, Disney, George Lucas, and more.[[/labelnote]]

* Grievous would've been unstoppable! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Rey defeats Darth Sidious by reflecting his Force Lightning back at him with two lightsabers. People joke that [[Characters/StarWarsSeparatistMilitary General Grievous]] would easily defeat Sidious since he wields ''four'' lightsabers.[[/labelnote]]

* Live Slug Reaction/Homophobic Slug[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ab7d55d0c7083a8fedb58e974e7e33/22e43320dd051b16-e1/s1280x1920/9baa957fd5426fa5f8543058c9739f1c3e4cb094.jpg A person on Twitter]] falsely claimed that after the shot where two female Resistance soldiers kiss, marking the first gay kiss in a ''Star Wars'' movie (that was noted to be shown so briefly as to be easily cut for foreign markets), the camera then lingers on a frowning slug-like alien named Klaud for twice as long. It soon became popular to take implicitly or explicitly queer scenes from other media and photoshop in a "Live Slug Reaction" depicting said frowning slug, and people critical of Disney's limited queer representation and amused by the suspicious timing of the slug shot started calling the alien homophobic in memes.[[/labelnote]]

* Live Slug Reaction/Homophobic Slug[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ab7d55d0c7083a8fedb58e974e7e33/22e43320dd051b16-e1/s1280x1920/9baa957fd5426fa5f8543058c9739f1c3e4cb094.jpg A person on Twitter]] pointed out that after the shot where two female Resistance soldiers kiss, marking the first gay kiss in a ''Star Wars'' movie (that was noted to be shown so briefly as to be easily cut for foreign markets), the camera then lingers on a frowning slug-like alien named Klaud for twice as long. It soon became popular to take implicitly or explicitly queer scenes from other media and photoshop in a "Live Slug Reaction" depicting said frowning slug, and people critical of Disney's limited queer representation and amused by the suspicious timing of the slug shot started calling the alien homophobic in memes.[[/labelnote]]

** Adding Leia, Luke, and/or Shmi Skywalker Lars to this. [[labelnote:Explanation]]Leia's only experience on Tatooine was GoGoEnslavement when rescuing Han from Jabba the Hutt, Luke and Shmi both made Lars homestead their home but Luke's adoptive parents were murdered there and Shmi is buried there, so other memes feature them responding to Rey burying Luke and Leia's lightsabers there.[[/labelnote]]

'''Finn''': No, you didn't.

* Evil Rey "Swiss Army" Lightsaber [[labelnote:Explanation]][[HistoryRepeats Similar to jokes made about Kylo Ren's crossguard lightsaber after the reveal trailer]] for Film/TheForceAwakens, fans went wild with editing Evil Rey's folded-out saber to contain red glowing versions of various tools that are often on a Swiss Army knife. Incidentally, [[OlderThanTheyThink a similar joke was previously made]] regarding Darth Maul's lightsaber in ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars''.[[/labelnote]]

* Live Slug Reaction/Homophobic Slug[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ab7d55d0c7083a8fedb58e974e7e33/22e43320dd051b16-e1/s1280x1920/9baa957fd5426fa5f8543058c9739f1c3e4cb094.jpg A person on Twitter]] pointed out that after the shot where two female Resistance soldiers kiss, marking the first gay kiss in a ''Star Wars'' movie (that was noted to be shown so briefly as to be easily cut for foreign markets), the camera then lingers on a frowning slug-like alien for twice as long. It soon became popular to take implicitly or explicitly queer scenes from other media and photoshop in a "Live Slug Reaction" depicting said frowning slug, and people critical of Disney's limited queer representation and amused by the suspicious timing of the slug shot started calling the alien homophobic in memes.[[/labelnote]]

* "Come on, that move's one-in-a-million." [[labelnote:Explanation]] Poe uses this line to explain they don't pull off [[RammingAlwaysWorks Holdo Maneuvers]] to destroy the Final Order's Star Destroyer fleet, which became a meme since in attempting to address the FridgeLogic as to why ramming ships at light-speed hadn't been used before ''The Last Jedi'', [[HereWeGoAgain it opens the awkward]] ''new'' FridgeLogic that not only was Holdo betting her own "bad odds" in a desperate attempt to save the Resistance (which she admonished Poe for), it leads to the awkward image that her HeroicSacrifice had ''incredible'' odds of her just failing and shooting off to safety like a DirtyCoward. More jokingly, it can also be used to refer to Luke's "one in a million" shot blowing up the Death Star in ''A New Hope'', as stated by Han Solo.[[/labelnote]]

* Live Slug Reaction[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ab7d55d0c7083a8fedb58e974e7e33/22e43320dd051b16-e1/s1280x1920/9baa957fd5426fa5f8543058c9739f1c3e4cb094.jpg A person on twitter]] pointed out that after the infamous first gay kiss in a star wars movie (that was visible on screen for two seconds and easily cut for foreign markets), the camera then lingered on a frowning slug-like alien for twice as long. It soon became popular to take implicitly or explicitly queer scenes from other media and photoshoping in a "Live Slug Reaction" depicting said frowning slug.[[/labelnote]]

* Live Slug Reaction[[labelnote:Explanation]][[https://64.media.tumblr.com/e2ab7d55d0c7083a8fedb58e974e7e33/22e43320dd051b16-e1/s1280x1920/9baa957fd5426fa5f8543058c9739f1c3e4cb094.jpg A person on twitter]] pointed out that after the infamous first gay kiss in a star wars movie (that was visible on screen for two seconds and easily cut for foreign markets), the camera then lingered on a frowning slug-like alien for twice as long. It soon became popular to take implicitly or explicitly queer scenes from other media and photoshoping in a "Live Slug Reaction" depicting said frowning slug.[[/folder]]

** The Dead Speak! [[labelnote:Explanation]]Related to the above, and in a similar reaction to [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith "War!"]] The very first words of the OpeningScroll became SnarkBait for fans for [[UnexplainedRecovery failing to properly explain Palpatine's return]] and feeling out of place. [[/labelnote]]

* Apolitical Chewbacca [[labelnote:Explanation]]The visual dictionary describes Chewbacca as staunchly apolitical. Since this conflicts with Chewbacca fighting in all three major wars of the saga, it has led to jokes about how he's actually been talking about how he doesn't care what's going on and just wants an excuse to kill people.[[/labelnote]]

* "Palpatine fucks." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Using the existing "[X] fucks" meme to react to TheReveal that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter via his [[RememberTheNewGuy newly-revealed]] son, who is presumed to have been conceived via intercourse, though supplementary material later revealed that he was actually a clone. The idea of the [[{{Gonk}} not-so-attractive]] Palpatine fucking is {{squick}}y/hilarious.[[/labelnote]]

* "Palpatine fucks." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Using the existing "[X] fucks" meme to react to TheReveal that Rey is Palpatine's granddaughter via his [[RememberTheNewGuy newly-revealed]] son, who is presumed to have been conceived via intercourse. The idea of the [[{{Gonk}} not-so-attractive]] Palpatine fucking is {{squick}}y/hilarious.[[/labelnote]]