Memetic Mutation/Comic Books



Memes and catch phrases, like a lot of other things, can also be born your local comic book store.

Batman is memetic enough to have his own page.

Please add entries in the following format:
 * The meme.
 * Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

DC
Batman is memetic enough to have his own page.


 * Frank Miller likes "WHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORESWHORES
 * This meme comes from Shortpacked Thanks again, Shortpacked!
 * "Superman is (such) a dick."
 * This started with a forum thread about Silver Age comics covers.
 * He's even got a trope and a website named for it.
 * "While no one was looking, Lex Luthor stole 40 cakes. He took forty cakes. That's as many as four tens. And That's Terrible."
 * They were clearly PIES. And That's Terrible.
 * Ascended in Superman #709
 * KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!!!
 * The original quote is from Superman II. Its sheer epicness has elevated it to meme status.
 * This meme culminated in a website dedicated to Zod running for president.
 * "An Amazon attack. A deadly bee weapon... Bees. My God."
 * From the 2007 DC Comics miniseries Amazons Attack.
 * And what's funny about that one is that even other characters in the DCU have parodied that line.
 * The meme has since become heavily associated with the character Arakune from BlazBlue who has an incredibly unpleasant attack that involves attacking his opponent with bees.
 * Why are there plotholes? Because Superboy-Prime PUNCHED TIME!
 * At least that's what DC's Infinite Crisis tried to tell us.
 * "I'LL KILL YOU! I'LL KILL YOU TO DEATH!"
 * "Everything was better on my Earth!"
 * I did it 35 minutes ago.
 * From Watchmen.
 * Warning: A blue... penis is shown. Never erect though
 * Never erect? "So impotent."
 * Possibly homosexual? Must remember to investigate further.
 * Hurm
 * RRAAAARRL (must be spelt exactly that way).
 * MY SON IS A POLICE OFFICER YOU FAGGOTS!
 * I'm not locked up in here with you...you're locked up in here with me!
 * Evil Mary Marvel smacking Donna Troy with Kyle Rayner. WHAP WHAP WHAP!
 * "Please Help Me Green Lantern, I have no arms." * WHAM!*
 * Also, Hal Jordan doesn't have yellow as his only weakness. He can easily be waylaid by a simple blow to the head.
 * Also Green Lantern vs THE SIGH
 * This meme was brought to you by gratuitous shots of Green Lantern's ass.
 * Case in point.
 * Also, Hal Jordan will F* vk ANYTHING! See how he dealt with Star Sapphire.
 * Batman punches out Guy Gardner with just One Punch
 * Just after Hal Jordan comes back to life, he gives Batman a taste of One Punch awesomeness.
 * For the last time, I'm not Green Lantern! If I were, my costume would be GREEN!
 * Hal Jordan. Loves. Hamburgers.
 * You're Green Lantern! No, I'm not. 'Bye
 * "Surprise for you in the fridge."
 * Hal Jordan has the IQ of guacamole.
 * Shut your mouth, you stupid little troll!
 * "I AM A MAN! (punch)",
 * Quote from Superman: At Earth's End. Advocated by Linkara as the best way to settle an argument. Yes, even if you're a woman.
 * Of course! Don't you know anything about science?
 * James Robinson's Justice League: Cry for Justice miniseries quickly developed a meme of fans derisively posting "JUSTICE!" in relation to it, after several characters in the first issue all ended extended monologues by yelling "I want JUSTICE!"
 * Also, due to an unfortunate choice of font, this troper has heard the series referred to as "Gay for Justice" from several discrete sources.
 * FLESH.
 * RISE
 * "That's right. He makes his pants out of GOES FAST."
 * "Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings ina single bound!
 * "Look! Up in the Sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! IT'S SUPERMAN!!
 * "...fights a never ending battle for truth, just and the American way!"
 * Larfleeze sez: MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE MINE!
 * ALL IS ONE IN DARKSEID.
 * Nobody can save you.
 * I believe in me!
 * I believe in me!

Marvel
"J.J. Jameson: I don't need [x], I need pictures -- pictures of Spider-Man!"
 * "I'm With [X]"
 * Marvel's Civil War miniseries's catch phrase was "Whose side are you on?", referring to the conflict between Captain America (comics) and Iron Man. This spawned a lot of messageboard signatures proclaiming "I'm with Cap", "I'm with Tony", and other, more absurd, choices, such as (this editor's favorite, featuring Deadpool) "I'm with Stupid" and "We don't care".
 * And for those American tropers who took it a little too literally, "I'm with Lincoln," or "I'm with Davis."
 * And in order to take it one step further, I saw an "I'm with Oliver" and "I'm with Charles" version. This troper even saw I'm with Durruti or Francisco.
 * Dear God. This troper totally made a/the Cromwell one. Whoa.
 * "I'm with Palpatine" and "I'm with Organa" also worked well.
 * They're all fucked when the Hulk gets back.
 * The Appendix to the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe website had "I'm down with Howard", a Call Back to an earlier "Howard for President" meme.
 * "I'm with Internet Jesus: ANAL SKRULLS."
 * "I'm with Snob."
 * Der Eisenfuhrer!
 * Tony Stark is everyone.
 * This apparently came about when an internet denizen asked if anyone had seen him without his mustache. An obliging photoshop revealed that he looked very much like Bruce Wayne, and with glasses, Clark Kent. From there, it snowballed. More details here. (Link and especially ads are NSFW)
 * Tony also has a penchant for building in a CAVE! With a BOX of SCRAPS!
 * Let's be honest, it's not the worst thing you've caught him doing.
 * HE/SHE/IT IS A SKRULL! (lesser-used DC variation: It's a White Martian! or It's Clayface! or It's a Skrull! regardless)
 * Even better: ANAL SKRULLS! (What separates them from regular Skrulls is known only to Warren Ellis.)
 * YOU'RE A SKRULL!
 * And if it isn't a Skrull, it's probably a Doombot.
 * Or it could be Everyman.
 * "It's magic. We don't have to explain it.", "BONG!" and "Parkour Luck" are all memes that spawned from Spider-Man: One More Day, Brand New Day and comments from Joe Quesada regarding the continuity change.
 * Bitches Love Spider-Man.

"Mary Jane Watson: "Face it Tiger, you just hit the jackpot!""
 * Even parodied on The Simpsons, where the Jameson Captain Ersatz is the editor of a poetry magazine. When reminded of this, he demands Petrarchan sonnets about Spider-Man.
 * Even voiced by JK Simmons himself.
 * In all honesty, Spider-Man really doesn't have many memorable me-OH WILL YOU SHUT UP!
 * And here's another meme, courtesy of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man
 * "Spider-Man! Spider-Man! Does whatever a Spider can..."
 * "SPIDER-MAN! SPIDER-MAN! RADIO-ACTIVE SPIDER-MAN!..."
 * "*THWIP!*"
 * "One for J.J.!"
 * How Do I Shot Web?? (Granted, the phrase originated completely independently of Spidey. The image meme is of him because it's funnier that way.)
 * 60s Spiderman
 * Why are there plotholes? Because the Scarlet Witch is messing with her chaos magic again.
 * Scarlet Witch: "No more mutants."
 * He did it Magnetically
 * Thanks to Sally Floyd, Myspace had Captain America (comics) killed. By being hit with a NASCAR racecar driven by an American Idol contestant. And this was uploaded to YouTube. Isn't that right, Sally?
 * People also had a lot of fun with Captain America's last letter to Iron Man.
 * Dammit, Steve.
 * Nick Fury's god has a hammer.
 * Captain America (comics)'s shield-toss sound effect: "I command you to-- * wank* "
 * "Only one of us is gonna walk out of here under his own steam - and it won't be me!"
 * In regards to Cyclops' Eye Beams not being heat beams, more just beams of concussive force; "They're punches! From the Punch Dimension!"
 * Similarly, Wolverine's healing factor is sometimes explained as obtaining "Meat from the Meat Dimension."
 * Thus there is flyclops.
 * By association, when Scott appeared in Dark Avengers and the captions declared him "Cyclops. Leader of the X-Men. Owner of a jetpack.", it got a bit of attention too.
 * Don't forget Colossus. He isn't made of steel. HE IS MADE OF RAGE!
 * "Whoof. Just a moment, not done with 'whoof'."
 * And Kitty Pryde would like to remind you that PROFESSOR XAVIER IS A JERK!
 * Every hero was bitten by a radioactive X and every villain fell into a vat of Y.
 * Ever since she defeated Thanos off-panel, "Squirrel Girl is the most powerful being the Marvel Universe."
 * Ha-Ha! Doctor Doom is the MASTER of the world!
 * DOOM WOULD BE ABLE TO WRITE IN ALL-CAPS ALL THE TIME IF IT WASN'T FOR THAT ACCURSED RICHAAAARRDDSS!!!
 * And Thor would have words with thee, Ultron.
 * The hammer doth be his manhood.
 * You just made Bruce Banner angry. You won't like him when he's angry.
 * The term "HULK SMASH!" has spawned similar phrases like "RAMSAY SMASH!" or "BOND SMASH!"
 * The Punisher punched a bear in the face.
 * Giant-Size Man-Thing!
 * "Bob, I want this page thrown into the sun."
 * RESPAWN LOL.
 * Huh? Do my thoughts still appear in little yellow boxes? I'm good. I missed you, little yellow boxes! We're gonna have so much fun together!
 * Nice scooter, freak!
 * It's a motorbike! It's 100% manly!
 * Shoryuken!
 * Yay, now is fighty time, fighty time, blood blood blood!
 * Here's a definitive one:


 * Beast being a "war criminal" seems to be picking up steam at CBR.
 * I do what I want, Thor!
 * Cool Story Bro.

Other

 * The images for the Sandwich Chef meme originally came from this Chick Tract.
 * From Doom:
 * YOU ARE HUGE! THAT MEANS YOU HAVE HUGE GUTS! RIP AND TEAR!
 * You are unclean! That means you have unclean guts! Scourge and purge!
 * CLEAVE AND SMITE!
 * HUG AND CUDDLE!
 * "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good..."
 * WHO'S A MAN AND A HALF? I'M A MAN AND A HALF! A BERSERKER-PACKING MAN AND A HALF!
 * CHAINSAW! THE GREAT COMMUNICATOR!
 * STUPID STUPID STUPID IMP! YOU'RE STUPID AND YOU'RE GONNA BE STUPID AND DEAD!
 * Thanks to the dubious quality of his artwork, any picture posted that was drawn by Rob Liefeld is invariably met with the scream of "LIIIIEEEEEFFFFFFIIIIIEEEEELLLLLDDD!" The same is also done for Greg Land LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!! This may or may not have been started by the user "foxhack" at scans_daily, but he sure helped popularize it.
 * In the same vein as Frank Miller, POUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHESPOUCHES (also Liefeld)
 * While we're on the subject of Greg Land: Pornface!
 * Similar screams have been made as Take Thats against Joe Quesada (one of the minds behind the much-hated One More Day storyline in Spider-Man), DC's Dan Didio, and 4Kids Entertainment executive Al Khan.
 * This troper would like to remind you that Dan Didio hates you Dan Didio hates you.
 * Also, he's a mass murderer of heroes.
 * This troper's favorite, glimpsed on the Superdickery.com forums: "In Soviet Union, Crimson Dynamo is with YOU!"
 * From the Star Wars comics, we have K'Kruhk's freakin' sweet hat. Know that the Hat is all powerful. Know that it is the reason its wearer has survived so many near-death experiences.
 * ALL DOSE POIPLE, ALL DOSE HAMBOIGAHS
 * STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!!
 * Certain comic book covers become so often homaged and parodied by later cover artists, that showing someone the original cover elicits the response "So that's how (such-and-such an artist) came up with the cover of (some other comic)!"
 * This happens with Jim Steranko's covers. A lot
 * And Crisis On Infinite Earths #7
 * "Samantha Brown! You have to get out of here! Your vagina is haunted!"
 * Similar to the aforementioned Marvel Civil War messageboard banners, the recent "I Am An Avenger" posters depicting new teammembers have spawned numerous joke versions, such as this one.
 * Image Comics took this to a ridiculous extreme, using their parody posters to promote a fake "Guardians of the Globe" cast including a very thinly disguised Harry Potter ("Gary Popper"), Rick Grimes and Barack Obama as new members. The campaign was popular enough to get a back-up strip in the actual team's comic.
 * Invincible is a MURDERER
 * HA HA HA, OH WOW
 * Billions of blue blistering barnacles!
 * HOLD THE FRONT PAGE!
 * YOU'RE NOT FUCKING WITH MY FRONT PAGE!
 * * PUNCH*
 * LISTEN TO THE CHAIR LEG OF TRUTH! IT DOES NOT LIE!
 * The world can be saved by STEAM!
 * HORSECOCK!
 * I'm in lesbians with you.
 * Wallace! Again?
 * Bread makes you fat?
 * YOU PUNCHED THE HIGHLIGHTS OUT OF HER HAIR!
 * "You're incorrigible." "I don't know the meaning of the word."
 * Suicide Squid