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Sometimes
Can be an in-joke for an [[Ascended Fanboy]] character, or a [[Promoted Fanboy]] who makes sure it'll be in the show. Can also be a result of [[Approval of God]], where the creator would approve of fanworks and memes derived from the source material.
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{{examples}}
== Advertising ==
* If you watch TV late at night, you can see the ordinary [[Vince Offer]] Slap Chop commercial has been replaced by [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWRyj5cHIQA this wonderful gem,] though, presumably due to rights issues, the bits from ''[[Breakin 2 Electric Boogaloo|Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo]]'' are sadly replaced with some new footage of break-dancers.
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** [http://twitpic.com/34lcdk Card Games on Motorcycles.]
** [[Dan Green]] once read a dialogue between Yami Yugi and Yugi from the Abridged Series. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mhQpPpAsWs It has to be seen to be believed.]
* [[
** In the preview of episode 245, Ichigo wonders why Kenpachi's Zanpakuto hasn't materialized yet. Renji gets to answer his question by actually saying...[http://i37.tinypic.com/zxwspc.jpg this]. See the [[Memetic Badass]] page for more info- it's not exactly like the original meme, but it gets close.
* The ''[[School Days]]'' OVA featured a "Nice Boat" labeled as such.
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'''Caro:''' So, the most important part is that you went all out on each other? Huh, oh no Erio what should we do! If it's that the case, we haven't hit each other that much at all!
'''Erio:''' Um, yes we did. At the escalators, when [[Crash Into Hello|Caro fell and we slammed into each other]].
'''Caro:''' Oh... So that's fine then?
'''Arf:''' I think for you two, that's good enough. }}
* The first episode of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon: Black and White]]'' takes two memes at once: [[The Rival|Trip]] takes [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Snivy]] (Smugleaf) over [[Base Breaker|Oshawott]] (Wotter), the least-liked of all the starters. Oshawott is very hurt and surprised to learn this.
** Played with in ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', as Oshawott initially appears to be set up as a [[Butt Monkey]], with it getting hurt trying to break up a Snivy/Tepig fight. However, Oshawott promptly breaks out into what can only be called a rape face and smacks the both of them mercilessly with its shell.
* ''[[
* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': Homura's fame as a [[Memetic Molester]] of Madoka was referenced by the series' character designer [[Ume Aoki]] herself in the [[Yonkoma]] DVD Bonuses, with Homura asking Madoka to {{spoiler|swallow her [[Soul Jar|Soul Gem]] and not Sayaka's, which is the equivalent of asking to go inside Madoka...}}
** Her [[Fan Nickname]] "Homu Homu" has also been ascended - the [[Special Edition]] of ''Puella Magi Madoka Magica Portable'' will come with a "HomuHomu handkerchief".
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* [[Evangelion]] [[Fanon]] pegged Shinji as a [[Supreme Chef]], contrasting with Misato's [[Lethal Chef]] quirks. In ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'', we see Shinji cooking as well as the product of his work... and according to everyone in the movies, his food ''is'' really good.
* From ''[[Code Geass]]'', Emperor Charles makes a big speech in the early show about the inequality of mankind. Some joker of a Japanese fan took the manga version of the speech and edited it so that it was instead a speech extolling how awesome breasts are. [[Norio Wakamoto]], Charles's seiyuu, found out about it and made an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKlzoGP2m0w official recording of it in the Emperor's voice].
== [[Card Games]] ==▼
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has an infamous [[Game Breaker]] called [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=Morphling Morphling], which was [[Fan Nickname|dubbed by fans as]] "Superman". When the card designers later decided to create an Enchant Creature that granted all of Morphling's abilities, they gave it the name "[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=43581 Pemmin's Aura]". How is this an example? Pemmin's Aura is a [[Significant Anagram]] for "I am Superman".▼
** Morphling's fellow infamously-broken creatures, Manticore and Psychatog, got similar shout-outs: one later card shows a dissected Manticore with the flavor text "the subject appears to be [[Game Breaker|broken]]," while another fulfills fan dreams everywhere by having a bigger monster [[Take That Scrappy|eating Psychatog]].▼
** Back in the old days, when the Internet was still not widely used and card lists were rare, some people talked about an ultra-rare "Throat Wolf" with, among other abilities, "firstest strike". In ''Visions'' the designers, inspired by Throat Wolf, included "[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Talruum%20Champion Talruum Champion]" which has first strike that beats other creatures' first strike.▼
*** Throat Wolf is also mentioned in the novels.▼
** ''Unhinged'' had a card called "Mise," a reference to ''<nowiki>M:tG</nowiki>'' slang meaning "to get a lucky draw." There was also a "real" card called "Savage Beatings", at which point ''<nowiki>M:tG</nowiki>'' parody site Misetings accused ''WotC'' of trying too hard.▼
** An [[Urban Legend]] says that a player in a championship game was so desperate to win they played a card called "Chaos Orb" with the ability to destroy other cards by being dropped onto the opponents field and destroying any card it touches. If you're lucky you might destroy 3 or 4 cards, but instead of simply dropping the card they ''shredded'' it and sprinkled the pieces over the opponents field, wiping it out and the judge ruled it a legal move (incarnations of the story from there vary, some say the player won and other say the opposing player called for a count of cards in the players deck). Regardless of the truth to the story, the ''Unglued'' set introduced a card called "Chaos Confetti" with the exact same abilities of "Chaos Orb", except it specifies to tear the card apart and sprinkle the pieces over the field. The [[Flavor Text]] even says "And you thought it was an urban legend."▼
*** There is an Un-Set card called Clay Pigeon with this effect, only you HAVE to rip it up.▼
** Fake CCG cards themselves. They date to 1994, albeit in text-only format, and were the basis of the "Un" sets.▼
** At this point, the creators lampshade infinite combos.▼
** Magic isn't limited to its own memes, either. The ''Innistrad'' block, for example, has [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=229964 Grave Bramble], [[Plants vs. Zombies|a zombie-killing plant]], a card called [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220378 Creepy Doll] [[Jonathan Coulton|(which is hard to get rid of and results in your destruction)]], and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=262669 one named] [[Zombie Apocalypse]].▼
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** [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|And he's back for]] [[The Hobbit (film)|The Hobbit]]
* The 'name' "[[Man With No Name]]" to describe [[Clint Eastwood]]'s character in the [[Dollars Trilogy]] was a [[Fan Nickname]] that has since become appropriated by all the tie-in literature.
* "Team Edward" and "Team Jacob" were [[Fan Nickname]]s for factions of ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]]'' fans that have since ended up ubiquitous enough to get on official merchandise, if you want a Team Edward t-shirt or a Team Jacob bag. Or a [https://web.archive.org/web/20100412110311/http://www.cafepress.com/+team_tylers_van,343530692 Team Tyler's Van shirt].
** How about the [http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/womens/e62f/ "Team Van Helsing"] shirts?
* In the first ''[[Hellraiser]]'', Doug Bradley's character was known simply as "Lead Cenobite". The name "Pinhead" was a nickname given to him by fans of the movie. It wasn't until the second movie that Pinhead became his official name.
* After the [[Memetic Mutation]] of Optimus Prime's "GIVE ME YOUR FACE!" in ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen]]'', Hasbro devised a new toy of the original victim (the titular Fallen) which would actually have a removable face.
* A deleted scene of ''[[Zack Snyder's Justice League]]'' had the Joker say "We live in a society where honor is a distant memory." The earlier part originated from several Joker memes created by fans since ''[[The Dark Knight (film)|The Dark Knight]]'' came out.
== Literature ==
* The fan abbreviation DADA for Defence Against the Dark Arts was used in ''[[
** Prior to the seventh book, Draco Malfoy's family home had never appeared or been named, though it was implied to be some kind of castle or mansion. Fans assigned it the name [[Alliteration|"Malfoy Manor"]], which became ubiquitous in fanfiction before eventually being made canon in ''Deathly Hallows''.
* Several ''[[Star Wars Expanded Universe]]'' books make a point of how Han either [[The Dog Shot First|Shot First]] or failed to so, in different circumstances.
== Live
* The ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' fandom's name for the Thirteen-Foreman pairing, ''Foreteen'' (or Fourteen), was actually used by House himself.
* The common fan nickname for Jim and Pam on the American version of ''[[The Office]]'', "Jam", was given a sideways reference in season 4 when Kevin declares they should be a couple so he can refer to them as "PB&J" ('''P'''am '''B'''eesley & '''J'''im).
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* In the original ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Doctor generally referred to his associates as "my assistant" or "my best friend" or simply by name; the designation "companion" was mainly used behind the scenes and in fandom. In the new series, however, the Doctor's companions are frequently called that onscreen.
* In ''[[Lost]]'', fans gave the smoke monster the nickname 'Smokey'. In season 6, Sawyer referred to him by this name (justified by the fact that Sawyer gives everyone creative nicknames).
* ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Glee]]'s'' [[Portmanteau Couple Name|pairing names]] Finchel, Puckelberry, and Furt showed up all in Episode 2X08. It was titled Furt.
* ''[[iCarly]]'' used the [[Portmanteau Couple Name|pairing names]] for the two major ships on the show, Creddie (Carly/Freddie) and Seddie (Sam/Freddie). Sadly, no-one mentioned [[Les Yay|Cam]] (Carly/Sam) or [[May–December Romance|Spam]] (Sam/Spencer).
* For a [[Discovery Channel]] contest, ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' creator Katie Tiedrich created a ''[[
* ''[[Fringe]]'' The fandom names for the alternate Walter and Olivia, "Walternate" (prior to his reveal) and "Fauxlivia" (following her introduction), have both been canonized by the show.
* Cable stations are using lines from [[Charlie Sheen]]'s epic ongoing breakdown (including audio clips) to advertise ''[[Two and A Half Men]]'' and ''[[Spin City]]'' re-runs, even basing a contest around it.
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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* During a [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] sketch showing WWE personalities at a party, commentator [[Michael Cole]] went the [[Ham and Cheese]] route and referenced the fandom meme of his calling moves as "VINTAGE ______" by yelling that he is eating VINTAGE SHRIMP!
** Cole and other announcers, notably the AWESOME Matt Striker, have openly referenced and mocked the memetic nature of "VINTAGE".
* Darren Young, at one point, referenced WWE internet fans' penchant for calling him "Black [[John Cena]]."
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* During NXT Season 4, fans have compared Rookie Byron Saxton to [[The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air|Carlton Banks]]. In most recent episodes, this has been lampshaded by the other rookies, Matt Striker, and even his (new) pro, Dolph Ziggler.
* On the 900 episode of Raw, [[Edge]] mocked Sheamus and called him [[The Muppets|Beaker.]] Which the fans ran with. Fastforward to the October 31st 2011, [[The Muppets]] are the host, and Sheamus and Beaker [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=entL6RoHEP0 meet.]
* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler [[Zack Ryder]] was somehow able to turn ''himself'' into a meme thanks to his home-made [http://www.youtube.com/user/LongIslandIcedZ Youtube show] "Z! True Long Island Story". His show frequently bemoaned the fact that he was being ignored by [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]], often using double entendres aimed at [[Smart Mark]]s. Eventually [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] took notice of his show's popularity, and Zack became a kind of [[Running Joke]] on TV about... how [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wouldn't push Zack Ryder on television. (And ironically, in this role he is receiving one ''hell'' of a good push.)
▲* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has an infamous [[Game Breaker]] called [https://web.archive.org/web/20090511071338/http://ww2.wizards.com/
▲** Morphling's fellow infamously-broken creatures, Manticore and Psychatog, got similar shout-outs: one later card shows a dissected Manticore with the flavor text "the subject appears to be [[Game Breaker|broken]]," while another fulfills fan dreams everywhere by having a bigger monster [[Take That, Scrappy!|eating Psychatog]].
▲** Back in the old days, when the Internet was still not widely used and card lists were rare, some people talked about an ultra-rare "Throat Wolf" with, among other abilities, "firstest strike". In ''Visions'' the designers, inspired by Throat Wolf, included "[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Talruum%20Champion Talruum Champion]" which has first strike that beats other creatures' first strike.
▲*** Throat Wolf is also mentioned in the novels.
▲** ''Unhinged'' had a card called "Mise," a reference to ''<nowiki>M:tG</nowiki>'' slang meaning "to get a lucky draw." There was also a "real" card called "Savage Beatings", at which point ''<nowiki>M:tG</nowiki>'' parody site Misetings accused ''WotC'' of trying too hard.
▲** An [[Urban Legend]] says that a player in a championship game was so desperate to win they played a card called "Chaos Orb" with the ability to destroy other cards by being dropped onto the opponents field and destroying any card it touches. If you're lucky you might destroy 3 or 4 cards, but instead of simply dropping the card they ''shredded'' it and sprinkled the pieces over the opponents field, wiping it out and the judge ruled it a legal move (incarnations of the story from there vary, some say the player won and other say the opposing player called for a count of cards in the players deck). Regardless of the truth to the story, the ''Unglued'' set introduced a card called "Chaos Confetti" with the exact same abilities of "Chaos Orb", except it specifies to tear the card apart and sprinkle the pieces over the field. The [[Flavor Text]] even says "And you thought it was an urban legend."
▲*** There is an Un-Set card called Clay Pigeon with this effect, only you HAVE to rip it up.
▲** Fake CCG cards themselves. They date to 1994, albeit in text-only format, and were the basis of the "Un" sets.
▲** At this point, the creators lampshade infinite combos.
▲** Magic isn't limited to its own memes, either. The ''Innistrad'' block, for example, has [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=229964 Grave Bramble], [[Plants vs. Zombies|a zombie-killing plant]], a card called [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=220378 Creepy Doll] [[Jonathan Coulton|(which is hard to get rid of and results in your destruction)]], and [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=262669 one named] [[Zombie Apocalypse]].
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** The Single Player DLC references the spamming of BALLSBALLSBALLSBALLS in the meme, when a Terminator-esque robot makes you repeat it in order for you [[It Makes Sense in Context|to pass off as a Duke clone]].
* Blizzard loves this trope.
** The Leeroy Jenkins video got [https://web.archive.org/web/20120917193935/http://www.wowtcgdb.com/carddetail.aspx?id=27 a card of that guy] in the ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' TCG and a figure in the collectible miniatures game.
*** He's also the basis for an achievement in ''Wrath of the Lich King'' (succeeding at the stupid stunt which got Leeroy's group wiped out). Successfully completing the achievement earns the title "''YourNameHere'' Jenkins". Leroy himself can be recruited as a Garrison ally in ''Warlords of Draenor'', and he appears in the "Not So Sober Citizens' Brigade" World Quest in ''Battle for Azeroth''.
** There's also Alamo, of [["Faux To" Guide|"Alamo teechs u]] [[Rouge Angles of Satin|2 play DURID!"]] fame, who [https://web.archive.org/web/20100820043408/http://www.wowtcgdb.com/carddetail.aspx?id=2236 also got a card named after him in the TCG].
** Similarly, [http://www.wowwiki.com/Kralnor Kralnor] made several appearances, including [https://web.archive.org/web/20110721220921/http://www.wowtcgdb.com/carddetail.aspx?id=768 his own card].
** When Onyxia got leveled up to 80, the new achievements included "More [[DO Ts]]!" and "Many whelps! Handle it!", which are tag lines from the popular [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtvIYRrgZ04 Onyxia Wipe Animation]. The former requires that Onyxia be killed in five minutes, which means a fair amount of DPS on the boss in the air phase and is a reference to the raid leader shouting for [[DO Ts]]. The latter requires that 50 hatchlings spawn within 10 seconds of Onyxia's liftoff and being defeated, a reference to a player running into the eggs and spawning whelps while feared, leading to the group wiping.
** Thorim became popular for his introduction speech, specifically his way of saying "in the mountains". A later boss has a line to mock this when he kills a player.
{{quote|'''Tyrannus: "Perhaps you should've stayed... in the mountains!"'''}}
** Kael'Thas' "Tempest Keep was merely a setback" greeting quickly became a meme for any recurring boss. When you encounter a whole trio of those in Icecrown Citadel (former blood elves, no less), Valanar, the boss of a Borean tundra quest, declares that "Naxxanar was merely a setback". In Cataclysm, the Hogger boss in the Stormwind Stockades also makes reference to this meme, yelling "Forest just setback!" on aggro. Maar in ''[[
** To lesser extent, Illidan's "YOU ARE NOT PREPARED!". The battlemaster at Valhallas will also yell "YOU WERE NOT PREPARED!" if you wiped in one of the encounters.
*** Drahga Shadowburner yells "You should have come better prepared!" when killing players and "By fire be... burned!" when summoning adds.
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** Ragnaros' infamous "Too soon! You have awakened me too soon!" line is used by Zepik the Gorloc Hunter, one of your Wolvar liasons in Scholazar Basin. Zepik says other adventurers have told him stories of their exploits, which is how he heard the line (and some other well-known boss quotes).
*** The Ragnar-Os cereal joke ''"Two scoops, Executus, two scoops! BY FIBER BE PURGED!!!"'' has been acknowledged by Blizzard with the Firelands raid achievement called "Ragnar-Os".
** Gamon, a rare attackable city-dwelling NPC in Orgrimmar, is sort of a reverse Hogger; infamously weak and pathetic. Like Hogger, he gets beefed up in ''Cataclysm''... becoming a ''level 85 Elite''. Gamon [[Took a Level
*** Even that wasn't enough. People still managed to kill him just by kiting him around, so he [[Took a Level
** A level 80 orc hunter, Tednug, and his pet Scratchfever, wander the road between Orgrimmar and Razor Hill. They are characters in the player-written forum game ''You Awaken In Razor Hill'' (purged from the Blizzard forums in the community upgrade before ''Cataclysm'' but archived at [https://web.archive.org/web/20130717040626/http://www.thelittlestmurloc.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=17 The Littlest Murloc]). Tednug is a contraction of the character's actual name, Tednugent, presumably for copyright reasons.
** [[Chuck Norris]]' [[Memetic Badass]] status was immortalized in a "What's your game?" television ad which states that [[World of Warcraft]] has over ten million players... ''because Chuck Norris allows them to live!'' He is seen giving roundhouse kicks to dozens of players, punching the [[Kraken and Leviathan|Whale Shark]]<ref>which has millions of HP and requires a raid group to kill</ref> and fighting in the Barrens.
** In ''Diablo'', a widespread rumor stated that by clicking on the cows enough times, you could be transported to a [[Secret Level]] . Later, in ''[[
* In ''[[City of Heroes]]'', the [http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Kill_Skuls Kill Skuls meme], originating from a pair of message board posts, has spawned a badge, in-game graffiti, and a [[Loading Screen]] tip.
** "[http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Ascendant-O%27s Ascendant who?] Sorry, you have the wrong number."
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** The [[Fan Nickname]] "crocket" (a rocket that rolls a [[Critical Hit]], infamous for being especially devastating) is referenced by a Soldier achievement ("Crockets are such BS" for randomly firing two in a row) and a Heavy achievement ("crock block", for surviving a a direct hit from one). Likewise, the term "Demoknight" (a Demoman that uses unlockable weapons to focus on melee attacks) is referenced by an item set called "One Thousand and One Demoknights".
** Several bot names are this, such as [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJbY4ixm_ZM Mentlegen] and [http://www.nerfnow.com/comic/6 CRITRAWKETS].
** The Steam Workshop is a gateway for ascended memes by letting the community suggest new weapons and cosmetics to be added to the game. Case in point, the "Tsar Platinum" jacket and "Starboard Crusader" cap for the Heavy, inspired by Youtube videos of Heavy players using only their fists with the Eviction Notice (that comes with an attack speed bonus) for shits and giggles and inevitably spawned comparisons to Star Platinum from [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|JoJo]] fans.
* Speaking of [[Valve]], it looks like [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=247 this] [[VG Cats]] strip about ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' [http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/9812/91301104.jpg just got real.]
** And now in awesome [https://web.archive.org/web/20120514220821/http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/trailers/3005-Portal-2-Turret trailer video.]
* In ''[[Diablo]]'' there was a fan spoof of a hidden cow level that did not exist. It shows up in ''Diablo II''. That prompted a number of fan spoofs, including a secret bunny level in the hopes that they would show up in ''Diablo III''.
** This was later referenced in [[
*** And in ''[[
* [[David Hayter]], English voice of Solid Snake, has been known to spend a lot of time saying "[[Awesome Series|OhmyGodhotnessIwannaBANGYOU]]" and "CRAB... BATTLE...", references to two popular ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' Flash parody shorts. (He also claimed that the voice over director on the games brought in ''[[Metal Gear]] [[Awesome Series|Awesome]]'' for the cast to watch together during the recording of ''Metal Gear Solid 4''.)
* [[Punch-Out!!|Hey Mac baby, I'm going to go for a ride on your bike!]]
** For those not [[Get a Load of That Square|in the know]], it's referring to the [[YTMND]] fad "Nigga Stole My Bike." And that is unbelievable.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6L_WbYGQ1I S-I-S-I-G-A-M-I , SHISHIGAMI BANG BANG!] Yes, a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUjH7Mtvn8 fan made] lyrical declaration of Bang's manliness to the tune of his theme "Reppu" was so awesome, it made it's way into ''[[
** On the subject of Bang, he references the "Ice Car" meme in ''Calamity Trigger Reconstruction'' when dissuading his colleagues from fighting Jin.
** Also, µ-12. [http://www.ps3attitude.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Mu-12-e1275041079653.png DAT ASS]
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* There was a comedy thread on a ''[[Civilization]]'' forum calling for giant death robots in ''Civ V''. The Giant Death Robot is now an actual endgame unit in the latter.
** In ''Civ IV'', the practice of jacking up a city's culture output (usually via Great Artist) to quickly acquire territory (especially territory belonging to other civilizations) was dubbed "Culture Bombing" in the fandom. In ''Civ V'', the Great Artist has a special ability ''named'' "Culture Bomb" which also expands the Civilization's territory.
** In the first game,
* With ''[[Rock Band]]'' having such a massive backlog of available music to play, some gamers are noticing a trend in Rock Band's tracklist, namely that Harmonix seems insistent on adding as much music from bands that Dave Grohl has been involved with ([[Foo Fighters]], [[Nirvana]], [[Them Crooked Vultures]], [[Tenacious D]] et al.) as possible, giving the game the nickname ''Dave Grohl Band''...which is something ''[[Rock Band]] 3'' acknowledges by having an achievement for playing any five songs from bands featuring Dave Grohl.
* In ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'', when Deadpool defeats Magneto, he yells out [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA "I JUST BEAT MAG-FREAKIN'-NETO! WHERE YO CURLEH MUSTACHE AT?"] Additionally, both Magneto and Sentinel have their MAHVEL BAYBEE schemes as alternate costumes. In the press releases, Magneto was referred to as "still Pringles", by [[Word of God|Seth Killian]] himself. All of this started with [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZZUMjoxfZA this commentary of] ''[[Marvel vs. Capcom 2]]''.
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* The description for the Yusei pack in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]] Tag Force 5'' asks if you're into crustaceans, referencing his [[Fan Nickname]] of "crabhead".
* Photoshopping [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina's]] [[Triangle Shades]] onto someone [[Memetic Badass|automatically makes them more badass]]. In ''[[Super Robot Wars Z|Super Robot Wars Z2]]'', you can get Kamina's shades as an item, which gives you +20 starting morale.
* Since ''[[Warhammer
** When the [[Dynamic Entry]] meme was adapted to 40k, they used a [https://web.archive.org/web/20141009171547/http://www.lolsauce.com/RandomBS/Dynamic%20Entry.jpeg Tau Crisis Suit] for it. When the devs added the Tau Commander (in a crisis suit) DLC, an achievement was added for killing enemies [[Goomba Stomp|by jumping on them]] with the [[Jet Pack]]. Guess what it was called.<ref>[[Captain Obvious|Dynamic Entry]]</ref>
* One of the achievements in ''[[Sanctum (2011 video game)|Sanctum]]'', for fully upgrading three towers, is named [[
* In the ''Honest Hearts'' DLC for ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', one of the tribal characters is named "Two Bears High Fiving". This is a reference to the rorschach inkblot test in the beginning of the game where one of the inkblots looks like said character's name, but there was no option to say so (until a mod came out).
* ''[[Madden NFL|Madden NFL 12's]]'' [http://www.xbox360achievements.org/game/madden-nfl-12/achievement/55712-Put-Da-Team-On-My-Back.html "Put da team on my back" acheivement], which requires catching a 99-yard touchdown pass as Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings, references [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P0yfq2wDvU an infamous YouTube clip of Madden 11] in which Jennings makes that play with a broken leg.
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* When [[Super Mario Bros. (video game)|"Thank you, Mario, but our princess is in another castle!"]] went viral, Nintendo ''noticed''. Obvious references to the line turned up in ''[[Mario & Luigi: Partners In Time]]'' ("You will help [the Princess], won't you? I assure you, she's NOT in another castle or anything.") and ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'' (one of the fighters from the Duel of 100 is named "Another Castle").
** The earliest in-game reference is the ending to ''Super Mario Bros. 3''. "Thank you. But our princess is in another castle! ...Just kidding! Ha ha ha! Bye bye."
* [[
{{quote|'''Reggie Fils-Aime''': "Yes, my body was ready."
'''Crowd''': (''goes wild'') }}
** During their 3DS conference the following day, they acknowledged the [[Ensemble Darkhorse|surprising popularity]] of the Non-Descript Action Figure (including his [https://www.facebook.com/NonSpecificHero Facebook page] created by a fan) who appeared in the Miiverse video shown at Nintendo Direct the day before E3 started.
* The question "Are Marth and Roy in this game?" ended up being an in-joke with Western ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' fans after the series ended up being localized after the two were in ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]. Melee''. Cue both being downloadable content in ''[[Fire Emblem: Awakening]]'', thus making the answer "yes."
== Visual Novel ==
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{{quote|'''Lilly''': ''(as Shizune hands her the folder)'' Thank you, Misha.
'''Hisao narrating''': No reply. No reply, that is, save for {{spoiler|an odd grin... no... smile... on Shizune's face}}. A couple of seconds pass before Lilly clicks that it isn't Misha behind her, but Shizune. Her momentary look of surprise is replaced by {{spoiler|a slightly bashful smile}}. }}
== Web Comics ==
* When a [http://nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?p=941207#post941207 particular bit] of [[Insane Troll Logic]] took off like a rocket in the ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' forums, the author decided to honor it in-comic with [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/14/episode-1152-not-the-best-comeback/ the only character suited for the job.]▼
* ''[[Homestuck]]'': One of the more popular AUs is [[Troll Cops]], depicting Sollux and Terezi as, well, [[They Fight Crime|troll cops]]. When the AlterniaBound album came out, there were two tracks themed around the AU, both called [https://web.archive.org/web/20130922121032/http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trollcops Trollcops].▼
** In one panel, a faraway Karkat is drawn with less detail and no visible arms, making him look like he's wearing pants up to his neck. [[Memetic Mutation|Fans referred to him as Pantskat]] and began drawing fanart of him in his long pants. This made its way back into the comic: when {{spoiler|fedorafreak}} combines a shirt and pair of pants in the Alchemiter, he gets a pair of absurdly long pants. And at another point, Karkat self-deprecates spectacularly about wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. And then, when Karkat's ancestor is finally shown, he is indeed wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. Said pants become holy relics of his followers.▼
*** And the original Pantskat pixel of him has been inserted into at least two later flash animations.▼
** A fan animation on [[YouTube]] that lip-synced [[The Stoner|Gamzee]] up to the Double Rainbow song became enormously popular in the fandom and cemented Gamzee as the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] amongst the trolls. So, later on, Gamzee mentions a 'double metaphor all the way, across Skaia :o)'.▼
** Early in the comic, there's a short scene of Gamzee and Tavros chatting to each other like close friends, using each others's emoticons and rapping together (although we don't actually see the rap). This acted as enough [[Ho Yay]] to make Gamzee/Tavros a popular ship in the fandom, and it picked up the [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|Idiosyncratic Ship Name]] "Peanut Butter and Jelly-shipping" or just "PBJ" (since Tavros is associated with the colour brown and Gamzee with purple). Later on, we see the second half of their conversation, in which [[Sure Why Not|Gamzee is flirting obviously with Tavros]], and he affectionately calls Tavros the 'emotional peanut butter to [Gamzee's] royal jelly'.▼
*** This also served as Andrew's constant [[Running Gag]] of referencing gay pornography in most of his works.▼
*** The second [[Easter Egg]] joke flash called [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony2 [S] Ride] has a [[Shout-Out]] to "[[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|Cotton Candy]]," the fan nickname for Roxy/Jane which is based on their pink and light blue chat colors.▼
** Also, pretty much everything concerning fedorafreak's role in anything since his first brief mention.▼
* At the floor meeting in ''[[QUILTBAG]]'', Lisa makes a joke about her disembodied head walking on her pigtails, which had been seen in several ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' fanarts.▼
* A typo in a discussion about ''[[Blade Bunny]]'' and her phobia of tentacles ultimately led, via the normal [[Memetic Mutation]], to an official illustration of when [http://www.bladebunny.com/?p=356&vcu=ODZfMzU2 Bunny meets the Octobus].▼
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* Episode 21 of "[[Retarded Animal Babies]]" threw a WHARRGARBL in the captions in a... rather appropriate spot.
* ''[[Everyman HYBRID]]'' spawned a meme involving one of the characters, Jeff, being [[Batman]] after {{spoiler|he tackled a security guard in "Damsel"}}. Jeff later jokingly admitted to being Batman on Twitter and in "One step forward, two steps back", he wore a Batman shirt.
* The Futaba Channel in Japan started the OS-tan meme, where each version of Windows received a [[Moe Anthropomorphism]] whose characteristics where what the particular operating system was best known for. When Windows 7 hit the market, Microsoft decided to create one, [
* One of [[Gaia Online]]'s members made a fan-character called GCD McSourface, [[Take That|parodying]] the GCD forum's [[Unpleasable Fanbase|attitude]] [[Money, Dear Boy|towards]] [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|nearly]] [[It's the Same, Now It Sucks|everything]] about the website, with the [[Catch Phrase]] "GCD McSourface does not like that feature". The Fremere's Guard evolving item finished with a pose called "Fremere's [[Lampshade Hanging|Copyright Infringement]]", which is McSourface's head replacing the avatar's.
** Fremere's Guard also contains a pose homaging the Air Shark, which began as a fan elaboration on an April Fool's event in ''zOMG!''. A differently-designed Air Shark now appears in-game, making this a meme that ascended ''twice''.
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* The AV Club once posted [http://www.avclub.com/articles/we-love-the-new-dawes-album-and-heres-why-you-shou,56938/ an article] that was essentially an extravagant plug for the band Dawes. Commenters quickly started mocking the tone of the article by piling their own ludicrous acclaim on Dawes, both in that article's comments and elsewhere, as well as using variations on the phrase "We Love The New X, And Here's Why You Should, Too". Eventually, [http://www.avclub.com/articles/see-the-magnificent-television-acting-debut-of-daw,69037/ official AV Club articles] [http://www.avclub.com/articles/when-the-commentariat-attacks-14-entertaining-case,68392/ also started] referencing the meme.
* [[MSF High Forum]]: Firewood was originally an insult, used by Kirso to refer to the ironically non-flammable Legion. Mitchell, amused by it, had it incorporated as an official racial slur. (And, like all racial slurs, mostly inaccurate).
* In V2E4 of ''[[RWBY]]'', Team RWBY uses some of the [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|fan nicknames]] for the various [[Shipping|ship
* ''[[Kizuna AI]]'''s [[Innocent Swearing|repeating "fuck you" when she hears it]] became wildly popular with fanart and remix videos of it. It would then appear as one of her lines when she appeared in ''Azur Lane''. The English version subtitles it as "Fakkyu" though the voice clip makes it quite clear what she's saying.
▲* When a [http://nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?p=941207#post941207 particular bit] of [[Insane Troll Logic]] took off like a rocket in the ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'' forums, the author decided to honor it in-comic with [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2009/07/14/episode-1152-not-the-best-comeback/ the only character suited for the job.]
▲* ''[[Homestuck]]'': One of the more popular AUs is [[Troll Cops]], depicting Sollux and Terezi as, well, [[They Fight Crime|troll cops]]. When the AlterniaBound album came out, there were two tracks themed around the AU, both called [http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/trollcops Trollcops].
▲** In one panel, a faraway Karkat is drawn with less detail and no visible arms, making him look like he's wearing pants up to his neck. [[Memetic Mutation|Fans referred to him as Pantskat]] and began drawing fanart of him in his long pants. This made its way back into the comic: when {{spoiler|fedorafreak}} combines a shirt and pair of pants in the Alchemiter, he gets a pair of absurdly long pants. And at another point, Karkat self-deprecates spectacularly about wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. And then, when Karkat's ancestor is finally shown, he is indeed wearing pants hiked up to his armpits as punishment. Said pants become holy relics of his followers.
▲*** And the original Pantskat pixel of him has been inserted into at least two later flash animations.
▲** A fan animation on [[YouTube]] that lip-synced [[The Stoner|Gamzee]] up to the Double Rainbow song became enormously popular in the fandom and cemented Gamzee as the [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] amongst the trolls. So, later on, Gamzee mentions a 'double metaphor all the way, across Skaia :o)'.
▲** Early in the comic, there's a short scene of Gamzee and Tavros chatting to each other like close friends, using each others's emoticons and rapping together (although we don't actually see the rap). This acted as enough [[Ho Yay]] to make Gamzee/Tavros a popular ship in the fandom, and it picked up the [[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|Idiosyncratic Ship Name]] "Peanut Butter and Jelly-shipping" or just "PBJ" (since Tavros is associated with the colour brown and Gamzee with purple). Later on, we see the second half of their conversation, in which [[Sure Why Not|Gamzee is flirting obviously with Tavros]], and he affectionately calls Tavros the 'emotional peanut butter to [Gamzee's] royal jelly'.
▲*** This also served as Andrew's constant [[Running Gag]] of referencing gay pornography in most of his works.
▲*** The second [[Easter Egg]] joke flash called [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony2 [S] Ride] has a [[Shout-Out]] to "[[Idiosyncratic Ship Naming|Cotton Candy]]," the fan nickname for Roxy/Jane which is based on their pink and light blue chat colors.
▲** Also, pretty much everything concerning fedorafreak's role in anything since his first brief mention.
▲* At the floor meeting in ''[[QUILTBAG]]'', Lisa makes a joke about her disembodied head walking on her pigtails, which had been seen in several ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' fanarts.
▲* A typo in a discussion about ''[[Blade Bunny]]'' and her phobia of tentacles ultimately led, via the normal [[Memetic Mutation]], to an official illustration of when [http://www.bladebunny.com/?p=356&vcu=ODZfMzU2 Bunny meets the Octobus].
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{{quote|'''Joker:''' Crashing through the roof, in a one horse open tree, busting out I go, laughing all the ''WHEEEEEEEEEEEE!''}}
* ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'' features someone having done a [[Grand Theft Me]] on Batman walking around going "[[Batman/Quotes|I'm]] [[Most Definitely Not a Villain|Batman.]]"
** The episode "Clash of the Superheroes!" has Superman, affected by red Kryptonite, turn into a [[Jerkass]] and recreate some of the most famous moments of [[Superdickery.com]] history.
* [[Beam Me Up, Scotty]] actually did appear in ''[[Star Trek: The
* ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' acknowledged the fan terms "brony" (term for fans of the show, usually defined as the [[Periphery Demographic|older male ones]]) and "DJ Pon-3" (for the DJ pony seen in "Suited for Success") in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPqjKk_xCo this season 2 promo].
** And the grey pegasus with the blonde mane has walleyes whenever she appears, other constant little shoutouts to the show's sizeable [[Periphery Demographic]] here and there...This is pretty much Ascended Meme: The Show.
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* Those famous [[Felix the Cat]] clocks? They started out as bootlegs. Because of their popularity, the company began selling an "official" version.
* The "Fry sees what you did there" and "Why not Zoidberg?" memes were used by [[Comedy Central]] in commercials for ''[[Futurama]]'''s 7th season.
* Many fans of ''[[Gravity Falls]]'' and ''[[The Owl House]]'' have commented on how Grunkle Stan from the first and Eda from the second could practically be soulmates. Both have a lot in common, the Tropes [[Cool Old Guy]] (or [[Cool Old Lady| Lady]]), [[Deadpan Snarker]], [[Loveable Rogue]], [[Snake Oil Salesman]], and [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]] applying to both. This has led to quite a few fan theories stating they might have been lovers or spouses once. And it seems Alex Hirsh (Stan's voice actor) may have confirmed it. In ''Gravity Falls: Journal 3'', Dipper discovers that Grunkle Stan was married to a woman named Marylin who divorced him after only six hours; in a 2018 DVD commentary for the episode "Land Before Swine," Hirsh (through Stan) describes her as having pale skin and an abnormally sharp tooth, and that she was wearing a shirt reading "Over 30 & Very Flirty". He also states that "Marilyn" was not her real name and that she disappeared after "[ducking] out of a door and into a canyon". This description seems eerily similar to Eda, and her means of departure seems the way a witch like Eda would do so. Very likely, Hirsh is suggesting Marilyn and Eda are the same person.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/27/macys-parade-rickrolled-r_n_146896.html Rick Astley] [[Rickroll]]s [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|the entire United States.]] ([http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hqv6USkoU Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, 2008])
** [[Rick Astley]] ''loves'' Rickrolling and even did the article in [[Time Magazine]]'s Most Influential People on "moot" (founder of [[4chan]]) to thank him for creating people who start things like this.
** The float itself was chosen due to being quite punny.
*** The first video uploaded to Nancy Pelosi's official government [[YouTube]] account ended up being a Rickroll. Likely a staff member's idea.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131105184053/http://www.ymca.net/about-us/ YMCA website] uses the [[Dance Sensation]] from the [[Village People]] song about them in the "About Us" tab.
* [[Charlie Sheen]] has embraced the recent internet memes spawned from interviews on his drug abuse and firing from [[Two and A Half Men]], such as "Tiger blood" and "Winning!" He even got the word "Winning!" tattooed on his wrist.
* Honda, in its sporty Civic Si model, decided for the 2012 model year to add an indicator light that lets the driver know when VTEC kicks in. [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vtec-just-kicked-in-yo Yo].
* Dave Silverman, whose face was used to make the [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/are-you-serious-face-seriously "Are you serious?" face], has a sticker of said face [https://web.archive.org/web/20110630213147/http://friendlyatheist.com/2011/06/27/american-atheists-accepts-the-meme/ attached to the front door of his office.]
* Former NASA flight director Gene Kranz [[Beam Me Up, Scotty|never said]] "[[Rousing Speech|Failure is not an option!]]" during the [[Apollo 13]] mission, but he liked it so much, feeling it perfectly captured the spirit of NASA, that he used it for the title of his memoirs.
** It also appears on [http://search.store.yahoo.net/nasa/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=nasa&query=failure%20is%20not%20an%20option&x=21&y=11 T-shirts and other souvenir items sold at Kennedy Space Center].
* [[Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon]] is an infamous film trivia game started by a group of college students while they were watching films [[Kevin Bacon]] appeared in. The game had penetrated pop culture enough to be referenced by Kevin Bacon himself in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afJRKbBEr2Q commercials] and in [http://www.sixdegrees.org/ a charity website] that he created.
* Astrophysicist [[Neil De Grasse Tyson]] has embraced the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120726060500/http://rainbowprism.tumblr.com/post/20043969606/lol-neil-tyson-knows-lmao "watch out, we have a badass over here"] meme, [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/neil-degrasse-tyson-reaction coming from a certain video of his recorded years ago].
* Blake Boston A.K.A. "Scumbag Steve" also embraced his [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/scumbag-steve/ meme] and even made a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G9X7kpelms/ song] about it.
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