The Gendo Pose (2005)

added May 10, 2009 at 01:03AM UTC

About

Gendo Ikari is a character from the Neon Genesis Evangelion franchise. The meme revolves around an image of Ikari in a steepling(hands clasped, fingers crossed) pose. Such a pose is not uncommon for an anatagonist such as himself, and is sometimes known as The Abassador Pose.

The main hallmark of Gendo’s steepling is his scary shiny glasses which make it extra great.

Although the pose appears in many other series, Photoshops of the Gendo Pose in which Gendo’s hands and glasses have been pasted onto a picture of a person or thing appear on many image-sharing anime forums.

Examples

No matter what the original photo may be, The Gendo Pose makes it mind-bogglingly sweet.

Ex. 1
Lame

Badass

Ex. 2

Unloveable

Cool dude!

See? Works every time! The possibilities are endless! This is a meme most versatile. Try it yourself, here are the parts for the job.

This is the picture the majority if not all the arms and glasses come from

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11 Comments

Captain Blubber
May 10, 2009 at 01:19AM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

There seems to be aproblem with the pictures, if this is happening to anyone else, this should probably be deleted. I’ll work on a new entry.

Greg Leuch
May 10, 2009 at 01:28AM UTC , Greg Leuch wrote:

cap’n: you gotta link to the actual image itself. unfortunately, the service where those images are located force-redirects to an HTML, so they won’t show up. you might need to find another service to host those photos. (we’re also looking into better ways to insert photos into the entry body.)

Captain Blubber
May 10, 2009 at 01:52PM UTC , Captain Blubber wrote:

Problem solved.

Pterodactyl
Jul 04, 2009 at 04:14PM UTC , Pterodactyl wrote:

//cough//
The only good part of the Neon Genesis Evengelion anime.
//cough//

Will Kimball
Jul 10, 2009 at 05:54AM UTC , Will Kimball wrote:

I will say that this pose makes everyone look kool.

farktard
Jul 15, 2009 at 03:18PM UTC , farktard wrote:

Damned if that doesn’t remind me of the schoolmaster from The Wall.

technom
Aug 03, 2009 at 06:19PM UTC , technom wrote:

By the way, it’s Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Not Genisis.

??? ???
Sep 04, 2009 at 06:43PM UTC , ??? ??? wrote:

Here. Have some presidential meme-age.

Draghonia
Oct 12, 2009 at 11:10PM UTC , Draghonia wrote:

wow I’m really surprised that my “gendo tigress” icon is here :D Thanks guys, it’s a kind of achievement for me :DD

Chi The Cat
Dec 31, 2009 at 01:24AM UTC , Chi The Cat wrote:

Awesome pose, I’ve seen this around. Insta-sinista.

Danke
Jan 06, 2010 at 09:55AM UTC , Danke wrote:

If anyone was on /b/ in 2005, this came from the constant photoshopping of cactuar’s face onto images. I tried to do the same with the angry sun from mario, but it didn’t catch on, and I eventually made this. I tried to do Rei’s eye patch and cast after gendo died down, but it also didn’t catch on.
/b/ is much too fast nowadays to do this kind of forced meme =(

Not tooting my own horn, just thought it might be interesting. Though I’m always amazed when I see cosplayers do it.

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