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Clearly You've Never Made an Omelette, alternatively spelled as Clearly You've Never Made an Omelet, refers to a line of dialogue spoken by Ultron in the 2015 Marvel film Avengers: Age of Ultron in response to Thor saying, "nobody has to break anything." The line became the subject of memes, particularly ironic demotivational posters, in early 2021, associated with an image of Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark with a smug smile on his face.

Origin

On April 13th, 2015, the Marvel film Avengers: Age of Ultron premiered in North American theatres. At one point in the film, the Avengers encounter Ultron. Before fighting, Thor says, "Nobody has to break anything," to which Ultron responds, "Clearly you've never made an omelette," followed by Iron Man saying, "he beat me by one second" (shown below).

On June 1st, 2020, Instagram^[9] user eggsylul posted a demotivational poster featuring a screenshot of Robert Downey Jr.'s face as Tony Stark in the Iron Man suit, smiling with a smug look of superiority, and the text, "Clearly you've never made an omelette," directly referencing the scene in Age of Ultron (shown below). The post gained over 520 likes in three years.

Spread

The image was reposted by a number of Instagram^[2][3] accounts over the following months, helping to spread it online. On January 11th, 2021, Instagram^[1] user someweebwatchingcartoons reposted eggsylul's image, garnering over 37,300 likes in three months. On February 13th, 2021 Twitter^[7] user @fjxsu posted a demotivational poster featuring an image of Patrick Bateman from the film American Psycho with the text, "clearly you've never hit an edgebug," referencing a Source engine glitch,^[8] garnering over 4,000 likes and 310 retweets in just under two months (shown below).

On March 25th, Instagram^[4] user @mememonk_ posted a demotivational poster (shown below) featuring actor Anthony Mackie as Hawkeye flying through the air with a caption reading, "Clearly you've never made daddy a sandwich," referencing a controversial clip that was going viral at the time of Mackie talking about gender roles in 2019 where he uses the line "make daddy a sandwich." The post gained over 31,200 likes in just under two weeks.

On March 29th, Instagram^[5] user @_kingorange posted a comic combining two versions of the meme along with the Robert Downey Jr.'s Comments format, garnering over 8,800 likes in a week (shown below, left). On April 1st, Instagram^[6] user @soldier4smash posted a new version of the meme featuring the Heavy from Team Fortress 2, garnering over 11,000 likes in four days (shown below, right).

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