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Conquest Behind Oliver, also known as Conquest Slapping Oliver, is a series of memes based on an exploitable image from Invincible season four, episode five, showing the character Conquest chasing behind Oliver Grayson with his hand raised, about to strike Oliver. The episode premiered on April 1st, 2026, and became the subject of memes and reactions that day, including image macros and edits that add various elements to the original scene.

Origin

On April 1st, 2026, season four, episode five of the animated Invincible series premiered. That day, an image from the episode that shows Conquest looming behind Oliver Grayson with his hand raised, as if about to smack Oliver from behind, started spreading online.

One of the earliest known users to post the image is Threads^[1] user @evanburke03, who posted the screenshot with the caption, "HE’S BACK!!!" garnering over 2,200 likes in a day. Minutes later, X^[2] user @InvincibleGiF posted a GIF of the scene, which shows Nolan dropping from the sky to stop the attack, gaining over 18,000 likes in a day.

One of the earliest memes to use the image was posted by X^[3] / Twitter user @JALAKJIRA on April 1st, 2026, who posted the image under the caption, "Mfs when you dared showed up to school with a fresh cut during the 'I like your cut, G' era," garnering over 1,900 likes in a day.

Spread

The Conquest Behind Oliver image continued to inspire memes in early April 2026 as the format spread online.

On April 1st, 2026, X^[4] user @ChasCogan74605 posted an edit that shows Conquest dunking a basketball over Oliver's head, garnering over 1,700 likes in a day.

That day, Redditor IceTrey5152 made a post to the /r/Invincible^[5] subreddit sharing the original image with the title, "Me waiting to press play on this episode," garnering over 1,300 upvotes in a day.

Later that day, X^[6] page @nocontextnvncbl posted the image with the caption, "Definitely a new meme in the Invincible history books," garnering over 11,000 likes in a day.

Also on April 1st, 2026, Instagram^[7] user sportsville posted a version of the meme reading, "How Wemby be moving in the paint," referencing NBA player Victor Wembanyama, garnering over 2,700 likes in a day.

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