Fallen Angels Motorcycle / Tunnel Scene

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Fallen Angels Motorcycle Scene or The Killer's Agent Riding On Ho Chi-Mo's Motorcycle also known as Fallen Angels Tunnel Scene or Woman Riding Motorcycle Down Green Tunnel With Smoking Man refers to the final scene from the 1995 crime film Fallen Angels where The Killer's Agent rides on the back of Ho Chi-mo's motorcycle through a tunnel, narrating, "The road wasn't that long, and I knew I'd be getting off soon. But at that moment I felt such warmth." The scene became the subject of redraws and memes as early as 2021, seeing a boost in popularity in January 2024.

Origin

At the end of the 1995 crime film Fallen Angels, The Killer's Agent, played by Michelle Reis, rides on the back of Ho Chi-Mo's (Takeshi Kaneshiro) motorcycle. She says, "The road wasn't that long, and I knew I'd be getting off soon. But at that moment I felt such warmth" (shown below).

The quote and a screenshot from the scene showing the two riding through a green-lit tunnel was posted online numerous times throughout the 2010s and 2020s. For example, on February 19th, 2017, X^[1] user @cinemabreakz posted screenshots from the scene along with the quote, garnering around 150 likes in seven years (shown below, left). One of the earliest known redraws was posted by X^[2] user @aoedeart on October 4th, 2021, garnering around 30 likes in three years (shown below, right).

Spread

Redraws of the scene became increasingly popular in January 2024. On January 17th, 2024, X^[3] user @kkWwwjjH posted a redraw of Bleach characters on the motorcycle, garnering over 300 likes in five days (shown below).

On January 19th, X^[4] user @ZIIKO_ART posted a piece of artwork redrawing the characters as the Chinese Beaver and the Glasses Loopy plush, garnering over 123,000 likes in three days (shown below, left). On January 21st, X^[5] user @ecto_fun posted a redraw featuring cats on the motorcycle, garnering over 27,000 likes in a day (shown below, right).

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