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Forspoken Trailer Parodies

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Forspoken Trailer Parodies refer to a series of memes and jokes referencing an ad for the 2023 Square Enix action video game Forspoken that grew infamous online as many deemed its voiceover narration cringeworthy and reminiscent of Marvel one-liners. The trailer quickly inspired many parodies in August 2022 following its release in which people rewrote the dialogue as a phrasal template to fit various plots of other video games.

Origin

On August 8th, 2022, the Twitter account for Square Enix's upcoming video game Forspoken released a trailer for the game. The trailer featured the main character quipping about the discovery of her newfound powers. The text read:

"So, let me get this straight. I’m somewhere that’s not what I would call Earth… I’m seeing freaking dragons, and… oh yeah, I’m talking to a cuff! Yeah, okay, that is something I do now. I do magic, kill jacked-up beasts -- I’ll probably fly next."

The trailer (shown below) gained over 1,000 retweets, 6,000 quote-tweets and 9,400 likes in two days.


Spread

Starting around August 10th, 2022, the trailer began being parodied on Twitter, as many found it gratingly quippy and similar to the "Marvel one-liner" type of writing that is typically associated with writers like Joss Whedon.[1] Parodies typically involved Twitter users rewriting plots of other video games to humorously fit the text of the Forspoken trailer, turning it into a phrasal template. For example, on August 10th, Twitter user @Subakeye[2] wrote it to fit Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, gaining over 50 retweets and 270 likes in less than an hour. Twitter user @fromhappyrock[3] didn't use the text as a phrasal template, but wrote a similarly quippy narration from the perspective of Kratos in God of War, gaining over 780 retweets and 11,000 likes in one day (shown below, right).


Kiron (sunbreak addict) @Subakeye ... "So let me get this straight. I'm somewhere that's not what I would call Liberia, I'm seeing FREAKING CYBORGS, and, OH YEAH I'M TALKING TO A BLADE WOLF. YEAH OKAY THAT IS SOMETHING I DO NOW! I do zandatsu, kill jacked up senators, I'll probably ninja run next..." Nicholas Kole @FromHappyRock : Replying to @Forspoken Who me? Yeah I'm a freakin GOD as it turns out. Shyeah I'm all about that axe life. That handsome devil next to me? Fam, that's literally my BOY. He can thank me for his good looks AND formative trauma. It's not easy fighting heCkin VIKINGS. But Honestly? Being a parent ragnaroxx GOD OF WAR

Others posted video parodies referencing the trailer. Twitter user @funnywes posted a video on August 10th reading the Forspoken trailer text but fitting it to Bloodborne, gaining over 3,200 retweets and 17,000 likes in three hours (shown below).


Also on August 10th, Twitter user @bobvids posted a parody trailer for Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Remake by making the lyrics to Goldfinger's "Superman" read like quippy dialogue, gaining over 1,100 retweets and 4,400 likes in one day (shown below).


Various Examples


Iron Pineapple @IronPineapple_ "Yeah okay. This is COMPLETELY normal." Romain Ultimate Survivor @Rom1pocalypse ... "So let me get this straight, I'm a freaking knight, got it ? Apparently I'm some kind of "Ashen one" or smth like that. I have to go to craazy places to kill some weird dudes just to light a fire, weird right ? Well that's my life, kinda dark for a fantasy, isn't it?" Ono HQI : @HighQualitylce "Erm, let me get this straight: this party-pooper-super- computer called AM killed all of humanity except for me and 4 others, and he took us to Earth's frickin' core to torture us for eternity? Sounds like we need to 'rage against the machine'... that sounded better in my head" Wari FunniGuy @Zari_Wari Replying to @Forspoken Wanna know my name? I'm Kazuma Kiryu, the Dragon of Dojima!...it sounded cooler in my head, sorry. I'm always catching hands with the fiercest fighters in Japan, uncovering underworld conspiracies, and...(cut to Yakuza 2 baby substory) Yeah. That's for me to tell my therapist. 神室町天下一通り : 5:26 PM. Aug 9, 2022. Twitter Web App Jokin @Jokinspore SO let me get this straight, I just recieved a letter from my FREAKING DEAD WIFE 猛宥 @ppalgaengi so, let me get this straight: i'm in a place that isn't quite medieval northern europe, i was almost beheaded by these 'stormcloak' guys, and i'm something called the DRAGONBORN?

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External References

[1] Twitter – @punished_cait

[2] Twitter – @subakeye

[3] Twitter – @FromHappyRock

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