Henry Cavill Reloading Biceps

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Henry Cavill Reloading Biceps refers to a reaction GIF of actor Henry Cavill in the 2018 action film Mission: Impossible -- Fallout thrusting his arms downward and then raising them to fighting position. Online, people use the GIF to express a willingness to engage in combat and joked about how the clip seems to show Cavill's beard and shirt pocket grow because of the movement.

Origin

On February 4th, 2018, Paramount Pictures released the trailer for the sixth installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Mission: Impossible -- Fallout. In the trailer, actor Henry Caville can be scene pumping his arms downward. The trailer (shown below, left) received more than 26 million views in six months.

That day, the official Mission: Impossible Giphy ^[1] account uploaded a GIF of the moment. The GIF (shown below) has received more than 680,000 views in six months.

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As the film approached release, people began discussing the arm movement at length. On July 23rd, 2018, entertainment reporter Jake Hamilton tweeted an interview with the stars of the film about the movement. The post (shown below) received more than 1,100 retweets and 5,300 likes in one week.

On Twitter, people discussed other aspects of the "bicep reload," particularly the emergence of Cavill's beard and pocket during the movement (example below).

On July 28th, Twitter user @April13Dawn posted a video (shown below) of the Mission: Impossible -- Fallout cast asking him to do the movement. They captioned the post, "I love how the cast of #MissionImpossibleFallout is just as obsessed with Henry Cavill reloading his arms as we all are."

On July 30th, Twitter^[2] published a moments page about the moment.

Several media outlets wrote about the movement, including Mashable, ^[3] BuzzFeed ^[4] and more. https://mashable.com/2018/06/26/henry-cavill-beard-mission-impossible/#qAYQfWQnuaq5

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