Mace Windu vs. Wallace Palpatine

About

Mace Windu vs. Wallace Palpatine is an image macro featuring an image edit of a scene from the I Am the Senate film Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith in which the character Mace Windu confronts the character Wallace from the Wallace & Gromit series, who replaces Senator Palpatine.

Origin

On January 29th, 2018, YouTuber HourofPoop shared a video entitled "'I Am The Senate' But Palpatine Is Wallace." The video features the scene from Revenge of the Sith of Mace Windu (portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson) with Wallace replacing Palpatine. The post received more than 5.7 million views as of February 2020.

Spread

The following year, Redditor ^[1] CodeBlack_Part2 shared a variation of Right Back at Ya Buckaroo that references the scene (shown below, left).

However, the format, which features a two-panel object-labeling of the confrontation, spread on Reddit on February 8th, 2020. That day, Redditor^[2] generalofbread posted the image with caption "My mom walking into my room at 10pm / Me hiding my DS under my pillow." The post received more than 29,000 points (97% upvoted) in less than one week (shown below, center).

Over the next few days, people on Reddit continued to share variations of the format. On February 13th, for examples, Redditor^[3] fishdotwav shared a version about seeing "random nsfw content" when one is next to their family. The post received more than 38,000 points (98% upvoted) and 150 comments in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).

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