Marvel One-liners / So That Just Happened
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About
Marvel One-liners are a set of Millennial Writing cliché quips and one-liners that are either said by superheroes in the Marvel Comics and Marvel Cinematic Universe movies or sound like they could be said by them. In March 2022, Fans When memes about Marvel fans not finding any such one-liners in the 2022 film The Batman became popularized. In July 2022, the parody trend was reignited by the quip "They're right behind me, aren't they" appearing in the 2022 film Thor: Love & Thunder.
Origin
On March 4th, 2022, the superhero film The Batman based on the DC Comics of the same name was released.[1] Shortly prior to the film's release, jokes about fans of Marvel comics and movies, a more lighthearted universe compared to DC Comics, being angry at the film not having many quips in it gained popularity on TikTok. For example, on March 1st, 2022, TikToker[2] celtworld.v2 posted a clip that gained over 320,000 views and 60,000 likes in four months (shown below, left). On March 3rd, 2022, TikToker[3] @big_burtis_curch_6d9 posted another example that received over 94,200 likes in five months (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7070322675503090987
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7071051749540482350
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On March 6th, 2022, Twitter[4] user @TheQuiver_ posted a tweet imagining The Batman being an MCU movie that gained over 1,700 retweets and 22,700 likes in four months (shown below, left). On March 8th, 2022, Redditor _The-Batman posted a Jimmy Yelling at Howard GIF caption that received over 12,300 upvotes in the /r/whenthe[5] subreddit in the same period (shown below, right).
More "Fans When" memes about Marvel fans were posted on TikTok through March 2022. For example, on March 15th, TikToker[6] _robonthecob posted a meme that received over 432,000 views and 81,400 likes in four months (shown below, left). On March 18th, 2022, TikToker[7] anthreviews posted a "Riddler's "No, No, No, No, No!"":https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/riddlers-no-no-no-no-no meme parodying Marvel one-liners that received over 630,000 views and 144,000 likes in four months (shown below, right). On March 19th, 2022, Twitter[8] user @DarkDefective posted a still image from the TikTok, with the tweet gaining over 13,500 retweets and 173,900 likes in four months.
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7075391979844013358
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7076613570674298158
On July 20th, 2022, Twitter[9] user @snowboiiii posted a screenshot of a Letterboxd review for the recently released Marvel film Thor: Love and Thunder in which a user wrote that the cliché one-liner "They're right behind me, aren't they" is said by Thor. The tweet gained over 9,700 retweets and 149,700 likes in two weeks (shown below).
Following the tweet, in late July 2022, memes and jokes about quips and one-liners in Marvel movies regained popularity on Twitter.
List of Cliché Quips
- So, that just happened.
- He's right behind me, isn't he?
- Well, this is awkward.
- Did I just say that out loud?
- We've got company.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Wikipedia – The Batman
[2] TikTok – @celtworld.v2
[3] TikTok – @big_burtis_6d9
[4] Twitter – @TheQuiver_
[5] Reddit – Batman doesn't quip every single second. 0/10.
[6] TikTok – @_robonthecob
[7] TikTok – @anthreviews
[8] Twitter – @DarkDefective
[9] Twitter – @snowboiiii
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