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"Finally! A Worthy Opponent! Our Battle Will Be Legendary!" is a memorable quote by character Tai Lung from 2008 animated film Kung Fu Panda. Since 2016, the quote has been circulated as an image macro and an exploitable by Spanish-speaking users. In February 2019, the format reached mainstream attention on Reddit, with memes referencing individuals challenging others to a fight, often while overestimating or underestimating own power.

Origin

On June 6th, 2008, DreamWorks Animation animated film Kung Fu Panda premiered in the U.S.^[1] In one scene of the film, the main antagonist Tai Lung, a snow leopard, contemplates his future encounter with the main protagonist Po.

Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary.

On January 3rd, 2015, an anonymous Imgur^[2] user uploaded a captioned GIF of the scene to the platform.

Spread

Starting 2016, memes based on the two-panel screen capture of the scene have been circulated by Spanish-speaking users. The earliest posts^[3] following the format can be traced to at least March 11th, 2016, with numerous examples appearing on Facebook and Memedroid in the following years.

In November 2016, an anonymous Funpic.us^[4] user reposted the earliest known English version of the meme from 9GAG (original post unavailable).

The format did not receive any further spread use among English-speaking users until February 2019. On February 6th, 2019, Redditor^[5] bramoeska posted a version of the meme to /r/HistoryMemes subreddit. The post gained over 14,200 upvotes in six days.

Following the post by bramoeska, more versions of the meme were posted on Reddit, including /r/historymemes^[6], /r/freefolk^[7] and /r/dankmemes^[8] subreddits, and on Instagram^[9].

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