Persona 5 Battle Menu Parodies
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About
Persona 5 Battle Menu Parodies refers to an exploitable photoshop meme featuring the in-game battle menu from the role-playing video game Persona 5 superimposed over a variety of other base images.
Origin
On April 4th, 2017, Persona 5 was released worldwide, featuring a turn-based battle system in which player can perform different actions by selecting from several markers placed around each character (shown below).
On April 8th, 2017, YouTuber Euphemism for Magic[2] uploaded a Just Give 'Em One of These parody videos featuring the Persona 5 battle user interface, which gained over 240,000 views and 380 comments over the next four days.
Spread
On the same day, Twitter user @broken_loose[3] reposted YouTuber Euphemism for Magic's parody. On April 9th, 2017, Twitter user @Brento_Bento[4] posted a photoshop featuring an image from the Super Mario Bros. cartoon with the Persona 5 menu (shown below, left). On April 11th, Tumblr user HANDSOMEZACK[5] posted a photoshop featuring a child wielding a water pistol, which went on to receive over 9,000 notes in less than 24 hours (shown below, right).
That same day, Kotaku[6] published an article titled "Persona 5 Menus Make Everything Better," highlighting several notable examples of the photoshop meme. Meanwhile, Mic[7] published an article titled "The Funniest Battle Menu Parodies From Around the Net."
Various Examples
![γ2 GUN PERSONA ιγζ§γγ γΉγγ«γδ½Ώγ γ’γ€γγ γδ½Ώγ (kills y u in Spa ish]](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/241/991/ebf.jpg_large "You never see it coming, LISIADA")
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External References
[2] YouTube β Euphemism For Magic
[3] Twitter β @broken_loose
[4] Twitter β @brento_bento
[5] Tumblr β HANDSOMEZACK
[6] Kotaku β Persona 5 Menus Make Everything Better
[7] Mic β Persona 5 Memes
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Top Comments
SpoonyBrad
Apr 11, 2017 at 03:52PM EDT
Kris
Apr 11, 2017 at 10:53PM EDT