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Rise, My Glorious Creation is a quote from the 2010 animated comedy Megamind in which Megamind, in disguise as Jor-el, says to the character Hal Stewart, "Rise my glorious creation. Rise, and come to papa." The scene has been used as a reaction image.

Origin

In Megamind, released October 30th, 2010,^[1] the character Megamind attempts to convince the character Hal Stewart, aka Titan, that he is a superhero. Upon completing an experiment on him, he puts himself in disguise and says "Rise, my glorious creation!" (shown below).

Spread

The scene did not begin to become a reaction image meme until 2019. On April 6th, 2019, Redditor ConnorJMiner^[2] posted the image to /r/dankmemes with the caption, "me after taping knifes onto the hands of a raccoon I found unconscious on the sidewalk," gaining over 13,000 points. This led to the creation of several examples appearing on the subreddit over the following days, and user BothersomeBritish^[3] created an example riffing on how ConnorJMiner created a new template (shown below, right).

The format picked up several months later, in September of 2019, when several more examples began growing popular across Reddit. These include an August 31st post by redgooseredemptiona about Dungeons and Dragons that gained over 1,000 points (shown below, left). User IARafee posted a myth about Greek mythology in /r/mythologymemes, gaining over 490 points (shown below, right).

Templates

Various Examples

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