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Robert Downey Jr. Eye Roll, also known as Tony Stark Rolling Eyes, is a reaction GIF and image macro series featuring the actor Robert Downey Jr. rolling his eyes in contempt with his arms crossed during a scene in the 2012 superhero film The Avengers.

Origin

In The Avengers scene, released in theaters on April 11th, 2012, the character Tony Stark (played by Robert Downey Jr.) rolls his eyes after the character Captain America (played by Chris Evans) candidly exclaimed that he understood a reference during a meeting at the superheroes headquarters (shown below).

On August 27th, Tumblr^[3] user lostiel posted an animated GIF of Downey rolling his eyes, which received more than 35,400 notes over the next four years (shown below).

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In April 2013, the GIF was submitted to the animated GIF database Replygifs.^[5] On August 27th, BuzzFeed^[4] highlighted the reaction GIF in a compilation titled "The 32 Most Iconic Eye Rolls Of All Time." On March 29th, 2013, a still from the scene was uploaded to a Meme Generator page titled "Robert Downey Junior Face," which accumulated over 14,000 variations over the next three years (shown below, left). The picture was subsequently reposted to Imgflip, where it garnered more than 130 pages of "The Face You Make" captioned examples (shown below, right).

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