About

There Is Another is a memorable quote uttered by the character Yoda in the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back. It has since been used as a reaction image macro online.

Origin

On May 21st, 1980, Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back was released in the United States.^[1] In the film, Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) abandons his training to rescue his friends. After he leaves, his mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Alec Guinness) says to his trainer Yoda (Frank Oz), "That boy was our last hope," and Yoda responds, "No, there is another."

Spread

The original scene has inspired a number of memes and fan illustrations. For example, on January 27th, 2016, DeviantArt ^[2] user hachiroku24 shared a version of the scene using LEGOs (shown below, left).

On September 27th, 2019, Redditor ^[5] BabaSherif posted the image of Yoda with a caption about math. The post received over 48,000 points (88% upvoted) and 500 comments.

The following day, on September 28th, Redditor^[3] Pizzaablob shared the first use of the image as a meme commenting on the number of ads found on YouTube videos. Within two days, the post received over 35,000 points (98% upvoted) and 100 comments (shown below, center).

Two days later, Redditor^[4] Zaccthesnac shared a variation in the /r/memes subreddit which received over 65,000 point (97% upvoted) and 370 comments (shown below).

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