About

Watch What Happens When I Cast A Spell I Don't Know! is a quotable line and image macro accompanied by an image or gif of a character being frozen in ice. The line originates from an infamous moment in Chapter 2 of Toby Fox's game Deltarune.

Origin

Delatrune: Chapter 2 was released by Toby Fox on September 17, 2021. Within a day of the game's release, players discovered the existence of a secret route in the game known as the Weird/Snowgrave Route, in which the player has the opportunity to manipulate the character of Noelle to kill enemies by freezing them. Near the climax of the route, the character Berdly, Noelle's best friend, takes notice of the player's manipulation of Noelle and tries to stop them, but is unsuccessful, as the player forces Noelle to use the brand-new, fatal move "Snowgrave".

Although Noelle is initially resistant, she eventually succumbs to the player's demands and reluctantly uses the move while saying the line "Watch what happens when I cast a spell I don't know!", freezing Berdly in a block of ice and seemingly killing him. A video of the fight was recorded and uploaded to YouTube on September 21st, 2021, by the channel ^[1] earning 4,500 views in six months (shown below).

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Memes of the event were quick to form, with one of the first ones being made by the Twitter user^[2] @EmmArrGus on September 19th, 2021, in which it takes a scene from The Incredibles in which Frozone shoots ice at a cop, and puts the text on top, earning 4,200 likes in six months (shown below).

On September 22nd, 2021, the Twitter user^[3] LazyAyeTV made a meme using the character Mordecai to make a meme, which is most fitting due to the original context being about a bird simp getting frozen, earning 270 likes in six months (shown below).

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