Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Thor: Ragnarok; read at your own caution.

About

"You Can't Defeat Me" is a three-panel object label image macro series based on screenshots from the 2017 Marvel superhero film Thor: Ragnarok.

Origin

On October 10th, 2017, the film Thor: Ragnarok premiered in the United States. In the film, the antagonist Hela (played by Cate Blanchett) taunts Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth). Unbeknownst to Hela, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) has recently placed the crown of Surtur (Clancy Brown) upon the "eternal flame," which causes Surtur to grow massive and burst out of the Palace of Asgard, much to Hela's shock. During their confrontation, Hela says, "Whatever game you're playing, it won't work. You can't defeat me."

The earliest known usage of the scene as a meme was posted on July 2nd, 2018 in the Marvel Shieldposting Facebook ^[1] group. That day, Facebook user pedrohenrique.pracanicoribeiro photoshopped the characters flags from the countries participating in the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The post (shown below) received more than 1,600 reactions and 300 shares in one month.

Spread

Shortly after, users within the Facebook group posted more variations (example below, left).

On July 5th, 2018, Imgur ^[2] user DrZorkkins posted a variation of the meme in which the characters are labeled "depression," "my alcoholism" and more. The post (shown below, center) received more than 2,000 points and 11,000 views.

On July 9th, 2018, Redditor ^[3] user penguini123 a variation featuring items from the video game Mario Kart in the r/gaming subreddit. The post (shown below, right) received more than over 3,700 upvotes (95% upvoted) in less than one month.

Various Examples

External References