About

"What about the Droid attack on the Wookiees" is a line of dialogue spoken by the character Ki-Adi-Mundi in the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith. Online, the phrase, as well as a picture from the scene in which it was uttered, has become popular among Prequel Meme communities.

Origin

Ki-Adi-Mundi said the line "what about the Droid attack on the Wookiees" in the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III -- Revenge of the Sith (shown below) while meeting with the Jedi council.

Spread

One of the earliest iterations of the meme appeared on 4chan's ^[6] /tv/ board on December 8th, 2015 (shown below). An anonymous user posted a picture of Ki-Ad-Mundi sitting in front of a green screen and the comment "What about the Droid attack on the wookiees." The post would appear on 4chan several other times over the next year.^[7][8]

On January 28th, 2017, Redditor Ungeheuer00^[1] posted a screencap of the scene above a photoshopped image of Ki-Adi-Mundi in a strip club. The user posted the picture in the thread "What about the droid attack on the wookiees." The post received more than 200 points (90% upvoted).

Five months later, on May 24th, Redditor Hyperguy20^[2] posted the picture of Ki-Adi-Mundi with the subtitle "What about the droid attack on the Wookiees?" in /r/PrequelMemes. The post (shown below), entitled "When my friends are discussing politics and I try to get involved," received more than 20,000 likes (94% upvoted) and 200 comments.

The next day, on May 26th, Redditor jpmit55^[5] posted a parody of the scene featuring the cookie monster. They included the cpation "What about the droid attack on the cookies?" the post received more than 11,000 points (92% upvoted) and 110 comments.

Throughout the week, several threads in /r/PrequelMemes were in which the image of Ki-Adi-Mundi served as a reaction to the title of the thread. Redditors jdcooper97^[3] and YachtySama^[4] posted the image in threads that received more than 1,000 points each.

On May 31st Redditor omrah posted "What is everyone on about the Droid attack on the Wookiees?" in the /r/OutOfTheLoop subreddit. Redditor BilBoSwagginS-28 responded

"There's a character in the Prequels named Ki-Adi-Mundi on the Jedi High Council. During the Clone Wars and near the end of the Republic Mundi mentions a recent Separatist Droid attack on the Wookiees on Kashyyyk. Knowing /r/Prequelmemes they pretty much take any character's somewhat out of place line and turn it into a meme."

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