Bro skipped the 'make friends' side quest.

This is a single panel satirical meme depicting two 3D rendered characters. A normal-sized, average build man labeled 'The villain whose trained for over 500 years' stands looking up in apparent shock at an impossibly large, absurdly overmuscled humanoid figure that towers over him, labeled 'The main character who learned the power of friendship'. The joke parodies the extremely common trope in shonen anime and media where protagonists gain far more power from their bonds with friends (the 'make friends' side quest referenced in the title) than villains can gain from centuries of solo training, resulting in a completely unbalanced power dynamic.

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The main character who learned the power of friendship

Overview

This is a single panel satirical meme depicting two 3D rendered characters. A normal-sized, average build man labeled 'The villain whose trained for over 500 years' stands looking up in apparent shock at an impossibly large, absurdly overmuscled humanoid figure that towers over him, labeled 'The main character who learned the power of friendship'. The joke parodies the extremely common trope in shonen anime and media where protagonists gain far more power from their bonds with friends (the 'make friends' side quest referenced in the title) than villains can gain from centuries of solo training, resulting in a completely unbalanced power dynamic.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from the Reddit:Meme RSS feed. It uses a popular viral 3D render template of an excessively buff character to mock standard shonen anime power scaling tropes. The original posted title references the joke that the protagonist did not skip the 'make friends' side quest, which grants them their overwhelming power advantage over the villain who focused solely on training alone.