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Casually walking away after blowing something up Taco Bell meme

This 4-panel collage meme opens with the text 'There's nothing cooler than casually walking away after blowing something up'. The first three panels feature iconic action movie characters: Wolverine from the X-Men franchise, an unnamed female action lead, and Dominic Toretto from the Fast & Furious franchise, each walking calmly away from large, fiery explosions behind them, embodying the classic 'cool guy doesn't look at explosions' action movie trope. The fourth panel subverts the setup by showing an ordinary man casually walking away from a Taco Bell restaurant. The joke relies on double meaning: while the action heroes literally blew up physical objects, the man leaving Taco Bell is implied to have 'blown up' his own stomach, referencing the widely circulated running joke that Taco Bell food causes digestive distress.
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There's nothing cooler than casually walking away after blowing something up

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This 4-panel collage meme opens with the text 'There's nothing cooler than casually walking away after blowing something up'. The first three panels feature iconic action movie characters: Wolverine from the X-Men franchise, an unnamed female action lead, and Dominic Toretto from the Fast & Furious franchise, each walking calmly away from large, fiery explosions behind them, embodying the classic 'cool guy doesn't look at explosions' action movie trope. The fourth panel subverts the setup by showing an ordinary man casually walking away from a Taco Bell restaurant. The joke relies on double meaning: while the action heroes literally blew up physical objects, the man leaving Taco Bell is implied to have 'blown up' his own stomach, referencing the widely circulated running joke that Taco Bell food causes digestive distress.

Origin notes

This meme is a remix of existing action movie stills and a candid real-world photo of a man exiting Taco Bell, using the popular 'cool guys don't look at explosions' meme format. It was reposted on the X (formerly Twitter) account @WholesomeMeme, sourced via an RSS feed. The Taco Bell digestive joke is a long-running internet joke that has been used in many similar meme formats.

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