STAY IN CHARACTER Tomodachi Life Non-Canon Outfit Meme

This is a relatable gaming reaction meme referencing the Nintendo life simulation game Tomodachi Life. The top overlaid text sets up the scenario: 'When your Tomodachi that's based on someone wants to wear a non-canon outfit'. Below this text is an edited still from the Marvel series Loki Season 2, showing the character He Who Remains with digitally added glowing white eyes and lightning effects around his eyes to amplify his angry expression, as he leans forward aggressively and reaches out one hand. The bottom of the image features bold, bright yellow text that reads 'STAY IN CHARACTER'. The joke pokes fun at the common experience of Tomodachi Life players, who often create in-game characters (called Tomodachi, meaning friend in Japanese) based on real people or pre-existing fictional characters, and feel frustrated when the AI-controlled in-game character autonomously chooses to wear an outfit that does not align with the canonical, expected appearance of the real person or fictional character they are modeled after, leading to this exaggerated angry demand for the character to stay true to their source identity.

This meme is sourced from the RSS feed of Reddit's r/Meme subreddit, as specified in the provided additional information. It repurposes the popular 'stay in character' reaction meme format, which uses an edited scene from Marvel's Loki Season 2 featuring actor Jonathan Majors as the Kang variant He Who Remains. The original scene was edited to add glowing eye and lightning effects to exaggerate the character's angry reaction, and text was overlaid to apply the format to humor about Tomodachi Life gameplay, making it a derivative work of both the original Loki scene and the existing 'stay in character' meme template.