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This is a two-panel comparison meme joking about a common film trope. The left panel is labeled 'Movie villains rest of the time', featuring a shot of Daemon Targaryen from the HBO series House of the Dragon riding a large, menacing, highly detailed dragon, portraying movie villains as overwhelmingly powerful and unbeatable for most of the runtime. The right panel is labeled 'In the last 10 mins', showing the simple pixelated Google Chrome offline T-Rex dinosaur game character, with the word 'sarcasm' next to it, mocking how the same powerful villains suddenly become incompetent or easy to defeat in the final 10 minutes of a movie.

Movie Villains Go From Intimidating To Weak In The Final 10 Minutes

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This is a screenshot of a public Twitter (X) thread. The top tweet asks users to name a song that is painfully relatable to them. The first reply, from user Kinsey Sords, states she relates to Ariana Grande's 'Thinking Bout You' because she grieves her late father and misses him deeply. A follow-up reply from user Darius Cortez bluntly corrects her, noting that the song 'Thinking Bout You' is actually about masturbation, creating a sharp, humorous tonal contrast between the first reply's vulnerable sentiment and the unexpected, awkward reveal of the song's actual subject matter.

Person accidentally assigns a grief-related meaning to an Ariana Grande song about masturbation

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This meme combines two separate assets to make a joke referencing the John Wick film franchise. On the left is a widely circulated photo of actor Keanu Reeves (who plays the titular character John Wick, a hitman infamous for going on a murderous rampage to avenge the killing of his late wife's dog) standing outdoors in a black suit giving a thumbs up. A speech bubble added next to him reads "My kind of lady". To the right of Keanu is a news graphic: a mugshot of a young woman in an orange prison jumpsuit, paired with a headline that states "Woman sentenced to 15 years in prison after running over the man that killed her dog". The humor derives from aligning the woman's act of violent revenge for her dog's death with John Wick's core character motivation, framing Keanu/John Wick as approving of her choice despite the legal consequences.

Seal of Approval: John Wick Approves Woman Who Avenged Her Dog

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This is a 4-row, 2-column comparison meme designed for comedic effect that pairs four widely recognized superheroes with their respective weaknesses. The first row shows DC's Superman next to his canonical weakness, green kryptonite crystals. The second row features Marvel's android hero Vision next to a reCAPTCHA 'I'm not a robot' checkbox, a humorous joke referencing that as an artificial being, Vision would be unable to pass the human verification check. The third row shows Marvel's Iron Man next to a horseshoe magnet attracting paper clips, a funny logically derived weakness playing on the fact that Iron Man's suit is made primarily of metal, which would be affected by strong magnetism. The fourth row features DC's Batman next to a bank account screen displaying a current balance of $0.00, a joke referencing that Batman's core 'superpower' is his immense personal wealth, so having no money would completely strip him of his ability to operate as a superhero.

Superhero Weakness

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This meme is a side-by-side visual comparison set on a dark, star-filled outer space background. The left image shows Mimas, a natural moon of Saturn, which features a large, distinct crater that makes its appearance highly recognizable. The right image depicts the Death Star, the famous fictional planet-destroying space station from the Star Wars media franchise. Explanatory text below the two images notes that the striking visual similarity between Mimas and the Death Star is entirely coincidental: the first Star Wars film was released in 1977, while the first clear photograph of Mimas was not taken until 1980, 3 years after the Death Star design was already established. A 'Rated Red' watermark is placed between the comparison images and the lower text block.

Saturn's Moon Mimas Looks Identical To The Star Wars Death Star By Coincidence

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This is a single-panel reaction meme that uses a screenshot of the anime character Mio Naganohara from *Nichijou* giving a thumbs up with a subtle self-satisfied expression. The text overlaid at the top jokes that Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson is happy to watch critics give harsh negative reviews to the biographical film made about his son. The joke relies on the widely publicized context that Joe Jackson had an abusive, deeply strained relationship with Michael Jackson throughout his life, implying he would take pleasure in seeing media related to his son be poorly received.

Michael Jackson's Father Approves of Critics Panning His Son's Biopic Meme

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This is a reaction meme using a panel from the manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 8: JoJolion. The top of the meme has text that reads 'Me starting to watch Euphoria'. The first character, dressed in a sailor uniform, holds an open book and asks 'AM I WATCHING?' in a speech bubble. The second character leans over to look at the book and replies 'WHAT THE FUCK' in another speech bubble. The meme jokes about the common experience of new viewers of the HBO drama series Euphoria being immediately shocked, confused, and disoriented by the show's explicit, chaotic, and often unexpected plot and content when they first begin watching it.

Confused JoJo characters reacting to starting to watch Euphoria

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This is an edited comedic meme using the official 2008 cover art for Katy Perry's debut album *One of the Boys*, which originally promoted her hit lead single 'I Kissed a Girl' famous for the lyric 'I kissed a girl and I liked it'. The meme edits this lyric to read 'I kissed a girl and I fucking hated it', subverting the original song's premise for humor. Katy Perry is shown posed lounging on a sunbed in a kitschy retro garden with a white picket fence, pink lawn flamingos, and flowers behind her, wearing a large blue wide-brimmed hat, red polka dot crop top, and high-waisted denim shorts. The post title 'i hope her ex don't mind it' frames the joke as a reference to a woman who experimented with same-sex romance and realized she is not attracted to women, referring to her former female partner as the 'ex' in question.

i hope her ex don’t mind it

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This meme uses a classic scene from the animated series The Simpsons, where Lisa Simpson stands on a stage in front of a projection screen delivering a presentation to an unseen audience. The text displayed on the projection screen reads "The multiverse is just a fancy way of saying: Different writers did their own thing". The joke satirizes the frequent use of the multiverse trope in mainstream American superhero comics, framing the high-concept sci-fi idea as a convenient excuse to handwave away inconsistencies in canon and storytelling that arise when different writers take over the same franchise properties over time.

American Comics Multiverse Explanation Joke

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This is a nostalgic meme comparing the typical first celebrity crushes of girls and boys who grew up in the 1990s. The top section is titled '90'S GIRLS FIRST CRUSH' and displays a 3x3 grid of popular 90s male teen heartthrobs from television and pop culture, showing the variety of different crushes 90s girls had. The bottom section is titled '90'S GUYS FIRST CRUSH' and features just one large image of actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, who was an extremely widely popular celebrity crush for teen boys in the 1990s. The joke plays on the common observation that nearly all 90s guys shared this same first crush.

90's Girls vs Guys First Crush

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This is a 2x2 grid crossover meme that builds a pattern of dragon-related roles across different popular media franchises, ending with an implied dirty pun punchline. The top-left panel features Daenerys Targaryen from *Game of Thrones* standing next to her dragon with the text "I am the mother of dragons". The top-right panel shows the main cast of *How to Train Your Dragon* with Toothless the dragon, captioned "We train dragons". The bottom-left panel shows a live-action dragon hunter captioned "I hunt dragons". The bottom-right panel is a close-up of Donkey from the *Shrek* franchise with an ellipsis; the unstated punchline is that Donkey is in a romantic/sexual relationship with Dragon, the female dragon from Shrek, so the implied joke is that he "fucks dragons", which is the punchline.

He's Done It Dragon Donkey Meme

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This is a reaction comparison meme that jokes about how the creator's reaction to seeing young Mary Jane Watson (from 2002's *Spider-Man*) changed between when the creator was a child and now. The top half of the meme shows the young child version of MJ from the Spider-Man flashback scene, captioned "As a child:". The bottom half splits into two reaction panels: left, a smiling closed-eye Ryan Gosling representing the creator's casual reaction when they were a child, right, an intense, stern Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman from *American Psycho*, representing the creator's current intense attracted reaction as an adult.

Me when I see her in Spiderman..

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