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Thanos 'A Soul For A Soul' TV Remote Battery For Xbox Controller Meme

This two-panel edited meme repurposes the iconic 'soul for a soul' scene from Marvel's *Avengers: Infinity War*, where Thanos extracts the Mind Stone from Vision to complete his Infinity Gauntlet. In the edited first panel, Vision's forehead is replaced with a Samsung TV remote, and the Mind Stone is swapped for a Duracell battery that Thanos is pulling out. The second panel edits the scene further: instead of placing the stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos inserts the stolen battery into an Xbox controller. The humor comes from the extremely relatable common household experience of taking batteries out of the TV remote to power a video game controller, framing the petty, common act as the grand, high-stakes trade Thanos performs in the original film.
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This two-panel edited meme repurposes the iconic 'soul for a soul' scene from Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War, where Thanos extracts the Mind Stone from Vision to complete his Infinity Gauntlet. In the edited first panel, Vision's forehead is replaced with a Samsung TV remote, and the Mind Stone is swapped for a Duracell battery that Thanos is pulling out. The second panel edits the scene further: instead of placing the stone into his Infinity Gauntlet, Thanos inserts the stolen battery into an Xbox controller. The humor comes from the extremely relatable common household experience of taking batteries out of the TV remote to power a video game controller, framing the petty, common act as the grand, high-stakes trade Thanos performs in the original film.

Origin notes

This is a remixed meme edited from a scene in the 2018 Marvel film Avengers: Infinity War. It was shared on the Reddit r/Meme subreddit per the provided source information, using digital photo editing software to overlay household electronics onto the original film frames to create the relatable joke.

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