This One's Different

Lucy meme by deridar on Tumblr

This is a 4-panel fan art meme featuring Lucy Wilde from the Despicable Me animated franchise. In the first panel, Lucy cheerfully points at a sign that reads 'Get a job in the AVL' (Anti-Villain League, the fictional law enforcement agency from the films). In the second panel, she smirks while gesturing to a sign that says 'Take ex-villain as a partner', referencing her canon work partner Gru, a former supervillain. The third and fourth panels both have signs that read 'Marry him', with Lucy's expression shifting from a soft smile to a sly, knowing look, revealing that the entire point of getting the AVL job and taking the ex-villain partner was to eventually marry him, playing on the canonical progression of her relationship with Gru. The image is a screenshot of a Reddit meme post, showing 2.9k upvotes, 12 comments, a Save button, and bottom text attributing the meme to Tumblr user deridar.

The original meme was created and posted by Tumblr user deridar, as noted in the text at the bottom of the image. It was later reposted to Reddit's meme communities, with the original post title provided as 'This one’s different'. The meme relies on audience familiarity with the Despicable Me franchise to land the joke about Lucy's relationship with Gru, and uses the common 4-panel 'character presenting successive signs' meme format to deliver the punchline.