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Iron Man Pun Wrinkly Shirt Meme with RDJ Reply

This meme features a wordplay pun referencing Marvel's Iron Man character. The top text reads "His shirt is so wrinkly because he doesn't have an iron, man", which is a pun where the phrase "iron, man" sounds identical to the superhero name "Iron Man". Below the text are two identical side-by-side stills of actor Tom Holland, who plays Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wearing a heavily wrinkled light blue button-up shirt, looking upwards with a confused, shocked expression. Underneath the stills is a fabricated screenshot of a tweet from Robert Downey Jr, the actor who portrays Iron Man and is framed as a close mentor figure to Holland's Spider-Man in the MCU, that reads "Delete this.", implying RDJ is playfully annoyed by the corny pun referencing his character.
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His shirt is so wrinkly because he doesn't have an iron, man

Overview

This meme features a wordplay pun referencing Marvel's Iron Man character. The top text reads "His shirt is so wrinkly because he doesn't have an iron, man", which is a pun where the phrase "iron, man" sounds identical to the superhero name "Iron Man". Below the text are two identical side-by-side stills of actor Tom Holland, who plays Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, wearing a heavily wrinkled light blue button-up shirt, looking upwards with a confused, shocked expression. Underneath the stills is a fabricated screenshot of a tweet from Robert Downey Jr, the actor who portrays Iron Man and is framed as a close mentor figure to Holland's Spider-Man in the MCU, that reads "Delete this.", implying RDJ is playfully annoyed by the corny pun referencing his character.

Origin notes

This meme was shared to the r/Meme subreddit on Reddit, as confirmed by the provided source information. It is an edited fan-made meme that combines a real still of Tom Holland, an original pun, and a fake edited screenshot of Robert Downey Jr's official Twitter account to create a joke referencing the globally popular Marvel Cinematic Universe franchise.

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