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"Watch Those Wrist Rockets" is a memorable quote uttered by clone trooper characters in the 2005 shooter video game Star Wars: Battlefront 2. In mid-October 2016, the phrase was popularized on the /r/me_irl subreddit as an in-joke in a series of image macros.

Origin

The phrase "Watch Those Wrist Rockets" is a phrase spoken by the Republic clone troopers in the game Star Wars: Battlefront II, originally released on October 31st, 2005, referring to rockets deployed from the Super Battle Droid units in the game. On March 22nd, 2016, an anonymous 4chan user submitted a picture of a clone trooper along with the caption "watch those wrist rockets" (shown below).^[3]

Spread

On July 29th, 2016, Redditor uglybrad14 submitted a post asking if other fans of the series missed hearing the line "every 2 seconds" in Battlefront 2 to the /r/starwarsbattlefront subreddit.^[2] On August 2nd, DeviantArtist^[7] CeboVision posted an Arthur's Fist photoshop with the caption "When some clone says / Watch out for those wrist rockets" (shown below, left). On August 29th, the Star Wars Battlefront II-core Facebook^[6] page published an image "what do you do?" image macro featuring an image of clone trooper who tells "your girl" to "watch those wrist rockets" (shown below, right).

On October 12th, Redditor AnUnexpectedOrgasm submitted an "If You See This Image While Scrolling" image macro referencing the "wrist rockets" line to /r/me_irl.^[5] That day, Redditor dannywatchout posted a photoshopped version of the Holding a Fart in Class picture with the caption "When you haven't told anyone to watch out for those wrist rockets in 6 minutes" to /r/me_irl^[4] (shown below, right). Within 24 hours, the posts gained over 3,400 votes (87% upvoted) and 2,100 votes (94% upvoted) respectively.

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