What About Thor?

Editor's Note: This entry contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame; read at your own caution.

About

What About Thor? refers to a series of image macros that use a portion of dialogue from the trailer for the 2019 Marvel superhero film Spider-Man: Far From Home. In the format, people add a punchline to the dialogue, using the original text as the setup.

Origin

On May 6th, 2019, Sony Pictures released the trailer for the film Spider-Man: Far From Home. In the trailer, the characters Nick Fury and Maria Hill propose a mission to Spider-Man (portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders and Tom Holland, respectively). The dialogue reads:

Spider-Man: Thor?
Nick Fury: Off-world.
Spider-Man: Captain Marvel?
Maria Hill: Unavailable.

Following the release of the trailer, people began using the exchange as a setup for various jokes. One of the earliest examples was posted on the Facebook group Marvel Shieldposting^[6] shortly after the trailer's release, adding a line from the Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man film to the film's punchline. The post received more than 1,600 reactions, 50 comments and 100 shares in eight days (shown below).

Spread

That day, Redditor ^[1] misi0258 posted a meme of the scene on the /r/marvelmemes subreddit, adding Spider-Man asking "Daredevil?" and Nick Fury responding "Cancelled." The post received more than 10,000 points (97% upvoted) and 230 comments in eight days (shown below).

Over the next week, people continued to post variations of the meme. For example, Redditor^[3] ohyesdaddi posted a variation about the popular Vine "Shalissa."^[2] The post received more than 21,000 points (95% upvoted) and 100 comments in 24 hours (shown below, left). Redditor^[5] lma0o0o0 posted a variation using the Ah Shit. Here we go again meme. The post received more than 14,000 points (95% upvoted) and 145 comments in one week (shown below, center).

On May 9th, Redditor^[4] whyareyouflyingthere posted a variation from the Marvel Sheildposting^[5] Facebook group about Star Wars Prequel Meme The Senate. Within one week, the post received more than 18,000 points (93% upvoted) and 65 comments (shown below, right).

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