Yoda In Shackles "Welcome To Your New Home, Freak"

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Yoda In Shackles "Welcome To Your New Home, Freak" refers to a frame from a Marvel Star Wars comic book that depicts the character Yoda imprisoned and someone outside the frame telling him "Welcome to your new home, freak."

Origin

On January 25th, 2017, Marvel comics released the 27th issue of Star Wars, written by Jason Aaron and illustrated by Salvador Larroca (cover below, left).^[1] In the comic, mysterious captors imprison Yoda. Outside of the frame, someone tells Yoda, "Welcome to your new home, freak" (shown below, right).

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On August 12th, 2018, Tumblr ^[2] user dreadshredder posted the frame of Yoda in shackles. The post received more than 6,000 notes in less than three years (shown below).

Two years later, on May 2nd, 2020, Tumblr^[3] user moonlandingwasfaked posted the image with the caption "This is still so funny." Meme Tumblr^[4] some-tasty-memeage shared the post with several comments about the image. The post received more than 51,000 notes in less than one year (shown below, left).

Later that year, on July 23rd, Twitter ^[5] user @Embotronic shared the image with the caption "this is why Disney bought star wars. The post received more than 1,900 likes and 200 retweets in less than one year (shown below, center).

As the image grew in popularity, some began using the phrase to caption other images of Yoda and other imprisoned characters. For example, on December 18th, Twitter^[6] user @_girltype shared an image of Baby Yoda in shackles with the caption (shown below, right).