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Your Planet Is Now Marked For Death, continued with Can We Ask Why?, is an exploitable image macro format depicting actors Pedro Pascal as Mister Fantastic and Vanessa Kirby as Invisible Woman (Sue Storm) being confronted by Julia Garner as Silver Surfer in the 2025 The Fantastic Four First Steps movie. The meme is typically used as a three-panel format in which Silver Surfer tells Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman that Earth has been marked for death, followed by the pair asking why, with Silver Surfer then giving them a reason, typically edited into the final frame. The meme emerged in April 2025 following the release of the Marvel film's trailer, spreading online over the following months.

Origin

The scene used in the meme format originally appeared in The Fantastic Four: First Steps official trailer from April 17th, 2025, during which Silver Surfer appears at one point asking members of the Fantastic 4 if they're the "protectors of this world?" Invisible Woman then replies, "Yes, we are," with Silver Surfer telling them, "Your planet is now marked for death."

The first Your Planet Is Now Marked For Death meme was then posted to Reddit's /r/marvelmemes^[1] subreddit the following day on April 18th, receiving over 43,000 upvotes and 810 comments in four months.

The meme notably edits the scene to show Silver Surfer's "your planet is now marked for death" line first, followed by Mister Fantastic and Invisible Woman's clip being recaptioned as "Can we ask why?" with the former scene then being repurposed to provide an answer to the question.

Spread

The meme continued to spread over the following days and months, appearing in additional variations on Reddit, Instagram, Facebok and other social media platforms throughout 2025.

For instance, on April 18th, 2025, Facebook^[2] user Art Mbappe posted a variant of the meme depicting U.S. President Donald Trump and altered captions to the group Freshly Baked Marvel Memes from IronHeart's Homework Folder, receiving over 150 likes and 40 comments in four months.

On April 19th, Facebook^[3] user Elias McCarter posted another version to the Freshly Baked Marvel Memes from IronHeart's Homework Folder group depicting controversial actor Steven Seagal in the last frame, garnering just over 10 likes in a similar timeframe.

Also on April 19th, 2025, Facebook^[4] user Ryan Chappell uploaded an example of the meme to the group Marvel: Multiverse of Shitposting, which notably referenced the I Forgor meme, receiving over 220 likes in four months.

In mid-April 2025, Imgflip^[6] user Sype then uploaded a template for the meme to the site, garnering over 130 views in four months.

On July 16th, Redditor Swag5uke reposted the original meme from the /r/marvelmemes subreddit months prior to the /r/memes^[5] sub, receiving over 8,700 upvotes and 120 comments in 22 days.

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