Your Tactics Confuse and Frighten Me, Sir

About

"Your Tactics Confuse and Frighten Me, Sir" is a memorable quote uttered by the Clone Commando in the Star Wars video game Star Wars: Republic Commando. Online, people use the image a reaction image macro to people's actions the memer finds questionable.

Origin

On February 28th, 2005, LucasArts Entertainment released the video game Star Wars: Republic Commando.^[1]

On September 25th, 2007, GameFAQs^[2] forum user Wyvern1 mentioned the line in the thread, "Star Wars: Republic CommandoBest quotes of the game." They wrote, "Mine is either 'Are you trying to baffle the enemy into submition…?' or 'Your tactics confuse and frighten me, sir.' if you tell Scorch to plant a det somewhere and then immediately cancel the order.

Spread

In 2019, a screenshot of Scorch with the chyron that features the line began spreading on Reddit. On June 19th, 2019, Redditor apnoeic posted the earliest available version of the meme in the /r/prequelsmeme.^[3] They posted the meme in response to the caption, "When someone pretends they haven't heard of Star Wars: Republic Commando" (shown below, left).

On November 16th, 2021, Redditor^[4] CaptianBrasiliano posted the meme in response to a Craig's List ad for "Be naked at my sister's wedding." The post received more than 51,000 points (91% upvoted) and 415 comments in less than six months (shown below, center). Days later, Redditor zotronic posted a variation in the /r/PrequelMemes^[5] subreddit that received more than 11,000 points (99% upvoted) in less than six months (shown below, right).

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