An Urban Legend says that a player in a championship game was so desperate to win they played a card called 'Chaos Orb' with the ability to destroy other cards by being dropped onto the opponents field and destroying any card it touches.Wizards of the Coast first acknowledged this meme by giving the 6th edition of Storm Crow a custom rating of 6 out of 5 on its Gatherer website, then released Crow Storm as an Unstable card that does nothing but make copies of Storm Crow.

Storm Crow got singled out due to both its mediocre stats and the fact that in-universe they were supposed to be bad omens. Force was so powerful that people joked that every blue card in the set was powerful because you could exile it to pay for Force. note The joke behind Storm Crow is that it was released at the same time as the incredibly powerful Force of Will, which can counter any spell for the low cost of 1 life and exiling a blue card from your hand.

Storm Crow is famous for being treated as a Memetic Badass by the MTG community, despite it really being just a mediocre creature.

Unhinged had a card called 'Mise,' a reference to M:tG slang meaning 'to get a lucky draw.' There was also a 'real' card called 'Savage Beatings', at which point M:tG parody site Misetings accused WotC of trying too hard.

Throat Wolf was finally released in 2019 as a Mystery Booster playtest card (not legal in any official format), with all the abilities that Throat Wolf was believed to have.

And a cut card in Unglued was going to be called Butt Wolf.

There's a card in Homelands called Heart Wolf.

Throat Wolf is also mentioned in the novels.

In Visions the designers, inspired by Throat Wolf, included 'Talruum Champion' which has first strike that beats other creatures' first strike.

Back in the old days, when the Internet was still not widely used and card lists were rare, some people talked about an ultra-rare 'Throat Wolf' with, among other abilities, 'firstest strike'.

Morphling's fellow infamously-broken creatures, Masticore and Psychatog, got similar shout-outs: Deep Analysis shows a dissected Masticore with the flavor text 'the subject appears to be broken,' while a later version of Shock fulfills fan dreams everywhere by having a bolt of lightning zap the Psychatog.

When the card designers later decided to create an Enchant Creature that granted all of Morphling's abilities, they gave it the name 'Pemmin's Aura.' How is this an example? Pemmin's Aura is a Significant Anagram for 'I am Superman'. called Morphling, which was dubbed by fans as 'Superman'. Without that trick, it's still a reasonably powerful card, but nowhere near as broken as it once was. Admittedly, that requires a lot of mana, but this was in Standard with Tolarian Academy and Skirge Familiar, so getting 'a lot of mana' wasn't that hard.

Magic: The Gathering has an infamous Game-Breaker note At the time, combat damage used the stack, meaning that you could pay to morph him from 3/3 to 5/1, wait until damage would be dealt, and then pay to morph him in the other direction to survive the damage that the attacking creature would do.

Not to be confused for a work making a Forced Meme itself. note In the movie, it was a response to Sagat's confused reaction to finding out Guile faked his death unlike Sagat, Bison wasn't fooled.Ī Sister Trope of Ascended Fanon, Meme Acknowledgment, Continuity Nod, Mythology Gag (the latter two are references to things that were in the work).Ĭompare Watch It for the Meme, Appropriated Appellation, Pandering to the Base, Official Fan-Submitted Content. That's because this was not the context of the original line, but how it was repurposed by The Nostalgia Critic.

Proper example: Bison saying the line in the context of Take Over the World.

It could reference the Running Gag in The Nostalgia Critic, but Bison still actually said it in the 1994 film. Bison (Vega in Japan) saying 'Of course!' in any Street Fighter material. Can also be a result of Approval of God, where the creator would approve of fanworks and memes derived from the source material. Note that this is not one work referencing another work's memes, which would just be a Shout-Out.Ĭan be an in-joke for an Ascended Fanboy character, or a Promoted Fanboy who makes sure it'll be in the show. Sometimes a meme about a work, that wasn't in the work before, catches the eye of the people responsible for that work, and they decide to actually put it in the work.

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