Game Of Thrones Meets Star Wars Memes List



Internet memes are rewarded with popularity for their repetition of recognizable ideas. In an interview in the book Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling, Will Brooker, a writer of multiple books on Star Wars, reflects on the disappointing quality of the prequels, and suggests that prequel memes offer, and encourage, an ‘affectionate, ironic look back at those flawed movies'.

The stormtroopers alone could've dominated this list with their incomprehensibly shoddy aim or the similarly incompetent battle droids that somehow kept showing up after Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. So, thanks Mark Hamill, because you make the funniest Star Wars memes even better.

After 40 years, eight movies, and countless novelizations, television shows, and action figures, Star Wars is a part of the cultural zeitgeist in a way that few things are. We watch Star Wars for good versus evil, cool character designs, and galactic drama. Online, Star Wars the phrase is frequently used in conjunction with screenshots from the film to express feigned surprise, or used as the subject line for Star Wars-related posts.

Some of the more delightful parts can be found in Revenge of the Sith, when Ian McDiarmid is hamming it up as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine moonlighting as the evil, scheming wizard Darth Sidious. So it was inevitable that ‘Hotline Bling' meme would get sucked in by the Death Star's tractor beam and the internet gave the people what they wanted with this brief but brilliant vine of Drake dancing with lightsabers.

It looks like it's not the best day to catch a flight to Alderaan This cool display at Heathrow Airport also teases the release date of Solo: A Star Wars Story on May 25 , which follows a young Han Solo as he meets Chewbacca for the first time and goes up against gambler Lando Calrissian.

Some people would say the possibility of George Lucas never deciding to make the movies or something like that. His quotes have also been particularly popular, from the rambling, off-topic anecdote about the ‘ Tragedy of Darth Plagueis the Wise ' and similarly inoffensive memes speculating about his real name , to more problematic fare.

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