Goku and Makima Meet Their Adversary

About

Goku and Makima Meet Their Adversary refers to a series of memes imagining Goku from Dragon Ball and Makima from Chainsaw Man being mid-fight and both noticing an even stronger opponent joining the fray. Loosely based on the Makima's "Bang" meme, the format achieved virality on X / Twitter in early June 2024.

Origin

On May 31st, 2024, X^[1] / Twitter user @AlphaRecdyt posted an artwork of the character Makima killing Dragon Ball character Goku in the same way she kills a certain character in the Chainsaw Man manga. The post, which was captioned with a line from Invincible, received over 4,300 reposts and 58,000 likes in one week (shown below, left).

On June 3rd, artist @KIN_MACHINA replied with a sequel comic in which Goku in his Super Saiyan form survives Makima's attack and overpowers her. The post (shown below, right) garnered over 7,400 reposts and 72,000 likes on X^[2] in three days.

On June 5th, 2024, artist @skottydrotty replied to the second comic with yet another sequel, in which an unknown third adversary approaches Goku and Makima from the hall, leaving the third panel empty for further use as a meme template. The post (shown below) garnered over 1,800 reposts and 36,000 likes on X^[3] in one day.

Spread

Starting on June 5th, 2024, users posted memes based on the format, adding various characters to the second and third panels. On that day, X^[4] user @skottydrotty, the author of the template, posted the earliest notable version of it, a SpongeBob SquarePants edit that received over 1,200 reposts and 23,000 likes in one day (shown below, left).

Later that day, X^[5] user @KiryuKazumaFeet then posted a Kazuma Kiryu edit that garnered over 3,000 reposts and 24,000 likes in one day (shown below, right).

More versions of the meme were posted on X / Twitter in the following hours, including video versions.

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