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Dark Souls, having gained considerable popularity through the sheer amount of mouth-to-mouth praise which cemented its status as a step-up from Demon's Souls (leaping from Sleeper Hit to Breakthrough Hit for FromSoftware), is also prone to spawning endless amounts of memes among gamers. Here is a list detailing them:

General

• Prepare to Die ^Explanation The game's Tag Line, which many consider quite accurate.
• YOU DIED ^Explanation The series' Game Over message, which lives on in infamy due to how frequently it gets drilled into players' heads. And some ◊ variations ◊ of the ◊ text ◊, as well ◊.
• "The Dark Souls of X." ^Explanation A meme that stems from gaming news outlets and critics comparing modern Nintendo Hard games like Cuphead and Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy to Dark Souls, particularly when their difficulty is the only thing they have in common. Gamers were quick to mock these kinds of comparisons, and began jokingly labelling other difficult games as "the Dark Souls of X" — for example, referring to Shin Megami Tensei IV as "the Dark Souls of Persona" or to Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion as "the Dark Souls of Splatoon".
  • This game is just like Dark Souls! ^Explanation Something said often from slowbeef and Diabetus when playing other games, usually even if the game being compared to predates Dark Souls.
  • "It's like Dark Souls"
• Calling the series "Stab Old Men to Sad Music" ◊ ^{Explanation (spoilers)} Fans are noticing a trend in Soulsborne games that pivotal bosses, including True Allant, Gwyn, Vendrick, Aldia, Gehrman, and Gael, are often old men who you Mercy Kill in fights set to piano music.
• Dark Souls logic ^Explanation A stock phrase that tends to show up whenever something in the game seems nonsensical, from the unbalanced weapon stats to incorrectly translated item flavour texts.
• The games feature a Hint System that lets players string together words and phrases from a predefined list to make short messages, which can then be left for other players to read. It naturally has a lot of memes in regards to which messages are left and where, which leak into other forms of online communication.
  • You can write stuff that normally wouldn't be appropriate, such as "Need head" and "Try holding with both hands". The tradition continues with the sequel, giving us such classics as "Beware of toxic, but hole." and "Praise the sun, and then Praise the sun!"
  • Amazing Chest Ahead. ^Explanation One of the more common messages found in front of Gwynevere's chamber, although it occasionally appears near blacksmith Andre and Quelaag.
    • And in Dark Souls II, "wheel ahead" for Gavlan, referencing his Catchphrase (see below).
  • Players in II often put "horse" at complete random, simply because of how baffling it is that the limited vocabulary would include a "horse" phrase in a game with exactly one horse in it (the DLC's have expanded this to two horses and one respawning horse-like enemy).
  • Don't give up, skeleton! ^Explanation A common message in the Iron Keep, since one of the giant smelting pots there houses a skeleton that appears to be trying to climb out of it.
    • This then extended to numerous "Skeleton" messages placed throughout Drangleic, as players either offer advice to or congratulate random skeletons that can be found lying on the ground, as though they are a fellow adventurer. Players on discussion boards will also often refer to each other as "skeleton" in reference to the meme.
  • There's also the ubiquitous "Try Jumping" message, found next to damn near every cliff and Bottomless Pit across all three games.
    • Just as ubiquitous is "Illusory Wall Ahead", found next to nearly every wall except the illusory ones. Since Dark Souls II secret walls are operated with the "interact" button rather than your sword, some enterprising players have even perfected the art of leaving an "illusory wall ahead" message in exactly the spot where, if it was an illusory wall, you'd need to stand to open it, so your attempts to verify it only get the message to pop up again.
  • There is a straight passage with no enemies or hidden areas in the Shaded Woods of the second game where, years ago, a player left a message that simply read "message". Since then, the entire area has devolved into dozens and dozens of messages warning you of messages, or warning you of warnings of messages.
    • This has been extended to apply to the winding, uneventful passage leading to the Huntsman's Copse, also in the second game.
• Never alone. ◊ ^Explanation A Dark Souls take on the "forever alone" meme, meant to convey the players' solitude, despite being able to see other players when resting at bonfires.
• Because the Estus Flask somewhat resembles a bottle of Sunny Delight and its animation is ambiguous due to model limitation (simply being raised to your face when used), it's popularly depicted in fanart as a bottle of Sunny D that one uses by pouring on their face.
• Let's stare at bricks for 20 minutes. ^Explanation Plague of Gripes, known for his Two Best Friends Play related animations, while doing a let's play, became legendary for spending copious amounts of time attempting to justify why certain assets were where they were. Used to refer to players that spend a lot of time piecing together the lore.
• Invaded the world of This Troper as a dark spirit. / Invaded by dark spirit That Troper. ^Explanation The text that accompanies invading or being invaded by another player (or certain NPCs), usually a Darkwraith. Used as an Interrupting Meme or when someone enters a group or conversation uninvited.
• Waifus ^Explanation A common fandom term for attractive women (originating in Azumanga Daioh, in fact) but particularly prevalent in Dark Souls as a label for characters like Anastacia, Priscilla, Quelaag, the Fair Lady, Gwynevere, the Emerald Herald, Ornifex, the Firekeeper, the Plain Doll, etc., etc.
• "The flow of time itself is convoluted..." ^Explanation This one statement, again from Solaire, is basically the series' (and the fanbase's) go-to excuse for any plot holes or inconsistencies in-between games. Humorously, it's also used as an excuse for laggy invasion encounters.
• "Join Covenant? (Abandons previous Covenant)" ^Explanation The message that appears when you're about to join a Covenant, often photoshopped over pictures of cute animals or someone/something odd that looks memetic.
• On April 10, 2019, astronomers released the first ever photo of a black hole ◊, which many quickly compared to the series signature Darksign.
• Git gud. ^Explanation This intentionally-misspelled bit of advice is used on people who are struggling with the games. Unhelpful as it may be at first glance, "git gud" is used to tell people that there's no easy way to beat a Souls game, and the best thing you can do is keep trying to power through it and learn from your mistakes on the way. This became so prevalent in the Souls fanbase that it eventually began bleeding into other video games as well.
• Dark Soles. ^Explanation Due to some female characters having bare feet that are particularly well-animated, particularly Priscilla and Sister Friede, people sometimes joke or ask if Miyazaki has a foot fetish.
• "Fashion Souls" ^Explanation Because whatever armor you equip directly affects your appearance, there is a trend wherein players prefer looks over functionality and stats. Armor looks badass even if it has lower defenses? No problem, cosplay is more important! In forums, phrases like "Your Fashion Souls is lacking." gets used as a joke against those who are worried about replacing a Disc-One Nuke armor when there are better-looking armors at the endgame.
• K***ht ^Explanation Both DSII and DSIII have an extremely long and overzealous list of words and letter strings that get censored in character names, which suffers badly from the Scunthorpe Problem. One of said censored words is "nig", which happens to be part of the word "knight". Since the idea of the word "knight" getting censored in a game about knights is inherently hilarious, some players will always write "knight" with the offending portion censored in order to mock said censorship.

Dark Souls

• Pretty much anything to do with Solaire and the Warriors of Sunlight really stands out:
  • Jolly Cooperation! ^Explanation The ability to team up with and help other players through the White Soapstone is called this by the NPC Solaire.
  • "If only I could be so grossly incandescent!" ^Explanation One of Solaire's more memorable quotes that cemented him as a Fountain of Memes.
  • Praise the Sun! ^Explanation One of the default messages when using the Orange Sign Soapstone for writing hints or tips on the floor, as well as the related gesture earned from joining Solaire's covenant.
    • "Y" ^Explanation A possible comment on Nico Nico Douga to mimic the "Praise the Sun!" gesture.
    • \[T]/ ^Explanation A smiley depicting Solaire himself Praising the Sun.
    • The pose is so recognizable that the Solaire amiibo is crafted in that pose for the Switch release.
• The tits are a lie. ^{Explanation (spoilers)} Upon finding out that Gwynevere is just another of Gwyndolin's illusions.
• "I'm gonna cleave that asshole apart" ^Explanation The Bonewheel Skeletons, infamous for their deadliness, speed, and most of all, the overwhelming surprise that comes with encountering them for the first time. Most jokes play as a patch introducing absurd situations involving them such as adding ten or so to a boss fight or placing them in extremely tight spaces (like this ◊, for example).
  • The Bone Zone ^Explanation Any area containing said Bonewheel Skeletons, such as the lower levels of the Painted World or the Catacombs Area before Pinwheel, will be refered as a "Bone Zone" for obvious reasons
• 387, from a video mocking a player doing PVP in the forest, which has no Soul Level restrictions. It's an absurdly high level to PVP with, since the community favors staying in the 100 to 125 range, if not lower.
• The Mushroom Parents have earned a special notoriety for their first appearance in the game usually ending with most players having their face punched out through the back of their head, but a notable gif of a player choosing to greet them with a "Well! What is it!" gesture ◊ (with predictable results) has become particularly famous.
• While not originating from Dark Souls, "Touch fluffy tail ◊" was readily borrowed from the Monster Girl Quest fandom in association with Priscilla. This then sprung forward to other instances of one's fascination with a Cute Monster Girl's tail in various media.
• Relatedly, Priscilla's line when you reach her — "This land is peaceful, its inhabitants kind" — is infamous for evoking a Flat "What" reaction from players, who had just fought through that "peaceful" land. Case in point.
• The number of nicknames for Smough and Ornstein has become a meme ◊, with fans trying to outdo each other in picking more creative and memorable name pairs for the duo.
• "The Legend Never Dies". ^Explanation Spawned from this video by OnlyAfro poking fun at the Zaphander / Chaoshander build mentioned in the Game-Breaker section, specifically called the Giantdad. It got its own fan song by Ken Ashcorp, and gets parodied in many fanarts, or simply photoshopped like the picture above. Needless to say, it's one giant Fountain of Memes. As of the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC, it's even (partially) an Ascended Meme.
  • "Wat r u, casul?" ^Explanation The video and the fandom around it is a little disparaging towards casual players.
  • "10 DEXTERITY- BUT DON'T TELL ANY1 U LEVELED THAT UP." ^Explanation One of the defining traits of the Giantdad build is that Strength and Dexterity are raised just high enough to use a Zweihander two-handed (the upgrade path used doesn't get any scaling), leaving as many levels as possible for Whoring Endurance and Vitality. The meme itself doubles as a Take That! to players who rely on Dexterity builds.
  • "Wt ring u got bithc?" crops up an awful lot as well. ^note In this case, two rings that increase your carrying capacity by a lot.
  • "POWER UP THE BASS CANNON... FIRE!" ^Explanation Yet another line from the same video by OnlyAfro, as the track used is Excision & Downlink - Existence VIP ... Pwnage ensues.
  • "Well? What is it?!" ^Explanation The customary gesture when starting a fight as a Giantdad, as per the video. Also used by non-Giantdads if you just want to Troll your opponents before fighting them.
    • This may have become an Ascended Meme in Bloodborne, where you can make the Plain Doll say the line by skipping her normal dialogue on the right syllables, "bearer seek seek lest"-style. ^note Her actual line is "Welcome home, good hunter. What is it you desire?"
  • "I GOT BACK UP AND PWNED HIM." ^Explanation Giantdad builds are supposed to be unstoppable since, well, the Legend Never Dies. OnlyAfro himself got parried and countered in the original video, so the quote is meant to reassure us that he won that fight, regardless.
  • "SHIVA THE EAST? MORE LIKE SHIVA THE DECEASED LOL" ^Explanation Near the end of the video, the giantdad goes up against a Shiva cosplayer... with predictable results (and added pun for insult).
  • For those that don't know, here's the basics ◊ for a Giantdad.
    • He now has his own page.
• THE WALL ^Explanation OnlyAfro goes around making people ragequit by wearing two shields at once so he would be practically immune to most attacks, all while shield-bashing opponents into a nearby Bottomless Pit. This has even extended to Pokemon, as a Mega Aggron with Substitute, Rest, Sleep Talk, and Dragon Tail is an excellent staller.
• NOPE. ^Explanation While not originating from Dark Souls, it still conveys player reactions as to horrifying enemies that make them want to turn back. Further elaboration in video form (first one and a half minutes).
• Tarkus is better at this game than you. ^note Tarkus is an NPC you can summon to help with one boss fight who is quite capable of beating the boss without the player doing anything. Fans jokingly speculate that the game would've been outright unbeatable had the developers decided to put Tarkus AS A BOSS.
• Can't stop the Rock. ◊ ^Explanation Havel the Rock, another Memetic Badass known for No Selling almost every possible attack in the game thanks to his ridiculously high poise and his ability to one shot most players.
  • Havel "The Rock" Johnson. ^Explanation Havel isn't the only person to have been nicknamed "The Rock".
• You were indicted. ^Explanation The message that appears when a player you invaded dies and uses the Indictment item to add a point to your sin; made popular by yet another OnlyAfro video
• When I'm Gravelord'n. ^Explanation A variant of the popular "When I'm -insert video clip-" meme, featuring the Giantdad and red phantoms!
• As a crossover meme with Quad City DJs remixes, there's this, with an overabundance of parodied dialogues in the comment section.
• "Neat" and "Nito" puns are on the rise. ^note Pretty Nito, huh?
• Ravelord Nito ◊ is a popular joke depiction of the Lord of Death, formed by just dropping the "G" from his title of Gravelord.
• I NEED GRAVITY. ^Explanation A declaration made when facing hackers who have infinite HP, because percentage-based Falling Damage or colliding with a kill-plane will still kill them. The immediate response of veteran players toward facing a hacker is to knock him into the nearest Bottomless Pit.
• "Kill the dogs first." ^Explanation Common advice to newcomers to the first game, always delivered without any context whatsoever. The advice refers to an early game boss fight, the Capra Demon, who is accompanied by two attack dogs. The Demon is That One Boss all on its own, and trying to fight it with the dogs still alive is near-suicidal. Made a brief return in Dark Souls 2, with an NPC phantom invasion that, thanks to where he spawns, ends up playing out very similarly to Capra Demon, including the additional enemies being dogs.
• "IT'S GOT WHAT IT TAKES, SO TELL ME WHYYYYYYYYYY CAN'T THIS BE LOOOOOOOOOOVE?" ^Explanation The song "Why Can't This Be Love?" by Van Halen is often associated with Gwynevere, thanks to this video by Plague of Gripes.
• "He stuck his crystal halberd in her gaping dragon." ^Explanation Before being Jossed in Dark Souls III, it was widely believed that Priscilla's parents were Seath, a dragon, and Gwynevere, a giant woman. Thus was birthed the widely-used innuendo.
• "The real Dark Souls starts here." ^Explanation The game contains many jumps in difficulty, and there are those who suggest that each such spike brings the game closer to a true Dark Souls experience. This includes the end of every New Game+ cycle
• "WONDERFUL. GREAT. THANK YOU. I NEEDED MORE FLYING, SIX-LEGGED, TOOTH-FILLED VAGINAS IN MY LIFE." ◊ ^Explanation The Gaping Dragon's introductory cutscene is one of the greatest Bait-and-Switch moments in the game.
• Sen's Funhouse. ^Explanation A nickname for Sen's Fortress, which is filled to the brim with deadly traps.
• "Why's he called Big Hat Logan?" ^Explanation The NPC Big Hat Logan is known as such because of his very big hat. Whenever discussions about the immensely complicated lore of the Souls games comes up, people tend to cite Big Hat Logan's name as an example
• Plin-Plin-Plon. ^{Explanation (spoilers)} These three piano notes are from the final fight with Gwyn.
• Male pain noises. ^Explanation Many players joke that the pained moans of the male Chosen Undead when they get hit sound like something out of a gay porno. This often goes hand-to-hand with the old "Yaranaika?" meme, with the face being photoshopped into the character's head or the sun symbol on Solaire's chest armor.

Dark Souls II

• "Gavlan wheel, Gavlan deal." ^Explanation Gavlan, a merchant from Dark Souls II, is most famous for his humorously blunt slogan.
  • With Gavlan, you wheel? You deal...
• BEARER SEEK SEEK LEST ^Explanation Most players end up skipping the Emerald Herald's long winded speech just to access her other dialogue options; that said, skipping doesn't prevent her from saying at least the first words of each sentence she says. The full speech goes like this: "Bearer of the curse, Seek souls. Larger, more powerful souls. Seek the king. That is the only way. Lest this land swallow you whole, as it has so many others."
• "Don't pull the lever!" ^Explanation Dark Souls II advice given to newcomers, again, no context ever given. It refers to a lever in a late-game area (Aldia's Keep) that, if pulled, releases Royal Sorcerer Navlaan — a very dangerous NPC who will repeatedly invade you for the rest of the game. Not pulling it opens up several sidequests and a merchant selling very useful things. To hammer it home, the lever in question is preceded by numerous messages all reading "Turn back!" in-game... most players take the Schmuck Bait and pull it just to see what will happen.
• Ballista whiff/Ballista betrayal ^Explanation The Pursuer is an early-game boss that's very difficult for the level most players are when they fight him. There are also several ballistae scattered around his arena that can be used to take off a huge chunk of his health if the player times it well. Since it's easier with a summon, it's common for players to bring along a buddy so someone can trigger a ballista while the other distracts the boss... only for the player who's not firing to suffer a One-Hit Kill as the ballista shot hits them instead of the boss.
• Shamefur Dispray/Dishonorable Display/Commit Sudoku ^Explanation Sir Alonne is a boss from the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC, and is a fairly faithful representation of a Japanese Samurai...including committing Seppuku if the player defeats him quickly without taking damage or healing. Given the popularity of the "Shamefur Dispray" meme and the wider memes relating to Engrish and excessive expectations of Japanese society, Sir Alonne's ritual suicide was quickly re-interpreted in with a more lighthearted tone.
• Fuck the Shrine of Amana ^Explanation At release, the Shrine of Amana was one of the most notoriously difficult areas across the three then-released 'Souls' games, with bottomless pits barely visible in the water, fast enemies that refused to be baited out of groups, and priestesses with incredibly accurate homing spells that took advantage of the massive sightlines the area offered to bombard you from impossible distances. A future patch nerfed the tracking on the spells of the priestesses, but the area is still infamously difficult to the point where it's often considered poor form to invade people there.
• Try torch ^Explanation In the Undead Crypt, the player finds an NPC surrounded by guards in a dark room who explicitly warns the player not to light a torch (and to extinguish any torches they currently have lit). Failing to follow these instructions results in a difficult fight against four enemies that also locks you out of a useful NPC vendor for that playthrough, unless you reset using a different NPC. It's common for players to leave messages advising players to ignore the NPC's explicit warnings in the hallway leading up to the character, and slightly less common to hear horror stories from new players who followed this advice.
• Wiping on the Smelter Demon ^Explanation The Smelter Demon is a notoriously difficult (and optional) boss hidden in the Iron Keep. Its bag of tricks include hybrid fire/physical damage (at a point in the game where most shields will adequately block physical damage, but not two damage types at once), a delayed explosion after an attack that would leave most bosses vulnerable, tricky timing on its sword swings and, starting in the second phase, a constant fire damage effect around it as long as you're in melee range of the boss. This combination of mechanics make the Smelter Demon one of the more difficult bosses in the game, especially if you fight it early. Its difficulty has gotten to the point where summoning for the boss usually leads to hilarious group deaths to any one of its many multi-hit combos or area attacks (as detailed here).
• Reindeer Funland/Reindeer Fuckland ^Explanation A nickname for the Frigid Outskirts, the least well-regarded of the criticized optional "challenge areas" introduced in the downloadable content, populated almost exclusively with electric frozen flying reindeer. The almost infinitely respawning waves of these aggressive caribou, combined with a blizzard that blocks all visibility with only a few seconds of reprieve every minute or so, has led to this area being considered one of the most outlandishly and unfairly difficult in the series. Even more than the Valley of Defilement, Blighttown, the Shrine of Amana or Irithyll Dungeon.
• FEEBLE CURSED ONE ^Explanation Straid of Olaphis, one of two vendors who sell you boss items, is notable for loudly denigrating the player every time they leave his shop without buying anything...and he does it anyway when they buy something. Even when he compliments you, he still insults you!

  Straid (giving his set to the player): "Cursed one, take these. Put them on, and please, stop being so weak. Heh heh…"

• Felicia the Fucking Strong/Felicia: 99 STR, 1 INT. ^Explanation In the Shrine of Amana (and, in Scholar of the First Sin, the Lost Bastille) is an NPC summon named Felicia the Brave, equipped with a heavy weapons and armor. She will frequently charge ahead of the player, aggroing more enemies than her summoner might have been prepared for, and she is at high risk of dying before reaching the bosses she's supposed to help with. Naturally, this led to the community interpreting her as a Leeroy Jenkins whose massive strength was only achieved by sacrificing her intelligence. The nicknames themselves are courtesy of Epic Name Bro.
• Everyone hates/loves Maldron the Assassin. ^Explanation In the Crown of the Old Iron King DLC is an NPC invader named Maldron the Assassin. They seem like a pretty standard invader at first, if one with high health, lots of strafing, and a penchant for throwing Corrosive Urns...except that when they get below half HP, they book it down the tower you fight them on, hiding behind buffed enemies and cursed fog that you have few ways of dealing with, giving them a chance to heal. If you die, they'll mock you with gestures. Essentially, Maldron is the developers making fun of the most despised tactics that human invaders can employ in PVP: equipment-destroying items, backstab fishing, running behind enemies (that normally ignore invaders) to buff or heal, and being rude with gestures in victory. Combined with Maldron's damage, poise, and health, and you have an NPC invader that will ruin most people's day. Maldron the Assassin is usually the standard against which all other silly NPC invaders in the series are held up to and compared against.
  • Taken Up to Eleven with the Crown of the Ivory King DLC, where Maldron returns, and is somehow even more devious. ^explanation Maldron will disguise themselves as a White Phantom using the White Ring and welcome the player with friendly gestures...and then try to backstab the player when they pull a lever near them, jeering with a "No Way" gesture if they succeed. If they fail, or if you catch on and attack them, they'll flee to hide behind the icy hedgehogs in the area or the white Covetous Demon in the cave below, to try to double-team you with the miniboss and taunt you with a "Decapitate" gesture if you die. And this is in addition to their usual tactics of backstab fishing, tossing Corrosive Urns, and generally being very strong.
• The tradition of officially retiring a character by committing suicide (most often sepuku with the bewitched Allone sword) right outside Things Betwixt, so the sheer number of bloodstains will scare new players. Others who choose to exploit the Rings of Life/Soul Protection will make sure their final bloodstain (since dying with the ring on doesn't move your bloodstain) is there, just to add to the pile. Other players chip in by leaving vague disheartening messages like "despair..." or "I can't take this..."
• "Pursuer actually pursues" ^Explanation One of the most noted changes from Scholar of the First Sin is the Pursuer's relentlessness, being faced three (four if he kills you in the Forest of Fallen Giants) times in the vanilla game with two optional fights, to twice that in SotFS.
• Nearly everything from "Happy Souls", an animated and affectionate parody of Dark Souls II's co-op experience. Some highlights and their origins in the game include:
  • "I'VE GOT BOSS WEAPONS!" ^Explanation Ornifex is one of only two characters who can turn boss souls into weapons (the other being Straid, who can also turn them into spells) and she announces her usefulness in the video with a megaphone, while she doesn't clarify her use in-game when she's rescued.
  • "Right down the road!" ^Explanation Ornifex's home is not, in fact, right down the road from where she's freed: she's past two bosses, the tail end of the Shaded Woods, and half of the Doors of Pharros and Brightstone Cove Tseldora. Plus her house is surrounded by spiders, hostile casters, and a giant sand pit.
  • "I DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME!" ^Explanation The Executioner's Chariot is a boss that, for most builds, requires a Corridor Cubbyhole Run until you get to the end of the track and can kill the rider, and in co-op it can be tricky to fit multiple players in the safe spaces. Failing to get to safety in time usually results in death.
  • "Why is everyone stabbing me in the back?" "Because it's easy. And it does lots of damage." ^Explanation There are invisible enemies in the Shaded Woods who can backstab you, and as always it's a favored tactic in PVP.

Dark Souls III

• Bonfires are the hardest enemy in the series. ^Explanation A rather annoying Game-Breaking Bug in the 1.00 version of Dark Souls III caused the game to outright crash when using a bonfire. The irony wasn't lost on the fans.
• Best Ass in the Boreal Valley ^Explanation The Dancer of the Boreal Valley boss has a very well-modeled and distracting ass, which has already become notorious/beloved. Thanks OnlyAfro.
• Catacombs Ledge Mimic is the real MVP! ^Explanation There's a mimic hanging out on a ledge in the same room as a fire demon mini-boss. The fire demon, with some regularity, accidentally aggros the mimic with his fire breath. The mimic is more than capable of killing the fire demon on its own, and even if it doesn't, it'll probably weaken the demon so much that the player won't have difficulty finishing the job.
• Skeleton Gank Squad ^Explanation A large group of skeletons present in the room with the above mentioned mimic and fire demon. The skeletons can also be tricked into fighting the demon, and will probably demolish it with sheer numbers.
• Christmas in Yharnam ^Explanation A common Fan Nickname for Irithyll of the Boreal Valley, due to it resembling the Cathedral Ward from Bloodborne except with snow.
• Knights give this game a thumbs up! ^Explanation The cover of the third game depicts a knight in armor, holding dust or ashes in a clenched fist, but their pose could be easily construed as giving a thumbs up.
• Darth Sulyvahn ^Explanation Pontiff Sulyvahn fights the player by dual-wielding swords, one imbued with fire and the other with magic. Many players took notice of how much they look like lightsabers, leading them to refer to Sulyvahn as a Sith Lord. Additionally, his magical clone has also been deemed to be his Stand, earning him comparisons to Dio Brando.
• While most often in-game Mound Makers players tend to play very similarly to normal invaders, their reputation as the "Mad" covenant leads to quite a ◊ few depictions ◊ of them being shown as nearly suicidal Stupid Evil.
• That no pickle-pee. That no pump-a-rum. ^Explanation The response of the crow from Dark Souls 3 if you bring something they don't want. Given that this crow's item list is confusing even by Souls standards, you will be hearing this a lot.
  • For some reason, the unseen crow is often drawn by fan artists as a Papi-like harpy. ◊
• Gives me conniptions. ^Explanation A very particular line uttered by Hawkwood the Deserter that caught on with fans.
• Kill Emma. ^Explanation Emma, High Priestess of Lothric Castle, is an NPC you meet early on who primarily exists to prevent you from entering Lothric Castle too early. You can bypass her by simply killing her, but doing so forces you to fight the Dancer of the Boreal Valley far earlier. In the grand tradition of Dark Souls, the majority of messages left in her area tell new players to kill her.
• "Working as intended." ^Explanation These were the exact words used by From Software to describe Dark Souls 3's poise system, which has been widely considered the absolute worst in the series (it was initially thought that it was outright turned off, but testing eventually proved that it had an effect on hyperarmor that rarely mattered). This phrase is used mockingly about From Software just about any time a Game-Breaking Bug or incredibly poor balance choice is found.
• "Ignorant slaves, how quickly you forget!" ^Explanation Oceiros the Consumed King stands out as one of the only bosses to talk while you fight him, and his insane ramblings during your fight have made him a Fountain of Memes. This particular quote is said when he kills the host, and has a similar put-down feel as Straid's "Feeble cursed one!"
• An ascended meme of sorts: Priscilla from the first game is fairly popular enough for players to wish she had her own covenant, which is reflected in the Priscilla-tan doujinshi. Come the third game, and Yorshka's Darkmoon Blades is the closest we'll ever get to an actual Priscilla-tan covenant.
• Provide thee succ ^Explanation The full quote is "If I can provide thee succour, only tell me how", but the unfortunate coincidence with the already existing Succ meme was not overlooked by fans.
• Ashes of Ariandel brought on a couple memes:
  • "MY FLAIL... BRING ME MY FLAIL." ^{Explanation (massive spoilers)} A line uttered by Father Ariandel before the fight with Sister Friede.
  • No pants. ^Explanation Mocking the Champion's Gravetender's lack of any leg garments, among other things.
• The Ringed City proved to be quite memetic.
  • "Fear not the dark, my friend. And let the feast begin". ^Explanation The Catchphrase uttered by the locust preachers in the titular location caught on due to being particularly memorable and unsettling.
    • "I SHALL PARTAKE!" ^Explanation The also unsettling line the locust preachers shout when using their grab.
  • "Hand it over. That thing, your dark soul." ^{Explanation (massive spoilers)} Upon finding the frenzied Slave Knight Gael at the literal end of the world in the final area of the DLC, he says this particularly memorable quote.
    • This line in particular has also been the subject of many, many, snowclones, usually photoshopping (or scribbling in MS Paint) Gael's red hood and white beard over the subject of the photo.
  • THE WALL. AND NOBODY CAN MAKE IT FALL. ^Explanation While this meme already existed, it gained a lot of steam regarding the Giant's Doors, a pair of greatshields that can be used in conjunction.
  • ...And then the host lead me to fight Midir. ^Explanation A lot of players have trouble fighting Darkeater Midir, leading them to summon other players to try to help. Sometimes they will go looking for summon signs quite far away from Midir's fight and lead the summon back there, frustrating co-op players who are very tired of fighting Midir over and over. People began joking about being lead to fight Midir from other areas or even entirely separate games.
• Slav Knight Gael ^Explanation Depicting Gael as a Russian gopnik, complete with a Slav squat and Adidas tracksuit.
• "Time for crab." ^Explanation A possible message in Dark Souls 3 thanks to the Great Crab enemies. Became popular even outside of Dark Souls when applied to anything crab-related.
• Plin Plin Plon ^{Explanation (spoilers)} This represents the three notes that begin Gwyn's theme, which occur when the Soul of Cinder attains its final form and begins using Gwyn's tactics. Some have said that the nostalgia and tragedy brought on by the abrupt incursion of these three simple notes has driven them to tears.
• Vordt of the Boreal Valley ^Explanation Vordt's dramatic boss theme has become iconic 'boss music', even outside of the Dark Souls fandom itself, often used to convey a sense of horror in memes. One standout video of the meme is this video of chess wunderkind Misha Osipov facing off against Anatoly Karpov, with Karpov in particular being labeled like a Dark Souls boss, having a healthbar with name appear as Vordt's theme starts playing. The video went viral in March of 2021, accruing almost 10 million views in just 2 months. Many Dark Souls fans have started to jokingly say that Karpov usurped Vordt, as pretty much everyone outside of the fandom will probably know it as "the Anatoly Karpov meme music" for a long period of time to come.

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