Captain America, both in the comics and in the Marvel movies, has us used to bombastic speeches and epic phrases, the kind that remain for posterity.
Just the opposite of this meme that, quite possibly, has reached your WhatsApp these days:
In this image, which has dozens of versions in Spanish –and English– Captain America tells Jasper Sitwell [an undercover agent of the Hydra group in Marvel movies] a bad, lousy joke.
So much so that he gets hit.
The images of this joke are taken from two films of the Marvel Universe:
Winter Soldier,
when some Hydra soldiers attack Captain America in an elevator and
Avengers: Endgame,
when
Cap
travels to the past and, to avoid that fight in the elevator , pretends to be a Hydra agent.
The first three images of the meme belong to
Endgame
, and the last to
Winter Soldier
.
As explained by the page specialized in memes
Know Your Meme
,
the first to use this template that has been used in hundreds of jokes was the user @ daily.dcmarvel.post on Instagram, in June 2019. However, it was this summer when It has become popular in Spanish and through WhatsApp: first, in Latin America, where hundreds of versions appeared in June - some even on video - and, since the end of August, in Spain.
The "father jokes": a bad joke never dies
If these jokes have caused you both laughter and rejection, you should know that you are not alone: it is the power of bad jokes.
In the Anglo-Saxon world, this type of joke that we have heard dozens of times and we still find it funny - and somewhat embarrassing - are known as "
dad jokes
" ("fathers jokes").
The “
dad jokes
”, which years ago were reserved for family after-meals or car trips, have a second life on the internet: on Twitter, the hashtag #dadjokes brings together thousands of them and on Reddit the sub-forum dedicated exclusively to these jokes tells with more than 3 million users.
In Spain, the equivalent of “
dad jokes
” is what we know simply as “bad jokes”.
There are dozens of compilations with the best - that is, the worst - circulating on the net, on Twitter they reappear from time to time and everyone has a few stored in their head.
For the
Verne
Jarl
special
: history of humor in Spain, we even went out to ask people for their favorites:
The
dad jokes
or bad jokes, according to a report dedicated to this type of joke published in the American cultural magazine
The Atlantic
, explained that within this category of humor different types of jokes are included: misunderstandings, anti-humor (jokes that instead to have a comic punchline end with a truism) and, above all, puns.
Of all of them you can find examples among the Captain America memes: below, you have more than a dozen to send to your friends and family.
If you want to create your own, at the end of this compilation you have a blank template to write your favorite bad joke on it.
If you can't think of any, here are 49 candidates.
The blank template, so you can make your own memes:
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