Spider-Man Pointing at Each Other Meme Has Origins Dating to the 1960s

In these days when any video clip, random image or even just a character becomes meme material, we even forget where they came from. This tradition, which causes laughter in our country, progresses very quickly, so until we look at the roots of one of them, we see that it disappears and is replaced by another.

But there are some memes that manage to stay on the agenda over the years. The Spider-Man meme pointing at each other is one of them. Most of us think there are 3 Spider-Mans in this famous meme, but this is a modification of the original. “What was the original like?” If you think so, let’s look at it together and expand our meme culture (?).

Many people think this is original:

But the origin of the meme in question comes from a 1967 cartoon.

The 19th episode of this production, named Spider-Man, is called ‘Double’. In this episode, a character named Charles Cameo appears who imitates others. While Spider-Man is still unaware of anything, he commits crimes in the city as Peter Parker and kidnaps the unique works in the exhibition by disguised as Salvadori Picasso.

Remember Peter Parker’s boss who hates Spider-Man? Yes, we’re talking about J. Jonah Jameson. Charles even imitates Jameson and receives a special statue of himself in his place. While Jameson is looking at the statue with the museum guard, he wants to hold it in his hand. Spider-Man arrives at the scene and catches Jameson, thinking he is an imitator, but when he realizes that the real imitator is a museum guard, he finds himself trapped.

When the museum guard takes the statue and runs away, Jameson thinks Spider-Man has a hand in this.

After this, he goes to the police and tells what happened and wants Spider-Man to be caught. For this purpose, he creates a scenario in which carpets with historical value will be moved to a different place. Waiting where the carpets will be loaded onto the vehicle, Jameson sees Spider-Man as he expected. However, Spider-Man arrives at the scene and tells the officer waiting at the door – Charles’ partner – to load the carpets into the vehicle.

Just as the police are about to make their move, another Spider-Man arrives at the scene and our iconic scene thus occurs.

The police asked “Which one will we catch?” Jameson answered the question; “I don’t care which one, catch them both!” He answers: Meanwhile, the Spider-Mans accuse each other of being fake.

A little “who is more Spider-Man?” After the match, Peter Parker catches Charles Cameo, hands him over to the police with his partner, and walks away from the scene. Following this episode and since the early 2010s, the Spider-Man meme has been growing bigger and bigger like a snowball, evolving into something that even includes the actual actors.

Nowadays, this meme is mostly used to sarcasm those who think they are different, even though they belong to the same group. Here are a few examples:

It seems impossible not to laugh while watching this episode, which is full of word games, rhyming statements and logical errors. What do you think about this episode?

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