Anna Daniels
An image as simple yet intrinsically comical as this one begs to be riffed upon. And that’s just what the people of Twitter have done: put their own twist on the frame of Spidey running from Green Goblin and his big, green booty.
One user wrote “embarrassing thing I did 7 years ago” over Green Goblin and “me trying to sleep” over Spider-Man, highlighting the fact that anxiety over our past actions is something we can never outrun. Another Twitter user revealed his nighttime snacking habits by assigning Green Goblin as “me at 3AM” and Spidey as “the shredded cheese in the fridge.”
Other variations of the Green Goblin booty meme have angled the villain as a pet owner chasing after its dog when it has something in its mouth, and “the .1% of germs” on their way to attack “me after washing my hands,” which is quite a topical take amid the outbreak of COVID-19, a.k.a. “the coronavirus.”
However, perhaps the most appropriate spin on this meme is one that hasn’t yet been done: one that imagines Green Goblin as literally any other joke besides the butt meme and Spider-Man as the internet, fleeing from it and toward the land of emerald-booty-centric tomfoolery. As recent history has proven, such is the way of the internet: when it finds something it likes, even the plump verdant rump of a comic book baddie, it won’t deign think of anything else. In Green Goblin’s butt we must trust.
Written by: Looper
