# 300 300 is a meme built around Zack Snyder's 2006 film adaptation of Frank Miller's comic, where the shouted line 'This is Sparta!' and the well-kick scene became endlessly remixed on YouTube. The franchise stayed a reliable source of reaction clips and parody videos throughout the late 2000s and 2010s. ## Overview 300 is a media franchise that turned into meme material through Zack Snyder's 2006 film, which made lines like 'This is Sparta!' and 'Tonight we dine in hell!' shorthand for over-the-top masculine bravado online[1]. The story is a heavily stylized retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC, where King Leonidas and 300 Spartans face down the Persian army under Xerxes[3]. The film's bronze color grading, slow-motion combat, and Gerard Butler's shouted delivery gave YouTube editors a deep library of quotable clips to remix[3]. The scene where Leonidas kicks a Persian messenger into a bottomless pit became one of the most parodied movie moments of the late 2000s. ## How It Spread Through 2007 and 2008, YouTube filled with 'This is Sparta!' edits that dubbed the kick over sitcom clips, cartoons, news bloopers, and political footage[3]. On July 14, 2011, the How It Should Have Ended channel posted 'How 300 Should Have Ended,' which pulled more than 16.5 million views within three years[2]. CinemaSins uploaded 'Everything Wrong With 300 In 10 Minutes Or Less' on March 4, 2014, and it collected over 5.6 million views in its first year[4]. Fan art kept piling up on DeviantArt, where a keyword search for '300' returned more than 239,000 results by mid-2015[5]. Warner Bros. released the sequel 300: Rise of an Empire in March 2014, directed by Noam Murro and starring Sullivan Stapleton as Themistokles, which fed meme accounts fresh footage but never matched the original film's remix volume[3]. ## How to Use Editors typically drop the 'This is Sparta!' kick clip into unrelated scenes and replace the Persian messenger with any character being rejected or roasted. Reaction posts often pair a screenshot of Leonidas mid-shout with a 'This is madness' setup answered by 'This is Sparta!' as a template for absurd overreactions[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is 300? 300 is a 2006 Zack Snyder film based on Frank Miller's 1998 Dark Horse comic, and its 'This is Sparta!' kick scene became one of the most remixed movie moments on YouTube[3]. ### Where did 300 come from? Frank Miller's five-issue comic ran in 1998, and the film adaptation released in March 2006 turned Gerard Butler's shouted lines into meme fuel[1]. ### What does 300 mean? In meme use, '300' or 'This is Sparta!' signals theatrical, over-the-top rejection, often paired with the Leonidas kick clip for absurd effect[1]. ### How do you use 300? Common uses splice the well-kick footage into unrelated scenes or caption a Leonidas screenshot with 'This is madness / This is Sparta!' as a call and response[1]. ### Is 300 still popular? 300 sits as a classic 2000s film meme, with parody videos like 'How 300 Should Have Ended' passing 16.5 million views and fan art topping 239,000 posts on DeviantArt by 2015[2][5]. ## References 1. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=300]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIbxk7idYA]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/300]() 4. [https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=everything+wrong+with+300+cinemasins]() 5. [https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=300]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/300 Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library