Adam Smasher

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Adam Smasher is the chrome-plated final boss of Cyberpunk 2077 and a recurring villain across the wider Cyberpunk franchise who became a meme staple after the game's 2020 launch. His terrifying portrayal in the 2022 Netflix anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners kicked off a fresh wave of jokes about the gap between his fearsome reputation and the very easy game boss fight.

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Overview

Adam Smasher is a chrome-plated 'solo' (freelance killer) from the Cyberpunk universe who works as head of security for Yorinobu Arasaka in the 2020 role-playing video game Cyberpunk 20773. His full cyberware conversion, hulking silhouette and cruel one-liners made him a standout villain in the game, with meme output spiking again in September 2022 after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners aired on Netflix1.

The character is known for lines like 'You look like a cut of fuckable meat. Are you?' which Villain Crew uploaded to YouTube on December 14, 20205. Urban Dictionary entries lean into his hyper-augmented body and cast him as the 'chrome boogeyman' of the Cyberpunk world, a status fans reference in jokes and edits8. The meme output blends dread from the anime with mockery of how weak he feels as a video game boss.

How It Spread

On July 6, 2022, Redditor KamilCesaro posted a meme joking about how easy Smasher is to beat in the actual Cyberpunk 2077 boss fight, which racked up more than 4,700 upvotes in two months4. The bigger wave hit that September when Cyberpunk: Edgerunners aired on Netflix and repositioned Smasher as the show's brutal final antagonist, killing off fan-favorite characters and looking far more threatening than the game version.

On September 14, 2022, Twitter user @2paclypsenow posted a meme contrasting Smasher's depictions across Cyberpunk installments, gathering over 1,000 likes and 100 retweets in eight days6. Two days later, @TariyakiA uploaded a clip of Rebecca from Edgerunners doing the sad cat dance in front of Smasher's Cyberpunk 2077 corpse, passing 3,000 likes and 600 retweets in six days2.

On September 19, 2022, @ratfacepunk tweeted about players returning to Cyberpunk 2077 to kill Smasher for revenge after watching Edgerunners, hitting over 18,000 likes and 2,000 retweets in three days1. The 'fuckable meat' line kept circulating on Twitter through the same window as reaction-caption fodder5.

How to Use This Meme

The Adam Smasher template usually pairs his imposing Edgerunners look with the anticlimactic ease of the Cyberpunk 2077 boss fight, either as a two-panel image or a video edit set to sad or triumphant music. Fans also reuse the 'cut of fuckable meat' line as a caption stamped over unrelated screenshots, and treat Smasher as a shorthand for any villain who talks big but gets deleted quickly.

Frequently Asked Questions

Adam Smasher

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Adam Smasher is the chrome-plated final boss of Cyberpunk 2077 and a recurring villain across the wider Cyberpunk franchise who became a meme staple after the game's 2020 launch. His terrifying portrayal in the 2022 Netflix anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners kicked off a fresh wave of jokes about the gap between his fearsome reputation and the very easy game boss fight.

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Overview

Adam Smasher is a chrome-plated 'solo' (freelance killer) from the Cyberpunk universe who works as head of security for Yorinobu Arasaka in the 2020 role-playing video game Cyberpunk 20773. His full cyberware conversion, hulking silhouette and cruel one-liners made him a standout villain in the game, with meme output spiking again in September 2022 after Cyberpunk: Edgerunners aired on Netflix1.

The character is known for lines like 'You look like a cut of fuckable meat. Are you?' which Villain Crew uploaded to YouTube on December 14, 20205. Urban Dictionary entries lean into his hyper-augmented body and cast him as the 'chrome boogeyman' of the Cyberpunk world, a status fans reference in jokes and edits8. The meme output blends dread from the anime with mockery of how weak he feels as a video game boss.

How It Spread

On July 6, 2022, Redditor KamilCesaro posted a meme joking about how easy Smasher is to beat in the actual Cyberpunk 2077 boss fight, which racked up more than 4,700 upvotes in two months4. The bigger wave hit that September when Cyberpunk: Edgerunners aired on Netflix and repositioned Smasher as the show's brutal final antagonist, killing off fan-favorite characters and looking far more threatening than the game version.

On September 14, 2022, Twitter user @2paclypsenow posted a meme contrasting Smasher's depictions across Cyberpunk installments, gathering over 1,000 likes and 100 retweets in eight days6. Two days later, @TariyakiA uploaded a clip of Rebecca from Edgerunners doing the sad cat dance in front of Smasher's Cyberpunk 2077 corpse, passing 3,000 likes and 600 retweets in six days2.

On September 19, 2022, @ratfacepunk tweeted about players returning to Cyberpunk 2077 to kill Smasher for revenge after watching Edgerunners, hitting over 18,000 likes and 2,000 retweets in three days1. The 'fuckable meat' line kept circulating on Twitter through the same window as reaction-caption fodder5.

How to Use This Meme

The Adam Smasher template usually pairs his imposing Edgerunners look with the anticlimactic ease of the Cyberpunk 2077 boss fight, either as a two-panel image or a video edit set to sad or triumphant music. Fans also reuse the 'cut of fuckable meat' line as a caption stamped over unrelated screenshots, and treat Smasher as a shorthand for any villain who talks big but gets deleted quickly.

Frequently Asked Questions