# Captain Marvel Punch Captain Marvel Punch is a 2018 image macro built from a moment in the first Captain Marvel trailer where Brie Larson's character punches an elderly woman on a train. The three-panel screengrab became a template for jokes pitting one group against another, most famously in a boomers-versus-millennials caption on Twitter. ## Overview Captain Marvel Punch is an image macro format built around a moment from the first Captain Marvel trailer, in which Brie Larson's character throws a fist directly into the face of an elderly woman on a train[1]. The three-panel screengrab of the setup, wind-up, and impact became the base template, usually overlaid with captions casting the old woman as an out-of-touch group and Carol Danvers as whoever is fed up with them[2]. The joke works because the visual is absurd on its face, with a Marvel hero appearing to deck a grandma for no obvious reason[1]. Writeups at the time floated the theory that the woman was actually a Skrull, the shape-shifting alien species teased as the film's villains, which would explain why a hero was punching a senior citizen[1]. ## How It Spread Later on September 18, Redditor swagjunction21 stitched three frames of the punch into a single image and posted it to r/MemeEconomy, where it picked up over 150 points and 130 comments[2]. A companion post by Sentient_Wombat in the same subreddit ran a captioned variation and climbed past 850 points with roughly 250 comments[3]. On Twitter, user @MildlyAmused paired the screenshot with the caption "BOOMERS: When I was your age, I made $32k a year and owned a home, a car, and had no debt. Stop being such whiny brats. MILLENNIALS," pushing the format toward generational-warfare jokes and pulling in more than 380 retweets and 1,100 likes inside 24 hours[4]. Coverage from Mashable, Uproxx, Vox, and Business Insider followed the same day, and Twitter itself published a Moments page rounding up reactions to the trailer[1][5]. ## How to Use The template is a three-panel screengrab, top to bottom: Captain Marvel spotting the woman, winding up, then landing the punch. Captions typically label the old woman with a group being criticized and Captain Marvel with whoever is doing the criticizing, following the pattern @MildlyAmused set with the boomers-versus-millennials version[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Captain Marvel Punch? It's a three-panel image macro pulled from the 2018 Captain Marvel trailer showing Brie Larson's character punching an elderly woman on a train, used to caption jokes about one group hitting another[1]. ### Where did Captain Marvel Punch come from? The clip comes from the first Captain Marvel trailer, released to YouTube on September 18, 2018, and the earliest three-panel edit was posted the same day by Redditor swagjunction21 in r/MemeEconomy[2][3]. ### What does Captain Marvel Punch mean? It's a reaction-style joke where the puncher is a group calling out the punched, most famously Twitter user @MildlyAmused's boomers-versus-millennials caption[4]. ### How do you use Captain Marvel Punch? Take the three-panel screengrab and label the old woman as the group being criticized and Captain Marvel as the group doing the criticizing, mirroring the @MildlyAmused format[4]. ### Is Captain Marvel Punch still popular? It peaked in the days after the trailer dropped in September 2018 and is now a classic 2018 reaction-image format rather than an active trending meme[3]. ## References 1. [https://mashable.com/article/captain-marvel-trailer-twitter-reactions/]() 2. [https://www.reddit.com/r/MemeEconomy/]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/captain-marvel-punches]() 4. [https://twitter.com/MildlyAmused]() 5. [https://www.businessinsider.com/captain-marvel-trailer-punching-old-lady-meme-2018-9]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/captain-marvel-punch Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library