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It's Wizard Time, Fireball!

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Published October 22, 2026

It's Wizard Time, Fireball! is a catchphrase ripped from wizard enemy voice lines in the 2022 Doom mod Reelism 2, stitched together by fans to make the wizard yell "It's wizard time, motherfuckers, fireball!" By late 2022, the audio was powering animated YouTube shorts and TikTok lip-sync skits, including a viral Baldur's Gate 3 lag joke in August 20239.

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Overview

The clip comes from a wizard enemy in Reelism 2, a 2022 mod for Doom II that drops the player into randomized arenas with gag enemies and absurd weapons1. Fans spliced two separate wizard voice lines, "It's wizard time, motherfucker" and "Fireball!", into a single shout that became the audio bed for shorts, animations and TikTok skits5.

Most edits use the splice as a punchline over a visual that mimes casting a spell, including hand-drawn animations where a cartoon wizard launches a fireball, or live-action skits where someone "casts" the line at a mundane target like a lagging video game or a car fire39. The joke sits in the same lane as other Doom-mod audio exports: a gruff, over-serious voice reading goofy fantasy dialogue, which fans redeploy in contexts the original mod never intended.

Origin & Background

Platform
Reelism 2 mod (source) / YouTube and TikTok (viral spread)
Creator
Unknown
Date
2022

Version 1.0 of Reelism 2, built by the 300 Pounds team, shipped on April 15th, 2022 for GZDoom, and one of its levels pits the player against a wizard enemy whose shouted taunts include the "wizard time" and "fireball" lines12. On July 7th, 2022, YouTuber Koolaidman7 uploaded the earliest known fan edit, cutting the two voice clips together over footage of someone lighting a fire inside a car3. The original upload is embed-unavailable on Know Your Meme, with the fact documented in the site's entry5.

On August 11th, 2022, YouTuber Kzinssie posted a straight compilation of every wizard voice clip from the mod, which became the go-to sound bank that later remixers pulled from4.

How It Spread

The audio jumped from Doom circles into general YouTube animation on September 8th, 2022, when FriendlyCanadian posted a short animated skit set to the "It's wizard time, fireball" splice, picking up more than 42,000 views in its first year6. Eight days later, on September 16th, TikToker @aj.xeno uploaded a video using the same audio, and the sound page it created was reused in more than 700 TikToks over the following year, mostly short comedic skits7.

Animated YouTube versions kept the clip alive into 2023. On January 14th, 2023, animator PFINNEY posted a wizard animation set to the line that drew over 108,000 views within nine months8. The biggest crossover moment came on August 28th, 2023, when TikToker @itspoofty paired the audio with footage of Baldur's Gate 3 lagging, a video that passed 674,000 views in roughly two months and pushed the sound in front of a much larger RPG-fan audience9.

Timeline

2022-04-15

Reelism 2 version 1.0 is released as a Doom II mod, including the wizard enemy with the now-famous voice lines[1].

2022-07-07

YouTuber Koolaidman7 posts the earliest known fan edit splicing "It's wizard time, motherfucker" with "Fireball!" over a car-fire video[3].

2022-08-11

YouTuber Kzinssie uploads a full compilation of the wizard voice clips from Reelism 2[4].

2022-09-08

YouTuber FriendlyCanadian posts an animated short built around the spliced audio clip[6].

2022-09-16

TikToker @aj.xeno posts a video with the audio, creating the TikTok sound page later reused 700+ times[7].

2023-01-14

YouTuber PFINNEY posts an animation set to the line, drawing over 108,000 views within nine months[8].

2023-08-28

TikToker @itspoofty pairs the audio with Baldur's Gate 3 lag footage, passing 674,000 views in about two months[9].

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