# Jetstream Sam Jetstream Sam is a cyborg swordsman antagonist from the 2013 video game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance whose flashy sword duels and quotable one-liners fueled a wave of fan art and ironic edits, especially in early 2022 across iFunny and Twitter. ## Overview Jetstream Sam, also known as Samuel Rodrigues, is a Brazilian cyborg mercenary and swordsman who serves as a major antagonist in the 2013 hack-and-slash game Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance[1]. He fights with a high-frequency katana passed down from his father, wears a red scarf and dark sunglasses, and is sometimes shown alongside the wolf-shaped combat drone LQ-84i, better known as Blade Wolf[4]. Online, Sam is a fixture of Metal Gear Rising fan art and shitposts that lean on his good looks, dramatic swordsmanship and quotable boss-fight dialogue[4]. Starting in early 2022, he showed up heavily in ironic edits and bait-and-switch videos scored to the game track "The Only Thing I Know For Real / There Will Be Bloodshed"[4]. ## How It Spread Fan art and reaction images built up slowly through the 2010s, but the character's meme presence sharpened in 2021. On May 20th, 2021, Tumblr user boyfromtazmily posted a looping GIF of Sam clapping with the caption "CRYPTOCURRENCY IS DYING REPOST THIS TO MAKE IT DIE FASTER," collecting more than 44,900 notes within ten months[4]. A few months later, on September 4th, 2021, Twitter user @subakeye posted an illustration of Jetstream Sam standing over a bisected Stuart Little, which pulled in around 29,600 likes and 6,500 retweets over the next half year[4]. The image cemented a running joke of Sam absurdly slicing unlikely pop-culture figures in half. iFunny drove the biggest surge in early 2022, where posts under the "jetstreamsam" tag pushed the character into daily rotation[5]. On February 25th, 2022, iFunny user Konpaku_Shitposting posted an image macro tying a GIF of Sam mowing down enemies to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, racking up over 9,400 smiles in six days[5]. ## How to Use The meme template is typically a short clip or GIF from the Raiden vs. Sam boss fight, often paired with the track "The Only Thing I Know For Real / There Will Be Bloodshed"[4]. A common convention is the bait-and-switch edit: a calm intro cuts hard to Sam drawing his katana at the song's beat drop. Illustrators also drop Sam into unrelated pop-culture scenes, usually mid-swing, as with the @subakeye Stuart Little piece[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Jetstream Sam? Jetstream Sam, real name Samuel Rodrigues, is a Brazilian cyborg swordsman and antagonist in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance who inspired years of fan art, ironic edits and boss-fight tribute videos[1][4]. ### Where did Jetstream Sam come from? He debuted in the 2013 PlatinumGames title Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and his boss battle with Raiden was popularized through gameplay uploads like LegendaryPeelz's February 22nd, 2013 video[1]. ### What does Jetstream Sam mean? Online, the name points to the character and the ecosystem of MGRR memes around him, especially bait-and-switch edits set to "The Only Thing I Know For Real" and jokes about him slicing random targets in half[4]. ### How do you use Jetstream Sam? People typically drop clips of the Raiden boss fight into ironic edits or draw Sam mid-swing over a pop-culture victim, as with @subakeye's viral Stuart Little illustration from September 2021[4]. ### Is Jetstream Sam still popular? He is a classic MGRR meme staple, with iFunny's "jetstreamsam" tag and posts like Konpaku_Shitposting's February 2022 macro keeping the character in heavy circulation through the early 2020s[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcd-C5-P1XY]() 2. [https://twitter.com/subakeye]() 3. [https://boyfromtazmily.tumblr.com/]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/jetstream-sam]() 5. [https://ifunny.co/tags/jetstreamsam]() 6. [https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Samuel_Rodrigues]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/jetstream-sam Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library