# "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies turn the Empire Strikes Back reveal into a French-language exploitable comic, with a tall Darth Vader looming over a kneeling Luke whose caption gets rewritten over and over. Born in a 2003 Café Salé webcomic thread, the single-panel joke grew into a long-running game of puns and celebrity swaps. By 2005, Hardware.fr users had rebranded it "Vadorz" and a PHP image generator was live on the Neriki site[4]. ## Origin On April 7th, 2003, forum user Gaijinsan opened a thread titled "(strip) Star wars: ton univers impitoyableuhbeuhh" on the Café Salé artist community board to post his drawings based on 1999's Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace[1]. On June 2nd, user Materiax uploaded the base Vader/Luke image that would seed the format, originally hosted on a personal page belonging to a user named nadjika04 (likely the same person as Materiax)[3]. The picture drew laughs but nothing more for months. On February 22nd, 2004, user Fox posted the first altered version of the drawing with a rewritten caption, and that single edit kicked off a chain of parodies that stretched the thread to 51 pages[2]. - **Platform:** Café Salé forum (origin) / French forums (viral spread) - **Creator:** Materiax (base drawing) and Fox (first edit) - **Date:** 2003 ## Overview Each parody keeps the same two-figure layout: a looming Vader addressing a smaller Luke on his knees, with the French misquote "Luke, je suis ton père" driving the gag[4]. The line itself is a popular misremembering of the actual Empire Strikes Back dialogue, where Vader says "Non, je suis ton père" ("No, I am your father")[5]. Early entries played on wordplay and rhyming comebacks, with Luke flipping Vader's declaration into a pun on the final word. Later rounds swapped Vader out entirely for French politicians, singers and other public figures, turning the panel into a running satire template[4]. The format stays very bare: readers only need to rewrite the two speech captions to make a new joke, which is why image generators and "caption this" game threads became the usual way to produce them. ## How It Spread The Fox edit set off a long-running caption game inside the Café Salé thread, where members traded variants that reworked Vader's dialogue into puns and absurd punchlines[2]. By 2005, copies had made their way onto other French-speaking forums and image hosts including Webrankinfo, LeLoMbriK, Triskal and Koreus, and Hardware.fr users began calling the running joke "Vadorz"[4]. A PHP-based image generator went live on the Neriki site that same year, which let readers caption fresh Vader/Luke frames without opening an image editor[4]. The format outlived the original thread: on April 13th, 2011, French tech outlet Ecrans.fr aired a "Minute Mème" radio segment profiling the parodies for its weekly show on Nolife, with a round-up gallery published alongside the article[4]. A Dailymotion user named Ganesh2 also produced a dubbed video version using actual Star Wars footage, drawing directly on the exploitable trend[4]. ## How to Use A typical post keeps the same composition and only rewrites Vader's line and Luke's reply, often making the two captions rhyme or share a pun on the last word. Common conventions include swapping Vader's silhouette for a French celebrity or politician, keeping the French misquote "Luke, je suis ton père" as the setup line, and ending with a wordplay payoff from Luke[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies? A French single-panel exploitable showing Darth Vader standing over a kneeling Luke, with the two captions rewritten into puns or celebrity gags[4]. ### Where did "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies come from? The base drawing was posted by user Materiax on June 2nd, 2003 in a Café Salé forum thread, and user Fox made the first edit on February 22nd, 2004[1][2]. ### What does "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies mean? The French line is a popular misquote of Vader's "Non, je suis ton père" from Empire Strikes Back, and the drawing uses that misquote as the setup for a punchline[5]. ### How do you use "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies? Keep the two-figure layout and rewrite the captions, often rhyming them or swapping Vader for a French politician or singer[4]. ### Is "Luke, je suis ton père" cartoon parodies still popular? It is a classic French forum meme rather than an active one, though the Café Salé thread grew to 51 pages and the format got mainstream coverage from Ecrans.fr in April 2011[2][4]. ## References 1. [http://forum.cfsl.net/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=2377&start=0]() 2. [http://forum.cfsl.net/viewtopic.php?p=133279#p133279]() 3. [http://monsite.wanadoo.fr/nadjika04/page4.html]() 4. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/luke-je-suis-ton-pere-cartoon-parodies]() 5. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_Episode_V:_The_Empire_Strikes_Back]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/luke-je-suis-ton-pere-cartoon-parodies Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library