Nothing To Do Here

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Published September 10, 2026

Nothing To Do Here / Jet Pack Guy is a rage comic catchphrase built around a stick figure who escapes any awkward moment by rocketing away with a jet pack. Born on a Spanish rage comic site in April 20111, it became one of the defining escape-hatch reaction formats of the early 2010s rage comic boom3.

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Overview

The format is simple and modular: a stick figure walks into a socially painful moment, deadpans the line 'nothing to do here,' and then a jet pack fires out of his back as he blasts off-panel4. The final frame almost always shows a diagonal trail of exhaust and the character's legs disappearing upward, which became the visual signature that made the joke read even without the caption.

Because the escape gag works on top of nearly any setup, the character was quickly used as a punchline stamp on other rage comics rather than as the star of his own strips1. Awkward flirting, embarrassing family moments, and school failures all got the same treatment, and the catchphrase was often used on its own as a reply, in the same slot people used the earlier 'Spontaneous Snail' abandon-thread reaction4.

Origin & Background

Platform
Cuanto Cabrón (source) / 9gag / Reddit (viral spread)
Creator
premutos
Date
2011

The character was drawn by user premutos on the Spanish rage comic community Cuanto Cabrón on April 21, 20111. In the original strip, a man chats up a woman who then mentions she has a boyfriend, and he responds by declaring there is nothing to do here and jet-packing away4.

The strip was made in Spanish (translated from Spanish for English audiences), and the 'nothing to do here' punchline was carried directly into the English rewrite that started circulating a few weeks later2.

How It Spread

How to Use This Meme

The typical usage is either as a comic template or as a standalone reply. In comic form, creators set up any embarrassing or losing situation in the first panels, drop the line 'Nothing to do here' in the second-to-last panel, and end with the jet pack silhouette shooting off the top of the frame5. As a reply, people often paste just the final jet pack panel or type the catchphrase to signal they're bailing on a conversation.

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