# Our Battle Will Be Legendary! Snow leopard villain Tai Lung's boast from the 2008 DreamWorks film Kung Fu Panda, spoken as he imagines fighting the hero Po, got recut into a two-panel image macro by Spanish-speaking meme pages in 2016. By February 2019, Redditor bramoeska carried the format to /r/HistoryMemes and sent the English version viral across history, Game of Thrones and Pokémon communities. ## Origin DreamWorks Animation released Kung Fu Panda in U.S. theaters on June 6th, 2008, with Ian McShane voicing the snow leopard antagonist Tai Lung[5]. In a scene roughly midway through the film, Tai Lung learns that a Dragon Warrior has been chosen to face him and delivers the line "Finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary," the quote later lifted for the format[1]. An anonymous Imgur user uploaded a captioned GIF of the scene on January 3rd, 2015, titled "Finally a worthy opponent," marking one of the earliest attempts to package the moment as a standalone reaction[2]. The two-panel image macro built on that idea emerged among Spanish-speaking users, with the earliest documented post dated March 11th, 2016 on Amino, followed by heavy reposting on Facebook and Memedroid[3]. - **Platform:** Facebook / Memedroid (Spanish meme pages), Reddit (English viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2016 ## Overview Our Battle Will Be Legendary! pairs two screen captures of Tai Lung from Kung Fu Panda, one of him looking intrigued above the caption "Finally! A Worthy Opponent!" and a second of him grinning with "Our Battle Will Be Legendary!"[1]. Posters swap in a laughably mismatched pair underneath, with the villain cast as something powerful facing off against something trivial, such as a medieval army against peasants or a Pokémon trainer against a Magikarp[2]. The joke works through overestimation or underestimation, with the Tai Lung character hyping up a fight that is either hopelessly one-sided or absurdly petty[3]. Spanish-language versions on Memedroid and Facebook often paired the screencap with school life, anime fandom squabbles or regional football rivalries, while the 2019 English wave on Reddit skewed toward historical empires, Game of Thrones characters and video game matchups[4]. ## How to Use The common convention is a two-panel layout: the top image of Tai Lung looking intrigued is captioned with a label for something strong or imposing, and the bottom image of him smiling is captioned with its lopsided opponent[2]. Posts typically pit a tough or serious figure against a weak, silly or unrelated one to sell the mismatch, though some versions flip the framing so the "worthy opponent" is actually the stronger side[4]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Our Battle Will Be Legendary!? A two-panel image macro built from screenshots of Tai Lung in Kung Fu Panda, used to hype up absurdly mismatched fights[1]. ### Where did Our Battle Will Be Legendary! come from? The quote is from the 2008 DreamWorks film Kung Fu Panda, and the meme format first appeared in Spanish-speaking meme communities in March 2016[3]. ### What does Our Battle Will Be Legendary! mean? The caption plays on Tai Lung treating a trivial or hopelessly outmatched opponent as a worthy rival, selling the comic mismatch between the two labeled sides[4]. ### How do you use Our Battle Will Be Legendary!? Label the top panel with something powerful or serious and the bottom panel with a weak, silly or unrelated opponent, so the "legendary" framing reads as a joke[2]. ### Is Our Battle Will Be Legendary! still popular? The format peaked on Reddit in February 2019 after bramoeska's /r/HistoryMemes post pulled over 14,200 upvotes, and it has stayed in rotation as a classic exploitable[4]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R610XnTVwIo]() 2. [https://imgur.com/GgIYOLl]() 3. [https://aminoapps.com/c/anime-es/page/blog/orda-de-memes-v/G5qf_nuVK3eZqnDla78EERDQEPm0Lxn]() 4. [https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/anqmwv/finally/]() 5. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0441773/]() 6. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/our-battle-will-be-legendary]() 7. [https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoryMemes/comments/ap4fzd/coprosperity_sphere/]() 8. [https://www.reddit.com/r/freefolk/comments/anv2a4/theon_was_really_rolling_the_iron_dice_on_this_one/]() 9. [https://www.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/aomrij/i_havent_seen_any_pok%C3%A9mon_ones_yet/]() 10. [https://www.instagram.com/p/BtjEcLulPTT/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/our-battle-will-be-legendary Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library