# We Weren't Expecting Special Forces A line of stormtrooper dialogue from the April 2017 reveal trailer for Star Wars Battlefront II became an image macro after fans screenshotted the moment one trooper tells a sergeant, "That's the point." By mid-2017, iFunny posters were slapping the frame onto captions about reposted memes and other online overreactions. ## Origin EA developed Star Wars Battlefront II and uploaded the reveal trailer to its EA Star Wars YouTube channel on April 15th, 2017[3]. In the woodland combat scene, a stormtrooper tells a superior, "We weren't expecting special forces," and a trooper in black armor replies, "That's the point, Sergeant," right before the Death Star detonates overhead[3]. By 2021, the trailer had passed 16 million views[1]. EA produced the trailer, so the publisher is the subject of the meme, not the author of the format. The earliest meme edits came from anonymous iFunny users later that spring[2]. - **Platform:** YouTube (trailer source) / iFunny (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2017 ## Overview Posters crop the shocked stormtrooper frame and stack caption text on top to label anything that overpowers a group of unprepared people[1]. The second trooper's reply, "That's the point, Sergeant," sometimes appears in a two-panel version, with the first panel playing a reaction and the second panel confirming it was intentional[2]. Tone swings between fond and sneering. Fans use it to call a friend "special" in the laudatory sense, while edgier posters, especially on iFunny in 2017, attached the screenshot to jokes targeting people with disabilities[2]. The format works because the trooper's voice line reads as both a tactical complaint and a dry description of someone being extra. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is We Weren't Expecting Special Forces? It is an image macro built from a stormtrooper screenshot in the 2017 Star Wars Battlefront II reveal trailer, used to label anything unexpectedly intense or "special"[1]. ### Where did We Weren't Expecting Special Forces come from? The scene came from the Battlefront II reveal trailer that EA Star Wars uploaded to YouTube on April 15th, 2017[3]. ### What does We Weren't Expecting Special Forces mean? Posters use the line to react to a group showing up with disproportionate skill or intensity, and the reply "That's the point, Sergeant" doubles as deadpan confirmation[1]. ### How do you use We Weren't Expecting Special Forces? Typically a caption describing a surprising or over-the-top group is placed over the stormtrooper frame, sometimes with the follow-up line applied to the trooper in black armor[4]. ### Is We Weren't Expecting Special Forces still popular? It is a classic image macro that kept getting reposts through 2020 on Instagram and Reddit, including a 77,500-upvote r/memes post that August[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kae-JjbLsgA]() 2. [https://ifunny.co/picture/when-a-big-account-repubs-my-meme-9Uh5snWt4]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-werent-expecting-special-forces]() 4. [https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDlYMiltQC/]() 5. [https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/idg3nz/i_know_we_dont_always_see_eye_to_eye_but/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/we-werent-expecting-special-forces Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library