Now There Are Two of Them

Now there are two of them is a lesser known Prequel Meme format, taken from the first episode of the Star Wars prequels, The Phantom Menace.

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The phrase is taken from Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, where the opening scenes involve Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi arrive at a Separatist ship, where the local leader sees the Jedi and exclaims “This is getting out of hand! Now there are two of them”.

A separated clip of the scene was uploaded to YouTube by QuoteTheGuy on January 24^th, 2014.

The meme started spreading as an image macro following the YouTube upload.

It became especially prevalent after the creation of the r/PrequelMemes subreddit on December 27^th, 2016.

The “now there are two of them” meme can be encountered on sites like Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter as well as Me.me, iFunny and 9GAG.

• Reddit – r/PrequelMemes