Skyrim is meme gold. The game is quite popular and gives many players a universal experience they can laugh about together. These jokes can be about glitches, characters, or quotes.
While it has been nine years since the game first was released, the memes are still going strong online. This is due to a combination of the game's popularity as well as the fact that it keeps getting remasters. One playthrough can be incredibly long, but now loyal fans have multiple playthroughs on different remasters.
Here are ten memes floating around today that only true Dragonborns will understand.
10 Kill Some Draugrs
An issue with sandbox games like Skyrim is that the quests can easily get repetitive. One major example is killing draugrs. They are undead Nordic warriors, and they are everywhere in the caves of Skyrim. They often guard treasure though so players bump into them a lot.
This meme is showing the repetitiveness of the draugrs of Skyrim. They are the sort of side quests that can keep a player busy forever.
9 Making Daggers
Adrianne is an Imperial blacksmith who lives in Whiterun. With Whiterun being the first major city the player typically runs to, she often plays a part in the players' introduction to blacksmithing. One of the earliest things the player can craft is daggers. If you craft a lot of them, your level can get high pretty quickly.
You always have access to her workbench, which this meme is highlighting. The poor woman could be sleeping while hearing the Dragonborn work outside.
8 Robbing A Werewolf
Skyrim NPC have never been the sharpest tools in the drawer. This meme is a reaction to a thief threatening the player while they are in their werewolf form.
In Skyrim, you can become a werewolf. However, not all NPCs always recognize this fact. This thief is acting like the player is a simple traveler that they can overpower.
7 "Wait, I Know You"
As players proceed on their adventures, they may do some questionable acts. After all, there are organized crime guilds such as the Thieves Guild or the Dark Brotherhood. It would be strange for the player to have a clear record!
Due to this, players might need to avoid and/or be careful around the guards.
6 Oblivion Versus Skyrim
Before Skryim, there was Oblivion. It was the predecessor to Skyrim and the graphics aged quite poorly. It's made fun of a lot for its graphics today. The characters, especially, look bad compared to Skyrim. When Skyrim came out, everyone was amazed by how beautiful characters like the khajiit looked. Looking back at the old graphics, it's hard not to laugh.
5 Remastered Skyrim
Everyone is waiting for a new Elder Scrolls game. However, it seems that Todd Howard plans to beat the dead horse. Why make a new game when the latest version was so popular?
This has been the source of jokes even outside the meme world. A parody called Skyrim: Very Special Edition even was released by Bethesda at their E3 2018 press conference. It claimed that Skyrim will be remastered for Etch-a-Sketch, Samsung Smart Refrigerators, and Moterola Pagers.
4 Waking Up
Waking up in Skyrim is an incredibly popular meme. There is something about it that just really gets people.
Its basic idea is that all of life is an illusion and you wake up at the beginning of Skyrim. It contains the same amount of humorous nihilism as a Rick and Morty episode. It has many versions from people dying on a hospital bed to re-editing famous film scenes and both waking up in the Skyrim wagon at the beginning of the game.
3 Housecarl
Some players can put over one thousand hours into one playthrough, so it's crazy to imagine 17 different ones. However, that certainly guarantees your money's worth of entertainment.
The unfortunate part of playing multiple times is hearing the same explanations over and over again. By your 17th playthrough, those lines could practically be memorized in your head.
2 "You're Awake"
As mentioned before, the waking up in Skyrim meme has been done a lot. This meme is simply referencing the fact that as many times as people see it, it is still entertaining. It leaves a lot of room for creativity.
Versions of it range from waking up from a drunken night to dying after a touching goodbye with your family. Others include dying in one video game and then the video game becoming Skyrim. Whatever the case, it's still funny.
1 Protect Or Damage
This is a common line said by those who sell weapons and armor in Skyrim. Since it is said so much, of course, it became a meme. It is less popular than "You're finally awake" or the arrow to the knee jokes, but it is still a good one.
This meme compares the saying to whether a Wii player will have the safety strap on or off. With it off, they might hit themselves or their TV by accident with the controller.