All Your Base Are Belong to Us

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An All Your Base derivative. Visible caption: All your base are belong to us

All Your Base poster

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All your base are belong to us

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An All Your Base derivative. Visible caption: For great justice

For great justice

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For great justice

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Yoda on a green background: “BELONG TO US / ALL YOUR BASE / ARE.”

Even the broken sentence has another word order

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Yoda rearranges a sentence that was already famously rearranged. You recognize both voices at once: the game’s broken threat and the Jedi’s distinctive syntax. Fixing the grammar was never on the agenda.

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Pixel-style Daft Punk artwork captioned “ALL YOUR BASS ARE BELONG TO US.” The embedded TedDastickJr mark is retained.

A hostile takeover of the low frequencies

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One extra S moves the conquest from military installations to music. The electronic duo and pixel-art treatment make “bass” feel perfectly at home in a phrase borrowed from a video game. The artist mark is visible; the archive uploader is a separate credit.

embedded marks retained.; Visible artwork mark: TedDastickJr

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A toy-package image titled “ALL YOUR BASE! Are Belong To Us,” with two action figures, accessories and a “L33T CHOKING HAZARD” warning.

The invasion now comes with accessories

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The catchphrase takes over the entire language of a toy aisle: collector’s edition badge, age range, accessory list and even the safety warning. This is an archived joke-packaging image, not evidence that an official licensed product was sold.

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About & sources

A mistranslated game villain’s announcement became a slogan that people inserted into pictures, songs and everyday scenes.

Date

Zero Wing’s 1992 Mega Drive port; reported web circulation by 1998, forum remix spread in 2000.

History

Know Your Meme traces the dialogue to the 1992 port of a 1989 arcade game. This exhibit uses 2000 for documented forum-era spread, not the phrase’s first appearance; a Newgrounds music-video upload followed in February 2001.

Know Your Meme — All Your Base Are Belong to Us
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