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“I Took an Arrow in the Knee” is a memorable quote originating from the role-playing video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. An often repeated stock line throughout the game,Air Jordan, it went on to inspire the “I used to X, then I took an arrow to the knee.”
Origin
In ,nike air jordan, the town guard non-player characters (NPCs) have several stock lines they will repeat when the player walks near them, including a bewildered statement about , a patronizing statement about “sweetroll” theft, and the melancholy reminiscing of the past “I used to be an adventurer like you,doudoune moncler homme, then I took an arrow in the knee.”
The repetition of this stock line throughout the game led the players to reference it in gaming forums and imageboards. On November 11th,moncler, 2011, the same day Skyrim was released, the phrase was referenced on the site GameFAQs in a Skyrim forum thread titled “I used to be an adventurer like you,air jordan.”
Spread
On November 18th, 2011, a thread titled “‘I was an adventurer too, until I took an arrow to the knee.’ Pfft, pussies” reached the frontpage of the r/skyrim subreddit. An Urban Dictionary entry submitted on November 25th defined the term “knee-arrow” as “the affliction of taking an arrow in the knee”. The earliest known image macro using the phrase was uploaded to FunnyJunk on November 26th and Memebase posted a image with the caption “Skyrim soldiers / Y U NO get better knee armor,Doudoune Moncler Femme?!” on November 30th. The domain ArrowToTheKnee.com was registered for a Skyrim-related fan site on December 3rd, although it was never launched and remains in development as of May 2012.
Several fan art illustrations referencing the phrase have been submitted to art sharing community . Additional derivatives using the phrase,air jordan pas cher, and various snowclone variations, can be found on Reddit and FunnyJunk. A related Facebook fan page has 413 likes as of December 2nd, 2011. A SoundCloud user named Eledium posted a track entitled “Arrow To The Knee” on December 3rd, 2011.
Notable Examples
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Videos
On YouTube, there are dozens of parodying the phrase as well as the character of town guards. The snowclone derivatives of “I took an arrow in the knee” also began appearing as highest-rated comments in YouTube videos. As of May 2012, a YouTube comment search for the phrase yields more than 70 video results,doudoune moncler pas cher.
Criticism
Largely owing to the positive reception of Skyrim, “I Took An Arrow To The Knee” eventually became perceived as a hyper-saturated cliche, similar to from the puzzle action game Portal. In response to the indiscriminate usage of the phrase, some fans of the game began posting satirical animations and image macros criticizing its hackneyed nature.