The first trailer for the upcoming Captain Marvel excited the internet for plenty of reasons. It has the talented Brie Larson doing superhero stuff; it shows a beloved comic book character adapted for the big screen; it finally gives a woman a starring role in one of the bazillion Marvel movies dominated by dudes—and, perhaps most importantly of all, it features a quick clip of an old lady getting punched in the face.
While some are busy wringing their hands over the character’s willingness to bruise the probable grandma’s wrinkled, eerily soft, and lavender-scented cheeks, the rest of the internet is enjoying the hilariously context-free brutality another way: by meming the living hell out of it.
There are entries from the classic realm of “self-loathing” Twitter …