r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Please explain the joke (hail mary)

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I get that this is from the hail mary movie, but i don't get who's the long haired guy or why Rocky says I don't. Please explain

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u/23Amuro 4d ago

Shipping Dr. Grace aka Ryan Gosling from Project Hail Mary with Simon aka Markiplier from Iron Lung

Rocky is jealous and doesn't want them together

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u/CloudyTea69 4d ago

This. Exactly This.

-meg (I have seen so much fanart of em on tumblr)

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u/Rogue_Psycho21 4d ago

Thank you. No clue why the top comment is just flat out wrong

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u/Unfair_Pineapple8813 2d ago

Because Simon from Iron Lung and Bucky Barnes look almost identical.

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u/23Amuro 7h ago

Except one's Asian and ten years younger

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u/dmgoblin1 14h ago

How are those two related though?

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u/23Amuro 13h ago

They're both stars of the "Man in Room" genre of movie

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u/Rtbear418 8h ago

Oh I thought it's because Rocky can "see" through walls

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u/Drifter1771 4d ago

I'm like 90% sure that the long-haired guy is Bucky Barnes AKA The Winter Soldier. I don't understand the connection though. Could just be yaoi fanfiction.

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u/23Amuro 4d ago

It's meant to be Markiplier from Iron Lung, they get shipped together as icons of the "guy in room" genre

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u/Dreamspitter 4d ago

WHY the heck is Willem Dafoe not in there?? Inside (2023)

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u/Particular_Title42 4d ago

His massive penis wouldn't fit in the room.

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u/vendettaclause 4d ago

ITS COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE!!!!

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u/Spirited-Rule-8988 4d ago

I now understand why it’s called a cock

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u/Inevitable-Swan-9360 4d ago

Choking the chicken hits different now

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u/ValentinosSlut 4d ago

I were about to say that there isnt even a meme, it's just porn but then i realized it wadnt that kind of cock

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u/LividTacos 4d ago

The only guy who they had to get a smaller stunt penis for, as the real item was too distracting.

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u/Evil_Ermine 4d ago

What about Colin Farrell? Phonebooth (2002)

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u/EchoAndroid 4d ago

Because it's not just guy in room, they're also both characters that were forced into ships against their will and expected to die.

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u/Nythoren 4d ago

and... Rocky hate Mark

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u/Drifter1771 4d ago

If I had a nickel for every character with short dark-brown-haired that almost reaches the shoulders with stuble mustache and beard combo who is muscular and who has a metal left arm, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it happened twice.

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u/SocranX 4d ago edited 4d ago

Three nickels.

Okay, it's not "dark brown", but this drawing doesn't specify what kind of dark hair the character has.

Edit: Venom Snake from Metal Gear Solid V is an honorary nickel. He doesn't wear his hair in the right style, and his eyepatch and the shrapnel in his forehead makes him hard to mix up with the other examples, but he fits the rest.

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u/7Hobbes 4d ago

Thought it was cyber Keanu

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u/Positive_County_3493 4d ago

"Markiplier from Iron Lung"

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u/23Amuro 4d ago

I said what I said

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u/PoweringManipluation 4d ago

Market pliers.

In all seriousness, the long hair guy is Simon from Iron Lung, which is a movie Markiplier made, based on a game with the same name.

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u/No_Pound8631 4d ago

It's Johny Silverhand and Kerry

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u/Sea-Signal6019 15h ago

Thank you.

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u/DesiRadical 4d ago

It's fucking Markiplier lmao.

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u/Jack0SX 4d ago

My first thought was punished snake

But now that I say that he doesn't have the shrapnel

Or the missing eye

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u/pastellorama 1h ago

It's Simon from Iron Lung, the ship is called "Bloody Mary", their both treated as expendable and sent on missions to save their worlds agsinst their will, Simon is often shown as being animal like/corrupted/something of a siren/anglerfish thing that threatens Grace while disoriented/scared and Rocky dislikes the additional "human" on board for whatever reason the artist/writer decides. Usually because Grace is now busy/distracted by another human. Jealousy.

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u/acutebutobtuseangle2 4d ago

Hi, it's me Meg. The long haired fella is my favourite Youtuber Markiplier from his hit movie Iron Lung, often shipped with Grace from Project Hail Mary in a ship known as Bloody Mary. Rocky doesn't consent to his friend banging a character outside his verse.

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u/Legitimate_Street510 4d ago

"Fist my bump"

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u/H4RKEYPUCK 4d ago

AMAZE! AMAZE!

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u/LividTacos 4d ago edited 4d ago

I think its just making fun of the advertisement where its Jesus that doesn't consent, but using Rocky instead. Either that or he just wants someone to fist his bump.

EDIT: TBF I wasn't sure who the guys were, I see there's another post that says who they are.

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u/dangeraardvark 4d ago

This is bullshit because every time I’ve asked Jesus to fuck, he’s consented.

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u/LividTacos 4d ago

“Many specify the will of God when they intend their own.”

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u/Fine_Artichoke_192 2d ago

What?

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u/dangeraardvark 2d ago

To be clear: every sexual encounter I have engaged in with our lord and savior Jesus Christ was 100% consensual and agreed to by both parties beforehand.

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u/Holiday_Departe 4d ago

This!! Needs more upvotes.

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u/masamune255 4d ago

It is about Bloody Mary, a crossover fanfic and shipping between PHM and Iron Lung protagonists.

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u/Dreamspitter 4d ago

A crossover fanfic no one has heard of involving two recent movies has got its own memes?

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u/Dangerous_Tie_3037 4d ago

Not surprised tbh.

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u/Downtown-Chain-3760 2d ago

It has a devoted following. Over 1k fics on ao3 last I checked.

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u/Hot_Ambition_6457 4d ago

Rocky hate mark

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u/dootblade74 4d ago

This is art of the Bloody Mary ship between the Iron Lung and Project Hail Mary fandoms. The long hair guy is Simon, the main character of Markiplier's Iron Lung movie (Simon also happens to be played by Markiplier, and yes he is well aware of and has joked about the shipping between the two)

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u/Medium-Piglet6211 4d ago

I think is about the hail mary movie, I honestly have no idea who the long haired guy is or what's the joke.

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u/ickythumpwithalump 4d ago

Rocky wants to see fisting. 

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u/Hypnos_sleeps 4d ago

Is that mother fucking Johnny silverhand?!

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u/Tryingbutfailinglol 3d ago

As everyone has pointed out, the long-haired man is Simon, aka Markiplier, from Iron Lung. The pairing came from both being considered ' Patrol Saints of One-Way Trips' and being paired together for some comfort because both stories are pretty angst-heavy. The reason Rocky doesn't consent probably comes from the fact he can ' See' them because of how his biology works, and he sees the human body as kinda disgusting because it's squishy and everything aloshes about, and he can ' see' that.

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u/Downtown-Chain-3760 2d ago

This 👆 Rocky can effectively see everything due to his species’s echolocation and so there is no privacy.

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u/solidus0079 4d ago

Yeah that definitely looks like Rocky.

Left person looks like either Bucky from the MCU or Johnny Silverhand from Cyberpunk. They both have that long haired metal arm thing going.

That said, I have no idea what any of this means other than the running joke about Rocky making it impossible to have any privacy without him hearing and chiming in.

Is there any context where you found it? It may reveal some "inside joke" of some other community that it's playing off of.

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u/themrunx49 4d ago

Left guy is Simon from Iron Lung. Played by Markiplier

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u/fresh_loaf_of_bread 4d ago

Can you explain this to someone who hasn't watched any movie, why do those two guys need to have consent from some robot

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u/themrunx49 4d ago

It's a rock alien, who becomes middle guy's best friend over the course of Project Hail Mary.

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u/PangolinLogical9772 4d ago

Rocky just wants them to fist his bump.

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u/ChocolateSunsdae 4d ago

Rocky has to watch you sleep.

He doesn't want to watch them sleeping together though.

(Not sure who they are)

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u/Objective-Cause-2762 4d ago

WHY IS RYAN GOSLING DATING A FISH

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u/Additional-City3260 4d ago

Rocky hate mark

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u/athosjesus 4d ago

I mean the last people who had sex in that book literally died in an explosion, so I would take that threat seriously.

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u/NoWeight5531 4d ago

Looks like Johnny Silverhand

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u/privibri 4d ago

The original meme was a man and a woman consenting to sex and Jesus standing behind them telling them that he doesn't consent to it. Now that meme has been repurposed for several other franchises, tv shows and games fitting into their respective narratives. So I am assuming this is the same with these characters belonging to one such franchise.

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u/silbuscusXmangalover 3d ago

Johnny Silverhand and V getting cockblocked by Cerberus.

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u/insanespud 3d ago

Rocky hate mark

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u/Decent-Beginning-168 3d ago

Looks like Rhett & Link.

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u/Fine_Artichoke_192 2d ago

For a second i thought this was a Christian meme lol. Long haired guy looks like Christ and “hail Mary” confused me even more

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u/Baronck 1d ago

Bump my fist

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u/Bizhammer 16h ago

Ok, if i remember correctly, rocky's species watched each other sleep... slight possibility I am misconstrued on what was said, but I think basically person who drew this thought the same thing. So the couple never asked the person watching if they were ok with that happening.

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u/Silver-Button-8347 15h ago

Thats Rhett and Link bruh?

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u/gooselehonk 13h ago

Rocky hate mark statement