Tirek's Outstretched Arms

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About

Lord Tirek's Outstretched Arms is an exploitable image from the television show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. It depicts Tirek, the antagonist of the two part special he appears in, standing on a cliff with his arms stretched out. Due to widespread nature of such a pose, fans of the show have used the image to place Tirek in humorous situations.

Origin

The pose first appears in Season 4, Episode 26 of the show.^[1] After tracking down the newly empowered princess Twilight Sparkle, Tirek announces his presence by stating that she "has something that belonged to [him]", stretching out his arms in a dramatic fashion.

Spread

After the release of the episode, fans of the show immediately started to create parodies of the scene. The first image with the tag "Lord Tirek's Outstretched Arms" was uploaded on May 10, 2014, and featured a YouTube Automatic Caption FAIL (shown below).

There are currently over 100 examples on Derpibooru, with the highest-rated image having over 400 net karma.^[2] The exploitable has also been widely used in gaming and movie references and parodies due to Tirek's pose.