What's With This Sassy Lost Child?

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"What's With This Sassy Lost Child?" is an exploitable image from the One-Punch Man anime in which the main character Saitama meets the character Tatsumaki and mistakes her for being a child. The image has been replaced with various characters from other series.

Origin

The scene takes place in episode 10 of One-Punch Man, "Unparalleled Peril," aired December 6th, 2015.^[1] Saitama tags along to an emergency S-Class Heroes meeting, where he meets Tatsumaki. After she berates him, Saitama, believing her to be young due to her appearance, asks "what's with this sassy lost child?" (English fan dub shown below).

Spread

On December 10th, the blog FunnyAnimePics^[2] uploaded an image macro of the scene, captioning it, "When no one takes you seriously because you look like a kid" (shown below).

In the following year, the image would grow into an exploitable in which the characters were replaced, usually by other Japanese characters who fit the spunky anime girl trope. On January 3rd, 2016, Facebook meme page "Princess Yukiko's Steel Meme Run"^[3] uploaded one of the first variations using Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (shown below). Variations since have incorporated Star Wars, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, Smug Wendys, and many more.

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