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Woody Holding Sora Back is an exploitable image macro meme depicting Toy Story's Woody in Square Enix's video game Kingdom Hearts III holding up his hand to tell Sora to hold back, which was celebrated and parodied by fans of the series. The original scene where Woody stands up to and insults the series villain Xehanort has also been used in various video memes.

Origin

In Kingdom Hearts III, released January 25th, 2019, Sora, Donald Duck and Goofy venture into the cinematic universe of Toy Story, which is besieged by Heartless. Over the course of the level, the trio enlists the aid of the main characters of Toy Story, including Woody. This leads to a climactic showdown with a young version of Xehanort. As Xehanort challenges the heroes with his philosophy, Woody steps up and insults him, saying lines like "Yeah, I am a toy… and a friend. My guess is that no one's ever loved you before because you know nothing about hearts and love," and, "You're hollower than any toy" (shown below).

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The moment was quickly celebrated and parodied by Kingdom Hearts fans. In a Let's Play of the game posted February 18th, 2019, Alpharad parodied the scene by adding Jojo's Bizarre Adventure effects and music to the moment (shown below, left). On March 2nd, 2019, YouTuber RoaringChaos spliced the scene with Supa Hot Fire, gaining over 16,000 views (shown below, right).



In particular, the still image of Woody confidently pushing Sora aside to confront Xehanort was parodied by fans of the series. For example, on February 9th, 2019, Twitter user @frostmacht[1] tweeted a Jojo's Bizarre Adventure parody, mashing it with the Oh, You're Approaching Me? meme (shown below, left). On February 8th, Twitter user @superkevin64[2] posted a similar meme referencing Dragon Ball, gaining over 4,900 retweets and 17,000 likes (shown below, right).

Frostmacht @Frostmacht "Leave this one to me" Feb 9
Superkevin64 @Glovesmug Feb 7 Leave jiren to me.

Various Examples

Worst Jeanist @mistiryshak TOY STORY 3 lotsO, youre a bitch woody: i fought the devil and lived. ive seen a toy summon lightning with a stick. a duck healed me
Some small child in the line My grown ass 10 going to see Toy Story 4
Because you know nothing about hearts and love. Coa woody.png 900 KB PNG Were the VAs holding back laughter whenever they read their lines
Sora Aqua Riku and Mickey trying to be Keyblade "Masters" made with mematic
My dog when somebody knocks at the door Me

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External References

[1] Twitter – Frostmacht

[2] Twitter – Superkevin64



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