“Tia mi le kimono” meme: meaning, origin and epic card

What does the “Tia mi le kimono” meme mean?

The meme revolves around a kid or a friend checking that you are dressed for a fight, and an answer delivered with total seriousness, the “Hadouken” cry pushed out like an attack. The comedy comes from the mangled pronunciation, the solemn challenge and the reference to a fighting game everyone knows. People use it to kick off a mock quarrel, greet a childish scuffle, or answer any question about being dressed for action with an imaginary attack. The feeling is playground and arcade nostalgia.

Where does the “Tia mi le kimono” meme come from?

The cry “Hadouken” belongs to a special move of Ryu, a character of the Street Fighter fighting-game series: an energy ball thrown with both hands. The card reuses it in a small French dialogue where someone asks “Did you put on the kimono?” before the answer arrives as the attack. The kimono, the martial-arts outfit of popular imagination, is just the pretext. The spelling “Tia mi” imitates an accent or a very fast way of speaking typical of comedy videos. The meme spread as a short clip and sound shared on social networks, with variants where the answer is swapped for other famous video-game attacks.

How to use the “Tia mi le kimono” meme

• Answer “Hadouken” with hands thrust forward when a friend asks if you are ready.
• Say the line before a mock living-room fight.
• Comment on a sports or martial-arts outfit in a photo.
• Use it as a greeting between fighting-game fans.

The “Tia mi le kimono” card in MyMemeCards

Number	No. 1557
Rarity	Epic
Collection	Memes FR pack
Fame	50/100 · #753 of 3493
Recycle value	20 MemeCoins (60 in Shiny)
Suggested by	@elgreco

How to get the “Tia mi le kimono” card

Every pack holds 5 meme cards, the first 3 of them Common; Tia mi le kimono comes out of the Memes FR pack as an epic card. The pack odds say what each rarity weighs.

Your first pack is free and needs no account. After that a new free pack lands every 10 minutes, up to 3 waiting for you. You can also buy the card with MemeCoins on the market, bid for it at auction, or trade it — and a double recycles into 20 MemeCoins.

The reprint of the “Tia mi le kimono” card

The “Tia mi le kimono” card was reprinted as Legendary (No. 4,301). A reprint is the same meme printed again, with a number of its own and a higher rarity than its first printing, which was epic. Its face reads “Reprinted card · Higher rarity”.

Every printing is dealt in the packs of the Memes FR pack, each at its own rarity: the higher it is, the rarer the card is to pull. Copies of the first printing already pulled stay as they are, and any printing counts toward completing a set.

MyMemeCards reprints a meme when it deserves more than the rarity of its first printing, such as a classic that became iconic after it came out: the reprint gives it a place among the most sought-after cards without taking anything from the players who already had it.

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