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Leeroy Jenkins
A World of Warcraft moment where a player rushes into a high-level fight shouting their name, turning a planned strategy into a disastrous melee charge, which became an internet meme.
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Where it started
Leeroy Jenkins is a player character created by Ben Schulz in Blizzard Entertainment's multiplayer online video game World of Warcraft. The character was popularized in a 2005 viral video of game footage. In the video, having been absent during a discussion of a meticulous battle plan, Leeroy returns and ruins it by charging into combat while shouting his name as a battle cry. The video became an Internet meme. In response to the meme, Blizzard added Leeroy Jenkins into World of Warcraft as an official non-player character, and later as a minion card and cosmetic item in the online card game Hearthstone. During Overwatch's World of Warcraft collaboration, Torbjörn Lindholm received a voiceline calling out his own name in a similar fashion to Leeroy.
The use timeline
A World of Warcraft player charges into a high-level dungeon with a distinctive cry of "Leeeeeeeerooooy... Jeeenkins!", ruining the meticulous attack plans of his group and getting them all killed.
Wikidata Q389312: Leeroy Jenkins — World of Warcraft character.
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