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# Leeroy Jenkins

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Internet meme · Classic

# 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.

- First seen: 2005-01-01
- Last seen: 2026-10-31
- Uses cited: 3
- Revision: 2

## 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

1. 2005-01-01

    

   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.
2. 2005-01-01

    

   Wikidata Q389312: Leeroy Jenkins — World of Warcraft character.

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