The Witcher: 10 Best Memes From Season 2

It was a long wait, but The Witcher Season 2 has premiered, and fans’ enthusiasm for the new episodes has awakened their creativity. Like Geralt slamming down a potion to get to business, fans have already binge-watched the new season and come up with some hysterical memes to mark the return of Geralt, Ciri, Yennefer, Jaskier, and a host of brand new characters.

The Continent has been changing since Geralt and Ciri finally reunited and Yennefer ensured a victory for the North against encroaching Nilfgaardian forces at the Battle of Sodden. Taking inspiration from key moments in the series as well as the books and video games upon which it’s based, fans have found hilarious ways to celebrate The Witcher’s triumphant return.

Going To Tell Everyone This Was Season 2

Season 2 finds Geralt traversing the Continent with Ciri in tow, conjuring up an image of a black-leather-pants-clad Ross Gellar embarking on a quest to actualize his New Years Resolution. Fans will recall when Ross found himself in a sticky situation on Friends as he tried to end his romantic dry spell with Elizabeth, resulting in the infamous “Pants Paste” scene for his troubles.

Part of the humor of Friends comes from all the characters getting into extremely awkward and embarrassing situations that have arisen from them not being transparent about their needs. Ross should have taken a cue from the Butcher of Blaviken — don’t wear leather you can’t get out of!

The Diss Track To End All Diss Tracks

When fans catch up with the lovable lutanist in Season 2, Jaskier is strumming away in a tavern in Oxenfurt, belting out another ballad about his exploits with Geralt of Rivia. If fans listen closely to “Burn, Butcher, Burn!” they’ll hear his scorching slander of the Butcher.

The pair parted ways at the end of Season 1 when Geralt blamed Jaskier for his troubles with Yennefer, leaving the bard on the mountaintop following their dragon hunting adventures. While Jaskier seems angry in Season 2 over their parting, he also seems genuinely broken up about it too.

Never Too Late To Revisit Old Friends

The second season has introduced many aspects of The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, the third game in the popular video game series that acts as an inspiration for the show. While most of the Netflix series is using the books for source material, it often makes references to the games for longtime fans, especially with Season 2’s appearance of the Red Riders.

A fan using Bilbo Baggins’ fevered reaction to the One Ring is both apt in representing the rapacious nature of The Witcher fans when it comes to the game, and combining The Witcher and The Lord of the Rings, two franchises that have been hailed for their depiction of magic, fantasy realms, and medieval combat.

The Animated Witcher

With its heavy emphasis on combat, violence, gore, horror, and cursing, nothing about The Witcher series is comparable to a children’s movie, but that hasn’t stopped fans from comparing certain characters –and their styles from Season 2– to their counterparts from Dreamworks and Disney.

With his cavalier’s hat and feather, along with his sense of the theatrical, Jaskier is a dead-ringer for Puss in Boots from Shrek when fans see him playing for a tavern of patrons in Oxenfurt. And with her new braided hairstyle suitable for witcher training at Kaer Morhen, Ciri is the spitting image of the reclusive Elsa from Frozen.

Like Father, Like Daughter

Where The Witcher Season 1 focused primarily on Geralt, The Witcher Season 2 focuses primarily on Ciri who, as it turns out, has picked up a lot of the witcher’s habits. The pair take on a father-daughter relationship with all of its heartwarming and frustrating moments.

Here, a fan has taken the time to highlight Geralt’s disgruntled face mid-swig from his cup in Season 1 and compare it to a similar expression that Ciri has in Season 2 after having spent a large amount of time around him. The second season sees Ciri try to mimic Geralt in a lot of ways, including trying to ignore her past and expunge her emotions, and he has to work hard to build Ciri’s strength while preventing her from making his mistakes.

The Beater Of Faces

After waiting two years between seasons, fans were excited to follow the adventures of Geralt and Ciri after they’d spent so much time trying to reach each other. It wasn’t easy traveling together, however, as the solitudinous witcher had to get used to having a young female ward whose needs differed from his own.

This fan couldn’t help but think Ciri looked remarkably different this season, and not just because the actress seemed to age considerably, but because she acquired eyebrows where previously they’d been bleached. It was as though Geralt himself had used some sort of witcher alchemy to paint them on. Ciri also sported rosy cheeks and eye makeup much of the time, forcing fans to ruminate how exactly she acquired cosmetics out in the middle of Redania.

Too Many Side Quests

At one point in Season 2, Ciri asks Geralt why the pair can’t go to Skellige, a place she insists she knows people who can protect her. The witcher swiftly vetoes the idea, declaring it too dangerous, but the assertion seemed to inspire fans to make up their own reasons why Skellige was out of the question.

One fan seemed to think it was because when Geralt travels to Skellige in The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, he ends up going after treasure or getting involved in other Witcher side quests, such as “Hard Times,” better left ignored that aren’t as important to his main journey.

If You Know, You Know

Dijkstra is a wonderful new addition to the already expansive cast of characters in The Witcher franchise, but fans who don’t know his history as the spymaster for King Vizimir and head of Redanian Intelligence might be confused why he spends all his time blathering to an owl.

Fans who are in the know are already aware of why Dijkstra isn’t crazy because they already know who the owl really is, and therefore he’s not arguing with himself but someone very important to Season 3.

It’s Been A Long Time

When The Witcher Season 1 premiered in December of 2019, the Covid-19 pandemic was a distant concern, and it would be months before countries were locked down and in quarantine. The second season took two years to return, and by that time, fans felt like they’d spent that time wandering the wildlands of the Continent with Geralt and Roach.

Mousesack’s greeting to Geralt in Cintra suddenly became very timely as fans welcomed The Witcher into their homes again in 2021, a series that represented an altogether different time in their lives.

When Geralt Is A Real One

While he’s not as old as Vesemir, Geralt is still quite old despite his looks, something he reminds Nivellen of when he starts talking about the impending apocalypse. For nearing 100, Geralt has a lot of perspective on historically bad periods, something he shares with Millennials and younger generations of fans.

Millennials have long felt as though, between the Invasion of Iraq in the early ’00s, the Recession in ’08, and a global pandemic in 2019 that they’ve seen their fair share of tumultuous times and lived to tell about it, meaning that like the generations that came before them, tough times are temporary.

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Kayleena has been raised on Star Wars and Indiana Jones from the crib. A film buff, she has a Western collection of 250+ titles and counting that she’s particularly proud of. When she isn’t writing for ScreenRant, CBR, or The Gamer, she’s working on her fiction novel, lifting weights, going to synthwave concerts, or cosplaying. With degrees in anthropology and archaeology, she plans to continue pretending to be Lara Croft as long as she can.

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