In the year 20XX

[Flint]

"The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox. And there's a post-apocalyptic universe that is built off of Fox being the only viable character left. Humanity has reached its pinnacle. The peasants are living in poverty. And there's these monasteries where these Fox monks just levitate and TAS Fox with one controller in one hand, and win a tournament with the other. And the tournament metagame has gotten to this point where everything is played out to theoretical perfection, so they Rock-Paper-Scissors for port priority, and that's the set. And everyone gets really excited about the port priority RPS, so RPS's metagame has really evolved to where it's just an RPS tournament now. And then we have warriors like Kevin Toy and Europhoria desperately trying to prevent the apocalypse, the Fox Apocalypse, from happening with their Marths."

Subsequently, this meme is the origin of "No items, Fox Only, Final Destination, GO". This meme has, ironically, been adopted jokingly by the competitive community; it is often branded on T-shirts from sponsors, and on parodies of the Melee box art. On the rare occasion that a Fox mirror match occurs on Final Destination, they may make a comment in reference to the meme. However, professionals maintain that while their ruleset is more restrictive than "regular" play, it still allows far greater degrees of freedom than what this meme suggests competitive play to be. They further discredit the original argument the meme was based on, stating that Final Destination is not more frequently played than any of the other legal stages in the Melee ruleset, and is one of Fox's worst stages in certain matchups (Marth).

The phrase's pervasiveness appears to have been noticed by the developers of the Super Smash Bros. series. In both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4, the two online modes playable against non-friends are For Fun and For Glory. For Fun allows any stage except Final Destination and has all items on, while For Glory turns off all items, allows 1v1 fights instead of just free-for-alls, and only allows Final Destination and Omega stages (i.e. existing stages restructured to have Final Destination's stage design). However, characters other than Fox are allowed.

[Khina Bree]

You have no idea how disappointed I am that this was not a Megaman related post...