10 Internet Memes And Their Cinematic Counterparts

8. Success Kid

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Cinematic equivalent: Kevin McCallister (Macauley Culkin) in Home Alone Success Kid is the times everything just goes your way, when you drive to work and get nothing but green lights. This one€™s pretty self-explanatory: in Home Alone, precocious child Kevin McCallister successfully thwarts two hardened criminals with a series of elaborate home-made traps and dei ex machina. His parents should have come home to discover their house burglarised, taps running and child murdered, but he somehow lives to see the sequel, making him cinema€™s ultimate Success Kid. At one point, he even fist pumps (which is itself a meme, but more on that later).
 
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