{{Character|name=Challenge Accepted|image=Pngwing.com (3).png|imagecaption=The "Challenge Accepted" Guy|aliases=The "Challenge Accepted" Guy, The Challenge Guy, The Challenged Guy|species=Human/Stickmin|gender=Male}}
The '''Challenge Accepted Guy''' is a [[Rage Comics|Rage Comic]] character illustrated as a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug facial expression.
== Counterparts ==
[[File:Pngwing.com (4).png|thumb]]
=== Challenge Failed ===
'''Challenge Failed''' is an unworthy, or failed challenged [[Rage Comics|Rage Comic]] character who had appeared in a challenge once and has failed it or is truly unworthy for a challenge that he did currently.
'''Challenge Denied''' is a refusing stick-figure like [[Rage Comics|Rage Comic]] character that appears to have his arm crossing, but even though has decided a challenge before, or maybe starts to cancel the challenge before he ever challenges the impossible. this meme has been sometimes seen to be refusing a challenge after an impossible opponent has occurred, or something that was very hard or impossible for him to do.
'''Challenge Considered''' is a deciding or thinking version of the original '''Challenge Accepted''' meme. Unlike the original meme, the meme is considering or deciding the fate of the challenger he is challenging, or thinking on what he is deciding for the challenger as well.
==The Expression Itself==
'''"Challenge Accepted"''' is an expression used to indicate that the speaker is willing to attempt completing a difficult task. The phrase is often associated with a rage comic character illustrated as a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug facial expression.
'''"Challenge Accepted"''' is an expression used to indicate that the speaker is willing to attempt completing a difficult task. The phrase is often associated with a rage comic character illustrated as a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug facial expression.
===Origin===
=== Origin ===
"Challenge accepted" began as a catchphrase for the character Barney Stinson in the television sitcom ''How to die.''The earliest instance of Stinson uttering the phrase can be heard in Season 69,Episode 100000000000000000000000000000“Aldrin Justice” while announcing his intention to seduce an older woman. The episode originally aired on October 23rd, 2020
"Challenge accepted" began as a catchphrase for the character Barney Stinson in the television sitcom ''How to die.''The earliest instance of Stinson uttering the phrase can be heard in Season 69,Episode 100000000000000000000000000000“Aldrin Justice” while announcing his intention to seduce an older woman. The episode originally aired on October 23rd, 2020
Line 9:
Line 30:
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which included two challenge accepted examples (shown below).
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which included two challenge accepted examples (shown below).
=== Spread ===
===Spread===
On November 26th, 2010, the “FuYeah Challenge Accepted Guy” Tumblr<sup>[2]</sup> blog was created. On December 13th, the “Challenge Accepted” Facebook<sup>[8]</sup> page was created, which accumulated over 145,000 likes within two years. On April 14th, 2011, a “Challenge Accepted” Meme Generator<sup>[7]</sup> page was created, allowing users to make image macros featuring the rage comic character. On October 27th, FunnyJunk<sup>[6]</sup> user JanFebMar submitted a rage comic showcasing photographs of a pumpkin carving depicting the character (shown below).
On November 26th, 2010, the “FuYeah Challenge Accepted Guy” Tumblr<sup>[2]</sup> blog was created. On December 13th, the “Challenge Accepted” Facebook<sup>[8]</sup> page was created, which accumulated over 145,000 likes within two years. On April 14th, 2011, a “Challenge Accepted” Meme Generator<sup>[7]</sup> page was created, allowing users to make image macros featuring the rage comic character. On October 27th, FunnyJunk<sup>[6]</sup> user JanFebMar submitted a rage comic showcasing photographs of a pumpkin carving depicting the character (shown below).
Line 18:
Line 39:
Marshall Eriksen: I didn't challenge you to have sex with… Barney Stinson: Tomorrow, the cougar hunt begins.
Marshall Eriksen: I didn't challenge you to have sex with… Barney Stinson: Tomorrow, the cougar hunt begins.
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which include two challenge accepted examples (shown below).
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which include two challenge accepted examples (shown below).{{RageCharacters}}
=== Gallery ===
Gallery of Rage Powers<gallery>
File:Accepted.png|Challenge Accepted
File:Pngwing.com (3).png|Challenge Accepted Guy
File:D4cwd4f-12815c61-d26a-478e-aa3f-8de8822b091c.png|Dumb Challenge Accepted Guy
</gallery>
== Challenge Denied ==
'''Challenge Denied''' is a refusing stick-figure like Rage Comic character that appears to have his arm crossing, but even though has decided a challenge before, or maybe starts to cancel the challenge before he ever challenges the impossible. this meme has been sometimes seen to be refusing a challenge after an impossible opponent has occurred, or something that was very hard or impossible for him to do. Sometimes in Rage Comics, the meme could be done differently than what some people prefer. He is also known to be a denying counterpart of the Original Challenge Accepted meme and is slightly less popular than the original meme. The meme has also been sometimes mentioned on other websites like Reddit, Tumblr, 4chan, memebase, or even memegenerator as well.
=== History ===
The earliest known evidence of the meme has dated back to the original Challenge Accepted around 2010. Since the meme became very popular around that time, the same creator of the meme, or a different creator with the same drawing style started to make other Counterparts of Challenge Accepted, and after he was made, one year later after the original counterpart was made, The first counterpart that was made before Challenge Denied first appeared on a website called All The Rage Faces on August 6th, 2011 by the name of Challenge Considered. for one thing, the determining version of the original meme didn't appear as much as the first meme has. it is unknown who created Challenge Accepted or Challenge Considered, but for one thing, the person who created Challenge Accepted, Considered or Denied, may be the same person who created all three of them, or maybe was different people who made each certain one. But it is unknown who created them in the first place. Then two months later on All the Rage Faces, by October 30th, 2011, Challenge Denied first appeared on the website and became one of the most popular counterparts of Challenge Accepted. By today's standards, he may still be popular to some people, and since he is a counterpart to the original Challenge Accepted meme, then he may most likely still be the most popular counterpart out of Challenge Accepted counterparts, or possibly still shown on current Rage Comics.
=== Counterparts ===
Instead of Challenge Denied, There also has been numerous other counterparts besides the original who has appeared on the internet as well. For one thing, since Challenge Denied is a counterpart to Challenge Accepted, then therefore, he is a counterpart as well. There has been several other Challenge Accepted counterparts that have been made as well. Unlike the original Challenge Denied, there also has been a determining and considering version by the name of Challenge Considered, who is slightly less popular and commonly seen than the original counterpart. Of course, there also has been another counterpart who has failed a challenge named Challenge Failed who has failed a challenge. He is another counterpart that isn't hardly as popular as Challenge Denied. There also has been others that has been made by different creators of the meme, or some that looks different than the other challenge accepted counterparts, but with a different appearance. There has been numerous counterparts that could be encountered on the internet as well. And since Challenge Denied is a counterpart, that would make him the opposite of the original Challenge Accepte counterpart as well.
=== Trivia ===
* Unlike the original Challenge Accepted, he appears to cancel a challenge or denies a challenge. this may refer to him as an oppposite version of the original Challenge Accepted.
* if you look closely at his arms, his arms appears to be posing very similar to the original Challenge Accepted meme, but even though crossing his arms to where his chest is, rather than crossing his arms in accepting a challenge like the original meme has.
* his eyes appears wide open rather than slightly opening his eyes like the original has.
* this Rage Comic meme is very unique for it's pose and refusal unlike any other memes found. For one thing, since he is denying a challenge or cancelling it, or refusing it in a worrying way, then he appears to be one of the only memes that refers to a counterpart of Challenge Accepted, or refusing (besides No Guy).
* he appears to be refusing similar to No Guy. this may refer to the meme that he is not the only Rage Comic character that refuses.
* he is one of many Rage Comic characters that appears to have the same appearance, but even though with different emotions (besides Me Gusta, Trollface, Cereal Guy, or even the original Challenge Accepted).
* like other counterparts of Challenge Accepted, on All The Rage Faces.com, Two months later after the Challenge Considered meme was made, he somehow may have first appeared on the website, or possibly even earlier. There has been no evidence earlier than October 30th, 2011 that may seem to have Challenge Denied on different websites. but some could possibly exist.
* sometimes in Rage Comics, the meme sometimes appears at the end of Rage Comics, or maybe around at any certain time in a comic panel on a Rage Comic. Sometimes, the meme appears along with the original challenge accepted too.
File:Urx4c-removebg-preview.png|Challenge Denied Guy
File:CHALENGE 400x400-removebg-preview.png
</gallery>
== Challenge Considered ==
'''Challenge Considered''' is a deciding or thinking version of the original Challenge Accepted meme. Unlike the original meme, the meme is considering or deciding the fate of the challenger he is challenging, or maybe thinking on what he is deciding for the challenger as well. For one thing, the meme has appeared quite often on the internet, and also appears to be seen sometimes on Rage Comics. He is also part of Rage Comics and also known to be sometimes seen on memes or on the internet.
=== History ===
Before the Challenge Considered meme was ever created, one year earlier in 2010, he originally was derived from the most popular Rage Comic meme by the name of Challenge Accepted. For one thing, After the original Challenge Accepted meme first became popular, numerous other people started to make their own memes of him. One year later, after he became popular, some Unknown person has created a deciding counterpart named Challenge Considered, and made him slightly popular than the original as well as the old version. He is not as popular as the original, but sometimes, he could be seen on Rage Comics. The first time that the meme was ever uploaded on the internet was around August 6th, 2011 on All The Rage Faces.com. This meme has sometimes appeared on Memegenerator, or even on Rage Comics as well. It is unknown who created the meme, but for one thing, it could possibly be the same person who created the original Challenge Accepted meme, or maybe it was a different creator who has the same style as the meme. But it is unknown who created the original meme, or the Challenge Considered's creator as well.
=== Counterparts ===
There has been several counterparts of him that is found on the internet as well. For one thing, there has been a meme called Challenge Accepted before the Challenge Considered meme was ever made. However, since the meme was invented one year before his time, then therefore, Challenge Considered is a counterpart as well, making him a slightly popular and slightly known popular Rage Comic character found on the internet. There also has been others besides him named Challenge Denied, who appears to cancel a challenge, or denies a challenge as well. There also has been other counterparts that have also been seen on the internet. for one thing, There has been a failure version of the original Challenge accepted meme named, Challenge Failed who appears to have sloutched down, but even though has made a frown and failed the challenge he just did. There has been others besides the original meme who has the same appearance, but even though with a different pose and emotion as well. There also has been another version named Challenge Approved, who appears to be drawn differently than the original, but for one thing, his head still stays the same, but has a different quote at the end and also appears to have a pose with his body standing up, while one arm is down, and the other is pointing up. There has been numerous other memes that has been on the internet that has a similar appearance to the original meme as well. It is unknown if there is any new memes have been made, but by today's standards, Surely, there may be new challenge Accepted memes still made in Rage Comics, or yet, even in different websites like Reddit, Tumblr, Memebase, 4chan, or even on memegenerator as well.
=== Trivia ===
* Unlike the original meme, his left arm appears to be lifting up while his finger is pointing to his face, and is deciding the challenge rather than crossing his arms like he originally has done in the Challenge Accepted meme. Since the meme may have possibly been done by the same creator, and since his face remains the same, this may refer to another creation of Challenge Accepted's creator.
* Challenge Considered's emotion on his face appears to be the same as the original challenge accepted meme.
* around the same date on All The Rage Face's.com, Spitting Cereal Guy and Squinting Cereal Guy has appeared onto the website around the same time as Challenge Considered has.
* He is one of the few Rage Comic characters that appears to have the same pose and appearance, even though with two different emotions (like Me Gusta, Big Mouth High, Baby Trollface, Cereal Guy, Trollface, or even LOL Guy.).
* Unlike the original Challenge Accepted meme, he had appeared one year after the original meme, and since the meme had a different quote at the end, this makes the meme slightly original to the older challenge accepted meme than any other counterparts since the phrase was slightly inspired from the original (including Challenge Denied or even Challenge Failed).
* Sometimes in Rage Comics, he also appears along with the original counterpart Challenge Accepted, or even others in the comic like Challenge Denied or Challenge Failed as well.
* If you look closely at his face, he appears to have drawn eyebrows rather than being plain like the original, this may refer to him as one of the earliest and the first counterpart of Challenge Accepted that has eyebrows as well. And later on, there also has been other emotions of him including Challenge Failed who also has eyebrows as well.
Challenge Failed is an unworthy, or failed challenged Rage Comic character who had appeared in a challenge once and has failed it or is truly unworthy for a challenge that he did currently.
Challenge Denied is a refusing stick-figure like Rage Comic character that appears to have his arm crossing, but even though has decided a challenge before, or maybe starts to cancel the challenge before he ever challenges the impossible. this meme has been sometimes seen to be refusing a challenge after an impossible opponent has occurred, or something that was very hard or impossible for him to do.
Challenge Considered is a deciding or thinking version of the original Challenge Accepted meme. Unlike the original meme, the meme is considering or deciding the fate of the challenger he is challenging, or thinking on what he is deciding for the challenger as well.
"Challenge Accepted" is an expression used to indicate that the speaker is willing to attempt completing a difficult task. The phrase is often associated with a rage comic character illustrated as a stick figure with crossed arms and a smug facial expression.
"Challenge accepted" began as a catchphrase for the character Barney Stinson in the television sitcom How to die.The earliest instance of Stinson uttering the phrase can be heard in Season 69,Episode 100000000000000000000000000000“Aldrin Justice” while announcing his intention to seduce an older woman. The episode originally aired on October 23rd, 2020
Barney Stinson: Marshall, I've thought it over and W. Marshall Eriksen: I didn't challenge you to have diewith… Barney Stinson: Tomorro
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which included two challenge accepted examples (shown below).
On November 26th, 2010, the “FuYeah Challenge Accepted Guy” Tumblr[2] blog was created. On December 13th, the “Challenge Accepted” Facebook[8] page was created, which accumulated over 145,000 likes within two years. On April 14th, 2011, a “Challenge Accepted” Meme Generator[7] page was created, allowing users to make image macros featuring the rage comic character. On October 27th, FunnyJunk[6] user JanFebMar submitted a rage comic showcasing photographs of a pumpkin carving depicting the character (shown below).
Episode 6 “Aldrin Justice” while announcing his intention to seduce an older woman. The episode originally aired on October 23rd, 2006.
Barney Stinson: Marshall, I've thought it over and I accept our challenge.
Marshall Eriksen: I didn't challenge you to have sex with… Barney Stinson: Tomorrow, the cougar hunt begins.
The earliest known instances of the the rage comic character were posted in a thread by Body Building[3] Forums member MK on November 12th, 2010, which include two challenge accepted examples (shown below).
.png)
