"Excuse Me" Guy
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Once upon a time, in a universe not as far away as the one from a long time ago, there was a group of Terran Guardsmen instructed by a dirty Frenchman on how they were essentially going to attempt to pull off a suicidal plan they didn't fully understand. Fun was had by all.
In a completely unrelated event, one day an anon from /tg/ discovered a screencap depicting a redshirt from Star Trek who asks Jean-Luc Picard a question about something while a look of worry sits upon his visage. That anon then did the natural thing and applied Warhammer 40,000 to it, as /tg/ is wont to do with all things. The result was a meme in which an Imperial Guardsman asks his Commissar a question, usually phrased "Excuse me sir/Commissar,-" which tries to point out something contradictory, but usually is just something very banal and obvious to people who know anything about the setting. This attracts people who barely know anything about the setting but finally have a chance of sharing their limited knowledge, spurring discussions about just how stupid OP is. This got annoying rather quickly, especially when people tried to force this meme by spamming it constantly with ever stupider questions.
Further versions were made to try and spam this meme harder, resulting in a colorful array of terrible photoshops and groan-inducing questions.
Some have taken to calling him "Zathras". The name is based off of a minor character from the TV show, Babylon 5, as a spoof of his ability to ask questions despite continued *BLAM*; supposedly, there is an entire legion of "identical cousins" standing by to replace each Zathras after the inevitable *BLAM*, all of whom talk and think in such close harmony that only they can tell each other apart, exactly like his namesake from the show.
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