Also called Judgmental Volturi · Smug Vampires · Volturi Looking Down · Looking Down Upon
Three elegantly dressed vampires look down from a balcony. Give their grand sense of superiority a very small justification: one good habit, a minor advantage, or a fact nobody asked for.
The height of the balcony and Aro’s expression turn the characters into judges of everyone below them. A caption about a trivial distinction makes that authority look undeserved.
This works especially well as a joke about your own smugness. The reader can recognize the tiny accomplishment and the absurd amount of status you are assigning to it.
The still comes from The Twilight Saga: New Moon, released in 2009. Aro, Caius, and Marcus are shown on a balcony as a painting comes to life during Edward and Bella’s discussion of the Volturi. Michael Sheen plays Aro, the central figure. [1]
The meme is also called Judgmental Volturi or Smug Vampires. Know Your Meme documents a captioned version shared on Reddit on June 4, 2016, credited in the image to InShowWeTrust. Later captions applied the pose to petty social comparisons. [1]
Put the caption below the faces. Name the habit or advantage that supposedly puts you above everyone else; the costumes and pose supply the inflated self-importance.
Keep the distinction small and concrete. Knowing one shortcut or bringing a proper mug is funnier here than a claim that the character has genuinely done something heroic.
Original captions to try with this template.
One new skill is treated as a qualification to judge everyone else’s computer use.
The only difference is the cup, but the pose treats it as a social rank.
A tiny amount of preparation produces an entirely disproportionate sense of expertise.
References for this template. Example captions are original.
Identifies the film, characters, actors, and a documented 2016 captioned post.
Connects the Superior Royalty name with the Looking Down Upon template.
