About
You merely adopted the X meme is a meme involving a picture of Bane or Somebody wearing a Bane mask being captioned either “You merely adopted the X, I was born in it. Molded by it.” or “You merely adopted the X, I was born in it. Molded by it. I didn’t see the X until I was a grown X and by then it was nothing to me.”
Origin
It is unknown where the meme we know of originated from but it is speculated that it probably started on a meme generator site like Memegenerator.net. The original quote is said to Batman by Bane after Bane punches Batman in the darkness in the 2012 film The Dark Knight Rises.
Spread
It spread by multiple pages using it to show their admin name or display it on facebook after seeing it on a meme generator site, this being seen by multiple users let it spread as the users customized it before ending up as a quote on IMDB.
Notable Examples
An example of someone wearing a Bane Mask being captioned
An example of Bane being captioned
An example of someone wearing a Bane mask being captioned