I Will Find You And I Will Kill You

About

I will find you and I will kill you, also known as the Taken meme is a memorable quote from 2008 thriller movie Taken. Online, it has been reused in image macros as a reaction towards anything that could trigger the urge of wanting to kill someone.

Origin

The line itself is uttered by Bryan Mills (played by Liam Neeson) in 2008 thriller film Taken while being on the phone with the people who kidnapped his daughter. An extract from the scene was uploaded to Youtube on April 4th 2009 (shown below), gaining more than 800 000 views in the first five years.

The full transcript says:

I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

Spread

A screenshot of the scene first found itself on memegenerator on January 30th 2012, titled “liam neeson taken”^[1], using the catchphrase as a punchline dealing with everyday and social media annoyances. The macro ranked #256 on the site and garnered over 32 000 parodies displayed on 28 pages over the course of three years. Through out 2012 alone, It spawned other entries on the site, such as “Taken meme”^[2] and “I will find you and kill you”^[3], using different screenshots of Liam Neeson talking on the phone. The popularity of the macro reached other macro-loving hubs such as ImgFlip^[4] and Quickmeme^[5].