Tom Cruise

About

Tom Cruise is an American film actor prominent for his work in the 1980s through 2010s, including well-known roles like Pete “Maverick” Mitchell in the 1986 feature Top Gun, the nominal character in Jerry Maguire and Ethan Hunt in the Mission: Impossible action series^[1]. Cruise has been nominated for an Academy Award three times and is generally regarded as one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. He is also a well-known member of the Church of Scientology.

Related Memes

Tom Cruise Jumps on Oprah’s Couch

Tom Cruise Jumps on Oprah’s Couch refers to the appearance of Tom Cruise on The Oprah Winfrey Show, possibly originally to promoted the upcoming remake War of the Worlds. Instead, Cruise went wild, exclaiming he had “never felt this way” and that he needed to let the world know he loved his then-wife Katie Holmes.

The clip quickly became subject to parody including photoshop manipulation and film parody.

Laughing Tom Cruise

Laughing Tom Cruise refers to a series of photoshopped images and remix videos based on a press photograph of the famous American actor laughing manically during his on-stage appearance as a guest speaker at a Yahoo! conference in early 2006.

Scientology Video Leak and Project Chanology

In 2008, a promotional video for the Church of Scientology featuring Cruise explaining his faith was posted online. The video featured Cruise being interviewed and talking about the practices of the Church, which are often considered mysterious and opaque.

After the Church of Scientology issued a DMCA takedown notice to YouTube for hosting the video, users of the forum board 4Chan and other online forums gathered together to begin Project Chanology^[2], a group that organized protests against the Church of Scientology. Many regard this instance as the beginnings of the formation of the online hacktivism group Anonymous.

Center Tooth; You Will Never Unsee This

Although the subject had been explored several times^[4], on- and off-line, a thread on Reddit^[3] pointing out a misalignment in Tom Cruise’s front teeth became quiet popular, garnering 1,426 points (80% upvoted) and the imgur image received 66k views as of March 2015.

The title of the thread, “You will never unsee this, has a tooth at the exact center of his face” has become a copypasta used whenever anyone brings up Cruise on a forum board.

Tom Cruise Clinging

Tom Cruise Clinging is a photoshop series featuring a cut-out image of Tom Cruise, taken from a stunt he performed for his film Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, transposed into a variety of unlikely environments.