Leeroy Jenkins
The viral 2005 World of Warcraft clip where one player, Leeroy Jenkins, charges screaming into a careful group plan and gets everyone killed.
Origin
In May 2005 a WoW guild called PALS FOR LIFE recorded their group strategizing in front of a difficult dungeon boss. The plan went on for over a minute — meticulous, math-laden, slow. Mid-sentence, a player named Leeroy Jenkins, who had stepped away from his keyboard, charged in alone screaming his own name ('LEEEEEEEROY JENKIINS!'). The entire raid followed in panic and were wiped out. The clip was almost certainly staged — the math was too good, the timing too clean — but it didn't matter. It spread to mainstream news, US military training, Jeopardy! questions, and (eventually) Activision-Blizzard's official trading-card game.
Modern usage
'Pulling a Leeroy Jenkins' is universal shorthand for charging recklessly into a plan you haven't listened to. Used in business writing, sports analysis, and any context of impulsive action sabotaging careful coordination. The name itself can be used as a verb ('he Leeroy Jenkins-ed the whole launch').
In the wild
The CEO Leeroy-Jenkinsed the offer letter before the lawyer could finish reviewing.— common usage
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