On December 12th, Urban Dictionary user lrb323 submitted an entry for the phrase, defining it as: 'A greeting used to proclaim one's intention to kill based on past murders. On January 2nd, 2010, TV Tropes published an entry for My Name Is Inigo Montoya which defined it as: 'Before a duel begins, one character announces himself to his opponent without any prompting because he wants his target to know who is about to pound him.' Prepare to die' was created, as of October 2014, the page has gained over 9,000 likes. On December 30th, 2009, the Facebook community page 'My name is Inigo Montoya.
The earliest clip featuring the phrase uploaded to YouTube was uploaded by YouTuber wattstopper101 on July 18th, 2008.