The Armadillo is the sarcastic conscience of Zerocalcare, the pen name of Italian cartoonist Michele Rech, first created for the graphic novel La profezia dell'armadillo and later brought to a wider audience in the Netflix animated series Strappare lungo i bordi from 2021, voiced by Valerio Mastandrea. The word stocazzo is classic Roman slang used as a vulgar way to say as if. Clips of the character's deadpan lines circulate widely as WhatsApp audios and TikTok memes in Italy, where the phrase works as a universal, instantly understood dismissal.