Canonically literally every Space Marine (except for the Blood Angels IIRC) should have dark skin when exposed to sunlight and then (except for the Salamanders) flash to an unnatural pallor when they step inside, because one of the mutations they get is photochromic skin to protect them from getting sunburns while still ensuring they get enough vitamin D. That sounds incredibly stupid and like I just made it up but that is the actual canon from the lore, along with Space Marines eating their enemies brains to gain their knowledge and having acid spit like the xenomorph.
Warhammer 40K is a very silly franchise and the art direction does it a disservice by not leaning into it more.
Back during the Rogue Trader and 2nd edition days was when it was absolutely obvious
Noise marines killing dudes by rocking out
Harlequins dancing around in clashing loud colors
Squats
I miss the old design for Noise Marines, back when they had colorful Mohawks and wielded electric guitars.
Yeah, back when they were fine with everything being silly
I miss Doomrider’s fun tabletop rules, including the chance of wandering off on a manic whim on a specific die roll every turn.
Basically the Doctor Rockso of 40k.
Harlequins still do that though
Also the Emperor is from somewhere in what is now Turkey and canonically the most common language the humans speak (“Gothic”) is descended from Mandarin and is just artistically portrayed as being Latin based because “High Gothic” is supposed to scan as archaic in the way that inserting incorrect Latin into English does.
the humans speak (“Gothic”) is descended from Mandarin and is just artistically portrayed as being Latin based because “High Gothic” is supposed to scan as archaic in the way that inserting incorrect Latin into English does
According to Matt Ward and his clumsy glazing for the Grey Knights, they actually have the letters of K N I G H T stamped on their baby carriage armor.
Matt Ward is such an awful writer that exposure to his prose is an actual psychic damage hazard.
I’ll never forget when a fucking Games Workshop puff piece writer interviewed him and asked about the whole (CW: gore)
spoiler
“Grey Knights butchering Sisters of Battle to make magical talismans out of their body parts to ostensibly ‘protect’ them from the evils of the Warp in a totally not-evil way”
thing and Matt Ward was fucking giggling during his response about how cool and epic that was.
I swear, that shit was so awful that just seeing the word “gray/grey” describing things in fiction made me pre-emptively groan in anticipation of even more “all the cool perks of evil but you can’t call this power fantasy wankjob evil, maaaaaan” edgelord writing.
Thats probably the only context gamers like in OP are fine with seeing women.
Matt Ward was truly a
gater at heart.I think that even got removed from canon. It wasn’t even necessary tbh the point of the grey knights is they are downright impossible to corrupt. Hell they have kaldor draigo roaming the warp for hundreds of years (although hes like a gary stu)
You have a source for Gothic being Mandarin-descended? Never heard that before, but I could see it. The imperial palace being in the himalayas would certainly put it geographically in the correct place, but I don’t remember from where he started the unification wars.
I think it’s something from an old Rogue Trader article? So it may be more a metacommentary from an old writer sort of thing, that Gothic would have been descended from Mandarin with a bunch of English vocabulary mixed in, albeit all unrecognizable after tens of thousands of years of sound changes.
Just checked and Lexicanum has the following sentence on Low Gothic:
Low Gothic is a bastardised version of High Gothic, combining additional elements from several of the oriental languages of ancient Terra.
So close enough, but it still had to hit the 80’s racism quotient lol.
“improbably diverse”, “improbable female authority figure”.
Holy shit these nerds need to get a life.
38,000 years in the future and 1 million fuckin worlds and these dipshits are talking about “improbably diverse” lmao
If they go outside they’ll be offended at how improbably diverse it is
One of their reviews was complaining that a NYC-set game had a majority of POC characters. NYC is 30% white IRL
I’ve seen them call GTA VI “forced diversity”. Please explain how Latino characters in South Florida are forced.
It’s a game series about big muscle guys fighting psychic fungus orks and there are spaceships powered by magic. But black people and women are the improbable parts
black and asian people exist
“Do they actually exist though”Crackers wouldn’t last ten seconds without minorities whether they want to admit it or not.
If they ever got their precious ethnostate, who would they have to look down on?
If they ever got their precious ethnostate, who would they have to look down on?
The gays, probably. But they wouldn’t stop there. Fascists need to purge nonstop until fascism burns itself out.
LGBTQ+ and rednecks for contradictively opposing reasons
Or do the shit sub-minimum wage jobs
"I go to games to escape current year politics and they shove all this political stuff in it! FUCKING PRONOUNS! 
One of the xenos looks gay 0/10
RIP my bisexual lighting space elves
improbable female authority figure
female authority figure is Cadian
Cadia is (yes, Cadia still stands. fite me chaos nerds) a world where every human with a pulse and an age above 5 is handed a rifle and sent to boot camp because LITERAL HELL IS RIGHT THERE, JUST LOOK UP AT THE DAEMONS COMING TO GET YOU
Bruh.
Ultramarines are improbably diverse
Ultramar is literally Space Rome, a massive cosmopolitan space empire consisting of 500 worlds and trillions of people
I’m going to find this person and beat them with my worn-out copy of Know No Fear until they stop whining about the existence of women and black people long enough to have at least a cursory knowledge of the lore they’re butchering.
Yeah, them being angry that a Cadian woman is calling shots shows how they don’t know the lore.
Cadia literally has child soldiers. Like they teach their kids how to use a gun before they teach them to read. In the event of a demonic invasion, Cadians expect toddlers to man the front lines. Fact: adult women are stronger than a five-year-old boy.
What’s the phrase?: “A Cadian that can’t field strip a gun by 4 was born on the wrong planet.”
Cadia literally
hashad child soldiersStill has, they just gathered the remanants and get new planet, but did not changed their ways. Whiteshields are still getting trained and still thrown into grinder at 15-16 year old. Maybe even younger now because the supply of recruits is short.
I remember part from the book about Ursula Creed (“Creed: Ashes of Cadia”), which was sadly the only good part of that book, where some general during war council tried to use Ursarkar against Ursula “What would your daddy do” and she straight up responded: “My father commanded over the worst disaster in entire history of Cadia. Excuse me but i would prefer to win”
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It’s true that there were a pair of models of FSM back in ye olde Rogue Trader days (Female Warrior Gabs and Female Warrior Jayne), but they weren’t in the first batch. The first space marine model was the metal LE2 Imperial Space Marine in '85 (or possibly '86), followed by the RTB01 plastic kit in Sept '87 which came out at the same time as Warhammer 40k: Rogue Trader (aka 1st edition). Gabs and Jayne were metal models ordered individually from a miscellaneous “Adventurers” release in Spring '88.
Personally I don’t think they sold like shit because they were women, either. I think they sold like shit because they look like complete shit. Even the best paint jobs on those two models still look awful.
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Don’t fuck with us reactionary 40k fans, we don’t even understand the lore of the franchise we’re gatekeeping
The Space Marines in Space Marine 2 are Ultramarines, hailing from Ultramar, which consists of around 500 planets. It’s highly unlikely that the population of these 500 worlds would be entirely white—in fact, it’s almost impossible. Therefore, even if we stick to the lore, it makes sense that there would be Asian, and yes, Black, Ultramarines.
Furthermore, considering the Imperium of Man is in a state of total war, it’s laughable to criticize the existence of women in positions of authority. You can bet they’re recruiting everyone they can, and—gasp—some of those recruits are going to be women. Some of them will naturally rise through the ranks.
You can tell these criticisms come from people who don’t actually love the lore but just engage with it to push their xenophobic agenda. It’s ironic that the Imperium of Man a Totalitarian Nightmare is too “progressive” for modern chuds.
Little Icing on top. The Emperor most likely isnt “white” at least not blonde and blue eyed since he is originally from Anatolia (yes Turky)
Little Icing on top. The Emperor most likely isnt “white” at least not blonde and blue eyed since he is originally from Anatolia (yes Turky)
Emperor
Both have a massive body and tiny head when sitting upon their chairs of choice.
Like, the books and video games have tons of high ranking women in positions of power in the Ecclesiarchy, Inquisition, Astra Militarum, Adeptes Custodes, planetary governors etc.
Bunch of fake fans, probably don’t even know Commissar Cain’s infamous tryst with Inquisitor Amberley Vail smdh
Amberley Vail
I’ll just call the
and turn myself in.
Cain has impeccable taste on top of absurd imposter syndrome.
i like how she’s super badass, wearing all this armour on 90 percent of her body, wielding those massive guns and yet the artist still took the time to have her pose to push her boobs out, which are coincidentally the most highlighted part of her figure lmao
they just can’t help themselves
eta: i just looked a the full picture - i didnt realise she was wearing a mask, meaning her boobs are the ONLY exposed part of her lmfao
It’s ridiculous, agreed.
40k should be ridiculous and often the problem is paint-huffing fascist-come-lately toxic fans that want it to somehow be serious while also making the space fascists seem good.
Perhaps they’re just airbrushed artwork on top of the armor. It seems like the sort of sardonic thing that character would do.
i mean, to me it very much looks like a corset/bodice/bodysuit, considering the lace goes right down to her crotch, but either way we’re now entering ‘she dresses horny because it makes her feel empowered’ territory of male-driven treatistry
The books do mention her having a bodysuit that she wears underneath power armor before, so it’s probably supposed to be that. No excuse for the gratuitous cleavage beyond she wants to look sexy while shooting things angle though.
I’d never say no to a lady with power armor
The VOLCEL POLICE are on the scene! PLEASE KEEP YOUR VITAL ESSENCES TO YOURSELVES AT ALL TIMES.
نحن شرطة VolCel.بناءا على تعليمات الهيئة لترويج لألعاب الفيديو و النهي عن الجنس نرجوا الإبتعاد عن أي أفكار جنسية و الحفاظ على حيواناتكم المنويَّة حتى يوم الحساب. اتقوا الله، إنك لا تراه لكنه يراك.
GENESEEDS ARE IMPLANTED INTO A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THEIR RACE, IT ONLY ADDS THE CAPACITY FOR FURTHER ENHANCEMENTS SUCH AS THE BLACK CARAPACE OR THE THING WHERE THEY CAN GAIN MEMORIES BY EATING BRAINS
Gamers are pathetic lmao
Chuds in their infinite glory have become the very strawmen they built up leftists of being. Complete with obsessing over a game’s politics rather than the gameplay, which they are supposed to care so much about.
“We just want to play bibeo bames” said the
gate fascists while becoming a political front boosting 
the imperium is undeniably human supremacist but has no problem putting every gender into the meat grinder equally
like, this has always been the canon these fucks just want to think it’s some tradcath space future
I fell into a rabbit hole and started watching Warhammer lore videos a few years ago and then something - I don’t know exactly what, maybe tone of voice or word choices - made me fall into another rabbit hole of searching for the content creators + feminism to see if they had gone on some insane rant and so many of them had made a “very special video” on the subject.
Bruva Alfabusa was a fun time with his “If The Emperor Had A Text To Speech Device” series… until Games Workshop lawyered that to death. :(
There’s so many things in that series I choose to believe are canon.
The Ultramarine commander being deeply depressed because of the sheer plot armor and absurd win rate of his forces
I read books about Cato Sicarius and they just seems terribly uncanonical after TTS (they are also really bad bolter slop and typical example of overblown marine personality cult).
Yeah that was fun, but i recently look at what he produces since and man it was miserable experience, he should just disappear after TTS ended.
it was miserable experience, he should just disappear after TTS ended.
I can understand not liking world of darkness buts a bit of an extreme reaction to content that isn’t your jam.I do like world of darkness, its like my second rpg ever (though i prefer mage and vampire in it, and rather the old editions than new ones) i just find the distance between TTS and this grotesque
i just find the distance between TTS and this grotesque
He did want to just “disappaer” after the TT series ended but the internet stormed his patreon on mass. Its not just Alfabusa anymore and they aren’t just limited to a single series anymore. That being said its understandable if it reminds you too much of TTS to watch (as far as Im aware they could continue making TTS along side this the moment GW stops being a baby) though I personally like the things can they do with these characters without the chud restrictions of the warhammer brand (like just causally making most of the cast openly queer) more. I’d like to recommend you watch there more orginal tabletop mage series hopefully its more for you.
Oh i didn’t noticed he made something about mage, i will look. But wierd how GW stomped good things but youtube is still choke full of various fanmade content. And recently even some 50-minute movie about Dark Angels came which is afaik also fanmade and they allowed it? My theory is that they don’t allow something that have better lore and plot and theirs lol.
The HTP series is also kinda mage adjacent since they’re hunters from the Arcanum.
And they have a half life series with two epsiodes. Lmao I felt a bit bad saying that because talked up the whole not being limited to one series thing but they’ve pumped out so much shit I forgot you’d usually get a TTS episode every half a year if you were lucky.
Im not surprised, in hindsight if you thought Hunter the Parenting was some cheap knockoff or something. 
has to be the wokest person in existence to these people for being black, asian, and a woman all at the same timeIt was too much for them and they settled on believing that she switches between being black and asian (semi-real)
Does.not.compute
just baseless accusations from them at her. There were some threads here that indicated that this was a fairly common experience for multiracial people.
Vitiligo is woke
steamfront
anyone who is this obsessed with “woke” in video games needs to have their computer forcibly taken away and sent to a gulag and be forced to touch grass until they become normal
