History NightmareFuel / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

'''Xylatro''': Ghh! You know what it is!\\
'''Jebarion''':Yeeesss...\\
'''Xylatro''':SAY IT!\\
'''Jebarion''':Is it... Gh...\\
'''Xylatro''':SAY ITS NAME!\\
'''Jebarion''':She Who Thirsts?\\
'''Leman''': That it is not the name ''I'' am familiar with.\\
'''Jebarion''':Ah. Bu-\\
'''Leman''': ''Try again.''\\
'''Jebarion''':Ah! P-bu... Bu-, It-it's the right answer!\\
'''Leman''': '''''Try. Again.'''''\\
'''Jebarion''':''[--PLEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!--] [Chokes on his own words]''\\
'''Xylatro''':Say it! SAY ITS REAL NAME! SAY IT! SAY IT, COWARD!! YOU '''BONESUCKER''', SAY IT!! '''BY THE MUSES! SAY ITS NAME!!''' Say it! SAY IT!! '''SAY IT!!'''\\
'''Jebarion''':''[--A sheeee?--]''\\
* beat*\\
'''Xylatro''':Wuh...\\
'''Leman''': Yes. And no.\\
(''daemonic laughter'')\\
'''Xylatro''':What?\\
'''Leman''': And everything in between.\\
'''Xylatro''':WHU... '''WHAT?!'''\\
'''Jebarion''':[--Neat, I guess it's your turn.--]\\
'''Xylatro''':RRRRRGH!! COWARD! ''COWARD!!'' I CURSE YOU! I CURSE YOUR ENTIRE ANCESTRAL LINE, JEBARION!!\\
'''Jebarion''':''[--Whatever curse you levy I take before an eternity of suffering...--]''\\
'''Xylatro''':You VERMIN! ''YOU DO NOT DESERVE TO CALL YOURSELF DRUKHARI!!'' GRRRR... I take suffering before disgrace! '''FOR COMMORRAGH!!''' IS IT... SLAANE-Ghghghaghrrrrrgh-AAAAAAAAAAAAA- (''Turns to ash as soul is drank by She Who Thirsts'')\\

* [[https://youtu.be/Ep_1k-lOto8 The Shadow Over Immateriums]] is one long exercise in this. Especially once the main character Bruce Norring makes accidental psychic contact with the ''Tyranid Hive Mind'' and has a vision that culminates in an absolutely '''[[https://i.imgur.com/GnzM4t2.png massive]]''' Hive Fleet that dwarfs the galaxy rising up to devour it. He's almost infected by the Genestealer Cult until his choice words manage to accidentally summon the Ordo Xenos Inquisitor Adriele Quist, from the Warp to slaughter the whole damn thing and leave. The event leaves the formerly hard-boiled detective [[LaughingMad laughing]] and sobbing in fear at what he's seen.
** Said "Hive Fleet" can be a bit more terrifying when you look closer at it and see what looks like ''eyes'' near it's base. It might not be a Hive Fleet, it might just be a Tyranid Bioform so absolutely massive and incomprehensible that it just ''seems like one''.
** Alternatively, since it's a psychic vision, it may be the Hive Mind itself. Quite literally a hungry god, ''and it's looking right at you''.
** During the segment, there is a sound that steadily grows louder towards the end. It is the ''Hive Mind'' '''''[[MightyRoar roaring]]''''', and it is [[HellIsThatNoise horrific]], sounding like a Reaper Horn on equine growth hormone.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBmpW9lRIew Requiem for Dominique]] in it's 45 second entirety. Capable of sobering up an Inquisitor drunk from fermented Chaos out of sheer terror. It's unsettling to the point that numerous people wonder if it was some kind of message from ''Nurgle''.
* The [[BodyHorror incomplete Ahriman clone]] in the Slaaneshmas special, a living reminder of how Fabius Bile is Chaos' premier NightmareFuelStationAttendant.
-->''"[[VoiceOfTheLegion YOU LEFT ME UNFINISHED]]"''
** The whole scene horrifies both Ahriman and Lucius the Eternal. Yeah, you heard me. Fabius Bile has managed to horrify LUCIUS THE ETERNAL, who up until now has been the largest source of NightmareFuel in the entire series. Yeah.
* [[https://youtu.be/o1cXYan0NQA BEHEMOTH]], [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu-gp8eEmEz4bDt2Q5pXVbQ Eliphas The Inheritor's]] "OVA" of TTS has this in spades due to it being about the first appearance of the Tyranids. Magos Varnak's [[ApocalypticLog Data Codex]] in particular doesn't help matters. Especially not since it's a reading of an ''actual canon quote.''
-->'''Varnak''': [[DespairEventHorizon We cannot live through this. Mankind... CANNOT LIVE THROUGH THIS.]] [[ZergRush In a single day, they have covered the surface of this planet with a flood of of living blades and needle-fanged mouths!]] [[HydraProblem Kill one, and ten take its place!]] [[WeHaveReserves If they are truly without number...]] [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Then our race is DOOMED to a violent death before every shred of our civilization is scoured away by a force more voracious than the fires of HELL themselves!]] [[JustBeforeTheEnd DEATH! By the Machine God! DEATH IS HERE!]] (Recording ends)
-->'''Guardsman''': [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere No. Fuck this.]] [[DrivenToSuicide (shoots himself in the head)]]
** In general, the Tyranids are the biggest SERIOUS source of NightmareFuel in the TTS-verse so far. While Chaos certainly has its fair share of horrors, there is always a healthy mix of hilarity to balance out their darker and scarier aspects even with characters as horrible as Lucius the Eternal. The Tyranids, on the other hand? Any interaction with them has MINIMAL humor ''at best'', and nothing but horror at worst.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybq-eP0Uq8M&ab_channel=BruvaAlfabusa The Dark Eldar in their full glory!]]. DoubleSubversion doesn't even begin to describe it.
** In the fifth special, Asdrubael Vect's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ows47yrO8CU&t=3m50s cup-bearer, Timothy]]. He looks like the hybrid spawn between E.T. and a scrotum. If he was ever human, [[UncannyValley he barely looks like one now.]]
* As silly a video as it is [[https://youtu.be/7g-ydhg10UE the fourth Special]] sheds some disturbing light on Tzeentch's abilities. Mainly that he can swap between different forms at random off-camera, one of which is what looks like a ''melting tower of corpses''. He tends to switch into that one and wiggle around when he's feeling ''jovial''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzWsLaolyLw Prime Clown.]] Just ''[[{{Leitmotif}} Prime Clown]]''.
* Helbrecht and his rage are quite scary. When he gets summoned into the Throne Room, he almost tries to kill the Emperor in a fit of confusion and anger, and later on, would have cut Boy in half if Dorn had not intervened. Later on, the Custodes and Rogal freak out and start a four-way screaming match which included the threat of genocide and near-rebellion on the Custodes' part, only stopped when Helbrecht himself [[BigShutUp made it stop]]. It makes you wonder if the Black Templars have some kind of gene defect that [[HatePlague spreads rage around the people near them]]. It's incredible that no one was killed or fell to Khorne during the Podcast.
** It gets worse: Whammudes was chanting "Maim, Kill, Burn", over, and over, and over while talking about how all the NORMIES should die. So yeah, that was about a single sword stroke from falling to Khorne.
** The Custodes' insanity is also quite frightening. It's hard to remember how unhinged they really are if you're too busy laughing at their gay, fantastic personalities. However, there is something deeply wrong and broken about them where they will turn from being cheerful and fruity one moment to serious, badass protectors the next, to petty, squabbling sycophants the next, and insane murderous maniacs the moment after that. They each have their own unique traits and have plenty of depth which is unsurprising given how old and experienced they are, but the mood swings they have are completely unpredictable.

** The sixth special reveals where he went- he was sent to the Warhammer Fantasy world, where he's gone quite mad and is now the leader of a tribe of ogres. The only thing he really wants anymore is to return to his Emperor, Magnus, and his brothers, but no one realizes this when they face him. Also, it's possible that he's being puppeted by Magnus the whole time, and when we last see him, he's unconscious, has had his arm chopped off, was covered in dung, and was lit on fire, and that was ''before'' getting thrown down a deep dark hole.
** This ''might'' could just be a representation or allegory, but it's still scary - and what's even worse that he's a [[SuperSoldier Custodian]] in a world that only just has gunpowder and a smattering of magic. He ''tears'' into the player characters, almost fatally injuring the Celestial Shaman Queen from the very start and [[HeroKiller kills]] [[OneHitKill two others]] quite easily. And despite still being half-naked, has no less than '''700''' Toughness (yielding a Toughness Bonus, or damage reduction, of 70), enough to NoSell a shot from a ''leadbelcher'', and axe blows [[SuperToughness not even scratching him.]] Shows just how outclassed normal people are compared to a Custodian Guard. The only thing that managed to make him lose was an insane amount of luck from his opponents, his pitiful willpower and the fact that Wammri more or less had to become the avatar of Ulric and/or The Lady of The Lake wile empowered by Bulgo's lucky hat for a few seconds. In other words, divine intervention was the only thing stopping Custodisi from going on his promised apocalytpic rampage across The Old World after the loss of his ogre tribe, the one thing keeping him sane in this primitive land.
** His VillainousBreakdown after being set on fire really sells just how little sanity he has left. His bloodcurdling accusation towards the heroes SEETHES with malice and hatred.
--->'''Custodisi''' HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?

* InUniverse example, but apparently "[[Literature/InquisitionWar The Inquisitor]]" is such a ''[[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible bad]]'' book that it's equivalent to ''torture'', and gives anyone who reads it hallucinations of the warp.

* The aristocrats from Jopall are, in layman's terms, [[BodyHorror completely and horrifyingly deformed.]] One of them looks like it's melting, another is horribly swollen, and the one who speaks has some weird device that gives him a horrific permanent smile. They somehow make Timothy, that slave... man-thing from Special 5 look normal in comparison.

* Episode 29:
** Cegorach is a fan of jumpscares, and he's terrifyingly effective at pulling it off, as his usual carefree nature gives way to a black-eyed and deep-voiced NightmareFace.
** While there is something absolutely ''hysterical'' about killing the Drukhari with kindness, the sheer calm and serenity that the Star-Child shows while he does so is absolutely unnerving. Vect and his forces are ''melting from raw emotion'' right in front of the Star-Child, and he doesn't seem to ''care at all''.
*** Not to mention that the resulting BodyHorror that occurs when Vect and the other Drukhari are literally falling apart isn't really pleasant on the eyes.
*** Unfortunately Vect manages with one proclamation to completely turn the tables, by making the Star-Child completely feel distraught that all his forces are going to be thrown into the arena instead of just a single champion. As the Emperor implies, as powerful as his compassion is, in the face of the overwhelming cruelty of the world of 40K, even that can shatter.
** Whilst his arrival and first in-person appearance is distilled awesome, it appears Jaghatai Khan [[RunningGag (honoured be his name)]] has been keeping himself busy over the past ten millenia. His bike is festooned with severed heads, each one's mouth open in a death shriek, and he appears to have a Saim-Hann Windrider's dismembered limbless body beside him. The Khan might be a Loyalist at the end of the day (hopefully, in any case), but his viciousness is something to be scared of.
** The effect Magnus's SelfDeprecation routine has on him as he goes on, which is ''making him wither until he dies'' because, as a [[EldritchAbomination creature of the Warp]], [[YourMindMakesItReal his physical and mental selves are one and the same]], and being so horrible to himself is destroying him.
* Dorn's Night Before Sanguinala:
** While it's mostly cheerful, this episode proves conclusively that the Skaven do exist in the 40k universe since the ''Great Horned Rat itself'' tries to crawl into Boy's room and tempt him to worship. While Boy banishes it with contemptuous ease, the fact that it could do this proves how scary-powerful it is to manifest in the Materium. It also shows that the kingdoms of Intelligent Rats under the surface of Holy Terra were not just a Mythology Gag about the Skaven, they're ''actual Skaven.''

* Episode 30:
** When The Tour Guide questions the Emperor's ability to feel emotion, by commenting that he "castrated himself", he briefly glares down at the man. As in, he can't help but physically move his head with a SickeningCrunch to meet the man's maddened gaze, something that he has only ever done when either in so much agony he can't properly think straight, or is so ''unfathomably angry'' that the pain of moving no longer matters to him.
** We finally find out why Kaldor Draigo is so immensly powerful as well as incredibly insane, even disregarding his time in The Warp. The Deceiver ensured that Draigo got possessed by The Outsider, the only C'than that avoided being shattered, arguably the most maniacal of all the C'than and possibly the most powerful still living entity in all of Warhammer. And yes, it was a case of GoneHorriblyRight, something that was realized when he bested Mortarion in single combat. Is it any wonder why The Deceiver is scared shitless over the idea of him returning to the material realm?
** For the most part, Mini Magnus is a hilarious little daemon-moppet, but when Kitten asks what'll happen if the Proteus Protocol doesn't work, it chipperly announces that it will shed "skin, innards and bone" and become a perennial curse upon its maker, in the exact same ditzy-cheerful tone it says everything in.
** The Chant of the Machine Spirit's Vengeance, which is invoked to [[TakingYouWithMe trigger retributive suicide]] amongst the Kastellan robots. In contrast to the other Mechanicus prayers, ''this'' one takes the form of an [[HellIsThatNoise ungodly, semi-mechanical scream]], and the Kastellans acknowledge a successful command with one of the bleakest quotes in the series. Adding to the creep factor is that the acknowledgement almost feels like it was directly rebutting the Emperor, who had been [[TemptingFate gloating right at that moment.]]
-->'''Kastellan:''' In the grim darkness of the 42nd millennium, there can be no victor...

** We finally find out why Kaldor Draigo is so immensly powerful as well as incredibly insane, even disregarding his time in The Warp. The Deciever ensured that Draigo got possessed by The Outsider, the only C'than that avoided being shattered, arguably the most maniacal of all the C'than and possibly the most powerful still living entity in all of Warhammer. And yes, it was a case of GoneHorriblyRight, something that was realized when he bested Mortarion in single combat. Is it any wonder why The Deciever is scared shitless over the idea of him returning to the material realm?

'''Xylatro''': Is it... D-ugh... Daemonic?!''\\

'''Leman''': (''chuckle'') Ironic. (''yawns'') Next question.

** Whilst his arrival and first in-person appearance is distilled awesome, it appears Jaghatai Khan has been keeping himself busy over the past ten millenia. His bike is festooned with severed heads, each one's mouth open in a death shriek, and he appears to have a Saim-Hann Windrider's dismembered limbless body beside him. The Khan might be a Loyalist at the end of the day (hopefully, in any case), but his viciousness is something to be scared of.

** This short gives us a brutal series of scenes depicting what is perhaps the most noble and kindest Space Marine Chapter in the setting - the Lamenters - suffering misfortune after misfortune only to be abandoned and brutalized by the very Imperium they fight for. The montage ends with a limbless Lamenters sergeant ''weeping in the stomach of a Tyranid'', begging Sanguinius and the Emperor to tell him why his Chapter deserves such a fate when all they try to do is save the Imperium's people. After learning about the Lamenters the Throne-bound Emperor breaks down sobbing and floods the Throne-room with his tears.

** I gets worse when Whammudes crawls into a pipe system after the thing, gets stuck, and realizes "It's - ''it's behind me."'' The Bastard starts ''[[EatenAlive biting the toes off Whammudes' feet]]'' while gibbering something like "GIVE ME YOUR BONES."

* [[MonsterClown Cegorach]]. Fucking ''Cegorach''. The beginning of episode 25 is basically nothing but him and a few victims, and it's one of the freakiest scenes to date. His "laughter" varies from wheezy, phlegmy chuckles to spastic, guttural guffaws, much like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmjrqJcouIQ Tim Curry's version of Pennywise]] from [[Film/It1990 It]]. He's accompanied by a nightmarish LaughTrack that verges on hysterical screams, and which ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou hijacks the normal intro]]''. It's hard to tell what's worse: when his eyes are hidden in shadow, or we get a clear look at his unblinking, wide-eyed stare. At the end, he drops the comedy act altogether as he goes off to plot revenge on the Flesh Eaters, and his voice drops several octaves as he snarls "''everyone's a critic''." And keep in mind, this guy is supposed to be one of the closest things to a ''good guy'' in this setting...
-->''Horrifyingly Low Disembodied Voice:'' '''[[Series/TheBigBangTheory [ B A Z I N G A ] ]]'''
** Also, the Custodes, the Emperor's own warriors, who ''have'' spent ten thousand years guarding him and fighting the daemons that come out of the botched Webway gate ''without armor'', are just reduced to a pair of quivering, sobbing wrecks begging to make it stop. You know something is scary when guys as tough as they just wanna get the fuck outta there. Case in point, they later mention the event where Harlequins invaded the Imperial Palace to "talk to the Emperor" as a kind of minor annoyance (their real plan was never discovered as the Custodes killed them before they reached the Throne room). When faced with the god of those clowns, they are terrified.
--->''That is... a clown...''
** Then FadeToBlack. But the music doesn't stop and a creepy laugh is heard.
** Look carefully- ''Very'' carefully- when Ahriman is mocking the god. Every time Ahriman speaks, ''Chegorach's hand moves.'' He was dictating the entire encounter from the instant he showed up, and Ahriman had no idea.

* The second Whammudes vox-cast gives us a tour of one of the duties of the Emperor's Caretaker: Cleaning the Emperor's personal sewer system.
** Said sewers require a Titan-sized ultra-reinforced seal door that is the only way to enter from the palace, and for good reason. It's filled with the waste materials from the Golden Throne, entire lost groups of pilgrims who mutated to the point where they feed off the sludge in the sewers, and is a petri dish of deadly microbes and organisms (especially the fungi, which Whammudes makes it sound like having orks down there would be ''preferrable'') that if let out would take out most of Terra in short order. Oh and a Custodes needs to be with a group of Sisters of Silence because... ''something'' lurks in the sewers that's strong enough to nearly kill Whammudes. Something intensely psychic that ''did'' manage to boil off most of his skin, in fact. One of the worst parts about this something, this sludgeform that Whammudes refers to as a "Bastard of the Sludge"? If you listen carefully during the struggles, you can tell it's not just gibbering incomprehensibly... and that it really ''is'' a bastard of some kind.
--->'''''[[MadnessMantra TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER]]'''''
** Whammudes also reveals that some of the cleaning duties require him to crawl into pipes his usual body would be utterly unable to fit in... and, in the process, shows the non-Custodians among us that Custodes can do their [[Characters/JojosBizarreAdventureBattleTendency Pillar Man namesakes]] good by ''noisily twisting their bodies into a snaking, mangled heap'' that can actually crawl into those tight spaces. The episode gets pretty awful for claustrophobics after that point, especially when the aforementioned something traps him in a dead end pipe where he cannot turn around...
** One way it could get worse? During the ''Day in the Life of Boy'' voxcast, Boy mentions that orks ''do'' show up on Terra sometimes. Which implies that there ''are'' ork fungal wombs growing in the sewers of Terra...

** Leman Russ' 'Game' with his Dark Eldar captives is a pretty damn horrifying version of the 'Questions' childrens game. Because, apparently, his time in the warp means he is able to manifest whatever he is thinking of during the game, starting with a gas that '''rapidly suffocates''' the Dark Eldar before Skraket finally catches on. And apparently, he and Magnus used to play this exact version while they were still on the same side.
** After a MoodWhiplash during which Russ summons Urist, who pushes Skraket off the ship to his death, the final thing he thinks of starts out.. weird. When asked whether it's a lifeform, he hesitates and explains "The answer is complex, but [[NayTheist he]] is leaning towards no". When asked whether it's a concept, he again hesitates, and when asked whether it's an emotion, he, [[RuleOfThree yet again]], hesitates before the no. The final question of whether the being lives off emotion gets an unequivical yes. This ''immediately'' makes the ''Dark Eldar'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck groan in realisation]] of [[TheDreaded just what it is]], to such a point that the last clarifying question of whether it is demonic seems more like it is stalling for time.
--->'''Jebarion''': Does it... live off of emotion?\\
'''Leman''': Yes.\\

'''Jebarion''': *Horrified gasps*\\
'''Xylatro''': Oh... NO!\\
'''Xylatro''': We... Cannot... [Hyperventilates]\\
'''Jebarion''': Please... Mercy...\\
'''Leman''': [amused chortle] Ironic. [yawns] Next question.
** Now this is where you almost feel [[SympathyForTheDevil sorry for the Dark Eldar]], because Eldar cannot utter Slaanesh's name because [[SpeakOfTheDevil it makes Slaanesh notice their souls]], yet [[Catch22Dilemma they have to say it to avoid Russ conjuring it forth]]. And ''Russ knows this'' - when [[HopeSpot Jebarion tries to get around it]] by calling it [[RedBaron She-Who-Thirsts]], Russ denies having any knowledge of what that is. After some more back and forth, Xylatro decides to take the plunge, and we hear firsthand why they were so terrified: the mere utterance of its name causes his soul to painfully, and horribly, be drained out as his body turns to ash. Also Leman Russ' powers are powerful enough that if he didn't fall asleep, '''FREAKING SLAANESH WOULD HAVE BREACHED COMMORRAGH'''. Let it be known that, with this, Leman Russ might be one of the only beings in the galaxy to actually make a Dark Eldar weep from sheer terror and a broken mind.

---> ''Weeeeee cooooome~\\
Weee coooomee~\\

Your fate will be a thousand times as cruel!~''
** Four words seen mere seconds before Russ falls asleep both ratchets up and perfectly encapsulates the horror of this sequence: "Slaanesh '''enters the materium'''". The [[HellIsThatNoise distorted sound]] that plays as Slaanesh does so really sells the moment.

** Terrifyingly, Boy implies that there are intelligent rats with an empire under the feet of those on Terra. Those who know their Warhammer Fantasy lore can piece together that ''Skaven exist and their kingdom exists on Holy Terra itself.''

* From part two of the history episodes, once Slaanesh shows up, ''Oh Yeah'' by {{Music/Yello}} (which has so far been accompanying almost every appearance of the Eldar) suddenly becomes distorted into something... [[HellIsThatNoise disturbing]].

* While there is something absolutely ''hysterical'' about killing the Drukhari with kindness, the sheer calm and serenity that the Star-Child shows while he does so is absolutely unnerving. Vect and his forces are ''melting from raw emotion'' right in front of the Star-Child, and he doesn't seem to ''care at all''.
** Not to mention that the resulting BodyHorror that occurs when Vect and the other Drukhari are literally falling apart isn't really pleasant on the eyes.
** Unfortunately Vect manages with one proclamation to completely turn the tables, by making the Star-Child completely feel distraught that all his forces are going to be thrown into the arena instead of just a single champion. As the Emperor implies, as powerful as his compassion is, in the face of the overwhelming cruelty of the world of 40K, even that can shatter.

* From part two of the history episodes, once Slaanesh shows up, the Ferrari music that was playing before suddenly starts getting distorted into something... [[HellIsThatNoise disturbing]].

* As silly a video as it is [[https://youtu.be/7g-ydhg10UE the fourth Special]] sheds some disturbing light on Tzeentch's abilities. Mainly that he can swap between different forms at random off camera, one of which is what looks like a ''melting tower of corpses''. He tends to switch into that one and wiggle around when he's feeling ''jovial''.
* [[MonsterClown Cegorach]]. Fucking ''Cegorach''. The beginning of episode 25 is basically nothing but him and a few victims, and it's one of the freakiest scenes to date. His "laughter" varies from wheezy, phlegmy chuckles to spastic, guttural guffaws, much like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmjrqJcouIQ Tim Curry's version of Pennywise]] from [[Film/It1990 It]]. He's accompanied by a nightmarish LaughTrack that verges on hysterical screams, and which ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou hijacks the normal intro]]''. It's hard to tell what's worse, when his eyes are hidden in shadow, or we get a clear look at his unblinking, wide-eyed stare. At the end he drops the comedy act altogether as he goes off to plot revenge on the Flesh Eaters, and his voice drops several octaves as he snarls "''everyone's a critic''." And keep in mind, this guy is supposed to be one of the closest things to a ''good guy'' in this setting...

* Helbrecht and his rage are quite scary. When he gets summoned into the Throne Room, he almost tries to kill the Emperor in a fit of confusion and anger, and later on would have cut Boy in half if Dorn had not intervened. Later on, the Custodes and Rogal freak out and start a four-way screaming match which included the threat of genocide and near-rebellion on the Custodes' part, only stopped when Helbrecht himself [[BigShutUp made it stop]]. It makes you wonder if the Black Templars have some kind of gene defect that [[HatePlague spreads rage around the people near them]]. It's incredible that no one was killed or fell to Khorne during the Podcast.
** It gets worse: Whammudes was chanting "Maim, Kill, Burn", over, and over, and over, while talking about how all the NORMIES should die. So yeah, that was about a single sword stroke from falling to Khorne.
** The Custodes' insanity is also quite frightening. It's hard to remember how unhinged they really are if you're too busy laughing at their gay, fantastic personalities. However, there is something deeply wrong and broken about them where they will turn from being cheerful and fruity one moment, to serious, badass protectors the next, to petty, squabbling sycophants the next, and insane murderous maniacs the moment after that. They each have their own unique traits and have plenty of depth which is unsurprising given how old and experienced they are, but the mood swings they have are completely unpredictable.
* While it is still full of awesome and BlackComedy, the entire battle between Chaos Undivided and the Imperium forces in Episode 26 Part 1 is a horrific one sided slaughter. Seeing the various Order leaders, who proved themselves to be competent in the fight, getting massacred along with their forces shows just how merciless the Daemons are. Even [[MemeticBadass Kaldor Draigo]] is ineffectual for most of the fight, due to [[RandomNumberGod bad rolls from adhering to the tabletop rules]]. They would most assuredly have been wiped out if it wasn't for the Star Child fusing with Fyodor right at the end.
** Special attention must be given to Skarbrand. His funny quotes and moments aside, he is a monstrous BigRedDevil who absolutely ''obliterates'' everything that comes across his path with his axes, including a Taurox, a Grey Knight Dreadknought, Grand Master Elirush, and Adrielle Quist. The other Inquisition forces are utterly terrified of him, and they have every right to be considering his terrifying rage and power. There's a reason why HE is the one who was ''inches'' away from destroying Karazamov and the last of the Inquisition.

* Holy crap, the Tempestuous Scions after being exposed to the surface of a sun for a brief period. All of them suffer horrific burns and scream in agony. One guy's face mask started melting into his mouth, taking his teeth with it. Another loses her bottom half which is charred to the bone. The Sergeant appears to be missing his eyes and desperately tries to convince himself that the pain will make him stronger. Even after the Fyodomperor heals them, one Scion continues to hyper ventilate from the shock for a few more seconds before finally calming down.

* Custodisi is a little too much attracted to Magnus, slipping straight into sexual harassment territory, which - unsurprisingly, given how Tzeentch had stolen Magnus' soul for ten millennia - pisses the Emperor off. When Magnus returns from his adventures with Kitten, Custodisi gets whacked with the Prohibition Hammer to deliver some slapstick violence to keep him in line for every lewd comment ha makes. [[RuleofFunny Funny]], right? Well, there's the part when Custodisi makes an offhanded comment about "[[IncestYayShipping wincest]]" to Magnus, and the Emperor ultimately decides he's had enough, grabs Custodisi with his spectral hand, lifts him to his level and '''deletes him.''' Aside from a monotone "oh no" from Wammudes, he's never brought up again. That's right - should you anger the Emperor one too many times, he ''will'' erase you from existence. Well, either that, or Custodisi was just warped somewhere else entirely.

** The Adept Superior's reaction to Boy telling him he'd met the Emperor in the flesh is... not friendly at all. Not only does he "censor" Boy by taping his mouth shut, he also threatens to kill him and his whole family for daring to even say such a thing. Needless to say, Boy ''snaps'' and beats him within an inch of his life with his vox-caster and his legs, mortally injuring him in the process. Then Asshailer arrives and manages to momentarily stop Boy by shouting so hard he makes his ears bleed. If it wasn't for Karstodes' timely arrival, Asshailer would've killed Boy.

** Not to mention that the [[spoiler: resulting BodyHorror that occurs when Vect and the other Drukhari are literally falling apart isn't really pleasant on the eyes.

* While there is something absolutely ''hysterical'' about [[spoiler:killing the Drukhari with kindness, the sheer calm and serenity that the Star-Child shows while he does so is absolutely unnerving. Vect and his forces are ''melting from raw emotion'' right in front of the Star-Child, and he doesn't seem to ''care at all''.]]
** Not to mention that the [[spoiler: resulting BodyHorror that occurs when Vect and the other Drukhari are literally falling apart isn't really pleasant on the eyes.]]
** Unfortunately [[spoiler:Vect manages with one proclamation to completely turn the tables, by making the Star-Child completely feel distraught that all his forces are going to be thrown into the arena instead of just a single champion. As the Emperor implies, as powerful as his compassion is, in the face of the overwhelming cruelty of the world of 40K, even that can shatter]].

** Unfortunately [[spoiler:Vect manages with one proclamation manages to completely turn the tables, by making the Star-Child completely feel distraught that all his forces are going to be thrown into the arena instead of just a single champion. As the Emperor implies, as powerful as his compassion is, in the face of the overwhelming cruelty of the world of 40K, even that can shatter]].

** Not to mention that the [[resulting BodyHorror that occurs when Vect and the other Drukhari are literally falling apart isn't really pleasant on the eyes.]]

** The Adept Superior's reaction to Boy telling him he'd met the Emperor in the flesh is... not friendly at all. Not only does he "censore" Boy by taping his mouth shut, he also threatens to kill him and his whole family for daring to even say such a thing. Needless to say, Boy ''snaps'' and beats him within an inch of his life with his vox-caster and his legs, mortally injuring him in the process. Then Asshailer arrives and manages to momentarily stop Boy by shouting so hard he makes his ears bleed. If it wasn't for Karstodes' timely arrival, Asshailer would've killed Boy.

-->''That is... a clown...''

-->'''Custodisi''' HOW DARE YOU DO THIS TO ME?!?

-->'''''[[MadnessMantra TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER TAKE ME TO FATHER]]'''''

-->'''Jebarion''': Does it... live off of emotion?\\