History WebAnimation / Astartes

* GainaxEnding: Episode 5 (And part 1 as a whole) ends with [[spoiler:the Retributors absorbed by an object of likely Chaos origin, and Kohren dumped on a different planet with giant skeletal statues.]]

* BashBrothers: The two psykers fight like this, watching each others' flanks and covering their backs.

* EvilIsNotWellLit: The inside of the rebels's ship is very dark with almost no lights. Compare the insides of the Retributors' strike cruiser, which appear well-lit.

* HollywoodTactics: Averted by both sides - the rebels try plenty of tactics to take down the Marines [[OvershadowedByAwesome to no avail]], and the Retributors approach and attack the rebels' psyker leaders from [[MookHorrorShow multiple angles rather than just continuing on barrelling through against whatever's in the way (which, granted, worked before]])].

* LightningBruiser: Part Three shows a Marine dodging a rocket, and later shows one suddenly slipping right next to two rebel ambushers trying to attack a Retributor squad by firing an anti-materiel rifle from vents in a wall. Only the light of their gunfire from two of their shots shows him getting next to them, verging on a FreezeFrameBonus compared to the Retributor's subsequent two shots killing the ambushers. The Marines' bolters disintegrate everything they aim at, and their accuracy is pretty much flawless.

* MookHorrorShow: Part Two, Three, and Four portray the Retributors in battle. Only Part Four, which has two pskyers for their enemies, has the Retributors face any sort of meaningful resistance - everyone is just a trigger pull from losing chunks of their bodies. This is further compounded by the rebels performing a variety of legitimate tactics against the Retributors which nonetheless does nothing more than dent up their armor.

* StealthyColossus: One of the 8ft tall, heavy armor-clad Astartes manages to sneak up on an anti-materiel gun emplacement and slaughter the gunners without them (or possibly even the audience with how he can only be seen the light thrown from two shots from the gunners) noticing him in the shadows.

* ThrowAwayGuns: Kohren drops his plasma pistol on the ground after firing two shots at one and has a bolt pistol in his hand to replace it. Considering plasma weapons in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' though, it might have been legitimately unsafe to continue firing it any longer anyway.

* EyeScream: Part 4 shows the psykers cracking the eyelens of one Retributor, revealing a red bionic eye underneath. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Not that it gives the Marine any pause]].

* FreezeFrameBonus: The picture is meticulously detailed, full of sharp nuances that remain on the screen only for a split second. For example, some of the titular Astartes' names can be occasionally seen etched on their left shoulderpad when you can manage to read it through all the movement and {{Chiaroscuro}}.

** One astartes is revealed to have a bionic eye.

* HollywoodTactics: Averted by both sides - the rebels try plenty of tactics to take down the Marines [[OvershadowedByAwesome to no avail]], and the Retributors approach and attack the rebels' psyker leaders from [[MookHorrorShow multiple angles rather than just continuing on barreling through against whatever's in the way (which, granted, worked before]])].

* ThrowAwayGuns: The first Marine to charge at the psyker leaders leaves his plasma pistol on the ground after firing two shots at one and has a bolt pistol in his hand to replace it. Considering plasma weapons in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' though, it might have been legitimately unsafe to continue firing it any longer anyway.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The picture is meticulously detailed, full of sharp nuances that remain on the screen only for a split second.

* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The Astartes go through masses of rebel troopers like a hot knife through butter but struggle against their two leaders. Justified, since the leaders are seemingly physically-modified psykers.

* HollywoodTactics: Averted by both sides.

* OffhandBackhand: One the Astartes casually stabs a rebel running past him while at the same time shooting at another group of retreating rebels with his bolter.

* SpaceMarine: Warhammer 40,000's own, shown in all of their bloody glory.
* StealthyColossus: One of the 8ft tall, heavy armor-clad Astartes manages to sneak up on an anti-materiel gun emplacement and slaughter the gunners without them (or even the audience) noticing him in the shadows.

* FreezeFrameBonus: The action is meticulously detailed, full of sharp nuances that remain on the screen only for a split second.

* SupernaturalBlueEyes: The psykers' eyes shine bright blue when they're channeling their powers.

* EyeScream: Part 4 implies that the psykers crushed the eyeball of one of the Retributors, splattering blood inside the visor. [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction Not that it gives the Marine any pause]].

* LightningBruiser: Part Three shows a Marine dodging a rocket, and later shows one suddenly slipping right next to two rebel ambushers trying to attack a Retributor squad by firing an anti-materiel rifle from vents in a wall. Only the light of their gunfire from two of their shots shows him getting next to them, verging on a FreezeFrameBonus compared to the Retributor's subsequent two shots killing the ambushers. The Marines' bolters disintegrate everything they aim at, and their accuracy is pretty much flawless.

* LightningBruiser: Part Three shows one dodging a rocket, and later shows one suddenly slipping right next to two rebel ambushers trying to attack a Retributor squad by firing an anti-materiel rifle from vents in a wall. Only the light of their gunfire from two of their shots shows him getting next to them, verging on a FreezeFrameBonus compared to the Retributor's subsequent two shots killing the ambushers. To say nothing of their impressive accuracy.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The rebels are shown to be quite tactically competent and disciplined, setting up barricades, ambushes, using cover, snipers, machine gun emplacements, and whatnot. Were they facing normal Guardsmen or even another race, they would have stood a chance. However, their enemies happen to be genetically enhanced holy warriors with decades or even centuries of experience under their belts and field equipment that just outstrips anything the Guardsmen have at their disposal. The rebels are far from incompetent, they're just ''way'' out of their depth against the Astartes.

* SuperSoldier: The Asartes shoot men dead moments after they show themselves to fire, even from cover, their armor resists multilaser fire aside from some dents, they have some ability to even ''force past psychic powers holding them still''. No, [[MookHorrorShow you do not want to fight them]]. The "soldier" part is also displayed well in Part Four, with the Retributors attacking the two psykers from multiple angles and coordinating an attempt to distract them via suppressive fire while other Marines close in to close-combat as the psykers’ shield resist their bolter fire.

* MadeOfIron: The rebels might as well be throwing spitballs against the Astartes' armor. Even the psykers can only slightly injure the Marines ''inside'', but not the armor itself.

''Astartes'' is a series of 3D animation fan-films of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'', or more specifically, of the Adeptus Astartes "Space Marines". The (fan-made) Retributor chapter have been deployed to hunt down the fleeing leaders of the failed "Argosa Uprisings" rebellion.

* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Men]]. [[RammingAlwaysWorks Battleship hulls]], [[FrickingLaserBeams lasfire]], [[GatlingGood multilasers]], and [[{{BFG}} anti-materiel rifles]] do nothing but slow the Space Marines down for maybe a few seconds. [[MindOverMatter Psychic powers]] are a bit more trouble, but still does not stop them from slaughtering their foes like the rest.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Throughout Part Two and Three, basically every time the Retributors fire, someone dies with one shot. Part Three also shows a Retributor shooting a multilaser a far distance from him, but his bolter's shots are just stopped by the gun shield, so he instead uses a flashbang-smoke-grenade to blind the gun crew before drawing a plasma pistol to destroy the multilaser while the smoke cloud is still obscuring the doorway. Justified by Part 2, which shows us the Space Marine's point of view for a split second where the rebels appear as [[AuraVision red blotches in the smoke]]
* InstantDeathBullet: JustifiedTrope in here, because getting shot by a .75 calibur armor-piercing exploding rocket to the head or chest probably ''would'' kill you quite immediately.
* MookHorrorShow: Part Two, Three, and Four portray the Retributors in battle. Only Part Four, which has two pskyers for their enemies, has the Retributors face any sort of meaningful resistance - everyone is just a trigger pull from getting out of the way. This is further compounded by the rebels performing a variety of legitimate tactics against the Retributors which nonetheless does nothing more than dent up their armor.
* NoSell: Astartes dodge rockets, resist anti-materiel rifle fire, get through multilaser volleys with scratched armor...Part Three and Four shows a gun shield and psykers' shields resisting bolter fire. The Retributors make due with a plasma pistol on the gun shield and slipping a bolter ''into'' a psyker's shield before stabbing them.
* OvershadowedByAwesome: The rebels are shown to be quite tactically competent, setting up barricades, ambushes, using cover, and whatnot. Were they facing normal Guardsmen or even another race, they would have stood a chance. However, their enemies happen to be genetically enhanced holy warriors with decades or even centuries of experience under their belts and field equipment that just outstrips anything the Guardsmen have at their disposal. The rebels are far from incompetent, they're just ''way'' out of their depth against the Astartes.

* SuperSoldier: The Asartes shoot men dead moments after they show themselves to fire, even from cover, their armor resists multilaser fire aside from some dents, they have some ability to even ''force past psychic powers holding them still''. No, [[MookHorrorShow you do not want to fight them]]. The "soldier" part is also displayed well in Part Four, with the Retributors attacking the two psykers from multiple angles and coordinating an attempt to distract them via suppressive fire while other Marines close in to close-combat as the pskyers’ shield resist their bolter fire.

* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Men]]. [[RammingAlwaysWorks Battleship hulls]], [[FrickingLaserBeams lasfire]], [[GatlingGood multilasers]], and [[{{BFG}} anti-materiel rifles]] do nothing but slow the Space Marines down for maybe a few seconds. [[MindOverMatter Psychic powers]] give them a bit more trouble, but still does not stop the Marines from slaughtering their foes like the rest.

* [[ImplacableMan Implacable Men]]. [[RammingAlwaysWorks Battleship hulls]], [[FrickingLaserBeams lasfire]], [[GatlingGood multilasers]], and [[BFG anti-materiel rifles]] do nothing but slow the Space Marines down for maybe a few seconds. [[MindOverMatter Psychic powers]] give them a bit more trouble, but still does not stop the Marines from slaughtering their foes like the rest.

* WeHaveReserves: The rebels are so desperate to get a single good shot on the Space Marines that they're willing to mow down ''dozens'' of their own men in their DefensiveFeintTrap.

* DefensiveFeintTrap: The rebels try one, setting up a multilaser overlooking a doorway from above while infantrymen flee the Marines through it. They open fire once they get a visual on a Retributor and succeed in only scratching his power armor before he uses a combination flashbang-smoke-grenade to blind them and destroy the gun with a plasma pistol [[ImprobableAimingSkills while the smoke cloud is still obscuring him]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The rebels are shown to be quite tactically competent, setting up barricades, ambushes, using cover, and whatnot. Were they facing normal Guardsmen or even another race, they would have stood a chance. However, their enemies happen to be genetically enhanced holy warriors with decades or even centuries of experience under their belts and field equipment that just outstrips anything the Guardsmen have at their disposal. The rebels are far from incompetent, they're just ''way'' out of their depths against the Astartes.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: The rebels are shown to be quite tactically competent, setting up barricades, ambushes, using cover, and whatnot. Were they facing normal Guardsmen or even another race, they would have stood a chance. However, their enemies happen to be the genetically enhanced holy warriors with decades or even centuries of experience under their belts and field equipment that just outstrips anything the Guardsmen have at their disposal. The rebels are far from incompetent, they're just ''way'' out of their depths against the Astartes.

* InstantDeathBullet: JustifiedTrope in here, because getting shot by a .75 calibur armor-piercing exploding rocket to the head or chest would probably ''would'' kill you quite immediately.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: Throughout Part Two and Three, basically every time the Retributors fire, someone dies with one shot. Part Three also shows a Retributor shooting a multilaser a far distance from him, but his bolter's shots are just stopped by the gun shield, so he instead uses a flashbang-smoke-grenade to blind the gun crew before drawing a plasma pistol to destroy the multilaser while the smoke cloud is still obscuring the doorway.

* SpaceMarine: Warhammer 40000's own, shown in all of their bloody glory.

* SpaceMarine: ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'''s own, shown in all of their bloody glory.

* SpaceMarine: ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}''s own, shown in all of their bloody glory.

* SpaceMarine: ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}}'''s own, shown in all of their bloody glory.

''Astartes'' is a series of 3D animation fan-films of ''{{TabletopGame/Warhammer40000}}'', or more specifically, of the Adeptus Astartes "Space Marines". The (fan-made) Retributor chapter have been deployed to hunt down the fleeing leaders of the failed "Argosa Uprisings" rebellion.