History YMMV / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Say what you want about Papa Smurf, he does seem to actually care about his men. [[spoiler: He instantly loses whatever tolerance he had for [[{{Jerkass}} Cato Sicarious]] when the later said that any casualties the Ultramarines took in an engagement were justified so long as they advanced his personal glory.]]
** The Emperor [[spoiler: reconciling with Magnus and rescuing his soul from Tzeentch. Subverted heavily when its' revealed that the Emperors' main reason for doing so was so Magnus could deal with the Inquisition and to take the blame for the act.]]
** The Emperor learning that some of the women he slept with did survive and gave birth to his children. He even calls it one of the only pleasant surprises he learned since the Text to Speech Device was installed. Followed by his PapaWolf attitude towards their shoddy treatment.

* FridgeBrilliance: Magnus' utter disregard for Karamazov's threats and screams becomes understandable once we see [[spoiler:just how easily he deals with what some estimate to be four fifth of the Inquisition.]]

* ManipulativeBastard: The Emperor is shown to be one of these, with extra emphasis on the 'bastard' part. [[spoiler: It's revealed that the primary reason he disbanded the Inquisition was to see which members of the organization would not follow his orders, which would draw them all to Terra so that he could get them in a single location to deal with them all at once. It sounds good, until you realize that he did this knowing the Inquisition would come to Terra and murder thousands of its citizens before they were eventually dealt with. Furthermore, despite his assurances that he was going to forgive Magnus and give him a second chance, it's revealed that the primary reason the Emperor brought Magnus back to Terra was to deal with the inquisition, and to be made a scapegoat for doing so if the need arises.]]

** The Emperor [[spoiler: reconciling with Magnus and rescuing his soul from Tzeentch.]]

* FridgeLogic: Magnus' utter disregard for Karamazov's threats and screams becomes understandable once we see [[spoiler:just how easily he deals with what some estimate to be four fifth of the Inquisition.]]

** The Emperor learning that some of the women he slept with did survive and gave birth to his children. He even calls it one of the only pleasant surprises he learned since the Text to Speech Device was installed.

** And then there's the ''other'' infamous Sue of the WH40K universe, Kaldor Draigo... [[spoiler:Let's just say, no matter how [[BoringInvincibleHero "amazing" and "decisive"]] your battles in the Warp are, [[RealityEnsues you're still in the Warp, which leads to]] [[SanitySlippage bugfuck madness]]]].

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The ending of Episode 18 has Lucius and his Noise Marines slaughter an entire Imperial Guard garrison whose screams can be hard over Lucius' daemonic cackling...[[MoodWhiplash Which is interrupted by his phone ringing.]]]]

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: The ending of Episode 18 has Lucius and his Noise Marines slaughter an entire Imperial Guard garrison whose screams can be hard over Lucius' daemonic cackling...[[MoodWhiplash Which is interrupted by his phone ringing.]]]]

* MarySue: Most of the jokes about the Ultramarines (other than their goofy uniforms) is their borderline-canon reputation as the MarySue of the Space Marine Chapters, able to accomplish any mission no matter how ludicrously impossible it is. Their Chapter Master is driven to the brink of insanity by it.

* JerkassWoobie: Yes, the Emperor is definitely not a nice guy. But, given everything he has had to put up with for the past ten thousand years and his present state, along with him discovering how far the Imperium has decayed after all the work he put in to creating it... it's hard not to feel at-least a little sorry for him.

-->'''Calgar:''' [[InvincibleHero Nothing is satisfying anymore...]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Earlier in the series Emperor says that he'll make someone throw a match the Fab Custodes to show them the folly of not wearing armour and being all oiled up. In the Aprils Fools episode he finally gets his wish [[spoiler:by the hands of Fucking Horus himself.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Earlier in the series Emperor says that he'll make someone throw a match the Fab Custodes to show them the folly of not wearing armour and being all oiled up. In the Aprils Fools episode he finally gets his wish [[spoiler:by the ends of Fucking Horus himself.]]

** Also, the binary codes that the Custodes Captain-General gives the Emperor shows different spoilers for things to come, such as [[spoiler: [[LastSecondWordSwap Mar- I mean Papa Smurf]] having captured Magnus The Red]].

* JerkassWoobie: Yes, the Emperor is definitely not a nice guy. But, given everything he has had to put up with for the past ten thousand years and his present state, along with him discovering how far the imperium has decayed after all the work he put in to creating it...it's hard not to feel at-least a little sorry for him.

* CreatorsPet: [[ParodiedTrope Endlessly mocked]] with the Emperor's attempt to get the [[TheAce Ultramarines]] killed and their Primarch, Guilliman, unplugged from life support.

* GeniusBonus: In episode 12, The Emperor's joke about Lion'El Johnson making a gay-bar might at first just be part of his crude humor. But then you look up the fact that Lionel Johnson, the Dark Angel Primarch's namesake, was a homosexual poet and The Dark Angel HQ, The Rock, was named after a gay-bar near the Game Workshop HQ.