History YMMV / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

* BetterThanCanon: Thanks to a combination of this series' interpretations of the universe's characters, [[CatharsisFactor plenty of catharsis to be derived from the hilarious dressing down of the ridiculously relentless torrent of grimdarkness that is the Warhammer 40K lore]], the plentiful humor contrasting the normally grim tone of the home series, the extensive CharacterDevelopment of both the original 40K veterans and [=TTS=] newbies, its interesting plot and more, many 40K fans have semi-seriously joked that they consider this series better than the source material.

** Marneus Calgar telling Ciaphas Cain that they're not much different by being fakes becomes this since the Marvel Comics series about Calgar's past revealed [[spoiler:he's not the real Marneus Calgar but his childhood friend who took his friend's name in honor for the real Calgar sacrificing his life to save him and ensure Calgar's noble name survive.]]

I am '''''"Adorable."'''''

* UnintentionallySympathetic: Magnus in the Board Game special. the others call Magnus a "Bad GM" and accuse him of railroading them. However, the comments are full of sympathy for Magnus, with many pointing out that Magnus never wanted to be the GM in the first place and actually went along with the increasingly ridiculous shenanigans of the party for 90% of the game. Even when they end up facing the Gorger Lord, an opponent that they cannot possibly hope to defeat, Magnus tells them that they have the option to run away and even offers them the opportunity for a fresh start when the campaign has gone completely and utterly off the rails. While he does become a KillerGM, it feels more like he simply boiled over in frustration with the other cast members being bad players (many of the cast fit classic "bad player" archetypes) as opposed to him being a bad GM. Some comments even point out that this neatly mirrors the events that lead him to throw his lot in with Tzeench, trying to do the right thing but eventually pushed over the edge by the actions of others.

* AudienceColoringAdaptation: ''TTS'' seems to have placed the idea that the Imperium were a mostly benevolent, albeit xenophobic group before the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', and that the Emperor was rather chill with sharing his galaxy with the Xenos even if he was still hostile to there existence. When in canon the pre-HH Imperium was just as genocidal as their modern selves, if not ''[[UpToEleven more so]]''.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUuvHPr4BGk Meeting the Felinids]] has become this due to the Internet's [[UncannyValley collective reaction]] to the ''Film/{{Cats}}'' trailer.

* WhatAnIdiot: Vulkan finds a Catachan Barking Toad. While ignorance is not this trope, it becomes this when the local Guardsmen explain just how toxic the creature is.
** '''You’d expect:''' Vulkan to slowly back away from the deadly creature, or even simply just not touch it.
** '''Instead:''' [[TooDumbToLive He pets it despite repeated warnings not to.]] The toad then explodes into a cloud of horrific toxin and Vulkan dies, again. [[ResurrectiveImmortality He gets better, thankfully]].
--> '''[[spoiler: Corvus]]:''' [[LampshadeHanging You are DUMB, Vulkan. DUMB!]]

** Thanks to the podcasts, Choas has become rather common as a nickname for chaos, to the point [[TheTetrisEffect some can't help but read choas involuntarily when reading the actual word]]. The meme has even spread in-universe, where, despite the vox-hailer's censor blowing out, the podcast crew continue saying "choas" as do first time participants Magnus and Decius, who would have no reason to.

* HarsherInHindsight:
** Episode 11's monologue about the Emperor claiming to have become ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' author Chris-Chan in a past life [[AntiRoleModel to try to teach ordinary people what not to do in life]] went from being a clever gag about an [[AcceptableTargets acceptable target]] (since Chris was infamously homophobic and borderline racist at the time) to more than a bit uncomfortable after the real world Chris went from being childlike to severely mentally ill, and deeply delusional to the point of having a God complex.%%Do not mention what happened to Chris-Chan's mom or other details of that nature.

** Pretty much everything regarding the characterization of the Primarchs has become this thanks to the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'' books. For example, in TTS, [[spoiler:Rogal Dorn]] describes Perturabo as a petulant manchild who clung to grudges for an absurd amount of time, but the books depict the Iron Warrior as someone [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter who was forced to live in the shadow of someone who callously judged him inferior]], and surrounded by brothers who never bothered to learn who he was or what he wanted to do. Granted, the novels also make it clear that Perturabo never made himself known to others and never asked to be a builder, so [[spoiler: Rogal [[BothSidesHaveAPoint may have had a point]]]]
** In the White Scars Podcast, [[spoiler: the Emperor panics over his life-support machinery deteriorating when he learns that his visor no longer flashes every time he speaks. According to canon, the Golden Throne as a whole is slowly failing and the Mechanicus are helpless to do anything about it]]. The "sudden daemonic TTS-crackle" that briefly appeared in Episode 18 doesn't make things any better.

** Marneus Calgar telling Ciaphas Cain that they're not much different by being fakes becomes this since the latest Marvel Comics series about Calgar's past revealed [[spoiler:he's not the real Marneus Calgar but his childhood friend who took his friend's name in honor for the real Calgar sacrificing his life to save him and ensure Calgar's noble name survive.]]

** The third ''Bro Trip'' episode was written ''before'' the current COVID-19 pandemic. Alfabusa had to put up a disclaimer stating that any resemblances were "purely and ominously coincidental".

** Episode 3 of "Bro-Trip 40,000" starts off with a disclaimer about having written it well in advance of the UsefulNotes/CoronavirusDisease2019Pandemic, as [[HealingFactor Vulkan]] [[BeyondTheImpossible lay dying of a virus]] through most of the episode.

Father, are you familiar with the expression "you are what you eat", seeing as you are behaving like an ever-growing pile of screaming psychic children?\\

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GatewaySeries: Despite its humorous nature, the series does a good job of explaining the lore and factions of the 40k universe.
* GeniusBonus:
** In episode 12, The Emperor's joke about Lion El'Jonson 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 Angels Primarch's namesake, was openly homosexual. Not to mention the Dark Angels headquarters, The Rock, was named after a gay-bar near the Game Workshop HQ.
** 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]] and Cypher planning something on Mars.
** Both of the Children's Card Game episodes are funnier the more you know about the real game. Every move is either breaking the rules or using banned cards.
** In the third episode of ''Bro Trip 40,000'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Lance Cashpants's]] Epic War-Ter Pack provides three dunks of water measuring 'merely' two percent salinity. One percent is already highly saline and cannot be used for most crops and livestock.
* HarsherInHindsight:

** Kitten/Shadowsun: if the Tau are mentioned in a Youtube video, there is a large chance someone will bring up the pairing, at which point someone else will inevitably respond "THIS IS NOT CANON".

Once upon a time... I was ''me''\\.

Once upon a time... I was ''me''\\

-->'''Whamuudes:''' AH-huuuu...that too

---> ''Why do I still live? What more do you want from me? I gave everything I had to you, to them. Look what they have made of our dream. This bloated, rotten carcass of an empire is driven not by reason and hope, but by fear, hate and ignorance. Better that we had all burned in the fire of Horus' ambition than lived to see this.''

** The Emperor's portrayal of being quite grumpy and insulting towards his sons, ''especially'' his constant demands for Guilliman to get his life support turned off, yet still loving them despite it all, has taken on a much darker tint after revelations from the recent Dark Imperium storyline. Guilliman, to his great pain, learns that the Emperor never saw him and his brothers as sons, merely as ultimately expendable tools to be used to save the Human race and ensure its dominance in the galaxy. [[note]]Mind you this is partially subverted by the Canon itself. We never see the Emperor's point of view to keep his actions and thoughts as ambiguous as possible. On top of that, the Emperor has a glamour over him that alternatively causes people to see what they want to see, or what the emperor wants them to see, when they look at him, and to hear him say what they want him to say. UnreliableNarrator is also in full force in each Horus Heresy Book as well. Guilliman's perspective of the Emperor is highly tainted and the Emperor's mind is as fractured in the Canon as it is in TTS and it is implied that his human aspects have mostly disappeared into the warp to aid, say, the Imperial Saints. The Emperor that Guilliman talked to is probably [[ColdEquation just the reasonable and logical parts]] needed to keep the Golden Throne running while preventing him from going insane from all the pain, suffering, and sacrifice that goes on around him each day.[[/note]]