* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Culcis of the Royal Volpone. Mainly due to him assisting the Ghosts in defending his wounded comrades (despite being wounded himself) as well as not engaging in the petty discrimination that the rest of the Volpones did. Him successfully pushing back a vicious assault in ''Necropolis'', losing a hand in the process, did nothing to hurt his popularity.
** Among the ensemble cast of the Ghosts themselves, the biggest standouts are probably PalsWithJesus FriendlySniper Larkin (who some fan lists name the best character in the series), Hark (for his CharacterDevelopment) and OldMaster Mkoll.
** The Chaos cult known as the Blood Pact has gotten some attention for being far more competent and organized than the standard crazed fanatics that Chaos followers are usually depicted as. They even have a [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d3Wq9tqt7fMzzOG9CUptRh1urcCbnHsV0KbhBKbfmE0/edit?usp=sharing fan-made codex for 9th edition]].
* FanNickname: Liijah Cuu is, quite accurately, referred to as [=Teamkill McBackstab von FethingBastard=].
* HilariousInHindsight: In the beginning of the second book, Gaunt asks Caffran about his fiance, who died on Tanith, and tells him he's sorry for his loss. Caffran sneers and asks if Gaunt is going to give him some platitude about how there's other fish in the sea, and Gaunt sarcastically obliges, telling Caffran that on one of the battlefields he's going to face, he'll find the love of his life. Funny thing is, Caffran actually ''did'' meet Tona, the love of his life, on the battlefields of Vervunhive.
* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt:
** Like you really would kill [[spoiler: Corbec]]... OH SHI-
** Fortunately played straight with [[spoiler: Gaunt]].
*** And [[spoiler: Mkoll]].
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%%* MagnificentBastard:
%%** It may turn out that Mabbon [[spoiler:is a ''quadruple'' agent. First he defects from the Imperium to Chaos, then he leaves the Blood Pact to join the Sons of Sek so that he could get vital inside information on Sek's holdings. Then he defects back to Imperium and gives them the information necessary to perform a raid on one of Sek's research facilities and steal tons of valuable data and research. However, it's implied that Mabbon has been loyal to the Blood Pact the entire time, and the entire operation was just a ploy to get that valuable data into the hands of the Blood Pact.]] As of ''Anarch'', Mabbon [[spoiler:appears to be sincere in his heel-face turn to the Imperium, sacrificing his life to save Rawne and Varl, two of the very, ''very'' few people who ever treated him decently.]] At the very end, Mabbon is revealed as [[spoiler:a GuileHero. He was a Qimurah, a quasi-daemonic entity, all along, and could easily have escaped and killed a sizeable portion of the regiment at any time, but chose to submit to imprisonment and Inquisitorial torture in order to manipulate the Imperium into denying Chaos an ancient superweapon after seeing the universe-destroying effects of using it in a warp-vision - apparently, even daemons have standards.]]
%%** As of ''Anarch'' it's a pretty good bet that nothing short of a directed Exterminatus will put [[spoiler: Mkoll]] down for good, and even then he might find a way around it.
* MoralEventHorizon:
** [[spoiler: Lijah "That Damn Bastard" Cuu]] crosses it when he rapes and murders a civilian woman in ''The Guns of Tanith''.
** There's also Meryn's pension fraud racket, taking advantage of dead Ghosts and relatives for financial gain. Plus leaving Costin to die in order to keep him quiet, not to mention a few other Ghosts who hadn't even been involved in the scam.
* TearJerker: [[spoiler:Bragg and Caffran's deaths are probably the hardest hitting]].
** [[spoiler: Soric's death isn't quite as tragic as theirs, but only because it was a [[MercyKill mercy at that point.]] [[AndIMustScream What his life had become to make that death a mercy,]] however, is just as tearjerking.]]
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