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If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device

  • In episode 9, the Inquisition is busy burning Holy Terra and brutally interrogating all its citizens. When they corner a helpless woman, and it looks like things are about to take a turn for the worse, the Adeptus Custodes the Emperor told to leave the palace earlier in order to help mankind come out of nowhere, save the woman, and when the inquisitors start trying to claim the disbandment message from the Emperor was written by a heretic, they tell them off and inform them that it really was from the Emperor, which causes the inquisitors to high-tail it the fuck out of there.
    Custodisi: Would you look at that? Some unfashionable dregs running around harassing civilians here on Holy Terra.
    Wammudes: You came to the wrong neighborhood, shitboots!
    Karstodes: What makes you lunatics think you are allowed to do this?
  • In episode 11, the Custodes - previously known either as whatever inventive insult the Emperor could come up with or 'Kitten' - actually gives the reason as to why he is the one that's been talking to the Emperor.
    Fyodor Karamazov: What gives you the right to come in here to the Senatorum Imperialis?
    Kitten: Quite simple, Inquisitor... I too, am a High Lord! I am Captain-General of the Adeptus Custodes.
  • Kitten confronts Fyodor, who threatens to bring the "big guns" into the Imperial Palace. Then the following exchange takes place:
    Kitten: Really? Will you be able to shoot all of us?
    Fyodor: What in the Eldar's sparkly shit are you talking about!?
    *Awaken starts playing and a dozen of the Adeptus Custodes jump out to surround Fyodor.*
    Adeptus Custodes: HAA-OOOOH!!!
    Fyodor: Oh, that's what you're talking about...
  • Shortly after while Fyodor is in the middle of his villainous breakdown screaming that everyone around him is a heretic, Kitten finally gets fed up with his bullshit: even if the Emperor does stop him, it doesn't take away from the awesome. (Maybe because it takes the Emperor to stop him....)
    Fyodor: YOU ARE ALL HERETICS! HEEEEREEETIIICS!!!
    Kitten: Alright yeah, I'm done being nice for today. Give this crazy bastard the Emperor's Peace in three...two...one—!!
    The Emperor: *Real voice booms telepathically* STOP!!!
  • The Emperor takes Magnus the Red's soul back from Tzeentch(!) by force. Doubles as heartwarming and triples as hilarious because he does so by poking Tzeentch in the face(s) with his Flaming Sword which makes the sound of a squeaky toy hammer every time he lands a hit, all while repeatedly saying variations of "Gimme the soul."
  • The Ultramarines succeeded in their mission given to them by the Emperor. Which was, by the way, to capture Magnus, A DAEMON PRIMARCH from the Eye of Terror, WITHOUT their Gellar field note  on. In other words, the Emperor weaponized their Mary Suedom.
    • In episode 20, they have succeeded again as they have found all of Vulkan's artifacts and placed them near the Salamanders as ordered by the Emperor. And yes, this means that Vulkan returned to the Materium from wherever he was before.
  • Episode 14: Ahriman finally discovers the entrance to the Black Library only to be stopped by Cegorach who... asks for his library card which Ahriman can't seem to find. However closer examination of the scene reveals that until Ahriman realizes he's being had, everything he says is accompanied by Cegorach flexing his fingers. Cegorach is using Ahriman as a puppet the entire time just to get a good laugh before shooing him out.
  • The (first part of the) companion piece BEHEMOTH, which details the first appearance of the Tyranids and the titular Hivefleet Behemoth. It begins with the typical humorous shenanigans (though with Inquisitor Kryptman and the Deathwatch rather than the Emperor and the Custodes), and ends with the beginning of the Battle at Ultramar.
    • Part two, taking place a few years after, ends with Cyrus from the Blood Ravens along with the Deathwatch pulling a Big Damn Heroes on the Inquisitor's ship, saving Kryptman and sending the traitor researcher on the run into an incomming Hive Fleet.
    • And at last the long awaited Part 3 has these three simple words:
      Marneus Calgar: Round Two, cockroach.
  • The duel Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka and Blaktoof. Two big, mechanically powered orks wailing on and shooting each other, although Ghazghkull is clearly winning. Props to Blaktoof for continuing to sass him back in spite of this!
  • The Emperor has been playing a Batman Gambit since episode four, and it comes to head in episode eighteen. To get rid of most deranged inquisitors, he orders disbanding of Inquisition, knowing that those still loyal to the Imperium will carry on while the worst elements will rebel and storm Eternity Gate to "rescue" him. He then utilizes Karamazov's god complex to trick him into attacking Magnus, causing him to snap and teleport all the bad elements of Inquisition into the depths of Warp. Given how this turns out, either he has bigger plans beyond that or it will come to bite him magnificently.
  • The brief guest appearance of Lord Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz during the Inquisition's Siege of the Imperial Palace. While he does help the Inquisition's advance into the throne room once Fyodor starts talking shit to him he talks shit right back at him and make a jab at how out of his fucking mind he is.
    Fyodor: Monkeys? Really? That's the great secret of Coteaz Torquemada?
    Coteaz: Yes, what about 'em?
    Fyodor: I am...well, to say the least, unimpressed. Actually, I would go so far as to say...I think I just lost all my respect for you.
    Coteaz: Why don't you step off that over-glorified porta-potty you call a 'Throne of Judgement' and say that to my face? Or are you going to have your deep-frier kill me for doing your job better than you.
    Fyodor: Oh no, I would not want to rid you on the off-chance to die on the old folks' planet where you belong!
    Coteaz: Hmmp...I have to take my leave now, as I have a movie to shoot. Try not to kill the Emperor for being innocent or whatever it is you could possibly accuse him of, [Feudal World Speak] note 
  • Decius and a few other members of the Ecclesiarchy managing to blockade against the entire might of the Inquisitorial revolution for what is implied to be quite a while.
    Decius: Activate Rosariuses, the Emperor protects!
  • Magnus sending Fyodor and co. into the Warp, while part of aforementioned Batman Gambit, is fantastic to watch, especially that it shows just how outclassed mortals are compared to Primarchs.
    • The icing on the cake is that he didn't even look like he was trying that hard.
  • Ecclesiarch Decius being tasked by the Emperor to lead the remnants of the Inquisition and Ecclesiarchy to make the Reformation of the Imperium a reality.
  • Dominique's epic Deadpan Snarkery towards Karamazov is getting better with his every appearance.
    Hey, Fyodor, we're in the Warp. Make sure to clench your butthole so that no heresy gets in.
  • In the second question request video, the Emperor starts moving his toe. AFTER 10,000 years as a corpse.
  • Somewhat of a lesser one in 18.5, during the answering of a few more questions, but the Emperor's psychic punches get a lot of use, and he can apparently take down Eliphas the Inheritor, a Chaos Champion, with a single one of them, while he's on a dreadnought hundreds of light years away at least.
    • It's a funny moment as well, but the Centurion manages to calm down an angry Emperor by rubbing against him.
  • Episode 19 has Magnus boil down the Chaos Gods and what they represent into easily-understandable terms, even if he agrees with his father that they're being "assbarrels" about it.
    Magnus: Something which people seem to forget, including the gods themselves, is that they represent all thoughts and emotions. The good, the bad, and the ugly. For example, Tzeentch may be a cruel and devious trickster, but he's also a force for progress, and a beacon of hope. Change, after all, is neither innately benevolent or malevolent, but it sure as shitterling isn't the same as it was before... Without Tzeentch, there would be no malicious schemes, but there would also be no one clever enough to save people from those schemes. Nothing would ever get done, and we would fall into an eternal stasis of static karma. And that is what Nurgle represents: stagnancy. A lack of change. Inevitable eternal cycles of decay and renewal. But he also represents the resilience, resolve and solidarity to face those same, unsettling inevitabilities... Without Nurgle, there would be no consistency, safety, or comfort in living and dying. In fact, there would be no consistency at all. All those cycles of death and renewal are just the circle of life. In fact, Nurgle is technically nature incarnate.
    Well, Khorne may be a force of merciless, mindless slaughter and hatred, but that's because he proscribes to another natural concept: survival of the fittest. Strength and skill are all that matters to him. He also represents justice, vengeance and honour, so unlike the others, Khorne would never try to trick you or stab you in the back... Without him, there would be no honesty, and no strength to fight against injustice. And speaking of injustice: Slaanesh may be a horrifying, cruel, torturous fiend that breaks minds and inflicts untold suffering, but he... she... it also exudes just as much joy, freedom, expression and happiness... It's ironic, yet it makes sense. Slaanesh is formed from the extremes of personal experience, representing both joyful freedom, as well as crippling suffering. Without Slaanesh, there would be no happiness, and no grief to make the happy times mean anything. And that's why you can't just "kill" them. The universe needs Chaos to survive! Destroying Chaos would basically destroy the entirety of the human psyche.
  • In Episode 20:
    • it is revealed who the Centurion really is. It is Rogal Dorn, the primarch of the Imperial Fists.
  • Episode 21: When Magnus is hulking out upon hearing Kitten negatively comparing the Thousand Sons to Lehman Russ and his Space Wolves, Magnus’ might is outright stated by the Big E to be quaking the Earth, implying his son is so powerful as to send tremors across the planet.
    • Dorn himself is as stoic as ever when face to face with Magnus’ rampage.
  • Episode 22:
  • Episode 23
    • Kitten gets a sweet one right at the beginning of Episode 23, shutting down any question of his ultimate loyalty to humanity.
      I am not joining Chaos, you ass. *applause*
    • Rogal getting a pretty amazing burn on the Emperor. Emps can't even offer a retort, even with his mastery of insults.
      Father, are you familiar with the phrase "You are what you eat"? Seeing as you are behaving like an ever-growing pile of screaming psychic children.
    • More subtly, when Karstodes finishes giving the Emperor information on Space Wolves - after threatening Kitten for information, as he knew nothing himself. The Emperor praises him before asking him to next time, not torture Kitten for information. Overall, a funny line, but the implication? The Emperor heard what happened in the same room Magnus and Kitten are discussing their plan. It's all part of his plan.
  • In episode 24
    • Leman Russ punches Fyodor in the face and somehow, astoundingly, it didn't reduce the latter to a spray of mechanically separated old man.
    • When Rogal Dorn is explaining what happened to his legion after the Emperor was placed on the throne. He explains that once the Emperor had died his normal calm had been compromised, and the only reasonable thing he could think to do was to hunt down every single last traitor left in the Imperium with immense abhorrence. His tone as he says the line is the very definition of Tranquil Fury.
    • "I'm certain you were". In Rogal Dorn manages to see right through his father's manipulations, to the point the Emperor had to ask him to let continue pulling strings.
  • In Episode 25
    • the Ultramarines are marching on foot and camel through the Webway, when they find a ginormous Eldar titan (the Ultramarines barely reach its ankle) that seeks revenge for the destruction of its Craftworld by humanity. Marneus Calgar nonchalantly walks up to it, tells it to fuck off and drops it dead in one punch.
      • Even if it doesn't live up to it, the titan gets in a pretty good Badass Boast to the Ultramarines.
    • Ephrael Stern. My God, Ephrael Stern. This woman is Awesome Ego personified, delivering an incredible Badass Boast and badmouthing fucking Cegorach and the Harlequins with zero consequences. Indeed after she shows up to insult him (and demand food) Cegorach immediately ceases tormenting the Custodians and goes off to sulk (and exterminate a chapter of Space Marines).
      • Keep in mind, the Harlequins are considered so terrifying that the Dark Eldar let them waltz into Comorragh for free. And Ephrael just got away with mouthing off to THEIR GOD.
      • Furthermore Cegorach meekly accepting her abuse without complaint is immediately contrasted with the fact that he is planning to wipe out a chapter of space marines for similar insults (and eating his followers). This is a guy that terrorized a pair of the Emperor's personal bodyguards, casually ejected Ahriman and his warband without breaking a sweat, and makes plans to destroy one of the most psychotically violent Loyalist Space Marine chapters in the Imperium, and Ephrael Stern casually talks down to him.
      • Not to mention the fact that she had threatened to assault Cegorach and destroy the Black Library if she was not quickly given 'proper nourishment', all without any apparent repercussions.
    • Cegorach himself is plenty Creepy Awesome. In fanon he's generally accepted as being on the same level as Tzeentch and Emps when it comes to Magnificent Bastardry, and Failsnake's masterful and terrifying performance really hammers home how insane you'd have to be to mess with this clown if you were anyone but Ephrael Stern. The Custodians, who can usually manage to dismiss (or sexualize) any threat they're faced with are basically reduced to tears.
      • This event make them go saner.
  • Episode 26:
    • Just when it seemed like Leman Russ, Fyodor and the rest of the Inquisition were going to be utterly destroyed by the daemonic army, The Star Child, said to be the embodiment of the Emperor's compassion and a major part of his soul, descends from above and combines himself with Fyodor. To understand the scope of this event, this is almost the equivalent of the Emperor himself coming back to life and the effect of it is no less amazing as a bright light immediately shines forth that destroys the daemon army and keeps on going out of the Warp and into the Material world where everyone can see it, ending up shining so brightly that it can be seen from outside the entire galaxy.
    • Given the nature of the battle (a meat grinder whose victory condition is to simply not suffer 100% casualties in a given amount of time) poor rolls and somewhat poor tactics brings the Inquisition to the brink, it is incredible that Alfa actually held out enough to win. In both a story and metagame sense, the victory was hard won. Alfa wins in no small part to the Grey Knights obliterating the bloodthristers and him having to sacrifice Inquistor Adrielle Quist to give his Scions time to retreat to the edge of the play field. If the Inquisitor hadn't survived the Fateweaver's ultimate attack, Skarbrand would have charged the Scions and obliterated them to end the match in a chaos victory. Hell, the Scions themselves are practically pissing themselves the entire time yet they outlive the Sisters of Battle, Deathwatch, AND the Grey Knights which even they can't believe. Their timely retreat actually manages to win the day. They even earn a conquest perk called "Daemonic Immunity" (possibly meaning that they are now immune from demonic temptations, possession, and fear factors) . Not bad for some glorified elite guardsmen.
    • Let's break down that "seen across the galaxy and beyond" moment. Firstly, the Eye of Terror briefly becomes an Eye of blinding light. On Cadia, a squad of Traitor Marines burns a screaming death while Ciaphas Cain and the Imperial Guardsmen look up in religious awe. But this radiance is not solely to be seen by mankind. Eldrad and his Warlocks lean back in shock, the Necrons incoherently glitch out, an Ork bellows pained confusion, and even a Tau Ethereal begins squealing like a steam whistle. But then the light reaches out, out, unto the shifting bulk of the Tyranid Hive Fleets still oncoming. It recoils. For just a fraction of a second, the one faction in this entire mad setting infamous for its inhuman lack of fear... is given pause. That is how powerful the light of the reborn Emperor of Man truly is.
      • Let's give Dominique one while we're at it - through the entire series up until his death and the Star Child's appearance he'd basically been playing on Fyodor's insanity to prepare him for becoming one with the Star Child.
    • The fused version of Fyodor and the Star Child is incredibly powerful, being able to heal the fatal injuries of the Scions after they were transporting within spitting distance of a fucking sun with a single thought and nonchalantly enough to just make a dad joke about the event.
      • Not only that, but when he makes the decision to follow the Dark Eldar, he raises his arm and a golden light shines over all of his troops. Leman hesitates for a second and then agrees with Fyodor's nonviolent solution which even he, himself, questions why he would be willing to go along with this. The entire army even cheers about the decision when just moments before, they were calling Fyodor a heretic for even suggesting talking to the Dark Eldar. Fyodor has gotten so powerful that he can literally change people's minds with a single thought and a few words (in this case "follow them") lending credence to Rogal's claim that the Emperor could make whole armies put down their weapons by merely reciting senryuu.
      • Credit where it's due, Inquisitor Headsmash actually manages to resist the Emperor's psychic manipulation, which was powerful enough to change an entire army and a Primarch's minds.
    • Kaldor Draigo eats a sun. And if Leman Russ is to be believed (though he probably isn't), he could even spit it back out.
    • Speaking of Leman Russ, he gets the chance to absolutely beat the everloving shit out of a Dark Eldar. Even the Emperor remarks that, in a galaxy full of senseless murder, watching a Dark Eldar get what's coming to him is immensely cathartic.
      • It's honestly just how effortless it was. In one punch, Leman ripped the smug bastard in half. He then taunts the guy by bouncing up and down on his face. If you look closely, Leman uses psychic powers to force the guy forward into the first punch and after mocking him, lifts him up with his powers again and proceeds to lay in a Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs so devastating that the guy literally evaporates into a cloud of blood leaving absolutely nothing behind. Talk about overkill... The Eldar himself gets some rather macabre and pyrrhic compliment from Matilda the scion who is surprised that he lasted as long as he did when faced up against Leman (which was so decisively one-sided even if you discount Leman's sucker punch).
  • Episode 27
    • Rogal Dorn explaining to Magnus the Custodes' scheme to replace Kitten. While it starts as Dorn's usual blunt honesty, it turns into Dorn and Magnus giving the Custodes an effective "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
      Dorn: The almost-worst part was that while your anger management session was still ongoing, these three racketeers took advantage of the situation. [...] They convinced the Captain-General to resign from his role as Caretaker in exchange for aid in tranquilizing you. In the end, they did not set up fortifications, defied gravity for no reason, and were naked. They were really bad at helping.
      Magnus: Again. Unsurprising. You three have always been unswerving in your goal to make your Captain-General feel like grox manure. You remind me of my brothers. The asshole ones.
      Custodisi: O-oh— that's... oh. (Passes out in shame)
      The Emperor: Holy shit. Where did this word-shivved pile of corpses come from? I suspect fowl-play. Heyheyheyheyheyheyheyhey-
    • This is capped off by showing that the Emperor has officially run thin on patience with the trio stepping out of line. After Custodisi refuses to stop hitting on Magnus, going so far as to suggest an incestuous relationship upon learning that they may be brothers, the Emperor picks him up, bellows "DELETE" and causes him to vanish in a puff of warp vapor, before carrying on like nothing happened.
    • The Abducted Chronicler starts to inform the Emperor that Magnus has returned, when Whammudes interrupts him and asks why a "normal" is in the Throne room. Before Whammudes even finishes talking, the Chronicler offhandedly swings his arm back knocking Whammudes to the floor. This is a Chronicler; a non-combat capable, barely-sane psyker that acts as a combination of librarian, tour guide, herald, historian, and scribe; and he just delivered an Offhand Backhand to a Custodian Shield-captain. Which raises the question, just what the hell is his hand made out of?!
  • Episode 28:
    • Custodisi unceremoniously reappears in his full Gorger Lord regalia with a deadpan "I have returned from Hell."
    • Kitten's interrogation of the Fabricator-General in Episode 28. Thanks to the support of the other Adeptus Custodes, he's able to intimidate the house-sized Mechanical Abomination into coughing up the location of the Proteus Protocol. Did we mention it's all done in song?
      • On the subject of that song, the turning point may be when Hammurabi Unferth drops his passive-aggression and delivers a line that, as several YouTube comments point out, may be "the most unironically 40k thing to come from this series".
      Kitten: Where the Protocol is, we still haven't heard.
      Fabricator-General: You have no proof I use it, your claim is absurd.
      Hammurabi Unferth: How DARE you, you colossal mechanical nerd!
      He does not need proof, he's the Emperor's Word.
      When you go and reject our Emperor's Truths,
      then darling, I'm sorry, but out comes your screws!
      • Finally, when the Fabricator General relents and apparently says "Fine!", in binary he actually says "n3v3R, 1 W1ll h4v3 J00 4222441N473D"(Never, I will have you assassinated)
    • Asmodai battering the Fabricator-General at the episode's end, bellowing "REPEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNTTTTTTTT!!!" all the while; it follows a hilarious bout of development and instant regression for the Dark Angels, but is particularly satisfying.
      • On that subject, Cypher continues to be badass. Not only can he go undetected by both the Custodes and the Fabricator General himself, but his presence may save the Dark Angels. By recording and broadcasting the whole meeting with the Custodes and, later, the Dark Angels, any of the Mechanicus personnel watching the stream would see a justifiable reason for the Dark Angels to kill the Fabricator General. They would understand binary better than the Custodes and probably would be able to tell that the General's last line of the song wasn't the word "fine", but an explicit threat to have all of the Custodes murdered. Not only that, but the Emperor himself saw the stream and almost certainly picked up on this and can thus legitimize the execution. The Emperor can also then say Cypher is his minion or his pawn and thus work him into his plans while also scaring the Dark Angels straight by revealing that a lot of people including the Emperor himself saw their outburst about "The Fallen".
  • Episode 29:
    • If you ever wanted a case study in Rogal's mastery of fortifications, he somehow made drill-immune and bomb-resistant waffles. Edible waffles, judging by how Boy is seen eating them after his bomb knocks off a piece.
      • A Freeze-Frame Bonus happens after Boy sets the bomb up, as Rogal says "No" more to him than the Emperor as he steps between Boy and the resulting blast.
    • Magnus almost kills himself via Self-Deprecation getting laughs out of everyone. Even though it doubles as a Tear Jerker moment considering his Dark and Troubled Past, you gotta admire the dedication he has to get what he wants.
      • The fact that Magnus one shot Alduin in a Skyrim reference. Given that "Magnus" is the god of the Elder Scrolls franchise who formed the sun by punching a hole through reality itself, this probably isn't that surprising.
    • Vect tries every card he can play (at one point, literally) to break the Star-Fyodperor. All of them fail.
      • Except for the last one, in which the Star-Fyodperor's compassion is used against him.
      • Vect, however, shows off his Determinator side, by holding out long enough to do so, even when the gods' powers begin to dissolve his insides, while clouding his mind with unnatural joy. He is the Overlord of Commorragh for a reason.
      • Hell, the very start of the debate. Instead of being intimidated or confrontational, the Star Child wrong-foots Vect by calling him compassionate in front of his chief Haemonculi pointing all the good that would result from torturing the Star Emperor. Clearly, this isn't going how the Dark Eldar expected and shatters their arrogant gloating before it really had a chance to take off.
    • At one point Vect tries to hit the Star Child with existential dread, only to get countered by the Star Child with a single line.
    • Though give it up for Vect, as bleak as his situation was he managed to be able to completely turn the tables at the last minute by revealing that all of the Star-Child's party is being thrown into the arena, not just Kaldor Draigo. Essentially exploiting that while the Star-Child is unflinchingly kind to himself and his enemies, that compassion can turned against him by subjecting his friends to the relentless cruelty of 40K.
    • As the warmth and compassion of the Star Emperor begins to overwhelm the Wretched Hive that is Commaragh, we see the figure of a man too large to be a native of that city, sat astride a bike obviously not of Aeldari make. Bedecked with trophies (inlcuding what seems to be the body of a Saim-Hann Windrider), the Warhawk of Chogoris makes his first in-person appearance. Jaghatai Khan is here.
  • Episode 30 Part 1:
    • Lady Malys has already learned of what is going on in Vect's court, and she's come up with a simple and straightforward plan: rescue the Star-Child's companions from the arena. She's realized that having said party slaughtered in the arena is literally the only card available to Vect right now, and if she takes that away, he's immediately up shit creek without a paddle. Meanwhile, the Star-Child's mere prescence in a physical body is causing The Deciever to panic as he goes as far as to order Tahril to shoot down Vect's palace in hopes it somehow gets swallowed up by a black hole or something.
  • Episode 30 Part 2:
    • The entire battle, similar to the battle between Chaos Undivided and the Inquisition, is held in the style of an actual tabletop session. Unlike that one, this is played for drama rather than comedy, and thus we get to see just how hardcore the Adeptus Custodes are, including Kitten himself.
    • Kitten fails to kill a Mechanicus Kastelan Robot, an event that deeply pisses of the Emperor, but it is immediately followed by this exchange:
    Kitten: Oh, you're a hard one.
    [Get's punched in the face by said robot]
    Luckily, so am I!!
    • Cawl's forces, despite being made partly of characters made the butt of jokes, prove to be terrifyingly efficient against even the Adeptus Custodes, taking down several of them in very decisive strikes.
    • After using his strength to stay standing despite the Kastelan Robot grinding its fist against his face, seeing his Shield Company decimated causes Kitten to throw it to the ground by leaning into the punch.
    • In the fever of the battle, Diomedes rushes in and manages to become the first of Kitten's squad to damage Cawl directly despite his attempts to put distance between himself and the front-line.
    • Boreale suffers a Heroric BSOD after Diomedes dies ... then moments later (as he is reminded by a Custodes that there are still enemies of the Emperor to fight) he gets right back to his feet and *leads the charge* into Cawl's forces, killing several. So much so said Custodes then complain he is stealing their kills!
    • Even though it's heartbreaking, the Mechanicus deserve some credit for killing Kitten.

If the Emperor Had a Podcast

  • In the The Last Church podcast the Emperor summons the spirit of Uriah from the original story for round two. While the Emperor hasn't really advanced beyond his simplistic points from then since, Uriah has embraced Chaos and developed a much fuller and more nuanced understanding of theology and the metaphysics of the warp and belief in particular. In the rematch the old priest utterly crushes the Emperor in debate, starkly points out His hypocrisies in committing worse versions of every crime he lays at the feet of religion, and deconstructs all of His excuses for the religious trappings of the Imperium while reminding Him that he had actually warned Him this would happen in the first round. The Emperor is clearly completely unprepared to face actual arguments, and in the end of the episode the Imperial characters are genuinely worried about citizens being converted to Uriah's brand of Chaos worship from listening to the broadcast.
    • A lot of the credit has to be given to the performance. Balthazaar007 gives Uriah a sense of absolute confidence and inspiring charisma, and when he goes into full uninterrupted preacher mode for a few minutes at the end of the debate it's absolutely gripping. The Emperor and Custodisi are rendered speechless until he's done and you can absolutely buy it. Which makes it all the funnier when he drops back into Deadpan Snarker mode for the remainder of the podcast and is left stammering by the Emperor's parting shot below, of course.
      Uriah: Because I know... I am right.
  • In the same podcast, Custodisi calling the Emperor out for being "an asshole" to Uriah in the original story, pointing out that the old priest was harmless, elderly, and not a theologian, instead being a simple man of faith who was utterly unprepared for the Emperor to storm in, destroy his world view with brutal facts, and then destroy the church around him.
    "All right. Time for the 'real talk'. Sir, while I adore you like no other, while I would give my life to save yours in but an instant, while I would serve you for an eternity and more, while I am thankful for your graceful masterdom of our undeserving species... I have to admit that you are kind of an asshole."
    • The Techpriest does the same thing- only he gets thrown out the window for it.
      "Do I have a theory? Yes, the theory is: Is the Emperor of Mankind, in fact, a giant asshole?"
  • All that being said, the Emperor still gets in a really good shot in when he casually mentions that he kidnapped and converted Magnus (and stabbed Tzeentch in the process). While the Emperor made it seem easy at the time, Uriah is floored by this and rendered speechless. The Emperor even flicks off Uriah by just as casually ending the conversation and moving on. You really get a sense of just how screwed Chaos is. An 11,000 year old heretic with millions if not billions of followers lost all of his composure instantly when the Emperor reveals that he can just turn one of the greatest chaos champions in history on his slightest whim... and then he immediately undermines it by going back to bickering with Dorn about tacos. Uriah seems to be suffering whiplash from the change.
  • In Episode 2, Karstodes mocks Rogal Dorn's children to no end, both his Marine chapters and his unofficial adoption of Boy. Dorn immediately levels and cocks a shotgun at him without a word.
  • Boy, the kid carrying the vox-hailer for the podcasts, continues to be awesome in an understated manner as of the podcast covering the Black Templars. From giving an in-depth breakdown of the Black Templar organization and methods, asking logical questions and poking holes in said organization, staying standing as the Emperor, Dorn, and the three Custodes go completely apeshit, and doing all this while having a shard of porcelain shoved into his right eye during most of the episode!
    • What's more, Helbrect's advice to hate the shard seems to work: Boy can't see, obviously, but he isn't in pain anymore.
  • The Emperor warping Helbrecht to the podcast quickly causes the High Marshal to go ballistic and assume he's surrounded by "witches" at the sight of the Emperor and hearing his Machine Monotone voice. Helbrecht nearly attacks everyone, until the Emperor gets serious and orders him to calm down, via psychically-powered Compelling Voice. It works, and Helbretch immediately recognizes the Emperor as the real deal.
  • Boy is asked about what he knows regarding the Black Templars, and he gives a very thought-out answer based on prior knowledge and his interactions with "dadorable". Even Custodisi and The Emperor are genuinely impressed.
    The Emperor: ...did anyone murder and replace Boy just now?
  • When Whammudes continues to deride Boy, The Emperor himself intervenes and verbally cuts him down to size.
  • In Episode 3, Boy tells Karstodes off after latter badmouthes him, by telling him "eat death porridge, sir".
  • Upon reading a Purple Prose description of a window and a lampnote  in the book "Inquisitor", the Emperor goes on an epic "The Reason You Suck" Speech against Ian Watson and the book he has written.
    The Emperor: This goes beyond stylistic. This is not just flowery writing. This sentence is a winding hedge-maze of inanity that is indicative of everything ridiculous about Ian Watson's writing style. It took the more illiterate of us five whole fuck-mothering minutes to look up definitions for each of these words in various dictionaries we had on hand. Please, if any of you are thinking of becoming scribes, do not stop and force your readers to drop your book and pick up a dictionary every other chapter just because you want to assert your talent for finding obscure words. And to any "intellectual types" out there beginning to write an email to us about how it is the sign of a learned man who included such advanced words and phrases in a text medium: this record is shallow and only artificially deep, it is depraved, uncanny, and most damning of all boring. This is not a text that is even remotely entertaining or informative due to the way it is written, the way its story and personages are handled and even its break-neck pacing. What little entertainment we have derived from this text is obtained purely from the sheer hilarity that comes with something so irrational attempting to be presented as a serious story. ((THIS BOOK IS BAD)).

BRO TRIP 40,000

  • BRO TRIP 40,000: A Tale of Two Primarchs features a pretty amazing reminder of just how powerful the Primarchs are.
    • While backing up a platoon of Catachans under assault by the Masque of Slaanesh, once Slaanesh's favorite Daemonette and even now one of the highest ranking of her kind, the Salamanders and Raven Guard arriving only elicit irritation. The moment Corvus Corax appears behind her, she loses her cool immediately and fucks off back to the Warp rather than deal with a Son of the Emperor.
    Masque: Y-You-you You are a Child of the Anathema!
    Corvus Corax: The Master of Mankind to you, craven filth.
    Masque: Oh no no no and no! These biceps are not worth the banishment! I'm out!
    • Even before the Salamanders and Raven Guard arrive, the Catachan Guardsmen were holding their own against the Slaaneshi horde, performing much better against a daemonic invasion than most humans would ever have the right to. Only one casualty was shown on their side (although there were likely more, given that Straken had to resort to sending a distress signal), and the Guardsmen themselves are utterly unfazed. Then the Space Marines arrive and quickly turn the battle into a shitstomp.
  • BRO TRIP 40,000: A Tale of Two Primarchs also has the victorious return of Sly Marbo, saving Corvus from a poisonous toad. It’s so awesome, the primarch bows to Marbo at the end and acknowledges his awesomeness.
    • The Raven Guard openly acknowledge that just surviving on Catachan is a feat worthy of any Space Marine induction trials, openly acknowledging how great these bog-standard humans are. Given that most Space Marines' opinions of normal humans is, well, mostly disdain, that's pretty great.
  • In episode 2,
    • Vulkan saves the planet Attila from Exterminatus in the most ballsy maneuver devised by man and Ork alike; flying a military jet directly into the bomb, leaping out at the last possible moment, and punching the damn thing out of the sky. The crazy bastard even has the audacity to survive the ordeal; even as a perpetual that's seriously pushing it.
    • Piloting the jet are a pair of Rough Riders who volunteered for the Suicide Mission solely for the opportunity of an epic Dying Moment of Awesome.
    • The menial worker Clancy, for all we currently know a baseline human managed to not only put together a solid plan to kill not one, but two primarchs, but also managed to carry it out flawlessly. Only being foiled by Vulkan's Power of Friendship and above mentioned little stunt. And even then he managed to slip away to try again.
  • In episode 3,
    • The two Salamanders managing to produce five thousand Vulkan death-masks by hand in 24 hours. Sure they still get screwed in the end but still.
      • This means that in order to have even 23 minutes to get these masks from their hut to the big wigs' table, the Salamanders would need to forge each mask in exactly seventeen seconds, with no break between finishing and starting work on the next.
    • Clancy gets another one by masterminding everything that happened in the episode by using the Virus bomb and then knowing that they'd do anything to save Vulkan, wind up being trapped in debt and be unable to help him until it's too late.
    • After finding out that the reason people join the Indentured Squadron is because it's one of the only ways to pay off the debts from the "living fees" people on Jopall have to pay since birth, Corvus has one thing to say:
      Corvus Corax: Oh. Oh. Oh, that I hate.
      • This is made even better when you consider Corvus' canon backstory: He grew up on a world of oppressed miners, and spent his pre-crusade life fighting to overthrow the corporations that ruled his world. Up until this point in the episode, Corvus has just been his usual depressed self, not really caring for anything other than saving Vulkan, and just being kind of annoyed at the whole situation. But as soon as he realizes that he's functionally back in the same kind of society he fought against so long? Suddenly, he's invested in what's happening, and singlehandedly starts a revolution.
    • Corvus leads a revolution just by pointing out an easier way for the Guardsmen to settle their crushing debt.
      • All revolutions need to start somewhere. And thus, props need to go to the first guardsman who actually got started, by riddling his commissar with bullets.
        Take THAT out of your paycheck, you son of a bitch.
    • For the first time since the Age of Apostasy, a corrupt Imperial government official was overthrown by rebel forces who are still loyal to the Emperor.
    • The Guardsmen telling their soon-to-be-guillotined governor that he's fired.
    • And in the end, Vulkan still survives. By Orking the fuck out of perma-death and warping away in a blast of WAAAGH energy.
    Ork!Vulkan: IT...MIGHT BE HURTY TO YOUZ HUMIES...BUT NOT...TO AN OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRKKKKKKKKKK!!!

Shorts

  • Ecclesiarch Decius is faced with the near-impossible task of telling the rest of the church that the Emperor isn't a god. How does he do it without getting lynched on the spot? By pointing out all the ways in which the other gods in existence totally suck, and that it is insulting to compare the Emperor to them when he is ABOVE them. His voice starts clearing up (and this ends up being permanent!) as he delivers the point that the gods and their false promises of power are for fools and weaklings and certainly not above Man, and by the time he states Humanity is the greatest race in the Galaxy, and the Emperor, the first and finest of them all, shares their blood with them, he's speaking in a clear, powerful voice.
  • Sly Marbo curb stomping Dark Eldar raiders before breaking into their stronghold. When a Dark Eldar Archon tries to give Sly a Sadistic Choice where Sly either leaves the prisoners to their fate as slaves of the Dark Eldar, or Sly attacks and the Dark Eldar Archon activates a kill switch that will quickly but brutally crush the prisoners, Sly consults his shoulder angel and devil, who advise him to "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!" and he uses the power of his screaming voice to bust out the slaves.
    • He then continues the trend in TTS Special 2: Slaaneshmas, in which he was invited to the Slaaneshmas show by Lucius. And then proceeds to curb-stomp Lucius, Ahriman, AND Typhus, three of the most prominent and most powerful Champions of Chaos in the entire galaxy.

Specials

  • In one of Kitten's coolest moment in the series, he refuses to obey the Emperor's order to cut off Roboute Guilliman's life support, not even when the Emperor got mad! And when they battle for Guilliman's life in a Yu-Gi-Oh! card game (which the Emperor cheats in by using a card so stupidly broken it has never been printed note  in his deck), Kitten manages to beat the Emperor in his own game by using the Emperor's cards against him!
    • Okay, this deserves explanation. The Emperor spends his VERY long turn and all but 100 of his Life Points fielding two absurdly broken cards and clearing Kitten's field. One is the monster Winged Dragon of Ra (rechristened "Winged Warrior of Terra" courtesy of DNA Surgery), with 7900 attack points and the ability to attack twice per turn. The other is the field spell Golden Castle of Stromberg, which forces all of Kitten's monsters to attack every turn (smashing themselves against Ra and losing him more HP), and he takes damage equal to their attack power; both cards have additional effects, but those are the main two. Oh, and both are COMPLETELY INDESTRUCTIBLE. Kitten returns both cards to the Emperor's hand - which is NOT destroying them - and finishes him with Wind-Up Kitten.
    • The best part of all of this? In order to get the aforementioned hideously broken combination, the Emperor uses a total of sixteen cards in a single turn, which is admittedly impressive. Even more impressive? Kitten beats it with just two note . Made even MORE impressive by the fact that Kitten's cards are downright basic and borderline under powered.
    • The Winged Warrior of Terra is pretty damn impressive in presentation too, especially the Theme Music Power-Up it gets immediately after it transforms, with the Triumphant Reprise also found in the end credits continuing to blare as more and more powerups are added to it, the music only dying down after it lands the damn nearly final blow on Kitten.
      • The best moment here is the fact that all of this is the Emperor's plan! He deliberately lost to Kitten to train him in the game, reach his potential, save Magnus, etc. And it's clearly not the end...
  • Leman Russ and the remains of the Inquisition in the Warp. When you filter out all of the hilarity, you get a Primarch and an Inquisition army single-handedly killing and disrupting the activities of daemons in the Warp, including beings as powerful and dreaded as Skarbrand and Kairos the Fateweaver.
  • At the end of The Shadow over Immateriums, when Bruce Norring has been captured, he defiantly snarls that he would never be a slave to the genestealers-which causes Inquistor Adrielle to burst out of the Warp and destroy the entire cult.
  • From Special 4: Kitten and Tzeentch play a Children's Card Game
    • When Tzeentch comes knocking to demand Magnus' return, Kitten challenges him to a game of Paradox-Billiards-Vostroyan-Roulette-Fourth Dimensional-Hypercube-Chess-Strip Poker a.k.a. Yugi Oh for Magnus' soul.
      • Tzeentch begins by making an incredibly complicated combo based on destroying each sides' hands thrice and then use Morphing Jar #2 to send his own cards to the graveyard. As most of his deck is pretty much spells, save for Morphing Jar, this would make his Magical Explosion incredibly powerful.
      • Kitten attempts to answer by using Giant Trunade, which he had used to win against the Emperor, to send Magical Explosion back to Tzeentch's hand, but Dark Bribe allows Tzeentch to avert that, in exchange of Kitten drawing an extra card. Kitten realizes Tzeentch is reading his thoughts, and Magnus proceeds to block Tzeentch's mind-reading. Kitten uses Cup of Ace which would force Tzeentch to draw his last two cards and lose by decking out.
      • Tzeentch chains Magical Explosion to the Cup of Ace, so it will activate just before, which would defeat Kitten, but Kitten then uses Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy and negate (Alfabusa realized later it does not actually work like that, but the trick would not work otherwise) Magical Explosion. Kitten proceeds to win the coin toss by shooting a coin so it lands on tails, and when Tzeentch complains about the blatant cheating, Kitten throws Tzeentch's own answer when Kitten pointed out he was cheating back at him.
        Tzeentch: That's - against - the rules!
      • But wait! Tzeentch uses Exchange of the Spirit, and his first move that forced Kitten to send his hand three times to the graveyard means it can be activated, so now Tzeentch has most of his deck and Kitten only has sixteen cards. And with Cup of Ace's activation, Tzeentch gets Magical Explosion back, and with Morphing Jar in play, he can do the previous combo all over again - which means Kitten will lose next turn.
      • However, Kitten manages to pull a combo of his own: combining Rescue Cat and Monster Reborn, he brings out three Milus Radiants (whose effect gives each Earth monster in play an extra 500 attack, each)... and Wind-Up Kitten. Combined with The Big March of Animals, all of Kitten's monsters in play gain 2300 attack, and after Wind-Up Kitten's effect sends Morphing Jar back to Tzeentch's hand, Kitten's monsters proceed to make calamari out of Tzeentch.
      • And after beating a God of Chaos at a card game what does Kitten do? Mouth off to Tzeentch with zero consequences.
        Tzeentch: (Simmering with Tranquil Fury) This never HAPPENED.
        Kitten: OR DID IT?
        Tzeentch: NO!
        Kitten: Ahahaaaa! Fuck you Tzeentch! You're a neeeerd!
        Tzeentch: NO! (Fucks off back to the warp)
  • From Special 6: Tabletop Adventures:
    • The halfling Bulgo Potatoskin, when the party is ambushed in the mountains, is stuck alone against a pack of gnoblars. Knowing that he can't possibly defeat them all himself, the Master of the Administratum makes a perception check to seek another means of saving himself. When Magnus declares that the boulders above him are loose, the Master declares he's going to hit them with his sling to make them fall. Despite having to make the ballistic skill check at a -30% penalty, the Master ends up rolling a natural 1 (a Critical Success in Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay) and slays the gnoblars, to the surprise and delight of the other players.
      • He does it again during the battle with the Gorger-Lord, managing to briefly stun the uber-powerful boss despite dealing no damage. For the record, the Gorger Lord is Custodisi, and is a member of the Adeptus Custodes. He's basically a Physical God compared to these insects, but the equivalent of a hobbit managed to stun a superhuman demigod of war with a thrown rock.
        Magnus: He's dazed, by a rock!? How can this be!?
    • The Emperor's ruse to save the captured party from the Gorger-Lord and his tribe of ogres. When he hears that the Gorger-Lord (Custodisi) wants a wizard who can create a portal to another world, the Emperor steps up and casts Marsh Lights, a novice-level spell that summons harmless glowing lights. He arranges them around the vast pit at the heart of the ogre camp and successfully bluffs the Gorger-Lord into believing that its a functioning portal. Custodisi leaps in, and his whole tribe promptly follows, throwing themselves to their deaths.
      Magnus: You are all so very lucky that ogres are somehow more vacuous than greenskins.
    • The moment Magnus finally gets fed up with the party going Off the Rails also deserves mention. The Celestial Shaman Queen deactivates her Marsh Lights spell and turns away from the Great Jaw to help the party loot the ogre camp. Behind her, the Gorger Lord leaps from the chasm in slow motion, launching a devastating kick at her head as a tribal remix of Awaken My Quivering Abs starts up.
    • When Magnus gives in to his frustration and becomes a Killer GM, bringing back the Gorger-Lord to destroy the party, he offers them a chance to flee the battle and return to Altdorf, where they can start from scratch with the adventures Magnus wrote up originally. Whamuudes is having none of it, leaping onto the table to deliver a defiant speech:
      Whamuudes: No! You are dishonorable, Magnus! I will not run to this land of empty promises like a coward! This may be a tram-ride into hell, but it was forged of our own decisions! We made this adventure our own, through the pitfalls, and the mistakes, and the critical failures, and the destruction of my fabulous knightly bottom! But it is ours - and the fact it is ours, the fact that we have made this, that makes it worth fighting for! I will stay to SPITE you, AND YOUR RAILROADING WAYS!
      Grand Provost Marshall: YEAH!
      Master of the Administratum: YEAH!
      Rogal: Yes!
      Lord Commander Militant: Fuck you, Magno! You ruined my clown goblin illegality law!
      Emperor: New game goal: spite Magnus.
    • The Gorger-Lord slays Bulgo, swatting the halfling from Sir Whamri's shoulders. Whamri, enraged at the death of his friend, charges the Gorger-Lord in melee. The Gorger-Lord's combined toughness rating and wounds threshold is so tremendous that only the most obscene amounts of damage could hope to seriously hurt him. Whamuudes rolls a natural 10. Magnus gloats that Sir Whamri's mere 13 damage isn't nearly enough to harm the Gorger-Lord... only for the Grand Provost Marshal to remind him that, by the rules of the game, rolling a natural 10 on a damage roll means Whamuudes gets to roll for additional damage. Whamuudes then proceeds to roll nat-10 after nat-10, building his single axe-strike up to 122 damage, enough to pass the Gorger-Lord's defenses, wipe out his wounds, and deal a severe Critical Hit that severs his arm at the shoulder. Forget becoming a Knight of the Realm: such a feat would land Sir Whamri Grail Knighthood.
      • What Sir Whamri says just before the above moment also qualifies.
        Sir Whamri: You... YOU... You uncivilized scoundrel! I will have your life IN BULGO'S NAME!
      • The whole time, the Grand Provost Marshal and Karstodes (the latter of which had been completely apathetic to the game up until this point) grow increasingly hyped up as Whamuudes keeps nailing rolls, and Whamuudes himself deliriously calls out each dice result.
        Grand Provost Marshal: IT'S A CRITICAL HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!!
      • In-story, Custodisi initially laughs off Sir Whamri's attack, gloating that his genetically-enhanced muscles are stronger than any of the alloys that exist in the Warhammer Fantasy Battle world. However, Sir Whamri continues to defiantly dig the axe head into Custodisi's shoulder, and the buildup of extra damage manifests as a radiant nimbus of light that surrounds the brave knight's body, and at the point of the final roll his eyes are clearly glowing under his helm. Custodisi's arrogance gives way to confusion, followed by disbelief and shock once the blade finally starts to cut into his iron-hard flesh.
        Custodisi: What!? What is happening!? IMPOSSIBLE!!
    • This then allows Brukham Nougat and Rolf to shoot the Gorger-Lord in the back with a leadbelcher, setting him on fire and effectively distracting him so the Shaman Queen can put him to sleep.
      • After winning what should have been an impossible fight, Magnus tries to straight up delete the game by destroying the tome. Instead, the survivors survive that due to standing over the pit they threw Custodisi into, (which may or may not be the Great Maw), and arrive safely on top of the Imperium table they were playing on.
      • Keep in mind the reveal at the end is that this wasn't just a game they were playing, these events were actually happening in the Warhammer Fantasy world, the characters were real people, and the players were just guiding their actions like an unseen diety. And yet they managed to cut off Custodisi's arm. This can't be understated: people from the Warhammer Fantasy universe, which has much lower levels of power than 40k, managed to seriously injure a being from the 40k world who even in his own universe is from a group of Purposely Overpowered elite super soldiers who could crush most Fantasy characters like insects (hence a punch to Bulgo effectly made the halfling explode). And yet they still brought him down.
  • From Special 7: Space Game Pain:
    • Boy manages to recreate the Horus Heresy with little outside help, and even manages to pull it off even better by blowing up the Emperor's home world. And then when the Emperor calls him out on it, Boy has the sheer gall to sass back.
    • The Terrified Guardsman, who was famous for showing up in random places and fleeing from anything terrifying, actually charged up against Boy, who was re-enacting the Horus Heresy, and re-enacted Ollanius Pius's Heroic Sacrifice.
    • Kitten outright wins the game, not just surviving the Triple-Crisis, but creating a thriving utopian empire. How does he do this? By not starting pointless wars, engaging in complicated schemes, or generally being a dick, but instead helping others, looking out for his population and maintaining reserve fleets among other boring, but practical tactics.
      • For bonus points, take a look at his empire on the scoreboard. His primary species used the Life-Seeded start, meaning they were stuck with a Gaia World preference, restricting them to the rarest naturally-occuring planet type in the galaxy, or forcing them to invest considerable time and resources into terraforming planets or building mega-projects to live on. His ethos were Absolute Xenophile, meaning he had to accept any refugees wishing to enter his empire, which meant finding housing, jobs and consumer goods to keep them happy, and he was also Pacifist, which meant no easy wars of conquest, the only way he could expand his borders was the time-consuming process of integrating smaller nations into his empire. And Kitten managed to not only make it to the endgame with these handicaps, but also hold out against three Endgame Crisis events, when a normal game of Stellaris only features one. Maybe he really is the King of Games.
      • Another one: when Eldad calls to Kitten, he sees his fleet strength is a million. When game ends, Kitten's fleet strength is more than 5 millions.

Vox-Logs

  • The second vox-log, A Distressing Journey Into The Emperor's Canals, gives us a great reminder that while Whamuudes is a perverted, homoerotic, permanently naked mad man, he is still a Custodes, the most powerful super warriors in the Imperium.
    • When the weird Bastard of the Sludge creature appears he immediately drops any silliness and becomes serious. When it drags him into a pipe he punches it, and when he finds himself stuck with the creature behind him he uses his incredible lung capacity to flush both of them out.
    • The Sisters of Silence deserve a mention. They have fairly high standing in the Imperium, which means they can get away with a lot of things. Like slapping Whamuudes' ass, punching his gun and being generally snarky.
  • Russ apparently possesses enough psychic might to summon things from the warp just by thinking of them. Up to and including: Choke gas, Urist, and Slaanesh itself.
    • Adding to this, the fact that Leman managed to reduce Drukhari TO TEARS with this method. This is a faction that casually indulges in depravity, torture and inflicting untold horror on mere mortals. And, when faced with the prospect of a daemonic invasion, where elated at the prospect of "murdering temporal thoughtforms". When Jebarion begs for Mercy, Leman is amused by the irony. By the time Leman falls asleep, Jebarion has a full-blown breakdown, loudly weeping on the ship.
    • One of the Dark Eldar, Xylatro, realizing that Slaanesh itself is starting to creep into Commorragh, declares that he would rather face eternal torment than be a coward and yells Slaanesh's name out loud, killing himself in the process. No matter what a horrible person he was in life, he died for Commorragh.
    Xylatro: 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! grgghgh— I take suffering before disgrace!! FOR COMMORRAGH! IS IT — SLAANEghhghghhHGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA [turns to ash as soul is drunk by She Who Thirsts]
  • Boy gets a pretty amazing moment during the Day In The Life Of Boy Vox-Log when, after being constantly berated for how he goes about his duties by his Adept Overseer, the Adept starts outright threatening Boy and his entire family and community with being purged for daring to insinuate that Boy is the chosen vox-hailer of the Emperor. Boy then proceeds to beat the Adept and his crony with his own vox-caster, dealing not insubstantial injuries to both of them and even earning Karstodes's respect when he sees that a well-aimed kick from Boy to the Adept's horribly malformed legs was a killing blow. Karstodes then assures Boy that his family and community are going to be fine, and promises to get his shattered eardrums fixed, doubling as a Heartwarming moment as well.
    • Boy is asked why his body looks different from that of other Voxcasters, and he responds in potentially the most 40K way possible:
    Boy: This is what I get for rejecting your lacking creed.
    • During his speech about the long climb to reach the Man-Emperor, Boy's voice goes clear and firm, almost in the same manner that Decius once did. Clearly, Boy is learning very well from Dorn.
  • Boy resisting the Great Horned Rat's attempts to sway him into heresy then banishing him back to the warp with a simple "No". The Imperial Fists will have a fine Chapter Master (If not outright First Captain if Rogal gets his Legion back together) one day.

Other

  • While it doesn't work out in the end, props to the random Underhiver in Unsubtle Allegory starring the Adeptus Astartes and Underhive Scum who counters a Space Marine's elitism and disdain with a scathing "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
    Underhiver: You're not human. That is the real answer. I'm the result of circumstance. The single speck of a drop spilled from the cauldron of man left to fester on its own. You are a tool cast in a uniform mold. An interchangeable pawn devoid of identity. Even with all my failures and imperfections, I am more human than you will ever be.
    • It seems to have had an effect on the Marine, as before he left that hallway, he grabs the underhiver's skull and wears it as a hat, presumably in an effort to be more human than what Marines usually are.
  • Warhams is largely more funny than awesome, but Episode 7 starts off pretty well with Zoran and Lorn rolling exceptionally well on a narrative declaration. The result is Lorn stops a shell from striking the Debt Collector's bridge psychically, and corkscrewing the round back to the planet below.
    • Warhams Episode 11 is a roller coaster up until the last moment when the crew is trapped in a sealed room and the air is being pumped with knock out gas, Pi-Braine proceeds to blow open a ventilation shaft, and crawl through it to safety, swearing to come back for his party.
    • Episode 7, Tax Acquisition Day. Not just the battle through the skies to reach their destination, but the epic curbstomp of a battle as the team rips through the defenders. As one Youtube comment puts it:
    Imagine this scene for a moment: The group comes in to attack the throne room, and advances upon the defenders. Pi-Brane, who previously seemed a bit silly in the last meeting, is now seemingly incoherent from rage. The group tears through the defenders, with Pi-Brane finally speaking clearly only to declare "I AM YOUR APOCALYPSE!!!" as the final defenders are purged in fire and lightning. Finally, Pi-Brane advances upon the ruler, and lifts them by their face with one hand. The entire final battle of the episode was the most Warhammer 40K thing of the campaign thus far.

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