Funny / Warhammer 40,000: Darktide

• During character creation when selecting a home planet, you're shown an image of the planet. Cadia's is nothing but a bunch of rocks floating in space thanks to the Fall of Cadia. Can also double as a Tear Jerker.
• The Ogryn's Blitz is throwing a Grenade Box. No, we don't mean emptying a box of primed grenades all at once in a spread, he literally throws the closed box really hard to deal high single-target damage, and it's deceptively powerful when used this way since the impact does extra damage against armor, even bordering on Lethal Joke Item at times due to its absurdly high stopping power. It's never not funny to chuck a box across the room and beaning a hapless Elite on the head with it for an instant kill. A certain talent will make it drop all its grenades upon hitting an armored target for even more fun!
  • Taken even further in Patch 13's update. One possible Talent swaps out the Grenade Box with a Big Friendly Rock, which regenerates its ammo over time. A rock to the head is just as capable of instantly killing most specialists.
• Almost anything coming out of the Ogryns' mouths can be worth a chuckle, given their childlike glee and simplistic mindset. A whole group of them is a veritable comedy troupe in the making.
  • The standard Bully Ogryn reaction to the other three classes discussing the Imperium and other such topics is a very disinterested "head hurts, don't care". He even has a unique voice line where he will ask if the others will stop yapping in his ears.
    "Don't you lot ever shut up?"
  • They tend to trip up over big, complicated High Gothic words like "manufactorum" or "medicae", only to give up in frustration and go for a layman's equivalent instead.
  • Occasionally while sloughing through the Torrent, the Ogryn may even remark that the smell of sewage is growing on him, and it makes him hungry.
  • Despite this, they can be inexplicably eloquent at times. The Brawler may drop the following voice line upon reaching the open sky:
    "I think the sun^note Read: "The furious solar radiation burning through Atoma Prime's devastated atmosphere" shows off my delicate complexion.
  • Reaching the final auspex site in an Investigation mission may prompt the Bully Ogryn to dare his teammates to lick the bloody corruption tree.
  • The Brawler Ogryn may occasionally say that Hadron makes him uneasy, and that he thinks she's watching him. Hadron will promptly contact them via the nearest available speaker - as in, an in-game speaker, not the squad's usual communication channel - and insist she's doing nothing of the sort. When the Brawler questions if anyone else heard that, a Veteran responds that it didn't happen, and the Brawler takes it at face value.
  • The female Judge Zealot may try to reassure the squad to have no fear since the Emperor has preordained their death. This doesn't work especially well, since the Bodyguard Ogryn responds with "La la la, not listening!", like an annoyed child.
  • Upon reaching the raised Skylink (read: big bridge) in Throneside, the Bodyguard Ogryn may contemplate out loud whether he should throw his smaller teammates across the chasm or not.
• Zealots may yell "Blood for the God Emperor! Skulls for the Golden Throne!" as an obvious The Horseshoe Effect joke between them and Khornate worshippers.
• The special attacks of some of of the Ogryn's melee weapons are so out of place that they're hilarious. Depending on the equipped melee weapon, the Ogryn can either uppercut, backhand, or do an open palm slap with such strength that can stun even unyielding enemies like Ragers silly. While these attacks do minimal damage, the fact that their animation completes faster than an enemy can recover from them allows the Ogryn to stunlock them to death with a flurry of slaps and punches, quite possibly the ultimate humiliation for those supposedly blessed by the Grandfather's gifts.
  • Not to be outdone, the lil 'uns can get in on the fun by equipping a Catachan Combat Blade (knife), the special attack of which makes them punch with their off-hand. Hitting carapace armor will make them shake their hand afterwards, as if in entirely understandable pain.
• One of the Psyker's voice lines has them gaining Medium Awareness, causing him to argue with the subtitles because they mistook "four shortened lifespans" as "foreshortened lifespans."
• One conversation between a certain pair of Psyker and Zealot voicesets may have the Psyker calling out the Zealot on their excessive and inappropriate use of thees and thous, accusing them of being a pretender who can't actually speak High Gothic whilst also implying the Psyker does know it. It ends with;
  Zealot: [annoyed] "I do not wish to speak to you any longer— to thee any longer!"
  • A Loose Cannon Veteran may occasionally grill an Agitator Zealot that they know the Zealot likes swearing when they think no one is watching them.
• The traitor arc of the game becomes incredibly hilarious when you realize that even the Ogryn of all people is a possible suspect. It very swiftly becomes a Foregone Conclusion given how most Ogryns don't even have the mental capacity for direct insubordination to begin with, much less plotting heresy and openly dealing with Chaos.
• Apparently none of the Strike Team members know how to turn off their communicators before they start badmouthing one of the command staff or just idly speculating about them amongst themselves. Just about every member of Lex Atoma's high command are loudly discussed with rather provocative language among the group, only for them to occasionally pull an I'm Standing Right Here and immediately kill the moment. Awkward silence ensues.
  Hadron: Audio is still connected. You continue to broadcast.
  or
  Morrow: You're still transmitting, idiots.
• The sounds of other players yelling as they are suddenly Blown Across the Room from the variety of ways that can cause it can have a bit of a cartoonish comedic appeal to it.
• Somewhat unsurprisingly considering the name of the voiceset, the Fanatic Zealot quite likes that their place in an Inquisitorial strike team means that they can now burn heretics without getting arrested.
• The Judge Zealot may be a grandiose and rigid sort, but even they can be sarcastic about I'm Standing Right Here.
• The Seer Psyker seems to believe that the Emperor themselves is talking to them. While it's more likely that this concept will never be definitively answered, it is quite funny to imagine that the God Emperor of Mankind himself really is running commentary and providing advice ("No Beloved, that's not a good dog!") to this one Psyker in Tertium.
  • When a Seer asks aloud if everyone else is aware that they're not actually real (because they believe all of this to be a dream), the Judge Zealot may make a plea "Please. Not this again" in restrained annoyance, which is a rather surprising statement out of one so hammy.
  • When a Zealot suggests the group pray to the Emperor, as they frequently do, the Seer may casually reply that they don't need to because they already talked to the Emperor earlier that day.
• If the Veteran fires the plasma gun while it's overheated, the reject will frantically start shaking it in a futile attempt to cool it down, with the knob on the side indicating the gun's temperature spinning out of control before it inevitably blows up in the reject's face and the player gets downed as a result.
• Purity seals◊, a signature motif for the Imperium's baroque artstyle, can be seen in many places in this game...including air conditioners◊.
• The flavor text of many premium cosmetic packs can also be actually pretty hilarious.
  • The titular Ogryn of the Grugg the Gut-Devil bundle earned his moniker for two reasons, one being that disembowelment is his signature move, the other being his voracious appetite that often results in biohazard-level farts that can "darken a room".
• One of the missions has you lower an Ascender partway through - just the traditional "press button, hold out against enemy hordes while waiting for elevator" mid-mission event, no? Well, no. In this case the Ascender is... a staircase. That was raised and needs to be lowered.
• The Patch 13 class overhaul gives the Zealot the Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude ability, which buffs allies with invulnerability, and with the Banishing Light talent, also pushes back and staggers enemies. This works on Monstrosities too. Cue players using Chorus of Spiritual Fortitude to knock Plague Ogryns, Beasts of Nurgle, Daemonhosts, Chaos Spawns and Traitor Captains off ledges, instantly ending them via the Imperial equivalent of "The Power of Christ Compels You!". While this was nerfed to only having the first and last pulse push Monstrosities, there's still a chance for those pushes to get them off the ledge.
• Zealots do not like Psykers, and the Agitator Zealot will not let themselves forget it.
• In addition to the numerous confident and cocky callouts when using Infiltrate, a Loose Cannon Veteran may also just complain very loudly about how much their smokescreen stinks.
• A Brawler Ogryn can mentioned that he was once on a ship trapped in a warp storm. He remembers the experience as being horrible...because they almost ran out of rations. Yes, he found almost running out of food to be a traumatic memory, not even having actually gone hungry.
• Aboard the Mourningstar, Hallowette chimes in on a conversation between Hadron and Zola:
  Hadron: Explicator Zola! You are three cycles late for our meeting.
  Zola: I was busy, all right? Data-work can wait.
  Hallowette: Oh, go on. Fight! Fight! Fight!
• A burn so powerful it made a Salamander proud:
  Non-Cadian Veteran: Got a fine opinion of yourself, don't ya?
  Cadian Veteran: You wouldn't have lasted a day on Cadia.
  NCV: Oh, really? And how's Cadia doing right now?
  C.V.: You shut your mouth, or i'll shut it for you!
  NCV: I'm not scared, you'll fall apart at the last moment. Just like Cadia.
• The Loose Cannon can't remember the codenames for the heretics, instead resorting to Buffy Speak or simply using the standard designations. Sometimes he may call out "Traxis-12" while sounding very proud of himself... except the Veteran got it wrong.

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