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  • Acting for Two: It happens quite a bit in the series. Cyrus, Martellus and Eliphas, Bale and Sindri, Davian Thule, Araghast and Ulkair...
  • Ascended Fanon: Araghast the Pillager is the Chaos Lord seen at the end of the first Chaos Rising trailer, but due to the Chaos Lord's name not being revealed, his lines, and his voice actor sounding a lot like Paul Dobson, the immediate fan reaction was to assume that he was Eliphas the Inheritor from Dark Crusade, Back from the Dead. Relic's reaction was to bring Eliphas back, albeit as a different character with a different voice actor and personality who served as Araghast's treacherous second-in-command.
    • In addition, Retribution was basically the world debut of the Daemon Prince model that was released in 2012 and eventually the Swarm Lord model. This was due to Relic getting information directly from collaboration with Games Workshop.
  • Beam Me Up, Scotty!:
    • Commander Boreale certainly does say "SPESS MEHREENS!" and "WE HAVE FEHLED THE EMPRAH", but not in the same sentence.
    • General Stubbs never actually lost those 100 Baneblades; they were just shipped off-system like they were always intended to (Kaurava I builds them for Imperial regiments all over the sector). Going by Warhammer 40,000: Gladius, this misconception happens in-universe as well.
  • Creator Backlash: The developers at Relic view the Soulstorm expansion for the first game as a failure, evidenced by writing the story so that the Blood Ravens lost the conflict and regard the affair as a blight on their history.
  • Creator Killer: Even though Iron Lore was already on the verge of going out of business, Soulstorm was the project that put the final nails in their coffin. And given the way Soulstorm turned out to be a laughable flop, it's not hard to see why they became defunct.
  • Cross-Regional Voice Acting: For Dawn of War II and its expansions, the voice acting would be provided by both the Vancouver voice pool of the previous entries, and the Los Angeles pool of actors.
  • Follow the Leader: Upon its release, Halo Wars was strongly believed to have been directly inspired (if not being an outright copy) by the success of Dawn of War.
  • Franchise Killer: Relic stopped active development of Dawn of War III in February 2018 which, combined with the overwhelming plethora of negative reviews and a clear-cut and heavy financial loss with the game itself, is a strong indicator that there won't be another sequel.
  • God Never Said That: No, it was never "officially confirmed" that the Imperial Guard were the canon winners of Soulstorm. The only official word was that it was a defeat for the Blood Ravens and Cyrus from Dawn of War was among those who fought there. A canon winner was only revealed in Dawn of War III, which turned out to be the Orks.
  • Hey, It's That Sound!: In the intro cinematic for Dawn of War II, the Force Commander says that he has spotted the "primary threat" (an Eldar farseer). His communication partner responds by saying "Moving into position," which is a sound clip that was used when giving a move order to Space Marines in another Warhammer 40k game called Warhammer: 40,000: Squad Command, a Turn-Based Tactics game.
  • The Other Darrin:
    • In Dawn of War II, Gabriel Angelos was instead voiced by Paul Dobson's brother, Brian Dobson. He gives an excellent performance all the same, though the fanbase was still disappointed. He then goes back to Paul in Chaos Rising and Retribution.
    • Farseer Taldeer was originally voiced by Kara Sadiq in Winter Assault before the role in Dark Crusade was given to Nicole Oliver.
    • Davian Thule was voiced by Scott McNeil in Dark Crusade and by Fred Tatasciore in Dawn of War II and its expansions.
    • Eliphas the Inheritor was originally voiced by Paul Dobson, but was later voiced by Steve Blum for his return in Chaos Rising and Retribution.
    • Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter was originally voiced by Brian Drummond, but is now being voiced by Nathan Constance in Dawn of War III.
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