History Trivia / IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice

* ActorShipping: [[WordOfGod Alfabusa]] ships [=ThunderPsyker=] and [=DoctorWhite=], the voice actors of Kitten and Shadowsun, hence in Text To Speech they were once a couple in (supposedly, according to Kitten) non-canon shorts.
* ActorAllusion: An In-Series variant; Asdrubael Vect and the Emperor (Whenever he isn't using the TTS device, which is usually only in flashbacks or when he's in psychic vision form) are both voiced by [=SpeakerD=]. That lends a certain subtext to this line.
-->'''Vect''': [[spoiler: It is time for two Emperors...to meet.]]
* CastingGag: [=SpeakerD=], the voice actor for the Emperor when he's not using the TTS device, plays a tech-priest in ''War Hams''. Tech-priests replace body parts with augmentics as a sign of prestige, including the voice box, so [=SpeakerD=] voices someone whose artificial voice is a sign of how low he's fallen, and someone whose lack of an artificial voice is a sign that he hasn't risen.

* DawsonCasting: Inverted, as most characters are several thousand years old while actors portraying them are... not (we think).
* FakeAmerican: Zegram is, amusingly, *is* American (he's from Texas) trying to go for a British accent, but ends up sounding like Australian, which many people thought he was the latter.
* JustForFun/NotableReferencesToTVTropes: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV07YSuKNk4 the description for the fifth TTS short]], Alfabusa shows that he's aware of Website/TVTropes having an article about this series.
--> For the record, this takes place before the events of Episode 20. Just a tidbit for the chronologers over there at [=TvTropes=].
** The "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_wgIIopCg Crotalids]]" short was conceived in part because various tropers listed Zegram as being Australian. (He's Texan)

* RecursiveFanfiction: [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/if-the-emperor-watched-the-text-to-speech-device.408752/ If the Emperor Watched The Text To Speech Device]]. In that story, The Emperor and The Primarchs end up watching the series (pre-Horus Heresy) and, well, their reactions are amusing.

* SignificantDoubleCasting: The Emperor (when he's off the Text-to-Speech device) and Hammurabi Unferth share a voice actor. Hammurabi is the Shield-Captain of the Custodes diplomacy division, so he's literally speaking with the Emperor's Voice.

** The whole series is planned to take 42 episodes in total, not counting specials, spin-offs, and shorts.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://if-the-emperor-had-a-texttospeech-device.wikia.com/wiki/If_The_Emperor_Had_a_Text-To-Speech_Device_Wiki For all your lore needs]].

* ActorAllusion: An In-Series variant; Asdrubael Vect and the Emperor (Whenever he isn't using the TTS device, which is usually only in flashbacks or when he's in psychic vision form) are both voiced by Randolph Carter. That lends a certain subtext to this line.

* CastingGag: Randolph Carter, the voice actor for the Emperor when he's not using the TTS device, plays a tech-priest in ''War Hams''. Tech-priests replace body parts with augmentics as a sign of prestige, including the voice box, so Randolph Carter voices someone whose artificial voice is a sign of how low he's fallen, and someone whose lack of an artificial voice is a sign that he hasn't risen.

* TalkingToHimself: While the series has enough voice actors to avoid that for the most part, two major exceptions are the Slaneeshmas-related shorts, which have Lucius the Eternal and Ahzek Ahriman (both voiced by Yohan Gasmask) interact extensively, and the "Decius Breaks the News" short, with Kochiha Ichihara voicing both Decius and the cardinals.

* NamesTheSame: Urien Rakarth, the Dark Eldar torturer, shares a name with the ''[[TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy Warhammer Fantasy]]'' Dark Elf Legendary Lord known for being TheBeastmaster of their respective roster.

* JustForFun/NotableReferencesToTVTropes: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV07YSuKNk4 the description for the fifth TTS short]], Alfabusa shows that he's aware of Wiki/TVTropes having an article about this series.

** Eventually taken to the logical extreme. Comments on that thread eventually started getting cluttered with digressions and reactions to other 40k media, eventually causing several other threads being created to keep these conversations from the main reactions to "official" text to speak materials. Meaning a recursive fanfic has received it's own recursive fanfic.

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* QuoteSource:
** ThisIsGonnaSuck

* FanNickname:
** The series, for its lengthy name, is often called "Emperor Text-To-Speech", "Text-To-Speech", "Emperor TTS", or "TTS".
** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Pillar-stodes]] for the Fabulous Custodes. Also Fabstodes.

** It's expanding with Zegram voicing voicing Magnus (with the same voice and accent, just a more serious take) on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8AaO8zkIoxbUp1_p0rl13g Occulus Imperia's]] video on the Council on Nikaea (and Occulus himself already having had his own cameo in TTS).
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Due to personal issues, Franky could not reprise his role as Dominique. Hence, why [[spoiler:his character was killed off in episode 24]]. [[spoiler: Although he comes back for a short while in the first part of Episode 26.]]

* InMemoriam: Episode 30 part 2 is dedicated to [=CCRockChic=], who was one of the voices of Cawl.
* OvertookTheManga: Inverted, amusingly enough. While the series was meant to resolve the plot stagnation of ''Warhammer 40000'' proper (albeit in a parodic way), the three campaigns made for ''The Gathering Storm'' that actually advance the storyline (with the fall of Cadia to Chaos, the fracturing of Biel-Tan and Ynnead's subsequent rise, and Roboute Guilliman's resurrection) are said to be '''ahead''' of TTS canon as of Episode 25 -- something that makes sense considering that Lucius and the other Chaos champions are preparing for the 13th Black Crusade. A letter from one of the Thousand Sons during the Q&A segment of ''The Last Church'' Podcast episode explains that Magnus was kidnapped from the afterparty of a successful revenge plot on the Space Wolves -- confirmed by WordOfGod to be the events of ''Wrath of Magnus''. It is starting to catch up to ''The Gathering Storm,'' though, as Eldrad is seen gathering together support for the efforts to make Ynnead rise.

** Lucian's ''I'm Dreaming of a Pink Slaaneshmas'' was in the Slaaneshmas Special was intended to be longer, with accompanyment from Kalgor Draigo. [[https://youtu.be/dg7Uih6A_Qw Here's the full version (with lyrics in the description)]].