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  • Broken Base:
    • On the Ultramarines being one of the more "noble" and "heroic" chapters. This hasn't been helped by Matt Ward exaggerating both qualities.
    • Also on Uriel Ventris and his series. Some Ultramarine players enjoy his deviations from the codex and his travels, while others dislike the near-exclusive focus on him and would prefer a more standard Ultramarine protagonist.
    • The CGI movie. It's either So Okay, It's Average or downright horrible.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: From the movie, Chaplain Carnek is considered to be one of the better things simply due to the fact He's voiced by John Hurt.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Why can Pasanius survive a point blank shot from a meltagun which should have otherwise killed him? Because the first novel noted that, due to his size, his armor was made from a heavily damaged suit of terminator armour.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Honsou crosses it when he destroys Tarsis Ultra purely to spite Ventris, if he hadn't crossed it already with his Daemonculaba operation. Leto Barbaden and Verena Kain crossed it with the Khartuian Massacre. Prelate Culla crossed it by beating Mykola Shonai to death with his bare hands.
  • My Real Daddy: Amongst those Ultramarine players who dislike McNeill's take on the chapter, Aaron Dembski-Bowden and Dan Abnett are considered this.
    • And even they agree he's this compared to Ward.
  • Narm: In the film, the various Imperial Fists corpses arranged as increasingly elaborate wall art. It doesn't help that their yellow armor really brings much-needed color to an otherwise drab planet.
  • Nightmare Fuel:
    • The process of creating the Daemonculaba definitely counts, which is perhaps one of the most messed up things in the entire lore of 40k. For the unenlightened, there are several steps, each more horrifying:
      • First, captive women are enslaved and shackled naked within iron cages, then force-fed nutrients which caused their bodies to widen and bloat to grotesque proportions. Then the Hereteks known as Savage Morticians utilize surgical and chemical techniques as well as the sorcery of Chaos to radically alter the slaves' internal morphology and embed stolen gene-seed within their wombs, essentially turning them into gigantic, living incubators that were fully aware of their newly-deformed state.
      • After that is done, a living young human male drawn from their slave population was sealed within through the use of a surgical procedure that involved stitching the child into the flesh of the Daemonculaba's womb, upon which parasitic tendrils start burrowing into his flesh and transforming him. Days later, the child would be reborn from the womb of the Daemonculaba - now with a Space Marine's physique, no skin, and the mind of that same scared child.
      • This skinless, wretched mutant was then inspected to see if he was physically worthy to be an Astartes. If not, it would just be tossed into the sewers to be flushed into the barren wastes around Khalan-Gol to die. If they were, new skin would be crudely sutured and stitched onto their skinless frame, with the skin itself coming from slaves who had been bloated in a similar fashion to the Daemonculaba then flayed alive.
      • And this would have continued for God knows how long if Uriel had not freed the Heart of Blood and let it slaughter them all.
  • Trumplica: In Nightbringer, Taryn Honan is the titular head of the Honan Cartel, but in reality he is a figurehead, whose decisions are all subject to his cartel's board of directors, who quash all of his investment ideas and provide him with a meager (in his view) living allowance. He lost his authority after multiple business ventures failed and his personal account was emptied by a male prostitute. Apart from being egregiously overweight, he wears an extravagant powdered wig and gaudy rings on all his fingers, and constantly whines how unfair it is that the committee won't let him "invest" the cartel's money in luxuries for himself, like an anti-gravity carriage instead of a horse-drawn one, because things like this make the whole cartel look prosperous. note 


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