Twilight: exactly the same, except the vampires are replaced by Blood Angels and are all male. The author is promptly executed for heresy before the first book starts its print run.
That's cheating.
James Bond Films/Books: An Inquisitorial assassin from Praetoria is regularly sent out across the most exotic locales in the galaxy to lethally foil the schemes of traitorous governors, fanatical Adeptus Mechanicus upper echelons, and rogue Inquisitors, while simultaneously bedding the Imperium's (and the Craftworlds') most beautiful women.
Ave Imperator
Berserk: A semi-speculative work of Historical Fiction chronicling the early life of the Legion II/XVIII (it isn't clear which one) Primarch as he battles the forces of Chaos on his feudal homeworld.
Avatar: A cautionary tale about the consequences of tolerating even the most primitive of aliens. Obviously the hero and villain roles are reversed, and the story has a Downer Ending (guardsmen fail to purge the xenos but fight to the last man.)
Judge Dredd: Already exists in 40k, it's called Arbiter Foreboding.
edited 11th Dec '12 8:04:09 AM by Archereon
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"No," says the man on Terra, "it belongs to the Emperor!"
"No," says the man on Mars, "it belongs to the Omnissiah!"
"No," says the man on T'au, "it belongs to everyone!"
Well I rejected those answers! I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose... Commoragh! A city where the Haemonculus need not fear the Farseer, where the Mandrake would not be bound by petty morality, where the Archon would not be constrained by his playthings. And by the essence of your soul, Commoragh can be your city, too.
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Full Metal Alchemist: Full Metal Psycher. Two young brothers try to resurrect their dead mother using their father's book on sorcery and their own latent abilities. One looses an arm and a leg an the other ends up inside a suit of power armor. They later are recruited into Roy Mustang's inquisitorial retinue (Heavy radical, obviusly) and work to stop a plot from inside the inquisition itself.
Full Metal Panic: See Full Melta Panic.
Stargate SG-1: The Ordo Xenos figures out how to open webway gates and sends stormtrooper teams through.
Batman: A wealthy nobleman decides to do something about the gangs in his hive.
Bigfoot Puncher
Alternatively: Konrad Curze
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This. Cannot. Continue
X Com - An unknown alien race begins raiding a critical Imperial holding on the Eastern Fringe. The Ordo Xenos dispatches a bunch of useless rookies a fully-equipped Deathwatch kill-team to lead the defense. By recovering alien cadavers and captives for the Magos Biologis, as well as captured technology for study by the Adeptus Mechanicus, the kill-team is able to trace the attacks to their source and purge the alien threat.
Superman - A monstrously-powerful alien terrorizes a helpless populace by imposing his twisted values upon them, evading capture by masquerading as an ordinary Administratum scribe. A heroic Magos is able to create a device that neutralizes the alien's powers, but is repeatedly thwarted.
Fallout - A post-apocalyptic adventure set on the world of Krieg, in which the hero is tasked with contacting an Adeptus Mechanicus outpost to find someone able to fix the air filtration system of his home bunker. Multiple endings allow the player to choose between sacrificing himself to destroy a coven of chaos cultists, sacrificing himself while helping repair his home, or making it to an Imperial Guard muster point to sacrifice himself somewhere in space.
edited 14th Dec '12 12:01:28 AM by Tacitus
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Tengen Toppa Guren Lagann: Exactly the same except it was made by and stars da orkz.
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The future of warfare in UC.
"We always thought xenos would come from the stars. But it came from deep beneath the sands, a portal to the warp somewhere in the wastes."
"Something out there had discovered us. They counted on the humans to hide, to give up, to fail."
Initiating launch operations, Monstrum Perniculm.
"They never considered our ability to stand, to endure, that we would rise to the challenge."
Princeps ready to connect. Princeps engaged in Mind-Interface Unit. Ready to activate the Titan in 3...2...1...
Yeah, Pacific Rim. (It's not even out yet, but it's about as obvious as an actual Titan.)
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I read that page and thought: Wow, that's NGE. And thinking of it, I guess NGE would be more appropriate to 40k's grimdark universe.
The Eva units are titans that turn out to actually be Warp-infected, or something.
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
Event Horizon: A Family-Friendly History Film.
Ave Imperator
Metroid: Female spess mehreen expy in the dark age of technology who kills Xenos and doesn't know fear of anything.
edited 22nd Jan '13 6:08:13 AM by Archereon
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A fistful of me.