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The Iron Hearts series is comprised of 5 Books and related stories and its Sequels sequels Entrenchment and Rep'talal, Rep'talal and related stories, and they explore what happens when a slightly unorthodox band of Chaos space pirates get allied with a magical nation of talking equines and just snowballs from there.
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The Iron Hearts series is comprised of 5 Books and related stories, stories and its Sequels Entrenchment and Rep'talal, and they explore what happens when a slightly unorthodox band of Chaos space pirates get allied with a magical nation of talking equines and just snowballs from there.
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* ShoutOut: An elderly unicorn uses the Jedi Mind Trick from ''Film/StarWars'' to gain access to Ferrous Dominous, and is himself a CaptainErsatz of Ben Kenobi.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** An elderly unicorn uses the Jedi Mind Trick from ''Film/StarWars'' to gain access to Ferrous Dominous, and is himself a CaptainErsatz of Ben Kenobi.
** An elderly unicorn uses the Jedi Mind Trick from ''Film/StarWars'' to gain access to Ferrous Dominous, and is himself a CaptainErsatz of Ben Kenobi.
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** The /TG/ meme of Khârn the Betrayer being [[ForTheEvulz a swell guy right up until he decides to whomp you one]] is referenced. Telis met him once, and Khârn taught him that unstoppable, eternal anger is only a tiny fraction of Khorne's blessing. Then he shoved Telis down the stairs.
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** The /TG/ meme of Khârn the Betrayer being [[ForTheEvulz a swell guy right up until he decides to whomp you one]] one for giggles]] is referenced. Telis met him once, and Khârn taught him that unstoppable, eternal anger is only a tiny fraction of Khorne's blessing. Then he shoved Telis down the stairs.
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* SpeechImpediment: Solon, due to centuries of puss and phlegm building up in his vox, pronounces every "s" as a "-sh" sound. When this is pointed out to him, he weeps that he sounds like an idiot. Funnily enough, he speaks Tau like a native.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Chaos.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: Chaos.Chaos in general; while the mercenaries and some of the Iron Warriors aren't completely bloodthirsty maniacs, they make no qualms that they're bad people and that following Chaos has done little to turn them around.
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* BadPowersBadPeople: Chaos.Chaos Magic isn't exactly cut for more than horribly killing your opponents, and those that use it usually don't care about that.
* TheBeastmaster: Fluttershy ends up making friends with and directing the 38th Company's daemon engines, giving them names and treating them as if they were just another group of her animal friends. The daemon engines respond in kind and adore Fluttershy.
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* CantHaveSexEver: Several Iron Warriors are incapable of removing their armor or have replaced much of their body with machinery. Orks as well considering they reproduce through spores.
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* CantHaveSexEver: Several Iron Warriors are incapable of removing their armor or have replaced much of their body with machinery.machinery (not that they care much since sexual drive is one of the first things to go when making Space Marines). Orks as well considering they reproduce through spores.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Discord's latest job is working in one of these, but it's for the Dark Gods and its somewhere in the Warp. He's shown to be either approving or denying prayers to Tzeentch, and the whole thing feels like an office building.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: Discord's latest job is working in one of these, but it's for the Dark Gods and its somewhere in the Warp. He's shown to be either approving or denying prayers to Tzeentch, and the whole thing feels like an office building.building (complete with water cooler banter with some of Slaanesh's "employees").
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Good thing the 38th Company despises Slaanesh. Who knows what would have happened if [[spoiler:the CMC had chosen his mark?]]
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* ChildrenAreInnocent: Good thing the 38th Company despises Slaanesh. Who knows what would have happened if [[spoiler:the CMC had chosen his his/her mark?]]
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rainbow Dash's attempt to make Tellis knock himself out by [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying into a wall of Fluttershy's cottage]], after enraging Tellis enough to make him chase her out of Ponyville. She didn't take into account that Tellis is a [=supersoldier=] who weighs about 600 pounds, is flying just as fast as she is, and that Fluttershy's cottage is made out of wood.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: Rainbow Dash's attempt to make Tellis knock himself out by [[ItMakesSenseInContext flying into a wall of Fluttershy's cottage]], after enraging Tellis enough to make him chase her out of Ponyville. She didn't take into account that Tellis is a [=supersoldier=] SuperSoldier who weighs about 600 pounds, is flying just as fast as she is, and that Fluttershy's cottage is made out of wood.
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* LighterAndSofter: Than Warhammer in general.
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* MoreDakka: When Trixe gets guns expect this, since she empties the clip without bothering to aim single shots.
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* MoreDakka: When Trixe gets guns expect this, since she empties the clip without bothering to aim single shots.shots and her preferred method of fighting is to grab as many guns as her telekinesis can hold and point them in the general direction of the enemy until she runs out of ammo.
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* ObviouslyEvil: The Iron Warriors.
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* TechnoWizard: The Dark Mechanicus.
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* TechnoWizard: The Dark Mechanicus.Mechanicus use ancient science and arcane rituals to maintain the 38th Company's weapons and armor, as well as bind daemons to vehicles and such to create daemon engines.
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* FutureFoodIsArtificial: The Iron Warriors and company live off of a tasteless gruel specifically designed to keep a human being full and healthy all day after eating one, the CSM's presumably having their own ceramite-laced version. A person can live off them from being weaned to dying of old age and be perfectly fine. Twilight loves them because she can have one for breakfast [[ForgetsToEat and then not have to eat again for 24 hours so she has more time to be productive]] (which is why the Imperium and Iron Warriors love them too). Applejack still insists that Twilight eat a "proper" meal from time to time.
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** The /TG/ meme of Khârn the Betrayer being [[ForTheEvulz a swell guy right up until he decides to whomp you one]] is referenced. Telis met him once, and Khârn taught him that unstoppable, eternal anger is only a tiny fraction of Khorne's blessing. Then he shoved Telis down the stairs.
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* FantasticRacist: Ponies towards Tau. Understandable, perhaps, since their first impression of the Tau Empire is profoundly negative, and only gets more negative with the repeated incidents of Books 1 through 3.
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* FantasticRacist: Ponies towards Tau. Understandable, perhaps, since their first impression of the Tau Empire is profoundly negative, negative after Equestria heard about the unprovoked attack on Sweet Apple Acres, and only gets more negative with the repeated incidents of Books 1 through 3.
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* HealingFactor: Tellis can regrow Wolverine-style lightning claws, and his daemon armor repairs itself once it can gorge on blood.
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* ImmortalityInducer: Being a Space Marine or worshiping Nurgle, which does matter when Solon is both. He's lived for a very long time as a result.
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* SoulJar: [[spoiler: What Serith is revealed to be in Book 5; a phylactery created by Solon binds Serith's soul to his armor, after his attempt to undo the Rubric of Ahriman severely backfired and left him a Rubric Sorcerer]].[[spoiler: Solon is another example, having died on his pilgrimage for Nurgle. Now the insects in his armor fuction as a pyhlactery]]
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** [[spoiler: Solon is another example, having died on his pilgrimage forNurgle. Nurgle on one of the Plaguefather's daemon worlds. Now the insects in his armor fuction function as a pyhlactery]]phylactery for his soul]].
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* TheDragon: Hazarr "Coggz" Wrencha is surprisingly intelligent for an Ork, whether in building gigantic war machines or keeping an interest in what calls the Orks to the Centaur System in the first place. He still has to follow the Warboss's orders, though; the Warboss is bigger than he is.
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* TheDragon: Hazarr "Coggz" Wrencha is surprisingly intelligent for an Ork, whether in building gigantic war machines or keeping an interest in what calls the Orks to the Centaur System in the first place. He still has to follow the local Warboss's orders, though; the Warboss is bigger than he is.
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted. Solon, Warsmith of the 38th Company, holds the record for most duels lost (largely because he survives losing).
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* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Subverted. Solon, Warsmith of the 38th Company, holds the record for most duels lost (largely because he survives losing). He holds the rank of Warsmith due to being uniquely suited to leading a roving band of looters, and being incredibly skilled with technology.
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* Tellis’ style, as he flies in a straight line towards enemies while making a racket.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Tellis’ style, as he flies in a straight line towards enemies while making a racket.
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* RedShirtArmy: The Chaos Mercenaries.
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* SadlyMythtaken: Tellis thinks the Four Elements are "Fire, Blood, Plasma, and Spicy Nacho."
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight. Tellis has repeatedly ruined his Company's battle plans by going on his own and slaughtering anything he finds.
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied subverted example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight. Tellis has repeatedly ruined his Company's battle plans by going on his own and slaughtering anything he finds.
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Most stories about 40k can be really annoying to read due to a distinct [[GrimDark lack of humor]] within the narrative. They tend to lack anything that is able to cause genuine "I forgot to breath" levels of laughter while still maintaining all of what you might expect from 40k. The author set out to defy this trend.
Story can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/147183/iron-hearts-book-1-planetfall here]]
Story can be found [[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/147183/iron-hearts-book-1-planetfall here]]
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It's recommended to read the side stories "Visions of Darkness" and "Gear in the Machine" after finishing Book 4.
* BlessedWithSuck: [[spoiler: Serith's condition, from his perspective. Serith sees the benefits of being a Rubric Sorcerer, as enchantments that rely on hurting flesh can't hurt him, and he could totally unmake the Thousand Sons' Rubric Marines with his knowledge. But he resents having to be saved by Solon's technology from his own failure, and is now a powerful psychic being bound to a machine that Solon controls]].
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: [[spoiler: Serith, for all his power and posturing, is actually this compared to other Chaos Sorcerers. His prior schemes and projects have constantly fallen apart, and the resultant self-loathing that his failures cause has made Serith suggest that Solon should just [[YouHaveFailedMe deactivate him permanently]] to spare Serith the shame]].
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* StartOfDarkness: The Visions of Darkness stories reveal how each of the named human characters was either recruited or forced into the forces of Chaos.
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* BigBad: High Commander Voidsong for the first three books.books, and then it gets a little more nebulous for the fourth and fifth books. That's because the Warlord (the Ork Warboss who got the Waaagh rolling in the first place) doesn't show up, and it's the Warlord's subordinates that directly threaten Equestria.
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* BoringButPractical: Practicality is Iron Warrior policy.
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* BoringButPractical: Practicality is Iron Warrior policy. Over-elaborate plans that don't promise a guaranteed gain for the Company are outright dismissed.
* CaptainCrash: Dest is officially a Rhino driver, but every time he drives, the Rhino gets utterly blown up and everyone riding almost always gets killed except for him. He's later forced to try driving an airplane, and it doesn't work any better (he doesn't remember how to deploy the landing gear).
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* CharacterDevelopment: In droves. droves from everyone. The Equestrians start out innocent and pure, but eventually get used to the prospect of constant warfare and become more-or-less Chaotic servants while still being somewhat chipper. The 38th Company is still evil and Chaotic, but there is a noticeable relaxation of their violent urges. Serith muses on how their time on Equestria has changed them in Book 5.
--> "This is an odd world," Serith mumbled, "it welcomes us outwardly and resists us from within. We relentlessly hammer our corruptions into its surface, and it corrupts us back with gentle words and beneficent gestures, free of guile and extortion. We are unused to such..." he trailed off. "... I cannot even call it opposition. We have no opponents here, aside from the savages. Chaos is ascendant, completely dominant. And yet..."
--> "This is an odd world," Serith mumbled, "it welcomes us outwardly and resists us from within. We relentlessly hammer our corruptions into its surface, and it corrupts us back with gentle words and beneficent gestures, free of guile and extortion. We are unused to such..." he trailed off. "... I cannot even call it opposition. We have no opponents here, aside from the savages. Chaos is ascendant, completely dominant. And yet..."
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* CoolBigSis: Applejack and Rarity.
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* CoolBigSis: Applejack and Rarity.Rarity to their respective siblings, even after [[spoiler: the fillies convert to Chaos to get their cutie marks]].
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Visions of Darkness'', placed after Book 4, focuses on each of the named human and Chaos Space Marine characters and devotes a chapter to each one, to show how they think and their history.
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* FantasticRacist: Ponies towards Tau. Understandable, perhaps, since their first impression of the Tau Empire is profoundly negative.
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* FlatEarthAtheist: Gaela outright refuses to believe the Celestia and Luna control the rotation of the planet and the moon’s orbit. Until about three hours after the planet stops moving, when she relents to help the mane six.
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* HealingFactor: Tellis can regrow Wolverine-style lightning claws.
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** The 38th Company, from the top to the bottom, hates Slaaneshi worshippers and will not suffer Slaanesh's daemonettes anywhere near them. The Chaos Temple in Ferrous Dominous has 4 chambers for new converts to swear themselves to the Dark Gods; anyone trying to swear themselves to Slaanesh will get sealed into the room and burned by heavy flamers until they're ash.
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* CurbStompBattle: The space battle that opens the fic, with the Iron Warriors ambushing and demolishing a Tau exploratory fleet. The first dream simulation.
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* CurbStompBattle: The space battle that opens the fic, with the Iron Warriors ambushing and demolishing a Tau exploratory fleet. The There was also the first dream simulation.simulation for the Mane Six when they were training, where they were repeatedly killed by Orks.
** Because Orks regularly defy expectation, they manage to surprise the Iron Warriors by [[spoiler: managing to get a lot more of their Waaagh to push through the Warp storm caused by the Nethalican]]. Everyone involved repeatedly states that what the Orks managed is impossible.
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* EldritchAbomination: Daemons.
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DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: In Book 5, Canterlot gets utterly swarmed by a space hulk's worth of Orks and vehicles, and the Company can't spare any more forces than the Mane Six and their friends (Gaela, Daniels, Dest, Tellis) and Delgan is already at Canterlot. They're too outnumbered this time, and the Orks eventually kill every human and Chaos Space Marine in the city through attrition]].
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not really no. Equestrians are constantly shocked and appalled by the Company's sheer apathy towards losses or pragmatism.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Not really no. Equestrians are constantly shocked and appalled by the Company's sheer apathy towards losses or pragmatism.
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** Princess Celestia is revealed to absolutely despise Chaos, and finds those wearing the Star or corrupted by Chaotic energies to be so intolerable that she [[GetOut banishes all humans from Canterlot]], while demanding that the 38th Company leave her world at the nearest opportunity.
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** Princess Celestia is revealed to absolutely despise Chaos, and finds those wearing the Star or corrupted by Chaotic energies to be so intolerable that she [[GetOut banishes all humans from Canterlot]], while demanding that the 38th Company leave her world at the nearest opportunity. She wrestles with this later, making it readily apparent that she'd rather have Equestria destroyed by Orks than [[spoiler: have her world be a haven for Chaos]].
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* ImpossibleThief: Pinkie Pie somehow hijacks Chaos Dreadnoughts for her own use by removing the pilot's sarcophagus. She doesn't have the tools, manpower, or time to do this, and yet she just leaves the former pilot lying around while she treats the Dreadnought chassis like a MiniMecha.
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* VillainHasAPoint: After the Siege of Canterlot, Warmaster Solon shuts down the Nethalican proposal to save Equestria (again) since it would demand even more of his warband's limited resources to enact it with little gain, and sees no reason to risk his fleet over protecting a single world. He also points out that the 38th Company wasn't asked to save Equestria; Celestia demanded that the Company leave at first opportunity.
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* BerserkButton: Twilight's becomes Lord Serith himself, after his various plots humiliate Twilight while casually destroying her own attempts to outsmart him, she has to be physically restrained by her friends in order to not try murdering him on sight.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The Equestrian Postal Service's mixup of two deliveries (a shipment of apples meant for Canterlot, and the Warp Core going to Ferrous Dominous) is directly responsible for the Siege of Canterlot, and [[spoiler: causes the Tau to be able to finish their Warp device, which means that about 9.7 billion Ork are now on their way to the planet]].
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* MundaneSolution: During the Siege of Canterlot, Commander Voidsong and her soldiers are stopped by the magical door leading to the palace vaults. The door can only be magically opened by Celestia or Luna (who are currently [[PowerNullifier depowered]]), the door itself is totally unaffected by the anti-magic bomb, and their first attempt shows the door's not even scratched by anti-tank weaponry. A few seconds later, Voidsong wordlessly motions the soldiers to melt the stone wall next to the door, and gets into the vaults with no fanfare.
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* BerserkButton: Twilight's becomes Lord Serith himself, after his various plots humiliate Twilight while casually destroying her own attempts to outsmart him, she has to be physically restrained by her friends in order to not try murdering him on sight.
** Princess Celestia is revealed to absolutely despise Chaos, and finds those wearing the Star or corrupted by Chaotic energies to be so intolerable that she [[GetOut banishes all humans from Canterlot]], while demanding that the 38th Company leave her world at the nearest opportunity.
** Princess Celestia is revealed to absolutely despise Chaos, and finds those wearing the Star or corrupted by Chaotic energies to be so intolerable that she [[GetOut banishes all humans from Canterlot]], while demanding that the 38th Company leave her world at the nearest opportunity.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pinkie Pie, once again, reprises her role as Destroyer of the Fourth Wall. She claims to understand Crabapple's buzzing due to having subtitles on, and says she knows that Equestria will need saving since she read the plot outline notes.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight.
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: Pinkie Pie, once again, reprises her role as Destroyer of the Fourth Wall. She claims to understand Crabapple's buzzing due to having subtitles on, and says she knows that Equestria will need saving since she read the plot outline notes.
notes. This is all within the first chapter alone.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight. Tellis has repeatedly ruined his Company's battle plans by going on his own and slaughtering anything he finds.
* BunnyEarsLawyer: Tellis of the Iron Warriors is simultaneously a discussed and defied example. He is certainly one of the most deadly Raptors of the 38th Company, to the point that he's a powerful Champion of Khorne and gets the Blood God's direct attention occasionally. He's also one of the Legion's worst soldiers: Tellis has no attention span, barely listens to his own side, and doesn't care for tactics beyond flying headlong into a fight. Tellis has repeatedly ruined his Company's battle plans by going on his own and slaughtering anything he finds.
* CelestialBureaucracy: Discord's latest job is working in one of these, but it's for the Dark Gods and its somewhere in the Warp. He's shown to be either approving or denying prayers to Tzeentch, and the whole thing feels like an office building.
** Discord is not amused by the amulet that Serith gave to Twilight, and tells Spike that the cursed artifact that Spike put on is a lawsuit waiting to happen; the new daemon inside it didn't offer Spike a contract of any sort in exchange for its power, and has the nerve to go for full mutation for its drawback.
** Discord is not amused by the amulet that Serith gave to Twilight, and tells Spike that the cursed artifact that Spike put on is a lawsuit waiting to happen; the new daemon inside it didn't offer Spike a contract of any sort in exchange for its power, and has the nerve to go for full mutation for its drawback.
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* IllegalReligion: At one point Celestia has any Chaos artifacts in Canterlot confiscated.
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* IllegalReligion: At one point Celestia has any Chaos artifacts in Canterlot confiscated. A public relations campaign springs up, asking anypony that recognizes the symbol on the poster to report it to the Royal Guards.
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* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Ponies have a natural resistance to Chaos, but they can give themselves over to Chaos.
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* INeverGotAnyLetters: During the Mane Six's first stay in Ferrous Dominous, the normal magic letters between Princess Celestia and Twilight get intercepted by Serith's hidden wards on Twilight's quarters. The radio silence from Twilight gets Celestia on edge, and both of their attempts to communicate get interrupted constantly by circumstance. It's only until they both have a face to face meeting that it comes out that the magical letters were never delivered to either of them thanks to Serith.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Ponies have a natural resistance to Chaos, but they can give themselves over to Chaos.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Ponies have a natural resistance to Chaos, but they can give themselves over to Chaos.
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** The Iron Warriors get their turn after the Tau force in the Everfree Forest is found to be totally underwhelming. The Legion relax their guard to the point that construction of their base's high-priority defensive works get delayed, [[spoiler: which goes incredibly poorly for them when a much bigger Tau force with heavy armor support suddenly attacks the incomplete fortress]].
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* MoreDakka: When Trixe gets guns expect this.
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* MoreDakka: When Trixe gets guns expect this.this, since she empties the clip without bothering to aim single shots.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Happens to the Tau due to them not having much contact with humans outside of the Imperium, and are accordingly shocked by some of the things they see when fighting Chaos.
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Happens to the Tau due to them not having much contact with humans outside of the Imperium, and are accordingly shocked by some of the things they see when fighting Chaos. The Tau also didn't expect the "native xenos life-forms" to actually assist the Iron Warriors, given the Imperium's xenophobic attitudes to other species.
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* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall they build a fortress. Even if it's only a small scale supply run, they build a fortress.
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* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall anywhere, they build a fortress. Even if it's only a small scale supply run, they build a fortress.fortress just in case they need to dig in.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The warp and the galaxy at large.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: The warp and the galaxy at large.large to various Equestrians, seeing as one is endless hell-dimension and the galaxy is nothing but war.
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* BigBad: High Commander Voidsong for the first three books
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* BigBad: High Commander Voidsong for the first three booksbooks.
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* CrazyAwesome: Rainbow Dash and Tellis.
* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall they build a fortress.
* CurbStompBattle: The space battle. The first dream simulation.
* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall they build a fortress.
* CurbStompBattle: The space battle. The first dream simulation.
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* CrazyAwesome: Rainbow Dash and Tellis.
Tellis, especially after they become friends and begin to go for crazier and crazier stunts to defeat their enemies.
* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall they build a fortress. Even if it's only a small scale supply run, they build a fortress.
* CurbStompBattle: The spacebattle.battle that opens the fic, with the Iron Warriors ambushing and demolishing a Tau exploratory fleet. The first dream simulation.
* CrazyPrepared: When the Iron Warriors make planetfall they build a fortress. Even if it's only a small scale supply run, they build a fortress.
* CurbStompBattle: The space
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* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Chaos worshippers.
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* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: Chaos worshippers.worshippers aren't the most sane of individuals when it comes to their powers.
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* EvilFeelsGood: Chaos grants lots of benefits.
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* EvilFeelsGood: Chaos grants lots of benefits.benefits, whether it bee increased archane might, martial skill, or extreme durability.
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* FanDisservice: Any description of a Nurgle worshiper.
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* FanDisservice: Any description of a Nurgle worshiper.worshiper, pus-ridden hulks that they are.
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* FluffyTamer: Fluttershy makes riends with a group of daemon engines.
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* FluffyTamer: Fluttershy makes riends friends with a group of daemon engines.
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* HiddenDepths: The Iron Warriors.
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* HiddenDepths: The Iron Warriors.Warriors aren't the AxCrazy maniacs Chaos is usually depicted as in fiction. Granted, they are ''still'' AxCrazy maniacs, but they have far more nuance than usual.
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** In fact, the resemblance is so stark that a pony mistakes Solon for a Defiler's child when they see him standing next to one.
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The [[Warhammer40K Iron Warriors]] 38th Company has landed in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]], entrenching themselves like a barbed hook after a fierce battle with the aliens of the Tau Empire, intent on destruction and pillage of anything and anyone they encounter.
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The [[Warhammer40K [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Iron Warriors]] 38th Company has landed in [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestria]], entrenching themselves like a barbed hook after a fierce battle with the aliens of the Tau Empire, intent on destruction and pillage of anything and anyone they encounter.
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A Layered Metropolis is a city built with actual layers and levels stacked on top of each other, not one that happens to hang over something else.
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* LayeredMetropolis: Canterlot is built into a mountain. The leader of the iron warriors regiment is disgusted by how it looks like a child's fantasy and is hard to defend.
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* {{Badass}}: Too many to list. Most of the other characters follow this trope (including the ponies), so rank is a pretty good indicator of fighting power.
