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** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several with a fireman's axe, then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to a bulldozer they are operating in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing. The defenders set them on fire and leave them to roast.
** A contingent of cultists attempt to cross a body of water in makeshift rafts, only to be met by gunfire in a ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Normandy.]]
** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultists not much older than his daughter by splitting her head open with a knife.
** Another defender has become so used to indiscriminate slaughter that, when she sees a [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]] advancing toward her, she calmly adjusts her aim and shoots the kid without batting an eye.
** College students are strong-armed into fighting off the cultists. Since they have no training and are terrified of being killed or captured (the latter [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse]]), they often fire their guns recklessly.
** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to a bulldozer they are operating in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing. The defenders set them on fire and leave them to roast.
** A contingent of cultists attempt to cross a body of water in makeshift rafts, only to be met by gunfire in a ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Normandy.]]
** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultists not much older than his daughter by splitting her head open with a knife.
** Another defender has become so used to indiscriminate slaughter that, when she sees a [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]] advancing toward her, she calmly adjusts her aim and shoots the kid without batting an eye.
** College students are strong-armed into fighting off the cultists. Since they have no training and are terrified of being killed or captured (the latter [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse]]), they often fire their guns recklessly.
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** The siege of Los Angeles:
*** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several with a fireman's axe, then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
** *** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to a bulldozer they are operating in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing. The defenders set them on fire and leave them to roast.
** *** A contingent of cultists attempt to cross a body of water the Los Angeles River in makeshift rafts, only to be met by gunfire in a ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Normandy.]]
** *** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultists not much older than his daughter by splitting her head open with a knife.
** *** Another defender has become so used to indiscriminate slaughter that, when she sees a [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]] advancing toward her, she calmly adjusts her aim and shoots the kid without batting an eye.
** *** College students are strong-armed into fighting off the cultists. Since they have no training and are terrified of being killed or captured (the latter [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse]]), they often fire their guns recklessly.recklessly.
*** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Aqualad drowns people or smashes them against hard surfaces; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists while saying over and over that she hates them...
*** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several with a fireman's axe, then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
*** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Aqualad drowns people or smashes them against hard surfaces; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists while saying over and over that she hates them...
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** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Aqualad drowns people or smashes them against hard surfaces; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists while saying over and over that she hates them...
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** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists...
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** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists...cultists while saying over and over that she hates them...
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** The Joker kills Anarky by [[AcidAttack spraying highly corrosive acid in his face]], which causes Anarky's head to slowly melt inward on itself until he dies. He then sics his army on Anarky's henchmen, ordering them not to make it quick but to kill them with chainsaws.
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** The Joker kills Anarky by [[AcidAttack spraying highly corrosive acid in his face]], which causes Anarky's head to slowly melt inward on itself until he dies. He then sics his army on Anarky's henchmen, ordering them not to make it quick but to kill them with chainsaws.chainsaws.
** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists...
** Come Chapter 47, the Team, thoroughly sick of all the carnage the cultists have inflicted, finally drops all restraints: Zatanna causes weapons to heat up so much that they explode, fragging their wielders; Superboy crushes people's heads like grapes with his bare hands; Miss Martian levitates multiple guns and fires them simultaneously into crowds of cultists...
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** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several [[AnAxeToGrind with a fireman's axe,]] then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
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** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several [[AnAxeToGrind with a fireman's axe,]] axe, then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
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-->-- '''Krieg to Miss Martian'''[[labelnote:*]]after she reads his mind[[/labelnote]]
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** A contingent of cultists attempt to cross a body of water in makeshift rafts, only to be met by gunfire in a ShoutOut to [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII the invasion of Normandy.]]
** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultistsno not much older than his daughter by splitting her head open with a knife.
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** Another defender has become so used to indiscriminate slaughter that, when she sees a [[ChildSoldiers Child Soldier]] advancing toward her, she calmly adjusts her aim and shoots the kid without batting an eye.
** College students are strong-armed into fighting off the cultists. Since they have no training and are terrified of being killed or captured (the latter [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse]]), they often fire their guns recklessly.
** College students are strong-armed into fighting off the cultists. Since they have no training and are terrified of being killed or captured (the latter [[FateWorseThanDeath is worse]]), they often fire their guns recklessly.
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** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to their vehicles in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing.
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** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to their vehicles a bulldozer they are operating in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing.fleeing. The defenders set them on fire and leave them to roast.
** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultists no older than his daughter with a knife.
** One Los Angeles defender lost his wife and daughter to the cultists (and they were not killed quickly), and is so desensitized by this that he butchers a cultists no older than his daughter with a knife.
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** Kid Flash gets another brush with death when a soldier pins him down and tries to drive a knife into his chest, slowly overpowering him as Wally tries futilely to push him off. Krieg saves him... by ''running the man through with a chainsword'', then decapitating him as he tries to keep him guts from galling out.
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** Kid Flash gets another brush with death when a soldier pins him down and tries to drive a knife into his chest, slowly overpowering him as Wally tries futilely to push him off. Krieg saves him... by ''running the man through with a chainsword'', then decapitating him as he tries to keep him guts from galling falling out.
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Given how utterly [[CrapsackWorld terrifying]] the universe of ''Warhammer 40,000'' is, subjecting the characters of ''Young Justice'' to it is enough to cause bad dreams, both for the readers and in-universe.
'''WARNING: SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED!!!'''
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* The story hits the ground running by showing a typical battle between the Imperium and the servants of Chaos, [[WarIsHell with all the carnage that entails.]]
* Right after being sent to Gotham, Krieg gets into a scuffle with Robin and comes within a hair's breadth of killing him by attempting to strangle the boy--and all with an expressionless look on his face.
* Even after being forced to restrain himself, Krieg goes out of his way to inflict as much pain upon criminals as he can, up to and including dismemberment.
* "Perchance to Dream" gives the Team a taste of a typical day in the ''40K'' 'verse:
** Krieg [[WouldHurtAChild murders children.]]
** They have to deal with [[AbsoluteXenophobe murderous prejudice]] from all sides.
** When Krieg is about to execute the Team, Kid Flash completely loses it and [[AintTooProudToBeg shamelessly begs for his life.]]
** Kid Flash gets another brush with death when a soldier pins him down and tries to drive a knife into his chest, slowly overpowering him as Wally tries futilely to push him off. Krieg saves him... by ''running the man through with a chainsword'', then decapitating him as he tries to keep him guts from galling out.
* Mia Dearden kills her therapist by tearing the woman's chest open, ripping her lungs out, and pinning them to the doctor's shoulders.
* The Chaos invasion has plenty of examples:
** Prior to the invasion kicking off, [[FaceHeelTurn Captain Atom]] tricks Captain Marvel into de-powering, then [[YourHeadAsplode blows the kid's head off.]]
** Around the world, multiple cities are besieged and the inhabitants are mercilessly butchered by the cultists. In the case of Israel, multiple civilians are herded into a temple in Jerusalem before being locked inside as the cultists set the building on fire.
** Queen Bee's fate: [[BodyguardBetrayal her bodyguards]] burst into her office, tear her clothes off, paw at and molest her until she's literally begging them to stop, then continue to torture her for kicks.
** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several [[AnAxeToGrind with a fireman's axe,]] then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to their vehicles in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing.
** Mia, having become a [[BloodKnight servant of Khorne]] ''and'' been implanted with the Butcher's Nails, shows off how powerful and violent she has become by tearing a man's head off with her bare hands before unsheathing a pair of chainswords and butchering several other cultists for trying to retreat. She then relentlessly attacks Green Arrow and Black Canary. nearly eviscerating the latter.
** The Joker kills Anarky by [[AcidAttack spraying highly corrosive acid in his face]], which causes Anarky's head to slowly melt inward on itself until he dies. He then sics his army on Anarky's henchmen, ordering them not to make it quick but to kill them with chainsaws.
'''WARNING: SPOILERS ARE UNMARKED!!!'''
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* The story hits the ground running by showing a typical battle between the Imperium and the servants of Chaos, [[WarIsHell with all the carnage that entails.]]
* Right after being sent to Gotham, Krieg gets into a scuffle with Robin and comes within a hair's breadth of killing him by attempting to strangle the boy--and all with an expressionless look on his face.
* Even after being forced to restrain himself, Krieg goes out of his way to inflict as much pain upon criminals as he can, up to and including dismemberment.
* "Perchance to Dream" gives the Team a taste of a typical day in the ''40K'' 'verse:
** Krieg [[WouldHurtAChild murders children.]]
** They have to deal with [[AbsoluteXenophobe murderous prejudice]] from all sides.
** When Krieg is about to execute the Team, Kid Flash completely loses it and [[AintTooProudToBeg shamelessly begs for his life.]]
** Kid Flash gets another brush with death when a soldier pins him down and tries to drive a knife into his chest, slowly overpowering him as Wally tries futilely to push him off. Krieg saves him... by ''running the man through with a chainsword'', then decapitating him as he tries to keep him guts from galling out.
* Mia Dearden kills her therapist by tearing the woman's chest open, ripping her lungs out, and pinning them to the doctor's shoulders.
* The Chaos invasion has plenty of examples:
** Prior to the invasion kicking off, [[FaceHeelTurn Captain Atom]] tricks Captain Marvel into de-powering, then [[YourHeadAsplode blows the kid's head off.]]
** Around the world, multiple cities are besieged and the inhabitants are mercilessly butchered by the cultists. In the case of Israel, multiple civilians are herded into a temple in Jerusalem before being locked inside as the cultists set the building on fire.
** Queen Bee's fate: [[BodyguardBetrayal her bodyguards]] burst into her office, tear her clothes off, paw at and molest her until she's literally begging them to stop, then continue to torture her for kicks.
** Krieg goes up against a group of ChildSoldiers, and is utterly ''merciless'' towards them. He butchers several [[AnAxeToGrind with a fireman's axe,]] then kills the last one--who is utterly terrified and begging for his life--''with a shotgun'', though not before shoving the end into the boy's mouth to muffle his screams.
** The cultists nail the partially flayed bodies of some of their victims to their vehicles in the hopes of frightening their enemies into fleeing.
** Mia, having become a [[BloodKnight servant of Khorne]] ''and'' been implanted with the Butcher's Nails, shows off how powerful and violent she has become by tearing a man's head off with her bare hands before unsheathing a pair of chainswords and butchering several other cultists for trying to retreat. She then relentlessly attacks Green Arrow and Black Canary. nearly eviscerating the latter.
** The Joker kills Anarky by [[AcidAttack spraying highly corrosive acid in his face]], which causes Anarky's head to slowly melt inward on itself until he dies. He then sics his army on Anarky's henchmen, ordering them not to make it quick but to kill them with chainsaws.
