History YMMV / TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then [=SotNTC=] won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of [=SotNTC=] is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Eventually the screaming, so to speak, just blends together into white noise.

* CrazyAwesome: Sergeant Blant of the Imperial Fists, who is basically [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Tallahassee]] as a SpaceMarine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and ''playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip''.

* CrazyAwesome: Sergeant Blant of the Literature/ImperialFists, who is basically [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Tallahassee]] as a SpaceMarine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and ''playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip''.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then [=SotNTC=] won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of [=SotNTC=] is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Eventually the screaming, so to speak, just blends together into white noise. Even Chaos is hard to take seriously, with Abaddon's Black Crusades jumping from thirteen to ''seventy eight''; you'd think the Chaos Gods and indeed the writer would have found something better for him to try out.
* HilariousInHindsight: The above mentioned seventy eight Black Crusades? As of ''The Gathering Storm'', Abaddon has finally destroyed Cadia, and it only took ''thirteen'' crusades for him to succeed.

* CrazyAwesome: Sergeant Blant of the ImperialFists, who is basically [[Film/{{Zombieland}} Tallahassee]] as a SpaceMarine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and ''playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip''.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then [=SotNTC=] won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of [=SotNTC=] is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Eventually the screaming, so to speak, just blends together into white noise. Even Chaos is hard to take seriously, with Abaddon's Black Crusades jumping from thirteen to ''seventy eight''; you'd think the Chaos Gods and indeed the writer would have found something better for him to try out.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then [=SotNTC=] won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of [=SotNTC=] is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Eventually the screaming, so to speak, just blends together into white noise. Even Chaos is hard to take seriously, with Abaddon's Black Crusades jumping from thirteen to ''seventy eight''; you'd think the Chaos Gods and indeed the writer would have found something better for him to try out.
* NightmareFuel: This story is loaded with it.
** The Tersis always got me in particular, basically it's a ship filled with psykers that becomes lost in the depths of the [[EldritchLocation Warp]] and emerges ''different''. It reminded me of a quote I once read "What lies within, we fear not ask".

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: If you found regular 40k a bit silly, then [=SotNTC=] won't help much. Regular 40k stays relatable by making it clear that yes, there is still something for humanity to fight for. The main artistic ambition of [=SotNTC=] is taking every relatively peaceful moment of regular 40k and slotting in a truckload of screaming asylum inmates. Even Chaos is hard to take seriously, with Abaddon's Black Crusades jumping from thirteen to ''seventy eight''; you'd think the Chaos Gods and indeed the writer would have found something better for him to try out.

* NightmareFuel: This story is loaded with it. The Tersis always got me in particular, basically it's a ship filled with psykers that becomes lost in the depths of the [[EldritchLocation Warp]]
and emerges ''different''. It reminded me of a quote I once read "What lies within, we fear not ask".

* NightmareFuel: This story is loaded with it.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: This story is loaded with it.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many; see LastStand on [[TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome the main page.]]
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Surprisingly. Upon the death of every mundane human on Titan, the Grey Knights and Custodes proceed to carefully bury all of their bodies in grand tombs. The Chaplains of the Grey Knights then canonise each and every one of them, from babies to the elderly, and promise to one day avenge their deaths.

* CrazyAwesome: Sergeant Blant of the ImperialFists, who is basically [[{{Zombieland}} Tallahassee]] as a SpaceMarine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and ''playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip''.

* CrazyAwesome: Sergeant Blant of the ImperialFists, who is basically [[{{Zomieland}} Tallahassee]] as a SpaceMarine. His feats include juggling blades and swords while walking through the battlefield, and ''playing his pipes in one hand while firing his bolter from his hip''.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many; see LastStand on the [[TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome the main page.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Many; see LastStand below.