Line #22 ComicBook/BloodAndThunder


1	''Blood and Thunder'' is a comic set in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe, following Colonel Izraell Honor Castillian of the 96th Tallarn Desert Raiders as he is captured and held prisoner by Waaaaagh! Gorgutz ([[VideoGame/DawnOfWar not that one]]), along with the fate of his captor, a none-too-bright Ork nob named Skyva.
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4	!!This comic features examples of:
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6	* AcousticLicense: The newly-proclaimed Warboss Skyva gives a speech from the top of a Gargant to the thousands of orks at its base.
7	* AmbitionIsEvil: Warboss Gorgutz keeps his nobs fighting for position, ensuring they're not a threat to him.
8	* BadassDriver: Gorm who is seen driving both a trukk and a gargant.
9	* BodyguardBetrayal: [[spoiler:Skyva's nob decapitates him when it turns out he'd been keeping a human as a pet instead of a grot and attacked.]]
10	* BookEnds: The story begins and ends with an Imperial hive under attack by an ork Waaaagh!.
11	* BrainsAndBrawn: Gorm is the brains (relatively speaking), Skyva is the brawn.
12	* ColonelBadass: Castillian survives several months in the middle of an ork Waaaagh, and stabs a warboss through the eye.
13	** Commissar Sebastian Yarrick [[http://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:Commissar_Surfing.jpg makes an appearance.]]
14	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Skyva gets a few of these.
15	--> '''Grimbadd:''' 'E wants my 'ead, 'ow about I sends 'im yours on a big stick, eh!? Show 'im e's nuffin' no more! Dere's a new warboss around 'ere now!\
16	'''Skyva:''' Oo's dat den?\
17	'''Grimbadd:''' ME, Y'STOOPID GIT! ME!!
18	** And then there's the orks in the Irongutz seeing Castillian dropping grenades at ammo dumps yelling "IN THE EMPEROR'S NAME!":
19	--> 'Ere, dat lanky grot sounds like a 'uman, dunnit?\
20	Wossit doin' 'ere?\
21	Blowin' us up, apparently!
22	* CommissarCap: Like most Warbosses, Gorgutz wears one.
23	* ChekhovsGun: Castillian finds an old Imperial distress beacon with no battery. [[spoiler:He manages to find one and get it to broadcast so the Imperials can track the Gargant's, and his, position.]]
24	* DefiantToTheEnd: When Skyva finally figures out his lucky grot is in fact a human, Castillian doesn't back down, poking out one of Skyva's eyes.
25	* [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Dropped A Gargant 'ead On 'Im]]: How [[spoiler:Gorgutz]] is killed, due to a lucky explosion.
26	* EquippableAlly: One Gretchin is seen manning a machine gun mounted on the back of a nob's armor.
27	* EvenEvilHasStandards: The orks are renowned for not even possessing rudimentary hygiene and stinking accordingly, but even they think someone who's taken a dive through a cesspit smells horrible.
28	* FunetikAksent: These are orks, after all.
29	* TheGogglesDoNothing: Skyva has a pair of goggles on his head, but rarely wears them.
30	* GunshipRescue: Castillian is [[spoiler:saved from being gutted by Skyva's murderer and replacement warboss]] by a Valkyrie that drops troopers to rescue him.
31	* HeavilyArmoredMook: Skyva gets a bunch of 'Ardboys when he goes to get Gorgutz' Gargant back. As it turns out, big chunks of metal aren't much use against guns that can comfortably fit you and fifteen other ladz.
32	* HopeSpot:
33	** Castillian gets one when he sees the face of the reinforcements' commander through his amplivisors. Then he realizes that head is the ''only'' part of his body he can see...
34	** Later, a squad of Imperials infiltrates the Gargant and are about to rescue him when Skyva shows up looking for his lucky grot, killing them all.
35	* HumongousMecha: Irongutz Goregrinder, Gorgutz' personal Gargant.
36	* ImAHumanitarian: Averted, as Castillian at first refuses to touch the spoiled meat Gorm is shoving through the bars, but when the orks consider feeding human meat he quickly snatches it up.
37	* KlingonPromotion: Gorgutz thinks Skyva killed the two nobs who'd beaten him, and promotes him. [[UriahGambit Then sends him on suicide missions because ambition is a dangerous thing in an underling.]]
38	* NauseaFuel / {{Squick}}: InUniverse, Izraell is mistaken for a "lanky, stinky [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent grot]]" due to passing through a sewage tank before being captured by the orks.
39	* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Subverted, as Castillian's first escape attempt ends up costing the orks a gargant and replacing Gorgutz with the much less competent Skyva at the head of the Waaagh!, eventually letting him escape.
40	* OffWithHisHead: Gorgutz keeps his nobz in line with mentions of "trimmin' yer 'ead at da neck", and [[spoiler:Skyva's]] final fate.
41	* OhCrap: Castillian goes through two of them, first when he sees that the reinforcing Imperial officer's head is not attached to his body, and when he sees the orks have also captured the reinforcement's artillery.
42	* PaperThinDisguise: The only thing that keeps Castillian from being recognized as human is the layer of green refuse stuck to his body. And even then Gorm manages to see through it.
43	* {{Phlegmings}}: Whenever orks get excited or angry.
44	* PlanetOfHats: The Tallarns are an entire army of Film/LawrenceOfArabia expies, substituting some of their horsemen with [[ChickenWalker Sentinel]] squadrons.
45	* [[RealMenLoveJesus Real Men Love The]] GodEmperor: Castillian repeatedly makes mentions that his faith lets him survive.
46	* TheSiege: Starts (and ends) with Imperial hive cities besieged by orks, though only the first is lost.
47	* SlippingIntoStink: Colonel Castillian's escape from an ork attack through a sewage line fails when he's captured at the other end. But due to the layer of green refuse covering him, he's mistaken for a particularly tall and smelly gretchin and kept in a cage as a good-luck charm by the warboss as his "lanky stinky grot".
48	* TheStarscream:
49	** Grimbadd, a former nob of Gorgutz' who stole his Gargant to start his own Waaaaagh!, and Grippa to Skyva.
50	** Curiously, Skyva ''isn't'' one to Gorgutz, being too stupid to recognize an UriahGambit.
51	* StuffBlowingUp: The Irongutz's demise, thanks to a well-placed demo charge.
52	* TankGoodness: One panel is basically a sampling of everything motorized the Imperial Guard can field: Basilisks, Hellhounds, Leman Russes, motorbikes, and in case the defenders still had some hope left, a Baneblade.
53	* UriahGambit: Gorgutz sends Skyva on a suicide mission to get his gargant back from a rebellious nob in hopes of killing him. When that fails, he gives Skyva command of the gargant and sends it to the frontlines. [[spoiler:And ''that'' fails when the gargant explodes, the head flying off and landing on Gorgutz.]]
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