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Karamazov

Fyodor Karamazov, Lord Inquisitor of The Ordo Hereticus

Here seen wondering why he's keeping Dominique around.

Voiced by: StellarElite

A man so regal he takes his throne everywhere he goes, Karamazov is one of the most influential Inquisitors out there. He's also a self-righteous madman with the policy of "kill first-ask questions later", so when a missive to disband the Inquisition comes from the Imperial Palace, he rushes to Terra to burn the hives down in search of an answer.

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• Anti-Climax Boss: Against Magnus, his charge into the Imperial Palace isn't much. Magnus even comments on it. invoked
• Arc Villain: The main villain of Season 1 and most of Season 2.
• Asskicking Leads to Leadership: Apparently got the position by being the biggest and baddest Inquisitor to survive long enough.
• The Atoner: In a self-deluded idiot sort of way. He still believes that he is the Emperor but upon meeting Leman Russ, he actually seems to regret how his supposed past incarnation treated his children and genuinely wants to make amends.
• Ax-Crazy: He can murder entire planets out of his own misplaced ego.
• Blood Knight: He may claim that he's doing it all for Imperium's good, but he seems to simply love the carnage.
• Broken Pedestal: Happens to him constantly, from his idol in the Inquisition to his first meeting with Kaldor Draigo.
• Catchphrase: HERESY!
• Cool Chair: His throne, which can move on its own (in fact, he never leaves it), has two built-in lackeys and an impressive array of weapons to boot. It even has a built-in rocket!
• Death of Personality: The Emperor describes Fyodor as "no more" in Episode #27 before clarifying that he means he's been "overridden" by the Star Child.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs. When his army fires at Decius simply because he's there, he orders them to stop.
  • After the Emperor tricks him into believing he is the Emperor's reincarnation, Karamazov laments what kind of father he had been after seeing Russ's obsession with wolves.
• Evil Is Petty: Is introduced attempting to iniate an Extermiantus on a mining world for not giving him the shiny metal he wanted for his soldiers.
• Evil Laugh: When he breaks into the Imperial Palace, his laughter is rather insane.
• Exact Words: Uses this to get out of a promise he gave Decius; instead of "shedding blood" on Holy Terra, he'll just burn everyone.
• Foil: To Decius. While the Ecclesiarch is the Only Sane Man, job-oriented, and filled with Undying Loyalty to the Emperor even when his job is invalidated, Karamazov is insane and decides that the best course of action is to charge into the Imperial Palace and execute everyone as heretics, because this couldn't be right!
• Fusion Dance: With the Star Child.
• Grand Theft Me: In Episode 26, a shard of the Emperor takes over his body, as Karamazov has so thoroughly come to believe he is the Emperor that the Warp made it true.
• Irony: In Episode 8, Fyodor and Decius briefly argue about the events that, in both the TTS universe and 40k's proper canon, took place in the aftermath of Salem Proctor, where Fyodor tortured and ultimately immolated an extremely charismatic preacher over the course of six months while ignoring both the pleas of Inquisition and orders of the Ecclesiarchy to be allowed to see the boy, in an act that was driven entirely by his own self-serving theological agenda.^note Fyodor is part of the Inquisition's Amalathian faction who believes the Emperor has a grand plan that is constantly unfolding. He immolated the boy because the Thorian faction, who believe in the idea of finding a way to resurrect the Emperor, took a great interest in the boy as a vessel for the Emperor because he led the entire planet in a successful uprising againt a recently declared heretical cardinal before Fyodor and the Inquisition ever even arrived. Four years and eighteen episodes later sees Fyodor become the embodiment of both the theological idea he was doing his damnedest to stop and his own as he becomes the vessel for the Star Child as part of the Emperor's grand plan for himself and the Imperium.
• I Reject Your Reality: In Karamazov's world, everyone but him and his closest associates is a heretic or a potential heretic, the Emperor approves of Inquisition's actions, and Karamazov is a shard of Emperor's soul. Suffice to say, it's not exactly everyone else's reality. In Season 3, his belief that he is a part of the Emperor reborn is so intense that in the Warp, it eventually becomes true, or at least true enough that a shard of the Emperor is able to seize control of his body.
• Holier Than Thou: He believes himself to be the most righteous person in the Imperium, even when members of the Imperial Palace's staff disagree with his views.
• Knight Templar: He believes unflinchingly that his cause is right one, that he knows who the heretics are and what to do with them.
• Knight of Cerebus: With his arrival on stage, the series moves from "wacky one-room-two-guys comedy" to "comedic story about fixing the Imperium".
• Large Ham: Oh yes, he is. He gives Rousing Speeches all the time, blows everything out of proportion and has nothing against monologuing.
• Meaningful Name: Even more so than in the original tabletop. Much like the Grand Inquisitor from ''The Brothers Karamazov'', Fyodor goes against the very god he supposedly worshipped, for the sake of maintaining order in society.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Played for Laughs. After meeting Leman Russ in the Warp and seeing his... obsession with wolves firsthand, Karamazov takes a moment to berate and wonder to himself what kind of father had he been to him... still believing he's a reincarnation of the Emperor.
• Narcissist: Other than heresy, his favorite subject is himself. For instance, when the Emperor fawns over him at length to lower his guard, Karamazov mentions telling himself the same things while admiring himself in the mirror.
• Rousing Speech: He loves giving those, to the extent that he gives three of them as the Inquisition makes its way through the Imperial Palace.
• Sanity Slippage: The events of Warp Hijinx leave him and the rest of his forces considerably more crazed then before, though it could also be because they're drunk off their asses from Leman Russ's improvised Fenrisian Ale — which is strongly suggested in later scenes where Fyodor is relatively sober.
• Sarcasm-Blind: He's completely oblivious to sarcasm, a quality which the Emperor exploits with gusto.
• Tautological Templar: Charging the Eternity Gate is heresy... but not when him and his people do it.
• The Inquisition: Leads the most reactionary part of the "burn the heretic!" organization. The Emperor is pissed that Malcador's legacy is represented by this guy.
• Trigger-Happy: He's more than happy to burn entire planets if he as much as suspects one person there to be a heretic.
• Unwitting Pawn: The Emperor fully wants him to assemble the most knight-templar-ish and problematic members of the Inquisition and charge into the Eternity Gate so that Magnus can get rid of all of them at once. And then it's revealed Emps told him all that nonsense about him secretly being a shard of the Emperor's soul so that when in the Warp, his sheer insistence on it makes it true enough for him to act as a host body for the Star Child.
• Villain: Exit, Stage Left: When attacking the Palace for the first time, he ends up at Kitten's mercy and is a second from being shot to pieces when the Emperor orders to have him spared. He promptly uses the opportunity to hightail it out of there.
• Villainous Breakdown: When he's sent to the Warp, he starts screaming and blabbering, sliding into incoherence and losing touch with reality even more than before. He snaps out of it by the start of Season 3 though.
• Villainous Valour: If there's one thing you can say in Karamazov's favor even before he gets possessed by the Star Child it's this: he is no coward. True, most of his courage stems from being so ridiculously self-assured that it borders on Suicidal Overconfidence or flat-out loss of touch with reality. But that didn't stop him from besieging the Imperial Palace, charging a Daemon Primarch, talking back to Leman Russ while he was angry, and refusing to quit believing in the Emperor even when a daemon was inches away from cleaving his skull open with an axe. Even getting trapped in the Warp was viewed as nothing more than a minor setback by him.
• We Will Meet Again: Promises this to Kitten when he escapes for the first time, and makes good on that promise a season later.

Dominique

Lexmechanic Dominique, Servitor Scribe

He gets that a lot.

Voiced by: Franky

Not your perfect Inquisitorial lackey. Dominique mans one of the arms of Karamazov's throne, and while his official job is somewhat unclear (it should be to mindlessly write down everything that Karamazov says), his unofficial one seems to be whining and annoying the hell out of his boss, who despite this resorts to grumbling rather than firing him (or firing at him) on the spot.

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• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Karamazov seemed a bit pleased with his passing. Less so about the fact that the rotting remains seems to have been affected by the Warp.
• Body Horror: Something makes his rotten corpse play an eerie tune while snapping and twisting his neck repeatedly to mimic a music box. It's enough to make Fyodor instantly sober.
• Character Death: He died at some point in Leman Russ's drunk party.
• Clueless Deputy: He accompanies Karamazov everywhere, but seems more bothered by his cigarettes and own (perceived) awesomeness to aid him in any meaningful way.
• Deadpan Snarker: One could suppose it's his defense tactic against Karamazov's shrieking insanity, but he's really snarky at times.
• Due to the Dead: After he dies from overdosing on daemon-derived Fenrisian Ale, Karamazov keeps his rotting corpse on his throne. Later on, when the Star Child takes over Karamzov's body, Dominique's body disappears as he is taken to the afterlife by Celestine, and his place on the throne is replaced by a white coffin covered in golden chains with a golden aquila.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: He claims his cigarettes give him a raspy voice that's really popular with ladies. In reality, it's more like squeaking.
• Exorcist Head: His corpse did this repeatedly, complete with the sounds of cracking bone and tearing flesh.
• Femme Fatalons: Rare masculine version, he has long talons as nails (probably autoquills, fitting his job as an Inquisitorial secretary). He also claims to be quite a womanizer.
• Flanderization: Inverted. He starts off as a caricature and gets more depth as episodes go on. This was intentional, as Dominique was intended by the Emperor to help push Karamazov deeper and deeper into insanity so when he ended up in the Warp, he would believe the lie that he was part of the Emperor so hard that a part of the Emperor could manifest and take over his body.
• Go Out with a Smile: Dominique takes his death rather well.
  "Nah. It's all good. I've enjoyed myself. If I knew I'd trip this hard drinking Daemon innards I would've died a long time ago!"
• It's All About Me: When Karamazov is planning his first invasion of the Imperial Palace, Dominique is more concerned with his own discomfort.
• Killed Offscreen: Is found to be dead after Leman Russ pounds Karamazov's face in, possibly caused by alcohol poisoning.
• Leitmotif: Requiem for Dominque, which is a music box tune after he dies. Though StringStorm did make a mix of his theme.
• Must Have Nicotine: Throughout the first attack, he continues asking people for sandpaper cigarettes, and they pop up from time to time later as well.
• Number Two: Assistant to Karamazov, to the Inquisitor's woe.
• Only Sane Man: As time goes on, he turns into this, seemingly being the only member of Karamazov's clique to recognize the insanity of what's going on around him. Then again, he has his own insane moments. He was, in face, the only sane man because he was conspiring with one of the Emperor's pieces to help drive Karamazov deeper into insanity so the Emperor could take over his body when he ended up in the Warp.
• Phrase Catcher: "Be quiet, Dominique!" is something he hears often.
• Rule of Symbolism: When he ascends into the afterlife, Celestine turns him into a dove. Doves are the symbol of ascension to sainthood, or a Saint themselves. Basically, Dominque lived and died as a Saint of the Emperor and ascended to the afterlife.
• Servile Snarker: As Karamazov's composure deteriorates, Dominique starts to snark at him more and more often.
• Terrible Artist: Going by his pictures of made-up Ordos he presents to cheer Karamazov up, he has the skill of a mediocre MS Paint artist.

Leman Russ

Leman Russ, Primarch of the Vlka Fenryka (Space Wolves/Space Corgis)

"You need to spend more time being raised by WOLVES, you tarnished old skeleton, FOR WOLVES ARE STRONK!"

Voiced by: Zoran The Bear

Another of the 20 Primarchs, and the Emperor's self-appointed Executioner. Prophesized to return during the End Times to fight again alongside the fellow defenders of the Imperium.

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• A Real Man Is a Killer: Proudly boasts to a Deathwatch soldier he has 300 million confirmed kills. These are just the CONFIRMED kills, ones in which there were either witnesses or a body left behind to confirm the kill. When you consider that Leman has been in the Warp for a long time and the very concept of surviving in the Warp mandates the ability to slaughter daemons on a massive scale, it is VERY likely that his actual number of kills is immeasurably higher (though given that what he was saying was a parody of the Navy SEALS copypasta, he may just be making stuff up).
• The Alcoholic: He's so dedicated to his drink he attempted to recreate Fenrisian Ale by mixing Bylestim ^note a combat drug made from, among other things, Warpblood from a Lesser Daemon and powdered Wraithbone and the distilled liver-juices of a Bloodthirster into a drink so potent it generated an aura of menace.
• Arch-Enemy: Seems to consider Magnus the Red this, a sentiment the former Chaos Primarch wholly reciprocates. Simply the mention of him being in the throne room with the Emperor was enough to send Russ into Tranquil Fury, ignore his previous anger against Karamazov, and decide to finally leave the Warp.
• Badass Boast: He does a Space Marine variation on the infamous Navy SEAL copypasta. Amusingly enough, it's not exactly inaccurate in his case.
• Berserk Button: Really does not appreciate Fyodor openly claiming that he is the mortal embodiment of the Emperor and calling him "son", though not nearly to the same degree as any mention of Magnus the Red, which is strong enough to make him completely ignore the former button being pressed.
• Bestiality Is Depraved: Both Magnus and the Emperor are convinced he has a wolf fetish, with the former always referring to him as a "furry fuck". It's not really clear if that's true or they're both overhyping his... quirks, but he certainly does have a love of saying the word "wolf" or some variation thereof.
• Boisterous Bruiser: Keeps going on about how he is a badass due to wolves while chugging Warp-brewed liquor.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Presented as a fairly badass individual capable enough to handle the entire Inquisition single-handedly and live in the Warp without losing his sanity... And also absolutely obsessed with wolves, and alcohol.
• Carpet of Virility: According to Whammudes, he's apparently about as hairy within that armor too. Though Whammudes himself puts it in a very ill light, since it falls completely outside his taste to the point his sheer bulk and personality just do not make up for it.
• Deadpan Snarker: While the Emperor loves to fly into rages, Russ's disses are usually more subtle and delivered in more deadpan fashion.
• Determinator: The only way to survive in the Warp is to genuinely believe, whole-heartedly, that you can fight and win. Normal humans cannot, and even Inquisitors need to get boozed up on Russ's ale to survive. Leman Russ, however, is able to carry out his endless, centuries-long war in the Warp singlehandedly (with some help from Kaldor Draigo, though he doesn't really count) based on his pure willpower... and some ale never hurt either.
• Drunken Master: It's implied that he preserved his sanity through his long stay in the Warp by being drunk the whole time. It also helps him defeat the many daemons he encounters.
• Facepalm: His entire reaction and feelings summed up when the Inquisition starts calling the Star Child-infused Fyodor, essentially the Emperor himself, a heretic.
• Foreign Cuss Word: "I mean, for Helvete's^* hell's sake, you look like you haven't fought or fucked anything for decades, you MILKSOP!"
• Horrifying the Horror: In a Voxcast, he does this to a group of Drukhari by playing a game of 20 Questions. One of the Drukhari horrified by Russ is one that, in a previous episode, was actively looking forward to killing Daemons in horrible ways.
  • And what did he do during the Twenty Questions which absolutely horrified the Dark Eldar? Thanks to his nature as a Primarch and psyker, whenever he and his brothers play Twenty Questions, part of the problem/fun is that they would end up summoning through the Warp whatever it is they are thinking of, which would slowly manifest into reality unless the questioner guesses correctly, or until the questioner fails to. While him summoning a choking gas and a Dwarf from the Warhammer Fantasy world was bad enough, what finally drove the Dark Eldar over the edge with sheer terror and despair was him nearly summoning FREAKING SLAANESH HIRSELF into Commorragh.
• Irony: Despite the hatred of psykers held by the Space Wolves, he, their Primarch, is now one himself after having spent ages in the Warp.
• Personal Raincloud: His surroundings in the Warp look like a small-scale Fenris reenaction.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: Makes absurdly sexist comments towards the Sisters of Battle, most prominently the below-mentioned "Red Rage" joke. It's Played for Laughs.
• Raised by Wolves: He thinks it is a great idea for other people to be so as well because wolf raising made him wolfin' strong!
• Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Leman wasn't kidding when he said he was a CQC expert, seeing as how with one punch he literally tore a Dark Eldar in half and then proceeded to utilize this trope on the upper half until it was a red misty death.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech:
  • Delivers one to Karamazov as soon as he encounters him. It's about how he's a pussy for sitting on his throne all the time instead of killing things personally and it completely breaks Karamazov.
  • In the TTS Special Warp Hijinx he gives one to EACH AND EVERY MEMBER OF THE INQUISITORIAL ORDERS on why they won't survive in the Warp.
    • The Ordos Xenos are Genestealer-obsessed nuts who don't even know what daemons are.
    • The Grey Knights are the Inquisitorial equivalent of spoiled wealthy children (and the leading Grey Knight's accent is weird and full of waffles, probably because his voice actor is from Belgium).
    • The Ordos Hereticus is the Inquisitorial equivalent of child molesters, who will likely kill more Inquisitors than the daemons.
    • The Sisters of Battle will be "eaten out like ice cream sandwiches by daemons of Khorne when [their] red rage starts".
    • The Stormtroopers are so pathetic that they explode with little or no provocation.
    • The Deathwatch are pussies because they've only fought pussy enemies like the Tau ("who don't even fight in melee!"). And Calato (the Dark Angel who keeps firing back at Russ) specifically is a "nancy lion-lover BITCH".
• Reality Warper: As much as he hates Magnus, he is a Primarch who has spent millennia in the Warp, and as such, a psyker. This comes out when playing Twenty Questions, having everything he is thinking of slowly start to manifest. And he mentions he played it exactly this way before with his brother. In the same Vox-Log where he played that game, his powers are shown to be strong enough that he nearly summoned Slaanesh into Commorragh, utterly horrifying the Dark Eldar who are forced to play the game with them.
• Really 700 Years Old: Does he look thousands of years old? Granted, time is funky in the Warp.
• Red Baron: Introduces himself as the Primarch of the Vlka Fenryka, the Wolf King of Fenris and the Emperor's Executioner.
• Smurfing: Sometimes, particularly when upset. "What the WOLF did you just say about me!?"
• Took a Level in Kindness: When Star Child possesses Fyodor, he is a lot more relaxed but alert, and even facepalms when the surviving Inquisition accuses his father of being a heretic.
• Tranquil Fury: His reaction to Karamazov calling him son. Which leads into a blow to the face so hard and loud it can be heard outside of the Warp and in the Imperial Palace! But even that is nothing compared to any mention of Magnus the Red. His voice is low, but full of hatred, and the entire Warp surrounding them turns black when he's brought up.
• Van Helsing Hate Crimes: He was preparing a massacre of daemon villagers whose activities involved kissing their wives and working in the Nurgling mines.
• Verbal Tic: Has a habit of inserting "wolf" or some variation of it into his sentences, particularly when he's shouting.

The Inquisition

The Holy Orders of the Emperor's Inquisition. Judges, Jury, and Executioners of The Imperium

Keep in mind that this is being said to The Custodes.

Torquemada Coteaz voiced by: Superanchors

A collection of highly religious and incredibly powerful orders who were tasked with rooting out threats caused by aliens, heretics and daemons within the Imperium. Unfortunately, they have a tendency to cause far more harm than good as a result of their rampant paranoia and fanaticism to dogma, leading to the Emperor eventually having Magnus send the vast majority of them into the Warp along with their then appointed representative, Fyodor Karamazov.

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• Alas, Poor Villain: Their various deaths in Episode 26 are about as genuinely regrettable as they are hilarious.
• Berserk Button: HERETICS.
• Even Evil Has Standards: They feel no remorse at killing anyone suspected of heresy and will subject planets to Exterminatus for petty reasons, but they exiled Kryptmann for being too cruel. Rogal points this out when the Emperor makes the mistake of thinking him more rational and less kill-happy.
• Heroic Willpower: All the survivors of the Warp journey have this.
• Hold the Line: In Episode 26, they fend off a massive daemon army that is trying to destroy their psyker force, who are trying to open the Gate of Khaine. Unfortunately for them, their army is substantially smaller and they get massacred once the daemons get into melee. Elirush and Adrielle are Killed Off for Real in this battle. Although with Adrienne there is some Ambiguous Situation to it - as it is specifically said that she “ascended” instead of died (although this could easily just be a Rule of Funny way of saying that she died, since she not only vanishes in a huge spray of gore but also appears alongside the other casualties of Khaine's Gate in what's implied to be a Fluffy Cloud Heaven at the end of the episode).
• Mauve Shirt: Though most of them are tough enough to survive for a while in the Warp, particularly when they drink Leman Russ's Fenrisian Ale, in Episode 26 both Adrielle and Grand Master Elirush are slain in battle by Skarbrand. Donklas only survives by "enforcing discipline in the back" and grabbing the Sister of Battle Canoness as the Sisters get slaughtered.
• No Name Given: Adrielle wasn't named until Alfa learned she actually has one in 40k proper. Grand Master Elirush and Ordo Hereticus Agent Donklas's names are only known because Episode 26 Part 1 is a general recreation of an actual tabletop battle and the results of key moments of the game are displayed on the screen as the action unfolds.
• Only Sane Man: You will have a hard time finding anyone in the Inquisition as sane or reasonable as Coteaz.
• State Sec: Their role before the Emperor disbanded them is to find and execute (possible) enemies to the state. Or, in their words, "PURGE THE HERETICS!"
• Ungrateful Bastard The Star Child-infused Fyodor, essentially the Emperor himself, saves what remains of the Inquisition from being killed by the Chaos army as well as saving them from a Dark Eldar trap and healing those caught in said trap. Yet despite all this, the moment he merely suggests they should just hear what the Dark Eldar are saying because they are acting really atypical for their race? They immediately start calling him a heretic.

Inquisitor Donklas of the Ordo Hereticus

Donklas voiced by: Delred

An Inquisitor with a love for executing heretics.

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• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: After Elirush and Adrielle meet their fate, Donklas proceeds to mourn them as his friends before praying to not meet the same fate.
  Donklas: All my friends are dead... I don't want to die in this horrible magical hell...
• Lampshade Hanging: Inn the Warp Hijinks special, a drunk Donklas asks where he got his mask, considering the last time he was seen he didn't wear one.
• Run or Die: Donklas only lives because he knows better than to fight the daemons directly in melee.
  Donklas (dragging the Canoness): Now is not the time for lying about. Now is the time for running the fuck away!
• Sex Is Violence: Ordo Hereticus Agent Donklas finds it rather arousing to kill potential heretics.
• Sole Survivor: The only named Inquisitor to survive Khaine's Gate.

Inquisitor Adrielle Quist of the Ordo Xenos

Adrielle Quist voiced by: Habbia

An Inquisitor who has strong feelings towards Genestealers.

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• Character Death: Reduced to a fine red mist by Skarbrand.
• Crippling Overspecialization: She's obsessive about fighting Genestealers, to the point where she doesn't even seem to know what a daemon is.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Though Adrielle's constant obsession with Genestealers is mostly played for laughs, this pure hatred she has towards them has made her strong enough to singlehandedly take on entire Genestealer cults on her own and win without a scratch. Sadly for her, Skarbrand was far worse than any Genestealer Cult.
• Tsundere: Talks a lot about how much she hates Genestealers. Also talks about "Broodlord-kun" when drunk.
• Worf Had the Flu: When Adrielle dies she's extremely hungover and still a little drunk. Not to mention the bomb that landed on her earlier.

Grand Master Elirush of the Ordo Malleus

Grand Master Elirush voiced by: Eliphas

A Grand Master of the Grey Knights.

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• Character Death: Axed into a paste by Skarbrand.
• What the Hell Is That Accent?: His voice is muffled by his mask and frequently degenerates into "waffles." The accent itself underneath that might be Belgian based on his voice actor.

Ex-Inquisitor Fidus Kryptmann of the Ordo Xenos, Hero of the Macharian Heresy

Inquisitor Kryptmann voiced by: ComradeCrimson

An Inquisitor (in)famous for his work against the Tyranids. Takes center stage in a trilogy of episodes called "BEHEMOTH", which also details the first encounter with the Tyranids.

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• The Bus Came Back: An older Kryptmann from the BEHEMOTH Shorts returns in Episode 26: Part 2
• Cool Shades: Always wearing a pair, to his consternation. He actually stumbles onto the Tyranids because an order for a new set of glasses went unfulfilled for six months.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Calls Leman Russ incompetent to his face.
• Giver of Lame Names: Played with. His original name for Tyranids was "Space Bugs of Death," but Deathwatch agrees that Behemoth is a pretty rad name for their swarm.
• Heroic Willpower: Kryptmann can get so righteously indignant that his rage can shake off a psychic attack from a Tyranid Norn Queen.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: When Leman Russ calls him one of Fyodor's irrational carnage cronies, he objects to two-thirds of that description. He's very rational and his mass-murder is independent.
• It's Not Porn, It's Art: Kryptmann genuinely believes that his "xeno data collection" is a library of legitimate information regarding extraterrestrial reproduction habits and social behaviors, and studies them under that lens.
• Old Soldier: He's a veteran of all three Tyrannic wars, which means A) he's old enough to have fought in all of them, and B) he fought in all of them.
• Only Sane Man: Ironically, Kryptmann is perhaps the most sane Inquisitor. This only makes him more vicious in his attempts to commit large scale genocide in the name of stoping the Tyranids.
  Kryptmann: My opinion IS: straight-laced, self-strangulating sheeplings slapping "heresy" on anything even halfway logical is what brought us into this mess in the first place. Maybe taking two seconds to consider options that aren't "purge this," "cleanse that," and "BURN BURN BURN!" might prove beneficial even if you don't wind up doing it.
• Pragmatic Villainy: Kryptmann seems to be a big believer in this. He is by any estimation a terrible person, but he seems less interested in committing atrocities for fun than because he genuinely thinks they're legitimate means to an end. That said, he's managed to kill exponentially more innocent people than have the Inquisitors who do murder for fun, with the exception of Headsmash.^note That 'greatest genocide in the history of the Imperium' he's mentioned committing was an attempt to starve a Tyranid Hive Fleet to death by ordering the Exterminatus of a dozen worlds in its path, thus denying it biomass. Didn't work.
• The Precious, Precious Car: He is outraged at the loss of his ship at the end of the BEHEMOTH trilogy, which in the setting is a very big deal due to there being a finite amount of his class of vessel in the universe.
• Protagonist Journey to Villain: He begins BEHEMOTH as a typically unpleasant Inquisitor, but the horrors of fighting the Tyranids eventually foster the belief that large scale sacrifice is necessary (and acceptable) to defeat them.
• Sword Cane: No. A gun cane.

Inquisitor Headsmash

Inquisitor Headsmash voiced by: Zegram

An Inquisitor whose first, last, and only reaction to just about anything is Exterminatus.

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• Heroic Willpower: Inquisitor Headsmash is the only Inquisitor to fully resist a direct psychic command from the Star Child-infused Fyodor. This is something that even Leman Russ failed to (though Russ was probably given more focus than most as the Star Child especially wanted him under control). There is no indication that Headsmash is a blank, so he really has just that strong a will.
• In Love with Your Carnage: Inquisitor Headsmash reacts to Leman Russ vaporizing a Dark Eldar with Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs with almost schoolgirl-like glee.
  Headsmash: (pitch slowly rising) Have I died and gone to murder-heaven?
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Despite having doomed at least a few planets through Exterminatus for the most minor offenses, such as a single oppressed citizen screaming about joining Chaos or his own freaking allies doing the killing, Inquisitor Headsmash avoided getting sent into the Warp like most of his fellow Inquisitors because he didn't join up with Karamozov. Then in Episode 26: Part 2, he winds up getting pulled into Commorragh due to Exterminatusing a sun, seemingly as a form of retirement/suicide, only for Draigo to hop onto his ship and eat said sun.
• Only Sane Man: Somehow, Headsmash is the voice of reason after Emperor Fyodor uses his psychic powers to convince the Inquisition to work with the Dark Eldar.
  Headsmash: So, like.. am I actually going to have to be the straight man here in pointing out how bad this idea is? It feels... gross.

Deathwatch

Deathwatch, Chamber Militant of the Ordo Xenos

A group of Space Marines withdrawn from their chapters to serve directly under the Inquisitorial Ordo Xenos.

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• Canon Immigrant: Calato and Wilford debuted in BEHEMOTH before showing up in the Text-To-Speech series.
• Dark Is Not Evil: In Deathwatch tradition, their armor is painted black regardless of their chapter of origin.
• Foreshadowing: The presence of Kryptmann's Deathwatch Kill Team in Fyodor's warparty foreshadows that Kryptmann himself is there as well.
• Mass "Oh, Crap!": Along with Kryptmann, they give one when Captain Godfrey informs them of the Swarmlord.
  Kryptmann: How did it look like? HOW DID IT LOOK LIKE??
  Godfrey: The same but bigger, meaner, with four really nasty swords!
  Kryptmann & Kill Team: [Beat] FUCK!!
• Put on a Bus: After BEHEMOTH, Lynius and Vludn were sent back to their chapter, while Cyrus was stolen by the Blood Ravens, explaining why they weren't in the group that got sent into the Warp.

Champion Calato

Voiced by: Yohan Gas Mask

A champion from the Dark Angels chapter.

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• Berserk Button: Calato doesn't take too kindly to people badmouthing the Dark Angels. He's also infuriated by being made to work as a cook.
• Brain Bleach: A Noodle Incident with "poop golems" on Scator deeply scarred him and he regularly schedules sessions with a mind clenser when his squadmates remind him of it.
• Butt-Monkey: In BEHEMOTH, he's repeatedly robbed of any chance at glory in combat and relegated to a glorified secretary.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Calls Leman Russ "dogfucker" to his face.
• Mercy Kill: Why he claims he kills a Sister of Battle Canoness after she sarcastically says she has an urge to lay down and die. It's actually because he wanted a bigger kill count, though her badmouthing his chapter probably didn't help.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: "Not on our Death-Watch!"
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Averted. He considers throwing his shield at the Norn Queen, but decides it would be too derivative.
• Would Hurt a Child: He clubs Billy with a baseball batwith no provocation.

Apothecary Wilford

Voiced by: Stellar Elite

An apothecary from the Ultramarine chapter.

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• Captain Obvious:
  • His appraisal of a Rot Fly bombing run.
  Wilford: Ingesting high amounts of explosives equals high risk of suffering terminal DEATH!
  • He calls staying around to face an approaching army of daemons "medically inadvisable", before adding that he's sure that they already know that.
• Combat Medic: He may be an apothecary, but he's still a Space Marine. At one point he manages to kill a Plaguebearer with a bolt pistol (much to his own surprise).
• Defector from Decadence: Wilford went on "vigil" with the Deathwatch to get away from his fellow Ultramarines. Of note, this was before they underwent their radical shift into nigh-unbeatable, insufferable uniformity. The disdain goes both ways somewhat, as a brief meeting between him and Marneus Calgar at the end of the BEHEMOTH trilogy concluded with his former commander calling him a quitter and telling him to stay on his "vigil".
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Thanks to a good roll by the series's developers, he once managed to get a critical headshot with the infamously inaccurate Bolt Pistol.
• Insufferable Genius: Concisely described by Kryptmann as a "dissident cunt".
• Nine out of Ten Doctors Agree: Parodied, at one point he states that "one out of one apothecaries" recommends something, with himself obviously being the only apothecary around.
• Tactical Withdrawal: When the Kill Team is broken by daemons he retreats and drags Calato with him. It saves both their lives.

Runepriest Volund

Voiced by: Stellar Elite

A Librarian from the Space Wolves chapter.

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• Evil Laugh: The Tyranid Hive Mind delivers one through him when the Swarmlord arrives on the battlefield.
• Nice Guy: Considered too nice and optimistic for Deathwatch. Which gets him ultimately dismissed from the team.
• Only Sane Man: The most rational of the Deathwatch squad.
• Worf Had the Flu: Thanks to the Shadow in the Warp, he's not of much use against the Tyranids.

Killmarine Lynius

Killmarine Lynius voiced by: Comrade Crimson

A Marine from the Space Wolves chapter.

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• Brutish Character, Brutish Weapon:A member of the Space Wolves, Lynius wields a poweraxe.
• Chippendales Dancers: While waiting for an approaching Tyranid fleet, he enjoys himself by dancing for some Sisters of Battle while wearing little more than his helmet.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: He's the most profane member of the Deathwatch squad, ranging from standard curse words to creatively vulgar expressions.
• Toilet Humour: Fond of it, though his superiors are less so, to the point that they kick him out of the Deathwatch for that alone.

Cyrus

Cyrus voiced by: Steve Blum (via stock audio)

A Scout from the Blood Ravens chapter.

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• Cold Sniper: An excellent shot who has very little interaction with his squadmates. Notably, he kills the Norn Queen with nary a quip to be found.
• Expy: A blatant one of Wolverine.
• Kill Steal: He repeatedly robs Calato of the chance to actually kill anything.
  Calato: It's a kill-TEAM! Not a kill-individual!
• Origin Story: BEHEMOTH ends with him being kidnapped by the Blood Ravens, explaining how he came to work for them in other works in the franchise.
  • He was already a Blood Raven in his canon backstory, so it was honestly less kidnapping and more taking him back.

Sisters of Battle

Sisters of Battle

Canoness Albia Thorne voiced by: Geminaye

Canoness Amaryllis voiced by: Wargamer Girl

Mistress of Repentance voiced by: Alfabusa

The Adeptus Sororitas, the all-woman militiant arm of the Ecclesiarchy.

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• Amazon Brigade: Kind of a given.
• Axe-Crazy: While still very loyalist, they seem to be very mentally unhinged and prone to random violence.
• Drowning My Sorrows: After the Emperor publically denied his divinity, all the Sororitas that didn't storm the Imperial Palace and exiled into the Warp fell under a collective depression and started drinking heavily.
• Honor Before Reason: The Canoness refuses to fire on the daemons attacking the Tauroxes for fear of hurting their allies. As a result the Tauroxes are destroyed and the Sisters are massacred.
  • In the BEHEMOTH special, all of the Soroitas, in an effort to avenge their Canoness (who was still alive and alright), charged the Tyranids personally.
• Hysterical Woman: An entire battalion of them.
• Loony Fan: to Saint Celestine, to the point where it's actually distressing to her.
• Only Sane Woman: Canoness Amaryllis to the Sororitas stationed at Victoria Primus. After she got knocked down by an enemy attack, all the other sisters fell into a fit of rage at her death (despite her still being alive and conscious to say such), and she yelled at them to "not charge into the ocean of murderblades down there".
• Power Fist: The Canoness wields on her right hand. Or her left fist.

Tempestus Scions

Tempestus Scions, Storm Troopers of the Administratum

Tempestor Cromwell voiced by: Fresh

Scion Grant voiced by: Geminaye

Scion Matilda voiced by: Snipe

Scion Stuart voiced by: ThunderPsyker

Scion Valentine voiced by: Voyboy

Scion Priestly voiced by: Remleiz

A detachment of troops from the Administratum, attached to the Ordo Xenos.

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• Action Survivor: They are soldiers, but they might as well be civilians considering how deadly the Warp is. The fact that they survive it is an incredible feat.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Grant's reaction to the advancing daemons.
• Distinguishing Mark: Considering they're common grunts, this is necessary to tell them apart. They're mostly Color-Coded for Your Convenience by the lenses of their masks, with Stuart's being blue, Valentine's being red, and everyone else's being green. Of the three with green lenses, Priestly has a hat on over his helmet, Grant has no central stripe on his helmet and a blue monoscope, and Matilda is the only one with yellow-black marks on both pauldrons and no monoscope.
• Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: You can distinguish their leader, Temepstor Cromwell, by his lack of a helmet.
• Heroic Willpower: As many of the Scions were untested in facing the worst powers of Chaos, many of them died, but the surviving Scions are the best of the best of the best that the Imperial Guard has to offer.
• Major Injury Underreaction: Matilda's reaction to getting her legs reduced to skeleton bones after being hurled into a sun is to call the situation "proper naff".
• Pointy-Haired Boss: Cromwell ignores Priestly's very justified complaint that their chosen position is in a daemonic bombardment zone because Priestly wasn't given permission to speak. That being said, there wasn't going to be cover anywhere and running away was not an option, so attritional warfare was really the only choice. Arguing the point was just a waste of time. As soon as the Gray Knights die, Cromwell pulls everyone back when it's suggested to him.
• Tactical Withdrawal: They survive the Gate of Khaine by advancing backwards.
• Vehicular Theme Naming: They are all named after World War II British tanks^note Or the British names for American tanks in their service, in the case of Grant, Stuart, and Priestly... except Priestly, who is named for an artillery vehicle.

Kaldor Draigo

Kaldor Draigo, Supreme Grand Master of the Grey Knights

"Hands do not exist in my reality!"

Voiced by: Gemineye

The leader and the mightiest warrior to ever grace the ranks of the Grey Knights, a masterful combatant and unmatched psyker who has defeated the forces of Chaos and even bested Daemon Primarchs countless times all on his own, while remaining in the realm of madness and insanity that is the Warp. While his body has persisted for centuries, however, his mind clearly fell ages ago.

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• Acrofatic: We see him out of armor in Episode 29 and it turns out he has quite the belly, despite all his impossible physical feats.
• Apocalypse Maiden: Apparently the Deceiver thinks Kaldor Draigo entering the Materium will end the galaxy. He knows better than most what Draigo's capable of, since he's the one who made Draigo what he is in the first place.
• Badass Preacher: Comes with being part of an army of paladins, but he doesn't do any preaching.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He's hilariously insane, and prone to random ridiculous outbursts and cartoonish actions. His combat prowess, however, is just as ridiculous; his battles last milliseconds, and he wins before anyone can notice.
  • As silly and ridiculous as he is, Kaldor Draigo is so incredibly powerful and dangerous that the Deceiver himself is afraid of him and is moving to stop him from returning to the Materium.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He might be a complete loon, but he sure knows how to wreck daemons and fallen Primarchs.
• Cloudcuckoolander: It doesn't matter how much of a badass you are. Spend enough time in the Warp and you will go nuts eventually! This has reached the point where Russ doesn't even consider him sentient anymore. Draigo agrees.
• Comically Invincible Hero: Draigo has thus far proven for all intents and purposes invincible. If something gets in his way he can inflict a hilariously short Curb-Stomp Battle on it. The only thing that can stop him are bad die rolls.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Defeats Magnus before Kitten can even finish a sentence, and later destroys the Masque of Slaanesh with a single stab.
• Demon Slaying: He's so good at it that he knocks out the true form of Magnus the Red in a single punch in the blink of an eye.
• Epic Fail: In Episode 26, due to the battle being modeled after a real game of Warhammer the creators played wherein Draigo fell prey to the ultimate enemy of any 40K soldier — repeatedly failing your rolls.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: While he may be the greatest daemon-slayer in the whole of the galaxy or Warp, he's still a swell enough guy that Lucius and Ahriman invited him as a guest for their Slaaneshmas show. He's also strongly implied by the Masque to be the Silver Knight of Slaanesh, as the Masque speaks to him in a friendly manner and then calls him a traitor when he suddenly stabs her in the face.
• Heroes Prefer Swords: Like most of the Grey Knights he carries a Nemesis Force Sword, although considering his insanity he rarely ever uses it normally.
• Large Ham: Even when he is whispering his presence is huge.
  Draigo: ORDO DRAIGO PRESENT! WE WILL PROVIDE THE HAMS!
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Carries around a shield that looks like the Inquisition's logo, although he actually never uses it.
• Old Master: At least a few centuries old and still slaughtering daemons.
• Parody Sue: A deconstruction of his canon self, who has been decried by most of the fandom as a Canon Sue for being able to not only survive in the Warp, but also fight Chaos on its own turf, single-handedly, and actually score victories. In TTS, due to the Warp's Your Mind Makes It Real properties, it is possible to survive in the Warp if you have enough unshakable confidence in yourself - but the only way to attain it is to either be piss-drunk (like Leman Russ) or be stark raving mad. This results in a Draigo who is every bit as powerful as he is in canon alright, but he's less the flawless paragon of righteousness Matt Ward portrayed him as and more of a Looney Tunes character.
• Person of Mass Destruction: Erasing an entire star from existence has to qualify, and the Deceiver is entirely convinced he is one so powerful and unstable the galaxy may not survive his return to the material world.
• Self-Duplication: Claims to be a member of the "Ordo Draigo", which consists entirely of Warpspawned clones of himself.
• Shout-Out: He's a giant walking shout-out to "Trials of Draigo" by FlashGitz.
• Suddenly Shouting: Don't expect his insanity to allow him to speak in a quiet manner for too long.
• Summoning Ritual: If you require his services, you will need a Dreadknight, a kettle of Sororitas blood, and the Book of Magnus, while reading a backwards chant that praises the Grey Knights.
• Touched by Vorlons: It's revealed in episode 30's flashback that Draigo's absurdly overpowered abilities are the result of the Deceiver fusing a shard of fellow C'tan the Outsider into him. Unfortunately for the Deceiver, Draigo grew a bit too powerful.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Despite the fact that he's lost his grip on reality (or reality's lost his grip on him. Probably both) and his propensity for surreal visual gags, Russ seems unable to notice or acknowledge him. In Episode 24, he's conversing relatively normally, suggesting that Russ is used to Kaldor's eccentricities.
• Weird Sun: He claims to be a Warp star, and can shine like one to prove it. This apparently counts as a "sunrise" in the Warp. He also literally survives being inside a sun on sheer willpower, but it could also be because he is technically part C'Tan.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: A feature of the Warp, but combined with Draigo's insanity, this has created some... interesting results.

The Star Child

See Emperor's character page

Assorted Space Marines

The Ultramarines

The Ultramarines, Honorable Battlebrothers, The Emperor's Finest, THE GREATEST OF THEM ALL!

Even their Chapter Master can't stand them.

Voiced by: Karl The Deranged (Marneus Augustus Calgar), Ironbeard (Uriel Ventris), Kochiha Ichihara (Cato Sicarius)

The Imperium's greatest Space Marines, capable of succeeding in any mission, no matter how dangerous, suicidal, and outright sabotaged by their own side it is.

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• Achilles in His Tent: Calgar spends the first two seasons of the show moping on Ultramar about what his Space Marines have become. This in turn allows Cato Sicarius to go over his head to accept assignments from Terra without having to run them by him first, which eventually sickens Maneius enough that he decides to lead the charge in the third season's newest mission for his chapter.
• Atomic F-Bomb: Marneius Calgar let one off when being told that the Ultramarines had collected all of the Salamanders' artifacts.
• Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Calgar and Ventris end up getting on a tangent where they talk about random things for literally months on end because Ventris randomly brought up his armor's green trim and the two got sidetracked.
• Benevolent Boss: Grouchy attitude aside, Calgar is implied to be this given his outrage over Sicarious risking the lives of his men a suicide mission, and going berserk when Sicarious states he doesn't care what happens as long he helps his glory and reputation.
• Berserk Button:
  • When Cato Sicarius suggests that any Ultramarine casualties are meaningless if it means furthering his reputation and glory, Calgar snaps and threatens to shove his power fist up Sicarius' ass. When Sicarius high-tails it out of the room he grumbles in frustration that one of these days that he needs to stop threatening to do so and ACTUALLY do it. Come Episode 21, he really does punch Sicarius in the face when the latter is ranting how he was able to defeat a C'tan.
  • Uriel Ventris is decidedly miffed about his My Greatest Failure moment (releasing the C'tan Nightbringer) being inexplicably and casually rendered insignificant (the Nightbringer was actually just a shard. An itsy bitsy little Shard).
  • Cato Sicarius also has one in the form of being interrupted during his narcissistic squealing.
    *In a lower, indignant, snarled voice* "HOW DARE YOU INTERRUPT THE FEEDBACK SESSION OF I, CATO SICARIUS!?"
• Beyond the Impossible: The Emperor deliberately gives them Impossible Tasks and yet they keep succeeding.
  • How about riding into galaxy's biggest daemon hotspot with your anti-daemon fields off, in a single ship, to find and capture (alive) the second most powerful psyker in existence and come back alive? More, even, with minimal casualties? Why not?
  • Not enough? Just go on to casually find all of the remaining Artifacts of Vulkan in under a year and deliver them directly to Nocturne. The Salamanders have been searching for the better part of 10,000 years.
  • This is discussed in Episode 21 by Calgar and Ventris, with the latter pointing out that the changes in history all have this theme, caused by a certain force, which Calgar tries to dismiss defensively.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They're annoying. They're invincible to the point some feel bored. They're as bland as it goes. But by the Emperor are they effective.
• Comically Invincible Hero: There is appears to be nothing the Ultramarines can't do, no matter how laughably impossible their success is.
• Cool Mask: Their armour, based on Heresy-era Invictarii, has a really cool wing design on its mask.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Ultramarines were subjected to one at the battle of Macragge, Calgar in particular at the hands of the Swarmlord. It's this event that led Calgar to make some sort of deal that has slowly made their chapter more and more over-the-top and powerful.
  • The Ultramarines and Calgar more than make up for it at Victoria Primus against the Tyranids, paying them back with a Curb Stomp of their own. The fight against the second Swarmlord and Calgar is amazingly one-sided this time.
• Dark Secret: Ventris has begun to suspect that some higher power influences events to always make the Ultramarines succeed against all odds and retconning their defeats to lessen or ignore them. It seems Calgar himself knows more about this than he is willing to say... The second part of BEHEMOTH makes it clear that whatever happened took place shortly after Calgar's disastrous confrontation with the Swarmlord in Macragge.
• Demoted to Extra: By order of Calgar, Illiyan is not to receive any screentime at all and must be as irrelevant as possible.
• Fate Worse than Death: Whether it is out of fear of their lethality and/or of how annoying they can be, both the forces of the Imperium and those of Chaos consider being banished to Ultramar as one of these as it is the penalty of high-stakes "Ultragames."
• Flanderization: Their portrayal here is based on the 5th Edition Space Marines 'dex, which is often accused of making them Sue-ish, overblowing the Chapter's previous vanilla portrayal and being just flat-out unrealistic. Here, they truly are as invincible, goody-two-shoes, and Codex-Astartes-worshipping as the 5th-Ed's deriders would have you believe... and it's driving their Chapter Master crazy.
  • This also seems to have happened in-universe, with the Ultramarines shown in BEHEMOTH being as diverse, flawed, and eccentric as any other Chapter/group shown in the series with a wide range of different characters and no sign of the absurdly perfect and unstoppable people they would become. After being slaughtered by the Tyranids almost all these unique characters would disappear, save Calgar and Ventris, replaced by faceless and identical Parody Sue Ultramarines and Cato Sicarius.
• Glory Hound: Sicarius believes that it doesn't matter how many are sacrificed if it advances his personal glory. Calgar almost punches his head off for this.
• Impossible Task: The feats they accomplished were deliberately designed by The Emperor with two goals in mind:
  • 1: To be impossible so that they would fail for once and stop acting insufferably smug.
  • 2: To abuse the hell out of their Plot Armor in the event that they actually succeed.
• In-Universe Nickname:
  • They repeatedly get called "Smurfs" by the Emperor, despite no one getting the reference.
  • Calgar and Ventris refer to Cato Sicarius as Cunto Shitarius when it's just the two of them.
• Incoming Ham: I, Cato Sicarius of the GLORIOUS and Famed 2nd Company shall bring the ham wherever it is needed!
  • He even pulls off an outgoing ham after dropping the artifacts of Vulkan.
• Invincible Hero: Their Chapter Master certainly thinks so, to the extent that he gets depression from this.
  Marneus Calgar: *Sobbing* Holy Emperor...This is shameful...Nothing is satisfying anymore...
• Jerkass: Cato Sicarius. Unlike Calgar whose attitude comes how boring everything is, Sicarius is an egotistical Glory Hound who will throw any number of his own men under the bus if it will benefit him.
• Large Ham: They have a truly grandiose way of speaking WITH COURAGE AND HONOR!
• Leitmotif: The Ultramarines Chant. Their constant chanting is partly why the Emperor hates them so much.
• Lightning Bruiser: As a parody of Dawn of War III's incident with Terminator Armor, Calgar is an utterly silly version of these, what with punches that can one-shot Titans and being able to somersault so damn far due to the Terminator armor he doesn't need jump packs to be fast.
• Married to the Job: Their reward for capturing Magnus is some purity seals and materials to prepare for their next mission. They're more than happy about it.
• Meta Guy: Calgar often refers to abstract concepts like "screen time". The Behemoth "OVA" hints that he's actually a full on Fourth-Wall Observer due to the Deal with the Devil he made to save the Ultramarines from the Tyranids, referring to one character as an "original character" and berating him for not being canon before catching himself being too meta.
• No Challenge Equals No Satisfaction: Calgar certainly seems to think so. Whatever Deal with the Devil he struck made his chapter borderline unstoppable and successful at everything they do, but you can only effortlessly succeed so many times until all those victories start to ring hollow and meaningless. It's part of the reason Calgar's so goddamn exhausted all the time.
• Odd Friendship: Calgar eventually finds a mood kindred in the form of Ciaphas Cain, who has a similar record of bullshitting his way to victory and thus, feeling like a piece of shit too.
• Only Sane Man: Calgar and Ventris seem to fulfill this role. Ventris seems well-adjusted to Chapter's insanity, but Calgar seems to have been spiraling into a deep depression for awhile.
• Parody Sue: The Emperor realizes that they win all the time and succeed at anything, regardless of how against sanity and common sense victory would be. He admits he only puts up with this ridiculousness because they're useful.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Ventris seems to be the only one besides Calgar that notices that their chapter history appears to be changing. Granted, he's the only one besides Calgar left who has a unique identity and isn't Cato Sicarius.
• Sarcasm-Blind: When Calgar is furiously mocking their perfection and belief in Codex Astartes, the Ultramarine he's talking to takes it at face value. They also fail to note malicious undertones to their order to switch their Gellar Fields off.
• Send in the Clones: Apart from Calgar, Sicarius, Ventris, and a lone Devastator, they all look and act the same - at first resembling the First Company, and, later, the Honour Guard.
  • Averted in the BEHEMOTH prequel, where each Ultramarine shown is a unique model/art depiction with his own personality before the eponymous Tyranid invasion. After the near extermination of the chapter and still unknown Deal with the Devil Calgar made to save it, nearly all these unique Marines are gone and replaced by the aforementioned clones.
    • While there were still some using the Honour Guard model before and during the invasion, they still showed a different, more intelligent personality than the later clones, including pointing out when their Chapter Master was doing something stupid.
• Sigil Spam: In BEHEMOTH their dropships are shown flying in an inverted omega formation.
• There Was a Door:
  • Cato Sicarius is seemingly addicted to bursting through walls, ceilings, and seemingly floors like a power-armored Kool-Aid Man, having yet to enter a room in any other fashion.
  • At one point, an Ultramarine Land Raider is driven through a wall. By Cato Sicarius.
• Third-Person Person: Cato Sicarius obsessively refers to himself when speaking.
• Token Non-Human: With all the interesting implications and potential implied Hidden Depths for not only concealing, but even accepting him into their ranks as a brother despite their normal Fantastic Racism - Illiyan, a half-eldar, is confirmed to be a Librarian among their ranks (one who Calgar orders to keep "off-screen"/obfuscuated, to another ultramarine's confusion).
• Throw the Book at Them: Marneus once threw a copy of the Codex at an Eldar so hard its spine was bent into a semicircle.
• Verbal Tic: The normal Ultramarines keeps referring to each other as "Honorable Battlebrother". In the closed captions all of their actions are always prefixed with "Ultra", such as Ultra-Crying, Ultra-Fuckin'-Crying, Ultra-sigh, Ultra-Laughing, Ultra-Groaning etc.
• Vocal Dissonance: Cato Sicarius has a distinctly high voice that nobody else has and completely clashes with his prestigious Captain armor.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Calgar hits Sicarius with one when he brags about his mission capturing Magnus. Calgar puts aside that the mission was a success and focuses on the fact that Sicarius took a number of his own men on a suicide mission, along with obeying an order to shut off the fields to keep deamons out of their ships without question.
• With Catlike Tread: Drop off Vulkan's Mac Guffins by driving a land raider through the wall of the Salamanders' fortress-monestary while loudly chanting. Nobody notices this. The Salamander sentries even comment that it's a "quiet day", bare seconds afterwards.

The Dark Angels

The Dark Angels, The most Loyal and Honest Chapter with no Heretical Secrets to hide at all!

The most loyal servants the Imperium could hope for!^{From left to right} Belial, Azrael and Asmodai

Voiced by: Gemineye (Azrael), Alfabusa (Azmodai and Snurko), Fusion (Belial)

A chapter led by Azrael, Asmodai, and Belial, a trio of paranoid wrecks obsessed with finding Cypher and the rest of the Fallen while trying to keep it all a secret from the rest of the Imperium.

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• Ax-Crazy: Azrael and Asmodai. Azrael is so wracked with paranoia that he orders two Dark Angels executed for hearing information that they were allowed to know. As for Asmodai...
  Belial: You know he hears "make them repent." as "murder them violently."
  Azrael: Yes, Asmodai is a fucking asshood who can't make anyone repent...
  Asmodai: DID SOMEONE SAY "Murder anyone violently?!?"
• Badass Preacher: Asmodai, whose main method of making people repent is to bash them over the head with his giant crozius.
  REPENT, MOTHERFUCKER!!
• Bad Boss: If someone learns about the Fallen, Azrael will have them killed. Even if they are his own men.
• Drama Queen: It doesn't take much to turn Belial into a crying wreck. Even making a snarky comment at him will cause him to tear up. And yet he's the Only Sane Man.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: As Snurko found out the hard way, Azrael truly has "The Emperor's Temper".
• Hanging Judge: It's pretty clear from a stream announcement that Asmodai cares less about making people repent and is more concerned with bashing heads in.
  JUST KIDDING! YOU CAN NEVER REPENT! HAHA! I'M SENDING YOU ON A FUCKING PENANCE-CRUSADE!!
• Hypocritical Humor: Azrael calls the Adeptus Mechanics out for having hidden agendas and secret circles and ominous hoods...
• Ignored Epiphany: Upon storming the Fabricator-General's temple, the Dark Angels are treated with him threatening to revoke their Techmarine rights. Azrael has a moment of clarity and self-realization when he realizes that "interrogating" the Fabricator-General has the prospect of not only ruining relations with the Mechanicus but making the Dark Angels into pariahs within the Imperium. He goes into a dramatic monologue about how they've been consumed by paranoia and a maniacal drive to expunge their own perceived sins, and more importantly the toll it has taken. He decides to return to the Rock for contemplation and thanks the Fabricator-General for the insight and for how liberating it felt to actually speak about their problems. Then Azrael sees the Fabricator-General holding a book of their secrets, and has Asmodai murder him.
• Insane Troll Logic: Anything is, in their eyes, a sign of someone working for The Fallen. Even the Adeptus Mechanicus simply reaching a planet before they do is enough for them to jump to such extreme conclusions.
• Modern Major General: Technically, Asmodai's job as Interrogator-Chaplain is to make the traitorous Angels repent during interrogations. And while he's an extremely experienced combatant and a decent enough commander, enough to be one of the Chapter's heads, he sucks at his actual job because his interrogations are so intense no one ever survives them long enough to actually repent, and that's if they even make it alive to the torture chamber to begin with. This is also true to the lore as well. While not as Ax-Crazy in the actual series, there's a few other Chaplains who have a higher success rate in their interrogations than Asmodai.
• Nervous Wreck: Azrael. The man sounds like he's constantly on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
• Only Sane Man: For a given value of sane given it's the Dark Angels, but Belial is the least likely of the three leaders to jump straight to murder and actively tries to find peaceful ways to settle disputes. He's the only reason the meeting between the Mechanicus and the Chapter doesn't devolve into outright bloodshed.
• The Paranoiac: They are all constantly on the verge of lunacy due to their paranoia, but Azrael is moreso than anyone in the entire Chapter, to the point he had two Dark Angels murdered for hearing about the Fallen despite the fact they had just been inducted into the Inner Circle and thus were ready to know about them.
• Punctuated Pounding: Azrael to his Watcher In The Dark after it blabs some deep secrets in front of two uninitiated Dark Angels^note By the way, the Watchers are supposed to be completely silent according to the source material
  Azrael: (while stomping his Watcher into mulch) OF! ALL! THE! WATCHERS! IN! THE! ROCK! WHY! DO! I! GET! ONE! THAT! TALKS!?!
• Right Under Their Noses: Azrael, Belial, and Asmodai somehow do not recognize Cypher when he is standing right next to them. It's impossible to tell if they're confusing him for a loyalist Dark Angel or not, but knowing this series...
• Sidekick Creature Nuisance: Snurko, Azrael's Watcher in The Dark, which can only be described as something ripped out of an 80s cartoon. Made even worse by the fact that it is the only Watcher that actually talks.

Helbrecht

Helbrecht, High Marshal of the Black Templars

WAAH!

Voiced by: Bruva Alfabusa

Effectively the Chapter Master of the Black Templars, and the man in command of perhaps the greatest army of Space Marines out there. He gets dragged into a podcast with the Emperor as a way to give him, and thus his entire chapter, some much-needed anger therapy.

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• Apple of Discord: Played with. During the podcast on the Black Templars, his presence seems to unwittingly stir up the buried hatred in the entire cabal present, causing the Emperor, Rogal Dorn and the Fabulous Custodes to slowly build up into a full-fledged screaming match with each other. Ironically, this display actually horrifies him so much that it convinces him of the wisdom of what the Emperor was saying earlier that the Black Templars have allowed themselves to be controlled by their hatred, and he's the one who snaps them back to their senses.
• Ax-Crazy: He's the Chapter Master of the Black Templars, who are essentially the canon equivalent of Angry Marines. What else do you expect?
• Big "SHUT UP!": As most of the members of the podcast devolve into a screaming match, Helbrecht manages to put a stop to it with a loud "SILENCE!" which even makes the Emperor pause.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Terminology issues are one of the biggest peeves the Emperor has with him and his legion. He tries to get pissed off about it, calling the terminology holy, but the Emperor shuts him down, telling him he will take the criticism for confusing the hell out of everyone. As to the issues themselves, most of them tend to be minor but bothersome (High Marshal vs. Chapter Master). It even extends outside his legion; he calls his own Heroic BSoD "crusading inwardly".
• Cloudcuckoolander: Thinks that a couch, which is meant to be comfortable, should be made of stone because stone is a harder material. His solution to Boy getting a shard in his eye to telling Boy to hate the shard, believing that hating an object will cause the wound to go away.
• Fantastic Racism: Xenos and heretics aside, he seems to find the mere existence of mutants to be an affront to humanity in itself, an insulting deviation from the Emperor's perfect form that ought to be lethally corrected as soon as able. Then again, his thresholds for what qualifies or not as a mutant are dangerously broad, and spare no one; when the Emperor pointed out that, technically, being bald is a deviation from his form and thus a mutant by his standards, he almost scalped himself in pure self-hatred right then and there before the Emperor stopped him from that. He also has a mental breakdown when a Xeno (a Necron, to be specific) approves of what he's doing, because by continuing to purge he'd be agreeing with a filthy xeno, but stopping his crusades would be equally as heretical.
• Hypocrite:
  • The Custodes and the Emperor pointed Helbrecht on the issues of Psykers and Navigators, both of whom are defined as "mutants" yet necessary for space travel that Black Templars need as a fleet-based chapter. Helbrecht justified this contradiction by stating that Psykers and Navigators are indeed employed, but they will be slated to be killed later after all mutants are exterminated in the galaxy.
    Helbrecht: We figured we would kill them last...
  • After the Emperor says he's going to transfer Librarians and other battle-psykers into the Black Templars, Helbrecht has a fit about how rare and unconventional it is for Space Marines to use normal humans, particularly psykers. The Emperor points out that Black Templars flaunt their non-compliance with the Codex, so they ought to be fine with it.
• Inelegant Blubbering: The tantrums he throws when he thinks he's the one being heretical are comparable to an eight year old's own, complete with high-pitched screaming.
• Large Ham: Has No Indoor Voice and is prone to breaking into grandiose speeches.
• Like Father, Like Son: He exhibits the same literal mindness and fixation on architectural efficiency that Rogal does.
• Literal-Minded: Though not as extreme a case as the Templars' progenitor, Helbrecht nonetheless has... issues with interpreting idioms too literally. When the Emperor tells him to "get [the Black Templars'] shit together" he initially assumes he means to collect their excrement in mounds as ammunition. That and when the Emperor talks about himself shitting on the Ultramarines, he thinks it was entirely literal.
• No Indoor Voice: The man won't lower his voice even if the Emperor himself ordered him to, and screams like a psychopath throughout the entire podcast.
  I am not shouting! I am but exercising the MIGHT of my vocal chords, Emperor!
  SILENCE IS FOR THE GRAVE!
• Noble Demon: The Emperor acknowledges that for all of their many flaws, the Black Templars (and Helbrecht by extension) are living proof that Legions can exist and still serve the interests of the Imperium without falling to Chaos like Horus's.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, the only reason the Black Templars are fleet-based is because you can't go crusading with a planet. They have tried.
• Perpetual Frowner: While the Limited Animation of the show (especially for the podcast) prevents one from seeing it, according to the Emperor his scowl is so intense and fixed it would have to be surgically removed for him to make any other sort of expression.
• The Power of Hate: He values it, and drives his legion forwards with it; he plans on tempering it and controlling it before unleashing it on the foes of mankind once the podcast is done, rather than simply let it rule him like before.
• Psychopathic Manchild: His tendency to blurt out baby-like cries, along with his childish voice, didn't help with his aggressive nature.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: He turns out to be this once the Emperor steers him in the right direction. While he doesn't take well some of the Emperor's decrees and affirmations, he recognizes that the Emperor outranks him and thus should be obeyed and swears to make everything he can to make sure his men will uphold the Emperor's will concerning the Black Templars.
• Recognition Failure: He completely fails to recognize Rogal Dorn, just assuming him to be an Imperial Fist Centurion through the entire podcast. Then again, Rogal was wearing his helmet the entire time precisely because he didn't want to be recognized, and Helbrecht seemed to catch on in the last moments of the podcast, but doesn't act on it, claiming that everything will be revealed in due time.
• Sensory Abuse: In-universe, everyone hates his voice to the point of physical pain due to volume and enough raspiness to flay a man to the bone. He even shatters his own mug of tea when screaming.
  Whammudes: MY EARDRUMS ARE LEAKING.
• Verbal Tic: When berated, interrupted or generally contradicted, he usually belts out an indignant, Waluigi-esque "WAAH!".
• Vocal Dissonance: The man is a giant, bald Space Marine at the head of the only actual Legion in the Imperium and with a heavy scowl that Judge Dredd would approve of, but his voice... ^note  Granted it's also like that in canon sources but definitely not to this level
  Emperor: First of all, you need to devour a fruit basket's worth of throat lozenges, 'cause you just straight up sound like a goblin.
• Would Hurt a Child: Almost squashes Boy at one point, due to a perceived insult; Rogal has to step in before anything happens.
• Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: Receiving a letter from a Necron Lord who is pleased with his crusades against another Necron Lord utterly confuses him and fills him with horrified shame turning into a panic attack, as that means he's doing something to ''help'' a xeno and that makes him a heretic. It gets so bad the Emperor and Dorn themselves have to calm him down.

Grimaldus

Reclusiarch Merek Grimaldus

Voiced by: Sadia

Senior Chaplain of the Black Templars.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: In canon, Grimaldus is a fairly reasonable man even by the standards of other chapters, much less the standards of the Black Templars, who is willing to bend and even break the rules in order to do what is right. For example, when a Titan Princeps blasphemed the Emperor right in front of him, his duty stated he should have killed her on the spot, but he didn't because it would have endangered his mission to defend a Hive. As well, his temper generally manifests as Tranquil Fury, and he does his best to supress it. In TTS, he's a Psychopathic Manchild Knight Templar who exemplifies every thing wrong with his chapter.
• Knight Templar: Even beyond the standards of his chapter; he tries to ban Sanguinala.
• No, You: His apparent go-to response when someone tries to argue against him.
  Random Black Templar: It's heretical to-
  Grimaldus: YOU'RE heretical!
• Psychopathic Manchild: When told he could not ban Sanguinala, he proceeded to throw a loyalist tantrum in his room.

Boreale & Diomedes

Force Commander Indrick Boreale and Captain Apollo Diomedes

Voiced by: Keith Szarabajka (Diomedes), Scott McNeil (Diomedes)

A pair of Blood Ravens who get roped into Magnus and Kitten's adventure.

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• Death by Adaptation: Diomedes is canonically still alive as of Dawn of War III, but dies on Mars after the Custodes are ambushed by the Mechanicus.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Diomedes angrily tells Magnus, a Primarch and incredibly powerful psyker, "Fuck You" which shocks both him and Kitten with it's sheer boldness.
• Heroic BSoD: Boreale briefly falls into one after Diomedes is killed.
• Oh, Crap!: Diomedes realizes a bit too late that charging directly at Cawl was not the wisest choice when several dozen Mechanicus guns are aimed point blank at his face.
  Diomedes: Brother, I am pinned he-
• Serious Business: They get into a physical fight over whether scones qualify as cakes or bread.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Boreale canonically died on Kaurava yet is still kicking in this series.
• Stylistic Suck: Their sprites are notably lower quality then the rest of the characters and instead of actual voice actors, their dialogue is just clips from the game poorly spliced together. This is all for comedic effect, of course.
• Those Two Guys: They are never seen apart.

Others

Sly Marbo

Sly Marbo, The One-Man Army of Catachan

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Voiced by: Screaming Blood Raven Sergeant from the Dawn of War intro cinematic

A man renowned for his might in combat and his famous warcry, Sly Marbo travels from planet to planet by foot to kick heretical and xeno ass wherever he is needed the most.

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• Batman Can Breathe in Space: And freaking fly through it as well!
• Battle Cry: His only form of communication is shouting.
• Big Damn Heroes: A few times, such as when he fended off a Dark Eldar looting session and saving Corvus from a extremely toxic Barking Toad.
• Blood Knight: He accepts an invitation to the Slaaneshmas Special, apparently for the opportunity to go 1 v. 3 against the Chaos Champions (sans Kharn).
• Breaking the Fourth Wall: After three Dark Eldar melee combatants attack him only to bounce off, it looks like he beats the crap out of them using his own subtitles.
• Comically Invincible Hero: By all accounts there's nothing in 40k that can stop him, such that he travels through space unshielded to whatever world needs him. The only opponents to even survive an encounter with him are Lucius, Ahriman, and Typhus together. This is all played for laughs.
• Face–Heel Turn: In the non-canonical April Fool's Day video, he's the last of Fucking Horus's allies that show up to overthrow the recently-resurrected Emperor.
• Good Angel, Bad Angel: When fighting the Dark Eldar, angelic and demonic versions of him show, but they don't give any advice other than "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" - Sly takes this advice to heart.
• Good Old Fisticuffs: Even though he carries a gun and a knife, he ignores them in favor of his feet and fists.
• Humble Hero: Although it's hard to determine a man's characterization when all he says is "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA", the first thing he does after rescuing Corvus Corax from a Greater Catachan Barking Toad is to bow to the Primarch.
• Make Me Wanna Shout: The man's shout is so mighty that it can rip apart metal.
• Memetic Badass: His characterization is largely based on a running joke in the fandom that casts him in the same light as Chuck Norris. As such, anything he does can be written off as him simply being Sly Fucking Marbo. Humorously, he carries this reputation among the Jungle Fighters In-Universe as well.
• Nice Guy: Strangely, both Ahriman and Lucius think he's a pretty great guy, despite him handing them and Typhus a Curb-Stomp Battle when he went on the Slaaneshmas broadcast after receiving an invitation. Unless, of course, the two of them are talking about Kharn (who is the memetic nice guy of the Warhammer 40K universe) instead.
• No Indoor Voice: His sole method of communication is an incoherent scream.
• Not Quite Flight: He can simulate flying via his aerodynamic musculature and knowledge of jungle tree buoyancy... on Catachan. Everywhere else he's soaring around like it's nothing, even in space!
• One-Man Army: The man liberated an entire planet from the Dark Eldar all by himself.
• Parody Sue: Even more so than the Ultramarines themselves as he is just a nondescript soldier who bulldozes everything for laughs.
• Screaming Warrior: Constantly and without pause (most of the time).

Ephrael Stern

Ephrael Stern, the Thrice-Born, the Daemonifuge, Battle Sister of the Order of Our Martyred Lady

Voiced by: Nostalgia

Sister Superior of the Seraphim Squad, Ephrael was one of the Battle Sisters not sent into the Eye of Terror, in her case due to her being in the Black Library.

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• Amazonian Beauty: Fairly attractive, but even by the standards of the Sisters of Battle, she's quite terrifying.
• Badass Cape: Wears one big enough to cover her Shoulders of Doom, as is appropriate for a Sister Superior.
• BFS: Is seen clasping a two-handed sword in her gauntlets.
• Big Eater: At least by Eldar standards. She complains that the food she's given by the Eldar isn't sufficient for someone like her, a human at PEAK PERFORMANCE.
• Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: Is able to make demands to Cegorach without any consequences or hint of fear. Bear in mind that Cegorach just put the fear of god into the Custodes.
  • Specifically, she threatens to start a Book Burning in the Black Library, to the face of the Laughing God. Cegorach decides to obliterate a Space Marine Chapter for a lesser offense, but he refuses to say anything against Stern.
• The Dreaded: So reknowned for her daemon-killing prowess (and apparently her physique) that even Magnus the Red is terrified of her, and can't even touch her without being stung.
  Magnus, intensely worried: Oh no, a Jock.
• Facial Markings: Has a cross-shaped mark on her left cheek.
• Failed a Spot Check: Mistakes the Custodes for unusually buff Eldar, even though they have Imperial tattoos and are literally wearing the Imperial Aquila on their helmets.
  • Word of God is that she mistook the conical Custodes helmets for Eldar ones.
• Muscles Are Meaningful: At least she seems to think so. She's genuinely pleased to see the two Custodians appear in the Black Library, as she mistakes them for Eldar "on the path of the swole."
• Mystical White Hair: Is white-haired and there is clearly something to her that she can stand up to Cegorach.
• Perpetual Frowner: Even accounting for the limits of the series, the Thrice-Born would be hard-pressed to do anything but scowl. It's even in her name, Stern.
• The Stoic: Never raises her voice beyond a stern growl.
• Tattoo as Character Type: The cross-shaped mark is an Organizational Emblem which marks her as one of the Adepta Sororitas.

Billy

Billy, unfortunate Psyker Mutant

Voiced by: Alfabusa

A young boy who always wear a box on his head and constantly finds himself in terrifying situations. Knows Boy and one of the High Lords, and is a mutant.

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• Cosmic Plaything: So far he's been run over by Magnus on a bike, lost all his friends to said bike incident, been stalked by Lucius, been kidnapped by Dark Eldar, lost his friends again to the Dark Eldar, and been bashed in the face with a baseball bat by an Astartes. He survived these experiences, but they no doubt take its toll on the boy's psyche.
• Epileptic Trees: Remilez theorizes that he is Kaldor Draigo, who in turn is time displaced.
• Mutants: Boy offhandedly mentions that he's a mutant. What kind is yet to be stated, but it could explain why he's always wearing a box. Alternatively, it could simply be that as a psyker, he is already considered a mutant.
• Psychic Powers: Billy is a latent psyker, which Lucius takes advantage of to prank-call him.

Ciaphas Cain

Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM

Voiced by: Curtis 'Takahata101' Arnott

One of the most legendary commissars of all of the Imperium of Man, who has the Undying Loyalty of his troops. Also like in 40K canon, he considers himself a massive fraud who bullshitted his way to the top.

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• Actor Allusion: Considering he's played by Takahata101, the specific voices he uses are nods to one of his most notable roles, specifically Cell - Cain's "public" persona is the voice he uses for Perfect Cell, whereas Cain's "true" voice is similar to Imperfect Cell (though more normal-sounding and closer to his natural speaking voice). Appropriate for a man who puts up the image of the perfect commissar but considers himself in reality to be much more flawed then he lets on publicly.
• A Father to His Men: His troops adore him. Most of why he feels like such an atrocious piece of shit is that he is convinced that, when the "web of lies" he's set up by accident inevitably collapses, his men will be caught in it and die along with him for something they didn't deserve.
• Broken Ace: Despite his bravado in public, once he's found himself in private, he vents about how he's a piece of shit fraud who should've died long ago.
• Cool Sword: A bog standard chainsword, but cool nonetheless.
• Character Exaggeration: Downplayed, surprisingly enough by the standards of the show. He's done far more impressive feats in canon so his actions against the Orks sounds exactly like what he typically does. His intense Heroic Self-Deprecation however? Far more pronounced. Perhaps justified, given that he unleashes it when he thinks he's alone.
• Failed a Spot Check: He's so busy ranting about his own perceived inadequacies and impostor syndrome that he fails to notice that Marneus Calgar, in full armor, is standing in his office just out of sight.
• Heroic Build: When out in public, this is what he looks like. When in private, he becomes noticeably more scrawny. It's possible he's puffing out his chest to make himself seem more muscular when he's really more of an average Commissar.
• Heroic BSoD: The episode shows him having one where he vocally rants about burning out and being a complete fraud as soon as he's in his personal quarters.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: And plenty. While back in the books it was kept internal at all times, here the dam bursts and he unleashes a massive rant aimed mostly at himself at how much of a bullshitting, overly-lucky piece of shit he is that is eventually going to die and get his entire force killed. His scream before going on his rant is even subtitled "Scream of unending imposter syndrome". The man clearly doesn't like himself.
• Humble Hero: Played with. In contrast to many Imperial officers, Cain is the first one to downplay his part in a battle with Orks in favor of his men, and grows increasingly uncomfortable with their praise of him. As shown during his Heroic BSoD, this is more because he thinks he doesn't deserve it and that he is only alive because of luck, but he's honest with himself about not being some godlike tactical genius and would rather his fame go away peacefully instead of dragging his troops down with him.
• Indy Ploy: Cain somehow survived a fight against the Orks by simply doing one thing: survive. This actually got the Warboss killed, forcing a retreat and earning him the Star of Terra.
• Lantern Jaw of Justice: He has a massive and strong chin to match his reputation as a legendary badass... that disappears as soon as he thinks he's alone.
• Nervous Wreck: His true personality when he's not doing the Fake Ultimate Hero bit, due to Character Exaggeration; a tired, scared burnout who's convinced his luck will run out at the worst possible time for all involved.
• Odd Friendship: Ends up having one with Calgar, who declares him "mood kindred" given their shared history of managing the impossible despite bullshitting their way to victory and feeling like pieces of shit as a result.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He's introduced sometime after stopping a WAAAGH singlehandedly by pure accident. The troops more or less explain to us what had happened (from their point of view.)
• Oh, Crap!: When he finds out Calgar was listening in to his rant, he visibly deflates into a sputtering wreck.
• Pet the Dog: One of his primary concerns about his facade is that soldiers having so much faith in a hero that doesn't really exist could get them killed.
• Phallic Weapon: When he shrivels out of despair, so does his chainsword. It's still an amusingly hefty size though.
• Right Behind Me: Turns out his self-loathing rant was overheard by Calgar himself, who was there to give him the Star of Terra. Fortunately for him, Calgar sympathized with him.
• Unluckily Lucky: His tendency for getting into trouble and yet getting out of it unscathed regardless of the circumstances is noted by himself, and he fears that it's running entirely on fumes. Hell, the episode itself is an example when he finally has a full Heroic BSoD and goes into a vocal self-loathing rant in earshot of a Space Marine... and said Space Marine is Marneus Calgar, who has just as much of a Heroic Self-Deprecation streak and promptly gives Cain his genuine respect and friendship. Which means Cain now has a personal friend and ally in the form of the Chapter Master of the Ultramarines.
• Whole-Plot Reference: His "victory" in his short combines elements from his premier adventure in Fight or Flight (Cain fleeing from the frontlines) and the novel Death or Glory (battling Orks and killing one of their Warbosses).

Celestine

Saint Celestine, The Living Saint

Voiced by: Snipe

Celestine is one of the Living Saints, a handful of extremely important people in the Imperial faith who have displayed miraculous powers and have been canonized by a conclave of the Ecclesiarchy and the Inquisition. She is known to come to the rescue of Imperial forces in the most dire of times.

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• Cool Sword: The sword she carries around is called the Ardent Blade. While she doesn't get to use it, it still looks pretty cool.
• Holy Halo: The armor she wears, the Armor of Saint Katherine, incorporates an elaborate ornamental halo. Given Celestine's status as a Living Saint, the imagery drives that point home even more.
• Loony Fan: The "Salvation Through Annihilation" episode provides this explanation as to why she disappears right after saving the day—Ecclesiarchy personnel tend to get kinda weird around her when there's the peace and quiet to just hear her out.
• Psychopomp: She serves this role, escorting the souls of the faithful to the Emperor to their safe afterlife in the Warp.
• Role Swap Plot: A Be'lated Sanguinala Short has her swap roles with the Sanguinor for a lark. It works well for her since the Blood Angels are rather polite, even when they're not wholeheartedly pleased at getting a different savior. Not so much for the Sanguinor, as the Ecclesiarchy is much for violent (and shrill) in expressing their confusion and displeasure at him not being Celestine.
• Team Mom: Tends to treat former Imperial cultists as wayward children—right before blowing them up.
• Walking Spoiler: Talking about her reveals the fate of Dominique, the truth behind Fyodor, and the emergence of Star-Fyodperor.

Cawl

Belisarius Cawl

Voiced by: StellarElite, CCRockChic and TheLemonGrenade

Line open. Hello! Belisarius Cawl speaks. What do you require? FUCKING WHAT?!

An ancient tech-priest alive during the Heresy, creator of the Primaris Marines. The Fabricator-General orders him to stop/eliminate/UTTERLY DESTROY Kitten's task force.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Cawl in canon was still a nominally heroic, calm-headed character by Imperial standards and was partially responsible for the resurrection of Guilliman. That deed isn’t mentioned and still hasn't happened here, where he's far more violent, aggressive and morally dark.
• Blackmail: The Fabricator-General threatens to blow up his Primaris project if he doesn't destroy the Custodes.
• Cyborg: Comes with being an Archmagos of the Adeptus Mechanicus.
• Dirty Business: This is how the Fabricator-General characterizes his assignment.
• The Dragon: To the Fabricator General.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Cawl's insanity results in it. The Fabricator General isn't exactly known for his mental stability but even he thinks Cawl's a bit strange/weirdo/FREAKISH ABOMINATION. He also refers to Cawl as having "way too many mechadendrites" despite being a towering Mechanical Abomination himself.
• Fun with Subtitles: His captions will actively swap/exchange/MURDER AND REPLACE words on the fly whenever one of his personalities overrides the others.
• Hero Killer: successfully assassinates the Captain-General and several other Custodians in an ambush.
• Human Resources: The other half of the reason he accepts the hit on the Custodes is to take samples for his Primaris Marine project.
• Mad Scientist: Is very excited to use Custodes bits/components/MEAT for his Primaris project.
• Mood-Swinger: Due to the Split Personality mentioned below, he can swing between moderate and violently angry.
• Psycho for Hire: Downplayed in that he's being partially blackmailed into killing the Custodes, but the other half of his motivation is access to their corpses for his Primaris Marine research.
• Shout-Out: His three personalities, specifically the fact that they have a Calm/Feminine/Belligerent setup, makes him audibly similar to The Master.
• Split Personality: Canon Cawl's mind is described as his original mind working in concert with multiple AI copies, akin to a conductor and his choir working in harmony. This version of Cawl pokes fun at the idea by having said personalities be far more discordant, seemingly constantly jockeying for a chance to speak/operate/DOMINATE! the gestalt; one seems to be a giddy mad scientist, one is violently antagonistic and insane, while a third seems to moderate the other two.
• Voice of the Legion: Sort of. Belisarius speaks with three voices but they can often be discordant. One is aggressive and antagonistic, one is enthusiastic, and the third is more moderate. Downplayed in that they never speak at the same time.
• Walking Spoiler: It's kind of hard to discuss him without discussing the fact that he's the biggest roadblock in Magnus' secret plan to claim the Proteus Protocol to revive the Emperor.

Kenshiro

Kenshiro

Voiced by: Eliphas

Omae wa mou shindeiru....

Yes, that Kenshiro, who's apparently the successor of the Stellar Fists Space Marine chapter in this series.

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• Adaptational Villainy: Kenshiro was basically the Superman of his series in both power and goodness. Here, he's a member of the Imperium, which are incredibly xenophobic.
• Expy Coexistence: The Emperor had wandered around Earth while it was a wasteland in a true Fist of the North Star fashion, wearing a sleeveless leather jacket with shoulderpads, and fighting off techno barbarians acting like a wasteland raiders. This Ken is his own character who makes enemies explode, and would Never Hurt an Innocent. He also has an archenemy named Raoh who betrayed their chapter and killed their master.
• One-Man Army: He can kill a hundred foes solo.
• Screaming Warrior: True to form, he screams his lungs out when he powers up, and rapidly throws Kiais as he assaults the enemy with the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken.
• Whole-Plot Reference: The basic skeleton of the first episode of Fist of the North Star, Kenshiro wandering around, saving a young girl from an evil gang, and finishing their leader with the Hokuto Hyakuretsu Ken, is the basic plot of his side story, Fist of Polaris.

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