Warhammer 40,000
They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them, and in the furnace of war forge them. They will be of iron will and steely muscle. In great armour shall I clad them and with the mightiest guns will they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them. They will have tactics, strategies and machines so that no foe can best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines and they shall know no fear.
— The God-Emperor of Mankind
A single, hundred strong company of Space Marines can defeat an army a hundred times its size, bring a rebellious world back under Imperial rule or besiege an entire alien city. Such is their skill in the field of war that there is little that they can not achieve.
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The enemies of the Imperium fear many things, they fear discovery, defeat and death. But most of all they fear the wrath of the Space Marines!
— Imperial Proverb;
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A Fortress will not stop the Space Marines, although it may slow them down.
— Imperial Proverb
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The Arms and Armor of a Space Marine are not his greatest weapons, though they are terrible things indeed: Relics of the insane times of the Dark Age of Technology.
Neither are the changes wrought upon his body and mind, though he is made stronger, faster and smarter than any mere human.
No, it is his Faith that makes the Space Marine such a terrible foe. Purpose of will unlike any seen in Xeno or Men, He knows no doubt or fear, never shall he waver from the destruction of his enemies. Remember: all the guns in creation are worthless without the will to pull the trigger.
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War is the only place where we can be complete. Battle can be the only activity where excellence can be meaningful. Do not believe that you can be scholar, a philosopher, or a leader of men. You are a warrior. When you are not inflicting death, you are not justifying your life.
— Daenyathos - "War Incarnate"
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Give me a hundred Space Marines. Or failing that, a thousand other troops.
— Rogal Dorn, prior to the storming of the Lucid Palace
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Soldiers? I hardly think they fit that description. Do you know how they make them, Threlnan? No, of course you don't. They find some barbaric planet where children fight before they can walk, and they hunt down the most bloodthirsty killers. They recruit them when they're twelve, thirteen, fourteen, with all that hate and that arrogance, just at the age when you think you're bulletproof and nothing can kill you. Then they keep them like that, give them a gun and some armour, and point them at the nearest enemy. They're not soldiers, colonel, they're maniacs. They won't answer to anyone save their own kind. And have you seen how they fight? They find the closest enemy and try to cut them up with swords. Madness. Just madness. Just so there can be something to carve on the cathedrals and put in children's stories. Now I've got a hundred of them just waiting to bend all my battle-plans out of shape.
— Lord General Xarius on Space Marines
Other
Elf: The Soldier-Boosting can't really be that valuable.
Kevyn: Are you kidding? Look, not to blow my own horn, but with those boosts I was able to gut an entire enemy base, including armored soldiers and heavy cav. I was punching through hullmetal with my hands.
Kevyn: Are you kidding? Look, not to blow my own horn, but with those boosts I was able to gut an entire enemy base, including armored soldiers and heavy cav. I was punching through hullmetal with my hands.
General Ross: You're aware that we've got an infantry weapons development program. Well, in WWII they initiated a sub-program for bio-tech force enhancement.
Emil Blonsky: Yeah, a Super Soldier.
General Ross: Yes. An oversimplification, but yes... Across the hall they're trying to arm you better? We're trying to make you better.
Emil Blonsky: Yeah, a Super Soldier.
General Ross: Yes. An oversimplification, but yes... Across the hall they're trying to arm you better? We're trying to make you better.
"You have been called upon to serve, you will be trained... and you will become the best we can make of you. You will be the protectors of Earth and all her colonies."
— Dr. Catherine Halsey, Halo: The Fall of Reach
"The earlier projects sought to alter their subjects biologically using radioactive chemicals. First was PROJECT: ARES. Of 104 volunteers, Captain Jansen was the only subject who survived... intact."
— Dr. Kate Smallwood, The Specialists, Page 89
"In the 1960s, with war in Asia looming, The US began research into Operation Black Tower; what we've now come to call the Universal Soldier Program. A high-response, self-sustaining, quick-healing, stronger, faster soldier; fueled by high-concentrate nutritional supplements, a soldier that operates without conscience, or hesitation. By freezing a human body with nitrogen-based gas, repairing it and reheating it through pituitary and thyroid augmentations, we were able to revive a recently deceased soldier, and in the process, improve them. Programmable and erasable. One that you could turn on, and one that you could turn off."
— Dr. Richard Porter, Universal Soldier: Regeneration
"Once again, Spartans do in twenty-four minutes what Marines can't do in twenty-four hours."
— Spartan Sarah Palmer, Halo 4: Spartan Ops
"The Empire has over eighteen hundred inhabited worlds, Inspector, with an average population of something like a billion, and we still can't find forty thousand people we'll accept as drop commandos."
— Sir Arthur Keita, In Fury Born
Every world begins as a big pebble lost among trillions of pebbles. Every worthy sun was once cold hydrogen spread thin across the vacuum. Even the universe, this cosmic garden that surrounds us and awes us... this monument to Creation was once the size of an apple seed. And everything that's splendid and great stands at the end of incalculable chance and mayhem.
Yes, you have talents. Enormous, wondrous powers. But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a Guardian is? Not yet. Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed.
But you will grow.
Yes, you have talents. Enormous, wondrous powers. But you should put the smirk away. Do you know what a Guardian is? Not yet. Your name is another pebble. You are a cold apple seed.
But you will grow.
— Ghost Fragment: Guardian Abilities, Destiny
"General Patton has said that wars are fought with weapons but are won by men. We are going to win this war because we have the best... men... and because they are gonna get better. Much better. The Strategic Scientific Reserve is an allied effort made up of the best minds in the free world. Our goal is to create the best army in history, but every army starts with one man. At the end of this week, we will choose that man. He will be the first in a new breed of super-soldier. You may personally escort Adolf Hitler to the gates of Hell."
— Col. Chester Phillips, Captain America: The First Avenger
Ford: This. What is this?
Wafner: Our greatest achievement. With it, we create super-Nazis; a thousand-year army and its thousand-year soldiers.
Wafner: Our greatest achievement. With it, we create super-Nazis; a thousand-year army and its thousand-year soldiers.
"Meet our champion, the one you must face in combat, very soon! His name, like his battle-cry, is Hun'Ya! Hun'Ya was born in a laboratory! He was molded by our scientists to be the perfect warrior! Hun'Ya has the toughest skin of any humanoid in the universe!"
— Rat'Lar, "Superman vs. Muhammad Ali"
