Who's a 40k character you could admire? Your favorite? Why?

Who's a 40k character you could admire? Your favorite? Why?

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Magnus, he's the only one that did literally NOTHING wrong.

Gregor Eisenhorn. As Inquisitors go, he's a pretty good guy who's willing to take the more convoluted, Heretical approach if it ensures a lasting victory.

Gabriel: I am not here for your thanks. This port must be held if we are to maintain troops and supply lines to the planets surface. That is why we are here. Now, what of the wounded and the civillians?
Colonel Brom: Stranded. We have few ships.
Gabriel: Then you shall have more.

As soon as I heard that line the first time I thought; you know, I think I like this guy.

This. Gabriel Angelos is like the 40k Loken but without all the emotional bullcrap to not be able to cope with.

But he couldn't cope with cyrene?

I think he was over Cyrene enough to be able to do his job and to try to prevent further human/civilian death.

Gorgutz.

He shows the power of perseverance

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He also has the best speeches in Winter Assault, whether winning or losing

In that way, Gabriel Angelos and Argel Tal have a lot in common.

Eliphas, he was great in Dark Crusade, and decent in DoW2.

Pic related, he's the most loyal of the Primarchs and I really like that. Plus he kicked that gay nerd Magnus' ass

Jaghatai Khan

He understood that people always have something to strive for. He contextualized it in war, because that's what he was born and bred for, but everything about his philosophy is about always working harder and going farther to achieve something new, and to never be satisfied with just resting and building up old achievements.

Plus, wicked cape.

The silent king.
I know he screwed up, and most of Veeky Forums dislikes newcrons. But, quite frankly, he has a cool name.
The Silent king

Traitor Marines have nightmares of this guy. Also his model is awesome

He's a hard-ass, he's got grit, and he's totally willing to spend lives, but he wants to spend them well. For him, piety and military service bleed together, and dying well is the best he can really ask for.

A lot of people will point at Castor in Retri as a good example of a general who doesn't want to waste men, but you don't really get a chance to see that. You hear him say it in his speech to Merrick, but you really hear little other dialogue from him on the subject, since instead of speaking frankly to an officer like Sturnn did for most of his campaign, Castor was concerned about killing things and getting stuffed Tyranids for his trophy room. He could've been cool, but he rubbed me the wrong way - too far into the noble elite.

>Implying he didn't destroy the greatest endeavor to have reliable FTL.
>Implying he didn't doom Terra and the Sol System by wrecking a hole in reality that if left unchecked, will turn into a new Eye of Terra,
>Implying that he didn't run like a punk-ass bitch caught with his hand in the cookie jar when the psychic walls holding the Human Webway collapsed and allowed a Daemonic invasion.
>MFW

Garviel Loken

>18 posts
>not one of the Emperor

Bruthaaaaa

Don't the Charcarodons scare him?

You don't admire a god, you worship.

The Emperor does so much terrible shit it's no wonder, actually.
Half the time it's because he's a conceited prick that doesn't think anyone else is capable of helping him bring the golden age he wants, so he manuvers and plots and keeps secrets (from his own sons, which eventually leads to all kinds of horrible shit, especially with Magnus).
It's also because he's a fucking terrible father.

Magnus was a giant faggot who deserved everything he got

Eisenhorn
Sure he's a heritic now but he was that dude for a while :)

Commissar Yarrick, Hero of Armageddon.

This guy isn't a geneboosted, super soldier. He's just a man with a plan and shitloads of grit.

>To defeat the Ork we must know the Ork.
>The Ork can not push a button if you steal his hand!

Magnus was the one that suffered the most from Emperor's shitty parenting skills, becoming a scapegoat for everything wrong that happened when he was trying his best to save everybody, and acted on his limited knowledge, limited only by the Emperor himself.

Isn't he unkillable because the Orks think he is?

That would make him even more badass

>called the Silent king
>talks to people and has quotes attributed to him

Uh huh

So... he was a literal dindu?

How was your trip in space?

Charadons are another chapter specialised in fucking up Space Marine chapters, but they aren't under the thumb of the high lords. If the Minotaurs or a few High Lords ever fall out of favour, the Space Sharks will be some of the fuckers coming after them. Conversely, if the 'taurs are sent to deal with a slightly heretical Space Shark chapter, both armies would get fucked up. Being wary of them is probably good leadership.

Daily reminder that the Emperor and Malcador do not blame the fallen primarchs. Not even Horus. They admit they made mistakes with them.

However, they fully blame Magnus and are greatly outraged and disappointed with him because he of all the fallen primarchs should have known better.

Source (Collected Visions & "The Siglilite" short story).

I can't be mad at a motherfucker with a good cape.

Also, bike armies are fun as fuck, and if you play jetbike Eldar, people get soooooo fucking salty (...which is fair)

Cypher.
Because nobody can outdraw the (Space) Man with No Name.
Also calling 10k years worth of DA bullshit out to Azraels face.

I think that's something from Warhammer Fantasy. Remember hearing about some human who was a beast against orks and now all the orks are scared of him which just makes him better at killing orks.

Get the fuck out with that Night Lord successor chapter. Fuck them

U mad cryrant of badab?

Space Sharks are Raven Lord spawn, dude.

They're the Terran part of the chapter that Raven Ravenman decided he didn't like, so he shot them into space.

No, please stop this meme. If that were true he wouldn't have needed to get a bionic eye to kill with a glance like the orks believed.

No, but the irks believe him to be orky, hence why he can use that looted power klaw

>Raven Lord

If corvax went full chaos and started enslaving shit

Or did the Orks belief that his eye could kill with a glance make it so?

No, it was a cybernetic implant you fucking dipshit.

Aaah, but now he kills with a glance! Whether it's because of a bionic or because of magic power makes no difference: the belief has now been made true.

they're world eaters or edge lords

Space Marine 2 is a possibility now !

VULKAN

Tarkus. The one most worthy and pure.

At this point you don't even deserve a "nice try"

Sturnn is mah nigga

My ni- ahem, seconding

Holy fuck you are mad

This. The only Primarch that managed to teach his sons how to be even remotely decent people.

The emperor is a great guy, but you don't really admire such people. He is the guy you would totally love to share a beer with and wish him good luck, because he sure as hell will need it. He's like your childhood friend, who keeps fucking up, but his stubbornness and good intensions just makes you want to support him, because he needs it the most. Emperor is a great guy, don't fail him.

>who is Leman Russ and Roboute Gulliman

>u mad

"Nice try", 3/10

READ SOME STUFF YA GIT
wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Carcharodons
1d4chan.org/wiki/Space_Sharks#Gene-Seed_Speculation

I don't play the Ravens, so I always forget the name of their chapter.

The Space Wolves are awful people.

He did forget Jaghatai Khan though. The White Scars are pretty alright folks, just kinda reclusive.

Lord Solar Macharius. Badass general that was insanely driven to carve out another thousand planets for humanity. He wasnt above the dark, gritty reality of the battlefield either.

I honestly can't remember her name right now, but there was a living saint of the Sororitas, who spent like five minutes on some planet or another, and was so majestic that in that time the entire planet dedicated itself entirely to worshipping the Emperor. That's pretty fucking good.

Russ...maybe. Maybe. Though it seems like the Salamanders are still more likely to do their best to avoid civilian casualties. But Guilliman? Never go full retard.

Vulkan will return to save us all. find faith in the flames.

That article literally mentions the NL and WE as possible candidates for the Carcharodons founders

Space Wolves are bro tier, they tell the Inquisition to fuck off all the time

Sebastian Thor, because I like noblebright in my grimdark

>The Space Wolves are awful people

Not sure if inquisitor or thousand sons. Either way, deal with it, you are worse.

Maybe Lord General Castor
youtube.com/watch?v=lT5Gy079OWw

Source?

Dante is practically the embodiment of the Imperium. He is old and dying, but hanging on to fulfill his destiny. He knows his chapter and homeworld are practically doomed, but he still fights on. He hopes that his noble sacrifice, and the sacrifice of all of the sons of Sanguinius, will inspire the Imperium in the days to come. I just hope the old man completes the prophecy that he believes is about him- where he stands in defense of the Emperor's Throne in the end times.

>dying

Who said that?

even Family Circus recognizes he's a great guy.

The emperor of course.

Telling other bad people to stop doing bad things doesn't make you a good person.

It just means you have standards.

Kharn, he's a real stand-up guy once you get to know him

Could've been Alicia Dominica, but I couldn't find the incident on either of the wikis.

I remember reading that one in the paper a few Halloweens ago. Chuckles were had.

Darnath Lysander

>born to poor but pious family who give up everything to make a pilgrimage to the Imperial Palace
>parents don't make it
>he basically has no chance, just another face among the trillions doomed to die and be forgotten
>but he survives the perilous journey despite the odds
>wants nothing but to please the Emperor
>Imperial Fists chaplain finds the orphan praying at a shrine
>tells him the Emperor looks favorably on his determination
>offers to raise him up to serve the Golden Throne as a holy angel

>endures the training of the Pain Glove
>endures the planting of Dorn's geneseed, growing superhuman even by space marine standards
>his faith and resolve become utterly unbreakable
>victory after victory
>granted the Fist of Dorn and a suit of Terminator Armor as gifts of honor
>promoted to First Captain
>becomes a legendary hero
>disappears into the Warp
>everyone thinks he is dead and revere him as a fallen hero for a thousand years

>comes back
>captured and tortured by Iron Warriors
>never breaks or gives in to Chaos even once
>fights his way out with his bare hands
>returns to Imperial Fists
>new generation of Space Marines holds him in awe
>he takes up the helm again and leads them to crush the Iron Warriors

Its implied in his fluff that his mind is straining because of his age. I don't mean his body is failing, just that he sounds like he may be a candidate for the death company if he didn't have his prophecy spurring him on. This part from the advent calendar was my favorite.

Without the mask, Dante’s face is a monument to one and a half thousand years of bloodshed
and battle. He retains his angelic beauty, a gift of his primarch’s genetic coding, but the
inhuman serenity of his visage is lined by tracks of weariness and ennui unknown to any
other mortal. His hair, once gold, has turned as white as the marble statues cast in his image.
He is old now. It shows.

Trazyn the infinite, because he does what he sets out to do and does it with class.

Seconding this, but also Dorn in general. Was he the best primarch? Nope. But he and the Imperial Fists got shit done, and made the best of what they were given. I admire that.

Cain, he's just a normal guy living in a culture that lionizes brash bullhead bravery and martyrdom without long sighted thought, so he thinks having common sense makes him a coward, while committing some impressive heroics along the way

This. Telling the Space Gestapo to fuck off is about as low a bar as you can set.

Technicalities man, what would we do without them

>the black guy was the only good father.
40K confirmed set in bizzaro galaxy.

It was Saint Celestine on Neva.

Swarmlord for best husbando.

I know I'm probably the only one, but I love Fabius Bile.

Not as a fun villain but someone I really admire.

He had this enormous dogma in front of him, the infinite genious and masterwork of the Emperor himself called the Astartes, and he simply went: "Screw it, it's not as perfect as anyone think, I can make this better".
And he shown perfection isn't a thing set in stone. Perfection is something that evolve.
And he does that in many other occasion too, not only with the Astartes.
Nothing is sacred to him, everything is improvable.

I just love him as a challenger of traditions and everything they represent.
I have this matter at heart because the weight of tradition is very strong irl were i live.

I agree with the Scars. They are more like;

"Come friend! Throat sing with us."

And they write about things other than litanies of hatred.

Early Wolves were quite awful and savage. Leman even disliked that. The current Space Wolves with all their wolves, wolves and wolves are quite the bros. As long as you aren't a faggy milk-drinker.

My penis can only get so erect

I love the Waaagh! Ghazghkull supplement's bit about him:

>COMMISSAR YARRICK
>Being somewhat soft, it is extraordinary for ’umies to gain respect from Orks – especially greenskins led by a stoic and battle-hungry Goff like Ghazghkull. Although Space Marines are regarded with esteem for their skills in battle – none more so than Commander Dante of the Blood Angels – it was an Imperial Commissar that drew the most admiration from the Orks. Here was an uncompromising warrior – as eager to shoot his own ladz as the foe, if that’s what it took to gain victory. Commissar Yarrick was certainly a thorn in Ghazghkull’s side, for the greenskins reckon that it was he alone that willed the defenders of Hades Hive to hold on for so long. The Orks gradually learned from their captives that the defenders of Hades had grown to fear Yarrick as much as they dreaded the fury of Ghazghkull. To the Orks, this was the kind of leader they could respect. The fact that he wore Goff colours – black with red trim – boosted his esteem even further. It is said that of all Ghazghkull’s foes, Yarrick was the only one that he ever cursed – high praise indeed. Those Orks that came face-to-face with the infamous ‘Umie Boss’ often expressed disappointment. In person, Yarrick was only human-sized, although this was lessened somewhat because he did at least wear an Ork power klaw and bear an evil eye. Amongst the Boyz, it was said that those Orks that recognised who they were up against were always slain – for they stood in gape-jawed disbelief at Yarrick’s insulting puniness and so left themselves open to a deathblow. The wily Orks acknowledged the value of this tactic, even if it was a sly, sneaky Blood Axe kind of trick.

Gabriel Seth is a pretty cool guy. Doing his best to steer the Flesh Tearers in the right direction, despite their extremely dangerous and hostile geneseed issues.

Lt. Kage, 13th penal legion.
Flawed and selfish criminal, but very devoted to the Emperor. Storywise, he has an excellent dynamic with his officer.
It helps that he doesn't win all his fights by outpowering his opponents.

comes at a close second, but sadly the books are pretty formulaic.

LIVES

>mfw Vulkan will return to us one day and lead the imperium into a new age of glory.

feels good, man

Wait, it was not a shoop?

Nah.

My man.

Maybe it's an ironic nickname and it's actually impossible to get him to shut up.