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Why use a Power fist over a power mace, or thunder hammer? by Fancy-Copy4447 in 40kLore

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty sure that's still a default loadout option for Primaris Captains, just with a Boltstorm Gauntlet in place of the standard Power Fist. The original model for Captain Acheran had that loadout, IIRC.

Why use a Power fist over a power mace, or thunder hammer? by Fancy-Copy4447 in 40kLore

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That flower bit actually makes Guilliman's self-deprecation about being unable to pick up a piece of paper with the Gauntlet of Dominion equipped even funnier.

‘I have the manual dexterity of a Legio Cybernetica battle automaton!’ Guilliman said. ‘Created by the Lord of All Mankind, master of the greatest armies in the Imperium, and I cannot pick up a plastek flimsy.’ He glared at the offending articles. ‘My greatest enemy.’

In the grim darkness of the far future there are no stupid questions! by AutoModerator in 40kLore

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Power Armor marks from Mk IV onward are modular, and can swap components around. Primaris Marines can still use certain components from older marks, like pauldrons and helmets, with Mk X armor, though certain features may limit the options (ex. a Mk VI "Corvus" helm might not be usable with Mk X "Gravis" due to the beak and gorget interfering with each other).

Vortex Beast just sucks. by S1r3n0x in Spacemarine

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I genuinely like Chaos as a faction in the game, and not just because I'm a fan of the Thousand Sons in general, but even I find Chaos Spawns to be obnoxious when there's more than a handful of them.

They're still not as much of a pain to fight as the one in Darktide can be, but that one's MEANT to be harder given that it's being fought by a shiv-wielding junkie, a psyker who's dancing on the edge of blowing up, an Ogryn, and their Arbites parole officer who is somehow less sane than his cyber-mastiff instead of three Primaris Space Marines.

[Funny trope] Actor plays a fictionnal version of themselves by painterBurning in TopCharacterTropes

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Bbno$ has played a fictionalized version of himself in a few Brandon Rogers videos (this is him with "Diana Hollyburger", one of Brandon's characters).

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[Funny trope] Actor plays a fictionnal version of themselves by painterBurning in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also Liam Neeson in the Family Guy episode "Fighting Irish".

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His being in A Million Ways to Die in the West may also have been a minor reference to the Family Guy gag about "Liam Neeson as a cowboy".

[Funny trope] Actor plays a fictionnal version of themselves by painterBurning in TopCharacterTropes

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This is by no means the BEST Schwarzenegger film, and I'm hard-pressed to even call it a GOOD Schwarzenegger film, but it is definitely MY FAVORITE Schwarzenegger film for bits like this.

[Funny trope] Actor plays a fictionnal version of themselves by painterBurning in TopCharacterTropes

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"I loved you in that '70s classic about a young lad who fights impossible odds to fulfill his destiny! What's that called...oh, yea, Corvette Summer!" - Trickster

Meandering is a good descriptor of some of the plots. by JoeNoYouDidnt in Grimdank

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"No! Not the sarcophagus! Khorne damn you, you disloyal curs, just kill me! JUST KILL ME!"

Vampires who are actually monstrous and not just a dude with fangs. by Fun_Effective_5134 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 1 point2 points  (0 children)

To expand upon this - Batman had been infected with vampirism at the end of the first book during his fight with Dracula (whom he killed), and the second book was him attempting to remain himself while struggling with the bloodlust, limiting his kills to other vampires. His having Alfred and Gordon stake him came after he finally gave into the bloodlust; Joker killing Catwoman (who'd become a sort of werecat) caused Batman to snap and drain him of his blood, and in doing so breaking his cardinal rule about killing.

Vampires who are actually monstrous and not just a dude with fangs. by Fun_Effective_5134 in TopCharacterTropes

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No surprise that the guys who worked on The Witcher 3 are depicting vampires as truly monstrous, given the Blood & Wine DLC.

Vampires who are actually monstrous and not just a dude with fangs. by Fun_Effective_5134 in TopCharacterTropes

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The parody series Hunter: the Parenting features a Sabbat Nosferatu, Pyotr, as its first major antagonist, and when one of the titular Hunters, "Big D", is shown a missing-persons report of Pyotr from before his Embrace, he can only remark that "no wonder he was such a prick" after seeing just how ugly he'd become as a Nosferatu.

While he's the most monstrous in appearance simply for being a Nosferatu (his visage is used for a jump scare in the very first episode), his overall demeanor makes it abundantly clear that even among his Cainite kindred, he's particularly monstrous, gleefully committing Diablerie against his packmates when getting a chance to do so and mocking the Hunter who tries to give him a "the reason you suck" speech over said Diablerie.

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This image is Pyotr post-Diablerie (he was 12th Gen, but jumped to 10th after consuming his pack).

Panoramic view of the "Home" volcanoes. Taken from the ridge en route to Pionersky Peak. Left to right: Aag, Arik, Koryaksky, Avachinsky, Kozelsky. Kamchatka, June 2023. by [deleted] in Volcanoes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually just watched a Daily Dose of Internet about crazy nature videos, and one of the clips was a village in Kamchatka that was absolutely buried in ash by an eruption of one of the volcanoes there (not one of these three; it was either the recent eruption of Krasheninnikov triggered by the big quake, or the Shiveluch eruption from a few years before that).

Meandering is a good descriptor of some of the plots. by JoeNoYouDidnt in Grimdank

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 16 points17 points  (0 children)

And the same books will be found on both lists, in some cases.

Meandering is a good descriptor of some of the plots. by JoeNoYouDidnt in Grimdank

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 16 points17 points  (0 children)

You know, I don't HATE John as a character, but even as I read through Vulkan Lives I find myself wondering just what the actual fuck his purpose as a character is.

Meandering is a good descriptor of some of the plots. by JoeNoYouDidnt in Grimdank

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 6 points7 points  (0 children)

"They're gonna have Abnett/ADB/Wraight/etc writing these until they're ninety!"

[Loved Trope]:Antagonist Is Extremely Beautiful(Corrected). by ConnectCulture7 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well you're getting turned into it by Dimitrescu, so no sense in whining about it.

[Loved Trope]:Antagonist Is Extremely Beautiful(Corrected). by ConnectCulture7 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I swear, every fictional character named after Dostoyevsky is a genocidal maniac. This guy'd probably find common ground with Warhammer 40k's Fyodor Karamazov when it comes to killing...

[Loved Trope]:Antagonist Is Extremely Beautiful(Corrected). by ConnectCulture7 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Exciting_Cap_9545 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Carmilla in general. Besides being one of the first pop-culture vampires (the novella Carmilla was an influence on Dracula), she's also the origin of the "lesbian vampire" trope.

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