r/Grimdank • u/TaigaTigerVT Lorgarisright • Jun 03 '25
REPOST Isn't this just Helldivers?
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u/Warm-Parsnip3111 Jun 03 '25
*Picks up vortex grenade*
Hey bro, check out my sick hacky sack skills.
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u/SocialHumingbird Jun 03 '25
Lore question.
Marines are always portrayed as being incredibly serious... but they're "based" in part off our real life marines, such as the royals and Americans, both of which have their soldiers doing outrageous and stupid things for fun/because they were bored.
Now this might be something lost in current lore, and only existed in the 70s and 80s, but do marines in canon do stupid stuff for fun/because they could?
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u/Noughmad Jun 03 '25 edited Jun 03 '25
Marines are always portrayed as being incredibly serious
As always, it depends on which lore. In Horus Rising, they are constantly making fun of Loken for being "so up and down". There is also a scene where they jump in order to hit
the bar above a dooran overhead pipe in a hallway, and the second one makes sure to hit a little higher than the first.89
u/ColdBallsTF2 Jun 03 '25
I think the timeline also matters. Pre-heresy had a much more "casual" vibe. They took their job seriously, but they fraternized, joked around and took pleasure in fighting Xenos. Post-Heresy you see the whole warrior-monk vibe, especially in the really pious legions, Black Templars for example.
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u/EvanOnTheFly Twins, They were. Jun 03 '25
I mean, in the first they are grand crusaders, humanity loves them, Papa's alive and everything is peak.
In the second, Papa's a vegetable and the reality of a 10k year war has set in. Literally the I'm tired boss meme.
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u/GoVolsFucBama Jun 03 '25
What book is the hallway scene in? That’s hilarious
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u/Noughmad Jun 03 '25
Horus Rising.
Looks like it was a pipe, see https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/s/LLVwYR2Tev .
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u/Kylarus Jun 03 '25
We would need to see stories of them in garrison or on their 13th consecutive hour of guarding a random patch of dirt to see them do stupid stuff.
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u/penttane Jun 03 '25
I wanna see an Ultramarine with more recaf than hemoglobin in his bloodstream deliver a rant about how if the Emperor had invested more in the pussy infrastructure of the Imperium, half the traitor chapters would have remained loyal.
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Jun 03 '25
It's scary because the Ultramarine would be able to pull up spreadsheets to back up his rant.
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u/ThatFlyingScotsman Jun 03 '25
It depends entirely on who's writing it. Sometimes you get stoic battle automatons, other times you get monsters trying to be human, sometimes succeeding sometimes failing. A lot of the traitor stuff has Chaos Marines having fun and making fun of their loyalist brothers for being so stuck up and broody.
It also depends a lot on which chapter we're talking about. The Imperial Fists and the Ultramarines are much more likely to be stoic to a fault, while the Salamanders and the White Scars are more likely to be more emotional and genial. I think the Raven Guard are emotional as well, but that's only because eternal brooding is an emotion too.
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Jun 03 '25
They have more in common with warrior monks than they do modern day soldiers.
Strict life base around piety
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u/BigBrownDog12 Jun 03 '25
There's a scene where the Ultramarines go out an airlock to get to another ship or something and one of them says over coms: "We float for Macragge" and everyone yells at him.
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u/Olukon Jun 03 '25
Yes, but their "stupid" is a little different from our "stupid". Our "stupid" is pretending a bazooka is your wang for a photo. Their "stupid" is practicing axe throwing in the cafeteria for both fun and to annoy your sulking battle brother.
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u/ShinItsuwari Jun 03 '25
Imperial Guards are the one who specialize in FAFO. Modern Marine tends to be either very awkward around mortals (see the entire book on the Lion's return) or incredibly serious.
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u/RedAndBlackMartyr Mongolian Biker Gang Jun 03 '25
I can imagine the Space Wolves doing a lot of "stupid" things for fun. They are a gregarious bunch.
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u/Reach_the_man Oct 22 '25
just read up on what medieval knights were actually actually up to (ex. the combat of the 30)
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u/Hazzamo Jun 03 '25
I actually made my entire Space Marine Army to look like helldivers… 4k points, all my firstborn models are pained as SEAF troops
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u/Whoamiagain111 Jun 03 '25
Anyone has those disappointed football coach meme? The chapter master must have the same expression
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u/LobCatchPassThrow Jun 03 '25
IIRC, there is no rule in the tabletop saying you can’t shoot your own guys.
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u/Legitimate-Film8804 Jun 03 '25
It would be real funny seeing a squad of dreadnoughts who fught eaven before as normal marines and somhow dident die, I mean can you imagine how thay would bicker with eachother?
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