Lion El'Johnson has two moments in Macragge 1) When he arrives in Macragge in "Unremembered Empire" and Guilliman discovers he accidentally brought Curze on the planet he pins the Lion on a wall and tells:" You released that monster on my world and now he is creating all this chaos and making us go at each other's throats". The Lion looks at Guilliman's hand on his throat and goes:"Quite literally". Later in "Angels of Caliban" when he goes to have an audience with Sanguinius, Azkaellon(who is missing a hand because of Curze) steps forward to stop him and the Lion says:"You couldn't stop Curze with both of your arms, what makes you think you can stop me with one"
During the siege of Terra Cinderman was considering jumping off the palace. Dorn appeared because it was his thinking spot, and talked him down. Curious as to why he was their Cinderman asked Dorn if he was going to jump. Dorn looked down and said "1000 meter drop into reinforced rockrete, that wouldn't even scratch me."
There was in anpther book a scene where an imperial fist captain calculated what would happen if he jump down the wall 200m. With several ideas what he could do to soften his fall. His conclusen was 200m freefall survivable but injured
I loved that moment for how much it humanized Dorn. For being one of the driest primarchs on the surface he really does give a shit about people. It broke his heart tearing down all the gardens and scultures of the palace to fortify the hell out of it and desperately wanted to restore it all after the siege.
I honestly loved when in the Word Bearers omnibus you read how a group of space marines are trying to pilot a submarine that was built for a small group of normal humans. The brother who drove it had to remove his gauntlets and still would fat finger the keys regularly.
""Brother, I am pinned here!" "But we aren't even taking fire." "Yes, but I'm wedged between the bulkheads and I can't move without ripping the sub in two." "Oh...well, I'm sorry brother, but you're going to have to stay there until we surface. I really hope you can work the controls that you're blocking anyone else from reaching, or we're all dead."
Magnus saying "I'm not afraid of Leman" could be the final line before cutting to an Always Sunny in Philadelphia style title card reading "Leman beats the shit out of Magnus"
This is an amazing video. Spoiler if you somehow haven’t read Vulkan Lives My favorite 40K funny is the part in Vulkan Lives where Vulkan makes his way through this maze where Kurze has left his hammer and been torturing Vulkan. When Vulkan grabs the hammer, Kurze appears and mocks him informing him that the teleporter in his hammer can’t save him. Vulkan informs his brother that “you’re forgetting one thing… it’s also a hammer” and then beats the piss out of him with it.
In Vengeful spirit, there is a scene where a dying, non-Astartes loyalist tries to shoot Sons of Horus marine and he scoffs, telling her to take her best shot. She had a Volkite gun and it went straight through one of his hearts.
There is a moment in the lore during the Horus Heresy that's pretty funny if you appreciate how much of an ASSHOLE the Lion can be. During Imperium Secundus, Konrad Curze meets with Sanguinius, talks, and then they fight a bit before leaving. In the process, Curze mutilates the commander of the Sanguinary Guard, Azkellon, by ripping his arm off. When the Lion arrived to meet Sanguinius after the attack, Azkellon steps in front of him to guard his primarch's chambers, to which the Lion says: 'You could not stop a primarch with both arms, as I recall,’ the Lion snarled. He strode up to Azkaellon, barely giving the commander of the Sanguinary Guard a glance, his attention fixed on the unassuming double doors they protected. ‘Do you think to stop me now with only one?’ It's so unnecessary, but it's perfect.
Orcs are disarmingly funny in this setting, with their simple yet still unexpected humor. My favorite interpretation of this race in any medium, for sure
They are both hilarious and terrifying. On the one hand, they purposefully designed a weapon that fires a Gretchen through the Warp so that it ends up inside you. They deliberately made a gun that shoots a small, panicky goblin into your digestive tract. The abuse of Gretchen is endlessly funny. On the other hand, they will straight up hack one of your legs off with a giant cleaver and laugh at you as you bleed out and die. Then they'll mount your skull on the front of a missile for luck.
There's a funny moment in Legion when John Grammaticus meets Alpharius Omegon and can tell they're identical but they won't admit it. They keep coming up with 'oh your mortal minds may think we are the same but infact we are not' but jhons not having it just like 'no you two are identical.'
Stuff like this makes me think that the Alpha Legion doesn't just lie for the sake of keeping the upper hand, but will sometimes do it just because they know that most of the time they can get away with it and find the results to be fucking hilarious There was something at some point where they were tricking guardsmen into believing they were Space Wolves and were roaring and howling into battle over vox and through speakers, only to laugh their ass off at the whole situation when off the vox and nobody could hear them
I mean Angron literally barreling through a Imperial ship to crash into a planet like a damn meteor like he is Rahdan from Elden RIng is pretty damned ridiculous.
Gaunts ghost had a pretty slap stick moment. He was fighting a chaos champion, he was about to have his head cut off and couldn’t dodge. Luckily he slipped on a puddle of blood and ate shit. Then being saved by the saint. Also in laureate of defiance, an ultra marine is at a drinking party and a girl is hitting on him, so he is super uncomfortable and excuses himself. He then drinks a pitcher of scotch and collects himself on the balcony.
The time that Bobby G told Colquan his plan, that Colquan already knew, because he told it to him before and is now telling again because Colquan was stupid enough to tell him that he doesn't think this plan would be a good idea, had me in tears (from the Book Godblight)
Cain attracts trouble like a, something that's really good at attracting stuffs. The guy is just neck deep in it, his GF is an inquisitor, his aid is a super powerful blank. Many characters say he's one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy. He's fought and killed at least one of everything, including several different demons, necrons, two hive tyrants at the same time, a broodlord, psykers, rogue inquisitors, chaos space marines, tanks, both types of eldar, and more gene stealers than you can shake a stick at. Noble women make chasing him a sport, chapter masters and lord generals ask his advise. He spends as much time as possible drunk, and he runs away from everything, only to run right into the Warboss of an entire system wide whaggg. I get the feeling the Emperor lives vicariously through him. It's just about the only thing to explain all the shenanigans.
THANK YOU for actually reading the books and making videos like this! The reason nobody discusses the amazing small details and moments in the lore is because very few people actually read the novels. The average 40k fan learns their lore from youtubers, who in term mostly read from a wiki page. That's why there are so many widespread misconceptions.
One of the things the books have taught me is that life in the Imperium isn’t awful for the vast majority of people living in the Imperium. Like I’m the Ciaphas Cain books, just about every world they visit is a quaint little world where people are living quaint little lives, going to work, going out to restaurants on the weekends, having families and living lives that we would find very familiar. The Uriel Ventris books, at least the first two I’m only just now onto the third which had the daemonculaba, the people of those two worlds live in democratic societies, have worker unions, and generally living their lives free of slavery and torture. Yeah, the underhives of necromunda are awful, and god forbid you’re born in a forge world, but those planets are vastly outnumbered in the books by worlds that just have people living generally congenial lives.
@@11jerans Eisenhorn books are kind of centered around how such beacons of civilisation, are also great places for corruption to fester, mind. It can all turn on a dime so easily.
Good gravy, I don't want to believe that, but I can imagine that a lot of people calling themselves 40k fans do that. Just like all the other fake nerds who don't know anything about what they claim to like. It reminds me of how people would shit over fan content because it wasn't Astartes quality.
I think a lot of the misconception part is the massive disconnect between vague codex level lore (especially older codex lore) and the modern books, for better or worse. Like the old codexes literally stated that most planets were either hive worlds or resource worlds, but there are plenty of books showing people living normalish lives.
In the book "Angel Exterminates" when Fulgrim, like the flamboyant thespian that he is, was performing a play to explain the angel Exterminatis to Purterabo. Purty, annoyed by the overly complicated theatrical explanation, interupts by asking "what does angel exterminatis actually mean"? And Fulgrim, enraged by the interuption, makes the most indignant and overly dramatic face and starts the whole prodiction over again.... Hilarious!
Two scenes from Angel Exterminatus where Perturabo being a BOSS makes me crack up. 1st When Fulgrim use his face to destroy one of Pertys toy models. 2nd Perturabo has far more respect for the Iron Hands than he does for the Emperor's Children and just sits back and let them exact revenge well deserved.
Perturabo and Fulgrim basically taking time out to play minecraft in real life is like... One of the most surreal and interesting interactions in the entire franchise, gotta be honest. Like, they just wanted to *build* something, for once in their lives.
I just listened to the Soul Hunter scene last night, Talos once reaching the bridge also let out a 15 second scream at full volume that made all the defenders ears bleed, and go deaf. I was a SW guy but this book is bonkers, and I’m starting to like the NL better. Just subscribed
My only complaint about this video is the take about Magnus and Leman Russ. To my understanding Magnus astrally projects onto Leman Russ’ flagship with Amon to show Amon that an invasion is coming. Amon says that they should simply destroy the fleet right then, as they could easily do so, but Magnus refuses because he believes he deserves his fate. Even in his duel with Leman he holds back because he feels so conflicted. He even tells Leman that he has been tricked into the duel with his dying breath, directly aiding the loyalists. All that to say: Magnus didn’t need to be afraid of Leman Russ. He basically let the guy win.
On one hand, funny Magnus jinxing himself, on the other, the only reason he didn’t kill Leman (and with almost net 0 psychic power use, either) is because of Lemans two pet wolves intervening last second.
I love how the first example you give is the first thing I thought of before the video started. Also small correction, Xarl was the one who yelled and I am pretty sure it was a female officer. However that voice line with the auto tune made me laugh harder than Uzas
this channel is awesome im on a streak of watching every video you made! great humour with information i hope one day you will have a lot of subscribers!
The yogscast youtubers Tom and Ben on their weekly total war streams sometimes do a thing called Yourhammer or Lorehammer. This is a game in which they each tell the other person one true story and one false story in warhammer lore (both sigmar and 40k lore). Pretty much every story they tell in these games are pretty humorous and Im sure you can explain in more depth the stories they give in their games.
Honestly I have so many more subscriptions to 40k lore, creations, and memes than anything else in the last two 3 years. New and old creators lol. Also love the Night Lords omnibus and it only gets better.
I know its a bit over used in term "teh top 10 silliest 40k moments" but gotta shout out my boy Tuska Daemon Killa, everything having to do with him is hilarious and, I love him and, GW needs to make a model of him
That nightlords scene is one of my absolute favorite moments in 40k! When you picture it mentally in your mind it's impossible not to laugh, specifically because the other guy actually is laughing at him! Poor uzas or however you spell it tho, he Def goes through some rough times even tho it wasn't him. Sad story. But I also lobe the guilliman moment when he's trying to use a pen while armored. He tells one of his legionaires about conquering this and that and winning battles and feats of mental and physical strength...... but him worst foe and ultimate nemesis is..... a pen. Lol I thought that scene really humanized guilliman like quite a lot. Made me really like him a lot even tho he's not the type of character I'm usually a fan of. I'm more of an antihero kind of person. But anyone who despite being a genius demigod is able to laugh at themselves is good in my book. Also magnus is a moron and for all his brilliance, he NEVER EVER thinks anything through. He never considers consequences about anything, ever. He really is the truest villain of the imperium over the webway thing. That screwed humanity in 100 different ways all because he didn't take 10 seconds to think about what he was doing. Jackass
How in the everloving fuck was he supposed to know about the webway thing? He fully believed that this was the only way to bring warning of a major existential threat to the Emperor. His decisions and actions made sense, even if the consequences were incomprehensibly horrible and tragic.
@Thalanox it's not about whether he knew about the webway thing. He had been repeatedly told and warned about the things he was doing. It had been outlawed at that point. Every single thing he did was because he decided he was beyond ever rule and every limit that was placed on him and everyone else. That he knew better than his brothers and the emperor. Had he listened to the emperor or even his own men right there in the room with him when he left his body to take that warning, none of it would have happened. Magnus decided he knew better and destroyed everything because of it. Its not about whether he was supposed to know. It's about listening and his ego. Not to mention there were other ways to deliver that message. Do I understand what he was thinking and why he did what he did? Of course. I totally get it. But it is still his own failing that he didn't have the ability to slow down and think or listen to anyone else because he decided that he's the smartest person alive so he must be right. I mean it does really suck that he thought he was doing a good thing, but he also knew he was doing the wrong thing. In the books, the conversations taking place between him and ahriman and the others are conversations of caution and to slow down. Everyone thought this was a bad idea except magnus. And don't forget he had to kill like a hundred people just to travel that far outside his body He also didn't think this was the only way. He thought it was the fastest way. Which can be a good reason to do something. But when he ran into wards he knew were there for a reason and he said so himself, he should have stopped and quit listening to tzeentch. He barreled his way through to humanity's greatest calamity because he refused to think about what he was doing. There's a reason it was called magnus' folly
Literally anything Trayzn does cracks me up, like the fight he has with the time wizard necron is basically just two geriatric dudes beating each other up. And another time he teleported to the same time wizard’s home, shot him in the face, and ran away
One of my favorite moments is when Cain is about to go on a Suicide mission with storm troopers and like 10 mins into venturing into the necron infested caverns jurgen shows up, scares the shit out of Cain and the super elite soldiers and when asked simply says “I thought you might get a bit chilly down here sir, so I brought some tanna and a hot sandwich for you”
Just finished Blood reaver, and I'm about to start Void stalker. If you like the night lords you should take a look at the Konrad Curze the night hunter, the horus heresy: the long night & horus heresy: master of the first. All three books give a good insight into the legion. The last two just show off how much a bad ass Sevatar was
Apparently one scene in one of the Bequin novels has a bunch of toys lying around which the book strongly implies were made in the Soviet Union Not like some future version of the Soviet Union or some planet that takes the aesthetics; the actual 1922-1991 USSR
Dark humor always worked so well for 40k. It’s a way too get away from all the grimmdarkness cause let’s be honest it does get exhausting after a while.
From the thumbnail, I first thought this would be your Night Lords video, since they’re on deck after the Fists. Konrad Curze is also a great primarch character study. Looking forward to that video. Still, pleasantly surprised by today’s topic.
Speaking of night lords there's a moment later where octavias serf looks at a disemboweled guy, points at him and says "intestines" octavia is like "yeah I see them" "you shouldn't eat them.." "alright" I lost my shit then
Another funny nightlords moment from the trilogy is when they are resurrecting the dreadnought and the Terminator sent to stop and kill them mentions how he was chosen because this needed to be subtly done and then proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs how he was going to kill everyone in the room. Truly it is stealth if no one is alive to report it 😂
A favorite part of Blood Reaver was when Variel extracts Gene-Seed of a dying Red Corsair. The dead Corsair's squad mates ask where he is, or why did Variel kill him, and Variel literally turns his shoulder and says "Here he is, look! He's happy to see you!" The said smiling face is his flayed skin stretch onto his shoulder pad... 💀💀💀💀💀💀 Variel then proceeds to kill those two Red Corsairs because they attacked him first out of rage.
oh there is also that moment when ( spoilers for deliverance lost ) Corvus Corax rips off the head of a slaver and gifts it to his would be adoptive sister who laughs even as the adults around them scream their heads off
my favourite moment so far is when Sevatar is trying to acid spit his way out of jail when his DA captors arrive, see the hole in the wall and Sevatar goes: I think rats did it, big ones.
It's worth remembering that 40k evolved from a concept that was very tongue in cheek . Early 90s Warhammer was utterly whacky. Just look at characters like Doomrider!
Dark Imperium book. Ferag Lion-Wolf is built up in the story as some crazy powerful champion of Tzeentch, and he gets taken out at the end of the story when a brick falls on his head.
There are so many great semi-intentionally comedic-yet-tragic moments in The Twice Dead King books. Oltyx forgetting that he doesn't need to breathe in space. The technomancer in the 2nd book being somewhat of a teenage prodigy brat in a necron body. The reason why the Imperium was able to track Oltyx's location. etc etc. It's such a great series!
Oh shit didn't think you'd talk about soul hunter so soon!!! The blood angels were my favorite legion cause I think they're sick as fuck so I read the entire blood angel trilogy and they seem really high and mighty like they have a stick in there ass lmao I'm almost threw the second book of the night lords and they actually have a sense of humor and I love it! They get up to some tom foolery lol the exalted warband is now my favorite chapter. Love your videos!
Yeah, I'm thinking of having a discord for the channel at one point? but at current times I'm keeping it private while I figure it out ya know. I'm shitty at moderating so I'm gonna have to grab a buncha people to help so I'm pooling my weird friend group.
We need the parts of the infinite and the divine where trazyn and orikan just shit talk each other like siblings arguing over the most petty shit for necrons lmao
I don't know if this happened before or after that conversation between Sanguinius, Khan and Magnus, but he was supposed to be afraid of Wolf because in hh Thousand Sons book there's a scene where during siege of avian?! planet Thousand Sons and Word Bearers come to blow because of some library or stg and as push comes to shove there's a howl from Leman that is basically psychic slam to everyone in the city, he was really supposed to be afraid of him, Leman is such a gigachad. Correct me on details I read it long time ago but that scene stuck with me and was so funny in same way you describe it here as it wasn't funny for real but implications of it were.
Wait hold on … title of this video suggests that there’s anything remotely silly, exaggerated, over the top, or not to be taken surely seriously in the universe of Warhammer 40k, a notion I refuse to accept good sir
I think my favorite funny moment is from the Lords of Mars book (spoilers ahead) Arc Magos Kotov and his people are chasing after the antagonist Magos Telok who had just locked a giant door and murdered its machine spirit so it absolutely could not be opened, then while Kotov is trying to find a solution the door opens for an unrelated reason, they walk in and Telok is like "wait what?! How the FUCK did you open that door? We killed its machine spirit!" and Kotov responds like "I'm an Arc Magos, I have my ways" while thinking "how thr fuck did that door open??"
Bruh why you got this depressed af music over this. Im hearing this story of the night lords acting like normal people and all the music makes me think about is how I’m going to die some day
40K is inherently funny. Like reading Kafka. For me, the thing that perfectly sums up the humour of 40K, is the Thought of The Day: "Innocence proves nothing." The utter lack of logic in this statement is hilarious. A sane reaction to this would be: "Wait, what the fuck!?" But in 40K, people hear this, and they're like, "Yeah, that seems reasonable, I can see why an innocent person should be punished anyway. Why not? Life is suffering, I eat dead people." This is a setting that goes so far into the GrimDark that reality breaks down, logic becomes madness, and then madness becomes logic. That is inherently hilarious. And the more serious you take it, the funnier it gets. On the tabletop, I have defended the bombed-out crater, of the ruin, of the building I was meant to protect. This place now only exists as cover, but I was told to hold it, and by the God Emperor, as an Astartes player, I am going to defend this muddy pile of rubble to the fucking death! My Marines are dying to defend something that was blasted into scrap 4 turns ago by a Defiler, but by the Throne, they were given orders! 40K is the celebration of insane anal retention. It's a setting where people fight to the death for the pettiest of reasons, while treating it as "SERIOUS BUSINESS" and to do so is amazing fun. My dream, as a 40K fan, is to roleplay a Space Marine in a game of Inquisitor, or one of the 40K RPGs out there, and play it completely straight, thereby ruining everyone's day (characters, not players: they'd be in on it). Just imagine, all the other players are being stealthy, then I smash through a wall, screaming death threats and opening fire. Hilarity. I don't know, I just love the idea of a lone Space Marine, utterly out of his element, having to deal with everyday Imperial citizens. I could see the most basic conversation spiraling into a violent massacre. Everyone he interacts with just wants to make him someone else's problem as fast as possible.
Can't remember which book this is from but two Dark Angels Terminators are in a tower and one falls straight through the flight of stairs. He survives but the other marines are trying to hold back their laughter.
Lion El'Johnson has two moments in Macragge
1) When he arrives in Macragge in "Unremembered Empire" and Guilliman discovers he accidentally brought Curze on the planet he pins the Lion on a wall and tells:" You released that monster on my world and now he is creating all this chaos and making us go at each other's throats". The Lion looks at Guilliman's hand on his throat and goes:"Quite literally".
Later in "Angels of Caliban" when he goes to have an audience with Sanguinius, Azkaellon(who is missing a hand because of Curze) steps forward to stop him and the Lion says:"You couldn't stop Curze with both of your arms, what makes you think you can stop me with one"
Guess the only humor Lion El is capable of, is the dry kind.
I am begging you. Please make this a series.
I second this dude we need more videos about this.
Please make this a series for the love of god
Yes i agree
6:03 "I punched out one of his hearts, why does everyone forget that!?" - Magnus, the Red and Salty.
TTS Magnus was the best Magnus.
@@garysuarez9614 Hell yeah brother
During the siege of Terra Cinderman was considering jumping off the palace. Dorn appeared because it was his thinking spot, and talked him down. Curious as to why he was their Cinderman asked Dorn if he was going to jump. Dorn looked down and said
"1000 meter drop into reinforced rockrete, that wouldn't even scratch me."
That's pretty funny
I like that
Dorn based 😎
There was in anpther book a scene where an imperial fist captain calculated what would happen if he jump down the wall 200m. With several ideas what he could do to soften his fall. His conclusen was 200m freefall survivable but injured
And when they were done talking Dorn told him to please use the stairs.
I loved that moment for how much it humanized Dorn. For being one of the driest primarchs on the surface he really does give a shit about people. It broke his heart tearing down all the gardens and scultures of the palace to fortify the hell out of it and desperately wanted to restore it all after the siege.
I honestly loved when in the Word Bearers omnibus you read how a group of space marines are trying to pilot a submarine that was built for a small group of normal humans. The brother who drove it had to remove his gauntlets and still would fat finger the keys regularly.
That is hilarious. Assume that is in one of the other two books? I finished the first the other day.
""Brother, I am pinned here!"
"But we aren't even taking fire."
"Yes, but I'm wedged between the bulkheads and I can't move without ripping the sub in two."
"Oh...well, I'm sorry brother, but you're going to have to stay there until we surface. I really hope you can work the controls that you're blocking anyone else from reaching, or we're all dead."
Magnus saying "I'm not afraid of Leman" could be the final line before cutting to an Always Sunny in Philadelphia style title card reading "Leman beats the shit out of Magnus"
This is an amazing video. Spoiler if you somehow haven’t read Vulkan Lives
My favorite 40K funny is the part in Vulkan Lives where Vulkan makes his way through this maze where Kurze has left his hammer and been torturing Vulkan.
When Vulkan grabs the hammer, Kurze appears and mocks him informing him that the teleporter in his hammer can’t save him.
Vulkan informs his brother that “you’re forgetting one thing… it’s also a hammer” and then beats the piss out of him with it.
In Vengeful spirit, there is a scene where a dying, non-Astartes loyalist tries to shoot Sons of Horus marine and he scoffs, telling her to take her best shot. She had a Volkite gun and it went straight through one of his hearts.
Goddamn OOF, that showed that legionnaire about his hubris 😅
There is a moment in the lore during the Horus Heresy that's pretty funny if you appreciate how much of an ASSHOLE the Lion can be.
During Imperium Secundus, Konrad Curze meets with Sanguinius, talks, and then they fight a bit before leaving. In the process, Curze mutilates the commander of the Sanguinary Guard, Azkellon, by ripping his arm off. When the Lion arrived to meet Sanguinius after the attack, Azkellon steps in front of him to guard his primarch's chambers, to which the Lion says:
'You could not stop a primarch with both arms, as I recall,’ the Lion snarled. He strode up to Azkaellon, barely giving the commander of the Sanguinary Guard a glance, his attention fixed on the unassuming double doors they protected. ‘Do you think to stop me now with only one?’
It's so unnecessary, but it's perfect.
Orcs are disarmingly funny in this setting, with their simple yet still unexpected humor. My favorite interpretation of this race in any medium, for sure
They are both hilarious and terrifying. On the one hand, they purposefully designed a weapon that fires a Gretchen through the Warp so that it ends up inside you. They deliberately made a gun that shoots a small, panicky goblin into your digestive tract. The abuse of Gretchen is endlessly funny.
On the other hand, they will straight up hack one of your legs off with a giant cleaver and laugh at you as you bleed out and die. Then they'll mount your skull on the front of a missile for luck.
There's a funny moment in Legion when John Grammaticus meets Alpharius Omegon and can tell they're identical but they won't admit it. They keep coming up with 'oh your mortal minds may think we are the same but infact we are not' but jhons not having it just like 'no you two are identical.'
Stuff like this makes me think that the Alpha Legion doesn't just lie for the sake of keeping the upper hand, but will sometimes do it just because they know that most of the time they can get away with it and find the results to be fucking hilarious
There was something at some point where they were tricking guardsmen into believing they were Space Wolves and were roaring and howling into battle over vox and through speakers, only to laugh their ass off at the whole situation when off the vox and nobody could hear them
I mean Angron literally barreling through a Imperial ship to crash into a planet like a damn meteor like he is Rahdan from Elden RIng is pretty damned ridiculous.
Hoooooly shit that night lords bit killed me, was already leaning on them being my favorite traitor legion but this just sealed the deal
they are my favourites afterall!!
Gaunts ghost had a pretty slap stick moment. He was fighting a chaos champion, he was about to have his head cut off and couldn’t dodge. Luckily he slipped on a puddle of blood and ate shit. Then being saved by the saint.
Also in laureate of defiance, an ultra marine is at a drinking party and a girl is hitting on him, so he is super uncomfortable and excuses himself. He then drinks a pitcher of scotch and collects himself on the balcony.
Because the girl wasn t an eldar
Hahahaha. I forget sometimes that Marines have terrible social skills.
The time that Bobby G told Colquan his plan, that Colquan already knew, because he told it to him before and is now telling again because Colquan was stupid enough to tell him that he doesn't think this plan would be a good idea, had me in tears (from the Book Godblight)
Cain attracts trouble like a, something that's really good at attracting stuffs.
The guy is just neck deep in it, his GF is an inquisitor, his aid is a super powerful blank. Many characters say he's one of the best swordsmen in the galaxy.
He's fought and killed at least one of everything, including several different demons, necrons, two hive tyrants at the same time, a broodlord, psykers, rogue inquisitors, chaos space marines, tanks, both types of eldar, and more gene stealers than you can shake a stick at. Noble women make chasing him a sport, chapter masters and lord generals ask his advise. He spends as much time as possible drunk, and he runs away from everything, only to run right into the Warboss of an entire system wide whaggg.
I get the feeling the Emperor lives vicariously through him. It's just about the only thing to explain all the shenanigans.
I enjoyed the Nightlord book series. I love how edgy 10th company was. They were the perfect blend of edgy, funny, and relatable.
So far the best 40k books I have read.
Surprisingly a lot of moments that made me laugh. Like when Hound tells Octavia not to eat the intestines hanging in black market.
The time that a deathwing terminator fell through a dilapidated flight of stairs and needed a literal crane to hoist him out.
THANK YOU for actually reading the books and making videos like this!
The reason nobody discusses the amazing small details and moments in the lore is because very few people actually read the novels. The average 40k fan learns their lore from youtubers, who in term mostly read from a wiki page. That's why there are so many widespread misconceptions.
One of the things the books have taught me is that life in the Imperium isn’t awful for the vast majority of people living in the Imperium. Like I’m the Ciaphas Cain books, just about every world they visit is a quaint little world where people are living quaint little lives, going to work, going out to restaurants on the weekends, having families and living lives that we would find very familiar. The Uriel Ventris books, at least the first two I’m only just now onto the third which had the daemonculaba, the people of those two worlds live in democratic societies, have worker unions, and generally living their lives free of slavery and torture.
Yeah, the underhives of necromunda are awful, and god forbid you’re born in a forge world, but those planets are vastly outnumbered in the books by worlds that just have people living generally congenial lives.
@@11jerans Eisenhorn books are kind of centered around how such beacons of civilisation, are also great places for corruption to fester, mind. It can all turn on a dime so easily.
Good gravy, I don't want to believe that, but I can imagine that a lot of people calling themselves 40k fans do that. Just like all the other fake nerds who don't know anything about what they claim to like. It reminds me of how people would shit over fan content because it wasn't Astartes quality.
I think a lot of the misconception part is the massive disconnect between vague codex level lore (especially older codex lore) and the modern books, for better or worse. Like the old codexes literally stated that most planets were either hive worlds or resource worlds, but there are plenty of books showing people living normalish lives.
Magnus getting folded like a pretzel was the longest "Sip drinks" to commercial finish "Ahhh".
In the book "Angel Exterminates" when Fulgrim, like the flamboyant thespian that he is, was performing a play to explain the angel Exterminatis to Purterabo. Purty, annoyed by the overly complicated theatrical explanation, interupts by asking "what does angel exterminatis actually mean"? And Fulgrim, enraged by the interuption, makes the most indignant and overly dramatic face and starts the whole prodiction over again.... Hilarious!
Just listen about this event from Weshammer, it was really hilarious 😂😂
Poor Perty.
Two scenes from Angel Exterminatus where Perturabo being a BOSS makes me crack up.
1st When Fulgrim use his face to destroy one of Pertys toy models.
2nd Perturabo has far more respect for the Iron Hands than he does for the Emperor's Children and just sits back and let them exact revenge well deserved.
Perturabo and Fulgrim basically taking time out to play minecraft in real life is like... One of the most surreal and interesting interactions in the entire franchise, gotta be honest. Like, they just wanted to *build* something, for once in their lives.
I just listened to the Soul Hunter scene last night, Talos once reaching the bridge also let out a 15 second scream at full volume that made all the defenders ears bleed, and go deaf. I was a SW guy but this book is bonkers, and I’m starting to like the NL better. Just subscribed
Listened to it?! It's in audiobook form now?
Yeah
@@Thalanox yeah
I will admit... that did make me like the night lords a little more
Headcannon:Every one of Mr.Bones's 40k bones are needed to make content this good!
My only complaint about this video is the take about Magnus and Leman Russ. To my understanding Magnus astrally projects onto Leman Russ’ flagship with Amon to show Amon that an invasion is coming. Amon says that they should simply destroy the fleet right then, as they could easily do so, but Magnus refuses because he believes he deserves his fate. Even in his duel with Leman he holds back because he feels so conflicted. He even tells Leman that he has been tricked into the duel with his dying breath, directly aiding the loyalists.
All that to say: Magnus didn’t need to be afraid of Leman Russ. He basically let the guy win.
This guy doesn't really like magnus so he'll conveniently forget about those things.
On one hand, funny Magnus jinxing himself, on the other, the only reason he didn’t kill Leman (and with almost net 0 psychic power use, either) is because of Lemans two pet wolves intervening last second.
Man these are some fine ass moments and should definitely become a thing as you go forward in the lore. Love the work Mr bones keep up the great work
I love how the first example you give is the first thing I thought of before the video started.
Also small correction, Xarl was the one who yelled and I am pretty sure it was a female officer.
However that voice line with the auto tune made me laugh harder than Uzas
Dang, Leman broke Magnus's back so hard it retroactively gave Jaghatai Khan a vision of the event.
this channel is awesome im on a streak of watching every video you made! great humour with information i hope one day you will have a lot of subscribers!
The yogscast youtubers Tom and Ben on their weekly total war streams sometimes do a thing called Yourhammer or Lorehammer. This is a game in which they each tell the other person one true story and one false story in warhammer lore (both sigmar and 40k lore). Pretty much every story they tell in these games are pretty humorous and Im sure you can explain in more depth the stories they give in their games.
Honestly I have so many more subscriptions to 40k lore, creations, and memes than anything else in the last two 3 years. New and old creators lol. Also love the Night Lords omnibus and it only gets better.
I know its a bit over used in term "teh top 10 silliest 40k moments" but gotta shout out my boy Tuska Daemon Killa, everything having to do with him is hilarious and, I love him and, GW needs to make a model of him
ROCK AND STONE !! Was thinking about that the whole time and you just wrapped it up beautifully
If this becomes a series I'm subbing, this is just classic for someone that's a veteran to the setting like me 👌
ye, I think I may do a sort of sequal this week about obscure-ish alien species.
That nightlords scene is one of my absolute favorite moments in 40k! When you picture it mentally in your mind it's impossible not to laugh, specifically because the other guy actually is laughing at him! Poor uzas or however you spell it tho, he Def goes through some rough times even tho it wasn't him. Sad story. But I also lobe the guilliman moment when he's trying to use a pen while armored. He tells one of his legionaires about conquering this and that and winning battles and feats of mental and physical strength...... but him worst foe and ultimate nemesis is..... a pen. Lol I thought that scene really humanized guilliman like quite a lot. Made me really like him a lot even tho he's not the type of character I'm usually a fan of. I'm more of an antihero kind of person. But anyone who despite being a genius demigod is able to laugh at themselves is good in my book.
Also magnus is a moron and for all his brilliance, he NEVER EVER thinks anything through. He never considers consequences about anything, ever. He really is the truest villain of the imperium over the webway thing. That screwed humanity in 100 different ways all because he didn't take 10 seconds to think about what he was doing. Jackass
How in the everloving fuck was he supposed to know about the webway thing? He fully believed that this was the only way to bring warning of a major existential threat to the Emperor. His decisions and actions made sense, even if the consequences were incomprehensibly horrible and tragic.
@Thalanox it's not about whether he knew about the webway thing. He had been repeatedly told and warned about the things he was doing. It had been outlawed at that point. Every single thing he did was because he decided he was beyond ever rule and every limit that was placed on him and everyone else. That he knew better than his brothers and the emperor. Had he listened to the emperor or even his own men right there in the room with him when he left his body to take that warning, none of it would have happened. Magnus decided he knew better and destroyed everything because of it. Its not about whether he was supposed to know. It's about listening and his ego. Not to mention there were other ways to deliver that message.
Do I understand what he was thinking and why he did what he did? Of course. I totally get it. But it is still his own failing that he didn't have the ability to slow down and think or listen to anyone else because he decided that he's the smartest person alive so he must be right. I mean it does really suck that he thought he was doing a good thing, but he also knew he was doing the wrong thing. In the books, the conversations taking place between him and ahriman and the others are conversations of caution and to slow down. Everyone thought this was a bad idea except magnus. And don't forget he had to kill like a hundred people just to travel that far outside his body
He also didn't think this was the only way. He thought it was the fastest way. Which can be a good reason to do something. But when he ran into wards he knew were there for a reason and he said so himself, he should have stopped and quit listening to tzeentch. He barreled his way through to humanity's greatest calamity because he refused to think about what he was doing. There's a reason it was called magnus' folly
Tuska went back in time to kill himself to possess two of his legendary pistols..
Literally anything Trayzn does cracks me up, like the fight he has with the time wizard necron is basically just two geriatric dudes beating each other up. And another time he teleported to the same time wizard’s home, shot him in the face, and ran away
6:09 Magnus is not afraid of the big, bad wolf...
Lol the bolter-to-face shade thrown at the end ❤
One of my favorite moments is when Cain is about to go on a Suicide mission with storm troopers and like 10 mins into venturing into the necron infested caverns jurgen shows up, scares the shit out of Cain and the super elite soldiers and when asked simply says “I thought you might get a bit chilly down here sir, so I brought some tanna and a hot sandwich for you”
I like your mini list format. I look forward to more of them.
Just finished Blood reaver, and I'm about to start Void stalker.
If you like the night lords you should take a look at the Konrad Curze the night hunter, the horus heresy: the long night & horus heresy: master of the first.
All three books give a good insight into the legion. The last two just show off how much a bad ass Sevatar was
Your reciting of the Night Lords scene was hilarious.
"it happens alot".. lfmao you evil sod. 🤣
Another great video man ! Keep the good work ! Your videos are one of the things Im always excited for !
The 40k moment that just fucking sent me was:
*Vulcan:* "It's also a hammer." and proceeds to beat the ever-living shit out of Konrad Kurze.
It is pretty kino
Apparently one scene in one of the Bequin novels has a bunch of toys lying around which the book strongly implies were made in the Soviet Union
Not like some future version of the Soviet Union or some planet that takes the aesthetics; the actual 1922-1991 USSR
Dark humor always worked so well for 40k. It’s a way too get away from all the grimmdarkness cause let’s be honest it does get exhausting after a while.
From the thumbnail, I first thought this would be your Night Lords video, since they’re on deck after the Fists. Konrad Curze is also a great primarch character study. Looking forward to that video.
Still, pleasantly surprised by today’s topic.
Subbed at 2k plus subs, I'm excited to see your growth because this is fantastic
I don't know how much Ciaphas Cain is cannon now since it talks alot about the old 13th black crossed, but there's a lot of funny moments.
4:47 - Jagateye-liner.
Speaking of night lords there's a moment later where octavias serf looks at a disemboweled guy, points at him and says "intestines"
octavia is like "yeah I see them"
"you shouldn't eat them.."
"alright"
I lost my shit then
@Alsonallu It hit hard when he... you know
@Alsonallu Talos is like "oh yeah he probably did"
The Blood Angels/Necron thing really isn't that bad. I think Weshammer went over it for people who are curious.
I love how the craziest looking orc in the universe is like... The sanest one of the bunch.
The ork funny moment demonstrate why the Orks are the best species in warhammer 40k
Another funny nightlords moment from the trilogy is when they are resurrecting the dreadnought and the Terminator sent to stop and kill them mentions how he was chosen because this needed to be subtly done and then proceeded to scream at the top of his lungs how he was going to kill everyone in the room. Truly it is stealth if no one is alive to report it 😂
A favorite part of Blood Reaver was when Variel extracts Gene-Seed of a dying Red Corsair. The dead Corsair's squad mates ask where he is, or why did Variel kill him, and Variel literally turns his shoulder and says "Here he is, look! He's happy to see you!" The said smiling face is his flayed skin stretch onto his shoulder pad... 💀💀💀💀💀💀
Variel then proceeds to kill those two Red Corsairs because they attacked him first out of rage.
the whole thing is silly beyond silly. its fun regardless.
There are loads of really cool, small parts of books that you don’t get talked about enough.
my favourite is the interrogator in the solar War books.
In 40k, everything is so bleak tgat even slapstick kills
These are the elements we all lovingly refer to as "Grimderp"
oh there is also that moment when ( spoilers for deliverance lost ) Corvus Corax rips off the head of a slaver and gifts it to his would be adoptive sister who laughs even as the adults around them scream their heads off
my favourite moment so far is when Sevatar is trying to acid spit his way out of jail when his DA captors arrive, see the hole in the wall and Sevatar goes: I think rats did it, big ones.
3:04
We had the same exact reference in our head.
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god damn it Arthur the more i hear you voice the more i want to hear it i wish i could play game with you and talk to you more
Iron Warriors and Night Lords gallows humour gives me life.
It's worth remembering that 40k evolved from a concept that was very tongue in cheek . Early 90s Warhammer was utterly whacky. Just look at characters like Doomrider!
JUST ONE MOOOOORE SCOOOOORE
Dark Imperium book. Ferag Lion-Wolf is built up in the story as some crazy powerful champion of Tzeentch, and he gets taken out at the end of the story when a brick falls on his head.
The nightlords are still astartes, super intelligent strategists, the story was hilarious, but does disservice to a great legion
You love Night Haunters?
You’ll be best buds with Bricky of Adeptus Ridiculous.
I had to pause when listening to the night lords scene for the first time and just take like 5 minutes to process and laugh at it.
There are so many great semi-intentionally comedic-yet-tragic moments in The Twice Dead King books.
Oltyx forgetting that he doesn't need to breathe in space.
The technomancer in the 2nd book being somewhat of a teenage prodigy brat in a necron body.
The reason why the Imperium was able to track Oltyx's location.
etc etc. It's such a great series!
Oh shit didn't think you'd talk about soul hunter so soon!!! The blood angels were my favorite legion cause I think they're sick as fuck so I read the entire blood angel trilogy and they seem really high and mighty like they have a stick in there ass lmao I'm almost threw the second book of the night lords and they actually have a sense of humor and I love it! They get up to some tom foolery lol the exalted warband is now my favorite chapter. Love your videos!
I love your videos! I remember that you once mentioned your discord server and I'm really interested in joining it.
Yeah, I'm thinking of having a discord for the channel at one point?
but at current times I'm keeping it private while I figure it out ya know.
I'm shitty at moderating so I'm gonna have to grab a buncha people to help so I'm pooling my weird friend group.
One of the Magnus moments of all time
Gonna have to get the night lords trilogy. I’ve heard too many good things about it not to pick it up now
We need the parts of the infinite and the divine where trazyn and orikan just shit talk each other like siblings arguing over the most petty shit for necrons lmao
I don't know if this happened before or after that conversation between Sanguinius, Khan and Magnus, but he was supposed to be afraid of Wolf because in hh Thousand Sons book there's a scene where during siege of avian?! planet Thousand Sons and Word Bearers come to blow because of some library or stg and as push comes to shove there's a howl from Leman that is basically psychic slam to everyone in the city, he was really supposed to be afraid of him, Leman is such a gigachad. Correct me on details I read it long time ago but that scene stuck with me and was so funny in same way you describe it here as it wasn't funny for real but implications of it were.
Ummm... who's afraid of the big bad wolf? Says the red person? My my grandma tzeentch, what big eyes you have.
OMG, what is that TF2 scream at 3:04, where does it come from?
Make this a series please hahaha
Orks as a whole are hilarious.
Some one must animate that Night Lord's part.
Wait hold on … title of this video suggests that there’s anything remotely silly, exaggerated, over the top, or not to be taken surely seriously in the universe of Warhammer 40k, a notion I refuse to accept good sir
good day to you dear sir
Every time you say night lords are your favorite in any of your videos I lose just that much more respect for you.
The music in the background got me like 🗿
I think my favorite funny moment is from the Lords of Mars book (spoilers ahead)
Arc Magos Kotov and his people are chasing after the antagonist Magos Telok who had just locked a giant door and murdered its machine spirit so it absolutely could not be opened, then while Kotov is trying to find a solution the door opens for an unrelated reason, they walk in and Telok is like "wait what?! How the FUCK did you open that door? We killed its machine spirit!" and Kotov responds like "I'm an Arc Magos, I have my ways" while thinking "how thr fuck did that door open??"
Bruh why you got this depressed af music over this. Im hearing this story of the night lords acting like normal people and all the music makes me think about is how I’m going to die some day
more of this pls
Keep doing these!
40K is inherently funny. Like reading Kafka. For me, the thing that perfectly sums up the humour of 40K, is the Thought of The Day: "Innocence proves nothing." The utter lack of logic in this statement is hilarious. A sane reaction to this would be: "Wait, what the fuck!?" But in 40K, people hear this, and they're like, "Yeah, that seems reasonable, I can see why an innocent person should be punished anyway. Why not? Life is suffering, I eat dead people."
This is a setting that goes so far into the GrimDark that reality breaks down, logic becomes madness, and then madness becomes logic. That is inherently hilarious. And the more serious you take it, the funnier it gets.
On the tabletop, I have defended the bombed-out crater, of the ruin, of the building I was meant to protect. This place now only exists as cover, but I was told to hold it, and by the God Emperor, as an Astartes player, I am going to defend this muddy pile of rubble to the fucking death! My Marines are dying to defend something that was blasted into scrap 4 turns ago by a Defiler, but by the Throne, they were given orders!
40K is the celebration of insane anal retention. It's a setting where people fight to the death for the pettiest of reasons, while treating it as "SERIOUS BUSINESS" and to do so is amazing fun.
My dream, as a 40K fan, is to roleplay a Space Marine in a game of Inquisitor, or one of the 40K RPGs out there, and play it completely straight, thereby ruining everyone's day (characters, not players: they'd be in on it). Just imagine, all the other players are being stealthy, then I smash through a wall, screaming death threats and opening fire. Hilarity.
I don't know, I just love the idea of a lone Space Marine, utterly out of his element, having to deal with everyday Imperial citizens. I could see the most basic conversation spiraling into a violent massacre. Everyone he interacts with just wants to make him someone else's problem as fast as possible.
For the Emperor! And the algorithm.
I’m not afraid of the big bad wolf
Can't remember which book this is from but two Dark Angels Terminators are in a tower and one falls straight through the flight of stairs. He survives but the other marines are trying to hold back their laughter.
The very first Inquisitor mentioned in 40k is in Rogue Trader and his name is “Obiwan Sherlock Clueso”. 40k was always meant to by goofy.
more pls