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* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: If you look at the [[Games Workshop]] site, "Shoulder Pads" is an entire category of modeling bits, along with scenery and weapons.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Tonnes, some subtle, some obvious.
** Most obviously, much of the backstory is heavily based on ''[[Dune]]''. If you're wondering why, here's a short sentence: The God-Emperor of the Imperium. And the navis nobilitae eventually turns into something like the floating bollock-frogs from the movie, and they have more or less the same function. And the AI ban after a [[Robot War]].
** [[The Swords Trilogy]] was started in 1977 and had the [[Order Versus Chaos]] motif, complete with Chaos Gods and an eight pointed star as the sigil of Chaos. So Warhammer is [[X Meets Y|H.P. Lovecraft meets The Swords]].
** One of the elite fighting forces in the imperial guard are know as the [[World War I|storm troopers]], and most [[Star Wars|wear fully enclosing gas masked helmets]]
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** The [http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e142/paco1185/blood%20angels/DSC03570.jpg cover art] for the 3rd edition Blood Angels codex has someone who looks suspiciously like [[Christopher Lee]]. (Compare the lower left Marine to the [http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418GBD120QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg DVD cover] for ''Scars of Dracula.'')
** The two gods of the Orks are stated in ''Gorkamorka'' to be Gork and [[Mork and Mindy|Mork]].
** The Space Marines Codex makes reference to the Zeist Campaign, a shout out to [[Highlander]] 2. The fandom was NOT pleased.
** Quite possibly, several to ''[[Rogue Trooper]]'' — or at least, the Gland Warriors.
* [[Shrouded in Myth]]: Space Marines are seen as legends by most of the Imperium. An average Imperial citizen will occasionally get to see how much of the legends are true; unfortunately, this is generally in a Marine-worthy combat situation, meaning the citizen's life expectancy can probably be measured in minutes at most.
** One comic story describes an Ork invasion of a medieval-level Imperial world and a Black Templar counterattack, from the perspective of one of the world's peasants. At the end, after the Orks are driven off, the peasant hopes that they never come back again: not because he's scared of the Orks, but because he's scared of the ''Space Marines''.
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* [[Sickly Green Glow]]: Necrons in general and gauss weapons in particular.
* [[Sighted Guns Are Low Tech]]: One of the few science fiction works to avert this trope.
* [[Sigil Spam]]: Most Imperial organisations. Chaos Marines and cultists are often depicted in this fashion also.
* [[Single Biome Planet]]: Used and averted equally often.
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: Trademark of Nurgle followers and the [[Grim Reaper|Nightbringer]].
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* [[Sword and Gun]]: Generally favoured by every somewhat-sentient race in the game for close-quarters combat troops.
* [[Synchronisation]]: Titans and their Princeps, some ships and their captains.
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