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== The Emperor of Mankind ==

 

{{quote|''The Emperor protects...''}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: Oh yes. In a setting where the "[[Black and Grey Morality|good guys]]" are almost always WIEs, the Emperor goes [[Up to Eleven]] for both values of "well-intentioned" and "extremist", taking both far beyond any scale of those measures that had come before or has come since. The only thing that stops him from being a [[Complete Monster]] is the fact that what the Emperor does is for the betterment of the human race and the Galaxy as a whole. Though others in his time did speculate that the other part of his motivation was lordship over the galaxy.

* [[What an Idiot!]]: Honestly, many of the Emperor's decisions were so obviously wrong it's hard to imagine how a sensible human being could have made them, never mind a supposedly perfect being. Take, as a perfect example, the situation with the rescue of Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters Legion. The Emperor discovers Angron in the final stages of a [[Spartacus]] scenario, poised to be wiped out by a vastly superior number of forces. Having approached Angron in secret, Angron refuses to abandon his comrades and is willing to die with them. The Emperor's options include summoning his own forces to reinforce Angron's, whisking all of Angron's army aboard his massive spaceships, or unleashing an orbital barrage to at least devastate the enemy army so that Angron's force can win. Instead, he chooses to whisk Angron away from the battlefield at the last moment and leave Angron's friends and followers to be utterly wiped out, leaving Angron bitter, resentful, hating the Emperor, and full of rage—in other words, a perfect candidate to swear allegiance to Khorne in order to take revenge.

 

== The Primarchs ==