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* [[Artifact of Death]] -- Most Daemon weapons lead to their owner's doom eventually.
* [[As Long As There Is Evil]] -- The only way to truly defeat Chaos would be to destroy all the intelligent life that feeds it. [[Omnicidal Maniac|The Necrons]] and Tyranids would like to make that happen.
* [[Bad Powers, Bad People]]
* [[Berserk Button]] -- Don't invoke the Emperor's name in the presence of a daemon or Chaos Space Marine. It won't end well.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: This pops up for people who fall victim to Chaos. Annihilating your soul is just one of the options available, and not even the worst at that.
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* [[Bright Is Not Good]]: Followers of Slaanesh (Chaos god of hedonism and excess) are Sense Freaks who wear hideously garish clothing and choking perfumes at all times, being so blasé it's the only way they can feel anything. One Chaos Space Marine Legion devoted to Slaanesh wears pink and black armor for the same reason.
* [[Brown Note]] -- Common side effects of looking at Chaos symbols are [[Vomit Indiscretion Shot|mild nausea]], [[Tears of Blood|slight bleeding]], and [[Go Mad From the Revelation|insanity]].
* [[Card -Carrying Villain]] -- Anyone who's in deep with Chaos tends to wear this on their sleeve...or any other part of their body.
* [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]] - Chaos in general, but Tzeentch in particular.
* [[Colour -Coded for Your Convenience]]: Red and brass/bronze for Khorne; blue, and to a lesser extent yellow and every other colors for Tzeentch; sickly green for Nurgle; and purple and pink for Slaanesh. In addition, Malal was supposed to be black and white.
* [[The Corruption]] -- Both mental and physical.
* [[The Dark Side]] -- Which manages to be darker than what passes as the "Light" side in this setting, no mean feat.
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* [[Enemy Civil War]] -- Though they have some interest in the Materium, the [[Forever War|Great Game]], the struggle for dominance in the Immaterium, is the main priority of the Chaos Gods. It's also [[Hopeless War|unwinnable]], because when one becomes stronger, the others gang up on him. And if one were to succeed, Chaos would ultimately stop being, well, Chaos.
* [[Exiled From Continuity]] - Malal, the Renegade God ([[Even Evil Has Standards|Yes, there is one that is considered worse than the other four]]) was dropped from continuity because no one could figure out who held the rights for him. Recent codexes have made mention of renegade Chaos followers who spend more time attacking other Chaos followers, which is Malal's ''modus operandi''.
* [[Four -Temperament Ensemble]]: Khorne corresponds to [[Hot Blooded|Choleric]] and Slaanesh to [[The Hedonist|Sanguine]] pushed to their logical extremes, while Tzeentch and Nurgle respectively twist [[Byronic Hero|Melancholic]] and [[The Stoic|Phlegmatic]].
* [[God Is Evil]] -- And there's ''[[Four Is Death|four]]'' of them.
* [[Our Gods Are Greater]] -- Are they ever.
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** [[Badass in Charge]]: By default, he's sorta the de-factor [[Top God]] of Chaos.
** [[Big Badass Wolf]]: In older editions, the wolf was the animal most frequently associated with Khorne, who was sometimes portrayed as having a wolf's head.
** [[Four Star Badass]]: Khorne himself, being a God of War, is probably the originator for every tactic and stratagem of war ever created. Khornate Chaos Lords are also often this in ADDITION to being [[One -Man Army|unstoppable]] [[The Berserker|berzerkers]].
* [[Battle Cry]]/[[Catch Phrase]]/[[Madness Mantra]]: Khorne has what may be the most famous example of all three in the setting: BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: Can a being of such power truly be judged by mortal ethics? Khorne is the embodiment of rage, to judge him harshly for killing and destroying is like judging a forest fire evil for burning.
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* [[Names to Run Away From Very Fast]]: Everything that has ever been associated with him ever has this. And very deservedly so.
* [[Odd Job Gods]]: Khorne's portfolio covers Death, Violence, Murder, Hatred, Rage, Destruction, Warfare and Bloodshed... but also Courage, Honor, Martial Pride, Protection and, one could argue, Compassion (do not kill those who are weak or unable to fight).
** [[Canon Dis Continuity|Not anymore.]] Now Khorne [[Kill 'Em All|cares not from where the blood flows]], only [[Blood Knight|that it flows.]] Compassion has now been handed over to Nurgle, [[It Got Worse|who puts his own special spin on that particular portfolio.]]
* [[Ominous Floating Castle]]: The Fortress of Khorne, where the Blood God resides upon the Skull Throne.
* [[The Power of Hate]]
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* [[Hermaphrodite]]: Humans consider Slaanesh male, while the Eldar consider Slaanesh female. Slaanesh's traditional depiction is as an impossibly beautiful creature that is a man on its left side and a woman on its right side. More conventional portrayals of this are certainly within its grasp. Most of its worshipers end up like this as well.
* [[Horny Devils]]: Slaanesh and all its daemons are basically this.
* [[ItsIt's All About Me]]: It really is.
* [[It Amused Me|It Pleased Me]]: That they might receive pleasure from the act is the only reason followers of Slaanesh need to do anything.
* [[Kill the God|Kill The Gods]]: After bloating itself on the souls of trillions of the Eldar who spawned it, Slaanesh made a bee-line for the Eldar Pantheon and effortlesly (and elegantly) slaughtered every last one of them, save Isha the Goddess of Life (who was saved / kidnapped by Nurgle) and the Laughing God (who ran like Hell). Khaine, the Eldar God of War and Murder, was slain as well, but survived (so to speak) in the form of [[Literally Shattered Lives]], with countless pieces of himself reborn as Avatars throughout the cosmos.
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* [[Pronoun Trouble]]: Often used as a joke by the fandom.
* [[Red Baron]]: The Dark Prince, the Serpent, She Who Thirsts.
* [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]: [[Averted Trope|Completely averted]] and ''rejected''. The followers of Slaanesh consider [[Safe Word|safety]], [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|sanity]], and [[Rape Is Love|consent]] to be blasphemous concepts for getting between them and [[ItsIt's All About Me|what they want]].
* [[Sense Freak]]: Taken [[Up to Eleven]]. Long time, hyper-desensitized followers will literally ''immolate themselves'', just to feel ''something'' new.
* [[Sex Is Evil]]: An incarnation of this is the simplest way of viewing Slaanesh.
* [[So Beautiful ItsIt's a Curse]]: Slaanesh is described as so beautiful that merely glancing at it can make you fall in love with it, to the extent you will sell your soul to Slaanesh right then and there without hesitation. Slaanesh, of course, does not view this as a curse.
* [[The Perfectionist]]
* [[Wicked Cultured]]: Slaanesh is not just about physical sensations such as sex and torture, but also enjoying such things as art and music. Generally, though, Slaanesh and his/her followers gradually move more towards the "wicked" part than the "cultured" part as time goes on.
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* [[The Juggernaut]] - Of particular note are the Khornate daemons ''called'' Juggernauts, which resemble flaming, metallic rhinos. Used as mounts, they aren't particularly fast, but hit with the impact of a flaming freight train.
* [[Leave No Witnesses]] - Aetaos'Rau'Keres, an ancient daemon of Tzeentch with a terrible case of [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder]]. He's murdered everybody, mortal and demon alike, who knows anything about his [[I Know Your True Name|true nature]]. The only reason he's still "loyal" is because Tzeentch is the only person left in the universe who could sell out his secret.
* [[Multi -Armed and Dangerous]] - Keepers of Secrets, the Greater Daemons of Slaanesh, possess two regular arms and two pincher arms.
* [[Nipple and Dimed]] - The 4th Edition models for [[Horny Devils|Slaaneshi Daemonettes]] aroused... controversy by eschewing the previous versions' [[Chainmail Bikini|Chainmail Bikinis]]. Some models even featured three sets of breasts (this is ''Chaos'', after all), including Steeds of Slaanesh, which are nonhumanoid serpent-like creatures. As of 5th Edition, however, the Daemonettes have been retooled as more androgynous, and either have corsets or don't need them.
* [[Papa Wolf]] -- Some greater daemons of Nurgle will flip out if you try to harm the little nurglings.
* [[Rain of Blood]] -- Khorne, through the actions of his champions. Also sometimes literally, if the Daemons section of the 5e rulebook is to be believed. There were apparently exploding, shrieking skulls in there, too.
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]] -- Pink Horrors are energetic and happy, Blue Horrors are grumpy.
* [[World of Chaos]] - Daemon Worlds, natch.
 
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|| '''Death Guard''' || Putrid Green || [[Grim Reaper|Mortarion]] || [[Body Horror|Diseased]] || Relentless Advancement, Straight Assault Tactics || Nurgle || Typhus ||
|| '''Thousand Sons''' || Blue and Gold || [[Sorcerous Overlord|Magnus the Red]] || [[The Chessmaster|Manipulating]]* || [[Psychic Powers]] || Tzeentch || Ahzek Ahriman ||
|| '''Emperor's Children''' || Purple-Pink || [[White -Haired Pretty Boy|Fulgrim]] || [[The Hedonist|Hedonistic]] || [[Make Me Wanna Shout|Sonic Weaponry]] || Slaanesh || Lucius the Eternal, Fabius Bile ||
|| '''Alpha Legion''' || Blue || [[Creepy Twins|Alpharius/Omegon]] || [[Combat Pragmatist|Sneaky]] || Multiple strikes from all sides, covert ops, use of cultist activity || [[Reverse Mole|Loyal?]] || Unknown ||
|| '''Night Lords''' || Dark Blue || [[Vigilante Man|Konrad Curze]] [[Serial Killer Killer|the Night Haunter]] || [[Mook Horror Show|Terrorising]] || Stealth/terror tactics || None || Zso Sahaal, Talos ||
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* [[An Axe to Grind]] - Many a follower of Khorne favors Chainaxes. Angron wielded two Chainaxes called "Gorefather" and "Gorechild", and later gave Gorechild to Kharn.
* [[Animated Armor]] - Almost all Thousand Sons marines have had their bodies rendered to dust by a spell, the only thing holding their soul to the mortal realm is [[Soul Jar|their armor]], which moves according to their will.
* [[Anti -Villain]] -- Magnus the Red is revealed to be one in an exceptionally tragic way.
** Possibly also Alpharius/Omegon. Or not. It's confusing.
** Lorgar far more so than any other in the setting.
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* [[The Evil Prince]] -- Horus, the first and most favored son of the Emperor and the aptly named Daemon Princes, who vie for the favor of the Dark Gods and control of the various Daemon Worlds.
* [[Evil Sorcerer]] - Chaos Sorcerers, naturally enough. The most famous of their number is Ahzek Ahriman of the Thousand Sons, a formidable psyker who was exiled for accidentally turning most of the legion into [[Animated Armor|walking suits]] of [[Power Armor]].
* [[Face Heel Turn]] -- The biggest example would be Horus. The brightest hope of all humanity since the Emperor, beloved by all of mankind, a peerless warrior and sublime statesman. The very best that humanity could ever be...is almost killed and shown Scrooge-like visions of a future where he is forgotten and his Father is worshipped as a God across a million worlds. Cue instant patricidal hatred, and the beginnings of a rebellion that would eventually damn the Galaxy into a slow decay of labyrinthine bureaucracy, never ending bloodshed, and, perhaps most tragically, no future for mankind. In other words...[[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy|exactly what he saw]].)
** He hasn't quite been forgotten, even by the Imperial Guard; a character in the [[Ciaphas Cain]] ('''HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!''') book ''Caves of Ice'' describes a recently-shot Ork as being "deader than Horus". Also, officers with the rank of "Warmaster" (Horus's old title) often change it to something else to avoid the unpleasant associations with the title.
** His name also appears to be a curse in some circles; in ''[[Damnatus]]'' Wodan comments angrily "Where the Horus are we now?", and one of the [[Ciaphas Cain|Cain]] books uses the phrase "and Horus take the hindmost" in the same way one might use hell or the devil.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]] -- Horus's BSOD was so epic, it ended up destroying the galaxy-wide empire he'd fought so hard to build in the first place.
* [[I Am Spartacus]] - The Alpha Legion's members shape their appearance to that of their Primarch and adopt his identity. This combined with the fact that Alpharius had an identical twin brother casts doubts on the Imperium's claims of killing him.
* [[I Ate What?]] -- Most Chaos Marines are [[Clingy Costume|fused into their power armor,]] which recycles the Space Marine's waste into a bland, tasteless nutrient paste.
* [[Instrument of Murder]] -- Noise Marines.
* [[Irony]]: ''They will be untouched by plague or disease, no sickness will blight them.'' Tell that to the Death Guard.
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* [[Mecha Mooks]] - The Thousand Sons legion was suffering from high levels of mutation, leading one sorcerer to cast a spell to remove the problem. It succeeded too well, for now the rank-and-file are little more than animate suits of [[Powered Armor|power armor]] containing a bit of dust and the [[Soul Jar|trapped souls]] of their wearers.
* [[Musical Assassin]] - Some servants of Slaanesh become Noise Marines, who have overindulged their senses so much that only extreme cacophony has any effect on them. In battle they wield deadly sonic weapons that in earlier editions resembled [[The Power of Rock|electric guitars]].
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] -- Magnus the Red uses sorcery to try to warn the Emperor of Horus' rebellion. The Emperor, angry at Magnus both for using sorcery and for making such an accusation at his favorite Primarch, orders Leman Russ to go arrest him. Cue an entire Space Marine legion turning to Chaos.
* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]] - Ten thousand years later, the Traitor Legions have yet to run out of boltgun rounds. Justified with Chaos forge worlds, supply raids, and the fact that the Warp sneers at concepts such as "causality" and "logic."
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]:
** When the fighting starts, Kharn stops caring whose side you're on.
** The minor Warband known as The Purge. Unlike the average follower of Nurgle, who is either depressed or jolly, they hate life in all forms and seek to annihilate it.
* [[One -Man Army]] - Say what you will Abbadon the Despoiler's strategic abilities, but in hand to hand combat, he is the most dangerous ''thing'' in the entire game. Whole squads will be thrown at him and all they do is merely slow him down.
** Kharn the Betrayer arguably matches him in those terms. And in the backstory, he single-handedly shattered ''two'' entire Chaos Legions.
* [[One -Winged Angel]] - Chaos Lords have two possible fates: the strong-willed and successful leaders collect enough daemonic gifts from their patrons to eventually ascend as Daemon Princes themselves. The others' physical forms collapse from the mutations being bestowed upon them and revert to [[And I Must Scream|mindless, mewling Chaos Spawn]].
** Reflected on the tabletop, Chaos Space Marines tend to get some really good bonuses from Chaos Marks. Berzerkers, for example, tend to be among the best assault units in the game, if not ''the'' best. Chaos Spawn however, are often seen as [[Joke Character|joke units]].
* [[Orcus On His Throne]] - Of the surviving Traitor Primarchs, only Angron of the World Eaters has actually left his Daemon World to wage war on the Imperium.
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* [[Retcon]] - The Chaos god Malal, representing Chaos' tendency to defeat itself, was quietly put on a shelf since Games Workshop was unsure who owned the copyright for him. The previous edition of the Chaos Codex, however, [[Continuity Nod|hints that he has not been entirely forgotten]]. Sadly, the current edition does not.
** Also with the Fallen. Members of the Dark Angels who rebelled against Lion El'Jonnson after the Horus Heresy, they were originally said to have fallen to Chaos, yet recent stories have shown that not all of them follow Chaos.
* [[Self -Fulfilling Prophecy]] -- Horus rebelled against the Emperor because he had a vision of a dystopic future where the Emperor is venerated as a god. His rebellion resulted exactly in that.
* [[Sense Loss Sadness]] -- While the Slaaneshis may be the most famous, this is ultimately why Chaos Space Marines hate to become Chaos Dreadnoughts. Deprived of the sensations of battle, Chaos Dreadnoughts succumb to built up psychosis (more than the average follower of Chaos will display) and attack both friend and foe in a blind rage. To keep them from destroying their Warband, most Chaos Dreadnoughts are restrained in chains (which have been blessed by the Chaos Gods to prevent them from being broken). For a Chaos Dreadnought to retain a sense of sanity is a major act of willpower on their part.
* [[Sex Is Violence]] -- To the Emperor's Children. While they would take offense at the idea that they are as [[Blood Lust|bloodthirsty]] as Khorne's followers, they do take an almost sexual joy in engaging in combat. To them, war is like a beautiful symphony, a heart-rending ballad, and a stirring validation of themselves, and see it as one of the highest pleasures that they can experience.
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* [[The Unfettered]] - For all their superhuman power, Space Marines live in strict self-denial. When one goes renegade and gives in to his selfish, baser urges, the results can be terrifying.
* [[Unwitting Pawn]]: Poor Fulgrim.
* [[White -Haired Pretty Boy]] -- Fulgrim, Primarch of the Emperor's Children, according to the lore.
* [[Wicked Cultured]] -- Pre-heresy, the Emperor's Children were taught that things like art, literature, poetry, and music represented the height of humanity's excellence, and to safeguard them was to safeguard what was best in humanity. Post-heresy, their ideas of what constitutes beauty, truth, and brilliance have become so warped that no one else would recognize what they appreciate as "culture".
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]] - "Sanity is for the ''weak!''"
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* [[Corrupt Church]] - One of their HQ choices is a heretic leader.
* [[Cult]] - Many Lost and the Damned are essentially Chaos cultists. In truth, the entire army list is an expansion of the Cultist choice available to Chaos Space Marines.
* [[Demoted to Extra]] - Lost and the Damned didn't get an army codex for Fifth edition - unless you buy the [[Crack Isis Cheaper|Imperial Armour books]]
* [[EverythingsEverything's Deader With Zombies]] - One of the troops choices is a 'plague zombie horde' fielded in units of up to 50 making it possible to field [[Zombie Apocalypse|up to 300]] in a normal army. Given the right support they prove suprisingly effective.
* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]] - Something many of these people should have remembered.
* [[Feel No Pain]] - Khorne's followers are too furious to notice, Nurgle's followers are too rotten and corrupt to notice, while Slaanesh's followers notice and enjoy it thoroughly.
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** Psycho-fanatic killer [[Unwilling Roboticisation|cyberzombies]] made out of [[Body Horror|lobotomized criminals]] are [[Not So Different|perfectly okay for the Imperium to use]], though.
* [[Palette Swap]] - It is entirely possible (and often necessary in lieu of their own codex) to field a Lost and the Damned army of traitor guardsmen, using Imperial Guard rules, units, and equipment, different only in their allegiance to the Ruinous Powers. This is pretty reasonable in the setting, and offers a player some interesting options for converting and painting "profane" versions of normal Imperial Guard.
** [[Crack Isis Cheaper|If you have the money]], Forge World, a Games Workshop subsidiary, [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Chaos/CHAOS_RENEGADES offers a good number of Chaotic counterparts to Loyalist Imperial Guard units], as part of a Vraksian Renegade Militia army list, but they can just as easily be used with the Imperial Guard codex.
* [[Zombie Apocalypse]] - Nurglite Plague Zombies are a troops choice.
 
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