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* [[Just Eat Him]]: What the Tyranids do.
* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: As it's prone to doing, ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' takes this [[Up to Eleven]]; depending on the source, those stumpy Imperial fighters with leading edges a scale foot thick and bombers that look like the bastard offspring of a B-17 and an Abrams are ''single step to orbit spaceships'' which are just as at home fighting in the vacuum of space as they are in atmosphere. Even [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/File:Arvus.jpg whatever this is] can hit escape velocity, because air resistance is heresy.
** Most are modeled to resemble WWII propeller fighters but with jets instead of propellers, yet they supposedly can achieve speeds in excess of Mach 2. Take the Imperial Navy's air fighters. Real world aerodynamics would conspire to prevent this (though ridiculously tough 40K materials in turn would conspire to prevent real life aerodynamics); though enough brute force can make anything fly, it has rather greater trouble making anything ''turn'' (you don't put the engine in the front in supersonic fighters, because it moves the Center of Weight fore of the center of pressure, and would make the fighter so stable in supersonic flight that no amount of control force would allow it to maneuver). Let's not even get started on the Orks, Chaos and Dark Eldar aircraft, this entry would reach monstrous proportions (well, more monstrous then it already has). The only aircraft that could maybe fly, and that's a very big maybe, are the Eldar and Tau. And that excludes [https://web.archive.org/web/20131124153441/http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Warhammer-40000/Tau/TAU-AIRCRAFT/TAU-ORCA-DROPSHIP.html that Tau dropship that looks like gussied-up cinderblock], obviously.
*** The Ork planes don't fly because they make sense, they fly because the Ork themselves think they can fly, in the same manner their trukks run faster when painted red.
** Also, let's hear it for the Thunderhawk, an SSTO troop transporter with a scale 16-inch spinal gun that isn't under any kind of faring and is only capable of firing ''above'' the aircraft. This along with the slender midsection presumably makes the Thunderhawk the only troop aircraft to be able to land infantry in two places at the same time.
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* [[Kick the Dog]]: Everyone, to everything, all the time.
* [[Kill'Em All]]: This one was a no-brainer.
* [[Killer Rabbit]]: The Catachan Barking Toad, a large, [http://uk.games-workshop.com/download/popup.htm?/warhammer40000/creature-feature/images/toad-big.jpg sad-looking amphibian]{{Dead link}} sometimes dubbed the [[Memetic Mutation|"Ronery Toad"]]. If attacked, hurt or even surprised, it [[Taking You with Me|explodes into a cloud of obscenely virulent toxins]], killing absolutely everything in a kilometer-wide cloud of death and poisoning the earth so that nothing will ever grow there again (yet somehow does ''not'' create clearings in Catachan jungles at the same time... sigh...).
* [[Kill It with Fire]]: ''Imperial government policy'' towards ''everything.'' The Salamanders chapter of Space Marines and the Witch Hunters specialize in fire based weapons. The Sororitas are also [[Burn the Witch|very fond]] of flame-based weaponry. On the Eldar side, the Fire Dragons kill tanks with fire, specifically with fusion guns and firepikes.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: GW's [[Old Shame]], the Squats.
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* [[Lethal Joke Character]]: The Apocalypse expansion includes rules for a Warlord Titan, four times the size of the biggest model they actually sell with the point cost of an entire army and almost certainly meant as a joke. Then some people actually scratch-built them, and they are so unbalanced that an equivalent-cost force of super-heavy tanks and artillery can't even get through the shields before being wiped out.
** And if that's not enough, one of the datafax on the Games Workshop website is for the ''Emperor'' Titan, which is best modeled by someone [[Cosplay|dressing up as the Titan]] and climbing on the table. It's all fun and games until someone's whole army gets squished....
*** To demonstrate, [http://www.forgeworld.co.uk/Images/Product/AlternativeFW/xlarge/ImpReavAlt24.jpg here]{{Dead link}} is an official ''Reaver''-class Titan miniature on scale with other 40k models. [http://www.puolenkuunpelit.com/tieto/galleria/GW/Butchery3/kuva5.jpg Here] is a custom-built ''Emperor''-class Titan in the same scale.
* [[The Library of Babel]]: The Black Library.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/BrightHammer40k BrightHammer 40k]. For starters, the Emperor is rocking a goatee, Slaanesh is all about love & kindness instead of sadism, and there is such a thing as peaceful diplomacy with Orks.
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