Warhammer 40,000/Tropes/I to P: Difference between revisions

** Or, to quote 1d4chan, "Join the Imperial Guard or die. Then die."

* [[Judge, Jury, and Executioner]]: Several organisations and individuals with this power. The Adeptus Arbites who enforce Imperial law (and who [[Captain Ersatz|rather resemble]] the [[Judge Dredd|Judges of Mega City One]], although this is superficial: according to ''[[Dark Heresy]]'', abandoning due process and using summary execution is the worst heresy an Arbites officer can commit), the [[In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You|Commissars]] of the [[Redshirt Army|Imperial Guard]], the [[Church Militant|Ecclesiarchy]] (who tend to favour [[Fate Worse Than Death|unusual punishments]]) and, of course, the Inquisition. Innocence proves ''nothing.''

** Unusual punishments...or [[Kill It with Fire]].

* [[The Juggernaut]]: Necrons, Tyranids, and the <s> Imperial Guard</s> Space Marines. There's also a breed of Khornate daemon actually ''called'' the Juggernaut; for the uninitiated, it's the thing that looks like an angry metal rhino.

** The Orks are too stupid and violent to get any widespread scientific progress or anything else outside of what would [[More Dakka|get them a louder "boom"]] or deliver them to the places where fighting goes (but sometimes explodes halfway there). Meks have rather kunnin' power field... but mostly it's creative application of [[Genetic Memory]], which is why their designs are mostly uniform.

** Averted by the Tyranids and the Tau.

* [[Mental World]]: The Warp.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Oddly enough, the majority of the background material and fiction does ''not'' fall to this trope, although rules modifications and new army lists are often accused of changing stats only to boost sales of certain models, and both the monthly magazine ''White Dwarf'' and the Games Workshop website have gradually become less hobby supplements and more miniatures catalogues.

* [[Nightmarish Factory]]: Mars and forge worlds in general.

* [[Night of the Living Mooks]]: Necrons.

* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: *deep breath*:

** Repentant fanatical bondage nuns with chainsaw flamethrowers.

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: The Imperial ideal. True to real life, many are also corrupt, incompetent, treasonous, or all-around bastards.

* [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]]: Ten thousand years of continuous war, and the Traitor Marines are ''still'' in bolter shells. This has been made somewhat less ridiculous in recent fluff, with mention of Chaos forge worlds, and a change in focus towards Renegade (recently-corrupted) Marines to distract from the question of how the original Traitor Legions even still ''exist''. And since they do reside in the Eye of Terror, where "physics" is even more of a joke than elsewhere, they have ''literal'' [[Offscreen Villain Dark Matter]].

** Feral World Ogryns, from the abhuman rules in ''White Dwarf'', don't even get the shotguns.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The general logical conclusion from infantry squads taking a leadership test in the tabletop. While some examples are psychic powers messing with them, it's otherwise watching the rest of their squad get killed horribly and/or in quick succession and reasonably figuring that they'll be next.

* [[Plot Armor]]: All races to an extent but some tend to have more than others. The most extreme example of this trope are the Tau, which earns them a certain degree of hate from the fan base.

* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]: You know you're on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism|extreme end on the cynical side of the scale]] when this role is filled by the [[Blood Knight|rampaging, murderous hordes of Orks]], whose idea of a good time is to indiscriminately kill anything, including each other, and introducing people's internal organs to daylight.

* [[Politically Incorrect Hero]]: Subversion in that the Imperium is only considered heroic in comparison to the other factions in the galaxy.

* [[Politically-Incorrect Villain]]: Considering the trope listed above, it's more like Politically Incorrect ''Everyone''.