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* [[Recycled in Space]]: Began as a [[Recycled in Space]] version of ''[[Warhammer]]'', which predated it by four years, but has over time diverged from it. Now contains a [[Recycled in Space]] of nearly every fantasy and SF trope imaginable, turned [[Darker and Edgier]] to a ridiculous degree and armed to the teeth.

* [[Red Eyes Take Warning]]: Orks' eye colour tends to be red, with some slight variations. Things like bionic eyes and Space Marine helmets can also have red lenses, and the entire Salamanders chapter has red eyes due to an interaction between their geneseed and the high radiation of their homeworld.

* [[Red Oni Blue Oni]]: Angron and Kharn, respectively. The fact that the Blue Oni is ''still'' a raving fanatical berserker should tell you something.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Angron and Kharn, respectively. The fact that the Blue Oni is ''still'' a raving fanatical berserker should tell you something.

* [[The Red Planet]]: Home to the [[Cargo Cult|Adeptus Mechanicus]].

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: One of the fundamental concepts behind the [[Church Militant]]'s idea of "[[Fate Worse Than Death|penance]]."

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** There was a lot less romanticization/fetishization of the Space Marines in ''Rogue Trader'' - they were clearly [[Badass]] mofos, and the most dangerous fighting force in the setting, but they were also played as the most brutal and insane individuals in a brutal, insane universe. In fact, most were recruited from psychotic murderers on feral planets. Most of their transhuman elements (such as all those extra organs) were also added in later.

*** The Soul Drinkers novel ''Crimson Tears'' has a Guard general describing them pretty much exactly like that.

** Ollanius Pious, in first edition, was an [[Badass Normal|ordinary]] [[Redshirt Army|Guardsman]] who pulled a [[You Shall Not Pass]] on a DEMIGOD. Later editions retconned him out of existence. [[They Changed It Now It Sucks|The fandom most definitely did NOT rejoice.]]

** Ollanius Pious, in first edition, was an [[Badass Normal|ordinary]] [[Redshirt Army|Guardsman]] who pulled a [[You Shall Not Pass]] on a DEMIGOD. Later editions retconned him out of existence. [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|The fandom most definitely did NOT rejoice.]]

** New models and characters are routinely retconned into previously discussed events. The Tyrannid Swarmlord character was recently retconned into leading most of their major battles back to first contact, and the new vehicles in the most recent IG Codex were now mixed into their armies all along.

** The C'Tan were retconned again with the fifth edition Necron book, radically so. Instead of completely dominating the Necrons and using them to harvest the galaxy for life-energy, they were betrayed by the Necrons and shattered into shards that the Necrons use in the campaign to conquer the galaxy. How the rest of the canon will be altered to deal with this change remains to be seen.

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** Apparently Pariahs, people who are literally born without a soul and thus have no presence in the warp, can turn other people into this, as their innate lack of a soul drives normal people mad, or at least REALLY irritates other people for no apparent reason.

* [[Rubber Forehead Aliens]]: Eldar resemble tall, thin humans with pointy ears. Also, Tau are just stocky grey humans with funny feet and faces. [[Justified]] and [[Lampshaded]] in Xenology.

* [[Rule ~~Thirty Four~~]]: Sexy Tyranids, loli Daemonettes, Cultist-chan, the Ronery Wych, Faptau... among others. ''Beware'' [[Nightmare Fuel|some of the stuff]] that comes out of [[Image Boards|/tg/]].

* [[Rule 34]]: Sexy Tyranids, loli Daemonettes, Cultist-chan, the Ronery Wych, Faptau... among others. ''Beware'' [[Nightmare Fuel|some of the stuff]] that comes out of [[Image Boards|/tg/]].

** In some ways Slaanesh is the in-universe personification of this.

* [[Rule of Funny]]: The Orks. Seriously, they're [[Bloody Hilarious]]. Just read their Codex, any Codex.

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* [[Scale of Scientific Sins]]: Unsurprisingly, pings on all 7 sins.

* [[Scary Black Man]]: The Salamanders are an entire chapter of this, and they're one of the nicer chapters of Space Marines.

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: ''All'' the factions, even the Imperium. Yep, we are [[God Emperor|Scary]] [[Church Militant|Dogmatic]] ''[[Humans Are Bastards|Humans]]'':

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]: ''All'' the factions, even the Imperium. Yep, we are [[God-Emperor|Scary]] [[Church Militant|Dogmatic]] ''[[Humans Are Bastards|Humans]]'':

** The Imperium of Man and its subfactions: all xenocidal and imperialist, [[We Have Reserves|as happy to wipe out billions of its own people]] as it is to exterminate entire alien races.

** Chaos: [[Cosmic Horror|Extra-dimensional malevolent gods and daemons]] that are capable of crossing into the physical realm and [[The Corruption|corrupting the minds and bodies of sentient species]]. Four principal Chaos Gods and countless lesser deities and daemon princes, served by billions of cultists and thousands of ancient daemon-corrupted [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] who rebelled against the Imperium during a galaxy-splitting civil war ten thousand years before the setting. [[Card Carrying Villain|Unquestionably evil]], delighting in murder and depravity. The four main gods are born from the emotions of hope, love, bravery and acceptance; this should tell you most of what you need to know about 40k's place on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]].

** Chaos: [[Cosmic Horror|Extra-dimensional malevolent gods and daemons]] that are capable of crossing into the physical realm and [[The Corruption|corrupting the minds and bodies of sentient species]]. Four principal Chaos Gods and countless lesser deities and daemon princes, served by billions of cultists and thousands of ancient daemon-corrupted [[Super Soldier|Super Soldiers]] who rebelled against the Imperium during a galaxy-splitting civil war ten thousand years before the setting. [[Card-Carrying Villain|Unquestionably evil]], delighting in murder and depravity. The four main gods are born from the emotions of hope, love, bravery and acceptance; this should tell you most of what you need to know about 40k's place on the [[Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism]].

** [[Our Elves Are Better|Craftworld Eldar]]: Dying elder race with massive superiority complex. Through their past depravity, they are responsible for creating the Chaos god Slaanesh. Not quite xenocidal, but consider the deaths of <s>millions</s> hundreds of billions of humans to safeguard a few hundred Eldar lives more than a fair trade, and have the [[Psychic Powers|psychic]] future-prediction and [[The Chessmaster|manipulative skills]] to make that sort of thing a reality rather than a dream. As an example, they tricked the Ork warlord Ghazghkull Thraka into attacking the human planet of Armageddon, setting off the Second and Third War for Armageddon, killing ''billions'' of humans, to prevent Ghazghkull from attacking one of their Craftworlds (world-ships that harbour the refugees of their lost empire).

*** Dark Eldar: You think the Craftworld Eldar are bad? Try their Dark Elf-esque [[Evil Counterpart]]. They ''still'' practice the same depravity that led to their race's fall. Sadistic in the extreme, need to [[Your Soul Is Mine|feed on others' souls]] to avoid their own being devoured by the Chaos God Slaanesh. Worth noting that unlike the Craftworld Eldar, who could be considered [[Jerkass Woobie|Jerkass Woobies]], the Dark Eldar have ''no'' excuse for their depravity. They actually '''choose''' to be [[Complete Monster|Complete Monsters]].

*** Harlequins: A meta-faction with members drawn more or less equally from the other three factions, who form troupes of wandering [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|bards, historians, performers, and high-speed close-combat specialists]] who are [[Monster Clown|feared and respected]] by the elite troops of all sentient races, including their own. All of this is, of course, secondary to their "Great Work", which is the re-uniting of the other Eldar factions and hastening the [[Have You Seen My God|creation of Ynnead]], the Eldar god of death, who will destroy the Chaos gods and cause the Eldar race to be reborn as near-invicible demigods. They also have many weapons that can kill in [[Cruel and Unusual Death|extremely gory and unpleasant ways]], including a monofilament wire that inserts into a man's body and flails about, tearing his insides apart. Why use these horrible weapons? [[Can't Argue With Elves|For reasons your puny human mind cannot possibly comprehend]].

*** Harlequins: A meta-faction with members drawn more or less equally from the other three factions, who form troupes of wandering [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|bards, historians, performers, and high-speed close-combat specialists]] who are [[Monster Clown|feared and respected]] by the elite troops of all sentient races, including their own. All of this is, of course, secondary to their "Great Work", which is the re-uniting of the other Eldar factions and hastening the [[Have You Seen My God?|creation of Ynnead]], the Eldar god of death, who will destroy the Chaos gods and cause the Eldar race to be reborn as near-invicible demigods. They also have many weapons that can kill in [[Cruel and Unusual Death|extremely gory and unpleasant ways]], including a monofilament wire that inserts into a man's body and flails about, tearing his insides apart. Why use these horrible weapons? [[Can't Argue With Elves|For reasons your puny human mind cannot possibly comprehend]].

** Orks: Genetically engineered by a [[Precursors|precursor species]] as a biological weapon. [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Peculiar biology]] (see [[Plant Aliens]]), personalities based on ridiculously exaggerated football hooligan stereotypes, all "[[Mono Gender Monsters|boyz]]" and speak with [[Funetik Aksent|Funetik Aksents]]. Highly [[Psychic Powers|psychic]], but not aware of it - Ork technology [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|only works because the Orks THINK it should]]. Violently sociopathic, prone to infighting, and genocidal, they will come on your home planet and tear you and your whole family apart. Why? [[War for Fun And Profit|Because they find it so fun]]!

** Orks: Genetically engineered by a [[Precursors|precursor species]] as a biological weapon. [[Bizarre Alien Biology|Peculiar biology]] (see [[Plant Aliens]]), personalities based on ridiculously exaggerated football hooligan stereotypes, all "[[Mono-Gender Monsters|boyz]]" and speak with [[Funetik Aksent|Funetik Aksents]]. Highly [[Psychic Powers|psychic]], but not aware of it - Ork technology [[It Runs On Nonsensoleum|only works because the Orks THINK it should]]. Violently sociopathic, prone to infighting, and genocidal, they will come on your home planet and tear you and your whole family apart. Why? [[War for Fun And Profit|Because they find it so fun]]!

** Tau: Technologically advanced humanoids with a rigidly caste-based society. The Ethereal caste rule over the [[Elemental Rock Paper Scissors|Earth, Air, Fire and Water]] castes, who are all utterly loyal and devoted (one theory has it the control is based on pheromones). They see themselves as [[Benevolent Alien Invasion|benevolent imperialists]] fighting religiously for the 'Greater Good,' and are singled out for being the only faction that seriously engages in diplomacy or offers anything other than genocidal total war. Despite a thing for [[Unreliable Narrator|(allegedly)]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|mass sterilisation, warmongering and concentration camps]], they really are the nicest people you'll find in this galaxy. Imperialist, expansionist, slightly fanatical, ("slightly" in this setting meaning that only one mech per army can be upgraded to [[Taking You With Me|a suicide bomber]]), nothing will get in the way of their manifest destiny to conquer the galaxy in the name of the Greater Good.

** Tau: Technologically advanced humanoids with a rigidly caste-based society. The Ethereal caste rule over the [[Elemental Rock-Paper-Scissors|Earth, Air, Fire and Water]] castes, who are all utterly loyal and devoted (one theory has it the control is based on pheromones). They see themselves as [[Benevolent Alien Invasion|benevolent imperialists]] fighting religiously for the 'Greater Good,' and are singled out for being the only faction that seriously engages in diplomacy or offers anything other than genocidal total war. Despite a thing for [[Unreliable Narrator|(allegedly)]] [[Utopia Justifies the Means|mass sterilisation, warmongering and concentration camps]], they really are the nicest people you'll find in this galaxy. Imperialist, expansionist, slightly fanatical, ("slightly" in this setting meaning that only one mech per army can be upgraded to [[Taking You With Me|a suicide bomber]]), nothing will get in the way of their manifest destiny to conquer the galaxy in the name of the Greater Good.

** Tyranids: Extra-galactic locusts in apparently limitless numbers. If they take over a planet, they [[Planet Eater|devour all organic material, eat the soil, drain the geothermal heat from the planet's core, drink the oceans and suck up the atmosphere]], leaving a cold airless rock. ''[[Horde of Alien Locusts|Hungry]]''. Extremely [[Psychic Powers|psychic]], with the [[Psychic Static|psychic chatter]] that forms their [[Hive Mind]] being so powerful that their mere presence drives psychics insane and interferes with technology that uses psychics - including interstellar travel and communications. [[Bug War|Bug Wars]] crop up wherever they go, with the suggestion that the three galaxy-eatingly-enormous, near-unstoppable Hive Fleets are just ''scouts'' for [[The War Has Just Begun|the real invasion]].

** Necrons: Ancient undead metal constructs powered by the souls of long-dead aliens that hate all living things. Ridiculously advanced technology, [[Implacable Man|almost impossible to kill]], and [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal down to the last bacterium]].

* [[Scenery Gorn]]: About half of the art. A fair proportion of the other half is just regular [[Gorn]].

* [[Schizo Tech]]: Planets in the Imperium of Man range from Stone Age-level Feral Worlds to hyper-tech Forge Worlds, and pretty much all technology levels in between. Even within a given world, examples of [[Schizo Tech]] often abound: it's not uncommon for an adept to ride a flying bus into work and then spend the day copying numbers onto rolls of parchment with a quill. And of course, "[[Memetic Mutation|DRIVE ME CLOSER! I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY SWORD!!]]"

* [[Science Related Memetic Disorder]]: Orks.

* [[Science-Related Memetic Disorder]]: Orks.

* [[Sci Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale]]: Has a love-hate relationship with this one. At times, distances, timescales and the number of soldiers needed to launch a sector-spanning crusade are handled "realistically", but just as often a few hundred Space Marines defend - or ''purge'' - an ''entire world''. But then again, they are [[Super Soldier|Space]] [[Badass Army|Marines]]...

** The models also have some scale issues; for example, the Leman Russ tank, compared to a Guardsman figure, has a 16-inch main gun and two 3-inch repeating cannons.

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* [[Sentient Cosmic Force]]: The Warp is this.

* [[Separate but Identical]]: All races suffer really badly from this, although it's being gradually fixed with different Craftworlds, bio-augmentation, regimental doctrines, etc.

* [[Serious Business]]: The [[Fan Dumb]], of course, [[Crack Is Cheaper|but considering what this game costs]], you can kinda see their perspective.

* [[Serious Business]]: The [[Fan Dumb]], of course, [[Crack is Cheaper|but considering what this game costs]], you can kinda see their perspective.

* [[Sexy Jester]]: Eldar Harlequins, though most of their opponents are too busy screaming in pain and terror to notice.

* [[Shadow Dictator]]: The God-Emperor of Mankind. The ''official'' story is that he was mortally wounded in a duel with Horus and has been hooked up to the Golden Throne and [[Not Quite Dead|preserved in a state between life and death]] ever since, but sometimes it's alluded that he might be, in fact, long dead. Of course, those making said statements generally happen to be enemies of the Imperium, so it's impossible to know whether or not they're true.

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* [[Shared Universe]]: Particularly in the novels; most fans regard anything written by some authors, especially C.S. Goto, as automatically non-canon.

* [[Sharpened to A Single Atom]]: Most combat blades have an edge one molecule thick. This includes combat knives, swords, some types of ammunition, etc.

* [[Shiny Looking Spaceships]]: Eldar and Tau, mostly.

* [[Shiny-Looking Spaceships]]: Eldar and Tau, mostly.

* [[Shock and Awe]]: Necron ranged weapons typically fire bolts of green lightning that [[Disintegrator Ray|strip away the target's flesh one molecular layer at a time]]. A great many psychic powers also involve using bolts of lightning to fry people.

* [[Shoot the Dog]]: Happens very, very often in the Imperium. One of a commissar's duties is to maintain unit cohesion and discipline - by execution, if necessary. Discovered psykers are usually killed to stop them getting daemon-possessed and destroying worlds, fed to the Astronomicon to preserve it and the Emperor, or put through brutal conditioning to serve the Imperium as "sanctioned" psykers. And, if that weren't bad enough, in extreme catastrophes ''planets'' are subjected to Exterminatus in order to prevent the taint from spreading and put the inhabitants out of their misery. To highlight how monumentally fucked up this galaxy is, people are actually ''awarded medals'' for such acts.

* [[Short Range Long Range Weapon]]: Shamelessly prevalent in the tabletop game, even the artillery. The worst offender is the Imperial Guard Basilisk, whose range is both unnecessarily long for the tabletop game - twenty ''feet'', several times the length of the average game table - while also far, far too short for an artillery piece of that size.

* [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon]]: Shamelessly prevalent in the tabletop game, even the artillery. The worst offender is the Imperial Guard Basilisk, whose range is both unnecessarily long for the tabletop game - twenty ''feet'', several times the length of the average game table - while also far, far too short for an artillery piece of that size.

** As of the 5th edition Imperial Guard codex, the Basilisk has passed its crown to the Deathstrike Missile, an ''intercontinental ballistic missile'' with a range of 12" - 960". In other words, an ICBM with a maximum range of less than a mile, that can also be used to shoot at people standing ''sixty feet'' from the launch site. [[Short Range Long Range Weapon]] indeed. (As of the latest errata, the Deathstrike's maximum range is now officially unlimited, but it can still shoot people standing just off the launch pad.)

** As of the 5th edition Imperial Guard codex, the Basilisk has passed its crown to the Deathstrike Missile, an ''intercontinental ballistic missile'' with a range of 12" - 960". In other words, an ICBM with a maximum range of less than a mile, that can also be used to shoot at people standing ''sixty feet'' from the launch site. [[Short-Range Long-Range Weapon]] indeed. (As of the latest errata, the Deathstrike's maximum range is now officially unlimited, but it can still shoot people standing just off the launch pad.)

** Apparently when asked why they changed this, the designers said "If you are playing on a table where this actually makes a difference, then good for you."

* [[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.

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* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: A dearth of female special characters usable in the game proper, although the fluff doesn't suffer from this so badly.

** Turned on its head with Dawn Of War II Retribution which has half the playable Eldar being women and the Imperial Guard is run by a female inquisitor.

* [[Some Call Me Tim]]: Some call me Commander Farsight (Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr or O'Shovah for short) . Standard practice with Tau.

* [[Some Call Me... Tim]]: Some call me Commander Farsight (Shas'O Vior'la Shovah Kais Mont'yr or O'Shovah for short) . Standard practice with Tau.

** Somewhat averted by Ork ''players'', most of them remember simple manageable names like [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Wazdakka Gutzmek]] or [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka]].

* [[Soul Cutting Blade]]: Force weapons.

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** This troper recalls a card game (in-setting) called Hearts and Titans. No idea whether The Emperor's Tarot is used or not though...

* [[Technopath]]: Eldar are and know it, Ork Meks are but don't, and the Adeptus Mechanicus ''think'' they are.

** They may even be - certainly they are in the tabletop spinoff ''[[Dark Heresy]]''. The amount of [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] going on here is [[Maybe Magic Maybe Mundane|deliberately ambiguous]].

** They may even be - certainly they are in the tabletop spinoff ''[[Dark Heresy]]''. The amount of [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe]] going on here is [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane|deliberately ambiguous]].

* [[Techno Wizard]]: The Adeptus Mechanicus takes the "wizard" part seriously, to boot.

* [[Tele Frag]]: The Ork Shokk Attak Gun - see [[BFG]].

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* [[Ubermensch]]: The Emperor himself.

* [[Ugly Guy Hot Wife]]: Nurgle and Isha.

* [[Ugly Guy, Hot Wife]]: Nurgle and Isha.

* [[Ultimate Evil]]: The Emperor and the Chaos Gods all get this treatment to varying degrees.

* [[Unholy Nuke]]: The game is full of these. Any time Chaos is involved, expect Unholy Nukes to be flying thick and fast.

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* [[Unusual User Interface]]: A lot of Eldar and Imperial gear.

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: Black Templars. Blood Angels. Khorne Berserkers. Even Eldar, when the Avatar is nearby.

* [[Unwanted False Faith]]: The [[God Emperor]] didn't wish to be worshiped and banned any practice of it in the earlier days of the Imperium. There is also a small sect that worships [[Ciaphas Cain]] as the embodied will of the Emperor although Cain has never heard of it.

* [[Unwanted False Faith]]: The [[God-Emperor]] didn't wish to be worshiped and banned any practice of it in the earlier days of the Imperium. There is also a small sect that worships [[Ciaphas Cain]] as the embodied will of the Emperor although Cain has never heard of it.

* [[Up to Eleven]]: '''''Everything.''''' And often to twelve, thirteen and <s>several</s> <s>over nine</s> forty thousand.

* [[Urban Segregation]]: Taken to utter extremes with hive cities.

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* [[War for Fun And Profit]]: The Orks, who go on interstellar sprees that leave billions dead because they're ''fun''. "Orks iz made for fightin' and winnin'."

* [[War God]]: Khorne for Chaos and Khaine for the Eldar.

** The [[God Emperor]] of Mankind probably counts as well.

** The [[God-Emperor]] of Mankind probably counts as well.

* [[The War Has Just Begun]]: Countering the Gotterdammerung of the Eldar and Imperium, increasingly heavy hints have been dropped that the Necrons are just beginning to wake up for their galaxy-wide omnicidal spree and the Tyranid Hive Fleets have barely started to turn their attention on our galaxy.

* [[War Is Hell]]: In some instances, literally.

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*** That's nothing. The imperials (and Chaos) use '''slaves''' to power their ships, by walking on giant stepped axles.

* [[Weapon of Choice]]

** The Imperial Guard almost universally tote [[Frickin Laser Beams|laser weapons]] and [[Tank Goodness|tanks. Lots and lots of tanks]].

** The Imperial Guard almost universally tote [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser weapons]] and [[Tank Goodness|tanks. Lots and lots of tanks]].

** The Space Marines favour [[BFG|bolt weapons]] and [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaws]].

** The Chaos Space Marines prefer ''[[Spikes of Villainy|spiky]]'' bolt weapons and chainsaws. Various specific cults have sonic weapons, chainsaw axes, and ''pus'' as their Weapons of Choice.

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** The Tyranids prefer the tactic of jumping on you and ''eating your face.'' When they're not doing that, they're shooting at you with the usual array of toxic, electrified, high-velocity crystals; angry, life-seeking beetles and brain-eating flesh-borer worms; biologically generated plasma; and, occasionally, dragging you screaming to your doom with lengths of ''[[Hooks and Crooks|flesh hooks]]''.

* [[Weird Science]]

* [[Well Intentioned Extremist]]: The Tau. The "well intentioned" bit is what sets them apart.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: The Tau. The "well intentioned" bit is what sets them apart.

** The Imperium, and the Emperor who created it, could be seen as this. They have committed many, many crimes and exist in several grey areas, but by their efforts, they have created an empire whose subjects can live a life free of Chaos, and even achieve a paradise in death. That's right: an Empire so big it loses entire worlds due to clerical errors, which practices genocide, torture, and murder on a daily basis, whose religion emphasizes hate for aliens and fanatical devotion for its figurehead and puts people to the stake for the slightest bit of doubt... is the best place to live in this galaxy. Think about that.

* [[Well Done Son Guy]]: Several primarchs. Giving up on that was one motive to join the [[Horus Heresy]].

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Several primarchs. Giving up on that was one motive to join the [[Horus Heresy]].

* [[Wetware CPU]]: Servitors, in all their various flavors.

* [[We Will Wear Armour in The Future]]: Every army. Space Marines have the aforementioned [[Power Armor]], Tau and Eldar have full body covering plate armour, and the Imperial Guard have flak jackets (though unfortunately for the Guard, nearly every faction in the game has basic weaponry that can punch straight through their personal armor, which earns Guard flak such unkind nicknames as "t-shirts" and "cardboard vests").

* [[What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids/What Do You Mean Its For Kids|What Do You Mean Its Not For Kids]]: Given the subject matter you wouldn't think this would be a problem, but in England Games Workshop stores are usually deliberately set up to appeal to 12 year olds who compose the target demographic. In the US it's considered a ''very'' adult setting.

* [[What Measure Is a Non Human]]: Although, to be fair, pretty much every other race sees those not of its kind as worthless too.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Although, to be fair, pretty much every other race sees those not of its kind as worthless too.

* [[When All You Have Is a Hammer]]: The Imperial Guard. When all you have is men and tanks...a ''lot'' of men and tanks... The Imperial Guard has been even referred to as 'The Hammer of the Emperor'.

* [[Whip It Good]]: Has [[Fetish Fuel]] examples with Dark Eldar Agonisers and Sisters of Battle "Mistresses", and a rare non-fetishy example with Arco-Flagellants, which are [[Nightmare Fuel|just plain horrible]].

** Oh, and Chaos has a psychic power called Lash of Submission. Guess which god it's associated with.

** Ork runtherdz often carry grot prods and whips.

* [[White Haired Pretty Boy]]: Pre-Heresy Fulgrim.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Boy]]: Pre-Heresy Fulgrim.

** Also Lucius, before he [[Ax Crazy|cut his face to bits]].

* [[White Haired Pretty Girl]]: The Sisters of Battle often bleach their hair white, though whether they're actually ''pretty'' varies from artist to artist.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]: The Sisters of Battle often bleach their hair white, though whether they're actually ''pretty'' varies from artist to artist.

* [[The White House]]: The Imperial Palace, which is said to cover most of Europe and to be visible ''from Mars''. How's that for [[Beyond the Impossible]]? No really, that is [[Beyond the Impossible]], you couldn't make out continents from Mars, much less see anything that would set any one of them apart. Then again, why am I asking for realism from this setting?

* [[White Magic]]: Sisters of Battle Acts of Faith...maybe.

* [[White Mask of Doom]]: Chaplains and their skull helms.

* [[~~Whos~~ Laughing Now]]: Everyone else's thoughts about Guard players when the Guard finally got a good codex.

* [[Who's Laughing Now?]]: Everyone else's thoughts about Guard players when the Guard finally got a good codex.

* [[Who You Gonna Call]]: The Sisters of Battle or the Inquisition, generally, including the Grey Knights and the Deathwatch. Calling might [[Shoot the Dog|get you killed]], but not calling will often have worse results.

* [[Who You Gonna Call?]]: The Sisters of Battle or the Inquisition, generally, including the Grey Knights and the Deathwatch. Calling might [[Shoot the Dog|get you killed]], but not calling will often have worse results.

* [[With Catlike Tread]]: "Recite the Litany of Stealth to reduce your chances of being heard."

* [[With My Hands Tied]]: Just about everyone, hence why more...exotic...measures are commonly employed.

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* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: And with that insanity comes even more power!

** [[Invoked Trope|"Sanity is for the]] '''[[Lampshade Hanging|WEAK]]'''[[Invoked Trope|!!!"]]

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: The Imperium, the Tau. The rest [[Kill Em All|generally don't even bother to ask]], and even the Imperium [[Fantastic Racism|generally only bothers to ask if you're human]].

* [[With Us or Against Us]]: The Imperium, the Tau. The rest [[Kill'Em All|generally don't even bother to ask]], and even the Imperium [[Fantastic Racism|generally only bothers to ask if you're human]].

* [[Witch Species]]: Eldar. Human psykers are also regularly referred to as "witches".

* [[A Wizard Did It]]: The Warp did it. Or the Eldar. Or the C'tan Deceiver. Or Tzeentch.