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Space Marine Battles

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Space Marine Battles	comment	Space Marine Battles is a series of Warhammer 40,000 novels launched in 2010 and written by many well-known Black Library Authors such as Aaron Dembski-Bowden, Nick Kyme and Chris Wright. The series focuses on many major and notable battles as well as exploits of various famous (and infamous) Space Marine Chapters and their heroes, following their victories against the Daemonic Forces of Chaos, Heretics and Xenos in their service to the Imperium(and an occasional book on the Chaos Space Marines counterparts too).Extract from the Official Black Library Website on the entire series: The Space Marines of the Adeptus Astartes are fearless champions of humanity. Genetic modification and psycho-conditioning has made them superior to Men in all respects. These Superhuman, weapons of war are mankind's most elite fighting force, and as such, their battles are iconic tales of xenos purges and desperate last-stands. Their deeds have become legendary, and the Space Marine Battle series recounts their most notorious front-line stories of heroism in graphic detail.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1044a759	type	Dying Race
Space Marine Battles / int_1044a759	comment	Dying Race: The Gildar Rift suggests that the Silver Skulls are slowly dying out, as several characters remark that their numbers are dwindling and that the influx of inexperienced new Space Marines canâ€™t make up for their lost veterans. The events of the novel do nothing to reverse this trend, with the Fourth Company losing a quarter of its strength, Captain Daerys Arrun dying at Huron Blackheartâ€™s hands, and the senior Apothecary Ryarus being captured by the Red Corsairs.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1049848f	type	Aliens Speaking English
Space Marine Battles / int_1049848f	comment	Aliens Speaking English Aliens: The Necrons in Fall of Damnos seem to enjoy taunting the human defenders in their own tongue. The Orks also have no problem communicating with the Dark Angels in Purging of Kadillus, although they avert the trope in Siege of Castellax.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Space Marine Battles / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Even though most of the characters are Space Marines, many have been killed off no matter whether they are high-ranking Captains or just a standard battle brother. The various authors tend to kill off several well-developed characters at times, and considering this is the Warhammer40000 universe, that's very common on a daily basis. For sake of example, Corporal Besseque in Fall of Damnos; of all the non-space marines he's held in possibly the highest regard by the PDF thanks to saving the lives of both the planetary governor AND his temporary replacement. He dies out of nowhere when a 8-inch rock falls from the ceiling and hits him on the head.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Space Marine Battles / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: In Fall of Damnos, colonel Sonne spends most of the book in this state after his family is killed and he's convinced that Necrons will slaughter everyone. He ends up dying while blowing up a Necron Monolith. Following Damnos, Sicarius undergoes an extended one, although he hides it behind gruff mask and a whole array of Berserk Buttons. Warzone: Damnos claims that he finally got over it after Ultramarines manage to retake Damnos and he blows a C'Tan to kingdom come. Several examples from Battle of the Fang: Helfist freezes up when he looks into the glowing eyes of a Rubric Marine and realizes how easily Space Marines can fall to corruption, forcing Brakk to step in and save him. When Brakk is then hacked to pieces moments later, Helfist flies into a berserker rage and nearly transforms into a Wulfen before Trom Rossek manages to talk him down. When Magnus the Red shows up in the Fangthane, Wyrmblade can only stand there staring in horror as the daemon primarch tears through the Fangthaneâ€™s defenders like a hurricane. When his fellow Space Wolves start asking him for orders, he finds that his words have deserted him for the first time in his life. Shortly after the above, Freija shuts down when she realizes that her father has been killed by Magnus.
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Space Marine Battles / int_14789f16	type	Giant Foot of Stomping
Space Marine Battles / int_14789f16	comment	In Battle of the Fang, Trom Rossek is one of the first Space Wolves to die at Magnusâ€™s hands, but he does manage to land a single hit on Magnus with enough force to make the daemon primarch pause for a secondâ€”before Magnus promptly knocks him down and crushes him underfoot. Later on, Magnus reflects that the blow actually hurt.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1522d74	type	Technically-Living Zombie
Space Marine Battles / int_1522d74	comment	Technically-Living Zombie: The zombies in Death of Antagonis aren't fully dead, they're brainwashed by a Chaos mind-virus called the Doubtworm. The zombies are still, in their own minds, actually loyalist imperial citizens fully aware of their infected state, but with no ability to communicate that fact. All they can do is wildly flail at the Doubtworm's asymptomatic carriers, hoping to kill them before they can spread the Doubtworm to the next planet. This is also why they ignore space marines, who are immune to the Doubtworm in the first place.
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Space Marine Battles / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Space Marine Battles / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: From Rynn's World: "Even the foulest and most violent of the xenos races surely weren't foolish enough to attack a Space Marine homeworld." Guess what happens soon thereafter. Orks.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1604c69a	type	Secret Path
Space Marine Battles / int_1604c69a	comment	Secret Path: Squad Scipio spends most of Fall of Damnos looking for one, since the Necron artillery pieces high in the mountains have extremely strong yet extremely wide circles of defense.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
Space Marine Battles / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Kraegon Thul and Shalhadar both want to rule Malodrax, but their mutual hostility keeps their ambitions in check.
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Space Marine Battles / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
Space Marine Battles / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Fall of Damnos is little more than one long series of this, to drive home how serious and dangerous the threat of the Necrons is.
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Space Marine Battles / int_18dd6739	type	Dressing as the Enemy
Space Marine Battles / int_18dd6739	comment	Dressing as the Enemy: When hiding in Kulgarde's underground, Lysander pretends to be one of many mutants serving the Iron Warriors.
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Space Marine Battles / int_19211122	type	Feel No Pain
Space Marine Battles / int_19211122	comment	Feel No Pain: Sister Sethano. She takes a bolter round to the gut, and not only kills the traitor who shot her but shrugs it off in a matter of days.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1c3d047e	type	The Rival
Space Marine Battles / int_1c3d047e	comment	The Rival: Captains Sicarius and Agemann. Both are the candidates for next Chapter Master and both are heroes in their own right, but Sicarius is much better-known and more belovednote Normally, the captain of Second Company wouldn't even be considered a candidate for the next Chapter Master. Agemann - First Company's Captain - should be an obvious choice, but Sicarius being The Ace and loved by his men made him a candidate.. Not to mention that the two of them interpret the Codex in very different ways (Cato's "tips guidelines", Agemann's "Bible").
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Space Marine Battles / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Space Marine Battles / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Sister Sethano.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1c79ae8c	type	Those Two Guys
Space Marine Battles / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: Givenar and Antinas keep on arguing and bantering, even when in middle of combat, to Lysander's neverending annoyance.
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Space Marine Battles / int_1dacdb4f	type	Senseless Sacrifice
Space Marine Battles / int_1dacdb4f	comment	Senseless Sacrifice: In The Gildar Rift, a Silver Skulls Assault Marine tries to save the grievously injured Captain Arrunâ€™s life by tackling Huron Blackheart away from him. He only manages to distract Huron Blackheart for a few seconds before getting killed, and while his sacrifice allows Arrun to regain some strength and continue fighting for a bit longer, it ultimately doesnâ€™t change the outcome.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2059a430	type	The Hedonist
Space Marine Battles / int_2059a430	comment	The Hedonist: Shalhadar, as befitting a Daemon Prince of Slaanesh. His entire city is a garish tribute to himself, his citizens gladly live and die for the sole purpose of providing him fleeting moments of entertainment, and he spends much of his time directing, acting in, watching, financing, and critiquing stage plays (sometimes all at once).
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Space Marine Battles / int_21bf4878	type	Decapitation Presentation
Space Marine Battles / int_21bf4878	comment	Decapitation Presentation: In Malodrax, the final entry of Inquisitor Corvinâ€™s journal reveals that Kraegon Thul paid him a personal visit in his cell, just to drop off the decapitated and eyeless head of Corvinâ€™s pilot Maskelin.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Space Marine Battles / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: On Damnos, the Necron threat gradually changes the dynamic between Space Marines and mortals from protectors and protected to friends, or even battle-brothers.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2534ee67	type	In Medias Res
Space Marine Battles / int_2534ee67	comment	In Medias Res: The World Engine starts when the eponymous machine already has a death toll of millions and the Imperium has been battling it for days.
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Space Marine Battles / int_263bb4ec	type	Wave-Motion Gun
Space Marine Battles / int_263bb4ec	comment	Wave-Motion Gun: The Thousand Sons seem fond of these in Battle of the Fang. Their planet-scourer ships are basically giant plasma cannons built to raze a planetâ€™s surface with continuous streams of plasma fire. Their gate-breaker daemon engines, similarly, are 200-metre long self-propelled gun barrels that they use to hammer the Fangâ€™s gates with giant yellow beams of eldritch energy.
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Space Marine Battles / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
Space Marine Battles / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: In Death of Antagonis, the planet Antagonis is blown up barely a third of the way into the book. The Planet Aighe Mortis is home to a lot more drama. The real story is the rise and fall of Toharan and his defeat at the hands of Volos. In Purging of Kadillus, Kadillus Harbor is purged off-screen by the PDF. The Space Marine characters we follow throughout the book are trying to purge a series of power plants instead. In-universe, in Rynn's World the narrative takes its time to point out that the Iron Halo is actually made from several different metals, none of which is iron. In The Gildar Rift, the narrative points out that the Corpsemaster is not a necromancer: he just likes to dissect bodies (living or dead) in order to better understand the biological process of death.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Space Marine Battles / int_2a090d00	comment	The Silver Skulls succeed in driving the Red Corsairs out of the Gildar Rift, but Huron Blackheart gets away with most of his plunder and the Silver Skulls lose many experienced warriors, including Captain Daerys Arrun and Apothecary Ryarus. The botched outcome of the battle also leads many of the Skulls to harbour doubts about the competence of their Prognosticators. The final chapter of the book is even titled â€œWhat Price Victory?â€� in a bit of Lampshade Hanging.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2b706ca	type	More Dakka
Space Marine Battles / int_2b706ca	comment	More Dakka: AND HOLY GOD-EMPEROR HOW!! Almost every novel in this series is bound to have scenes of Space Marines unloading their weaponry into Daemons, Heretics and Xenos alike.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
Space Marine Battles / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: In-universe, the One Hundred has never had as many members and certainly don't have now, but they keep the name, because it sounds nice.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Space Marine Battles / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: The Iron Halo. It can protect the wearer from pretty much everything, but eats up so much energy, the Marine wearing it is pretty much immobile while it's working, and it leads to severe overheating.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2e8441c9	type	The Bad Guy Wins
Space Marine Battles / int_2e8441c9	comment	The Bad Guy Wins The: Happens several times. The Orks are the undisputed winners of Siege of Castellax, while the Chaos Space Marines are scattered and their human slaves are slaughtered to a man. Fall of Damnos ends with the Necrons getting total control over the planet and Ultramarines performing tactical retreat while taking as many survivors with them as they can. Subverted in Veil of Darkness - while Necron overrun the Temple of Hera and slaughter all Space Marines present, it turns out to be Sicarius' prophetic fever dream and he manages to stop it before the invasion starts.
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Space Marine Battles / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Space Marine Battles / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Many noblemen, thanks to rejuvenation treatments they can afford. Maia Caglieri, for example, is ninety seven, but looks forty.
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Space Marine Battles / int_32da548d	type	Arch-Enemy
Space Marine Battles / int_32da548d	comment	Arch-Enemy: The Space Wolves and Thousand Sons are each otherâ€™s arch-enemies in general, but Great Wolf Harek Ironhelm views the Thousand Sonsâ€™ primarch Magnus the Red as his personal nemesis in Battle of the Fang, having spent decades chasing him across the galaxy while Magnus eggs him on with taunting psychic visions.
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Space Marine Battles / int_39884242	type	KnowWhenToFoldThem
Space Marine Battles / int_39884242	comment	Know When to Fold Them: When it realizes it can't beat Kantor, Snagrod bails out of the fight.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3b0479f2	type	You Shall Not Pass!
Space Marine Battles / int_3b0479f2	comment	You Shall Not Pass!: In Fall of Damnos, when Scipio's squad find themselves being chased down by a pack of Flayed Ones, brothers Largo and Brakkius offer to lay down their already-limping lives to slow the pursuers down. Tigurius pops out of nowhere and saves them.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3bc22d58	type	Art Initiates Life
Space Marine Battles / int_3bc22d58	comment	Art Initiates Life: When the Imperial Fists invade Shalhadarâ€™s palace in Malodrax, the many daemonic frescoes, tapestries, mosaics and sculptures within the palace come to life and attack them.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Space Marine Battles / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: When the novel is titled Fall of Damnos, you know that the Space Marines aren't going to make it. Legion of the Damned starts with the Inquisitor surveying the aftermath of novel's final battle, effectively telling us how it will end.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Space Marine Battles / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: The Imperiumâ€™s technology level has always been all over the place, but Malodrax cranks it up a notch. The Imperial Fists strike cruiser Breaker of Darkness has bridge consoles that are operated with punchcards and have ticker tape readouts instead of screens, and her crew has to use abacuses whenever they perform calculations.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Space Marine Battles / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Many Chaos Lords tend to treat their warriors like shit. This passage from The Gildar Rift puts it best:
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Space Marine Battles / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Space Marine Battles / int_3d699462	comment	Daerys Arrun wonâ€™t be able to capture or kill Huron Blackheart in The Gildar Rift, since one of them is an actual character in the tabletop game with a unique model, and the other is not. Sure enough, Huron Blackheart kills him in a Curb-Stomp Battle and gets away Scott-free.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3d7ff013	type	How Dare You Die on Me!
Space Marine Battles / int_3d7ff013	comment	How Dare You Die on Me!: In Helsreach. Grimaldus learns that the princeps of the Titan he just saved is dying due to the Titan's machine spirit assimilating her consciousness. He proceeds to remind her dying corpse that she swore to fight by his side, then demands she shake it off and stand up. To the Titan's crew utter shock and disbelief, it works.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3df9c288	type	Keystone Army
Space Marine Battles / int_3df9c288	comment	Keystone Army: The Necrons in Fall of Damnos become sluggish and stilted if they don't have a nearby Lord or Overlord to direct them. Sicarius spends the entire book trying to exploit this fact. The Necron Overlord believes this to be true of the Ultramarines as well. See Roaring Rampage of Revenge to see how well that worked out.
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Space Marine Battles / int_3fb6b526	type	Delayed Reaction
Space Marine Battles / int_3fb6b526	comment	Delayed Reaction: In The Purging of Kadillus, Sergeant Naaman cuts off an orkâ€™s arm with a chainsword. The ork doesnâ€™t realize this until it attempts to punch him with its missing arm:
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Space Marine Battles / int_4023b8c8	type	First-Name Basis
Space Marine Battles / int_4023b8c8	comment	First-Name Basis: In Fall of Damnos, Space Marine captain Scipio and mortal guerilla fighter Jynn quickly call each other by names - at first because Jynn doesn't know Scipio's surname and then because he decides that she deserves the honor after saving his life. Other members of Scipio's squad are rather displeased with this.
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Space Marine Battles / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Space Marine Battles / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: In Battle of the Fang, the Thousand Sons tell the first wave of Spireguard soldiers being sent down to secure landing sites that the Space Wolves theyâ€™ll be fighting against are just ordinary men, like the Spireguard themselves. They quickly realize they were lied to once they encounter the Wolves and start getting slaughtered.
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Space Marine Battles / int_41be2c1b	type	Spoiler Title
Space Marine Battles / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: Would you be surprised if we told you that in Fall of Damnos, the Ultramarines do not succeed in their defense of the eponymous planet?
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Space Marine Battles / int_420081bf	type	Alien Sky
Space Marine Battles / int_420081bf	comment	Alien Sky: The titular planet of Malodrax is surrounded by an "orbital reef" so dense that one needs a map to get through alive. This somehow does nothing to disrupt the normal day/night cycle - multiple mentions are made of being able to see the twin suns unobstructed - so the "sky" is presumably a hellscape of the Warp.
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Space Marine Battles / int_420c50b7	type	A.I. Is a Crapshoot
Space Marine Battles / int_420c50b7	comment	A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Averted for most, but still depends on Adeptus Mechanicus's Tech priests and the Techmarines of the various Space Marine Chapters. (The Imperium banned Artificial Intelligence for a reason) The Chaos Space Marines battle robots and vehicles are most certainly running on this Trope. The one time we've seen this in action in Death of Integrity, the situation is well warranted, considering that the AI in question was driven insane with grief after his captain was killed by Imperium officials for "heresy".
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Space Marine Battles / int_423f5a19	type	Killed Offscreen
Space Marine Battles / int_423f5a19	comment	Killed Offscreen: In The Gildar Rift, Sergeant Matteus is last seen standing his ground as Huron Blackheart bears down on him. The scene then cuts to Daerys Arrun demanding a status report from Matteus, only for Blackeart to answer the call and gloat about the sergeantâ€™s demise.
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Space Marine Battles / int_42846e90	type	Elemental Powers
Space Marine Battles / int_42846e90	comment	Elemental Powers: The Wolves' magically gifted Priests wield these in battle.
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Space Marine Battles / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Space Marine Battles / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Sicarius goes to fight the Undying by himself, forbiding his men from comitting to the duel, because that's "the proper way". Had he taken at least Agrippen with him, he might've succeeded in defending Damnos. In Battle of the Fang, Harek Ironhelm is so obsessed with defeating Magnus the Red and settling the Space Wolvesâ€™ ancient feud with the Thousand Sons that heâ€™s willing to mobilize the entire chapter and leave Fenris unprotected when he thinks heâ€™s got Magnus cornered on Gangavaâ€”just as Magnus planned.
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Space Marine Battles / int_450c5a85	type	Alternate Continuity
Space Marine Battles / int_450c5a85	comment	Alternate Continuity: Malodrax seems to take place in one. While the 40k canon has it that the Iron Warrior who kidnapped Lysander and rules Malodrax is named Shonâ€™tu, the novel replaces him with a similar character named Kraegon Thul. And while Shonâ€™tu survives the battle of Malodrax, Kraegon Thul unambiguously dies during it.
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Space Marine Battles / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Space Marine Battles / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: In The Gildar Rift, Daerys Arrun and Huron Blackheart develop a mutual if begrudging respect for one another as both warriors and strategists. Before their final confrontation, Blackheart even feels a sliver of regret at the knowledge that he canâ€™t turn such a worthy foe to Chaos and will have to kill him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_468105b5	type	Bring Help Back
Space Marine Battles / int_468105b5	comment	Bring Help Back: In Battle of the Fang, the Space Wolves scout Blackwing must race to the Gangava system to warn the rest of his chapter that their home planet Fenris is besieged by the Thousand Sons. His task is complicated by both the fact that his badly-damaged ship is falling apart around him, and by a team of Thousand Sons saboteurs that teleported onboard to expedite the process.
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Space Marine Battles / int_470bff94	type	Eats Babies
Space Marine Battles / int_470bff94	comment	Eats Babies: The cursed daemon "brood mother" in Malodrax eats her own offspring after they crawl out of her skin's pustules.
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Space Marine Battles / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
Space Marine Battles / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In Siege of Castellax, Over-captain Vallax is about as close to this trope as a Chaos Marine can get. He's an egotistical, glory-stealing jerkass, but he really does have a sense of honor and would hate to see his brothers die in anything short of a glorious battle. Later, when he fails his brothers by leading a team of Ork Kommandoes into the Bastion, he takes it upon himself to Hold the Line and Face Death with Dignity.
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Space Marine Battles / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Space Marine Battles / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: In Battle of the Fang, Aphael comes across a group of scared, helpless children while destroying the Space Wolvesâ€™ magical wards and decides to kill some of them shits and giggles , only to discover that they are neither scared nor helpless when one of them chucks a grenade at his face.
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Space Marine Battles / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
Space Marine Battles / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Cato Sicarius, following the fall of Damnos, considers it his greatest failure, has troubles fighting and is plagued by dreams about the Undying. Battle of the Fang reveals Bjorn the Fell-Handed to be this. Heâ€™s the oldest and most sophisticated Dreadnought in the Imperium, is revered and respected by all the Space Wolves and is a killing machine like no other once roused, but on the inside heâ€™s wracked with self-loathing and abandonment issues due to the unexplained departure of his primarch Leman Russ.
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Space Marine Battles / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Space Marine Battles / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: While infiltrating Shalhadarâ€™s city in Malodrax, Lysander happens upon a man who is giggling while being vivisected in some sort of cult ceremony. The victim laughs even harder when he notices Lysander, giving his presence away.
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Space Marine Battles / int_4b1afa0d	type	Spiteful Spit
Space Marine Battles / int_4b1afa0d	comment	Spiteful Spit: Huron Blackheart spits on Daerus Arrun twice during their battle in The Gildar Rift. The trope is actually weaponized, as Blackheart does it not only to show his contempt for the Imperium but also to hinder Arrunâ€™s combat effectiveness as the acidic saliva eats into his armour.
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Space Marine Battles / int_504a1991	type	Body Horror
Space Marine Battles / int_504a1991	comment	Body Horror: Aphael suffers from the flesh-change during Battle of the Fang, which causes his body to undergo unpleasant mutations. His armour hides the full extent of the transformation, but at several points he notes that he can feel feathers growing out of his face and brushing against the inside of his helmet, and eventually his flesh becomes fused to the inside of the armour.
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Space Marine Battles / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Space Marine Battles / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: Some Space Marines will say that once they have dispatched a (rather difficult) enemy.
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Space Marine Battles / int_51a485d1	type	Brought Down to Badass
Space Marine Battles / int_51a485d1	comment	Brought Down to Badass: Stripping a Marine of his weapons and Power Armor will probably just make you die slower. Specifically, we have Captain Lysander who breaks out of an Iron Warriors prison, and then breaks back inside with nothing but a rusty axe, and Over-captain Vallax who breaks out of an Ork mobile fortress, kills the Doks who tortured him, and breaks into his own fortress to help take down the Big Bad.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
Space Marine Battles / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Quite a number. Purging of Kadillus has a prologue and epilogue from the point of view of the Orks. Legion of the Damned is one giant How We Got Here, leading up to the events of the prologue with Captain Kersh laying with his back broken on a sea of heretic corpses.
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Space Marine Battles / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
Space Marine Battles / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: For fans who support the side of Chaos, the Chaos Space Marines are this. Shalhadar is well-spoken, admirer of arts, curious and generally nice to Lysander, treating him as equal, despite being a Daemon Prince. The Thousand Sons seem to treat their slave-soldiers and serfs reasonably well for Chaos Space Marine standards, to the point they act shocked when Aphael randomly murders one in a bout of anger where as with other CSM's this behaviour is common.
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Space Marine Battles / int_539179db	type	Synchronization
Space Marine Battles / int_539179db	comment	Synchronization: In The Gildar Rift, one unfortunate side effect of Volker Straubâ€™s connection to the Dread Argent is that he feels any damage inflicted to the ship as physical pain.
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Space Marine Battles / int_53e1f74c	type	Asteroid Thicket
Space Marine Battles / int_53e1f74c	comment	Asteroid Thicket: In The Gildar Rift, the titular rift is a dense asteroid field that covers the entire Gildar system and makes traveling within the system very dangerous.
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Space Marine Battles / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
Space Marine Battles / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: In Battle of the Fang, Magnus the Red surprises one of his subordinates by admitting that he has grown to respect the Space Wolves since the Horus Heresy.
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Space Marine Battles / int_558245a7	type	Redshirt Army
Space Marine Battles / int_558245a7	comment	The Damnos PDF is trying their damnedest not to get pulled behind it, but the Necrons aren't making it easy.
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Space Marine Battles / int_565d9b8	type	Mother of a Thousand Young
Space Marine Battles / int_565d9b8	comment	Mother of a Thousand Young: The Brood Mother from Malodrax has thousands upon thousands of incredibly mutated offspring. She eats them... well, not all of them.
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Space Marine Battles / int_586624e5	type	Genius Loci
Space Marine Battles / int_586624e5	comment	Captain Lysander in Malodrax. The whims of fate unleashed him to test the strength of the Iron Warriors and the reign of Shalhadar. Both of the Chaos factions fail miserably. Even before that, Lysander only escaped captivity because of a faulty scalpel breaking off where he could reach it.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Space Marine Battles / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: Subverted in The World Engine. Just because the Astral Knights and Overlord Turakhin are both fighting the same enemy does not make them allies; they simply agree to ignore each other until Overlord Heqiroth dies. Lysander is quite disgusted by his own alliance with Shalhadar in Malodrax, but goes through with it, as he wants revenge on Thul and the Daemon Prince wants to teach the Iron Warrior his place and have some entertainment.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5db59a03	type	Brown Note
Space Marine Battles / int_5db59a03	comment	Brown Note: The music in Dancing-Place of the Lesser Gods is enough to incapacitate a Space Marine, and it's not because of its terrible quality. One of the unwilling listeners ends up bleeding from his eyes and mouth.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5dfa0fde	type	Omniscient Morality License
Space Marine Battles / int_5dfa0fde	comment	Omniscient Morality License: The Iron Hands in Wrath of Iron view their Imperial Guard allies as ignorant martyrs with their "cold flawless logic", happy to send them to die to further the success of the campaign. Sure, it all works out since the Guard aren't aware of the Slaanesh cult, but are the Iron Hands willing to just share that little detail? Not a chance.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
Space Marine Battles / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: The spaceship known as the Spirit of Eternity, from Death of Integrity, was built during the Golden Age of Technology, and it outclasses the Imperial fores so badly it almost becomes an Outside-Context Problem.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5fc3eff4	type	Time Bomb
Space Marine Battles / int_5fc3eff4	comment	Time Bomb: The Silver Skulls discover that the Red Corsairs have rigged the promethium refinery to blow at the climax of The Gildar Rift, forcing the Skulls to waste time defusing the explosives while the Corsairs escape with their plunder.
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Space Marine Battles / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Space Marine Battles / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: In Battle of the Fang, Blackwing is combing the bowels of his ship for Thousand Sons infiltrators when a Rubric Marine suddenly bursts out of a wall, taking him and his men by surprise.
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Space Marine Battles / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Space Marine Battles / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Techpriest Oriax is secretly sabotaging his Iron Warrior "brothers" throughout Siege of Castellax. Towards the end, Oriax probably sees Captain Rhodaan as this, since Rhodaan doesn't submit to the Bolivian Army Ending and starts to undo some of the sabotage, and ultimately survives the novel. Captain Lysander in Malodrax. The whims of fate unleashed him to test the strength of the Iron Warriors and the reign of Shalhadar. Both of the Chaos factions fail miserably. Even before that, Lysander only escaped captivity because of a faulty scalpel breaking off where he could reach it.
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Space Marine Battles / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
Space Marine Battles / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: In Siege of Castellax, Skintaker Algol. In Legion of the Damned, we have Umbragg of the Brazen Flesh. The planet Armageddon has a full catalogue of such places: Helsreach, Tartarus, Hades, Armageddon itself... In The Gildar Rift, we have Lord Apothecary Gareon, of the Red Corsairs, a.k.a. â€œthe Corpsemasterâ€�.
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Space Marine Battles / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Space Marine Battles / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: Sahtah the Enfleshed, a Necron Lord turned flayed one, in Fall of Damnos, finds himself growing less and less self-aware as his cravings for flesh grow stronger. The Necron Overlord whom Sahtah answers to isn't doing much better, debating whether or not to join the Destroyer Court.
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Space Marine Battles / int_638b65bc	type	Armor Is Useless
Space Marine Battles / int_638b65bc	comment	Armor Is Useless: Averted for the many Power Armor types worn by the various Space Marines, which make them nigh-invincible unless you can get a lucky shot through the armour's weak points or have heavy weapons designed specifically to kill Space Marines.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Space Marine Battles / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Several from the various novels. Captain Evvers and the mountainside guerrillas in Damnos. For over a year they survive in some of the harshest climates killing Necrons with nothing more than ice picks and improvised explosives. Conscript Falka deserves a mention as well, leading a hundred-man charge against a phalanx of Necrons and winning. The Excoriators' Chapter serfs in Legion of the Damned. They take part in the siege, firing lasrifles and tending to autocannon turrets. Every loyalist Guardsman in Wrath of Iron. Hell, even most of the "traitors" are pretty ballsy before they start getting replaced with Abnormals. Yuxiang in Siege of Castellax. Little more than an escaped slave, he ends up starting a secret revolt and, to his own surprise, kills a Chaos Space Marine. The Kaerls in Battle of the Fang, only a few thousand mortal men and women holding off two million Spireguard and over seven-hundred Thousand Sons in the defense of the Aett. Sister Sethano in Death of Antagonis. Mere days after walking off a bolter wound to the gut, she fights off an ambush with two daemons and a fallen Inquisitor, and wins decisively.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Space Marine Battles / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: At least once per book.
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Space Marine Battles / int_680bb6b1	type	Hot-Blooded
Space Marine Battles / int_680bb6b1	comment	Among Ultramarines, Sicarius is Red to Agemann's Blue. While Cato is Hot-Blooded, prone to Large Ham behaviour and charging straight for the enemy, Severus is slower, likes to think things out and have worked-out tactic before comitting to the fight, not to mention that he's Combat Pragmatist while Cato practices Honor Before Reason.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Space Marine Battles / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Wrath of Iron opens with a brief Perspective Flip, showing the Iron Hands shrug off a volley of lasgun fire and smash apart a bunker with little effort. Battle of the Fang has a scene told from the perspective of a Spireguard soldier sent in to establish a beachhead for the invading Thousand Sons. His initial confidence and professionalismâ€”born of the belief that the Space Wolves are simply normal men like himselfâ€”quickly give way to panic and terror once the Wolves show up and start butchering his unit.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6977c45e	type	Purple Prose
Space Marine Battles / int_6977c45e	comment	Purple Prose: Inquisitor Golrukhanâ€™s journal about Malodrax is written in this style. Lysander doesnâ€™t care for it in-universe, preferring the Beige Prose of Rogal Dornâ€™s writing.
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Space Marine Battles / int_69e4c5a3	type	BullyingTheDragon
Space Marine Battles / int_69e4c5a3	comment	Bullying the Dragon: Why yes, Ecclesiarch. I'm certain that asking that Space Marine Captain to kiss your boots will only end great for you and your private army which you aren't supposed to have. We all know what happens next.
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Space Marine Battles / int_69f4d99b	type	Shockwave Stomp
Space Marine Battles / int_69f4d99b	comment	Shockwave Stomp: The gargant in Rynn's World almost does this by accident, its footfall being nearly hard enough to collapse the tunnels the Crimson Fists are hiding in.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6a6760fa	type	The Power of Hate
Space Marine Battles / int_6a6760fa	comment	In Crimson Fists, Alessio Cortez is Red, while his Chapter Master Pedro Kantor is Blue. Cantor has soft voice, charismatic presence and in-depth understanding of and care for matters such as administration or politics, while Cortez considers them waste of time, is impatient, would rather kill xenos all the time and utilizes The Power of Hate.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6c236fde	type	DidYouJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu
Space Marine Battles / int_6c236fde	comment	Did You Just Have Tea With Cthulhu: Captain Lysander spends a good chunk of Malodrax chatting with Daemon Prince Shalhadar and rehearsing for a play. This only applies during the flashbacks, however; in the present day Lysander and Shahadar are quick to try and kill each other.
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Space Marine Battles / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Space Marine Battles / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Scipio in Fall of Damnos keeps flashing back to an attack against Nurgle cultists, in which he failed to Mercy Kill his Chaplain in time, resulting in a demon popping out of Chaplain Orad's flesh and killing another squadmate. Thus he becomes a bit of a perfectionist (by Space Marine standards), and when more squadmates die to the Necrons he's having trouble accepting it truly isn't his fault this time. In Veil of Darkness, Sicarius considers Damnos his greatest failure and is fairly confident that he'll be severly punished for losing the planet. Understandable, considering its his first time he ever lost as a Captain. In Death of Antagonis, Toharan early on rescues a small girl, who later dies by giving herself to a doubtworm due to being a daemonhost. He had invested a lot in rescuing the girl, and the moment shakes him to the core.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7315fd38	type	Covers Always Lie
Space Marine Battles / int_7315fd38	comment	Covers Always Lie: The cover of Purging of Kadillius has Belial facing off against Ghazkul. In the battle, the two never came within several kilometers of each other, and one of the times that Belial did fight personally in the battle, he was supported by Deathwing terminators, not the regular marines that the cover shows.
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Space Marine Battles / int_745a226c	type	Easy Logistics
Space Marine Battles / int_745a226c	comment	Easy Logistics: Averted all over the board. For a few examples: In Helsreach, the key stronghold is the port because it can supply the defenders with fuel necessary to continue the war. Also, going over the entire supplies and logistical issues of the city takes nine days, with just the Guard roll call taking up two. In Rynn's World, the Fists are forced to constantly conserve their ammunition and push for close-combat when it's where the Orks have an edge over them, and the key battle of the novel is to secure a vital supply route.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Space Marine Battles / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Malodrax wanted to be ruled." in Malodrax "We are judged in life by the evil we destroy" in Helsreach
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Space Marine Battles / int_76db0ef5	type	Slobs Versus Snobs
Space Marine Battles / int_76db0ef5	comment	Slobs Versus Snobs: Malodrax concerns the feud between the luscious, extravagant, hedonistic cult of Shalhadar and the grungy, militant, dour Iron Warriors. Some of the Thousand Sons, those who don't realise what lies beneath the Space Wolves' exterior, see their conflict with the "dog-warriors" as this.
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Space Marine Battles / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
Space Marine Battles / int_79a0e313	comment	Towards the end, Oriax probably sees Captain Rhodaan as this, since Rhodaan doesn't submit to the Bolivian Army Ending and starts to undo some of the sabotage, and ultimately survives the novel.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7a143509	type	Shell-Shocked Veteran
Space Marine Battles / int_7a143509	comment	Shell-Shocked Veteran: In Veil of Darkness, Sicarius considers his jumping at shadows and paranoia about Necrons being everywhere to be symptoms of PTSD. While Warzone: Damnos suggests he has it, the Necrons in the Temple of Hera are real and hiding in shadows.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Space Marine Battles / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Big Bad of Wrath of Iron gives one to the Iron Hands, how they've become little more than machine fetishists and obsessed, paranoid automatons since Ferrus Mannus was killed. Ironfather Krastos was too busy calculating the Prince's weak spot to bother listening.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Space Marine Battles / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Whatever mighty civilization ruled the planet of Malodrax in the past, they've been reduced to nothing but a crumbling castle and some slaves for the Iron Warriors.
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Space Marine Battles / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Space Marine Battles / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Fall of Damnos gives the Necrons one in their Resistance Is Futile line.
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Space Marine Battles / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Space Marine Battles / int_80251be3	comment	Legion of the Damned is one giant How We Got Here, leading up to the events of the prologue with Captain Kersh laying with his back broken on a sea of heretic corpses.
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Space Marine Battles / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
Space Marine Battles / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: The Orks in Helsreach are pushing towards Hel's Highway, which is a wide open highway running straight through the centre of the city and allowing access pretty much everywhere.
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Space Marine Battles / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Space Marine Battles / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Among Ultramarines, Sicarius is Red to Agemann's Blue. While Cato is Hot-Blooded, prone to Large Ham behaviour and charging straight for the enemy, Severus is slower, likes to think things out and have worked-out tactic before comitting to the fight, not to mention that he's Combat Pragmatist while Cato practices Honor Before Reason. In Crimson Fists, Alessio Cortez is Red, while his Chapter Master Pedro Kantor is Blue. Cantor has soft voice, charismatic presence and in-depth understanding of and care for matters such as administration or politics, while Cortez considers them waste of time, is impatient, would rather kill xenos all the time and utilizes The Power of Hate.
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Space Marine Battles / int_85e9c342	type	Kung-Fu Wizard
Space Marine Battles / int_85e9c342	comment	Kung-Fu Wizard: In Battle of the Fang, Magnus the Red spends as much time beating Space Wolves to death with his bare hands as he does exploding them with his godlike psychic powers.
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Space Marine Battles / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Space Marine Battles / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: As the battle of Damnos goes on, Praxor - before, staunch supporter, if not outright believer of Sicarius - starts to see less of The Good Captain and more of a Glory Hound.
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Space Marine Battles / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Space Marine Battles / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: In Malodrax, Lysander delivers this one to a daemon as he kills it:
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Space Marine Battles / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Space Marine Battles / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: Each Space Marine Chapter has at least one. Some have several which they will quote while dishing out punishment to the Imperium's enemies. The most badass of all, though, is the title quote of this very page, which is said by the Emperor of Mankind.
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Space Marine Battles / int_8776162d	type	Because I Said So
Space Marine Battles / int_8776162d	comment	Because I Said So: Subverted by Lord Plosk in Death of Integrity. While he has a signed permission slip from the High Lords of Terra to more or less do ANYTHING he wants, he realizes the Space Marines would be better motivated if he treats them like equals, and agrees to trade their assistance for custom-built spaceships.
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Space Marine Battles / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Space Marine Battles / int_8a9eb844	comment	Wrath of Iron opens with a brief Perspective Flip, showing the Iron Hands shrug off a volley of lasgun fire and smash apart a bunker with little effort.
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Space Marine Battles / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
Space Marine Battles / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Mordred, Grimaldus' Old Master, whose shadow continues to plague Grimaldus, as the newly-promoted Reclusiarch doesn't feel like he can match his accomplishments. Other characters also mention him quite often, which obviously doesn't help Grimaldus.
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Space Marine Battles / int_8ba9512b	type	Our Zombies Are Different
Space Marine Battles / int_8ba9512b	comment	Our Zombies Are Different: Brought up in-universe in Death of Antagonis, when the Black Dragons, Sethano, and Lettinger discuss that the local plague zombies are faster than Nurgle's zombies, infect other subjects at an absurdly fast rate, and ignore space marines...
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Space Marine Battles / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Space Marine Battles / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: In Siege of Castellax, Skintaker Algol threatens to torture a rebelling slave slowly and painfully in the most drawn-out way possible. Then the ceiling collapses, trapping Algol under hundreds of tons of concrete. The slave isn't trapped, and stabs Algol through the neck repeatedly. Since Algol is a Space Marine, it takes him well over 15 minutes for him to die, and he's awake for every second of it.
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Space Marine Battles / int_950329d8	type	Dynamic Entry
Space Marine Battles / int_950329d8	comment	Dynamic Entry: In Battle of the Fang, Ironhelm enters the fight between Bjorn and Magnus with a flying tackle that knocks all three of them off a cliff. In The Gildar Rift, an Assault Marine tries to save Daerys Arrun by knocking Huron Blackheart away from him with a rocket-powered tackle. See Senseless Sacrifice for how well that turns out.
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Space Marine Battles / int_966da803	type	Defiant to the End
Space Marine Battles / int_966da803	comment	Defiant to the End: When Captain Lysander is captured in Malodrax, he quickly accepts that he's lost and at his enemy's mercy, but keeps on struggling anyway because that's just what a Space Marine does. As long as he can recognize some way to inconvenience his captors, he'll try and do it. The defenders in Battle of the Fang believe nobody is going to come and save them, with their fleet on deployment and no messages out (as far as they know), but they decide to make the Thousand Sons pay for every inch of ground they claim.
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Space Marine Battles / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Space Marine Battles / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: Despite the brutal action and depiction of war in the 41st Millennium, some of the best scenes are quiet moments where the Space Marines were discussing tactics and plans about how to wage war or giving some Exposition on the background of the planet or enemy they face. For example, during Helsreach where Grimaldus speaks to his Fighting Company's Apothecary, who is close to crossing the Despair Event Horizon due to the casualties that the Black Templars are sustaining (by this point in the book only a few are left and the defenders are near defeat).
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Space Marine Battles / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Space Marine Battles / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: In Malodrax, both Lysander and Inquisitor Corvin wonder whether the "people" who used to rule the planet are xeno species or heavily mutated humans. Ultimately, though, no-one's eager to return and make DNA tests.
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Space Marine Battles / int_96a74e59	type	Space Battle
Space Marine Battles / int_96a74e59	comment	Space Battle: A common occurrence in the series. Half the plot of The Gildar Rift is about a space battle between the Red Corsairs and the Silver Skulls, to name one example.
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Space Marine Battles / int_9775a897	type	Just Toying with Them
Space Marine Battles / int_9775a897	comment	Just Toying with Them: Battle of the Fang: When Wyrmblade confronts Magnus in the ruins of his laboratory, the narration makes it clear that Magnus is just toying with him as they cross swords:
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Space Marine Battles / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Space Marine Battles / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Ghazghkull and Nazdreg, Ork warbosses of the Goffs and Bad Moons respectively, have teamed up to conquer Piscina IV in Purging of Kadillus.
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Space Marine Battles / int_98aaf983	type	Comically Small Bribe
Space Marine Battles / int_98aaf983	comment	Comically Small Bribe: The xenos temples in Death of Antagonis have to be bribed with blood to get the enormous war machines working, but the amount of blood is pretty small compared to how massive some of the mechanisms are. The Black Dragons even lampshade this when a bell the size of a small planet considers itself fully charged with only about 50 slaves' worth of blood.
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Space Marine Battles / int_99298c71	type	Better to Die than Be Killed
Space Marine Battles / int_99298c71	comment	Better to Die than Be Killed: Inverted most of the time. Space Marines would rather go down fighting, taking as many enemies as possible with them. Played straight for non-Astartes. When (former) General Nethena from Wrath of Iron realizes the Space Marine are about to royally fuck him up for attempted mutiny, he takes his rebreather off in the middle of a chemical fogbank.
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Space Marine Battles / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Space Marine Battles / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: In a literal example from Malodrax, the dying Agent Sildyne entrusts Lysander with a poisoned dagger made specifically to kill Space Marines so that Lysander can kill Kraegon Thul in his stead.
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Space Marine Battles / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Space Marine Battles / int_9dfb8296	comment	This Is Gonna Suck: The first thought Grimaldus has upon hearing of Armageddon?
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Space Marine Battles / int_9e062ca3	type	Suicide Mission
Space Marine Battles / int_9e062ca3	comment	Suicide Mission: In The Purging of Kadillus, Scout Sergeants Naaman and Damas know that their mission to find the orksâ€™ landing site out in the East Barrens will likely end in their deaths, as theyâ€™re going far behind enemy lines and there will be no chance of extraction. They choose not to tell their scouts that this will be a one-way trip, so as not to demoralize them. They all die, but the intel they gather allows Azrael to disable the orksâ€™ tellyporta, temporarily preventing the orks from deploying more reinforcements.
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Space Marine Battles / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
Space Marine Battles / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: In Rynn's World, Kantor does it all the time with Dorn's Arrow, although he has a built-in counter to help him. It's amazing how quickly over six hundred projectiles can be spent.
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Space Marine Battles / int_9f35bf5a	type	Riddling Sphinx
Space Marine Battles / int_9f35bf5a	comment	Riddling Sphinx: A daemonic sphinx guards the entrance to Shalhadarâ€™s palace in Malodrax. Instead of asking a riddle, it will only let people pass if they can show it something it has never experienced before (and being a Slaaneshi daemon, thereâ€™s very little it hasnâ€™t already experienced). Lysander is able to get in the first time by teaching it the concept of fear. The second time, he doesnâ€™t bother with the sphinxâ€™s games and just kills it.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a084f0e0	type	Never Speak Ill of the Dead
Space Marine Battles / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: At the end of Malodrax, Lysander asks Sergeant Kaderic how Helaestus died. When Kaderic tells him that he died â€œwith valour and furyâ€�, Lysander realises that this trope is in effect:
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Space Marine Battles / int_a16aeb99	type	Genuine Human Hide
Space Marine Battles / int_a16aeb99	comment	Genuine Human Hide: In Malodrax, Kraegon Thulâ€™s ambassador to Shalhadar sets himself up in a pavilion made of freshly flayed human skinâ€”so fresh, in fact, that there is still blood and guts clinging to it and the pavilionâ€™s interior stinks horribly. Even Lysander is grossed out by the smell.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Space Marine Battles / int_a1e5faab	comment	Pretty much all of the entries under Doomed by Canon are this.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
Space Marine Battles / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: The Space Wolves are this to their chapter-serf kaerls, not treating them as disposeable fodder to the point in Battle of the Fang at least one Space Wolf sacrifices himself to hold off the enemy to allow a company of kaerls to withdraw to a safer location.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Space Marine Battles / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: In Battle of the Fang, an unfortunate deckhand gets his eyes gouged out by a Thousand Sons sorcerer so that the sorcerer can implant magical eyes in their place and use him as a mind-controlled spy. In Malodrax, Lysander kills Kraegon Thul by stabbing him in the eye with a poisoned dagger.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a31116e6	type	Mechanical Monster
Space Marine Battles / int_a31116e6	comment	Mechanical Monster: The Thousand Sons deploy the last of their Cataphract robots against the Space Wolves in Battle of the Fang. While few in number, the hulking war machines pose a serious threat to the Wolves, sporting plasma cannons siege drills that can fell even a Terminator with one blow, and enough durability to withstand anything short of a Dreadnoughtâ€™s weapons.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Space Marine Battles / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Malodrax: The Imperial Fists have multiple ways of honouring their dead. When Skelpis is killed by the Red Widow, Chaplain Lycaon honours him by scrimshawing one of Skelpisâ€™s knuckles. When three of them are killed in the attack on Shalhadarâ€™s palace, the Fists eulogize them and then hold a series of short wrestling matches in their honour.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
Space Marine Battles / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: Death of Integrity centers around retrieving a special data core that contains the blueprints for every war machine and piece of technology that was used by the Emperor to conquer the galaxy. Actually succeeding in retrieving the data core would more or less spell death for any and all of mankind's enemies throughout the universe. Guess what the Space Marines don't end up capturing? Consolation Prize: Lord Plosk still managed to capture a fraction of the blueprints from the data core of the Spirit of Eternity.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Space Marine Battles / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: In Battle of the Fang, an unfortunate deckhand is captured by a Thousand Sons sorcerer, who promptly gouges out his eyes and psychically suppresses his will to turn him into an unwilling spy. His reaction says it all:
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Space Marine Battles / int_a8c903e6	type	Now, Let Me Carry You
Space Marine Battles / int_a8c903e6	comment	Now, Let Me Carry You: In Rynn's World, Kantor initially refuses to let human refugees join the Space Marines' column, ultimately giving in on the condition that anyone who can't keep up will be left behind for the Orks. A mother struggles to keep up while carrying her two young children. When she finally collapses in exhaustion, Kantor calls a halt and walks back. His captain fears that he's about to perform a Mercy Kill to prevent them from suffering a much more horrible death from the Orks... but Kantor only tells her how brave she's been, and that she's earned the right for her and her children to be carried instead, and lifts them into his own arms.
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Space Marine Battles / int_a96b8b63	type	Space Marine
Space Marine Battles / int_a96b8b63	comment	The titular Legion of the Damned. They arrived at the last possible moment before Captain Kersh of the Excoriators Space Marine Chapter was overwhelmed by the foul forces of Chaos.
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Space Marine Battles / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Space Marine Battles / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Between Salamanders and Templars in Helsreach. Salamanders' creed compels them to protect civillians wherever possible, even to the point of foregoing glory, but the POV character, a Templar, has exactly opposite mindset and thus the story paints Salamanders as obstructive and wrong.
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Space Marine Battles / int_aba972fb	type	Aggressive Negotiations
Space Marine Battles / int_aba972fb	comment	Aggressive Negotiations: In Malodrax, Lysander gets to witness what passes for diplomacy between the Iron Warriors of Kraegon Thul and the Daemon Prince Shalhadar. The negotiations start out with Thulâ€™s envoy effectively demanding Shalhadarâ€™s complete surrender, and quickly descend into violence when those demands arenâ€™t met. The dry reaction of Shalhadarâ€™s own envoy suggests that this is a regular occurrence.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ad22fa80	type	Apocalyptic Log
Space Marine Battles / int_ad22fa80	comment	Apocalyptic Log: Being A Description Of Malodrax And Its Foulness, a renegade Inquisitor's monograph which Lysander stumbles upon while escaping the fortress of Kulgarde. It ends up being a very useful resource for Lysander, both as a source of information on how to deal with Malodrax's many horrors, and as a weapon.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
Space Marine Battles / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: Death of Antagonis is just one in a long string of these for the Black Dragons. Pretty much all of the entries under Doomed by Canon are this. The Silver Skulls succeed in driving the Red Corsairs out of the Gildar Rift, but Huron Blackheart gets away with most of his plunder and the Silver Skulls lose many experienced warriors, including Captain Daerys Arrun and Apothecary Ryarus. The botched outcome of the battle also leads many of the Skulls to harbour doubts about the competence of their Prognosticators. The final chapter of the book is even titled â€œWhat Price Victory?â€� in a bit of Lampshade Hanging. The titular Hive City in Helsreach manages to survive the Ork invasion until the Season of Fire grinds the invasion to a halt, but their manufacturing facilities, transport infrastructure, and worker population had been beyond decimated. Estimates putting the city's current max output capabilities at just 5% of what it was producing before the war.
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Space Marine Battles / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Space Marine Battles / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: Captain Toharan and Inquisitor Lettinger in ''Death of Antagonis. Irony: Lettinger was convinced the Black Dragons would betray the Imperium, and believed Toharan was the Dragons' last chance at redemption.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b1346878	type	Fate Worse than Death
Space Marine Battles / int_b1346878	comment	Fate Worse than Death: Scout Kennen is sentenced to being converted to servitor - essentially, serving as lobotomized Wetware CPU and framework for hardware for a thousand years.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Space Marine Battles / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: One of the major themes of Death of Antagonis.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b1b5081b	type	Sapient Ship
Space Marine Battles / int_b1b5081b	comment	Sapient Ship: In The Gildar Rift, the aim of the Silver Skullsâ€™ Resurgent project is to create one of these by wiring Volker Straub into the Dread Argentâ€™s systems, effectively turning him into a Wetware CPU and giving him absolute control over the ship. They succeed, spectacularly so.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b24cfda5	type	Perspective Reversal
Space Marine Battles / int_b24cfda5	comment	Perspective Reversal: Morek Karekborn and his daughter Freija have opposing views of the Space Wolves in Battle of the Fang. Morek looks up to the Space Wolves with respect and reverence, while Freija instead resents the Wolves for their arrogance and superior attitude. By the end of the novel, Morekâ€™s faith in the Wolves has been shaken while Freija has gained a newfound respect and admiration for them.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b39b94da	type	Born Lucky
Space Marine Battles / int_b39b94da	comment	Born Lucky: Andrej of Helsreach. He's in the thick of the fighting from the very beginning, his subordinates are conscripted dockers, he gets lost in a city overrun with Orks, gets drawn into the final close-quarters battle and has the entire (Imperial-sized) cathedral dropped on his head. He somehow survives all this.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b542cf17	type	Opposing Combat Philosophies
Space Marine Battles / int_b542cf17	comment	Opposing Combat Philosophies: Between the Black Templars and The Salamanders in Helsreach, who are focused on "destroying the Emperor's Enemies" and "defending the Emperor's people" respectively. The two are working together to defend a civilian shelter, and have broken the first Ork wave. The Templars pursue and head Straight for the Commander, while the Salamanders fall back and prepare for the second wave. From the Templar perspective the Salamanders hung them out to dry when killing the Ork Boss leading the attack could have prevented further waves entirely, and from the Salamander perspective the Templar attack was a foolish risk that would have left the civilians vulnerable to attack from other enemy forces even if it succeeded.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b588a9b6	type	Too Dumb to Fool
Space Marine Battles / int_b588a9b6	comment	Too Dumb to Fool: In Siege of Castellax, the Iron Warriors try to stall the Orks using a giant minefield, but with intercontinental ballistic missiles instead of regular mines. Problem is, instead of trying to sweep the desert to find the rest of the warheads, they just charge through the one patch of land they know the missiles aren't hidden, and that's the five-mile-wide crater where the first missile exploded.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
Space Marine Battles / int_b7c53a22	comment	It's also not uncommon to have one Blood Knight (or more) in Space Marine Squad.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b807624a	type	And Show It to You
Space Marine Battles / int_b807624a	comment	And Show It to You: In Battle of the Fang, Magnus the Red kills Greyloc by ripping out both of his hearts.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b91be405	type	Dyson Sphere
Space Marine Battles / int_b91be405	comment	Dyson Sphere: The titular planet of Malodrax is surrounded by a giant "orbital reef" made of space coral, just to further point out how oceany the space of this universe is.
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Space Marine Battles / int_b99c6367	type	The World Is Always Doomed
Space Marine Battles / int_b99c6367	comment	The World Is Always Doomed: Has shown up twice now: In Death of Antagonis the villains aren't threatening enough just attacking the planets Antagonis and Aighe Mortis, they also have to revive an ancient alien planet-buster and take it to Holy Terra as well. Likewise, The World Engine doesn't feel the stakes raised enough with just the Varv system in peril, the Necrons feel the need to try and teleport the titular Engine to Mars, and probably shoot at Terra a few times for good measure.
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Space Marine Battles / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
Space Marine Battles / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: In Death Of Integrity Chapter Master Caedis of the Blood Drinkers knows that he is close to the Black Rage claiming him, showing him visions of the ancient hero Holos' final climb. He still heads aboard the Space Hulk, eventually succumbing and turning into a ravenous beast.
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Space Marine Battles / int_bc28c269	type	Sizeshifter
Space Marine Battles / int_bc28c269	comment	Sizeshifter: In Battle of the Fang, Magnus the Red enlarges himself so that he can stand eye-to-eye withâ€”and tear downâ€”a Titan-sized statue of Leman Russ, then shrinks back down to his (still considerable) normal height once the deed is done. Later on, he shrinks to a mere three metres in order to duel Wyrmblade.
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Space Marine Battles / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Space Marine Battles / int_bc74ef27	comment	Following Damnos, Sicarius undergoes an extended one, although he hides it behind gruff mask and a whole array of Berserk Buttons. Warzone: Damnos claims that he finally got over it after Ultramarines manage to retake Damnos and he blows a C'Tan to kingdom come.
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Space Marine Battles / int_be54cb9c	type	Bullet Dodges You
Space Marine Battles / int_be54cb9c	comment	Bullet Dodges You: In The Gildar Rift, Sergeant Matteus quickly discovers that attempting to shoot Huron Blackheart is pointless, as his bolt rounds simply veer away from the Chaos Lord before they can hit him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_bf698238	type	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦
Space Marine Battles / int_bf698238	comment	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦: This Funny Moment from Malodrax:
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Space Marine Battles / int_c0e5fc39	type	Celeb Crush
Space Marine Battles / int_c0e5fc39	comment	Celeb Crush: It's heavily implied that Maia Caglieri has a crush on Pedro Kantor. Problem is, while she's a noblewoman, he's a Chapter Master of Crimson Fists.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c1105f41	type	Hold the Line
Space Marine Battles / int_c1105f41	comment	In Siege of Castellax, Over-captain Vallax is about as close to this trope as a Chaos Marine can get. He's an egotistical, glory-stealing jerkass, but he really does have a sense of honor and would hate to see his brothers die in anything short of a glorious battle. Later, when he fails his brothers by leading a team of Ork Kommandoes into the Bastion, he takes it upon himself to Hold the Line and Face Death with Dignity.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Space Marine Battles / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Lettinger was convinced the Black Dragons would betray the Imperium, and believed Toharan was the Dragons' last chance at redemption.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
Space Marine Battles / int_c3585f4a	comment	Boom, Headshot!: Bolt rounds are explosive. Do the math.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c3bc970f	type	Seers
Space Marine Battles / int_c3bc970f	comment	Seers: The Silver Skullsâ€™ unique Prognosticators are hybrid Chaplain-Librarians trained to read the future with their psychic powers. The chapter places great stock in their divinations, to the point where they will not commit to a battle plan until a Prognosticator has read the portents and given it his approval. However, the Prognosticators are not infallible, and many Silver Skulls begin to harbour doubts about them after they sanction the costly battle of the Gildar Rift. The brood mother knows everything that happens on Malodrax, including snippets of what will happen in the future. Sheâ€™s willing to share that information with anyone who seeks her out, for a price.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Space Marine Battles / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: In-universe, Toharan ordering a military strike against the Imperial world of Aighe Mortis.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c4db6423	type	Yank the Dog's Chain
Space Marine Battles / int_c4db6423	comment	Yank the Dog's Chain: You just can't let the Iron Warriors have a single moment of glory, can you Oriax? The rebelling slaves and mutinous servitors don't fare much better.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c6bc89f7	type	Curb-Stomp Cushion
Space Marine Battles / int_c6bc89f7	comment	Curb Stomp Cushion: In Battle of the Fang, Trom Rossek is one of the first Space Wolves to die at Magnusâ€™s hands, but he does manage to land a single hit on Magnus with enough force to make the daemon primarch pause for a secondâ€”before Magnus promptly knocks him down and crushes him underfoot. Later on, Magnus reflects that the blow actually hurt. In the same book, Greyloc, Sturmhjart, Bjorn the Fell-Handed and two of Greylocâ€™s Terminators all confront Magnus at once. Bjorn gets trashed to the point where heâ€™s taken out of the fight and the others all die, but they actually manage to put Magnus on the back foot for a while with the sheer ferocity of their assault, and the damage they inflict weakens Magnus enough for the newly-arrived Ironhelm to destroy his physical form and banish him back to the Warp, though he too dies in the process.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Space Marine Battles / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In Malodrax, Inquisitor Corvin notes that his archivist was â€œmost perturbedâ€� by the impossibility of Shalhadarâ€™s city. This is a reference to Eisenhornâ€™s own savant Uber Aemos, whose catchphrase was â€œmost perturbatoryâ€�.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c86a6f38	type	Cannon Fodder
Space Marine Battles / int_c86a6f38	comment	Cannon Fodder: Averted. Space Marine Chapters do not spend their companies and squads needlessly, but some Chapters (like the Iron Hands) are not above sending Imperial Guard forces in mass numbers to the frontlines before they deploy their own troops.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Space Marine Battles / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Battle of the Fang: When Trom Rossek falls into a depressive funk after getting his entire squad killed by the Thousand Sons, Wyrmblade tries to snap him out of it by punching him in the face with enough force to knock him flat on his ass.
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Space Marine Battles / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
Space Marine Battles / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Death of Integrity will make damn sure that you don't think of Genestealers as just random packs of feral beasts. They can study, ambush, use adaptive tactics, find practical uses for their own corpses, identify and destroy your communication lines... At least until you kill their Broodlord.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ca95473c	type	Series Continuity Error
Space Marine Battles / int_ca95473c	comment	Series Continuity Error: The Necrons in The World Engine don't phase out when they're damaged beyond repair; they just crumple to the ground.
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Space Marine Battles / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Space Marine Battles / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: Hoo boy... Kadillus: Naaman to an Ork walker. Legion: Omar to a pack of flying daemons. Damnos: Agrippan to as many Necrons as possible, though the novel doesn't show it. Castellax: Vortsk to as many Orks as possible. Antagonis: Nessus to Volos, by way of possessing Toharan. It doesn't work. Integrity: This is how Voldo tries to die. It doesn't work, but he does die fighting in such a way that helps his brothers continue the mission.
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Space Marine Battles / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
Space Marine Battles / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Some of the Space Marine Captains have to make harsh decisions to save the Imperium. At first it weighs heavily on them, especially the newly promoted Captains and Sergeants, but throughout the battles ahead they grow to accept the mantle handed to them. Specifically, Kersh from Legion and Volos from Antagonis have the whole You Are in Command Now aspect woven pretty deeply into their character arcs.
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Space Marine Battles / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Space Marine Battles / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: The repeated survival of Andrej of the Armageddeon Steel Legion. The stormtrooper has survived events that even a fully armored space marine should not have survived (such as an entire temple collapsing atop him while fighting Orks in hand-to-hand combat). There is equal evidence support that he is a Perpetual or just that lucky.
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Space Marine Battles / int_cdcd7a78	type	Derelict Graveyard
Space Marine Battles / int_cdcd7a78	comment	Derelict Graveyard: In The Gildar Rift, the dangers of traversing the titular Rift are compounded by the countless wrecked starships which drift through the asteroid field. The sheer density of said asteroid field makes these wrecks almost impossible to salvage: any vessel that tries will inevitably be wrecked in turn.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ce767e6f	type	Co-Dragons
Space Marine Battles / int_ce767e6f	comment	Co-Dragons: Ahmuz Temekh and Herume Aphael in Battle of the Fang. The two of them act as joint commanders of the Thousand Sons forces invading Fenris, with Aphael leading their troops on the ground while Temekh carries out the taxing ritual to summon their master, Magnus the Red, into the physical world.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Space Marine Battles / int_ceec4df5	comment	Roaring Rampage of Revenge: In Fall of Damnos, the Ultramarines — and Brother Agrippan in particular — are pissed when they think Sicarius is dead.
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Space Marine Battles / int_d001c42c	type	Anti-Villain
Space Marine Battles / int_d001c42c	comment	Anti-Villain: The Flayed Lord, from Fall of Damnos, realized how messed up he has become but can't really stop himself.
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Space Marine Battles / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Space Marine Battles / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Attempted in The Gildar Rift. While fighting Huron Blackheart, Daerys Arrun notices a nearby gas pocket and tries to lure Blackheart toward it so that the Chaos Lord will ignite it with a stray blast from his flamer and blow himself up. The plan fails due to Blackheart catching up to him faster than he anticipated and hurling him away from the gas pocket.
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Space Marine Battles / int_d4385289	type	Dog Pile of Doom
Space Marine Battles / int_d4385289	comment	Dog Pile of Doom: In Malodrax, Lysander gets mobbed by a few hundred cultists the first time he enters Shalhadarâ€™s city. Since heâ€™s unarmed and unarmoured, he canâ€™t fight them off effectively, and heâ€™s nearly crushed to death under a pile of bodies until a third party calls the cultists off.
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Space Marine Battles / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Space Marine Battles / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: For a guy that uses psyker spells a lot, Mortarion does enjoy insulting the "little witches" of the Grey Knights for being pyskers.
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Space Marine Battles / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Space Marine Battles / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: For all the insults the two sling at each other, you can see Givenar and Antinas are best friends.
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Space Marine Battles / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
Space Marine Battles / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: Legion of the Damned kicks off with the 817th Feast of Blades, a tournament taking place every century. Check how many years would have had to pass for this to be the 817th Feast, and compare that to how many years have passed since the Space Marines were first created...note 81,700 and 10,900 respectively The Feast of Blades is held at most a century apart; it's remarked on that they're called at much narrower intervals.
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Space Marine Battles / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Space Marine Battles / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Sister Sethano in Death of Antagonis. She's a Sister of Battle Canoness for a reason.
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Space Marine Battles / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Space Marine Battles / int_db38d6ca	comment	In The Gildar Rift, the narrative points out that the Corpsemaster is not a necromancer: he just likes to dissect bodies (living or dead) in order to better understand the biological process of death.
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Space Marine Battles / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Space Marine Battles / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: In Battle of the Fang, Magnus the Redâ€™s plan requires the Space Wolves to kill his frail old man avatar on Gangava so that he can manifest on Fenris in his full might and lay waste to the Fang. He even tells them what the plan entails, knowing that they wonâ€™t believe him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_dc1a6b76	type	Reality Is Out to Lunch
Space Marine Battles / int_dc1a6b76	comment	Reality Is Out to Lunch: The Xeno temples in Death of Antagonis.
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Space Marine Battles / int_dda99fa8	type	Despair Event Horizon
Space Marine Battles / int_dda99fa8	comment	Despair Event Horizon: The Damnos PDF is trying their damnedest not to get pulled behind it, but the Necrons aren't making it easy. In Battle of the Fang Wyrmblade suffers one when the daemon Primarch Magnus shows up. In Malodrax, Brother Helaestus is revealed to have crossed it during his captivity. His anguished rant toward the end of the novel makes it clear that heâ€™d welcome death at the Iron Warriorsâ€™ hands, that he feels taking revenge on them wouldnâ€™t bring back everything he lost, and that heâ€™s nothing without his stolen gene-seed:
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Space Marine Battles / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
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Space Marine Battles / int_e2de05e8	type	Throw the Book at Them
Space Marine Battles / int_e2de05e8	comment	Throw the Book at Them: Lysander spends a decent chunk of Malodrax armed with nothing but a chainsword (which he eventually loses) and a long-dead inquisitor's journal-slash-treatise on the titular daemon world. Between him being a Space Marine and this being a very thick, very heavy iron-bound book on a chain, he puts it to very effective use.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e3613529	type	Protective Charm
Space Marine Battles / int_e3613529	comment	Protective Charm: In Battle of the Fang, the Space Wolves inscribe protective runes into their armour to ward off maleficarum, their term for the power of Chaos. The Fang itself has thousands of similar wards etched into its stone walls, and their presence helps to slow the advance of the Thousand Sons once they break into the fortress, most notably by preventing Magnus the Red from physically manifesting within the Fang until the Sons destroy enough of the wards. Malodrax spends an entire paragraph describing the many, many ways that the Breaker of Darkness has been magically warded and blessed to keep out daemons. Upon entering Malodraxâ€™s orbital reef, these various charms allow the ship to go unmolested by daemonic incursionâ€¦ for thirty minutes.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Space Marine Battles / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: Played with in Malodrax. The daemon prince Shalhadar takes the form of a golden angelic statue when he confronts the Imperial Fists invading his palace, complete with wings made of light, a mace with a white flame burning inside its head, and stained glass windows worked into his body. However, this statue is merely a shell for Shalhadarâ€™s true form, a shapeless mass of darkness.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
Space Marine Battles / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: In The Gildar Rift, Daerys Arrun insists on referring to Huron Blackheart by his original name of Lufgt Huron. Why he does so isnâ€™t clear, and he doesnâ€™t provide an answer when one of the chapterâ€™s Prognosticators asks him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Space Marine Battles / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: It takes a lot to down a Space Marine: Scout Omar in Legion of the Damned. He's buried alive in heretics, stabbed in the chest by a set of Lightning Claws, gets his legs eaten by a daemon, and still begs to be put on the front lines (he ends up playing spotter for another scout with a sniper rifle). He then takes on the role of the sniper when the his fellow scout is killed, and continues putting down daemons and heretics until he was eventually overwhelmed. Over-captain Vallax in Siege of Castellax is teleported into a trap by Oriax, where he's mobbed by nearly a million Orks. He's captured and tortured to within an inch of his life, repeatedly, for seven days straight. He then fights his way out of the torture chamber and into his own home base, which is under siege at the time, and finally goes down fighting, all with half of his skull missing.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e6630c8b	type	GameplayAndStoryIntegration
Space Marine Battles / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: Death of Integrity does this for Space Hulk. Why send bulky, slow moving tactical dreadnought armor into the confined spaces of a Space Hulk, when Genestealers can tear through Terminator armor like tissue paper? Because radiation levels within the Hulk are so high that regular Space Marines would die in hours, as demonstrated when the Magos sends servitors along with the marines in order to set beacons.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e70127	type	The Mole
Space Marine Battles / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: In Malodrax, Kraegon Thulâ€™s mysterious alien lieutenant Karnak is revealed to be Inquisitor Corvinâ€™s assassin Sildyne, who worked his way into a position of power so that he could kill Thul if he ever got the chance. Thul knew Karnakâ€™s true identity, however, and never let his guard down around him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e8038166	type	Obsessively Organized
Space Marine Battles / int_e8038166	comment	Obsessively Organized: Chaplain Boreas in Purging of Kadillus stops in the middle of a pitched siege to glue part of a statue back together. In his mind he realizes there's probably better things to be doing at that moment, but he'd also be a bad Chaplain if he wasn't a stickler for details.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Space Marine Battles / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Throughout Helsreach, the Templars of Grimaldus' squad keep on pointing out that he's acting incredibly subdued and uninvested, especially compared to his previous fiery zeal. Grimaldus himself keeps on thinking on why this is hapenning.
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Space Marine Battles / int_e8aa2b1d	type	Tactical Withdrawal
Space Marine Battles / int_e8aa2b1d	comment	Tactical Withdrawal: In Fall of Damnos Sicarius commits all his Ultramarines to an offensive feint in an attempt to draw out the Necron Lords. The Necrons don't fall for it, and the Ultramarines find themselves nearly surrounded in short order.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
Space Marine Battles / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Most of Veil of Darkness is Cato Sicarius' dream while in medical coma. This being said, it turns out to be quite prophetic and in the end, enables the Space Marines to stop it before it happens.
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Space Marine Battles / int_eb7dad86	type	Civil Warcraft
Space Marine Battles / int_eb7dad86	comment	Civil Warcraft: For the entire first half of Wrath of Iron the "traitor Guardsmen" have no knowledge that their planetary governor has fallen to chaos, and the Iron Hands refuse to let anyone take the time out to explain anything.
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Space Marine Battles / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Space Marine Battles / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The titular Legion of the Damned. They arrived at the last possible moment before Captain Kersh of the Excoriators Space Marine Chapter was overwhelmed by the foul forces of Chaos. In Fall of Damnos Agrippan, Captain of the 1st Company, saves Sicarius and kills the Voidbringer.
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Space Marine Battles / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
Space Marine Battles / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The Iron Warriors as a whole. In Siege of Castellax they routinely kill their slaves pour encourager les autres when the slaves have already spent their entire lives being in fear of their masters.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ecb6abb7	type	Galactic Conqueror
Space Marine Battles / int_ecb6abb7	comment	Galactic Conqueror: In Malodrax, Kraegon Thul aims to become the next great Warmaster of Chaos, and Lysander and Inquisitor Corvin are both convinced that he could wreak untold havoc on the Imperium if he overcomes Malodraxâ€™s trials. Ultimately subverted, though, as he dies without ever conquering a single planet.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ecd42310	type	Goldfish Poop Gang
Space Marine Battles / int_ecd42310	comment	Goldfish Poop Gang: The Iron Warriors in Siege of Castellax are essentially this throughout the entire book. They constantly fight with one another and constantly attempting to undermine one another until the orks show up, are constantly outwitted by the orks in various ways, and many of them end up dying humiliating deaths and the orks end up taking Castellax. Even before the book they seemed to be like this, mentioning a raid prior to the story where they were nearly defeated by the planet's local defense forces when said forces tricked their air forces into bombing a dummy armor column, leaving the real column to go off and attack the Iron Warrior forces sieging the planetary capital. Space Marines almost defeated by regular humans.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ed2bbf8a	type	You Are in Command Now
Space Marine Battles / int_ed2bbf8a	comment	You Are in Command Now: Rhodaan takes command of the 3rd Grand Company after everyone above him dies in Siege of Castellex.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
Space Marine Battles / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: Inquisitor Corvin gradually loses many of his retainers during his time on Malodrax. At least two men die before he enters Shalhadarâ€™s city, and he loses two more by the time he leaves the place, bringing him down to five. By the time of his final journal entry, two of those five are dead and Corvin is convinced that the other two must also be dead. His assassin Sildyne is the only member of the team still alive and loyal by the time of Lysanderâ€™s return to Malodrax.
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Space Marine Battles / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Space Marine Battles / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Tahek the Voidbringer and Ankh the Necron Lorn in Fall of Damnos have more than a few shades of this, both towards their Overlord and towards each other.
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Space Marine Battles / int_efbc288f	type	Heroic Self-Deprecation
Space Marine Battles / int_efbc288f	comment	Heroic Self-Deprecation: Grimaldus isn't all that convinced about his promotion.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f12c6fb1	type	Surprisingly Sudden Death
Space Marine Battles / int_f12c6fb1	comment	For sake of example, Corporal Besseque in Fall of Damnos; of all the non-space marines he's held in possibly the highest regard by the PDF thanks to saving the lives of both the planetary governor AND his temporary replacement. He dies out of nowhere when a 8-inch rock falls from the ceiling and hits him on the head.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f237981e	type	The Alleged Car
Space Marine Battles / int_f237981e	comment	The Alleged Car: The Iron Warriors have this impression when they're forced to hijack an Ork plane. The only reason a throttle was installed was so the Ork pilot could weld the thrust lever into the highest gear (Orks are funny like that), and it doesn't have any landing gear.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f2a8ac6e	type	The Secret of Long Pork Pies
Space Marine Battles / int_f2a8ac6e	comment	The Secret of Long Pork Pies: It shouldn't surprise you much to learn that the Iron Warriors have linked their slave morgue to the food production plant, but it's a big reveal for the slaves themselves, especially Yuxiang.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Space Marine Battles / int_f3626b09	comment	Scipio in Fall of Damnos keeps flashing back to an attack against Nurgle cultists, in which he failed to Mercy Kill his Chaplain in time, resulting in a demon popping out of Chaplain Orad's flesh and killing another squadmate. Thus he becomes a bit of a perfectionist (by Space Marine standards), and when more squadmates die to the Necrons he's having trouble accepting it truly isn't his fault this time.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f4fd424c	type	All Your Base Are Belong to Us
Space Marine Battles / int_f4fd424c	comment	All Your Base Are Belong to Us: The orks seize control of the Dark Angelsâ€™ basilica off-page in The Purging of Kadillus. Chaplain Boreas leads multiple assaults on the basilica in an effort to take it back, finally succeeding on his fifth attempt.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f6370d13	type	Organ Theft
Space Marine Battles / int_f6370d13	comment	Organ Theft: In The Gildar Rift, the Corpsemaster steals Sergeant Porteusâ€™s progenoid glands after the latter is captured by the Red Corsairs. A former Space Wolf turned Red Corsair implies that the same was done to both him and many other formerly loyal Space Marines pressganged into the Corsairsâ€™ ranks. Toward the end of Malodrax, Brother Helaestus reveals that the Iron Warriors stole his gene-seed during his captivity.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f64d0113	type	Flashback Within a Flashback
Space Marine Battles / int_f64d0113	comment	Flashback Within A Flash Back: In Malodrax, flashbacks of Lysander's first time on the planet are accompanied by flashbacks from Inquisitor Corvin's Apocalyptic Log.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f870d50	type	Consolation Prize
Space Marine Battles / int_f870d50	comment	Consolation Prize: Lord Plosk still managed to capture a fraction of the blueprints from the data core of the Spirit of Eternity.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f8b3fa5d	type	Our Werewolves Are Different
Space Marine Battles / int_f8b3fa5d	comment	Our Werewolves Are Different: In Battle of the Fang, the Halls of the Revered Fallenâ€”the caves where the Space Wolves keep their Dreadnoughtsâ€”are guarded by mysterious â€œbeastsâ€� that appear to be gigantic, semi-humanoid wolves with cybernetic augmentations. In the same book, Helfist succumbs to his grief and battle-rage during the final days of the siege, transforming into a Wulfen.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Space Marine Battles / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: Helsreach's final battle ends with the cathedral collapsing on everyone, essentially burying them alive. Grimaldus is one of seven people who surivive this, the Astarte pretty much digging himself out.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f909b16b	type	Dark Secret
Space Marine Battles / int_f909b16b	comment	Dark Secret: Lysander never tells the other Imperial Fists about all the deals and alliances he made with daemons during his time on Malodrax. When other Fists notice that the daemons theyâ€™re killing seem to know him, he lies through his teeth about how they know him.
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Space Marine Battles / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
Space Marine Battles / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption and Redemption Equals Death: From Wrath of Iron, Valien the Death Cult Assassin grew up in the slums and is addicted to drinking blood. He knew damn well his sins were great and constantly worried that his career wouldn't help his life amount to anything. At least through his suicide bomb he was able to make his death count for something, by blowing up a Slaanesh Daemon Prince's sanctuary, wounding said Prince and atomizing his personal bodyguards.
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Space Marine Battles / int_fcaec6bf	type	Orbital Bombardment
Space Marine Battles / int_fcaec6bf	comment	Orbital Bombardment: In Battle of the Fang, the Thousand Sons assault the titular fortress with a pair of â€œplanet-scourersâ€�â€”ships built for the sole purpose of housing enormous, downward-pointing plasma cannons powerful enough to raze a continent. The resulting bombardment isnâ€™t strong enough to bring down the Fangâ€™s shields, but it does prevent the Space Wolves from bringing the Fangâ€™s anti-orbit weapons to bear and keeps them from sending out Thunderhawks to interfere with the Thousand Sonsâ€™ landing operations.
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Space Marine Battles / int_ff070bbd	type	Attack! Attack! Attack!
Space Marine Battles / int_ff070bbd	comment	Attack! Attack! Attack!: The more brutal Space Marine Chapters are this. They have no qualms whatsoever about applying overwhelming force to completely annihilate the enemies of the Imperium, even if it causes collateral damage to the surroundings. Other Space Marine Captains, though, will withdraw their forces when they know they don't have the firepower to go toe-to-toe with the enemy, as it is better to live to fight another day than to fight a battle that they cannot win.
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Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Genius Loci / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Keystone Army / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Mirthless Laughter / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Mook Horror Show / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	More Dakka / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Mother of a Thousand Young / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Never Trust a Title / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Omniscient Morality License / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Our Zombies Are Different / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Reality Is Out to Lunch / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Rescued from the Scrappy Heap / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Reverse Mole / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Secret Path / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Slobs Versus Snobs / int_51d31800
SpaceMarineBattles	seeAlso	Space Marine Battles
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Status Quo Is God / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	The Alleged Car / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	The Power of Hate / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	The Secret of Long Pork Pies / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Throw the Book at Them / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	Too Dumb to Fool / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ / int_51d31800
Space Marine Battles	hasFeature	The Rival / int_51d31800

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