>Good guys look squishy and vanilla.
>Bad guys have kino taste.
I'm just going to say GDI but there are no Command And Conquer comics.
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Any cases where the good guy faction actually looks just as cool?
Transformers
I always thought the Autobots were cool because their designs had an underdog element.
>Autobots are generally all cars, trucks, and other civilian vehicles.
>Decepticons are military jets, helicopters, tanks, and other weaponized vehicles.
>Autobots still put up a fight and even prevail despite this disparity in firepower.
>Autobots are generally all cars, trucks, and other civilian vehicles.
It also makes the few that aren't civilian vehicles more interesting too, like Warpath and Jetfire, from their alt modes alone you can imagine a story for them
Oh my God, I'm such a dumbass. I only just now got it. Auto means car and deception is an essential component of warfare.
Going off the name, you'd think the Decepticons would tend to gravitate towards less overtly threatening alt modes.
Nah, they just picked the name because it sounded cool. Like the Avengers.
Autocucks, film now
That's just completely wrong
Both sides have amazing designs
the premise is literally "as cool", which is exactly what you just said
Guess I didn't read the headline and just the post text with the pic
I'm not even a fan and Optimus is cool, he's like the hero equivalent to the big bad of a trilogy.
i hate this phenomena of people literally going on twitter, finding a pic, and going "YES! SOMETHING TO POST ON Cinemaphile!" and then attempt to pretend like they can formulate a question around it
I hate how people use Cinemaphile has the fricking general fiction board or writing board and not, you know the FRICKING COMICS AND CARTOONS BOARD
Agreed!
Not that I disagree, but which board should we use for general fiction?
/trash/
/bant/
/s4s/
/lit/
Or you could just stay on frickin twitter with this shit if you're too lazy to even find a board relevant example.
>/trash/
Not a real board
>/bant/
>/s4s/
Shitposting boards like Cinemaphile
>Cinemaphile
An actual adult board
>in conclusion
troony jannie in training needs to dial 8 before joining the 41%.
that's [s4s] to you
>An actual adult board
searching for anything lolbertian on 4cent results in 90% of the posts being on Cinemaphile and seething at a certain russian israelite
>Cinemaphile
Oh no you dont, you two-digit IQ Black folk stay off that fricking board
Too late, already there calling you pretentious homosexuals for thinking house of leaves is any better than rick and morty.
holy shit you made me lol irl
that cant be real
its gotta be one schizo
you Black person
how about you lurk before posting instead of asking inane questions
lmao Cinemaphile is the absolute pseudointellectual midwit board
Honestly its the most chill place for this kind of thing, and also because the other boards' jannies would actually do their (free) job.
>Honestly its the most chill place for this kind of thing,
NOT
OUR
PROBLEM
FRICK
OFF
>and also because the other boards' jannies would actually do their (free) job.
You make that sound as if that's a bad thing
shut the frick up moron
>I want to discuss anime, video games, table top, novels, live action film, etc on a board for WESTERN COMICS AND CARTOONS
>Somehow I'm not the moronic one
This is pretty much how all the toy commericial cartoons from the 80s functioned.
The main good guy looks like a clean-cut hero and all the bad guys look cool and interesting so that kids will buy more toys. He-Man is the biggest example of this.
Hell, part of the reason why Skeleton Warriors failed is that the bad guys were so cool and evil looking that no-one bough the good guy toys.
what if I told you it's botspam? just to slide the forum and make the site unuseable. Which it sucessfully has.
Do the members of La Resistance from Mutant Butsers look cool to to you?
That looks like a late 2000s metaverse chatsite like IMVU for toddler emos
At least the designs aren’t half bad.
Who are they?
Characters from the toyline/animated series Mutant Busters.
Yes
Clone Wars
Is there a single faction in Star Wars that doesn't look cool?
The rebels look lame. The only aesthetic part of them are X-wings.
The Hoth rebel fits look great
The only lame rebels are the guys with vests and dumb helmets on Leia's ship in A New Hope. The rest of them have a cool ragtag guerrilla group aesthetic
I mean yeah, the only ones that are terrible are the ones in Leia's ship, but the empire just looks cooler overall.
The Resistance, because everything Disney produces is gay and lame
First Order too. Cargo cult of the Empire except they don't even look the part with all their fancy new uniforms and weapons. If they were using in mix of stormtrooper and old clone trooper equipment like a Galactic Empire version of the Volkssturm (the implication being that they're basically running on dwindling stockpiles and their lives are regarded as even MORE expendable by Snoke and Kylo Red than Vader and Palpatine), they'd unironically be a lot better
The Disney era. Everything is just a rip off of a previous era.
Maroon jacket era and grey shoulder era Star Trek.
The X-Men generally look cooler than their antagonists, if they count as "good guys".
40k
but the Tau have the worst aesthetic in the game
Tau are 'good guys' only the merit they're more accepting and tolerant of other races, but only on the caveat that they fall in line. they arent above meeting any kind of resistance with mass deadly force.
They also indoctrinate and mass sterilize.
Fricking this. The Tau are "good guys" only by dint of the fact that they haven't had enough time to commit mass atrocities. Give em a couple of thousand years and their hands will be a bloody as everyone elses.....assuming they don't get jumped by da Boyz. WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
The Tau look cooler than the regular Eldars
Are the squats just as bad?
How does that armor even work?
Is he just sitting in the top operating it with buttons and cranks?
I always figured Space Marines had limbs that were ridiculously elongated to fit in the power armor, part of the "genetic enhancements" that supposedly made them superior warriors. Out of their armor, they're literal 98-pound weaklings who couldn't even sit up due to their grossly distorted anatomy.
>Out of their armor, they're literal 98-pound weaklings who couldn't even sit up due to their grossly distorted anatomy.
Part of the genetic and surgical enhancements they get entail turning their bones into ceramic internal armour and huge increases in muscle mass, so like, maybe just their arm is 98 pounds.
Like normal armor, he's just really wide.
Most of his body is cybernetic
Body armor is connected to his bones and nervous system to control as his own body, its not some t shirt he can wear and take off
Space marines are Big Boys.
I can see that this is only fan art, but is it canon that the Primarchs and the Emperor not have the black carapace? If not, how do they control their power armor? Or are they just so far beyond even a Custodes that they don't need a direct link between their nervous system to the armor and can exert that much control through their muscle movements alone?
>Or are they just so far beyond even a Custodes that they don't need a direct link between their nervous system to the armor and can exert that much control through their muscle movements alone?
Yes, they don't even need to eat or sleep.
>I can see that this is only fan art
ok, here you go.
That's not a GWS model, it's third party. Also, pretty sure anon wasn't saying that, that's not what Space Marines actually look, but was asking if the way the Emperor and the Primarchs were depicted (lacking connection ports for their armour) was canon.
That was an event on a single, backwater world and not a standard thing as evident by
>where she had expected them to knock each other down with paint shells and powder rounds, there was the flat crackle of bullets.
>'They are using live weapons…'
>Miriya rounded on him. 'They're killing each other.'
It's something that both surprised and horrified the Sisters of Battle, and if I remember correctly, that story ends with the SoB forcing the locals to stop this custom, because they were so disgusted by it.
yeah but I want to push an agenda so the imperium is to blame
Not so sure about the custodes, but Big E and the primarchs got access absurdly advanced dark age tech that doesn't seem to need things like nervous system connectors.
>Imperium of Man
>Good guys
Compartively yes.
Thats why its GrimDark
The Imperium are the good guys. Your beef is with individuals who did bad things.
The vast, VAST majority of Imperium characters are good natured and logical people. The universe these people inhabit is extremely dangerous and brutal. Trying to apply your morality to 40k dilemmas always leads to greater suffering and death. What seems harsh and intolerant to you is actually the absolute bare minimum needed to survive.
>The Imperium are the good guys
Sure buddy
You really have no idea what you're talking about.
In Faith & Fire, some Battle Sisters are talking while a play reenacting a battle between the Sisters and the Eldar is going on. The Sisters don't really pay much attention until:
The Battle Sister's rejoinder was silenced as a clatter of gunfire rose up from the amphitheatre. Miriya's gauntleted hands tensed automatically at the sound of a hundred ballistic stubbers going off in ragged succession. All of the participants in the ersatz skirmish were firing on one another, but where she had expected them to knock each other down with paint shells and powder rounds, there was the flat crackle of bullets.
'They are using live weapons…' As the Sister Superior watched, one of the youths dressed as a Sororitas inexpertly discharged a salvo of shots into a boy on stubby stilts, the heavy rounds ripping through the wood and cloth imitations of eldar armour. Blood was already pooling on the arena's sands where figures from both sides had been cut down.
...
Close by, one of the merchantmen from the cathedral clapped and let out a guffaw. 'What a magnificent effort this year. This Blessing will be one for the ages.'
Miriya rounded on him. 'They're killing each other.'
The portly man's expression shattered under the Battle Sister's leaden stare. 'But… But of course they are. That's how it is done…' He forced a smile. 'Ah, of course. Forgive me. You must both be off-worlders, yes? You are both new to Neva and the festival?'
The Ecclesiarchy has people literally kill each other as part of a play.
It is subsequently mentioned that the merchant speaking was selected by lottery to be one of those actors who get killed as part of their role, but he made a "forfeit donation" to the Ecclesiarchy.
In the Imperium they randomly select people to die in public and the population celebrates it.
>'Ah, of course. Forgive me. You must both be off-worlders, yes? You are both new to Neva and the festival?'
So is this practice a local custom or an Imperial mandated policy?
>Hammer and Bolter
The subscription idea was shit and it fricked up the fan community; but some of the shorts were at least well written. LOVED Plague Song. Beautifully twisted and PERFECTLY Lovecraftan.
Vast majority of Imperium characters are slaves heretics or incompetent morons
Only in your deluded head. Come back when you have an argument.
The Imperium isn’t a necessary evil, it’s a cruel authoritarian government that is directly responsible for why the galaxy is such a hellhole since it’s so repressive that the average citizen’s only choice is to be worked to death or join literal demons from hell to have something resembling freedom on what to do with their lives, a more benign galaxy spanning government would be in a much better situation since their citizens would have much less of a justification to join Chaos.
Go live on a Daemon World and tell us how it goes.
didn't the eldar birth slanesh from having too much freedom?
yes but i don't like humans so imperium le evil
The Eldar birthed Slaanesh because they were extremely decadent, not because they had too much freedom, not being a shithole like the IoM won’t automatically lead to the birth of another Chaos God if your people aren’t completely moronic.
>if your people aren’t completely moronic
yeah that slope seems slippery as hell, especially with genestealers and demons actively trying to corrupt your people.
The demons don’t seem to be very good at their jobs considering that humanity has been alive for 40k-ish years, the Eldar are still alive despite birthing an entire Chaos God that killed the majority of their populace, the Orks are still 90% free of chaos corruption despite having existed for as long as the Eldar, the Necrons are still a pain in the ads that are coming back to frick them all over and they have no answer to this despite being timeless beings with reality warping powers and the Tyranids are still immune to Chaos corruption despite being literal fricking bugs that should be no harder to corrupt than any other mindless animal that runs on instinct.
If Chaos kills all creatures with souls, then Chaos dies. Chaos wants to rule creatures with souls. Like vampires having peasants as livestock.
'Nids aren't mindless, they're a hivemind, and the hivemind fricks with the warp.
>Tyranids are still immune to Chaos corruption despite being literal fricking bugs
No soul, each Tyranid is but a cell of an organism, frick it the shadow in the warp can get so thick it doubles as an exorcism tool in the case of Kronos
You can't corrupt what isn't there
don't know much but from what I've seen
>human
protected by imperial zeal
>elf
got ther shit together after birthing a god
>ork
moron strength
all survived by NOT slacking their hold to experiment with naive ideas like universal individual liberty
The humans are more than capable of surviving without needing to be overly religious xenophobic authoritarians, just look at the Interex, they were doing fine until Erebus decided to be an butthole and started a war between them and the Imperium.
>Interex
see
A more benign civilization would not have survived. The Imperium doesn't persist in spite of being a cruel and bloody regime, it persists because of it.
>A more benign civilization would not have survived
The Diasporex was fine for 15,000 years until the Imperium wiped them out because racism
Anon is right, the universe is as fricked as it is primarily because conditions in the Imperium provide ample resources and recruitment for Chaos
The analogy with regard to fascist governments and terrorism is not subtle
They were given a chance to resolve the situation peacefully, refused, then democratically sabotaged themselves into extinction. It was a moronic civilization full of morons incapable of defending themselves.
>but at least they weren't heckin' meanie poopyheads!
Grow the frick up.
>They were given a chance to resolve the situation peacefully
The humans in the Diasporex were told to slaughter every non-human
That's not peacefully
That's wrong.
Repatriating them means forcing them into military service and blowing up all the non-humans
Weird how you're doubling down after being caught lying.
Anon I know you think you're being cute by pretending to be an actual member of the Imperium, but it's not cute. It's sad. You people make discussing this franchise completely impossible.
>You people make discussing this franchise completely impossible.
I'm not the one making shit up.
>that is directly responsible for why the galaxy is such a hellhole
No that would be the Eldar and the Old Ones. It was a nightmare shithole before the humans ever left Earth.
>They hated him because he spoke the truth.
insomuch as there's a good guy aesthetic, it's 'scrappy rebel chic'
or maybe 'glorious heavenly paladin' if you're not a jaded ironygay
so the heretic's blasphemy made it an evil knife that grew horizontally? i don't follow that picture
ABELARD!
Announce me!
t. woman or wanting to be one
>Trannies out of nowhere
The Imperium is still hideously evil and cruel regardless of whatever delusions lead you to think this strawman is responsible for pointing out the Imperium aren’t good guys.
Humanity First, Xeno Last.
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Aliens are cooler though and are the ones that generally seem to at least not be sanctimonious or deluded in their actions, Tyrannids also have a better aesthetic frankly.
t. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQgP7imbZqM
I mean cultists being morons to woship horrible space monsters doesn’t make the horrible space monsters less cool
Remember that time the Imperium stumbled onto a democratic nomadic colony called the Diasporex that was comprised of many different species, including humans, living and working together and keeping to themselves?
Remember how they told the humans in the Diasporex to either murder the aliens they grew up with or else get murdered themselves? And then everyone in the Disaporex got murdered?
Gee I sure am glad the Imperium are the good guys or that would be bad
>The Diasporex's democratic society proved their undoing, as they found it more difficult to coordinate an effective defence than the centrally-commanded Space Marine force of the Imperium.
Sounds like they were dipshits
>A small peaceful coalition couldn't withstand an unprovoked genocidal assault by the Imperium
Yeah, definitely sounds like the Imperium were the good guys here.
If they couldn't handle the Imperium, then they cannot handle the Imperium's enemies. Guaranteeing survival takes priority over cucked moralizing.
Anon the Diasporex was around since the Age of Strife, they'd been kicking around their corner of the universe not making any enemies for 15,000 years
I appreciate you conceding that the Imperium is immoral.
If your society cannot get its shit together and repel/evade/negotiate with external threats then it is not a society at all; it is a resource waiting to be plundered. The Diasporex failed the most basic principle.
You are morally wrong for being a weakling.
>Muh survival of the fittest
Motherfricker, this shit was why Europe would become a war torn shithole every few decades and people would immigrate to America to avoid that bullshit.
It's the same reason why the Middle East is a backwater wasteland that nobody, outside of humanitarian workers, goes to.
Morals don't mean shit when you're dead, moron. The Diasporex were actually putting up a fight but then their heckin' good guy democratic governance broke their cohesion. If your ideology requires your enemies to play nice then you're a fricking clown. A DEAD clown.
>their heckin' good guy democratic governance broke their cohesion
More like they were attacked, unprovoked,by an enemy that they had no idea existed and were outnumbered 50 to 1.
>Morals don't mean shit when you're dead.
They sure as frick matter when you're alive. The Imperium has no allies because the Emperor genocided anyone who didn't agree with his moronic ideology. So now, mankind is overstretched and surrounded by enemies on all sides that they have almost no hope in beating.
>More like they were attacked, unprovoked,by an enemy that they had no idea existed and were outnumbered 50 to 1
Skill issue.
>The Imperium has no allies
And it is still one of the most dominant forces in the galaxy. Cope harder.
>Skill issue.
Not an argument
>still one of the most dominant forces in the galaxy
A society that has so obviously become a decayed shithole I don't see what you're point is. The fricking Tau have better living standards than the Imperium, and have consistently humiliated the Imperium in wars that so the Tau can't simply be wiped out like the Diasporex.
Loser talk.
>Not wanting to be surrounded by enemies because your leader was too much of an autistic moron to actually make lasting allies
>Loser talk
>The fricking Tau have better living standards than the Imperium
Sure, as long as you get indoctrinated and sterilized. Just submit and be a good peon. Know how many humans are in Tau leadership positions?
>He keeps on harking on about a 15 year old non canon game ending that hasn’t been mentioned anywhere else in canon.
Answer the question.
>Live in peace and comfort but can't have kids
Or
>Spend 24/7 in a filthy mine or factory slaving away to contribute an infinitesimal amount to a war effort that doesn't involve you in any way
>just submit to your ethereal masters
no
>Not an argument
Definitely is. If they get murdered by the imperium then their souls would instead be enslaved and tortured for eternity by half of the imperiums enemies.
>uses tribal minded middle east
>not well oiled engine china
convenient
>China
Lol, lmao even
China hasn't seen a war in literal decades. They are hardly the quintessential example of survival of the fittest.
they have skirmishes in the indian border and tarim basin, and have secret police stations in fricking canada and hungary
>most people are disgusted
are these the same people as "the global community", which is really just NATO + g7?
>An actual china simp
No wonder you're a imp fan boy. I'm willing to bet you're brown too.
I wonder what would happen if the tau found that ship instead
>Dear god the Smurfs took over the Milky Way!
It’s funny how people simp so hard for the Imperium when most people are disgusted by the real life Chinese government, a government that is significantly less evil than the Imerpium, really puts into question what Imperium fans want.
>you support the least worst option in grimdark fiction but dislike an totalitarian state irl. What a hypocrite!
really?
>It’s funny how people simp so hard for the Imperium when most people are disgusted by the real life Chinese government, a government that is significantly less evil than the Imerpium, really puts into question what Imperium fans want.
Yeah, funny how people can separate fiction and reality.
>I am evil
We agree
Failing to protect your people is evil.
Don't talk shit about the Lamenters
>40k
>good guys
johnny big hands
>space HRE
>good
Fantasy > 40K
The End Times
Not comics or cartoons
He just posted a picture from a fricking comic.
A single shitpost image ISN'T a comic you blithering moron
It LITERALLY is you pissant troony
In WH40K, belief is power, right?
For the Orks, it makes their Tech work. For Chaos, it fuels the Chaos Gods.
But millions of planets filled with billions of Humans all believing fervently in the Emperor doesn't make a ripple in the Warp? I can't believe that their are more Chaos cultists in the universe than there are believers in big E. And the Warp isn't just space hell, it's space ether, the immaterial realm of souls. Why hasn't anyone found space heaven realms?
Also the Ultramarine's primarch is back, right? Is he telling people to stop being moronic and to research tech instead of believing that it works through magical fairies?
Oh, and Ollanius Pius was the last Catholic, right?
And a perpetual(??? I've head that).
So, if Horus hadn't wiped his soul, Catholicism would've kept on trucking as the last of the old religions?
That's kinda funny. Big E couldn't wipe out all (old) religions, Horus dealt the death blow.
Emps is functionally a braindead chaos god at this point, like he has demons and the ability to shape the warp like a god. But when he spoke with Gulliman it was said that this was like one of the last acts he could ever muster, and that his will was failing
Gulliman is actually trying to tell people to stop being moronic. But the imperium is just so large and falling apart so quickly he doesn't even have the time to think about sparking a civil war to straighten things out
>like he has demons and the ability to shape the warp like a god. But when he spoke with Gulliman it was said that this was like one of the last acts he could ever muster, and that his will was failing
If I remember right (I could remember wrong), he has to stay on the Golden Throne to plug a hole in the webway or else Demons invade Earth... but, like, Earth is just a planet. Evacuate it and release Emps from the throne. He could probably do more against Chaos by letting Earth get swallowed and then b***hslapping the Chaos Gods afterwards.
The golden throne is on earth and the sole remaining lighthouse in the warp. So if he leaves to accend to the heavens all his believers die as they cannot use ftl ever and in a decade tops he loses enough worshipers to no longer be a god and is then consumed by chaos like the eldar gods before him.
Pharos might have been another option but that exploded and attracted the nids
I forgot about that. humanity had FTL travel and the Tau do too.
Adopting that tech to, ya know, stop dipping into space hell seems like a good idea. Even if it's only half as fast or something, you don't go into space hell to use it and it frees Emps from the throne.
I know the Ecclesiarchy wouldn't do it, but now that the Ultramarine Primarch is around, he could get it done.
It seems to be headed in that direction with papa surf moving the status quo forward but the real question becomes can it be done fast enough to escape the terminal velocity of the currently ongoing collapse
>can it be done fast enough to escape the terminal velocity of the currently ongoing collapse
I mean, it's WH40K. The status quo must be maintained.
Guiliman will try, but then someone calls him a heretic and other people listen to him for no reason and the plan doesn't proceed as it should and there's a civil war.
Or some shit like that.
They've been genuinely moving things forward for all the eldar, necrons and the works for big ways. Cadia is gone and the galaxy imploded. I have some albeit, likely misplaced, trust that the story is headed somewhere
That reminds me, Emps can't be a beacon for half the galaxy because of... it's not the eye of terror anymore.. the scar of terror?
All the more reason to go FTL and stop using 'tard travel.
Dunno much about that. Think it was to do with the primaris marines somehow or at happened at the same time. And I got rather jaded about the primaris after I heard they fricked with the lore of the Crimson fists, that was going too far because they were my first ever models. So I stopped paying attention to anything to do with marines.
>Pharos might have been another option but that exploded and attracted the nids
Another reason why Barabas balls of steel Dantioch was the best thing in 40k, he gave us space bugs
Like others said, status quo is king for anything as large as 40K, but I do enjoy having Guilliman back to bring a little sanity to the Imperium. It’s nice to have someone with some self-awareness realize the direction mankind is going in even if turning the corner will take a lot of effort.
There is a lot of craziness at the moment with the massive Tyranid invasions, the galaxy still technically split in half and the other Primarchs reappearing (for better or worse) but it would be nice if GW established an arc where Guilliman *did* attempt some improvements. I would love to see a faction of Imperium loyalists who oppose him for political reasons (outside of just being Chaos-adjacent).
>For the Orks, it makes their Tech work. For Chaos, it fuels the Chaos Gods.
This is only half-true for Orks. Their weirdboyz have genetic knowledge on how to make tech; their latent psyker abilities mostly prevent it from blowing up in their faces, among a few other oddities. The Chaos Gods are not simply powered by belief, but by raw emotion and are linked to some natural cycles. They'd likely exist even without cultists.
>But millions of planets filled with billions of Humans all believing fervently in the Emperor doesn't make a ripple in the Warp? I can't believe that their are more Chaos cultists in the universe than there are believers in big E.
The Emperor is an unfathomably strong psychic being. Fervent belief in his power actually does protect you from the Warp, and he does bestow blessings which is why you occasionally see things like Living Saints. Unfortunately, most of his power is focused on maintaining the Astronomican.
>And the Warp isn't just space hell, it's space ether, the immaterial realm of souls. Why hasn't anyone found space heaven realms?
The Warp was irrevocably turned into the nightmare realm you know during the War in Heaven. If there was ever a part hospitable to mortals, it's gone now.
>Also the Ultramarine's primarch is back, right? Is he telling people to stop being moronic and to research tech instead of believing that it works through magical fairies?
Yes, he's doing his best to un-frick the Imperium. But you're clearly underestimating just how fricking difficult that is.
Tech is its own issue and the mysticism is arguably highly necessary.
The Sisters of Battle are basically an Imperium-aligned chaos cult who empower the Emperor through their belief the same way chaos cultists empower the chaos gods.
They even have their own equivalent of Daemon Princes called Living Saints.
>But millions of planets filled with billions of Humans all believing fervently in the Emperor doesn't make a ripple in the Warp?
The Emperor is basically a 5th chaos god at this point due to the Ecclesiarchy and the constant psyker sacrifices
There are no good guy factions in WH40k
The space Nazis are the only good guys in that universe so you should had post anyone else beside imperium
>SPEEESH MUHREENS
By the Comet! How cringe.
How much is that outfit worth?
For a group that fetishizes so much military aesthetic, nerds surely arent joining the army
Don't worry, at the rate geopolitics is unfolding most anons here will be drafted to die for either Taiwan, Israel or Ukraine.
No they wont you doomwishwe
For all people like to say we are all going to be drafted to fight Moloch’s war or whatever buzzword is today. The US hasn’t actually sent any normal people to the world’s war zones for years.
I did
I regret it kinda, but I did
>For a group that fetishizes so much military aesthetic, nerds surely arent joining the army
I won't join the military for the same reason I won't join the police. It's too much red tape, bureaucracy, and following orders to do shit you either don't see the point of or actively disagree with. Either way you're basically throwing yourself into a potentially deadly situation just to line the pockets of some bureaucrats that hate you.
>Space commies
>Good guys
Pick one.
no one wants to die for israel
>.t guy who has never interacted with people in the military or vets
You should leave.
You might want to check out /k/.
Why is the left incapable of separating fiction from reality?
The way China is acting some anons might have to.
>For a group that fetishizes so much military aesthetic, nerds surely arent joining the army
Ok legitimately what is the logic here? Like actually explain how you reach such a moronic conclusion.
>Oh you like the look of a Lamborghini? WELL WHY AREN'T YOU A FORMULA 1 DRIVER HUH???
David and Goliath?
In stuff with comics or cartoons? There's a few.
>Avatar
Northern Water Tribe warriors looked much cooler than faceless Fire goons.
>Arcane
Jinx and the other Zaunite types have infinitely more style than Piltover.
>LotR
Elves and Gondor absolutely mog Sauron's forces.
Why do 40ktards always try justify being buttholes
translation:
>why do i always lose every argument when i talk about shit i don't know about
>The brutal repressive space fascists are good because the setting they are in is designed to justify their actions.
So you're just telling me that 40k is shit.
That's an embarrassing tantrum you're throwing. Have you tried talking to the Genestealer cults and negotiating with them? I'm sure they'll be dazzled by your moral grandstanding and impeccable reasoning skills.
>So you're just telling me that 40k is shit.
You should've known the setting wasn't for you the moment it coined the term "grimdark".
>Can’t refute that the Imperium is objectively terrible and is responsible for the galaxy being so shitty
The GE would do better than the Imperium if it had to survive in Warhammer 40k despite also being evil because they’re far less cartoonishly cruel and inefficient, it says a lot about how bad the Imperium is that the poster-boy for evil Sci-Fi empires would herald a massive improvement in quality of life across the board if it replaced the IoM.
GE got blown the frick out by a geezer being tossed into a vent shaft and some hillbillies knocking over a power core that was being propped up by a fricking toothpick. You think such buffoonery would hold up against the threats in 40k? I doubt it'd take very many Ork boyz to topple yet another Empire "super weapon".
>he doesn't know
No one knows how the GE managed to do anything of importance. Fell over like a house of cards.
>failed to kill off the slithervines
Very impressive!
All of that can be cleared out by some good old fashioned Base Delta Zeroes, something that any ship larger than a Victory class Star Destroyer can do, which the Empire has in ample amounts.
>>The planet Shitholis 37, population 37 trillion, is under attack by the legions of Chaos led by Daemon Prince Blagobag the World Molester
>astropaths immediately begin sending out the SOS call, dozens of them dying as their heads explode from the telepathic strain
>after several more dozen head explosions and a thorough cleaning of the receiving room, the message makes it to Imperial Command
>seven years pass as it works its way up the bureaucracy, a new record
>as Shitholios 39's primary export of desiccated people squeezins is the only source of food for 100 star systems it is given priority
>23 years later the relief fleet readies to launch
>the horrifically mutated Navigator opens his third eye, sending everyone within 200 yards into murderous frenzy as the fleet tears reality a new space hole and deep dives into double ultra no-no bad touch hell, aka The Warp
>6 years later, 52 years ship time, the fleet emerges over the skies of Shitholis 27
>15% of the fleet never reappears
>4% of the fleet arrives at Shitholis 37 36 years in the past, causing Captain Blagobag of the Relentless Fury-class battleship Unrelenting Furious Fury of Fury Which Does Not Relent to sell the souls of his crew to the Ruinous Powers for the power to molest worlds
>meanwhile the rest of the fleet engages in fierce combat over Shitholis 27
>Fleet Captain Darth Jean-Luc Buck Flash Han Luke Valerian Robocop Blade Runner the VIII (WARHAMMER 40,000 IS A SERIOUS GAME AND ALSO HE'S FROM FIRST EDITION SO IT DOESN'T COUNT!) watches the battle in the midst of his 412 course luncheon
>suddenly a Space Wolf fleet lead by Wolf Lord Wolf Wolfer, Wolf Captain of the 8th Wolf Company, the Wolving Wolves, arrives
>for failure to respond to the attack on Shitholis 37 Fleet Captain Darth Jean-Luc Buck Flash Han Luke Valerian Robocop Blade Runner the VIII has been declared excommunicato traitorious and sentenced to have his brain amputated and his body converted into a fecal disposal servitor
I love people are now starting to shit on 40k more
Shit like this is why I like 40k. I want it to go back to being a campy heavy metal space war where everyone is an butthole for no reason.
Imperium is fascist don't cheer for any side they're all bad
But they're all so cool though
moron homosexual, how are morons like you even real
>NOOO DONT LIKE PEOPLE FIGHTING ACTUAL DEMONS FROM HELL THEIR HECCING MEANIES
No. They're cool and the greatest force for good in the setting
reminds me of that Orc WAAAGH story that was in the codex
>WAAAGH sets out into the warp
>Arrives where it started, but in the past
>Warboss attacks his past self so "He can have a spare of his favourite shoota"
>WARHAMMER 40,000 IS A SERIOUS GAME
Lmao nobody who matters pretends this but a silly setting can still have serious drama
>Psssh the GE would never be able to survive in the 40k universe!
>
>astropaths immediately begin sending out the SOS call, dozens of them dying as their heads explode from the telepathic strain
>after several more dozen head explosions and a thorough cleaning of the receiving room, the message makes it to Imperial Command
>seven years pass as it works its way up the bureaucracy, a new record
>as Shitholios 39's primary export of desiccated people squeezins is the only source of food for 100 star systems it is given priority
>23 years later the relief fleet readies to launch
>the horrifically mutated Navigator opens his third eye, sending everyone within 200 yards into murderous frenzy as the fleet tears reality a new space hole and deep dives into double ultra no-no bad touch hell, aka The Warp
>6 years later, 52 years ship time, the fleet emerges over the skies of Shitholis 27
>15% of the fleet never reappears
>4% of the fleet arrives at Shitholis 37 36 years in the past, causing Captain Blagobag of the Relentless Fury-class battleship Unrelenting Furious Fury of Fury Which Does Not Relent to sell the souls of his crew to the Ruinous Powers for the power to molest worlds
>meanwhile the rest of the fleet engages in fierce combat over Shitholis 27
>Fleet Captain Darth Jean-Luc Buck Flash Han Luke Valerian Robocop Blade Runner the VIII (WARHAMMER 40,000 IS A SERIOUS GAME AND ALSO HE'S FROM FIRST EDITION SO IT DOESN'T COUNT!) watches the battle in the midst of his 412 course luncheon
>suddenly a Space Wolf fleet lead by Wolf Lord Wolf Wolfer, Wolf Captain of the 8th Wolf Company, the Wolving Wolves, arrives
>for failure to respond to the attack on Shitholis 37 Fleet Captain Darth Jean-Luc Buck Flash Han Luke Valerian Robocop Blade Runner the VIII has been declared excommunicato traitorious and sentenced to have his brain amputated and his body converted into a fecal disposal servitor gets posted
>Uhhhhhhhh…. YEAH WELL THE GE IS EVEN MORE INCOMPETENT THEN THESE GUYS SO THEY WOULDN’T SURVIVE EVEN A SINGLE DAY!!!!!
The GE's naval power is far beyond the Imperium and almost any other 40K faction, the standard ship of the line the ISD(Both I and II) can do what takes a fleet of battleships with specialized ammunition to do and move far faster. That's also not to mention how bogus some force stuff is
And speaking of Dark Empire their industrial capacity is absolutely absurd, even before DE the Galactic Empire is a peer power to the IoM in terms of military production due to their countless factory and ship worlds like Kuat, Geonosis, and Bilbringi, then DE came along and decided this massive industry base still wasn’t enough to suit the Empire’s needs and gave them mobile factories in the form of World Devestators that can suck entire planets dry of their resources to give the Empire all the material they could possibly need to further expand their navy.
>superior naval force.
>a group of little rebels continues to wipe the floor with them at every opportunity.
XD
>t. Didn't see Empire Strikes Back
>he didn't see Return of the Jedi.
Black person, because Imperiums fleet suck solid ass doesn’t mean the other factions suck as much.
>Eldar
Possess the Craftworlds, spaceships as large as a moon that is unparalleled in power and is singlehandedly capable annihilating an entire sector worth of destroyers. Travels through the webways, who mog the shit out of warp travel and warp-drives in star wars.
>Necrons
Ships range from tens of kilometers to planetary in size. They’re capable of atomizing solar systems and some have been shown to change the course of causality.
Literally teleport and have a million ways to FTL travel.
>Tyranids
Comparable in power to the average imperium ship, slightly slower speed with the advantage of tyranid ships outnumbering Imperium ships 1 to 100,000,000,000.
>Orks
Anything they get hold of is more than enough.
Its really not fair comparing the GE to the IoM
The IoM was built by a man driven to unite an entire galaxy spanning species, it was meant to act as a bulwark against the countless horrors of the void and safeguard humanity's future and put them on the path towards psykik awakening, so it was made to last
The GE is literally just one guy's megalomaniacal power fantasy that was not meant to withstand after his death, quite the contrary, he had a contingency specifically in place to quicken the GE destruction
The GE was never meant to outlive palpy
>Empire wasn’t made to last
>Would likely last as long as the Imperium if not longer if it had to survive in 40k
Curious.
>would likely last as long as the imperium
>fractures and implodes as soon as palpatine dies
And thats not even taking into account operation cinder, who's whole point was to burn the empire from the inside so it would crash and burn even faster
Palpatine only died because he was extremely careless due to being in a position of near unchallenged power, the rebels despite getting a lucky win at Yavin were still a largely insignificant power that could’ve been easily dismantled if Palps took them seriously, as can be seen when he managed to bait the main rebel fleet into a deadly trap at Endor while he was still fricking around and treating them like a nuisance outside of Luke, in both the EU and in canon we’ve seen how Palpatine handles things when he’s no longer the sole ruler of the galaxy and he brings in such ridiculous firepower to retake his empire despite having far less resources to work with that the Rebels were barely able to win.
>Steal chapter relics
To be fair, the entire setting is about a world where the only sensible choice is to be an butthole. All the non-butthole choices will get you brutally murdered by someone who is an butthole.
The Zaku is always cooler than the GM
GMbo won the war.
Sounds like the worthless opinion of somebody who's soul is still weighed down by gravity
Good God Zeon gets my dick hard like nothing else
Based.
There are 40k cartoons.
Then discuss the comic specifically 40Black person. Otherwise it's not comics or cartoons. I don't know why you gays find it impossible to keep your shit contained to /tg/.
I don't really know anything about Warhammer, but I did see the Ultramarines movie and some episodes of Hammer and Bolter. I don't remember terribly much about it.
And of course the Bruva Alfabusa videos give me a good chuckle.
I see we are visited upon by a recruit of Adeptus Janitorum.
You fricking idiots
That's like saying Batman in general is Cinemaphile because of Batman Ninja
People like you helped decay this board by steering Cinemaphile away from its intended purpose
People like you are the reasons why Cinemaphilemrades have become a minority
Cinemaphile should have never been a refugee board for the utter filth like (You)
you will never be a janny
Not
An
Argument
like I said previously comics & animations alike about W40K are still allowed on this board, same as the TF2 comics. Keep seething
>Ed edd n eddy mentioned
Nice
Warhammer comics & animations count as Cinemaphile you moron. Why don’t you crawl back to the halls of the Adeptus Janitorum and do your job for free
Frick off space boy
shan't be listening to zakucks
Based
My fellow GMan
>>>/m/ is that way
>HOW CAN IT BE SO X
anime writing
Yeah, I know.
Get the frick out then
You idiots ruined Cinemaphile
My Cinemaphilelleague, I don't know why you'd rail against /m/en when Cinemaphile rarely if ever even produces mecha content.
All parasites must die
I still don't actually get what you mean considering the total lack of board overlap, but in general there is an actual conversation that could be had out of this if we widen the scope of your idea (if indeed I grasp your idea).
There are freuqent east vs. west threads on Cinemaphile and there have been for many years now, but I think we're increasingly at an inflection point where the absolute state of the western cartoon and comic industries is putting them in a really bad market position. If you turned back the clock two decades it wouldn't be uncommon for cartoons to mock or lovingly parody anime, and these things had a huge swath of market popularity. Years down the line anime and manga are absolutely dominant forces and young people, while OK with western content, generally don't seem to be as enamored with it. Meanwhile, western artists produce nip-styled art, and those guys get into the big studios and bring nip-influenced ideas (if not the chops), and western studios outright try to take anime and co-opt it as a word and as an idea as opposed to just licensing out anime as used to be common in the past. Meanwhile you have guys like the French who as usual are fiercely independent and highly capable, but who also rather seem to enjoy nip content. There is something worth thinking about here.
>East vs West spam thread is good
Shut the frick up you worthless imbecile
Those threads are spammed by tourists who don't give a frick about the state of comics and cartoons
They don't want things to get better
They don't care about getting into the mediums
They parrot talking points from social media and outrage YouTubers
Frick off
Kindly don't put words in my mouth anon. Please, where'd I say they were 'good'? I agree with you, most of them are spam. I do think however that we're getting to a point where they actually do revolve around a meaningful issue, even though most handle it poorly.
>I do think however that we're getting to a point where they actually do revolve around a meaningful issue, even though most handle it poorly.
And you think that justifies blatant off-topic discussion like this thread?
homie, get real
There's nothing off-topic about it really. Anon won't elaborate what he means when he says /m/ and Cinemaphile apparently have bad relations or somesuch, and this thread's about good guys and bad guy aesthetics, and I was talking about something an earlier anon brought up about aesthetics in an /m/ property. If I cannot get anon to explain himself using the stuff I was originally talking about, I might as well bring up something else which is tangentially related and mildly relevant in the hopes of wringing meaningful discussion out of him.
Pic related is also a good example. Is this cool to you? I ask myself sometimes.
>There's nothing off-topic about it really
Western comics and cartoons board
Any deviation is a disease, a blight
kinda sounding a lil hitlery there bwo
My Cinemaphilelleague I really do think you have bigger problems around these parts than my ilk, but if you really do feel it's a serious issue, I'd suggest you use the report feature, which would be infinitely more productive and make me post less by merit of (you) starvation.
The highest form of aesthetics can only found within humans unbound by the shackles od soil.
>Imperium... le bad!
See this galactic map? The Imperium is the sole reason why humans are thriving across the entire galaxy AND it is the only thing pushing back the forces of Chaos and anti-human xenos. If we gave in to your nasally whining and crying about the big bad human meanies, Terra would likely have been overrun and destroyed millennia ago.
>but my living conditions!
Take it up with your planetary governor. There are countless planets that have great living standards, even better than what you are experiencing IRL. You are like the stubborn idiot who blames the US President for all of your local problems. The Imperium is not omnipotent nor is it "out to get you". It's just humanity united under a banner and that banner is necessary for survival as a species.
The Imperium is very probably doomed, and it is an excuse, although note that the most direct cause for the Imperium's current decline is a 100% homegrown crisis. No Chaos, no xenos. But perhaps it would still be in dire straits even without it.
Basically way back at the beginning, when various versions of the Emperor worshipping religions were spreading, the Imperium had a choice of which one to endorse. The main contestants were the Temple of the Savior Emperor, a heavily politicized church that preached a sort of helplessness doctrine, and the Confederation of Light which preached apoliticality, poverty for the clergy, and humility. The Imperium chose the more politically convenient Temple, and the Guard and Navy blasted the Confederation into space dust.
The Temple soon obtained a seat on the Senatorum, ran its own separate military, and became incredibly corrupt as it levied taxes to build ever more extravagant churches and to do stupid shit like move its capital back and forth from Terra and another planet. This triggered multiple civil wars, including one where an entire Segmentum seceded for a millennium, and finally wound up with a nutjob named Vandire in charge of both the church and the Administratum. The Confederation of Light revived, led by a man named Sebastian Thor, and overthrew Vandire. Thor then led a reformation of the church, reducing the church's independent power base and creating the martyrdom culture that is seen in 40k. He could not totally erase the politicization and shit that the church was accustomed to, but the church of 40k is indeed somewhat better than what it was prior to the Age of Apostasy.
The reformation required a crusading period to set it in, which was the Age of Redemption as the Imperium went on the attack against enemies without and persecuted heretics within. Predictably, the Imperium overextended, and thus began a contraction that it could not reverse
Isn't the whole Galaxy doomed because of the 'nids?
I mean, the Silent King shit his pants about them and the Necrons have stupid levels of tech. I don't know how their tech compares to peak humanity, exactly, but it's pretty fricking strong tech anyway.
Yeah, but knowing GW they're proably gonna do somthing stupid like having a 40k version of the end times and have the nids corrupted by chaos.
After end-times proved chaos can never actually win the nids became the defacto Sword of Damocles hanging over the setting. So basically they're a plot device that GW can swing at anything they want to frick with without having to think about anything.
And somehow they still wank chaos to kingdom come
It's getting lame to be honest, they tried to make them interesting with Vashtor but he is becoming chaos Cawl by making the necrons look lame
At least the space bugs don't make your faction feeling lame when they win
Doesn't the Silent King eventually want the Necrons to go back to being made of flesh instead of staying in their metal prisons?
Makes sense he would get pissy at the Tyranid's arrival
If he thought they could conquer the 'nids and take back the biomass, I don't think he'd be as bothered about them. Watch them clean up the biomass, conquer them, re-bio planets, turn back into fleshbags.
>Isn't everyone doomed from the Nids?
No, I don't think so. Not for many years now, anyway. They used to be a big threat but the people who started writing for them kinda hated them and thinks they're stupid, so at this point they're like sleek, objective-driven Orkz.
I know Orkz with a focus and desire to really win sounds scary, but fundamentally the writers will hype up something like, "legs are inferior to tank treads lol" and the Tyranids will start to trip and fall all the time because that's what the writer thinks.
There's not really anything going on with the Nids these days.
>The Imperium is very probably doomed
Been hearing this for decades and yet it never happens.
The god emperor is so disgusted with what the Imperium turned into that he hasn’t spoke for millennia even though he could have for the entire time.
Only because of his irrational hatred of worship. The Emperor has been petty and evil plenty of times.
>The Emperor, already an amoral man who has done plenty of fricked up shit in the past, is disgusted by how the Imperium has become too fricked up even for him
>it is the only thing pushing back the forces of Chaos and anti-human xenos
Chaos has already won the great game. Why would Chaos even attempt to destroy humanity when the current state of humanity is so miserable, so stagnant that chaos has a buffet of worshipers. Every aspect of the Imperium is so in-tuned with chaos that the real question is why wouldn't someone join chaos?
>There are countless planets that have great living standards, even better than what you are experiencing IRL
I hate this shit so much. "Actually the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable has a bunch of planets where everything is actually cool and awesome". It turns an interesting setting of fanaticism, stagnation, and slaughter into corny HFY larp you can make shitty power metal edits to.
>Chaos has already won
Emperor is now supercharged and is literally setting fire to Chaos' shit on their own turf. Go ask Nurgle if that looks like "winning" to him.
>I hate this shit so much.
You hate it because it contradicts your incorrect notion that every world in the Imperium is a complete and total hellscape.
>Emperor is now supercharged and is literally setting fire to Chaos' shit on their own turf. Go ask Nurgle if that looks like "winning" to him.
Is that why he let the eye of terror split the galaxy in half?
Don't blame him for what the elves have done
The elves were going to kill slaanesh if the grey knights didn't swoop in a stop them.
>elves
>ever pulling off anything successfully in 40k
>killing one of the big four
The Imperium is vast. It only makes sense that some of their worlds would not be total shit holes. Much of the excesses you see are a direct result of unceasing war for 10,000 years. All the ignorance, dogma, and cruelty the Imperium exhibits is not there for its own sake. Ignorance prevents mass despair and riots along with dulling the populace to the cognitohazard of Chaos. Dogma resonates within the Warp to empower machine spirits, create miracles, and sometimes even serve some original purpose lost to time. Cruelty, when measured, discourages dissidents and is a direct result of the cardinal emotion of hatred, which has been proven to be a force that can resist Chaos. The Imperium has nuance. It is the cruelest and most bloody regime imaginable, but it preserves mankind from an unimaginably worse fate. Furthermore, reformation is very much a thing in the setting now that Gulliman has returned. People are rightfully nervous about the changes he seeks to implement, but it is not a hopeless situation. I'm sorry your nihilistic setting is no more. Consider embracing power metal.
Duck Dodgers
the martians have some cool aesthetics
Here you go
this looks like star trek
there is nothing cool about star trek
even a pulp retropunk space show looks cooler than star trek
>let me just add "punk" random words because I don't know what I'm talking about
That show is from 1975, you idiot. It post-dates the original Star Trek by scant years. It's neither retro nor punk.
whatever that style of scifi it uses looks way cooler than star trek
So Star Trek?
The Imperium of Man is evil both because of the universe it lives in and because humanity have always been evil genocidal maniacs in Warhammer 40k. It's hard to discuss because you have fanon that usually tries to paint the Imperium as good. The "xeno betrayal" and "basic happiness leads to being corrupted by Slaanesh" fanon are two examples you'll hear about, but never find a source. You also occasionally have people use the really outdated lore which says that humanity created the other three Chaos gods. Warhammer 40K is a mess of retcons and even the Warhammer wikis can lie about information. Take everything I say with a grain of salt along with anyone who ever talks about Warhammer.
Let's talk about 40K humanity before the Imperium of Man existed. You will hear talk about how there was a great Star Trek federation that was all good until those evil xenos and robots betrayed humanity. This is all false. We never get a clear picture of humanity in the Dark Age of Technology, but what little we get shows that humanity was still genocidal towards any alien and the rulers of that time still treated their citizens awfully. Technology such as the butchers nails being an example of stuff that was created.
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The Horus Heresy books led to a ton of contradicting lore and writers fighting to make their own ideas canon. This accidentally popularized the fanon idea that the Emperor was secretly planning to betray humanity so that he could become a Chaos god. If I remember correctly the intent of the author was only that the Emperor planned the heresy to kill off the Primarchs. It didn't matter because the idea was abandoned very fast. Humanity also nearly created a Chaos god within 50K years of existing while it took the Eldar millions of years. Don't question it. Another criticism of the books that I remember was that the Imperium in the Great Crusade wasn't that different from the 40K grimdark Imperium
Now we have the current Imperium where GW tries to balance making the Imperium the "cruelest regime imaginable" against marketing Space Marines and other Imperium merchandise. This gets you images of angelic Space Marines fighting against daemons on the cover while the lore itself tells you that life in the Imperium is so awful that it can break suspension of disbelief. The average life expectancy in Ultramar (a utopia in comparison to the rest of the Imperium) is 30 years, slaves being crushed because they are forced to manually lift shells in Imperium ships by hand because thousands of lives are cheaper than some rope, and various other examples throughout the history of the franchise.
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>Posts literal propaganda
Nice “good” guys you got there.
Always thought GI Joe looked cool.
Special mention to Snake Eyes.
And Barbecue.
There's actually a lot of cool Joe designs, it's just that Cobra also has some kickass ones.
Gundam
>federation mechs are cool samurai-esque mechas and tanks
>zeon mechs are goofy & lumpy cartoon creatures and disks with turkey feet
Mobile suits all pale in the face of the mighty ball.
Okay but most of the time it's just Balls and GMs vs. Zakus and Gelgoogs.
When these were first introduced, all the Federation had was
>The Gundam
>The Gundam's dumb cousin
>The Gundam's paralyzed friend
>The Gundam's weak little brother
Meanwhile, Zeon had "What if the Nazi's Wackey Experimental Weapons were Giant Robots?"
in 79, the gundam and it's brothers were still leagues better then LITERALLY MY MOMS PACMAN and POTATO WITH ARMS WITH SWIMS. No revisionism will ever change that.
Zeon committed WAY too much time making goofy aquatic suits instead of just making good suits.
*0% of the coolness factor of those mobile suits is seeing the glowing eye move around.
Woa... so bad*ss, don't mess with this spacenoid! he means trouble!
Power rangers and all magical girl/Sentai related, most recent example would be MLB
just saw primarch Guilliman with an Eldar witch
the Imperium has fallen...
trillions must be purged
They spoke in person just the once.
Star Wars
C&C Red Alert
Red Ribbon Army
I knew before I clicked on this thread it would have turned into a 40k thread
You can't stop us.
>Big E
>says "religion is nonsense"
>in a world where entities ("gods") are powered by worship
Emps was many things, but clever was not one of them.
He was intelligent, but he was not clever.
New Vegas.
NCR easily has the best aesthetic and the coolest armour in the series.
>implying there are good factions in Fallout
>why do bad guys look cool
Because a fundamental part of historical fascist regimes has been the use of aesthetics to attract morons and paint over the ugly realities of their policies.
so why don't le heckin' good guys do the same
or are they too stupid?
>or are they too stupid?
Yes.
Good guys attempt to persuade through substance, not appearance.
That's a cope
Beauty is substance
Bionicle had this shit down to the science. Good heroes looked just as cool as good villains.
Oh, but there are silky goodguy civilians? That's okay, we will introduce dorky villain sidekicks to balance it out.
Sometimes planning things out for action figure waves and price points actually turns into a good outline.
You aren't rooting for the bad guys... right?
X-Men. I came into the title at the pocket where Wolverine went from piss and shit to Michigan Wolverines colors. (Jim Lee had such power at Marvel that Wolverine had the brown suit in a new video game and on new toys and Lee switched his costume back to Giant Size era just because he could and it basically stayed that way for decades.)
Personally, I like brown suit Wolverine just because it represents Wolverine in the 1980s when he gets over but both are equally iconic. Wolverine just looks cool.
Honestly the orange/brown suit does look better.
Warhammer Fantasy.
and even though I think Dark Elves TRUE [PHOENIX KING, MOTHERFRICKER are the coolest, High Elves are still really cool, too.
Men In Black
Them alien b***hes looked like shit
Take a nap kiddo
If not for the helmet this would be fine
Still a lot less cool than the villains
give the left one a cape and ride beast and it could fit in a mobious pic
Cases where the good guy faction looks cooler
I fricking love the US MIC bros
Same
I miss the 90s military look.
Ranger Body Armor is massively underappreciated imo
>YORE DEAD FREEMAN
I HAVE TO KILL FAST
AND BULLETS TOO SLOW.
MY ASS IS HEAVY.
Imagine if this was the New Republic in Star Wars.
It was in the EU.
>Elected a Bothean
No
Nice pouches, Liefeld approves. Now where are the good guys?
Here you go
Judge Dredd.
Although Judges are "good" because everything else will out right kill you. And depending on the city you can also get bad guys with similar judge uniforms but a cultural twist.
>And depending on the city you can also get bad guys with similar judge uniforms but a cultural twist.
Or good guys with similar judge uniforms and cultural twists. Like Oz and its total lack of standards. Or Brit-Cit and their cool lion's head pauldrons and black cab Lawriders.
don't Texas judges wear cowboy hats?
Yes. Different cities have a pretty wide variety. Plus ofc dark judges and dead world also have their own variations as well on them.
Exaggerated scowl mouths just look dumpy
The helmet design that complements it makes me feel like someone with down-syndrome is under there.
didn't read it, was there an explanation why every mega city in the world follow the same judges system?
People were upset with how shit the American judicial system was and thus the Judges came to power in America. People like the Judge system as it provides swifter justice than before.
Then comes fictional president Booth who is crazy and blows the world up in a nuclear musical fervor. This enables even more power to the judge system and results in Fargo (Dredd's clone daddy) taking over what remains of the U.S. and essentially ending the democracy experiment.
With the rest of the world in shambles, they also clone the judge system and have their own takes on it. Hence why places like OZ (Australia) is pretty laid back and chill, Britain is relatively sane & fair to the people, and South America is corrupt hell hole.
Honestly amazed nobody has bothered to story time the books here if only for troll reasons and how it could be applied to Trump despite being more Regan/Cold War inspired.
I think there were Dredd thread and 3000AD story times but that was like 6 years ago
Actual comics? In Cinemaphile?
Get outta here
Huh, kinda thought it was only one huge megacity in the world of Dredd.
Nah, there's a bunch of 'em all over the world. Most of them use Judges but even that isn't a hard rule, like Brit-Cit still has plainclothes coppers too. Plus undersea colonies, off-world colonies, the Moon...
source
Gone with the Blastwave
ya got more of em pixels?
dumbass phoneposter
dont forget the feudal and feral worlders now, so much of the imperium is just the middle ages. also enough chaos exposure sterilises you if you go by night lords books, the only kids on one where trapped during transformation or put there by the navy.
Since we are not even pretending this is Cinemaphile then I'm gonna say Gears of War, both the COG and Locust are cool as frick
My homies
Authoritarianism is cool and based. Stop resisting the call of nature and accept the truth.
people like the outward, martial trappings of authoritarian governments, the appeal of discipline, well run aestheticly pleasing armies and the usual love of the home culture they're depicted with that the powers that be deamonise and usually condescendingly belittle as they turn society into an overly safened schoolroom. They dont like the poorly run logistics or dietary ideals the head guys try to push, (Mussolini pushing for a rice based non pasta diet and Hitlers vegitarianism). their worst element of all was shared with our ruler philosophy, thinking human beings with bureaucratic power should change fundamental aspects of reality, from the natural world to humanity it'self. The martial aspects of germany are older than hitler, he just knew what looked and sounded good.
>Mussolini pushing for a rice based non pasta diet
no wonder he got shot
Then move to north Korea moron
NoKor don't have Patriot Act, it's too free for my taste.
upset
>bad guy says something edgy so it must be true!
That aside, "nice and gentle guy who can take them as frick them like a REAL man and make them LOVE IT." is literally bog standard erotica writing for women.
Gears of War
Can't beat the Republic aesthetic. You think the Imperials look cool? The Republic actually bothers to pay for quality gear and still have a taste for aesthetics while they're at it.
40k makes a lot more sense when you just treat it as "what if the worst British council ran the universe"
>40k makes a lot more sense when you just treat it as "what if the British ran the universe"
FTFY
SAAAAR
Broke
>good guys and bad guys have different drip with an obvious loser in that department
Woke
>a weapon is a weapon and both sides use modified versions of the same pool, leading to a varied but unified drip where everyone looks cool
But innies and clanners are the two factions who have the most difference thoughever
>What became of the Fourth Sphere's Auxiliaries has since become a mystery. However rumors speak of mass expulsions and executions directed at any non-Tau within the surviving fleet.
>During the Fifth Sphere, Human prisoners were massacred and Auxiliaries were intentionally sacrificed in battle by Fourth Sphere survivors.
>After a massacre and bloody Kroot uprising upon the colony of Ky'san, all auxiliaries were removed from contingents of Fourth Sphere Tau.
Muh heckin' wholesome chungus Tau did a total racial purge??? But reddit told me they were the good guys! It's even called Le Greater Good!!!
Protagonists are what the creators feel they should be, antagonists is what they want to be. Villains incorporate our deep dark desires, this is why they attract people.
Bad guys in most media tend to look cooler because normies like underdog stories and it’s hard to make the alternative of Johnny Thunderwiener beating up a level 5 goblin interesting
This version of little red riding hood
>little red riding hood
>has no hood
ONE JOB
looks like a lady of the night.
Mugman because he used to be one
>Cuphead
Wasn't mugman used to be a villain before?
Private Snafu
Mighty Mouse
Oh, right.
Masters of the Universe.
People that LARP as members of the Imperium should be put in psych wards