Iron Warriors

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* [[Allergic To Routine]]: Bordering on [[Tempting Fate]] for Hawke.
 
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]:  
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]:  
* [[The Bad Guys Win|{{spoiler|The Bad Guys Win]]}}: {{spoiler|''Storm of Iron'' was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint Graham McNeill says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.}}
* [[The Bad Guys Win|{{spoiler|The Bad Guys Win]]}}: {{spoiler|''Storm of Iron'' was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint Graham McNeill says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.}}
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* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|Fellclaw.}}
* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|Fellclaw.}}
* [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]:
* [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]:
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* In the climax, Castellan Vauban, the Imperial Guard commander duels Honsou, the de facto War Captain of an Iron Warriors Grand Company, shatters Honsou's sword, and then cuts his hand off. Considering the [=IGs=] are {{Badass Normal}}s at most, and Chaos Marines are {{Super Soldier}}s with {{Cosmic Horror}}s in their heads, this is incredibly bad.
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** {{spoiler|In the climax, Castellan Vauban, the Imperial Guard commander duels Honsou, the de facto War Captain of an Iron Warriors Grand Company, shatters Honsou's sword, and then cuts his hand off. Considering the [=IGs=] are [[Badass Normal]]s at most, and Chaos Marines are [[Super Soldier]]s with [[Cosmic Horror]]s in their heads, this is incredibly bad.}}
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** It's brought to a sudden halt when Honsou staggers, drawing Vauban into a hasty finishing blow, only to charge inside Vauban's swing and ram the shattered ruin of his sword straight ''through'' both Vauban's breastplate and his heart. Ouch.
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** {{spoiler|It's brought to a sudden halt when Honsou staggers, drawing Vauban into a hasty finishing blow, only to charge inside Vauban's swing and ram the shattered ruin of his sword straight ''through'' both Vauban's breastplate and his heart. Ouch.}}
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*** An even better crowning moment goes to another guardsman, who manages to survive having the rest of the {{Red Shirt}}s in his guard outpost slaughtered, makes his way back to the base with a Chaos Marine pursuing him the whole way, gets into a missile silo with the instruction of an Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriest, and manages to take out the Marine chasing him, and ''launch an anti-ship missile into the heart of the Chaos army'' at the same time.  
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*** {{spoiler|An even better crowning moment goes to another guardsman, who manages to survive having the rest of the [[Red Shirt]]s in his guard outpost slaughtered, makes his way back to the base with a Chaos Marine pursuing him the whole way, gets into a missile silo with the instruction of an Adeptus Mechanicus Techpriest, and manages to take out the Marine chasing him, and ''launch an anti-ship missile into the heart of the Chaos army'' at the same time.}}
* [[Cyborg]].
* [[Cyborg]].
** [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Saves Your Soul From Chaos]].
** [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Saves Your Soul From Chaos]].
* [[The Dark Side Makes You Forget]]: Discussed.
* [[The Dark Side Makes You Forget]]: Discussed.
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* [[Dissimile]]: There's a place called "The Hope"... because people ''hope'' not to be assigned there. [[Don't Explain The Joke|In other words, it's anything but hope]].
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* [[Dissimile]]: There's a place called "The Hope"... because people ''hope'' not to be assigned there. [[Don't Explain The Joke|In other words, it's anything but hope]]. The trope is once again subverted in that "The Hope" becomes a bastion of resistance... {{spoiler|before promptly and relatively easily falling.}} [[Double Subversion|Quadruple Subversion]] or Double Double Subversion? You decide, but it's the same thing.
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* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: Hawke.
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* [[Failed A Spot Check]]: [[Mauve Shirt]] Hawke does this repeatedly, though in his defense he acts pretty level-headed for a "[[Insistent Terminology|mortal]]" and even manages to {{spoiler|take out two Space Marines before biting it}}.
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*: ''"[[Tempting Fate|You just messed with the wrong guy!]]" he yelled.''
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*: ''Dust blew in his face, filling his mouth and he angrily spat it clear. Then he-''
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*: ''Dust? He glanced quickly at the door.''
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*: ''[[Oh Crap|Oh no...]]''
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* [[Five Bad Band]]:
* [[Five Bad Band]]:
** The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place:
** The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place:
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*** [[Dark Chick]]: [[The Hedonist|Etassay]], [[Emperor's Children]].
*** [[Dark Chick]]: [[The Hedonist|Etassay]], [[Emperor's Children]].
*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] / [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Vaanes}} {{spoiler|though he never goes through with it, but it's implied}}.
*** [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]] / [[The Starscream]]: {{spoiler|Vaanes}} {{spoiler|though he never goes through with it, but it's implied}}.
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* [[Grenade Hot Potato]]: Hawke throws ''two'' grenades that were "left at his door" away from him ''and has time to take rudimentary cover''. {{spoiler|He gets killed in the explosion anyway.}}
 
* [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''.
* [[More Dakka]].
* [[More Dakka]].
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* {{spoiler|Ship-}}[[Town With A Dark Secret]].
* {{spoiler|Ship-}}[[Town With A Dark Secret]].
* [[Siege Engines]].
* [[Siege Engines]].
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* [[Spanner In The Works]]: Hawke proves trouble for the Iron Warriors, and later, his superior calls him this in an entire wrong context.
 
* [[The Spock]]: Often used as a contrast to the [[Hot Blooded]] [[World Eaters]] or the... weird [[Emperors Children]].
* [[The Spock]]: Often used as a contrast to the [[Hot Blooded]] [[World Eaters]] or the... weird [[Emperors Children]].
** Ironically, this makes many of them question [[Ignored Epiphany|why they friggin rebelled in the first place]] and to realise that [[You Can't Go Home Again|They Can't Go Home Again]], even if some miss their origins.
** Ironically, this makes many of them question [[Ignored Epiphany|why they friggin rebelled in the first place]] and to realise that [[You Can't Go Home Again|They Can't Go Home Again]], even if some miss their origins.

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One of the nine Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines from Warhammer 40,000.

They are the Villain Protagonists of Graham McNeill's series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the Ultramarines novels Dead Sky, Black Sun and The Chapter's Due. McNeill's novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the Horus Heresy, focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.

!!Novels And Short Stories In The Series

  • Storm of Iron
  • The Enemy of my Enemy
  • The Heraclitus Effect
  • The Skull Harvest
  • Iron Warrior
  • The Iron Without
  • The Best of Calth

Please resist the urge to put examples on this page or link to this page on tropes unless you are citing from 40K novels in which the Iron Warriors feature. Examples which are specific to rulebooks and other in-universe fluff should go on either the 40K page or in the Character Page.

Tropes connected to the Iron Warriors
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