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* ''The Best of Calth'' | * ''The Best of Calth'' | ||
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| - | * [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]] | + | * [[Arc Words]]: "[[The Place]] had fallen." |
| + | * [[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.}} | ||
* [[The Berserker]]s: Used in the siege. | * [[The Berserker]]s: Used in the siege. | ||
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* [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]: | * [[Crowning Moment Of Awesome]]: | ||
** {{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.}} | ** {{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.}} | ||
| - | ** {{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.}} | + | *** {{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.}} |
** An even better crowning moment goes to another Guardsman, Hawke (see character page for more), who manages to {{spoiler|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.}} | ** An even better crowning moment goes to another Guardsman, Hawke (see character page for more), who manages to {{spoiler|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.}} | ||
* [[Curse Cut Shot]]: Because of [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: | * [[Curse Cut Shot]]: Because of [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: | ||
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** [[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. | ||
| + | * [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|The Avatar of , Naicin.}} | ||
* [[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. | * [[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. | ||
* [[Five Bad Band]]: | * [[Five Bad Band]]: | ||
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*** [[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}}. | ||
* [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''. | * [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''. | ||
| + | * [[Ironic Echo]]: Honsou reminiscents he heard tales that warriors in the past "played war" by attacking and defending as honor let them, then the other side was allowed to walk away, and considers it impractical and weak [[Honor Before Reason]]. Later, the Warsmith gives the defenders a darker deal, but in the vein of the story: kill yourself and ''spare your soul''. Nobody comments on how the two situations are similar. | ||
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Klane, see above. | * [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Klane, see above. | ||
* [[More Dakka]]. | * [[More Dakka]]. | ||
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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Kroeger, the Ultramarines Dreadnaught. | * [[Sanity Slippage]]: Kroeger, the Ultramarines Dreadnaught. | ||
* [[Sealed Evil In A Can|Sealed Evil In The {{spoiler|Belly Of A Giant Spaceship]]}} in ''Iron Warrior''. | * [[Sealed Evil In A Can|Sealed Evil In The {{spoiler|Belly Of A Giant Spaceship]]}} in ''Iron Warrior''. | ||
| - | * {{spoiler|Ship-}}[[Town With A Dark Secret]]. | + | * {{spoiler|Ship-}}[[Town With A Dark Secret]] in ''Iron Warrior''. |
* [[Siege Engines]]. | * [[Siege Engines]]. | ||
* [[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]]. | ||
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]. | * [[Worthy Opponent]]. | ||
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Forrix, Grendel and possibly other members of the Iron Warriors seem to continue fighting for the group for the sole reason that they were with their Chapter when everyone rebelled, and [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|those that didn't instigated the moose... well, they had to go along for the ride too.]] | * [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Forrix, Grendel and possibly other members of the Iron Warriors seem to continue fighting for the group for the sole reason that they were with their Chapter when everyone rebelled, and [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|those that didn't instigated the moose... well, they had to go along for the ride too.]] | ||
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[[Category:Warhammer 40,000]] | [[Category:Warhammer 40,000]] | ||
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Revision as of 15:40, 21 April 2012
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 insert character tropes in the Character Page.
Novels
- Arc Words: "The Place had fallen."
- Attack! Attack! Attack!
- The Bad Guys Win: 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 Berserkers: Used in the siege.
- Catch Phrase: "Iron Within, Iron Without."
- Colony Drop: Fellclaw.
- Crowning Moment Of Awesome:
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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.
- An even better crowning moment goes to another Guardsman, Hawke (see character page for more), who manages to survive having the rest of the Red Shirts 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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- Curse Cut Shot: Because of Killed Mid-Sentence:
- Klane: What the f--
- Cyborg.
- The Dark Side Makes You Forget: Discussed.
- Dead Person Impersonation: The Avatar of , Naicin.
- Dissimile: There's a place called "The Hope"... because people hope not to be assigned there. In other words, it's anything but hope. The trope is once again subverted in that "The Hope" becomes a bastion of resistance... before promptly and relatively easily falling. Quadruple Subversion or Double Double Subversion? You decide, but it's the same thing.
- Five Bad Band:
- The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place:
- Big Bad: The Warsmith
- The Dragon: Forrix
- The Evil Genius: Jharek Kelmaur
- The Brute: Kroeger
- Dark Chick: Honsou
- In Iron Warrior, the configuration changes:
- Big Bad: Honsou.
- The Dragon: Grendel.
- The Evil Genius: Cycerin.
- The Brute: The Newborn.
- Dark Chick: Etassay, Emperor's Children.
- Sixth Ranger Traitor / The Starscream: Vaanes though he never goes through with it, but it's implied.
- The Warsmith and his lieutenants fall rather easily into place:
- Hero Antagonists: The Ultramarines in Iron Warrior.
- Ironic Echo: Honsou reminiscents he heard tales that warriors in the past "played war" by attacking and defending as honor let them, then the other side was allowed to walk away, and considers it impractical and weak Honor Before Reason. Later, the Warsmith gives the defenders a darker deal, but in the vein of the story: kill yourself and spare your soul. Nobody comments on how the two situations are similar.
- Killed Mid-Sentence: Klane, see above.
- More Dakka.
- Prophetic Name: Fellclaw, both for being requisitioned by Chaos renegades and being used as a Colony Drop
- The Reveal: The Citadel on Hydra Cordatus is housing a massive stockpile of Space Marine progenoids, which is to be used for future Foundings. To insure its safety, the Adeptus Mechanicus has been slowly poisoning the regiments stationed there to make sure that no one stays long enough to discover it.
- Sanity Slippage: Kroeger, the Ultramarines Dreadnaught.
- Sealed Evil In The Belly Of A Giant Spaceship in Iron Warrior.
- Ship-Town With A Dark Secret in Iron Warrior.
- Siege Engines.
- 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 why they friggin rebelled in the first place and to realise that They Can't Go Home Again, even if some miss their origins.
- Tank Goodness: Probably the most tank-heavy of all the legions of Chaos.
- Those Two Bad Guys: Two Red Shirts Klane And Yosha converse about seeing something before all hell breaks loose.
- War Is Glorious: Close to rivaling World Eaters.
- Worthy Opponent.
- You Can't Go Home Again: Forrix, Grendel and possibly other members of the Iron Warriors seem to continue fighting for the group for the sole reason that they were with their Chapter when everyone rebelled, and those that didn't instigated the moose... well, they had to go along for the ride too.
Other material
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