10 Pop Culture References To Warhammer 40K w/ The Gaming Storyteller
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Loved to see you both together !!
@@notusneocan't you hear it from the accent?
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In Egyptian mythology, there is a God named Horus. This is clearly a reference to the Horus Heresy.
Hey hows the throne going
In World of Warcraft there is a rare enemy called "Night Haunter". If you manage to kill him you can take his "Kurzed cloak" that looks like its made of skin.
Good one! 👍🏻
Another thing in Halo:Infinite. There’s an unused armor coating called “Steel Soldier” that is black with hazard stripe accents. An obvious reference to the Iron Warriors
Borderlands 2 has an SMG called "Emperor" with the flavor text saying "you know... for him."
In the movie Free Guy, there's a scene in the real world game studio with a Tau codex sitting out on someone's desk
It's pretty common for game/design studios to have 40k books!
During the Setsubun event in Fate/Grand Order, Tomoe Gozen mentions that she's not only into video games but also various types of board games which includes "Spehss Mehreens 41,000."
One of the dwarf units in the original Warcraft 3 game used to have a joke "this warhammer cost 40k" until GW told Blizzard to remove it.
In Doctor Who,s7 e12. is literally a walking reference to WH40k. There is guardsmen, an Emperor with psycher abilities, an Imperium and they are fighting cybermen who are an analog for Necrons.
The first warhammer reference that i ever saw was in the first Magicka game, some 8 or 9 years ago. Apart from the literal WARHAMMER, there was also Space Robe which has in it's description: "The MK5 Space Robe protects its wearer from everyday hazards including, but not limited to, Death, Mutilation, Lawsuits, and Space Weather.". I'm sure there were couple more but these ones are classic.
In the danish crime drama "Those Who Kill" one of the protagonists was painting a Khorne Berserker while contemplating a murder. Great program.
Scp3973 has a kind of sad story as he was thrown away with all of his battle brothers waiting for his Commander to come back for him and his battle brothers but he never did
Best one for me is in Borderlands 2.
There is SMG called "The Emperor", it's description literally says: "You know.... For him."
I’ve got that gun and it didn’t click that that was a reference, holy crap
"For the Emperor" was not uncommon in (European) history.. you know there where some emperors 😉
In TFS's Dragon Ball Z Abridged series, when Vegeta fights Freezer on Namek, he starts rapid firing his lazers in a wild manner while shouting "Dakka Dakka Dakka"
That's not a stretch nor surprising considering Takahata101 of Team Four Star is a big 40k fan and is even one of the voice actors in If the Emperor had a Text-to-Speech Device web series.
I believe there's a Ukrainian artillery regiment that are called the khorn group.
Interesting
Doesn't help them...
That's actually amazing
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Well, they've been beating the Russian asses for almost 2 years in their "3 day special operation", so I'd say they don't need Khorne's help 😂
I'm ukrainian and i didn't know that! Blood for the blood god!
My neighbourhood name is Ultramar, no joke.
Spain->Galicia->Ferrol->Ultramar
When you're about to go home do you just randomly say "We march for Macragge!"?
De Ferrol tiñas que ser ho
In portugal due to the colonial war ( Guerra do Ultramar in portuguese) in the 60s and 70s, we have a bunch of roads and avenues called , in english, road of the fighters of Ultramar...
So we kinda have our own giggle with that. After all Ultramar just means over sea.
In the game Magicka there's a small village with a blacksmith shop called Graham's Workshop and sitting outside is a big warhammer you can pick up and use. There's also a set of robes that turn you into a space marine
I came here to make this comment. Good man!
Some of those was tenuous to say the least, but you didn't seem to mention the Tau Codex (iirc) within Free Guy film.
We have a chainsword, literally called the chainsword, in Dungeon Defenders... and it looks exactly like the chainsword we know and love
The entire Starcraft story has a lot of similarities. I vaguely remember an article stating Blizzard wanted to make a Warhammer game but things didn't work out with Black Library.
In a Bus Simulator where you can drive around as flixbus etc. you can hear sentences like "blood for the blood god“ when you get into a heavy accident (at least in the German version)
How did these media reference WH40k without GW's legal team copyright striking them ? I'm genuinely surprised.
You gotta mention the “great unclean one” in remnant from the ashes!
The writers of the film Event Horizon have said it's based on what happens when a ship travels through the warp without Geller Fields
Fans of EH have always considered it an unofficial prequel to 40k.
It is this fact that makes me love Event Horizon even more.
I can get on board with that, the ship was designed to look like a cross with loads of gothic arches inside as well I think, been a while ill have to go watch it now.
The Fall of Star wars gave warhammer a enorm boost now that nerds search another franchise
What about the 'black ship' in 'Lower Decks'?
In 'Much Ado About Boimler', a cathedral-shaped black ship arrives warping out of a purple-swirl lightning storm, as it arrives to detain all 'freaks' and take them away to a secret facility where they'll never be heard from again.
What episode
@@jarlathquinn2628 s1e7
James S A Corey is actually two authors sharing a pen name. The Expanse books were originally their attempt to make a space tabletop game. So yeah, they're probably very aware of 40k.
There’s a iron warrior coating in halo infinite called steel solider. It’s mostly gray-ish black but has yellow and back warning signs on an arm.
The band Gunship just released a track called "Blood for the Blood God".
It's not the first band i think..
yea the band "Bolt thrower" used old 40k art as album covers and the band "Evertale" has some 40k/horus heresy themed songs on their album "the great brotherwar"
@@melchiorkohler2586 and there is a band from down under named Be'lakor (pretty awesome too) .
Might not be considered mainstream pop culture but there is a female wrestler in WWE named Shayna Bazler who wears emblems from the space marine legions on her ring gear.
3:00 I will say- 3008 isn’t technically infinite, just VERY LARGE and with a moving exit.
More to the point; 3973 is so cute and sad, this is why I like SCP so much, the authors can make you feel for the silliest of things. (Also who wants to bet that someone has gotten in trouble for bringing it to a Foundation rec day and they had to make a new rule?)
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There was that time in Archer where Cyril mentions he’s an expert at Warhammer 40k when he temporarily became dictator of San Marcos.
You did my guy dirty, making him say T(h)ree so many times
Doctor WHOs "impossible planet" has 40k references too. 1. It is the year 40k and 2. ammunition for weapons are called bolts.
The Doctor Strange one is a bit of a stretch "codex imperium' is just Latin for 'book of power'
The guys are ridiculous, seeing 40k everywhere just like paranoid's 😆
Actually it wasn't a stretch, as it was absolutely intentional
But don't you know? Games Workshop invented Latin!
7:12 Technically speaking Ultramarine is also the name of that colour so it doesn't neet to be an obvious ref to Warhammer
Cyberpunk 2077 has Chainswords
And what about in music there's a very famous death metal band called bolt thrower that use old warhammer artwork as there album covers
it wasn't old when they released it was the cover of the first edition warhammer rulebook at the time of the album. They were endorsed by GW so I wouldn't really say it was an 'reference' more an endorsement. They also did songs called 'plague bearer' and 'world eater'
In the gacha game Nikke goddess of victory the character Crow has Khorns symbol tattooed on her chest amongst all her other tattoos
On Netflix there is a show called "Fubar", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is a tech guy who has the massive Ultramarine Primaris cardboard cutout in the corner of his livingroom that gets a good amount of screentime.
0:20 as someone who’s watched Amazon butcher two of my favorite book series to an unrecognizable mess… good luck with that one. I trust Cavill, but I doubt his ability to stop the forces of Jeff Bezos from systematically destroying every ip I love
Counterarguments: The Boys, Invincible, The Legend of Vox Machina
One of my favorite is the black ship in “Star trek the lower decks” season one episode 7 it’s a 40k black shop that comes out of the warp and collects people with mutations and takes them to a place called “the farm”
Another SCP one worth noting is that one of the (many) things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do is say the SCP foundation motto is, "We always need more dakka!" He is also not allowed to say that the motto is, "Science for the science god!"
I'm glad 3973 gets to be around people now thanks to Dr. Harpy.
I'm certain that there's one in roboquest, it being a strangely bolter shaped gun.
There is. I like using it in roboquest when I can
in borderlands 3 theres a outfit for moze called commissar andreyevna
Commissars are eastern european officers during ww2 and soviet era, Vladof is based on Soviet era so put one to one
I'm surprised you didnt mention WWE wrestler Shayna Baszler who has often wrestled wearing ring gear in the colours of various space marine chapters. most notably wearing Lunar Wolves gear one week and then wearing sons of horus gear the next week when she betrayed her partner
they also reference Darktide in South Park. I forgot which episode though. I think the most recent season.
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'Enemy of the State' with Will Smith has a little cameo at the end with his son reading a White Dwarf (the free ones they use to give out)
The tower defense game Dungeon Defenders has chainswords as weapon drops all over. They’re some of the better melee options.
Of note; "James S.A. Corey" is actually the pen name of 2 authors. The story for The Expanse started as a TTRPG over an internet chat so yes, both authors are long time gamers. 🤟😎
Should've mentioned Event Horizon, 1997.
For another Warhammer reference in a old show called eureka some of the scientists reference playing the game
In the Adventures of Van Helsing 3 video game there's a reference to the Inquisitor Martyr game as both games are from the same developer and it's a skeleton with a power amour breast plate and a bolter
One of the earlier Warcraft games (2? 3 maybe?) had a dwarf unit with the voice line "This warhammer costs 40k!"
Warcraft 3, the Gryphon Rider unit.
For any TFS fans, iv you go back to the episode where vegeta takes on final form freeza, 28 I think, give or take an episode.
Theirs a bit where he's spamming ki blasts where you can fairly cleary hear him shouting out 'dakka! dakka! dakka!'. One of the lead writers, takahata, is a noted 40k fan. In particular the orks.
I have a dream, one day a 40K MMO where I can play a Berserker Ork that gets slightly bigger with each lvl up.
Also take a good look at the Va'Runn pistol with a barrel extending mod. It looks eerily similar to how some patterns of laspistol are seen in concept art. Its also good to nkte that Va'Runn weapons are particle weapons, and its theorized some lasweapons are infact not true "DEWs" or directed energy weapons, but instead particle driven as well.
Thought i'd mention that.
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Also the 40mmXPL ammuntion IS NOT a grenade like in contemporary weapon systems. They are infact self-contained rocket propelled cased ammunition. They are Bolter rounds. And if you have the Laredo Arma weapon known as the "Bridger" it looks eerily similar, as well, to older concept art where some bolters were lever action. Much like the Bridger is in Starfield.
So many of these are such a stretch
The SCP miniature is so sad.
He just wants to serve the chapter master and the Emperor.
Southpark also brought up dark tide if I’m not mistaken
I'd like to add Cyberpunk 2077 to the list with it's Chainblad- uh Cut-O-Matic, add to that the various cybernetic organs you can add like the Second Heart or Chitin, a subcutaneous/subdermal layer of armor amongst other things, and my 3rd character was actually dedicated to getting as close to a space Marine as possible
You missed the chainsword used by one of the snakes in the time travel snake episode as well as the tau pistol seen in the same episode
In viscera cleanup detail, you can find trophies referencing many things and one of those is a bolter from 40k.
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I was looking for this comment hahah
A third thing about the South Park episode, the armies they are using are actually little photos of the creators real life armies
Another reference from Rick and Morty was in the knights of the sun episode where the martians were clearly ad mech inspired (look at their ship) and there was a drukhari-like faction as well (venus perhaps? i dont remember)
WWE Money in the Bank 2023. Shayna Baysler walked out in an outfit from sons of Horus and turned on her partner Ronda Rousey
6:35 It could also be a reference to fleet-based Space Marine Chapters, for whom their fleet IS their homeworld.
Obviously this isn't a reference but WoTC did that collab with GW for the W40k commander decks. Just felt like it fit.
I don’t think straight up crossovers count as a reference
In the mobile game, Girls' Frontline, there's an achievement you can earn called: Battle Axe 30K
Both 40K and Fantasy are mentioned in Archer.
Pretty sure in the Rick and Morty show there were space ships that were upside down imperium vessels
Space Robe in Magicka or Eggmarines from Fleetway Sonic the Comic are great references to Astartes
Fellow magicka fan
Dr Who episode ‘nightmare in silver’…..imperium, emperor and Guardsmen !
I dont tthink the 'ultramarine corps' armour in Halo infinte is necassarily a 40k reference, as ultramarine is the type of blue used for both respectives armours. Its simply a pun in 40k and a popular tone of blue elsewhere. Like using 'virdian' green or 'scarlet' red.
yea but The Ultramarines chapter is alot more iconic than the colour
the colour is Aquamarine.
@@megamente7849the colour has been in every paint set kids get since they were invented, and has been used by artists under that name for hundreds of years.
Lol, it really isn't. @@megamente7849
good ol' SCP-3973, one of my favorites
Good old SCP- 🌲97🌲
I've not seen that one. I'll have to look it up now. For the Emperor!
in free guy there is a few scenes were is displayed the first tau codex from 3rd edition
i love that trey and matt not only referenced 40k but clearly care enough about it to even go as far to make sure the battle commands were legit
I remember geeking out at the sight of an older tau codex in the background of Free Guy.
That table in the last of us is clesrly a reference yo DND not 40k. The DM screen is a dead giveaway.
Weren't there space marine figures on the board? that being said you can use anything as a token or mini if you want.
DND isn't the only TT RPG that exists. The minis on the table were Space marines, and GW has published TT RPG systems as well.
@@colbunkmust Theres a book on the table with a dragon on the cover titled "Extended Spells & Treasures". Sounds like more of a faux dnd thing.
Then there's Aliens [Recon Marines] and Aliens3 at the end when Bishop shows up with what appear to be White Scars Chapter Marines.
I don’t know if all the references were references tho
Yeah, a bit of a stretch for some
theres a guy in starfield called horos
another game that possibly got some warhammer 40k reference is the destiny series, the cabal kinda looks like one in a way, they use some kind of bolter too, but it could be a bit of a reach
Edit: and their gun(or bolter), the skyburner's oath, which we can acquire it have the explosive slugs as the exotic perks
Not to mention some of the other species. Not naming any re-animating Egyptian inspired super high-tech robots or anything.
In swtor there’s a ship called the spirit of vengeance
how are you astartes “anonymous” when your guest namedrops you?
Sorry i had to add this reference, in Mortal Kombat 1 remake you can see in the background of Kuan Ky's piralid the simbol of Chaos Undivided.
warhammer didnt create the 8 pointed star
@@vlaandhael and yet, it make it one of his own most iconic simbols.
THE BRITISH CAME UP WITH WARHAMMER!!! that.... makes alot of sense
Im so fucking happy yall finally mentioned the Ultramarine Corps coating i commented about on the original short and the Fleur-de-lis
"Ultramarine" is a color! A tone of blue!
There's nothing about that armor that indicates it being a reference to 40k
@FreakyGremlinDK "From the first founding to the last, a legacy of excellence"- the in game lore description, the Ultramarines were created during the first founding of the Space Marine legions. The color scheme is that of similarity of the Ultramarines. Ultramarine Corps/Space Marines.
I don't know about you but it's pretty on the nose reference.
The question is, did you know that Warcraft 3 used to have a 40k reference? The griffon rider, when you keep clicking on him, one of the lines he'd say is "This warhammer cost me 40k - he he he". This particular wav file got removed with the forzen throne expansion pack though. I guess Blizzard didn't want to get hit with a lawsuit?
Former UFC heavy weight Champ Josh "the Warmaster" Barnett took his name from Warhammer.
Is there someone going by "The Emperor" as well? That'd be an epic match...
There's a spider man comic where molten man attacks harry Osborne. He uses a bolt pistol with a hook on the end to cure him
I want to have hope for the 40k show, buuuuut my 20 years in the industry kind of put a damper on that. The Last Of Us was great, but Amazon is not HBO.
The Expanse was written by 2 writers. James S. A. Corey is a shared pen named.
Theres also a direct reference to the boltor in warframe with a side arm named sepulcrum that fires explosive round
I really want the ultramarine scp
Just a lil guy who wants to help
Splendid's Fart in Happy Tree Friends' episode *Breaking Wind* references Exterminatus from 40k