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So I'm working on a retro review of Rogue Trader and seeing all the horrid, horrid puns hidden in there. Scotti the Enginseer? And recently someone pointed out that the Mag Uruk Thraka, in Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka stands for Margret Thacher.

The worst of course it the one right in front of our noses, the Ultramarines.

They're Super Marines so they're Ultra Marines, but they're also blue, they're ultramarine!

Oy...

So any other painful puns in GW fluff?

well.. the lizardmen in fantasy have a champion.. Tiq'taq'to I think his name is..

Dark Eldar as a whole.

Kruellagh the Vile is Cruella DeVille from 101 Dalmations.
Commorragh is pronounced "Come-or-ah" and rhymes with "Gomorrah"
Lady Malys ughhhh

Sly Marbo. How can you miss Sly Marbo?!


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Gork and Mork are Ork.

The Holy Orb of Antioch from the Black Templar Codex is a nod to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Just Lizardmen...every special character in the whole Lizardmen book.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:And recently someone pointed out that the Mag Uruk Thraka, in Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka stands for Margret Thacher.

Oh. My. GOD.

That explains everything.

how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference,(Dante is just another name for the Devil, just like Diablo) but also i find it funny that arguably the most loyal chapter of Space Marines are closet devil worshippers

fahujaskillz wrote:how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference,(Dante is just another name for the Devil, just like Diablo) but also i find it funny that arguably the most loyal chapter of Space Marines are closet devil worshippers

Considering that they were around long before Diablo came out...

Fafnir wrote:

fahujaskillz wrote:how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference,(Dante is just another name for the Devil, just like Diablo) but also i find it funny that arguably the most loyal chapter of Space Marines are closet devil worshippers

Considering that they were around long before Diablo came out...

Lies. Everyone knows 40k ripped off Dante's Inferno from Blizzard.

Dante is not a name for the devil.
The name (after a swift google) actually means 'enduring'.

There is a connection to the infernal as Dante Alighieri wrote The Divine Comedy, the first part of which describes his journey through hell and his conversations with the damned.
The rest of the book describes the ascent through Purgatory to Heaven.

fahujaskillz wrote:how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference,(Dante is just another name for the Devil, just like Diablo) but also i find it funny that arguably the most loyal chapter of Space Marines are closet devil worshippers

Dante is NOT a 'diablo reference' - more of a reference to "the divine comedy" by Dante Alighieri. Whereupon he describes the layout of hell and the places for each respective sinner.
Mephiston is a riff on "Mephistopheles".
Baal is one of the seven princes of Hell. He is mentioned widely in the Old Testament as the primary pagan idol of the Phoenicians, often associated with the heathen goddess Ashtaroth (not to be confused with Astaroth) - This also brings us to other BA off-shoot characters (Astorath the grim - aka captain grumpy-pants ).

Well, Astorath is only grumpy because he's a woman trapped in a man's body, obviously.

There was a special character for Necromunda called Mad Donna.

Dante is probably from from The divine comedy.

The beastmen minotaur lord Taurox is from some vitality medicine.

Canis Wolfborn. Uhhhg!

I will say I do like the Lizardman Carnosaur - Grymloq.

chromedog wrote:Dante is NOT a 'diablo reference' - more of a reference to "the divine comedy" by Dante Alighieri.

Exactly. When Dante was first introduced in 2nd Ed he was the first model in the game to have an Inferno Pistol. Dante's Inferno Pistol. How did people not get this?

not exactly a pun, but 'leoncoeur' [Louen Leoncoeur] has no meaning.

it's

Louise Leonheart.

Leon is a phonetic respelling of lion, and lion in french, is simply lion [as lion is not a european word.]

Richard the lion heart was 'coeur de lion' Heart of the lion

Though, maybe I'm just being silly.

in skaven, lord Skroll's model is holding a book, ergo, Scroll.

Queek headtaker - quick headtaker

throt the unclean - rot

Skarsnik from goblins is arsnik

my thoughts

There's a female archaeologist in the Tomb Kings army book named Clara Loft.

Marco Columbo? Mix of Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus.

Good idea for a thread.


In Bloodbowl, the God overseeing the game was called Nuffle, a pun on the NFL. A major sponsor was Bloodweiser, and many iconic teams are pun names based on real sporting teams, such as the Orcland Raiders.

Mad Donna from Necromunda.

Lion El Johnson is the Primarch of the Dark Angels. Lionel Johnson was a homosexual poet that wrote a poem about his homosexuality called the Dark Angel.

Back when they had the undead pirate list for Warhammer fantasy they snuck in the dead parrot joke, complete with the famous Cleese quote.

FW has a tendency to take nazis and turn them into Imperial tank commanders: Maximillian Weismann = Michael Witmann and colonel Joachim Pfeiff = Joachim Peiper.

Bahaha! God I hope that's true!

fahujaskillz wrote:how about Dante, Mephiston, and Baal from the BA? not only a Diablo reference

Don't get me started on just how much Warhammer Fantasy Battle ripped off World of Warcraft. WoW has dwarves, they gave WHFB dwarves. WoW has Orcs, they gave WHFB orcs (and Orks). They even took a lot of the same classes - WoW has wizards, so WHFB has bright wizards. No shame.

WHFB is essentially one big giant ripoff of WoW and I think Blizzard should sue the pants off of them.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to see a man about a song which ends the world.

Ouze wrote:Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to see a man about a song which ends the world.

Nice and obscure. Well done.

BoyMac wrote:Lion El Johnson is the Primarch of the Dark Angels. Lionel Johnson was a homosexual poet that wrote a poem about his homosexuality called the Dark Angel.

So we have a chapter dedicated to hiding their sexual preference and hunting down those that have come out of the closet? Dark angels just increased on the lame scale

Captain Solon wrote:
Queek headtaker - quick headtaker

Maybe it's just because of a certain conversation in my LGS last week, but I am reading this as "Squeak" headtaker.

Illumini wrote:So we have a chapter dedicated to hiding their sexual preference and hunting down those that have come out of the closet? Dark angels just increased on the lame scale

You forgot about the dresses and the feathers.