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You're all crazy.

Clearly, the manliest character in 40k is the Sisters of Battle Celestian Standard Bearer;

Or have you not seen her face?

Ferrus Mannus, i mean, he has MAN in his name and slaughters traitors by the dozen with his bare(ish) hands.

Failing that, has to be Lysander, coz this:

Lysander. Fought his way out of an Iron Warriors fortress world in his underwear.

 Warp Angels wrote:
Ferrus Mannus, i mean, he has MAN in his name and slaughters traitors by the dozen with his bare(ish) hands.

Leman Russ name is "THE MAN" though.

 Avatrass wrote:
Lucius the Eternal!
wait, he's pink....

Real men wear pink.

PredaKhaine wrote:

 Avatrass wrote:
Lucius the Eternal!
wait, he's pink....

Real men wear pink.

QFT

Nothing more manly than Mr.Lucius himself

Fenrir Kitsune wrote:

 Warp Angels wrote:
Ferrus Mannus, i mean, he has MAN in his name and slaughters traitors by the dozen with his bare(ish) hands.

Leman Russ name is "THE MAN" though.

No hes not, hes a space wolf and they can never be manly, coz they have to use other beings to help them out. (Wolves)
Manly men do things themselves. eg. Mannus, Lysander, Marbo.

Marbo, there is literally no other answer that could even compare. He's what Dark Eldar tell their children is under their bed if they misbehave. He's the thing in the shadows that Lictors look over their shoulder because they get the goosebumps. Chaos Daemons sit around campfires telling urban legends about him crawling into the Eye of Terror and giving Khorne nightmares. The boogie man checks his closet at night for Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris is hiding in the closet because of Marbo.

In fact he's watching you right now and he'll be under your bed if you don't vote for him. He's always watching.

 Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
. The boogie man checks his closet at night for Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris is hiding in the closet because of Marbo.
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Chuck Norris lost to Bruce Lee.

I'd rather have Marbo under my bed than Lucius any day of the week.

Lots of good options in the IG codex, but I'm voting Yarrick.

Space marines do a lot of awesome things. But as post-human genetically tailored super-beings, that's kinda normal for them. Guard heroes do awesome things because they are just that manly and hard core.

Yarrick here too.

I mean, his ride is named "Fortress of Arrogance", and it's a baneblade. Come on.

"Standard Human" of manliness: Yarrick. You people are forgetting he was going to retire! Retire! And yet, he beated up not one, but two WAAAAGHs!! He's just like wine, he gets manliner the older he gets.

"Space Marine" of manliness: Nathaniel Garro - Seriously, this is my favorite character so far in the HH saga. Dude just keeps going, doesn't matter what's thrown at him, he just keeps going and gak gets done!

 Andilus Greatsword wrote:

 ansacs wrote:
Marbo, seriously its Ranbo but instead if fighting pansies he kills off entire terminator squads just cause he walked onto the battle field.

Others need enhancements/armour/heavy weapons...not marbo he need a grenade, pistol, combat knife, and fatigues.

What's behind the hive fleet driving them into this galaxy? Marbo!

+1 for Marbo. I'm a Space Wolves player, and even I'd vote for Marbo over Leman Russ.

I forgot that "Marbo" killed Batman's parents...So I take Russ back and go to shoot myself for making such mistake...

Skarabrand cause he makes all the men around him even manlier...

or

Kharn - so manly he doesn't need friends and all the other men are scared of him

Ollanius Pius. He had the biggest pair in 40k history to stand up to Horus, a walking tank infused with the power of all the Chaos Gods.


Ollanius.

Fething.

Pius.

Yet another vote for Marbo. The bowling alley calls him for advice about balls. The only nonmanly thing he did was lose a fight to my sorceror once.

Marbo didn't lose a fight, he made a tactically sound retreat.

Angron.

 Amaraxis wrote:

Kharn - so manly he doesn't need friends and all the other men are scared of him

Forgot about Kharn - even being killed didn't stop him.

Maugan Ra. I mean has anyone ever actually read his fluff?

Failing that it's got to be Marbo. He's the reason Draigo is hiding in the warp, he's the one who outflanks Creed. He most probably could assassinate the Hive mind if he wanted to.

Straken...How many guardsman can open a land raider with their hands?

Maugan Ra...nice call. You don't get to walk around with a title like: "Harvester of Souls" for being a sissy.

All the suggestions are missing the key element of manliness:
A Beard.
Even Leman Russ didn't have one.

How many guys replace their eye with a death ray because the enemies thought he could kill with a glance?

Who is the only worthy opponent of the greatest Ork boss this millenium?

Yarrick, that's who.

CRASSUS ARMOURED ASSAULT TRANSPORT

Failing that, I'll vote for Pius.

Follow my logic here;

Guardsmen, Manly, they fight abhuman horrors, daemons, giant ravenous extra galactic aliens and ancient, unknowable, cruel alien races with an angry flashlight and a thick t-shirt

Yarrick, Ultra-Manly, "You tore my arm off? I liked that arm, I'll have to replace it with yours." No superpowers, no power armour, just manliness and sheer contempt for all things, also, never executes guardsmen; his manliness inspires them to fight in a way the bolt pistol can only dream of. So manly that the biggest, nastiest ork in all of creation let him live, as he's the only thing that can give him a good fight. Marines don't get that treatment.

Pius, The Man, stood between a living god and a demi-god, infused with the raw power of Chaos in a way unheard of and never again seen, two titans able to rend apart reality by sheer force of will, with only a lasgun. Had the temerity to stand between the two most powerful beings to ever exist, and say "No." The manliness of such an act, and the the release of manlies caused by his death are what allowed beings like Yarrick and Marbo to exist, and reminded the Emperor of his own manliness, and promptly flayed Horus's soul apart.

Maugan Ra would beat Marbo every day, He defeated a hive fleet by himself.

Yarrick.

I'm gonna be backing up Yarrick here; not only was he the symbol of hope for the defenders of Hive Hades in the second War of Armageddon and holding off Ghazghkull until relief came, but he went against orders and had the distress signal sent. Lets not also forget that he had his right arm cut off by a Ork Warboss, and fighting through the pain and shock, beheaded the Warboss and replaced his arm with the same powerklaw that ripped it off. When Yarrick fought Ghazghkull in the Golgothia sector, he was CRUSHED under the treads of a BATTLEWAGON and only passed out. Not only does he now have a bionic eye that can fire a laser, he wields a Storm-Bolter as a pistol while his personal vehicle is a BANEBLADE with a pulpit for him to be commanding from. Space Marines need to be genetically altered so they can be "manly"; its being a unaltered human in the 41st Millennium and being able to go toe to toe with the nastiest Ork Warlord in the galaxy that takes the throne of being the manliest.

 captain collius wrote:
Maugan Ra would beat Marbo every day, He defeated a hive fleet by himself.

The Hive Fleets are running from Marbo.

Thanks guys for all the replies, i'd like to see this topic grow.
Also, the character doesn't have to be a human to be manly.
You can still include orks, necrons, eldar (not sure why you would, space elves aren't manly ) etc.

 thenoobbomb wrote:

 captain collius wrote:
Maugan Ra would beat Marbo every day, He defeated a hive fleet by himself.

Marbo is running from The Hive Fleets.

Correction Jk

But Still Think of This Maugan Ra is a true eternal warrio and carries a cannon with Scythe on the end of it and pops into the warp to save his craftworld. He defines Manly.

Your argument is invalid