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 NinthMusketeer wrote:

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Also, not 40K, but WHFB…

Middenheim.

Heim I understand to be German for Town, possibly City. I don’t speak it, don’t sue me.

Midden? A Midden is where you put the refuse. Including poop.

Pooptown. Middenheim is Pooptown.

Considering how locations and towns were generally named in the middle ages, and considering Middenheim, I don't find the name particularly inappropriate.

Aberdeen literally play in a stadium that translates to "hill of dung". Plus, you have my personal favourite IRL- Hillhillhill Hill.

Anything Nurgle-related.

-Guardsman- wrote:
I think Warmaster Slaydo has to be up there. Like Greedo from Star Wars: A New Hope, except that instead of being greedy, he slays.

Lion El'Jonson is also a goofy one, especially for a Primarch.

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Let's raise a glass to GW, who single-handedly saved an obscure Anglo-Catholic poet - Lionel Johnson - from utter obscurity.

And not just him, also his work: "The Dark Angel." Any guesses on what the "forbidden secret" is?

The orc stuff I can let pass because it's meant to be silly.

How about that firebrand theological reformer of The Empire, Luthor Huss. Really reached for that one, didn't they?

 Void__Dragon wrote:
Anything Nurgle-related.

The shame is all of those would be better as just the second word, as would far too many units in game.

Ah, I forgot the nurgle stuff. Sloppity Bilepiper takes the crown for me

Crispy78 wrote:

-Guardsman- wrote:

Lion El'Jonson is also a goofy one, especially for a Primarch.
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I wouldn't call it goofy, but it's definitely borrowed from history:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dark-angel-2/

I know where the name comes from, and I'm sorry to say -- still goofy as f***.

Re: Nurgle names: Yep, they get pretty ridiculous. Daemonic/Chaos names in general often sound like they were created by random name generators from a bunch of prefixes and suffixes. "So this Chaos lord will be called... (activates Khornate name generator) Goreskull Slaughterblade!"

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Anyone insulting the Sloppity Bilepiper will be sent to the shadow realm.

Some of the Ork vehicle names are pretty silly, but in a good way because they're Orky. My personal favorite is Rukkatrukk Squigbuggy, but Boomdakka Snazzwagon is a close second.

GW have always had a soft spot for bad puns, this peaked with the WFB 5th edition Lizardmen book...

Nothing has come close to that.

Well in the old Warhammer Fantasy Orcs and Goblins Army book the history does reference an Orc named Dork.

So yes there was a WAAAGH Dork at some point in the old world.

-Guardsman- wrote:

Crispy78 wrote:

-Guardsman- wrote:

Lion El'Jonson is also a goofy one, especially for a Primarch.
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I wouldn't call it goofy, but it's definitely borrowed from history:

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-dark-angel-2/

I know where the name comes from, and I'm sorry to say -- still goofy as f***.

Re: Nurgle names: Yep, they get pretty ridiculous. Daemonic/Chaos names in general often sound like they were created by random name generators from a bunch of prefixes and suffixes. "So this Chaos lord will be called... (activates Khornate name generator) Goreskull Slaughterblade!"

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The original Realms of Chaos daemonic names were created that way. The True Names used a different table so you could end up with gibberish strings of letters (which I guess makes sense for daemonic True Names).

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands has always been the goofiest to me

There is no good place to go with Iron Hand of the Iron Hands.

What makes it worse to me is he was one of the later primarchs that GW named and wrote up, with only Leman Russ appearing in the Rogue Trader book itself (and only as a 'commander' of the space wolves, not a Primarch, which didn't exist yet).

The names (like Corvus Corax) seemed to get worse as they went along, with less thought and more obviously bad jokes.

 stonehorse wrote:
GW have always had a soft spot for bad puns, this peaked with the WFB 5th edition Lizardmen book...

Nothing has come close to that.

Well, there were Cathay and Nippon "pun" names. Though these were more racist than goofy, so, yeah I guess lizards were better in that regard.

I bet CA didn't made Nippon into TW III faction yet despite huge popularity of Japan because they are not sure how to proceed with that baggage (and whiny screams from certain crowd that will inevitably happen if Nippon gets the modernization and upgrade Cathay did)...

Voss wrote:

 The Red Hobbit wrote:
Ferrus Manus of the Iron Hands has always been the goofiest to me

There is no good place to go with Iron Hand of the Iron Hands.

What makes it worse to me is he was one of the later primarchs that GW named and wrote up, with only Leman Russ appearing in the Rogue Trader book itself (and only as a 'commander' of the space wolves, not a Primarch, which didn't exist yet).

The names (like Corvus Corax) seemed to get worse as they went along, with less thought and more obviously bad jokes.

Which always makes me laugh when people take the HH books so seriously, I mean, look at the names of the main protagonists, it’s just so silly.