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Imagine being an space marine, and fighting almost every day of your live. Then, during a huge battle, your 2 best friends get slayed. You miss them and you wish you would have married the emperors museum gift shop girl instead of choosing this life and slaying heretics and being bald.

So, can a Space Marine have a mid-life crisis?

Why do you think we have Chaos Marines?

definatly nope, fighting men have a strong purpose in life, they want to survive and don´t question their everyday life because they are thankful of every damn minute of it...
that said we, the average, non fighting man get that crisis only because we don´t have purpose in life...if your in constant struggle for life there is no time to be musing stuff thats not relevant and cant be changed...


vik

Fafnir wrote:Why do you think we have Chaos Marines?

yeah but on dawn of war, the chaos marines randomly go...ready....MWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!that cant be mid life crisis can it?that wouldnt make you laugh.especially like that.

That sounds more like a generic maniacal evil laugh.
It is to tell the audience that the character is evil.
Just in case they didn't get that from the recent bad guy just did something jolly rotten scene.

People with a mid life crisis tend not to laugh like that.
Space Marines never laugh at all, miserable gits that they are. Not sure whether they would have a crisis or when in their extended existence it would be the equivalent of 40 something.

Given that they are taken from adolescents and brain washed to becoming superhuman I would say they don't.
Also agree with Vik, and would add that the Marinification process is something akin to the ceremonies used by some cultures where there is physical and psychological change on the 13 year old.

in these so called lesser cultures there is rather seldom found somthing akin to angst and crisis. we on the other hand no that way to good....even lil kids can get crisis and be exhausted in their young life...

what does that tell us? we struggle for a place in life, a red thread to follow and if that is found there wont be so many illlnesses in ones life, as we crave a function in life.

back to SM they even get the function wired to their brains and i doubt that there are still enough negative hormones producable to get something like selfdoubt...they are without fear and without pain, remember?


vik

i dunno, if i couldn't get laid i'd be pretty depressed
"Well, never gonna bed a lady . Let's go bash in some xenos skulls! YEE-HAW"

What is "mid-life" for an immortal?

I think so around the age of 2000. They trade in the Bike for a Landspeeder, Get the Armor with the fancy engravings.......sad really.

They might miss their old comrades but they'll keep fighting. If they lost everyone they might ask to go on a one-man crusade.

poor buggers

Marines in wigs wobbling slowly along on their new bikes.

Sad.

Why not? Rambo did, and he kicked ass for a living.....Maybe there is a sort of Thailand for battle fatigued Space Marines to retreat to when things get too much for them. Bless!

Can a Space Marine have a mid-life crisis?

Isn't that why most of the renegades turn to chaos?

If you look at a character like Ardaric Vaanes (the Raven Guard renegade introduced in Dead Sky, Black Sun) then this is pretty much what happened to him. He never felt part of the brotherhood that binds all Astartes together and ended up running away to the Eye of Terror. It would be rare for a Space Marine to end up having some kind of full blown mid-life crisis but it is certainly possible.

Such talk is heresy! An Adeptus Astartes' duty is such that he cannot afford to think such things. Untold billions of souls depend on him, and his brothers in arms. Service to the Emperor is its own reward.

Pretty sure the part of the brain that handles things like regret or... reasoning gets removed when they're turning them into freakish blobs of redundant organs, probably to make room for a third appendix, or perhaps the gland that produces the acidic venom they drool for some illconceived reason...

sarpedons-right-hand wrote:Why not? Rambo did, and he kicked ass for a living.....Maybe there is a sort of Thailand for battle fatigued Space Marines to retreat to when things get too much for them. Bless!

God this made me laugh so much, Space marines do sound sad when not in battle

but... the Emperor!

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:Pretty sure the part of the brain that handles things like regret or... reasoning gets removed when they're turning them into freakish blobs of redundant organs, probably to make room for a third appendix, or perhaps the gland that produces the acidic venom they drool for some illconceived reason...

Aside from being cool, being able to spit acid is a) a good and very unexpected fighting ability to have in close quarters, particularly when they don't have weapons on them for some reason and b) makes them next to impossible to hold prisoner. Similar to Aliens (whose blood is acid and can be used as a weapon) but much more precise, they would be able to spit on chains and locks to get help them break free.

bok_choy17 wrote:

Fafnir wrote:Why do you think we have Chaos Marines?

yeah but on dawn of war, the chaos marines randomly go...ready....MWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!that cant be mid life crisis can it?that wouldnt make you laugh.especially like that.

Well the makers of DOW actually had that dialog a little longer originally, but cut the last part out due to budgets. It was actually like this "MWAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!!! HAHAHAAAAhahaaa.....ha.....haha.......*sob* *sob* *sob* *sob* *sob* *sob* WHY?!?!*sob**sob**sob* I jsut want to go back to my home planet*sob**sob* I miss that cool ass planet. And demons smell, and they are mean*sob*"

for space wolves I'd imagine they do what a good chunk of those dealing with a midlife crisis do, drink, and drink some more, the others I would have to say are largely indoctrinated too young to know any other life(at least ultrasmurfs are according to fluff)

Not sure whether they get actually 'depressed' in a clinical sense, but they can feel down, that's for sure.

Check out Cloud-Runner in Deathwing and, of course, Lex in Space Marine.

I think they just get one of these:

I dont think Space Marine chapters actually have Titans

Fafnir wrote:Why do you think we have Chaos Marines?

Or why they are all bald and screaming :3

They chop off their weiners so no.

Powerguy wrote:

Sir Pseudonymous wrote:Pretty sure the part of the brain that handles things like regret or... reasoning gets removed when they're turning them into freakish blobs of redundant organs, probably to make room for a third appendix, or perhaps the gland that produces the acidic venom they drool for some illconceived reason...

Aside from being cool, being able to spit acid is a) a good and very unexpected fighting ability to have in close quarters, particularly when they don't have weapons on them for some reason and b) makes them next to impossible to hold prisoner. Similar to Aliens (whose blood is acid and can be used as a weapon) but much more precise, they would be able to spit on chains and locks to get help them break free.

a) They wear helmets, which notably block their mouths.
b) What is going to contain them (with all their mary sue strength and plot armor) that a few dribbles of acid drool is going to overcome?

It's a patently ridiculous thing to include, though it does fit well with such things as the "Omophagea" (which just gives the image of a squad landing on a planet, then removing their helmets and browsing on nearby foliage to get the lay of the land...). Things like that, the nauseating mary sue tone of the fluff, and the several dozen pages devoted solely to the iconography of the smurfs are why I've never managed to read the entirety of the Space Marine codex, as it leaves me gagging in disgust.

KingCracker wrote:I dont think Space Marine chapters actually have Titans

They don't own them... but that won't stop them from having one or two...

KingCracker wrote:I dont think Space Marine chapters actually have Titans

That's not true. Ultramarines have titans.

Oh god, why did I bring them up?