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Kindness is not uncommon in 40, but for marines?
Space Marines are in indoctrinated for hundreds of years to indulge in ultra violence.
But I'm reminded of a story where a Blood Angel sees a kid he knew start to make false idols, and he just gives the kid a bolt pistol as a gift, and tells him to only make icons of the Emperor.
Is there any other cases of kindness like that.

Off the top of my head, I remember a snippet in Helsreach where a squad of Salamanders assisted the Black Templars for a bit and protected some civilians from a Ork attack. The downside to that was that the Astartes missed the chance to kill the leading Warboss because the Salamanders refused to abandon the civilians to possible future attacks.

What are Salamanders.

the whole slamander chapter on armageddon is a good example

and SW did magic to protect civilian in various occasions, even by making an enemy out of some inquisitors if needed, i remember an occasion where Blackmane used a Drop pod assault just to stop the orks from attacking a civ camp, even if strategy suggested otherwise


there are many chapters too focused on destroying the enemy or following their own agenda to care about people, but those two chapter are (usually) leaded by good guys

Ironically, that act of altruism by the SW (stopping the Inquisitorial purge) ended up getting more regular people killed than would have died had they not intervened.

Garviel Loken, Saul Tarvitz, and Nathaniel Garro were all pretty swell guys. Salamanders are also well-known for their benevolence towards normal humans based on a variety of different occasions.

The Marines Malevolent are some of the nicest chaps around, easily one of the friendliest chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Rivaling the Salamanders in fact.

Quite a few of the Horus Heresy novels show Marines showing kindness to regular people. (Sometimes out of selfish desires, but they do good things nevertheless.)

I think ADB does a great job of showing the Space Wolves, especially Logan Grimnar and Bjorn the Fell Handed, to be 'good people.' I think he likewise does a great job of showing that Kharne WAS a good person before having the Butcher's Nails shoved into his noodle, and that he held on to much of that for a very long time. In point of fact (if you'll let me blow Dembski-Bowden a little more) he really does a fine job of showing how many of the Traitor Marines might have been good people at one point in time before their own Primarchs/brothers poisoned them.

 Wyzilla wrote:
The Marines Malevolent are some of the nicest chaps around, easily one of the friendliest chapters of the Adeptus Astartes. Rivaling the Salamanders in fact.

So nice in fact, that when Orks broke into a refugee camp they sent ammunition to help out the refugees trying to fight the Orks.

Granted, they happened to fire the ammunition into the refugees. From Whirlwinds.

Hey it's the thought that counts right?

Salamanders on a planet gradually died one by one to defend humans as I recall. That's pretty nice.

Sac Shrike refuses to stop helping civilians, even when other Raven Guard (who care a lot for civilians already) would stop helping them.

The Lamenters threw themselves at Hive Fleet Kraken despite having already been repeatedly dumped on in other acts of heroism so that they could protect worlds the Imperial Guard and Navy could not.

The Astral Knights willingly sacrificed pretty much their entire chapter to stop the first recorded World Engine from unleashing more devastation when it was clear that nothing less could save the day.

The Celestial Lions also questioned the necessity of an Inquisitorial Purge, and got taken out by Vindicaire Assassins and storm troopers Ork Snipers for their troubles.

i think there are actually a lot of examples where marines are nice to people. I think i may even be a case of the minority bringing down the majority

There's also that Crimson Fist example where Pedro carried that woman and her child when they couldn't keep up with the marines during the ork invasion of Rynn's World.

The Space Wolves usually get forgotten alongside the Salamanders, but they have a history of standing up for civilians. Likewise I understand Ultramarines treat civilians on their homeworld well.

Salamanders on Armageddon, nuff said.

The Mentor's legion is all about sending small squads of marines into a warzone to help the locals help themselves through training and single marine leadership. To quote a short story about them, "You can't learn if you're dead."

Are we forgetting that vulkan pretty much cryed himself to sleep after being strapped into a giant killy-thing and being forced to kill a few army veterans.
Granted he was already pretty much crying himself to sleep but still.
Also, I beleive a salamanders chapter master punched a marines maleficent captain in the face for that incident involving the refugee camp.
Space wolves are a bit hit and miss. Sure they're pretty nice by they Seem to do what ever they want, less worrying about civilian casualties.

Every Primarch's origin story.

Okay, I guess they aren't spehs marheens at that point.

Salamanders are extremely kind soldiers, As are Space Wolves. Both are very fraternal with the IG and other normal humans and go to lengths to keep them safe. Space Wolves went to war with basically the imperium to protect a bunch of IG after the first armageddon war (the chaos one)

Loken in 30k?

 baxter123 wrote:
Loken in 30k?

And Saul Tarvitz, and Iacton Qruze, and Nathaniel Garro, and Tarik Torgaddon.