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**Griddlelol**

captain collius wrote:

Marbo is running from The Hive Fleets.

Correction Jk

Marbo can't run from anyone. He's always behind them.

**ansacs**

True by definition Marbo cannot run from anyone as he is always the shadow behind you and the terror in your dreams. Thereby he is always chasing you.

**washout77**

Im gonna vote for Ollanius Pius.

This is a guardsman who just saw Sanguinus killed AND The Emperor beaten apart by Horus, but he still has the balls to stand in front of Horus and do what his duty called for him to do.

Die standing and hold the line.

**Grey Templar**

washout77 wrote:
Im gonna vote for Ollanius Pius.

This is a guardsman who just saw Sanguinus killed AND The Emperor beaten apart by Horus, but he still has the balls to stand in front of Horus and do what his duty called for him to do.

Die standing and hold the line.

Indeed, jewels the size of a battle cruiser that guy.

**washout77**

Grey Templar wrote:
washout77 wrote:
Im gonna vote for Ollanius Pius.

This is a guardsman who just saw Sanguinus killed AND The Emperor beaten apart by Horus, but he still has the balls to stand in front of Horus and do what his duty called for him to do.

Die standing and hold the line.

Indeed, jewels the size of a battle cruiser that guy.

Well, this was before he was retconned to a Terminator (An Imperial Fists Captain I believe)...and then a member of the Custodes...

But that is one piece of fluff I refuse to acknowledge

**Mountain-Breaker**

Obviously Leman Russ. Only the Emperor could best him in combat. Also Logan Grimnar, Njal Stormcaller Arjac Rockfist... Pretty much every Space Wolves character. I mean theres just nothing to top them.(except of course Dwarves of Fantasy, but thats a different story)

**AngryMarine**

Any who would dispute the crown from Leman Russ has no concept of manliness. All others are pathetic pretenders.

**Ascalam**

Nah,

He's just a beardy-wierdy norse-wannabe boozer with pretentions of adequacy.

Anyone seen him lately? didn't think so..

**Sephyr**

Kharn the Betrayer.

Because having a decent invulnerable save is for wimps. He'll charge a storm shield wall and bash it apart just because. Being skewered on a rhino just made him angrier.

And when his pals and the enemy wanted to call time during a good war just because they were afraid of freezing to death, the picked up a flamethrower and decided to remove their choice in the matter.

**AngryMarine**

Ascalam wrote:
Ollanius Pius.

Ain't no-one manlier, or deader..

Ollanius was a fool who didn't know his place, and died like a chump. He deserves no reverance whatsoever.
Russ charged headlong into the Eye of Terror to save a member of his family, something only a real man would do (assuming any of these were actually real people). Again, all others are sad prtenders. Russ is THE man.

**Ascalam**

So Ollanius was a fool who didn't know his place, for wanting to save his Emperor, knowing he would die like a chump, but doing it anyway..

But Russ is manlier somehow for being a fool, who didn't know his place and died like a chump trying to save a family member

?

Ok, i can really see the difference there. Russ is just so much manlier... not.

**AngryMarine**

We don't know if Russ is dead or not. That putz Draigo seems to do fine in the warp. We know that silly guardsman is toast.

**Ascalam**

If he's not dead he's taking a really long sabbatical, or has turned.

Draigo managed to show up annoyingly often in the few years since he went in, so one would assume Russ could find his way out in all the time he's been in there.

Each to their own, i guess.

**washout77**

You would think Russ would be able to get out, since Draigo can once in a while. Or even if he doesn't want to come out yet (having too much fun), he could at least pop back once a millennia and say "Yep im alive! Going back to kill more stuff kthxbai"

**generalchaos34**

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

Chuck Norris lost to Bruce Lee.

Chuck Norris only lost because bruce used his manliest tribute against him by tearing off his chest hair, that dosent count. Bruce Lee probably shaved his chest, Chuck shows it proudly, also letting us know he is part bear.

On that note, I'd go for straken being the manliest man, hes one of the few of this edition who ignores armor saves with his bare hands. Straken actually breaks rules like they dont exist. If straken fights any longer he will be a head in a jar launched out of a bazooka so that he can bite his opponents to death.

**MrMoustaffa**

Mountain-Breaker wrote:
Obviously Leman Russ. Only the Emperor could best him in combat. Also Logan Grimnar, Njal Stormcaller Arjac Rockfist... Pretty much every Space Wolves character. I mean theres just nothing to top them.(except of course Dwarves of Fantasy, but thats a different story)

I thought Leman Russ got his arse kicked multiple times in the Horus Heresy books, both by the primarch of the dark angels and a few of the primarchs that turned traitor?

Also, I would vote for Ollanius, and he is back in the fluff, but now apparently he's some sort of special demigod type guy like the emperor who has lived for an extremely long time or something, so I cannot in good faith vote for him.

Another good runner up would Colonel Commissar Greiss. This link sums up his badassery very well I think (warning, if you get offended by language do not go to the link) http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Colonel_Greiss

To give you a hint, he was so badass, they had to use STRAKEN as a replacement, because nobody else could match his badassery.

Spoiler:

**warboss_grimjaw**

If by manly you mean baddest guy around, then Ghazghkull gets my vote. What's more manly than graffiti left on the shattered remains of an Imperial Titan gloating about how entire worlds burn in your boot prints?

**Void__Dragon**

Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
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.

I'd say he's disqualified for being a terrible character though.

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MajorStoffer wrote:
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.

Recent fluff has not been kind to Pius.

Spoiler:

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Mountain-Breaker wrote:
Obviously Leman Russ. Only the Emperor could best him in combat.

Angron would like a word with you.

**MajorStoffer**

While vaguely aware of Pius's retcon, I put it in the same category of the Ewoks defeating Imperial Stormtroopers and AT-STs, and Cpt. Picard sparing the Borg.

Basically, it didn't happen, because it's too fething stupid. The new character concept for Pius is fine, but it shouldn't replace Pius from the original timeline; the strange, bizarre, powerful and unexplained belong in 40k, but an act of genuine human heroism deserves to be protected from "herohammer."

**Void__Dragon**

I agree, this is basically one of the worst retcons/fluff deviations I've seen from BL.

**MrMoustaffa**

He'll always be a regular guardsman to me (Technically imperial army man but whatever)

**washout77**

MrMoustaffa wrote:
He'll always be a regular guardsman to me (Technically imperial army man but whatever)

Exactly! He was originally a normal man because they wanted to show that even in the darkest times that normal men still have courage and giant adamantium balls. There was actually a moral behind it.

**Furyou Miko**

I haven't read Know No Fear, and I still have a character who bears the Order of Ollanius Pius for similar ridiculous heroism (in her case, feeding the Red Terror a krak grenade seconds before it could swallow her).

As far as manly characters go, my actual vote has to go down on Vargaard Obyron. So manly he carries through with his duty even though his master is a senile old cripple, goes into battle with the deadliest monsters in the galaxy without even a shield or res orb, and even went so far as to get himself a cloak that breaks the rules of existence and the game to make sure he could always be in the right place to fight the nastiest monsters.

**thehod**

gaovinni wrote:
I gotta go with Straken. A leader in the frontlines getting dragged out of the battlefield again and again and just keeps going back.

this guy

**Fenrir Kitsune**

generalchaos34 wrote:
Fenrir Kitsune wrote:
Thorgrim Bloodcrow wrote:
. The boogie man checks his closet at night for Chuck Norris, Chuck Norris is hiding in the closet because of Marbo.
.

Chuck Norris lost to Bruce Lee.

Chuck Norris only lost because bruce used his manliest tribute against him by tearing off his chest hair, that dosent count. Bruce Lee probably shaved his chest, Chuck shows it proudly, also letting us know he is part bear.

Still lost to a bloke half his size.

**Commissar Typhus**

Marbo is hands down the manliest character in 40k.

**Bobthehero**

ansacs wrote:
True by definition Marbo cannot run from anyone as he is always the shadow behind you and the terror in your dreams. Thereby he is always chasing you.

Marbo's a stalker! Ew ew creepy stalker.

**Fifty**

washout77 wrote:
Grey Templar wrote:
washout77 wrote:
Im gonna vote for Ollanius Pius.

This is a guardsman who just saw Sanguinus killed AND The Emperor beaten apart by Horus, but he still has the balls to stand in front of Horus and do what his duty called for him to do.

Die standing and hold the line.

Indeed, jewels the size of a battle cruiser that guy.

Well, this was before he was retconned to a Terminator (An Imperial Fists Captain I believe)...and then a member of the Custodes...

But that is one piece of fluff I refuse to acknowledge

I did my research on this very thoroughly last time it came up. The original fluff had the unknown terminator on Horus' HQ ship. A month or two later, the Ollanius Pius story came up on the surface of Planet Earth. There was very little time between the two, and the Ollanius story was probably written before the unknown terminator story was published, but the terminator story came out first.

**thenoobbomb**

Bobthehero wrote:
ansacs wrote:
True by definition Marbo cannot run from anyone as he is always the shadow behind you and the terror in your dreams. Thereby he is always chasing you.

Marbo's a stalker! Ew ew creepy stalker.

Marbo is not a stalker.
He is fear incarnate.

**MajorStoffer**

thenoobbomb wrote:
Bobthehero wrote:
ansacs wrote:
True by definition Marbo cannot run from anyone as he is always the shadow behind you and the terror in your dreams. Thereby he is always chasing you.

Marbo's a stalker! Ew ew creepy stalker.

Marbo is not a stalker.
He is fear incarnate.

You know that valley in the shadow of darkness?

That's marbo's shadow.