epronovost wrote: Hawky wrote:Changing established things to pander to SJWs never went wrong. Never.
It produced the best Mad Max movie though
Come to think of it, I can't remember a big franchise that crashed because they added women, non-white people and non-heterosexual people in their story.
No franchise ever crashed because they added characters that happened to be female, not white or non-heterosexual.
They have crashed because they added women, non whites and non-heterosexuals that happened to be characters. Getting woke and going broke is the order of the day.
The Primarchs are an interesting case because they are living aspects of war and that's basically all we are shown, except rivalry, aspiration and brotherhood. You could make the case that they are asexual and certainly there's no evidence they produced offspring sexually.
Are they even capable of sexual reproduction with humans? There's an argument that Astartes might be, as they are modified human boys, but primarchs were created from the Emperor's tissue samples and cosmic energy. If they are so far removed from the human stock that they are incapable of fertilising a woman, it would seem that they are a different (sub?)species all together, not humanity made huge and immortal.
In that case, any physical attraction they felt for a human, male or female would be biologically equivalent to attraction to holes in a fence or fenrisian wolves. It wouldn't be accurate to equate any of this to same sex attraction or heterosexuality. In fact it would be nightmarish had Emperor given them human sexual appetites that could never be realised, then immortality.