What is the scariest/creepiest thing in 40k?

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**BladeTX**

Title says it all.

For me it's got to be, the dark eldar hive of Commoraugh. That town gives me the creeps. Even the buildings want to kill you!

**Poly Ranger**

You will be getting a picture of an Orc Cheerleader in 5...4...3...

**Davor**

...2...1

Where is the cheer leader?

Also I don't get it.

**Otto Weston**

DA HORROR

**Desubot**

All the way to creepy town

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**Tannhauser42**

I would say the Adeptus Mechanicus in general. When you read about how a Thallax is created, and realize that that is probably on the tamer side of what the AdMech does on a daily basis, it gets very disturbing.

**Fafnir13**

I don't think the cheerleader is 40K, but it is creepy....

I would vote for Lucius the Eternal. It's just nasty what happens to those that kill him.

**Overlord Thraka**

Otto Weston wrote:

DA HORROR

MY EYES!!! KLAW THEM OUT WITH A BLUNT FORK IT SO HORRIBLE!!! GAAAAAAH!!!!

That said. Probably what happened to the necrons. That's just inhumane

**Phyrekzhogos**

In all honesty, I think the cherubs that the Imperials use to float around holding scrolls and such are the creepiest. Angelic? Bionic? Alive even? I'm not sure, and I'm not sure I want to know. *shivers* ew.

**KingmanHighborn**

^ THAT, Seriously the ONE thing I hate about 40k, those dang mecha cherub baby things. Eck Ew, and dear god no.

**Bobthehero**

The Death Korps, considering how ridiculously de-humanized they are, and how they have no issue to inflict that on civilian population if they need more conscripts.

**Taffy17**

The Talos and Chronos have to be up there. People who the Haemonculi have messed with to the point where they just silently float around the battlefield tearing up or draining the life of whatever they find.

I think Ethereals are pretty creepy as well. Nothing is known about them other than they look like Tau and Tau are completely obedient to them. No one knows where they come from, no one knows what happens to them when they get old and no one knows what their true motives are.

**Accolade**

Tannhauser42 wrote:
I would say the Adeptus Mechanicus in general. When you read about how a Thallax is created, and realize that that is probably on the tamer side of what the AdMech does on a daily basis, it gets very disturbing.

Yeah, I've thought about this when I was playing through Wolfenstein: the New Order. All of Deathshead's creations, and I realize they're pretty in-line with what the Mechanicus does, especially in terms of Thallax and the like.

**ClockworkZion**

Otto Weston wrote:

DA HORROR

That's Blood Bowl not 40k.

My vote is the dead baby servitors.

**lustigjh**

Possibly the thought of being abducted into a Haemonculus's lair to be tortured for the revival of wealthy kabalites. The whole city in general reminds me of K'n-yan from Lovecraft's The Mound. The city even has a horrific gladiatorial fighting arena for inhuman abominations and prisoners.

**Bookwrack**

Being on a planet right in the path of a hive fleet, and knowing what's happening as the sky goes dark.

**SirDonlad**

Accolade wrote:
Tannhauser42 wrote:
I would say the Adeptus Mechanicus in general. When you read about how a Thallax is created, and realize that that is probably on the tamer side of what the AdMech does on a daily basis, it gets very disturbing.

Yeah, I've thought about this when I was playing through Wolfenstein: the New Order. All of Deathshead's creations, and I realize they're pretty in-line with what the Mechanicus does, especially in terms of Thallax and the like.

MOAR THALLAX!

I love thallax, but the tech-thrall upgrade 'revenant alchemistry' takes the cake.
It says that as the heresy went on tech-priests using the prohibited 'sarcosa wave' and 'black alchemistry' from the dark age of technology, and had been re-animating the dead from a battlefield for use as new tech-thralls.

Re-animating the dead as troops is a bit too freaky for the mechanicum during peacetime but when it's war - anything is considered 'spare parts'!

**jreilly89**

The Flayed Ones were pretty creepy, because they wore the skin of guys they killed. Other than that, Fiends of Slaanesh are rather gross

**Crabbit**

DE. You'll be lucky if you die during the raid.

The Night Lords come in a close second.

**dragoonmaster101**

Abbadon the Despoiler is without a doubt the most creepy thing in all of 40k as he is undoubtedly the most powerful character in the 40k universe rivaling the chaos gods. You might say, "Wat?" But think about this, he be came the leader of the black legion one of the toughest renegade legions around and he did it (here is the grand presentation) WITHOUT ANY ARMS. Just to think that someone that powerful that isn't a Psyker and is mortal is rather terrifying!

**Talizvar**

The players and the unholy things they think up:

Spoiler:

The HERESY!

**jreilly89**

Talizvar wrote:
The players and the unholy things they think up:

Spoiler:

The HERESY!

The last is the most disturbing. BURN IT!!

**Spinner**

That fuzzy Land Raider is one of the best things I have ever seen.

I'm going to have to go with the crushing existential despair that goes with the setting...the Imperium of Man is a brutal, fascist theocracy that spends the lives of its subjects like change found under a couch cushion and wipes out alien races on principle...and the universe they live in is so awful, they're not necessarily wrong.

**Great White**

Being in the 40k universe...

**ZergSmasher**

I would have to go with the Nurgle-aligned daemons. All those guts hanging out and open sores and stuff is just NASTY! Don't even get me started on the Great Unclean One...

**MarsNZ**

Haemonculi, Servitors.

**koooaei**

The scariest thing in 40k is to realise how much time and money you've spent on toy soldiers.

**Wyzilla**

Phyrekzhogos wrote:
In all honesty, I think the cherubs that the Imperials use to float around holding scrolls and such are the creepiest. Angelic? Bionic? Alive even? I'm not sure, and I'm not sure I want to know. *shivers* ew.

Like with all servitors, Cherubs are lobotomized babies turned into mindless drone servants incapable of complex thought.

However, the obvious answer is always, Chaos. The unreality of the warp can instantly drive you insane and cause you devour your best friend alive, or slaughter your own family in a blood frenzy before daemons claim your soul and torture you for eternity. There was a good book that elaborated on this, Legion of the Damned, where Khorne causes a body to pick up an axe and chop his own father into tiny bits, then come home and butcher the rest of his family.

**Raven Cowl**

Having studied psychology any lobotomized servants of the Imperium just ugh... even when they worked they weren't good irl much less in 40k

**General Kroll**

Wyzilla wrote:
Phyrekzhogos wrote:
In all honesty, I think the cherubs that the Imperials use to float around holding scrolls and such are the creepiest. Angelic? Bionic? Alive even? I'm not sure, and I'm not sure I want to know. *shivers* ew.

Like with all servitors, Cherubs are lobotomized babies turned into mindless drone servants incapable of complex thought.

What function do they have game wise? I can't find anything in the marine codex about it, but really like the librarian model that has a creepy assed cherub floating around it.