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I'll second either a Flesh Tearer or Marines Malevolent character. You have a young assault marine who really loves his chainsword and seems to think he's Amit reincarnate. "Oh, what's that? A horde of Tyranids inbound? Here brother-captain, hold my plasma gun and watch this!"

Marines Malevolent-
"Alright brothers, the foul Eldar have taken several dozen humans hostage as well as a cache of munitions. We can confirm the Farseer is with them. We sha-" the marine is cut off by the sound of a door breaking down and the sudden burst of high explosive rounds cutting across the feed as well as lots of screams. Then the sounds stop.
"All xenos eradicated. Munitions secured. Tainted human casualties maximum. Returning the frag launcher to the shuttle."

I don't think Flesh Tearers are a good idea. They are savage and bloodthirsty, but not arrogant. In fact, their flaw, the knowledge that they are going to be extinct and their desire to redeem their reputation usually make them quite humble.
They are noted to be stern and dour outside of battle. Certainly they are not the kind of guys that will tell others how to do stuff

Red scorpians are the most arrogant chapter by a large margin. They basically disdain everyone else as being in some way corrupt or impure. EVERYONE. Nobody in the imperium holds up to the red scorpians inflated sense of self.

Space Wolves.

Their philosophy "Do what we say because we know what's right. Yes, we're not doing what we say, but it's ok because we know we're right."

I don't think you've met the Iron Hands.
Are you a meat bag?
Yes, THE FLESH IS WEAK.
No, BROTHER, LET US REMOVE YOUR LEG.

Like a few has mentioned, as I'm sure you're aware, any individual marine could be an arrogant prick. Why bother being polite? Your sole reason for existing is death and destruction, mostly vs foes that are far inferior to you. You've spent a better part of decades sharpening your body and mind for combat. After spending about 4h on sleep per night and every other waking moment on improving yourself spiritually and physically why would you not consider other beings beneath you?

As far as chapters that actively support arrogant traits firstly I'd say everyone of them. Any chapter that is specialist in a specefic kind of warfare like stealth, hit and run, close quarter or long range are all going to be convinced of the superiority of their own method of warfare. Any chapter bound to the codex astartes would inevitable consider themselves better then the specialists. Every form of warfare has a weakness after all, and such an argument would come of as incredibly arrogant.

Secondly I'd say space wolves. I know you already have an arrogant space wolf but they fit better then any other. No other chapter has, to my knowledge, gone to war vs the Inquisition and the GK. I know they're supposed to come off as the good guys but really, you live in the Imperium where a single rouge heretic psyker can cause the doom of worlds. It's happened on unacountable occasions, the SW just believe that they're the good guys stopping the Inquisition from executing tainted populaces.

Thirdly is probably any Sicarius wannabe, also known as the most arrogant space marine commander of all time.

Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

No the Grey Knights were plotting to kill THEIR leader. As in the Inqusitor.

pm713 wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

No the Grey Knights were plotting to kill THEIR leader. As in the Inqusitor.

Oh... They thought he was that much a fool even the grey knights plan his death, blimey, you gotta do some feth up to earn that.
Though not much stops them nailing him with bolt shells, claim he was tainted and they did it for purity ...

Because who argues a grey knights definition on what's pure/tainted.

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

No the Grey Knights were plotting to kill THEIR leader. As in the Inqusitor.

Oh... They thought he was that much a fool even the grey knights plan his death, blimey, you gotta do some feth up to earn that.
Though not much stops them nailing him with bolt shells, claim he was tainted and they did it for purity ...

Because who argues a grey knights definition on what's pure/tainted.

The Wolves do.
The Wolves do quite happily.
In the Champions of Fenris supplement Logan Grimnar was still executing Inquisition delegates for a hobby.
It was a pretty big deal that Grimnar allowed the Grey Knights to purge Fenrisians after the events in Warzone Fenris.
I'm curious to see if anything comes of Ragnar Blackmane and Krom Dragongaze having swapped rescues with major Grey Knight characters. Maybe they get home to discover the GK have been selective in their cleansing rather than just eliminating the entire population.

 Dakka Wolf wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

No the Grey Knights were plotting to kill THEIR leader. As in the Inqusitor.

Oh... They thought he was that much a fool even the grey knights plan his death, blimey, you gotta do some feth up to earn that.
Though not much stops them nailing him with bolt shells, claim he was tainted and they did it for purity ...

Because who argues a grey knights definition on what's pure/tainted.

The Wolves do.
The Wolves do quite happily.
In the Champions of Fenris supplement Logan Grimnar was still executing Inquisition delegates for a hobby.
It was a pretty big deal that Grimnar allowed the Grey Knights to purge Fenrisians after the events in Warzone Fenris.
I'm curious to see if anything comes of Ragnar Blackmane and Krom Dragongaze having swapped rescues with major Grey Knight characters. Maybe they get home to discover the GK have been selective in their cleansing rather than just eliminating the entire population.

or maybe they get home realize the inqusition killed EVERYONE and the entire future of the chapter now rests with Gulliman and the Primaris Marines

BrianDavion wrote:

 Dakka Wolf wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:

 jhe90 wrote:

pm713 wrote:
Seems unfair to paint the Wolves as the sole bad guys there. The Grey Knights starting planning an assassination of their own leader so you can hardly say the Inquisition was doing a good job.

Good luck with that. He only got a few centuries on most grey knights, mentally beat and tamed a chaos weapon and reforged it.
He not a easy space wolf to kill plus his wolf guard which number somthibf like 30.

No the Grey Knights were plotting to kill THEIR leader. As in the Inqusitor.

Oh... They thought he was that much a fool even the grey knights plan his death, blimey, you gotta do some feth up to earn that.
Though not much stops them nailing him with bolt shells, claim he was tainted and they did it for purity ...

Because who argues a grey knights definition on what's pure/tainted.

The Wolves do.
The Wolves do quite happily.
In the Champions of Fenris supplement Logan Grimnar was still executing Inquisition delegates for a hobby.
It was a pretty big deal that Grimnar allowed the Grey Knights to purge Fenrisians after the events in Warzone Fenris.
I'm curious to see if anything comes of Ragnar Blackmane and Krom Dragongaze having swapped rescues with major Grey Knight characters. Maybe they get home to discover the GK have been selective in their cleansing rather than just eliminating the entire population.

or maybe they get home realize the inqusition killed EVERYONE and the entire future of the chapter now rests with Gulliman and the Primaris Marines

That's pretty much the current expectation of Space Wolves players. Swiftly followed by a second Space Wolves vs Inquisition civil war.

I was reading a bit of The Crimson Sabres a while back, they certainly gave an aura of arrogance. Post battle, the Black Templars noted them as being self-righteous.

It's also mentioned that due to their behavior on and off the field, other chapters would withdraw and refuse to fight alongside the Sabres.

icn1982 wrote:


Iron hands maybe?

I disagree with the idea that the Iron Hands would be arrogant.
Sure they hate weakness, but they focus that hatred on their OWN weakness. They walk the galaxy thinking of their own failures. The lore and legend of their chapter is how Ferrus was too blind to see what was happening to Fulgrim and how he was too weak to beat him and ended up getting killed. Their forces were too weak to overcome the odds at the drop site. They have an enormous amount of humility in their failure.

Now they tend to lean on cybernetic enhancements a lot and probably speak in a very cool logic babble that would be difficult for most humans to understand (but intelligible to the Ad Mech). That probably makes them difficult to work with, and might make them seem arrogant or aloof, but it doesnt mean they are.