40,000 Ways To Die Animation

[de Selby]

3 hours ago, Joe said:

It was entertaining - and very much in keeping with the humour of the home nation. I wouldn't be averse to seeing more of these little animations, particularly if they started parodying some of our better known fixtures; Fawlty Towers, Only Fools and Horses, Peep Show, etc.

 

 

To me it seemed like a 40k entry from The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. 40k had a similar sense of humour once upon a time.

[Kallas]

It was fun and funny. Legit got a couple of good chuckles out of it. Completely original? Necessary? Not really, but it was still fun enough.

[MoriyaSchism]

I forgot to note one more positive thing about this. The classic angry vox grille style slowly replacing the Primaris crab face as the face of the average Space Marine. 

[Marshal Rohr]

4 hours ago, Doghouse said:

 

Little harsh there, no one is upset, Art is subjective.

 

If people do not like or they love it it's up to them. I think most things here have been said in good humour.

We’ve riled up the puriteens, Doghouse! Run before they start tweeting clapping emojis!

[Adeptekon]

Fun for all ages! chainswords not included.

 

What saved this for me was Richard Reed.

[Mazer Rackham]

7 hours ago, Adeptekon said:

What saved this for me was Richard Reed.

 

Is that the guy from the Fantastic Four?

[Zoatibix]

I absolutely loved this!

 

For folks complaining that it isn’t 40K I would argue that the ‘Marines being humanity’s finest super soldiers; these are the many, many horrific ways they regularly die’ is more in line with the OG version of the fluff than we get today.

 

But yes, I loved that. Please can we have some for other races, GW. GSC could be particularly good.

Edited Saturday at 12:24 PM by Zoatibix

[Doghouse]

17 hours ago, LittlePlasticHomies said:

A cartoon! Oh the humanity!

 

It was a joke hence the laughing emoji.  

 

Most people know that I rarely take anything seriously.

 

I've been trying to ween myself of plastic crack for forty years, it's not going to miraculously happen overnight just because I don't like a cartoon. 

[ZeroWolf]

Finally watched this. I absolutely loved it, and the humour was up my alley. I'd welcome more like this for the other factions. Imagine a Attenborough style documentary about the various ork clans. One about the Tyranid organisms would also work. Tau need a funny propaganda toon

[Northern Walker]

Not for me. I'd rather GW spent resource on proper hobby stuff, and not waffle done better and funnier by other people.

[irlLordy]

I watched it with my son (11), he loved it. I think people forget sometimes that not every bit of content GW releases is intended for them specifically, its a big tent approach, theres room for this and Astartes 2 say to co exist. 

[Adeptekon]

6 hours ago, Mazer Rackham said:

 

Is that the guy from the Fantastic Four?

Should be this guy https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6587845/

[ZeroWolf]

2 hours ago, Northern Walker said:

Not for me. I'd rather GW spent resource on proper hobby stuff, and not waffle done better and funnier by other people.

To be fair to GW, this probably came from their marketing department, so came from their budget, completely seperate to the design studios. So this existing doesn't harm GW's other stuff really.

[DeadFingers]

3 hours ago, Northern Walker said:

Not for me. I'd rather GW spent resource on proper hobby stuff, and not waffle done better and funnier by other people.

I heard they had to delay Calgar's next model by a year just to fit this into the budget. 

 

Shameful stuff, truly.

[phandaal]

I did not actually watch this video because the cartoony style is not for me, but this thread has entertained me for at least as long as the video itself.

 

So I am glad GW posted it either way.

[ZeroWolf]

41 minutes ago, DeadFingers said:

I heard they had to delay Calgar's next model by a year just to fit this into the budget. 

 

Shameful stuff, truly.

I heard it was the calgar bikini model as well

 

Edit: removed the 2nd quote...and sorted the spelling mistake out 

 

Edited Saturday at 05:44 PM by ZeroWolf
Double quoted

[Mazer Rackham]

5 minutes ago, ZeroWolf said:

I heard it was the calgar bikin model as well

I heard it was the calgar bikin model as well

 

Alright, calm down! Who are you, Matt Ward?

 

I've heard you can sign up to Calgar's new spicy site: NakedSmurf@OnlyPlans

[Crimson Longinus]

This reminds me of Rogue Trader era marine art, where we saw them to horribly die a lot. A lot less of that in the later art. 

[Scribe]

Bit of a tonal shift from Tacticool 8th and of course the only proper tone of 3rd to 5th and HH1.

 

Which is fine of course, for those who enjoy it.

[Ahzek451]

Well, that was a thing.

 

I suppose if I wasn't already spoiled by space king's level of 40k satire I might've enjoyed it a bit more. Its just too dang funny and does a better job poking fun at 40k better than GW can do themselves IMHO. 

[RolandTHTG]

Honestly, this feels like it should have been a April Fools video.

[de Selby]

On 10/3/2026 at 7:24 PM, Crimson Longinus said:

This reminds me of Rogue Trader era marine art, where we saw them to horribly die a lot. A lot less of that in the later art. 

I like pic 3 here, which seemed to recapture that vibe

https://www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articles/k8mp5dme/warhammer-art-through-the-years-space-marines/