Correcting the Most Popular Misconceptions in Warhammer 40k Lore

This video ended up with more hot takes than I originally planned for. To clarify some things that I feel might stir some debate : The Necron's aren't weak because they have bad weapons or low numbers, it's their extreme infighting that keeps them mostly out of the setting The Imperium is a pretty Grim place to be, but as shown in novels such as the Eisenhorn Trilogy as well as the infinite and the Divine, there are numerous worlds full of culture and life. Only some Imperial worlds (generally hive worlds) are horrible oppressive places to be. The point about there being "goods" guys is based on them being compared to the bad guys, a tyrannical oppressive regime is utopia compared to HELL Thank you for coming to my TED talk, now here are some bewbies : www.patreon.com/majorkill

The group of fleeing Orks getting caught by blood angels terminators is funny, but still makes sense. Orks see red as faster but the WAAAGH can't make the space marines run at a higher speed, so how did it happen? The WAAAGH slowed down the Orks until they were slower than the terminators. Space marines weren't running any faster due to the WAAAGH, but they were now the faster of the two groups there, since red is da fastest color.

It is noted that the Orkz cannot kill him BECAUSE they believe he's unkillable. That doesn't mean a Tyrannid couldn't walk up and chomp his head off, just that Yarrick won't be dying of an Ork shoota any time soon

as soon as you said “if you can’t tell the difference between a meme and a misconception you need to get tested for autism... link in the description” went straight there and there it was absolutely amazing

I think that the myth about the Guard being incompetent largely stems from most 40k video games being from a Space Marine perspective, and having campaigns that largely consist of saving worlds on which the Guard was defeated.... But everybody seems to forget, that in order for MArines to get involved, the situation has to be REALLY dire, so what we see in the games is an exception, not the rule

I always thought that the true dicothomy in Warhammer 40K is Order Vs Chaos, not Good Vs Evil.

"Less intelligent parts of the community,so majorkill subscribers" Is a statement that could only be delivered by an Australian

There's also the myth that Khorne "saved" Khaine from Slaanesh. That's not the case and hasn't been since 8th edition, where it was stated in an excerpt of the Craftworlds Codex that Khaine fought Slaanesh to exhaustion, rendering her too weak to consume the war god as she had the other eldar gods. Instead, she rent him into thousands of shards that he wouldn't challenge her again, each shard falling to rest in a craftworlds infinity circuit. This is great because it doesn't take power away from Khaine and just hand it to Khorne, it shows the war God being the badass he's supposed to be, even against a seemingly insurmountable foe.

I'm pretty sure the whole thing about how Waaagh! energy allows ork technology to work is something GW just came up with to encourage ork players to go nuts and throw logic to the wind when customizing their trukks and battlewagons.

Bruh, this dudes vide quality is getting better and better.

Wait, I have a counter argument to the Orks not affecting other races: the Ultramarines are blue and extremely lucky, the Imperial Fists are yellow and have tons of bolt based dakka, the Salamanders are green and love punching Orks and making people do the burny dance, the Blood Angels are red and are extremely fast, the Black Templars are black and ded 'ard and finally when was the last time you saw a purple space marine? Even the Emperors Children aren't purple anymore.

One minor correction from The Infinite and the Divine. They dissolved the Awakened Council due to most of the council members dynasties starting the Great Awakening and the infighting because of it. There are still countless numbers of Necrons that have not woken up yet. Not all the dynasties have found or awoken all their tomb worlds and some minor dynasties have yet to start awakening.

The second point is something that's been really bugging me lately, you're supposed to establish a status quo to defend but a lot of the time authors want to skip the ordinary in favour of the extravagant but we don't know whats unordinary in a world until the author establishes what that ordinary looks like

If anything the Tau are far closer to being representations of Plato's Ideal Republic. It's a hierarchical society led by ascetic philosopher kings who separate people into solidified casts that best represent their spiritual/physical needs and gifts. The "Greater Good" is literally a ripped version of Plato's ideal of the "good" that all societies led by wise-men pursue, i.e a kind of harmonious, selfless civil virtue where everyone does what is needed of them in their perfect station to ensure eternal order and prosperity for the larger whole.

The scale of good and evil factions, I love on how Necrons are just in the exact spot of "get of my lawn/tombworld". They are ultimate methhead who's too deep into alchemy to undo the damages of doing ancient gods meth.

"I'm sure Slaanesh's balls are soon to be squished aswell" That probably wouldnt help

I like to believe that orkz can be quite intelligent (at least when it comes to warfare tactics) and willing to negotiate with others if it means furthering the warboss's ambitions or perpetuating the violence.

Imagine being a travel agent in 40k selling vacation packages. "Ah you can't got there anymore, or there, here is also off the flight list". "What happened"? "Oh. that Chaos thing again. You know how they are".

Another misconception is that the Imperium never has tech advancements prior to Cawl when in reality it just progresses at a snail's pace various weapon patterns and artificiers armor come to mind. Another is that some the Imperium's wargear that are considered rare and/or produced on a single world. Its correct to a degree only when considering the size of the IoM said wargear could have tens of millions of copies made.

I love the Imperial Guard, and thank you for pointing out how badass the Gudrunite guardsmen are! Dan Abnett, I dare to say, is Black Library’s greatest writers. Even the inquisitor series depicts the guard’s valor in spite of grim reality.