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Real or imagined?
There's Iron Hands (Ferrus Manus) who has iron hands that leads the Iron Hands from his flagship The First of Iron. Also all of the Iron Hands replace their hands with iron hands to honour Iron Hands' iron hands
There's also Leman Russ, also known as Wolf King or Great Wolf, who leads the Space Wolves (some of whom ride wolves). He was raised by wolves on the planet Wolf (Fenris). His fortress is called the fang, and sometimes Space Wolves mutate into wolf-like beings called wulfen.
Guilliman and the Ultramarines are funny in a different way, they aren't named after the colour ultramarine (though they are painted ultramarine) or their status as "ultra" marines (as in they follow the standard set in the Codex Astartes) but instead it's because they hail from Ultramar, hence they're ultramar-ines.
This is like JK Rowling level of naming, but less racist
Shit. Both real and imagined Throwing hat in the ring sly marbo. Catechan jungle fighter who is probably based off rambo. And knowing catechan you gotta be a bad mf to be a named character from there lmao
Sly Marbo is one of my favorite bits of 40k, he's the perfect mix of "badassness" and comedy, something games workshop has really lost sight of. He's just an 80s action flick sprinkled with Chuck Norris memes, no need to "justify the lore" or "make it make sense".
Losing the comical side of things takes away what made 40k special instead of just another fascism justifying generic scifi but with gothic architecture
That remind me of some of the Ciphias Cain books. Those were comedy
I love the Cain books for exactly that reason, sure they can be formulaic/repetitive but they're one of the last bastions of comedy in 40k. Everything else just takes itself too seriously
Seriously you see the orkz? They have all the tools to win the whole setting. Breed extremely fast through spores, love war which for 40k is like a vampire at a bloodbank, some of em can build crazy shit that can only be explained as toonforce. If they actually got organized on a scale like the other factions galaxy would be fucked. Yeah that includes tyranids. But I just can't take em seriously.
If they ever removed comedy from da orkz I'd lose all interest in 40k. Da Boyz are the best part of 40k by far (hair squigs, need I say more?), nothing else even comes close
There was an ork story of the warboss that went back in time to kill himself so he could get a double of his favorite gun
Orkz have some of the best characters, there's that other warboss that keeps getting revived by Khorne since he's so much fun to fight
Thats like a 40k version of Valhalla lol
Perturabo is a primarch who's constantly perturbed, Angron is a primarch who's constantly angry due to brain implants, Corvus Corax, aka Raven Lord, leads the Raven Guard who make heavy use of jetpacks, Mortarion leads the disease-obsessed Death guard with his lieutenant Typhus (formerly Typhon)
Those are just the primarchs/legions off the top of my head, there's also the Inquisitor Obi-wan Sherlock Clouseau, the Dark Eldar Archon Kruellagh the Vile, the Ork Mekboy Orkimedes, and the Imperial guard legend Sly Marbo (a Rambo spoof).
Oh I also have to mention the Land Raider (big tracked tank/transport) and the Land Speeder (kinda like a fast hover jeep thing), who both got their names from a guy named Arkhan Land
Kruellagh the vile sounds legit like cruella de vil 
I'm almost 100% certain that's where they got the name from lol
There's also the claim that Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka's name is in part a spin on Margaret Thatcher although that's really up to debate
Naw the Ghazghkull thing was just the name of a warboss made by Mike McVey turned into one of the first special characters:
McVey explicitly said it wasn't meant to be Thatcher, just coincidence. However, there was a banner painted with Thatcher's face on it for an WHFB Orc standard bearer, featured as part of a tutorial:
....which is where the confusion started.
Oh yea I've definitely seen that before, yea the Margaret Thatcher connection is one of those things that I know isn't true but it's funnier if it is
Lmmfao ork jesus is Margaret Thatcher. Workshop guy from liverpool must've come up with this
They had some fun with the British naming back in the day, they once introduced a sunlight-starved isolated backwater planet that's culturally and technologically stagnant that they named Birmingham
'e looks like a 'umie but talks like an Ork boy
Us orkz r rlly appy. This here umie fighting for is life.
True, he's got the accent down but not the attitude, a real ork would be thrilled to be fighting every day
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The Eldar craftworld of Bea-Nisa is on a collision course with Imperial hog world of Hexus Ursusnia
Chainrite the 9th (he rides a WH40K bicycle)
Close enough
it's small but I see no pedals on there
Remember how they don't use auto gun loaders and instead sacrifice people to load em? Its the same logic, If you put pedals on those bicycles the blueprint risks summoning a daemon. Do not question this
I do not remember this because I haven't got the first clue about WH40K past cultural osmosis. The explanation seems reasonable, yet, you'd figure the orks would've built a bicycle
There are ancient ships thousands of years old in service to the Imperium. Their large cannons no longer have automatic reloading systems and nobody wants to risk breaking anything by trying to fix it, so they use large press gangs to manually load these ginormous guns. Some of these people have lived in the bowels of these ships for generations and develop their own cultures around these weapons, never knowing of life outside the depths of the ship. They will wage war against the other gun crews, unaware of their true purpose.
The rest of the ship's crew often leaves these loaders forgotten in the depths of the ship. They care not how the guns are loaded, only that they fire. To be alive in such times is to live in the cruelest and bloodiest regime imaginable. A ship's crew is no different.
I don't see why you couldn't have a crew pedaling a giant hulking 40 story bicycle then
Good news!
if that's human powered I accept it
Then they'd paint it red because red makes everything go faster.... Literally
you can paint a bicycle red
I..... I can dream? 
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"Beanisblock 40,000" I thought about this and mr bean..... What if the blackadder family tree made it to 40k