Poll: Which Space Marine Do you like?

[13lackfriday]

I guess I'll say Halo, because I don't know Warhammer well enough and I never liked the marines from Starcraft that much.

Let me give you an example then:

Yes, they're that awesome. Huge 8 feet (or 7?) genetically modified super humans with 4 lungs and 2 hearts, and they spit acid. They win this without any form of competition.

Ugh, I'm getting tired of the shitstorm WH40k fanboys raise everytime any "versus" discussion is initiated.
Yes, if pitted against each other, the Imperal Space Marines or whatever-the-fuck-the-'tards-are-called would win, because clearly, there is not a shred of realism to them.
They are overpowered, overlarge, and overproportioned.
Anyone else see who ridiculous this description is?

 

[Fenring]

Zone Troopers, nothing beats a railgun, nothing. Also, I never really liked the look of the 40K marines, just, ehh... I get why people like then, but I feel the gigantic metal suit takes away from the badassery, and I just don't like the layout of the colors and emblems on the armor, camo exists for a reason, and I like how it looks.

Who needs camo when you're bulletproof, carrying a chainsaw sword?

Who needs a chainsaw sword or bullet-proof armor if you're hiding halfway up a cliff sniping in a ghillie suit (or the space marine alternative)?

 

[Yokai]

Starcraft. But not for the space marines per se, more for what they fight. I mean, hell, being in the midst of a zerg rush would be scary. And honestly, I don't think that Master Chief could survive it.

True. The Stacraft marines have balls. Yes, MC would get his ass kicked. But the 40k marines regularly stand their ground against several hundred Zerg rushes at a time in the form of Tyranids. And even more regularly fight off infinite numbers of demons swarming out of portals to hell, beat the everloving crap out of thousands of berserk, screaming orks, go head to head with ancient robot zombies that can't really die, and generally give various elder gods and near-omnipotent demon princes the middle finger salute daily. Which is why the Imperial Space Marines get my vote in this case.

 

[Vern]

Doomguy strangely absent. The original video game space marine, and you ignored him? Plus Master Chief armor is a complete rip off of his.

 

[Jurassic Rob]

Ah, screw space marines of all kinds.

What you need are the COGs!

Coletrain Baby!!

Whooooo!

 

[Jaccklesby]

Where's the Doom guy?

Nothing is more powerful then the doom guy wielding the big freaking gun. Nothing i tells ya.

I'm glad people agree. ^^

 

[Alex_P]

Let me give you an example then:

Yes, they're that awesome. Huge 8 feet (or 7?) genetically modified super humans with 4 lungs and 2 hearts, and they spit acid. They win this without any form of competition.

You forgot to mention the most obvious attribute in that picture: acute microcephaly.

I like 40k Space Marines well enough as long as they're just painted figures on a map without all the "fluff". But I find that their particular "fluff" is gratingly over-the-top and doesn't really match what we see of Space Marines within the actual game. They go from being elite armored soldiers with a distinctive look and some nifty toys to godlike muscle-men with rocket-guns, hundreds of kills to their names, and three of every organ. A lot of it feels downright... masturbatory.

-- Alex

 

[Valiance]

Doomguy strangely absent. The original video game space marine, and you ignored him? Plus Master Chief armor is a complete rip off of his.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Hulk_(computer_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)

There's probably several more iterations of it, but just for the sake of argument: No, Doom was not the first space marine.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Yes, if pitted against each other, the Imperal Space Marines or whatever-the-fuck-the-'tards-are-called would win, because clearly, there is not a shred of realism to them.
They are overpowered, overlarge, and overproportioned.
Anyone else see who ridiculous this description is?

A: The whole W40k universe is overpowered.
B: Realism? Pffff, the real world is booooriiiiing

 

[ward.]

They do not spit acid

Yes they do, all marines are given every organ. It's just that some of the longer lasting chapters have had the quality of certain organs degrade over the years.

All the marines on medusa V could spit acid, for example.

If you read all of my post you will see that I never said that there wasn't an implant organ that could make them spit acid, just that I don't know of any chapters that still use it.

They do not spit acid, that implant organ is generally not used. I actually don't know any chapter that uses it.

Give me a chapter name of one that does and I will check it out.

I read your post and you were incorrect, almost all marines are still capable of spitting acid, if you'd read my post you'd see that I gave an example of every marine chapter involved the medusa campaign being able to do it.

They just rarely reference it in the background anymore, in part to marines being required to remove their helmets to do it.

 

[OtherAlex]

Arguably, every space marine character ever conceived comes from the warhammer ones. They were first made in the Late 70s early 80s with the introduction of Rogue Trader. Let the geek off begin!

 

[Kranoes]

Ah, screw space marines of all kinds.

What you need are the COGs!

Coletrain Baby!!

Whooooo!

i'd like to see marcus take on the TERRA-Tron!

http://starcraft2.com/features/terran/terratron.xml

 

[Crimsanon]

40K Marines. No doubt. They're trained and genetically modified to be the most badass human beings possible.

 

[theStrachan]

Let me give you an example then:

Yes, they're that awesome. Huge 8 feet (or 7?) genetically modified super humans with 4 lungs and 2 hearts, and they spit acid. They win this without any form of competition.

You forgot to mention the most obvious attribute in that picture: acute microcephaly.

I like 40k Space Marines well enough as long as they're just painted figures on a map without all the "fluff". But I find that their particular "fluff" is gratingly over-the-top and doesn't really match what we see of Space Marines within the actual game. They go from being elite armored soldiers with a distinctive look and some nifty toys to godlike muscle-men with rocket-guns, hundreds of kills to their names, and three of every organ. A lot of it feels downright... masturbatory.

-- Alex

I always choose to believe that the whole 40K Marines being better than Branston Pickle and all else combined to be part of a Rose tinted Imperium propaganda campagin

Still that said they are my fave outta the list

 

[Ultimathul]

I voted space marine 40K version but i changed my mind, I wanted to vote for the kasrkins, Imperial Guard How i Love thee.

 

[John Funk]

Arguably, every space marine character ever conceived comes from the warhammer ones. They were first made in the Late 70s early 80s with the introduction of Rogue Trader. Let the geek off begin!

Uh, Heinlein? Warhammer was *far* from the first space marines.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_marine

Yes, if pitted against each other, the Imperal Space Marines or whatever-the-fuck-the-'tards-are-called would win, because clearly, there is not a shred of realism to them.
They are overpowered, overlarge, and overproportioned.
Anyone else see who ridiculous this description is?

A: The whole W40k universe is overpowered.
B: Realism? Pffff, the real world is booooriiiiing

And honestly, some people don't like that. The 40k universe really doesn't appeal to me as much as, say, the WH Fantasy one does.

 

[Lord Hattie]

I gotta say, I love the Warhammer 40k Adeptus Astartes, in particular the Space Wolves, and the Black Templar. But even more than them, and they aren't space marines, so they don't really count, I love the Imperial Guard. Why? Because they have Commissar Caiphas Cain: HERO OF THE IMPERIUM.

 

[hermes]

After the intro of Brood Wars, there is no other option but the Starcraft marines.

 

[Doctor Panda]

Well, I love the w40k mythos (though feel the space marines did get a liiiiiittle too masturbatory with their implants. Seriously, they just feel inefficient). And i love starcraft as a game.

But I'm going to have to say my favorite space marine of all time is Church from red vs blue. He may not have any ability to do anything whatsoever, but he's sassy enough that I don't care.