10 Pop Culture References To Warhammer 40K w/ The Gaming Storyteller 

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In Egyptian mythology, there is a God named Horus. This is clearly a reference to the Horus Heresy.

In World of Warcraft there is a rare enemy called "Night Haunter". If you manage to kill him you can take his "Kurzed cloak" that looks like its made of skin.

Another thing in Halo:Infinite. There’s an unused armor coating called “Steel Soldier” that is black with hazard stripe accents. An obvious reference to the Iron Warriors

Borderlands 2 has an SMG called "Emperor" with the flavor text saying "you know... for him."

In the movie Free Guy, there's a scene in the real world game studio with a Tau codex sitting out on someone's desk

During the Setsubun event in Fate/Grand Order, Tomoe Gozen mentions that she's not only into video games but also various types of board games which includes "Spehss Mehreens 41,000."

One of the dwarf units in the original Warcraft 3 game used to have a joke "this warhammer cost 40k" until GW told Blizzard to remove it.

Best one for me is in Borderlands 2. There is SMG called "The Emperor", it's description literally says: "You know.... For him."

In Doctor Who,s7 e12. is literally a walking reference to WH40k. There is guardsmen, an Emperor with psycher abilities, an Imperium and they are fighting cybermen who are an analog for Necrons.

In TFS's Dragon Ball Z Abridged series, when Vegeta fights Freezer on Namek, he starts rapid firing his lazers in a wild manner while shouting "Dakka Dakka Dakka"

The first warhammer reference that i ever saw was in the first Magicka game, some 8 or 9 years ago. Apart from the literal WARHAMMER, there was also Space Robe which has in it's description: "The MK5 Space Robe protects its wearer from everyday hazards including, but not limited to, Death, Mutilation, Lawsuits, and Space Weather.". I'm sure there were couple more but these ones are classic.

In the danish crime drama "Those Who Kill" one of the protagonists was painting a Khorne Berserker while contemplating a murder. Great program.

Scp3973 has a kind of sad story as he was thrown away with all of his battle brothers waiting for his Commander to come back for him and his battle brothers but he never did

My neighbourhood name is Ultramar, no joke. Spain->Galicia->Ferrol->Ultramar

I believe there's a Ukrainian artillery regiment that are called the khorn group.

In the game Magicka there's a small village with a blacksmith shop called Graham's Workshop and sitting outside is a big warhammer you can pick up and use. There's also a set of robes that turn you into a space marine

We have a chainsword, literally called the chainsword, in Dungeon Defenders... and it looks exactly like the chainsword we know and love

The entire Starcraft story has a lot of similarities. I vaguely remember an article stating Blizzard wanted to make a Warhammer game but things didn't work out with Black Library.

Some of those was tenuous to say the least, but you didn't seem to mention the Tau Codex (iirc) within Free Guy film.

You gotta mention the “great unclean one” in remnant from the ashes!

The writers of the film Event Horizon have said it's based on what happens when a ship travels through the warp without Geller Fields

The Fall of Star wars gave warhammer a enorm boost now that nerds search another franchise

James S A Corey is actually two authors sharing a pen name. The Expanse books were originally their attempt to make a space tabletop game. So yeah, they're probably very aware of 40k.

How did these media reference WH40k without GW's legal team copyright striking them ? I'm genuinely surprised.

Doctor WHOs "impossible planet" has 40k references too. 1. It is the year 40k and 2. ammunition for weapons are called bolts.

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There was that time in Archer where Cyril mentions he’s an expert at Warhammer 40k when he temporarily became dictator of San Marcos.

The band Gunship just released a track called "Blood for the Blood God".

There’s a iron warrior coating in halo infinite called steel solider. It’s mostly gray-ish black but has yellow and back warning signs on an arm.

Might not be considered mainstream pop culture but there is a female wrestler in WWE named Shayna Bazler who wears emblems from the space marine legions on her ring gear.

You did my guy dirty, making him say T(h)ree so many times

I don’t know if this is a reference but in the start of the game DOOM ETERNAL, there are massive demons in the background carrying church like structures on their back kind of resembling Warhammer 40K titans as well as some of the weapons looking like space marine bolter weapons.

The Doctor Strange one is a bit of a stretch "codex imperium' is just Latin for 'book of power'

3:00 I will say- 3008 isn’t technically infinite, just VERY LARGE and with a moving exit. More to the point; 3973 is so cute and sad, this is why I like SCP so much, the authors can make you feel for the silliest of things. (Also who wants to bet that someone has gotten in trouble for bringing it to a Foundation rec day and they had to make a new rule?)

Cyberpunk 2077 has Chainswords

And what about in music there's a very famous death metal band called bolt thrower that use old warhammer artwork as there album covers

Another SCP one worth noting is that one of the (many) things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do is say the SCP foundation motto is, "We always need more dakka!" He is also not allowed to say that the motto is, "Science for the science god!"

7:12 Technically speaking Ultramarine is also the name of that colour so it doesn't neet to be an obvious ref to Warhammer

In the gacha game Nikke goddess of victory the character Crow has Khorns symbol tattooed on her chest amongst all her other tattoos

I'm glad 3973 gets to be around people now thanks to Dr. Harpy.

I'm certain that there's one in roboquest, it being a strangely bolter shaped gun.

For another Warhammer reference in a old show called eureka some of the scientists reference playing the game

0:20 as someone who’s watched Amazon butcher two of my favorite book series to an unrecognizable mess… good luck with that one. I trust Cavill, but I doubt his ability to stop the forces of Jeff Bezos from systematically destroying every ip I love

On Netflix there is a show called "Fubar", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is a tech guy who has the massive Ultramarine Primaris cardboard cutout in the corner of his livingroom that gets a good amount of screentime.

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One of my favorite is the black ship in “Star trek the lower decks” season one episode 7 it’s a 40k black shop that comes out of the warp and collects people with mutations and takes them to a place called “the farm”

I think there’s a really loose one in Dr. Who, Nightmare in Silver, where is basically a Pineal Legion squad fighting Cybermen

I'm surprised you didnt mention WWE wrestler Shayna Baszler who has often wrestled wearing ring gear in the colours of various space marine chapters. most notably wearing Lunar Wolves gear one week and then wearing sons of horus gear the next week when she betrayed her partner

The question is, did you know that Warcraft 3 used to have a 40k reference? The griffon rider, when you keep clicking on him, one of the lines he'd say is "This warhammer cost me 40k - he he he". This particular wav file got removed with the forzen throne expansion pack though. I guess Blizzard didn't want to get hit with a lawsuit?

'Enemy of the State' with Will Smith has a little cameo at the end with his son reading a White Dwarf (the free ones they use to give out)

I have a dream, one day a 40K MMO where I can play a Berserker Ork that gets slightly bigger with each lvl up.

One of the earlier Warcraft games (2? 3 maybe?) had a dwarf unit with the voice line "This warhammer costs 40k!"

This was something I asked for when you did the shorts version of this. Thank you for listening to the community!

Of note; "James S.A. Corey" is actually the pen name of 2 authors. The story for The Expanse started as a TTRPG over an internet chat so yes, both authors are long time gamers. 🤟😎

WWE Money in the Bank 2023. Shayna Baysler walked out in an outfit from sons of Horus and turned on her partner Ronda Rousey

A third thing about the South Park episode, the armies they are using are actually little photos of the creators real life armies

The SCP miniature is so sad.

In the Adventures of Van Helsing 3 video game there's a reference to the Inquisitor Martyr game as both games are from the same developer and it's a skeleton with a power amour breast plate and a bolter

So many of these are such a stretch

You missed the chainsword used by one of the snakes in the time travel snake episode as well as the tau pistol seen in the same episode

how are you astartes “anonymous” when your guest namedrops you?

Southpark also brought up dark tide if I’m not mistaken

I'd like to add Cyberpunk 2077 to the list with it's Chainblad- uh Cut-O-Matic, add to that the various cybernetic organs you can add like the Second Heart or Chitin, a subcutaneous/subdermal layer of armor amongst other things, and my 3rd character was actually dedicated to getting as close to a space Marine as possible

Space Robe in Magicka or Eggmarines from Fleetway Sonic the Comic are great references to Astartes

In viscera cleanup detail, you can find trophies referencing many things and one of those is a bolter from 40k.

I dont tthink the 'ultramarine corps' armour in Halo infinte is necassarily a 40k reference, as ultramarine is the type of blue used for both respectives armours. Its simply a pun in 40k and a popular tone of blue elsewhere. Like using 'virdian' green or 'scarlet' red.

Pretty sure in the Rick and Morty show there were space ships that were upside down imperium vessels

Former UFC heavy weight Champ Josh "the Warmaster" Barnett took his name from Warhammer.

Obviously this isn't a reference but WoTC did that collab with GW for the W40k commander decks. Just felt like it fit.

6:35 It could also be a reference to fleet-based Space Marine Chapters, for whom their fleet IS their homeworld.

In the scp universe there is a fashion called the machine cult who worship an entity called the machine god if the reference isn't obvious enough they replace their own flesh with the blessed machine and they also wear red cloaks

In the mobile game, Girls' Frontline, there's an achievement you can earn called: Battle Axe 30K

That table in the last of us is clesrly a reference yo DND not 40k. The DM screen is a dead giveaway.

Another reference from Rick and Morty was in the knights of the sun episode where the martians were clearly ad mech inspired (look at their ship) and there was a drukhari-like faction as well (venus perhaps? i dont remember)

THE BRITISH CAME UP WITH WARHAMMER!!! that.... makes alot of sense

Both 40K and Fantasy are mentioned in Archer.

Dr Who episode ‘nightmare in silver’…..imperium, emperor and Guardsmen !

good ol' SCP-3973, one of my favorites

In swtor there’s a ship called the spirit of vengeance

i love that trey and matt not only referenced 40k but clearly care enough about it to even go as far to make sure the battle commands were legit

The Cabal in Destiny are possibly directly inspired by space marines, even having firearms that are basically bolters

I don’t know if all the references were references tho

I remember geeking out at the sight of an older tau codex in the background of Free Guy.

Then there's Aliens [Recon Marines] and Aliens3 at the end when Bishop shows up with what appear to be White Scars Chapter Marines.

I want to have hope for the 40k show, buuuuut my 20 years in the industry kind of put a damper on that. The Last Of Us was great, but Amazon is not HBO.

in free guy there is a few scenes were is displayed the first tau codex from 3rd edition

Should've mentioned Event Horizon, 1997.

Sorry i had to add this reference, in Mortal Kombat 1 remake you can see in the background of Kuan Ky's piralid the simbol of Chaos Undivided.

I really want the ultramarine scp

another game that possibly got some warhammer 40k reference is the destiny series, the cabal kinda looks like one in a way, they use some kind of bolter too, but it could be a bit of a reach Edit: and their gun(or bolter), the skyburner's oath, which we can acquire it have the explosive slugs as the exotic perks

The Expanse was written by 2 writers. James S. A. Corey is a shared pen named.

Im so fucking happy yall finally mentioned the Ultramarine Corps coating i commented about on the original short and the Fleur-de-lis

@9:30 in TLOU2 that is a game of D&D since the Va for Ellie is Ashley Johnson and the villain voiced by Laura Bailey Who are on Critical Role

Splendid's Fart in Happy Tree Friends' episode *Breaking Wind* references Exterminatus from 40k

Theres also a direct reference to the boltor in warframe with a side arm named sepulcrum that fires explosive round

Now, that's a Dutch accent (you need one to recognize one).

Great video👏👏👏! Unfortunately, the likelihood of Cavill getting a worthy adaptation of this universe is almost zero. And even more from Amazon, oh boy, we're screwed.

Yeah, you guys better smell the coffee, after wh+ financial disaster and the amazons rings of power dumpster fire, there is no "Henry Caville 40k amazon show".

Warhammer 40k getting more mainstream acceptance is great!