*UPDATE* : With the release of House of Shadow, it's possible that Lothar Hex could be a former Faceless of House Delaque, or at least had access to their drugs/surgical equipment etc
How about Freaky Fred from Courage the Dog? He has literally the same grin on his artwork so it is a posibility that at least his art was inspired by him, in my opinion :P
What do I feel like he might be the final boss or he might be someone helping you get to the Final boss the only helps you cuz he stands to gain something out of it.
@@r.cdahuman7682 Considering the amount of 40k characters based on both real life figures and other fictional characters, yeah, it's probably a chaos-possesed version of Jonah Hex
If this was any other universe, I'd just say "his last name is Hex. He can morph his face, or at least present it as though he is. He can dual wield these guns which would break the arms of even the strongest humans alive today. He's a daemon". But its 40k so I can't. Which is the great thing about 40k. Their is just so much content, you can't just say " he has a weird face! And can shoot bolters! He's a daemon!" He could be any number of things. That's what makes 40k awesome.
I know in marvel and other comics illusions and drug use to do so are common for some villans, such as scarecrow. Scarecrow looks like a demon but relly is a sick nerd.
14:57 FYI; the rulebook also states that weapon weight represents an Unloaded weapon and that "In General" a loaded magazine for a weapon is 25% of the empty weight. So instead of 7 kg a Loaded Bolter is 8.75 kg or slightly under 19 and 1/3rd pounds.
@@chilliewhk I doubt it. The devs behind Hired Gun also developed Space Hulk: Deathwing and it sucked hard. Trailers back in the day were promising too, but after the open beta it was clear, that it was repetetive and boring.
Everyone stop: I have never seen that double eagle / skull fusion logo at 1:54 before and we all have to take a moment to bask in how incredible it is.
Damn it, I was just about to go to sleep. Then again, this is one of the few things that I actually don't mind keeping me up. So thank you for the video lore master. But also *wHy*.
Lothar and Callidus both arrive at their agreed duel, stab a random passerby assuming them to be the other, then both separately leave thinking they alone have won.
Or, it being Necromunda, it doesn't prove jack shit, and he's completely unaffected. And yes, I know how blanks work. But GW basically uses Necromunda as a place to put everything too stupid/insane/meme-worthy for the wider galaxy not under the term Ork.
15:41 If Lothar Hex is indeed possessed by a daemon, then he would undoubtable become a target for the redemptionists. This could have been the daemon's plan all along.
Ok Remliez, You’re the Tech Priest in Angels of Death.. tell the truth. You are serving on the Blood Angels Battle barge. Because if you’re not, some one stole your voice box.
Uncle Lothar wants you!! Also can I point out the fact that he is called the Widowmaker, might mean that he had stumbled upon a shard of Khaine. Khaines Sword, which has only been wielded by Phoenix King Aenarion, on Mallus was called the Widowmaker, and a shard of Khaine might react well to being referred to by such a moniker.
My money is on demonic possession. That phrase: The darkness inside you all is reminiscent of a quote that a demon said to someone (forget who) when he inquired about the nature of said demon.
One more theory: what if Lothar and his boss also do same shady business for the Inquisition and payment is blind eye and drug. The Necromunda is just too close to Terra to Inquisition turn blind eye on some individual as him.
I think it's botched polymorphine. Maybe Hex or his patron tried to get their hands on polymorphine for an assassination, but because it's very hard to get they found a provider who made bootleg drug, with crude primitive methods, which is kind of works like polymorphine but isn't controllable and has extreme side effects. Next it could be one of two things, either mission goes horribly wrong and Hex succumbs to the drug, it's effect never really passing, and is cursed and drawn mad by this disability, or the mission goes spectacularly bloody, instead of infiltration Lothar just murders everybody with terrifying shifting mask on his face, so his patron decides to keep the Hex supplied with botched polymorphine, eventually driving him mad with addiction. Or it's a harlequin mask and come 6pm he just hangs it in his locker, catches a gravbus and goes back to his family in middle class dwelling in the upper hive, has tea with scones and makes little things from straw
I now need a book thats basically a game of cat and mouse between Hex and one of assassin temples, set in the underhive. That would have the potential to be *awesome.* Hex would have a *massive* homefield advantage, but the assassin would have the advantage of resources.
40K theories: Lothar hex could be a mutant, possed by a demon, controls demons, uses drugs that can make you into a gene-stealer, a psyker, augmented by cybernetic implants... what do you think? Lothar Hex: YES.
It does sound like instead of a telepath, he could be a biomancer, and able to change or enhance his features. This would explain the facial shifting and extra strength required to dual wield bolters, without requiring Daemonic possession.
Lothar Hex uses Godwyn Deaz pattern bolters. These are the small bolters that the Sisters of battle use, so this means that his dual wielding of bolters is easier than you state as you assume he uses Godwyn pattern bolters (astartes bolters)
And the bolters that Hex uses will still weigh about 7kg each *without* any ammunition, as this weight is that of standard _baseline human-scaled_ bolters from the Dark Heresy (2nd edition) core rulebook. An Astartes pattern bolter (according to the Deathwatch core rulebook) weighs *18kg* or just under *40lbs* 7kg/15.5lbs in each hand (while obviously much lighter than an Astartes pattern bolter) is still heavy as far as ranged weaponry is concerned, and bolters are not exactly small weapons in either case since they are built more akin to rifles than pistols in regards to their proportions. (For a comparison to modern weapons, a modern day M16 weighs somewhere between 3 and 3.5kgs) Also, I never assumed that he uses Astartes pattern bolters, since I clearly state in the video how the weight of the weapons is *specifically* in regards to, and I quote, "bolters scaled for the average, baseline human."
@@40KTheories sorry I didn't quite get that as the "bolters scaled for the average baseline human" rings no bells in me as I am only familiar with Godwyn Deaz pattern. Another thing that cause me to comment this and that put me off was the artwork as the artwork showed bolters depicted that were not scaled for the average baseline human. Thanks for the detailed reply tho!!!
Is there enough material to make a Sly Marbo theory video? I just finished the Shield of the Emperor Omnibus and want to know more about him, I knew he's an easter egg of Rambo, but I was intrigued reading that he actually interacted with the Catachan, to an extent. I thought he was just a fun addition, and not actually in the books before I finished Death World.
There's also an example, shown in Storm of Iron. Larana Utorian, who was Kroeger's armor washing slave, became possessed by the daemon inside his armor... she had swollen in size as like an astartes, eventually killing Kroeger.
In Warhammer 40K, is there anything can can manipulate time? For example, you use a giant chronomorphic clock to rewind the time of a planet to “restore” it to a previous era? Or eliminating an army by unaging it out of existence?
4:29 - If it's good enough for the Callidus Assassins... | 6:34 - Let's hope that the Ecclesiarchy doesn't find out about him, then...yeah, the food is basically recycled s###. | 8:08 - It's a miracle that he was taken by one of the Black Ships. | 10:00 - Let's hope that the Inquisition don't find out about him. | 11:44 - That's a piece of work, even by Imperial noble standards.
Could you do a theory around the perpetuals?. seems they were around alot in the great crusade and horus heresy but I've not seen anything about them in 40k stories.
Necromunda used to be a high-tech world before the imperium arrived so maybe some sort of masque was there and survived the devestation, eventually falling into Lothar's hands.
I think the psyker or wyrd theory would be better explained with Biomancy for sure. Constant face alteration powers and improved strength seem to fit this discipline well.
A Mask of some kind makes the most logistical sense and it would not be impossible to get a Harlequin Mask. But being WH40K, It is more likely some kind of extreme X-men style Mutant, a Daemon, or he is a Mutate (comic book jargon for a person who gets mutated later in life, like most superheroes)
another bullet point worth mentioning: there's that one horus heresy book about a daemonic-possessed assassin trying to get the Emperor's blood from a rogue trader's book. he could transform himself into the people he'd killed, but if i remember correctly, he underwent years of training to use the daemon-skin properly. if Hex didnt have the training, but somehow bonded with daemon-skin the same way, it would probably shift around endlessly, never holding one form. of course, thats pure speculation.
Don’t the various houses of the under-hive also utilize Xenos derived tech in the armor of Spire Hunters? I remember you talking about them in your techno-heretics video. Doesn’t seem that hard an accomplishment to obtain a shapeshifting mask with all the Xenos tech flowing around the place already. Or what about something even more mundane? Like if Lothar dispersed and utilized chemical hallucinogens like Scarecrow from the Batman series?
The armour of the Spyrers is given to the children of the ruling, noble houses as opposed to the clan houses of the mid and underhives. Given that the name of the hunting rigs are similar to words in the t'au lexicon (Jakara suits having mirror shields and jhikara meaning mirror in T'au for example) its more likely they'd be made from t'au tech specifically. As far as I know, the T'au don't have any shape shifting masks or helmets, but it's not impossible for something like that to somehow appear on the black market.
