Who are the Marines Malevolent? 

"If these alleged 'civilians' are so civil, why are they in the middle of a warzone?"--- Brother Childbombicus, Captain of the battlebarge "The Expendable Orphan"

Inside you, there are two yellow space marines. One is a Lamenter. One is a Marine Malevolent. You should probably see a therapist.

"They aren't hertics, they're just assholes" - the Inquisition, probably.

THIS IS WHAT PEAK PERFORMANCE LOOKS LIKE

I have a homebrew world that had a chaos rebellion at one point and the Marines Malevolent were sent to aid and command 4 imperial guard regiments stationed on the planet. After being witnesses and purpotrators to civilian casualties and victim to friendly fire by the demigods they believed to be "The Emperor's own angels" 3 of the regiments had a mass mutiny of troops that defected to chaos and the 4th were given medals from the planetary government just for putting up with the Marines Malevolent without any rebellion.

They are literally “I am not your savior, I am a weapon meant to kill anything in my path….you are in my path”

Given how the Marines Malevolent harbor a genuine hatred for humanity I'm genuinely curious how they reconcile the fact they ultimately need humanity to provide more marine recruits.

I do love the "Savior Types". The darker the setting, the more I love those random "NobleBright" characters that get scattered in to give some hope spots here and there. On the other hand, you can go to such ridiculous exaggeration in either direction that it becomes fun again. And, as a lot of people have said before "Warhammer 40K used to not take itself very seriously and was almost a self-parody" so something like the Marines Malevolent fit in PERFECTLY with that vibe.

Angry Marines mentioned! SCREAMS WITH POWERBATS AND POWER BOOTS! ALWAYS ANGRY, ALL THE TIME!

Marine Malevolent… Malevolent Marines? Coincidence? I think NOT!

"the angry marines are a bit of a meme" a bit a BIT JUST A LITTLE BIT

As a bloke that's fielded Orks since 1st Edition, these guys are maybe the only chapter of Marines I'd consider making an army of... they just represent that black-comedy, satirical aspect the game had back in the day; comedically-mean-spirited and inflexible, 100% ends-justify-the-means jerks that are apparently on the side of right and justice... it's like something from an old 2000AD strip. Like so much of 40k was and still is.

These guys are pretty much what the Iron Warriors would look like if they stayed Loyalist. They fall squarely within the “you love to hate them” slot for me.

Who are the marines malevolent? MY HEROES OF COURSE.

My favourite part of the iron kingdom book is when a group of imperial historitors (or guardsmen, can't remember) are out with the marines malevolent quelling small rebellions. *major spoilers for the dawn of fire novel "iron kingdom"* so when the queen betrays the imperium and red-wedding's the entire imperial diplomatic party and the imperial knights start attacking the imperial forces, it describes the hum of engines in the distance getting closer over the hills. One of the marines says to the historitor "you should get behind me now." because they know exactly what it is with their space marine senses. Its so badass. Then they proceed to start climbing the imperial knights with their combat knives like a swarm of ants. Edit: it was the storm reapers, not the marines malevolent who fought the imperial knights. Thanks @haydenkinney5318.

I am now submitting my 3rd request for a Red Scorpions video. With love, cool dude

"Man, liking the black templars are kinda of a red flag" >Marines Malevolent joined the chat.

Marine Malevolent: civilians I don’t see any civilians, all I see is good bait.

Love this chapter, ive painted my kill team in their colours. Read the short stories enjoyed them. They are marines with grit, i like how they are the space marines that scavqnge for parts and armour weapons and equipment. Flawed heroes are more interesting than perfect poster boy Ultramarines

When you have an organization comprising of over a million worlds and a quadrillion people, there will be a few jerks in the bunch, pardon my sailor talk.

0:55 The Angry Marines might -beg to differ.- Scratch that, they don't beg.

9:29 That Astartes has six fingers on his right hand. Five fingers and a thumb. That is a sure sign of Tzeentchian corruption.

HAIL THE MALEVOLENCE!

The fact that they haven't been hunted down after killing a Custodes, and stealing the geneseed he was guarding is honestly surprising. Granted that Custodes was all alone, but still its amazing they're still around.

I can definitely see the Marines Malevolent as an "Untouchable" chapter narratively, because it would be hard to write a story from one of their perspectives, at least, writing a long form story, and have the audience sympathize or empathize with them. On the other hand, I'd love to see them show up in a Ciaphas Cain story.

You know it's bad when the Inquisition themselves was like "no they are just assholes"

“Hate is the surest weapon!”

I would even make the guess that they're night lords. As in that they're belcher's glands are still in tact as opposed to iron warriors

This guy needs to change his intro. His little "Er, hi! I'm Arthur!" Is pretty much on par with the Charmander meme. "Err, hi there! I'm Charmander."

Marines Malevolent are a problem because they have their time and place, but we tend to hear of them when its not their time and/or place

w chapter

The perfect successor chapter doesn't exi... Oh snap, I stand corrected. Essentially Loyalist Iron Warriors how can you go wrong.

Marines malevolent is just the chapter that confirms early space marine lore, shitty space pirates

The Scythes, aren't those the lads who have to wear Magneto helmets because they got infected by Genestealers?

Chaos Worshippers: Wait, WE'RE supposed to be the Bad Guys right? Marines Malevolent and Blood Ravens: *Laughs in War Crimes and Thievery* Can you cover the Black Krakens (I think that's what they're called), a Successor Chapter of the Salamanders that are from a Water World that hunt Monsters?

I highly recommend a video on the Celestial Lions. They are a successor chapter of the Imperial Fists, have great lore, and an amazing aesthetic. 10/10 recommendation.

Aren’t they credit card/ cryptocurrency scammers as well as killers

I think these guys would look more the part of their armor. was kinda mitch matched from scavenged different marines

I think the idea is great. A space marine chapter who not only views humanity as lesser, but actively views civillians as worthless? A space marine chapter that will not blink on blowing up a refugee camp if it takes out a horde of orks, so devoted to their task of killing the Emperor's enemies that even the Black Templars tell them to watch the friendly fire is interesting. I feel they're freat as a foil to the more idealistic chapters. Stick a Marine Malevolent and a Ultrasmurf in the same room and some refugees among whom may be a Chaos cultist, then watch the Smurf try to sus out which one is the traitor while the Marine Malevolent wants to just skip tbe whole thing and vent the civs so they dont have to risk Chaos spreading among the crew. Thatd be good. But they seem to, a lot of times, be relegated to "bully."

I really like the way you narrate.

Give me a Marines Malevolent as a Death Watch Captain and I would be so happy.

I appreciate the sanctioned war crimes part. I think the exact same. They are indeed quite neat.😊

I think a good way of writing the Marine Malevolent is as an antagonist, where the novel is from the perspective of a rebelling planet or system and you just read as the Marines Malevolent stampede through their planet to the horror of the main character

All chapters are Dark Angels….

when you said "they re not evil, they re just mean" i tought "wow that s me " lol

I think I found my new favorite chapter. I’ve solely been using this channel to learn about warhammer. I won’t ever play the tabletop game, but this whole sci-fi thing is badass af. But I also like them because They also don’t feel edgy. Just really really cruel. And I love their colors.

I had no idea who their primarch was. Peter turbo made soooo much sense now.

They’re just misunderstood sad bois

Love you broski ❤ been here since 20k subs

Do you guys know the anime/manga/short novel series Tanya the Evil (Youjo Senki)? The Marines Malevolent are essentially what would happen when you made a space marine chapter out of exclusively Tanya clones.

I love the marines malevolent in the same way I love Shao Kahn, it’s just unbridled brutal fun to see these guys do their thing.

They are like a loyal chaos warband

i mean, being a filthy nurglelite, i am 100% down with the war crimes

I feel like they have the most honest reaction to 40k's grimdark. They just go f*ck everything and give the entire galaxy the middle finger

Hi im the friendly, "you should read Dawn of Fire guy" Dawn of Fire The Iron Kingdom while a great Knight World book on sadness loss and betrayal... secretly a Marines Malevolant book. A Captain in the Indomitus Crusade Picked up and was secreting around a detachment of Marines Malevolent exchanging their loyalty for him supplying them with the Primaris Process and new patterns of war gear. He instructs them the prosecute a Guerilla Campaign on this Knight world to break their will to resist his commands, or kill their Command structure and gives them full rights to do whatever they want in that process. They make Planet fall near a small town and decide that their dropship being POSSIBLY spotted would harm mission security sooo itd be better if that town didnt have a population to possibly report the sighting. It only escalates from there. Really good read

I had no idea about these guys. Pretty neat! Speaking of chapters that are relatively niche, you should make a video on The Exorcists!

My homebrew chapter has a company captain (7th company specifically) that considers the Marines Malevolent as hostile combatants unless the marines Malevolent activity attempt to seek peace. Which they haven't. He considers them hostiles because 7th company sent an armor column with knight support to exfil civilians before an artillery bombardment would begin. Needless to say the CO of the marines Malevolent ordered to bombardment to begin anyway while 7th was in danger zone killing a non-negligible amount of armor and marines... So 7th captain (Kelephon) beat the MM CO into a bloody pulp.

Everyones asking "Who are the Marines Malevolent?" but the real question is "Why are the marines malevolent?"

The answer is the best Chapter. If they were Death Guard that would make sense to me I Loyalist Death Guard in Heresy.

Remember that one spiteful kid from middle - or highschool that never let anything go, held grudges for years, and snitched on you that you forgot to do your homework? Yeah, that kid now wears yellow power armor, believes peace and innocence are lies and has a deep intrinsic need for destruction. Thats a marine malevolent for ya. Youre welcome

Requesting Doom Eagles for the UltraMarine episode if they haven’t been covered.

Top Contenders for the title of "Galaxy's Biggest Assholes."

There really should be a space marine chapter that's obviously another major faction in shoddy "how do you do, fellow humans of the Imperium?" disguise, but the official lore won't come out and state this. Maybe several.

11:26 Bro must have been fighting Slaaneshi cultists, why else would there be a mark on his codpiece 💀

The MnMs might be nightlords successors, with the "only degrees of guilt" and all that... (Also civs are the Emperor`s must abundant currency, Mavs really are spending it in the best possible way)

I genuienly love The Marines Malevolent. I'm so tempted to play them on Tabletop. I love the whole idea they may be Iron Warrior's successor due to their unknown gene linage,that and I like the idea the main reason they haven't been declared as Renegades or Traitors is beacuse their combat record is really good on paper,and have been declared as uncorrupted by The Inquisition.

10:00 what do you mean theyre not branded as renegades? This one is a mutated freak with six fingers, for gods sake

10:04 That marine has 6 fingers on his right hand, the one holding the bolter.

I think there a iron hands successor but that’s just me cause I like the iron hands and the marines malevolent

i adore the phrase "oops all warcrimes"

To be fair, Perturabo and Mortarion during the Great Crusade had VERY similar battle doctrines and legion mentality that was passed onto their legions: social darwinist-esque "survival of the fittest", victory by grueling attrition at any cost (Iron Warriors - Siege & Trench Warfare, Death Guard - Heavy Assault + Biochemical Warfare), complete apathy if not disgust for civilians and non-combatants for being "weak", generally antisocial towards other Space Marine Legions, cold heartless pragmatism that becomes brutish self-sabotage because they don't know when to stop... The Malevolent Marines could be descendant from either or even BOTH of them on some level. The fact that they and the Salamanders hate each other is doubly symbolic and ironic then, because A) Perturabo actually respected Vulkan for his mechanical & engineering prowess a lot and B) Mortarion considered himself a champion of the people in Barbatus, much like Vulkan ACTUALLY was in Nocturne. Both of these Primarchs, unlike Vulkan, became utterly consumed by resentment and hatred, which the Marines Malevolent embody. Effectively, the MM are what the Iron Warriors and/or Death Guard would be like if they had remained loyalists but the Horus Heresy carried on as it did: obsessed with victory against the enemies of the Imperium and utterly consumed by hatred of everything around them over perceived weakness and failure by the people of the Imperium and their own Astartes brethren. The fact they ALSO have a sigil that is... disturbingly similar to the Emperor's Children also brings up many implications. They could be a Blackshield company composed by many deserter Marines from the Traitor Legions, thought with an Iron Warrior majority, who rejoined the Imperium but utterly shed their legions' original identity and heraldry but remained full of resentment for humans and their enemies both.

It’s important to remember that the early depictions of Space Marines being ruthless and savage was just 80s edginess. 40k was HEAVILY influenced by Dune, and the Space Marines were strongly inspired by the Sadukar and the Fedaykin, who were savage ruthless killers and the strongest fighters in that setting.

Love the commentary

So, is this the most comically evil, Loyal Chapter?

Hows the iceberg series going? Those videos were so much fun.

They are awesome

They are the BEST BOYS.

They're kind of how my homebrew operates. (Come to think of it their chapter symbol is also similar) Except mine see guard as tools. Not entirely useless and wasteful to destroy. They have more self-control basically. That said, they burned down an entire agri-world that was supplying a whole system just to keep tyranids away from the crops.

I like to think, there actually salamanders, it would just be funny.

I'd be very interested in seeing you take on the Iron Snakes.

Geez, and I thought the Flesh Tearers were loyalist-traitors

Is not Deth Guard or Iron Warrior successor. They just a$$ holes of extraordinary skill.

iirc Marines Malevolent are Death Guard successors. Crysos Morturg's to be exact

The appeal seems similar to why people like Alpha Legion, in that they’re “trolls” in most of their stories.

I am really disturbed by that yellow fellow having female nails formed into his power armor 😂

ngl i checked to see if this video was like 2 years old in the hopes you did the angry marines already only to find this released yesterday :p lol.

You had me at warcrimes

@02:28 as a devout Perturabo fan-boy, you're actually describing the Iron Hands exactly, even down to their distain for weak humans who can't defend themselves. Iron Warriors don't hate weak humans, all humans are just meat to be used. Does a rancher hate his cows?

I just think it’s because they are the ultimate yeah that makes sense for the setting. What’s one civilian when you have unlimited when it means you defeat the enemy. So if we are willing for one?! Why not most! Haha I dunno just makes sense in my head, they know and embrace what they are about. Defeating the enemy of the imperium.

very good video

Please do Lamenters.

These are DEFINITELY World Eaters Successors.

Have you done/ if you haven’t Could you could you do the Black Dragons chapter?

Maybe it's the yellow, but I almost think these guys could be the dark side of Rogal Dorn. They don't have to be Iron Warriors. The Marines Malevolent could be said to have the loyalty of Dorn bound to both cynicism and nihilism.

Please do a video on the Mentors! All I can gather is that they operate kinda like the CIA.

Why does Smiley at Timestamp: 10:06 have six fingers? Are they a warp affected chapter?

Retributors for Rogal Dorn!

10:05 dude has alot of fingers

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