Why Warhammer 40K fans are freaking out over a female Custodes in the new codex
Why Warhammer 40K fans are freaking out over a female Custodes in the new codex
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Warhammer 40K fans were shocked by a recent Custodes codex reveal
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Considering the lore of WH40k, how is this surprising? I figured the fans were a bunch of racist incels, with all the stroking they do about the god emperor & his genetically engineered fuckboys.
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Not all of us, but Nazis do seem to attach themselves to it
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Didn’t think it was all y’all, but the mind is not surprised
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Have they retconed the 10,000 years the Custodes spent hanging around the Imperial Palace naked and covered in oil?
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When you basically rewrite 30 years of lore in a tweet naturally people will say wtf?
If they worked it into the lore properly I doubt there would be as much backlash.
That's wishful thinking. The bigots were always going to lose their shit. Female space marines existed in Rogue Trader, so it's not "lore purity" driving the outrage and it never has been. Appealing to lore has only ever been a thing because the current lore happens to align with their preference.
Yeah, from the article it seems that the unofficial mandate of dudes only came from the higher ups at GW.
You got to start somewhere, might as well have the bigots freak out about a tweet, rather than when you release the actual lore in a game book or novel.
Didn't say no backlash just not as much.
It is also fantasy so it's all made up.
Like, this take is entirely fair. Incels are gonna incel, no matter what GW does, but this wasn't the way to change this.
GW has gradually been moving in this direction; IG regiments were originally all men, then they had gender-segregated regiments, then mixed regiments started becoming more and more common until they became the norm. And this is something I'm all for; a
flashlightlasgun is gonna be equally effective in the hands of men or women.But you shouldn't retcon established lore (even if it is problematic) with a tweet.
That is not what happened: The change was already in the last edition of the codex from last year. Per the article...
The tweet only highlighted a change that had already been made.
There were female space marines in the very first edition of 40k ever printed. That was retconned.
Why is it only a problem when they retcon female protagonists in to things rather than out?
"Problematic?" The sexism is part of why the Empire are the bad guys. The setting contains nothing but bad guys.
Also known as the WotC model of lore building