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<blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7747603" data-attributes="member: 6669048"><p>I made a list of things that were over-the-top "dark" and "edgy" and "extreme" where the point was showing how silly being edgy for edginess's sake is, but has a massive fanbase that reads it straight and thinks that was the point. Warhammer 40K is high on that list, as is: Judge Dredd and most of the words in 2000AD, RoboCop, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns (even if Frank Miller seems to have forgotten it by this point), Starship Troopers, the very first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book (the black and white one that everyone praises for being so "edgy" and "violent" when it was a direct parody of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil down to the same radioactive waste that made Matt Murdock blind mutating the Turles, the ancient ninja clan The Foot being a parody of The Hand, and Splinter being a parody of Stick)...and honestly, I'd spend all day listing all of them.</p><p></p><p>But, for many, many years, the edgelord content in Warhammer 40K attracted a fanbase so Games Workshop catered to it. Whether GW knew their audience was missing the joke, I couldn't tell you. And I'm not sure you could get a straight answer out of anyone at GW even if they themselves remember.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Abstruse, post: 7747603, member: 6669048"] I made a list of things that were over-the-top "dark" and "edgy" and "extreme" where the point was showing how silly being edgy for edginess's sake is, but has a massive fanbase that reads it straight and thinks that was the point. Warhammer 40K is high on that list, as is: Judge Dredd and most of the words in 2000AD, RoboCop, Watchmen, The Dark Knight Returns (even if Frank Miller seems to have forgotten it by this point), Starship Troopers, the very first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book (the black and white one that everyone praises for being so "edgy" and "violent" when it was a direct parody of Frank Miller's run on Daredevil down to the same radioactive waste that made Matt Murdock blind mutating the Turles, the ancient ninja clan The Foot being a parody of The Hand, and Splinter being a parody of Stick)...and honestly, I'd spend all day listing all of them. But, for many, many years, the edgelord content in Warhammer 40K attracted a fanbase so Games Workshop catered to it. Whether GW knew their audience was missing the joke, I couldn't tell you. And I'm not sure you could get a straight answer out of anyone at GW even if they themselves remember. [/QUOTE]
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