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* EvolutionaryPressureCooker: ''Deus Encarmine'' features a flashback to protagonist Rafen and his friend Arkio entering the GladiatorGames used by the Blood Angels chapter to select their aspirants. They were two of the survivors, battle-hardened by the experience, but still ridden with cancers that the conversion into Space Marines cured.
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the final chapter of ''Black Tide'', Rafen points out to Sergeant Gorn that, during the FinalBattle with [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]], Gorn could have pushed Rafen off the ledge, defeated the BigBad, and taken the prize and all the glory for himself, and no one would have known. Gorn admits that the idea crossed his mind, but nods to a statute of Sanguinius, and says, ''"he was watching."''
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the final chapter of ''Black Tide'', Rafen points out to Sergeant Gorn Noxx that, during the FinalBattle with [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]], Gorn could have pushed Rafen off the ledge, defeated the BigBad, and taken the prize and all the glory for himself, and no one would have known. Gorn Noxx admits that the idea crossed his mind, but nods to a statute of Sanguinius, and says, ''"he was watching."''
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* FireForgedFriends: Dante and Gabriel Seth, after the events of ''Red Fury'' - much to their mutual surprise.
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** According to Gabriel Seth, the motto of the Flesh Tearers is, ''"[[Theatre/HenryV he who sheds his blood with me this day shall be my battle brother eternal.]]"''
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* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the final chapter of ''Black Tide'', Rafen points out to Sergeant Gorn that, during the FinalBattle with [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]], Gorn could have pushed Rafen off the ledge, defeated the BigBad, and taken the prize and all the glory for himself, and no one would have known. Gorn admits that the idea crossed his mind, but nods to a statute of Sanguinius, and says, ''"he was watching."''
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* {{Bishonen}}: The ''default'' Blood Angel Warrior is an impossibly-handsome paragon; his appearance modified by inheriting the literal genes of their Primarch Sanguinius. It's an important part of the fluff, Baal and it's moons are death worlds devastated from total war, most of it's inhabitants are severally scarred by radiation.
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* PrettyBoy: The ''default'' Blood Angel Warrior is an impossibly-handsome paragon; his appearance modified by inheriting the literal genes of their Primarch Sanguinius. It's an important part of the fluff, Baal and it's moons are death worlds devastated from total war, most of it's inhabitants are severally scarred by radiation.
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* BladeOnAStick: The Spear of Telesto.
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-->'''Skalagrim''': [[spoiler: I also heard Sanguinus' whelps put a price on his head. He seems to have offended them quite badly]].
-->'''Saqqara''': [[spoiler: A discontinued experiment. Though, apparently, some good did come of it. At least, to hear him tell it]].
-->'''Saqqara''': [[spoiler: A discontinued experiment. Though, apparently, some good did come of it. At least, to hear him tell it]].
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: In ''Black Tide'', the Blood Angels find Bile has been using a captured Tyranid Zoanthrope to drive the rest of the swarm away from his facility. The Zoanthrope offers no resistance to the team as the advance on it; realising it wants to die, Rafen grants it its wish]].
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: In ''Black Tide'', the Blood Angels find Fabius Bile has been using a captured Tyranid Zoanthrope to drive the rest of the swarm away from his facility. The Zoanthrope offers no resistance to the team as the they advance on it; realising it wants to die, Rafen grants it its wish]].
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* ContinuityNod: The series gets one in ''Manflayer'', the final book of the Fabius Bile trilogy, where [[spoiler: two of Fabius's subordinates mention in passing that the Blood Angels and their Successor Chapters ''all'' put a price on Fabius's head in retaliation for what he did here]].
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* BaldOfAwesome: Subverted. Most Blood Angels have hair.
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Please resist the urge to put examples on this page or link to this page on tropes unless you are citing from 40K '''novels''' in which the Blood Angels feature. Examples which are specific to rulebooks or other in-universe fluff should go on either the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} 40K]] page or in the Space Marines Blood Angels section of the [[Characters/Warhammer40000CurrentImperialFactions Imperial factions]] [[Characters/Warhammer40000AstartesChapters Astartes chapters]] page.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Fabius's lieutenant Cheyne in ''Black Tide'' has two bone blades that emerge from his wrists in combat.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Rafen tosses Fabius Bile off the tallest tower of his research facility on Dynikas V. However, it's not the fall that kills Fabius, but the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Tyranid swarm]] [[DevouredByTheHorde that tears him apart]] once he hits the ground]].
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** Also Dynikas V. Most of the planet has been ravaged by the Tyranids, and the parts that aren't are under the control of Fabius Bile and his New Men.
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* MercyKill: [[spoiler: In ''Black Tide'', the Blood Angels find Bile has been using a captured Tyranid Zoanthrope to drive the rest of the swarm away from his facility. The Zoanthrope offers no resistance to the team as the advance on it; realising it wants to die, Rafen grants it its wish]].
** [[spoiler: Rafen also gives one to a Tau survivor of Fabius's experiments they find while raiding one of his abandoned labs]].
** [[spoiler: Rafen also gives one to a Tau survivor of Fabius's experiments they find while raiding one of his abandoned labs]].
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** Apothecary Caecus has this reaction [[spoiler: when he realises he's helped Fabius Bile get his hands on one of the Chapter's most prized relics]].
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* ChemicallyInducedInsanity: In the novel ''Deus Encarmine'', the traitorous Inquisitor Stele drugs a Blood Angel who stumbled onto his plot to trigger the Black Rage in him.
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* BadassGrandpa: Commander Dante. Seriously, he is one thousand years old!
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* OldSoldier: Commander Dante. Seriously, he is one thousand years old and still fighting.
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* {{BFS}}: Malfallax's warpblade is explicitly said to be ten metres long. He is a giant EldritchAbomination though.
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* {{BFS}}: {{BFS}}:
** Malfallax's warpblade is explicitly said to be ten metres long. He is a giant EldritchAbomination though.
** Malfallax's warpblade is explicitly said to be ten metres long. He is a giant EldritchAbomination though.
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* {{Bishonen}} - {{Bishonen}}: The ''default'' Blood Angel Warrior is an impossibly-handsome paragon; his appearance modified by inheriting the literal genes of their Primarch Sanguinius. It's an important part of the fluff, Baal and it's moons are death worlds devastated from total war, most of it's inhabitants are severally scarred by radiation.
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* CainAndAbel: Only InSpace, [[spoiler: sort of reversed, its still fratricide only the killer is upholding God's will (sort of) and the dead brother was literally turning into a [[BodyHorror Demon]]]] and both of them are unbelievably awesome badasses.
** [[spoiler: A little more fitting is Horus and Sanguinius themselves. Horus and Sanguinius were described as being closer than any of the other Primarchs, enough that both tried to sway each other from their own side of the Horus Heresy. In the end, Horus (the elder, in a sense) slew Sanguinius, fitting this trope to a tee.]]
* TheChessmaster: Stele plays a mean game.
* TheChosenOne [[spoiler: subverted, still TheChosenOne, just by a different [[EldritchAbomination divine patron]] than he was expecting]]
** [[spoiler: A little more fitting is Horus and Sanguinius themselves. Horus and Sanguinius were described as being closer than any of the other Primarchs, enough that both tried to sway each other from their own side of the Horus Heresy. In the end, Horus (the elder, in a sense) slew Sanguinius, fitting this trope to a tee.]]
* TheChessmaster: Stele plays a mean game.
* TheChosenOne [[spoiler: subverted, still TheChosenOne, just by a different [[EldritchAbomination divine patron]] than he was expecting]]
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* CainAndAbel: CainAndAbel:
** Only InSpace,[[spoiler: sort [[spoiler:sort of reversed, its still fratricide only the killer is upholding God's will (sort of) and the dead brother was literally turning into a [[BodyHorror Demon]]]] and both of them are unbelievably awesome badasses.
**[[spoiler: A little more fitting is Horus and Sanguinius themselves. Horus [[spoiler:Horus and Sanguinius were described as being closer than any of the other Primarchs, enough that both tried to sway each other from their own side of the Horus Heresy. In the end, Horus (the elder, in a sense) slew Sanguinius, fitting this trope to a tee.]]
* %%* TheChessmaster: Stele plays a mean game.
*TheChosenOne [[spoiler: subverted, still TheChosenOne, TheChosenOne: [[spoiler:Subverted. Still The Chosen One, just by a different [[EldritchAbomination divine patron]] than he was expecting]]expecting.]]
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* DeathSeeker: Once you fall into the Black Rage, you can never climb back out barring a miracle. Those that succumb are put into a separate unit and unleashed in suicide attacks.
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* DeathSeeker: DeathSeeker:
** Once you fall into the Black Rage, you can never climb back out barring a miracle. Those that succumb are put into a separate unit and unleashed in suicide attacks.
** Once you fall into the Black Rage, you can never climb back out barring a miracle. Those that succumb are put into a separate unit and unleashed in suicide attacks.
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* [[DyingRace Dying Chapter]]: The Flesh Tearers due to their recklessness in combat and higher than normal black rage fall rates, they can barely recruit enough replacements, even after Seth's work they can only maintain four companies.
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* DropShip: Storm Ravens, one of the chapter's most powerful vehicles. works like a Land Raider and is quite resilient because of it's speed.
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* DropShip: DropShip:
** Storm Ravens, one of the chapter's most powerful vehicles. works like a Land Raider and is quite resilient because of it's speed.
** Storm Ravens, one of the chapter's most powerful vehicles. works like a Land Raider and is quite resilient because of it's speed.
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: Befalls Orilan and [[spoiler: Shenlong]].
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* EarthShatteringKaboom: Befalls Orilan and [[spoiler: Shenlong]].[[spoiler:Shenlong]].
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* FearlessFool: [[spoiler: Actually subverted on Cybele, where the Blood Angels admit that after seeing so many of their comrades fall to the black rage, they are afraid.]]
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* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler: Koris]] struggles with the black rage while trying to tell Rafen of [[spoiler: Stele's treachery]].
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* FirstBlood: [[spoiler: Goes to Rafen when he manages to cut Arkio's wing when the fight on Sabien. Arkio's followers are ''not'' happy. It's especially jarring to Sanchiel because as a Sanguinary Priest, he ''knows'' blood like few others. ''And he knows its tainted from the smell.'']]
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* FirstBlood: [[spoiler: Goes [[spoiler:Goes to Rafen when he manages to cut Arkio's wing when the fight on Sabien. Arkio's followers are ''not'' happy. It's especially jarring to Sanchiel because as a Sanguinary Priest, he ''knows'' blood like few others. ''And he knows its tainted from the smell.'']]
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* GeniusBruiser: Commander Dante. He was chosen out of all the Chapter Masters to command the forces of Armageddon.
** Also,Mephiston, the Lord of Death. He is the Chief Librarian of the Chapter.
** Also,Mephiston, the Lord of Death. He is the Chief Librarian of the Chapter.
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* GeniusBruiser: GeniusBruiser:
** Commander Dante. He was chosen out of all the Chapter Masters to command the forces of Armageddon.
**Also,Mephiston, Mephiston, the Lord of Death. He is the Chief Librarian of the Chapter.
** Commander Dante. He was chosen out of all the Chapter Masters to command the forces of Armageddon.
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* HonorBeforeReason: Often, but not always. (The villain doesn't grasp that it's not always, and it's a plot point in his defeat.)
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* ItsRainingMen: Deep Strike. With a Jump Pack, they are actually the best.
** Commander Dante being the best of all of them. He never miss.
* KilledOffForReal: Captain Tycho.
** Commander Dante being the best of all of them. He never miss.
* KilledOffForReal: Captain Tycho.
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* ItsRainingMen: Deep Strike. With a Jump Pack, they are actually the best.
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* LosingTheTeamSpirit: [[spoiler: The deaths of many of the angels at the hands of the black rage. It takes a suicide suggestion to get Turkio to even consider a last stand, let alone an attack. The others refuse to join even this in a NotSoStoic moment.]]
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* LosingTheTeamSpirit: [[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The deaths of many of the angels at the hands of the black rage. It takes a suicide suggestion to get Turkio to even consider a last stand, let alone an attack. The others refuse to join even this in a NotSoStoic moment.]]
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* MagicKnight: Mephiston, Chief Librarian of the Blood Angels. His powers serve only to make him faster and hit harder.
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** The whole army can be this, it helps they have a army-wide Feel No Pain rule.
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** The whole army can be this, it this. It helps they have a an army-wide Feel No Pain rule.
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* MeleeATrois: The battle between [[spoiler: those still loyal to the God-Emperor and those now following Arkio]] is complicated by Word Bearers.
** Also occurs in ''Black Tide'', with Rafen, his Blood Angels/Flesh Tearers kill-team and [[spoiler: the other Space Marines imprisoned in Bile's fortress]] on one side, against both [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]] and the New Men, and [[spoiler: an army of feral Tyranids]].
* MindRape
** [[spoiler: Stele's interrogation of a Word Bearer Marine is literally referred as MindRape]]
** Also occurs in ''Black Tide'', with Rafen, his Blood Angels/Flesh Tearers kill-team and [[spoiler: the other Space Marines imprisoned in Bile's fortress]] on one side, against both [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]] and the New Men, and [[spoiler: an army of feral Tyranids]].
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* MeleeATrois: MeleeATrois:
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**Also occurs Occurs in ''Black Tide'', with Rafen, his Blood Angels/Flesh Tearers kill-team and [[spoiler: the other Space Marines imprisoned in Bile's fortress]] on one side, against both [[MadScientist Fabius Bile]] and the New Men, and [[spoiler: an army of feral Tyranids]].
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* NotUsingTheZWord: "Vampire" has been used by detractors of the Blood Angels since the Great Crusade; as such no Blood Angel will utter the word. [[spoiler: Nevertheless, Rafen immediately makes the connection when he sees Arkio being corrupted by Chaos.]]
** The term is also brought up [[spoiler: when describing the Bloodfiends in ''Red Fury.'']]
** The term is also brought up [[spoiler: when describing the Bloodfiends in ''Red Fury.'']]
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* NotUsingTheZWord: "Vampire" has been used by detractors of the Blood Angels since the Great Crusade; as such no Blood Angel will utter the word. [[spoiler: Nevertheless, [[spoiler:Nevertheless, Rafen immediately makes the connection when he sees Arkio being corrupted by Chaos.]]
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** We've seriously gone this long with out mentioning that the Spear of Telesto was found on planet ''[[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion?!]]''
** There's an "Ikari Fortress" that the Blood Angels raid later on the book.
*** That certainly goes a long way towards explaining [[spoiler: the Exterminatus]] even ''later'' in the book.
* SituationalSword -- spear, really
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** There's an "Ikari Fortress" that the Blood Angels raid later on thebook.
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* TheSpartanWay - Considering they're [[SpaceMarine Space Marines]] this is a given.
* StartOfDarkness - "Blood Debt" is one for [[spoiler: Stele]].
* TenderTears - Sanguinius is famed in his living days as a sensitive and warm-hearted warrior, as fearsome in battle as he is pure and kind.
* UnstoppableRage: The Blood Angels's hat.
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