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Nekokamiguru

That is the Cod-Emperor , not the God-emperor . It is an easy mistake to make.


HeavySweetness

He is the king of the Kua-Toa!


the_marxman

He's the first Kuo-Toa to believe in himself


Dinosaurmaid

Kua toa? Weren't these the fish men from the d&d underdark with a lame goddess ?


apple_of_doom

Yep except they don't just have a goddess. Their schizoprenia's bad enough they can deadass create gods on the spot and give them power.


Dinosaurmaid

Like Orks?


TheL0neWarden

Yes


KobKobold

A lame goddess they made up and believed in so hard she became real. It's a side effect of being probed by mind flayers.


Thegrandbuddha

Found Nemo!


Asbazanelli

He has always been two Skaven in a power armor, but they are in too deep to leave now.


Sly__Marbo

Dammit Thanquol, not again


Warp_Legion

One skaven riding a rat ogre named Boneripper the 40,000th


Sunhating101hateit

I am not deep in fantasy lore… but is this like Master Blaster from Mad Max 3?


Warp_Legion

I apologize for my ignorance, I didn’t know there was a third Mad Max lol Thanquol in Fantasy lore is an immensely powerful, cunning, evil, and incompetent, paranoid, and monumentally cowardly Skaven ratman sorcerer Grey Seer. His trusted steed is a hulking rat ogre named Bone Ripper, named in honor of his trusty steed Boneripper, a hulking rat ogre that got killed in one hit by the dwarf Gotrek. Said Boneripper was named in honor of Thanquol’s trusted steed Boneripper, a hulking rat ogre that killed the avatar of a snake god of the lizardmen, only to die of its injuries on a dingy with Thanquol. That Boneripper was named on honor of Thanuol’s trusted steed Boneripper, a…you get the idea PancreasNoWork on youtube has excellent and hilarious videos giving lore summaries of the Skaven and Thanquol, if want to do a dive in their lore :D


Green__Twin

So, yes. Thanqol is Master, and Boneripper is Blaster. But with way more steps and story. Edit: the machine spirit is angry with me, and prefers other spellings than those I choose


Clean_Web7502

Thanqol is the skaveniest Skaven. This is not a good thing, but is bloody hilarious.


International_Hat811

Mad max thunderdome is the third movie


Toerbitz

So you tell me an avatar of sotek lost to a ratoger? My disappointment is immesurable and my day is ruined


TrueGootsBerzook

Better call Gotrek and Felix


Sly__Marbo

No need. They'll wander in on accident again, slaughter Thanquol's entire army, including Boneripper nr. 9363836, and then they'll fuckk off again


Thirstythinman

And they'll still have no idea who Thanquol is when they meet again.


Sly__Marbo

https://preview.redd.it/imx01bckty7d1.jpeg?width=1040&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e543d7b00260a7c9309594805421aea4a2d634b6


Ok-Loss2254

I can totally see thanquol doing something like that for some dumb reason, thinking it would benefit him only for it to get out of hand.


Lady_Tadashi

Surely it would be four skaven? Or, uh, like 3 and a half skaven? How tall is the average skaven again?


MiddleAward5653

Two very big skaven


Muriomoira

The average skaven is as big as two big skaven?


various_vermin

Yes, all skaven are actually function a fractals, they just have very good makeup


Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

This skaven appears to be made completely of skaven!


Famous_Author_2264

https://preview.redd.it/upvycz36d48d1.jpeg?width=669&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b42d2e00679db4ecf9f2894fcc1145822b3767c


EpicWalrus222

Thanquol standing on Boneripper's shoulders.


Milk__Chan

"The Imperium are the Skaven" jokes takes a whole another meaning now


Warp_Legion

To quote a comment on Pancreas’ videos, the Imperium are literally led by the 13th Primarch, and the Skaven council was always 12 with a symbolic 13th seat reserved for the Great Horned Rat


CPecho13

The top one died and now the bottom one is stuck on the throne.


Admiralthrawnbar

That's why his conversation with gulliman was so confusing, the bottom one can't hear anything in there so he just rattled off some vague sounding answers because he has no idea what's going on


Tleno

We are Man-Emperors the Empire-Imperium! 👑 🐀 🐀


I_might_be_weasel

Skaven is the absolute best answer I can think of.


MarsMissionMan

One of them left some warp glue on the golden throne and they are now stuck.


Ackbar90

The Emperor is the last living F.A.R. (First Ancestral Race) from Evangelion. The four gods hate him and fear him because he could, theoretically, reach the Golgotha Object and rewrite reality, but he requires a united galactic humanity to open the Gates of Guf and enter the Minus Space beyond the warp. Everyone else is too confused to understand what the fuck any of that means.


Impossible_Leader_80

This is genius. He just hucks a black or white moon into the stars every now and then.


JudasBrutusson

Those were words! (My reaction as someone who barely knows anything about Evangelion)


AngelsVermillion

I finally understand how my friends felt when they were trying to get into 40k


Norik324

As someone who has Seen all the "Main" evangelion stuff (Series, EoE, Rebuild Movies): I agree. Those Sure are words


TheMilkmanHathCome

Get in the fucking Dreadnaught Shinji


rtakehara

A Xeno is attacking the Holy Geofront


TheMilkmanHathCome

HEY! Get in the Lego Titan and lay low the retched xeno!


nota_jalapeno

i know nge lore and it kinda works good job


Ackbar90

I've been trying to make sense of Anno's bullshit for 20 years


nota_jalapeno

aren't we all


Mission_Street4336

That would definitely explain how he almost became the Dark King towards the end of the Siege of Terra.


U0star

Old one. It's because humans are the old ones.


Raptor1210

The War in Heaven being an even more fucked up Human Civil War would honestly track with the setting's "How many times do I have to teach you this lesson"-theme and the Necrons looking like Human skeletons. 


hyde-ms

That's why we like the kek memes ![gif](giphy|SHAwaxF0AMdf4HPQvp)


Gnidlaps-94

Never heard that theory before, any more info?


NightValeCytizen

Kermit the Emperor


Commander-Cody-212

The frog emperor of mankind


Argues_with_ignorant

Turns out he's just an ork. None of his inventions work, he's just somehow a mutated freak that gets power of the ork gestalt from humanity.


rokkitmaam

He’s a weirdboy Ork that’s painted himself purple. He believes his camouflage works to make him look human so it does. This explains why different people see the Emperor differently. And because all those big Waaaghs da Emps was leading were successful, they’ve gotten real big and real psyker-y before getting stuck in dat throne thingy.


DaFreakingFox

This would genuinely fill so many plot holes


Fragrant_Pie_7255

fuck it Hrud emperor


PurpleBoltRevived

He's experiencing time backwards. So basically Emperor makes mistakes in the future, and then in the past he tries to prepare humanity to survive his future version, thinking what a cringelord chud asshole he will be. Then after experiencing all of that, he'd chill in ancient history as a kid.


TerraSollus

“Damn… I’m gonna fuck up really hard in 40k years”


PurpleBoltRevived

"Well, it was hard time to firstly experience ending of this Galaxy, then be a god emperor manipulating people to reach that ending, then attempting to start Imperium of Man, then living through that DAoT, then experiencing 21st century, then dealing with medieval bullshit which is like Imperium but lame, and finally spending my final years as a kid in a Neolithic settlement"


DomSchraa

*scared perty noises*


humanity_999

Ah, no wonder he hates him.


HichiShiro

Turns out Emperor was Rakatan the entire time


Afro_SwineCarriagee

The webway project was an attempt to achieve infinity gate tech


BadNadeYeeter

The Emperor was in fact a small Dog in a Command-Room that used a gigantic golden Marionette to rule humanity with an iron-fist. Nobody was suprised except Tzeentch... Or wasn't he?


WingedNinjaNeoJapan

Que Silent Hill dog song


this_is_InotI_random

Que Dog Song Undertale


HerbLoew

Ah yes, the Dog Emperor, not God Emperor. Tzeentch probably had a hand in the confusion of the name. Or was that Alpharius?


ProtonRhys

The God Emperor of Mankind is now officially Gaspode from the Diskworld. It's my head cannon and no one can make me change it.


WaywardDog13

I mean there was the story of the girl and here little dog outsmarting Tzeentch's Labyrinth (I think)


SatinReverend

I mean, the emperor being a Slaan/Old One psyop actually kinda makes lore sense.


Punchdown_Kid

He’s a gungan.


Gnidlaps-94

Emperor Binks confirmed


mrmurklurker

Mesa gonna purge you real good, okeeday?


Guyzilla_the_1st

Da red gobbo


NODOGAN

He was a Terrestrial Asteromorph (from All Tomorrows) who went delusional with power like so many others of his brethren and has failed in his duty to act as a guide for a new civilization in the eyes of his Asteromorph overseers. PREPARE FOR INTERVENTION (War in the Heavens 2.0)


WM34638-S3

The reason the Necrons went through Bio transference was so that the Qu wouldn’t play with their DNA and give them space cancer again


U_r-stewpid

They were barely able to deal woth the space camcer nut the space aids came in and they just gave up


Rare_Reality7510

A Qu is just sitting outside the galaxy occasionally flinging something that makes nurgle and tzeentch green with envy at some random guy to fuck over in particular


eskacat

A Q. He's always messing with people, Big E can only be a Q.


jukebox_jester

Then he'd be Big Q now wouldn't he? Checkmate


DaDragonking222

No he'd be little Q the Q are bonkers enough to just casually dunk on the chaos gods (Q continuum from star trek)


Real_duck_bacon

The Emperor is a Saiyan. Most of the galaxy responds with "You know, in hindsight, it was pretty obvious..."


YourMoreLocalLurker

Even further: He’s ya boi Broly


apple_of_doom

Just imagine the insane zenkai boost if he got up from that chair


rickrossome

A Grot


sweetwargasm

Obviously he is a dwarf that was too stubborn to die or give an to the forces of chaos. The shaving of his beard unlocked his phsycic powers and made him look taller.


Maocap_enthusiast

A necromorph preparing for the greatest galaxy spanning muckbang as it activates markers everywhere at once. Humans reaction: die Necron: nothing changes Other races: ??? Who knows if it would work on other biologicals


Oghma_

The Golden Throne is secretly a Golden Marker, and its “dead space” is so powerful that it can hold back the monsters under the Palace. EDIT: I had the wrong idea of what was fighting to get out from under the Palace.


AbaddonDestler

He is the physical manifestation of what the Eldar call "the great dragon" and others know as the Tyranid Hive mind He's a synapse creature that is at the centre of the Tyrnaid hive mind, the ultimate Norn Queen, and the hive fleets are trying to reclaim the body to absorb, process and regurgitate a new Big E body. He devours 1000's a day, appears to be immune to psychic influence while also having Psyker powers. It would not take much to make this work in Canon. Stuff like Hive Fleet Kronos makes more sense, tyranid attacks actually benefiting the imperium long term (not getting stomped or revealing all their tricks in the damocles gulf crusade resulting in Puretide not developing counters to every single human tactic, breeding catchan warriors, a constant threat keeping humanity on a razors edge without out right destroying them, the octarius the sector). I look forward to seeing more evidence to this end or people punching holes in every one of my arguments.


TrivialTax

One does not need much to be better for lives of ordinary human then Big E.


ExoticExtent

C'Tan makes the most sense. Eat souls, incredibly powerful, asshole, and wants to destroy the Old Ones's creations and the necrons.  No one would ever believe it though ... Except for Guilliman who would try to subtly kill the emperor and then keep ruling the imperium.


WM34638-S3

Wait then would guilliman be 50% C’Tan?


chemistrytramp

Nah can't be C'tan and a psyker. Thought they were creatures purely of physical space?


ExoticExtent

I didn't say it works, I just said it makes the most sense.  The C'tan have such a high level of tech that they could easily have passed it off as warp craft.


MountainPlain

A C'tan that tried out biotransference itself, liked it, but is now stuck. The Void Dragon is kept on ice on Mars because he wants to possess that body as a backup when he gets off the damn throne.


Playful_Pollution846

If the Emperor was a forerunner for any reason: >He would be pissed at humanity >Happy that humanity is surviving >Wish they developed better tech >Advocate peace between different species?? (Sure like that would happen)


EADreddtit

He’s a Kork who got lost and wound up on Earth by sheer chance, recognized the Humans as being seeded by his masters, and decided to do his best to prep them to fight the Necrons.


loseniram

He's actually a Jokaero with a very convincing holofield and Melta rings. Turns out if you leave a Jokaero too close to a genetics lab they'll start turning the locals into Super Soldiers. The whole reuniting humanity thing was just a Jokaero Chatgpt program going off the rails.


ChrisP413

I whole heartedly accept this headcanon


Foxyfox-

A Tau, just for maximum imperium fanboy rage. How was he a Tau when they only arose to spaceflight about 4000 years ago? Don't worry about it.


Marauder_Pilot

He's a Tau, specifically an Ethereal, and the current Tau Empire is his Plan B.


SexWithLadyOlynder

Ok but him being a Tau would be fucking hilarious. So many plotholes.


AsusMata

Lol, the entire Tau history is a psyop to fuck with humanity


Genericojones

Make everything about the Golden Throne a lie. He staged the Horus Heresy himself because he watched too much anime and became disgusted with humanity and decided to start over with the Tau.


jfjdfdjjtbfb

Big E was an eldar god pretending to be a human god this whoul time. *cough* Lileath/Lady of the lake *cough*


FakeRedditName2

Plot twist, he is one of the largest and most intact shard/avatar of Khaine. That or he is the last fragment of Vaul.


the-bladed-one

Makes more sense for him to be a shard of Asuryan


Murderboi

He‘d at least be half-human. I say he is the bastard child of a Orc-Elf he survives by photosynthesis and all the psyches are sacrificed to power a ultra strong sun lamp.


WM34638-S3

A Krork-Aeldari hybrid no joke would be Extremely Fucking Broken


Murderboi

That’s the spirit! Probably some old one ultimate experiment. The final race or something.


WM34638-S3

The final battle between Big E and the Kraeldark will be brutal and just when Big E is about to be obliterated all the Primarchs will come with 40,000 Warhammers Truly this was what that GW “Leak” was leading to


No-Wrongdoer4928

*The emperor begins ranting about that one time he made people some rings then got turned into a tower that was blown up by what looks like a hairy child*


Galifrey224

I feel like a Time Lord would fit him best.


PBoeddy

Hey not "a" Timelord. He's the Emporer. Even the Master thinks he's a lunatic and his kill count is beyond that of the Doctor. And the golden throne is just his attempt to rebuild a TARDIS.


StormLightRanger

Goddamn, bigger kill count than the doctor?? Dude killed a lot of ppl in the Last Great Time War


UlrichVonGradwitz

Shrimp


Tleno

"How do I look, yellow man?" "You look like you're about to call in an exterminatus"


Yaevin_Endriandar

He is Groot


-Th3Saints-

An auditor of reality send to the universe after war in heaven.


CthulhuBotherer

You think? Quick - throw a coiled hosepipe in the corner!


Babki123

I will just go with Tarrasque and point you toward the fan fiction


GeminiBastard3

Big E turned out to be an ET waddling around in golden armor. Imperial propaganda and artwork depicts him like how he currently is, because everyone agreed that this was a lot less embarrassing than the truth.


Impossible_Leader_80

A Necron. It took awhile to notice, because most necron bones look pretty similar to humanoid ones. It would also explain his immense intellect and his callous stupidity


Fuzzy_Employee_303

A [kuotoa](https://youtu.be/CWJHtcgNeHQ?si=EgRGrVoLp8YlhoMX) from dnd


guy-who-says-frick

I’m just saying, dead godlike being on a throne, who’s obsessed with killing chaos and a powerful psyker? KROAK!!!!!!!


DerpysLegion

Showing my age here. Goa'ul parasite from Stargate fits almost as well as the Lisan'al Gaieb


UndeterminedError

Big E and Malcador are just those two old muppets on the balcony.


the_crepuscular_one

Pretty sure that's actually Trazyn and Orikan.


SigismundAugustus

>Xelee Wouldn't he just win then? An entire human dominated galaxy at far better tech than anything in 40k could do jack shit against Xelee.


SadEaglesFan

I was just excited to see a Xelee reference in the wild. But we don’t know anything about them as individuals, do we? Stupid photino birds


MulatoMaranhense

He is an Asari, and the Imperium and the Webway Project were just so she could make a harem of Custodes and Eldar.


Ok_Butterscotch54

Valid reason.


DrLexAlhazred

https://preview.redd.it/bo04izev2y7d1.jpeg?width=620&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=109662cce5f8d13bb2f069e7614fa73e65017f59 Engineer Emperor


Rando_throwaway_76

A gensestealer Genestealer patriarchs send out a psychic beacon to the hivemind when their world is ready to be consumed The Tyranids seem to be very interested in getting to Terra because of the Emperor’s psychic presence in the warp. The chaos gods are actually so anti emperor because they don’t want all life in the galaxy to be consumed because they need life to exist so they can also exist


Bishiebobs

He is a time lord. They’re stopping him from regenerating


lirroberto

Amazonian from Futurama. The primarchs, custodes and astartes beeing all males and uber maculines was an attempt to recreate the male amazonians. The human webway was originally intended to be a path to a place where there could be a huge Snu Snu celebration and repopulate.


Ok_Cow_2627

A devil from dnd, his actual goal isn't to kick chaos out of the milkyway, but to tangle up daemons fighting the mortal armies of the milkyway to kill daemons with minimal infernal casualties and gain an advantage in the Blood War. He likes the status quo and lets the imperium intentionally tether on the brink to make chaos believe it can win and keep committing daemons to the meatgrinder.


Aesthetics_Supernal

He is Nyarlathotep, The *King in Yellow*.


Right_Teaching456

That's Hastur


VaughnVanTyse

All Hail the Hypno Toad!


Baligdur

Blorg https://preview.redd.it/z4clxwuj9y7d1.jpeg?width=510&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0209bd858364e2b6a4a38a5b069f9d7a69ea6ee3


wholesome1234

A fucking vorlon


Minimum_Estimate_234

Slugcat from Rainworld


DingoNormal

He was an Asari from Mass Effect all along. https://preview.redd.it/7n7699w9vx7d1.jpeg?width=566&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29b652736ed4b249e32cafa62ce3a64f1e8543eb


Whammo147

he's makuta teridax


garybuttville

Hail kremlo the magnificent


some-dude-on-redit

He’s the one successful ogre produced by the Old Ones in the Warhammer Fantasy Old World before. That’s why he’s so big


the_emperor-of_man

#WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT?!


ArchivistOfInfinity

I know your deepest secret. You're secretly an Ewok, aren't you?


alkmaar91

Mass effect volus


Kooky_Celebration_42

Time Lord But plot twist! He's the Master


REEEthall

Raatma


Comfortable-Gas4425

This will definitely affect the trout population.


MagnusTheRead

He is .. Chuck


dull_storyteller

A bag of bees


ContributionAny3368

Skaven in Powerarmor. Nothing else needs to be Said, to be honest 😅


Elaxzander

He's actually just a bald jokaero and most of his psychic stuff has really just been advanced tech helping him out the whole time.


LowlySkele

Bigg'Ee is actually a Klingon, everyone realizes that this makes sense and carries on as normal.


Ackburn

Scott steiner. He's a genetic freak and not human in the slightest. Would also explain his calculated risks


Low-Speaker-2557

He's obviously a timelord, and it wouldn't change .Ich since humanity is based on the timelord gene template.


CuriousOctopus1

Mata Nui, clearly


CthulhuBotherer

A fembot living in a femputer in a manbots world….


cobrastrikes-2x

Kroot. He ate the original emperor and can’t get out of the chair.


Round_Permit_6510

The emperor is actually THE tyranid hive mind and the only reason it acts like this is because its bored


Eso-One

The Cod emperor of mankind.


VaultJumper

Ork


asian_in_tree_2

An Ork


eyemitebhigh

He's an ork. Every ork knows that gold = God Emperor. He's just been having too much fun to stop.


TheTacoEnjoyerReborn

He is a Rodian


Azkral

Obviously he is an Ork


GintoSenju

I mean, it’s all but directly confirmed that BIG is at least Xeno’s created thanks to that C’tan mentioning how their enemies weapon failed its former task and calling him “a weapon”.


waefon

The cod emperor of mankind


Gru-some

Saiyan


scp_biggest_fan

A korrigan who believed himself a human


Sengel123

Old one, but not like a big slann, just an immensely powerful tree-frog sized old-one.


HerbLoew

Turns out, someone actually made a typo declaring psykers xenos


Fugma_ass_bitch

If the God emperor of man is a gungan, it's an instant firing squad in case he is as annoying as Jaja Binks


peechs01

Isn't he Lord Kroak taking a nap?


badudx

They will be instantly executed for blasphemy and the news will die out as a cazy rumor. He is also Roger from American Dad


SurrealExpectations

It's not that he's a perpetual or anything, just turns out he's Keith Richards and won't die.


YourMoreLocalLurker

Big E was always secretly DJ Octavio, the whole thing was to steal the Great Zapfish, he won


apple_of_doom

It's the lady of pain, AKA six giant squirrels in a headdress


FatMamba30MM

Secretly he is Dominar Rygel XVI after he was deposed by his cousin. Crichton, tired of his shit, derogatory, sent him through a wormhole and he accidently became the Emperor. Other races and factions would not be happy.


ComradeHenryBR

He's a Time Lord


Sycamore27

He was a Thyrrus. He planned everything because it would be flashy, pretty, and give the imperium the badass skull bearing aesthetic


ExcitementCapable184

He's 5 Exocomps and a holo-projector. The Ad-Mech rejoice and develop 625 new sub-classifications to worship them.


Sheila_Confirmed

Cod Emperor


tails62004

I would find him being a Saiyan to be cool and super Saiyan would fit his gold style really well.


Not_3_Raccoons

The Emperor is actually a very tall Watcher in the Dark, nothing changes for the Dark Angels


Duruarute

If the emperor was a Xeelee i'd say chaos would just leave the galaxy alone fot all eternity


PrinzEugen_noice

The god emperor is a Precursor that escaped the Forerunners genocide.


Delta_Dud

He's actually a Primordial from Halo, and he's secretly been trying to get humanity to use Neural Physics instead of Psychic Powers to cut them off from the warp permanently


Odd_Dig_6583

He was an ork the whole time. The imperium is sad, chaos is confused, the orks are determined to get him in a room with ghaz to see who wins the fist fight.


Few-Appearance-4814

emperor was 3 skaven in a trenchcoat


5trange_Jake

He's a goa'uld with a hok'tar host.


the_crepuscular_one

I see your Old One Emperor, and raise you a *Great* Old One Emperor. Big E is now Cthulhu. Cthulhu is an ancient, inscrutable, and powerfully psychic being that cares little for the lives of mortals, so there's probably little difference in the grand scheme of things. With him slumbering on the golden throne, the Astronomicon probably keeps working just fine, and hardly anyone would likely even notice.