Canonically literally every Space Marine (except for the Blood Angels IIRC) should have dark skin when exposed to sunlight and then (except for the Salamanders) flash to an unnatural pallor when they step inside, because one of the mutations they get is photochromic skin to protect them from getting sunburns while still ensuring they get enough vitamin D. That sounds incredibly stupid and like I just made it up but that is the actual canon from the lore, along with Space Marines eating their enemies brains to gain their knowledge and having acid spit like the xenomorph.

Warhammer 40K is a very silly franchise and the art direction does it a disservice by not leaning into it more.

"improbably diverse", "improbable female authority figure".

Holy shit these nerds need to get a life.

improbable female authority figure

female authority figure is Cadian

Cadia is (yes, Cadia still stands. fite me chaos nerds) a world where every human with a pulse and an age above 5 is handed a rifle and sent to boot camp because LITERAL HELL IS RIGHT THERE, JUST LOOK UP AT THE DAEMONS COMING TO GET YOU

Bruh.

Ultramarines are improbably diverse

Ultramar is literally Space Rome, a massive cosmopolitan space empire consisting of 500 worlds and trillions of people

I'm going to find this person and beat them with my worn-out copy of Know No Fear until they stop whining about the existence of women and black people long enough to have at least a cursory knowledge of the lore they're butchering.

Don't fuck with us reactionary 40k fans, we don't even understand the lore of the franchise we're gatekeeping

GENESEEDS ARE IMPLANTED INTO A POTENTIAL CANDIDATE, IT DOES NOT CHANGE THEIR RACE, IT ONLY ADDS THE CAPACITY FOR FURTHER ENHANCEMENTS SUCH AS THE BLACK CARAPACE OR THE THING WHERE THEY CAN GAIN MEMORIES BY EATING BRAINS

The Space Marines in Space Marine 2 are Ultramarines, hailing from Ultramar, which consists of around 500 planets. It’s highly unlikely that the population of these 500 worlds would be entirely white—in fact, it's almost impossible. Therefore, even if we stick to the lore, it makes sense that there would be Asian, and yes, Black, Ultramarines.

Furthermore, considering the Imperium of Man is in a state of total war, it's laughable to criticize the existence of women in positions of authority. You can bet they’re recruiting everyone they can, and—gasp—some of those recruits are going to be women. Some of them will naturally rise through the ranks.

You can tell these criticisms come from people who don’t actually love the lore but just engage with it to push their xenophobic agenda. It’s ironic that the Imperium of Man a Totalitarian Nightmare is too "progressive" for modern chuds.

Little Icing on top. The Emperor most likely isnt "white" at least not blonde and blue eyed since he is originally from Anatolia (yes Turky)

Gamers are pathetic lmao

Chuds in their infinite glory have become the very strawmen they built up leftists of being. Complete with obsessing over a game's politics rather than the gameplay, which they are supposed to care so much about.

the imperium is undeniably human supremacist but has no problem putting every gender into the meat grinder equally

like, this has always been the canon these fucks just want to think it's some tradcath space future

I fell into a rabbit hole and started watching Warhammer lore videos a few years ago and then something - I don't know exactly what, maybe tone of voice or word choices - made me fall into another rabbit hole of searching for the content creators + feminism to see if they had gone on some insane rant and so many of them had made a "very special video" on the subject.

Vitiligo is woke

anyone who is this obsessed with "woke" in video games needs to have their computer forcibly taken away and sent to a gulag and be forced to touch grass until they become normal

has to be the wokest person in existence to these people for being black, asian, and a woman all at the same time

steamfront

it just got too improbable, hate to see it.

...Y'know, I see shit like this out of Ultramarine touchers all the time; and then people wonder why I refuse to fuck with the IP.

Isn't there some lore about the emperor being different depending on who perceives him? Like something about how people will see him like how they'd imagine their perfect ruler to be?

Improbable female authority figure

Lmao tell me you are basement incel stereotype with zero actual people contact without telling me you are basement incel stereotype with zero actual people contact

I HATE THE THERMIAN ARGUMENT

I HATE THE THERMIAN ARGUMENT