Editing Marines Malevolent

{{Infobox Spess Mahreen Chapter
|Name = Marines Malevolent
|Heraldry = [[File:Marines_Malevolent_Icon.jpg|150px]]
|Battle Cry = [https://youtube.com/watch?v=UrgpZ0fUixs This ancient Terran chant]
|Founding = A mistake
|Successors of = Unknown, as no Chapter, loyalist or traitor alike, in their right mind would admit it. (Though likely from traitor stock, and confirmed not to be iron warriors or thousand sons.) 
|Successor Chapters = none. Or at least, No Chapter would admit it under fear of being declared traitoris perdita
|Chapter Master = Scumbag Steve
|Primarch = <strike>[[Secundus]]</strike> <strike>[[That Guy]]</strike> Likely a traitor, difficult to determine.
|Homeworld = Worse off for having them
|Specialty = Being absolute assholes, fuckwads, and douchebags, pissing off the [[Salamanders]], and getting completely burned by said [[Tu'Shan|Salamanders]]
|Strength = Hopefully declining
|Allegiance = [[Imperium]] (much to their chagrin)
|Colours = Piss Yellow and "Hangover poop" Black trim
}}
[[File:Marines Malevolent.jpg|250px|thumb|left| Witness the very pinnacle of douchebaggery, the yellow that reeks of <s>scum</s> PISS. They are every [[Salamanders]]' nightmare and major cause of [[rage|ragequits]]. They are... the Marines Malevolent. Notice they are also the colour of wasps, undisputed douchebags of the <s>insect</s> world.]]

{{Topquote|Fact #105: The Marines Malevolent are '''the worst'''.|[[Games Workshop]] [https://www.warhammer-community.com/2018/10/19/20th-oct-500-facts-for-500-stores/ itself]}}

The '''Marines Malevolent''' are a [[Space Marines|Space Marine]] [[Space Marine Chapter|Chapter]] in [[Warhammer 40,000]]. They have only two real defining characteristics beyond their piss-hued [[Ceramite]]: they are complete assholes (even by WH40k standards), and they hate the [[Salamanders]], and are hated by every loyalist, and a few traitor, chapters, which is probably related to the first point. It may also be related to their ''unique'' approach to hostage situations (hint: it involves [[Whirlwind]]s, poison gas, and probably warlord titans) They're such super massive assholes that, if their douchebaggery manifested in reality, it would be as a [[Warp]] [[Great Rift|Rift]] which would collapse in on itself and sucks in the entire universe. Imagine [[Angry Marines]] but with all the anger, rage, and lolrandom cursing replaced with passive-aggressiveness, zero empathy, and complete dickishness. They're pretty much the poster boys of everything bad about the [[Imperium of Man|Imperium]] rolled into one collection of chucklefucks. Between that and the name, they're collectively the [[Goge Vandire]] of Space Marine Chapters: almost comically evil, comically dickish, and overtly malignant... except that the Imperium eventually "solved" their Goge problem, at least.

==Relationship with the wider Imperium of Man==
They have a shortage of [[Power Armour|power armour]] (pissing off the [[Adeptus Mechanicus]] tends to have that effect), so they use [[Pauldron|whatever parts of it]] they can find. In the novel ''Salamander'' by Nick Kyme, they even steal some from an abandoned forge ship. Not only do they justify such acts by necessity born of their own infamy, but also by their sheer contempt for anyone who is <s>inferior</s> not them. This, coupled with their aforementioned lack of empathy, means they show outright scorn towards the common people of the Imperium, and won't bat an eye at slaughtering confirmed faithful humans to accomplish their goals, such as wading through the unclean masses in their spikiest boots on their way to convert the Ministorum orphanage into a new firing range. 

Most Chapters such as the [[Imperial Fists]] or [[Ultramarines]] regard casualties, particularly those of the collateral nature, to be unfortunate but largely unavoidable. ''Yes, many civilians and Guardsmen died during the orks' assault on the hive, but had we not fought the xenos there, many more would be dead. Civilian casualties should be avoided but the mission always comes first.''  

A few Chapters such as the Salamanders, [[Lamenters]] (The counterpart to the Marines Malevolent in many ways, being poorly equipped and distrusted by the Imperium at large, but also being genuinely compassionate to regular humans as opposed to these [[Murderhobos|dickwads]]), and the [[Space Wolves]] go out of their way to minimize casualties. ''Battle-brothers, we few are all that stand between the heretics and the refugee camp behind us. The PDF and the Guard have not the men to spare to protect this place as they withdraw themselves. But curses upon ourselves and our Chapter if we allow that degenerate rabble to harm the Emperor's faithful!'' 

But then we have the Marines Malevolent; their attitude is that the dead are worthy of contempt, for they were too weak to live, and if the wounded suffer, then it is likewise because they are wretchedly weak. ''Help, Guardsman? No, you will only have my scorn.'' <s>[[Iron Warriors|Sounds vaguely familiar...]]</s> (they have standards, and (sometimes admittedly flimsy) reasons behind their actions...[[Honsou|most of them]]) This might be why the other Space Marine assholes known for sacrificing civvies, the [[Star Phantoms]], nearly destroyed the chapter during the [[Macharian Heresy]].

Their callous and insufferably smug attitude towards authorities and civilians has even caused the ire of the [[Inquisition]] to press charges to <s>censure the chapter</s> declare the entire chapter traitoris perdita. [[Wat|Yes, even the trigger-happy Dickbags that pop]] [[Exterminatus]] [[Derp|like Christmas presents,]] [[That Guy|find the Marines Malevolent to be fucking unpleasant and cruel towards civilians.]] In fact, when the [[Star Phantoms]] nearly blew up the Marines Malevolent [[lulz|by total accident]] on some planet called Thoth, the Inquisition found the irony so hilarious they didn't press any charges against the Phantoms.

==Relationship with other Space Marine Chapters==

At this point, with the amount of hatred the Chapter has garnered, it's pretty amazing in and of itself that several other, cooler Chapters don't just petition the [[High Lords of Terra|High Lords]] to disband them and give the armour and weapons to other Chapters who don't shit themselves laughing after launching artillery at a refugee camp. Hell, since the Imperium is so <s>bumfuck stupid</s> {{BLAM|'''HERESY'''}} {{BLAM}}, Stuck up its own ass, they could probably get away with being stamped as 'Traitors' for killing civilians for no reason...in fact some of the inquisition have done that already, but the order has yet to reach the high lords. (ooh, some Kommandos are nearby. It'd be nice if we had some sort of low-key, un-Power Armoured marine who has been trained in stealth and reconnaissance to go and take them out).

And should that happen, I can't think of too many Chapters who would turn down the chance to kick the Marines Malevolent in their collective dicks. Especially if the [[Minotaurs]] and [[Carcharodons|SPESS SHARKSH!!!]] happen to be in the area. One of the Malevolents challenged a [[Black Templar]] to an honor duel, just so he could take the Templar's armor when he won, so the Templars would probably be first in line as well. 

They even blackmailed a First Founding Chapter Master to the point that he had to physically restrain himself from smacking the fuck out of the Malevolent representative.  When the two met again at the end of the Third Armageddon campaign, said Chapter Master openly insulted the Malevolent Captain (after he beat the ever-living fuck out of him in private) in front of the entire army, causing much sniggering amongst the nearer [[Imperial Guard|Guardsmen]] and earning the Chapter Master ([[Tu'Shan]]) the title Hero of Armageddon.

Well OK, he got it for kicking [[Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka|Thraka's]] ass, but who cares.

One could make the argument that this dickishness is just extreme pragmatism, combined with scorn towards everyone (including their own) who show weakness. You'd be wrong. Being pragmatic isn't bad in itself as such Chapters like the [[Raven Guard]], or their successors like the [[Raptors]], show multiple times, but the Marines Malevolent are just callous. They see others as an interference in doing their job as Marines, while those who prevent them in doing so actually do so because even they draw a line. An Inquisitor must be pragmatic due to the things he has to deal with constantly, but even then he wouldn't go that far as to put an entire sector to the torch unless he has enough evidence to justify this act, and even then he'll go to great lengths to hit places where heresy and corruption are at its worst and then cauterize the rest before it grows and strengthens itself. The Raptors Space Marines are known for their pragmatic take on warfare, yet even then they will never go so far as to waste allies or bombard a place with civilians in it. This is the reason why Marines Malevolent are not liked <s>that much</s> by the Imperium.

They also have piss-coloured armour, the ungrateful fucks. 

Other forces in the Warhammer 40k universe may be EEEEEEVIL!!! on some sort of grand cosmic scale of [[Grimdark|grimdark]], but very few are just nasty, petty, and cruel in an all-too human way. They treat their [[Chapter Serf]]s like slaves, and for those not in the know, this is otherwise unheard of. That's not grimdark, M&Ms, that's just... unpleasant.

In short, in a galaxy of horror and tragedy, most suffer jadedly, a few grieve but only the Marines Malevolent jeer.... well, and the [[Iron Hands]], but [[Skub|that's basically retconned now]]. Alternately: a Marine Malevolent is, on average, ten pounds of jerkwad in an eight pound bag.

==42nd Millenium==
They're still active in the 42nd Millennium (unfortunately). A Marines Malevolent relief force arrived to rescue some Custodians defending Primaris Marine Gene-tech on Loque II, just in time to rescue the last surviving Custodian and the gene-tech. Knowing the Marines Malevolent, they probably not only tried to take the gene-tech but they probably [[Galactic Partridges|took the credit too]].

As a side note, when asked what the chapter opinion was of the Marines Malevolent, the Angry Marines actually got ''so'' mad that they each individually popped a blood vessel and passed out before they could give their answer. The resulting Angry Energy wave was so powerful that warp travel became virtually impossible an entire sector for at least ten weeks.



==Characters (or lack thereof)==
They have only a few named characters, and only a few are alive at the time of the 'present day' in 40k. They had no fewer than thirty three of their men (including a Veteran Sergeant, ''two'' Techmarines, a pilot, and a '''fucking APOTHECARY''') get infected by the Obliterator Virus while they were boarding the ship ''Demetrion,'' so Vinyar basically told them to go hit themselves with Tu'Shan's Thunder Hammer until they were purified.  We are not kidding.

===Captain "Dickbag" Vinyar===
The only Malevolent known to be alive at the time of Medusa was '''Vinyar,''' a Company Captain with a raging grudge against Tu'Shan, and the actual cause of most of the Chapter's reputation. No really. read the books. While the chapter has a reputation for being dicks, its because they are compared to the snugglebunnies called the [[Salamanders]], but over all are only dicks out of pragmatism. FUCKING VINYAR though is your 'garden variety' ''petty'' '''goddamn jackass'''. While a normal Marine Malevolent will use one of his brothers as bait for the enemy so the rest can attack more safely, Vinyar will straight have one of the other Marine Malevolent's killed just to clap back at that guy's friend. Or have a bunch of his troops, who got chaos corrupted, attack an allied Astartes homeworld, just to clap back at that guy for calling him out on his dickatry! And unlike most unreasonably petty fucking jerkoffs depicted in 40k, Vinyar doesn't even have the excuse of being Chaos corrupted. '''HE IS JUST A COMPLETE PRICK'''.

===Veteran <s>Ballsack</s> Ballack===
<s>Ballsack</s> was a member of the chapter's veteran 'Vilifiers'. A surprisingly Cool Guy for being a douchebag Marine. Like letting the guardsmen they were working with get some extra sleep, because they are normal humans who kinda need that kinda thing. Granted he later used a new member of his company as bait for the Orkz, just incase you started to forget which Chapter he is from. He was also pretty badass and managed to beat a Black Templar Sword Brethren in a 1v1 duel (by deliberately goading him and getting him to agree that the winner takes the other's gear). <s>Ballsack</s> was killed when <s>Dickbag</s> Vinyar told the aforementioned Templar's bros where to find him, with one of the Templars just literally stabbing <s>Ballsack</s> in the back. As he died <s>Ballsack</s> actual approved and complimented the Templar for being more of an underhanded dick than him.

==Chapter Tactics==
'''Friend no one Likes:''' When determining the level of allegiance between a faction with this chapter tactic and another without it decrease the standard level of allegiance as shown on the allies matrix by one to a minimum of ''Come the Apocalypse''.

'''Victory at any Cost:''' Units with this chapter tactic may make shooting attacks at enemy units that are locked in close combat with any allied unit that does not have this chapter tactic. To represent the nature of firing into a swirling melee use the following rules when firing: If using a blast or template weapon place them as usual but allied models may be under its starting position and roll for scatter as necessary. If firing another kind of weapon target the enemy unit as normal and roll to hit with a -1 to ballistic skill. For each successful to hit, roll to wound against the enemy unit, but for each miss roll to wound against the allied unit. All wounds are randomly allocated and saves may be taken as normal.

'''Disdain for the Weak:''' Units with this chapter tactic automatically pass morale checks the unit must take due to Casualties or to Losing an Assault.

==Progenitor chapter==

While no chapter would admit it, there are a number of sound theories regarding the progenitor of this group of douchebags. All of them posit that their stock of gene seed came from a traitor. And most of them posit that they were not progenated from the first 20 legions, but one of their successor chapters.
While little is written of them, their attitudes (pragmatic, bitter, spiteful, consider one another disposable, consider others even more so, and massive entitlement) REEKS of Iron Warriors. Their colors of yellow & black seem reminiscent of the Iron Warriors' signature hazard stripes (and they still use the Iron Warriors hazard stripes too). Their Chapter emblem is just the Iron Warriors' marking for Fast Attack with a wing on it.

Also, while not being a Second Founding chapter (supposedly) much of their wargear dates back to the Great Crusade. This includes Cataphratii terminator armour and Combi-Bolters (instead of stormbolters).

==Daily Rituals==
04:00:  -Morning. Marines Malevolent awaken and turn off the obnoxious heavy metal music and strobe lights playing outside of their soundproofed bedrooms. The chapter <s>slaves</s> serfs are beaten and whipped to awaken them from their 4 hours of sleep. Any who protest are shoved into hunter missiles.

05:00: -Enforcement of morale. Said hunter missles are launched to awaken the local populace. They always try to aim for adult care centers or hospitals. 

06:00: -Morning Prayer. The chapter serfs are sent to collect cotton in the fields whilst the Marines Malevolent pray to the Emperor. These prayers are usually outright ignored.

07:00: -Morning Firing Rites. The chapter serfs return in time to be used as target practice for neophytes. They also practice yelling passive aggressive insults at the serfs for when any Salamanders show up.

08:00: -Morning Meal. The Marines Malevolent eat a light meal of waffles and milk. Any slightly overcooked waffle demands the immediate creation of ten serfs into servitors.

09:00: -Morning Battle Practice. Said servitors are destroyed with extreme prejudice with their families being sent messages about how worthless they were in life and death with pictures of their corpses attached to the letters. 

10:00: -Midday Battle Practice. The chapter gathers to talk shit on the majority of the Imperium. This takes a large portion of the day, as the Mechanicus, Militarum, Ecclesiarchy, Inquisition, Iron Hands, Ultrasmurfs, Black Templars, Salamanders, half the population of their planet, and Angry Marines are all talked copious amounts of shit. This time is also set aside to defend the chapter when someone hears that they were talking shit.

11:00:  -midday holo video indoctrination.
The marines malevolent gather to watch ancient terran motivational movies from m3 including
blade runner an ancient terran story about a human who hunts down renegade servitors, just looking to survive., the asassanation of Jessie james by the coward Robert ford, a movie teaching marines to shoot their enemy in the back and the entire karate kid series, special emphasis is put on why cobra kai were right and why its okay to be a dick to those smaller than you.
Popcorn is provided and failure to provide sufficient salt or butter will see the offending serf turned into a popcorn servitor

15:00: -Afternoon Battle Practice. Realise they wasted all that time pointlessly, and so take it out on the chapter serfs by either killing them or burning the cotton they collected. May also fight any Salamanders that happen to be nearby (and usually get beat up by said Salamanders).

16:00: -Tactical Indoctrination. The Marines Malevolent study the works of history's greatest shitcunts, assholes, piss stains, arse weasels, ovary thieves, and cock munchers for inspiration. The first company read the collected works of the most revered of the Chapter's icons; the xenos abomination [[Assholetep]], and the horrid [[Eldrad]], kept secret from the rest of the Imperium. 

17:00: -Recruitment. Kidnap innocent civilians to replenish their dwindling number of serfs. May also kidnap orphans to become future Marines Malevolent.

18:00: -Evening Meal. The Marines Malevolent giggle to themselves about how mad they made everyone else during their feast. Sometimes they try to eat cake stolen from Children's birthday parties, but usually cannot because the Inquisition ordered the Blood Ravens to steal it back. The Blood Ravens are all too happy to oblige.

19:00: -Night Fighting Training. The Marines Malevolent initiate evening battle practice. May or may not involve deepstriking directly into a funeral and making death jokes, depending on how they feel at the time.

20:00: -Free Time. The Marines Malevolent do all sorts of recreational activities. Typical activities include fine tuning their lack of empathy for any other living being, running up as big of an astropath charge as possible with long, meandering but awkward conversations that you aren't quite sure if you should hang up on, trying to start fights between loyalist chapters, "urban driving practise" which involves smashing civilian homes over with land raiders, verbally harassing any nearby orders of the Sisters Of Battle, and acquiring sweets by stealing them from small children after popping their balloons.  

23:00: -Bed time. The Marines Malevolent decide to go to bed. They turn the heavy metal back on turn on obnoxiously bright strobing middle finger pattern spotlights to make sure none of plebs get any sleep, whether they be the Techpriests at the nearby manufactorum or the lowliest peasant.

00:00: -Actual Bed Time. The Chapter Serfs are finally allowed to "sleep".

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="210" position="center" spacing="small">
Image:50448-Marines_Malevolent_40k_Space_Marines_Armageddon_Yellow.jpg|A squad of Marines Malevolent, resplendent in their piss colored armor.
Image:Gallery_Maelovent_Boxes.jpg|[[METAL BOXES|YELLOW BOXES!]] [[Firaeveus Carron|Carron]] would be pissed.
Image:99001_md-Marines_Malevolent,_Powerfist_Sergeant.jpg|Brother-Captain Assneus Dickeos.
Image:Marines_Malevolent_banner.png|Salamanders weep bitter tears when the Marines Malevolent arrive.
</gallery>

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