"Excuse Me" Guy
Once upon a time, in a universe not as far away as the one from a long time ago, there was a group of Terran Guardsmen instructed by a dirty Frenchman on how they were essentially going to attempt to pull off a suicidal plan they didn't fully understand. Fun was had by all.
In a completely unrelated event, one day an anon from /tg/ discovered a screencap depicting a redshirt from Star Trek who asks Jean-Luc Picard a question about something while a look of worry sits upon his visage. That anon then did the natural thing and applied Warhammer 40,000 to it, as /tg/ is wont to do with all things. The result was a meme in which an Imperial Guardsman asks his Commissar a question, usually phrased "Excuse me sir/Commissar,-" which points out a flimsy or contradictory plot point in the Warhammer 40k universe. After the obligatory *BLAM* joke is made, a conversation usually starts which has a high chance of being somewhat constructive or entertaining. Plus, even when spammed they're marginally better than another Quest Thread.
Further versions were made to apply to other factions (with of course a cutting response usually following, such as an Ork questioner being told "SHUT IT GIT, I'Z DA BOSS AN' I'LL TELL YOU WHEN YOU GOTZ A QUESTION!").
Some have taken to calling him "Zathras". The name is based off of a minor character from the TV show, Babylon 5, as a spoof of his ability to ask questions despite continued Template:BLAMING; supposedly, there is an entire legion of "identical cousins" standing by to replace each Zathras as he is Template:BLAMMED, all of whom talk and think in such close harmony that only they can tell each other apart, exactly like his namesake from the show.
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