# Warhammer (TV show being produced for Amazon) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, amazon-prime\ **Created:** [February 10, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539 "2026-02-10T08:26:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/81 "2026-02-11T04:04:52Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > And those are the “good” guys? No, they explicitly are not. They’re genocidal fascists. The central conceit of the setting is that there’s no “good faction,” just various competing flavors of “unbelievably fucked up.” > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Funny thing is…the Emperor of Mankind wanted none of that and explicitly fought against it. No, the xenophobia came straight from the Big E. Before he was stuck on the throne, he launched a galactic crusade to purge it of non-human intelligences. He’s personally responsible for literally thousands of genocides. What he did fight against in the Imperium, and fail spectacularly, was religion. Part of his Grand Design was getting humans to “evolve” beyond the need for religion, and instead he became the focal point for more religious sentiment than any other being in the history of the galaxy. > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Also, isn’t he a perpetual? Let him die. He’ll come back. The problem with that is that there’s a giant warp portal on Earth that’s being held shut by an act of will by the Emperor. If he dies, it snaps open and consumes every soul on Earth. This is on top of the billions of additional deaths that would be caused by the warp suddenly being unnavigable because the astronomicon shut off. Also, this _might_ make the Emperor ascend into a fifth chaos god, where he’d immediately pull a Slaanesh on the rest of humanity. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/82 "2026-02-11T04:50:53Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Reminds me of that guy in the Mad Max movie on top of the truck jamming away while mayhem happens. Youean the Doof Warrior? I know absolutely nothing about Mad Max except for the Doof Warrior. [![](https://static0.polygonimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25458890/Doof_1.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop) ](https://static0.polygonimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/chorus/uploads/chorus_asset/file/25458890/Doof_1.png?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop) There was a great Seth Meyer skit about the Doof Warrior. Or a few, actually, I think he kept talking about him for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/83 "2026-02-11T05:10:08Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > No, the xenophobia came straight from the Big E. Before he was stuck on the throne, he launched a galactic crusade to purge it of non-human intelligences. He’s personally responsible for literally thousands of genocides. I thought the Big E’s goal was to re-unite human worlds after the Age of Strife. If they ran into xenos they didn’t necessarily kill them. More like, join our empire or I shoot you in the face kinda thing. Not great but also not meant to be a galactic genocide (and, of course, there were some xenos they could not purge despite trying like the Orks). ETA: To be fair the “join or we shoot you in the face thing” was also the deal offered to recalcitrant human worlds. Join or die. That’s the offer. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/84 "2026-02-11T05:24:26Z")
No, he was full-on “This galaxy is for humans only.” Specifically, “This galaxy is for humans who recognize me as their Emperor.” He also genocided plenty of human societies during his Grand Crusade, if he decided they were too divergent to join the Empire. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/85 "2026-02-11T05:50:16Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I thought the Big E’s goal was to re-unite human worlds after the Age of Strife. If they ran into xenos they didn’t necessarily kill them. More like, join our empire or I shoot you in the face kinda thing. Not great but also not meant to be a galactic genocide (and, of course, there were some xenos they could not purge despite trying like the Orks). People try to defend E-man by claiming that the aliens he fought were bad enough to justify the Imperium’s actions, but even if that’s true of the big species of the setting - Orks, Dark Eldar, Tyranids, etc - it’s also stated that there are thousands of worlds with unique species on them, species that aren’t important enough to get a 40k army because they don’t control thousands of worlds across the galaxy but they still exist in lore, and the Imperium wiped out those species too. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/86 "2026-02-11T13:30:24Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > WH40K is not made for that kind of absurdity. Which is saying a lot considering all the other absurdities that are accepted. That’s how absurd noise marines were. But the thing was, it used to be full of tongue-in-cheek references to other sci-fi and lots of other silly stuff. Ever notice that the Catachan Jungle Fighters (a Guard regiment) all look like little Rambos? Or that the Death Korps of Krieg look like WWI soldiers? Or all the blue collar British silliness of the Orks? Or that the Blood Angels are space vampires? Space Wolves are space Vikings? Or just the ridiculous numbers/conditions they throw around? It was always satire and absurd, at least early on. I started with GW stuff in about 1997-1998, and kept up through about 2001, when living in Dallas and having a real job made it too difficult to keep up with my friends in Houston. I played the Dawn of War games on the PC, but that was it for a _long_ time, only getting back into the lore and stuff with the advent of _Space Marine_ on PC some years ago. And there’s been a definite shift toward taking itself more seriously than there used to be. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/87 "2026-02-11T13:47:59Z")
> [@bump](#): > > And there’s been a definite shift toward taking itself more seriously than there used to be. Is that really a _Warhammer_ thing in particular, or a general cultural shift? Superhero media takes itself a lot more seriously too, nowadays. I was going to ask if anyone knew whether the recent movie _Battleship_ took itself seriously or not before realizing that it is in fact nearly _15 years old_. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/88 "2026-02-11T16:09:04Z")
My only recent experience with WH40k is the wonderful Mechanicus turn based game released… (checks) in 2018, and it felt like things were very much tongue in cheek and not taken very seriously. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/89 "2026-02-11T16:14:25Z")
I wonder how much of Henry Cavill’s concern is legitimate versus a promoting schtick. Warhammer fans know corporate suits will mess it up and Henry is a popular actor well known for respecting the source material (The Witcher). I think him kicking up a fuss in public about the IP will have the intended affect of more people seeing this. Either way, I am with Cavill, if this is going to suck let it suck the proper Warhammer way. ---
**Author:** ![Calder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Calder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/90 "2026-02-11T17:36:59Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > > [@Calder](#): > > > > The lack of good female characters was only within Empire of Man and other human factions. > > The Empire is the only human faction in the setting. It’s got a lot of sub-factions: Imperial Guard, Space Marines, Tech-Priests, etc, but they’re all part of the same empire. Your forgetting about human heretic worlds cut off from the Imperium, humans corrupted by Chaos Gods, Chapters declared hertics etc. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/91 "2026-02-11T17:38:54Z")
Are Mars tech priests still human? (really asking…seem on the fence to me) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/92 "2026-02-11T17:42:58Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > I believe, canonically, there are no female Space Marines (Astartes). There are not, and as of now anyway, _will never be_, any female Astartes. However, female Custodes are canonical now, and they can kick the shit out of an Astartes. (And despite my intense dislike of the Imperium, Sister of Silence are just _the coolest_.) ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/93 "2026-02-11T17:47:28Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Are Mars tech priests still human? (really asking…seem on the fence to me) Yes. Some are more human than others, some choose to retain a lot more of their humanity, others replace so much of themselves with augmetics that they _barely_ qualify, but being as AI is Heretek, they do HAVE to remain human (at least their brain). ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/94 "2026-02-11T17:49:22Z")
The Callidus Temple has female assassins, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/95 "2026-02-11T17:53:16Z")
Absolutely. The ONLY factions devoid of females are Astartes (males only), Orks (asexual fungus beings that act like roided-up football hooligans), and maybe Tyrannids because they are so alien it’s hard to say. Women in 40K are generally equal in power or standing to men; in general, with as much death and destruction as there is in-universe, it has become a practically perfect meritocracy just out of necessity. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/96 "2026-02-11T18:10:20Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Are Mars tech priests still human? (really asking…seem on the fence to me) They are humans who have been disgusted by the weakness of their own flesh since the moment they became aware of it. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/97 "2026-02-11T20:31:50Z")
> [@Kron](#): > > Yes. Some are more human than others, some choose to retain a lot more of their humanity, others replace so much of themselves with augmetics that they _barely_ qualify, but being as AI is Heretek, they do HAVE to remain human (at least their brain). Sort of a [Ship of Theseus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus) problem. ---
**Author:** ![Calder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e99b99/32.png) [@Calder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Calder)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2026, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/98 "2026-02-11T22:16:50Z")
I feel like I should post this again as I see people asking if Henry Cavil is racists or sexist due to my poorly worded post even after I posted a more accurate post on the matter. As far as I know Henry seems like a genuine cool dude who geeks out over some of the same stuff I geek out over. (Of course with my luck, tomorrow he will be revealed to be in he Epstein files and I will be a giant asshole defending the undefendable.) ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/99 "2026-02-13T08:45:24Z")
> [@Miller](#): > > The Empire is the only human faction in the setting. The Leagues of Votann are also human. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2026, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539/100 "2026-02-13T09:24:02Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > The Leagues of Votann I wonder if it might behoove a TV series to go back to the traditional fantasy names for the xeno races that GW used before they started wanting to trademark everything, and just call them dwarves. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/warhammer-tv-show-being-produced-for-amazon/1027539.md?page=6)