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{{quote|[[Badass Boast|Iron Within, Iron Without!}}
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One of the nine Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines from ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''.
One of the nine Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines from ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]''.
They are the [[Villain Protagonist]]s of [[Graham McNeill]]'s series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the [[Ultramarines]] novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''. McNeill's novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the [[Horus Heresy]], focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.
They are the [[Villain Protagonist]]s of [[Graham McNeill]]'s series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the [[Ultramarines]] novels ''Dead Sky, Black Sun'' and ''The Chapter's Due''. McNeill's novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the [[Horus Heresy]], focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.
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!!Novels And Short Stories In The Series
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* ''Storm of Iron''
* ''Storm of Iron''
* ''The Enemy of my Enemy''
* ''The Enemy of my Enemy''
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==Novels==
==Novels==
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* [[Animal Nemesis]]: Titans for those who fight them. The Ahabism makes an {{spoiler|Imperial defeat even worse}} and even takes over Forrix, who actually {{spoiler|succeeds in killing one, only to be killed by another.}}
* [[Arc Words]]: "[[The Place]] had fallen."
* [[Arc Words]]: "[[The Place]] had fallen."
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]
* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]
* [[The Bad Guys Win|{{spoiler|The Bad Guys Win]]}}: {{spoiler|''Storm of Iron'' was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint Graham McNeill says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.}}
* [[The Bad Guys Win|{{spoiler|The Bad Guys Win]]}}: {{spoiler|''Storm of Iron'' was the first novel where Chaos won. In the 2008 reprint Graham McNeill says that even the people at Games Workshop were shocked.}}
* [[The Berserker]]s: Used in the siege.
* [[The Berserker]]s: Used in the siege.
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* [[Bus Crash]]: {{spoiler|Obax Zakayo}} betrays Honsou between ''The Enemy of my Enemy'' and ''The Heraclitus Effect''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Iron Within, Iron Without."
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Iron Within, Iron Without."
* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|Fellclaw.}}
* [[Colony Drop]]: {{spoiler|Fellclaw.}}
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** [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Saves Your Soul From Chaos]].
** [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Cybernetics Saves Your Soul From Chaos]].
* [[The Dark Side Makes You Forget]]: Discussed.
* [[The Dark Side Makes You Forget]]: Discussed.
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* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|The Avatar of , Naicin.}}
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* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|The Avatar of Khorne, Naicin.}}
* [[Dissimile]]: There's a place called "The Hope"... because people ''hope'' not to be assigned there. [[Don't Explain The Joke|In other words, it's anything but hope]]. The trope is once again subverted in that "The Hope" becomes a bastion of resistance... {{spoiler|before promptly and relatively easily falling.}} [[Double Subversion|Quadruple Subversion]] or Double Double Subversion? You decide, but it's the same thing.
* [[Dissimile]]: There's a place called "The Hope"... because people ''hope'' not to be assigned there. [[Don't Explain The Joke|In other words, it's anything but hope]]. The trope is once again subverted in that "The Hope" becomes a bastion of resistance... {{spoiler|before promptly and relatively easily falling.}} [[Double Subversion|Quadruple Subversion]] or Double Double Subversion? You decide, but it's the same thing.
* [[Five Bad Band]]:
* [[Five Bad Band]]:
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* [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''.
* [[Hero Antagonist]]s: The [[Ultramarine]]s in ''Iron Warrior''.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Honsou reminiscents he heard tales that warriors in the past "played war" by attacking and defending as honor let them, then the other side was allowed to walk away, and considers it impractical and weak [[Honor Before Reason]]. Later, the Warsmith gives the defenders a darker deal, but in the vein of the story: kill yourself and ''spare your soul''. Nobody comments on how the two situations are similar.
* [[Ironic Echo]]: Honsou reminiscents he heard tales that warriors in the past "played war" by attacking and defending as honor let them, then the other side was allowed to walk away, and considers it impractical and weak [[Honor Before Reason]]. Later, the Warsmith gives the defenders a darker deal, but in the vein of the story: kill yourself and ''spare your soul''. Nobody comments on how the two situations are similar.
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* [[Kill Them All|{{spoiler|Kill Them All]]}}: {{spoiler|Despite the Warsmith's victory, the entire Five Bad Band from ''Storm of Iron'' is killed - except Honsou and the Warsmith, who leaves for other realms none-the-less.}}
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Klane, see above.
* [[Killed Mid-Sentence]]: Klane, see above.
* [[More Dakka]].
* [[More Dakka]].
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* [[Prophetic Name]]: ''Fellclaw'', both for being [[The Corruption|requisitioned by Chaos renegades]] and {{spoiler|being used as a}} [[Colony Drop|{{spoiler|Colony Drop]]}}
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* [[Prophetic Name]]: ''Fellclaw'', both for being [[The Corruption|requisitioned by Chaos renegades]] and {{spoiler|being used as a}} [[Colony Drop|{{spoiler|Colony Drop]]}}.
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* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]: The Newborn.
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The Citadel on Hydra Cordatus is housing a massive stockpile of Space Marine progenoids, which is to be used for future Foundings. To insure its safety, the Adeptus Mechanicus has been slowly poisoning the regiments stationed there to make sure that no one stays long enough to discover it.}}
* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|The Citadel on Hydra Cordatus is housing a massive stockpile of Space Marine progenoids, which is to be used for future Foundings. To insure its safety, the Adeptus Mechanicus has been slowly poisoning the regiments stationed there to make sure that no one stays long enough to discover it.}}
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** Also that Kroeger {{spoiler|had been dead}} for the second half of ''Storm of Iron'', only known by the readers.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Kroeger, the Ultramarines Dreadnaught.
* [[Sanity Slippage]]: Kroeger, the Ultramarines Dreadnaught.
* [[Sealed Evil In A Can|Sealed Evil In The {{spoiler|Belly Of A Giant Spaceship]]}} in ''Iron Warrior''.
* [[Sealed Evil In A Can|Sealed Evil In The {{spoiler|Belly Of A Giant Spaceship]]}} in ''Iron Warrior''.
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* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Two [[Red Shirt]]s Klane And Yosha converse about seeing something before all hell breaks loose.
* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Two [[Red Shirt]]s Klane And Yosha converse about seeing something before all hell breaks loose.
* [[War Is Glorious]]: Close to rivaling [[World Eaters]].
* [[War Is Glorious]]: Close to rivaling [[World Eaters]].
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* [[Woobie Destroyer Of World]]: The Newborn:
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*: ''I am the broken shards of a human being, Ardaric Vaanes. My every breath is pain. Every beat of my heart is pain. Everything is pain. Why should I be the only one to suffer like this? [[Torture Makes You Evil|I want everyone to hurt like I do.]]''
* [[Worthy Opponent]].
* [[Worthy Opponent]].
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Forrix, Grendel and possibly other members of the Iron Warriors seem to continue fighting for the group for the sole reason that they were with their Chapter when everyone rebelled, and [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|those that didn't instigated the moose... well, they had to go along for the ride too.]]
* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]: Forrix, Grendel and possibly other members of the Iron Warriors seem to continue fighting for the group for the sole reason that they were with their Chapter when everyone rebelled, and [[Did Not Eat the Mousse|those that didn't instigated the moose... well, they had to go along for the ride too.]]

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{{quote|[[Badass Boast|Iron Within, Iron Without!}}

One of the nine Traitor Legions of Chaos Space Marines from Warhammer 40,000.

They are the Villain Protagonists of Graham McNeill's series of Iron Warriors novels, and also feature heavily in the Ultramarines novels Dead Sky, Black Sun and The Chapter's Due. McNeill's novels follow the fortunes of the Chapter after the Horus Heresy, focusing on Warsmith Honsou and the Iron Warriors assault on the Imperial world of Hydra Cordatus.

Novels And Short Stories In The Series
  • Storm of Iron
  • The Enemy of my Enemy
  • The Heraclitus Effect
  • The Skull Harvest
  • Iron Warrior
  • The Iron Without
  • The Best of Calth

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