Editing Azrael (section)

==Lion's Wrath==
[[File:AzraelCombiPlasma.jpg|thumb|left|A close-up of Azrael's mini. Notice the notch taken out of the gun's sculpt to let it fit under his [[Pauldrons|pauldron]].]]
[[File:Lion's Roar 2.0.png|thumb|right|Further proof the [[Commando Platoon|British]] cant design guns for shit: imagine how awkward it would be to reload. It wouldn't be so bad if Azrael didn't hold it in his off-hand and if he wasn't also carrying a sword.]]
An unfunny annoying forced meme on /tg/ is "how the hell does Azrael's gun work?" ''Lion's Wrath'', Azrael's [[Combi-Plasma|combi-plasma gun]] that has a theoretically awesome bullpup design, was originally sculpted with a notch taken out of its stock (see image). Some moron tasked with drawing an official "Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Masters of the Dark Angels" artbook thought the notch was part of the gun's official design; [http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Lion%27s_Wrath seriously, behold]. This has caused no shortage of photoshop parodies fixing the gun, some normally, some "tacticool".

Now that Azrael has crossed the [[Mary Sue|Rubicon Primaris]], Lion's Roar also got the Cawl-treatment and somehow still ended up looking fuck ugly: instead of just fixing the derpy bullpup, the full-auto and very front-heavy Lion's Roar was given a pistol-grip and its magazine was ported onto the side, a design choice that makes [[/k/|/k/ommandos]] seethe; not only are they taking design cues from WW2's least charismatic SMG, but the awkward magazine placement repeats the same problem the British Army encountered with left-handed bullpups: those hot spent casings would fly directly into his unhelmeted face (to be fair, you can model him with it on, but more on that below).

These days it's considered a dead horse that's been brought back as a zombie then beaten to death again. What isn’t spoken about so much is his helmet which is supposed to have once belonged to The Lion himself. How a regular astartes would comfortably wear what was made to fit a much larger being is beyond us (probably just a tech transplant rather than it being the actual helm).

If you see someone posting yet another "how do the Dark Angels expect to justify this tech-heresy" for the billionth time, just ignore it and go about your business. Your fellow fa/tg/uys will thank you for it.