Marneus Calgar

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Marneus Calgar, trying and failing to be a pimp.

Marneus Augustus Calgar is a character from the fictional Warhammer 40k universe. According to Matt Ward, 5th edition codex writer, Calgar is the spiritual leige of every Space Marine ever. All the Space Marines look up to him and strive ever jovially to be more like him and his Ultramarines, but because of their laughable shortcommings, most Chapters, including the Dark Angels, White Scars, Imperial Fists, Blood Angels, Iron Hands, Salamanders, Raven Guard, and all their succesors, will never be as good. It is stressed constantly in the vanilla Space Marine codex and even mentioned a bit in the Blood Angels codex. The entirety of the Imperium awaits the day the Emperor awakes so that the Emperor may proclaim Calgar the rightful heir to the Imperial throne. As a surely non-relevent side note, Matt Ward plays Ultramarines.

Marneus Calgar is the current Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Chapter of Space Marines, and titled Lord Macragge. Following a skirmish against the Tyranid Hive Fleet Perseus in 976.M41, Calgar lost all four limbs as well as large areas of body tissue and his left eye. Now fitted with bionic replacements, he is more machine than man.

Calgar's exploits have earned him renown throughout the human Imperium and everybody loves him. The massive invasion of the extragalactic aliens known as Tyranids battered itself against the Ultramarine homeworld. Although the chapter incurred grievous losses in the defense, losing its most honoured and experienced warriors, Calgar's stubborn defence and hamfsited defeat of the Tyranids has become the stuff of legend on the worlds of Ultramar and beyond. People still discuss in awe the way he unexpectedly detonated that irreplacable war ship in the middle of that hivefleet.

His characteristic weapons are the Gauntlets of Ultramar, which were reclaimed by the Primarch Roboute Guilliman from a Chaos Champion. These gauntlets allow Calgar to bash gaping holes in enemy lines, allowing his men to achieve victory for the Imperium in a joyous slaughter of the heretic forces across the galaxy. They do, however, make it extremely difficult to use restroom facilities, turn door handles, or hold small objects.

An unofficial nickname for Marneus is "Papa Smurf", due to other players referring to the Ultramarines as Smurfs and Calgar being their leader. The nickname has its origin in the actual miniatures' diminutive size and the fact that they are blue.