Editing Abaddon (section)

==The "No Arms" meme==
[[Image:Failaddon.jpg|thumb|left|He has no arms. [[Just as planned]].]]
While the exact origin of why /tg/ continues to depict Abaddon without his arms is unclear, these are some rumors; it may have started when some drawfag made a picture of Abaddon painting, being the failure that he is he depicted him without arms and so now he fails in the ability to paint. Another theory postulates that <s>someone</s> ''the Bri-ish'' left the "H" out of "harmless failure" and it stuck. Yet another is how someone posted a metal figure of Abaddon in some forum without his arms, complaining that his arms fall off/break very easily (which they do). Thus, the joke eventually caught on.

The other explanation is that [[Creed]] stole them during his invasion of [[Cadia]], probably while doing doughnuts around him in a [[Baneblade]], or it was [[Tzeentch|Just as planned]].
[[Image:1226670366859.jpg‎|thumb|right|Or does he?]]

For all we know, a certain [[Trazyn the Infinite|metal kleptomaniac]] nicked them from him when he was sleeping, having drawn a funny moustache on his face and left him a polite yet condescendingly trollish note and a bomb. Knowing him, Trazyn has put it in his gallery with Sebastian Thor's head and other shit in his "Body Parts of the Big and Fighty" gallery. Next up, [[Ferrus Manus]]'s hands.
Another explanation points to a certain [[Eldrad|dick]], who actually fought Abaddon and defeated him (in a White Dwarf issue where Abaddon was trying to wipe out the Ulthwe Seer Council but was driven off, actually defeated/killed alongside his retinue by Eldrad and his council, but 'teleported to safety'), cutting off both of his arms in the process, which further points to Abaddon's incompetency and lack of arms.

But actually, it's mostly due to the fact that his model's arms are fragile and thus tend to [[RAGE|BREAK ALL THE TIME, FUCK]].

Abaddon was remodeled with the advent of Finecast, affixing his [[pauldrons]] to his torso and socketting the arms into them. In other words, GW may have actually solved Abaddon's arm problem. At least, that was the theory. In practice the arms still fall off like no tomorrow until the glue dries, especially his Sword arm. So all accomplished was ensure that Abaddon didn't have to go without his [[pauldrons]], even though he doesn't have arms. This being 40k, clearly meaning he had to choose and was left with the more essential out of two different options. The good news is that Finecast resin is soft enough for a pin vice and some wire to fix the problem entirely, but there's no pleasing some people.

In 2019 Abaddon finally received a glorious new plastic mini. And with his arm problem <s>solved</s> perpetuated, Abaddon can go back to (trying to) destroy the Imperium.