Loved being a part of this good sir! Its such a blast to work with you guys

In Egyptian mythology, there is a God named Horus. This is clearly a reference to the Horus Heresy.

In World of Warcraft there is a rare enemy called "Night Haunter". If you manage to kill him you can take his "Kurzed cloak" that looks like its made of skin.

Another thing in Halo:Infinite. There’s an unused armor coating called “Steel Soldier” that is black with hazard stripe accents. An obvious reference to the Iron Warriors

Borderlands 2 has an SMG called "Emperor" with the flavor text saying "you know... for him."

In the movie Free Guy, there's a scene in the real world game studio with a Tau codex sitting out on someone's desk

During the Setsubun event in Fate/Grand Order, Tomoe Gozen mentions that she's not only into video games but also various types of board games which includes "Spehss Mehreens 41,000."

One of the dwarf units in the original Warcraft 3 game used to have a joke "this warhammer cost 40k" until GW told Blizzard to remove it.

In Doctor Who,s7 e12. is literally a walking reference to WH40k. There is guardsmen, an Emperor with psycher abilities, an Imperium and they are fighting cybermen who are an analog for Necrons.

Scp3973 has a kind of sad story as he was thrown away with all of his battle brothers waiting for his Commander to come back for him and his battle brothers but he never did

The first warhammer reference that i ever saw was in the first Magicka game, some 8 or 9 years ago. Apart from the literal WARHAMMER, there was also Space Robe which has in it's description: "The MK5 Space Robe protects its wearer from everyday hazards including, but not limited to, Death, Mutilation, Lawsuits, and Space Weather.". I'm sure there were couple more but these ones are classic.

In TFS's Dragon Ball Z Abridged series, when Vegeta fights Freezer on Namek, he starts rapid firing his lazers in a wild manner while shouting "Dakka Dakka Dakka"

In the danish crime drama "Those Who Kill" one of the protagonists was painting a Khorne Berserker while contemplating a murder. Great program.

Best one for me is in Borderlands 2. There is SMG called "The Emperor", it's description literally says: "You know.... For him."

We have a chainsword, literally called the chainsword, in Dungeon Defenders... and it looks exactly like the chainsword we know and love

The entire Starcraft story has a lot of similarities. I vaguely remember an article stating Blizzard wanted to make a Warhammer game but things didn't work out with Black Library.

In a Bus Simulator where you can drive around as flixbus etc. you can hear sentences like "blood for the blood god“ when you get into a heavy accident (at least in the German version)

In the game Magicka there's a small village with a blacksmith shop called Graham's Workshop and sitting outside is a big warhammer you can pick up and use. There's also a set of robes that turn you into a space marine

My neighbourhood name is Ultramar, no joke. Spain->Galicia->Ferrol->Ultramar

Some of those was tenuous to say the least, but you didn't seem to mention the Tau Codex (iirc) within Free Guy film.

You gotta mention the “great unclean one” in remnant from the ashes!

I believe there's a Ukrainian artillery regiment that are called the khorn group.

The writers of the film Event Horizon have said it's based on what happens when a ship travels through the warp without Geller Fields

The Fall of Star wars gave warhammer a enorm boost now that nerds search another franchise

How did these media reference WH40k without GW's legal team copyright striking them ? I'm genuinely surprised.

James S A Corey is actually two authors sharing a pen name. The Expanse books were originally their attempt to make a space tabletop game. So yeah, they're probably very aware of 40k.

There’s a iron warrior coating in halo infinite called steel solider. It’s mostly gray-ish black but has yellow and back warning signs on an arm.

There was that time in Archer where Cyril mentions he’s an expert at Warhammer 40k when he temporarily became dictator of San Marcos.

What about the 'black ship' in 'Lower Decks'? In 'Much Ado About Boimler', a cathedral-shaped black ship arrives warping out of a purple-swirl lightning storm, as it arrives to detain all 'freaks' and take them away to a secret facility where they'll never be heard from again.

The band Gunship just released a track called "Blood for the Blood God".

Doctor WHOs "impossible planet" has 40k references too. 1. It is the year 40k and 2. ammunition for weapons are called bolts.

Might not be considered mainstream pop culture but there is a female wrestler in WWE named Shayna Bazler who wears emblems from the space marine legions on her ring gear.

You did my guy dirty, making him say T(h)ree so many times

Tree nine seven tree

3:00 I will say- 3008 isn’t technically infinite, just VERY LARGE and with a moving exit. More to the point; 3973 is so cute and sad, this is why I like SCP so much, the authors can make you feel for the silliest of things. (Also who wants to bet that someone has gotten in trouble for bringing it to a Foundation rec day and they had to make a new rule?)

The Doctor Strange one is a bit of a stretch "codex imperium' is just Latin for 'book of power'

in borderlands 3 theres a outfit for moze called commissar andreyevna

Should've mentioned Event Horizon, 1997.

And what about in music there's a very famous death metal band called bolt thrower that use old warhammer artwork as there album covers

In the gacha game Nikke goddess of victory the character Crow has Khorns symbol tattooed on her chest amongst all her other tattoos

I'm certain that there's one in roboquest, it being a strangely bolter shaped gun.

Cyberpunk 2077 has Chainswords

One of my favorite is the black ship in “Star trek the lower decks” season one episode 7 it’s a 40k black shop that comes out of the warp and collects people with mutations and takes them to a place called “the farm”

7:12 Technically speaking Ultramarine is also the name of that colour so it doesn't neet to be an obvious ref to Warhammer

I'm glad 3973 gets to be around people now thanks to Dr. Harpy.

On Netflix there is a show called "Fubar", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, there is a tech guy who has the massive Ultramarine Primaris cardboard cutout in the corner of his livingroom that gets a good amount of screentime.

they also reference Darktide in South Park. I forgot which episode though. I think the most recent season.

'Enemy of the State' with Will Smith has a little cameo at the end with his son reading a White Dwarf (the free ones they use to give out)

I'm surprised you didnt mention WWE wrestler Shayna Baszler who has often wrestled wearing ring gear in the colours of various space marine chapters. most notably wearing Lunar Wolves gear one week and then wearing sons of horus gear the next week when she betrayed her partner

For another Warhammer reference in a old show called eureka some of the scientists reference playing the game

Another SCP one worth noting is that one of the (many) things Dr. Bright is not allowed to do is say the SCP foundation motto is, "We always need more dakka!" He is also not allowed to say that the motto is, "Science for the science god!"

The tower defense game Dungeon Defenders has chainswords as weapon drops all over. They’re some of the better melee options.

0:20 as someone who’s watched Amazon butcher two of my favorite book series to an unrecognizable mess… good luck with that one. I trust Cavill, but I doubt his ability to stop the forces of Jeff Bezos from systematically destroying every ip I love

Southpark also brought up dark tide if I’m not mistaken

For any TFS fans, iv you go back to the episode where vegeta takes on final form freeza, 28 I think, give or take an episode. Theirs a bit where he's spamming ki blasts where you can fairly cleary hear him shouting out 'dakka! dakka! dakka!'. One of the lead writers, takahata, is a noted 40k fan. In particular the orks.

In the Adventures of Van Helsing 3 video game there's a reference to the Inquisitor Martyr game as both games are from the same developer and it's a skeleton with a power amour breast plate and a bolter

You missed the chainsword used by one of the snakes in the time travel snake episode as well as the tau pistol seen in the same episode

I have a dream, one day a 40K MMO where I can play a Berserker Ork that gets slightly bigger with each lvl up.

Pretty sure in the Rick and Morty show there were space ships that were upside down imperium vessels

One of the earlier Warcraft games (2? 3 maybe?) had a dwarf unit with the voice line "This warhammer costs 40k!"

In viscera cleanup detail, you can find trophies referencing many things and one of those is a bolter from 40k.

tree, nine, seven, tree

The SCP miniature is so sad.

Also take a good look at the Va'Runn pistol with a barrel extending mod. It looks eerily similar to how some patterns of laspistol are seen in concept art. Its also good to nkte that Va'Runn weapons are particle weapons, and its theorized some lasweapons are infact not true "DEWs" or directed energy weapons, but instead particle driven as well. Thought i'd mention that. Edit: Also the 40mmXPL ammuntion IS NOT a grenade like in contemporary weapon systems. They are infact self-contained rocket propelled cased ammunition. They are Bolter rounds. And if you have the Laredo Arma weapon known as the "Bridger" it looks eerily similar, as well, to older concept art where some bolters were lever action. Much like the Bridger is in Starfield.

Space Robe in Magicka or Eggmarines from Fleetway Sonic the Comic are great references to Astartes

A third thing about the South Park episode, the armies they are using are actually little photos of the creators real life armies

So many of these are such a stretch

6:35 It could also be a reference to fleet-based Space Marine Chapters, for whom their fleet IS their homeworld.

in free guy there is a few scenes were is displayed the first tau codex from 3rd edition

In the mobile game, Girls' Frontline, there's an achievement you can earn called: Battle Axe 30K

Of note; "James S.A. Corey" is actually the pen name of 2 authors. The story for The Expanse started as a TTRPG over an internet chat so yes, both authors are long time gamers. 🤟😎

This was something I asked for when you did the shorts version of this. Thank you for listening to the community!

Obviously this isn't a reference but WoTC did that collab with GW for the W40k commander decks. Just felt like it fit.

Both 40K and Fantasy are mentioned in Archer.

Another reference from Rick and Morty was in the knights of the sun episode where the martians were clearly ad mech inspired (look at their ship) and there was a drukhari-like faction as well (venus perhaps? i dont remember)

I'd like to add Cyberpunk 2077 to the list with it's Chainblad- uh Cut-O-Matic, add to that the various cybernetic organs you can add like the Second Heart or Chitin, a subcutaneous/subdermal layer of armor amongst other things, and my 3rd character was actually dedicated to getting as close to a space Marine as possible

Dr Who episode ‘nightmare in silver’…..imperium, emperor and Guardsmen !

I remember geeking out at the sight of an older tau codex in the background of Free Guy.

theres a guy in starfield called horos

WWE Money in the Bank 2023. Shayna Baysler walked out in an outfit from sons of Horus and turned on her partner Ronda Rousey

good ol' SCP-3973, one of my favorites

Bendadick Cabbagepatch's movie referenced Rowboaty Gorillasuit? That is every wonderful.

The question is, did you know that Warcraft 3 used to have a 40k reference? The griffon rider, when you keep clicking on him, one of the lines he'd say is "This warhammer cost me 40k - he he he". This particular wav file got removed with the forzen throne expansion pack though. I guess Blizzard didn't want to get hit with a lawsuit?

In the scp universe there is a fashion called the machine cult who worship an entity called the machine god if the reference isn't obvious enough they replace their own flesh with the blessed machine and they also wear red cloaks

I don’t know if all the references were references tho

how are you astartes “anonymous” when your guest namedrops you?

In swtor there’s a ship called the spirit of vengeance

I dont tthink the 'ultramarine corps' armour in Halo infinte is necassarily a 40k reference, as ultramarine is the type of blue used for both respectives armours. Its simply a pun in 40k and a popular tone of blue elsewhere. Like using 'virdian' green or 'scarlet' red.

Then there's Aliens [Recon Marines] and Aliens3 at the end when Bishop shows up with what appear to be White Scars Chapter Marines.

i love that trey and matt not only referenced 40k but clearly care enough about it to even go as far to make sure the battle commands were legit

I really want the ultramarine scp

That table in the last of us is clesrly a reference yo DND not 40k. The DM screen is a dead giveaway.

Former UFC heavy weight Champ Josh "the Warmaster" Barnett took his name from Warhammer.

There's a spider man comic where molten man attacks harry Osborne. He uses a bolt pistol with a hook on the end to cure him

Theres also a direct reference to the boltor in warframe with a side arm named sepulcrum that fires explosive round

another game that possibly got some warhammer 40k reference is the destiny series, the cabal kinda looks like one in a way, they use some kind of bolter too, but it could be a bit of a reach Edit: and their gun(or bolter), the skyburner's oath, which we can acquire it have the explosive slugs as the exotic perks

The Cabal in Destiny are possibly directly inspired by space marines, even having firearms that are basically bolters

THE BRITISH CAME UP WITH WARHAMMER!!! that.... makes alot of sense

Im so fucking happy yall finally mentioned the Ultramarine Corps coating i commented about on the original short and the Fleur-de-lis

Splendid's Fart in Happy Tree Friends' episode *Breaking Wind* references Exterminatus from 40k