Space King - Original Series by Flashgitz

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I WAS MARTYRED FOR DOING THE SACRED LABOR OF SPREADING HATE
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God of Nothing said:
is it that bad?
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Big E either fucked up bigly or is playing the long game to ascend to godhood (or both) and the mechanicus and administratum are horrifically callous and wasteful, and the high lords of Terra are aggressively geriatric on a good day, but humanity's best hope for survival is the Imperium.
 
SIMIΔN said:
I seem to remember them having far more 40K animation before. Now they only have the Black Templar vs Furry saga, but that was after the big takedowns six years ago. Is there anywhere I can find it?
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I compiled all the works that I could find in chronological format. I did post some of their earliest works in the Flashgitz Appreciation Thread.

Marylander Don Greger Jr. joined Newgrounds in 2006 under username @flashbound18 during his high school years, having practiced using Adobe Flash for 2 years. His first animation was an Adobe Flash cartoon called "Toadstools payback," a parody of Super Mario 64. Don would continue to make animations, making his first Warhammer 40k Flash animated film "40k: the Signs of War." Don's interest in 40k was inherited from his father Don Greger Sr., who was into Warhammer Fantasy, the predecessor of 40k. It is to note that Flashgitz's recent 40k parody "Warhammer 40k: Looney Tunes edition" is a massive homage to Don's first 40k Flash animation due to the extremely similar art style, dialogue direction (signs), and plot (ork mech blowing up in the end):

Warhammer 40k: Looney Tunes edition​


In 2008, collaborations (or 'collab') to make animated films were becoming a thing in Newgrounds. Since Don discovered that many people on Newgrounds knew about Warhammer 40k, he thought a collab film of 40k would unleash the exposure of the love fans had for 40k to the Newgrounds community. Don met up with a British Newgrounds user and 40k nerd named @ForbidMetal, whose real name is Tom Hinchliffe, where they would host a collab film named "The Warhammer 40k Flash Collab" consisting of seven other Newgrounds animators. Don and Tom released it to the public in 2009 and the effort ultimately panned out, reaching Newgrounds' front page and exposing and impressing everyone in Newgrounds to Warhammer 40k.

Don had an effective chemistry working with Tom with the collab film that the two decided to collaborate on future works. The first animation between the duo is a high-effort parody of the 40k board game Space Hulk (3rd edition, 2009), released to Newgrounds on 2010 and ultimately reached the front page.

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The duo would continue their collaboration in animating Robo Bacon-Neck Warfalcon for Don's college art portfolio. Don's brother Justin helped with sound and music for the film, which would inspire his career as a sound designer for future animations done by Tom and Don and later Hunter Hancock (Meatcanyon). Don also made a Christmas parody (with Rudolph and his team getting eaten) featuring Tom as a main VA as well as assistance from Justin.

Tom and Don decided to form a team named Flashgitz, both as a nod to Warhammer 40k lore of an Orkz strike force as well as the two's history working with Adobe Flash animation. The duo would create their YouTube channel in 2011 and uploaded "Space Hulk" in 2012 there as people were re-uploading their works to YouTube. Tom and Don continued their collaboration as Flashgitz in making 40k parodies where they released "The Trials of Draigo" after seeing Erasmus Brosdau's Lord Inquisitor trailer. During this time, Tom and Don also released a 40k parody comic on their Flashgitz site called Regular Marine featuring the Ostrogoths Space Marine chapter, of which its color scheme is referenced in Episode 2 of Space King. Unfortunately, their website shut down, but I managed to archive all of the comics in the Flashgitz Appreciation Thread if you want to check them out.

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Tom started visiting and hanging out with Don in Maryland, USA, of which Don's father Don Sr. shared that Tom was such an autistic sperg that he waved the Union Jack shouting "God save the Queen" in Independence Day celebrations (1:45). Tom's family also joined in where they shot guns for the first time in West Virginia with Don's family, and Tom's dad stated that if this was done back in Bongland, they would have been arrested (6:11). Tom and Don of Flashgitz released "Space Hulk 2" as a sequel to Space Hulk and continued their 40k fan comic Regular Marine.

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During this time, GW was suing Chapterhouse Studios, which was manufacturing parts and models to fill gaps in GW's existing ranges in the 40k universe. Tom and Don, sympathizing with Chapterhouse, released "Inside GW" to parody the situation showing GW as a tyrannical company, noticeably using models from their previous Newgrounds works like the jet fighters from Robo Bacon-Neck Warfalcon. "Inside GW" is still available but is now age-restricted, but it is still the only most earliest video Flashgitz has up on their YouTube channel. Tom and Don stated they have not received a Cease and Desist letter while making the animation, yet...

So what happened to "Space Hulk I and II" and "Trials of Draigo?" YouTube reinforced copyright on sound and Tom and Don had to take down all their old works, including their 40k stuff, on YouTube because of the copyright strike. Nevertheless, they kept their works up on Newgrounds because copyright rules are still pretty lax there. In 2014, Flashgitz started branching out to make more animated parodies of other properties besides 40k, and also put out a now-unlisted live-action film called Bird of Fire. Also during this time, in August 2014, Tom and Don announced that they will be postponing Regular Marine indefinitely to focus on their animations. It is suspected that this is when Tom and Don received a Cease & Desist letter from GW demanding them to stop all fan works of 40k. including Regular Marine.

It wasn't until 6 years later where the environment was more lax for 40k that Tom and Don started making 40k parodies again in the form of "Furry Crusades."
 
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Lei Wulong's Left Leg said:
While we're on the topic of companions, is Hatemace an AI or is he just like...Hatemonger's secret third globule hidden inside a mace? It sounds like AI work on Warhammer/Dune rules, where they became too strong and had to be genocided. It runs on batteries power cells, but it's clearly capable of at least some sentient thought, even if it's basically just Hatemonger but smaller. It would be very on-brand for the Beholders to use their fallen or ancient brethren as weapons, so maybe Hatemace is like a weaponized Servo-Skull?
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I have a theory that warriors that somehow only lose one of their globule are put into a hatemace as a form of a Dreadnaught parallel.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
I have a theory that warriors that somehow only lose one of their globule are put into a hatemace as a form of a Dreadnaught parallel.
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We still don't know what high command is. A cyborg? If he was an AI, Hatemonger and Chestnut wouldn't have reacted to the rubric cube AI that way.
 
Male Idiot said:
We still don't know what high command is. A cyborg? If he was an AI, Hatemonger and Chestnut wouldn't have reacted to the rubric cube AI that way.
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Perhaps there's a class of AI that are blessed by Space King or something similar. From the way the average High Command speaks, you get the feeling they've been doing this whole surrogate-parent thing for a hot minute.
 
Male Idiot said:
We still don't know what high command is. A cyborg? If he was an AI, Hatemonger and Chestnut wouldn't have reacted to the rubric cube AI that way.
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I think they're meant to be a dreadnought-type-thing where a guy with an augmented brain is melded with & controlling the skull remotely, possibly in a The Matrix-y fashion.
 
Hopefully High Command gets a little more focus some time in the future.

Dr. Butt said:
I think they're meant to be a dreadnought-type-thing where a guy with an augmented brain is melded with & controlling the skull remotely, possibly in a The Matrix-y fashion.
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Episode pitch: High Command and Hatemace manage to somehow swap places. High Command slowly learns to open up and has the time of his life with Captain's squad as a bludgeoning weapon... until they get swapped back because Hatemace is so good at genocide he's making all the other legions look bad.
 
My personal theory on High Command, based on what we’ve seen in the show and what the guys have said about them in the Q&As, along with some subtle hints I’ve noticed, is that they’re big skulls that tell the Psycho Warriors what to do.
 
bango skank said:
My personal theory on High Command, based on what we’ve seen in the show and what the guys have said about them in the Q&As, along with some subtle hints I’ve noticed, is that they’re big skulls that tell the Psycho Warriors what to do.
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Yeah and that's FUCKING COOL
 
Dr. Butt said:
I think they're meant to be a dreadnought-type-thing where a guy with an augmented brain is melded with & controlling the skull remotely, possibly in a The Matrix-y fashion.
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I figure that could be it, since Hatemonger said AI was the Godweapon that died out.

He talks to High command regularly, but they could just say High command is an AI Spaceking made to babysit them, and the psycho warriors just don't know and think it is a holy magic thing.
 
I also had a dream where Space King was so big that it managed to get its own section on the farms with subsections, like for art, general discussion, and for some reason schizophrenia.
 
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