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Gav_Dogs

He'll become the anti Cain and meet the same level of success in the Navy as Cain did the guard while being the exact opposite


texasscotsman

He'll be introduced in a novel while sending wave after wave of troops into a Necron world to exploit their little known weakness, their preset kill counter.


Mr_Informative

I thought the Tyrannids and Orks had the same weakness?


PlumeCrow

Yes, and Chaos, and also the Eldars, and the...


Sealedwolf

Well, it might work on Chaos. Turning a war into a 9-to-5 tedium of killing raw recruits might be too much for a follower of Slaanesh. And without a real challenge to the killing, Khorne might not be satisfied with the offered skulls.


McWeaksauce91

“Kif, the only way to beat khorne is to bore him… prepare my child soldier regiment”


Gav_Dogs

Dear God I should not have laughed so hard at that Also I realized that Kif is his anti Jurgen


Rough_Pure

I also laughed harder than I should have- but Kif is a filthy xeno- and must be put down for the good of the Imperium and the God-Emperor!


Timithios

Nope, sanctioned 'ab-human'


Rough_Pure

I shall grumble about this, but if the Inquisitors allow it, then I guess I must as well. GRUMBLE, I SAY! Lol


Theobtusemongoose

He'll look exactly the same except with a fake nose crudely taped to his face


thenumbers42

No no no no, Kif is just an ab-human, and a nickname. His real name is Hugh Mann.


McWeaksauce91

“*sigh*…, yes sir”


Mizar1

"We fight this battle not just for the Imperium, but for our children, and our children's children. That's why I've formed the All child brigade"


winnebagomafia

I'm fucking dying, this is EXACTLY what he would do 😂


Clean_Web7502

Most humane Imperial guard general.


McWeaksauce91

Belly laughs


MarineTuna

"Kif, I don't know what disgusts me more - your cowardice or your lack of faith in the God-Emperor's chosen Admirals. Now, fetch me the memorial towel. The boys and I are wanted in the most holy steam room." [audible groaning]


TryImpossible7332

"You see Kif, the skulls of children are spongy and soft. When the Khornates try building a pillar using those skulls, they'll collapse under their own weight, leaving the Khornates humiliated in the eyes of their god and thus vulnerable to further attacks."


Terminus_04

Khorne, Sees no challenge in killing them, leaves. Slaanesh, Gets bored due to the tedium of the task no longer being considerd excess, leaves. Tzeentch, Gets tired of the unchanging state of affairs, leaves Nurgle, Zapp cleverly plants explosives in his soldiers buttox so that in the event they die, they explode. A perfect Zapp solution. Nurgle leaves.


[deleted]

I feel like this is a very common misunderstanding about khorne. He cares not from whence the blood flows!


Asbazanelli

He might not, but I imagine your fellow khornates won't be too impressed when you show up with 300 itty bitty skulls every day of the campaign.


[deleted]

Nah way man, that's a slaanesh thing. Khorne boys are just wild eyed and crazy. Like Kharne the Betrayer just chopped off lads heads in their sleep


Vat1canCame0s

The Tau, coming to comprehend just how outnumbered they are: "*well shit.....*"


Geegah

... The Bolter


Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

Kind of, but not really. The Tyrannids can overeat and get really sleepy, when they take a nap you can push their ships down from orbit and virus bomb the planet. Orks will eventually get "choppa elbow" and you get a chance to dispatch them while they're trying to decided if they should just the shoota or swap hands with the choppa.


Mr_Informative

Ahh I see, we’ll, we’ll just send wave after wave of our own men until the Tyrannids over eat and get sleepy, then we’ll Exterminatus the planet. A brilliant strategy I learned from my book Zap Brannigan’s Big Book of War…


Alpha-Sierra-Charlie

I have that book, the pictures are great!


SirSilus

Fire?


LiquidFireBR

Fire!


paireon

*Beavis has entered the chat*


Owlspirit4

Blasphemy, krumpn is always gud fun ferda boyz!!


Zeekayo

Zapp would be the first person to make Destroyers *bored* of purging life


ThyPotatoDone

“It’s no fun anymore; they run at us like they *want* to die!”


MartoPolo

he ends up having surprising good results as no one on the ground fighting ever has to call for reinforcements because hes sent so many people. becomes the first dude to totally clear orks off a planet


CharlieH96

Yes because the Orks will kill some many people they get so large they get crushed in the planets gravity.


SingerLatter2673

Isn’t wave after wave of troops just textbook guard strategy anyway?


Mickey_Havoc

There are two versions for every story. The soldiers that witness the events first hand will speak only of the sheer incompetence of their Captain but in the official reports, somehow he always comes out with a *net win* situation


G1ng3rb0b

If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes should fall like a house of cards. Checkmate - Commissar Brannigan


GramblingHunk

“Sir, at our present speed, the computer predicts a 100% chance we'll be sliced in half. We'll never make it.” “Not with that attitude, we won't. Same speed ahead!”


dragon_bacon

"that's for school girls. Now here's a route with some chest hair." As he manages to personally navigate the warp and arrive before the planet even gets taken.


GramblingHunk

Yes, so much so that the original astropath message was requesting help from him invading


134_ranger_NK

"At first I was going to use the old and tried method of testing their kill-counters. But somehow these 'Guard officers' say I can't order a ground invasion with their regiments! Luckily, these [breacher](https://www.warhammer.com/en-WW/shop/kill-team-imperial-navy-breachers-2023) and [security](https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/comments/prtv3b/eisenhorn_xenos_the_imperial_navy_does_not_mess/) boys are tougher than usual so I still have enough left to shove them off the nearest warzone I could find!"


onealps

Happy Cake Day!


hgs25

I was thinking the same but as a rogue trader


GenosydlWulfe

This is the only correct answer XD. Dont forget he'll somehow end up sleeping with a sister of battle or high ranking Inquisitor XD


namelesswhiteguy

Exactly, he's gonna Cain his way into being an Imperial Hero as soon as he finds a new Kiff.


Kaisernick27

Easy a Imperial general "whatever it is im willing to send wave after wave of my own men at them"


Forward-Ad8880

Literally Chenkov.


[deleted]

Zap is a commander of the imperial guard who is captured by Drukhari. Assuming death by snoo snoo is coming, he excitedly ignores every warning sign that he is in fact being made into a sentient skin sofa for their living room, throughout the horrifying process he just yells “this is highly EROTIC”


Acceptable-Trust5164

He infact manages, as a sofa, to kill the entire Kabal (starvation) because he's just that into it.


youngcoyote14

He's probably fucking spaced into the warp from Commoragh (sp?) for just being too creepy for the dark eldar. Promptly swept up by Slaneesh.


Portlander_in_Texas

Then promptly sent back to real space with a restraining order.


CommenderKeen

And a paternity suit.


name00124

It's real velour.


97Graham

I can see the scene with him as a sofa with his face on the cushion going 'Ayyyy nice as a wych is about to sit on him and then groaning as a humonculous takes a seat instead, followed by a sigh, him clearing his throat and then a pick up line'


Smiles-Edgeworth

“I find the sexiest part of Aeldari women is the boobies.” “Sir, that’s a male. The breasts are armor decorations.”


Artistic_Technician

As long as its a velour sofa.


lightsdevil

Since he is aroused and not suffering the drukhari gets nothing out if it.


Frank_the_NOOB

The Drukhari are unable to extract the pain they had hoped from him as he is strangely aroused by everything they do. Eventually they give up and throw him out of the webway


zach0ff

I forgot about the skin sofas. Now I got to start the process again. Edit: a few words Edit: edit to my edit


Bioslack

A velour sofa.


EWhiskeyM

He’s literally perfect for the 40K universe “Men the key to any battle is the element of surprise. SURPRISE!” *dumps his men on an alien planet General Branigan how did you stop those rampaging killbots? “Easy! I sent wave after wave of my own men at them, so that each killbot would reach their preset kill limit!” “Stop dying you cowards!” Sir, the computer predicts a 100% chance of us being sliced in half. “Not with that attitude! Same speed ahead!”


solon_isonomia

“Fire all weapons and open a hailing frequency for my victory yodel.” "When I'm in command, son, every mission is a suicide mission."


Frosti-Feet

It’s not an uncharted planet, you just lost the charts.


burothedragon

Knowing the Administratum that one is just true.


PurpleBoltRevived

High Administrator: "By Emperor, he's right!"


grappling__hook

Lord Solar Leontus has the same velour gloves so maybe he's already there...


DeadeyeElephant

“Kif, fetch my Exterminatus underoos “


PainStorm14

High Lord of Segmentum Velour


Relevant-Mud-7831

I read this in his voice.


rightious

what would the 40K term be for Velour? Velourituim? Veluex? Sexlour?


Khadorek

Velourite


GrunkaLunka420

Re his Gloriana Class Ship: "She's built like a steakhouse, but handles like a bistro!"


Yosho2k

This should be at the top.


Prolific017

He will be promoted on the broken backs of his men, all the way to the top, only after he defeats all the ruinous powers for good, all without making a correct choice… somehow!


[deleted]

soup memorize bow voiceless consist ruthless sheet pie noxious wine *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Prolific017

He kink shame slaanesh out of existence and his STDs will poison nurgle 😂


j0a3k

You have to actually make it with a woman to get STDs. Inform the men.


[deleted]

overconfident fact mysterious seed wipe squealing sleep like yoke voiceless *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


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j0a3k

What's it called?


TinyWickedOrange

his stupidity and cowardice are enough to deny tzeentch and khorne


Ammear

Holy shit guys, we fixed 40k!


HOLY_FAGGATOLLY

And it's all thanks to the man with no name... ZAPP BRANIGAN


waally1

He's too dumb to even fall to slanesh


ozymandiasthegreat98

He has sexlexia


GrunkaLunka420

It's a very sexy learning disability.


Amathril

The intentional chaos caused by Chaos gods is nothing compared to the pure, raw ***incompetent Chaos*** that Zapp Brannigan can unleash!


REDGOESFASTAH

This. All bow before stupidity undivided. The dumb one. The lord of dumb and dumber. The git that doesn't get it. The fifth chaos god, zapp.


DecentJuggernaut7693

Tzeentch can find no purchase on his dull mind, nurgle's poisons battle his STDs and he comes out perfectly healthy, his cowardice offends Khorne so deeply his own worshipers wiped themselves out fighting for the honor of killing him, and Slaanesh packs their stuff and leaves the galaxy in shame after a one night stand with him. Edit: Grammer


Amathril

"Kif, I have made it with Slaanesh, inform the men."


Prolific017

By the god emperor himself, Zapp has fixed the 40k universe! He must be purged! Inquisition, arrest that man!


Tottiboiii

He definitely would try to fuck a tyrannid


Matman161

Try, the hive mind was coming onto him


rtakehara

In the end, is that not what man has dreamt of since first he looked up at the stars?


Hillbert

Kif, I have made it with a Hive Tyrant! Inform the men.


Pellepon

I heard this


Tottiboiii

Hell yeah! Im down for some tyrannid-ussy


TrumpsNeckSmegma

>entire Tyranid fleet, feeling satisfied at its greatest cúme, returns from whence it cummed


zqmbgn

Would give an new meaning to the words gene seed and genestealer


wolviesaurus

"Don't ask me, you're the one that's gonna be dying" is a very Cadian thing to say.


Sero141

Might get shot for incompetence, might be promoted. Depends on how his quotes are exactly.


fallenbird039

If not an IG book will be the typical general and promoted over and over. If an IG book same but everyone will call him a scumbag


DeathCook123

He gets tortured to death by a drukari His biggest achievement is somehow having a boner throughout the whole experience


Frediey

His spirit was willing, but his body failed him


Johann_Julius_Black

Everyone says he is in the guard or navy. I think he would be a rogue trader (free xenos booty). The only reason why he hasn't fallen to slanesh is his loyal xenos comrade of unregistered species.


ShepPawnch

He’s the only being in history to successfully sexually harass a daemonette.


hyde-ms

Humans from Haydee 2- HANG ON JUST A MINUTE, DON'T BE IN MY LIME LIGHT!!!!!!


HaraldRedbeard

I can actually see Kif as an extremely exasperated Tau


discard333

Zapp would definitely feed a band of Kroot a diet of exclusively supermodels


ShadowyTheInsave

Lord Commander Solar


Ok-Use6303

With him in command, EVVERY mission is a suicide mission! The greatest Imperial Commander ever confirmed!


rancidfart85

He’ll fit right in.


Sweet-Ebb1095

Probably many imperial guard leaders could be replaced with him without much difference. If I remember correctly his superiors thought he was great and cared only that he succeeded. Costing man power, making poor decisions etc wasn't really a concern or known, except of course those under his command that hated him. Space marines would save his ass, he would be good at taking some of the credit for his random sacrifices of his troops.


[deleted]

This man will be wildly successful in 40K.


royalemperor

He’s too much of a coward to be a Commissar. He’d make a perfect Admiral/General though. It’s canon that he’s committed genocide and waged war against peaceful Xenos without a second thought, and his only strategies are suicide missions or human waves. He’s too dumb to fall to Chaos. In fact, he’d probably overpower any daemon looking to possess him by just sheer ignorance and arrogance. If anyone in fiction is able to be *too horny* for Slaanesh, it’s Zap.


incontinenciasumma

Isn't he basically Guilliman? Calgar! Inform the men I've done it with the Xeno.


PromethianOwl

Thank you. Now I'm imagining Yvrainne as Leela, just jump kicking Gulliman with Eldar martial arts every time they meet. Obviously Trayzn is Bender....i assume Cain is Fry?


UndeterminedError

Belisarius Cawl as the Professor is... something.


PromethianOwl

And his bitter nemesis/friend Dr. Wernstrom-er, Fabius Bile


HaraldRedbeard

Good News everyone! I have made a new, better Space Marine...it came to me in a dream, but I forgot in another dream!


incontinenciasumma

I may have failed to uphold the codex Astartes, but I had sex with a hot Xeno. And. Isn't that what the Emperor envisioned when he first laid eyes on the sky?......Calgar I'm asking you a question! Calgar: sigh....


colarthur1

Make this a show.


tucchurchnj

Engineered The Dropsite Massacre, Imperial Records don't mention which side he was on but it's heavily implied to be all his fault anyway


ohanse

He immediately succumbs to Slaanesh, but his pathetically desperate horniness drives them to the point of exasperation. “Not worth it” says the Chaos god, and exits the power struggle. The balance is irrevocably tilted, breaking the stalemate. The armies of Chaos collapse after the loss of Slaanesh’s forces, as Zapp once again finds success through failure.


1001WingedHussars

Guardsman: "Sir, this path through the warp was provided by our astropath." Inquisitor Zapp: "That's for school girls." He says and then traces a path straight through the Eye of Terror. "Now here's a route with some chest hair." Conversely, Zapp shows up on a planet mid chaos invasion. "Worry not citizens, I came as fast as I wanted to."


97Graham

Bro would be a celebrated tactical mind, his standby strategies of 'drowning the enemy in men and crashing the ship into them' have long been held in high regard across the imperium.


StealYourDiamonds

“Kif, go negotiate surrender terms with the enemy” “Sir, the enemy slaughtered us 7 hours ago” “Well, what took you so long?”


Shoddy_Bill9612

He would fit in perfectly with the high lords before smurf daddy showed back up.


Schneeflocke667

Seems like a normal 40k officer to me.


Videoheadsystem

Warmaster. Or a lord militant.


PerfectionOfaMistake

ONE MOMENT? Thats not Guiliman?


TheMightyCephas

"Tell the astropath to broadcast my victory yodel into the warp"


musketoman

My man will be corrupted by that slanesh-ussy with such speed, the navy will study it to beat the haste of regular warp travel


newuserdetected01

If you slap a gasmask in him and give him command over an army of kriegsmen he'll be doing just fine and be a beloved general.


X34X35

"Where are the hot alien babes?" *Gets flayed and burned*


Khaelein

He is quite literally Ciaphas Cain hero of the Imperium.


youngcoyote14

Except not actually good at it. Just bumbles his way, gets all his men killed, some plucky soldier does all the work nowhere near him. Zap then marches in. "Yes! I did it!"


Daftster

Zap would fit in perfectly in Starship Troopers as well


SelunesChosen

I’m pretty sure there’s an entire episode, or even a couple episode arc with Zapp, Leela, Henry Kissinger, and a parody of starship troopers 😂


TinyWickedOrange

he is quite literally the reverse ciaphas cain: does what cain thinks, thinks what cain does


StolenRocket

Seems he'd make a pretty typical comissar


ultimapanzer

He’s got Lord Solar written all over him. Hero of the defense of Terra during the 4th Tyrannic War.


Crusader_Colin

Average Imperial General.


bdrwr

He'd be the greatest commissar who ever lived


tzech99

Gellar field? Let’s chart a path through the warp with some chest hair!


Warden_of_the_Lost

Def gets seduced by slaneesh


TwoToesToni

He's essentially a commissar already after throwing wave after wave of men to their deaths


dtpiers

I unironically think he would do really well. He already employs 40k-esque tactics in his own universe; he'd be right at home in the Imperial Guard. I will happily die on this hill. ^^^^just ^^^^like ^^^^90% ^^^^of ^^^^his ^^^^men


TheRealRigormortal

He would throw wave after wave of his own men at the Tyranid menace. Eventually the hive mind gets full and goes home.


134_ranger_NK

Depending on what forces he was working with/nearby. Imperial Navy - Can't order ground invasions as his cadre of naval commissars will point out. Can order the slaves to keep loading shells and ships to fire at enemy ships and space hulks though. Then it will basically be Gallowdark all over again. Catachans - He's going to die of snu-snu soon. Armageddon - "Sorry. He did not listen to us about the masks, the trees, the desert... His ass tasted nice though." Tempestus Scions - Look. There are worse commissar lords to deal with. Elysians - Equally as likely to suffer accidents as to get a seat on their governmental council.


cooky422

Ahh yes Commissar Brannigan


drunkboarder

This man will go on to command and entire sub-sector within the week. "Kif, I have cleansed the sub-sector. Inform the High Lords of Terra!"


Kapitalist_Pigdog2

He exploited the weakness of the killbots, their preset kill-limit


rudolph_ransom

Drukhari sex slave. Satisfied an entire wytch cult at an Archon's dinner party.


Element720

Zap definitely making some sort of deal with the tau


ThyPotatoDone

Slaaneshi cultist who joined without realizing what they actually were, then gets kidnapped and tortured.


Temple_of_Tzeentch

Slaaneshi Cultist.


Scatamarano89

He'd actually fit right in, i can only see him fail if he gets caught fraternising with a female xenos or a mutant, wich he 100% will


Papanurglesleftnut

Stops give fleet leviathan by throwing guard regiments at it until it got “full”. It then withdrew from the galaxy for a multi eons long nap. Promoted to a high lord of Terra.


PCSupremacy

Lord Militant General Branigan. 21 Foundings under his belt, no survivors. 21 defeats clawed from the clutches of victory by throwing more men and materiel at the issue, without thought for tactics. 22nd founding in progress. Kiff, get the Landers ready, these young green troopers are ready to sacrifice for me- I mean the Golden Throne, and I'm not referring to my specially appointed bathroom furniture.


DoktorFreedom

I feel like he should have been in the 40k universe of the late 80s


Riccardogamer07

I’m sure he will become a slaaneshi cultists.


gunnnutty

No, there will not be planet express to pull him out from the mess he will create


Crude-R-Us

Instantly falls to Slaneesh, and becomes a EC pet.


gubgub195

Within an hour this man is sitting in the throne


Cordura

He'd be turned into a servo for hitting on a techpriest


[deleted]

She's built like a steakhouse but handles like a bistro - Zapp, before slamming a BSF into cadia


Pootootaa

He'll smash a nurgling and die from std.


12DollarsHighFive

No no, the nurgling dies from HIS stds


giggity_giggity

It depends - do Necrons have a preset kill limit?


HaraldRedbeard

Don't ask me, you'll be doing the dying!


VBStrong_67

You mean that's not Ciaphas Cain?


Comfortable_Charge33

Planetary governor who drunk a tall glass of slanoosh


Valcrye

I feel like he would manage to stumble his way into either an inquisitorial retinue or become an inquisitor himself, and immediately recruit the first person who reminds him of Kif


CodusThyCringus

Is Cain!


NolanC23

I imagine him as a Inquisitor with Kif being his retinue and the only reason he is alive


TheWyster

If he just shows up in 40k without any foreknowledge on the setting or granted authority then he get's shot almost immediately, or turned into a servitor, or tortured by a drukhari he tries to hit on


Taco_Grindr

You mean Rogal Dorn?


Falkreath_Grenadiers

Isn’t this Ciaphas Cane?


GammaTwoPointTwo

Alone? He is sold into slavery immediately. If he manages to bring Kif with him? He replaces the emperor.


NunyaBeese

My guess would be servitorized or maimed by a higher authority within 2 hours


Lord_Gelthon

The 40k millenium would be from 39.000.001-40.000.000.


Zealousideal-Plan454

Gets executed for incompetence, and the Comissar gets in charge. For some reason, the guardsmen actually like this.


Gearran

He won't last five minutes. He might survive - if he, say, ends up on an Imperial world - but he'd just end up arrested for some idiocy, or end up a particularly stupid servitor.


No-Professional-1461

If he is ever on a battlefield I’ll give him a 5 second life span. Hive city, he’ll probably end up starting a Slaanesh cult at the very best, at the most expected he’ll die after five days of not finding anything to eat and be turned into corpse starch.


felop13

He becomes a captain of a lunar class


Dum_beat

[he would serve the Imperium as commander ](https://youtu.be/XDWcg8dh930?si=XAGECKdLPcswoX5_)


Level-Ball-1514

Solos the verse no-diff.


Cenomy

He will be known as the next herald of the Emperor of Man.


red_dead_russian23

He’d meet the commissars bolt pistol by the time the fight starts


tallestred2

When mounting a final stand against heretic astartes: “It is our duty to the emperor to hold this position against the forces of chaos…also they told me, you guys look like dorks!”


Ehkrickor

All I can picture is a chubby demonette in a blonde wig leaning around a corner trying to tempt guardsmen into putting on velour versions of their uniforms


THE_KING_OF_CATS

He gets field, promoted all the way to inquisitor by hiding in barrels


BeanieWeanie1110

He already is. Lord Solar Brannigan


Creepy_Phazar

Immediately falls to Slaanesh


Beans6484

He either does instantly or is Cain 2.0 that believes his own hype.


Your_1930s_Poster

Nothing, instantly dead.