Four Most INTENSE Super Soldier Transformations

" Let us know which one of these you'd join- that's a joke. You wouldn't want to join any of these. " My life for the Emperor.

My favorite super soldier has to be Doomguy, who turned into a living god

Did anyone else start watching this video thinking, “If Astartes aren’t at the top of the list then the list is bullshit!”???

"They shall be my finest warriors, these men who give of themselves to me. Like clay I shall mould them and in the furnace of war I shall forge them. They shall be of iron will and steely sinew. In great armour I shall clad them and with the mightiest weapons shall they be armed. They will be untouched by plague or disease; no sickness shall blight them. They shall have such tactics, strategies and machines that no foe will best them in battle. They are my bulwark against the Terror. They are the Defenders of Humanity. They are my Space Marines...and they shall know no fear." — The Emperor of Mankind

Allen; "You wouldn't wanna join any of these..." Me; "Such utter heresy... PURGE HIM IN FLAMES!" xD

The most intense transformation is a training montage sequence to rock music.

That was the most pg overview of the Astarte process i have heard in a while.

How did you not talk about how the space marines get flayed alive in the process?

Carter: "I read your file, Lieutenant. Even the parts ONI didn't want me to. I'm glad to have your skillset, but you can leave that lone wolf stuff behind."

Another intense super soldier program was Manticore from the Dark Angel TV series. These super soldiers were bred with advanced genetic engineering and gene splicing from the DNA of certain animals. For example, a soldier intended for desert warfare would have the DNA of desert reptiles. However, Manticore was brought down by a team of super soldiers that had escaped from the Manticore facility years earlier, including the main protagonist of the series, Max Guevera. This led to the escape of dozens of experimental super soldier prototypes into an unsuspecting world.

The spartan II program She had over 300 candidates but only 75 candidates got constricted into the program in the end in 2517

First 3, "man that sucks" Space Marines, "Hey! The apothecaries!"

Super soldiers from various franchises, all leading up to 40K's Astartes, and as usual 40K just has to be... well... 40K about it all. In a setting where more is most definitely more - more ridiculous trials of strength and 'purity', more extreme augmentation, higher procedure failure rate, more excessively gruesome medical procedures, more powerful weapons (Bullets? Bullets are just so pre-Imperial. Now, rocket propelled, mass reactive, armour piercing explosive warheads? That is more like it...), more high tech powered armour that is also sort of like medieval full plate armour crossed with a main battle tank, more delusional fanaticism and merciless ruthlessness.... ... And then the Astartes gets eaten by a giant killer space bug - the 40K cycle of life.

Question for the group: Would you sacrifice 10 years of your live expectancy but you'll be in peak physical, mental and overall health condition. So basically a toned down Captain America till you croak at 60 or so. No back problems, arthritis, asthma, allergies, cancer, heart disease, obesity, mental deterioration etc. I would.

If Marvel got their act together: Okay, after the super serum, you eat these berries from Wakanda. Now bring out the radioactive spider…

The only way the opening scene from Universal Soldier could get any more American was if they started watching Rugby and eating Haggis

Me: Reads title "Huh? Wonder how long until 40k pops..." Video: First image is of an Adeptus Astartes. Me: "Damn that's got to be a record."

A little note: Space marines don't get bone implants, they have a special organ that makes the bones grow faster and larger (it also makes their ribs flatten, overlap and eventually connect into one whole piece) and it hardens their bones natyrally via the excessive amount of minerals, including silicon, that they consume from their food.

Doesn't really do the Astartes recruitment process justice. After all, there are the other joys of the process. Starting with a lot of the surgical procedures being performed in conditions that would appall a medieval plague doctor (gotta make sure the candidate's newly boosted immune system is up to scratch) and the frequent lack of anaesthetic (pain is an illusion of the mind) before moving onto the Chapter's Librarians having a rummage through your psyche to make sure your soul isn't tainted in any way (no, they're not gentle about it), frequent brainwashing via hypnosis all the while coupled to a training regimen that can charitably be described as 'relentless'. This process takes about 6-8 years depending on the Chapter. The real clincher, however, goes to the Space Wolves with the Test of Morkai. Thanks to some Dark Age genetic shenanigans, Space Marine geneseed isn't quite compatible with the genetics of native Fenrisians. To get around this, the Wolves implant the first stage of the geneseed, then fly the candidate several hundred kilometres away from their base and drop them into the snow covered wastes surrounding said base. All the candidate has to do to pass is get back to the base. No, they don't get any equipment beyond a loincloth. Yes, the environment is mostly polar tundra. And the continent is crawling with predators that include 'wolves' measuring 6 feet at the shoulder. And that not-quite-compatible geneseed I mentioned? There's a small but significant chance of it turning the candidate into what is basically a werewolf - something that the candidate is expected to hold in check by sheer force of will. If the candidate gets back, they get the next stage of the implants which stabilises things somewhat. If they don't get back...well, it's no major loss and it makes things more interesting for the next batch. It should not be a surprise that the success rate of Astartes induction is normally quoted as being about 1%.

Don’t forget some of the Spartan IIs whose bodies rejected their augmentations were rehabilitated later, such as Jerome, Alice, and Douglas.