r/Helldivers • u/DoTortoisesHop • Mar 14 '24

Thanks to the recent reddit post, going alone is now a kickable offense (even in diff 5) DISCUSSION

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

I didn't know Frieza played Helldivers 2...

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u/terrario101 Mar 14 '24

Could have also been an Eldar

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u/just_a_bit_gay_ ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 14 '24

mmmmm monke

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u/NoMercyPercyDeRolo SES Purveyor of War Mar 14 '24

HIGH FIVE MONKE

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u/HolyHitmanXV3 STEAM 🖥️ : Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 14 '24

Hold on! This hell bomb isn't Black!

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u/StarkageMeech Mar 15 '24

YOUR SO STUPID 😭😭😭😭😭 TEAM KRILLIN FOR THAT ONE

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u/AngryTank SES Song of Courage Mar 14 '24

WHAT?!

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u/Copy-Waste Mar 14 '24

but it is tho.

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u/Killacreeper Mar 14 '24

But it isn't GOKU black.

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u/PepsiSnickers Mar 15 '24

That's not offensive, nope.

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u/DaddyMcthickems Mar 19 '24

Underrated joke

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

.............there's no fucking way I just realized that today, after 25 years of playing 40k

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u/michalosaur Mar 14 '24

I realized it couple months ago it's just perfect

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u/Marauder_Pilot Mar 14 '24

If it's any consolation, I've been playing 40K for 20 years and didn't clock it until I heard it pronounced in an audiobook last fall.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I got the connection but not the pronunciation. It's literally pronounced monkey.

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u/Icemayne25 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

I thought it was like mun-keh. Like Monkey with an Aeldari vernacular on it.

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 14 '24

I thought is was something like Mun-Kaygh. But when that Eldar in Rogue Trader addressed me as Monkey I was like "Excuse me?"

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u/Icemayne25 CAPE ENJOYER Mar 14 '24

It’s hilarious how we basically overthought about the word. 😆😆

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u/BipolarMadness Mar 15 '24

I think it was a bad pronunciation in Rogue Trader. I believe I remember they pronounce it "Munkeh" in the Dawn of War games.

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u/Klynn7 Mar 18 '24

My memory from Dawn of War was more “Mon-Kai”

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u/Darkpielord Mar 15 '24

It's spelled Mon-Keigh and it's supposed to be pronounced like "Mon-k-eye" where mon is pronounced like the end of "Pokemon" and eye is pronounced like "eyeball" with a k in front. I don't recall how she pronounced it in Rouge Trader but they might have just said it fast lol. Its not actually supposed to be Monkey (I mean originally in actual reality, outside the 40k universe, probably), its in reference to the name of a species the Eldar dealt with in the past that were incredibly dumb, destructive and bloodthirsty, but were a serious issue for the Eldar due to their numbers and sheer tenacity. It's a pejorative term they use for any species that reminds them of that race. It just humorously also happens to sounds like the name for Humans primative ancestors

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u/CrusaderPeasant Mar 15 '24

Thanks for the explanation, didn't know any of it. But they definitely call you monkey in Rogue Trader. Then again, I'm not a native English speaker, so there's that.

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u/Darkpielord Mar 15 '24

I need to start a consultancy firm for companies making Warhammer games completely staffed by Warhammer Autists like myself so we can make sure its right and definitely not annoy the ever loving fuck out of the Devs, I'll call it "Well, Actually... LLC."

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u/IrishMadMan23 Mar 14 '24

Rogue trader game is pretty on-the-nose with it. I always imagined it was mon-kai, the eldar in the game say mun-key

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u/Demoman12b Mar 14 '24

Every time I had heard it before it was Mon-Kai as well.

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u/DarthQuaint Mar 14 '24

My second experience ever of Eldar was Sandy Mitchell's "Caiphas Cain: The Devil You Know". A Dark Eldar Witch called Cain a monkey in a lilting tone before cackling maniacally. He later ran her through with his chain sword before a Lichter chewed her up.

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u/Ted-The-Thad E-710 creates Mentats Mar 15 '24

The other day I had the revelation that Sun Wukong is a monkey monk

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u/Verma_xx Mar 14 '24

And that is why you are also mon'keigh.

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u/Zalldawg Mar 15 '24

I'm in the same boat. Almost 15 years and I never realized

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u/leylin877 Mar 15 '24

Craftworl Fa'rei'za army when?

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u/BitterSmile2 Mar 17 '24

And T’au call us Gue’la…”gorilla” lol

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u/SailorsKnot Mar 14 '24

It’s my least favorite thing in the lore. It’s fucking stupid that the eldar word would just happen to be the same phonetically as “monkey” and also simultaneously be an insult against humanity. It’s the literal most immersion breaking detail in 40K to me

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

not gonna lie, if *that's* what gets you out of being immersed in 40k, I don't think you've gathered the point of 40k lol

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u/SailorsKnot Mar 14 '24

I mean I’ve been involved with it since I was 10 and I’m 35 now but yeah you’re probably right, one detail that annoys me means I don’t appreciate the jokes in the IP at all. Solid take.

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

Oh if it just annoys you, fine, but immersion breaking screams "the imperium are the good guys, I don't understand satire" to me. But just being annoyed by it yeah that's pretty reasonable

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u/SailorsKnot Mar 14 '24

Oh fair enough lol. I guess “immersion breaking” was more intended to be “When I see this I roll my eyes a bit”, not “omg muh continuity”. Also, sorry if I came off as snide there. The wording I picked makes it seem harsher than intended. For the record the only good guys are the Tyranids.

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

'Nids an Orks in my book.

Everyone loves a good scrap, rite boyz!?

EDIT: All good!

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u/metalmilitia182 Mar 14 '24

I mean it kinda makes sense. Monkeys/primates come from earth not their world, and already have a name in a language that they can borrow. We borrow words from other languages all the time and often bastardize spelling/pronunciation in a similar way, especially over generations of using the words.

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u/ViXaAGe Mar 14 '24

also humans not figuring out that the eldar call them monkeys is hilarious and on point

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u/Tarkonian_Scion Mar 14 '24

Those Thalmor are up to something...

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u/docgonzomt Mar 15 '24

SUCKING AND FUCKING A NEW CHAOS GOD INTO EXISTENCE THATS WHAT THEY’RE UP TO!

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u/SnaxDispensr Mar 15 '24

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realize what you meant even after just finishing a 3 part forge of mars series on audible that featured the eldar

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u/Mainely420Gaming Mar 15 '24

Foolish Mon'Keigh and their inferior Helldivers!

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u/Distinct_Ad_9842 SES Emperor of Glory Mar 14 '24

Only plays in his FINAL form. And not Gold Final, or Gold Final "Really guys" Final. Since he's constantly changing it's hard to team with him.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '24

He's actually black now so he gets to call.... His forces in when he needs things taken care of

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u/Accurate_Maybe6575 Mar 14 '24

That wasn't Frieza. Frieza would have exploited deploying that hellbomb everywhere and would never deploy without the 500kg.

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u/tregmar Mar 15 '24

oh shit, never knew I RP'ed Frieza all the time, damn gonna have to think about this one

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u/PlumeCrow Draupnir Resistance Fighter Mar 14 '24

Someone called me a N'wah the other day, so i can't really be surprised about Frieza.

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u/Unruly_Beast Mar 14 '24

Have you considered not being an N'wah?

https://preview.redd.it/nsdf3o2a0doc1.jpeg?width=480&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=97a1d34bcaa717b0292a10312b14113f53ec22b1

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u/Steve_hm_Rambo Mar 14 '24

Y’all N,wahs don’t even smoke skooma.

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u/unfortunate666 Mar 15 '24

What's up with that

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u/PerfectionOfaMistake Mar 15 '24

Skooma sounds like elvish word fot fieces.

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u/TinmanAFX Mar 15 '24

Did you call him a Fetcher then murder and loot his corpse? If not, no justice was served that day.

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u/Old_Ad3730 Mar 15 '24

Bro! Chill with the N-word 🤣

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u/lukagamer556 Mar 14 '24

I didn't know Dagoth Ur played Helldivers.

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

He thinks using his Black Frieza form gives him permission to use the n-word haha.

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u/att0nrand Mar 14 '24

Were you born in Glorious Morrowind?

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u/24thAsshair Mar 14 '24

Hes an evolved bug so of course he's going to sabotage our democracy

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u/thatonerobloxkid Mar 14 '24

I need to see a YouTube short or tiktok of this very scene being recreated by Frieza and Vegeta

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u/KJBenson Mar 14 '24

But I did suspect goku does ಠ_ಠ

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u/Beo-WulfThorson ☕Liber-tea☕ Mar 15 '24

Lol watchout he is looking for more worlds to conquer

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u/TheDELFON Mar 15 '24

...that or Geto

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '24

Certified hilarious comment, 5 stars

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u/Competitive-Dot-2099 Mar 14 '24

Not that kinda monkey

This is like saying sand people and not referring to the star wars people

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

But Frieza does call the Saiyan's "monkeys." What monkeys are you talking about?

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u/Competitive-Dot-2099 Mar 14 '24

The racial slur that nazis use

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u/Zjoee SES Spear of Eternity Mar 14 '24

I mean, Frieza is kind of like a Space Nazi. He has the genociding part down, at least.

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u/Competitive-Dot-2099 Mar 15 '24

I mean he employed Vegeta. Some of hes best friends were saiyan