How to answer "Why space marines have ridiculous shoulder pads?".

By Professor Tanhauser, in Deathwatch

WTF is going on in this thread!?

I'm a fan of the huge shoulder pads. In universe, I like the battering-ram idea. Additionally, if you shoulder rush an enemy, you have a massive plate of armour between your head and their gun. I'm also a fan of Blood Angel nipple-plate (sounds gross when I say it that way . . .).

They are so large they break through the bounds of the 40k universe and become copyrightable.

Well, they can't copyright space marines. There is a movie called space marines. I gues they need to make their so distinctive.

Blood angel nipple plate? Ok, but i still like ''armor piercing nipples''.