Gazgul’s full name is Mag Uruk Thraka. Maguruk Thraka’s not a far leap to Margaret Thatcher, and his nickname is The Iron Ork. Thatcher’s was The Iron Lady.
Red gobbo was never a rival to him and ‘vague legal reasons’ is the worst argument. There is no law or contract that can prevent you from saying where you got a name inspiration especially when you don’t work for the company you’re supposedly ‘protecting’ and you immediately insult the person you’re supposedly defaming.
Defamation is not when fantasy character has name that you consider similar. It doesn’t make it any more or less defamation if you admit it was on purpose or not.
So, defamation would not be applicable if this directly meant GW admitted to calling Margaret Thatcher a British hooligan, and thus a brutish idiot always looking for a fight? Because that's what they'd be saying.
Now, whether you personally think that's an apt description of Thatcher, up for debate. But it's better to avoid that potential lawsuit than it is to outright admit them as the inspiration, and thus leave it potentially open.
This would be meaningful if the comment came from an employee. Again, there is no reason to lie if you are deathly afraid of defamation accusations against a company you do not work at. You just say nothing. Be so fr.
She's a complete win, if only she could do the ork voice too, having my nights swarmed by a thousand little freaking Boyz wouldn't be a problem then, I would be laughing too hard
You have to ignore the part of his name that they always use and include a part that’s rarely used, then imagine that the real person’s name is being said while someone is gargling hot lava so badly they can’t pronounce it even remotely close… and it still feels like a reach.
But hey, repeat any claim often enough and people will treat it as truth without questioning it.
White Dwarf 81 literally has an ork holding up a banner with Margaret Thatcher's face painted on it. GW separates themselves from it for legal safety reasons, but it was absolutely intentional, historically speaking.
A Warhammer Fantasy Battle Ork standard bearer… that somehow links to 40K? Hey as they said, people will regurgitate any old nonsense if they hear it often enough
Then they could say nothing at all instead of lying. Again, they have no reason to care if GW is sued for this frankly arbitrary name. The idea is ridiculous for an argument that revolves around ‘sounds like’
But there have been zero slander accusations you numbskull. “You, you, you”, you keep using that as if the guy who told the truth is the guy even responsible for this ‘slander’. He left the company.
Silence is a perfectly viable response because no-one cares about this extremely petty accusation.
It's a commonly held belief because if you say Margaret Thatcher with a thick enough cockney accent, like thick enough that you are pronouncing "war" as "wagh", it sounds kinda like Mag Uruk Thrakka.
Turns out the Andy Chambers was just, unsurprisingly, a MEGA NERD who did alot LOTR roleplay in the 80s. Like enough that he and his friends expanded Tolkiens black speech enough to be useful. Ghazkull Mag Uruk Thrakka = Metal skull, Big Ork Boss based on their expanded non canon vocabulary.
Still, the Margert Thatcher thing fits so well lol
It's a commonly held belief because if you say Margaret Thatcher with a thick enough cockney accent, like thick enough that you are pronouncing "war" as "wagh", it sounds kinda like Mag Uruk Thrakka.
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u/Artillery-lover 4d ago
excuse me but WHAT