Ben Counter
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is a writer whose Warhammer 40,000 novels include the Soul Drinkers series, the Grey Knights series, the Horus Heresy novels Galaxy In Flames and Battle For the Abyss, and the stand-alone Daemon World.
Ben Counter provides examples of the following tropes:
- A Father to His Men
- A Friend in Need
- Alien Geometries
- The Bad Guy Wins
- Bait and Switch Gunshot
- Blue Blood
- Bullet Holes and Revelations
- The Cavalry
- Combat Pragmatist
- Could Have Avoided This Plot: Soul Drinkers, Grey Knights, take your pick of any book and it's probably in there.
- Divided We Fall
- Doomed by Canon
- Duel to the Death
- Due to the Dead
- Dying Alone
- Enemy Civil War: Alaric is very good at this.
- Fearless Fool
- Feed the Mole
- Fire-Forged Friends
- Genghis Gambit
- Gladiator Games
- Gladiator Revolt
- Glory Hound
- Good Old Ways
- Heel Realization
- Humans Are Special
- I Did What I Had to Do
- I Gave My Word
- In Its Hour of Need
- Kneel Before Zod: Demanded of the Soul Drinkers and refused.
- Kill'Em All
- Last Stand: Let's just say it happens a lot.
- The Medic
- The Men First
- The Mole
- Mook Face Turn
- More Hero Than Thou
- My God, What Have I Done?
- New Era Speech
- The Power of Trust
- Pride
- Rebellious Rebel
- The Resenter
- The Reveal
- Shoot Your Mate
- Shrouded in Myth: The Grey Knights. It comes back to bite them.
- Tears of Remorse
- They Call Me Mister Tibbs
- Tome of Eldritch Lore
- Turncoat: Most of his books which feature Chaos.
- Unfriendly Fire
- Was It Really Worth It?
- We Have Reserves: Both invoked and subverted with the Imperial Guard in two seperate books.
- We Need a Distraction
- Worthy Opponent
- Xanatos Speed Chess
- You Are in Command Now