Why do Orks from Warhammer 40K have nipples?

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• Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You see this discourse come up from time to time in other fantasy settings. I remember there being quite a stir over whether lizardfolk in other media should have breasts.

  I’m not deep into the Warhammer lore, but there’s a few things I know about orkz:

  • They grow from spores like a fungus
  • They were manufactured by some other race as a sort of guardian caste
  • They have potent psychic powers that manipulate reality around them

  My theory is that the folks who created the orkz had nipples themselves. Impressionable young orkz saw that their creators were fully grown and had nipples, so maybe they thought they ought to get some as they mature. If they believe that should happen, then it’ll find a way to happen.

  Later orkz would have seen that the previous generation of orkz had nipples, so they would continued growing in this way.

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  • cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They have potent psychic powers that manipulate reality around them

    I read once that this is why they paint their vehicles red. Because they believe that red makes it go faster, and with their latent psychic ability, the red ships actually DO go faster, because they believe so strongly in it.

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    • jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My personal favorite, some kommandos believing painting themselves purple would make them sneakier because no one’s ever seen a purple ork.

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    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mhhh this has norhing to do with 40k lore, It’s just empirically proven that red vehicles go faster

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  • BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    … honestly, the most likely argument is that they saw other races and collectively assumed they ought to have nipples too (oi! why dem pink skins 'ave dots on em? Orkzz ought 'ave em too!! wauuugh) also and so they manifested them. now its just part of their genetic code and none of them ask why anymore.

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    • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Orkz are no strangers to krumpin’ gitz because they aren’t Orky enough though. Even their own clan. I find it hard to believe they’d be easily peer pressured into having nipples, let alone by other species.

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• neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So they can be milked, obviously.

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  • Fester@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have nipples, Greg.

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    • neidu2@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “I have nipples, Grelnak, can you milk me? That’s not sarcasm, it’s a request. I’m getting quite swollen”

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Well they’re an evolutionarily manufactured race, so likely the base template had them originally but post intervention they remained as a vestigial organ.

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  • otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So… A lazy creator? That tracks.

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    • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, what exactly would be the point of dedicating the effort to removing them?

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• xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Lore hasn’t clarified it officially but I suspect their nipples are just a specialized form of squig.

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• JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Boring answer:Because it’s a game made by humans. Same reason the na’vi from avatar have boobs.

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• BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What use are nipples on males?

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  • EleventhHour@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lick one and find out

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    • BreadOven@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmmm. Can’t say I’ve licked one personally, but I see what you’re seeing. I guess I meant an actual use for them. More of a rhetorical question I guess.

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  • zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Because males were females until the right amount of chemicals were introduced to the fetus. Take enough estrogen and males can produce milk and no longer have useless nipples.

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  • HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    sexual stimulation

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They actually are capable of producing a small amount of milk, it’s just that doing that requires so much effort for so little reward that feeding babies became the mother’s job after a few thousand generations of mammals being a thing.

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• rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They have been engineered by the Old Ones. So I’m just gonna assume, they didn’t think of that when the Necron and C’tan came knocking on their doors.

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  • BorisBoreUs@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    psychological warfare. First thing the Necron & C’tan did in battle was hesitate thinking, “wtf? do those monsters have nipples?”

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    • rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Causing a couple of circuits to burn out. Kickstarting the Flayed Ones.

      I am adapting this as headcanon now.

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• kitnaht@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I mean, human men have nipples and there’s no use for them there either. Evolution doesn’t get rid of things because they aren’t useful anymore, it only gets rid of things when they become detrimental to the survival of the species.

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  • skulblaka@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Orkz didn’t evolve though, they’re an engineered species.

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  • xmunk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Human men have nipples because human women have nipples and human men having nipples doesn’t significantly impair human men.

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nipples are sensitive and sensitive things can help with arousal and reproduction. That makes them useful for the population in general, even if not everyone is into it.

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• OneCardboardBox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

  Maybe they’re not mammal nipples, but happen to look like it.

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  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Is there a lore reason why that mushroom has a nipple?

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• shasta@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Where do you think orc milk comes from?

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  • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Same place you get bull milk.

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    • SinkingLotus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      With that consistency I think the milk spoiled.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For the same reason why some of the Necrons have nipples: intimidation.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do Ork nipples also cut glass?

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    • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. For Orks, it’s all about size and color.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If Batman and Robin can have nipples, orks can have nipples too!

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• Flamekebab@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Which Ork models have nipples?

  I can't say my knowledge of the current range is exhaustive, but I can't think of a single model that has one from the 1998 - 2016 era. There's a runtherd with a piercing where a nipple would be, but no nipple.

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• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because they collectively agreed that they should have them.

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• sbv@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  what if the spores get thirsty?

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