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Blood for the Blood God, often followed by Skulls for the Skull Throne and sometimes jokingly Milk for the Khorne Flakes, is a battle cry associated with the forces of Chaos who worship the Blood God Khorne, especially the World Eaters chapter of the Chaos Space Marines faction, in the universe of the Warhammer 40,000 franchise. Online, the phrase often appears in image macro captions or as a catchphrase and has inspired numerous variations using the phrasal template "X for the X God."

Origin

In the Warhammer 40K universe, "Blood for the Blood God" is a common battle cry among the worshippers of Chaos, particularly the World Eaters chapter of the Chaos Space Marines faction, who are aligned with one of the Four Gods of Chaos, named Khorne. Khorne is the god of war, murder, anger, hate and general bloodshed. His private realm in the Warp is said to be filled with rivers of blood and he sits upon a throne of skulls made from all who die in battle. Thus when a Chaos Space Marine kills someone, particularly those who follow and worship Khorne, they often cry, "Blood for the Blood God, Skulls for the Skull Throne!"

The earliest explanation of the phrase online was posted on Khorne's Wikia page,^[1] written on March 28th, 2006.

On July 3rd, 2008, a demotivational poster featuring the phrase was posted to gamereplays^[2] by Jean=A=Luc, likely marking the phrase's first appearance in a meme (shown below).

Spread

Over the following years, the phrase began appearing in various meme templates referencing Warhammer 40k, including Rage Comics and Insanity Wolf (shown below) before eventually moving into other fandoms.

The phrase has appeared in various anime and My Little Pony image macros as well. It also grew into a popular snowclone on Reddit with the format "(X) for the (X) God." Two threads have been posted to /r/OutOftheLoop about the phrase, one posted November 24th, 2013^[3] and another posted May 8th, 2017.^[4] In June of 2014, the Twitter account @godtributes^[5] devoted to posting variations of the snowclone launched, gaining over 19,300 followers.

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