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>undermined by Space Marines being the setting's Poster Boys.
>Too many Anons have a cognitive dissonance of Astartes being tragic figures but also being their Power Fantasy.
The only cognitive dissonance here is yours and your inabilty to grasp that both things cannot be split, and being a feature of 40k since day 1.
It's not even something 40k invented, it's a classic trope of war stories from the fucking Illiad to Band of Brothers.