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“There’s Nothing Here but Worthless Gold!”

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“There’s Nothing Here but Worthless Gold!”
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Published on: April 26, 2025

The Great Heist Gone Wrong: Chaos Lord’s Misadventure in a Custodes Warehouse

The Great Heist Gone Wrong

This meme perfectly captures the tragicomic fate of a Chaos Lord who thought he had struck gold—literally. After smashing into a Custodes overspill warehouse, expecting relics, sacred armor, and forbidden weaponry, he is instead greeted by shelves stacked with meaningless trinkets. His face screams pure betrayal as he clutches a random gold bar, realizing with horror, “There’s nothing here but worthless gold!” Meanwhile, the background is chaos, with Custodes leaping through shattered glass like golden avenging angels. The intruder alert blaring only adds to the hilarity of his doomed heist. The poor guy just wanted a Daemonblade, not a trip to the Emperor’s angry jewelry store.

When You Rob the Wrong Place

The best part is how the meme pokes fun at the Custodes’ casual relationship with absurd luxury. To the Adeptus Custodes, gold is as common as dirt, barely worth noticing compared to their true artifacts of power. The Chaos Lord’s dreams of exotic loot are crushed under the reality of fighting immortal golden giants in a glorified storage closet. His expression says it all: ultimate regret, existential crisis, and the sudden realization he is very, very doomed. By the time the Custodes descend on him like a glittering hammer of wrath, the real treasure will be the few seconds he has left to scream. Truly, this is what happens when you forget that in Warhammer, everything is either a trap, a corpse, or both.