Err, let me think.Bob the Gunslinger wrote:I have heard much outrage over the BA codex. Apparently it is the fifth codex in a row to kill an Eldar Avatar, and the war god Khaine is the new Worf. "How do we let our customers know that this Calgar Carnifex Baneblade Tau marker drone Sanguinor new character is serious business? I know! He can kill an Avatar!"
Slaaneshi daemon takes one out in Daemons codex
Calgar "surprise uppercuts" one in Marine Codex
Sanguinor kills one offscreen in BA codex.
Iyanden's gang-raped by a giant Carnifex brood in the new nid codex
Dawn of War novels and games, Biel-tans apparently neutered Avatar is killed by Isador and Gabriel Angelos, in DoW2, you kill the same Avatar twice.
Imperial Guard tanks blast one into a giant river of pollution IIRC in an Apocalypse book.
In Shadow Point the Avatar rocks out, and is pretty awesome, and in its very first (or just about) piece of background, one snaps a Keeper of Secrets in half, and telekinetically rips out a Cultist demagogues heart.
Mmm, on the balance, they do seem to be Worf of Clan 40k, I think the Iyanden avatar being ganked is the most egregious one, since it actually retcons it from leading the final victory over the invading swarm, and personally skewering the apparently invulnerable Hive Tyrant leading the attack, to it stomping forward to face off against the Tyrant, who promptly gives the nod to a Carnifex brood, who then gang-rape the Avatar, while Admiral Yriel pokes the spear of twilight at the Tyrant.