Arby 'n' the Chief/Characters

Master Chief
"Chief: its kinda cool cuz liek hes saying activaet but thers one were he dosnt get 2 ear it all teh way so its liek its deactivatid / but then he saes it agen aftur so its liek its activatid agen adn tahts wat teh whoel song is abot / u no wat i m33n / its prety deep adn metallic if u think abot it"
 * Anti-Hero: and a Byronic one - type IV or V, as usual with these.
 * Ax Crazy: He threatens Greg with a knife, while yelling something about how the knife demands a blood sacrifice. Yeah, that seems pretty frigging crazy.
 * He did the same thing to Todd.
 * Big Damn Heroes: Does this in "Night of the Evading Dead" in Season 4.
 * He pulls one off again in
 * Buffy-Speak:

"Chief: halo 3 wuz laging liek shit adn it maed meh vreh :( so i quit
 * Catch Phrase: plenty.
 * NO U.
 * i r guy who gon t33ch u les0n
 * "hello i am mastur cheef lolololololololololololol" from the original Master Chief Sucks at Halo trilogy
 * In Season 6: "FREEZE / TOSERS / GET DOWN ON THE FUCKING GROUND
 * "Sad face :("
 * "remember? lol remember arbiter?"
 * Character Development: A little. Since the start of the series, he's started to care more about Arbiter, even admitting that he is sort of his friend. It is even hinted that he cares about Claire a little in "Remission", and in "Severance", after
 * Cluster F-Bomb: used to be much more frequent.
 * Completely Missing the Point of Arbiter's speeches.
 * Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: RARELY, Chief is capable of pulling random CMOAs with no warning.
 * The Ditz
 * Epic Fail: This happens often.
 * He even calls his attempt to drown himself in the toliet an Epic Fail, despite it happening in the original Master Cheef sucks series.
 * Dan Browned: this dialogue:

Arbiter: Interesting... [looks at computer screen] Do you think that has anything to do with you downloading over 700 gigs of pornography on here?

Chief: no. tahts teh computir. this r teh xbox. its sepret. DUMASS

Arbiter: Jon's hard drive isn't even that big.

Chief: dun wury. i hav........... 2 FLOPY DISKZ

Arbiter: I think you'll need a few more than that.

Chief: LOLOLLLOLLOL. u obvsly no nothign abot computirs"

"Chief: FREEZE / TOSERS / GET DOWN ON THE FUKCING GROUND"
 * Dirty Cop


 * Faux Affably Evil
 * For the Evulz
 * Insane Troll Logic: uses this frequently.
 * Jerkass
 * Kick the Dog: Occasionally has moments like this, such as
 * The Lancer: Plays this role to Arbiter in more recent seasons.
 * Leet Lingo/Rouge Angles of Satin: All the time.
 * Pet the Dog: For all his horrible acts (and his entire attitude in general), he can show signs of genuine kindness, with the most outstanding moment being in.
 * Saying Sound Effects Out Loud/Unsound Effect:
 * MAI ROFLKNIEF GOEZ SLIEC SLIEC SLIEC SLIEC SLIEC
 * And his faces.
 * Serious Business: Halo 3, as shown in the original trilogy, episode 4 and episode 18.
 * Small Name, Big Ego
 * Synthetic Voice Actor: Microsoft Sam.
 * Took a Level In Badass: After training with Arbiter, his Halo skills seemed to have radically improved.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?
 * Weapon of Choice: An assault rifle and the Spartan laser, though recently he has traded in the laser for a rocket launcher.
 * You Keep Using That Word: a few instances can be found earlier, but Season 5 introduced this as a regular character trait. Examples include "metallic", "pedestrians" and several butchered proverbs/phrases.
 * Your Mom: a frequent target of his jokes.

The Arbiter

 * Anti-Hero: he combines aspects of types I, II and III.
 * Author Avatar: As acknowledged by Jon in an interview.
 * Author Filibuster: Delivers many that speak of Jon's opinions on the gaming world and specific games. While he makes good points, the fact that the plot will oftentimes slam to a halt for the Arbiter to deliver a filibuster in his Microsoft Mike voice can be grating to some viewers.
 * Big Damn Heroes: He pulls one off at the end of the episode "Hard End" in Season 6.
 * Catch Phrase: "Sigh". Though it does not catch that very frequently.
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Don't Explain the Joke: "I see what you did there. Instead of addressing my points, you took everything that I said and turned it into a sexual joke, implying that I suck on men's penises. Fantastic.".
 * Drunken Master: Despite his drinking he still kicks ass at Halo
 * Fair Cop
 * : Has one at the start of Season 6.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: in varying proportions as time passes. Demonstrated in "Recon" (S1E2) and "Evil" (S3E12).
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Let's Get Dangerous: Arby goes up against Chief and his crew with a pistol and Sprint to prove a point. Guess who wins.
 * Also, when in casual situations online, he tends to wear Minor armor, in other more serious situations he switches to Spec Ops.
 * Only Sane Man: not until recently - there was Todd, Cortana and quite a few relatively sensible players on Xbox Live. Now it seems that most of the other gamers are portrayed with more or less the same level of intelligence as Chief.
 * Though it looks like that was subverted with Greg. As well as the online community regaining SOME brain function.
 * Pre-Mortem One-Liner: He's used two so far. One for Adam, and another for.
 * Precision F-Strike: compared to Chief, sure. Not that he swears so rarely, though.
 * Spell My Name With a "The": He usually introduces himself as "the Arbiter".
 * Straight Man
 * Synthetic Voice Actor: Microsoft Mike.
 * Unusually Uninteresting Sight: He was able to attend university, as mentioned in 'Pirates'.
 * Weapon of Choice: A DMR and a magnum.

Greg

 * Nice Guy: Don't let his appearance fool you, he just wants to hang out and play scrabble.
 * The Speechless
 * Stealth Hi Bye
 * The Speechless
 * Stealth Hi Bye
 * Stealth Hi Bye

Claire

 * Characterization Marches On: Used to have a couple of lines that depicted her as short tempered and unreasonable in Endgame, her character has since then been refined.
 * Just Friends: Doesn't return Arbiter's feelings. They still have a healthy relationship though.
 * Nice Girl: Rarely has anything scornful to say about someone, and when she does it's usually pretty accurate.
 * Only Sane Woman: Defiantly seems to be a reasonable person in a sea of insanity.
 * Shout-Out: Her full name is Claire Redfield in Endgame.
 * Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Is utterly disgusted with Trent and leaves him after learning that
 * Straw Feminist: Used to have traits of this, see Characterization Marches On.
 * Straw Feminist: Used to have traits of this, see Characterization Marches On.

Cortana
Originally one of the main protagonists of the Series.


 * Demoted to Extra: In Season 3.
 * Gamer Chick
 * Love Interest: For both Chief and Todd.
 * Put On a Bus
 * Synthetic Voice Actor: Microsoft Mary.
 * The Chick
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: She disappears after "Wedding".
 * Put On a Bus
 * Synthetic Voice Actor: Microsoft Mary.
 * The Chick
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: She disappears after "Wedding".
 * What Happened to The Mouse?: She disappears after "Wedding".

Todd

 * Nice Guy
 * Put On a Bus: Along with Travis.
 * Nice Guy
 * Put On a Bus: Along with Travis.

Travis

 * Jerkass
 * Put On a Bus
 * Shout-Out: His name is a reference to the character of the same name from another machinima "Matchmaking", made by Darkspire Films. Travis is a fan of Darkspire Films as well.
 * Put On a Bus
 * Shout-Out: His name is a reference to the character of the same name from another machinima "Matchmaking", made by Darkspire Films. Travis is a fan of Darkspire Films as well.

Jeremy "xXxSm0k3w33d4LyPh3420xXx"
One of Chief's friends on Xbox Live.


 * The Cameo: In Season 5.
 * Cluster F-Bomb

Josh Butterballs
The face of Stupid Obvious Information Magazine.


 * Ascended Extra: The only of the Season 3 characters to appear in two unrelated episodes, and to appear again in another season.
 * Fail O'Suckyname
 * Did Not Do the Research: Quite a bit.
 * Exactly What It Says On the Tin: Stupid Obvious Information Magazine.
 * Running Gag: He appears in the 8th episode of Season 3 and then in the Penultimate episode. And in Season 5 he appears in a few episodes.

Agent Boris Smirnoff
A Russian agent who is after Scott.


 * Ax Crazy
 * Glorious Mother Russia
 * In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You

Cody
A kid on Chief's friends list who was hosting custom games on infection during "Night of the Evading Dead".

Timothy
An Xbox Live player that Chief meets early in the season who calls him out for his poor skills.


 * All There in the Manual: His name is only in the credits.

TOSERS
The Terms of Service Enforcement/Response Squad, who's objective is to keep online gaming fair and enjoyable. Arbiter refers to them as Game Police.


 * Big Good:
 * Fail O'Suckyname
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Averted. After "TOSERS" (Third episode of Season 6), many people commented saying that one of the TOSER members was voiced by or sounded like Gus. However, this isn't actually true according to Word of God.

Kevin
A thirteen year old player who joins TOSERS.



Leonard
The moderator of basic division.

Stephen "Silent Strike"
A member of TOSERS who was Arbiter and Chief's first supervisor.



Mrs. McIntyre
Adam's mother.



Craig
A friend of Chief's who is an MLG. He secretly hates Chief because he isn't an MLG. He ends up having a match with Chief, which Chief wins.


 * A Date With Rosie Palms
 * Caught With Your Pants Down: The reason he loses the match is because he is busy arguing with his parents after they caught him masturbating.
 * Jerkass
 * What Measure Is a Non Super

Zanthar
An Alien that kidnaps Todd, Travis and Cortana and kills them all.

Scott
Jon's room mate during Endgame who is a wanted criminal for smuggling cocaine from Russia and hacking in online video games.


 * Big Bad: Of Endgame.
 * Funny Afro
 * Immune to Drugs
 * Jerkass

Master Chief's Clan

 * Badass Crew: Parodied.
 * Five-Bad Band: Parodied again.
 * Big Bad: Master Chief
 * The Dragon: Todd
 * Evil Genius: Kyle
 * The Brute: Tucker

Todd

 * Jet Pack: His preferred armour ability.

Kyle

 * Invisibility Cloak: His ability of choice.

Tucker

 * Whoring: His strategy for Halo: Reach.

Brent
A player who harasses people online in Halo: Reach during "Night of the Evading Dead".


 * Jerkass

Trent Donnovich
The CEO of a gaming studio who is going to have the biggest in game wedding in history.


 * Affably Evil
 * Bad Boss
 * Big Bad: Of Season 5.
 * Corrupt Corporate Executive
 * Jerkass
 * Leitmotif: here.
 * Non-Action Big Bad: He prefers to leave everything to Cameron and Cody.
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * Nietzsche Wannabe

Cameron and Cody
Two MLG players who are security guards for Trent's wedding. They reappear in Season 6 wanting to join TOSERS.


 * The Dragon: To Trent.
 * Co-Dragons
 * Gunship Rescue:
 * Jerkass
 * :, exactly, but both of them.
 * : Cameron in Season 6, thought he isn't a "sympathetic" character exactly, but he is still
 * Serious Business
 * Those Two Guys
 * Those Two Bad Guys
 * Those Two Bad Guys

Britney Donnovich and Victoria Donnovich
Trent's sisters.


 * The Dark Chick

Brian

 * Evil Genius: Played with. He's not evil, he's just doing his job as a network administrator assigned to protect Trent and his wedding.

Chaos Theosis

 * Badass Crew: A rare villainous example.
 * : All of them.
 * Five-Bad Band:
 * Big Bad: Clyde
 * The Dragon and Dark Chick: Kylie
 * The Brute: Adam
 * Token Good Teammate: Duncan
 * The Sixth Ranger:
 * Fail O'Suckyname: Their usernames.
 * Kylie's username is alright. Both Clyde's and Duncan's usernames, however, are rather sexist towards women, whilst Adam's own lengthy username contradicts his statement about another user's name in the first episode of Season 6.
 * Hollywood Hacking
 * Leitmotif: And holy crap, is it awesome.
 * Oddly Small Organization: There's only four of them.
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Except for Adam, who just wants to kill people.
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist: Except for Adam, who just wants to kill people.
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters
 * Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters

Clyde

 * Big Bad: For Season 6,
 * Evil Counterpart: He is considered this for Arbiter.
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * The Heavy
 * He-Man Woman Hater: Insults Kylie for her gender and general inadequacy after
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Having literally just finished with the above, he is immediately.
 * : Possibly.
 * The Heavy
 * He-Man Woman Hater: Insults Kylie for her gender and general inadequacy after
 * Laser-Guided Karma: Having literally just finished with the above, he is immediately.
 * : Possibly.

Duncan

 * Affably Evil
 * Compensating for Something: Implied, but said word-for-word by The Arbiter.
 * Even Evil Has Standards: He is taken aback when he learns that his fellow hackers plan to
 * He-Man Woman Hater: Duncan finds, out of personal experience, that most girls are not up to his MLG skill level. However, he does seem to actually like Kylie, seeing her as the exception to the rule, and he looks down on players with a Stay in The Kitchen attitude.
 * It seemed more like he was just asking Kylie if people with that mindset got to her, he doesn't exactly have a politically correct mindset, especially as the episode Cradle to Grave reveals that his gamer tag is "back2thekitchen88"
 * : In "Femme Fatale",
 * Serious Business: He is described as a hyper competitive MLG player.
 * Token Good Teammate:
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist
 * Well-Intentioned Extremist

Kylie

 * Dark Action Girl
 * The Dark Chick
 * The Dragon: Plays this role to Clyde.
 * Evil Counterpart: Some have said that she is this to Claire.
 * Faux Affably Evil
 * Femme Fatale
 * Gamer Chick: She considers herself one.
 * Manipulative Bitch:
 * Manipulative Bitch:

Adam
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 * The Brute
 * Cluster F-Bomb
 * Comedic Sociopath
 * Evil Counterpart: To Chief. Arbiter even calls him "the human version of Chief".
 * Kids Are Cruel
 * Knight of Cerebus: He is by far the most evil antagonist in the series so far.
 * Psycho for Hire
 * Psychopathic Manchild
 * Reality Ensues: Well, it's a complicated example. ..
 * The Sociopath
 * This deserves a bit of expansion:
 * The Sociopath
 * This deserves a bit of expansion:
 * This deserves a bit of expansion:


 * Your Mom: He uses this a lot. Not as much as Chief though.

Justin "SniperDeathAngel00"
""I'm not a pedophile.""
 * Evil Genius:
 * Insistent Terminology: It's P-DOS, not pedo.


 * Ironic Name: He is actually terrible with the sniper rifle.