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== Halo: Combat Evolved through Halo 3 characters ==

 

{{quote|"This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded..."}}

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]- The highest-ranking Spartan-II ({{spoiler|except for Lieutenant-Commander Kurt-051, eventual Lieutenant Junior Grade Fred-104, and Chief Warrant Officer Grade 5 Jorge-052}}) and arguably the best.

** After the war, he was ({{spoiler|"posthumously"}}) given the rank of "Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy", the highest enlisted rank in the UNSC navy.

* [[Born Lucky]]- Many people have stated that John is extremely lucky. Cortana even states in Halo 3 that, of all the other Spartan soldiers, she personally chose John because of his luck.

** Considering Noble Six, who is the only other SPARTAN rated "hyper lethal", and ''his'' luck...

{{quote|"He's received the highest commendations for bravery. Countless decorations for honor and selflessness. But Master Chief's greatest achievement reaches far beyond what any medal could ever hope to commemorate. For the men and women of the 26th Century, he is a human embodiment of possibility, the last Spartan standing against an angry tide. This strength of spirit is forged through his legend. Jericho VII. The Battle of Reach. High Charity. Tales rife with sacrifice and courage. Tales that grow, flourish, and inspire. And while he shapes his own history, he in turn shapes the history of all who follow. For no matter what horrors are released upon the day, they cannot match the reply of soldiers emboldened with his spirit, an army of Master Chiefs unto themselves."}}

* [[Powered Armour]]- MJOLNIR Armor, Models 4 through 6.

* [[Spear Counterpart]]: Many consider him one of [[Metroid|Samus Aran]].

* [[Super Soldier]]- Spartan-II

* [[Super Strength]]- Comes with the metal-laced skeleton, enhanced muscles, and power armor.

* [[The Stoic]]

 

 

An [[Artificial Intelligence]] and a main character in her own right, Cortana serves as [[Mission Control]], whether she's uploaded into external computers or the Chief's [[Powered Armor]]. According to [[Expanded Universe]] material, she was created as tech support (on-the-spot hacking) for a secret mission into Covenant space, but as time goes on, her role gets a lot more complicated.

 

 

{{quote|"...This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded."}}

 

 

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]- Was a Supreme Commander before being "Shamed". And considering how the Sangheili promotion system works...

* [[The Lancer]]- During Halo 3.

 

* [[A Father to His Men]]- He even treats the Grunts with respect.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: Of a sort. In the end, Rtas isn't the commander of Special Operations for nothing.

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]- Was willing to (and almost did) sacrifice humanity to protect the galaxy from the Flood, even after he had entered an alliance with them.

 

{{quote|"I would've been yo' daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence!"}}

 

* [[Your Mom]]- Sorta "I woulda been yo' daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence!")

 

* [[Badass]]: Captain Keyes is this any time he's commanding a ship. PERIOD.

* {{spoiler|[[Body Horror]]}}

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Badass Normal]]- Takes down two Brutes by herself and wounds several others with just a shotgun and a pistol.

* Sure, Why Not? - Speculation abounded that she was the daughter of Halsey as far back as 2005, based on small clues on [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive22.pl?read=649565 the Bungie forums].

 

* [[Big Good]]

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: He seems to almost reach it after the Battle of Earth, when Earth was saved from the Flood by sheer luck.

* [[Ron Perlman]]- Voice

 

* [[Affably Evil]]: He's not entirely evil, but he's so ''damn'' polite.

** According to the ''Anniversary'' edition terminal in "The Silent Cartographer," Spark was entering prolonged periods of hibernation, and when he awoke he became so bored that he started conducting experiments on Installation 04 - such as ''blowing up sections of the surface'' and throwing them into space to see what would happen to the soil and organic life on those sections.

* [[Ancient Keeper]]- Over 100,000 years old... and more than a little unhinged from the eons of isolation.

* {{spoiler|[[Anticlimax Boss]]}}

** {{spoiler|Confirmed in ''Primordium'': his data stream was harvested from the monitor with Chakas' memories, and has hijacked a human ship to search for the Librarian.}}

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]- {{spoiler|Both Sgt. Johnson and Master Chief had to learn this the hard way}}

* {{spoiler|[[Go Mad From the Isolation]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Madness Mantra]]- "UNACCEPTABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE!"}}

* [[Obstructive Code of Conduct]]- He appears to be serving the Forerunners (who are gone) and helping the 'Reclaimers' (which he doesn't do a good job at).

* [[Smug Snake]]

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]}}: {{spoiler|[[In the Back|Unacceptable]]! [[Glowing Eyes of Doom|Unacceptable]]! [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|ABSOLUTELY]] [[Curb Stomp Battle|UNACCEPTABLE!!]]}}... {{spoiler|[[A God Am I|THIS RING IS MINE!]]}}.

 

* [[Ax Crazy]]: He supposedly lost major traces of his sanity in between Halo 2 and Halo 3.

* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: Is just as much of a threat as the Gravemind in Halo 2 and Halo 3, though killing Truth before he activates the Halo rings is your top priority.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* {{spoiler|[[Cutscene Boss]]}}

** {{spoiler|And so, you must be silenced.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice]]- The Arbiter gets his revenge.}}

* [[Why Don't Ya Just Shoot Him]]: Averted. Unlike his Brute Honor Guards, he ''does'' just shoot {{spoiler|Miranda Keyes. With a [[Nail'Em|Spiker]], no less.}}

 

* [[Hidden Depths]]- While Truth is more secular and Regret is more dogmatic, Mercy is genuinely religious. {{spoiler|When Mendicant Bias tried to launch the Dreadnought from High Charity (an act which would have destroyed the city) he was cheering it on in spiritual awe.}}

* [[Ironic Nickname]]- He's a merciless bastard.

* [[Satellite Character]]: His only actual function was to show that Truth was a [[Manipulative Bastard]]. His office was literally earned by being at the right place at the right time, and his earlier position was fraudulent and [[In Name Only]] (he "communicated" with the Dreadnought's Oracle, who was inert until Truth came there in order to become High Prophet.)

 

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: It's entirely possible to just run up to his chair, avoiding his easily dodegable lasers, and punch him to death. At least on Normal or Easy. Trying this on Heroic or Legendary ''will'' get you shot to death by his dual-plasma rifle wielding [[Elite Mooks]].

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: His forces make up all of the Chief's enemies in the first five human missions in Halo2, and four of those involve chasing him down before he activates Halo on Earth, but taking him out was only a small portion of the plot to the second game.

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: If he regrets anything, up to and including what he had for breakfast, he didn't show it {{spoiler|when he was alive...}}

** Even afterward, he doesn't regret anything!

** Heck, that's the translated version. In whatever language he was talking in, it was a ''calm, steady hymn''. And a worded version of the first game's theme.

* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: Somewhat subverted. It seems he genuinely doesn't know what the Halo rings do.

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[Spanner in the Works]]: A milder form of this to Truth.

* [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb]]

 

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]: Comes with being a Brute Chieftain.

* [[Bullfight Boss]]: Trying to use anything other than hit and run tactics will get you smashed by his gravity hammer

* [[Final Boss]]: For Halo2.

* [[Flunky Boss]]: Has a few squads of brutes backing him up, though it hardly makes a difference since you have a bunch of Elites backing ''you'' up, so you're free to ignore them and just focus Tartarus.

* [[Large and In Charge]]

 

{{quote|"I am a monument to all your sins."}}

 

* [[Assimilation Plot]]- The Gravemind keeps insisting that if it's allowed to carry out its plan, true peace will result. Right...

** {{spoiler|The Gravemind is literally the consciousness of the flood, so it ALREADY had come back; it's the "same" Gravemind that was in the Forerunner-Flood war in mind, though not in body}}.

* [[Badass Boast]]- "I HAVE BEATEN FLEETS OF ''THOUSANDS''! CONSUMED A GALAXY OF ''FLESH'' AND ''MIND'' AND ''BONE''!"

* {{spoiler|[[Villainous Breakdown]]}}- In Halo 3, {{spoiler|when it realizes that Master Chief can actually finish it off forever using the Halo since Gravemind concentrated all of the Flood's forces in one location}}.

 

* [[The Atoner]]: When the Forerunners activated the rings, he regretted his alliance with the Flood and spent the last 100,000 years wishing to undo his actions. He attempted to finally atone himself by helping Master Chief [[The Ghost|offscreen]] on The Ark, even if he knows it wouldn't be enough to redeem himself.

* [[Conflict Killer]]: {{spoiler|Rather abruptly towards the end of ''Cryptum'', Bias shows up in his hijacked Halo to assault the Forerunner Capital, derailing the political plot of the book's second half.}}

 

== Halo 3: ODST Characters ==

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Heroic Mime]]

* [[The Voiceless]] -Save for grunts, groans, and a whistle

 

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]- Occasionally.

* [[Expy]]- Of [[Firefly|Malcolm Reynolds]]. Not that that's a bad thing.

* [[Supporting Leader]]

 

* [[The Casanova]]: Claims to be one. It's where his nickname comes from.

* [[Cold Sniper]]- some of the cause of his jerkass traits.

* [[Team Prima Donna]]

 

* [[As the Good Book Says...]]

* [[BFG]]: Usually carries a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Spartan Laser]].

* [[Religious Bruiser]]: Studied religion and philosophy in his college days.

 

* [[Ace Pilot]]: He's not especially an amazing flier but it does take a good deal of skill to fly {{spoiler|a stolen Phantom.}}

* [[Gosh Dang It to Heck]]- "Son of a gun!"

* [[Rookie Red Ranger]]: He's been on the squad longer than the Rookie, but is a lower rank and has less battle experience. According to Buck, he still hasn't ever seen a glassing.

 

* [[Action Girl]]- More so than Miranda Keyes.

* [[Ink Suit Actor|Ink Suit Actress]]

* [[Tsundere]]- Towards Buck.

 

* [[Actual Pacifist]]- doesn't stop him giving you energy shields, however.

* [[Defector From Decadence]]- Effectively abandoned the Covenant when they strapped plasma bombs onto the peaceful, non-combative Engineers—for no apparent reason.

== Halo Reach Characters ==

 

{{quote|"Hyper-lethal... there's only one other Spartan with that rating."}}

 

* [[Ace Pilot]]: Apparently sometime before his/her assignment to Noble Team, Six was involved in the testing of an experimental shielded Space fighter called Saber. This seems to be there to justify him/her jumping into one of these craft during the course of the campaign, and taking the fight to the Covenant in orbit.

* [[Badass]]

* [[The Faceless]]

* [[I Work Alone]]: Has a history of going solo in missions. Carter is quick to call him/her out on it.

* {{spoiler|[[Last Stand]]: How he/she dies.}}

* [[You Are Number Six]]

 

{{quote|"In recognition of...his steadfast resolution, we honor him as commander of Noble"}}

 

* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number One]]

 

{{quote|"In recognition of...her unparalleled brilliance, we honor her as the true genius of Noble."}}

 

* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number Two]]

 

{{quote|"In recognition of...his endless courage, honor him as the fighting spirit of Noble."}}

 

* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number Five]]

 

{{quote|"In recognition of...his warrior's spirit, we honor him as the merciless wrath of Noble."}}

 

* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number Four]]

 

{{quote|"In recognition of... his tireless diligence, we honor him as the vigilant eye of Noble."}}

 

* [[You Are Number Six|You Are Number Three]]

 

* [[Badass]]: Just watch the Deliver Hope trailer. Just watch it. And then consider, he took a portable nuke aboard a Covenant Battlecruiser ''while it was landing troops''. In such low orbit, it was clearly vulnerable and would be heavily guarded from within. Who knows how many Covenant he fought through aboard the Battlecruiser to get the nuke to the vehicle hanger?

* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: Died before the game took place pulling one of these.

 

== Halo Wars Characters ==

* [[A Father to His Men]]

* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]

* [[The Captain]]

 

* [[Badass Family]]- Service in the military is a centuries-long tradition in his family, dating back to World War II, so this trope must be one of the reasons why he was able to {{spoiler|waste Arbiter's sorry alien ass}}.

* [[Badass Normal]]- {{spoiler|Takes on an Arbiter and ''wins''.}}

* [[Sergeant Rock]]

 

* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: With Forge.

* [[Damsel in Distress]]

* [[Rage Against the Mentor]]: Has expressed her hatred of Catherine Halsey, whom she studied under, on several occasions.

 

* [[Voice with an Internet Connection]]

 

* [[Ambition Is Evil]]: After he got too powerful, he attempted to overthrow his clan's leaders, but got locked up. When he became the Arbiter, he gave this trope a new ugly face.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: or Plasma Sword Crazy.

* [[We Have Reserves]]

 

* [[Action Girl]]: Alice.

* [[Badass Boast]]: "[[War Is Hell]]. And I'm the Devil."

* [[The Captain]]: According to [[Halo: Reach|Halsey's Journal]], both she and CPO Mendez identified Jerome as one of the four emerging leaders of the Spartan-IIs. The other three were John, Fred, and Kurt.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Against the Elites at the end of Halo Wars. Given that those Elites were probably Honor Guards, it's just more awesome.

* [[Powered Armor]]: MJOLNIR Mark IV, which lacks the shields players are so used to.

 

== Expanded Universe Characters ==

* {{spoiler|[[Field Promotion]] At the end of Ghosts Of Onyx.}}

* [[Super Soldier]] Spartan-II

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]] Fred frequently came in second or third during tests. It's heavily implied that this was intentional on his part.

 

* [[Determinator]]: John credits him as a one, citing that Will "never failed to complete a mission."

* [[Made of Iron]]: The fact that he {{spoiler|was even able to take a few steps before keeling over and dying after taking an unshielded blast to the midsection from a Hunter's cannon}} is testament to his toughness.

** [[Super Strength]]: Actually managed to physically tear a Hunter apart. {{spoiler|And then the Hunter's bond-brother killed him.}}

 

* [[Determinator]]- Has insisted on fighting even when horribly injured (even by Spartan standards.)

* [[Flipping the Bird]]- To an Onyx Sentinel, no less.

** [[Super Strength]]

 

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: An [[Easter Egg]] in ''Anniversary'' includes a computer display at the cryo room noting her clinically dead status.

* [[Cold Sniper]]

* [[The Spymaster]]- According to [[Halo: Reach|Halsey's journal]], Linda was running an intelligence network among her classmates to spy on her teachers before conscription. Please remember that she would have around six years old at the time.

 

* [[The Big Guy]]- Huge, even for a Spartan-II

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]- How he, John, and Kelly became friends.

* [[Super Soldier]]- Spartan-II

** [[Cyborg]]

** [[Super Strength]]

 

* [[Ace Pilot]]- Mike, who learned how to pilot a Pelican at six just by watching someone else fly one.

* [[Action Girl]]- Adrianna may edge out Kelly and Linda. She didn't try to escape because she wanted to go home, she did it for the thrill.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]- Mentioned to have been out of contact for almost a year by the time of [[The Fall of Reach]]. They've been known to go under for long periods, but it's never been addressed if where they are.

 

* [[Action Girl]]- Black-One and Black-Two.

* [[Cold Sniper]]- Victor-101.

* [[You Are Number Six]]

 

* [[Commanding Coolness]]

* {{spoiler|[[Dying Moment of Awesome]]}}

* [[The Men First]]

 

* [[Super Soldier]]- Spartan-III

** [[Cyborg]]

* [[The Lancer]]- To Kurt-051.

 

* [[Broken Bird]]- ''Glasslands'' takes a look at just how awful her post-traumatic stress has become.

* [[Dumb Struck]]- Post-Traumatic Vocal Disarticulation, an aftermath of seeing 298 out of her 300-soldier force die during the mission on Pegasi Delta. {{spoiler|She finally speaks again during ''Glasslands''.}}

* [[Waif Fu]]- One of the physically smallest of the Spartan-IIIs, but being a Spartan implies that she almost-certainly has superb close-combat training. {{spoiler|She demonstrates this in ''Glasslands'' by punching out Dr Halsey.}}

 

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]- Following the Fall of Reach, the discovery of Halo and the Flood, and learning that the Covenant has found Earth, Halsey becomes convinced that the UNSC cannot win the war, and decides to take the Spartan-IIs (and as many Spartan-IIIs as she can) somewhere safe where they can wait out the war. [[Didn't Think This Through|What she failed to realize is how effective a team John and Cortana were]].

* {{spoiler|[[Hot Mom]]}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]

 

* [[Badass Grandpa]]- By 2552, he was still capable of keeping up with the Spartans, who have come to the conclusion that regular Marines and Army troopers a quarter of his age couldn't keep up with them.

* [[Bald of Awesome]]- Shaves his head.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]

 

* [[Colonel Badass]]

* {{spoiler|[[Redemption Equals Death]]}}

* [[We Have Reserves]]- In his own words, the Spartan-IIIs are meant to "trade lives for time".

 

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Bookworm]]: Kept up on his reading on theoretical physics and military history while retired.

* [[The Strategist]]

 

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]: Genuinely cares about Serin. Bear in mind, she's one of the few people Paragonsky ''does'' care about.

* [[Evil Old Folks]]: Extra emphasis on the old. She's over 90 years old by the 2552, and ''still'' running ONI.

* [[We Have Reserves]]: Authorized the creation of three companies of [[Laser Guided Tykebomb|Laser Guided Tyke Bombs]] to serve as [[Cannon Fodder]].

 

{{quote|"The peaceful one is at war without and within"}}

* [[The Atoner]]: He shares a lot of this with the Arbiter, except he {{spoiler|actually managed to defeat us in a genocidal conflict, allowing us to be de-evolved into blathering cavemen. Turns out, we weren't the selfish, racist, human-supremacists he thought we were (mostly): we were simply desperate and running away from a certain [[Zombie Apocalypse|cosmic horror]], which we defeated, but weakened us to the point that the Forerunner military could finish the job. And them killing all of us lead to the cure to said cosmic horror, dooming the galaxy when it would later resurge. Oops.}}

* [[Four-Star Badass]]

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Literally: his children served under him in the {{spoiler|war with humanity}}. They were killed, however, which gives us a hint to one of the reasons he thinks...

* [[Humans Are Warriors]]: He has some respect for us, and certainly thinks we're above the bestial image most Forerunners have of us.

* [[King in the Mountain]]: When into a Cryptum to avoid political censure.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: {{spoiler|How the Didact viewed the human race as a whole, and the Lord of Admirals in particular.The feeling is mutual.}}

 

{{quote|"I am close. Close to saving them all."}}

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Destroyed her keyship, preventing her from getting back to the Ark and forcing the Didact to activate the Halo Array. {{spoiler|Averted. Guilty Spark confirms in ''Primordium'' that she didn't die as everyone thought she did, and that he knows where she is. Not that the risks she took were any less noble.}}

* [[Star-Crossed Lovers]]: With the Didact.

 

* [[Defiant to the End]]: Despite their best effort, Forerunners couldn't get any useful information from him.

* [[Four-Star Badass]]: Under Forthencho's command, defenders of Charum Hakkor with inferior technology and dwindling number managed to beaten back attack after attack of Forerunner Armada under the command of Didact himself for years. At the end, Forerrunners were forced to use [[Zerg Rush|Brute force approach]] and accept terrifying loss to take the planet.

 

== Halo Legends Characters ==

* [[Asskicking Equals Authority]]

* [[One-Man Army]]: He wouldn't have reached Arbiter without being one.

 

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Averted, he's the only marine that survives from his team {{spoiler|and dies at the end.}}

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Just ain't my day".

 

* [[From a Certain Point of View]]: His creative interpretation of his orders.

* [[Redemption Equals Death]]

* [[Powered Armor]]

 

* [[Cold Sniper]]/[[Friendly Sniper]]: Switches between these two personalities.

* [[Jerkass]]: The way he talks to Cal-141.

 

* [[Cold Sniper]]

* [[The Quiet One]]

* [[The Reveal]]: {{spoiler|[[Samus Is a Girl]]}}

 

* [[Cloning Blues]]

* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: {{spoiler|Brutally deconstructed}}.

* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]

 

* [[Hot-Blooded]]: According to [[The Fall of Reach]], his bloodthirstiness worries his commander.

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: When he finds the Master Chief out of ammo, he ''tosses an extra energy sword'' to him so they could duel it out.

* [[Retcon]]: Was originally supposed to be Thel 'Vadamee (the Arbiter of the Halo trilogy) but this was changed in the 2010 rerelease of [[The Fall of Reach]].

 

* [[Chew Toy]]: He fits this trope like a glove. The Master Chief lampshades that this sort of thing happens to him ''all the time''.

* [[Determinator]]: And yet he has a fighting spirit [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Kamina]] would be proud of.

 

== Factions/Species ==

* [[Civil War]]: Was beginning to tear itself apart before the Covenant gave Humanity a reason to unite.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]: With the Elites during the war's last year. Also with the Flood in order to stop Truth. With the rebels of Metisette and Psi Serpentis. Subverted in ''Halo: Evolutions'' there some psychopathic Drones attempted to fool some Spartans before they attempted to kill them. It didn't end up well for them}}.

* [[The War of Earthly Aggression]]: Before the Human-Covenant war, the UNSC ran the risk of splintering under the weight of rebellions.

 

* [[Dying Like Animals]]: From believing the Covenant might be better than the UNSC to still fighting the UNSC after the destruction of the Outer Colonies.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]: With the UNSC during the Battle of the Rubble and the Battle of Psi Serpentis.}}

* [[Your Terrorists Are Our Freedom Fighters]]

 

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: The Spartans are considered freaks by some of the more bigoted humans. For the most part, though, the average human is more than grateful to see a Spartan on the battlefield.

* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Those who weren't killed received unbreakable bones, enhanced strength, senses, and reflexes. Unless you were one of the [[Body Horror|unfortunate ones]].

* [[Tyke Bomb]]

 

* [[Bio Augmentation]]: Not as strong as the Spartan-IIs, but still very strong, and with a much higher survival rate.

* [[Child Soldiers]]: Some even younger than the Spartan-IIs.

* [[Zerg Rush]]: Their main tactic in the final missions they are sent to. [[Suicide Mission|None of them]] [[Tear Jerker|are expected to survive]].

 

* [[Badass Normal]]: Considered the second most hardcore soldiers in the UNSC after the Spartans. But don't mention that last part to their face.

* [[Badass Creed]]: "Jump feet first into [[War Is Hell|hell]]."

* [[It's Raining Men]]: From orbit.

 

* [[Badass Normal]]: Can sometimes take down a stronger opponent by themselves. Especially in-game starting with ''Halo 2'' and peaking in ''Halo 3''.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: In every game. Seriously, they are supposed to be a professional force of trained soldiers and yet they drive as if they're both blind and drunk.

* [[We Will Wear Armour in The Future]]

 

* [[Government Conspiracy]]: Several going on at once.

* [[He Who Fights Monsters]]: ONI's goal is the preservation of humanity, but they do some very questionable things to achieve it.

* [[State Sec]]: They have elements of this.

 

* [[Virtual Ghost]]: ''Smart'' AI's are created from brains from deceased donors.

 

* [[Church Militant]]

* [[Defeat Means Friendship]]: It's tradition for the Covenant to allow defeated foes to join their ranks. By that way their military is getting greater by each conquest. The Grunts, the Hunters and the Drones are examples of species who had been in war against the Covenant, lost and joined their ranks as an alternative for being nuked to extinction. It's the reason why the Elites are confused about why the Prophets don't let the Humans join the Covenant as well.

* [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]

 

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: No Prophet with any sympathetic motives has been shown.

** Subverted by Halo: Cryptum, which had the Prophets as the allies of the technologically advanced ancient human civilization

* [[Planet of Hats]]: They're all devious and slippery. Back in the day (of the Forerunners), they're hat was this combined with being [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Green Skinned Space Babes]].

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: ({{spoiler|Formerly}} the Humans, The Brutes; {{spoiler|later, the Prophets}}, The Flood)

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: It wouldn't come as a surprise. After all...

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Some of them seem to consider humanity as this near the end. One even vocally wonders why the Prophets are bent on wiping them out, when they could be very useful additions to the Covenant.

 

* [[Exclusively Evil]]: At least the Elites had a few semi-decent characters...

*** Ironically, the same game's Sangheili Arbiter is a [[Blood Knight|raving whirlwind of violence]] who doesn't care for honor or pride. Go figure.

** Maccabeus (the Brute Chieftain from [[Contact Harvest]]) also seemed to genuinely worship the Forerunners without blindly following orders. {{spoiler|His nephew Tartarus has some words with him about that...}}

* [[To Serve Man]]: Will gladly eat prisoners.

 

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: Their species name is Tagalog for "monkey;" the names for their home star, home world, and one of its moons are also in Tagalog.

* [[Butt Monkey]]: They take a lot of abuse.

* [[Stout Strength]]: Stronger than they look, judging by the heavy equipment they're sometimes seen carrying.

* [[Taking You with Me]]: Suicide bombers in ''3'', ''ODST'', and ''Reach'', and the Suicide Grunts in ''Halo Wars''.

** In-universe, this happened during the Grunt Rebellion, where the Grunts showed the Covenant that they were fully capable of fighting off highly trained warriors with sheer numbers and determination. The Elites response to said rebellion? [[Defeat Means Friendship|Give them proper training and real weapons]].

* [[To Serve Man]]: During the Battle of Draco III, they were set loose to devour the prisoners the Covenant had captured.

* [[Zerg Rush]]

 

* [[Cannon Fodder]]: Less so than the Grunts.

* [[Cold Sniper]]

* [[To Serve Man]]: Confirmed in ''Halo: Evolutions'' to eat humans if given the chance.

 

* [[Arm Cannon]]: Sometimes it's a [[Frickin' Laser Beams|Frickin' Plasma Beam]], other times it's just a [[Grenade Launcher]]. Depends on the game.

* [[Bash Brothers]]: Always come in pairs.

* [[Punch Clock Villain]]: They only joined the Covenant because they lost the war against them and for its technology, and they don't have any real grudge against the humans.

* [[Starfish Alien]]

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]/[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Once one of them dies, the other one will get ''pissed'', and if playing on a level higher than Easy, you're in big trouble.

* [[Warrior Poet]]: According to ''Ghosts of Onyx'', they've been known to pause mid-battle to recite war poetry.

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: With the Elites.

 

* [[Bee People]]

* [[Fearless Fool]]: [[Word of God]] states that they're incapable of feeling fear.

* [[Zerg Rush]]

 

* [[Actual Pacifist]]

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Engineers are not portrayed sympathetically in ''Reach''.

* [[Starfish Alien]]

 

* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]]: Your first mission as a Sangheili puts you along these guys sent on a suicide mission.

* [[Invisibility Cloak]]: One of the main divisions that specialize in this, the other being Stealth Elites and Brute Stalkers.

 

* [[Blade on a Stick]]: Only in cutscenes. In-game the use Plasma Rifles or Energy Swords.

* [[Driven to Suicide]]: Some high ranking Honour Guardsman committed suicide after the Prophet's betrayal and learning the truth about the Halos.

* [[Praetorian Guard]]

 

* [[Disc One Final Boss]]: The Heretic Leader

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: They're the main enemy for the first half of the Arbiter's campaign.

* [[La Résistance]]: Broke of from the Covenant after finding the truth about the Halos.

* [[What Could Have Been]]: Originally were only supposed to consist of Hunters.

 

* [[Arch Enemy]]: The Forerunners and the Humans. The Covenant is only seen as [[Cannon Fodder]] by them, but the Elites would be counted by them as well.

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: [[Eldritch Abomination|Gravemind]] doesn't seem too clear on why people mind being consumed and transformed into parasitized zombies.

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Have likely consumed ''at least'' one other galaxy already before ever setting foot in ours.

 

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: They programed the Halos monitors to destroy anything that would threaten the Halos. {{spoiler|Which goes a long way to explaining why Spark killed Johnson in [[Halo 3]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Fantastic Racism]]: Many view themselves as better than everything else. The protagonist in ''Cryptum'' (a young Forerunner) mentions that his teachers impressed upon him that humans were little more than animals. When he meets them he sees this is not the case.}}

* [[Neglectful Precursors]]: {{spoiler|Subverted hard. They did the absolute best they could.}}

** {{spoiler|Play straight in ''[[Halo Cryptum]]''. Some would consider them [[Abusive Precursors]].}}

* [[Planet of Hats]]: Their hat would be hypocrisy and possession of massive superiority complexes. They subvert it more than other species on this page though.

* [[Precursors]]: And ''they'' had precursors of their own, whom they called... [[Shaped Like Itself|"The Precursors"]].

* [[Zombie Apocalypse]]: Fell victim to one of these.

 

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: {{spoiler|Vengeance against the Forerunner for genocide? How dare you suggest something so primitive? The Timeless One just wants to unify all the life in the galaxy, including the Forerunner and humanity!}}

* [[Foreshadowing]]: Its title as the Timeless One is a clue that it's {{spoiler|really a Flood Gravemind, echoing the main Gravemind's line about how its voice is "Timeless Chorus"}}

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]]: To the Forerunner, which are pretty Sufficiently Advanced themselves.

* [[Time Abyss]]: {{spoiler|The Timeless One was imprisoned for millions of years.}} ''Cryptum'' states that Precursor artifacts can be so old that tectonic shifts on planets unearth them after millions of years.

* [[Tomato Surprise]]: {{spoiler|Didact is rather shocked to find out that the Timeless One is actually a Gravemind. The creature's dialogue is very cryptic, but it seems that it is not a true Precursor. When Didact asks what happened to the Precursors, it tells him that those that the Forerunner defeated fled or survived in hiding, referring to them as something apart from itself.}}