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* [[Badass]]

* [[Fire-Forged Friends]]- With the Chief during Halo 3

** [[Gargoyles|And Goliath]].

* [[Large Ham]]- Becomes a bit of one in Halo 3. Not as over the top as the rest of his people, though.

** {{spoiler|Played straight in the first game. He is the first major character to die in Halo: Combat Evolved. At the end of the game, Cortana very clearly says Master Chief is the only survivor after scanning the entire system for life, and the logical point for Johnson to have died (given that every single other person with him at the time was killed or captured) is fairly early on. His death was retconned in Halo 2, though the game canon has never given an explanation.}}

** {{spoiler|It's explained in Halo: First Strike that both Sgt. Johnson and a few others managed to escape the wreckage of Halo on a Pelican, and that he was able to avoid being infected by the Flood due to having "Borren's Syndrome," which is a ONI cover-story for the fact that his Spartan-1 augmentations (see [[Badass Normal]] entry above) resulted in a condition which provides for him not to be infected by the Flood.}}

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: {{spoiler|Miranda's}} death seems to be this for him. He no longer fights the Brutes, or mocks Truth. {{spoiler|He doesn't resist Truth using him to light the Halos, and after the Flood has beaten the Covenant he doesn't deactivate The Ark. He cradles Miranda's body, and the Master Chief has do it instead.}}

* [[Determinator]]- He has his moments of this.

** {{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|[[Evil Brit]]}}

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

 

'''The Prophet of Truth'''

* [[The Chessmaster]]

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

 

'''The Prophet of Regret'''

* [[General Failure]]

* [[Glass Cannon]]: He's fairly weak by himself, but the cannon on his gravity chair is almost always a one hit kill.

* [[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.

 

'''Tartarus, Chieftain of the Brutes'''

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

* [[Drop the Hammer]]

* [[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]]

 

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

** There's not even a way to properly convey how much hate and anger is infused in that phrase in text. Even more amazing is that it's not bluffing...

* [[Blue and Orange Morality]]: It's highly likely that the Gravemind doesn't even consider anything it does to be truly evil.

** While that is never explicitly said, there are many allusions to it, particularly after it becomes clear to it that it has lost:

*** Although, considering what we find out in Cryptum, {{spoiler|he might just want revenge for the "sentence" that we "imposed"}}.

*** Primordium straightens it out ''in the most non-straight screwed-up way possible''. Apparently, {{spoiler|his war against the Forerunner's was punishment for either assuming a title they weren't meant for or handling it horribly, and he now wants to test humans' potential as leaders of the galaxy... so the Flood can consume them. Honestly, any conversation with him is probably a conversation with both the Precursor and the Flood consciousness, so it's guaranteed to be freakin' complicated.}} We can only hope the last novel clears it up.

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]: With the Chief & Arbiter, to help stop Truth. It doesn't last.}}

* [[Evil Laugh]]: In Halo 3, {{spoiler|right after Truth is killed}}.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Chillingly]] [[Fridge Brilliance|evident when you consider that it always speaks in verse. Some poets spend years going over individual poems, where as the Gravemind is so intelligent it can improvise every word it speaks into a rhyme.]]

* [[Time Abyss]]

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: it used this temptation on Mendicant Bias on how they were the superior races unlike the Forerunners and so have every right to conquer them. It worked, but Bias would later [[My God, What Have I Done?|regret]] [[The Atoner|the]] [[Redemption Equals Death|offer]].

{{quote|'''Gravemind:''' I have the memories of many poets far beyond your limited human culture. And I have the quickness of intellect to compose all manner of poetic forms as I speak rather than labor over mere words for days.}}

* {{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 Smart Guy]]: Good with computer systems and a brilliant tactician.

* [[The Lancer]]: Best friends with Carter, and second-in-command of Noble Team.

* [[The Squadette]]: The only female member of Noble Team (unless you make Noble Six one).

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

 

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

* {{spoiler|[[Famous Last Words]]: "Tell 'em to make it count."}}

* [[The Heart]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]: manually detonates an improvised "slipspace bomb", taking out a Covenant Supercarrier. [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog|Then the main Covenant armada arrives at Reach...]]}}

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V.]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Due to his "audacity" in the field, Emile's superiors are often reluctant to deploy him against human insurrectionists.

* [[Blood Knight]]

* {{spoiler|[[Defiant to the End]]}}

* [[Knife Nut]]: In the trailer, his only significant role is sharpening his knife, which is ordinarily visibly strapped to his shoulder, on his armor. It seems to be his Signature weapon, alongside the Shotgun.

* [[Kukris Are Kool]]

* [[Military Maverick]]

* [[Psycho for Hire]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: How he died, ferrying a portable nuke to a Covenant Battlecruiser and letting it detonate with him still aboard.

* [[Leeroy Jenkins]]: Colonel Holland considered him to be a blatant example. He was wrong.

* [[You Are Number Six]]

 

'''Arbiter Ripa Moramee'''

* [[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.

* [[The Dragon]]: To the Prophet of Regret, much to the Covenant's warriors' grief.

* [[General Ripper|General Ripa]]: [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Sorry]].

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]: Oh yea. Just saying the wrong words or advices will make him pissed.

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

* [[Badass Crew]]: They're Spartans, so its a given.

* [[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.

* [[It Has Been an Honor]]: {{spoiler|Jerome to Sergeant Forge when the latter sacrifices himself.}}

* [[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]]}}

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: Her initial justification for the Spartan-II Program.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Her actions in the Spartan Program and her often cold, dismissive exterior may throw people off, but she is a genuinely caring person struggling with her own morals.

* [[Omnidisciplinary Scientist]]- Over the course of the series, she's shown herself to be an expert in medical science, artificial intelligence, xenoarchaeology, mechanical engineering, and quantum physics. You name it, she's probably an expert in it.

* [[Parental Substitute]]- To the Spartan-IIs

* [[Sore Loser]]: She does not take kindly to being intellectually bested.

* [[Teen Genius]]- Was working on her second doctoral thesis at age 15.

'''Vice Admiral Margret O. Paragonsky'''

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

* [[Ice Queen]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Planned on telling Halsey that her hated rival Ackerson had died a hero, but only ''after'' informing her of {{spoiler|the death of Halsey's daughter Miranda}}.

** Which helps add to her being so unlikable: while Halsey did all of her controversial projects fully dedicated to the welfare of humanity, Ackerson was all about his own personal gain. The reason why Parangosky likes him better, though, basically boils down to Halsey being smarter than her.

* [[The Spymaster]]: The head of ONI.

** Not only that, they're planning a civil war by helping an uprising against the Arbiter, who is traveling around the entire homeworld to different states convincing them, among other things, to let the war with the humans go because they have more important things to do. It's the equivalent of Country A helping kill the primary candidate for Country B's leadership whose foremost policies call for peace with Country A, when the runner-up is a blatant anti-Country A supporter.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: {{spoiler|1=Gives one to Catherine Halsey at the end of Glasslands over her use of flash-cloning the SPARTAN-IIs and forcing their parents to watch them die. Although even Halsey's supporters would agree that she needed calling out, the fact that Paragonsky has authorized just as horrible, if not worse, things makes it a particularly twisted form of [[Even Evil Has Standards]] to outright [[Hypocrite|hypocritical]] at worst.}}

 

 

* [[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.

* {{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 Federation]]

* [[Kinetic Weapons Are Just Better]]

* [[Rock Beats Laser]]: At least on the ground, the humans' ballistic weapons are somewhat more effective than the Covenant's plasma weapons. In space, it's different.

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

 

'''Insurrectionists'''

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

* [[Ironic Nickname]]: Insurrectionists were called "Innies" by the UNSC, despite desperately wanting "out" of the UNSC.

'''SPARTAN-II Program'''

* [[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.

* [[Celibate Hero]]: One of the side effects of the augmentations was that the Spartans have a lack of interest. The only Spartan to actually try was Maria-062.

* [[Child Soldiers]]: They were abducted at ages 6 or 7, and were given their augmentations at age 14.

'''UNSC Marine Corps'''

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

* [[Redshirt Army]]

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

 

'''Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)'''

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

* [[In-Series Nickname]]/[[Fun with Acronyms]]: ''Oni'' (as in, the Japanese demon); also, "Spooks"

* [[Propaganda Machine]]: The whole purpose of ONI Section II.

* [[Right Hand Versus Left Hand]]: Oh, god, they play this hard.

* [[The Spook]]

'''The Covenant'''

* [[Church Militant]]

* [[Death From Above]]: Glassing.

* [[The Empire]]

 

'''The San 'Shyuum (Prophets)''' (''Perfidia Vermis''<ref>Worms of Treachery</ref>)

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

* [[Cool Chair]]: Gravity thrones. The higher you ascend in the Covenant hierarchy, the cooler your chair gets.

* [[Heavyworlder|Heavyworlders]]

* {{spoiler|[[Heel Face Turn]]}}

* [[Interservice Rivalry]]: With the Brutes

* [[Large Ham]]: Just about every single one of them.

* [[Laser Blade]]: Energy swords, which are just as much symbols of rank as they are weapons.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Sangheili consider all names meaningful, with the more names you have meaning the more important you are. They actually forbid the Grunts and Jackals from having more than one name, and are disgusted by humanity's cavalier approach to naming things.

* [[Not So Different]]: With the Humans. Some of them even lampshade it. {{spoiler|That is probably the reason why the Sangheili-Human Alliance worked better for half a year than 3,400 years of alliance with the Prophets as the Covenant}}.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]

* [[Space Romans]]: Think Imperial Japan [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]]!

* [[Nail'Em]]: The Brute Spiker, a rifle which shoots heated spikes at its opponents.

* [[Nerf]]: Justified. In ''Reach'', only the Chieftains have energy shields, and those are relatively weak compared to the shields used by similarly high ranking elites. On the other hand, more of them carry Gravity Hammers, and their Spikers pack a bit more of a punch.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: A particularly psychotic type.

* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: When the members of a Brute pack are killed, the last one usually goes nuts and tries to bash you with their hands.

 

'''The Unggoy (Grunts)''' (''Monachus Frigus''<ref>"Cold Monk"</ref>)

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

* [[Cannon Fodder]]

* [[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.

* [[Remember the New Guy?]]: The [[Badass|Skirmisher]] subspecies has apparently been in the war the entire time.

** According to Bungie, nearly every Skirmisher left was stationed on Reach during the battle. And we all know how that turned out.

* [[Space Pirates]]: Not all, but a bunch of them are privateers.

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

** They're about as strong in ''Reach'' and have higher ranks....and [[Oh Crap|are seen]] [[Demonic Spiders|in packs.]]

* [[The Brute]]: ''Not'' [[Dumb Muscle]], though.

* [[Elite Mook]]

* [[Fake Ultimate Mook]]: In ''Halo 1'', they were pushovers.

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

* [[The Worm That Walks]]: One of the few non-evil examples. They're colonies of the eel- or worm-like Lekgolo, with each colony having its own collective consciousness encompassing its component Lekgolo.

 

'''The Yanme'e (Drones or "Buggers")''' (''Turpis Rex''<ref>"Dishonorable King"</ref>)

* [[Heavyworlder|Heavyworlders]]: Surprisingly; one theory is that they may have actually evolved on their twice-Earth-size planet's Mars-sized moon.

* [[Hive Mind]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: Their nickname of "Buggers" is a reference to ''[[Ender's Game]]''.

* [[To Serve Man]]- In ''ODST'', can be seen munching on human corpses.

* [[Starfish Alien]]

 

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

 

'''Honour Guard of the Covenant '''

* [[Praetorian Guard]]

 

* [[Colour-Coded for Your Convenience]]: Heretics wear brown and gold armour to destinguish themselves from their Covenant counterparts.

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

* {{spoiler|[[Hive Mind]]: The Timeless One is a Gravemind. Didact suspected that it was a specifically designed by the Flood to mimic a true Precursor. It's a bit unclear...the Precursors may have created the Flood and then allowed themselves to join with (or been consumed involuntarily) it or they may have been Flood-like in their biology themselves all along.}}

* [[Genocide Backfire]]: {{spoiler|Their attempt to wipe out the Forerunner ended in their own destruction.}}

* [[Starfish Alien]]: {{spoiler|The Timeless One is over 10 meters tall, has brown-grey skin, a wide flat arthropodic head with compound eyes, multiple jaws and mandibles, with many jointed appendages and a stinger tail(the Precursors are said to be related to sea scorpions)}} And the real kicker? {{spoiler|It's a Flood Gravemind!}} Didact suspects that the Timeless One may have been {{spoiler|assembled to mimic}} the appearance of the Precursors, but there's no evidence given for or against that idea.

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