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* The ending of ''[[Halo 3]]''. Literally: Master Chief didn't die, he's just MIA.
* The Covenant of ''[[Halo]]''. When this troper read about them over at Halopedia, he just thought of the species divide as a form of state-sponsored racism that only depended on how had they been absorbed into the Covenant, with some influences from theocracies. After having read a few articles on Medieval Society and Culture, and suddenly having discovered the similarities with them and the Covenant (the social castes of religion, combat, and manual labor -- Including the fact that Knights tended to view commoners as unimportant, bringers of neither shame or glory when killed), it made this troper admire Bungie's storytelling even more.
* One may imagine that the concept of the [[Halo 3: ODST|ODST]] shares a bit of similarity to [[
* In all of the Halo games, human vehicles are sandy/snowy, depending on locale, while the Covenant vehicles are all...purplish. Why would the Covenant make their main methods of transportation so visible? To them, it's the color of fear. Why? ''Elite blood is purple.''
* A lot of the weaponry and vehicles of the UNSC look drastically underpowered and unprotected compared to modern versions. For example, compare the UNSC's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120701115042/http://www.halopedian.com/M12_Force_Application_Vehicle Warthog] to today's [
** In the Falcon's defense it's more along the lines of an up-armed and faster future version of a [
** Also keep in mind that, by the later parts of the series, we're seeing the end results of a twenty-seven year-long war of attrition; ''Halo Wars'' shows that the UNSC had a lot of really kickass, high-end weaponry in 2525, whereas by 2552 they're down to a scant few colonies, Reach, and Earth. This is showing in their limited armory.
** Also don't forget that open-topped vehicles are safer when it comes to weapons that can penetrate vehicle's armour anyways, while exploding, and projectiles of overheated plasma certainly will cause explosive vapourization of materials. The thing is, in atmosphere the energy of explosion will be mostly lost with the shokwave going away from target, while in enclosed premisions it will crush soft personnel first and find a way out of hard vehicle's case second. This is exactly the reason why it's not uncommon to see infantry riding on top of [[APCs]] instead of traveling inside in warzones - in latter case it's just one anti-vehicle mine or a hit of RPG or something, and entire crew is dead. Thus, using Warthogs instead of Humvee-like vehicles is really justified.
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