Halo (series): Difference between revisions

* [[Beneath the Mask]] Cortana , and every Ai that is secretly Rampant

* [[Cain and Abel]]: Mendicant Bias and Offensive Bias. {{spoiler|Except it's Abel (Offensive) who defeats Cain, by leading him into a trap.}}

* [[Character Exaggeration]]: The Covenant's potential to "[[The End of the World as We Know It|glass]]" entire planets is subject to a strong degree of exaggeration [[In-Universe]]. While they certainly have the capacity to reduce an entire planet's surface to glass using their energy weapons, it is a very lengthy process, and [[Awesome but Impractical|though impressive, is rarely worth the time it takes]], leading the Covenant to focus on glassing major population centers and doing a few other token sweeps. With atmospheric convection, the destruction is equally deadly if less absolute. For their part, the Covenant boast of their ability to cleanse entire planets, while reports to the UNSC exaggerate the destructive potential to galvanize humanity into action. This is backed up by information from one of the datapads in ''[[Halo: Reach]]'', saying that the Covenant do not have the resources to glass an entire planet and wage a multi-system war at the same time, and that to '''entirely''' glass Earth would require about thirty years of continuous bombardment by a fleet of equal size to that possessed by the UNSC.

* [[The Chosen One]]: Master Chief has been set up within the games and in the expanded universe as being a particularly special spartan.