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A [[Halo]] machinima series released during 2005, the Codex was created by Edgeworks Entertainment, headed by Alexander Winn and Ryan Luther. Consisting of twenty episodes, it focuses on the Covenant invasion of a human planet named Ariaos II in order to recover a Forerunner artifact called the Codex. The human resistance is lead by two teams of Spartan II supersoldiers, Red Team and Blue Team. Notable characters on that side include Jack Foster, a wild and optimistic soldier, Candice McKenzie, a more reserved and precise soldier who has plenty of [[UST]] with Jack, and the leader of the Spartans, [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|the Chief]]. Notable Covenant characters include the Praetor, the leader of all the Covenant military forces on Ariaos II, Anda Sofadee, female leader of the Special Forces, and the Cleric, the voice of the religious hierarchy of the Covenant. The Cleric does not particularly get along with the other two.
This series stands out among its peers for being extremely well written, as well as being set as close to Halo canon as possible and focusing more on action and drama, forgoing the humor that most Halo machinimas shoot for. It won six categories of the 2005 Rockets on Prisoner awards, and has a large international fan base. Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Wired magazine, even [http://www.thelongtail.com/the_long_tail/2005/09/friday_fanboy_t_1.html blogged] about it.
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* [[Action Girl]]: Anda Sofadee, leader of the Covenant Special Forces, and Candice McKenzie, a Spartan II and leader of Blue Team.
* [[Anti
* [[All There in the Manual]]: The Edgeworks Entertainment web-site contains a lot of info on the personal history of all characters. This includes [[All There in The Script|names for many unnamed characters]], training and areas of expertise, and general background information.
* [[All There in The Script]]: The official web-site gives the names of many characters who are not named in the series themselves.
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* [[Elite Mook]]: The Seraphim
* [[Enemy Civil War]]: This happens late in the series. {{spoiler|The Cleric and his Seraphim try to wrest control of the military from the Praetor. Anda Sofadee and her Special Operations troops side with the Praetor though, keeping this a fairly even turn of events}}.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: The Chief's name is not revealed in either series, nor is the Praetor's. The Cleric was known only as "Cleric" in ''The Codex'', but received a proper name in ''The Heretic''.
* [[Everyone Can See It]]: Maybe not ''everyone'', but it is apparent to most of the Spartan's that Jack and McKenzie have deep feelings for each other.
* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: {{spoiler|The Praetor and the Cleric engage in this in the last episode of the series. The Praetor only counts as evil because he is helping the Covenant commit genocide, siding him with the bad guys [[Anti
* [[Guns Akimbo]]: Exploiting the new features of Halo 2, including the ability to dual wield, resulted in almost every human character wielding two pistols at least once. Elites are often shown wielding two Plasma Rifles.
** This also allows for the appearance of more people than there actually are by having all of the Elites dual-wielding offscreen.
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* [[Macross Missile Massacre]]: The UNSC fleet burst the rescue and immediately begins launching ''hundreds'' of missiles. Energy shields being what they are, this is less effective than it might have been otherwise, but that's ''strictly'' canon.
* [[Mauve Shirt|Mauve Shirts]]: The ODSTs; some individual members are named and they appear in several episodes, but they don't receive detailed characterization, lack any identifying decals and get killed whenever a large bodycount is needed.
* [[
* [[Not So Different]]: The series itself invokes the trope. When the Praetor and the Chief are each giving a [[Rousing Speech]] to their respective armies the video keeps cutting back and forth between them, highlighting that they are both fighting for their beliefs, nation and greater purpose than their own survival.
* [[Old School Dogfighting]]: The CGI space battles in ''The Heretic'' feature several shots of Longsword fighters and Covenant Scarabs duking it out.
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* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: The Cleric, being a cleric of the Covenant, is revered by all the soldiers of the Covenant. When the Preator fears the Cleric will try to kill the Foreman he has members of the Special Operations Elites covertly guard the engineer, but being constantly shadowed by combat soldiers leads the Foreman to fear that the Praetor is trying to kill him [[Too Dumb to Live|and he runs to the Cleric for help]].
* [[Witty Banter]]: Jack and "Candy," and all the Spartans really, are a bit chatty.
* [[You Called Me "X" - It Must Be Serious]]: Jack calls Candice "Candy" because it ''infuriates'' her. When he calls her Candice, even she does a double take. He suddenly seems like he genuinely cares about her... or he could just be setting up another headlong rush through enemy fire with a shotgun. Like the [[UST]] example, this one is up for interpretation.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Once the Foreman gains entrance to the Codex the Cleric decides that his survival is no longer a strict necessity.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]: Green 2 stays behind to buy time for the other Spartans to escape...at least, [[Single Stroke Battle|until the Captain of the Seraphim shows up]].
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