Favorite Halo Character

[Evilvikingking]

The Pillar of Autumn

 

[TheFacelessOne]

Captain Keyes - A well respected Ship Commander and Tactican.

Foehammer - Its hard not to grow an attachment to her. Thats why it sucks when she dies.

Thel Vademee(For You people who don't really read the backstory, thats the Arbiter.) - He was just an interesting character to read up on.

and respectively,

John-117 - Mainly because he FREAKING FLEW A BOMB...

THROUGH SPACE!

 

[ZeroMachine]

You realize how hard of a question this is for me, right?

I don't really have a favorite. I just like the whole series. But if I really had to choose, I'd say John 117 because of his awkward "well rounded because he's so flat" characterization.

My meaning is that his character in the books and games after he becomes a Spartan II never changes, but that makes perfect sense because of what he became when he was younger. A soldier through and through... the perfect soldier.

 

[Same River New Water]

The Arbiter, no question. (...) He is also one of the characters who has a real and very clear personality change over the course of the story. Starting out as a loyalist who tries to defend himself, then becoming a shadow of a creature overwhelmed by failure, then a slightly more deluded not understand the truth that then spread to questioning, then seeing the bad side of the covenant and completely loosing his loyalty and after that he was driven by revenge.

I agree. My biggest disappointment with the story of Halo 3 was that it had this really interesting character in the Arbiter [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Thel_%27Vadam], but relegated him to the background to focus on the Master Chief, the generic space marine. ZeroMachine called Master Chief "the perfect soldier", and that's exactly what makes him so dull: he's one-dimensional. The Arbiter, by contrast, is a conflicted character with noble ideals who has to fight the lies of his society as well as his physical enemies. By being unsure of himself and subject to depression, he ironically becomes the most "human" character in the games.

"You are the Arbiter, the will of the Prophets, but these are my Elites. Their lives matter to me, yours does not." ~ Half-Jaw
"That makes two of us." ~ Arbiter

The other Elite with a speaking role, Half-Jaw [http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Rtas_%27Vadumee], is also quite interesting. He too is introduced as a staunch Covenant loyalist, who doesn't even trust the Arbiter at first, but he's an honourable character who respects those who earn it.

"One single Flood spore can destroy a species. Were it not for the Arbiter's counsel, I would have glassed your entire planet!" ~ Half-Jaw

 

[Symp4thy]

I liked 343 Guilty Spark and the Arbiter.

 

[The Shade]

The Arbiter is my home dawg. Awesome voice, awesome story, and he spawns with plasma 'nades. How can you get any better than that?

 

[Sev72]

Gotta go with Forge because apart from being a badass, he doesn't use his ridiculous... whatever to win, he has to use trickery. Also, he gives me grizzlies.

 

[RavingPenguin]

brute guy from halo 2

That would be Tartarus, I think he was a tremendous ass.

Kurt, from ghosts of onyx, because of his instincts being the best outta all the Spartan's.
just curious, but how do ya do spoiler tags? (that thing which covers the text). When i know ill put the rest in so i dont spoil it.

to make spoiler tags use the code [*spoiler] text [*/spoiler] (remove the asterick)similarly if you use the code [*spoiler= text] text [/*spoiler] your spoiler will contain text.

 

[PurpleLeafRave]

Yayap, yipyap and yapyip the grunts
they have awesome names!

 

[DigitalSushi]

Foehammer - Its hard not to grow an attachment to her. Thats why it sucks when she dies.

I'm shocked that FOE HAMMER hasn't got more votes, truely i am, she's the one character that is there for you through Halo 1.

When she got shot down towards the end, bearing in mind that the Cov had released the flood, destroyed all sorts of shit and were generally dirt bags of Skeletor magnitude, at that point she gets hit ... i was like "NOW ITS FUCKING PERSONAL!"

 

[deewank]

Caboose.

seccond

Thirded

 

[klarr]

Well, most Halo 'fans' nowadays probably dont know who the hell I am talking about, but Captain Keyes is definatly one of my favorite. No, not Miranda, but her father.
(to explain, most people who say they are Halo fans are either multiplayer only people or never played the first thus would not be familiar with this Halo 1 only character)

I'd agree, but mainly because of his role in the novels. Anyone else on this thread apart from me and Kiutu ever heard of Sigma Octanus IV? That's where it's at, baby! Oh yeah!

Ahem. Anyway, yeah, Jacob Keyes. Also, probably the Arbiter (underrated, yet as seen in Halo: The Cole Protocol he has such an intersting backstory) and Cortana (she's smart, sassy and a pseudo-naked holographic hot chick. What's not to like? Ahem.).

agreed man, hell yes

 

[BolognaBaloney]

JOHNSON!
HOO-RAH!

 

[StarStruckStrumpets]

Ship Master...he was cool.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

I like Master Chief in multiplayer, mostly because I get to dress him in pink armor and humiliate people.

 

[Eldritch Warlord]

That white elite... The one The Arbiter are a homie to.

Ah yes, Rtas 'Vadam, known by many as "Half-Jaw".

People may know that I have a hard time choosing favorites and this is no different. Halo has such a broad array of interesting a bad-ass characters. So for the sack of variation I'll say Mendicant Bias. The Contender-class AI tasked with exterminating the Flood but instead aligned with them and led the Flood to attack the last Forerunner strongholds.

 

[APPCRASH]

Sergeant Major Johnson. ""When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-schmanzy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon?and we had to share the rock!"

 

[WolfLordAndy]

The floating drone that helps you, then tries to kill you. Is it the Caretaker?

I loved him in the games, the way hes very much "Oh, thank you very much for helping me. Now I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you, Sorry!"