Halo tu🎃rns 20 years old in 2021, a major milestone for what’s been Microsoft’s most popular and important gaming franchise. In those 20 years, there have been countless games,♛ books, comics, and a live-action series. A TV series is in the works, and Halo Infinite is set to serve as a “spiritual reboot” after the mixed reaction to Halo 5: Guardians.
As you can imagine, all those stories – full of rich characters and complex plotlines – have created lore tha꧟t rivals only Kingdom Hearts and Metal Gear in terms of sheer scale. Having multiple developers and writers doesn’t help. It goes without saying that between everyone who’s had their hands on Halo, there are more than a few plot holes now. Some of these only die-hard fans will 🌳notice, but some will send even a Halo noob’s eyes rolling.
10 ♑ Drop The (Foe) Hammer
Carol Rawley, callsign Foe Hammer, is a Pelican transport pilot who tried to play the hero in Hal💝o: Combat Evolved by rescuing Master Chief from the Pillar of Autumn. The only problem was that she was shot down by Covenant Banshees before she could pick him up.
But wꦛhat was she doing there in the first place? After the Flood outbreak on Installation 4, she disappeared for two levels before appearing out of nowhere in the nick of time for her failed rescue. But where was she during that time? Just flying around Installation 4 on a sight-seeing tour? Why was she not shot down by the Banshees earlier?
9 Spartans Can Survive A Fall Fro🍎m Space But Die From Bullets
In the opening of Halo 3, we see Master Chief hurtling through the atmosphere before crash landing on Earth’s surface. He’s not in a spacecraft – he’s literally falling through the atmosphere himself, in nothing but his Spartan power armor. How can he pop right 💃back up like nothing happened, let alone survive?
You could argue it’s his armor that saved him, or the reinforced skeletons Spartans have. It’s a plot contrivance, sure, but if Master Chief can survive that, why do normal 🍬bullets kill him so easily? Surely if you can survive burning through the atmosphere and crash landing at such a rapid spee🍌d you’d be able to shrug off a few bullets like they were nothing.
8 🐼 🐎 Sergeant Avery Johnson Has A Twin
In the 🤪Halo: Combat Evolved level Assault on the Control Room, series favorite character Sergeant Avery Johnson appears to have a twin. That’s the only explanation for why Johnson can be there, leading his squad in that le🍃vel, because at the same time, he’s canonically he’s supposed to be helping Captain Keyes searching for a Covenant weapon’s cache.
The explanation for this mix up is that Avery Johnson was with Keyes, and the Sergeant leading his squad in Assault on the Control Room is somebody else but ꧑with the same character model. It’s pretty hard to believe a major developer wouldn’t have the time or money to make one more character model though.
7 Reach Is A Glas🐭s Half-Full Or Half-Empty?
Halo: Reach is infamous among series fans for how it seemingly disregarded much of the established lore. In the opening cutscene, we see why. Here, the planet Reach is shown as being only partially “glassed” (the process by which the Covenant destroys a planetও using plasma weaponry). A big plot-point is that Rꦯeach is unique in that it cannot be fully glassed.
However, in the multiplayer map Condemned, the whole planet is clearly shown to be fully-glassed over. Also, in the𓂃 original publication of the novel Halo: First Strike, it’s said Reach is indeed fully-glassed, but in a new edition from 2010, this was changed to Reac💧h only being partially-glassed.
6 Halsey And Mendez Can’t Get T𝄹heir Stories ♔Straight
In the novel Halo: Glasslands, it is said that Dr. Catherine Halsey boarded the rebel ship Beatrice, and through force and threats, hijacked the ship. Later, this is used as grounds by Chief Petty Office🍸r Franklin Mendez to confiscate her pistol. But the novel Halo: First Strike states that the ship was empty and unguarded, allowin⛦g Dr. Halsey to steal the ship without confrontation.
In First Strike, Mendez also says he knew about Halsey taking the ship when she did it, though later books said he had no knowledge until after the fact. When he later learns of Halsey’s actions in Glasslands, he treat🌸s Halsey as a hostile for stealing Beatrice, even though the ship is owned by Jacob Jiles, who is himself hostile to the UNSC.
5 Long Night Of Solace Borrowed So💖lid Snake’s Cardboard Box 🎃
Long Night of Solace is a super-carrier created by the Covenant, serving as the lead vessel during the attack on Reach in Halo: Reach. It’s a massive ship, measuring almost 29 kilomet🌞ers (18 miles) long, yet somehow it approached Reach and made it🐽 to the planet without the UNSC noticing until it was too late.
The game’s explanation is that the ship was cloaked with an invisibility field using stealth spires, but this doesn’t make any sense. The UNSC has slipstream monitoring capabilities, so the ship and its fleet would have had to have been invisible crossing multiple, vast universes. And with a ship and fleet that ☂big, no spไace travel saw it? No UNSC monitors detected anything?
4 Think Of The Children ♋
In Halo, the elite Spartan soldiers are created from children, but how this process started remains a question. 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:In the novel Halo: Mortal Dictata, the process is deprecia⛦ted as fairly humane. Here, the children are told they will be soldiers and are raised relatively well by Dr. Halsey.
However, in Halo: The Fall of Reach, Dr. Halsey is a nightmare of a “parent.” I🔜n this book, the children are raised as their namesakes – they’re abused, lied to, kept in an underground bunker,☂ and spend most of their lives training to be ruthless soldiers.
3 Cortana’s Out Of The Blue Heel-Turn 💜 ℱ
Perhaps one of the most infamous and most-derided moments in all of Halo came in Halo 5: Guardians. After decades of being Master Chief’s closest companion and ally, Cortana returns from her near-death experience in Halo 4 thanks to💯 Forerunne♚r technology. But this technology also, somehow, convinced her that the only way to save humanity is to destroy it.
After everything Cortana did to help Master Chief and the UNSC defend humanity, she suddenly decides🐟 to destroy it? And if Master Chief believes that the real Cortana is dead and this version is an impos🎉ter, then who is it really? What’s the point of pretending to be Cortana?
2 Floo🍌d Spores Aren’t A Big Deal
Like in The Last o𝓰f Us, the Halo franchise has spore clouds that can turn anyone who breathes them into brain-dead monsters. Unlike The Last of Us though, these spores 🍌are more pervasive – they can’t be stopped by a simple gas mask.
Given this f𒉰act, you’d think The Flood would use these spores against their enemies regularly. That🐓’s not the case, however, as they’re rarely even mentioned in Halo stories. And when they are used, they don’t seem to be much of a hindrance. In Halo 2, The Arbiter, no wearing a helmet or mask, freely breathes these spores in the Threshold Gas Mine he’s fine.
1 The Arbiter Is🥀 Fast As Lightning
At♑ the end of Halo 3, The Arbiter is seen sitting at the helm of the Forward Unto Dawn, on the bridge. The ship tries to make it through a slip-space portal back to Earth, but the portal was destroyed, cutting the ship in half. The front half of the ship makes it back to 💎Earth, but the back half (where Master Chief is) is left to drift through space.
The bridge is shown to be on the back half of the ship. The Arbiter should be stuck in space with Master Chief, yet somehow moments after the ship is split, he’s shown on t💫he other half making its way back to Earth. For The Arbiter to have made it to the other side of the ship, he’d have to have super-sonic speed.