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6/5/2011 11:29:51 PM
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Cortana as the main character of the Halo trilogy...
Has anyone else besides me seen it this way? Cortana is generally seen as the main protagonist in my eyes. Sure she doesn't accomplish what Master Chief did (she's an AI, how could she?), but she compensates as Master Chief's "brains", whereas he compensates as her "brawn" or "bodyguard".
Along with that, Master Chief never confronts or battles the main antagonist, the Gravemind, directly, whereas he is Cortana's direct polar opposite it seems, always prodding her for information, interrogating her, torturing her. I definitely found myself more emotionally attached to the situation of Cortana than the Chief. To me Master Chief was a walking gun in Halo 3, whereas Cortana was most of the emotional trauma. Master Chief and the Arbiter seemed to me to be the dueteragonists of the trilogy. The "action" and the "explosives", with Johnson supplying the comic relief and 'human' element, and the various other UNSC characters (Hood, Keyes, Stacker, etc).
TL;DR:
After replaying Halo: Reach, it definitely emphasizes and emblazons Cortana as being "Humanity's last hope", with her notable couriers being Master Chief and Noble Six(...you). What are your thoughts on this theory?
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] MGTrey [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ThePredkiller2 She is quite possibly the most important piece of equipment both and the most important individual figure in the Human-Covenant War, it isn't surprising to be honest. Without her, the Master Chief would have been nothing. Without her, Noble Six and Noble Team would have had no purpose. She is the common denominator and ultimate catalyst of the entire Halo series.[/quote] And without the Chief, Cortana is in that same arbitrary category of being nothing. Their teamwork is what gets the job done; one doesn't succeed without the other. For all that Cortana has done, the Chief is still clearly the main character. And Halsey is easily more of a "catalyst" than Cortana. But I dislike playing that "who had more effect?" game. [/quote] I always found the main character to be the one the viewer, or in this case, player, empathized most with. In my case it is Cortana. I guess it really depends then, varying from gamer to gamer.
