dude the light cuts across his shoulder paldron his head is in shadow. the handle of the knife is in the light. at 0:58 Kat is partially in the light and, granted she is darker than the stereotypical "white", but i wouldn't call her "black." lets think techically about this. they are soldiers, if this "dark" skin adimatically meand "black" then any soldier who has been in battle constantly without showering is "black"......or you can call it "dirty". unlike the Chief, noble team (except emile and probably Noble 6) they are taking their helmets off A LOT. they are probably getting a lot of dirt on themselves through all of the contact battle. now as far as the ethnicity of Kat that you are pointing out. your "dark/brown as an European colored girl" has merit. She has a Russian/Slavic accent. if we take that into account and look at the heritage of the Slavic people here on earth then they are "darker" in skin tone naturally as the area of the world that Slavs come from is right between the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the Mediterranean. if you look up the three "races" that people are placed in the Slavs are in the "Caucasian" category, where as Asian are "Mongoloid" and peple of African decent are "Negroid" if Kat is Slavic in decent, which her voice leads us to believe, and her skin tone is similar to Slavic people, and she is dirty from battle, this this lead me, in a scientific mindset to think she is "Caucasian" with a possible "Mongoloid" heritage. that means she is PROBABLY white. and very dirty. and smelly. probably needs a bath desperatly. [Edited on 08.27.2010 1:58 PM PDT]