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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] xecnalxes117 You're basing this off the games, not the books. In the books, it was actually chief before Cortana. Even now that they're together, Chief get's the missions done & saves humanity. Cortana just tells him to go left or right.[/quote] Perhaps. But it remains a fact, that: a) Master Chief would have activated Halo and wiped out all life in the Galaxy had it not been for that information that Cortana had, which 343 Guilty Spark almost tricked Master Chief with. b) Cortana helped Master Chief deflect a Rocket by timing his reflex at the correct time, ride down to the millisecond. c) Cortana aided Master Chief in saving Cairo Station, as she was the only one who had the "brains" to deactivate the bomb at the right time, and reactivate it at the right time (to destroy the Assault Carrier as it was passing Cairo station), which helped the UNSC in the long run. d) She was the one who led Master Chief to the Ark to find her. e) She saved the Index from the first Halo ring, without it the Chief, Arbiter, and Johnson couldn't have activated the Halo to destroy Gravemind. f) She knew all of the Gravemind's secrets, his lies, and his weaknesses. Without Cortana, humanity would have been f#<&ed. Spartans are tools for the trade, without her, Master Chief would have been f#<&ed. End of... [Edited on 06.05.2011 10:03 PM PDT]

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