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8/16/2012 6:45:01 PM
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The Death of Master Chief *UPDATE!*
So I was reading several articles on the internet that said Steve Downes, the legendary voice behind the Chief, would like to see Chief die at the end of Halo 6. He wanted "a hero's death." So just out of pure fun, how do you, the wonderful Bungie community, think the Master Chief should die? Any idea, badass or funny, would be accepted. Thank you!
And I would like to place my opinion. After reading several of the posts, I've come to a conclusion.
Chief is with himself. The rest of his allies and Cortana are watching from orbit in a ship. Cortana stays behind because she is too unstable and could hinder Chief. So Chief goes and destroys the threat, blowing up the place as he does it. The people inside the ship believes he's dead. Humanity builds a monument to Chief. At the end of the game Cortana narrates how most people believe he's dead, but there has been rumors that marines have spotted a shadowy, armored figure lurking around and how entire Innie groups have disappeared w/o record of any UNSC intervention.
Then there's a scene where Chief is in a small stealth ship along with a few other surviving Spartans. One Spartan tells him that he/she has intercepted a distress call coming from some planet and Chief says "Alright. Punch it." And they go into slipspace.
This would be a satisfying ending to me, knowing that Chief is a living legend, but is silently watching over humanity.
[Edited on 08.29.2012 6:09 PM PDT]
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It would be interesting for chief to take the same death route that Cappy Keez did.
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If master chief would die, I'd probably want him going out on a one way trip mission to save the universe from the Covenant and the Forerunners
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That's what we think now. We've still got a whole trilogy and probably filler-books to give the Chief a purpose after his fight is finished.
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Killing the hero is almost as common as giving them a happily-ever-after ending these days (and John is already a zombie). I think that John should end up in a tube like in Halo 3. John started both trilogies in cryo, it would be fitting to end it the same way. If 343 is dead set on keeping him alive the Innies are still alive and kicking as of Glasslands, so unless Kilo-Five kills them all, Chief can go back to killing them. It would fit the story as well. Chief ends the series fighting them, just like he was originally intended.
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Going from fighting a universe threatening evil to fighting rebels...super.
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What about a tragic ending? Where, as many of you mentioned, Chief has nothing to go back to. He is an instrument of war, and doesn't fit with day-to-day life. He lives, and makes it back to everybody. But, he is tormented by his utter alienation from society. He spends his life protecting a beautiful universe, but is ultimately tortured by it.
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He has to die at Halo 6. That's all he has to because he is Spartan. It would be impossible for him to revert back to civilian life.
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If the Chief isn't dead by the time Halo 6 finishes then I think the Chief will just disappear. Just vanish off the grid, never to be seen or heard of again. [Edited on 08.20.2012 5:56 PM PDT]
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Cortana deteriorates and becomes rampant and has to be destroyed - by John himself. After doing so he begins to realize that everything that he came from, the other Spartans, Cortana - and Even Halsey should be killed - is gone, and that he doesn't have anything to fight/live for. He finds out his biological family is all dead and that even if they weren't there would be no way to go back to them so he becomes self destructive and reckless until he gets taken out of action and turned into an intructor for Spartans in a new version of the project where one night he gets drunk and sleeps with one of his cadets, and then goes down to the armory, dumps a crate of frags onto the floor, and lays down in them, finally takes his helmet off, and fires a rocket launcher into the ceiling only to wake three days later hung over with the knew found knowledge that he is immortal. He then steals a Pelican and goes awol to wander the universe forever waiting only for the flood to rise again, morning the loss of his imaginary A.I. girlfriend. From this there are various revelations about John: 1. He is an immortal. 2. Through some accident of warfare he has been bonded to his suit. 3. He keeps his helmet on during sex. 4. Is Jesus. 5. Jesus has sex. [Edited on 08.20.2012 7:08 PM PDT]
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John needs to die. It's as simple as that. He needs a heroic death. He has no place in a normal world. He has trained and fought almost his entire life. He has no normal life to go back to. His sole purpose is to fight for humanity. They can't have a lame ending where he stays alive and is assumed to just die of old age. His death needs to be significant. He is the face of Halo. He needs a heroic death at the end of Halo 6.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kenger Benger So I was reading several articles on the internet that said Steve Downes, the legendary voice behind the Chief, would like to see Chief die at the end of Halo 6. He wanted "a hero's death." So just out of pure fun, how do you, the wonderful Bungie community, think the Master Chief should die? Any idea, badass or funny, would be accepted. Thank you![/quote] Your naivety is troublesome.
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I said this on Waypoint and I'll say it again. Yes as long as we don't get a level like Lone Wolf. 3rd person cinematics would be the best way to depict his death. [Edited on 08.20.2012 7:34 PM PDT]
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] DecepticonCobra Going from fighting a universe threatening evil to fighting rebels...super.[/quote] Well if you think about it that way and in those terms, then any ending where the protagonist goes on living after saving the world/universe is lame >_> As I've said before, I don't care if 343i wants to write Chief out of the story and bring his role in Halo to a close, but they need to do it in some new or unique way if they're going to do it at all. Death in the Halo universe is a cheap out. And if that's how 343i chose to get rid of Chief, I doubt I'd feel any other emotion but being kinda pissed off at choosing a lame way to get rid of him. I mean, the amount of times any extremely important to moderately important character has been killed off in Halo... Really though, I'd just prefer it if they didn't do anything to him at all. Or heck, give him an abiguous ending like at the end of Halo 3, show something big and bad happen that "no one could possibly survive" where no one knows what really happened, but leave it ambiguous enough that people can decide for themselves whether the Chief is still alive or not, so yeah, basically Halo 3's ending without showing the Legendary Ending part :P [Edited on 08.21.2012 6:58 PM PDT]
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I just hope they don't make it lame like Sgt. Johnson's death.
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Spartans Never Die, They're just missing in action, however if Master Chief were to go MIA..again, I would want him to go out fighting millions and then a big bang.
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Like Dom's death in Gears 3...Just more Halo'y!
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I'd like it if somewhere along the new trilogy - it's found that Cortana enables herself to pass rampancy due to all the Forerunner data she has. In the last mission Cortana would tell Chief what needs to be done. The Chief would upload her onto that data disk and lets say they're by a ship or something, he would put her on the ship and start activating the auto pilot controls. Cortana would plead to stay and they would exchange their final farewell. The last mission would give a very solemn and satisfying end to the saga (Like how you felt at the end of Reach with the objective :Survive)
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] SEAL Sniper 9 I just hope they don't make it lame like Sgt. Johnson's death.[/quote]This too!
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I think he'll die saving a bunch of people somehow.
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i think im gonna cry...
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You reach the last cut-scene, Cortana and other important guy (like Johnson Type dude) are saying final farewells, they get on board a ship, John fights his way into a control room, activates the self destruct, and takes off his helmet. Face, flash of light, the end.
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Killing the Chief in a dramatic act of sacrifice might sound like a great idea but it will almost certainly come off as corny, cliched and predictable. It is expected that he die fighting and saving humanity single-handedly, I would much prefer and admire 343i if they didn't go down the road well-travelled and actually allow the Chief to survive the pinnacle of the new trilogy. Think of it this way. The Chief was abducted as a child, indoctrinated into the ways of war, mutilated, sent into war, ordered to kill, ordered to endure pain and suffer and forsake his own freedom and happiness AND THEN he dies...... Yeah right. What sort of message is that for a hero? Be abducted, be trained into a killer, fight, fight some more, fight even more, die. It's not only predictable for him to die but it also seems ultimately a vicious, cold and unjust end to such an important and virtuous character. Then again from a purely business perspective it's unlikely that Microsoft would kill their main video game character that has such a fanbase and loyal following.
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Chief: I must get up and fight the aliens! Cortana: No Chief,[i] you are [/i] the alien. *And then John was the Alien*
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He should die in an amazing sword battle or go out like Emile.
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He's gotta go out like a boss. Something like Will Smith in I Am Legend. Or Sergeant Forge in Halo Wars.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Kenger Benger [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] ajw34307 I've been saying what Downes is saying for ages. John, and by extention the Spartans themselves, has no place in the world he's fighting to protect. A quiet death of old age is not a satisfying fate for such a hero, his journey should end either with a heroic death or something symbolic like the end of Halo 3 where he goes into cryo.[/quote] I agree. And I don't want him to simply sacrifice himself in a way Jorge did. I want him to go guns blazing slauthering dozens of Covenant before dying. [/quote]Well, theoretically speaking Jorge did kill a lot of Covenant when he had to manually set off that bomb. [Edited on 08.21.2012 11:14 PM PDT]
