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Edited by xXIronSausageXx:
1/18/2013 11:16:59 PM
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The Cortana Resurrection Theory
[b]THE CORTANA RESURRECTION THEORY *WARNING CONTAIN HALO 4 SPOILERS*[/b]
I hate the fact that Halo 4 ends with Cortana’s death scene. It tore at my heart strings. As Cortana said her goodbyes to The Master Chief, I couldn't help but feel hurt. Angry. Betrayed. 343 promised that The Reclaimer Trilogy would help evolve the relationship between Chief and Cortana. And I find it a little hard to do this when one of them is ‘dead’.
So it got me thinking and I have came up with this. I call it "The Cortana Resurrection Theory" which is really just an obnoxious way of saying, "Please 343 don't kill off Cortana."
Cortana's ‘death scene’ takes place on the Didact’s ship during and after the Didact battle. The Didact is about to unleash a dreadful weapon known as the Composer that we see the Didact use against the people of Ivanoff Research Station.
Let's take a few steps back. Earlier in the game, Master Chief meets the Librarian. The Librarian discuss with Chief many things. From The Didact, to her million years of planning and the part must importantly to this theory. The Librarian states that the Composer is a weapon capable of transforming living beings into mindless digital A.I. She then continues to say that a reversal of that process had been attempted but that only abominations had resulted.
Being that Cortana was created by flash cloning Halsey’s brain, in essence she was at one point human. What if a reversal of the Composer process is perfected and Cortana is brought back to life as a human? I know that this draws parallels to the fairy Pinocchio but maybe this is where 343 is drawing some creative inspiration from. But this theory explains 343 statement of evolving the relationship between Master Chief and Cortana.
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[quote]I hate the fact that Halo 4 ends with Cortana’s death scene.[/quote] Too bad. Her death allows Chief to grow as a character and her revival would cheapen her death and the meaning it had.
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Well we have two confirmed sources stating her death, I sure as well hope it stays that way.
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[quote][b]THE CORTANA RESURRECTION THEORY *WARNING CONTAIN HALO 4 SPOILERS*[/b][/quote] [b]This[/b] is your title. "Resurrect" implies that she died, which she did. So, in your attempt to warn people of spoilers, you became, the [i]spoil-ee[/i]. Thanks, OP. Just be a bit more careful. Cortana's "death" was spoiled for me before I even got the chance to play the game. I was so upset that I found out. I just don't want anyone else to have the same feeling.
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5 RepliesI hope she doesn't come back. It'd ruin what little impact Halo 4's ending had.
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Edited by Mr Admirals7044: 8/10/2013 3:09:22 AM[quote]What if a reversal of the Composer process is perfected and Cortana is brought back to life as a human?[/quote]"And our attempts to return them to biological states created only abominations." If the Forerunners never managed it, and most of them are dead, it's highly unlikely.
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In the words of one of Damon Baird's one liners in Gears: "...and stay dead!"
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They will retcon the legendary ending so that it is cortana/halseys face instead of the chiefs.
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2 RepliesThere are two ways this can go: 1) She stays dead and that impact weighs heavily on the progression of John's story for the next 2 games. 2) Cortana survived. We see in the confrontation with the Didact at the end, one of her copies circles around the Didact until he is bound and then jumps into his helmet. Either way will lead to some interesting implications. In Halsey's journal that came with Reach, she speculates that an AI given suitable framework in slipspace could transcend rampancy and become a godlike being - and the last we see of the Didact is him falling into slipspace seemingly with a copy of Cortana in his head.
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2 Replies343i said the Reclaimer Saga would develop the Chief as a character. Halo 4 is about their relationship, and Halo 5-6 is about him dealing with her death. Cortana's development, and Chief's lesson, was the inevitability of death. We all have to face our own mortality some day, and that was an inevitability that John fought against until the very last minute. But he fought against it for so long he never had a chance to come to terms with it. Cortana however did, and managed to save John's life. That brilliant development would lose it's meaning if they brought her back.
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Edited by HurtfulTurkey: 8/10/2013 1:50:22 AMIt really just seems obvious that she'll be back, if not right away or even in the next game at all. If they pull an EDI I'll be pretty disappointed though.
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God I sure as Hell hope they don't bring her back, not after 343 completely ruined her. Almost made me happy they killed off the character I cared about the most in Halo, it was out of mercy from keeping 343 from ruining her some more.
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You people don't seem to understand what was directly shown in the game. Chief Doesn't interact with humans because he has cortana her finally dying will force him to acknowledge other humans.It's that simple and that was the entire point not to mention we [b]just[/b] got her back after that single mission in halo 3. It wouldn't make any sense for her to be gone once then "die" and then come back. Why are people pushing bringing back characters that should be dead yet complain about a shitty story?
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2 RepliesEdited by Silverback Elite: 1/18/2013 10:39:27 PMBringing back Cortana for Halo 5 would be a bad thing. It (her death) was the catalyst to allow the Chief to be more human.
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I hope she stays dead. Not because I don't like her, but because her death was necessary for John to become more human, as Silverback Elite said. Though I expect another to be made from Halsey and for 343i to focus on the fact that she's "not the same."
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Cortana had better stay dead. If you're going to kill off a character, bringing them back makes their previous death and all subsequent deaths in the series hollow and cheap.
