History Awesome / Marathon

** However, most impressive of all is this: An invasion of alien slavers, his MissionControl being deleted, being kidnapped constantly and a literal EldritchAbomination breaking down reality. The element all of these traumatic and hopeless events share? ''Absolutely none of it could break him.''

** However, most impressive of all is his sheer determination. He goes through more horrible things than most video game protagonists. Stuff that broke an extremely intelligent AI with a god complex, killed millions, bought empires to their knees, and even ripped time and space apart. Even when he (supposedly) had fallen into despair, he [[BeyondTheImpossible still kept fighting. And won.]]

** Meta: Doing all of above only with his FISTS when possible, Vidmaster style.

* Even off-screen, the humans of Tau Ceti IV are saved not by the Security Officer's hard-won battles on the Marathon, but by nine military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs, who not only managed to utterly crush the Pfhor invasion, but cut the colony's losses down so much that apparently they utterly pale in comparison to the [[LateToTheTragedy Marathon's]]. The story implies that just a single cyborg is a OneManArmy, never mind a whole squad of them. [[TomatoInTheMirror Guess who the tenth is?]] [[MindScrew Probably.]]

* Even off-screen, the humans of Tau Ceti IV are saved not by the Security Officer's hard-won battles on the Marathon, but by nine military Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs, who not only managed to utterly crush the Pfhor invasion, but cut the colony's losses down so much that apparently they utterly pale in comparison to the [[LateToTheTragedy Marathon's]]. The story implies that just a single cyborg is a OneManArmy, never mind a whole squad of them. [[TomatoInTheMirror Guess who the tenth is?]]

** Rampaging [[OneManArmy solo]] on various Pfhor ships, particularly in the first game, where he practically starts a species-wide revolution while at it.

** Durandal [[spoiler:faking his own death, then recreating himself on board the main Pfhor flagship, and sending Tycho's ship crashing into the moon.]] Then he caps this off by using a plasma beam to write an inscription celebrating his victory in the moon, visible from orbit... in [[GratuitousLatin Latin]].
** Ten thousand years after ''Marathon II'', [[spoiler:he buzzes Earth in a Jjaro battleship... just to say "hi" and make sure humanity doesn't forget him.]]

** Durandal [[spoiler:faking his own death, then recreating himself on board the main Pfhor flagship, and sending Tycho's ship crashing into the moon.]] Then he caps this off by using a plasma beam to write an inscription celebrating his victory in the moon, visible from orbit... in [[AltumVidetur Latin]].

** Rampaging solo on various Pfhor ships, particularly in the first game, where he practically starts a species-wide revolution while at it.
** Humiliating the Pfhor's best Heavy-Armor unit just for the hell of it.

* Action-packed Maps that also serve to empathize the {{badass}}ness of the Security Officer:

** Ten-thousand years after ''Marathon II'', [[spoiler:he buzzes Earth in a Jjarro battleship... just to say "hi" and make sure humanity doesn't forget him.]]
* A few of Security Officer's feats include:

* Action-packed Maps that also serve to empathize the badassness of the Security Officer:

** From the very first terminal in the second game, Durandal's snark is as powerful as his arsenal, telling you that he's introducing the Pfhor "to the ''magic'' of OrbitalBombardment."

* A few of Security Officer's feats includes:

[[caption-width-right:330:Just a typical day for the Security Officer]]

** '''''Marathon''''': ''Try Again''
** '''''Durandal''''': ''If I Had A Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Someone Pay'' and ''All Roads Lead To Sol''
** '''''Infinity''''': ''You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!''.

** From the very first terminal in the game, Durandal tells you that he's introducing the Pfhor "to the ''magic'' of OrbitalBombardment."

Before [[VideoGame/{{Halo}} Master Chief and Cortana]] made themselves legendary, their revered predecessors kicked just as much ass.

-->'''Durandal''': I'd've erased my seven times table to see the look on Admiral T'Fear's face when he realized I could focus a plasma beam at twice the standard range his ships could.

* Basically everything Durandal ever does.

** Jumping through time[=/=]alternate dimensions[=/=]whatever in order to stop the CosmicHorror from destroying the universe.

Before [[{{Halo}} Master Chief and Cortana]] made themselves legendary, their revered predecessors kicked just as much ass.

** ''Try Again'' from ''Marathon''
** ''If I Had A Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Someone Pay'' and ''All Roads Lead To Sol'' from ''Durandal''
** ''You Think You're Big Time? You're Gonna Die Big Time!'' from ''Infinity''.

* Action-packed Maps that serve both to empathize the badassness of the Security Officer and being the crowning achievements of the Bungie map designers:

** Rampaging solo on various Pfhor ships, particularly in the first game, where he practically starts a species-wide revolutions while at it.

** Rampaging solo on various Pfhor ships, particularly in the first game.