History Characters / Halo

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking- The highest-ranking Spartan [[spoiler:except for Kurt-051 and eventually Fred-104, and all of Noble Team]] and arguably the best.

* ChildSoldier- All Spartan-IIs started at age six, receiving their augmentations and armor at 14.
* {{Cyborg}}

* FirstNameBasis- With the other Spartans, Dr. Halsey, [[spoiler:And Cortana by the end of Halo 3]].

* LightningBruiser As all Spartans are.

** "Ship Master, they outnumber us, three to one!" Rtas: "Then it is an ''even fight''. All cruisers fire at will! ''Burn'' their mongrel hides!"

* HeroicWillpower-part of how he resists said mind rape.

* MindRape-as the Flood sift his memories.

* TheOtherDarrin
- Voice actress change from Halo 2 to 3

* [[spoiler:MadnessMantra- "UNACCEPTABLE! UNACCEPTABLE! UNACCEPTABLE!"]]

* KickTheDog: Does this to Johnson after murdering Keyes. "You are weak and gods must be strong."

* PsychoticSmile: Gives one when he found the portal in ''ODST''.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: to both Regret, who he denied help for because Regret's death would help his plans, and to the Elites, which turned out to been a big mistake for Truth.

* SatelliteCharacter: His only actual function was to show that Truth was a ManipulativeBastard .His office was literally earned by being at the right place at the right time,and his earlier position was fraudulent and InNameOnly (He "communicated" with the Dreadnought's Oracle,who was inert until Truth came there in order to become High Prophet.)

* HotBlooded: Something Truth was blaming him for when he attacked Earth and it later had big consequences for his life and for Truth's plans.

* TheStarscream: A mild and self-preservational example towards Truth,who he thought would ditch him as soon as he was [[YouHaveFailedMe no longer useful.]]

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Subverted. He gets all berserk when the Arbiter and 343 Guilty Spark tells him the truth of the Halos but he refuse to believe it. It's a good hint that his rage was born from denial.

* BlueAndOrangeMorality- It's highly likely the Gravemind doesn't even consider anything it does to be truly evil.

* GalacticConqueror: and unlike the most of them, he ''has'' already conquered one galaxy and now wants another one.

* [[spoiler:MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning]]- [[spoiler:"Resignation is my virtue, like water I ebb and flow. Defeat is simply the addition of time to a sentence I never deserved ... but you imposed."]]

* [[spoiler:TermsOfEndangerment- He learns the Master Chief's true name in 'Halo: Evolutions', which nearly drives Cortana to panic.]]

* WeCanRuleTogether: He used this temptation on Mendicant Bias on how they were the superior races unlike the Forerunners and so have every rights to conquer them. It worked but Bias would later [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone regret]] [[TheAtoner the]] [[RedemptionEqualsDeath offer]].
* WickedCultured: he speaks as if he writes poems. When Cortana asked him why he did it at ''Human Weakness'', he simply said it was preference, as after had consumed many poets from diffrent cultures, he got fond of their gifts.

* TheVoiceless -Save for grunts

* ColdSniper some of the cause of his jerkass traits.

* ActionGirl- More so than Keyes.

* AcePilot: Apparently sometime before his assignment to Noble Team, Six was involved in the testing of an experimental shielded Space fighter called Saber. This seems to be there to justify him jumping into one of these craft during the course of the campaign, and taking the fight to the Covenant in orbit.

* SixthRanger: The newest addition to Noble Team, and evidently the player character.

** Play through of a short portion of the first campaign level shows Noble Six talking to and interacting with the rest of the team. Having him silent in the first trailer seems to have been a cock tease.

* CuriosityIsACrapshoot: Her superiors opinion. It makes her excellent at information retrieval...including information they don't want her to have.

* MyGreatestFailure: Like Carter, she blames herself for the death of a squadmate.

* TheLancer: Best friends with Carter and second-in-command of Noble Team.

* CoolOldGuy
* DoomedHometown: his homeworld is Reach... yeah...
* LightningBruiser: Noticeable more so than the other Spartans in the Halo Reach ViDoc once more into the Breach, where Jorge can be seen lugging his [[http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Reach/images/cutouts/jorge_right3.jpg heavy machine gun]] around at the ready effortlessly, easily keeping pace with his smaller squad mates.

** TokenEvilTeammate: His antics are so bad that it is recommended that he be yanked off of the team in the event that they have to go up against human enemies.

* BigDamnHeroes: Died before the game started pulling one of these
* CrazyAwesome: How he died? Picking up the nuke Kat had been carrying, using his Jetpack to carry it aboard the overhead Covenent Vessel, then lobbing it into the covenent's vehicle hanger, before [[UnflinchingWalk walking out of the hanger]] as the nuke goes off, blowing up the entire ship and him with it.

* MadeOfIron: The fact that he [[spoiler:was even able to take several steps before keeling over and dying after taking an unshielded blast to the midsection from a Hunter's cannon]] is testament to his toughness.
* SuperSoldier Spartan-II

* FakingTheDead- ONI did so to recruit him to help train the Spartan-III program.
* GeniusBruiser- Some of the things he did while running the SIII program are a reminder that SII's are really all deadly and adaptable individuals.

*** What's with marking the [=S-III=] as this? The IIs are far, far more of a Tykebomb.
**** Because the SPARTAN IIs were created to deal with anything the UNSC needed, and they were specifically designed to go against human enemies, but spent most of the time fighting space aliens. The SPARTAN IIIs were chosen from orphans made so by said space aliens, to destroy said space aliens, and it seems that's what they did most of the time.

* HotScientist- Presumably, despite her age. [[spoiler: Her appearance in the episode ''The Package'' is played completely straight.]]

* RockBeatsLaser- At least on the ground, the humans' ballistic weapons are somewhat more effective than the Covenant's laser weapons. In space, it's different.

* FantasticRacism -Due partially from the caste system,the other half being their [[AlienInvasion subjugation]]

'''The San 'Shyuum (Prophets)'''

'''The Sangheili (Elites)'''
* ArchEnemy- ([[spoiler:Formerly]], The Humans, The Brutes; [[spoiler:later, the Prophets]], The Flood)
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: It wouldn't come as a surprise. Afterall...

* EliteMooks- Zealots.

* NotSoDifferent- With the Humans. Some of them even lampshade it. [[spoiler: That is probably the reason why the Sangheili-Human Alliance worked better for half a year than one thousand years of alliance with The Covenant]].

'''The Jiralhanae (Brutes)'''

* BossInMookClothing- The Cheiftains.
* DropTheHammer-[[InSPACE Gravity Hammers.]] Like the energy sword,it's based off of ceremonial weapons.

* LightningBruiser- Once they go berserk you often don't realize it before they are over you.
* {{Nerf}}-Justified,but in Reach they have no energy shields and are overshadowed by Elites in general.On the other hand more of them carry Gravity Hammers.

'''The Unggoy (Grunts)'''

** Until ''Halo 3''.
* PunchClockVillain: They're just SlaveMooks who is forced to fight the humans. If they were allowed to choose for themselves, they whould reather stay out of the war completly.

* TakingYouWithMe- Suicide bombers in ''3'' and ''ODST'', and the Suicide Grunts in ''Halo Wars''.
* TookALevelInBadass- In ''Halo 3''. Instead to run away as they did in the former games, they usually decide to blow themself up in order to kill the Cheif, and just listen to their new war cries, its scary.

'''The Kig-Yar (Jackals)'''

* FeatheredFiend- Well, at least we ''think'' they're birds...

* PunchClockVillain: Borderline case. They're only in the war for the money, but a lot of them are cruel and violent anyway.
* RememberTheNewGuy- The [[BadAss skirmisher]] subspecies has apparently been in the war the entire time.

'''The Mgalekgolo (Hunters)'''

* PunchClockVillain- They only joined the Covenant because they lost the war against them and for its technology and they don't have any real grudge against the humans.

* UnstoppableRage- Once one of them dies, the other one will get ''pissed'' and if playing on a level higher than Easy, you're in big trouble.

'''The Yanme'e (Drones or "Buggers") '''

* GoddamnedBats- To the point where Reachs Firefight leaves them out.

'''The Huragok (Engineers)'''

* DarkerAndEdgier- Engineers are presented less sympathetically in Reach.

* TheEngineer

'''The Flood'''
* ArchEnemy: The Forerunners and the Humans. The Covenant is only seen as CannonFodder by them, but the Elites whould be counted by them as well.

* XanatosSucker

* MyGreatestFailure: Like Carter, she blames herself for the death of a squadmate.

* TheBigGuy: He's the only Spartan-II on Noble Team, the rest of whom are slightly less powerful Spartan-IIIs.

** TokenEvilTeamate: His antics are so bad that it is recommended that he be yanked off of the team in the event that they have to go up against human enemies.

* Expy: Lots of comparison goes up between him and [[ModernWarfare Ghost]], as both have skull masks and act as the angry support staff.

* {{ColdSniper}}/{{FriendlySniper}}: Described as chatty, and comes across as friendly enough in the trailer, but is also described as having an "unhealthy emotional detachment in regards to the consequences of his actions," so it could go either way.

* LargeHam- Very

** ''"Am I right, marines?!"'', ''"Sir, Yes sir!"'', ''"Mm-hmm, Damn right I am!"''. And that was he first appearence in the first game.

** DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Tried to do this on a Brute Cheiftain. It didn't worked.

* BodyHorror

* BadassNormal- [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Take down Brutes by herself with just a shotgun and a pistol]].

* DespairEventHorizon: He seems to almost reached it after the Battle of Earth, when Earth was saved from by the Flood by sheer luck.

* MeaningfulName- At the outset of the war, took the title of "Truth" to remind himself of all the lies he'd have to keep going.

* TheUriahGambit: He pulled this one on both Regret and Mercy and attempted also on the Elites but that part didn't worked out.

* TheOtherDarrin- Voice changed from a suave, smooth tone in Halo 2 to that of an angry, feeble old man in Halo 3.
** The "feeble old man" was also [[{{Superman}} Zod!]]
** As awesome as Terrence Stamp's voice is, I thought the original voice was better. Not to mention This Troper found the change a little jarring...
** This troper wished that they kept Michael Wincott for Halo 3.

* FlippingTheBird- To both the Brutes and The Prophet of Truth right before the climax.

* DropTheHammer

* GoddamnedBats

* HeroicMime:Seemingly this from the trailer. Of course commentary by the developers noted that they had finished recordings of Noble Six's male/female voices, so it has yet to be see how this will play out.

* {{AFGNCAAP}}: Unlike all the other members of Noble Team, his/her name, gender, and just about everything else is redacted, presumably because he's the player character.
** This is because you can make your own character now.

* TheLancer

* CoolOldGuy:

* SkeletonsIntheCoatCloset: Okay, he doesn't literally wear bones, but he has a skull etched into the face of his helmet. One wonders how he sees out of the thing.
* TheVoiceless: Apparently never talks.

*SkeletonsIntheCoatCloset: Okay, he doesn't literally wear bones, but he has a skull etched into the face of his helmet.