History Characters / HaloTheBanished

A Banished human who is well respected among the Banished during the events of VideoGame/HaloInfinite.

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* DarkMessiah: While he's openly areligious, he ironically fits this. He's a charismatic figure who rose up against a corrupt and tyrannical regime, unified numerous different alien races that were previously hostile towards each other under the same banner and leads them in going up against the reigning Empire of the galaxy. There's a lot about Atriox that would make him seem like TheHero, if he weren't also a brutal warlord leading a campaign of loot and plunder across the galaxy. Taken a step further when Escharum turns him into a semi-divine figure after he goes missing as a means to rally the Banished and ensure they stay together.

** It is stated that he has no beef with humans and has hired some into the Banished. He just fights their governance, the UNSC.

* DropTheHammer: Carries a barbed gravity hammer that can be upgraded to create deadly infusion pools with each strike.

* DropTheHammer: He wields a gravity hammer.

* TokyoRose: Half his job is to demoralize the surviving UNSC forces by boasting about the strength of the Banished and describing the gruesome demise of other survivors elsewhere on the ring. How successful he is, is… questionable. Especially considering that in ''The Rubicon Protocol'' it's noted that Glibnub is on the USNC survivors' "most wanted Banished" list mainly because the surviving USNC forces really, ''really'' want to shut him up.

* FromNobodyToNightmare: The Banished were outcasts, mercenaries, and proverbial space pirates, essentially being little more than a ragtag faction that wanted nothing to do with the Covenant beyond picking fights and stealing their equipment, though their [[BadassArmy capability]] was never in doubt. Once the Human-Covenant War ended, their pilfering of the aftermath and Atroix smartly utilizing the political tensions to his advantage led to the Banished building up enough power to eventually eclipse the Covenant and accomplish what they couldn't: [[TheBadGuyWins defeat humanity.]]

* RisingEmpire: The Banished has been able to gather a huge amount of power, war material, mercenaries and influence during the Post-War peroid, to the extent their only real rival are the Swords of Sanghelios in terms of strength; with ONI especially concerned with the fact they are getting so strong, they're starting to build ties with ''human'' criminal networks, and begin to influence the rims of the Outer Colonies.

* CombatPragmatist: He openly states he'd have killed the Spartans rather than spare them to toy with them like Atroix did and later shows no hesitation in calling down orbital strikes on his own position or his own troops, knowing full well that he can survive them, but his enemies and troops can't.

Why can't we kill the Chief? It's like he's psychic or something. (...) Waaait, I got it! We just gotta [[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid plug the controller into ''Player 2'']]! (...) What the hell do you mean [[UsefulNotes/TheEighthGenerationOfConsoleVideoGames there's no plug]]?\\

* IRegretNothing: Atriox's response to Cortana asking, "If you knew you were going to die, how would you live your life differently?" is "I would change ''nothing''."

* TragicVillain: At the end of the day, the Banished functioning in the present after the Human-Covenant War are simply a consequence of the survivors of Cortana's Created conflict who are all fleeing for their lives as well as seeking vengeance against Cortana for their lot in life.

* GutturalGrowler: Most noticeably when speaking in gameplay.

* FantasticRacism: Seemingly played straight at first as the end of the ''Shadows of Reach'' book upon his return to the galaxy he shows hostility to the humans allied with him, which is highly unbecoming of his pragmatic nature and previous characterization overall—but it is actually '''[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]''' as later events reveal that he actually values humans, as shown when he expresses [[SurroundedByIdiots frustration and rage]] towards the more bigoted members of the Banished who had exiled and/or killed their human followers for the actions of a handful fleeing during the Flood outbreak.

** Both allegedly have [[OmnicidalManiac omnicidal ambitions]] with the Halo Array; whereas Truth played with the Covenant's beliefs so he could satisfy his AGodIAm delusions under the pretense of completing the Great Journey, Escharum is honest with his beliefs of weaponizing the Halos to wipe out all of their enemies, possibly [[PunyEarthlings humans on Earth]], that stand before them and not at all clouded by any sense of grandeur beyond that goal, neither is he worried if he himself dies in the process given how he wants to go out in TheLastDance regardless of what actually happens.