History Fridge / Halo

** There's nothing fridge about that, it was made clear in the first cutscene he appeared in.

** What makes you think he kept it a secret?

* Hey, you know that awesome, deep baritone Sangheili who kicks ass and takes names, Arbiter Thel 'Vadam? Guess who [[spoiler:ordered Reach to be glassed!]]

* The ending of ''{{Halo 3}}''. Literally: Master Chief didn't die, he's just MIA.
* The Covenant of ''{{Halo}}''. When this troper read about them over at Halopedia, he just thought of the species divide as a form of state-sponsored racism that only depended on how had they been absorbed into the Covenant, with some influences from theocracies. After having read a few articles on Medieval Society and Culture, and suddenly having discovered the similarities with them and the Covenant (the social castes of religion, combat, and manual labor -- Including the fact that Knights tended to view commoners as unimportant, bringers of neither shame or glory when killed), it made this troper admire Bungie's storytelling even more.
* One may imagine that the concept of the [[Halo3ODST ODST]] shares a bit of similarity to [[ItsRainingMen HALO jumpers]] (a high-altitude aerial insertion; to say the [[{{Badass}} physical requirements are strenuous]] might be understating it a bit: see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HALO_jump the article]] on ThatOtherWiki for details). ''{{Halo}}''... [[FunWithAcronyms HALO]]. Whoa.

* The Package, from Halo Legends. Something bugged me about Dr. Halsey young appearances. This is not a matter of different interpretation, but a fridge brilliance. The doctor that John rescued is not the original one, but a clone(Flash or not) of hers that will form the basis for A.I Cortana. That might explained the Package's doctor younger look. She is a clone! Note that also, in Halo Reach, the same name level; The Package is about delivering the Cortana fragment. It seems a subtle hint of the connection. I know, if you browse the wiki, the timeline won't match, but, then again, Time Travel/Time Displacement is apparent in First Strike novel. A fridge horror based on brilliance above, that doctor that they rescued? They needed her brain for Cortana's matrix. Ouch.
** The clone of Halsey's brain to create Cortana wasn't a full clone, it was just a clone of her brain. Making a full clone would be a waste of resources, especially since they ended up cloning Halsey's brain ''20 times'' just to find one that lived. Also, Cortana was made in 2549, whether as The Package takes place in 2544.

** [http://blog.ascendantjustice.com/more-weight-page-four/ Ascendant Justice pointed this one out]]: why didn't Regret, who survived the destruction of the Shield World, reveal the existence of the Flood to the rest of the Covenant? How come the rest of the fleet there never recorded it? Likely Regret may have chosen to keep it a secret, either because he thought the Flood were all destroyed, because he didn't want admit he wasted hundreds of warriors trying to suicidally retrieve treasure from a monster, or because he wanted to to concentrate on defeating humanity first before turning their attention to another threat.

** [http://blog.ascendantjustice.com/more-weight-page-four/ Ascendant Justice pointed this one out]]: why didn't Regret, who survived the destruction of the Shield World, reveal the existence of the Flood to the rest of the Covenant? How come the rest of the fleet there never recorded it? Likely Regret may have chosen to keep it a secret, either because he thought the Flood were all destroyed, because he didn't want admit he wasted hundreds of warriors trying to suicidally retrieve treasure from a CosmicHorror, or because he wanted to to concentrate on defeating humanity first before turning their attention to another threat.

* One for {{Halo Wars}}: Some people accused Ander's willingness to go with Ripa to protect Forge as unprofessional, the threat of her surrendering information to the Covenant most glaring. However, it actually serves as a massive piece of FridgeBrilliance. She wanted to know what the Covenant were up to. An extremely high-ranking Elite was sent specifically to capture her, an unusual occurance to put it lightly. She would also know the Spirit of Fire would be able to track her. So she ''allowed'' herself to be captured, not just to save Forge, but to allow the Spirit of Fire to find out what exactly the Covenant was looking for. Genius.

** Also don't forget that open-topped vehicles are safer when it comes to weapons that can penetrate vehicle's armour anyways, while exploding, and projectiles of overheated plasma certainly will cause explosive vapourization of materials. The thing is, in atmosphere the energy of explosion will be mostly lost with the shokwave going away from target, while in enclosed premisions it will crush soft personnel first and find a way out of hard vehicle's case second. This is exactly the reason why it's not uncommon to see infantry riding on top of APCs instead of traveling inside in warzones - in latter case it's just one anti-vehicle mine or a hit of RPG or something, and entire crew is dead. Thus, using Warthogs instead of Humvee-like vehicles is really justified.

** Really, nothing is enough until the Elites realize that humanity isn't the enemy and ally themselves with the UNSC. It's really a moment of both fridge brilliance and horror. Humanity at its best is doing little against the Covenant. Then after the events of Halo 2, the Elites, the biggest and the best the Covenant has to offer, come to the realization that the Prophets are leading everyone to slaughter and the humans, who've they've been conditioned to hate for 30 years, are actually similar to them and they have no reason to continue fighting them. And as such, the human-Elite alliance forms, and pretty soon the Covenant is all but annihilated. Hell, by the end of Halo 3, the Arbiter and the Chief, each the best of their respective race, are practically best friends, to the point of the Arbiter risking his own life to save a man who, a couple weeks ago, he was trying to kill, jumping into the Flood-infested High Charity with a flamethrower and fending off hordes of Flood to ensure the Chief gets out of there safely. One could argue it was because he knew the knowledge Cortana contained was far greater than his own life, but I believe it was {{The Power of Friendship}}. I guess this should probably be in the CMOA section, but whatever.

** Spartan-III Alpha and Beta Companies each numbered 300-strong. Additionally, an unknown number of the most talented trainees were reassigned to more elite units like Noble Team and Headhunters. These 600+ Spartan-IIIs are sent on high-stakes suicide missions where they are all but completely annihilated, and their sacrifice only nets a ''brief delay'' in the Covenant advance.

** Spartan-III Alpha Company produced 497 Spartans. Beta Company produced 418. Both lost 300 at Operation: PROMETHEUS and TORPEDO, leaving 315 Spartans left total, which were made into teams like NOBLE. And 315 Spartans is ''still'' not enough.

*** No. It's FridgeHorror because you never find out the death toll in the games. When you do [[AllThereInTheManual look it up]], you look again at the games, in a different light - and they seem that much [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel scarier]]. Is that not the definition of Fridge Horror?

* In all of the Halo games, human vehicles are sandy/snowy, depending on locale, while the Covenant vehicles are all...purplish. Why would the Covenant make their main methods of transportation so visible? To them, it's the color of fear. Why? ''Covenant blood is purple.''

** Really, nothing is enough until the Elites realize that humanity isn't the enemy and ally themselves with the UNSC. It's really a moment of both fridge brilliance and horror. Humanity at its best is doing little against the Covenant. Then after the events of Halo 2, the Elites, the biggest and the best the Covenant has to offer, come to the realization that the Prophets are leading everyone to slaughter and the humans, who've they've been conditioned to hate for 30 years, are actually similar to them and they have no reason to continue fighting them. And as such, the human-Elite alliance forms, and pretty soon the Covenant is all but annihilated. Hell, by the end of Halo 3, the Arbiter and the Chief, each the best of their respective race, are practically best friends, to the point of the Arbiter risking his own life to save a man who, a couple weeks ago, was trying to kill. I guess this should probably be in the CMOA section, but whatever.

** Really, nothing is enough until the Elites realize that humanity isn't the enemy and ally themselves with the UNSC. It's really a moment of both fridge brilliance and horror. Humanity at its best is doing little against the Covenant. Then after the events of Halo 2, the Elites, the biggest and the best the Covenant has to offer, come to the realization that the Prophets are leading everyone to slaughter and the humans, who've they've been conditioned to hate for 30 years, are actually similar to them and they have to reason to continue fighting them. And as such, the human-Elite alliance forms, and pretty soon the Covenant is all but annihilated. Hell, by the end of Halo 3, the Arbiter and the Chief, each the best of their respective race, are practically best friends, to the point of the Arbiter risking his own life to save a man who, a couple weeks ago, was trying to kill. I guess this should probably be in the CMOA section, but whatever.

** Spartan-III Alpha Company produced 497 Spartans. Beta Company produced 418. Both lost 300 at Operation: PROMETHEUS and TORPEDO, leaving 315 Spartans left total, which were made into teams like NOBLE. And 315 Spartans is ''still'' not enough.

** In the Falcon's defense it's more along the lines of an up-armed and faster future version of a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_UH-60_Black_Hawk Blackhawk]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UH-1 Huey]], or [[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MH-6 Little Bird]]. If anything, the Chinook is a present-day analogue to the [[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/D77-TC_Pelican Pelican]]