History YMMV / HaloGlasslands

* UnfortunateImplications: You can overcome seemingly permanent muteness by...getting really angry?

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Chief Mendez comes off as a far worse monster than Doctor Halsey due to his attempt to [[NeverMyFault deflect his own role]] in the Spartan programs.

* TheWoobie: '''''Halsey'''''. She's trapped in a Dyson Sphere with people who have suddenly come to despise her all of the sudden and take turns yelling at her for various things, the most notable of them being the Spartan Program, which she ''had to do'' for the sake of humanity and has been wracked with guilt over her entire life. Even her decades-long friend, who was just as involved with it as she was, turns on her and tells her that he hates her for ''making'' him do it, and that she's a horrible person. She ends up yelling at an Engineer out of stress, and one of the Spartans punches her in the face for it. Then, they finally find a way to contact the UNSC, and she's immediately told that several months passed on the outside compared to the weeks within, during which her '''daughter died'''. Nobody feels sorry for her, and then she's placed under arrest by one of her students and someone she considered a surrogate daughter, and is given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before being carted away. [[EsotericHappyEnding The end.]]

** WritersCannotDoMath? Or just ArtisticLicensePhysics?

* TheWoobie: '''''Halsey'''''. She's trapped in a Dyson Sphere with people who have suddenly come to despise her all of the sudden and take turns yelling at her for various things, the most notable of them being the Spartan Program, which she ''had to do'' for the sake of humanity and has been wracked with guilt over her entire life. Even her decades-long friend, who was just as involved with it as she was, turns on her and tells her that he hates her for ''making'' him do it, and that she's a horrible person. She ends up yelling at an Engineer out of stress, and one of the Spartans punches her in the face for it. Then, they finally find a way to contact the UNSC, and she's immediately told that several months passed on the outside compared to the weeks within, during which her '''daughter died'''. Nobody feels sorry for her, and then she's paced under arrest by one of her students and someone she considered a surrogate daughter, and is given a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech before being carted away. [[EsotericHappyEnding The end.]]

** Likewise, Kilo-Five's arming of terrorists to fight against a noble alien like the Arbiter makes them appear as DesignatedHero types at best and VillainProtagonist ones at worst.

* BaseBreaker: Reactions to the depiction and characterization of Catherine Halsey, already a controversial figure among the fandom for her methods in the SPARTAN-II program, and Admiral Margaret Pargonsky, already a controversial figure for being the head of [[StateSec ONI]], have split the fandom even more.

* DesignatedHero / VillainProtagonist: The leadership and agents of ONI, because after a war that killed billions of your own people, [[ConflictBall violently undermining the most prominent pro-peace Sangheili leader]] [[StupidEvil is just the way to go]].

* RootingForTheEmpire: Given how much ONI seems to want to start a ''new'' war right after the old one, you might find yourself rooting for the author's [[DesignatedAntagonist chosen antagonists]].