History YMMV / HaloLegends

*** The ending.

*** The ending.

*** The beginning.

*** Worsened by the fact that the surviving members of Hades Corp were possibly among the many casualties aboard the Heart of Midlothian.

* TearJerker: A lot, due to the multiple deaths.

* FridgeHorror: In ''Odd One Odd'', there are only five kids (two females and three males) and their mom in the whole planet. The horror starts when how they handle adolescent years or one (or more) going horny (BrotherSisterIncest?). Chief and Cortana have the option to evacuate the family, but considering the Orion Arm is at war....

* TearJerker: A lots.

* FridgeHorror: In '''Odd One Odd''', there are only 5 kids (2 females and 3 males) and their mom in the whole planet. The horror starts when how they handle adolescent years or one (or more) going horny (Brother Sister Incest?). Chief and Cortana have the option to evacuate the family, but considering the universe is at war....

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The rather loose approach to canon (particularly on the visual side of things) resulted in this response.

* FridgeBrilliance: The collection is titled ''Halo Legends'', and particularly in the case of ''The Duel,'' they mean it. Just as the legends of King Arthur are based (loosely) on real events and people with plenty of exaggeration and anachronism, so too would the story of the first Arbiter be conflated to an epic tale of betrayal that perhaps kind of resembles historical events if you look at it funny--but screw it, it's an entertaining way to tell the tale, no?

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The use of Martin O'Donnell's and Michael Salvatori's scores from the ''Halo'' trilogy.

* TearJerker: A lots.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: The sequence in Origins of the Covenant and Humans fighting against the Flood. '''''Epic'''''.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The heavy alterations to the canon resulted in this response.

* FanDislikedExplanation: The Elite who nearly killed John at the end of ''The Package'' was hinted to be the future ally the Arbiter because the subtitles referred to him as "Thel". However, when fans pointed out that Thel 'Vadamee was already a Zealot (as opposed to a lowly Major) during his first fight against a Spartan in ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'', the Elite was changed to be another random eite named Thel '''Lodamee''. Now the canon fit together again, but the irony was lost.

* FanDislikedExplanation: The Elite who nearly killed John at the end of ''The Package'' was hinted to be the future ally the Arbiter because the subtitles referred to him as "Thel". However, when fans pointed out that Thel 'Vadamee had not yet fought a Spartan until the events of ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'', the Elite was changed to be another random eite named Thel '''Lodamee''. Now the canon fit together again, but the irony was lost.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The using of Martin O'Donnel and Michael Salvatori's scores from the ''Halo'' trilogy.

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The using of Martin O'Donnel and Michael Salvatori's scores from the Halo trilogy.

* FridgeBrilliance: The collection is titled Halo Legends, and particularly in the case of ''The Duel,'' they mean it. Just as the legends of King Arthur are based (loosely) on real events and people with plenty of exaggeration and anachronism, so too would the story of the first Arbiter be conflated to an epic tale of betrayal that perhaps kind of resembles historical events if you look at it funny--but screw it, it's an entertaining way to tell the tale, no?

** The main ODST of ''The Babysitter'', O'Brien, also isn't well liked.

* FanDislikedExplanation: The Elite who nearly killed John at the end of ''The Package'' was hinted to be the future ally the Arbiter because the subtitles referred to him as "Thel". However, when fans pointed out that Thel 'Vadamee had not yet fought a Spartan until the events of ''Halo: The Cole Protocol'', the Elite was changed to be another random eite named Thel '''Lodamee''. Now the canon fit together again, but the irony was lost.

* BrokenBase: It began to create one for 343 Industries, though eventually ''HaloCryptum'' and the comic adaptations of ''The Fall of Reach'' managed to WinBackTheCrowd.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced:
** An anime? ''For Halo''?! *{{Squee}}*!!!
** Don't forget the return of the ADV cast doing voices for this one for the dub.
** For the first time in ''Halo'' history you get to see the Forerunners themselves in person. Can't miss that.

* RuinedFOREVER: ''Legends'' was the first material released from 343 Industries after their takeover of the ''Halo'' franchise from Bungie, but its controversy quickly made for a bad foundation for them. Luckily, later material like ''HaloCryptum'' and the announcement of ''Halo: Anniversary'' have softened the fandom's opinion of them.

* BrokenBase: It began to create one for 343 Industries, though eventually ''Halo: Glasslands'' and the comic adaptations of ''The Fall of Reach'' managed to WinBackTheCrowd.

* RuinedFOREVER: ''Legends'' was the first material released from 343 Industries after their takeover of the ''Halo'' franchise from Bungie, but its controversy quickly made for a bad foundation for them. Luckily, later material like ''HaloCryptum'' and the announcement of ''Halo: Anniversary'' have softened the fandom's opinion of them.

** The main ODST of babysitter isn't well liked.
* RuinedFOREVER: ''Legends'' was the first material released from 343 Industries after their takeover of the ''Halo'' franchise from Bungie, but its controversy quickly made for a bad foundation for them. Luckily, later material like ''Halo: Cryptum'' and the announcement of Halo:Anniversary have softened the fandom's opinion of them.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: An anime? ''For Halo''?! *{{Squee}}*!!!

* TheScrappy: Han, the Arbiter's wife from ''The Duel'', is a very controversial character, due to her drastically different appearance from other Elites and incessant giggling.
** The main ODST of babysitter isn't well liked either.

** I found it an interesting concept that the female elites looked so different from the males. As opposed to the usual sci fi thing of female aliens having exactly the same differences from their males as humans, eg the female aliens having breasts whereas the males ones don't are smaller etc.