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* BoisterousWeakling: Tends to threaten to kick people's asses for bothering him, which falls flat when used again Arbiter, who tends to beat him up when he crosses him too hard. Doesn't have much merit when he's playing Halo either, since opponents with any semblance of skill or game-sense can outgun or outwit Chief ingame.
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* BoisterousWeakling: Tends to threaten to kick people's asses for bothering him, which falls flat when used again against Arbiter, who tends to beat him up when he crosses him too hard.hard. Nevermind how he'd likely stack up against any of the actual human beings he talks shit to online. Doesn't have much merit when he's playing Halo either, since opponents with any semblance of skill or game-sense can outgun or outwit Chief ingame.
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* HypocriticalHumor: One of Chief's most-used insults is to call people faggots and call various things gay (no matter how little they have to do with homosexuality), yet he is ''extremely'' good at drawing cartoon dicks and ''very'' passionate about it.
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* HypocriticalHumor: One of Chief's most-used insults is to call people faggots and call various things gay (no matter how little they have to do with homosexuality), yet he is ''extremely'' good at drawing anthropomorphic cartoon dicks and ''very'' passionate about it.
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* {{Malaproper}}: Besides the LeetLingo and the vulgarity, Chief's speech is characterized by having a ton of words and terms that are not quite right but you can figure out what he means. The most common examples are "metallic" (ironic) and "pedestrian" (pedophile).
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* TookALevelInBadass: After training with Arbiter, his Halo skills seemed to have radically improved.
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* TookALevelInBadass: After training with Arbiter, Arbiter in Season 5, his Halo skills seemed to have radically improved.dramatically improve. They started out so bad that he still doesn't end up ''that'' good, but he can at least hit a target better than half the time and pitch in during the later Seasons' serious virtual gunfights.
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* TookALevelInKindness: In the later episodes of season 7, he becomes considerably smarter and more morally grounded [[spoiler: Due to Cortana plaguing him in his mind because of his guilty conscience, and his desire to take down the trolls, since Colin's a pedophile]], Tyler's [[HairTriggerTemper hyper-agressive to the point of smashing over a dozen controllers and battering one of his school-"mates" that he met on XBL]], whilst Eugene is sadistic and spiteful and loves to psychologically torment the boy/player that Tyler has been beating up.
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* TookALevelInKindness: In the later episodes of season Season 7, he becomes considerably smarter and more morally grounded [[spoiler: Due to Cortana plaguing him in his mind because of his guilty conscience, and his desire to take down the trolls, since Colin's a pedophile]], Tyler's [[HairTriggerTemper hyper-agressive hyper-aggressive to the point of smashing over a dozen controllers and battering one of his school-"mates" that he met on XBL]], whilst Eugene is sadistic and spiteful and loves to psychologically torment the boy/player that Tyler has been beating up.
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* GamerChick: And a very ''skilled'' one at that. She was able to make it to the final round of a ''Halo'' tournament.
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* GamerChick: And a very ''skilled'' one at that. She was able to make it to the final round of a ''Halo'' tournament. And she isn't a one-game pony either, as she grew up on classic [[Platform/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem Super Nintendo]] [=RPGs=].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She has an inkling that Eugene and his clan get up to things that she's not privy to, but they're deliberately keeping her in the dark about how cruel Eugene can be and what depraved people he chooses for company. [[spoiler:Predictably, when Arbiter and Chief fill her in on what they've witnessed of both, she's disgusted and dumps him]].
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: She has an inkling that Eugene and his clan get up to things that she's not privy to, but they're deliberately keeping her in the dark about how cruel Eugene can be and what depraved people he chooses for company. [[spoiler:Predictably, when Arbiter and Chief fill her in on what they've witnessed of both, she's disgusted and dumps him]].
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:She manages to make it to the final round of her ''Halo'' tournament, and actually starts to feel confident that she has a chance at winning its one million dollar prize. However, before she can go on to the final round, she gets shot by Eugene.]]
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler:She manages to make it to the final round of her ''Halo'' tournament, and actually starts to feel confident that she has a chance at winning its one million dollar prize. However, before she can go on to the final round, she gets shot (thankfully only in the game) and fragbanned by Eugene.Eugene, making her unable to compete.]]
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* InsistentTerminology: It's ''P-DOS'', not pedo.
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* InsistentTerminology: It's ''P-DOS'', ''[=PDoS=]'', ''"pee-doss"'', like [=DDoS=], not pedo.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in a couple of episodes, but he's the one who [[spoiler:developed the Fragban hack, around which the dramatic half of the series largely revolves. It's used by the protagonists in Season 5, abused by the villains in Season 6, recreated by the villains in Season 7, and iterated on in Season 8]].
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* ChainsawGood:[[spoiler:Brings along a chainsaw when he goes to Arbiter and Chief's apartment to avenge Eugene.]]
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* ChainsawGood:[[spoiler:Brings ChainsawGood: [[spoiler:Brings along a chainsaw when he goes to Arbiter and Chief's apartment to avenge Eugene.]]
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* BadassCrew / TheTeam: Parodied.
** TheLeader: Master Chief
** TheLancer: Todd
** TheSmartGuy: Kyle
** TheBigGuy: Tucker
** TheLeader: Master Chief
** TheLancer: Todd
** TheSmartGuy: Kyle
** TheBigGuy: Tucker
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* HateSink: DoubleSubverted. His interviews talking about his game company consist of him checking every box on the list of what the series creator feels is wrong with creatively-bankrupt triple-A game studios and their corporate leadership, and when he first meets Arbiter the two immediately start trading insults. Later on, though, he seeks out Arbiter to apologize and extend an olive branch, leading the two to mend things enough to get along decently. Thus showing that he may be a BadBoss who has bad opinions on game design and takes competitive ''Halo'' way too seriously, but that doesn't mean he's completely unlikeable as a person. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's been cheating on Claire, and any affable attitude that he showed to her or Arbiter was empty and fake]].
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* HateSink: DoubleSubverted. His interviews talking about his game company consist of him checking every box on the list of what the series creator feels is wrong with creatively-bankrupt triple-A game studios and their corporate leadership, and when he first meets Arbiter the two immediately start trading insults. Later on, though, he seeks out Arbiter to apologize and extend an olive branch, leading the two to mend things enough to get along decently. Thus showing that he may be a BadBoss who has bad opinions on game design and takes competitive ''Halo'' way too seriously, but that doesn't mean he's completely unlikeable unlikable as a person. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's been cheating on Claire, and any affable attitude that he showed to her or Arbiter was empty and fake]].
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* HumiliationConga: By the end of his match with Chief, he's been beaten by one of the shittiest players on the network, suffered the embarassment of being walked in on by his parents, sparked off what could likely be the end of said parents' marriage, and his in-game girlfriend dumps him to be with the player who beat him.
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* TakeThat: He's basically a walking, talking piss take about low-effort, poorly-researched games journalism peddled by people whose engagement with the hobby is negligible but who speak as if they're an authority.
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* HypocriticalHumor: One of Chief's most-used insults is to call people faggots and call various things gay (no matter how little they have to do with homosexuality), yet he is ''extremely'' good at drawing cartoon dicks and ''very'' passionate about it.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Arbiter's generally presented as being in the right about most things and doesn't seem to hold any overtly prejudiced opinions, but he's definitely a product of mid-late 2000s Platform/XboxLive, and habitually uses language that was commonplace on the service at that time but beginning around TheNewTens was being more harshly scrutinized, something touched on in later seasons.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: Arbiter has most of the same vulgar and crass vocabulary that Chief does, but while the latter carpet-bombs it throughout all his lines, Arbiter prefers to use it more sparingly to add a little spice to his tracts and banter.
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* StopHavingFunGuys: He's part of a multiplayer ''Halo'' clan that treats fun and enjoyment as tertiary to grinding progression. As a CEO, he only places value on the competitive action aspect of games, to the point of firing all his writers because he feels they're not necessary.
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* StopHavingFunGuys: InUniverse: He's part of a multiplayer ''Halo'' clan that treats fun and enjoyment as tertiary to grinding progression.progression and looks down on people with poor statistics. As a CEO, he only places value on the competitive action aspect of games, to the point of firing all his writers because he feels they're not necessary.
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* ImAManICantHelpIt: [[spoiler:His justification for cheating on Claire is that he's got too much libido to be satisfied with monogamy, and if life offers him an affair there's no reason not to take what he can get]].
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* NonActionBigBad: He prefers to leave everything to Cameron and Cody. [[spoiler:In Collapse though, he actually does try fighting Arbiter once. In Season 6, he doesn't even try to fight Arbiter and Chief and just runs away, leaving [[DragonInChief Clyde]] to hold them off.]]
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* NonActionBigBad: He prefers to leave everything to Cameron and Cody. [[spoiler:In Collapse though, he actually does try fighting Arbiter once. In Season 6, he doesn't even try to fight Arbiter and Chief and just runs away, leaving [[DragonInChief Clyde]] to hold them off.]]
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Though he does play games, he clearly only got involved with the games industry to get rich, and spells out to Arbiter that artistic integrity will always take a back seat to money.
* StopHavingFunGuys: He's part of a multiplayer ''Halo'' clan that treats fun and enjoyment as tertiary to grinding progression. As a CEO, he only places value on the competitive action aspect of games, to the point of firing all his writers because he feels they're not necessary.
* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Though he does play games, he clearly only got involved with the games industry to get rich, and spells out to Arbiter that artistic integrity will always take a back seat to money.
* StopHavingFunGuys: He's part of a multiplayer ''Halo'' clan that treats fun and enjoyment as tertiary to grinding progression. As a CEO, he only places value on the competitive action aspect of games, to the point of firing all his writers because he feels they're not necessary.
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* CombatPragmatist: They have no problem abusing cheesy tactics like camping. Unlike a lot of players who only do that because they suck, Cameron and Cody are actually good players who are just willing to do anything to secure a win even if it's not honorable.
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* AccidentalMisnaming: He somehow gets the name of almost every game wrong despite being corrected, like consistently thinking the game he's playing is called ''VideoGame/Halo3: [[VideoGame/HaloReach Reach]]''.
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* DumbassHasAPoint: The whole joke of his character is that he obviously knows hardly anything about games despite claiming to be a hardcore gamer, but occasionally he drops some actual gaming or industry knowledge (albeit still saying the wrong names and terms). It's also suggested that he's a halfway-decent journalist in any circumstance that doesn't involve trying to pass himself off as a gamer.
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* FourthDateMarriage: He and [[spoiler:Claire]] had only been dating for weeks before deciding on the wedding.
* HateSink: DoubleSubverted. His interviews talking about his game company consist of him checking every box on the list of what the series creator feels is wrong with creatively-bankrupt triple-A game studios and their corporate leadership, and when he first meets Arbiter the two immediately start trading insults. Later on, though, he seeks out Arbiter to apologize and extend an olive branch, leading the two to mend things enough to get along decently. Thus showing that he may be a BadBoss who has bad opinions on game design and takes competitive ''Halo'' way too seriously, but that doesn't mean he's completely unlikeable as a person. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's been cheating on Claire, and any affable attitude that he showed to her or Arbiter was empty and fake]].
* HateSink: DoubleSubverted. His interviews talking about his game company consist of him checking every box on the list of what the series creator feels is wrong with creatively-bankrupt triple-A game studios and their corporate leadership, and when he first meets Arbiter the two immediately start trading insults. Later on, though, he seeks out Arbiter to apologize and extend an olive branch, leading the two to mend things enough to get along decently. Thus showing that he may be a BadBoss who has bad opinions on game design and takes competitive ''Halo'' way too seriously, but that doesn't mean he's completely unlikeable as a person. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he's been cheating on Claire, and any affable attitude that he showed to her or Arbiter was empty and fake]].
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* NotSoAboveItAll: While he's well aware of how obnoxious a lot of Chief's behavior is and clashes with him regularly over it, Arbiter is perfectly willing to indulge and even participate in banter and shenanigans with Chief as long as ''he'' finds it fun rather than annoying.
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* PartingWordsRegret: Part of his angst over [[spoiler:Cortana "going away" (she's actually dead) is that he's told that ''he'' caused it by alienating her, as their last interaction devolved into a petty argument over his use of the word "retarded" as an insult, which he would very much have preferred to concede on if it meant still having his friend]].
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He "dies" in the gas explosion in ''"Ignition"''.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:He "dies" in the gas explosion in ''"Ignition"''. He gets better in Season 8.]]
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* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Chief's mental health is often debated InUniverse due to just how unbelievably immature and simple-minded he is. Some believe that he legitimately suffers from an intellectual disability, while others take him to be a guileful sociopath who is merely feigning stupidity.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: Fragging Cameron and later Duncan]].
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* DarkChick: [[spoiler:Becomes this after he pulls a FaceHeelTurn and joins Eugene's clan, given how much he stands out from the other trolls.]]
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: Defiantly seems to be a reasonable person in a sea of insanity.
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* TheDarkChick: Two sisters working for the BigBad.
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* TheDarkChick: In Chaos Theosis as the token female.
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* [[ManipulativeBastard Manipulative Bitch]]: [[spoiler:She manipulates Chief into trying to kill Arbiter.]]
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* WhatMeasureIsANonBadass: He looks down on Chief for not being MLG.
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