History Characters / HaloSpartanIIProgram

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:He sacrificed himself thinking that destroying the Covenent's ship would be the final blow of the battle and save Reach. However, just seconds after the ship exploded, a whole fleet of Covenant ships appeared over Reach and eventually glassed the whole world, ultimately making his self sacrifice completely pointless.]]

* OneManArmy: According to the Official Spartan Field Manual, the combat effectiveness of a single Spartan-II is equal to that of an entire ''sector fleet''. One of the best examples of this is in ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]'', where a team consisting of only five Spartans raids a Covenant fleet to rescue Dr. Halsey. While two of them perish in the battle, Blue Team not only successfully completes the mission, but wipes out nearly every Covenant soldier standing in their way with such ease that the fleet's Supreme Commander starts jettisoning parts of his own flagship in a failed attempt to slow them down.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: An interesting case where he has the full augmentation suite of the SPARTAN-II line, which straight up inherently makes him better across the field than any other soldiers, but his attachment to the lesser-augged SPARTAN-III teams under his command has him take on his iconic [=SPI=] gear, which contains stealth camo and can be used by any regular soldier, but has absolutely none of the advantages and raw power his S-II status could afford him with a full MJOLNIR armor set.

* CloningBlues: Each candidate was replaced with a flash clone in order to cover up their kidnapping. Unfortunately, full human cloning is still somewhat beyond the technological means of the UNSC; pretty much every flash clone fell prey to CloneDegeneration and died by their teens.

* CloningBlues: [[spoiler:Her flash clone might have lived much longer than expected, but she's still wheelchair-bound and dies of medical complications soon after meeting the original Daisy. And to top it all off, the original Daisy almost decides to shoot her when they first meet; thankfully, the two end up parting on good terms.]]

-->"So Ackerson wants his heads--and we'll give them to him--just not all of them...Orders are still being followed and these Spartans are in the field, but they are being armed as SPARTANS--and they are making a difference. We are bending the rules here--not breaking them."

[[folder: In General]]

[[folder: Linda-[=058=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Verent'''
->'''Birthdate: March 19, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/BrittanyUomoleale (''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'', ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' for adult Linda), Andrea Bogart (''VideoGame/Halo2: Anniversary''), Ashlen Bullock (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for child Linda), Izabela Vidovic (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for teenage Linda)'''

[[folder: Kelly-[=087=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Imber'''
->'''Birthdate: September 21, 2510'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''
->'''Voiced and portrayed by: Michelle Lukes (''VideoGame/Halo5Guardians'', ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' for adult Kelly), Creator/LuciChristian (''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]''), Jenna Berman (''Film/Halo4ForwardUntoDawn''), "[[Creator/HyndenWalch Hynden Walsh]]" (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for child Kelly), Francesca Manzi (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for teenage Kelly)'''

[[folder: Frederic-[=104=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Ballast'''
->'''Birthdate: April 3, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''
->'''Voiced and portrayed by: Creator/TravisWillingham (games, ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' for adult Fred), Creator/AndrewLove (''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]''), Tony Giroux (''Film/Halo4ForwardUntoDawn''), Collin Dean (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for child Fred), Creator/ToddHaberkorn (''Halo: The Fall of Reach'' for teenage Fred)'''

John's usual second-in-command and the leader of the [=Spartan-IIs=] when he isn't available, Fred is a formidable force in his own right, having extremely deadly skills with knives. During the events of ''{{VideoGame/Halo 2}}'' and ''[[{{VideoGame/Halo 3}} 3]]'', Fred led Blue Team in defending Earth, and was eventually sent to [[Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx Onyx]] to locate Dr. Halsey, Kelly-087, and a treasure trove of Forerunner technology.

[[folder: John-[=117=]]]

[[folder: Douglas-[=042=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Asphodel'''
->'''Birthdate: April 21, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''
->'''Voiced by: Matthew Waterson (''VideoGame/HaloWars2'')'''

[[folder: Jerome-[=092=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Minister'''
->'''Birthdate: May 8, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/GideonEmery (''VideoGame/HaloWars'' cutscenes), Creator/CrispinFreeman (''Halo Wars'' gameplay), Creator/MarkDeklin (''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' campaign), Nik Doner (''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer)'''

[[folder: Alice-[=130=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Passage'''
->'''Birthdate: July 17, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''
->'''Voiced by: Leigh-Allyn Baker (''VideoGame/HaloWars''), Creator/NikaFutterman (''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' campaign), Erin Stewart (''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer)'''

[[folder: Leon-[=011=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''

[[folder: Robert-[=025=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''

[[folder: August-[=099=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloWars'''''

[[folder: Jai-[=006=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Bhuj'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'''''

[[folder: Adriana-[=111=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'''''

[[folder: Mike-[=120=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Earth'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheColeProtocol'''''

[[folder: Otto-[=031=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Blunt Instruments]]'''''

[[folder: Margaret-[=053=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Blunt Instruments]]'''''

[[folder: Victor-[=101=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Blunt Instruments]]'''''

[[folder: Roma-[=143=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Blunt Instruments]]'''''

[[folder: James-[=005=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''

[[folder: Li-[=008=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

[[folder: Naomi-[=010=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Sansar (Alstad, New Atlantic Province)'''
->'''Birthdate: September 15, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloGlasslands'''''

[[folder: Serin-[=019=]]]

[[folder: Daisy-[=023=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Sargasso'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends Homecoming]]'''''
->'''Voiced in English by: Creator/CarliMosier'''
->'''Voiced in Japanese by: Creator/HoukoKuwashima'''
->'''Voiced in Latin American Spanish by: Anna Bucci (Venezuela)'''

[[folder: Joshua-[=029=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''

[[folder: Vinh-[=030=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

[[folder: Samuel-[=034=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Harvest'''
->'''Birthdate: July 10, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''
->'''Voiced by: Dane Jameson (child), Antony Del Rio (teenager)'''

[[folder: Randall-[=037=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Earth (Hull, England)'''
->'''Birthdate: 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'' (Mentioned only), ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Pariah]]'' (First direct appearance)'''
->'''Portrayed by: Steven Waddington'''

[[folder: Isaac-[=039=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

[[folder: William-[=043=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

[[folder: Anton-[=044=]]]

[[folder: Kurt-[=051=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Circumstance (Mira)'''
->'''Birthdate: October 19, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'''''

[[folder: Jorge-[=052=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Reach (Pálháza)'''
->'''Birthdate: March 5, 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/HaloReach'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/HakeemKaeKazim (''VideoGame/HaloReach''), Dane Jameson (''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'')'''

[[folder: Maria-[=062=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[ComicBook/TheHaloGraphicNovel Armor Testing]]'''''

[[folder: Soren-[=066=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Dwarka'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Pariah]]'''''

[[folder: Solomon-[=069=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Jovan Jackson'''

[[folder: Cassandra-[=075=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''VideoGame/Halo2'' (''Conversations from the Universe'')'''

[[folder: Arthur-[=079=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Herschel'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/JohnGremillion'''

[[folder: Fhajad-[=084=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''

[[folder: Grace-[=093=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

[[folder: Musa-[=096=]]]

[[folder: Ralph-[=103=]]]

[[folder: Cal-[=141=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''
->'''Birthdate: c. 2511'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Babysitter]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/EmilyNeves'''

[[folder: [=Nicole-458=]]]

->'''Homeworld: Mars'''
->'''Birthdate: December 19, 2531'''
->'''Debuted in: ''[[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Dead or Alive 4]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Lyssa Browne'''

[[folder: SPARTAN-[=1337=]]]

->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends Odd One Out]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Deke Anderson'''

* ThreeAmigos: With John and Sam.

* ThreeAmigos: Incredibly close with both John and Kelly.

* MasterOfAll: Trained to be experts at every facet of combat; your average Spartan-II can outshoot a non-Spartan sniper, outfly a non-Spartan ace, and outduel a Sangheili sword master.

[[folder: Arthur-[=079=]]]
!!'''Petty Officer Arthur-079 (born Arthur Remo)'''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/arthur18.jpg]]
->'''Homeworld: Herschel'''

->'''Debuted in: ''[[Anime/HaloLegends The Package]]'''''
->'''Voiced by: Creator/JohnGremillion'''

In 2544, Arthur was part of a five-man squad sent to retrieve an important ONI asset from the ''Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence''.

* LanternJawOfJustice: Has a fairly pronounced chin.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: While Arthur himself is completely loyal to the UNSC, his father Andrew ran Herschel's largest crime syndicate.
* RedShirt: Gets only a little screentime before he dies [[spoiler:when his Booster Frame gets crushed between two Covenant battlecruisers while he's covering Kelly]].

[[folder: Fhajad-[=084=]]]
!!'''Lieutenant Commander Fhajad-084'''
->'''Homeworld: Unknown'''

->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'''''

Fhajad was a close friend of John-117 during training, but was crippled by the augmentation process, resulting in him becoming an ONI analyst.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Is described as having dark skin; combined with his name, it's implied that he has Middle Eastern or South Asian ancestry.
* ChekhovsGunman: He makes no more direct appearances after he's crippled by the augmentations, [[spoiler:but almost thirty years later, one of his astrophysics papers gives Keyes the information to realize that a large slipspace anomaly is actually a Covenant battle group heading towards Sigma Octanus IV, allowing him to intercept it]].
* GeniusCripple: Despite the augmentation process doing permanent damage to his nerves, he still retained more than enough intelligence to write astrophysics papers.
* OnlyOneName: His papers indicate that he didn't adopt a surname after being discharged from the SPARTAN-II program.
* TokenMinority: The only confirmed nonwhite Spartan trainee of any note in ''The Fall of Reach''.

[[folder: Grace-[=093=]]]
!!'''Petty Officer Grace-093'''

->'''Debuted in: ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'''''

Grace is one of the few [=Spartan-IIs=] who survived Reach. She is the best Spartan-II at handling explosives.

* BackFromTheDead: Almost half their number died or were crippled during the augmentation process. The deceased were given a funeral, where their bodies were launched into space, but it’s revealed later on that the Office of Naval Intelligence secretly put them in cryo until they could be revived, re-augmented, and redeployed as proper Spartans. It’s explicitly noted in ''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' that Red Team was composed of washouts, and Dr. Halsey’s journal implies Black Team was this as well, to Halsey’s horror.
** This explains how the exact number of active Spartan-[=II=]s after augmentation has been all over the place for years. ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' explicitly states there were twenty-eight active Spartans at the time of the titular event, with twenty-five being present because Gray Team was deployed too deep behind enemy lines to be quickly recalled. From the thirty-three initial survivors to the [[TitleDrop Fall of Reach]], that makes five who died or disappeared between 2525 and 2552, but subsequent media has shows substantially more Spartan casualties, including but not limited to: Daisy-[=023=], Cal-[=141=], Solomon-[=069=], and Arthur-[=079=], all of whom died in ''Anime/HaloLegends '', Kurt-[=051=] who disappeared and was recruited by ONI to train the Spartan-[=III=]s, Randall-[=037=] who was one of the few Spartans to truly be missing, and of course Samuel-[=034=] who died in the book during the Spartan’s first encounter with the covenant. Rehabilitated Spartan-[=II=]s allows for pretty much all seventy-five Spartans to enter the field at some point, unless previously noted to have not undergone rehabilitation, as is the case with Musa-[=096=].

* TheWorfEffect: While this trope applies to Red Team as a whole for Atriox's introduction, Douglas bears the brunt of it. He's an experienced Spartan-II who's more than proven his worth in the first game, yet he's critically injured in a one-sided battle and his comrades have to flee, dragging his broken body with them, establishing just how dangerous the Banished leader is. He spends most of the game recuperating from his injuries before returning to the battlefield in one of the last few missions.

* BadassBaritone: His voice gets noticably deeper as an adult and obviously, he has to be badass to become a Spartan.

* BadassBaritone: Deepest voice on Noble.

* BadassInCharge: Of Green Team, and later the SPARTAN-III Program.

* TheChick: As one of the more emotive and outspoken Spartan-[=IIs=], she's the closest thing Blue Team has to this.

* WeaponOfChoice: His preferred weapon is the [[{{BFG}} rocket launcher]]. In gameplay, it can fire four shots in rapid succession, unlike the normal two shot launcher.

* WeaponOfChoice: His preferred weapon is the [[{{BFG}} Spartan Laser]].

* WeaponOfChoice: Favors a [[MoreDakka heavy machine gun]], which she lugs around during gameplay.

* WeaponOfChoice: Wields an [[LaserBlade energy sword]] in ''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer.

* WeaponOfChoice: His appearance in the ''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer has him wielding a [[{{BFG}} plasma cannon]].

* WeaponOfChoice: She wields a [[MagneticWeapons railgun]] in ''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer.

* WeaponOfChoice: Wields a [[MoreDakka heavy machine gun]] as his primary weapon.

* KnifeNut: He's very good with combat knives. He has a tendency to twirl them through his fingers before missions, which other UNSC personnel find unsettling.

** This doubles as an AuthorsSavingThrow, as the exact number of active Spartan-[=II=]s after augmentation has been all over the place for years. ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach'' explicitly states there were twenty-eight active Spartans at the time of the titular event, with twenty-five being present because Gray Team was deployed too deep behind enemy lines to be quickly recalled. From the thirty-three initial survivors to the [[TitleDrop Fall of Reach]], that makes five who died or disappeared between 2525 and 2552, but subsequent media has shows substantially more Spartan casualties, including but not limited to: Daisy-[=023=], Cal-[=141=], Solomon-[=069=], and Arthur-[=079=], all of whom died in ''Anime/HaloLegends '', Kurt-[=051=] who disappeared and was recruited by ONI to train the Spartan-[=III=]s, Randall-[=037=] who was one of the few Spartans to truly be missing, and of course Samuel-[=034=] who died in the book during the Spartan’s first encounter with the covenant. Rehabilitated Spartan-[=II=]s allows for pretty much all seventy-five Spartans to enter the field at some point, unless previously noted to have not undergone rehabilitation, as is the case with Musa-[=096=].