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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]'' -- and she's humming just like 343 Guilty Spark.]]
* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power because of her touching the Domain]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".
* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power because of her touching the Domain]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".
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* The Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana ending. Rogue Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]'' -- and she's humming just like 343 Guilty Spark.]]
Halo]]''.
* It's hard to say which is worse:[[spoiler:Cortana Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power because of her touching the Domain]].power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
10,000 years.
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. Atfirst first, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, out the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according horrifically. According to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".ones."
* It's hard to say which is worse:
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]''''' One can only hope that no one was on that rig.
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever ''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]''''' '' One can only hope that no one was on that rig.[[labelnote:Then again...]] This is just a simulation. Someone in charge of the simulation’s programming was probably messing around. Therefore, it isn’t likely that the sandworm even exists outside of the War Games simulation. [[/labelnote]]
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]].power because of her touching the Domain]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI who join her, suddenly Red Team hears the voices of hundreds of Smart [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speaking up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.
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* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI who join her, suddenly Red Team Fireteam Osiris hears the voices of hundreds of Smart [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speaking up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.them.
** And the final cutscene makes it clear that, barring Roland who seems to still be on the side of humanity, literally every [=AI=] currently active sides with Cortana, dealing a very severe kneecap to humanity on top of having to face off against the Created and the Guardians. And it's an extremely one-sided match, with the ''Infinity'' being very lucky to slipspace jump away before the Guardian over Earth could attack it. The crew's forced to keep randomly jumping and stay away from major settlements in order to throw the Created off and avoid drawing attention to other colonies. The deck is extremely stacked against them, with prospects looking very grim.
** And the final cutscene makes it clear that, barring Roland who seems to still be on the side of humanity, literally every [=AI=] currently active sides with Cortana, dealing a very severe kneecap to humanity on top of having to face off against the Created and the Guardians. And it's an extremely one-sided match, with the ''Infinity'' being very lucky to slipspace jump away before the Guardian over Earth could attack it. The crew's forced to keep randomly jumping and stay away from major settlements in order to throw the Created off and avoid drawing attention to other colonies. The deck is extremely stacked against them, with prospects looking very grim.
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* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI sho join her, suddenly Red Team hears the voices of hundreds of [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speak up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.
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* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI sho who join her, suddenly Red Team hears the voices of hundreds of Smart [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speak speaking up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]''''' One can only hope that no one was on that rig.
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]''''' One can only hope that no one was on that rig.rig.
* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI sho join her, suddenly Red Team hears the voices of hundreds of [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speak up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.
* As Cortana extends her offer to cure the rampancy of all AI sho join her, suddenly Red Team hears the voices of hundreds of [=AIs=] all across the galaxy speak up to pledge themselves to Cortana. The real scare factor is not only hearing all these voices overlap, but the realisation that a key element of humanity's interstellar infrastructure has turned against them.
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]'' -- and she's humming just like Guilty Spark 343.]]
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]'' -- and she's humming just like 343 Guilty Spark 343.Spark.]]
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]''.]]
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]''.Halo]]'' -- and she's humming just like Guilty Spark 343.]]
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Actually, if you look around the screens, it shows they were testing it on captured Jackals. The bioweapon seems to have simply decayed away by the time 'Mdama's people showed up.
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** The presence of perfectly healthy Covenant aboard the moon shows that the bioweapon only affects humans. Which begs the question: why in the hell did ONI approve the creation of a bioweapon that only affects the species it claims to protect?
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** The presence of perfectly healthy Covenant aboard the moon shows that the bioweapon only affects humans. Which begs the question: why in the hell did ONI approve the creation of a bioweapon that only affects the species it claims to protect?
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]'''''
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* There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]''''']]''''' One can only hope that no one was on that rig.
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs Spartan-IV's and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* Hearing the Jackals [[AliensSpeakEnglish speak English]] for the first time in the franchise is a little jarring.
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* Hearing the Jackals [[AliensSpeakEnglish [[AliensSpeakingEnglish speak English]] for the first time in the franchise is a little jarring.jarring.
*There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]'''''
*There's an EasterEgg on the multiplayer map "Rig". While the trigger for it is simple [[labelnote:*]] After GroundPound-ing a platform in the BottomlessPit in the middle of the map, you shoot two cores coming out of their silos, on the edge of the map.[[/labelnote]], the result isn't. [[spoiler: You hear [[HellIsThatNoise a piercing screech]] as a rig on the horizon is suddenly lifted from below by '''''[[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a titanic]] [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] SandWorm that makes Literature/{{Dune}}'s sandworms look like maggots.]]'''''
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* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".
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* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".ones".
*Hearing the Jackals [[AliensSpeakEnglish speak English]] for the first time in the franchise is a little jarring.
*Hearing the Jackals [[AliensSpeakEnglish speak English]] for the first time in the franchise is a little jarring.
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:The fucking [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]. ''Again''.]]
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:The fucking [[spoiler:Rogue!Cortana has ''a [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]. ''Again''.Halo]]''.]]
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* It's hard to say which is worse: [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]]]
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".
* The ''Argent Moon'', the derelict ship of the eponymous second mission that Blue Team is sent to recover from Covenant forces. At first you could be forgiven for thinking that the Covenant found it and killed everyone aboard. But it turns out, the ''Moon'' was already a GhostShip long before Kig-Yar scouts stumbled upon it. ONI scientists had been working on an airborne bioweapon, and it somehow got loose. The result, as hinted by numerous dessicated corpses with an odd residue beneath them, was everyone aboard the entire vessel dying horrifically - according to a record by the shipboard AI, those who were at ground zero for the containment breach (who died instantly as their soft tissues ''liquefied'' as a result) were "the lucky ones".
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana [[spoiler:Cortana is still rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Fireteam Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''. Even worse is that she's utterly convinced she's in the right, that the Spartan-IVs and their kind deserve to ''die'' and that Chief will agree with her when she wakes him from stasis in ten thousand years.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just MadWithPower. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just MadWithPower.[[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity mad with power]]. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''.]]
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* Legendary Ending. [[spoiler:The fucking [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Halo]]. ''Again''.]]
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* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just MadWithPower. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''.]]
* [[spoiler: It's hard to say which is worse: Cortana is rampant, or she's ''not'' rampant and just MadWithPower. Either way, when she shows her true nature to Team Osiris, her ranting and sneering is just ''chilling''.]]
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