History Characters / HaloSpartanIIProgram

* SamusIsAGirl: see below.

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

* CharacterTic: When reuniting with Anton on Reach, John figured out that it was him due to the way he subtly glances right and left.

->'''Voiced by: Creator/GideonEmery (''VideoGame/HaloWars'' cutscenes), Creator/CrispinFreeman (''Halo Wars'' gameplay), Mark Deklin (''VideoGame/HaloWars2'' campaign), Nik Doner (''Halo Wars 2'' multiplayer)'''

* SociopathicSoldier: Discussed. In the opening of ''VideoGame/Halo4'' Halsey's ONI interrogator says the Spartans displayed "sociopathic tendencies" and questioned whether the Master Chief was effective precisely because he was already "broken."

->'''Voiced by: John Gremillion'''

* TheSouthpaw

** Being strong enough to not only break fully-grown men's bones, but go GoodOldFisticuffs against Elites and Brutes, who can easily rip an armored man apart with their bare hands.

* SociopathicSoldier: Discussed. In the opening of ''VideoGame/Halo4'' Halsey's ONI interrogator says the Spartans displayed "sociopathic tendencies" and questioned whether the Master Chief was effective precisely because he was already "broken." Granted, it's [[UnreliableExpositor ONI]] talking, and in the games and ExpandedUniverse few [=IIs=] that made the cut ever showed obvious sociopathic tendencies that weren't directed at the Covenant, and certainly far fewer in number and scope than the [=IIIs=] or [=IVs=].

* SociopathicSoldier: Discussed. In the opening of ''VideoGame/Halo4'' Halsey's ONI interrogator says the Spartans displayed "sociopathic tendencies" and questioned whether the Master Chief was effective precisely because he was already "broken."

* {{Tykebomb}}: A morally gray example, as they were trained from childhood to destroy the Insurrection and prevent humanity from tearing itself apart.

->'''Voiced by: Brittany Uomoleale (''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)'''

* BadassBeard: The one member of Noble Team to have any noticeable amount of facial fair.

* DeathSeeker: A mild case of one; he believes that he should have probably died long ago, and as such will unhesitatingly take any risk deemed worthwhile for the good of his comrades and humanity. [[spoiler:In "Long Night of Solace", he's ''firmly'' insistent on sacrificing himself to save Reach.]]

* LightningBruiser: Despite his size, Jorge can easily keep pace with his smaller squadmates, despite constantly lugging a [[http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Reach/images/cutouts/jorge_right3.jpg heavy machine gun]].

Soren grew up in an isolated house in the forest on Dwarka, where he lived with his parents before they died and he went to an orphanage. Unlike most [=Spartan-IIs=], Soren was given a choice by Dr. Catherine Halsey in joining and continuing in the program, but ended up deformed and crippled by the augmentation procedures. He was subsequently put on desk duty, which embittered him toward the UNSC.

* CareerEndingInjury: Soren's gimp legs and twisted bones means he can never fight in battle.
* HandicappedBadass: Soren still has the greatest upper body strength of any Spartan, and he [[spoiler:manages to hold his own against Randall, a fully healthy Spartan]].
* ICanStillFight: Soren begs Halsey and Mendez to let him join his teammates, but they know he can't in his crippled state. [[spoiler:This embitters him and makes it easy for Partch to turn him to the Insurrectionists cause]].
* TheSneakyGuy: Even before SPARTAN training, he was adept at moving around in the forest without being noticed.
* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: At six years old Soren attempted to murder his stepfather in revenge for not taking his mother to a doctor. When caught he ran off and hid in the woods, and later when his stepfather got sick Soren stood above him and watched him die.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Soren disappears into the woods at the end of ''[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Pariah]]''. Nothing is ever discovered about his fate, but if he survived long enough, he likely died when Reach was glassed.]]

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: [[spoiler:Plays this trope painfully straight, in a franchise that's been mostly good at avoiding it, when the Covenant ship he's searching self-destructs.]]

* RedShirt: Gets almost no screentime before he dies.

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Dies while covering Kelly when his Booster Frame gets crushed between two Covenant battlecruisers.]]

* RedShirt: Gets only a little screentime before getting killed.

* TokenMinority: The only confirmed nonwhite Spartan trainee of any note in ''Literature/HaloTheFallOfReach''.

* ActionGirl
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:She is ambushed and killed by Brutes during the raid on the ''Unyielding Hierophant'', with three Brute Shot rounds blowing her midsection apart.]]

* MauveShirt: Gets a little more screentime and characterization than most of the other [=IIs=] introduced in ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike''.

* ActionGirl

* AcePilot: When the Pelican taking them to Reach loses both its pilot and most of its controls, Joshua manages to slow its descent just enough to allow most of the [=IIs=] onboard to survive jumping off the ship (though not without receiving some painful injuries upon landing).
* TheLeader: Led Red Team during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV.
* MauveShirt: Gets a bit more screen-time in the early parts of ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike'', [[spoiler:but it ends up being something of ADeathInTheLimelight, as his Banshee gets shot down while attacking a Covenant landing zone on Reach]].

* ActionGirl

Sam was John's best friend and second-in-command of the Spartans. Along with Kelly, the three of them formed the core of the Spartan group, until his death in the first Spartan operation against the Covenant.

* DefeatMeansFriendship: Inverted; When they first meet, John goes lone wolf on Sam and Kelly in a situation requiring teamwork and they end up losing. Sam comes within a hairs breadth of beating him up the next day. Fortunately for John, he improvises a much better plan that gets them working together and winning the scenario, and ''then'' they become friends.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Subverted, as he's rarely mentioned after his death even by John and Kelly, but that seems to be more due to the Spartans' stoic and professional natures, as he clearly leaves a hole in their lives that never really gets filled. In the animated adaptation of ''The Fall of Reach,'' Blue Team visit Reach over two decades later (after it has been glassed) to honor him, and Linda notes they were lucky the brass allowed them the time to come at all. It's also noted in ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'' that John resisted filling Sam's vacant spot on Blue Team before finally filling it with Kurt.
* TheLancer: To John, until his death.

* TakingTheBullet: He takes a plasma shot for John. Though the wound isn't serious, the breached armor does mean that he won't survive traveling back through outer space.
* ThreeAmigos: With John and Kelly.

* BroughtDownToNormal: ONI only allowed him to leave service in exchange for him allowing his augmentations to be reversed.
** BroughtDownToBadass: His training, experience, and natural talent still allowed him to rise to a high rank within the Colonial Guard.
* ChekhovsGunman: Was first mentioned in 2006's ''Literature/HaloGhostsOfOnyx'' as being one of the few Spartan-[=IIs=] whose MIA status was genuine, but despite making a brief appearance in 2009's "[[Literature/HaloEvolutions Pariah]]", what actually happened to him was unknown until 2014's ''Film/HaloNightfall''.
* ColonelBadass: For the Sedran Colonial Guard.

* HeadbuttingHeroes: His mistrust of ONI leads him to butt heads with Jameson Locke a few times in ''Nightfall'', but [[spoiler:they grow to respect each other, to the point where Randall even admits Locke might be an exception to the whole "they don’t let ONI into Valhalla" thing]].
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:At the end of the Alpha Shard mission, he willingly stays behind to manually detonate a HAVOK nuke and destroy the source of an anti-human bioweapon]].
** SomeoneHasToDie: [[spoiler: When Macer, Locke, and him draw beads to determine who has to stay behind with the HAVOK, he rigs it so that he himself is the "loser", and even threatens to draw a gun on the other two if they ''don’t'' leave him to die.]]
* HiddenDepths: Besides his bravery, we see little of the Spartan he used to be, except for when [[spoiler:he's the one who figures out how to refuel the Condor with part of a HAVOK nuke]].

* TheMenFirst: Treats this ideal very seriously, and even takes time to remind Locke of it at one point.

* ReligiousBruiser: Some of his narrations imply that he may have faith in ''some'' kind of higher power.

* StartingANewLife: Does this twice, first on Vodin, then on Sedra.
* TragicKeepsake: His daughter’s necklace during the Alpha Shard mission. [[spoiler:He later breaks it to use its beads as “straws” to determine who has to stay behind to detonate the HAVOK.]]
* WarriorPoet: Comes across as this in his narrations in "Nightfall".

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler:The first Spartan-II to die defending Onyx, and one of the last to die in the war.]]

The only Spartan-[=II=] on NOBLE Team, Jorge is the team's heavy weapons specialist. Open with his opinions, he is an incredibly kind-hearted individual, which often causes friction between him and Emile.

* BadassBaritone: Deepest voice on NOBLE.
* BadassBeard: The one member of the team to have any noticeable amount of facial fair.
* TheBigGuy: He's the only Spartan-II on NOBLE Team, the rest of whom are [=Spartan-IIIs=].
** Deserves special note since at 7'4 (outside of his armor), Jorge is big even for a II.
* BoisterousBruiser: By far the friendliest member of NOBLE, he's as close to this as one can get while still remaining professional.
* CoolOldGuy: The oldest member of NOBLE, and the most badass besides Six.
* CunningLinguist: Is fluent in Hungarian.
* DoomedHometown: His homeworld is [[ForegoneConclusion Reach]].

* TheHeart: Jorge is the most empathetic NOBLE, and probably the most together emotionally as well (which really says more about the Spartan-[=IIIs=] than it does about Jorge).

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: During Jorge's cameo as a young conscript in the ''Fall Of Reach'' animated series, a DrillSergeantNasty calls him "Hor-HAY", which is the Spanish reading of his name. When he corrects the sergeant on the pronunciation, he gets hit with a shock baton for talking back, and the sergeant calls him "Hor-HAY" again.
* LightningBruiser: Noticeably more so than the other Spartans in the ''Halo: Reach'' [=ViDoc=] "Once More into the Breach", where Jorge can be seen lugging his [[http://www.bungie.net/images/Games/Reach/images/cutouts/jorge_right3.jpg heavy machine gun]] around at the ready effortlessly, easily keeping pace with his smaller squadmates.
* MoreDakka: Wields a heavy machine gun as his primary weapon.
* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:He sacrifices himself to blow up a Covenant supercarrier. Then the rest of the fleet shows up.]]
* TeamDad: The oldest and most experienced member of Noble Team. Interestingly, he treats Halsey as a TeamMom.
* YouAreNumberSix: Often referred to by his callsign, Noble Five.

* ActionGirl

* ActionGirl
* TheBigGirl: As the only Spartan in Kilo-Five, she is always the one who tackles the most dangerous threats the team faces; Mal even compares her to a Valkyrie when he first meets her.
* BreakTheCutie: First she gets told that Halsey is dead and then it turns out she isn't, then she finds out what happened to her family after her kidnapping (with her mother committing suicide and her father becoming an Insurrectionist leader).
* BrokenPedestal: When she finds out the true extent of what Dr. Halsey did to her and the other [=Spartan-IIs=].
* CurbStompBattle: Delivers one to pretty much everyone she fights, from 'Telcam's Brutes to Jul 'Mdama himself.

* DefrostingIceQueen: She starts off fairly standoffish with the rest of Kilo-Five, but slowly becomes more open as she begins to trust them more and jokes around a bit.
* LukeIAmYourFather: When she finds out that the Insurrectionist leader Kilo-Five has to thwart is her long-lost father.
* MyCountryRightOrWrong: As expected of a Spartan; [[spoiler:even after she develops misgivings about the SPARTAN-II program, she ultimately chooses to stay with the UNSC when her father pleads with her to leave.]]
* OddFriendship: Develops something of one with ODST Vasily "Vaz" Beloi.
* RepressedMemories: [[spoiler:Regarding the more unpleasant parts of her initiation into the SPARTAN-II program.]]
* TheStoic
* ThickerThanWater: Is kept in reserve during Kilo-Five's mission to Venezia precisely for fear of this trope applying to her Insurrectionist father.

* ArtificialLimbs: He gets a replacement after his lower left arm got vaporized by a Hunter weapon.
* AnArmAndALeg: Loses half of his lower left arm to a Hunter assault cannon blast during the Battle of Sigma Octanus IV.

* HandicappedBadass: He may have lost his arm, but his skill as a Spartan was not diminished.

* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:His thruster pack is shot during a space-op, which causes it to explode and send him careening off into space. The ''Pillar of Autumn'' attempted to scan for James before leaving the system, but was unable to locate him. John speculates that he likely suffocated after running out of air, but it’s possible he may have been rescued by another UNSC ship.]]

* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:He is killed while attempting to conduct external repairs to the ''Ascendant Justice'' during a battle inside a slipspace bubble in ''Literature/HaloFirstStrike''.]]
* RedShirt: Despite being one of the few [=IIs=] to escape Reach's surface after it falls, he has very few lines and little established about his personality before being killed off.