History Film / Halo4ForwardUntoDawn

* ChekhovsClassroom: In Episode 2, the teacher is explaining the Battle of Trasimene. She recounts how Hannibal defeated the numerically-superior Roman Legions by leading them into a trap and surrounding them with cavalry, which they couldn't reorganize fast enough to counter, resulting in a swift defeat. [[spoiler: Lasky uses similar tactics in a training exercise, setting a trap and successfully ambushing the enemy, then capitalizing on the ensuring chaos.]]

** In Episode 2, the "rebels" the ODSTs are fighting are firing weapons with an odd green glow.

* YankTheDogsChain: Episode 2. [[spoiler: After failing many combat exercises in a row, a clever trap planned by the squad's resident [[TheFriendNobodyLikes unfavorite cadet Lasky]] is on the verge of scoring them a success. And then Lasky suddenly drops dead. seemingly of a heart attack.]]

* TrackingDevice: All students on combat exercises are monitored with some of these installed in their helmets. [[spoiler: Lasky leads his team to victory in an exercise by taking advantage of this. He has his squad wait until the enemies grow impatient, and then has his team take off their helmets. Once the enemies closes in and find the bait, they spring the trap and rout the numerically-superior opposition.

* VomitIndiscretionShot: The cadets, upon exiting cryosleep at the beginning.

* MilitaryBrat: Many of the cadets, including Lasky and Dimah.

** Dips into TheCracker when the whole file comes together, and it's shown to be a video from Section II of ONI that has been restored to its original form, pre-propaganda. Sully tells Dima not to tell her parents about it.

* MilitaryBrat: Many of the cadets, due to Corbulo Academy being for the children of the elite of UNSC society.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Sullivan is seen watching classified combat footage ONI is trying to cover up, General Black is seen nervously scanning the sky while ordering his troops around, and, toward the end of Episode 1, a computer screen glitches, showing strange triangular figures, while outside an object is seen falling from the sky.

** One of the marching chants the cadets use is the [[http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/UNSC_Marine_Cadence same one]] from ContactHarvest.
** The first video opens up on Cortana's DistressSignal, which she sent at the end of VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}.

'''''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn''''' is a live action [[{{Prequel}} prequel]] to ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' that tells the origin of Commander Thomas Lasky, the executive officer of the UNSC ''Infinity'' which discovers Master Chief John-117 on the remains of the UNSC ''Forward Unto Dawn''. Taking place thirty one years prior to ''Halo 4'' in the year 2526, Lasky is a freshman cadet in Hastati Squad at the Corbulo Academy of Military Science on Circinius IV. He is struggling to live up to the reputations of his mother and brother, while having no particular love for the way the United Nations Space Command is handling the Insurrection. Most of his fellow cadets look down upon him due to his sympathetic views to the Insurrection, although he finds friendship with fellow cadet Chyler Silva.

* ContinuityNod: One of the marching chants the cadets use is the same one from ContactHarvest.

* SuperSoldier: John-117 and his fellow Spartan-II's, Kelly-087 and Fred-104.

* ContinuityNod: The cadets use the same marching chant that was featured in ContactHarvest.

* VomitIndescretionShot: The cadets, upon exiting cryosleep at the beginning.

* CryonicsFailure: A minor example: being flash unfrozen is part of the cadets training, and Lasky suffers some pretty bad cryo burns on his hands and back.

* VeteranInstructor: General Black and Colonel Mehaffy.

* SuperSoldier: John-117 and his fellow Spartan-II's, Kelly-087 and Fred-104.

''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn'' is a live action [[{{Prequel}} prequel]] to ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' that tells the origin of Commander Thomas Lasky, the executive officer of the UNSC ''Infinity'' which discovers Master Chief John-117 on the remains of the UNSC ''Forward Unto Dawn''. Taking place thirty one years prior to ''Halo 4'' in the year 2526, Lasky is a freshman cadet in Hastati Squad at the Corbulo Academy of Military Science on Circinius IV. He is struggling to live up to the reputations of his mother and brother, while having no particular love for the way the United Nations Space Command is handling the Insurrection. Most of his fellow cadets look down upon him due to his sympathetic views to the Insurrection, although he finds friendship with fellow cadet Chyler Silva.

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''Halo 4: Forward Unto Dawn'' is a live action [[{{Prequel}} prequel]] to ''VideoGame/{{Halo 4}}'' that tells the origin of Commander Thomas Lasky, the executive officer of the UNSC ''Infinity'' which discovers Master Chief John-117 on the remains of the UNSC ''Forward Unto Dawn''. Taking place twenty one years earlier in the year 2526, Lasky is a cadet in Hastati Squad at the Corbulo Academy of Military Science on Circinius IV. He is struggling to live up to the reputations of his mother and brother, while having no particular love for the way the United Nations Space Command is handling the Insurrection. Most of his fellow cadets look down upon him due to his sympathetic views to the Insurrection, although he finds friendship with fellow cadet Chyler Silva.