History ShoutOut / Halo

* One of the stories in the ''Halo: Fractures'' anthology features a shout-out to the hosts of the WebOriginal/OutsideXbox YouTube channel.

* In Halo Wars 2, the achievement unlocked by winning three games as Sergeant Forge is called [[VideoGame/{{Overwatch}} "Heroes Never Die"]]

* In a ShoutOut to the series, Microsoft named their voice assistant app in Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 10 after Cortana. Originally it was just a codename during 8.1's development, but after word got out, fans campaigned for it to be kept. Not only did they do just that, they brought in Jen Taylor to provide the voice.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' has a number of cameos from Sci-fi television, including "Sergeant Reynolds" (voiced by NathanFillion, who at one point gets to deliver the beginning of the quote on BigDamnHeroes) and a Marine voiced by Creator/AdamBaldwin shouting "Say hello to Vera!", along with Alan Tudyk delivering a very Wash-like speech "Tank beats ''everything''". Katee Sakhoff appears from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' to lend a voice to some of the female marines.

** Everyone at Bungie must love ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' because the ODST expansion has Buck, voiced by Fillion, Dutch voice by Baldwin and Mickey voiced by Tudyk. Also characters will say 'Gorram that hurts' if shot enough. Another hilarious shout out is playing as Buck in firefight when throwing grenades he will sometimes shout, "[[ThreeHundred This Is SPARTAA]]" He's also an unlockable voice in ''Reach's'' "Firefight" gametype; he'll exclaim "Shiny" when equipping a power weapon.

* One level has a section entitled "Actually, HAL, I Can Do That", a reference to ''TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.

** Everyone at Bungie must love ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' because the ODST expansion has Buck, voiced by Fillion, Dutch voice by Baldwin and Mickey voiced by Tudyk. Also characters will say 'Gorram that hurts' if shot enough. Another hilarious shout out is playing as Buck in firefight when throwing grenades he will sometimes shout, "[[ThreeHundred This Is SPARTAA]]" He's also an unlockable voice in ''Reach's'' "Firefight" gametype, he'll also exclaim "Shiny" when equipping a power weapon.

** Everyone at Bungie must love ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' because the ODST expansion has Buck, voiced by Fillion, Dutch voice by Baldwin and Mickey voiced by Tudyk. Also characters will say 'Gorram that hurts' if shot enough. Another hilarious shout out is playing as Buck in firefight when throwing grenades he will sometimes shout, "[[ThreeHundred This Is SPARTAA]]"

* In ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', Carter crashes his damaged ship into a Covenant SpiderTank, a possible shoutout to Arvel Crynyd's kamikaze crash in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.

** Someone at Bungie must love ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' because the ODST expansion has Buck, voiced by Fillion, Dutch voice by Baldwin and Mickey voiced by Tudyk. Also characters will say 'Gorram that hurts' if shot enough. Another hilarious shout out is playing as Buck in firefight when throwing grenades he will sometimes shout, "[[ThreeHundred This Is SPARTAA]]"
*** Actually, no, not someone. Everyone. Well, almost everyone. 99% of Bungie Employees are Firefly or Whedon Fanboys/Girls.

* In a ShoutOut to the series, Microsoft named their voice assistant app in Windows Phone 8.1 after Cortana. Originally it was just a codename, but after word got out, fans campaigned for it to be kept. Not only did they do just that, they brought in Jen Taylor to provide the voice.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' has a number of cameos from Sci-fi television, including "Sergeant Reynolds" (voiced by NathanFillion, who at one point gets to deliver the beginning of the quote on BigDamnHeroes) and a Marine voiced by Creator/AdamBaldwin shouting "Say hello to Vera!", along with Alan Tudyk delivering a very Wash-like speech "Tank beats ''everything''". Katee Sakhoff appears from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' to lend a voice to some of the female marines.

** Someone at Bungie must love ''{{Firefly}}'' because the ODST expansion has Buck, voiced by Fillion, Dutch voice by Baldwin and Mickey voiced by Tudyk. Also characters will say 'Gorram that hurts' if shot enough. Another hilarious shout out is playing as Buck in firefight when throwing grenades he will sometimes shout, "[[ThreeHundred This Is SPARTAA]]"

* The first game has several ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' references, including the calico cat Jonesy, "I have a bad feeling about this (drop)", "We're screwed, we're screwed man!"("We're fucked, we're totally fucked!", which got changed to "screwed" in the TV version), and of course, "Game over man, game over!"

* There's no doubt that ''Halo'' owes a lot to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/StarshipTroopers StarshipTroopers]], what with it being about armored humans fighting aliens, but the ODST drop pods just confirm it--that's exactly how the Mobile Infantry deploys in ''Troopers''.

* In Halo Wars you get control of 3 Spartans of Red Team. Their names are Jerome-092, Alice-130 and [[DouglasAdams Douglas-042]].

* There's no doubt that ''Halo'' owes a lot to ''StarshipTroopers'', what with it being about armored humans fighting aliens, but the ODST drop pods just confirm it--that's exactly how the Mobile Infantry deploys in ''Troopers''.

* There's no doubt that ''Halo'' owes a lot to ''StarshipTroopers'', what with it being about armored humans fighting aliens, but the ODST drop pods just confirm it--that's exactly how the Mobile Infantry deploys in ''Troopers''.

* Halo Anniversary gives us the Bandana Skull that gives you infinite ammo. [[Franchise/MetalGear Just like the bandana from another series.]]

* The first game has several ''{{Film/Alien}}'' references, including the calico cat Jonesy, "I have a bad feeling about this (drop)", "We're screwed, we're screwed man!"("We're fucked, we're totally fucked!", which got changed to "screwed" in the TV version), and of course, "Game over man, game over!"

* Halo Anniversary gives us the Bandana Skull that gives you infinite ammo. [[{{Metal Gear}} Just like the bandana from another series.]]

* Halo Anniversary gives us the Bandana Skull that gives you infinite ammo. [[{{Metal Gear}} Just like the infinity bandana.]]

* Halo's Wolverine rocket-launching tank is basically the same as the Wolverine from ''GIJoe''.

* Halo's Wolverine rocket-launching tank is basically the same as the Wolverine from ''[[GIJoe]]''.

* In Halo Wars you get control of 3 Spartans of Red Team. Their names are Jerome-092, Alice-130 and [[DouglasAdams Douglas-042]].

* The Master Chief is Spartan John-117. The protagonist of ''DemolitionMan'' is John Spartan, Prisoner #117. Go figure.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' has a number of cameos from Sci-fi television, including "Sergeant Reynolds" (voiced by NathanFillion, who at one point gets to deliver the beginning of the quote on BigDamnHeroes) and a Marine voiced by AdamBaldwin shouting "Say hello to Vera!", along with Alan Tudyk delivering a very Wash-like speech "Tank beats ''everything''". Katee Sakhoff appears from ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|Reimagined}}'' to lend a voice to some of the female marines.

* In ''VideoGame/HaloReach'', Carter crashes his damaged ship into a Covenant assault platform, a possible shoutout to Arvel Crynyd's kamikaze crash in ''ReturnOfTheJedi''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 3}}'' has a number of cameos from Sci-fi television, including "Sergeant Reynolds" (voiced by NathanFillion, who at one point gets to deliver the beginning of the quote on BigDamnHeroes) and a Marine voiced by AdamBaldwin shouting "Say hello to Vera!", along with Alan Tudyk delivering a very Wash-like speech "Tank beats ''everything''". Katee Sakhoff appears from ''BattlestarGalactica'' to lend a voice to some of the female marines.

* The ''VideoGame/{{Halo}}'' series contains several shout-outs to one of Bungie's previous titles, ''{{Marathon}}'', although some of these seem to be more a case of recycling phrases because they sound cool. ''Halo'' has MJOLNIR Mark VI battlesuits while ''Marathon'' has Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs. ''Halo'' has Marathon-class cruisers. The Marathon Mission's crest has made its way into the ''Halo'' universe in several places, sometimes as canon and often as {{easter egg}}s -- on the side of a ship, a robot's eye, and as an ancient alien race's symbol for humanity.