History YMMV / HaloTheColeProtocol

%%* Crazy Awesome: Pretty much a requirement for being an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, but Major Faison takes it a little farther than most.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Despite their {{Jerkass}} tendencies, SmugSnake demeanor and terroristic practices, the Insurrectionists do have at their core a few legitimate grievances with the UNSC.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** The inhabitants of the Rubble make a deal with the Jackals for their survival. They assume they could make a deal with the Covenant and possibly even join. This despite the fact that the Covenant destroyed Madrigal, from whence most of the refugees came. [[spoiler: Subverted in the fact they have an escape plan just in case it fails.]]
** The Elites HonorBeforeReason is taken to this level. [[spoiler:Thel, who is the SoleSurvivor, is so shook up by the events (particularly the fact that the leaders he so zealously followed are very much mortal beings with materialistic desires and having to kill his best friend) that it basically kick-starts his development into the warrior who would eventually become the Arbiter]].

%$* Crazy Awesome: Pretty much a requirement for being an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, but Major Faison takes it a little farther than most.

* CrazyAwesome: Pretty much a requirement for being an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, but Major Faison takes it a little farther than most.

* HolyShitQuotient: The sheer amount of [[GambitPileup plans colliding and backs being stabbed]] in such a short amount of time qualifies as this.

* MoralEventHorizon: Peter Bonifacio has this ''repeatedly.''

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Despite their {{Jerkass}} tendencies, SmugSnake demeanor and terroristic practices, the Insurrectionists do have at their core a few legitimate grievances with the UNSC. It tends to get lost, though, when you consider that the UNSC is actively trying to protect colonies that are neutral or even hostile towards Earth's influence (and getting [[CurbStompBattle the crap kicked out of them]] for their troubles), whereas the Insurrectionists care only about their own turf and place a higher priority on starting a civil war than on resisting genocide.
* WhatAnIdiot: The inhabitants of the Rubble make a deal with the Jackals for their survival. They assume they could make a deal with the Covenant and possibly even join. This despite the fact that the Covenant destroyed Madrigal, from whence most of the refugees came.
** [[spoiler: Averted in the fact they have an escape plan just in case it fails.]]

** The Elites HonorBeforeReason is taken to this level.

* {{HSQ}}: The sheer amount of [[GambitPileup plans colliding and backs being stabbed]] in such a short amount of time qualifies as this.

* HSQ: The sheer amount of [[GambitPileup plans colliding and backs being stabbed]] in such a short amount of time qualifies as this.