Halo Legends: When Weebs Drank Gamer Fuel

In 2010, Halo took an interesting detour...into anime. Seven shorts were created by Japanese studios all set in the Halo universe and put together in a collection called Halo Legends. Some were good, some were bad. All I'm going to talk about right now.
This took way too long and could have been better but its the end of the year and I am tired.
Twitter: / althistoryhub
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:49 Origins
4:45 The Duel
7:13 Homecoming
9:43 The Package
13:00 The Prototype
15:29 The Babysitter
17:07 Odd One Out

[@PointlessHub]

Joking aside I loved all of these shorts and wanted to propose a Halo Legends 2 but ran out of time. See you next year. Hope you all have a great Christmas

[@TheProjectVoid]

Halo is what my father son relationship was . After 5 we stopped talking to each other

[@Tankdestroyer467]

Can't believe you used Megalith & Somebody that I Used to Know Remix from Hawx Lore vs Ace Combat Lore. Speaking of which, when Ace Combat lore video?

[@boomslick2436]

Really wish Halo Legends 2 would happen

[@euansmith3699]

Merry Christmas; and thanks for a year of fun entertainment.

[@sookendestroy1]

Halo Legends: Anniversary LETS GO!

[@TheProjectVoid]

Bungie: what art style should we use? That one Bungie employee: "hold my body pillow"

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

The weeabooness goes all the way to the core with bungie, from the obvious influence on the general vibe of unsc equipment, to basically all early halo concept art (seriously, all the human concept art is just straight up anime, its great) to the fact they're literally the developers of the game Oni, which you should google

[@Ezekiel_Allium]

@Spaceman Mort oh, there's definitely a lot of James Cameron influence there, I won't deny that. But the influence of series like ghost in the shell is also there. This is a very weird pull, but the machinegun from halo 2 is where I think the 80s anime influence is most blatant, to the point it looks out of place for the halo universe. I will also say though, the pulse rifle point is a little silly. The only real influence is the ammo counter and smg esquefire rate combined with no recoil. They share similar aesthetics because they're pulling from the same source: late cold war era weapons. Check out the early l85 rifles for what I'd consider a much closer aesthetic relative to the ma5, not just in terms of being bullpup but the complex sides of unknown purpose (to me at least). I'd say the smg has more pulse rifle influence honestly, with the mix of polymer and metal furniture, caseless ammo etc There was actually a line about the incestuous design stealing between Cameron and halo in my first comment I cut to shorten it

[@lolmeme69_]

@@Ezekiel_Allium Not just that, but the Covenant as a whole seem influenced by the Japanese Empire. There's also the various samurai SPARTAN armor designs, which make no sense whatsoever, but they do look cool. In any case, I'm glad that they made Halo Legends.

[@punic4045]

@@lolmeme69_ I'm pretty sure the entire culture of the Elites is based off of the samurai of Feudal Japan.

[@texassherman7093]

It was 343

[@optimus27000]

"But Daisy liked the customisation of Halo 3 more and shot her on the spot." That made me do a spit take holy shit.

[@SOBERHANGOVER]

That's was to good

[@Puppy_Puppington]

@@SOBERHANGOVER yeah. Better than a toe knife.

[@friktogurg9242]

I liked Daisy

[@friktogurg9242]

SO sad

[@MistahFox]

@@friktogurg9242 I was ok with Daisy until I read the few lines she had in Silent Storm, which made me love her. Read Silent Storm if you haven't btw, its great Spartan 2 fanservice

[@thadmeboy1129]

"Master cheif shows up to look at Daisy's corpse and thinks 'damn it really be like that, oh hey a new bear charm'" is by far the best quote I've heard so far

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

Lmfao

[@SomebodywithaYouTubeaccount]

The moment when the gamer and the Chief shared the same mind

[@SonicHedgehog1991]

I love the running gag behind the context of the bear charm being canon in halo legends and since halo infinite multiplayer is considered canon, that means someone looted that charm off of her corpse.

[@istvanbrooks5319]

a marine runs up and snags it before they nuke that planet

[@nate_orious0002]

Yeah it was chief

[@Just_A_B3AN]

I haven't been keeping up with current lore, why tf is the multiplayer cannon?

[@YodaPotter117]

​@@Just_A_B3ANsince Halo 4

[@Darkgun231]

@@YodaPotter117 Ah, so basically it's canon in the worst/non-canon continuity. Good to know.

[@Infinityand1]

"He kinda just fell in love with his Oedipus Alexa." Damn, you just changed this entire series for me in one single throwaway sentence.

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

I almost spat out my drink lol

[@TheChaosKing]

The thing is, Halsey in cannon does find Master Chief attractive. "Cortana framed her fingers around the man’s face. “He’s so serious,” she murmured. “Thoughtful eyes, though. Attractive in a primitive animal sort of way, don’t you think, Doctor?” Dr. Halsey blushed. Apparently, she did think so. Cortana’s thoughts mirrored many of her own, only unchecked by normal military and social protocol." - The Fall of Reach Ch. 25

[@TheMonkeygoneape]

@@TheChaosKing she did also sleep with Keyes

[@chrisdominik1822]

@@TheMonkeygoneape oh god.. doesn't that mean John and Miranda are step siblings...?

[@rainerfrickanisce2485]

@@chrisdominik1822 In a way, yeah, kinda.

[@Spudtron98]

16:42 I love the idea of Arbiter getting his kill stolen at the last second, right as his revenge is complete. The scream of rage in the background is perfect.

[@dr.wallacebreen3859]

The silence and then the "waaaargh!" was perfect

[@michaelzhang9806]

Imagine he was executing the Prophet and Chief just steals it and you just hear “Yoink.”

[@MasterHall117]

@@michaelzhang9806 Freakin arbiter looks at Chief with a side eyed stare and his head cocked at an angle, showing how visibly pissed he is Rick Grimes style

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

That was amazing. 🤣🤣🤣

[@hsgg53]

​@@dr.wallacebreen3859😅😢😮😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😮😢😮😢😢😢😢

[@spaceman466]

Odd One Out has one of the best quotes of the series. "I'll it say because no one else will. The fact I don't know when to give up is one of my good points!"

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

I wish 1337 was cannon. He's one of my favorite Spartans, he's funny as fuck. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@BlackPantherFTW]

The covenant blowing up their owns ship to kill one Spartan is actually pretty on point for them

[@zuttoaragi8349]

I'm 99% sure they did something similar in one of the books too.

[@blueguy2128]

The point wasn't to kill just one lmao they wanted the entire team to be hit

[@MercuryAlphaInc]

It's basically the "burn your house down for one spider" way of doing things.

[@blueguy2128]

@@MercuryAlphaInc covenant weren't reckless. A slight over zealous hint doesn't translate to stupidity. Like regarding Elites code of honor, they weren't just warriors. They're soldiers too, they didn't do dumb shit they still know how to fight a war.

[@anguswaterhouse9255]

@@blueguy2128 "They don't do dumb shit" My man, the arbitor nearly lost a war because his wounded soldiers kept killing themselves rather than seeing a medic due to "honour".

[@VagabondRetro]

Microsoft: "Gamers and weebs are the same thing, just slap what they like together."

[@greganator111]

and it worked

[@RoyalFusilier]

Same with Vtubing. "Wait a second, you can make anime girls play video games?"

[@NoobPTFO]

@@RoyalFusilier and it worked

[@Miestwin]

Well, they aren't really that wrong.

[@Gaareth_]

That was kinda true back then

[@LordSoundWave]

“It’s like a painting but someone spilt water all over it” if only there was a style of painting that covers that idea.

[@burnttoast.2017]

Watercolor lol

[@FreerunTMac]

@@burnttoast.2017 No I think its called Wetpainting, but nice try

[@celebalert5616]

Gooash I think

[@gokbay3057]

paper marbling

[@daltontharp4002]

Ah yes a fellow sound wave fan

[@ohmnesia]

9:17 At that time, Spartans didn't have energy shields, so even a small amount of Plasma or Needle rounds could melt through Spartan armor super easily. Keep in mind that the Mjolnir Armor were initially designed to fight against Human resurrectionists. They basically had to copy the energy shield technology from the Covenant later during the war.

[@BloodDawg25]

He also didnt mention that ralph was a spartan canidate thta left the program

[@strider117aldo9]

Unless you were SoF Red Team (Halo Wars), in which case you were lucky.

[@wayne0075]

But they still had advanced training and inhuman reflexes? Dude just admit that the death was convoluted for plot's sake. I know we wanna pretend like they're good, but most of these shorts have incredibly bad storytelling and writing.

[@MistahFox]

I like Homecoming a lot, but I hope Daisy gets a better death later in the canon. The fact is those needler rounds shouldn't have penetrated the titanium AT ALL and even if they did, they weren't enough to explode and at worst punctured a lung, which isn't near enough to kill a Spartan 2. Source: In Halo Glasslands, a needler round glances off an ODST's shoulder armor.

[@strider117aldo9]

@@MistahFox The same Glasslands where Halsey, a normal Human, somehow only gets a black mark from a SPARTAN-III (granted, she was extremely tired and probably held back, but still)? Wouldn't trust it. Hell, Cochran from The Fall of Reach got a beating from one needle alone despite being in armor.

[@paulzan2246]

Homecoming is really just like: “Wait! You forgot your bear! A symbol of your lost youth and innocence!”

[@GFMarine]

The babysitter always stuck with me because the silent, absolute unit of a spartan turned to be a girl with a pretty face, like I don't know if it's the art style but her armor has some CHUNK to it, on a side note I hadn't seen that episode in years and now I just realized that she strangely looks like Griffith from Berserk, hair and all.

[@11Survivor]

The point is that physiologically, Spartan-IIs were impossible to differentiate when they wore their armour.

[@GFMarine]

@@11Survivor You're preaching to the choir, I know quite a bit about the Spartans lore since I've read some of the novels, what I meant was that I can't tell if the armor on that specific spartan is meant to look that bulky or if it's the art style.

[@blackraptor1154]

It’s Griffith but with friends

[@GFMarine]

@@blackraptor1154 Oh no.

[@blackraptor1154]

@@GFMarine it’s fine because they all have separate dreams, making them true friends.

[@restitutororbis1216]

Let's agree the UNSC teaming up with Covenant to fight the flood was the most epic thing ever.

[@mercury2157]

Makes me wish it could've actually happened in the original trilogy

[@GmodPlusWoW]

I wouldn't be too upset if that's the natural progression of the UNSC. Not so much an integration of one into the other, but maybe more of a "United Systems" coalition. And honestly, the UNSC seems to be on good terms with the Swords of Sanghelios, so if humanity's going to enter into a confederation of alien states, it'll probably be with the Swords starting out.

[@Kai-ow9gi]

@@GmodPlusWoW gonna be hard with oni trying to cripple everyone so humanity won't be threatened again, especially when they tried to off the arbiter

[@GmodPlusWoW]

@@Kai-ow9gi That's definitely a wrinkle. But if a closer coalition is formed in response to the Banished, the emerging Endless and whatever remains of the Created, ONI would have to either try a lot harder to split things up, or simply postpone their genocidal mission when there are greater threats out there than Covenant splinter-factions. With that in mind, would ONI eventually become a liability to the UNSC? I wouldn't bat an eye if there ended up being a greater friction between the two due to conflicting directives.

[@mercury2157]

@@GmodPlusWoW with their way of thinking, it's probably safe to say ONI already is a liability

[@The.Subtilizer]

One of the more depressing things you realize about the Prototype episode is that at the end the surviving soldiers are to rendezvous with the UNSC heart of Midlothian which was the place of the plot of midnight on the heart of Midlothian and everybody died in that episode

[@anjaneyasreetrout2444]

I think it was pretty well explained why the marine got the nickname of "ghost" in Prototype episode. It was given to him as an insult by his fellow marines because of the way he often ignored the safety of his men and focussed only on the mission. He simply shut down all his emotions during any mission. He didn't flinch even after losing an entire platoon (any normal officer would have broken down in his position). He just went back to duty as if nothing happened. It was that inhuman behavior that gave him the codename.

[@sebastiansuazo2734]

But why?? Why dont just void?? Or just asshole??

[@zuttoaragi8349]

Yeah. I managed to catch that as well. Not sure why he had so much trouble understanding it.

[@alonzorattigan9736]

@@zuttoaragi8349I couldn’t even finish this video after he got hung up on the name

[@kazuhiramiller7945]

Yeah and then the part with him calling himself a Ghost is meant to be a self reflection and his own personal interpretation of it. He was misunderstood and as we see in the flashbacks actually was hurt by the loss of his squad but his fellow troops obviously only saw or heard the reports and apathetic attitude he carried. One of two parts of the video I think this guy unfairly misunderstood along with the needler killing Daisy who likely had unshielded mark 4 and probably suffered a super combine explosion inside of her body bouncing shards of the needles throughout and destroying internal organs.

[@sneeki8082]

feelings passed right through him

[@RM10Prod.]

So, to be clear: the only way the 1337 could beat the B I G boi brute was to shoot it with a MAC cannon? I think at this point that's a Avengers level threat

[@louisduarte8763]

"We have an army." "We have a Spartan." "We have roided-up Brute." "We have a MAC Cannon."

[@F6FHellcat5]

It was a slipspace probe.

[@martinconway8174]

MAC Rounds? In atmosphere?

[@obiwankenobi3574]

@@martinconway8174 one way to get their attention, hang on to your teeth people

[@fluent4530]

@@louisduarte8763 “we have a energy projector” “We have a *ORBITAL MAC CANNON* Covenant: Well fuck

[@essex3777]

Christ, I remember being 9, picking this up in a Wal-mart and not knowing what the fuck I was watching but loving it. EDIT: Found my old disk with it's case

[@scordova98]

What the hell happened to that space marines helmet in your pfp?

[@essex3777]

@@scordova98 Angry Marine. Chad Angry Marine.

[@NovaDelta]

Shit, you too? Bought it cause it said halo on it and thats all i needed

[@SirBigWater]

I still got my bluray Steelcase of it

[@maritimesteak8540]

I'm glad

[@paulzan2246]

After I watched The Babysitter, Cali-141 became my favourite Spartan. Her sheer altruism and Kindness stuck with me a lot. While there’s a lot of heroes who sacrifice themselves for their loved ones, very few are willing to go above and beyond and sacrifice themselves for someone who’s generally been rude to them, and pushed back against their acts of kindness. What I really found heroic about Cali was that while she had almost every reason to save herself and leave Obrien for dead, (She was way more talented, way more valuable to the UNSC, and O’brien hadn’t really done anything to earn Cali’s kindness). She still chose to sacrifice her life for his. To Cali, she didn’t care if O’brien was “nice” to her, she just saw another human who had just as much reason to live as her. It’s a trait that I really wish I had. To not just care about those who like you, but go above to care about those may not.

[@nobbieslicks2237]

A lot of Spartans put themselves out for marines/ODSTs. No matter how much of a dick those people were to them, they still felt they were obligated to protect them. Take the Chief. During his first skirmish with the Flood, he was scared completely shitless. When infected marines started throwing themselves at him, he wasn't immediately willing to kill them because he thought there might've been a chance to save them.

[@derekmensch3601]

I just gotta say its funny that you say shes your favorite. Then call her the wrong name the entire time. Remove the i at the end. Its just Cal

[@paulzan2246]

@@derekmensch3601 Her full name is Calista but I didn’t have enough time to write the full name down. I just shortened it down to Cali to make it easier

[@derekmensch3601]

@@paulzan2246 where did you get that from? Cause as far as I have seen. Its only Cal

[@paulzan2246]

@@derekmensch3601 I’ve read a lot of comments from videos about Halo Legends saying that her full name was Calista. I thought it was canon.

[@surprisedchar2458]

The Babysitter always manages to upset me. My favorite game is ODST and that dickweed sniper doesn't deserve to have those four letters attached to his service record. Nor should his squadmates let him live down the fact that he only came around to the Spartan once the helmet came off and his mind was changed by the power of boner.

[@JunHector]

Think you missed the point of why he came around and why everyone else doesn't make fun of him or the spartan.

[@CassandraFortuna]

@@JunHector no, it was definitely due to the power of boner and the rest of the ODSTs should've made fun of him for consistently fucking up during a highly sensitive covert operation

[@malum9478]

@@JunHector not really

[@trustytrest]

@@JunHector nah, he only cared once he found out she was a woman. dude's thinking with the wrong head.

[@zelohendricks51]

Yeah you missed the whole point

[@leonardchurch814]

I love Halo Legends, despite some of the weirder stories.

[@baronofplagues]

Same

[@yassinlhamous8518]

love it mostly for the variations of the soundtrack

[@MALICEM12]

Some of it was ok, but I don't like anime in my Halo just like I don't like it in my Starwars.

[@PackHunter117]

@@MALICEM12 Really only the Baby Sitter was the silly anime like episode.

[@NameName2.0]

SSSSSPARTAN THIRTEEEEN THIRTY SEVEN

[@cpMetis]

Ghost was Sakumo Hatake (Kakashi's dad) in a bad ending, basically. He was purposefully cold to everyone and ignored the safety of his men to accomplish his mission, hoping it would carry them through everything, but that got them all killed. He just kinda kills his emotions entirely and becomes a shadow of himself, a "ghost". People just saw him seemingly not care and called him Ghost like an insult, and he took it on since it kinda lined up with how he had seen himself since the incident anyways. 10/10, alongside Homecoming. Babysitter is a 9/10.

[@Sidewinder1996]

100% this. Feel like he overanalyised on this one. But hey, least the package got a 5/10

[@linusmlgtips2123]

@@Sidewinder1996 The package deserved a 2 god that was so cringe worthy.

[@alexsilva28]

@@linusmlgtips2123 sure but the part when the bubble shield drops and the music starts is awesome

[@strider117aldo9]

How did Sakumo end up? Not much into anime let alone ninja shit.

[@cpMetis]

@@strider117aldo9 He ended up committing suicide after being dragged through the mud by his village and even the comrades he saved for not completing the mission. Kakashi found him, which is part of why Kakashi is the way he is. "In the ninja world, those would break the rules are scum, that's true... but those who would abandon their comrades are worse than scum." Boys cried when the village got nuked, men cried when Kakashi met his dad in the afterlife and finally got to say he didn't blame him for it.

[@Mobius_118]

"Including the ol' John Eleven-Seven." IDK why that made me laugh more than it should have.

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

I know, it's such a great delivery. No pun intended since the episode is called the "package" 😂😂

[@cromtuiseagain]

The writing on The Prototype how Ghost got his name sounds like something Kojima would write

[@SlipspaceEntertainment]

I really enjoyed Halo Legends and wish there was a dedicated anime to Halo. The live action scares me that it might be a disaster but let’s hope it’s good. I’d probably say the Babysitter is my favorite and Odd One out is just so fun. Also the Prototype is visually amazing although a bit dramatic

[@KaptainKommissar]

Prototype is a literal masterpiece what the fuck are you going on about

[@Gundam-Prime]

Omfg 117 likes I ain't gonna ruin that. But yeah, I agree, I'm fearful for the live action.

[@olly123451]

@@KaptainKommissar prototype is the most stunning visually, but the story has glaring issues that feel like it didn’t use the run time correctly. It was significantly constrained with the story it wanted to tell vs the time it had to tell it. That’s not to say that it isn’t great though, just limited.

[@Necromediancer]

The live action looks really good, fym

[@ayuwoki453]

Please no Halo anime please...

[@falsealias2046]

In the halo evolution story “Heart of Midlothian,” they reference the “Be Human” episode. Unfortunately all the people that Ghost sacrificed himself to save were picked off by a covenant ambush fleet. Sorry

[@volpe7436]

Actually the group ghost sacrifices himself for Actually end up on a different ship (unnamed) that is set to rendezvous with the heart of Midlothian so it's not known if it did but the covenant actually boarded it after they first arrived so very likely ghost's team actually does survive on the unnamed frigate

[@Lichelf]

I guess THAT's why they call him the ghost /s

[@Ribbons0121R121]

kinda like jorge, dying thinking he saved an entire planet and everyone IMMEDIENTLY gets their shit rockets by a covenant fleet

[@EpsilonXenos]

Nooooo

[@strider117aldo9]

@@volpe7436 Yeah, we see two transports, with one of them heading to a direction 9ther than the THoM.

[@sushirollthug]

For origins II, my own theory is that the short is referring to the actual events of the Great Schism. It wasn’t just elites that broke off of the Covenant, the Sangheili loyal to the Arbiter also had other Covenant species in their units that joined them. This isn’t shown in Halo 3 because it would have been confusing, but in Halo 5 we see the Swords of Sanghelios have grunts in their ranks

[@zacharybrogden3038]

Dude, the premise of Prototype and Ghost, isn’t that hard to grasp. He was cold and efficient, but still normal on the inside. He just bottled it all up until his squad was killed and he finally embraced the title. His last stand was him finally snapping and saying “F*** IT! I’ll be a mecha-Spartan to save my men and go out with a bang”

[@RongusCongus]

you have some magical power that lets you reach deep into the corners of my mind and pull out the most random shit that I watched religiously as a kid

[@Pellagrah]

Honestly, it's much easier to do that with content from the early 2010's and earlier just because there wasn't such a massive media ecosystem back then. There's been an explosion in the amount of content the average person has access to in the past decade, and it's impossible to keep up with all of it.

[@cpMetis]

FUN FACT: The Banished were started in the battle we see in Prototype, the Battle of Algolis. (on a larger scale, they occur at separate points of the battle). Prototype is absolutely bonkers for how much Halo stuff is connected to it. HRUNTING: Most known for the Cyclops (Halo Wars and other media) YGGDRASIL: Made to take Mjolnir and develop uses for non-spartans and further mjolnir development itself HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL Mark I ADS: The prototype suit, a version is used by Sgt. Johnson in several non-canon appearances The Mantis, Mega-Mantis, and Colossus all came from the combined HRUNTING/YGGDRASIL projects later The Heart of Midlothian is name dropped. It was responding to the battle when it was ambushed leading to "Midnight in the Heart of Midloathian" Part of the battle is where Atriox finally is ordered to be executed, rises up, and creates the Banished which are now the main antagonists of the series Home planet of Paul DeMarco, most well known for leading Fireteam Majestic aboard the UNSC Infinity, shown prominently in Spartan Ops.

[@jeffgoldblum7214]

Thank you cpMetis, very cool!

[@caramelldansen2204]

How much of that is 343i's new-lore, though?

[@nomus1172]

So what ?

[@caramelldansen2204]

@@HelghastStalker Then most of it is worthless!

[@JJJBunney001]

​@caramelldansen2204 what? You realise it's the same lore it's always been right? Lots of writers and senior staff transitioned from bungie to 343. It's not like Disney and star wars, it's all part of the same universe and isn't bad just because 343 had a hand in it

[@aliesterus1.023]

14:29 I've seen this dynamic a few times in fiction, where a character is given a negative nickname, and they felt that it describes them, or their situation, quite well, and adopt it wholeheartedly. That's probably what they were trying to convey, without using so many words to directly state it outright. Probably to avoid going with the "They call me X" and "But they don't know how they're right" lines.

[@testname4464]

12:00 This dynamic was foreshadowing to chief selling out humanity for a quick fuck

[@Bananakingchad]

He’s been blue balled for 50 years let the man smash some robussy

[@naughtmeinam4603]

"Attack on Titan...Junior High." Nailed the comedic timing

[@connortollit6120]

9:31 “master chief shows up to look at Daisy’s corpse and thinks dam, it really be like that” Bruh haha

[@TinkerTailorSailorTy]

9:31 actually what Master Chief is thinking is “Damn, imagine being unlucky enough to die. Couldn’t be me lol”

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

🤣🤣🤣

[@boxtank5288]

Ghost makes sense consistency wise, everyone else calls him this because of the whole 'lost their entire command' thing, he keeps it because he feels he is dead already, it's just a matter of finding the place his body will lay.

[@KillerOrca]

Say what you will about Origins, but to those of us who had inhaled the books and absorbed everything else we could get with the intensity of a drug addict consuming their intake of choice, suddenly seeing things we had only ever read about, let alone THOUGHT about, was like a smack to the skull. I remember watching a ripped copy of Origins on KZbin with my friend when it first came out, after we'd played close to 6 hours of splitscreen Reach multiplayer, and going fucking BONKERS when we saw the Forerunners for the first time. Cause until then we didnt know what they looked like. And then we saw the nuking of Far Isle and just...everything. We were convinced the weirdness at the end was what Halo 4 would be about. I still almost wish it was. Also for 8:38; theres a really useful section in the Scanned trailer for Halo 4 showing the real John being replaced with a fake John on Eridanus II.

[@aoki6332]

halo 4 will have been a way better game if you where fighting the flood instead of a weirds ass guys that no one knew existed supposed to be a massive danger get killed in one game

[@KillerOrca]

@@aoki6332 Except everyone who had played Halo 3 knew who the Didact was. And then the Forerunner trilogy explained there were TWO of them so...not really out of nowhere.

[@letsgobrandon8101]

I was so hyped for halo 4 because of all this stuff and ended up incredibly disappointed. They should have put this stuff into the actual game to explain instead of puking out all the lore all at once. I read the books since I was a kid and knew all this stuff but their execution of putting it actually in the game was not done very well.

[@mr.mlaststandsite813]

We are going to forget The contininty of halo 4 for this one but remember infinites story

[@samlund8543]

@@mr.mlaststandsite813 This aged well… does anyone even remember that “story” a year later?

[@RJKilroy]

At least all of these are better than the Halo TV show

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

Oh FUCKING facts!!!!

[@IndorilTheGreat]

"Oedipus Alexa" is the greatest way I've heard Cortana described

[@MohamedYoussef.7]

The Prototype, Babysitter and Homecoming are my favourites. It's literally developing characters in short stories, making Halo more than just pointless combat (and these chapters don't lack that either.

[@alexsilva28]

Same. Ngl seeing the Daisy bear charm on the Infinite store made me squeal a little

[@nobbieslicks2237]

@@alexsilva28 Seeing her in the Silent Storm novel made me smile too

[@DHCR-core]

Halo was already more than pointless combat. That was the entire purpose of Halo 2.

[@bombomos]

Halo has always been more than pointless combat

[@chaosgyro]

​@@HelghastStalker Do not cite the deep lore to me. I was there when it was written.

[@jakeh8780]

Daisey dying to needler rounds is actually lore accurate. Samuel 034’s suit was punctured and he had to sacrifice himself because of it. Plus it was mjolnir MK IV so there wasn’t any energy shielding.

[@Puppy_Puppington]

Of course there’s a nerd saying what you said. Smfh. It’s a work of fiction ffs.

[@DIEGhostfish]

His suit was punctured but he was barely injured, he only died because he couldn't safely spacewalk at that point. Daisy was on the ground.

[@sydn2698]

@@Puppy_Puppington triggered

[@Rando423]

@@Puppy_Puppington geese did no need to be a bitch about everything this isn’t twitter ya know

[@commanderzavala9328]

@@Puppy_Puppington Gonna cry?

[@silvy3047]

2008-2010 was such a great time for this franchise, so many doors were opened in the universe all to get thrown in a blender

[@Alex9_x]

That JFK saying “zombies” part caught me off guard! I’m fucking dying!! 😂

[@derekmensch3601]

If this man doesn't give "The Prototype" a 10/10. I'm going to hunt him for sport. Also I'm definitely subscribing.

[@lEGOBOT2565]

better get your shotgun

[@derekmensch3601]

@@lEGOBOT2565 I was gonna use a bow. Not really good with them yet and need more practice.

[@lEGOBOT2565]

@@derekmensch3601 draw weight?

[@derekmensch3601]

@@lEGOBOT2565 I feel like 80 lbs should be fine. If not overkill. This man shouldnt be too thicc, I hope.

[@thehand7902]

That mech was super cool. Reminds me of District 9

[@Servellion]

I always found Cal's long beautiful tresses hilarious. No wonder she didn't see the Chieftain in time, her hair was taking up most of her vision.

[@Aredel]

That, and all of her “””””escorts””””” weren’t doing their damned jobs of watching her back.

[@lowlyaa0974]

You missed the best part of the duel where both elites begin bleeding for like 5 minutes straight, interrupted. Beautiful.

[@cnlbenmc]

11:34 I remember the time Before Monty Oum joined Red Vs Blue and people complained that there wasn't enough action but then others complained there was Too Much Action. I miss him; things weren't the same from Rooster Teeth after he died.

[@Predetor4]

Halo Legends was such a blast to watch and I really do hope they make another one especially since Halo is making a comeback and anime is starting to be more popular as well. That Daisy bit with the store had me rolling

[@samlund8543]

>Halo making a comeback This aged well

[@Predetor4]

@@samlund8543 if only we knew the horrors that awaited us

[@KarlRock]

I didn't even know this existed. Or maybe I just missed it cause it was 2010. Gonna go watch it now! Thanks Bro

[@astronova6150]

hey karl, how ya doing!

[@Eatmydbzballs]

"Doit"

[@christopheralejandromezapa8934]

Te va ir bien. Dew it.

[@DeeonleeCobb373]

Still have the DVD for it lol. Srsly, some of Short stories in Legends are the best in Halo storytelling. The episodes Homecoming, Babysitter, and Prototype show some of the more darker and serious side of Halo.

[@blitzkrieg47]

@@DeeonleeCobb373 Honestly I'd rather watch them as a series than what we got with HBO

[@cnlbenmc]

11:44 this was before they even knew what they wanted Dr Halsey to look and act like (before Halo Reach Released too) so they decided to make her quite a bit like Cortana since Cortana is based off of Halsey's brain. So said the director commentary ad far as I can remember.

[@sethleoric2598]

I wish they made Babysitter into a full show instead of the actual Halo show we got.

[@GoblinHero]

"Dam, it really be like that"- John Halo

[@ThePhantomnaut]

After hearing the Giant Bombcast call Chief as John Halo, he is just that now in my headcannon.

[@GmodPlusWoW]

So Legends was sort of like the Star Wars Visions of its time. Though I guess only tangentially, in the sense that it's a collection of animated shorts done by Japanese studios. ...actually, if you really think about all the weird genealogy, Cortana is basically Chief's step-sister. And also his Stand. Her transitioning into the Domain was basically her absorbing the Arrow from Part 5 and becoming Cortana Requiem, similar to how Silver Chariot went berserk. But now Chief has a new Stand in the form of The Weapon, or whatever she chooses as her new name. Perhaps Brighid?

[@GreenTomas2372]

Production I.G had made The 8th Jedi and is currently planning to make a series out of it

[@ArcturusOTE]

@@GreenTomas2372 I guess LF has full faith in Prod. IG

[@erika002]

wtf is this jojo analogy

[@odsttrooper3724]

Can you not with the jojo references my guy

[@GreenTomas2372]

@@erika002 do you realize that less then 25% of the human population are even remotely familiar with JoJo references. Quipy pop cultural references work if it’s something that most people are gonna be familiar with

[@Pixel22-fs3tt]

I just realized that Daisy in that Short just looks like they took Samus and placed in the Halo Universe and removed everything that made Samus a Badass

[@East_Coast_Toasty_Boy]

And instead put in what made Daisy a badass.

[@addictedtochocolate920]

That Arbiter is actually mentioned in Halo 2 Anniversary. Pretty cool how they made him canon.

[@MajoraZ]

I really love Halo legends, we really need more animated media like it/the Evolution motion comics. Origins, Babysitter, Homecoming, and Prototype are my favorites.. Also, as a Mesoamerican history nerd, I must pedantically point out that the shots from Origins showing Teotihuacan's Sun Pyramid and El Caracol's observatory at 2:42 to 2:46 suffers from a lot of the issues most media has featuring Mesoamerican cities/architecture, where they just assume how the ruins look today is how those structures always looked. The worn down masonry seen today, used to be covered in finer brick, smooth stucco, and then paint with reliefs, sculptures, etc. The Sun Pyramid for example had a giant facade of massive sculptures of jaguars and human hearts and fire motifs on the flat vertical panels on the pyramid (the Adosada/Tablero sections), much like the actually intact today facade on the Feathered Serpent pyramid (albiet that has feathered serpent, crocodile, and water motifs)

[@hawkevick9184]

Mezoamerican history is a mess, way too complicated!!!

[@alexsilva28]

The more you know. I am Mexican and had no idea

[@BigTylt]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if a random civvie put two and two together to discover the hyper-classified identity of a Spartan, they would literally be game-ended by ONI on sight. Shit's super illegal.

[@LadyViscera]

Thank you so much Cody, for making me aware of the Final Fantasy movie. I saw it as a tiny child and wasn’t sure what movie it was or if it even existed at all. A 17 year old mystery is at its end

[@buttpiratesbuttpirate5913]

"I'm one heck of a mama my self!" is a line that should have made it into the games. It's so good

[@Tankdestroyer467]

Oh gosh. At this point, the animizing beam has touched everything. God help us all... Jokes aside, have a Merry Christmas, Cody!

[@rabbi4skin666]

The Sopranos I think would be a good idea to attempt

[@sirmanmcdude508]

I'd like to start the petition for the Forest Gump anime Can't wait for the beach OVA and sponsored mobile gacha game

[@combativeThinker]

*japanizing beam

[@alexsilva28]

@@rabbi4skin666 A Westworld anime could work too

[@ChickenNoodleSoup134]

Tf didnt know Griffith was in halo thats so fuckin cool 16:27

[@williamhornabrook8081]

I thought it was neat that each episode was made by different a studio and had a unique style.

[@Valiant_Guardian]

4:36 absolutely killed me for no reason.

[@Skippercarlos5]

sOuNDs LiKe SOmeOnEs brEaKiNg iN

[@whatsthehistory4752]

Cody your comedic timing is absolutely perfect. I lost my shit at the prophet death scene editing. Thank you for that

[@kingofmonsters14]

for the rings over the Covenant planets, i'd say that the Librarian seeded different worlds that were identical to their homeworlds, but far away from the Rings to avoid any misuse afterwards.

[@MintyLime703]

Or they just moved the rings

[@alexsilva28]

@@MintyLime703 Or the rings changed orbit on their own since they waited hundreds of thousands of years before they repopulated the worlds

[@shcdemolisher]

Both most likely happened anyway from a logical standpoint.

[@aclassicusername2174]

I always looked at the ghost epitaph like how lots of people look at being human, the whole point of the short; there's no one correct answer, only the one we make for ourselves. Ghost chose to be a "ghost" until he made that sacrifice, because he believed he could only be "human" if he was able to protect the soldiers he was in charge of. The ghost title originally being from others, but one that he felt he had to bear because he didn't deserve to be human.

[@jackychang9148]

I always thought Ghost was cold the whole time (even before his loss) but he got the name after his entire platoon was wiped out. Because even when it was wiped out, he showed no emotion at such a colossal loss. Thus he was called Ghost because he was unfeeling and nothing affected him. When he said the words to detonate the Prototype, that was when he regained his humanity and he was able to "Be Human".

[@thewittywhygaming6487]

Cody: "I hope you all have a good 2022." World Events: "No."

[@The_Reel_Demon]

I love how they brought the Cylixes from Legends into Infinite. Never thought those things would be seen outside from Legends

[@connormcmurphy4276]

The sniping of the prophet and then the super distant arbiter shout “RAWGGH” is top top toppppp tier comedy

[@wilderhubbard6578]

In the episode prototype I found the ambiguity of how he got his nickname very good. In the military some people are given nicknames and they are used to the point that their actual name is forgotten. Now when the people that gave the nickname transfer or get killed in war sometimes the nickname sticks and those coming after might not know why it was given then they get curious and start asking the question and if the bearer of the name is tight lipped then they will come up with their own reasons for the name which can range from comical to maliciously clinical. Here is another reason he might be named ghost being part of a sniper team or an advanced recon force and never getting detected. The reasons we hear in the episode are cynical because an entire squad was killed and he was exceedingly stoic about it or just numbed to all the death.

[@ZontarDow]

Halo Legends, Animatrix and Batman: Gotham Knight showed us what anime studios can do when given free reign to try to put their own twist on a western property, a pity Star Wars Legends didn't live up to that.

[@fulcrum6760]

Batman Ninja and Yasuke shows how much it can go wrong sadly. Alongside Transformers Cybertron.

[@TheNobleFive]

@@fulcrum6760 I don't think Yasuke is a western property

[@Razgriz_01]

Free reign and the budget.

[@Natman-rj5qs]

Awwwww hell yeah, love the stuff you're looking at man. Hope we get another one of these, anime is so mainstream now I can imagine another anthology or animated series would get a lot of love.

[@plumdowner1941]

16:50 killed me for some reason.

[@NotKameron]

7:15 why did I die laughing when I just saw wreck it Ralph on screan

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

My most favorite episode is Prototype to be honest, I wish it was expanded further in a mini series or a book focusing on Ghost's whole life until his death.

[@lunokhod3937]

i guess technically this is one of the first anime i ever watched, though i didnt even know anime was a thing, i thought all animation came from america. I was probably around 10, jesus. i remember liking it as a kid, especially the prototype, and i see why. hey, it holds up a lot better than i would have expected.

[@kurlz7913]

the babysitter was so good because of the odst perspective Id actually watch a whole show if they did it like that one episode

[@TheAlamore]

The misconceptions and weird plot changes in Origins Part 2 was due to Frank O'Connor genuinely not remembering anything storywise about the previous Halo games. Halo 4 had the same issue when Chief wonders outloud about humanity and the Covenant having a truce, when this never was the case. Humanity had a truce with the Elites who splintered off from the Covenant.

[@etikoshai9105]

Man ever sense that video about "Humans Are Forerunners" video came out everyone was like "we need to spread the message people. wake up 343 is lying to you" it's so bizarre

[@TheAlamore]

@@etikoshai9105 wait, humans were Forerunners? I thought the Forerunners were a different species

[@etikoshai9105]

@@TheAlamore Yea me too

[@azovac]

I think Halo is a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aleins and doesnt afraid of anything.

[@MiseryDuke69]

Thanks for the PointlessNostalgiaTrip(TM). You're gonna blow the fuck up man. Your comedic timing when you monotone your jokes is fucking hilarious and threw me into a laughing fit more than once. The end to "The Package" portion had me dying.

[@gameplayfepe5790]

I didn’t know Prototype was made by the same people who made Cowboy Bebop. God, that makes me appreciate it so much more.

[@JayTizzle.]

3:26 man this guy should make some channel where he goes into like alternate history or something that would be so cool!

[@alexmathews8172]

I literally guessed at the beginning of the video “odd one out is going to be his favorite“ and how I was right what a surprise..

[@EuphoricAngel]

I remember seeing this on Netflix a long time ago and thinking The Duel was my connection being wonky. It looked like it was 240p lol

[@aunrah02]

At 12:06 i wept... & released the contents of my still chewing mouth all over my keyboard. What the hell man? That caught me off-guard I nearly died!

[@THEDeathWizard87]

Seem like this is a very similar premise as Star Wars Visions, that one even also has an episode called “The Duel,” the biggest difference being that visions didn’t care too much about preexisting characters fitting with established canon, which I think actually worked to its benefit Also 7:30 made me laugh

[@Razgriz_01]

Star Wars Visions wasn't the first to do these types of anthologies. First one was probably Animatrix.

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Halo Legends came first tho

[@arcwiz]

Why did the Babysitter look a bit like Griffith

[@A_D_H_L]

Probably because both the Babysitter and the Golden Age Trilogy were both made by Studio 4°C

[@dasovietunion3370]

12:16 Jorge actually said "Ma'am" not "mom" his accent kinda makes it confusing. very common misconception.

[@fionn5053]

For the longest time me and my friend thought Jorge was halsey's son

[@fakename2553]

9:53 they had no reason to make them that caked up

[@CassandraFortuna]

the falsetto "gee thanks for not blowing my brains out" speech got me but good

[@enenra7403]

16:34 Why does this female Spartan look like Griffith from Berserk?

[@guts1788]

Remember this is the same studio that did the berserk movies

[@KokoButter777]

1337 cameo in infinite would be sweet. Doesn't have to be a full character just a funny quip or something lol maybe an AI

[@codyschwarz5155]

Cody, my brother, not just the Elites defected, all of the Hunters, Drones and Jackals under their command followed their commanders in revolt, they cut them being Allies in H3 cuz it’d be confusing as hell, but you have the other as allies in H2

[@jurassicarkjordanisgreat1778]

Actually jackals stay loyal to the covenant because they paid more. the grunts where neutral and couldn't pick a side. Atleast thats what cortana says in cut halo 2 dialouge, its in the halo 2 mod, halo 2 uncut

[@docholiday4129]

10:00 I distinctly remember seeing that fight scene from “the package” short. But never remembering where it came from until now. So thanks for jogging my memory of this very obscure Halo thing from the early 2000’s

[@ThePhantomnaut]

As much as I hate The Package (that god damn line), I rather watch that then play Halo 5's campaign ever again.

[@weirdofromhalo]

It's literally just a Cortana line they decided to reuse in The Package. Dunno why everyone gets so worked up about it.

[@ThePhantomnaut]

It’s intended to be fan service only to come off as jarring and lazy. Also I thought the overall piece is the most generic and least interesting of all of Legends.

[@weirdofromhalo]

@@ThePhantomnaut Yeah the story of The Package is dumb but the action is great and so I still like it anyways.

[@ThePhantomnaut]

@@weirdofromhalo If it works for you I respect it.

[@MrCannon117]

Watched this for my 9th bday party back in 2010 and “he’s a demon” is still a running joke in my friend group

[@Kamiyartz]

10:28 The way Cody say John 11 7 is like he is intentionally trying to piss fans off. XD

[@doge151.]

9:00 That was a golden transition lol