One Marine Could Have Stopped The Flood Infestation

Could one marine have stopped the entire human-flood-covenant events? I have a theory that may point to just that.
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[@LukeTheNotable]

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[@Keldeanne]

Congrats bro!

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Congrats master!

[@nkvdcomradeorion7336]

Why is this video so popular?

[@carwynweller2295]

I think it's more likely that mendoza's body was unfit because he was sick or something tape worms try to abandon the host when they think the host is dying for example drink too much alcohol some tapeworms try to leave

[@Dem0mni0n]

you may want to review the Lore.. humans had encountered the flood before the halo games, in requiem, please note that the Masterchief is acknowledged as a forerunner "The Reclaimer." The Forerunners are from another galaxy where the flood had infested and laid to ruin. otherwise your probably right.

[@natahndolar2142]

Jenkins could have stopped the flood if he used his gun

[@ObjectPe-]

No not really remember there were near hundreds of infection forms charging them plus they aren’t Spartans they don’t have Mjolnir armour so Mendoza was being smart and for him not being infected he might have been killed by blunt force and flood forms need to be Alive or they can’t use the nervous system

[@pyroboss1013]

Object 120 Pe-8 It’s a joke dummy

[@ObjectPe-]

Noobmaster 420 iTs a jOKe

[@pyroboss1013]

Object 120 Pe-8 The joke is that the commander told him to “Fire your gun Jenkins!”. Yeah, like he could have stoped the massive horde, so it really didn’t matter.

[@ObjectPe-]

Noobmaster 420 do you understand when I say I’m proving a point

[@Mike-tt9mr]

Or maybe bungie wasn't expecting some random halo youtuber to be breaking down why one marine didn't turn into a flood form 15 years later

[@msj0883]

King Kalel 😂😂😂😭😆

[@BrandablezYT]

King Kalel hahahahhaha you made my day 😂

[@msj0883]

King Kalel bahahah😂😂😂 this sooo much!!

[@dawhandaonli5925]

Mendoza and Johnson where members of project Orion. A super soldier program that was ultimately a failure as less than seven people survived it (out of over a hundred) and there where no noticeable change to the survivors. at least not immediately as the survivors actually aged much slower (Orion took place a decade before spartan II) and they became immune/undetectable to the flood. Dr Halsey discovered all this from Johnson's Blood and did make a cure for the flood . . . then she got trapped/lost in space

[@MattWeismiller1994]

The simplest answer tends to be the most likely :P

[@thatguy5149]

3:49 holy shit that marine snapped his own neck. That's a horrific detail in halo3 and my jaw dropped when I saw that

[@2nmingo]

maybe the flood did it to take over his mind quicker ?

[@christophersalinas2722]

@@2nmingo nah he might of done it himself so he wouldn’t have to deal with the pain of being transformed fully

[@theterrorofdimensions1326]

​@Christopher Salinas I think that's the Flood Form itself doing that. The moment that the Flood Form is in his body, he's already a dead man walking. And where it needs to burst out at with its feelers, the regular head position often gets in the way.

[@rapidicus6487]

The Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.

[@TheOneLichemperor]

ATP is the energy currency of the body.

[@rumdrinkinpirate6107]

Ahh did you learn from parasite eve

[@cruz1816]

yea. and

[@Liam-jy7yi]

Middle school years 😍

[@tslbigmoo1530]

Never spent a lesson on current events, instead I studied the old American west

[@NotSoMelancholy]

When you're so unwanted not even the flood want a part of you.

[@halinaqi2194]

thats harsh

[@m.t-thoughts8919]

🤣🤣🖕🏽🤣

[@skullray]

It’s The forever alone guy in disguise always wondered what happened to him

[@thatguy5149]

Savage

[@ConstantineValdor96]

LOL

[@HDHDRatimus]

They didn't infect him because they also hate his hat.

[@centntn]

Ratimus xD

[@tex2rock262]

Yep

[@philmcrevis9990]

The flood hates boonie hats

[@bradyburgess7679]

It's not that no I'm lieing

[@snakycarnival9119]

the flood just said NO THE QUEEN SAYS NO BOONIES i think that's the hat

[@TominatorGaming]

The Canon reason Johnson is immune is because of the spartan 1 program, he has nerve damage and the flood requires an intact nerve system to take over its host. Maybe mendoza also had nerve damage?

[@natashapowell9445]

Mendoza wasn't a Spartan like Johnson tho

[@heliveruscalion9124]

@@natashapowell9445 u don't need to be a spartan to have nerve damage

[@heliveruscalion9124]

Also, I'm fairly certain Johnson isn't "immune", per say, but it's like if you made a human go hunt, and johnson was a rabbit in the middle of a bunch of deer, he's just not worth the effort to catch him

[@natashapowell9445]

@@heliveruscalion9124 good point

[@mrkv4k]

Halo 1 flood was completely different to later games flood, that is the reason...

[@Fudgeoff6628]

Simple, Vietnam tactics. The flood purposely left those bodies uninfected to not give a hint of the threat in the area, to let prey continue to venture deeper to make it easier to ambush and infect. Also, the sight of a dead comrade tends to make others want to exact revenge, which further pulls them into the kill-zone. Now when I say Vietnam tactics, im referring to how their snipers would do non-kill shots to injure soldiers & marines, deliberately to pull there squad-mates out of cover and continue to pick them off, pulling on their heartstrings by further hitting the wounded with non-kill shots so that they scream out in agony.

[@hemlockhydra6109]

That tactic was well developed long before Vietnam

[@makaveliba4243]

NovaPrime1869 yes because a parasite is going out of its way to study tactics used in a proxy war used over 600 years ago and use it in one situation seems legit

[@findableflyer]

@@makaveliba4243 sounds like common sense more than advances war tactics lmao. Use him as bait kind of tactic isn't that hard to think up of

[@callumkristofer7793]

Bosnian Turkey Leg the flood is smart.

[@callumkristofer7793]

NovaPrime1869 there’s a big problem, the flood were still in the feral stage, they didn’t have a proto-gravemind yet.

[@ravenant939]

Let's be real here. The real reason they didn't get him is the hat. The hat is what saved him from being infected. The flood definitely saw him and was like "why would I want to wear that shit?" so they just killed him. Like seriously would anybody take the flood seriously wearing that old fishermans hat?

[@jejo874]

Ravenant Gold

[@Roxanne3v]

Ravenant gold man, pure gold

[@SebastianVreeburg]

It's a boonie hat

[@WolfEpsilon]

Please pin this comment! lol

[@emilonanian7364]

Uhhh Captain fucking Price!!!

[@dr.catherineelizabethhalse1820]

"Maybe Captain keyes told him it looked kinda dumb and he took it off" lol.

[@christopherweaver9543]

When I watch animated shows or hentai there is usually some shit missing.

[@loganwalker1023]

bluebanana Here’s how it happened Mendoza: Sir there are unidentifiable heat signatures popping up all over our hud, what do we do? Keyes: I don’t know, but what I do know is that hat looks dumb, TAKE IT OFF! Mendoza: Pardon me sir? Keyes: Take...it...off Mendoza: Yes Sir :c

[@pamelahunt4811]

This is good video

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Normally, you're supposed to take off your soft-cover when indoors - not that it really explains anything.

[@masterchiefpettyofficer1176]

He took off spore like that

[@banditferretell5231]

It could be a simple bait instinct. Leave a single corpse that would attract more entities.

[@grievous5243]

ok Lilly

[@eclipse1201]

ok wait

[@chummyweevil3948]

ok jack

[@biggieched5152]

Ok

[@kevinpumphret3321]

I thought this was gonna be about the marine in the library

[@Myuutsuu85]

Yeah, that would be a cool story.

[@Orange-wf8wh]

Myuutsuu85 he is explained in halo: the flood

[@thehistoryman9332]

Same

[@GladiatorY]

Me too

[@milkmanfart1554]

what marine

[@DeadAceStudios]

Maybe the hat is the cure to the flood

[@zacgalfinakis9195]

*immediately flips through pages upon pages of note* "Dear god, how did I never notice this before? It was staring us in the face all along! How could we have been so blind!"

[@donguebara1]

zachary odell lol

[@newrecru1t]

The greatest weakness to the Flood is a poor choice of military fashion design/protection?

[@zacgalfinakis9195]

New Recruit, obviously!

[@liamfraser8578]

New Recruit, maybe the flood realized "hmm this could be waiting for... A NEW WAY TO SAY, GET THE F#CK OUT OF OUR HOUSE!"

[@commanderbacara225]

This is because the Flood does not directly assimilate its prey immediately. The Flood Containment Facility was visited multiple times by UNSC and Covenant forces in the novelisation. One of them includes Victor 93 (The Downed Pelican in the swamp that came before Johnson's platoon came.) At this point, the flood purposefully left bodies untouched to lure more prey into the facility. The UNSC kept sending fireteams down there because they keep disappearing without reason. Sergeant Johnson's platoon had barely over 30 men, (12 were with Corporal Lovik at the end of the mission). The remaining 18 were with Captain Keyes and Johnson. Yet we see more Human Combat forms than that (Notably in the lower levels of the Containment facility that wasnt investigated by Johnson's team but prior fireteams (Probably Victor 93's platoon). This can also be argued by the fact that the flood left Elite bodies in the room but chose to leave it uninfected until after Johnson's fireteam was compromised. You visit this same room later to find the bodies missing. Furthermore, all UNSC personnel killed near Mendoza (Just outside the room) are also untouched by infection. By the time the Master Chief investigated Johnson's platoon, there were enough bodies for the flood to reveal themselves and thus began infecting the dead bodies. Side Edit: Members of Victor 93's platoon can actually be encountered in the game. After reaching the 2nd elevator, you would usually see 1 or 2 marines still fighting before being killed off by Combat forms.

[@commanderbacara225]

mikhail king You can visit the room after the flood show up but the point remains that in the scripted event, the only elites we ever see in the mission are the dead ones we see through the recordings. In the map, there are no elite carcasses at all, indicating that after Johnson's platoon was ambushed, the flood decided to use the elite carcasses to kill/capture the UNSC team, explaining why the room was empty when Chief went in the room the first time, despite it being littered with Sangheili corpses in the recording.

[@liamfraser8578]

commanderbacara225 I want to add to what you said, the flood in the Halo universe supposedly "can only re-animate the living" yet they re-animate the dead in Halo's 2-3

[@Drakefance5]

Liam Fraser the flood can infect everything with a working central nervous system and takes control via the spine regardless if it is dead or not, hence why hunters can not get infected, the lekgolo worms do not have spines so they cannot be controlled.

[@liamfraser8578]

Drakefance5 it's annoying wen you have no idea what I'm talking about considering u aperently live in Halo 3 unlike the rest of us who live in combat evolved

[@liamfraser8578]

Drakefance5 also where would they find spine segments massive enough to create the things in Halo ledgends

[@rocketgruntmason3269]

He is a coward, the flood doesn't want cowards

[@ct-782hevy4]

That is irrelevant as the flood takes over the person there scared nature would’ve been irrelevant as it would be replaced by the floods mind

[@AzalofForossa]

@@ct-782hevy4 /s

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

If I was in that situation, I'd peace the fuck out as well. That's just being prudent - in truth, their position had been compromised, they were surrounded and in danger of being overwhelmed - the best course of action would've been to fall back in an orderly fashion and take defensive position just outside the door in that natural choke-point. It's Keyes' and Johnson's failure that they hesitated to do this. Not only does it increase the chances of survival in general but ALSO acts as a pressure valve for the "fight or flight" response of the individual soldiers - if Sarge or Keyes had ordered an orderly retreat then Mendoza likely wouldn't have ran, as wanting to fall back and hearing a superior issuing the order reinforces the command presence of that superior - allowing them to keep control in an extremely stressful situation and maintaining coordination and teamwork.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

@PokemonFan81 The Flood wants big sweaty muscle-men covered in baby oil. Everyone knows this.

[@casualgamerboi3789]

Flood doesnt care.

[@TheSandman772]

2017 Luke: Halo Theories/Thought Experiments 2019 Luke: 100 DROPS IN FORTNITE

[@michaelgraham9774]

Sad how things change. Oh well

[@PelinalWhitestrake36]

I guess you could say...he DROPPED from grace

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Why is he awful now? Has he given an explanation as to why?

[@pissedoffturtle7333]

@@fuzzydunlop7928 Well you see, Fortnite.... it changes a man. Warps him, twists his mind to the point of almost snapping- and then lets go and leaves it bent instead. It turns you into a caricature of your former self, while refusing to do the only halfway decent thing to do at that point- put you out of your misery.

[@cram4676]

he made another halo video yay

[@raynjohnson9354]

plot twist: Mendoza is a Spartan-I

[@raynjohnson9354]

that's why Johnson was immune, so could it be Mendoza was as well? And the elite could be a Sanghelli canceled experiment with the same idea

[@acloakedfly]

I thought it was plasma burns

[@raynjohnson9354]

george smith I don't think so...

[@quietnumber2317]

Wrong. He's a Spartan 1.1, There's pretty much no difference It just costs 40$ to upgrade.

[@pondcringe8470]

No the UNSC or ONI (not sure) make a fake file saying that it was plasma grenade radiation that gave him immunity but it was actually spartan-1 testing that did.

[@ryleeedwards9849]

3:48 the marine snaps his neck

[@jessejames8334]

Rylee Edwards God I'm glad he tried to end his life before turning into one of them but he failed...sad

[@InanisNihil]

or people are like "oh fuck... suicide is literally the best and only option so he breaks his own neck.." cause if u got infected right now.. u wouldn't even make it to the nearest door let alone medicine cabinet in ur bathroom to grab a cure.. u'd have to kill urself right away or just get ur conscious absorbed and feel ur body breaking apart for a few seconds... having ur skin ripped off sounds more pleasant then what happens when ur infected... most people would suicide to be honest.. like why would u not.. xb

[@reachfanatic1234]

Maaquchi nah I think the Flood supercell actually does hijack the human nervous system and forces the host to kill itself to make the flood process faster

[@hyper.lethal]

He did this because the pain was to bad. He couldn't take it.

[@silentphotographer117]

Holy crap

[@jamescowan5975]

You forgot about the marine you run into on that mission that shoots you out of hysteria

[@sculean]

he doesn't count he got away Mendoza didn't

[@CorneliusCob]

The crazy marine said he played dead, but that doesn't really make sense either

[@milkmanfart1554]

@@CorneliusCob did he. does he say that i dont remember

[@thegermanbasket732]

Oh, gosh dang it, he's dead, discusting. Hold up, let me go revive one of my combat forms using an infection form.

[@christophersalinas2722]

Free magnum ammo is all he is to me

[@Ratcatcher_jpg]

KZbinrs: nothing Audible: allow us to introduce ourselves

[@hsifnfixiwndjc8wmenfickanxicje]

this shit just got real af at 3:20

[@beefaroni9038]

Madiator TV I know I though this guy was going to like kill himself on accident spreading the virus but no this happens

[@justinlee9656]

Madiator TV what I'm saying XD

[@kjdams353]

Madiator TV lol

[@avatamanui3099]

Lol

[@vincentmarino9825]

i like when you use your nursing degree to talk medical to me

[@silverhawk7324]

What the fuck is this chat.

[@vincentmarino9825]

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@raginplayer2665]

The flood encountered ancient humans so that explains why they’re able to transform most of humanity in seconds

[@Eldor-117]

And the ancient humans had created a sort of cure, it doesn't kill the flood outright but makes human bodies unusable. That specific DNA sequence might have still existed in some of the humans.

[@chromevolt5494]

@@Eldor-117 the altered DNA is not injected to the Ancient Humans but for the humans that are about to get sacrificed. Basically you get a bunch of volunteers and then throw them to the flood.

[@JimHalpertFromTheOffice]

DEBUNKED: Mendoza did NOT open the locked door. It was a different Marine named Kappus, who sometimes shares the same in-game model as Mendoza. In Halo: The Flood (the book version of Halo 1), Mendoza is found by the Chief later and is killed after being taken over by the Flood. The Marine that falls on the Chief is most likely Kappus.

[@pixelknight163]

The game calls him Mendoza. Sergeant Johnson calls him Mendoza. So he IS Mendoza. The game takes priority over any book inspired by it since the game is literally where the Halo trilogy starts.

[@JimHalpertFromTheOffice]

After doing a bit more research, I've come to the conclusion that in the game it's Mendoza falling on the Chief. In the book, it's most likely Kappus. In Halo canon, technically the games take priority over the books. So it's somewhat debunked then.

[@pixelknight163]

It's still kinda weird how Mendoza is not infected. If only bungie made it so that after Chief was done taking a look at the recording, the body would have disappeared as if it got up and walked away. Would have given me the creeps.

[@JimHalpertFromTheOffice]

8-Bit Knight The Flood were waiting to ambush the Chief or anyone else that goes in the facility. Exploring the facility, there's at least 3 other dead Marines that aren't infected before encountering the Flood face to face. But you're correct that it would have been creepy for Kappus/Mendoza to just disappear at the end of the cutscene.

[@jakehuang1049]

DarkEternity1017 Kappus? *Kappa*

[@Tenchi212]

3:45 D-Did he just...Snap his own neck?

[@zacharyahearn4069]

Tenchi212 he just needed to stretch.

[@KidOrochimaru]

When your body is being violently mutated by space parasites and your primary concern is a little neck stiffness, that's when you know you have your priorities in order.

[@aeronautisch]

pretty sure the flood made him do that to himseld to make the whole take-over-body thing easier.

[@almightydeadmeme7511]

they controlled his body and snapped his own neck

[@davesempai]

the flood don't need the head to control a body, they take over by tapping the spinal column. those stalks you see coming out of their chests are their sensory organs. the head usually gets pushed out of the way.

[@Benassiesto]

If defeating the Flood was so simple as doing blood tests on immune humans, don’t you think the much more advanced Forerunners could’ve beaten the Flood?

[@therealriley6075]

Benassiesto there was they were called the engineers and prometans knights

[@darthsonic4135]

After a certain point, immunity to the flood would have merely been another tactical advantage and not the silver bullet it would have been in the early stages of the war. “You’re all immune now? That’s nice...” *snipes your whole fucking star system from the other side of the galaxy using Precursor tech*

[@pissedoffturtle7333]

@@darthsonic4135 That's not even considering the fact that as they progress their infection becomes more and more advanced. Once they reach the Interstellar stage I wouldn't be surprised if they somehow managed atomic infection, considering the Forerunners were capable of pretty much forcefully evolving themselves within a few minutes using genetic engineering and still failed to find a cure.

[@Woopor]

Johnson’s immunity isn’t really immunity, more like being a gross piece of food in a 5 star buffet. Better, easier prey to catch, but eventually if it comes to it they’ll take the gross food

[@jacobm2625]

Side note: the flood helmet cam is by far one of the coolest moments of Halo ce, imo. It scared me when I was a kid, and I think that speaks to how atmospherically "horror" it was. 👌

[@cheezycheeze3511]

Halo 6 spoilers: Flood is gonna come back and Master Chief is gonna search for the hat.

[@crimsonfied5329]

CheezyCheeze I died at this comment

[@cheezycheeze3511]

Slateboi_117 Nooooooo Don't die man you won't get to see tge new hat.

[@yagamijubei28]

CheezyCheeze halo 6 spoiler is cortana is gonna activate the relays and wipe everything

[@Noble40K]

the flood is actually coming back in halo 6 you know, if you listen carefully at the ending of halo 5 you can hear a noise that is very very similar to that of the flood, and also cortana is huming the same song (or at least a variant of it) that 343 Guilty spark hums in Halo CE

[@cheezycheeze3511]

Ken Gibson Hopefully. Halo 4 and 5 suck so much and Microsoft gets so greedy that it would better not even exist.

[@UltimateDominion]

This is one of those instances where the scare factor for the flood introduction outweighed the story itself, in this case, Mendoza. Bungie's thinking with Halo 1 was alot different because of the fact that this game was not meant to have sequels, so they put all their best efforts into the story itself, including how the player was gonna encounter the flood for the first time, you notice when the door opens, and when Mendoza's body drops into Chief's arm, it was meant to scare the player, again, this is one of those times where Bungie decided it was best to try really scare the player with the flood, rather than put forth into why Mendoza was not turned into one of the flood. this is why you must take things for a grain of salt with Halo 1's story, I am glad this one of the decisions Bungie made, they did a good job with the atmosphere buildup for the flood, and for Mendoza to just be propped up against the door and for Chief to suddenly open it and see him suddenly there was a way to really try to frighten the player, but in my opinion, this video tries to get into way too much detail on something Bungie did not or would think about many years later with the sequels. :P

[@SerathDarklands]

Mendoza WAS turned into a Combat Form. He's the first human Combat Form that Chief encounters. Chief tries to communicate with him, but gets nowhere. Read "Halo: The Flood"

[@darkbiddy511]

That's what I wanted to say

[@milkmanfart1554]

oh i haven't read the books yet

[@UnkownInfo]

Maybe Mendoza was part of the Orion project (Spartan 1) and is physically more difficult to infect like Johnson because of a different nervous system layout and the flood avoided infecting him because it would take much longer than a regular marine

[@twurtle12hd39]

Also Jenkins wasn’t fully turned

[@SerathDarklands]

@@twurtle12hd39 Right, the Infection Form that latched onto him was, by some cosmic twist of fate, weakened by its long dormancy. While his body was corrupted into a Combat Form, he was still lucid, though not in control of his actions.

[@ardcheannard]

the reason Johnson was not assimilated was because of a drug that was injected into him during the second run of project: orion. it's not a cure per say, but it was able to increase his nervous system endurance and allow him to not be taken by the flood, the flood break down the nervous system allowing for quick assimilation, Johnsons enhanced nervous system made him less of a priority target for the flood as they were not able to quickly assimilate him

[@Michael-yz2iy]

Johnson wasn't assimilate due to radiation from a crate of Covenant plasma grenades he stole and used all of them the radiation caused changes to his geneology the book Halo: The First Strike covers it in detail.

[@thaddeusmcthickthunderthig1606]

@@Michael-yz2iy That was actually a cover up for Johnson's involvement in the Spartan I program.

[@cgrob04]

And I’m the baby

[@xCrimsonxTidex]

Michael Morris Like what the other guy said, it was an ONI cover up story.

[@unpopularopinion6321]

Johnson is a spartan 1, experimental versions of the super solder sirum were very unstable and would really mess up the nervous system with all the side effects most spartan 1's could not continue in the line of service, but the lucky ones like johnson whos nervous systems were broken not to the point of unusable, the flood control their victims by connecting to their nervous system and a normal persons nervous system is easier to control for the flood

[@Jester456]

As I recall, when John is done watching Jenkins's helmet cam footage, Mendoza's body is gone, implying it got up and walked away while you were watching the video.

[@romand271]

huh, I thought Johnson is immuned to the flood only because of his cancer (from Spartan I program)

[@Kerumoom]

romand271 not cancer...cell scarring and scambling

[@triple-gq6mn]

romand271 ya I believe it had to do with burns from a plasma grenade.

[@romand271]

Koala Kev probably a direct shot from the scarab gun

[@Kerumoom]

Koala Kev that was just a cover-up the reason Johnson cells and nervous system is scrambled and scarred is due to the experiments that done on him as part of the orign project

[@evolvedHE]

That was actually a cover-up by ONI, in reality he can't be infected because of his augmentations from the ORION project

[@JoahTheThread5ive]

No one is actually immune to the flood in the Halo universe. Some are just harder to infect then others.

[@blackharpy7468]

Mendoza must have had a heart attack.

[@shreddedWheatz]

Or maybe the developers just did that for cinematic flare and hadn't thought that far ahead. But hey, that's just a theory...

[@razorhazer2755]

A Game Theory!!!!!

[@tarmairon431]

And...Cut!

[@koalabeararmy3543]

Welcome to super end card tournament

[@The-Big-Boss]

Damnit stole my line

[@jessicaandbrianhearn3410]

A game theory

[@cbouownsu8552]

In Halo: First Strike (one of the novels) Sgt. Johnson says that that he "didn't taste so good" referencing the Flood not eating him, it turns out that Johnson has been exposed to so much plasma, it creates some kind of immunity to Flood infection (yes this is nerdy AF)

[@braydonk3287]

It's actually because he is a spartan I and the augmentations fucked him up.

[@gangstapanda124]

CBOU OWNS U but the forerunners couldn't get a cure to it

[@keonwilson3505]

CBOU OWNS U the "borens syndrome" due to supposed radiation was a made up disease by ONI serving as a cover-up for side-effects that were caused by augmentations that subjects of the original spartan-(ORION) project though.

[@demondeity9816]

GANGSTA PANDA I read that ancient humanity developed a cure to the flood but got wiped out by the forerunners soon after

[@gangstapanda124]

star heaven Oh OK I wasent aware of that haven't been keeping up with halo lore

[@atomicwinter31]

Rest in peace Jenkins, who suffered every second after being half infected.

[@twurtle12hd39]

F

[@thenewdebatebrothers8827]

In Halo: The Flood, Mendoza had turned into a Flood combat form.

[@taxevasiongaming]

Why does he look like a human still and dead?

[@agbond003]

Who says the flood killed him? Maybe Keys shot him in the back for running away...

[@jakesauter3708]

agbond003 There would have been blood then.

[@connor3573]

Jake Sauter there would've been blood either way

[@kihdfist8499]

I thought the same thing, killed for desertion

[@OgNightcrawler]

the flood still can takeover dead bodies though

[@grimoeuvre6198]

He could have just ran into the wall from clumsiness and somehow knocked himself out and then got killed. lol [probaly didn't happen though.]

[@noonz1785]

Luke you need to read up on your lore, Johnson survived because of his Spartan-1 or Orion project, training, the plasma grenade incident on Paris IV was an ONI cover up to hide his Spartan -1 training, its most likely that the game Devs weren't too worried with lore accuracy when making the cut scene.

[@UltimateDominion]

SEALkid+ Agreed, in the future, specially for Halo CE, Luke needs to take a look into the lore, and game itself before making a theory(though more so the game as that is where the real secrets are), Halo CE is full of secrets, alot of which is actually in the game itself, whether by playing the game normally, or using a Dev Trainer, you are bound to find countless secrets and easter eggs, Mendoza was more than likely used as a prop for the door, rather being being someone randomly immune to the Flood for no apparent or good reason to be, it's even more likely that the secret marine outside the map at the start, who use Mendoza's model, was originally meant to be playable character at some point in the games development(even if that is not the case, it's still more likely than what Luke says about Mendoza in this video), I hope he reads these comments, because they are important to understanding of whats really going on in Halo CE and that he can take criticism for his videos on this particular game very seriously, it's very likely Bungie did not care about the lore as much as they did in the sequels, as they were more worried about creating tension and scaring the player for this level(which was definitely the smart call), he should definitely do the secret marine theory though on his channel, but he needs to make sure to look at GeneralKidd's video about the marine, show off to properly play as the marine, show where to find good weapons, good survival tactics, and of course the theory itself, he should do some research aswell, but overall would be a much better, and more realistic theory than this theory. :)

[@darthmatt920]

Riley: good to know. Which novel is the best?

[@xerotolerant]

I'm getting old. I was going to say the ones by Eric Nylund were good and the other were lame after, but when I formed that opinion there were only 6 halo books according to Good reads there are 18 now. Damn Honestly If you care about halo CE and up to halo 3 then the Nylund books are where it's at.

[@Ginkami]

SEALkid it also could mean that mendoza was part of the program

[@Phoenix-214]

Another issue here is that the Flood don't use _every_ body. Some are too badly damaged to be any use to them. Marvin Mobuto, the Marine who died in the Library, fought about halfway through it before being completely overwhelmed. The Flood didn't infect him just because he was mangled by the time he finally stopped fighting. The unnamed sangheili and Mendoza might well have been immune, but considering this, it seems more likely that they just died too violently for the Flood to be able to use them afterwards. Especially considering that Mendoza was much younger than Johnson, and so was not likely to have been enhanced in any way.

[@uzidoesit2478]

I always assumed that Mendez died of “shock” at the door and the he was never converted to a flood form because the flood was after Keese. I.e snatch and run, they came in after he turned up, grabbed him and cleared out

[@Eldor-117]

In the novel, Jenkins had some resistance to the flood infection(while partially infected,he was fully deformed but could resist the hunger and had his memories). He was captured by a group of marines who had made a fortified HQ on one of those forerunner structures that shot beams periodically. He couldn't talk to them cause of his highly mutated body, but through signs like stomping and such he showed the marines where the flood where going to attack.

[@Eldor-117]

And the HQ they built was no simple fortifications with just sand bags, it had showers with hot water, pelican landing pads,mortars, anti air defense systems and even rec rooms. It was fully functional even with its own human AI(which was dumber than cortana but an ai non the less). Damn, the marines kicked ass on Halo:Combat Evolved,in installation 04.

[@drearyplane8259]

Look at Mendoza. He has no wounds, so he couldn't have been killed by the Flood. Perhaps he has a heart attack, because of the horrific nature of the Flood?

[@sodaddict]

He would have fell on the floor if that was the case. Maybe he passed out from pounding on the door.

[@salmonellafunk]

Maybe he missed his lunch break and he fainted of exhaustion

[@thomasford2032]

Chief didn't take a pulse.

[@anotherwiseunpleasantperso2147]

maybe the game devs forgot to texture him hurt or wounded.

[@stopaskingforrealnames3853]

They don't show wounds in these games really.

[@colincraigo5793]

Legit thought you were just gonna say something along the lines of: He could have closed the door and locked the flood inside so they cannot spread.

[@anthonytwink691]

CCKillbilly same here

[@silentphotographer117]

Same....nothing much else he could've done.

[@SamyTee]

not really since they broke dozens of doors already just to run down on chief... what was this one door gonna do if mendoza closed it

[@KermitUnofficial]

[chief] hears weird noise all around him Opens door [Dead marines falls into chiefs arm] [Cheif] moves on even though a dead marine fell in his arm

[@Eldor-117]

Hard to imagine a single containment room could do such damage. I always ask the question 'how the flood didn't infect earth?'.

[@hayamasterstudio3.0re37]

If I remember correctly, jhonsonson was inmune due to the damage to his nervous system in the first spartan project, so maybe thats the key to inmunity becase the flood takes control by the nervous system, anyway, great video.

[@ddgaxelnilsson7855]

This was the first halo video I ever viewed, thank you Luke for showing me this amazing game series!

[@rylanddungan8797]

All you need to do is read he books to disprove this idea. I'll try to explain. 1. Johnson's immunity comes from a very rare issue with his nervousness system (caused by being a member of the spartan 1 program) that caused it to decay. 2. Johnson escaped the ring aboard a pelican troop transport in a similar manner to how the master chief escaped aboard a longsword fighter. 3. A flood spore carves its way into the Chest cavity (hence the reason why head shots are all but pointless) so it is reasonable to assume that the flood tried to take over the Elite only to be stopped by plasma bolts from other Covenant forces. 4. The flood have been in hibernation for millions of years they are weakened. We know that at least once a flood spore took over a marine host but he still retained his cognitive ability. In other words, his body was under the control of the flood but his mind was not. I can't explain the strange case of Mendoza but eh 4 out of 5 ain't bad for a KZbin comment. Still if anyone can explain Mendoza I would love to hear it.

[@ayylmaotv]

This video is quite incorrect but basically the marine chief meets at the door is mendoza,the marine with no hat is kappus. Mendoza runs to the door and is killed by the flood. Kappus is the crazy marine with the pistol you meet.

[@Ripsidus]

Ayy Lmao but isn't there a difference in the voice actors there?

[@jiaye4501]

ryland dungan this video theory is wrong as in Halo:The Flood it clearly states"this one a horribly mutated human . Though the creature was distorted by whatever had ravaged his body, the Chief recognized him nonetheless. It was Private Manuel Mendoza, the soldier that Sergeant Johnson loved to yell at, and one of the Marines who had been with Keyes when he disappeared into this nightmare" this means that mendoza is not immune to the flood and the game cutscenes may be wrong according to lore

[@kabl3396]

There really is no explanation as to how Johnson escaped halo. No way he escaped on a pelican as in the cutscene on legendary after finishing the maw it will show an elite and Johnson fighting over a gun till they look over to the pillar of autumn and see its about to blow, then they hug it out. That's all we know as far as I know.

[@jiaye4501]

that cutscene isn't lore

[@aidenj8428]

Yeah poor Jenkins. He was a good uncle.

[@Theoriginalhica]

Aiden Jenkins I get it nice refference

[@TheEpicureanGamer]

Makes you wonder about blackwing lair.. LEEEEEEROOOOYY JEEEENKIIINNNSSSAA!

[@Stratton218]

1:99 can't believe keys was standing there with his back turned like that

[@Bevsworld04]

I thought you were going to say "you know what I do find interesting? Audible"

[@adarshsingh764]

Maybe he wasn't tasty.

[@Hearty82726]

Adarsh Singh being hate by parasite, damn thats hardcore

[@HawkeyeNation19]

+Adarsh Singh That is actually possible. In Halo canon it shows that ancient humanity did find a so called "cure" for the flood. They basically put this flood cure into humans and tested them out against the flood. What happened was that the flood were deterred from attacking the humans with the "cure" in them because what it did was make it harder for flood forms to infect the humans injected with the "cure". So the flood would just avoid those humans and attack others that didn't have the cure in them. It is possible that maybe some of the genetics from ancient humanity has passed on to those like Mendoza.

[@digiornodigiovanna7530]

HawkeyeNation19 no the flood tricked them into thinking the cure worked

[@tttreaders]

4 replys 222 likes seems legit

[@ChristianDaykin7]

Your comment has 343 likes

[@spectre908]

Cortana also makes a point that the flood will collect uninfected bodies and "put them in the corners." This is so they can gather enough biomass to facilitate a Gravemind.

[@tylerhellsing8122]

If memory serves Johnson had a very high level of radiation in his blood from some sort f plasma exposure

[@jeffplissken8996]

That was a cover up story that was amended later. His “side effects” were from him being in Project Orion as one of the Spartan-I soldiers.

[@unpopularopinion6321]

That was a lie told by oni

[@granderondeproductions3286]

You know back in 2004, I never thought about this. He was the only one left, as with the elite. Interesting find.. now I wanna pull out my old xbox original.

[@wildcard5616]

flood, definitely not edible.

[@darthmatt920]

CYB3R- R4T: no shit.

[@wildcard5616]

Matthew Wyss it's a joke

[@aksrule3393]

CYB3R- R4T says who? roast them over a fire or boil them. make flood stew or something

[@keenanrobinson7239]

Theyd just fall apart

[@camo_kamikaze1598]

AK's RULE!! You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, flood-kabobs, flood creole, flood gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple flood, lemon flood, coconut flood, pepper flood, flood soup, flood stew, flood salad, flood and potatoes, flood burger, flood sandwich. That- that's about it.

[@lukekeegan2374]

I love wen a developer makes a mistake and everyone makes it into a theory

[@cwfooey3417]

it wasn't a mistake though

[@Rammstein45]

In CE, the flood was still "Primitive", by the time Halo 3 happens, the flood evolved enough to make the transformation happen much faster. It took several hours in CE.

[@Xaptor43]

Maybe the Librarian's imprinting on humanity would have helped prevent the release of The Flood, if she left a damn note?

[@S1erra107]

Two uploads in 1 hour? What have we done to deserve this?

[@Titanic_Tuna]

absolutely fuck all

[@93neveron93]

you should re read the books because johnson is immune because he was involved in the spartan 1 program and was augmented but not as severely as the chief

[@93neveron93]

so theres a good to fair chance that mendoza is immune for the same reason. but more than likely it was just a jumpscare employed before introduction of the flood

[@rebeccacasciato3681]

yah probably right

[@weeerazer3099]

Johnson is immun due Plasma Radiation

[@j0nnY77x]

Rtas `Vadum the plasma radiation was a cover up for the Orion project

[@ajl1218]

Rtas `Vadum yes your correct but it's not the radiation that gave him immunity it's what it did to his nervous system

[@JacobSmith-uo1fx]

What if he was sick in some way. Such as certain organs that the flood need to assimilate a host weren't functioning properly or he had some sort of disease that made it a lot harder for them to turn him.

[@zynel413]

Like in World War Z the zombies didn't kill the injured or something?

[@Alex-cw3rz]

I thought you were talking about before they open the door one of the marines says the covenant have keep whatever was down here was secure as possible and if they had listened they could have secured the area and got renforcementa destroyed the minimal flood that was there or just keep them in there forever.

[@thorshammer7883]

The hunters are immune to the flood.

[@TmanTheTdog]

That's only because they have no central nervous system that the flood could control

[@thorshammer7883]

TmanTheTdog But how come their spores can't infect them? the flood can infect cells and DNA.

[@TmanTheTdog]

It's like this, the flood possibly could infect them but they would have no control over the worm at all, it might be possible for the flood to use the worms as biomass but I'm sure that they couldn't control any flood form created by the worms. If a host lacks an central nervous system, the flood can't control it. So they'd just kill the worms instead

[@MRDragonknightGaming]

TmanTheTdog no hunters cant be infected no way because they dont have a solid form

[@thorshammer7883]

crimson Talon They are made by worms. And the worms could be infected one by one.

[@CT1337_Lucky]

Who else thinks of the song "Take me into your loving arms" when mendosa falls into chief's arms.

[@lewisirwin5363]

That brings up images I'd really rather do without.

[@hakamadam8258]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/oovTZ6OjnMeNr7c

[@ronaldomendoza7578]

Lewis Irwin Same for me now buddy

[@halodude7239]

I think of Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud

[@isaacjohnson335]

I was thinking " With Arms Wide Open"

[@assassinsword5922]

Shipmaster halo 3-one single flood spore can destroy an entire planet

[@elijahcollins9088]

Bro i beaten all the campaigns and i jumped out of my chair the second i saw Mendoza falls into the cheifs arm

[@stfu7193]

PENGUINS WITH AFROS!!!!

[@Stayinposition]

last time i was this early i was a sperm

[@mohawkmohican8611]

Stayinposition damn I know you on xbl

[@Stayinposition]

Dennis Farrell you do? xD

[@mohawkmohican8611]

Stayinposition yeah mate my tag is dennislego75

[@Stayinposition]

Dennis Farrell oh yeah :) dang bro the halo community is small

[@mohawkmohican8611]

Stayinposition tru remember when there were over 1m people in the community but now there is only several thousand players

[@arkotheuhh7297]

2:45 Thank you so much for using my video I made I keep replaying it

[@gokublack4991]

Hmm intriguing I'll look into this.

[@Altronza]

WAIT wasn't the flood the recreation of the really old alien race out of particles that malfunctioned. What if some creatures had been exposed to that and in thus caused immunity.

[@chrislaezur730]

I doubt the first flood outbreak that lead to the Human Forerunner war would have happened, if that were possible. The dust was used for a couple of centuries to make animals more docile. Then people ate them. As the first outbreak started, people who had long been consuming the meat also began to mutate. So, doubt.

[@STORM0734]

Pretty sure that "dust" was some sort of reengineered remains of the of the Precursors (The race that came before the Forerunners) that the Forerunners had mistakenly discovered years after defeating the Precursor during the Precursor/Forerunner war. The dust in question that was discovered, was realized to created exotic variations of animals, and were valued greatly because of that. Basically over thousands of years, these infected animals basically devolved into the flood which was the Precursors plan the entire time. Its been a while since I read the books, but I think this is roughly how it went. These events were ~100,000 to 150,000 years before the first Halo game,

[@MMushroomancer]

Pretty much this, but it was the prehistoric Humans and Prophets who found them, began treating domesticated animals with it. The initial mutagenic properties were considered beneficial, or at least aesthetically pleasing, but become increasingly unstable over generations of treatment until the pets they'd been treating with the mutagen were essentially flood.

[@DracoSafarius]

Yeah I remember that from the books, they had those things that were like pets and they consumed some of the growths on each other and down through the generations they changed into basically being the spore forms.

[@AW-qz4kk]

Nah the humans equivalent to dogs at the time are what created the flood cuz they used the powder to tame them

[@danielbob2628]

You're kidding, right? The crazed marine SAYS play dead and the Flood will ignore you, which is what he did, and the Flood are obviously different in Halo 3. Also, Johnson is immune to the Flood because SPARTAN-I implants scrambled his nervous system.

[@FreezrMario]

But he died

[@plusultra8805]

FreezrMario to guilty spark

[@connorsmith5924]

no plasma weapon radiation

[@plusultra8805]

connor smith no play halo 3 to the end Johnson is murdered by 343 guilty spark when spark went rampant.

[@plusultra8805]

James Mclaughlin well I don't think anyone could survive a laser to the abdomen without armour.

[@concon1808]

First vid with maeders thumbnail

[@Mister_Manatee]

0:49 “dismembered marine helmets”.

[@conorlee6666]

It's brilliant that you and other people in the halo community notice these small details and create theories and speculations about them. It really brings more life into halo. Good job, keep it up.

[@zacker150]

Conor Lee but not brilliant enough to realize that in HALO lore, the food is sentient enough to choose whether or not to infect their prey

[@danielm2123]

I don't think he was killed. I think he locked himself in there and died of starvation.

[@pluvial-dude7348]

Karthadon - Daniel M. hes special

[@anthonyputman9486]

Karthadon - Daniel M. that means he locked himself in with the flood

[@baguldus1885]

And died of starvation really quickly?

[@anthonyputman9486]

Karthadon - Daniel M. or he was immune so the flood combat forms shot him

[@christmas6666]

The marine group was '12 hours' ahead of Master Chief (established by the level's opening scene dialogue). Way too short interval of time to die of starvation.

[@rectaltickler8303]

LOL. that rag doll affect when chief finds the soldier in front of the door.

[@jeffplissken8996]

I think it’s just re-used character models. Canon by character was fuzzy in the first game and halfway depended on the book The Flood where Mendoza was the first infected human that the Master Chief actually came across.

[@sebastiankrueger6209]

That's not Mendoza. If you read halo:the flood, Mendoza was one of the first infected marines, and when John saw him, he tried to talk to him, but Mendoza attacked him. That Marine at the door was a unnamed Marine.

[@Former_Halo_Fan]

Snuggle Muffins No, it is Mendoza. Sergeant Johnson calls him Mendoza, he's the only one with a hat, and he's the only one who ran away which was how he ended up at the door. The book was just inconsistent. Games take priority over the novels.

[@piat4975]

Snuggle Muffins That Was Mendoza,As You Know,He Was The Only One With A Fisherman Hat,It's Impossible That He Was The First Marine To Have Been Infected,As Keyes Shouted "Mendoza,Get Back Here!" But He Continued To Run,The Door Locked On Him Leaving The Combat Forms To Have Brutally Killed Him.

[@sebastiankrueger6209]

I would think that to man. But look him up on the halo wiki page. Master chief kills him with a shot gun, in the comics titles "halo:the flood". He's the first combat form chief encounters.

[@sebastiankrueger6209]

A few hours after infection, John-117 found Mendoza in the structure and attempted to communicate with the Marine, unknown that his consciousness was already taken over by the Infection Form. Mendoza attacked the SPARTAN and took three entire Soellkraft 8 Gauge Shell from John-117's Shotgun, with the results both "spectacular and disgusting."

[@sebastiankrueger6209]

That's from the halo Wikipedia. I copied and pasted it.

[@jonesaderhold3513]

I am the only one who thinks that halo was better when bungie was making it?

[@sabot2947]

Edgar Gomez, Destiny is just fine, but Halo is still the best.

[@nicktripp6873]

I do 343 blows

[@Eramidas]

Yes, guy looking for approval, you are the only person in the entire world that thinks this. Even with all the countless videos already saying that.

[@GretchentheAlligator]

I still love halo, even the new ones

[@TheDaxter11]

Heinrich destiny 1 was just fine, destiny 2 though...

[@ShibuHellYeah]

Ltn had a intro? This changes the entire world

[@alsrig0420]

Mendoza: A'ight, Im'ma head out The Flood: A'ight, Im'ma head out

[@quentinreese2743]

How much do you want to bet it was just for dramatic affect and the developers weren't thinking about the continuity

[@NorthstarTheFinalist]

flood cant infect Johnson because origional combat augmentations which over time decreased combat effectiveness, the flood cant infect him specificaly because of radiation, which is released from plasma grenades and carbine rifles... there is alot more lore about it that you can look into

[@8bitarmory846]

Johnson's immunity came from his involvement in Project ORION, which left his nervous system FUBAR. To prevent rumors and leaks about the project, ONI made up a condition resulting from prolonged / increased exposure to plasma, and claimed that Johnson detonated a crate full of plasma grenades.

[@aaronchapman8786]

The conversion to Halo CE at the end is cool.

[@spethmanjones2997]

What a great mission that was-slowly creating a growing sense of dread and cold horror throughout

[@nonesta13]

Can't remember if it was Primordium or Silentium where the gravemind admits the flood chooses which species to infect and which to leave alone (humans) letting them believe they are immune.

[@NPC-xi5ki]

Maybe he was shot for running and how good would a dead host be?

[@spiritsubject6185]

Pretty good.

[@crimsonfied5329]

Epicness01sgr flood used dead hosts in halo 3 all the time

[@anthonyputman9486]

Slateboi_117 I know and I hated that I would kill one and another would spawn

[@joeyplessis1160]

I think bungi just wanted to have a spooky body falling at you through the door scene

[@Jessie_Helms]

I think a much better explanation is that the Flood used the bodies as distractions. Especially since Johnson was only immune to his Spartan upgrades.

[@jamesgriffiths4868]

Video idea: "why is bungie's favourite number 7

[@jamesgriffiths4868]

Judging by your later videos youve been playing a lo of CEA or MCC haven't you lol

[@MegaNekoPower]

Their favorite number is seven for a few reasons actually. They've even explained it a few times. Pity it didnt save their lie of "ten years of destiny" and not "ten years of destiny sequels"

[@rturae]

I thought the thumbnail was supposed to be Marvin Mobuto

[@deadly1720]

we didnt know you sarge but we sure as hell wish we did.

[@totalnerd5674]

I liked these Halo videos, I hope you do more sometime

[@TheUnknownAK]

There's 2 reasons for this, a cinematic reason and a logical reason. I think a logical reason for this is that the flood were in a wild/un-coordinated stage because they lacked a gravemind to coordinate them. Because of this their actions are really animalistic and sporadic which is maybe why they infected some things but not others, it could also tie into the point that his blood had something that made it hard to be infected. If flood forms were trying to infect him but were struggling to do so then instead they just moved on to find another host body (the injuries still killed the marine). This might have been the same thing with the Elite, they were struggling to infect it and so just abandoned it's corpse and left to find another. Perhaps things like blood types or disease/conditions related to that make it hard to be infected. The cinematic reason is because honestly that scene is horrifying the first time you see it, Chief is a trained super soldier but even he jumps a bit when the door opens and the body falls on him and then watching the footage probably freaked the hell out him since humanity had no concept at all of something like flood existing. It's also a very common trope in a horror movie for the protagonist to stumble across a body and learn of the horrifying shit that's coming. It's also very similar to scenes in zombie movies, zombies spread by biting humans and turning them but there are plenty of scenes where the zombies will devour a body and it won't turn so it's probably just something in that sort of direction

[@bagel785]

Well,in halo 3,I'm pretty sure in floodgate there are some dead elites in the flood infected covenant spaceship. Just saying,it'd be hard to believe that a whole GROUP of organisms could survive out of a species that normally gets infected.

[@kevinkilpatrick1245]

well if you pay close attention the flood only infects characters of importance example you will never ever see a flood grunt only flood elites and brutes maybe the flood didnt feel like mendoza was too important especially since he ran from that first battle

[@phantompeshka4440]

Watch HiddenXperia

[@Theta117]

Only brutes humans and elites get turned into combat forms the rest are carrier forms

[@piercingshooter8379]

Grunts and jackals don’t get turned into combat forms cause they don’t have enough calcium or something

[@Theta117]

Piercingshooter biomass*

[@theelite5135]

Nah the grunts and jackal also the buggers. there just useless and weak compared to the rest I mean there just the cannon fodder for halo

[@cyanspartan1757]

3:06 maybe when the other marines were infected, they just beat him to death (there isn't any blood, so they couldn't have shot him, that's my theory anyway) and set it up so that it looked like a covenant party had attacked and killed/retaken Keyes in order to ensnare more victims. Sry for the rant.

[@alvinalgarin7294]

Thats crazy cause i love halo especially the first one. And i never noticed that at least the fact he wasn't turned into the flood