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Fictional characters from the Halo series of video games that began with Halo: Combat Evolved.

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Humans

Master Chief (John-117)

See the main article on John-117.

Chips Dubbo

Pvt. Chips Dubbo (voiced by Andrew McKage) is an Australian Marine in Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo 2. His distinctive dialect, unmistakable smart remarks and laid-back attitude make him instantly recognisable. Chips is particulary good at manning the Warthog's main 12.7x88mm gatling gun.

There has been some comparison between Chips Dubbo and Steve Irwin.

Observant players of Halo will notice that the character model for Pvt. Dubbo is different between Halo and Halo 2.

Dubbo is a town in the state of New South Wales that because of its unique name is recognisable to nearly all Australians.

Quotes

• "Where'd ya get ya licence?"
• "Can you see out of that bloody visor?"
• "Get yer own I saw 'em first!"
• "That thing on the left: it's the brake!"
• "Look at the size of that roadkill!"
• "Mate! Nice 'n smooth now."
• "Hey look! A Mark Five."
• "Let's do it! Lets go!"
• "Don't try to play dead on me pal!"
• "Come on! floor it!"
• "Did anybody see me? I kicked ass!"
• "Don't bother gettin' up, buddy! I'll keep you down!"
• "Sir, the Captain needs you on the Bridge A.S.A.P - better follow me!"
• "The Cavalry's arrived!"
• "Taking heavy fire."
• "Let's roll!"
• "Come on! It's more fun shooting 'em!"
• "Firing!"
• "Covering fire!"
• "Taller than I thought and better looking too!"
• "Dear Sarge, having a lovely time kicking ass in outer space. Wish you were here!"

Avery Johnson

Sergeant Avery 'Slacker' Johnson is a Marine who leads a group of human marines against Covenant and Flood assaults throughout the first and second games. He is best known for his boastful, tough-guy attitude. He also seems never to die. In the beginning of Halo 2, an engineer on the orbital station Cairo asks him how he survived and made it back to Earth . He answers that the information is classified. (In a more literal sense, when playing alongside Johnson in the single-player campaign, he literally cannot be killed, giving rise to another nickname, Invincible Johnson.)

In Halo 2, he was awarded the Colonial Cross, led UNSC forces to drive the Covenant from New Mombasa and Delta Halo, was captured along with Miranda Keyes by the Covenant, but somehow managed to escape, and he eventually commandeers a Scarab and helps the Arbiter defeat Tartarus. At the end of the game, 343 Guilty Spark takes him to the floor of the Control Room and is about to argue with him when Keyes asks the Monitor about a place where all the Halo Installations can be activated.

Quotes

From cinematics and gameplay:

• "I know I'm pretty, but we've gotta get to work!"
• "Hey bastards, knock knock!"
• "Back when I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks, we had sticks...two sticks and a rock. And we had to share the rock."
• "Usually the Lord works in mysterious ways, but not today. This here is 66 tons of straight up, HE spewing, divine intervention! If God is love, then you can call me Cupid!"
• "Dear humanity, we regret being alien bastards, we regret comin' to Earth, and we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!"
• "Do I look like an 8-foot-tall blue alien monster to you?"
• "Oh, I know what the ladies like." (after delivering a tank to Cortana, who complains that the Master Chief "never gets me anything")
• "Get tactical, Marines!"
• "Dammit, Jenkins, fire your weapon! Don't even think about it, Marine."
• "Boy, you always got a bad feeling about somethin'."
• "Hey, mohawk! How's that feel?" (as he shoots Tartarus)
• "For a brick, he flew pretty good!"
• "Well, I don't care if is God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine or a giant Hula Hoop—we ain't gonna let 'em have it! What we WILL let 'em have is a belly full of lead and a pool of their own blood to drown in!"
• "Hey, don't shake the light bulb."
• "All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close, this is gonna be your lucky day!"
• "Listen up! You had the chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved Corps! But to guide you back to the true path, I've brought along this motivational device!" (indicates Scorpion tank) "Our big green style cannot be defeated!"
• "I heard that, jackass!" (over the intercom, to a marine who says, "Dear Sarge, having a lovely time kicking ass in outer space. Wish you were here!")
• "Would you MIND not killin' my men?!" (when you run over a marine with a vehicle)
• "Ha ha, Chief. Very funny...Uh oh."
• "Don't they teach you kids to SWEAR in basic any more?"
• "Hit it, Marines! Go! Go! Go! The Corps ain't payin' us by the hour!"

Jacob Keyes

Captain Jacob Keyes was the Captain of the UNSC ship Pillar of Autumn that was supposed to find the Covenant homeworld and be crewed by the SPARTAN-IIs. Unfortunately, the fall of Reach on August 30th, 2552, cut the mission short (briefly until Halo 2), and Keyes was forced to use his ship to lead the Covenant Fleet away from Earth (in accordance with the Cole Protocol) - he in fact lead them to Halo.

As a Lieutenant Junior Grade he picked up John-117, the future Master Chief, one of the SPARTAN-II recruits in 2517. He was later promoted to Captain after his actions during the Covenant invasion of the Sigma Octanus system in 2552 (July 17 - 18). It is also believed that a Covenant tracking device that attached itself to Keyes' ship (The Iroquois) lead the Covenant to Reach.

Soon after the PoA's arrival at Halo on September 19th, 2552, the PoA was abandoned and Keyes was captured by the Covenant and imprisoned in the Covenant ship Truth and Reconciliation. He was later rescued by the Master Chief on September 20th and became the leader of the human resistance on the ring. On the same day he was captured and assimilated by the Flood and absorbed into a "command" form, an offshoot of Gravemind. The SPARTAN was forced to kill Keyes in order to retrieve the neural relays stored within his brain, which contained codes critical to Cortana's planned destruction of Halo.

For his actions at Halo Keyes was awarded a medal, received by his daughter Commander Miranda Keyes, the commander of the ship In Amber Clad. Lord Admiral Hood remarked about Keyes that, "the Navy has lost one of their best".

Miranda Keyes

Commander Miranda Keyes is the daughter of Captain Keyes, and first appears in Halo 2. She is a Commander of the UNSC In Amber Clad in the UNSC Navy. She later turns out to be a Reclaimer, like Master Chief. She asks 343 Guilty Spark about the Halo Installations and he said that all of them would have to be activated from the Ark (Halo).

Human and Forerunner Machines

Cortana

See the main article on Cortana (Halo).

343 Guilty Spark

See the main article on 343 Guilty Spark.

2401 Penitent Tangent

See the main article on 2401 Penitent Tangent.

Covenant and Flood

The Arbiter

See the main article on Arbiter (Halo).

The Gravemind

The Gravemind is seemingly an alien entity of The Flood in Halo 2. Gravemind remains mostly unknown; however, due to its short appearances in Halo 2, a small amount of data about it and the nature of the Flood parasite can be inferred.

Gravemind appears to be the controlling intelligence behind the parasitical Flood hive. In this way, he appears similar to a puppetmaster. Gravemind appears to be close to omnipresence, in the sense that he appears not to occupy any single location, but rather seems to be distributed throughout a large part of the hidden underground caverns that encircle the Halo "ringworld" (similar in some respects to the real world King Clone Fungus). Gravemind also seems to harbour an intelligence approaching omniscience, since he appears to be capable of absorbing the knowledge of all Flood hosts. Whether there is more than one Gravemind is open to speculation, it is possible that on each Halo ringworld, assuming each one has a Flood infestation, a controlling Gravemind could be formed. (In Halo onboard the second Covenant cruiser, the organism enveloping Captain Keyes could be an offshoot of the Gravemind on the first ring.)

When the cinematic depicting the Master Chief and the Arbiter begins, we are also treated to the sight of the apparently deceased Prophet of Regret and an AI similar to 343 Guilty Spark, 2401 Pentinent Tangent, both of whom the Gravemind has captured and has reanimated for his own nefarious (i.e. unknown) purposes.

Also, the Gravemind we see in the game, on Installation 05, appears to be capable of utilizing Halo's teleportation grid to transport anything and indeed himself (or at least a part of himself) anywhere on the ring and beyond to a limited distance. Being a Flood organism, how he uses the grid at all is a mystery, as only A.I.s Cortana and 343 Guilty Spark could access it in the previous game, on a different Halo. Still, there is much more about this enigmatic character that we do not know. However, as the Gravemind has the use of the monitor of installation 05, 2401 Pentinent Tangent, this might be able to explain his strange teleportation abilty.

Gravemind more than once speaks in rhyme. When referring to the Master Chief and the Arbiter, respectively, he says

This one is machine and nerve, and has his mind concluded.

This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded.

In the post-credits end cinematic of Halo 2, Gravemind recites this verse to Cortana:

Silence fills the empty grave now that I am gone,

But my mind is not at rest, for questions linger on.

I will ask and you will answer.

His interest in her, besides her much improved body rendering, is unknown.

Tartarus

Tartarus is the most prominent of the Brutes of the Covenant, easily recognized by his white hair and distinctive mohawk. He represents his entire species as their Chieftain: rough, arrogant, disdainful of the Covenant Elite, and totally dedicated to the Prophets' "Great Journey".

Tartarus made his first chronological appearance in the novel Halo: First Strike, in the chamber of the High Prophet of Truth. He had scoured the wreckage of the Covenant attack coordination station Unyielding Hierophant after its destruction at the hands of the Master Chief. Tartarus reported the Covenant Fleet destroyed, and an artifact lost. In a beserker rage, Tartarus killed the inept Covenant soldiers responsible for the debacle.

In Halo 2, Tartarus branded the Arbiter with the Mark of Shame and took him to the Mausoleum for an execution. When the Arbiter was pardoned and promoted, Tartarus was obviously displeased, but kept silent out of respect for the Prophets. Tartarus provided aerial support for the Arbiter during his mission to kill the Heretic leader near Basis, and reappeared when the Arbiter tried to retrieve the Index of Delta Halo. While he mocked the Arbiter, he himself flew in a Phantom and never sets foot on Flood-infested ground. On the Prophets' orders, Tartarus eventually took action against the Arbiter, stealing the Index and pushing him to his (supposed) death in an endless pit. The Brute then returned with the Index and captives Miranda Keyes and Sgt. Avery Johnson to Delta Halo.

While trying to get the Reclaimer (Keyes) to cooperate, Tartarus was confronted by the Arbiter. Blind to the Prophets' deception, he activated Delta Halo and prepared to guard the Index from all comers. In the final showdown, Tartarus puts up a difficult fight with his masssive one-hit-kill warhammer and his unique fog-like energy shield that is almost impervious to damage, but ultimately is killed through the combined efforts of the Arbiter, several Elites, and Sgt. Johnson, successfully delaying the destruction of the galaxy.

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