Master Chief during the Ending

[Chaoswolf210]

Hello everyone,

 

This is my first post on this website and it is about a topic that I'm sure may have been talked about a lot. I've been thinking about it for a long time and have been wanting to talk about it myself with other people. 

 

Spoilers: (not sure how to actually mark spoilers, I'm sure nobody should care at this point though.)

 

In the ending of Halo 4, the Didact is narrating and talking about how humanity is basically the enemy and the forerunners are the good guys. What caught my attention was the fact that, in the final cutscene, as Master Chief is walking into the building to where he has his armor removed, the Didact says "I stand before you, accused of the sin of ensuring Forerunner ascendancy," and mentions that the are forced to "recede." He mentions that humans are the greatest enemies and should be wiped out, and only fools would believe otherwise. As he is saying this, it seems as though Master Chief could possibly be staring at the other humans with disgust and condescension, especially while walking past the female spartan. In the end, he says "Think of my acts as you will, but do not doubt the reality. The reclamation has already begun and we are hopeless to stop it." As he says this, Master Chief takes off his mask and in the legendary ending, you see that his eyes don't have the whites. They are pure black. Also, consider the fact that John is known as "The Reclaimer" and the Didact says the reclamation has already begun.

 

Multiple theories derive from all of this. I think that either the Didact has fused with Master Chief. He is the reclaimer, the reclamation has begun, and you can't stop it. If Master Chief, the best soldier on the planet, has been taken over by the Didact, or any other Forerunner, then obviously he would be extremely difficult to defeat. This would ensure the ascendancy of the Forerunners. "Do not doubt the reality." If the Didact has not taken control of Master Chief, I still believe that either Master Chief has Forerunner DNA inside of him, or that he is a Forerunner-Human hybrid. 

 

Another thing that can be evidence to this is when Master Chief detonates the nuclear device. Forerunners are basically living digital code/data. While Master Chief is talking to Cortana, it seems as though he is digitizes based on the surroundings. Also, if he is human, he would not have been saved by a nuclear explosion, not to mention the explosion of the spacecraft that the Didact controlled, by Cortana. I believe Cortana turned Master Chief into data to allow him to survive, just like how the Prometheans can teleport by turning themselves into data, traveling through space, and reforming themselves. I believe the same trick could have been used by Cortana on Master Chief to get him away from the blast of the nuke. 

 

What does everyone else think? I find this evidence to be highly likely, if not actually true. Yes, I've played all of the Halos. Feel free to state your own opinions/beliefs about this. 

 

I'm not even sorry for the long post.

 

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Apparently you can't embed youtube videos.

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Just take the URL from a Youtube video, and paste it in the topic. The video should show up.

 

Anyway you do make a good point @Chaoswolf210, but what I take from the ending is this:

 

1. The Didact is not defeated. He may be momentarily out, but from what he's saying, "The Reclamation has only just begun", I'm thinking that he'll return with allot of force behind him to take out the Humans. Like War Sphinxes (possibly shown in the Halo 5 trailer), and other powerful Forerunner technology. Maybe even other Forerunners. I don't think his Prometheans would return seeing that Requiem crashed into a Sun, but anything is possible. 

 

2. I doubt the Didact fused with Master Chief. What I do think is that Master Chief's evolution has been accelerated due to The Librarian unlocking his immunity to Composure, and if you remember correctly, The Composer collects a Human's essence, and turns them into Prometheans. Though this may not be true digitization seeing that the Prometheans are described as both "Inorganic" and "Digitized" in nature, and if it had been true digitization then The Forerunners would have used it the first chance they got.

 

Anyway about the Master Chief on evolution. The Librarian had to unlock the Composer Immunity for Chief to defeat The Didact. There's no telling what else was unlocked along side the immunity. Forerunner DNA, like you said maybe.  Plus The Librarian was on Requiem when it crashed into a Sun, so for more "Thingies" to be unlocked The Librarian would have to be alive... But Forerunners teleport all the time so I think she's fine. To important a Character to kill in the first game she's depicted in, just like the Didact also.

 

3. Forerunners are not living data. They created the Composers as to turn themselves into data to become immune from the Flood, but The Composer failed, and the Forerunners had to fire the Rings. If they had been data, then they would not had to have fired the Rings to stop the Flood. They would already be immune to them anyway.

 

Cortana created a Hard Light shield around the Chief to shield him from the Nuke. She manipulated the Hard Light to restrain The Didact momentarily for the Chief to stick a Pulse Grenade to him. She also manifested herself into a physical form using the Hard Light during her last moment with the Chief. I don't think it would have been necessary to digitize The Chief to save him from the explosion.

 

I do think that maybe Cortana had teleported them both away from the epicenter of the explosion, and then created a Hard Light shield.

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Self Destruct is correct. If it's from youtube you can just post the URL by copy and pasting the Address bar up above.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPmBT08zcc4

 

 

But anyways, your point is a very interesting one... I have never thought of what the didact is saying to directly relate to the master chiefs scene there.

I guess I was always to caught up in how cool MC is whilst walking through the base and everyone is just trying to get a glimpse of him.  But the thing I did notice the most was, like you said, Looking down on the humans with pity almost.... Hmmm. Very interesting. Thanks for the new perspective.

 

 

Here's a link to the sites coding so that you can look up how thngs work for future posts.

 

http://www.343industries.org/forum/index.php?s=6127b6fc924e84d2552603f1c60cd61f&&app=forums&module=extras&section=legends&do=bbcode