I think my favourite thing I heard about this was from my dad. Played Halo 1 and 2 all the time. And he always told me you didn’t see his face because “you” are the master chief. Hearing this as a kid was awesome. Sparked my imagination like nothing else. Pretending to be a bad ass Spartan was definitely a blast. Now I look back and simply enjoy the many memories.
@@thegooseshow2691Chief was always a generic hero, it's why you could project yourself onto him (and by extension The Rookie and Noble Six) in the games. If you're implying 343 made him generic when his character got fleshed-out in 4, they were just catching up with the books.
@@steverboot that's not generic they made master chef a blank slate so everyone could project themselves as him but now he is just the boring generic everyman that's just a human like everyone else trying to make him more relatable and it's lame af
And then there's paramounts halo show where chief immediately takes his helmet off on the 2nd episode. Didn't even deserve to do that, let alone on the 2nd episode.
You might also remember the glitch that was around back in the halo3 beta. Where you could get the camera angle to go through the helmet revealing his visor-face area
Can you imagine the reveal tho.. Lands will crumble, shores will dry, the sky will be drenched in a black cloud of smoke, the chief is coming, the chief is all, the chief is life.
l love how it’s almost a non-mystery now in the sense of like, no one really cares about it anymore and everyone sortve agrees it should never be shown because it really has no impact on his character. like everyone’s just agreed that it doesn’t matter what he looks like and i love that so much
Not only that...but master chief is supposed to be the player in all the halo games, if his true face was shown it would take away from the personal experience of the campaign...
Of course he’s a pure blood Aryan white brother! Only the best of the best! No others would suffice, it would ruin his character. Blonde hair blue eyes is the peak human form, will always be rulers
See, the thing is, I can’t even imagine a guy under the suit. It’s like a Doomguy situation, you can’t take him out of the suit or else he isn’t that character anymore.
Yes, all of you, his face is visible. BUT YOU DON’T THINK OF HIS FACE WHEN YOU THINK OF HIM, DO YOU? You think of a regular fucking guy instead of the guy in the armor? I never said “we never see his face,” I said he isn’t the character without the suit.
Masterchief's face is the player's face. You don't play AS Masterchief, but you ARE Masterchief when you play Halo. That's why it should never be revealed
I think his face being a mystery is nice. It helps the player place themselves in Chiefs' boots and I think that's one of the things that makes Halo so great.
Halo’s story is great for many reasons. Having a character where you do t se their face isn’t one of them. I don’t get this intense need to project yourself onto a character in order to care about them. It’s so strange to me
The last face is actually a texture used for multiplayer spartan skins in halo 2 where if you tried to look closely to another's player visor of their helmet you would see a glimpse of a face
I remember a mandela effect in which I clearly remember chief taking his helmet off but the view was from behind revealing his hair color but nothing else.
@JamesTDG I'm trying to think if it was another game. All I remembered was, "Wasn't his identity supposed to stay hidden?" The only other game me and my brother played was Doom 3 but the Doom Marine's face was immediately revealed. So, the chief's hair was brown or dark blonde kinda uneven, almost jagged looking, pale skin like the lore. It's odd as it was some time AFTER the Longsword scene in maybe a hanger? With crates? And some other characters. Anyway, I was shocked when I played MCC and thought it was changed! I first played Halo:CE on PC in 2004 after my brother (RIP) insisted I play it. Although I first played it with my then wife, I remember watching him play on Legendary, and that was the ending, NOT THE JOHNSON SKIT! I even played the maw on legendary to confirm.
Chief is not bald. He has very close-cropped light brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He's also unnaturally pale due to the amount of time he's spent in his MJOLNIR armor.
@@DerpASherpa117When he’s a kid going through training yes, but during the augmentation process when he’s older he is shown to have a fully shaved head. We’ve never seen enough of his head since then to know if he let his hair grow back or if he continued to keep it fully shaved
Fun fact for those who don't know: Cortana is literally the only other being in Halo aside from Halsey, Keyes, those that were apart of the Spartan II program, and the rest of the Spartan II's 🤯
I kinda dig that Schreiber Pablo dude finally I really understand how Master Chief feels ya know. It gives so much context to his emotions that I otherwise wouldn't have understood
just played the mcc for the first time in years and played every game on heroic to prepare myself for halo 4 legendary, i can honestly say getting that cutscene might’ve been the best gaming achievement i’ve ever completed in my life
R.I.P. to those who didn’t get to see Master Chiefs face🫡 Or maybe they can see it in the afterlife? Idk, hey hope they’re having a good time and playing halo 2 respectively🔥🔥
As a kid I've always wished we could see what he looked like but after growing up I begun to realise that his face not being revealed is the reason I loved him in the first place. It's meant to be the catalyst for immersion, allow the player to be the chief, sure its fine to humanise him but his face should remain anonymous to us because chief is 'US' the player. You could argue 'We've seen his face when he was a kid and in his teens' but here's the thing, we haven't seen his face a full grown adult.
I swear someone needs to make a compilation of every time Elijah calls something "interesting" probably would make a fun drinking game, though you'd get absolutely sauced after one video
I'd love if it became part of Canon that the reason we never see his face is because of his own beliefs. It was always supposed to be so you could see yourself as the chief but as they give him more of his own beliefs and personality, I think his helmet should become part of his beliefs. He is aware of the Morale and Legend he brings, and while he doesn't like it, he deeply cares for and respects his Marine comrades. So he leaves the helmet on so the legend survives, knowing that if he ever was seen with it off, the legend is broken and the Morale is gone. He goes from Myth to Man.
The mystery allowed everyone to apply their own face when they play. Being faceless made him raceless and that was ok because then he was the player and not some ploy
I guess I can see some minor reason why you may want to see his face but what makes master chief such a fun character is he’s a faceless badass. And in a way everyone can project onto him. A perfect master chief face would change from person to person because in a sense he is you.
Chief took off his Combat helmet to let his Tactical helmet get some fresh air at the end of Halo CE.
Once he gets home, he slips on his watching helmet to binge his favourite shows and then his bath helment to brush his teeth once it’s time for bed
can't forget the everyday walking helmet to keep track of those steps
Then sleep helmet,and eat helmet,and drink helmet then drive helmet and basically he has a helmet helmet for everything
@@thebaseandtriflingcreature174aster chief with a housecoat over his armour, and a helmet with a nightcap on top of it for sleeping
@@ComedicLetter now the real question:
Does he go “honkk choo honkk choo” or does he go “hoooonk mimimimi hoooooonk mimimimimimi”
Honestly his true face should probably remain a mystery. I feel like if we learn every little fact about Master Chief will make him boring in a way.
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Agreed
no, we should see his face at the end of his journey.
Agreed. We can humanize him a bit but part of what makes him so cool is the Mystery surrounding him
Lmao better dont know him because if they change character throught the games or something happens it gets bad
I think my favourite thing I heard about this was from my dad. Played Halo 1 and 2 all the time. And he always told me you didn’t see his face because “you” are the master chief. Hearing this as a kid was awesome. Sparked my imagination like nothing else. Pretending to be a bad ass Spartan was definitely a blast. Now I look back and simply enjoy the many memories.
This is the way
they ruined that feeling after they turned master chief into another generic hero
My dad said the exact same thing haha
@@thegooseshow2691Chief was always a generic hero, it's why you could project yourself onto him (and by extension The Rookie and Noble Six) in the games. If you're implying 343 made him generic when his character got fleshed-out in 4, they were just catching up with the books.
@@steverboot that's not generic they made master chef a blank slate so everyone could project themselves as him but now he is just the boring generic everyman that's just a human like everyone else trying to make him more relatable and it's lame af
I love how we just completely ignored the TV show lol
what tv show? we don’t know what you’re talking about🤔
@@authenticaries1539he might be talking about those cool anime colabs with the halo stuff on Netflix
Nonsense, simply jibberish.
There is a show...?
@@authenticaries1539ahem... halo legends????
And then there's paramounts halo show where chief immediately takes his helmet off on the 2nd episode. Didn't even deserve to do that, let alone on the 2nd episode.
First episode 😬😬
@@DerekthetauEven more cringe.
They showed his nude ass too
No, it was the first fucking episode
@@themonstergamer5441 that's even worse
That's all of the master chief's facial appearances of all time counting every media none excluded. For sure
Long live the enclave
@@HaedenBeck God bless America
the tv series is non canon so chief from that is a completely different character
@@Skyfoogle Precisely
@@Skyfoogle also that chief fucked aliens, the real one would never do that, the real one just makes his suit jack him off for Cortana
You might also remember the glitch that was around back in the halo3 beta.
Where you could get the camera angle to go through the helmet revealing his visor-face area
I think that was just a model so that the helmets would fit onto a real head
Can you imagine the reveal tho..
Lands will crumble, shores will dry, the sky will be drenched in a black cloud of smoke, the chief is coming, the chief is all, the chief is life.
@@AlfonsoSerna_promethazineX yeah we have never ever seen his face before ever
@@RedTHedge also pretty sure it's modeled after one of the Bungie devs
I was wondering what that was. I thought it was CE but halo 3 beta sounds about right
Master chief taking his helmet off to reveal being master chief was crazy
Why is he bald thou
@@jmgonzales7701because people can be bald
@@speckysteven no
l love how it’s almost a non-mystery now in the sense of like, no one really cares about it anymore and everyone sortve agrees it should never be shown because it really has no impact on his character. like everyone’s just agreed that it doesn’t matter what he looks like and i love that so much
Not only that...but master chief is supposed to be the player in all the halo games, if his true face was shown it would take away from the personal experience of the campaign...
Master chief was the armor
We know what his face is supposed to look like from the books, but we don’t need to see it in the games
Master chief was master chief all along!
Of course he’s a pure blood Aryan white brother! Only the best of the best! No others would suffice, it would ruin his character. Blonde hair blue eyes is the peak human form, will always be rulers
See, the thing is, I can’t even imagine a guy under the suit. It’s like a Doomguy situation, you can’t take him out of the suit or else he isn’t that character anymore.
But doom guy is without his suit in 2016, his helmet is off in 1st doom as well…
Doomguy literally has his face on the hud in the very first game
We saw Doom Guys face back in the original Doom's as well as in the new ones. Did you ever actually play the games?
Yes, all of you, his face is visible. BUT YOU DON’T THINK OF HIS FACE WHEN YOU THINK OF HIM, DO YOU? You think of a regular fucking guy instead of the guy in the armor? I never said “we never see his face,” I said he isn’t the character without the suit.
@@DCBiscuityeah I don’t think they understood you
Nobody talking about how Master Chief is literally the kid from Bully.
lol yes
Sid
Jimmy
Master chiefs appearence has been a very exclusive thing
Noble 6 : hold my bear
A grizzly expression.
“Behind that mask”
“Behind that mask”
“Is another mask!”
Deep cut
Masterchief's face is the player's face. You don't play AS Masterchief, but you ARE Masterchief when you play Halo. That's why it should never be revealed
Idk man having some greasy 12 year olds face on super soldier ruins it
@@Krypticobject1 Spartans are canonically 14 or so, so not that much of a stretch.
@@anonymousapproximation8549 Dude is like 45 in the games, and the rest are only 14 in Fall of Reach and Forward Unto Dawn.
@@infinitespace2520 45 _Chronologically._ Biologically, he's 14.
@@anonymousapproximation8549 Not really, biologically he's in his early 20s thanks to cryosleep
Spartans: When they take off their helmet, it means they're about to die.
Chief: Helmet underneath a helmet.
Chief confirmed to be immortal.
Master chief looks like Steve Downes, there mystery solved. Go look at the halo 4 legendary ending, his eyes are literally Steve downes eyes
My dad said that when we saw that cutscene
Explains the excessive wrinkles
Imagine if we get a glimpse of his face and its just our face plastered on a model head
I dunno, Steve Downes’ face wouldn’t be too bad, I don’t think.
You have your own imagination of how he looks like, never lose it.
Actually he’s a white guy with brown buzz cut hair. He even has freckles. Them’s the breaks🤷🏾♂️
I think his face being a mystery is nice. It helps the player place themselves in Chiefs' boots and I think that's one of the things that makes Halo so great.
Halo’s story is great for many reasons.
Having a character where you do t se their face isn’t one of them. I don’t get this intense need to project yourself onto a character in order to care about them. It’s so strange to me
I feel like I saw you upload this video before
Probably a clip from another older video because of the audio quality
My brother was livid when i showed him that "helmet under the helmet" video
Good times
It is now cannon that he just has another helmet under his helmet.
His appearance is a humanoid green tank with a MkV helmet for a face. No mystery at all.
I think they try to keep it secret so you can freely go into the character and be your own version of John-117
"You wanna shoot me?"
*takes off helment to reveal a smaller helment*
"You gotta shoot up here"
That face texture was not found in the halo 2 files. It was found in the CE anniversary files, and it’s Carter’s face.
The best thing about that CE cutscene... Is that even without moving the camera you can see the bottom of a second helmet just still on his head.
The last face is actually a texture used for multiplayer spartan skins in halo 2 where if you tried to look closely to another's player visor of their helmet you would see a glimpse of a face
mad respect to the Mjolnir designers for designing chief's suit to be able to wear 2 helmets at once
They were inspired by Medieval great helms that wore skullcap helmets and later bascinet helmets beneath.
@@wastrelperv thats pretty cool but i was referring to the modders that adjusted the cutscene camera i Halo: CE, as mentioned in the video
@@Shadow-ui7bf I know, I was joking myself.
I like how one of the younger versions of masters implies that he had quite the cranium.
Bro did an eye reveal and everyone went crazy
“I wonder what’s beneath that helmet. Ooh! Is it another helmet?”
-Some marine from Halo Infinite
I remember a mandela effect in which I clearly remember chief taking his helmet off but the view was from behind revealing his hair color but nothing else.
Definitely gonna leave a comment here. If anyone finds where this came from, @ me
@JamesTDG I'm trying to think if it was another game. All I remembered was, "Wasn't his identity supposed to stay hidden?"
The only other game me and my brother played was Doom 3 but the Doom Marine's face was immediately revealed.
So, the chief's hair was brown or dark blonde kinda uneven, almost jagged looking, pale skin like the lore.
It's odd as it was some time AFTER the Longsword scene in maybe a hanger? With crates? And some other characters.
Anyway, I was shocked when I played MCC and thought it was changed! I first played Halo:CE on PC in 2004 after my brother (RIP) insisted I play it. Although I first played it with my then wife, I remember watching him play on Legendary, and that was the ending, NOT THE JOHNSON SKIT!
I even played the maw on legendary to confirm.
Pretty sure he’s always been bald
Chief is not bald. He has very close-cropped light brown hair and piercing blue eyes. He's also unnaturally pale due to the amount of time he's spent in his MJOLNIR armor.
@@DerpASherpa117When he’s a kid going through training yes, but during the augmentation process when he’s older he is shown to have a fully shaved head. We’ve never seen enough of his head since then to know if he let his hair grow back or if he continued to keep it fully shaved
Sid from toy story gets into a fistfight.
Underneath this mask is….. Another Mask! -Kakashi Sensei
Fun fact, based on bungies prior work on marathon it's safe to say he's a cyborg
Don’t forget you can see his eyes on the top of Halo 3’s disk art.
"Wanna guess whats under the mask? Another gun."
Fun fact for those who don't know: Cortana is literally the only other being in Halo aside from Halsey, Keyes, those that were apart of the Spartan II program, and the rest of the Spartan II's 🤯
Always loved that Halo 4 legendary ending
Then the fricken TV show revealed it in th first episode, and he did it willingly.
What show?
@The Inquisitor the paramount TV show, it's the "official" TV show that is cannon to the series.
That sounds like some god awful writing. Like somebody just took a diarrhea on the script. 🤔 That's not cannon at all.
Master Chief is the personality we made all along the way.
Doomslayer: *First time?*
Well we can actually see his face a lot more
Dont forget the Pimps At Sea Alpha onward Spartan face!
In the comic halo colateral damage they show his full face
If we ever fully see his adult face, it should look like Steve Downes, if anything.
I've always wanted to try skydiving at some point, but this is exactly what I'm afraid of.
I kinda dig that Schreiber Pablo dude finally I really understand how Master Chief feels ya know. It gives so much context to his emotions that I otherwise wouldn't have understood
When I hear word "through" I'm always remember gojo's quote🗿 nah "throughout halo franchise I'm alone the honored one
-master chief"
Robot chicken made a little skit based around the helmet under a helmet thing
just played the mcc for the first time in years and played every game on heroic to prepare myself for halo 4 legendary, i can honestly say getting that cutscene might’ve been the best gaming achievement i’ve ever completed in my life
Master Chief's face will always be a thermal rendering of his skull to me.
Ngl the reveal was pretty cool in Halo 4, it wasnt touch of a reveal it was just the right amount to stay a mystery
I always felt that his face not being shown was to give the player a sense that you the player was Master Cheif. And I greatly appreciated that.
That was exactly why.
Red hair.... And a cross shaped scar on his left cheek?
Could it be!? The legendary manslayer?
R.I.P. to those who didn’t get to see Master Chiefs face🫡 Or maybe they can see it in the afterlife? Idk, hey hope they’re having a good time and playing halo 2 respectively🔥🔥
"through out the battlefield and my spartans...i alone,am the chiefed"
I actually have master chief’s face since I found his real face at my local Dave & Buster’s at the halo arcade
That last picture is a 100% masterchief. He looked he exudes cult of cuthulu vibes.
I always felt like they kept his face a mystery so anyone could picture themselves as the master chief
Halo tv series. Thats just a man that wants to be master chief.
As a kid I've always wished we could see what he looked like but after growing up I begun to realise that his face not being revealed is the reason I loved him in the first place.
It's meant to be the catalyst for immersion, allow the player to be the chief, sure its fine to humanise him but his face should remain anonymous to us because chief is 'US' the player.
You could argue 'We've seen his face when he was a kid and in his teens' but here's the thing, we haven't seen his face a full grown adult.
"She knocked that helmet off my face but luckily i was wearing a swcond smaller helmet underneath"
That last image is a texture map, it's stretched out so it can wrap on the 3D model's face.
And then there’s the live action, where master chief always takes of his helmet
"Chiefs a big green tank, a husk, a ghost in the shell."
"Bungie"
Nit knowing what he looks like gives him that spideman effect. Anyone can be under the mask, even you.
I remember being a kid and seeing that video of chief taking off his helmet just to have another helmet and dying laughing
In the show we can't tell him to keep the damn thing on enough
Also you can see the back of his head in one of the scenes
He probably just looks like an ordinary shaved baldman that's maybe a tad pale due to lack of sunlight because of his suit.
I swear someone needs to make a compilation of every time Elijah calls something "interesting"
probably would make a fun drinking game, though you'd get absolutely sauced after one video
You dont remember the halo 3 beta where you can sit on the mongoose as a passenger and clip through the helmet to see his face
Bro looks like Sid from toy Story 💀💀💀
Showing his face on the show was not only undeserved but also just a bad decision. The chief IS us
I remember reading something from somewhere back in the day around Halo 1 or 2 that his skin was/is like ghost white.
You can see his eyes faintly in the background on the halo 3 disk art
master chief knew people would noclip to see his face so he put a mask under a mask
The Halo Show:
*he doesn’t wear a helmet*
What’s under the helmet is another helmet
Genius
It’s kinda like a Spider-Man deal , it could be anyone under there
I like the idea of a permanently faceless character. It's very endearing, and it's part of what gives Halo as a series its charm.
In the 2004-2006 there was a Anime style Animation and it was a Woman that was Master Chief
The ending of his face had him looking like pen head from Spider-Man 😭
“Kakashi sensei, what’s under your mask?”
“Under my mask is……. ANOTHER MASK!!”
They wild for this one 😭😂😭
Now we can see his face-
I'd love if it became part of Canon that the reason we never see his face is because of his own beliefs. It was always supposed to be so you could see yourself as the chief but as they give him more of his own beliefs and personality, I think his helmet should become part of his beliefs. He is aware of the Morale and Legend he brings, and while he doesn't like it, he deeply cares for and respects his Marine comrades. So he leaves the helmet on so the legend survives, knowing that if he ever was seen with it off, the legend is broken and the Morale is gone. He goes from Myth to Man.
The mystery allowed everyone to apply their own face when they play. Being faceless made him raceless and that was ok because then he was the player and not some ploy
I got jump scared so much as a kid looking up videos of his face
I feel like is should remain a mystery, hell sometimes I even forget he’s human
I’ll never forget the first time I saw the end to Halo 1 on the remastered collection and chief take off his helmet to reveal a second helmet.😂
The idea of not seeing Chief’s face is because the player, you are chief
His helmet is his face, the armor says it all
You can recognize him by the terrible stench from wearing a metal outfit for 20 years straight.
I guess I can see some minor reason why you may want to see his face but what makes master chief such a fun character is he’s a faceless badass. And in a way everyone can project onto him. A perfect master chief face would change from person to person because in a sense he is you.
Master Chief is an old man he's even got facial hair and everything
I imagine him to be the most muscular built man ever , like he’s been mewing since the dawn of time
That's the charm of Halo & why it's so popular .
Master Chief's helmet is like Duke Nukem's sunglasses, when you take them off, there's another one beneath them.
“Wanna know what’s behind the mask? Another mask pretty cool right”