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The Evolution of Halo's Flood | Let's take a look at every version of the Flood
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2019
- Back in 2001, the Flood were introduced about halfway through halo CE’s campaign and were praised as one of the cleverest twists in a shooter at the time. Not only were they a narrative twist, shifting the sci fi tone to a more body horror tone, they also flipped the gameplay on its head by introducing a new enemy faction. The flood were one of the main driving forces of the story in the original trilogy and even after it concluded, further media and games expanded on them and their shadow hangs over the Halo universe. Both in and out of the universe, the flood have evolved since their introduction, I think its worth looking at them over the years and seeing how they've been interpreted and handled by the various authors and artists over the years.
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Huge thank you to the Ex Bungie developers and 343 developers who talked to me about the behind-the-scenes development choices with the flood!!
I wanted this video to be a bit different than a standard lore video. What’s something interesting that you learned?
Actually, the way you described their appearance changes from Halo 2-Halo 3! I never noticed the flood's change in appearance drastically.
Late Night Gaming The flood are by far my favorite part of the halo universe and I’m glad your video puts an interesting design retrospective into them over the years. What I learned was I honestly never payed too much attention to the glow and connected the dots of the infection form inside the chest cavity causing the combat form to glow as well and it’s connection to darkness, you probably helped jog that lost bit of info lol, also wow I never knew one of the development ideas was them being used by the covenant as a weird enhancement disease. My fave flood in halo are halo 2’s when they looked like just veiny infected mangled zombies. Mainly because of how absurd they were, in halo 1 it was kinda crazy enough seeing them being able to wield guns and coordinate planning but in halo 2 them basically waging a full scale war that was going on for thousands of years on delta halo culminating in them acquiring vehicles, highjacking them, and the arbiter getting all caught up in it. Plus the fact that in halo 2 it emphasized they have crazy strength and athletic capabilities like climbing walls for extra creepiness...ahh I’m rambling on :v..anyways great vid
I really found the facts that the Proto-Gravemind started as "flood_captain" and that Fireteam Raven was the first proper introduction to the Juggernaut really interesting. Nice video!
Late Night Gaming The glowiness of the Flood changing throughout the series, as well as its denoting rank in HW2!
Hey LNG wondering when you'll release that video of you destroying my asshole, thanks
The biggest mystery in the Halo universe is how can combat forms use pump-action shotguns with only one hand
1 hand on trigger once fired put on ground standing and pump wash rinse reapeat
Imagine they grow a tentacle out of the hand to pump it
Well a lot of pump shotguns nowadays can alternate between automatic for magnum rounds and pump for 2" 3/4, if the user of the shotgun preferred 3 inch shells, he probably kept the gun on automatic and only carried those into combat.
skill
Because they’re dummy thiccc
The flood_captain tag may have just been a reference to Captain Keyes, as in flood captain Keyes instead of a flood variant
Isn't it called a Proto-Gravemind?
@@jonathansiagian2729 yes
Uh, I forgot to check the comments. I *may* have accidentally cloned your comment. Sorry!
I will compensate for my error with a like for you :)
yes cuz in halo combat evolved the first one with flood master chef found captain keyes was dead
press f to pay respects to the legends that didn't see rocket flood before they shot.
press f to pay respects to the legends that did see rocket flood before they shot.
F
@@alchemist889 I feel attacked
I'remember when I'see a Flood with a Rocket Launcher for the first time "HOLY SHIT!!" *dies*
F...😭
The flood have 4 stages:
The feral stage, where the flood depends completely of other living things and they’re highly dangerous without a pattern or order to guide them. That is the stage observed in halo C.E.
The coordinated stage, in which they have managed to develop a gravemind that guides them and the troops are more intelligent and tactical. The stage observed in Halo 2 and the most common stage of the flood.
The interstellar stage, the flood have learned to control or build ships that can travel in space and also have the ability to reproduce themselves. Stage seen in halo 3 and also the stage where the forerunner turned on the rings at that time.
the fourth and final stage has never been reached, but it is the transgalactic stage; In which the flood have assumed complete control of the galaxy, have supreme technology and must travel to other galaxies to expand their power.
Curiosities of Halo...
Wasn't the final stage almost done? Until the forerunner activated the ring and starve the remaining flood?
The near reach of the 4th stage is what prompted the creation and firing of the Halo Rings. So yes, it wasn’t reached, but stage 4 was damn near close, close enough that the Flood was just about to grasp it
I’d argue stage 4 would be more like stage 3 but more spread, like with entire planets taken such as in the forerunners’ battle against them, and then 5 is galactic domination. Maybe that seems a little redundant, but I just feel it’s not right to compare 3’s flood to the interplanetary takeover of the the forerunners’ time.
@Vince V of that it.....then they should have not have proto gravemind or gravemind......that would be super boring.........it would have works if it just happened in earth.....but it's freaking Halo dude.....with aliens and such.....
Man... the things they could add to MCC... Halo 3 Firefight might not be too difficult to pull off, imagine that with both covenant and flood, fully customizable.
*The Gravemind aged like a fine wine*
-Late Night Gaming
I did though
@@OverlordAlastor you funky yet chunky. Now we are gonna make wide memes outa you
I read that in the Joker's voice lmao
Your move HiddenXperia
Good to see you guys powering through this drought
Hey late night, can you make a video about evolution of the guns that were not in much games and make it a sort of compilation or top 10 style video.
[Jummy Xperia loved this]
Lol
Xperia uses *ICONIC* .it was effective
The name of the File was most likely Flood_Captain because Captain Keyes was in it... and he was a flood by the time you reached him.
I will say they did a great job with remastering the gravemind in H2A
Oh yeah
H2a was amazingly redesigned all around, easily the best visually
me: "lol the flood is like an alien zombie thing right? this will be easy."
*sees ranged combat forms*
"huh. theyre kinda smart. im sure this is as bad as they get, right?"
*they can wield shotguns and rocket launchers*
"can this get any wor-"
*they can control vehicles and form graveminds*
1:30 - It's funny that you should mention that, because in the _Halo: The Flood_ novel, that's one of the Master Chief's first thoughts when he sees a human Combat Form, which he quickly discards when he remembers that the first Combat Forms he saw were modified Elites.
Hey, that's pretty neat. Chief's a smart guy.
@@devindalton4688 I've only read the very first three Halo novels, but they're all really good. If you haven't read them, I'd suggest giving them a look. - Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood (which is the one that ties directly into the first game), and Halo: First Strike.
@@SerathDarklands I'm addicted to the halo novels I own all of them
@@Arizonas-Finest ok
*Dispatches
LateNight Subs: "What is it? More weapon evolution vids?"
LateNight: "Worse..."
Andrew Ford But I like these....
L T r/woooosh
Snowtime gaster!sans [MTF] You just posted cringe 🤚🏿⛔️
L T bitch when-
I like these
The Evolution of the Needler would be nice, as it's one of the most frequent weapons available across all of the games
@@valen9835 Halo 5's needler is god tier. You can literally shoot people out of vehicles without even aiming all the way. (I've done it before)
Pokemon115 Halo 3 ODST Needler damage is the same as 2 and 3 only does 1 more damage then 2. Its the Needle Velocity and Fire Rate That make them better
@@valen9835 Reach's needler was bad because it required you to break the shield first.
@@valen9835 Halo 3 has a god tier Needler for PvE! Unlike Reach's, it does supercombine over shields, and the projectiles maintain a fantastic velocity. Given that Brutes have replaced Elites as well in Halo 3, that makes it much easier to use and abuse. Honestly Needler vs everything in that game almost dethroned noob combo.
@@jerryhoward6500 Yeah's 4's is one of the few alterations that I think was fine. It was probably the best thing of halo 4's artstyle changes.
Who else shot off their arms and tried to save an army of Flood friends to the end of the level?
Me
Yeah i was playing with my cousin who shot a combat forms arms off and then i killed the combat forms and he said "You shot Fred!"
@@spoonkey you're an asshole key
Yeah those were good times!
@@spoonkey The rage is strong in you.
Can we see the Evolution of the Marines? Or perhaps the Elites?
Tim Seay This, please.
Брандон Кeллeр *Strong and badass to weak and ugly
There is an another youtuber that has made elites evolution. Google it. Chanel is called...esbr...esr...something along these lines.
@@heatshieldbob5012 EBR
"I? I am a monument to all your sins." Such a chilling line.
15:42 A jaunty tune plays as a man snaps his own neck to avoid the pain of being infected by a galaxy destroying parasite
The flood were so terrifying to fight as 9 year old me
Agreed
As a 12 year old I actually played halo always just until the level in which the flood appeared. Then I quit and forgot about the game. Years later I found it again (was concentrated on PC only games) and finished it finally :D
I am 21 and somethimes when they sneak up one me I get scared not of them self but the fact that they are so deadly
26... what sends shivers to me is the sounds they make.
Hmm
"What's important is they've been contained, and are no longer a big threat."
*laughs in Halo Infinite*
The banished unintentionally release them with a freaking scarab in halo wars 2 awakening the nightmare.
What about Delta Halo?
What about ships from High Charity? I find it hard to believe only one infested ship went to some other world like earth.
I'm pretty sure the gravemind did some fucky things with Cortanas mind.
@@jonusaguilar8156 they were destroyed while trying to blockade run
I like to think that the Bioluminescence seen in HCE was due to the flood being trapped in darkness for so long, and they adapted towards that end. This is why some of the flood from Halo Wars 2 are glowing since they were trapped inside the dark insides of High Charity
Very well done overview! Good stuff!
Hey how you doing?
Am I the only one who keeps finding you on every video I watch?
The person who uploaded the UT soundtrack!
I always remember the big Flood thing being called a "brain form". And then at some point they confirmed it was a proto-gravemind.
CE will always be my favorite Flood story. The sheer TWIST, magnified by that fantastic cutscene in 343 Guilty Spark...I felt the horror that Chief is described as feeling in the fittingly-titled The Flood novel adaptation, and I still feel it replaying CE these days. 2 and 3 unfortunately never captured that same feeling for me, although 3 has my favorite Flood level in Floodgate. Even seeing the Flood on EARTH was just kinda a shrug moment, one I felt the narrative didn't really capture the Potentially Apocalyptic Circumstances Of. All that said...I'd love to see an Evolution of the Plasma Rifle!
Honestly, the flood crashing onto Earth is terrifying in theory, but the shipmaster and elites coming in and glassing half of Africa kinda halted that terror. It makes me wish we got a pure horror spin off of Halo, where you're a marine or civilian during the events of Floodgate. Running, shooting, and fighting for survival as you watch fellow soldiers or civilians fall victim to the parasite.
Who would win?
A Powerful space faring empire, millions of planets strong and with god-like technology?
or
*Some Spaghetti boi*
Strike One apparently the spaghetti boi
The Flood's greatest ability is also known as R-34.
@@justincholos.balisang6884 oh god
@@unanumiyou know it because of the Tentacles. It's what the Weebs like and the Gravemind knows it.
That was one stupid comment you dumbass
"What's important is that they are contained, and are no longer a big threat."
Neural Physics: I'm about to end this man's whole career.
I never called them Infection Forms. Popcorn, kitties, but never the official name haha
Floodling
@@LateNightHalo I thought I was the only one
"Those little guys!"
I called them shrimp poppers.
Haha, I remember that
What i've noticed that's different about late night gaming's viewpoint is that he explained the flood in a POETICAL way, unlike HiddenXerpia who explains the flood from a SCIENTIFIC viewpoint.
So, stop comparing one to the other.
People are comparing the 2? I can't find any comments like that.
Valkaerie cause no one likes the comments
apples and oranges
I miss fighting the flood it made intense moments for me and my friends doing co op campaigns
Favourite story of The Flood is the Spirit of Fire lore, a flood infection form was smart enough to not infect anyone or just didnt meet anyone. Its a classic 'everyone's asleep and everything is going wrong' scenario and I love it.
Evolution of the Needler, Plasma Rifle, Plasma Pistol, or Engineer would make great future videos!
The famous Double needler in Halo 2 was my favourite way to kill people
Didn’t engineers appear in like a single game
Halo CE are my favourite interpretation.
Mushroom Monsters everyday!
Evolution of Warthog please?
Also what happened to Q&As?
let me guess, because the warthog is a tachanka?
@@elpollozer601 You mean a puma?
* receives notification *
What is it? More Brutes?
* sees LNG *
Better.
Spritz my notifications:
No one:
Halo follower:*WhY WeRe HuMaNs NoT AlLoWed iN ThE CoVeNaNt* ??!?!?!?!?!!!!?
Biomechanical Brick no it’s not the whole point of the covenant invasion was to kill all humans. You didn’t even need to study the lore to know that( but if you do you’ll find out)
@@itachi_uchiha1538
Humanity was never supposed to be the Covenant's enemy. They could've even joined the Covenant's religious cause (as unlikely as that would be), but due to a grave mistranslation of... something, I'm sure someone will fill in that detail... the Hierarchs named humanity as an affront to their gods and began their mission to purge them.
The question of allowing humans into the Covenant may not be that important, but asking it still prompts some valuable thought... even if I don't like HaloFollower at all.
@@BiomechanicalBrick
There we go. Knew someone would have me coveted. 👉👉 Thanks Brick
Spritz Incorrect. The Hierarchs translated something and found that humanity were inheritors of Forerunner “blessings.” This threatened their entire religion so they ordered humanity’s extermination
I liked Halo CE well enough when I first played it, but once the Flood turned a neat tactical shooter and turned it into a survival horror run and gun I was hooked.
The flood in halo 3 where the most fun to fight
no
Most fair but 'shudders' halo 3s mission cortana
CE's flood was the most fun for me. I much preferred the play dead mechanic over the infection form revive mechanic.
@@valen9835 alot of people dont like the library but its actually pretty fun
Pokemon115 yeah that was a pretty good mechanic
Damm this video was awesome. It must’ve took a long time to organize this script. Great work!
The Halo2 flood is my favourite, the ambience and just the way the flood worked in that game was really great, Though I did miss the green glow.
I'd love to see an evolution of the shotgun, great work
I’m so dumb I finally realized that halo rings are shaped like halos
Fantastic Marauder 🗿
Angel Duarte um ok?
Bro that’s kind of cringe. That’s like saying I just realized that squares are called squares because they are squares.
Jack Sprack well I think I did know, but I never truly took a second to just stop and think about it
A Dumb Guy's Opinion
Oh yes
Ehhhhh that's my image of the Juggernaut in Fireteam Raven! That's also the very first image of the Juggernaut in Fireteam Raven!
Y a y
11:36 - I didn't realize Emrakul was a Flood form.
Ah, another mtg player, I see.
“Know this relentless enemy, killer of our children, Lord of Admirals, soon we will face the enemy you have faced, and we are afraid.”
-Shadow-of-Sundered-Star (Ur-Didact)
@syed jawad no
Am I only one who noticed that the OG gravemind looks like Chief’s helmet cut in half horizontally??
10:09 Not to be weird but when me and my cousin would playthrough Halo 3s campaign on split screen, In the good old days, He would always call those doors the vagina doors. Everytime we would come across those doors he would say that word. We also had no Idea what we were doing on the mission Cortana. Since enemies would apparently keep spawning because of the map being small or something we would just sit in every room killing enemies. No idea how we finished that level by just sitting there.
I will always love most the vision of the Flood presented in Halo CE, the visual and sound design presented for them was excellent. I do approve of the addition of the Gravemind and the concept of the Flood as a whole having a guiding intelligence though.
Actually, the flood at the PEAK of its strength consisted of multiple splinters, still huge mind you, each one having a keymind. The one we experience in halo is still just barely at an effective size.
Edit: the pre-halo firing flood managed to slip space a few large groups out of the Milky Way, so there might be an even BIGGER infection out there.
The Flood Spartan is still one of the coolest things I’ve seen in Halo.
Imagine if it was a customisation option in Infinite. Or, at least, something similar.
I love these videos man! Keep it up and don’t stop making evolution videos!
Loved your coverage of the flood's origins. Great visuals too.
Teh Spearhead: Well done Captain, I'm sure Humanity is very proud of your ability to turn into an alien's prostate.
Emrakul
The Eldrazi are too spooky for me
Meow
This Replies make no sense so : Poop
Emrakul is basically the flood in the magic universe.
An educated nerd. I like
Keep doing what you’re doing you, absolute madlad
Id love to see an evolution of the spirit/phantom, the ghost, the scorpion, or the wraith. Love the vids! Keep it up!
12:27 I would enjoy seeing that crossover
I genuinely hope we get them in Halo Infinite. I'd like to see what 343 can do with next gen level of detail in the slipspace engine!
This didn't age well.
Good use of that pic of embrakul 😂. Also, my favorite flood moment is when they help you stop the ring from activating in halo 3, it really showed how desperate the whole situation was and I’m a sucker for factions in movies and games working with and against each other when a threat is great enough
I loved just how verbose and eloquent the Gravemind was. In fact, the thing I miss most right now in Halo is the poetry that both Cortana and the Gravemind composed or repeated (Cortana in Halo 3 where she's basically halucinations for the Chief, memories of Halsey played back to him or echoes of her suffering). One of my favorite quotes of Halo to this day, alongside most of Sergeant Johnson's quotes, is "The gate has been unlatched / Headstones pushed aside. / Corpses shift and offer room / A fate you must abide!" I loved it, and the new Forerunner enemies don't have that delightful refinement.
“Alas brother. The Flood, it has evolved!”
Evolution of the design of the Elites! Really loved the Flood via the Forerunner books. Very much shows the scale of them and just how powerful they could be.
I was sooooooo looking forward to this video!!! So good 😍
Glad to see a new upload!
I love the Flood in Halo CE and Halo 3. But Halo 3 is the easiest to fight because most flood can be killed in one melee.
I like to believe that Halo CEs flood evolved differently from Halo 2 and 3s. Halo CE is more fungal and sturdy, while halo 2 and 3 is more fleshy and squishy, but more aggressive.
We just going to ignore that image he used of Emrkrul?
I see you're a man of culture as well
How about the Brethren Moon?
❤❤❤❤❤ hands down the best halo narrative content on the internet. From the bottom of my heart, thanks.
Been looking forward to this!
Halo 3 flood were the absolute best, so dynamic and so much depth.
The arcade game fireteam raven is also at the bayamon (sorry if I spelled it wrong) Dave & busters at plaza del sol
TheBluePwnedStuffed It’s also in other arcades.
I loved this video about the Flood I learn something new about Halo CE Flood with how their supposed to be a fungal infection.
Also I think the next video should be about the The Evolution of Halo's Shotgun since it's in the thumbnail, I think will be quite the interesting story.
I would like to see a evolution of covenant elites. Their ranking hierarchy was always so interesting to me and it’d be fun to see you really dig into that topic.
I feel bad for the marine that survived from not being infected in halo 3. He just witnesses his fellow brothers and sisters in arms become these horrific monstrosities and be forced to kill them and put them out of their misery while also having to hear the gravemind talk through them making it more unbearable and unreal to believe as a human. That’ll really give you some major PTSD for real!
Halo CE is the best iteration of the Flood. They charge recklessly into battle, fire without a second thought, even if their allies stand between them and you. There also was the mystery to how they became convert forms. I prefer them as a mindless parasite.
Evan Sutton I’m a fan of both “versions” of the flood.
The natural fungal parasite AND the curse from a lovecraftian race of elder gods
I like a mix of the two, where they feel ravenous and desperate for every bit of biomass they can collect, and as time goes on they get smarter, using vehicles and opening locked doors via memory of infected hosts.as for their origin , I would be content if they just originated from outside the galaxy. Giving off this creepy vibe that maybe there are whole galaxies infected by the flood.
Good job on the videos like always
I think an Evolution Of The Warthog would be nice to see, considering it’s been in every game, and has changed drastically over time.
The scariest flood form in the halo universe is Combat Forms with Rocket Launchers
Heyooo! Great video as always!
I was wondering if you’re still doing the Weapons Evolution videos. :)
Is the a chance you can do the Shotgun evolution, please? ^_^
Man that speech from halo three is genuinely scary. really well done and acted.
Man nice to see you guys still up and kicking during this Great Halo drought
Halo ce flood were the best!
The real question is.....
How did Dustin Echoes survived the Covenant, the Flood and the Halo explosion?
9:37 i still cannot believe how great the voice actors are for even a single marine
Please consider a video on cut levels from halo games, and how they were supposed to play out. They sound fascinating!
I find it funny that a lot of people treat the Flood like any other kind of zombie, then they start playing and be like: "Wait... they can run? Wait... they can jump?! Wait... THEY CAN USE GUNS?! WAIT... THEY CAN DRIVE VEHICLES???!!!!"
WAIT THEY CAN BUILD SPACE SHIPS??????????????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hold on, THEY CAN INFECT ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?!
Mhmm, the games barely scratch the diseased surface of the Flood
12:31 Is that a Brethren Moon from Dead Space?
it's nice to recall every now and then that the halo 2 anniversary gravemind cutscene is one of the most iconic cutscenes in gaming
9:41 that part of halo 3, gave you the psychological look into a flood outbreak. The terror, the agony, the sadness and horro of killing a former friend turned monster. And the ptsd afterwards that will haunt you forever. The shit gets really deep
FINALLY someone commented about this. I thought I was the only one to think about that scene.
Tasty little popcorn bois
The gravemind looks like Xol, the giant worm in Destiny 2.
Cool.
Great video and commentary
Halo SPV3 Flood are an absolute nightmare to fight. There are additional combat forms that release infection forms upon dying and other pure flood forms that do nothing but waste your ammo reserves.
What's your thoughts on an evolution of the plasma rifle.
Sh*t
That’s a video I’m considering but it’s really hard to find ways to have “deep thoughts” on each version of the plasma rifle.
It’s easily THE best in combat evolved with each iteration afterwards being progressively less interesting
@@LateNightHalo I can help you
@@LateNightHalo is the plasma repeater a plasma rifle or no i still never could understand
Not a lore junkie like expirea
@@theshuffler7197 it's related but is considered a different type of weapon
Could you do an evolution on the shotgun in halo?
CE: Powerful but useless at a distance
Halo 2: useless in general until you're right in the enemy's face
Halo 3: much better, but it still isn't as good as CE
ODST: Hard to use because of the massive firing lines you usually have
Reach: rare, but decent
no idea on halo 4 and 5, but I can geuss they run out of ammo quick
Pokemon115 halo 5 is good at close to sorta mid range but halo 4,you gotta be 4 ft away to take their shields down
@@valen9835 recently I started to think the shotgun as the unsc equivalent of the energy sword with out the lock on cuz its pretty useless unless ur right in their face
@@gibby8540 I really want the CE pistol in some form to return to infinite's weapon sandbox, as the close to medium range headshot weapon to challenge the battle rifle and dmr
Lol loved seeing emrakul in a slide talking about the flood. The eldrazi always reminded me of the flood
I actually have a Halo fireteam Raven in a round 1 arcade that recently got built near me here in Tucson, AZ. I have officially played every Halo game in the series because of it.
I played Fire team Raven in Newcastle in England recently for my birthday! But I only had £1 of change on me so I didn't get far. I wanted to get the high score and play it with my girlfriend which I've got into Halo over the past 2 years
The red energy sword is called the Blood Blade. It’s a special version used by an elite Spec Ops Unit called the Silent Shadow. Also the Flood from Halo 4 use a modified Energy sword that’s converted to a Flood claw on the right hand.
Wasn’t the red energy sword also used for exiling or killing Heretics if the Heretics were to turn themself in?
asahiboi As far as I’m aware not really. However the Sangheili with the bull horns on his helmet that attempted to slay Atriox on orders from the Prophet of Truth known as the Executioner did use one.
PackHunter117 That’s the exact scene I question, if the red Energy Sword were to be used to kill Heretics, since Atriox basically resigned from the Covenant, and the Covenant never actually planned to keep him alive.
asahiboi However the Silent Shadow First Blades use Bloodblades too
Was the blood sword featured in the cutscene with atriox?
“Believe it baby, it talks!” Is the best reference I’ve seen in awhile
Great vid man
It’s weird to think about that in universe, the flood were defeated by a giant green guy who couldn’t swim
I don't think Chief can swim with a heavy metal suit
#QnA are you still doing QnA's
Been with the halo franchise since CE. I would say one of the most chilling was the Mona Lisa for sure. but the first time I can remember being, "nope, I'm out!" was near the end of Halo 2 and on mission 13: High Charity. How quickly the flood acted and my overall fear of the flood at the time definitely shook me. Guess I may have been still too young at the time, but hey, I am fine now!
One thing that's always made me chuckle is my personal experience with first seeing Halo 3's flood.
I was an 11 year old at the time and I had the day of school as I had a pretty bad bug. I remember playing Halo 3 up to Floodgate, and then getting so scared of the first encounter because of the new art style on the brute infection forms that I had to stop playing, I was really creeped out by it.
But because I was off with really horrible diarrhoea, for some reason my body associated the smell with the flood. From now on whenever I see Halo 3 flood all my mind makes me smell is that. I mean it fits well with the ascetic at least.