The Lore Behind Halo’s Trailers - Halo Lore

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  • @Woodyisasexybeast
    @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +15

    As @arthurdailey6681 pointed out, Halo: Reach's Birth of a Spartan should also be canon. I had it in my script and fully intended to include it but in my effort to get this video out before the end of the week, I turned my brain into mush and completely forgot to add it. Here's what I wrote in my script about the trailer. Obviously, this isn't nearly as good as having the actual footage in the video but after the fact, it's the best I can do.
    Birth of a Spartan is an interesting look into Carter's life prior to the events of Halo: Reach. It's mostly a montage of him traveling to and receiving his augmentations. At one point, he looks at a picture of a man and a woman, seemingly his parents. In case you didn't know, Spartan III's, the class that Carter is, were actually given the choice to join the program. In most instances, their families had been killed by the covenant prior to inscription so they were usually more than happy to accept the offer. This implies Carter's situation was very much the same. Once the augmentations are complete, he approaches his armor, the same set seen in the game. Most spartan III's weren't given Mjolnir but a select few that were particularly special were granted their own sets of the legendary garb.
    As mentioned by some commenters, the suit chief equips in Scanned is not in fact his H4 armor so there’s no issues with that being canon

    • @Autobotmatt428
      @Autobotmatt428 Месяц назад

      21:31 That armor was the chief putting on his MKIV armor during the war

  • @psychobilly42069
    @psychobilly42069 Месяц назад +43

    It's insane how dramatically different halo 1 anniversary and halo 2 anniversary are in quality after their first 10 years

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +5

      H2A is the shit

    • @PrimeVizsla
      @PrimeVizsla Месяц назад +1

      Sure yes but here’s something even more bizarre HOW IS THIS MAN NOT MORE GODDAMN POPULAR THIS GUY IS FUCKIN AWESOME SHOW THIS MAN MORE LOVE

    • @yoturaliaz6205
      @yoturaliaz6205 Месяц назад

      Ngl... halo 2a kinda sucks. It's pretty looking sure, but it doesn't capture the same artstyle that og halo 2 has. My last run of halo 2 I played solely on its og graphics without switching cuz I preferred them. Mind you, I didn't play halo 2 until mcc came out years after its release, so I have no nostalgia.

    • @JohnWilliams-wl9px
      @JohnWilliams-wl9px 23 дня назад

      Because CEA was made quickly to tie in 10 year anniversary. 2A there planned for it thus had plenty of time to actually develop it.

  • @shreksnow1918
    @shreksnow1918 Месяц назад +20

    Something that’s interesting about H3’s Believe trailer saying Chief’s dead is stuff like that, and killing off different characters was to give the player the impression that Chief could die at the end of 3. There was this funny story Marty told in a recent interview with ShreddedNerd and LarperLadden where he said that at this meeting with Microsoft they showed off the plans for Halo 3’s story, and it didn’t include the part where Chief is revealed to be alive. He said when they turned on the lights everyone there was pale as a ghost since they were horrified that their money printer had been killed off. Then they showed the ending with Cortana that opened the door to other sequels, and a flood of relief washed over the room (since in Bungie’s version of Halo Chief is a Christlike figure they could’ve taken the connection further by having him sacrifice himself for humanity, and suffer a similar fate to Lynda where medically speaking he dies and gets brought back to life).
    Something I find interesting about Halo’s trailers is just how good and deceptive the marketing can be. 5 advertised a COMPLETELY different game from what we’d get. From what I’ve heard a lot of the people who worked on 4’s narrative jumped ship during 5’s development, and I’m assuming the marketing was based on an earlier version and more competent of the story. 2 is very similar where the reason why earth was such a big part of a marketing is because the third act had you returning to earth, and the Ark itself was actually located on our planet (plus, there’s the big reveal where the Forerunner who activated the Array was also the template for the Ark to create a new “generation” of Forerunners using hominids as a base. Something that’s really cool about that is that Forerunner was implied to be the Abrahamic god, and the more mythical Bible stories like God creating man in his image and Noah building an Ark to save life from a coming Flood were recontextualized in Halo as symbolic retellings of Forerunner history and our creation).
    The way Halo’s trailers tell a story reminds me of how the Bionicle commercials would do the same thing. That was an AMAZING Lego theme with a really interesting story. There were comics, a few direct to dvd movies, and Flash games that all contributed to the story. If you haven’t looked into that setting you really should.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +2

      Bionicle: Mask of Light is the shit!

    • @JohnWilliams-wl9px
      @JohnWilliams-wl9px 23 дня назад +1

      There were major rewrites for 5. Even the decision to bring back Cortana was reportedly done because Microsoft added Cortana to their OS, so they wanted her back to the games.

  • @ChocolateManOfficial
    @ChocolateManOfficial Месяц назад +12

    33:45 yes there are a lot of trailer soundtracks that are unreleased, but Believe just uses a classical piece called Préludes, Op. 28: No. 15 in D-Flat Major “Raindrop-Préludes”

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +5

      Holy shit, I had no idea! You’re right and what a gorgeous song it is

  • @ThereelOfficial
    @ThereelOfficial Месяц назад +20

    My personal theory is that much if not all of the trailers are ONI propaganda and that is why the events are slightly different than what actually happened in game. For the master chief running after the flashback is a prime example because if the crazy guy was able to get to her, so could have ONI to create propaganda.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +3

      Poor Ben :(

    • @diogobarao9992
      @diogobarao9992 Месяц назад +3

      Just like the Halo 2 cover art, being edited by Ben to make Master Chief look good

    • @ThereelOfficial
      @ThereelOfficial Месяц назад +1

      @diogobarao9992 The only thing is what about Spartan Thom the Halo Reach trailer?

  • @TheZamaron
    @TheZamaron Месяц назад +2

    THe "Believe" trailer is interesting because there's nowhere these events could happen, the diorama depicts a battle that did supposedly happen, yet we see Chief held up by a Brute grenade in hand, nowhere does this occur in Halo 2 or 3. It would have had to happen either before the mission in New Mombasa in Halo 2. But here's my headcanon as this is too awesome to throw out. My headcanon is that it's not Chief, but in the time between him leaving aboard In Amber Clad to chase Regret and his crash down mack to Earth, another SPartan 2 wore green Mark 6 armor and using a voice modulator posed as Chief for ONI PR, makign it look like our hero was still fighting for us on Earth.

  • @eliflores9819
    @eliflores9819 Месяц назад +9

    10:17 Though technically dubious canon, the diorama depicts the outskirts of New Mombasa (presumably on the 7th & final day of fighting in this particular location). My guess is that this is specifically somewhere south or west of the city. "Landfall" meanwhile actually takes place somewhere on the Afgan-Pakistan Border

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      I’ve never heard that Landfall takes place on the Afghan-Pakistan border. What’s your source on that? Can’t seem to find anything online

    • @eliflores9819
      @eliflores9819 Месяц назад +1

      @@Woodyisasexybeast this battle is named “Battle of Sector Six” on Halopedia. “Note 1” on its location states….
      “In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.”
      The aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out once you put them into Google Maps

    • @eliflores9819
      @eliflores9819 Месяц назад +3

      Anyway this battle is called “Battle of Sector Six” in Halopedia. “Note 1” on the location states…
      “In the Earth locations section of Halo Encyclopedia (2009 edition) (page 285 of the 2009 edition), a battle is mentioned as happening at the Pakistan/Afghan border during the mid-late stage of the Battle for Earth. *Given the coordinates and timeline provided by the Halo: Landfall shorts,* it is likely these two events and the location are connected.”
      These aforementioned coordinates are: 32°53′12″N, 69°27′48″E - which checks out if you put them into Google Maps.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      No shit! That’s really interesting and a very obscure detail. Noted

  • @mihalya.shilage6804
    @mihalya.shilage6804 Месяц назад +5

    11:45 If Installation 00's research and stuff is correct the Chief and other Spartan II's can fight effectively for 150 years and live for maybe 200 years although with that being said the Chief is either going to retire to the cozy desk job he's dreamed of or die in battle long before he's hit 100

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      That’s what I was thinking. I want him to get the Thanos ending. Watch the sun set on a grateful universe. Maybe on a farm on Reach or something

    • @oilyseal1287
      @oilyseal1287 Месяц назад

      @@Woodyisasexybeastsome PTSD hed have regardless…much like Marcus phoenix

  • @ItatsuMagnatsa
    @ItatsuMagnatsa Месяц назад +2

    Woody, you are bringing back so many Memories. I may not have had Xbox LIVE back in the Day, still don't, but playing the Campaign or Forge and Forging my own Stories and Scenarios, the Music or the Ambiance in the Background, everything. It was Lonely though, however the Stories that were Told remain.

  • @Lonjustice
    @Lonjustice Месяц назад +2

    35:27 This right here. Why couldn't we have this live action film style taking the halo wars/halo 2 anniversary marine stlye armor. Show our struggles, our desperation, our valure, and our hope that tomorrow we will win. Paramount why, 343 why and Microsoft why? You have the perfect recipe for a film in your own trailers.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      The Halo tv series will always be an absolutely bizarre enigma to me. There’s tons of incredible live action Halo stuff already, so we know they can do it. And yet…

  • @ChefandTheArbistor
    @ChefandTheArbistor Месяц назад +6

    I'd once again like to reiterate the fact that Johnson was about 80 when he died. I would not put it past the chief to live past 99, or any Spartan for that matter.
    Also, I'm pretty sure the armour the Chief puts on in Scanned is MK IV. Looks like it at least.
    Great video otherwise (as usual!)

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      Absolutely true. I almost mentioned his augmentations likely granting increased life expectancy but it ended up getting cut.
      Is it? I kept questioning that every time I rewatched that part of the video. You may be right.
      thanks!

  • @wyattbhoffman
    @wyattbhoffman Месяц назад +3

    Actually a correction in scanned when it shows a young John getting armored up it’s actually Mark IV armor he’s wearing look at the back piece and the arms it’s Mark IV not Mark VI MOD

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      Yes, I see that now. Others have mentioned this too. Will update a pinned comment

  • @Commander-Riot-Wolf115
    @Commander-Riot-Wolf115 Месяц назад +1

    Poncho Chief action figure: RELEASE ME, RELEASE ME!

  • @BotBruh448
    @BotBruh448 Месяц назад +1

    Chief is highly likely to still be an effective soldier at 99, Spartans are supposed to be able to live much longer than regular humans, that coupled with the the whole cryo-sleep throughout life just means he'd realistically be like 70 or younger by the time of the "Believe" ad

  • @ittzrob2765
    @ittzrob2765 Месяц назад +3

    neil was supposed to get a whole show he woulda made with Rodriguez and it was gonna be based around the normal humans of the UNSC like the marines,pilots,ODST's,admirals,and even just field techs, but sadly it was scrapped

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +3

      I’m pretty sure a lot of the left over props made there way into District 9. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen that but I vaguely remember seeing a battle rifle or something

  • @Ethanvaladez637
    @Ethanvaladez637 Месяц назад +1

    This was an amazing video, ENCORE ENCORE!!! 👏👏👏👏👏

  • @jorgeruiz6855
    @jorgeruiz6855 Месяц назад +1

    I think the trailer of believe basically means that the chief was never found and recovered in the original Bungie story, specially since halo 3 was the end of the story for them. So the ending about how there’s no body and no one knows what happened to him makes sense if you consider that. But that’s just my interpretation

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +2

      I think you’re right but considering the story didn’t end there, it creates an interesting talking point and allows us to view it through a different lens. That may be the real world explanation but not the in universe one

  • @doootuz
    @doootuz Месяц назад +1

    Good video!!
    7:57 you say there’s never a battle like this that happens in the campaign. But actually, this is a cinematic affect of color grading. This battle takes place on the ark. That’s not snow, that’s sand, but the colors are shifted because of the cinematography.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      You think? That would be an interesting explanation but I’m not so sure that’s the answer. I knew it was sand but the cloud in the background looks very much like the atmospherics seen in the E3 2006 trailer/Halo 3. I’ve always assumed it was meant to be in that area. Generally speaking.
      Thanks!

  • @l3uckle
    @l3uckle Месяц назад

    Subscribed. Well done sir

  • @sparkshadowtigergaming5602
    @sparkshadowtigergaming5602 Месяц назад +3

    So basically Oni is the illuminati of the halo universe

  • @llliwwille
    @llliwwille Месяц назад +1

    Great video homie

  • @yoturaliaz6205
    @yoturaliaz6205 Месяц назад +1

    I will never understand jackal sniper hate. Theyre so stupidly easy to kill. And in fact, theyre balanced too

  • @Autobotmatt428
    @Autobotmatt428 Месяц назад

    You know the "That makes me feel old" speech is it self getting old.

  • @gck4
    @gck4 Месяц назад

    this is an amazing video

  • @Rae167
    @Rae167 Месяц назад +1

    I FUCKING LOVE HALO, HALO NUMBA ONE

  • @spookubus
    @spookubus Месяц назад

    I could be wrong but Im pretty sure the library actually does have a singular marine corpse. Its right outside the last door before chief gets the index. That model is probably where the idea of Mobuto came from

  • @OCCALI-nz2bd
    @OCCALI-nz2bd Месяц назад

    If you liked the music from the Halo 3 BELIEVE ad: I am proud to be the person to announce to you, that this song was in fact released yeeeeeears before you could even record music! It is called "Rain Drop Prelude" by Frederic Chopin!

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      Yeah, I know that now. Somebody beat you to it. Beautiful song

  • @SilverViper1000
    @SilverViper1000 Месяц назад +1

    0:30 well that's not completely true. Bungie always focused on the games, if the narrative of a book wasn't satisfying o them, they just changed it in the game. So there is a tier system, more or less. Halo reach for example retconned some stuff.
    But 343industries retconned the whole forerunner story. So with Halo beeing handed over to 343i, you actually have 2 time lines.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      Bungie handled it this way, yes but that’s not how it’s handled these days. Everything is canon. There isn’t two time lines. The forerunner story wasn’t retconned, it went in a different direction. All definitive answers that explicitly showed that humans are forerunners (barring 343, who is obviously an unreliable narrator) were never actually implemented into the story. That was the original plan, perhaps but it was scrapped.

  • @Mr_pickled_one
    @Mr_pickled_one Месяц назад +1

    The possibilitys of movies and TV shows is insane and somehow people find a way to ruin it 😭

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +2

      It’s crazy because all of these live actions trailers prove that they know how to make cool stuff. And yet…

  • @Warsaw1
    @Warsaw1 Месяц назад +1

    You forgot the halo 4 e3 trailer the one with the sticky detonator.

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      Didn’t forget, just opted not to include it. I was close but decided against it for some reason. It is a great trailer though

    • @Warsaw1
      @Warsaw1 Месяц назад

      @ amazing video either way.

  • @Batman89057
    @Batman89057 Месяц назад

    Hold up, Believe is a real song: the music is a classical piece called ‘Raindrop Prelude’.

  • @Cakeb7812
    @Cakeb7812 Месяц назад

    21:20 that one armor is the Mark IV or V !

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      I wondered that but just couldn’t tell from the angles it’s shown

    • @Cakeb7812
      @Cakeb7812 Месяц назад

      @@Woodyisasexybeast From certain angles, the back of the armor is visible, and it's identical to the Mark IV/V!!!

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад

      @Cakeb7812 ahhh ok, Roger that.

  • @Halolover21
    @Halolover21 Месяц назад

    Loves these videos

  • @OJ9992
    @OJ9992 Месяц назад +1

    14:21 I’ve always wondered is that Alfie Allen aka Theon from Game of Thrones?

  • @Autobotmatt428
    @Autobotmatt428 Месяц назад

    Blurr also did the cut scenes for Halo Wars 1 and 2

  • @Lonjustice
    @Lonjustice Месяц назад

    3:26 This scene right here shows the sword visible. This is what pissed me off about 343. Guns can be hidden, but the sword should always be seen. hated when a cloaked enemy in 4,5, and infinite just run at you cloaked sword out but you cant fuken see them unless you have 4 proemtheon vision, 5 good luck, and infinite the threat sensor.
    Ce, 2, swords can be seen bright as day. 3 has no enemy elites, and odst doesn't either, but reach keep the elites visible(idk i can't remember any invisible elites with swords. Only the spec ops, but they ran with guns.) Most of my laso deaths came from invisible sword elites in 343 games and the anniversary versions.( because they had to make the sword invisible. Stay on og graphics it'll save you huge amount of time)

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +2

      That’s not a 343 thing. H2 and HCE are the only Bungie games with that behavior. Energy swords are camoed with the user in both H3 and Reach

    • @Lonjustice
      @Lonjustice Месяц назад

      @Woodyisasexybeast in h3, there are no enemy elites. Hence, no bullshit of "I can't see them until they take a swing at you." In multiplayer, the cloak disappears when you move too quickly, reach campaign is the same for the player, so it's fair when you attack someone while cloaked because you make one wrong move your punished for it, cause and effect. Once again, having a sword an instant one hit kill weapon be cloaked isn't fair nor fun to play against in campaign. multiplayer counters this by having you have to move really slow to maintain an invisible state, along with the ability having a set time limit(all halo games) and cool down(in reach and 4), multiplayer rewards you for using the cloak to sneak, ambush, and escape. It also punishes you for failure to keep a low profile and relying on it too much.
      This is why bungie didn't have the sword hidden in their games to be fair to the player, 343 doesn't do this sense, most deaths are cause by unseen attackers with a one hit kill weapon that only reveal themselves in your face where it's too late to dodge.(4,5,infinite, and both anniversarys)

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      @frankjustice8154 ohhhhh, you mean campaign exclusively. I gotcha. I understand where you’re coming from now.
      However, I do think it’s cool in Infinite at least. Fighting Jega, an enemy that’s completely and totally invisible, is nerve racking and it was quite memorable to me as a result

    • @Lonjustice
      @Lonjustice Месяц назад

      @Woodyisasexybeast that's the one exception. I liked him, and it's okay for "boss fights"(i use that term lightly) but just walking around then dead because a spec op/or any elites welding a sword is just there and impossible to see.

  • @gyurza__
    @gyurza__ Месяц назад

    I remember being a yung dweeb and gettin so hyped watching all of these ads and short films especially landfall and the odst ones are ingrained in my memory. I used to wake up every morning before school and tell myself in my head i was an odst going to odst cadets school lololol good times :)

  • @Halolover21
    @Halolover21 Месяц назад

    W video keep it up

  • @Futher_Mucker
    @Futher_Mucker Месяц назад +2

    Is Birth of a Spartan not canon?

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +3

      Oh my god. It is. I had it in my script, It was ready to go. Then I forgot to include it. Son of a bitch

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +2

      That is going to bother me to no end. I’ll put what I wrote in my script as a pinned comment.

    • @Futher_Mucker
      @Futher_Mucker Месяц назад

      @Woodyisasexybeast hey it happens to the best of us. Still an excellent video. You're doing great with your channel BTW. I get excited everytime you upload

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +1

      That means a lot. Thank you 😊

  • @llliwwille
    @llliwwille Месяц назад +1

    Do we know that Thom is pronounced “Tom” instead of “th-om”

    • @Woodyisasexybeast
      @Woodyisasexybeast  Месяц назад +3

      Yeah. It’s pronounced the way I said it in the ONI Archive about Reach

  • @lost_ak4752
    @lost_ak4752 Месяц назад

    bro involving the halo series as part of the canon is heretical bahaviour