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Subject: Suicidal Marine Easter Egg Origins

[SPOILER ALERT:
If you don't know about this easter egg, and want to find it yourself, stop reading]
So many of you probably know about the suicidal marine easter egg in Halo: Reach. He's the guy freaking out, ranting about aliens, and about how "he's out".
So, I was recently watching the film Aliens, directed by James Cameron, starring Sigourney Weaver. In the scene where the marines have just left the xenomorph nest, and their transport (Which is strangely reminiscent of a pelican) crashes, I noticed something. If you listen, the wimpy, pessimistic marine (Hudson) says "That's it man, game over, game over!". He sounds exactly like the suicidal marine. He also has other similar lines throughout the movie. There are other similarities, to those paying attention. The aforementioned transport that looks strikingly like a pelican, motion trackers,and the atmosphere processing station looks like the Ark. I don't know if anybody has found this before, but if not, does this mean Bungie are big James Cameron fans?

  • 11.27.2010 4:38 PM PDT

You have a lot of reading to do.

Including the suicidal marines in Halos 1, 3 and O, and the fact that Halo 1 is basically aliens: the game.

  • 11.27.2010 4:41 PM PDT

Rise from Ruin...

Yes, but just to clear this up for you...

James Cameron DIRECTED the movie. He did not design the sets, aliens, or anything else for that matter. Your thinking of H.R. Giger. He would technically be the one who came up with the ships, structures, and aliens in the movies.

http://www.hrgiger.com/

  • 11.27.2010 4:52 PM PDT

"I only speak two languages: English and Bad English,"
-Bruce Willis, The Fifth Element

I escaped into the waves. The waves...
I went Underground!

"One of the other ideas for Halo was, back before it was even Blam, when it was still Monkey Nuts, was that these colonies went offline and your group was sent in to..."

  • 11.27.2010 5:01 PM PDT

You have a lot of reading to do.

Including the suicidal marines in Halos 1, 3 and O, and the fact that Halo 1 is basically aliens: the game.

You kind of missed the point... I just wanted to point out the suggested subtle nod to what may have inspired a few minor parts of Halo. I'm aware of the other suicidal marines, just I immediately thought of the most recent, as well as they sound almost identical. I'm not going to get into an argument on the finer points of differences between the Alien series and Halo, but they have little in common other than the points I mentioned, and yes, extra-terrestrials that don't like us very much.

[Edited on 11.27.2010 5:11 PM PST]

  • 11.27.2010 5:10 PM PDT

Yes, but just to clear this up for you...

James Cameron DIRECTED the movie. He did not design the sets, aliens, or anything else for that matter. Your thinking of H.R. Giger. He would technically be the one who came up with the ships, structures, and aliens in the movies.

http://www.hrgiger.com/

I said directed, but thank you for clarifying that. I didn't mean to imply that JC created any of that, just that he directed the film

  • 11.27.2010 5:14 PM PDT

Rise from Ruin...

No, i think everyone got what you were saying. I think they both agreed with you too, more or less. And myself, i was simply stating that its really not Camerons ideas, but more so Gigers that the haloverse resembles. Figured you may want to know a little more about the artist that made the aliens movies so visually iconic. That was all homie. No ones calling you out, just chatting.

  • 11.27.2010 5:14 PM PDT