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Emile's death, in my opinion, isn't actually that "bad" in relation to this thread topic. He goes out swinging, but doesn't kill a million Covenant in the process.
Main characters dying in an over-dramatic fashion is a common, recurring thing with the Halo universe. Most of the SPARTAN-IIIs don't have a glorious death, and I actually think that's better. Some of the background SPARTAN-II characters don't get a glorious death either, but they wouldn't be considered "main characters". Either way, whether it's a SPARTAN activating the failsafe on a fallen comrade's armor and blowing up a lance of Covenant fighters, or Kurt-051 destroying an entire planet, you cannot deny that the pattern is there. Rarely, it seems, that a main character is killed in the line of duty in a realistic way. It's never "your favorite SPARTAN was overrun and shot while defending the other SPARTANs escape," it's always "your favorite SPARTAN backflipped into the air and landed with one toe on a plasma grenade, somehow tripling it's effect, and detonated the fail-safe in his armor which took out an entire CCS-class Battlecruiser".
[Edited on 04.24.2011 2:59 PM PDT]