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Subject: So Should Cortana........ *halo 4 spoilers*

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Poll: So Should Cortana........ *halo 4 spoilers*  [closed]
Yes:  54%
(95 Votes)
No:  31%
(55 Votes)
i don't know:  15%
(27 Votes)
Total Votes: 177

Stay dead for halo 5/6? Or should she return?

Personally i think she should remain dead dead, if she returns, it would cheapen the ending of halo 4.

Perhaps instead of Cortana, we can get a new AI for the Chief for the next games (future halo games would be missing something if the Chief does not have an AI companion).

However if she stays dead in halo 5/6, that doesn't mean the affects her death had on the Chief will play no role in future games.

If they wanted her to return in a sense, while keeping the character dead, it could be through a dream/hallucinations/flashbacks caused by the Chief in future games.

  • 11.10.2012 2:40 PM PDT

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Cortana is dead?!

  • 11.10.2012 2:40 PM PDT

Halo 4's ending felt kinda cheap anyways. It was a good story, I just didn't care for the ending.

  • 11.10.2012 2:41 PM PDT

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They should have something like that ghost Ras Al Ghul scene in TDKR.

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  • 11.10.2012 2:41 PM PDT
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If she was brought back somehow it would completely undermine the effect her death had in Halo 4.

...Which I see you've stated in your post.

And getting digitized by the Composer isn't really something you come back from anyway.

  • 11.10.2012 2:42 PM PDT
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I think she will inevitably return because she's such a popular character and pretty much the only 'eye candy' for the teenage male demographic - which is unfortunate, because like you say, it cheapens Halo 4's ending.

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Posted by: Big Daddv2
Halo 4's ending felt kinda cheap anyways. It was a good story, I just didn't care for the ending.

This. Although I stopped caring when sith lords came into play.

  • 11.10.2012 2:42 PM PDT

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Posted by: DarkSunnyboy1
They should have something like that ghost Ras AL Ghul scene in TDKR.


That was great. Before seeing that film, i knew the character would return in some form, but i had rumors he would actually come back to life. Thankfully it wasn't so.

  • 11.10.2012 2:43 PM PDT

Mreh.

I want her to stay dead, but I bet she's going to somehow be recovered in Halo 5/6. And I would like to have her death seriously affect Chief in the next games.

  • 11.10.2012 2:43 PM PDT

Be dead in Halo 5, perhaps with Cortana moments, then actually be alive at the very end of Halo 6. Master Chief goes to sleep once again, this time keeping Cortana in the back of his helmet.

  • 11.10.2012 2:44 PM PDT

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As much as I'd love for her to return, I feel that there is no way they could do it without making it ridiculous.

Shoudn't have gotten rid of her yet.

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  • 11.10.2012 2:44 PM PDT

She will be in the opening of Halo 5.

This is how it goes:

*Halo 5*

Cortana: Rise and Shine Master Chief. Rise and Shine.
Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job.
No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste if not for, well... Lets just say your hour has arrived again...

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the galaxy... So wake up Master Chief, wake up and smell the ashes.

*You appear in a covenant cruiser*

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Posted by: Ushan
I want her to stay dead, but I bet she's going to somehow be recovered in Halo 5/6. And I would like to have her death seriously affect Chief in the next games.


Halo 4's ending showed he sort of got past that already.

  • 11.10.2012 2:46 PM PDT

how the hell does an AI die, just make a new cortana. nbd

  • 11.10.2012 2:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Not The Joker
I think she will inevitably return because she's such a popular character and pretty much the only 'eye candy' for the teenage male demographic - which is unfortunate, because like you say, it cheapens Halo 4's ending.


Plenty of popular characters have died in fiction and haven't returned. So i don't see how being popular should mean she shouldn't die.

And as i said earlier, the Chief could get a new AI for future games. That also could create the possibility that said AI has a female like personality, and therefore its hologram is in female form, therefore giving "eye candy".

Personally though, i have never seen Cortana as eye candy, i think its pretty immature if someone does. Her holographic boobs do not make her character for me.

  • 11.10.2012 2:48 PM PDT

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Posted by: Postwarbean85
She will be in the opening of Halo 5.

This is how it goes:

*Halo 5*

Cortana: Rise and Shine Master Chief. Rise and Shine.
Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job.
No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste if not for, well... Lets just say your hour has arrived again...

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the galaxy... So wake up Master Chief, wake up and smell the ashes.

*You appear in a covenant cruiser*


Fans: Why is Cortana stuttering while speaking in english, and wearing male clothing that looks like that of a government man?

343: Rampancy....blame Rampancy.

  • 11.10.2012 2:50 PM PDT


Posted by: Postwarbean85
She will be in the opening of Halo 5.

This is how it goes:

*Halo 5*

Cortana: Rise and Shine Master Chief. Rise and Shine.
Not that I wish to imply you have been sleeping on the job.
No one is more deserving of a rest. And all the effort in the world would have gone to waste if not for, well... Lets just say your hour has arrived again...

The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the galaxy... So wake up Master Chief, wake up and smell the ashes.

*You appear in a covenant cruiser*

11/10

  • 11.10.2012 2:51 PM PDT

they should make a new johnson AI

  • 11.10.2012 2:52 PM PDT

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You asked two questions. Which is the poll answering?

  • 11.10.2012 2:52 PM PDT

Mreh.


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Posted by: Ushan
I want her to stay dead, but I bet she's going to somehow be recovered in Halo 5/6. And I would like to have her death seriously affect Chief in the next games.


Halo 4's ending showed he sort of got past that already.


When something tragic happens to someone, they don't always get hit with the full force of it.

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Posted by: ShadowVegan
I finished solo Legendary a few hours ago. We're left not really knowing what becomes of Cortana. Does she fade into nothingness or what? My thoughts:

343 thinks that fighting the Covenant is so vital to Halo, it has to come back in this trilogy even though it makes no sense in the canon. Yeah, the books explain why, the they explain why because 343 wanted the Covenant to be enemies in the games, not the other way around. Even that they won't let go of. What's the two most important parts of Halo? The Chief and Cortana. If they can't even let go of humans versus Covenant, there's no way they're letting go of Cortana, especially this early in the series.

At the end of Halo 4, although Cortana had lost most of her data, and presumable her chip, she was still intact. And it is clear she doesn't need a chip, since she can move throughout networks. What comes after rampancy? Metastability. And that's when an AI is said to be a full person. If any AI can achieve that, it's Cortana. And if she's metastable, does she even need a network, or has she transcended that? She certainly seemed to have transcendede that at the end of Halo 4. And perhaps this concept is also related to what the Truth And Reconciliation's AI meant when it said it would be free (CEA terminal). And Cortana was clearly still intact, but had lost most of her data. What causes rampancy? Too much data. Too much thought. If she lost all that data, it's the AI equivilent of anti-aging. Sure, this might go against the metastable theory, but perhaps losing the data which causes rampancy is part of the process to achieving metastability. And not to mention Cortana was more powerful than ever before at the end of Halo 4, surely a mere nuclear explosion couldn't defeat her.

And if my theory is correct, perhaps the Forerunner technology which aimed to achieve immortality will be used for Cortana, so she'll get a physical body (robotic, but still be far more real than, say, Spark).

As for how she escapes the nuclear explosion, either she manages it herself, or perhaps the Librarian rescues her, and maybe even (if she still relies on networks and computer chips) transfers her into either a Forerunner network (temporarily) or a body like I described in the previous paragraph.

And if she does get her own body, maybe she can take tissue from Halsey (sort of like what was stated as a possible way of saving her from rampancy in the earlier levels of Halo 4) to make it biomechanical, or even biological.

Cortana will come back... we'll just have to wait to see how.


[Edited on 11.10.2012 2:56 PM PST]

  • 11.10.2012 2:55 PM PDT

If Star Trek can do it, so can Halo.

  • 11.10.2012 2:55 PM PDT

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Posted by: TedToaster22
If Star Trek can do it, so can Halo.


Yes i know Spock came back. But just because Cortana CAN return if the writers want that to happen, doesn't mean that it SHOULD.

  • 11.10.2012 3:30 PM PDT

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MC went thru alot of halo 3 with out her
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  • 11.10.2012 3:33 PM PDT


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MC went thru alot of halo 3 with out her
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I guess this is a good point, but I like hearing her voice.

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  • 11.10.2012 3:33 PM PDT