I’ve just realized something… 343 Guilty Spark is based off of Golem! think about it, he’s small, he’s completely insane due to a ring, but when the ring is lost he goes completely ape -Yoink-, and tricks the heroes in to trusting him in the hopes of getting it back, only to have it destroyed, along with him.
He also turns on his allies and dies to save the ring once he realizes that his allies are really going to destroy it. Sometimes screams “My preciouuuuuuuuuusssss!!!” As he is dying, an obvious and funny easter egg and reference to LotR.
> I’ve just realized something… 343 Guilty Spark is based off of Golem! think about it, he’s small, he’s completely insane due to a ring, but when the ring is lost he goes completely ape Yoink!, and tricks the heroes in to trusting him in the hopes of getting it back, only to have it destroyed, along with him.
I truly believe 343’s intentions were good after his ring was gone. However, when he was at the cartographer he discovered his ring was being remade. When the flood infected the ark, his protocol took action to get the ring activated. Knowing his ring would be destroyed from premature firing… he had to kill them, because he was assigned to protect the ring and it was his only home.
Its still a nice little nod to LotR.