In Infinite I was wondering if during in the end of the game chief gets in a battle against numerous enemies and one of them was able to crack his helmet to the point we can see his skin, I know something like this won’t happen but if it did not only will it surprise me but others as well since all of us grew up playing as a character who never show his face and was silent throughout the game of halo. But what do you guys think should we get a moment where chief’s face is finally revealed
If we are just talking a crack in the helmet, then that’s much milder than the eyes being revealed at the end of H4. Regardless, I really hope we can just keep his helmet on and be done with it. Part of what contributes to the legendary status of Chief among the Halo community is the fact that we don’t know what he looks like. He can be virtually whoever we want him to be… until we see his face. Then he becomes a known entity, and the spark of wonder is gone.
Nah at this point I hope we never see his face, it’s part of the character to me.
I really can’t figure out why people want to see MC’s face. The intrigue and mystique of him having never revealed it has built up to such a degree that no reveal could live up to the hype. His features have been described in non-game lore as well, so it wouldn’t even be an earth-shattering reveal so much as a “huh, he looks like the book said he would.”
The face he presents and prefers is his helmet. It is absolutely a part of his character.
Based on what we saw in The Fall of Reach and H4, it’s possible to have a good idea of what he looks like currently. However, that’s not concrete and I think it’s better we don’t know exactly what he looks like.
The Master Chief has been an established character for nearly 20 years now.
Revealing his face wouldn’t really add anything to his ethos or allure. He started out as basically a green robot but over time, we’ve slowly been exposed to his human side.
We KNOW that he is a human, but he’ll always have a layer of unbreakable stoicism preventing him from being seen as 100% human like a normal person.
The helmet obfuscating his face plays into this illusion.
This whole thread reminds me of all the endless debate leading up to the release of Halo 3. While I am curious as to what John looks like under his helmet, I doubt it will ever be depicted in the games. As part of what others have said, not seeing his face adds an element of mystery to the character. That said I never expected to see that one scene at the end of Halo 4, so it is certainly possible.
I like the mystery behind Chief’s identity, I’d hate it if it were ruined by showing his face.
Have you ever seen the legendary ending to Halo 4?
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His eyes but not his entire face
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The OP was asking for a crack in the visor to see his skin. I think the Halo 4 legendary ending showed me more of Chief than what I wanted to see. I hope to never see his full face. (in a nice way)
I think actually we already know, kind of, how his face is.
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> I really can’t figure out why people want to see MC’s face. The intrigue and mystique of him having never revealed it has built up to such a degree that no reveal could live up to the hype. His features have been described in non-game lore as well, so it wouldn’t even be an earth-shattering reveal so much as a “huh, he looks like the book said he would.”
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> The face he presents and prefers is his helmet. It is absolutely a part of his character.
It’s genuine curiosity really. Some are ok with never seeing it, others are adamant about it never being revealed, but a select few are curious about what he might look like.
@AgentMaryland93, That’s fair. I just think that revealing Chief’s face would do more harm than good to the whole Halo brand.
I am forgetting how curious I myself was in the early days of my Halo fandom when I dismiss others for wanting to see his face.
I hope the curious folks can still understand the logic behind the reason I’ve ultimately come down on the “leave the helmet” side.
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> If we are just talking a crack in the helmet, then that’s much milder than the eyes being revealed at the end of H4. Regardless, I really hope we can just keep his helmet on and be done with it. Part of what contributes to the legendary status of Chief among the Halo community is the fact that we don’t know what he looks like. He can be virtually whoever we want him to be… until we see his face. Then he becomes a known entity, and the spark of wonder is gone.
I agree…and seeing we know how he looked when he was younger and we’ve seen his eyes as an adult. I know just enough but not too much.
It’ll never satisfy everyone, regardless of which route they take. If they show his face, people will complain that’s not how he should look. If they never show his face, people will complain that we never get to see him. At this point, we know everything there is to know about Chief aside from his Last Name and Face. I don’t think the revelation of either of those will effect the character moving forward in a positive or negative aspect. Neither matter. His character has been established and that’s all we should care about.
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> At this point, we know everything there is to know about Chief aside from his Last Name and Face.
Well, except we kind do know his face. We know he has brown/reddish hair, freckles, blue eyes, and as far as halo 4 ending shows, wrinkles.
We got his basic features, we don’t have his distinct features.
I say darth vader it. At the very end.
When I was a wee lad playing Halo, I used to wonder what his face would look like. I wanted to know, but not anymore. As I got older I realized that his helmet, it is his face. It is everything he represents. When you think Master Chief, you see a green helmet, and a gold visor. And that is how it should be. Seeing the white man with brown hair, and blue eyes in his forties behind the visor isn’t something important, because that’s not who Master Chief is. He’s a Spartan.
We all know that there is just another helmet under there. Can a man not keep his helmet on if he wants to?
The only other character I can think of as relatively iconic (for films as Master Chief is to games) that had their iconic helmet removed is Darth Vader.
Had Vader’s helmet not been removed, and the audience not seen the broken old man beneath the suit, his death would not have meant as much, because there would be no humanity, other than his act of saving his son. While that worked for Vader/Anakin, as it increased the empathy felt by the audience for Luke at his father’s passing, I don’t believe it would work for Chief.
At MOST, we should see the back of his head partially covered in shadow, or just its silhouette. Chief doesn’t need a sympathetic ending, as Darth Vader did.