I know this is an old question but i want everyone to comment how you think sergeant Johnson survived the flood on the alpha halo. It can be funny, serious, crazy, weird or impossible. I just want to hear the creativity of the halo community.
Sergeant Johnson dies in halo 3 by 343 Guilty Spark, monitor of installation 04 by deadly eye laser-beam thingy.
One of the weird things about Halo 1 is that Johnson can die a surprising amount of times. There are like three times on the Autumn alone. First in the cafeteria looking area, then the big room with the staircase to the second floor, and the area where the two marines explode when the boarding party comes in. I know that they didn’t really realize that he wold be such a big character in the series or at least didn’t care all that much about continuity, but if you find all the instances where he can appear and die, it’s kinda funny. Don’t know if you’ve seen the Legendary ending where Johnson and some elite are wrestling for a gun and end up hugging while the Halo’s explosion consumes them. Seems like it was probably just a joke ending, but Johnson has proved to be quite the solider. He say’s to the Armory guy in the beginning of the second game that the story of how he made it out was classified. I would like some sort of book that talks about what Johnson was doing at the times he wasn’t around chief, if it doesn’t already exist.
Would’ve said what my good friend dbond here said, but too late. Johnson was part of the ORION project, which was renamed the SPARTAN-I program, and he was one of the successful subjects, and the augmentations he received gave him an immunity to the Flood.
Also, I don’t know dbond. So yeah
There is no cannon way of him just making it off halo, he just does. Bungie never expected him to return and they never really cared but for some reason they changed their minds and brought his voice actor back. And also, i don’t think Johnson actually is named in halo ce, his just another soldier asset.
Yeah, they never gave Johnson a name in the first one. Come to think of it, there is at least one other marine that made it off the ring. Remember the Australian accented marine? That would be Chips Dubbo. He’s in every game that the Master Chief collection holds and there’s an achievement for every time you meet him. Someone made a wiki post about him, but its pretty much just the players having fun with a recurring voice actor I suppose.
Johnson is the real Warden Eternal
Seriously nobody here has read Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund? It gives an official explanation as to how Sgt. Major Avery Johnson escaped Alpha Halo.
Really, First strike covers it? I need to check that out, one of the few books I haven’t gotten.
First post on this site and the comments blew up. How? Why?
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> First post on this site and the comments blew up. How? Why?
Like a moth to the flame, I am drawn to… curiosity 
Because they taste like fried chicken.
First strike explains how he got off the ring, how he survive the flood however is another story. Johnson was part of the orion project which later was the spartan 1 program, Johnson is one of the only known survivors of the successful augmentation. So fr the exact same reason chief and any other Spartans will arrive the flood, the flood literally can’t infect Johnson .
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> Seriously nobody here has read Halo: First Strike by Eric Nylund? It gives an official explanation as to how Sgt. Major Avery Johnson escaped Alpha Halo.
I really feel like his escape from the Flood and the ring’s destruction should never have been given a “canonical” explanation. Why? Because it’s not necessarily important, given the fact that Johnson seems to have originally been meant as an iconic but disposable character. It’s only after the game that they wanted to bring him back.
But in terms of canonical explanations, I’d take a rare disease over secretly being in a Spartan program. I just don’t see Johnson as the Spartan type. Any “new” information that is thrown in way after the fact about a character just feels cheap and is hard for me to believe. At least First Strike was close enough to Halo CE and Halo 2’s releases that it’s more believable/easier to accept. 343i just seems to love to retcon everything, but it’s not always necessary.
Also, in regards to his disease as described in First Strike…wouldn’t something like that be noticed by the people who work with Johnson? Wouldn’t he show any symptoms? He seems like one of the most energetic characters in the games, and doesn’t seem to show any evidence whatsoever of an incurable condition. But, yeah, they then retconned that for saying he had early Spartan augmentations. Sheesh.
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> First strike explains how he got off the ring, how he survive the flood however is another story. Johnson was part of the orion project which later was the spartan 1 program, Johnson is one of the only known survivors of the successful augmentation. So fr the exact same reason chief and any other Spartans will arrive the flood, the flood literally can’t infect Johnson .
Personally, that just comes off as a silly, unbelievable retcon. I don’t see Johnson as being involved in any Spartan programs; he seems more like a true-blood Marine than a supersoldier. Why can’t Johnson just be Johnson, and not some augmented soldier? Sometimes the simplest things are best. Give it a break, 343i…
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I thought it was Bungie who explained that later. And anyways, I prefer to think that Johnson was part of the failed ORION Project, instead of having “Boren’s Syndrome,” which, by the way, can be abbreviated as “BS.” Perhaps Bungie never intended for the supposed syndrome to be a real explanation; I don’t think they did.
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I just wish there was not this mentality in Halo where everyone and their mother needs to be a supersoldier (or even a failed/quasi one at that). To paraphrase “The Incredibles”, if everyone is special, then no one will be.
Because bungie gave no fcks
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What Johnson did is pray to Bungie and his faith was rewarded
Johnson could survive the flood because he has an immunity to them, Johnson was actually asked if the scientists could create a vaccine but this would come at the cost of Johnson’s life and there was a very small chance of the vaccine actuall working. If your wondering how Johnson escaped the Autumn - It’s in those halo novels somewhere