Today something occurred to me. Since early Halo, if you got killed by unforeseen circumstances it would announce that you were killed by the guardians. My thought is what came first? The future concept of Big Brother type Guardians that patrol the universe that was used as a funny way to say you died in a non suicidal or killed by someone else way or the the phrase came first and they thought they could take it somewhere? I know Halo has an incredibly in depth story and is very well thought out but I have no idea what the answer is. My guess is that the phrase “killed by the guardians” came first and that led to the Halo 5 campaign guardians. Let me hear what you think!
Being killed by the guardians at those times had nothing to do with these guardians now.
It may have a closer relation to the Destiny Guadians rather than the H5 Guadians. But I have no clue.
It would be funny if we really were being killed the Guardians shockwave thing even though it’s an EMP.
Pretty confident the “killed by the Guardians” concept was an in-joke at Bungie, and a solution to an issue wherein the game didn’t know what to attribute certain kinds of deaths to. Likely, the concept of guardians as in Halo 5 arose as a nod to the Guardians of Bungie’s Halo games. The name “guardian” doesn’t generally fit these monolithic machines. They aren’t guarding anything, they’re enforcing the Forerunners’ will.
Still, pretty fun to imagine that every time two Spartans melee’d each other to death in Halo: CE, one of them died of the bludgeon, while the other died of a mysterious, precise electromagnetic strike.