MYSTERY SPARTAN???

Games Halo 5: Guardians
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First off, being a religiously huge halo fan, and been following Halo for years and years, I was excited and peed a little when I read May 16th’s news and saw the official Halo 5 poster. Then I noticed details, and began to speculate. This is my theory…

The spartan’s reflection (or counterpart, what have you) in the poster is John 117. Often times, posters and illustrations like this depict a symbolism, eluding to something underneath the skin of the poster.

If you remember the introductory CG piece in Halo 4’s opening scene, Dr. Catherine Halsey appears to be in the bowels of an ONI facility being interrogated by an ONI operative about her thought process, and morals on the spartans altogether. He proceeds to discuss the Master chief, lying to Halsey about his supposed death. The man, as portrayed on screen, is kept in the shadows the entire time.

I have concluded, based on the mystery man’s interests and cynical approach to John, that he could possibly be the mystery spartan shown in Halo 5’s latest poster. The spartan has an ONI decal on hist left breast plate, and given Halo 4’s events, and the man’s ideas on the Master Chief, I believe the black spartan may possibly be the mystery man in Halo 4’s opening.

At present, ONI is an infiltrated and corrupt organization headed by a woman of twisted ideals, and I would not be surprised, given the affairs presently occurring in the books, and by Halo 4’s ending, given what chief potentially is and/or knows, courtesy of the Librarian, it is a possibility chief is in a position to where he is being hunted, awol, blacklisted, etc. with a hit ordered on him for his termination by Serin Osmin. Given chief’s predicament, and who he is as a human being, this is not surprising in the current political state of affairs.

Why is the Master Chief cloaked? Has he set out on a personal journey in seeking some way to regain Cortana in some miraculous fashion? Has he set out to find Halsey? Could the Librarian have given him a mission? Or has an assassin been dispatched to hunt and strike him down, robbing his place of the ‘hero’, subsequently “replacing him”, and thus has left as not to risk the safety of those close to him? Again, <mark>please note that all of this is my own speculation and theory</mark> behind what little we have been shown, and connections I feel I may have established between Halo 4, and Halo 5. In no way is this validated or true for sure. It is only my proposal.

What do you think?

Please leave your comments below! :slight_smile:

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The only problem I have with the ‘Agent of the Shadows’ being the ONI Spartan is that Frankie stated the he would be a brand new character.

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This is true; but also consider that the mystery man was ‘just a man’ with no significance (if you will) at the time. He would be a new character to us. We’ll just have to wait and see!

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> This is true; but also consider that the mystery man was ‘just a man’ with no significance (if you will) at the time. He would be a new character to us. We’ll just have to wait and see!

Haha, that’s what I was thinking. Maybe he meant new to us.

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Say this just happens to be the case; it’s possible last year’s teaser trailer follows a physical altercation between John and ‘the Black Spartan’. Chief’s visor may be cracked due to the man punching, or taking a stab at John’s head. Clearly, Chief is still kicking, respectively.

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All this talk about this “mystery spartan” is sounding a lot like what Rocksteady is doing with the Arkham Knight…

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> Say this just happens to be the case; it’s possible last year’s teaser trailer follows a physical altercation between John and ‘the Black Spartan’. Chief’s visor may be cracked due to the man punching, or taking a stab at John’s head. Clearly, Chief is still kicking, respectively.

While I think its likely Oni Spartan and Chief will end up on the same side, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is the cause of chief’s damage. The Arbiter and Chief never coming toe to toe always sort of disapointed me in h2. It hurt the ‘enemies turned allies’ theme in 3.

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That unknown character could possibly be just John 117 in new armour. This could be because that character seems to be the focus of the artwork rather then John, which doesn’t seem right to me, and John seems to be a reflection so maybe its a reflection of John’s past. Also at the end of Halo 4 you see John removing his armour, so that’s where he could possibly replace it.

I really don’t like the idea, it would be a bad move replacing John’s iconic armour.

Also I’m too attached to his armour haha.

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> That unknown character could possibly be just John 117 in new armour. This could be because that character seems to be the focus of the artwork rather then John, which doesn’t seem right to me, and John seems to be a reflection so maybe its a reflection of John’s past. Also at the end of Halo 4 you see John removing his armour, so that’s where he could possibly replace it.
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> I really don’t like the idea, it would be a bad move replacing John’s iconic armour.
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> Also I’m too attached to his armour haha.

Well that be because Frankie already confirmied that it will be an entirely new male character.

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