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> > > > > > > My favorite Sarge moment is the legendary ending of Halo: CE when him and the Elite hug, then Sarge goes for the butt touch.
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> > > > > > What??! No way. I’m going to have to YouTube that.
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> > > > > If I remember correctly it’s on the anniversary edition of CE, but on the normal in the end when they hug it’s the Elite that does the -Yoink- grab instead. The anniversary one is hilarious though because the Elite reacts to it when Johnson gets frisky.
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> > > > Haha. How does Johnson Survive tho? I heard the legendary canon is an Easter egg.
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> > > Technically Johnson’s escape from Halo was classified (because it was that or reveal he’s immune to the Flood), but the legendary ending isn’t canon and he escaped on a pelican with 3 other marines and met with Master Chief on the ship he escaped in. I still love that that’s the kind of thing they’d do for people who beat the game on legendary haha.
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> > Correct that Johnson’s escape was classified, but it was because of Master Chief’s secret mission to capture a Prophet on a stolen Covenant ship (even though that mission wasn’t completed). Also, canonically, Halsey was incorrect. There is no immunity to the Flood, it chooses to infect or not to infect, which means Johnson was infected, but the Flood chose not to convert him, resulting in the bit of Flood DNA just hanging out in his body.
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> > Johnson’s escape of Alpha Halo is seen in “Breaking Quarantine” found in the Halo Graphic Novel.
> > His reunion with Master Chief and the following events are found in Halo First Strike.
> > The reveal that no one is immune to the Flood, but it lets some people go, letting them think they’re immune, is from Halo Silentium.
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> After Johnson and Chief’s escape from the first Halo they did head for Reach) because of the Cole Protocol) in a stolen Covenant capital ship (because Longswords don’t have slip-space drives) and rescued Halsey and a group of Spartan-II’s who then destroyed the giant station that was preparing to attack Earth with its fleet (only Truth knew of the fleet and about Earth, which is why Regret didn’t know Earth was populated by humans when he came for the Ark). But as for Johnson; it is canon that he is immune to it because of “Boren’s Syndrome” AKA the ORION project that made Spartan-I’s, of which Sarge was a part of. As far as i know though he’s the only one immune because no other Spartan-I has encountered the Flood so far. But the escape from the first Halo was classified because if Chief gave them the data with Sarge’s Flood encounter they’d use him to find a cure, so Halsey let him choose to give ONI that data chip or one that doesn’t mention Sarge ever even encountering Flood, and we know which one he chose to give. And I didn’t know the Flood feigned immunity, I know they did it to the humans in the Forerunner-Flood war but I never knew they still did it to some people, thanks for the info.
Again, you’re mistaking the canonical fact that Dr Halsey believes Sergeant Johnson to be immune tot he Flood, with her belief being canonically accurate. Nothing’s immune to the Flood. Remember that throughout the Forerunner-Flood war the Flood was constantly feigning at being weaker than it was. The Forerunners even calculated that if the Flood were actually trying, it would have consumed the entire galaxy, every living thing, in a few hundred years, and that was before the Forerunners even knew the Flood could use Neural Physics. Ergo, the Flood’s goal was not to consume everything.
The short version of the explanation is that if you read closely, you’ll find that everything the Flood does, accomplishes one of two things. First, the Flood is pushing humanity towards holding the Mantle. This means the Flood breaks the backs of humanity’s worst enemies to ensure their survival (destroying the Forerunners, splintering the Covenant, etc), as well as teaching harsh lessons in humility (The Mona Lisa), or denying game-changing resources that humanity or other races aren’t supposed to have (Halo Wars, the Forerunner fleet). The second goal is the Flood depicting itself as the villain, so that humanity learns to stand on their own feet, without relying on a support structure, and the other races don’t become jealous (like the Forerunners) of humanity for being chosen by a higher power to lead them. Every single Flood encounter in the franchise furthers one of these two goals. If you read the Forerunner Saga with this in mind, the Flood’s actions make a lot more sense.
The same goes with the original Trilogy. When Cortana was captured by the Gravemind on High Charity, when it was interrogating her, sorting through her memory codes line by line, it allowed her to think she was outsmarting it, and not only allowed her to send a message about the Ark to Master Chief, but amplified the message (Human Weakness), and crashed the ship carrying it right in front of the Chief so he couldn’t miss it. That means the Flood wanted Cortana’s message to get through. And given how the Flood consumes entire worlds so quickly that quarantine/sterrilization is ineffective, Earth would have been doomed unless the Flood let it go. With only the resources on that one crashed ship, the Flood was capable of unleashing a rain of spores to blanket the planet, infecting people on every continent, dooming the world to become a Keymind, but it didn’t (it also didn’t really attack Earth before the Halos fired either, even though it was already in the star system, and capable of doing so). The Flood (in full knowledge of what the Halos do, decided to consolidate all of its forces within range of the only Halo which could be fired without civilian casualties. That’s not a coincidence. The Flood had accomplished the purpose the Precursors gave it, so it put itself in a position where it could be removed from the picture without having to break its cover as the galaxy’s big baddie.
If you think any action of the Flood doesn’t support one of the two motivations I presented, I would like you to share it, and I’ll try to respond appropriately.
TLDR: Johnson isn’t immune, the Flood let him go, and Halsey misdiagnoses the reason for Johnson’s survival.