> > <mark>Honor and Glory. AKA NO BROHOOFS! Next thing you know people will start calling Elites Space Ponies and everyone will be using the Unicorn emblem 24/7.</mark>
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> > Also it is about time the elites are shown kicking -Yoink!- and not acting stupid. Lie in Halo Wars Monsters scene, H4 Gameplay or like in Escalation.
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> > Elite Majors rival Spartans there should be no reason as to why we shouldn’t see more Spartan deaths.
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> Hey, a lot of players use the Operator emblem to look like a Pokeball, and I’m pretty sure people will not call Spartans “Space-Trainers.”
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> But yeah, Elites are pretty awesome nowadays. And seeing a Spartan getting killed would set an example for how serious an Elite can be.
I thought it was really dumb how Canon changed so drastically as more and more media was released. In the original Fall of Reach it was stated that while the UNSC guessed at an Elite, and Prophet species’ existing, noone who’d ever seen one would have lived to tell about it. The Battle of Reach was therefore supposed to be the first and only time Spartans and Elites met on the battlefield in open warfare. And (big surprise), it was also the last battle of the Spartans, as all but Blue Team would die before Glassing began. The reason for this was that Elites were an even match for a Spartan, and Elite numbers guaranteed victory.
Back in the old Canon it was also apparent that the ONLY reason the UNSC had a ground advantage against the Covenant, was that the Covenant only deployed Grunts, Jackals, and Engineers on a regular basis, with Hunters being rare, but sent to collect artefacts. And when the UNSC managed to bring the Spartans in, that gave the UNSC an advantage. It wasn’t ODSTs/Marines who were superior, it was the Spartans. Of course, Spartans can’t compete against superior space technology, so in space the UNSC lost.
Ever since Halo Wars came out the canon has been deluded and retconned all to hell. Now Elites are clearly inferior to Spartans, heck they’re barely a match for ODSTs anymore, and the Covenant is literally a joke in ground operations. Heck according to Halo 4 Spartans are deployed to slaughter them for FUN… They make a GAME out of killing Elites because it’s apparently just that easy. It’s just ridiculous at this point. The reason noone fears Elites isn’t because they don’t look fearsome, or they don’t speak english, they used to be feared despite that. They aren’t feared anymore because 343i and the other fictional heads of the Halo Universe decided to give everyone the impression that they AREN’T dangerous.
If they want an effect of Elites appearing powerful, the only way to do it is to make them powerful. Make them hard to kill on Legendary, fictionally write that they are threatening, don’t show how a small squad of Marines took on 4 Elites and all lived to pat eachother on the back, show how they only managed to take one down, and were then slaughtered by the sheer superiority of Elite technology and strength.
