8 hours?! That’s practically the in-game length of the entire campaign (minus the 3-day disappearance at the end). At MOST an hour for The Pilot being in said device.
I choose to look at him, along with grunts, as the comedic relief character. No matter what character is thrown in, let’s face it, whether it be AI (Cortana), Partner (Arby), or Friend/ Warrior (Johnson), nothing will ever top these characters. It’s for the simple reason that they were during a time when Xbox players breathed Halo, they’re from the Golden times. A new character may get close, but I don’t see how they could ever be mutually adored on a mass scale. I’m guilty of this myself, but it’s the nostalgia factor. Trying to compare a new person, to the perfect Ex-Person 
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It’s not wrong to compare, I just try to look over it, and grieve the loss of them. Hoping one day we’ll just get some Halos that are set between the original trilogy, and they are brought back (except Arby, he’s obviously not dead, we could at least get him in a game ffs)…
We don’t know any definitive time lengths for the torturing, but it can be safely assumed that Griffin was tortured for longer and/or harder. What we do know from in-game dialog is: “Hurry! He’s(the Pilot’s) barely alive!”
So they were at least torturing the Pilot bad enough to nearly kill him. Except after being freed, he makes a few sour faces and holds his chest like he had another one of his panic attacks, but he’s as good as new by the time we transition to the next scene. The same can’t be said for any other person that was in that device.
This ‘glitch in the matrix’ is usually called “Plot Armor,” the Pilot was marked essential, therefore nothing in the game could harm him.
Huh? Where? I never knew this!
What if the idea for the Spartan Killers actually came from those? 
@JShrekinson2, he was on both Delta Halo and Earth at the same time, given his appearances in Halo 2 and Halo 3: ODST respectively.
Bad take + no empathy + gamer + L
He’s extremely annoying, it’s like I get it, you don’t want to die so how about you stop crying for 2 seconds before I show you why they call MC the Demon.
Also one thing that bothered me was that he said he stole that Pelican, and in the intro you see that he’s somewhat shocked at the hologram display of a woman and her daughter. This led me to believe that holo display is the family of the real Echo 216 pilot and he’s just been coping with his loneliness by pretending that this man’s family is his own. My respect for this guy was already low but it just kept dropping and dropping. And it’s kinda strange that this guy has a really thick accent yet his “family” has perfect American English accents if they really were his.
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A very rational response though. He’s been stranded alone in space for 6 months in a ship he stole while running away from the Banished, who basically destroyed the UNSC on their biggest ship.
The. Pilot. Was. Annoying. As. All. Fyhu’ck.
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That’s exactly why they didn’t do it. People need to learn to care about this dude before we’ll actually be impacted by his death. He’ll almost certainly never be as loved as characters like Johnson, but I do feel that if 343 play there cards right we could really come to love this character.
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He was a little annoying but let’s be honest, if I just rescued master chief and barely escaped an alien invasion with my life and the big green bulletproof green beret tells me “you’re gonna fly me right back into that chaos and probably die” I’d be throwing a fit too. I’d tell him to drop me off at home he can have the stupid plane and his little hologram -Yoink!- can fly it.
This! While I did like the Pilot a little bit, he is never going to be featured in my top 10 favorite Halo characters. He eventually became annoying over time, and I was longing for Blue Team to come back. He will NEVER replace Blue Team, Osiris, Alpha-Nine, Red Team, Johnson, or Lasky in my book. Period.
343’s excuse for leaving beloved favorites like Blue Team out of the story is as asinine and stupid as it can get!
Both Osiris and Blue team are essentially non-entities in Halo 5. They have an annoying habit of stating the painfully obvious, and they seem to have less intelligence then a CE marine. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve read “Fall of reach” so I have some idea of how awesome blue team actually are. As for Osiris, with the sole exception of Buck, I don’t give a dang what happens to them.
So yeah, in my opinion the Pilot is actually a huge step up from the default personalities that where the side characters in H5 but your absolutely right that he’ll never replace all the other fantastic side characters in Halo’s long history. But here’s the great thing: I don’t think he’s supposed to. I have every confidence that we’ll see Lasky, Red team, and maybe even an Alpha Nine reunion somewhere along the line.
As for the pilot himself, he did what he needed to do and I’m looking forward to seeing more of him in the future.
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The Pilot I will say I liked his character, but him complaining got annoying halfway into the story, but one thing I’ll say, he was better written & introduced then Locke was in Halo 5 (No hate on Locke just wished he was handled better)