Besides books and the other Halos, there is no mention of Johnson in Halo CE. Many people, in real life and in the Halo universe, reference Johnson being on Installation 04. When I played Halo 2, I was like: so they made that marine Sergeant model into a main character. I have no problem now with Johnson or the fact that he was on Installation 04 in the story, but Bungie was not clear about his existence in their first game. And no mention of, how he made it off that Halo Ring in one piece. Like seriously, I really did want to hear the “classified” details on how Johnson escaped an exploding Halo, when MC and Cortana were supposed to be the only survivors. This seems either tacked on, or just very confusing until the release of Halo 2.
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Johnson was the one who gave the “all you green horns” pep talk to the Marines in the hangar of the Pillar of Autumn. You later meet up with him after you both crash land on the ring and help him escape on Echo 419. That is the last time you fight with him on Halo CE. He is last seen in Jenkins’ helmet cam, investigating the ruins on the level “343 Guilty Spark”. He and his squad escort Captain Keyes before the Flood is released and they are overrun.
The Marine Sergeant you fight with in “Truth and Reconciliation” is a generic Marine model. They re-used the same model for the character, but in canon that isn’t Johnson, as pointed out in Halo: The Flood.
Johnson escaped the ruins due to his Spartan 1 modifications that made him immune to infection (which is lied about and stated he had Boren’s syndrome.) This can be seen in the Halo Graphic Novel story “Breaking Quarantine” where he pretty much slaughters any flood between him and the exit. He was able to meet up with some other UNSC personnel and they stole a Pelican to escape the ring before it blew up. They were intercepted by Chief’s Longsword and hijacked a Covenant ship to make it back to Earth. This is found in the awesome novel Halo: First Strike.
Johnson is kinda a random character in combat evolved, they screwed multiple things with the canon business, there is no survivor for me.
It’s not like they really expected the game to be a success in the first place, anti-matter ? I only heard that word in CE… planet Reach aside you don’t have a lot of background, Halo 2 started the whole thing.
the way i see the multiple “johnsons” in Combat Evolved, is they might be flash clones of him who were only ever on the pillar of autumn. the only survivor of them was the original Johnson. or if there are multiple johnsons (two at most in any mission) or the “real” johnson would be elsewhere at that point of the story such as fighting the flood, the second johnson I consider to be his “relative” or something similar i nicknamed “Dwayne Johnson”. or he might be Seargeant Major Duvall from Halo: Reach. Duvall and Johnson even look similar and have the same CEA marine outfit. this would allow the legendary ending cutscene of johnson to be canon.
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> but Bungie was not clear about his existence in their first game.
Well besides the start of the game when you are getting the PEP talk as everyone ready for battle and he is in the ending of the Halo PC demo that tells you to buy the game and he is also in the legendary ending of the game but in general he is spawned in alot of random marine squads but dies multiple times in battle in Halo 1.
Sgt Johnson in Halo 1 reminds me of Cptn Price in the classic CODs (COD 1, 2, 3) he was kinda the “squad leader” of all the marine NPCs and then got developed.
Yeah he was in the first misson cutscene I think.