Think it would be cool if each game had its own protagonist. I don’t really want an actual Chief “replacement”.
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I know this seems unhinged but, time travel is confirmed for Infinite. So, a monitor could potentially say that the new endless threat is more powerful than chief. So the monitor finds him a suitable replacement, being Noble Six. Chief time travels to when the screen goes black in Reach, shoots the Elite (whose shields are still recharging, and therefore weak) and takes Noble Six back to get him medical assistance. But, this kinda seems like a fanfic.
Yep, the player is almost always a good choice to replace Master Chief. Otherwise, Arygana would be good representation of various communities. Arygana is female, has prosthetics, and also Africa american (or black). I guess they could also reveal her sexuality to be LGBTQ+ but, do we really need to know what you do in your pasttime in a game where you shoot aliens?
The character who replaces chief hasn’t been written yet.
It has to be a whole new person. In CE chief was this mysterious super soldier you knew nothing about, and you’ll need something along those lines again.
That’s what made noble 6 so cool. The mystery. The intrigue.
I just hope they don’t do a whole pass the torch thing.
Darkness rises, and light to meet it. Chief would need to go out epic, and then in the vacuum a new hero should rise in humanity’s darkest hour.
But with the writing 343 gives us lately, I’d never want to see that happen. We’ll get a John clone or something.
But if they did kill of chief that would be the signal flare that the franchise is doing a reboot.
I don’t think it needs to be anyone we know.
That’s the good thing about the chief and rookie and noble 6, other than the obvious masculine voices they could represent anything the player wanted. I know, the extended lore kinda ruined that, but the early games left a lot of room for the players to fill in the blanks however they like.
No, despite what modern society tells us, not everything needs to be about gender, race, or sexuality.
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This is how I would do it.
At the end of this ‘triliogy’ fighting the Endless, Chief like Cortana sacrifices himself to save humanity. The fight is won, and humanity mourns the death of MC. However a new threat emerges and humanity loses war after war. The Spartans are obliterated as a fighting force and the Earth is scorched.
A special squad of 4 ODST are tasked with a top secret mission by Dr.Halsley. Retrieve something from the depths of Reach. This is a suicide mission and death is certain. The squad successfully retrieve this but die fighting. Halsley has what she wanted, a new begining…she had the foresight to preserve the genetic code of the original Blue team.
Master Chief is irreplaceable in Halo. It’s like a Mario game with no Mario, Zelda without Link. Mass Effect without Commander Shepard (cough cough Andromeda)
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While Chief could sacrifice himself, I think that if he were to be completely removed (as in dead) he should instead be MIA. This idea comes from a video I watched a while ago proposing the exact same thing (I think it was called something like “Why Master Chief can Never Die”). In the video it just says that it would go for everything Halsey made and represent the Spartan Program as a whole. it would also mean that they could bring him back.
I feel like this isn’t the case, a Halo game is about the spartans, and of course, the Halos. Part of what disjointed 4 and 5, neither feature a Halo. Reach and ODST are spin off games, meaning they can do whatever since they aren’t part of the main games.
If Master Chief were to be replaced, ideally he would become a background character (like Jun). I also think he should be replaced by either a Spartan II or III, because they wouldn’t just be some ODST (though ODSTs are cool 
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Just added an edit regarding the Pilot potentially replacing the Master Chief
Should be awwwwnold. The Banished are like a bunch of Tooooomus. LoL.
Don’t really care but she does come across as a really likeable character based on how she’s shown to be serious, yet can jab at the Dropship pilot as a joke.