Why, oh why, did they make Captain Cutter have a mistress? I’m reading Halo Escalation for the first time and I just came across that little issue. Due to personal reasons, I believe anyone who is unfaithful is nothing but a piece of dirt that needs to be beat within an inch of their lives. So why did 343i think it was ok to take one of the coolest characters in Halo and turn him into an unprofessional pile of filth? Infidelity is wrong, and anyone who does it for any reasons is a sack of crap. Now I hope they kill him off in Halo Wars 2. Now I can only see him as dirt.
Why is infidelity wrong? How do you know he didn’t have a true emotion attachment to that women he engaged with? Grow up.
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> Why is infidelity wrong? How do you know he didn’t have a true emotion attachment to that women he engaged with? Grow up.
Because you have made a comittment to the person you marry. Dont love her anymore? Divorce her. But don’t cheat on them.
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> Why is infidelity wrong? How do you know he didn’t have a true emotion attachment to that women he engaged with? Grow up.
Because infidelity just shows really poor character for people both real and fictional? Doesn’t matter how grown up someone is, everyone knows it’s wrong and it isn’t something that can be justified.
Going by your statement not only is it okay if your significant other cheats on you, but it’s a grown up thing to do if they didn’t have a true emotional attachment to you?
Because characters should always be perfect right? Sorry he made a mistake in his life.
Probably to actually give a hint of actual characterisation hiding behind his bland, played out, archetypal exterior.
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> Because infidelity just shows really poor character for people both real and fictional? Doesn’t matter how grown up someone is, everyone knows it’s wrong and it isn’t something that can be justified.
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> Going by your statement not only is it okay if your significant other cheats on you, but it’s a grown up thing to do if they didn’t have a true emotional attachment to you?
Yes it shows poor character judgement, but not poor character writing. It adds a layer of complexity to his rather bland ‘Keys copy’ persona.
Indeed, infidelity is wrong, yet it still happens in everyday life.
“There’s nothing like a good fight to get you in the mood yoinking. And there’s nothing like a yoink-mad Dornish girl to clear your head for the next fight.” - Bronn
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> Yes it shows poor character judgement, but not poor character writing. It adds a layer of complexity to his rather bland ‘Keys copy’ persona.
> Indeed, infidelity is wrong, yet it still happens in everyday life.
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> “There’s nothing like a good fight to get you in the mood yoinking. And there’s nothing like a yoink-mad Dornish girl to clear your head for the next fight.” - Bronn
I didn’t mean poor character writing. I meant poor character in the sense that (for lack of a better example) if someone was mean to another person it shows poor character in said person.
It adds complexity but it just feels like it was something shoehorned for the sake of the plot.
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> It adds complexity but it just feels like it was something shoehorned for the sake of the plot.
In that case, whats wrong with 343 showing that Cutter has bad character?
And to be honest, you could argue that about any aspect of a character’s history or actions being shoehorned in for plot reasons.
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Not everyone thinks in that way & to be honest it makes him seem more realistically human by making him imperfect.
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The thing is, it just feels like Clayton was only made Cutter’s son for the sake of a dramatic reveal. It’s not like the arc is supposed to be an in-depth analysis of Cutter’s character, or anything.
I guarantee you that Cutter having a mistress was simply the result of the writer wanting to reveal that Cutter’s son was the antagonist, but when he found out that Cutter had a daughter, not a son, they just gave him a mistress so that Clayton could still exist.
This all sorta reminds me of what happened in Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure. In the first three arcs, the protagonist was ALWAYS the grandson of the previous one. But, the problem was, by the time the author made it to Part 4, the series had caught up to present day (which was the 90s, back then), and the main character of the third arc was a high school student in the 80s, meaning that there was no way for the new main character to be the son of the last protagonist, much less the grandson, unless the author start making sci-fi a part of his series.
So, the author’s solution was to reveal that the second protagonist, who served as the wise mentor and father figure of the third arc (as he was about 60 by those events), had actually cheated on his wife with a very young Japanese woman right before the third arc began, thus explaining how the fourth protagonist manages to be the teenage son of a previous protagonist in the 90s (Even though one of the first things we see in the third arc is the second protagonist’s hatred of all things Japan). Just like with Cutter, it just felt like the writer threw a previous character under the bus simply to explain away another character’s existence.
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> Yes it shows poor character judgement, but not poor character writing. It adds a layer of complexity to his rather bland ‘Keys copy’ persona.
> Indeed, infidelity is wrong, yet it still happens in everyday life.
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There were about a million and one ways that Cutter could have been given more character. They could have made Clayton his son from another marriage, one that he wasn’t good at spending time with and divorced when he was younger. They could have had Clayton as a son with his current wife that he never got along with so he disowned him and that caused the name change. There are other ways of doing things like that without making his character out to be an -Yoink–hole. But instead, they decided to go this route for some stupid reason.
Like I said, I have a personal reason for hating cheaters. This just ruined my perception of him.
Humans have flaws.
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> Why is infidelity wrong? How do you know he didn’t have a true emotion attachment to that women he engaged with? Grow up.
Implying it’s ok to be unfaithful, but you’re telling him to grow up? Which in and of itself, was totally unnecessary by the way.
There’s this thing called characterization, in which writers create likable characters with major flaws, or that have done something they aren’t particularly proud of, that might damage the readers outlook on said character. Now you’re right, there is a million different flaws he could’ve had instead but how about you ask different questions like: “He seems like a good guy, why did he do the thing he did?” or “Does he regret his actions?” or “Could his experiences in war have pushed him to make this mistake?”
You see, it adds a certain depth to the character that “He’s a badass” can never accomplish.
In the end, he was human, of course he made mistakes.
It adds some depth to the character, and makes his relationship with Hood more interesting, assuming they get to meet again.
For all we know cutter regretted that choice till the end of his days. Was it wrong? Yes, but we don’t really know the circumstances and much into his stance on it.
I do agree with AlphaBenson though is that it feels more like a shoehorn for a dramatic reveal for a minor villain than to add any characterization to Cutter though.
We have zero information about Cutters family life. Just because two people are married does not mean they are particulary attatched to eachoter. It could have just as well been a marriage of convenience for social/legal reasons (a practise that has allways been common in the upper strata of society) than a love marriage. Or it could have been a dead marriage where neither side could be bothered to file the papers to end it for whatever reason.
Or, my gosh, captain Cutter could have had an actual character flaw.
Because it actually makes his character more complex and dynamic, nobody wants a cookie cutter hero all the time. This makes the character more human, yes he messed up by cheating on his wife at the same time, he is still considered a war hero and you see that during Halo Wars. You can’t be so black and white in a universe like Halo, look at the Prophet’s race now.
Cutter was a Space Captain. I am sure he had a mistress at every UNSC port in patrolled space.
Also, spoilers…this is the opening scene of Halo Wars 2.
I am sure that when the UNSC Spirit of Fire pulls into dry dock, you can hear Ludacris blaring over the comm system, all while Cutter is dancing on the Observation deck.
“I’ve got ***…in different area codes”
Just picture that for a moment…