Why is the Didact so mean? >:(

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Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:

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I’m hoping they shed more light on his character in Silentium, but his character arc wasn’t as bad as it could have been. I believed it, and I thought it worked out for this part of the story.

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Most likely a combination of seeing Humans as the greatest threat, as well as some old hatred from the first Forerunner-Human war.

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> Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:

You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?

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> > Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:
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> You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?

Nope.

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> > Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:
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> You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?

This made me laugh.

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> > > Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:
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> > You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?
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> This made me laugh.

Lmfao, Dat sum up.

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I think that deep inside there’s still a small part of Bornstellar inside the Didact left… Bornstellar with his positive feelings towards the humankind, nagging in the far back of your head while you are plotting the demise of those fleshbags - I imagine that as a pretty stressful place to be in.

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This is the Ur-Didact, exiled and imprisoned 100,000 years ago on Requiem by his own people because he wanted to exterminate humanity. I think he’d be a little angry at humanity too.

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> > Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:
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> You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?

He seemed to have gotten over it pretty well in Cryptum.

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> > > Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:
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> > You mean you wouldn’t be even a little angry at losing all your children, having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?
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> He seemed to have gotten over it pretty well in Cryptum.

Forerunners hide their emotions well, that or 343i just really wanted the Didact to be the bad guy in Halo 4. Anyway, I’m quite positive its the Ur-Didact in Halo 4 because in the terminals he says “I have led you, my Prometheans for thousands of years…” to the composed Prometheans.

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Is it possible he is scared? He’s composing people to build a larger army in hopes to stop the 2nd coming of the precursors?

Humanity could be the greatest threat because we arent ready for the “test”. Thus the galaxy will get dominated once again by the flood?

Or maybe that’s a little far fetched…

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> having your wife shoot you and then bury you alive for 100,000 years only to be woken up by a member of the species who is responsible for so many of your troubles?

Can someone help clarify two questions i have?

  1. where in the canon does it show the librarian shot/buried the didact?
  2. when did the humans actually wake him up? he sorta just appeared in the middle of the campaign, fully awake and alert. none of that rejuvination/timelock stuff as explained in cryptum…
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> 1) where in the canon does it show the librarian shot/buried the didact?

Terminals

> 2) when did the humans actually wake him up? he sorta just appeared in the middle of the campaign, fully awake and alert.

Uh… Did you skip the cutscene? The one where Chief had his hands on the plinths and activated the Didact’s prison?

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Are you suggesting that antagonists should be friendly?

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> Uh… Did you skip the cutscene? The one where Chief had his hands on the plinths and activated the Didact’s prison?

ah, crap!

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> When did the humans actually wake him up? He sorta just appeared in the middle of the campaign, fully awake and alert.

Don’t skip cutscenes in story heavy games. I had a friend who regularly would do that in videogames and then would have no idea what we were talking about when discussing the story of games. Annoyed me to no end.

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How would you feel being trapped in an oversized kill ball for a few thousand years?

And then to be awaken by the species that attempted to over throw your own species?

Yeah, kinda don’t blame him.

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> Why is he so arrogant and mean in Halo 4? :frowning:

Because this one isn’t the Bornstellar Didact.

Notice that he was placed in a Cryptum before the rings were fired (as per terminals) The Bornstellar Didact had a soft spot for humanity and was the one who fired the rings.

You do the math.

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> I think that deep inside there’s still a small part of Bornstellar inside the Didact left… Bornstellar with his positive feelings towards the humankind, nagging in the far back of your head while you are plotting the demise of those fleshbags - I imagine that as a pretty stressful place to be in.

That’s funny. The Didact in Halo 4 is the Ur-Didact.