What do you view as canon in Halo?

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Halo 1-3, ODST, Reach.
game>book, in terms of canon.

Hey I thought The Fall of Reach was a pretty accurate prequel for Halo 1, and this was written way before Halo: Reach was even out.
eh. i just think that the original media holds the canon, i think a lot of the books are cool and they enhance the game lore. but i dont think any of the game plot should defer to the book plot lines.

You don't have much of an active imagination left do you?
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this is the only canon i see



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The master chief fan fiction I wrote

Uhhh. What's it about?
Chief becomes a chef

A master chef


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The master chief fan fiction I wrote

Uhhh. What's it about?
Chief becomes a chef

A master chef

LOL! That would have been a better story than Halo 4's story.


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Seeing how we have one for Star Wars, I'd figured there should be one for Halo.

I view the first 3 games and ODST as canon. The book The Fall of Reach and First Strike along with Contact harvest as canon.

Halo 4 to me is like a bad fan-fiction story, and Halo: Reach destroyed the real beginning of Halo 1.

And if anyone here has actually read first strike which is between the end of Halo 1 and the beginning of Halo 2, it explains how Chief made it back to earth, befriended Sgt Johnson, Needed a suit upgrade, and even introduced the engineers way before ODST. Oh and spoilers....

Spoiler
They had to kill the engineer because it knew intel about Cheif's Mark V and they didn't want The Covenant to know about this, hence they killed it. At least from what I remember when I last read the book.
CE, 2, 3, ODST and all of the EU except the forerunner saga.


 
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Everything except Reach.


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I was going to say "all official, non retconned works contained within the franchise up until now" because that really makes a lot of sense to me, but then I realized something. I have been in so many debates with so many people, that the entire concept of Halo canon really doesn't even make any sense to me anymore. When I defend Halo 4 all I hear is "lmao 3fail3idiocy keep breaking canon." When I attack 343 all I hear is "but Bungie were the ones breaking canon!" When I defend Bungie Halo all I hear is "LOLREACH." And when I attack Bungie Halo all I hear is "lmao still canon unlike 3fail3's abominations!"

So I've gone for the simplest conclusion: Halo's canon doesn't exist. There is nothing canon in the Halo universe. It's just a series of, continual, moment-to-moment retcons that have always been self negating since their inception. Bungie and 343 never intended to tell a story with Halo, they were just trying to make sense of the canon in a universe that doesn't have any. It's just like Metal Gear, only Arbiter didn't do cartwheels like Raiden did.

Indeed we can see that this is what Destiny premises a lot of its story on. The Vex aren't just perpetrators of conscious representationalism, they're machines built by Bungie to understand the acausal Darkness that is the Halo canon. And instead when they try to analyze the subtext and try to find out what the canon is, they fall in line with the chaos and worship it. That's what the Vex were doing in the Black Garden: worshiping the absolute madness that was the Halo "canon."

tl;dr I accept everything officially made by Bungie and 343 that hasn't been retconned as canon for the Haloverse, though I like and dislike a lot of stuff from both companies.


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Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.


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Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.


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- korrie
Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.
I didn't forget.

Although I did forget about Helljumpers and Initiation.


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Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.
I don't think a lot of the Halo community considers Legends to be canon.


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I don't think a lot of the Halo community considers Legends to be canon.
Too bad, 343i says so.


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Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.
I don't think a lot of the Halo community considers Legends to be canon.

Legends is canon but very liberal with artistic license. Frankie himself has confirmed that there's a ridiculous amount of subtext and foreshadowing in Legends which we haven't come close to discovering [though we've come a ways since that comment].


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Someday, somewhere
Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.
I don't think a lot of the Halo community considers Legends to be canon.

Legends is canon but very liberal with artistic license. Frankie himself has confirmed that there's a ridiculous amount of subtext and foreshadowing in Legends which we haven't come close to discovering [though we've come a ways since that comment].
Halo game where you play as Spartan trainees breaking out of the facility and a game where you play as Ghost confirmed.


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Halo CE
Halo 2
Halo 3
ODST
Wars (As of Escalation, Wars is officially canon)
Halo 4
The Escalation comics
The Original Novels
The Newer Novels
The Forerunner Saga

All of these are canon.

Forgetting about Legends and the Bloodline Comics.
I don't think a lot of the Halo community considers Legends to be canon.

Legends is canon but very liberal with artistic license. Frankie himself has confirmed that there's a ridiculous amount of subtext and foreshadowing in Legends which we haven't come close to discovering [though we've come a ways since that comment].
Halo game where you play as Spartan trainees breaking out of the facility and a game where you play as Ghost confirmed.

Spartan 1337 brofist rendered by Blur

Awwww yeah


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Seeing how we have one for Star Wars, I'd figured there should be one for Halo.

I view the first 3 games and ODST as canon. The book The Fall of Reach and First Strike along with Contact harvest as canon.

Halo 4 to me is like a bad fan-fiction story, and Halo: Reach destroyed the real beginning of Halo 1.

And if anyone here has actually read first strike which is between the end of Halo 1 and the beginning of Halo 2, it explains how Chief made it back to earth, befriended Sgt Johnson, Needed a suit upgrade, and even introduced the engineers way before ODST. Oh and spoilers....

Spoiler
They had to kill the engineer because it knew intel about Cheif's Mark V and they didn't want The Covenant to know about this, hence they killed it. At least from what I remember when I last read the book.

All agreed except for Reach-- I believe the game serves the canon greatly.  Just my opiate opinion.


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Seeing how we have one for Star Wars, I'd figured there should be one for Halo.

I view the first 3 games and ODST as canon. The book The Fall of Reach and First Strike along with Contact harvest as canon.

Halo 4 to me is like a bad fan-fiction story, and Halo: Reach destroyed the real beginning of Halo 1.

And if anyone here has actually read first strike which is between the end of Halo 1 and the beginning of Halo 2, it explains how Chief made it back to earth, befriended Sgt Johnson, Needed a suit upgrade, and even introduced the engineers way before ODST. Oh and spoilers....

Spoiler
They had to kill the engineer because it knew intel about Cheif's Mark V and they didn't want The Covenant to know about this, hence they killed it. At least from what I remember when I last read the book.

All agreed except for Reach— I believe the game serves the canon greatly.  Just my opiate opinion.

Eh.


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Whatever 343i says is canon.

Because you're opinions on what's canon or not literally does not fucking matter.


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