In Halopedia, john says he believes that the Didact was merely contained, so it might be possible that The Didact is not dead.

For a villain this great, powerful and majestic as the Didact I don't think he is dead just yet. Maybe heavily injured and weak but I think his combat suit protected him for the most part.

The Didact will return. Stronger than ever.

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Quote from: Korra on September 24, 2014, 09:39:02 PM

For a villain this great, powerful and majestic as the Didact I don't think he is dead just yet. Maybe heavily injured and weak but I think his combat suit protected him for the most part.

The Didact will return. Stronger than ever.

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How could you

I could care less if it was HaloFollower. The info is the same and its on video. Deal with it.

Dude, the delivery and tone of that cutscene with the rest of the game and series is soo freaking awkward. It makes a semi-professional friendship seem like a love affair.

Do you even canon?

The majority of the Composer would appear to be outside the shield, only Didact is inside. Also, wouldn't they all be made out of the same hard light?

Evidently what's on the outside is ultimately irrelevant to the generation of the Composer's sympathies.

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1. Reed confirmed the Didact is still alive! =D

2. @Assassin, his armor attunes to the damage it is recieving, negating its effects.

Fred shot the Didact in the face with an overcharged Boltshot and he just says, "We're done here."

But he turned into cornflakes? How does one live after becoming cornflakes?

Bro it's 343i writing. How can Chief survive a nuke when it's in his hands? Space magic

The cringy Cortana scene that followed bothered me much more.

I actually laughed at how cringy that scene was. It just felt so awkward with the dialogue.
"I was supposed to take care of you"
"We were supposed to take care of each other"
"Cortona plz"

The thing that actually got me was Chief reminiscing with Lasky while staring at Earth. That was great.
"Soldiers aren't machines, we're just people..."

"I was supposed to take care of you."

"Which is where you come in, Chief. Get Cortana off this ship. Keep her safe from the enemy. If they capture her, they'll learn everything. Force deployment, weapons research... Earth."
"I understand."

"We were supposed to take care of each other."

"I am your shield, I am your sword."

Laugh all you want, but those two lines of dialogue they say to each other encapsulate their entire relationship over the course of the games and beyond.

While I see what you're saying the dialogue looks good in text but the way it was executed felt very awkward. And then Chief going "Cortana plz" made me laugh because it felt so out of place.

The way it was executed? How did you want them to do it? Just casually say goodbye?

Besides, most people seem to forget but the marketing campaign for Halo 4 portrayed Cortana as John's mother figure. (Which is an acceptable interpretation of their relationship as even Steve Downes says that's one of the possible ways you could interpret it.)

I feel like everyone forgets that in Halo 3 the entire mission to the Ark was all based on Master Chief's trust of Cortana when everything pointed to her being corrupted to the Flood. Like, holy fuck, CHIEF PUT THE ENTIRE FATE OF HUMANITY'S EXISTENCE ON HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH CORTANA.

Not just that, but Chief charged into one of the most, if not the most dangerous place in the galaxy just to get Cortana back.

This relationship they've had has always existed, it's just never been tested before. (And Bungie doesn't like adding emotional depth to their characters).

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Or Chief's a derp.

If you're going to debate the lore with me at least educate yourself. You're arguing from ignorance.

"The Didact's shielded himself inside the Composer. The nuke won't do us any good unless we can disable that barrier. Find me a terminal."
-Gameplay, Midnight, Halo 4

But the dish of the Composer is clearly sticking right out, and you're telling me that the nuke would've done nothing to the ship as long as the Composer was in it? If the rest of the ship is gone, then how's that going to function in the least?

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For a villain this great, powerful and majestic as the Didact I don't think he is dead just yet. Maybe heavily injured and weak but I think his combat suit protected him for the most part.

The Didact will return. Stronger than ever.

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I have to give it to 343 and the writers of the comic though. Chief is, without a doubt, one of the most respectable gaming characters I've had the pleasure to learn about and spend time with from a story standpoint.

He was pretty badass in this comic.

Like he's always been but with more badassery.

Curse you, OP!

Damn, I was just getting into him, but at least he is "still" alive.

Quote from: Neo on September 24, 2014, 05:04:43 PM

What about the other one? He's still drifting in space somewhere.

What other one? There's only the IsoDiact and the UrDidact. ISO died when he activated the rings

I was talking about iso. Thought he was still drifting in space somewhere.

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What about the other one? He's still drifting in space somewhere.

What other one? There's only the IsoDiact and the UrDidact. ISO died when he activated the rings

I was talking about iso. Thought he was still drifting in space somewhere.

Iso fired the rings from the safety of the Ark. The surviving Forerunners then undertook their literal "Great Journey," a mass exile from the milky way to another galaxy.

Gotta love how 343 is taking a Marvel-esque approach to everything, Bungie built the base, 343 are evolving and expanding it, if they keep this up the Halo universe is set to become one of the biggest, perhaps one day it will be as large as Star Wars or Marvel's universes

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Or Chief's a derp.

If you're going to debate the lore with me at least educate yourself. You're arguing from ignorance.

"The Didact's shielded himself inside the Composer. The nuke won't do us any good unless we can disable that barrier. Find me a terminal."
-Gameplay, Midnight, Halo 4

But the dish of the Composer is clearly sticking right out, and you're telling me that the nuke would've done nothing to the ship as long as the Composer was in it? If the rest of the ship is gone, then how's that going to function in the least?

Again, you're arguing from ignorance. The ship is 371km tall. A 5 Megaton bomb (presumably  smaller as it excavation-grade) is going to do nothing against a ship that size.

Plus, you're forgetting the vacuum of space is just a couple hundred meters above them. If they aren't close enough, the blast will blow a hole in the gravity field holding the atmosphere in, resulting in the blast just getting sucked into space.

Then how in the hell did it explode the ship to where nothing is left seen when the Composer/Didact's shield was off? How would it do anything then just by a personal shield turning off? I'm arguing it because it doesn't make any damn sense.

Was there an atmosphere there? They both have sealed suits on and there isn't anything really to indicate there is. And again, if that's the case, then how come it did work once the Didact's shield bubble was down?

For a villain this great, powerful and majestic as the Didact I don't think he is dead just yet. Maybe heavily injured and weak but I think his combat suit protected him for the most part.

The Didact will return. Stronger than ever.

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