@@ICEMAKERM14 eh, I beg to differ. The Banished are a pretty good reason to have Headhunters. Though Spartan IVs definitely don't deserve to join their ranks.
This would be great as a game. Co-Op centered. No shields, limited armor. New guns and equipment. Emphasis on stealth gameplay. See how each mission impact chances of humanity's survival.
@@ClaireDuhLune give it a gritty Militaristic MGS 5 and Ghost Recon 2001 feel (Ghost Recon released same year as Halo CE, it feels closer to Bungie's original RTS/action shooter concept for Halo; the Command map is in a separate menu in Ghost recon)
Ya know, something tells me ONI knew exactly what the Covies were up to, and sacrificed these two Headhunters just to fell the Silent Shadow causing trouble for them and their Spartans. "If ONI says it's hot, it's hot". That's a lot of non-info to give some of your most valuable assassins. I mean... think about it. The Silent Shadow is the most deadly and elite Covenant Assassin division in their entire force. They're trained in hunting down Spartans and eliminating them. They're some of the Covenant's deadliest infantry, their own version of Spartan-IIs, and they just wasted 6 of them to destroy two Spartan-IIIs in SPI armor, armed with just some suppressed weapons, some EMP grenades, flashbangs, and a shitload of detpacks. What did the Covenant lose setting this "trap"? Hundreds of geks in fake resources on a fake dig site, more than 20 trained Covenant troops, and six Silent Shadow Elites clad in the most advanced (and likely expensive) armor and armed with unique, likely highly advanced weaponry, with excellent Active Camouflage systems. All to kill two Spartans. And they didn't even get to return from the mission. Pyrrhic as it is, the UNSC, or, rather, ONI, absolutely came out on top in this tussle. Two Spartan-IIIs for the lives of 20+ Covies and Six Spartan-Killers. Is that not exactly what the Spartan-IIIs entire purpose is? Beautiful stuff.
If ONI says it's hot, it's hot. I think Jonah realized exactly what both he and the silent shadow were set up for right before his death. Like he said, "all these resources wasted on a few pathetic humans, makes me feel special"
It was great reading this. Really hoping for a darker version of headhunters but in-game. 343 could nail it with some really dark story telling. That’s what halo needs in my opinion.
According to the new lore in the Halo encyclopedia, one of the elites of the silent shadow ( the ones at the end ) is Jega 'Rdomnai from Halo infinite. You know the cyborg Elite. He was the only Elite to survive the bombs. His injuries were so severe that he had to be fused to cyborg parts
@@thesolarhunter he left cause his cybernetics. They were seen as unfaithful to elite culture and he had the choice of get them and be shunned from the elites, or live with one arm and half the mouth mandibles. Which is why the shipmaster from 2 and 3 doesn’t have cybernetic mandibles. Escharum accepted him as he was and they joined the banished together
Yeah that completely justifies betraying elites that want to make peace with humanity (swords of sanghelios) while helping elites that want to kill us all (servants of abiding truth) 🤦♂️
SkyPrysm The Spartan III’s have a chemical that’s released when they’re mortally wounded. It allows them to survive for a few more moments in order to kill more enemies. This was shown in halo reach when Emile was stabbed by an energy sword, but managed to turn around and kill the elite.
Kristian Brandt translators on both sides,and those were highly skilled sangheili trained specifically for killing spartans forget the name but they trained the blood stars the brute version of them that you encounter in halo 3 on the cartographer
We need more things like this. In pretty much every piece of halo media, we always see humans look so small compared to covenant troops, especially elites and brutes. You have no idea how satisfying it is to see elites actually look scared of humans.
That was the point in the halo verse its a war for survival . sure the spartan 2s coming in made elites & brutes excited grunts and jackel's shit themselves. But the fact of the matter brutes were more then enough to handle spartan 2s they even rip one apart in the first strike novel but spartans were the boogeymen of the covenant
@blackouthorus1519 and chief was their nightmare,I mean imagine every single covenant member knew about the master chief as the demon,over 100 billion living things were terrified of him,the banished looked at him as prey for they did not believe in his prowess but once he started taking out hvts,tremonius,chak lok,bassus the banished started to fear him especially since these units were a nightmare to the covenant for years and the humans for decades and here comes chief and wipes them all out in mere hours.Yeah I'd be terrified to Edit:also even echarum the one who basically riled the covenant to where it is now,trained atriox and was his mentor,basically one of if not the most dangerous brute warlord to have ever existed who also alle chief prey now called him the demon just like the covenant did
A little late, but that isn't actually an EVA helmet. It is a different kind of armor, and not actually a variant of MJOLNIR. It is called Semi-Powered Infiltration (SPI) armor. Very few Spartan 3's (which is what headhunters are pulled from) actually had an opportunity to wear MJOLNIR armor because of how expensive it is. SPI armor was devised as a cheaper, less protective way to make infiltration armor (which is what all SPARTAN-IIIs were designed for) so that way waves of SPARTANs could accomplish their job, even if it cost their life.
@@nutyyyyBungie were still making the games, but they’d already split from Microsoft in 2007, and 343 was created in the same year by MS to manage Halo. It was 343 who oversaw the creation of this, and Halo Legends, but people wrongly credit it all to Bungie.
@@burtyjr 343's writing staff didn't do jack for this, either. This short story, included in Halo: Evolutions, was written by Jonathan Goff, who became a Community Manager at 343 the same month in 2009 that the book was published, then a Program Manager, before leaving in 2011.
The silent shadow elite special forces from the Covenant. But after the war they just continue terrorizing the brutes. It got to the point where they accidentally ran into Atriox. But Atriox made them a offer to join the banished. But the leader ended up attacking Atriox and dying. So the rest of the silent Shadow ended up joining Atrioxs
@@brandonterrell4818 you don't know what kind of timing you just had. I completely forgot I made this comment, and when you commented I was in the middle of explaining the maneuverability of the AAT and the TX-130 in Star Wars Battlefront 2. I had to pause because I was literally talking about fun places to blow shit up at in Battlefront 2.
This is why I miss Halo: waypoint, had some of the greatest comics I've read. The Halo universe is so deep, and there is so much the games never explore. I wish they'd show us more of this stuff
Spartan 2s are awsome, but ther is something about the 3s that is just incredible, cause they're not as straight up powerful or strong like 2s, but some how they manage to keep up and pull as much weight, if not more at times than the 2s.
The 3s were the pinnacle of the Spartan program Mixing the quality of the Spartan 2 while having the mass producing of a army Which the 4s lack in discipline
Fun fact: Jega 'Rdomnai was part of the Silent Shadow outfit. He lost his limbs from the explosion but survived and got prosthetic ones. Then he got his ass kicked again. Jonah lost the bet, but he's right that they werent getting away without losing a limb or two.
It's crazy going back to this years later but with the knowledge that one of those Silent Shadow Elites is Jega 'Rdomnai that we'd later see in Infinite.
Same. I remember when they released Waypoint and it was also the only way to watch Halo Legends back then. I remember waiting in anticipation of the next Halo Evolutions episode. Favorite one was Mona Lisa, which was almost a full-on movie when you put all the parts together. I remember how long it took them to release all the parts. Kinda wish they did another one of these. We have Halo: Fractures, which is also a collection of stories. Hell I wish they just animate the books if they can't make them into games.
@@majortughjedi9813Yup, when I was teenager I thought this stuff was so badass. It’s been at least 10 years and it’s still badass lol. I check back in and watch once every year or two.
@@Razgriz_01Yeah, simpler times man. I loved this lore content they would drop on waypoint. Remember the trailers and videos they dropped on halo reach? Like the enemy type “elites” “Brutes” “Jackals” break down trailers? Mona Lisa is bomb, I thought Henry was so dope. I just watched that and now I’m watching this one. I rewatch them every 1-2 years. Cheers man hope you’re doing good.
I love this art style and animation but maybe cause ive watched this hundreds of times and etc and heart of the Midlothian and mona lisa and all of them when first put up on halo waypoint
I remember watching Mona Lisa a few years ago, and I was sooo fucking scared of it. I love it now though, and how it tells of stories not many of my friends know. I love bragging about it to them lmao.
Jay being "essentially a government-sanctioned sociopath" while remaining a helluva guy to his equally sociopathic partner makes me think of how Black Noir regards the others in the Seven and is regarded in turn. I just wonder if any of the creative talents behind The Boys ever saw Headhunters.
"You will not be so brave once we have carved your flesh, and you have screamed your secrets to the stars." One of the coldest lines spoken by an elite.
@@GhostAnimatesStuff the art style was fantastic man. But compared to my idea of the characters in the book, the characters in the short were all too goofy. The voice actors were too comical, and I couldn't take anyone seriously. They even ruined some of the dialogue from the book for me by executing it with different atmosphere than the original. Agree to disagree though man. I'm glad you enjoy it.
I feel we never got to see the Spartan 3’s ingame sure we got Noble team but they had the Mjolnir suit while these guys didn’t, a game about them would be great just like ODST being vulnerable but still being able to create a Pile of bodies and having an emotional story
And this is why I love Halo, the side episodes and books are just as amazing as the games if not more, this is also why Halo should always be rated M, it's a military sci fi series at its core, war is brutal
Interesting fact: Jonah is possibly from Beta Company, the second batch of Spartan llls and was most likely bullied by the instructors. In the book,”Ghost of Onyx,” Tom mentions the instructors taking their frustration on the cadets and possibly murdered a squad of them. *Spoilers* When it turned out to be sentinels Imagine Jonah’s reaction after what Tom did to them.
TomatoLlama - There’s an anime series called ‘Desert Punk’ that has a lead character who talks in pretty much the same way. You might like it, as Kanta is bounty hunter with a potty mouth, great aim, and a twisted sense of humor! Considerably less of a bloody, as well.
15:12 well Jega Rdomnai is one of those Silent Shadow members and in this he ended up being the soul survivor and he lost his left arm 2 of his mandables and half his face. So yeah limbs were lost.
Honestly making Spartan-III’s into assassin’s is one of the best ideas in the lore. They’re all orphans of the human covenant war so having children with a bitter hatred for an enemy and having the particularly sadistic ones as assassin’s is just natural. A scalpel is one thing, it’s another for it to hate you.
But also a butt ton of money. It's a hard choice between worthy voice actors and animation, but I'd say that good actors are hard to come by so it was good trade off.
The only known Headhunters Jun-A266 Hazel-A302 Jonah-B283 Roland-B210 Now we are only missing 2 more, since there are only 6 Spartan-IIIs in the Headhunter program.
Funny thing Roland looked like my Spartan back on reach and my brother’s looked like Jonah (just with bigger shoulders) and we were easly surprised that our Spartans look like them
Nice to see we might finally get to fight Silent Shadow elites in Infinity since they joined the Banished and we've even seen a Spartan Hunting elite in the trailers.
Natural ? I find it agonizingly stereotypical, cringe and edgy but that’s Spartan III for you so it’s normal Ig. Feels like they took the discord of the most stereotypical GamerTM chat and fed it to an AI. Try hard to be cool, to make one liners, trying hard to be witty and having a « idk buddy pal chum lmao u are wrong I’m so cool » attitude. Toes curling. Had to pause the vid multiple times.
He was a Spartan 3, no shields, his armor is built cheap and can only protect against grazing plasma shots, along with a highly elite group of zealot class elites specifically trained to kill Spartans all charging him with energy swords.
If you don’t know the lore behind these legends. These are basically covert ops Spartan and |||’s and they were sent on missions as a group of 2. They were basically suicide squads. Being sent to a mission that was a high chance of death. They were also given rare gear that most Spartans never gotten, and most Spartan |||’s never came out alive.
Anyone goanna talk about how quick those elites got the best of Jonah? He got his arm pulled from his sockets less than a second eventhough spartan lls could go toe to toe with them.
He's about 15 and in SPI armour not mjolnir. Plus read the novels, S2s often struggle in hand to hand with elites. Plus these guys are the silent shadow, they are THE BEST elite spec ops team there is.
@@connorbaird8596 In Ghost of Onyx, the prologue had several Spartans fighting elites in CQC. Tom even points out how they were even winning until Carriers arrived. Jerome was able to fight 3 elites in an enclosed space with Mark 4 armor. I know these guys and Atriox have enhancements but there’s times where they play up Spartan strengths where it conflicts with other media.
@@Mars_over_seer I understand where you are coming from and I personally would have liked Jonah to take out one or two but I suppose it's because these guys are potentially even better duelists than Thel Vadame and he was evenly matched in a fist fight with Jai who was in mjolnir. So as a S3 fan I would have wanted them to look good but I get why Jonah got smacked up.
It would be cool to have a game where you play as a Spartan IV hunting down a rogue Spartan II. Because the Spartan II is pretty much superior to your Spartan you'll have to resort to stalking, tracking, hiding and waiting for the final fight where the Spartan II is weakened or tired so that you could stand a chance. Basically Halo 5 but better.
It would be insanely out of character for a Spartan 2 to outright go rogue. They were basically raised by Halsey and the Navy, and had military etiquette drilled in their heads. They could sometimes disobey orders to better complete their objective, but outright going rogue wouldn't be in-character exactly for a 2. Or a 3, for that matter.
343 should really consider making this a game or dlc to another halo game. It's nice to see such badass characters outside of chief and would be a nice little tie in story before reach maybe
If Headhunters worked as teams of 2's that makes me wonder who Noble 6's teammate was, as last I checked he was heavily implied headhunter of sorts. That is iirc. Although, maybe since he was an insurrection headhunter and not a covenant one he didn't get a partner? Edit: I forgot he was classified as a "*Lone wolf* hyper-leathal vector" so he probably didn't get a partner
And to think one of the Silent Shadow operatives actually survived this and went on to become part of the Banished contingent on Infinite's Installation 07... only to be implied to have also survived fighting the Master Chief as well (as of this writing).
According to the new lore only Jega 'Rdomnai survived this encounter. He was on this team. His injuries were so bad that they had to fuse him with cyborg parts.
"if you think you're taking me without losing a limb, youve lost your damn mind" That elite did in fact lose 2 limbs in the explosion and became the one cyborg elite from Halo Infinite
My question is, why doesn't ONI issue out experimental weapons that are good against shields? They're sending them in with small caliber rounds against an enemy that mostly rely on energy technology
I personally feel that this was a one way trip. The elites that killed them were the silent shadows. Elite Spartan killers. ONI most likely used the headhunters to draw them away from the front lines. Thus keeping them away from the UNSC. Don’t get me wrong if they blew up the placements and took them out, the. Great. The Spartan 3 were always disposable cheaper ways to put more in the field. The Spartan 2 through DR Halsey needed specific requirements like DNA markers to be on the program. Spartan 3 were essentially orphaned kids from the colonies.
@@loudman12 The amount of effort and resources you have to put in to train and select a head hunter is so high that they should have been the exception to the rule. Because now you're down 2 out of 14 HeadHunters you have for a galaxy wide war
@@IronVigilance I not saying it’s not a waste. It is. But they the exception to the rule. The Spartan 3 that showed promise were separated from the bulk like the headhunters. But ultimately they were seen as disposable
My team and I have as a collective watched your video a total of 30 times give or take over the last 2 weeks whilst attempting to be the first people to recreate everything shown in halo infinite. I have taken 419 reference images of this video ;-;
@@kojironovach.7649 we’re about 90% done now, we’ve made the first halo Infinte halo wars Covenant Hall for the middle building at the end of the motion comic
@@exendary8366 I wish, my team and I discovered a fatal flaw in halo infinites file system that allowed anyone to outright steal credits for maps and the game itself lost quite a few players so. I’m waiting on my team to help to finish the project. We have Explosives from forest 1 set, all ai positions and scripts set. Explosive det pack set 2 set and now we just need to figure out how to script the ending once the player detonates the final explosives
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Halo: Headhunters added to the list of Halo games we need
Imagine as a coop game in splitscreen
@@W0DAN88 splintercell style
Hopefully a prequel because theirs no point for head hunters to exist after the war. I roll my eyes everytime i hear about a spartan 4 headhunter.
@@ICEMAKERM14 eh, I beg to differ. The Banished are a pretty good reason to have Headhunters. Though Spartan IVs definitely don't deserve to join their ranks.
Noble1236 agreed
This would be great as a game. Co-Op centered. No shields, limited armor. New guns and equipment. Emphasis on stealth gameplay. See how each mission impact chances of humanity's survival.
I generally love stealth oriented games, and i would absolutely play this if it ever becomes a thing
That just sounds like odst with extra steps
@@rsdillbot3646 less of a detective story, more wetwork involved.
@@ClaireDuhLune give it a gritty Militaristic MGS 5 and Ghost Recon 2001 feel (Ghost Recon released same year as Halo CE, it feels closer to Bungie's original RTS/action shooter concept for Halo; the Command map is in a separate menu in Ghost recon)
fuck yeahs, but head hunters along with a few others like noble team were spartan IIIIs that had Mjølnir...with energy shields
Ya know, something tells me ONI knew exactly what the Covies were up to, and sacrificed these two Headhunters just to fell the Silent Shadow causing trouble for them and their Spartans. "If ONI says it's hot, it's hot". That's a lot of non-info to give some of your most valuable assassins. I mean... think about it.
The Silent Shadow is the most deadly and elite Covenant Assassin division in their entire force. They're trained in hunting down Spartans and eliminating them. They're some of the Covenant's deadliest infantry, their own version of Spartan-IIs, and they just wasted 6 of them to destroy two Spartan-IIIs in SPI armor, armed with just some suppressed weapons, some EMP grenades, flashbangs, and a shitload of detpacks. What did the Covenant lose setting this "trap"? Hundreds of geks in fake resources on a fake dig site, more than 20 trained Covenant troops, and six Silent Shadow Elites clad in the most advanced (and likely expensive) armor and armed with unique, likely highly advanced weaponry, with excellent Active Camouflage systems. All to kill two Spartans. And they didn't even get to return from the mission.
Pyrrhic as it is, the UNSC, or, rather, ONI, absolutely came out on top in this tussle. Two Spartan-IIIs for the lives of 20+ Covies and Six Spartan-Killers. Is that not exactly what the Spartan-IIIs entire purpose is? Beautiful stuff.
If ONI says it's hot, it's hot. I think Jonah realized exactly what both he and the silent shadow were set up for right before his death. Like he said, "all these resources wasted on a few pathetic humans, makes me feel special"
Wait I didn’t see them kill silent shadow members?
@@macvadda2318 pretty sure the explosion killed them
In the book there were 2 head hunter teams there
It was great reading this. Really hoping for a darker version of headhunters but in-game. 343 could nail it with some really dark story telling. That’s what halo needs in my opinion.
According to the new lore in the Halo encyclopedia, one of the elites of the silent shadow ( the ones at the end ) is Jega 'Rdomnai from Halo infinite. You know the cyborg Elite. He was the only Elite to survive the bombs. His injuries were so severe that he had to be fused to cyborg parts
Yup he was actually the Elite that Jonah fired at, and cracked his visor, as stated in Halopedia.
Is this what caused him to leave the Covenant and join the Banished?
@@thesolarhunter he left cause his cybernetics. They were seen as unfaithful to elite culture and he had the choice of get them and be shunned from the elites, or live with one arm and half the mouth mandibles. Which is why the shipmaster from 2 and 3 doesn’t have cybernetic mandibles. Escharum accepted him as he was and they joined the banished together
Why does everything have to be connected? Are there really so few characters in the Halo universe among these Empires of billions?...
@TheGreatScot 45 it's just one little thing. Not nearly as bad as Star Wars, where everyone seems to know everyone
I notice and I love how their personalitys are basically the average Halo player, layered on top of proper military discipline.
This is actually a really interesting and insightful take
They ARE about the age of a teenager.
spartan-3s carry a lot of angst and hatred against the covenant like that, emile of course being the most well known case
Explains a lot
Probably because they were the age of an average Halo player
"It's better to be the bully than the one getting beat on"
*ONI, post-War*
This is ONI at literally every second of their existence
Yeah that completely justifies betraying elites that want to make peace with humanity (swords of sanghelios) while helping elites that want to kill us all (servants of abiding truth) 🤦♂️
also prewar... why should colonists born on a planet light years away from earth have to abide by earths laws?
@@B-rex395 ONI considers all elites a threat. Including the Arbiter and rightfully so. He alone is responsible for literally billions of human deaths.
No it's better to be the one who stands up for themselves and others than to be the one who gets beat on.
Sangheili: "you are not warriors, not true warriors. You are assassins, weak and timid, hiding in the shadows."
Also Sangheili: *Silent Shadows*
It's almost like Elites are giant pompous hypocrites or something...
Hypocritical worts
Jonah: "Says the alien shithead who invented Active-Camouflage."
The camo elites let that elite die because he was talking about them 😂
@@TheKingOfHalo Ye
The fact that he survived being cut in the chest by an energy sword that long is more then impressive
SkyPrysm might of been gamma company shoot offs
SkyPrysm The Spartan III’s have a chemical that’s released when they’re mortally wounded. It allows them to survive for a few more moments in order to kill more enemies. This was shown in halo reach when Emile was stabbed by an energy sword, but managed to turn around and kill the elite.
@@TheKingOfHalo only gamma company had that drug. Emile was just a badass.
@@ICEMAKERM14 yup
CAMRO It was probably just the angle that the energy sword hit him that let him live a little bit longer or it could just be will power.
I find the elites talking to humans interesting
I find Elites speaking English silly!
Kristian Brandt translators on both sides,and those were highly skilled sangheili trained specifically for killing spartans forget the name but they trained the blood stars the brute version of them that you encounter in halo 3 on the cartographer
Or were the Spartans speaking sanghili
Real time translation. Usually mentioned in the books if you read any.
@@musicguy20 Out of curiosity, how and when did the UNSC got to translate sangheli language as well as other alien languages?
We need more things like this. In pretty much every piece of halo media, we always see humans look so small compared to covenant troops, especially elites and brutes. You have no idea how satisfying it is to see elites actually look scared of humans.
That was the point in the halo verse its a war for survival . sure the spartan 2s coming in made elites & brutes excited grunts and jackel's shit themselves.
But the fact of the matter brutes were more then enough to handle spartan 2s they even rip one apart in the first strike novel but spartans were the boogeymen of the covenant
@blackouthorus1519 and chief was their nightmare,I mean imagine every single covenant member knew about the master chief as the demon,over 100 billion living things were terrified of him,the banished looked at him as prey for they did not believe in his prowess but once he started taking out hvts,tremonius,chak lok,bassus the banished started to fear him especially since these units were a nightmare to the covenant for years and the humans for decades and here comes chief and wipes them all out in mere hours.Yeah I'd be terrified to
Edit:also even echarum the one who basically riled the covenant to where it is now,trained atriox and was his mentor,basically one of if not the most dangerous brute warlord to have ever existed who also alle chief prey now called him the demon just like the covenant did
Weird to think these two are no more than 14-19 during this. Depending on the the company they were trained apart of...
Taddpole1998 it’s also weird to think that in halo forward unto dawn movie master chief was only 15
@@jsiabot3467 I thought he was 16 at that point? I'll have to go back and re-read operation silent storm
They were both beta company
They where both from beta
@@jsiabot3467 yea especially the fact that he and the other spartans are all younger than the kids they saved
“Like picking on an emotionally stunted 12 year old” lol great reference to warzone
This came out like 6 years before Warzone
@@KattalystFr did he type this 2 years before warzone wtf
I know.
Bruh I'm stupid
Nugget Stew this came out before halo 5 it’s a reference to the community
Why do all the insane Spartans wear an eva helmet?
A little late, but that isn't actually an EVA helmet. It is a different kind of armor, and not actually a variant of MJOLNIR. It is called Semi-Powered Infiltration (SPI) armor. Very few Spartan 3's (which is what headhunters are pulled from) actually had an opportunity to wear MJOLNIR armor because of how expensive it is. SPI armor was devised as a cheaper, less protective way to make infiltration armor (which is what all SPARTAN-IIIs were designed for) so that way waves of SPARTANs could accomplish their job, even if it cost their life.
If you can find a book called “Ghosts of
Onyx” it talks about SPI armor.
@@rynzemrak1834 EVA and SPI do look similar though, so it still can be said. all the insane guys wear similar helmets.
@@espilgrind "A ham sandwich looks similar to a Turkey sandwich so you can basically call them either or."
@@rynzemrak1834 You really dont get my point do you.
If the spartans had Henry on their side, The Silent Shadows would have been done for
Ah, Henry the friendly, badass elite
@@hydradominatus3661 He deserved to live and become part of the Sword of Sanghelios
The silent virgins Vs the Chad henry
*YOU DARE DEFY THE ALMIGHTY CRICKET PADDLE*
Oh u meaning hardcore henry?
Whoever is making these stories for halo needs to be leading the direction cause this was truly art, I love this story.
These are all from 2009 when Bungie was still making games.
@@nutyyyyBungie were still making the games, but they’d already split from Microsoft in 2007, and 343 was created in the same year by MS to manage Halo.
It was 343 who oversaw the creation of this, and Halo Legends, but people wrongly credit it all to Bungie.
@@burtyjr 343's writing staff didn't do jack for this, either. This short story, included in Halo: Evolutions, was written by Jonathan Goff, who became a Community Manager at 343 the same month in 2009 that the book was published, then a Program Manager, before leaving in 2011.
The silent shadow elite special forces from the Covenant. But after the war they just continue terrorizing the brutes. It got to the point where they accidentally ran into Atriox. But Atriox made them a offer to join the banished. But the leader ended up attacking Atriox and dying. So the rest of the silent Shadow ended up joining Atrioxs
Autism With A Voice actually before the leader had a chance to attack atriox his subordinates betrayed him by sticking 3 energy swords in his back
Really cool we get to see them in infinite
Where is it happening? Can you give a source please?
@@Kobble03 the blade master was concerned to be a ex silent shadow member
@@macvadda2318 jega is actually supposed to be one of the elites in this cinematic
You know what that should be my motto on Halo and any gun game "When in doubt blow shit up." yep definitely my new motto
Awesome
Its mine to
same borther
@@brandonterrell4818 you don't know what kind of timing you just had. I completely forgot I made this comment, and when you commented I was in the middle of explaining the maneuverability of the AAT and the TX-130 in Star Wars Battlefront 2.
I had to pause because I was literally talking about fun places to blow shit up at in Battlefront 2.
Mine's gonna be "it's like picking on an emotionally stunted 12 year old"
That grunt dab around 7:50 tho
This is why I miss Halo: waypoint, had some of the greatest comics I've read. The Halo universe is so deep, and there is so much the games never explore. I wish they'd show us more of this stuff
Spartan 2s are awsome, but ther is something about the 3s that is just incredible, cause they're not as straight up powerful or strong like 2s, but some how they manage to keep up and pull as much weight, if not more at times than the 2s.
more numbers ig
Training by a s2 that increased the training and augmented with aggressive traits during augmentation
The 3s were the pinnacle of the Spartan program
Mixing the quality of the Spartan 2 while having the mass producing of a army
Which the 4s lack in discipline
@@MrWortWort1 agreed, just a waste to lose alpha and bravo on one mission
@@austinperry1671 but by doing this made them less stable idk if they fixed it though .
“If you think your taking me without losing a limb you’ve lost your mind”
Fun fact: Jega 'Rdomnai was part of the Silent Shadow outfit. He lost his limbs from the explosion but survived and got prosthetic ones. Then he got his ass kicked again.
Jonah lost the bet, but he's right that they werent getting away without losing a limb or two.
Plot twist Jay is alive and has Jega's teeth as a necklace
Jega was the one that killed Roland
It's crazy going back to this years later but with the knowledge that one of those Silent Shadow Elites is Jega 'Rdomnai that we'd later see in Infinite.
I remember watching this on halo waypoint on my Xbox 360 when it first released, good times. Anyone else remember that?
Same. I remember when they released Waypoint and it was also the only way to watch Halo Legends back then. I remember waiting in anticipation of the next Halo Evolutions episode. Favorite one was Mona Lisa, which was almost a full-on movie when you put all the parts together. I remember how long it took them to release all the parts.
Kinda wish they did another one of these. We have Halo: Fractures, which is also a collection of stories. Hell I wish they just animate the books if they can't make them into games.
Did the same my man. It was dope back in highschool. Good times
@@majortughjedi9813Yup, when I was teenager I thought this stuff was so badass. It’s been at least 10 years and it’s still badass lol. I check back in and watch once every year or two.
@@Razgriz_01Yeah, simpler times man. I loved this lore content they would drop on waypoint. Remember the trailers and videos they dropped on halo reach? Like the enemy type “elites” “Brutes” “Jackals” break down trailers? Mona Lisa is bomb, I thought Henry was so dope. I just watched that and now I’m watching this one. I rewatch them every 1-2 years. Cheers man hope you’re doing good.
I love this art style and animation but maybe cause ive watched this hundreds of times and etc and heart of the Midlothian and mona lisa and all of them when first put up on halo waypoint
same
I remember watching Mona Lisa a few years ago, and I was sooo fucking scared of it. I love it now though, and how it tells of stories not many of my friends know. I love bragging about it to them lmao.
Jay being "essentially a government-sanctioned sociopath" while remaining a helluva guy to his equally sociopathic partner makes me think of how Black Noir regards the others in the Seven and is regarded in turn. I just wonder if any of the creative talents behind The Boys ever saw Headhunters.
12:00 I love that he says OVERKILL in the same way as the halo games.
"You will not be so brave once we have carved your flesh, and you have screamed your secrets to the stars."
One of the coldest lines spoken by an elite.
This elite is a G he also comforted Jay by telling him to take peace in the fact that all of humanity will also die soon.
This is cool but it took me like 5 minutes to tell the two Spartans apart their voices are identical lol
Same
The eva spartan is kenny from walking dead game
@@tassel4713 source?
@@sketch6597 my ears
No they're really not. You're just tone deaf and can't tell the difference. They sound nothing alike.
I gotta say, The Mona Lisa and Heart of Midlothian were the two best in my opinion
Mona Lisa was awful, book was 2000% better
@@crusadrian5010 I liked the Mona Lisa's style.
@@GhostAnimatesStuff the art style was fantastic man. But compared to my idea of the characters in the book, the characters in the short were all too goofy. The voice actors were too comical, and I couldn't take anyone seriously. They even ruined some of the dialogue from the book for me by executing it with different atmosphere than the original. Agree to disagree though man. I'm glad you enjoy it.
@@crusadrian5010 I didn't read Halo Evolutions, that may have been the reason I enjoyed Mona Lisa so much. I'm planning to get it in the future.
Hallowed 4th but what about the dabbing grunt
I feel we never got to see the Spartan 3’s ingame sure we got Noble team but they had the Mjolnir suit while these guys didn’t, a game about them would be great just like ODST being vulnerable but still being able to create a Pile of bodies and having an emotional story
And this is why I love Halo, the side episodes and books are just as amazing as the games if not more, this is also why Halo should always be rated M, it's a military sci fi series at its core, war is brutal
Interesting fact: Jonah is possibly from Beta Company, the second batch of Spartan llls and was most likely bullied by the instructors.
In the book,”Ghost of Onyx,” Tom mentions the instructors taking their frustration on the cadets and possibly murdered a squad of them. *Spoilers*
When it turned out to be sentinels
Imagine Jonah’s reaction after what Tom did to them.
I’m late, but they’re both from Beta Company. Roland is B210 and Jonah is B283.
- I'm just saying I wouldn't trust you with my kids.
- You don't have kids.
- Then we got nothing to worry about.
Heh. Spartan humour.
-Then* we got..
@anthonycarlisle6184 -Then* we got nothing to worry about.*
Do better next time.
I like how it goes from frame to frame animation to full blown production level animation
“Says the alien shitheel who invented active camo.”
“Government sanctioned sociopath” is easily my favorite way to describe the Spartan lll’s
I prefer the term "weaponised racism"
"When in doubt... Blow shit up."
Best line ever
“And if you think you’re taking me without *losing a limb* , you’ve lost you’re damn *mind* “.
Jega afterwards: “Damn, I didn’t think he could back that up.”
Jega should have better him 20 credits
I really wish there was a Soundtrack release for Headhunters. It's opening theme is very unique.
th-cam.com/play/PLV-GRqsVd9kgSFHJoEhEOPl_SpEy8iTdv.html
There ya go buddy
senpai Wut?? I have looked for this for years and these never came up! Holy crap! Thank you for this!
@@AzureFlameGod1986 Ayyy no probs fam
There's also soundtrack for all other episodes and link for soundcloud for its creator.
senpai Is love them when you get time. These Evolution comic animations hold a special place in my heart.
Same. I love the sound design of this episode.
15:24 What a Deadpool thing to say lol
Tomato Llama fist down someone's throat lol
TomatoLlama - There’s an anime series called ‘Desert Punk’ that has a lead character who talks in pretty much the same way. You might like it, as Kanta is bounty hunter with a potty mouth, great aim, and a twisted sense of humor! Considerably less of a bloody, as well.
In deadpool comics iirc he does put his hand down sabertooth's throat as deadpool was dissolving.
A Ghost Recon: Breakpoint style co-op based halo game would be rather interesting
15:12 well Jega Rdomnai is one of those Silent Shadow members and in this he ended up being the soul survivor and he lost his left arm 2 of his mandables and half his face. So yeah limbs were lost.
really like the explosion effects
this dialogue is great
Honestly making Spartan-III’s into assassin’s is one of the best ideas in the lore. They’re all orphans of the human covenant war so having children with a bitter hatred for an enemy and having the particularly sadistic ones as assassin’s is just natural. A scalpel is one thing, it’s another for it to hate you.
16:35 had this story be in that kind of animation, the whole thing would've improved tenfold.
Liam O'Connor It’s a stylistic choice. Appreciate it.
@@cerebralcloud92 Style and probably budget, to a large extent
@@thomasanthonydavis3813 true
But also a butt ton of money. It's a hard choice between worthy voice actors and animation, but I'd say that good actors are hard to come by so it was good trade off.
Ngl I really like the style of animation through the whole thing
The only known Headhunters
Jun-A266
Hazel-A302
Jonah-B283
Roland-B210
Now we are only missing 2 more, since there are only 6 Spartan-IIIs in the Headhunter program.
Possibly Noble 6, the missions he carried out before Reach seem to point to that
@@mjcaboose3479 Noble was Definately a headhunter
Naiya Ray served as a Spartan IV Headhunter before being assigned to Fireteam Jackknife as well.
Funny thing Roland looked like my Spartan back on reach and my brother’s looked like Jonah (just with bigger shoulders) and we were easly surprised that our Spartans look like them
Excellent story, loved the book more but it’s great to see the Headhunters in real motion 🤙
his eye actually popped and he screamed in agony when he used the energy sword against the faceplate
He didn’t seem phased in this
It’s so sad cuz most of the earlier Spartans like the headhunters were just quick and disposable soldiers
Its the sole reason for which that slimeball officer created them, to exchange their lives for time
@@eazy1174 I wonder how Halsey would've done it?
And most of them were like 12-14 when they were KIA.
like picking on an emotionally stunted 12 ear old. lmfao
but they're 12....
Would be a funny, successful joke if these were Spartan IIs.
Mega T22 true
whats a 12 *ear* old?
Banana Boi ya WTF
ah the m6g standerd isue magnum, highly modifiable with silencers, extended mags, and heavy barrels/recieves
I know this is a couple of years late but they don't look like M6Gs, more likely M6Cs
The one thing the covenant never learned...Some Spartans will gladly die to take just a few new covenant toys with em
I love how the Spartan doesn’t give much a shit and has fun while the Elites are so damn serious
thanks for uploading these for free man
Yuri Slavins
Yuri Slavins they're always for free just go on halo waypoint unless rule 343 has been apllies
Nice to see we might finally get to fight Silent Shadow elites in Infinity since they joined the Banished and we've even seen a Spartan Hunting elite in the trailers.
I want to see Jun's time as a headhunter
I’m here after it was revealed that Jega Rdamnai survived these two.
Meh jus a gator
“Without losing a limb”
That elite he was talking to survived but lost a limb during the explosion
Jega was one of those elites. That aged well.
I really enjoy the dialogue man, so natural and it works.
Specially the spartan voices, after all... they are meant to be teenagers.
Natural ?
I find it agonizingly stereotypical, cringe and edgy but that’s Spartan III for you so it’s normal Ig.
Feels like they took the discord of the most stereotypical GamerTM chat and fed it to an AI. Try hard to be cool, to make one liners, trying hard to be witty and having a « idk buddy pal chum lmao u are wrong I’m so cool » attitude.
Toes curling. Had to pause the vid multiple times.
For those that might not heard. The blademaster Jega in Halo Infinte is the sole survivor of the explosion
Love this one,but the flood one was the best one
By flood one you mean Mona Lisa right?
I didnt enjoy the mona lisa much. None of the marines were likable and they didnt feel like halo marines.
D00Rhinge But Henry is the best
BOB MARINE henry is BAE
Ramono Richmond #bringbackmyniggahenry
I really love this art style it’s like watching a live comic book
One of my favorite halo show and i hope youtube wont put a copyright
Would have liked to see the spartan iii kill those 2 elites who charged him at the end rather than just the explosion.
He was a Spartan 3, no shields, his armor is built cheap and can only protect against grazing plasma shots, along with a highly elite group of zealot class elites specifically trained to kill Spartans all charging him with energy swords.
@@Destroyer-kr4hm Those aren't zealots they're the Silent Shadow elite special forces
@@dovahkiin7253 which is even worse
If you don’t know the lore behind these legends. These are basically covert ops Spartan and |||’s and they were sent on missions as a group of 2. They were basically suicide squads. Being sent to a mission that was a high chance of death. They were also given rare gear that most Spartans never gotten, and most Spartan |||’s never came out alive.
that "rare gear" was simply worse. the whole point of SPI armour was that it was significantly cheaper than mjolnir
I wish there was grenades in the games that disabled the enemies shields.
Throw enough grenades and they disable an enemy shield.
Yeah i know but i wish that it didnt stick and wasnt an insta kill for elites and brutes and lower
These comments are cursed. Grenade launchers have a emp effect. And infinite has a new grenade that might do that.
The Cindershot? It fires a bouncing plasma projectile
@@WAcrobat19 1 year ago...
Anyone goanna talk about how quick those elites got the best of Jonah? He got his arm pulled from his sockets less than a second eventhough spartan lls could go toe to toe with them.
He's about 15 and in SPI armour not mjolnir. Plus read the novels, S2s often struggle in hand to hand with elites. Plus these guys are the silent shadow, they are THE BEST elite spec ops team there is.
@@connorbaird8596 In Ghost of Onyx, the prologue had several Spartans fighting elites in CQC. Tom even points out how they were even winning until Carriers arrived. Jerome was able to fight 3 elites in an enclosed space with Mark 4 armor. I know these guys and Atriox have enhancements but there’s times where they play up Spartan strengths where it conflicts with other media.
@@Mars_over_seer I understand where you are coming from and I personally would have liked Jonah to take out one or two but I suppose it's because these guys are potentially even better duelists than Thel Vadame and he was evenly matched in a fist fight with Jai who was in mjolnir. So as a S3 fan I would have wanted them to look good but I get why Jonah got smacked up.
It would be cool to have a game where you play as a Spartan IV hunting down a rogue Spartan II.
Because the Spartan II is pretty much superior to your Spartan you'll have to resort to stalking, tracking, hiding and waiting for the final fight where the Spartan II is weakened or tired so that you could stand a chance.
Basically Halo 5 but better.
I was about to say Halo 5, but then I clicked read more
These are Spartan 3’s though.
It would be insanely out of character for a Spartan 2 to outright go rogue. They were basically raised by Halsey and the Navy, and had military etiquette drilled in their heads. They could sometimes disobey orders to better complete their objective, but outright going rogue wouldn't be in-character exactly for a 2. Or a 3, for that matter.
343 should really consider making this a game or dlc to another halo game. It's nice to see such badass characters outside of chief and would be a nice little tie in story before reach maybe
Yeah
Focusing on actual Spartans not those marines with power armor
That new season 2 cut scene was no way as entertaining like this video
@@MrWortWort1 someone finally gets it
@@dimensional9536
Dude
Allot of Bungie era fans agree with this
Too many people are drinking that 343 Cool Aid a bit too much
This is soooo much better than the actual Halo show!
Need more of these stories.
The employee grenade and then the flash bangs and then the bullets man that was badass!
If Headhunters worked as teams of 2's that makes me wonder who Noble 6's teammate was, as last I checked he was heavily implied headhunter of sorts. That is iirc. Although, maybe since he was an insurrection headhunter and not a covenant one he didn't get a partner?
Edit: I forgot he was classified as a "*Lone wolf* hyper-leathal vector" so he probably didn't get a partner
I was under the impression that he was a LONE WOLF since Headhunters either worked in pairs or solo
I miss these amazing stories.
This is a hundred times better than that garbage live action show
Really makes you wonder if they were sent to draw out the silent shadows and confirm rumors of an elite covenant kill team
Sounds like something ONI would do
Everyone here talking about the grunt dab but I love the response at 11:11
And to think one of the Silent Shadow operatives actually survived this and went on to become part of the Banished contingent on Infinite's Installation 07... only to be implied to have also survived fighting the Master Chief as well (as of this writing).
According to the new lore only Jega 'Rdomnai survived this encounter. He was on this team. His injuries were so bad that they had to fuse him with cyborg parts.
“IM READY
HOW BOUT YOU?!”
"if you think you're taking me without losing a limb, youve lost your damn mind"
That elite did in fact lose 2 limbs in the explosion and became the one cyborg elite from Halo Infinite
And proceed to use clock to run away
Jega is confirmed to be in this episode!
True
Was he the elite with the blood blade?
@@sethcourtemanche5738 yes my friend!
“ when in doubt, flee”
-unngoy philosophy
This would make a dope game
Like it could be a DLC for halo infinite
came here after the halo tv show,
I much prefer this.
There should be a co op where you play as these two
I wish the paramount series spent more time with the Spartans just, you know, being Spartans.
Paramount could of done this and it would of been AMAZING!
It had that "Ghosts of Onyx" vibe.
My question is, why doesn't ONI issue out experimental weapons that are good against shields? They're sending them in with small caliber rounds against an enemy that mostly rely on energy technology
I personally feel that this was a one way trip. The elites that killed them were the silent shadows. Elite Spartan killers. ONI most likely used the headhunters to draw them away from the front lines. Thus keeping them away from the UNSC. Don’t get me wrong if they blew up the placements and took them out, the. Great. The Spartan 3 were always disposable cheaper ways to put more in the field. The Spartan 2 through DR Halsey needed specific requirements like DNA markers to be on the program. Spartan 3 were essentially orphaned kids from the colonies.
@@loudman12 The amount of effort and resources you have to put in to train and select a head hunter is so high that they should have been the exception to the rule. Because now you're down 2 out of 14 HeadHunters you have for a galaxy wide war
@@IronVigilance I not saying it’s not a waste. It is. But they the exception to the rule. The Spartan 3 that showed promise were separated from the bulk like the headhunters. But ultimately they were seen as disposable
It’s called being disposable
Because they didn't fully reverse engineer Covenant shield tech until halfway through the war.
Think ur gonna take me without losing a limb. Ah man I bet jega remembers that now we know this was him
He never got his 20 credits :(
My team and I have as a collective watched your video a total of 30 times give or take over the last 2 weeks whilst attempting to be the first people to recreate everything shown in halo infinite. I have taken 419 reference images of this video ;-;
cant wait to see this uploaded!!
@@kojironovach.7649 we’re about 90% done now, we’ve made the first halo Infinte halo wars Covenant Hall for the middle building at the end of the motion comic
@@Rolman3Dany update on the final product?
@@exendary8366 I wish, my team and I discovered a fatal flaw in halo infinites file system that allowed anyone to outright steal credits for maps and the game itself lost quite a few players so. I’m waiting on my team to help to finish the project. We have Explosives from forest 1 set, all ai positions and scripts set. Explosive det pack set 2 set and now we just need to figure out how to script the ending once the player detonates the final explosives
Imagine if we got to play something like this for the alpha pack event, instead of a boring cutscene
"deranged sociopath" that's one way of saying "you're a great guy but your crazy like really crazy"
Jonah is literally just spartan Deadpool
My favorite helmet design comes from here, that air assault is so badass.
He shoulda used the noob combo on the special elites, then he woulda made it out of there
The dialogue is fucking masterful in this one