The Elite who SECRETLY HUNTED Master Chief during Halo: Combat Evolved
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During Halo Combat Evolved, Master Chief was being stalked by a Spec Ops Elite, trying whenever he could to take the demon out. Today, we cover this Elite, and his pet Grunt's divine, Prophet-blessed operation to end the demon, once and for all...
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I PROMISED SOME LORE, AND HERE IT IS! A chunky, meaty, JUICY lore video about a Spec-ops Elite-unfortunate Grunt tag team, who, in secrecy, were hunting you during Halo: Combat Evolved... Enjoy fellas!
HiddenXperia F to my grunty boi 😥
...Wait, then who is the Elite in the Shade that you encounter during the Warthog run? Cortana even says "Looks like someone's been tracking you." I always thought that was Zuka. Maybe he was originally supposed to be on the elevator in earlier builds of the game, but got moved for Reasons?
This was based on the book, what was it called, I can't remember but it is really really good
I love your videos but this one truly made me crie for the two
I bet they pulled a noble 6 and hid in a cave and didnt die
Random elite in elevator:
Bored bungie writer gives him lore.
Pretty sure 343 did this lore not bungie.
@@cursedhawkins1305 Nah, this was from the Novel: The Flood, which was written along side Combat Evolved's release, be it before or shortly after
117 LIKES?! IS THAT YOU CHIEF
Frinata yep. You got that right. I remember reading the novel back in jr high. And I still remember the last moments of Yayap. From what I remember in the book he was staring at a patch of flowers feeling a sense of peace just before the Pillar of Autumn exploded.
@@cursedhawkins1305 it was bungie which did the novel
Zuka: “You took everything from me.”
Master Chief: “I don’t even know who you are.”
pretty much kek
this should be top comment with 10000000000 likes it fits so perfectly
Classic anime rival story
Denbu ? lol
Reminds me in Gundam IBO ein trying to avenge lt crank and his killer Mika can’t even remember killing him because dude was just another dead combatant to him
Zuka, arriving to face Chief for the final showdown: Hey.
Chief: Hey
*Pulls out rocket launcher*
Zuka: What?!
Mobius 1! What are you doing here? Are you taking a day off after the Continental War?
Say hello to my little friend
Also chief: *I am 4 alternate universes ahead of you.*
NANI?
You could almost say... A Bazooka for Zuka
It's amazing how Bungie gave a single elite that the Chief literally killed in seconds (i.e. smashed over the head with a shotgun buttstock) a full background story. Kind of sad. The guy was just another number to Chief. Nothing more than a slight speedbump for his progress. Guy's career, life, and honor were all on the line, and the single most important thing in the world for him was killing The Big Green Demon. Chief didn't even know or care who he was and just beat his corpse over and over to paint the elevator blue while waiting for it to reach the top floor out of boredom. Or at least that's what _I_ made him do lol.
I also t-bagged him a bunch. I was ten years old. I'm allowed this.
Don't forget the teabaggin' after he killed him
Not really. I read that book he was in and it was the Halo:CE tie-in novel. It wasn't very good since it just straight-up ripped the events of the game into book form and was mostly a blow-for-blow, Master Chief shot, that, shot this, did that. And there was only this side story about Zuka and some Grunt he commanded as a side story for some variety.
@@afqwa423 Tbf, we only really care about Chief killing things in quantitative and qualitative extremes. It's all about that superhuman bodycount.
@@BigPuddin
Believe you me, that one book was about as tedious as me narrating a Let's Play of each level. Probably the only good parts were the added subplots of one of the infected UNSC marines and the Elite seeking a vendetta against Master Chief.
If you read no other book in the Halo universe, you read _Fall of Reach_ since Eric Nylund set up a lot of the groundwork for the modern Halo plotlines. He's the one that invented Catherine Halsey as this morally ambiguous mother of the SPARTAN program and characterized John-117 as this wind-up toy soldier who has this conflict between his humanity and his military indoctrination. John thinks of himself as a servant of humanity at-large, and in the value of an individual human life, but this also means he cannot be an apolitical agent when it comes to ONI or the UNSC's goals.
@@afqwa423 Chief is really only interesting to me as a vehicle for shooting things. Preferably aliens, but I'm a settler at heart. All other drama and superfluous details are mere set dressing for cyborg murder.
Interesting fact: by being Zuka’s assistant, Yayap was promoted to a rank above Jackal, making him one of the highest ranking grunts ever.
Cool😊😊😊
Wait, is he canon?
I don't know about during the Human-Covenant war, but this isn't true for the postwar period, at least; Rtas Vadum (the Shipmaster with the cut off mandibles from Halo 2/3) had a grunt ranked above some Elites even on his ship, the Shadow of Intent, after the events of Halo 3.
Technically not if Zuka had a main assistant what was stopping any other elites from having their own assistants. But Yayap is the only grunt assistant named so far. We also need to take into account of Spec Ops grunts and other high ranking grunts.
Then you just come in and one shot
Zuka: You shot me in the head, killed my squad, and destroyed my assistant
Master Chief: Do you have any idea how low that narrows it
117th like :D
*How little that narrow it down
ChaosCorbin I can’t be the only one that read that like “one one seventh” lol
zuka:you exploded me on the elevator!
chief:with or without hack?
zuka:without
chief:oh so you are that guy, but when i meet you?
zuka:pillar of antum
chief:you have nothing better to do?
Master Chief: You are going to need to be more specific, this still isn’t ringing a bell.
Zuka: "I must capture the demon."
Yai-yap: "Zuka, sit down and have some calming tea."
underrated comment
He doesn’t want any calming tea, he wants to capture the master chief
He must capture the Master Chief to regain his *honor* and return to the Covenant
@@noahvcat9855 lets forget about the demon, and have massages
Chief: oh you got me, wait, what's that! I think it's your honor!
Zuka: where?!
Chief: *pulls out rocket launcher while he isn't looking*
I just love it when the Grunts call Master Chief “It’s the DEMON!!!”
I love killing grunts.
Someone should mod the game so that everytime someone says 'deamon' they say 'daddy' instead
Hmmm demon reminds me of game similar to halo
Hi
I love shooting grunts in the head
Zuka: You shot me in the head, slaughtered my troops, and murdered my assistant!
Chief: Silence
Yapyap: You don't remember?!
Chief: For you, the day my bullet graced your skull, and defiled the lives of your squad was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday.
I love that movie.
Foxtrot Gaming street fighter
When I face Zamame in combat I would break his spine. The road less taken.
I don't know if the Tuesday part is intentional but Pillar of Autumn actually takes place on a Tuesday and The Maw is on Thursday or Friday
Taco Tuesday that is
WAIT the elite I blew up in halo 1 in the elevator when I was 9 had been hunting me since the SHIP?!?!?!
Yes
war hound yes
y e s
FUCK ME?!?!?!?!?! a 185 likes I commented on a childhood memory and you guys like it?? wow halo people are so much nicer than others
Yus
Zuka: "This demon may destroy us all grunt"
Cut to master chief bunny hopping across the ring.
Hahaha lols
🤣😂😂🤣😂🤣
The covenants fault for not giving Chief more attention
so true
Zuka...Zuko. “I must kill the demon and restore my honor”
Underrated comment
Good one.
Yaiyap...Iroh. "please Zuka...Come sit, and have a cup of nice hot tea to relieve your anger"
@@greattitan76 HOW CAN YOU SAY THAT?!!?!
@@daftmalade8809 let's be real... the joke had to be made
Cheif and cortana: name a more iconic duo
The covenant:
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XxJohnnyXx 239 w
@@gabenewell3955 clown
XxJohnnyXx 239
Relax bro
I'm your 117th like
“What if I say that he had a pet Grunt”
Can I pet it?
Sebastián Zárate cl Can I join in on the petting?
I will hug him squeeze him and call him jorge.
Sebastián Zárate sign me the fuck up
Hell yeah I'll pet him.
I want to pet a drone instead
It's kind of sad knowing a large percent of players will never know the journey of Zuka and people will just see him as another Elite Master Chief brutally murdered.
Well.... That's really who he is.
He's the final elite you kill before the run so it makes sense
Well you have to read The Flood to know anyways.
Elite as the elevator opens "YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM ME, MY HONOR! MY JOB! MY SELF RESPECT! I'LL END YOU FOR THIS!"
*Elevator drops and John rolls a pair of grenades down the shaft*
"Who the fuck was that guy, Cortana?"
"No idea Chief."
Should've been titled "The Grunt who suffered a moronic Elite going on a crazed hunt for Chief"
Very true
I really hope Yayap found some measure of peace before The End.
Nathaniel Winchester Okay... Boomer. 🙄
ILL CONCEIVED REVENGE
@midgetydeath Plot twist : Yayap is Dimkee Hotay
Zuka: "The Demon ruined me."
Arbiter: "Hold my grunt."
Arbiter: hey, first time?
Arbiter: hold my Wart Wart
HAHA 😂
@@chuckymaynard96 Actually zuka was first
@@AbdullahKhan-el6xw no Arbiter was first because Reach
This has really similar vibes to that noncanon Star Wars series about the two storm troopers who inadvertently caused all events in Star Wars.
Wait what?
@@NihilistCoomerLord look it up
Tag and Bink it was Non canon to both disney and Legends. It was just a fun what if.
@@magnenoalex2 OH YEAH! They were force sensitve.. *barely* and Vader/Anakin lets them go..
lol
Haha, the Tag and Bink comics. Love that series.
Star Wars Legends sure is full of these spotlight storylines. Hell, there's even a buttload of spotlight moments of the events of Ep. IV and before that are shown in the video games X-Wing, Dark Forces, and Empire at War, the Death Star novel alongside the Han Solo trilogy novel Rebel Strike, and the Empire comics.
Zuka: "finally I got you."
Chief: "I don't even know who you are."
Dev Team: _inserts generic elite boi into portion of the openning game_
Lore Writer: *_What if-_*
Pretty sure the Pillar of Autumn going ka-boom happens at the end of the game.
@@Rogsnutle yes but zuka appears at the start
Not really a "what if" thing when it's in the Halo books
Dietz sure is... an interesting writer at most.
It's kinda funny in a dark way. Zuka obsessed over killing chief, stalked him relentlessly and everything. Yet the moment he finnaly met chief he got skilled within seconds
Its funnier too that he gave up ran and found him after he gave up on looking for him
zuka is yandere for chief
Sort of like Darth Maul to Obi Wan Kenobi
First I felt horrible for killing grunts for basically being children, now I feel *REALLY REALLY REAAALLLYYY BAD.*
@@jpitt300 ..........come again bruh. The grunts are basically children????
I’m surprised that you skipped the part at the beginning of CE where chief walks through the control room on the Pillar of Autumn above his stasis chamber and you see 4 elites tearing a part the room cursing that the demon has gotten away. This might have been locked away in legendary, but I think it's a fair edition to this lore.
which reminds me of a line Cortana says in CE. "I guess the Covenant wanted to catch you napping."
Definitely not locked to legendary
Zuka and Yayaps's final conversation before Zuka engages Chief on the elevator and Yayap loads supplies into a ghost is sincerely one of the most emotional moments in the Halo novels if you ask me.
"Help, I'm trying to assassinate a demon but my armor is dummy thicc and the clanking keeps alarming the parasite"
-Vengeful Sangheili
*W H A T I F I T O L D Y O U*
*WHAT IF I TOLD YOU*
I will not promote audible in this video.
What if I told you.. Cheif has a dirty secret
ckyle108 games I know the secret... He’s Gay oh wait i thought you were talking about James Charles
@@Reaxperrrr jk rowling strikes again
777th
I love it when there's only a few grunts left in a fight, and their just like.
"The Demon! The Demon! Run for your lives!"
"Other soldiers might engage their enemies with contempt or hatred. Other soldiers might want to kill as many enemies as they can because they feel like their fight is personal, as if killing the enemy will make them feel better. That's where I'm different. I don't hate any enemy I fight. Covenant, Flood, Forerunners. I don't hate a single one of them. I don't hate them because just like me, they have a job to do. It's just theirs comes into direct opposition with mine. That's why I have to fight them. This Elite? He may have been trying to eliminate me, but that's only because it was his mission, his purpose. I'm sorry I had to kill him. Really, I am." John-117
Doesn't sounds like chief
A lovely little speech for someone that isn’t a kidnapped 6-year old turned nearly emotionless killing machine
I dont care who they are I killed all sides human,flood and covenant they all get into the blast raidius not my fault!
Ah... flood!?!?
Elite: Swiggity swoogity I'm coming for that UNSC booty
Lol reach booty
dr. phil episode
He would have busted cortanas cheeks too
Haha cringe
LMAO
Yai Yap: exists
Zuka: I’m about to start this whole man’s career
Yai Yap: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
But that's wrong. Yaiyap didn't just "Exist". He SAVED Zuka. THAT was what "started his career". Sorry, but the joke just doesn't work.
BoneBeastKimimaro it does work shut up.
@@nightvisiontv1847 well it doesn't lol braindead
Zuko: “I won’t stop until I capture the Avatar.”
Zuka: “I won’t stop until I kill the Master Chief.”
For you, the day Master Chief graced you was the most important day of your life. But for Chief, it was Tuesday.
after watching this, im gonna replay “The Maw” and let Zamamee kill me at the elevator just once.
Hero right here
Because that's what heroes do.
SOMEBODY GET THIS MAN A CAPE
When ya respawned, did you give him both tubes from a Bazooka?
I liked your comment so my conscience is clear😂😂😂
I Killed zuka with a rocket with the boom skull on. The resulting chain reaction from the exploding plasma grenades launched him up the elevator shaft.
Just a broken back
I recently replayed CE and I just killed him with a magnum.
I melee killed him,humilation at it’s finest
@@MemeSlayer982 👍
What mission, I wanna fuck him up too
They should really update the MCC to have a shade turret at that last elevator. That would be ICONIC.
EDIT: F for respect!
It is referenced at one point in the game. During your escape on the Warthog, there is an Elite with a Shade Turret right before you reach the supposed extraction point with Foehammer.
@@SoldierOfFate nothing either a rocket launcher or a pair of grenades can't solve.
On "Assault on the control room" the sword-wielding elite at the end of the first bridge will follow you all the way to the end of the level if you use respawns and checkpoints properly.
Might just be on co-op but it's awesome, especially in the elevator ☺️
Council: you shall not hunt the demon
Chief shoots up the place
Council: wait that’s illegal shoot him or something...
Attack of the Clones Geonosis arena reference? :D
Is it?
combining star wars memes with rvb memes i see
I'd say if he put in a few dozen more jackal snipers we wouldnt be having this discussion
The joker lol
The Joker make it like fuckin 1
hate those guys
Open the elevator door slightly and throw a shit ton of grenades out.
More people who can't figure out how to deal with Jackal snipers. Use corners and always keep a proper ranged weapon (Carbine, Battle rifle, beam rifle, etc) on your person. Either counter snipe them or rapidly dump a magazine of carbine/battle rifle into them so that they don't have an opportunity to respond. I never had trouble with them, and I've played Bungee's games at their highest difficulty level since Pathways Into Darkness. (Stopping after they left Halo, because destiny doesn't look like my cup of tea.)
“Avoid their inevitable death” bruh do you know what inevitable means
a situation that is unavoidable.
today we must press F to pay our respects for this iconic duo, but in the end, we must press W... and move forward beyond this saddening event. GG Zuka and Yayap, you did well.
“Decimated the entire squad.”
*kills one marine*
The grenade killed both the marine who was stuck by it and the marines who were standing beside him
@@BiomechanicalBrick "Decimate" means to remove 1/10th. It's a very misused word.
@@JLock_17 "the more you know", thanks
Human Disease, guessing you done the same thing as me and googled instantly to fact check since your definition is an almost an exact quote from the search results. Maybe next time be thankful that you learned something doing so and just correct him rather than pretty childishly insulting someone that was just trying to share info.
Also his definition works in context of the the scene in the game so the historical definition still fits. True the word isn't misused nowadays but only because we have changed it from its original meaning and you're behaving like a smartass accusing someone of being a smartass... kinda hypocritical(I know i'm being a smartass in turn but at least i'm not as rude about it).
Helium Air, I would probably put it down to him quoting from the books, He points out a few times in the video that the the book goes into more detail and adds details like the ending with the elevator where he had the chief pinned and cortana disabled the elevators sending him into a free fall where in the game you can stroll through after firing a rocket and popping any grunts remaining.
He must’ve had boom on
Back when Elites actually looked like sleek and nimble fighting warriors, as opposed to the lumbering ogres they are in halo 4 and 5.
For me they only look cool in halo reach
Acting like they weren’t ugly in Halo 3 and Wars
They look cool as hell in halo 5 tho
@@dskillyou1 absolutely nothing is cool as hell about halo 5
@@rambo-cambo3581 their not that bad
lmaoo I was looking away and turned around to Thel grabbing some earbuds
I wish Masterchief Collections had changed the battle with Zuka to include the elite using a shade turret in the elevator.
It would’ve been a nice Easter Egg.
Me: Can we have a cool fight between Chief and Zamamee?
Mom: We have that at home.
The fight at home: 16:04
Zuka: "I am Zuka"
Master Chief: "I don't care"
“Who asked? Who cared?”
@@dellbelphine304 It is in reference to Black Panther line in Captain America Civil War when he and Hawk Eye were fighting and Hawk Eye tried small talk and introduced himself "My name is Clint" and Black Panther responded "I don't care"
crxdelsolsir ah, my bad
Chief: haha rocket launcher goes brrr
"I don't know you and I don't care to know you"
Personal headcannon: Zuka was blown out of the elevator shaft, surviving the fall by landing on another floor. In his brush with death he decided that enough was enough and gave up trying to kill chief, realizing that it would all inevitably be for naught. He hobbled his way through the halls of the pillar if autumn before managing to leave, finding a crashed covenant dropship, commandeering it and beginning to try and escape the ring. In the distance he saw a fleeing ghost and a familiar grunt. He landed and picked yayap up as well as all of his supplies and ghost. Together again they escaped the ring and continue to evade the covenant to this day, the prophets believing both to be dead. Occasionally both of them think back to that day on the ring with a feeling of satisfaction, not from slaying the demon, but from finally getting their freedom.
This is why I love the stories of Halo. Both sides are shown in equally positive and negative light. You can connect with everybody and its amazing
“We meet again Demon!”
“Do I know you?”
"You ruined my life"
"I dont even Know You!"
Chief: Oh wait yeah I killed your cousin
Zuka: My cousin?
Chief: Yeah the blue guy
Zuka: That's not my cousin!
Chief: Oh...is it the red guy?
Zuka: No!
Chief: Oh...the... silver guy?
Zuka: Are you just randomly pointing to my fellow brothers that you killed?!
Chief: Well I cant tell the difference through the inbreeding you all look the same
Zuka: *Gives annoyed glared* Im going to kil-
*Shotgun blast through Zuka's chest*
Chief: No your not
OHHH YESS YOU DO! And thiss time, i have the element of SURPRISE *immediately gets fucking destroyed*
@@barrythegoon could be the same elite from Halo legends
@@stevenjones7823 im making a hazbin reference not whayever that is
Yai yap: imma just help the elite and not die
*becomes highest ranking grunt ever*
That was not at all funny
Eats spicy goodness like a boss
Noice
@@chiefie7353 your comment has been noted
@@thestranger8474 Your notes have been archived
When you desperately wanna be the main character and amount to little more than a red shirt
Zuka- You took everything from me!
Chief- I don't even know who you are
HiddenXperia: “What if I told you”
Morpheus: “What if I told you”
Me: What if- (Gets shot by a Magnum)
12.7mm of DIIIIIIVINE INTERVENTION
Oof
L
*master chief after shooting you* "Enough of this bullshit."
Just Some Guy without a Mustache I hate ur comments
Zuka: Demon! At last I have found you! Far has our hunt of one another taken us both, from the deepest shadows of this holy ring to the pits of this human mockery of a vessel! But now! Now our destined confrontation is at hand! Face me Demon and know that I, Zuka 'Zamamee, am your en-! *Rocket to the face* WAAAAAAARRGHHT!
Cortana: What was his deal?
Zuka: Demon! At last i have f..💥💥💥💥💥
Dishonoured by rockets
Finally! A worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!
Master Chief: don't know
XD
Zuka spends his life's work tracking down the "Demon" to be killed by a 9 year old and have his body tbagged over and over again.
Yayap is genuinely intelligent. Like mans more smart at combat planning then I am lmao
4:17
Oh so thats why the elites didn't hear me killing those sleeping grunts.
Your pfp makes this even funnier.
JoJo52626 Wilson TBH I picked this for no reason at all
Still lul
Honestly and underrated comment
Underrated comment for sure
Zuka exists
Master Chief: "ima ruin this Sanghelis whole career"
Super Sayian Blue Vegeta k
Zuka: "On my honor I will defeat you demon!"
*explosion followed by distracted teabagging*
Zuka: " You Killed all that I..." *Repeated buckshot loads to the face followed by quick victory Teabag*
Zuka: "Luckily, the bullet merely grazed my forehead!"
ZUKA, YEEEES I AM!
Wait, IS THIS A JOJO REFERE-
yea im not doing it
"The gun is mightier than the sword"
YESSSSSSS I AM!
@@barofsoap5092 motherfucking JoJo reference XD
WORT WORT WORT
Were it so easy
Brashhhhhhhhhhhh
Waaaaaaaaaaaa
GO GO GO
WORT WORT WORT
That Yell! Dead Cell cameo though! I love your choices of tracks for the video X!
I love that there is lore for random enemies you fight in the game 👍🏾
This is just a modded New Vegas playthrough
I’ve found the most underrated comment ever
I mean your not wrong this was kinda fallout new vegas.
Zuka was he courier Masterchef was Benny
Bro modding new vegas be like
reality can be whatever i want it to be
Chief: "What in the goddamn...?"
"F" for Yapyap. The one, and only Grunt one can respect
its yiyap, yapyap was a grunt deacon who rebelled against atriox and the banished
@@cold_chimp he literally shot atriox with a overcharged plasma round right?
@@BigDave18 yes
The one and only grund one can respect?
Grunts are, despite their child like intelligence and ugliness, the race that deserves the most respect and sympathy out of the covenant. They are the most exploited and abused members and theyre the only ones Im not proud to kill.
@@Dickstick they arent as ugly as kig yar
Just a thought and I don't know why they didn't think of this, why didn't the Covenant just bring Master Chief into a base as a trap holding a supposed relic they need and bomb the facility, or better yet, sacrifice everyone in an area when finding Chief was there and glass the hell out of it.
Zuka: You killed my family...
Chief: which one?
This story feels like some fanfic I'd read on a rainy day
😂
It basically was the official Halo 1 fanfiction. And it was amazing.
This is why I love “the flood” that whole side story was amazing.
I didnt really like how they develop the whole Silva and McKay sidestory just to be killed off in the end quickly (in an heroic act, yes, but it still felt like the whole sidestory was a bit of a waste of time). Just my opinion though.
@@LaggyKikee I would argue that the Silva McKay story tells you the human side of the story. With Zuka, we got the Covenant side of things, with Chief, we got the hero's story, but we never really knew how the everyday Marine might fair on the Ring outside of cannon fodder, and the Marines left the story once you go into the Library, gameplay wise. To see how they reacted and intended when the Flood were released was something we would of loved to see, and with the book, we got it. McKay was a survivalist, who just wanted to be clear of the Flood, where as Silva almost took on the role of an ONI Investigator, given that he wanted to bring the Flood back for study, which is exactly what ONI does once they learn of The Flood
"the flood" is great but "Mona Lisa" is still my favorite, it's fucking horrifying.
This story broke my heart thinking of the lives of the two and the positions they were put in. Also going thru the story of the two in CE in their eyes while remembering my perspective at the same time is crazy.
It was very interesting when I was reading it in the book. I loved following the "hunt". I recommend all of the books for everyone.
if you read the book: HALO: The Flood, by William C. Dietz, you get the entire story of halo CE, but in a book, and it has Zuka Zamamee.
It's a shit story to read honestly not as good as Eric Nylunds books at all!
@@jessejames9282
I wouldn't say it was shit.
It's just okay, but it has to stand next to Nylund's work, which is a major problem for Dietz.
@BlairGB1
Agreed. Retreading that sort of ground takes away from the book.
BlairGB1 i mean for a book exploring a game, it did its job and it added a ton of new lore so I would think its still a good addition to the series. Besides, at least its not Cole Protocol.
I read it
Doesn't it kind of look like a grunt with an energy sword in the thumbnail
Random Penguins That would be one of the most hardcore and badass grunts ever, hell have them dual-wielding energy swords.
No
@@locoarticwolf2181 hmm. I think the front would probably do better with one of the forearm armor pieces that have daggar sized plasma swords coming out (like in assassins creed) for most cases, considering that a grunts arm is much too short with a much too bulky body to allow for any safe or viable movement to wield a plasma sword. Or two for that matter, lol.
Random Penguins lol that’s what I thought it was until you pointed it out
The thing i love about elites that they fight with there belief and honor plus show respect to there opponent who faught well where there honor .
That i think sometime rarely the spares his opponent
Fun to watch. Creative. Nice work!
I remember reading the Halo books and realizing that Zuka was one of the elites i killed in halo 1.
I even used Zamamee as my Halo gamer tag. Still do
F.
F.
Ra Marty press f to slap Zamamee cheeks
I always feel bad for killing him on the elevator before the Warthog run.
Ryatt get it over quick, stock up on rockets and grenades
Best thing you can do is end him cause lore is lore
Next time you play give him a faire fight Malley only or give him a big hug
Like Marauder Shields.
Even now when I go back and play Halo: CE, I still lob rockets and huck grenades into his squad cause I'm playing on legendary.
i watched this video a long time ago, in fact, its the first video i ever watched on your channel and i remember thinking that the elite in your intro is the one you are talking about
This dude is basically the arbiter in the Halo TV series
* b r e a t h e s *
bungies writers: *i like this guy.*
Some say he stalked the chief, others say chief fought him personally. All we know is, he's called the stig
He's NOT the Stig, but he is the Stig's alien, Covenant aligned, cousin!
@@Tahkaullus01 lol if halo was made by the same people who made forza motorsports
As in Stig Top Gear?
@@IEatGlue77 yes
@@bobthebuilder1360 yes
If you haven’t read The Flood by William C. Dietz, I recommend it. It tells this story.
The Flood novelization is a hit-or-miss among the Halo fanbase. Personally I liked it because I was able to understand the story more, as it wasn't really elaborated too much upon in the actual game itself.
I remember buying that in a set of 3. The flood was my favorite book
God dang that intro is amazing can’t stop watching it over and over
This is why you read the books. They expand the story tenfold. There's an entire plot point about the ODSTs and the human side of the halo experience. Also Cheif was one of only 5 people to leave the halo ring in CE
Word The flood had so many things happening on the pillar that is never seen, whenever a pelican comes picks you up it's bringing you back to the FOB which has crazy shit happening all the time god i love halo lore
rip jenkins
@@hades9189 poor poor Jenkins.
Which books? I want to buy them
@@Eric-eq6gy The Flood, First Strike, Ghost of Onyx
@@MustacheMenace117 don't forget reach
Canonically, the Arbiter was wearing Raycon's E25s that whole time.
Were it so easy
14:46 "... the fight was vastly in his favor..."
the backround footage: instantly dies from one rocket
just googled The Flood and Contact Harvest books and the covers give me such great nostalgia
What I find disappointing was that the master chief never encountered camouflaged combat flood forms during the events of alpha halo in the book
That's because the dude in Charge of writing the book took inspiration from the easy difficulty of the game (wich has no active cammo combat forms)
Aaron Alvarez oooh, Well that answers that then.
In game goes over book lore so it's still possible for them to be there
Jerry Howard I think everyone has done that lol
@@NoSoyMarciano ahhhhh.
“pet grunt”, “hired a grunt as an assistant”
grunt: am I a joke to you?
Yes.
I mean in the books the Elites' attitude towards Grunts is pretty much seeing them as "lesser species". So by all means he may have thought of him as a "pet" more than an assistant.
MJGHuggies hahah oh yea how could they think of them as much more when I think every halo player finds them some what adorable
@@kaos-vi7mf The ones in Halo 4 and up are fucking ugly.
Then again, everything in Halo 4 and up is ugly compared to the games before them.
Snazzy Jovial Wyrm Yea, 343 gave some lore saying that these were different races of the same species or something like that in halo 4. But then they reintroduced Arbiter and the other OG elites having the same design as all the other ugly bastards
I always come back to your vids, they’re fantastic. I just wish you did D1 and D2 content too!
I remember reading this in the book Halo CE:The Flood.
Always such a awesome story.
2:24
"so, yayap, along with the 4 other grunts in his squad, each grabbed a limb, and dragged him to safety"
That's so cute to imagine omg 😂
So if the 4 other grunts are grabbing limbs, what is yayap grabbing?
Chris Cary Head.
@@IdiotN4 Which head?
Snazzy Jovial Wyrm What do you think?
@@IdiotN4 the one WITHOUT a brain XD
"As I always say, forgive your enemies, but.. remember their names." - JFK from Five
BaysideThe1st • “gentlemen our capacity to retaliate must be and has to be massive deter all forms of aggression.”
“In the long history of the world there are only a few generations granted the role of detaining freedom in its hour of maximum danger” -JFK Five. just like Yap Yap
"JFK from five."
Oh yeah, i remember that guy.
This brings back memories of the day I beat all of halo CE with a pistol.
It's interesting how Zuka is the polar opposite to Thel 'Vadam - the tie-in novel showed Zuka as an Elite that was relatively cowardly and was not above using questionable tactics which saw his own troops being used as total cannon fodder so he wouldn't have to risk his own skin. He even hid behind a Shade turret in his final battle against Chief when any other Elite would be waiting for him with an Energy Sword.
And on the other side of the spectrum, Thel is basically a blood knight that would rather die in a head-on battle even if he knew he wasn't going to live to talk about it.
Didn’t Thel Vadamee become the Arbiter we know and love or am I missing something? I would like some clarification just so I’m not confused
@@CQBlitz0 Yes, Thel is indeed the Arbiter we all know and love.
@@SoldierOfFate yay! Also thanks for replying when your comment is like two years old lmao
@@CQBlitz0 I've answered older comments haha. It just so happened that I stumbled across yours as it was the first notification on my list.
I almost wish these two lived to see the end of the war. It would have been hilarious if one of the elite co op characters in halo 3 was Zuka.
Headcannon.
Besides, Sergeant Johnson died in the Halo CE legendary ending. He showed up just fine in Halo 2. I'm still pissed they killed him in Halo 3. He was supposed to be an immortal meme character and Joe Staten (his creator) was pissed they killed him.
Zuka Zamamee in the place of N'tho Sroam would be epic
That'd be ironic, bet Chief still wouldn't have any idea who Zuka was though.
@@217adaptiveperspective Zuka: "Demon where we once were bitter enemies we now fight side by side" Chief: "Have I met you.... ?"
In an alternate timeline, Zuka might have somehow ended up as Arbiter instead of Thel.
@@217adaptiveperspective Unfortunately that would screw over the Elites because Zuka is a coward (I really doubt he'd have the balls to lead a rebellion, he'd flee and let his brethren get slaughtered) compared to Thel.
I felt genuinely sad for that ending that I even teared up a bit. The two have been through so much, that in the end the two end up dying. The reality where you leave your only “friend” behind to die is saddening. R.I.P. Yap and Zuka
What Yayap saw after saying goodbye to Zuka:
Current Objective: *SURVIVE*