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Crazy Marine

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Crazy Marine
Crazy Marine on the level 343 Guilty Spark.
Biographical information

Died:

September 21, 2552[1][2]

Cause of death:

Suicide[2]

Personal details

Gender:

Male

Political and military information

Affiliation:

UNSC Marine Corps

Rank:

Private[3]

 

Crazy Marine: "Find your own hiding place! The monsters are everywhere! God, I can still hear them! Just leave me alone."
John-117: "What monsters? The Covenant?"
Crazy Marine: "No! Not the Covenant. Them!"
— Crazy Marine rambling to John-117.[3]

This crazy marine was a Private and an enlisted serviceman in the UNSC Marine Corps.[3] He was attached to the UNSC Pillar of Autumn in September 2552 and participated in the Battle of Installation 04.[4]

Biography[edit]

Battle of Installation 04[edit]

John-117 meets the Paranoid Marine in a Flood containment facility on Installation 04.
John-117 meets the crazed marine.
Main article: Battle of Installation 04

This marine was stationed on the UNSC Pillar of Autumn when the ship escaped from the Fall of Reach on August 30, 2552. When the ship arrived at Installation 04 on September 19, it was attacked by the Covenant, marking the beginning of the Battle of Installation 04.[5] Having survived when the UNSC forces made landfall on the ring, this marine was part of the UNSC team led by Captain Jacob Keyes and Sergeant Major Avery Johnson, to secure a supposed Covenant weapons cache that a captured Sangheili, 'Qualomee, had disclosed to them during an interrogation.[6] Unbeknownst to the UNSC forces, the "cache" was actually a Flood containment facility. Inside the structure, the marines and Captain Keyes were ambushed by Flood pod infectors. The marine escaped the Flood by playing dead, though he also witnessed the death of almost his entire squad.[4] Shortly after the ambush, he fled and hid from the Flood.[4][7]

Hours later, John-117 found the marine in the facility while in search of Captain Keyes; the marine, now in a fear-crazed state, fired his M6D magnum at the sight of the Spartan.[4] John quickly disarmed the marine, and tried to comfort him. The Spartan urged the marine to return to the surface, but the marine ignored John's words and crawled into a fetal position, whimpered, and eventually fell silent.[7] After John reluctantly left, the marine committed suicide, shooting himself.[2]

In-game information[edit]

Halo: Combat Evolved and Anniversary[edit]

The crazed marine is a non-playable character first included in Halo: Combat Evolved on the level 343 Guilty Spark. He is encountered early in the level as the player first descends into the facility, before the Flood has been revealed. Upon opening a door into the chamber he resides in, he spots the player and begins trying to shoot them while spouting insane ramblings about monsters. He will not move and his Pistol has infinite ammo; although he can be heard reloading, the character has not reload animation. The player can kill him to take his Pistol, or leave him be.

In Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary the marine's behaviour is the same though his model is updated to use the same Halo: Reach marine armor as the rest of the game.

For the purposes of campaign scoring in Halo: The Master Chief Collection, the marine is considered neither an enemy nor an ally. If the player kills the marine they will not receive points for killing an enemy, nor will they lose points for killing an ally. In the post-game report, the marine is listed as an enemy marine killed.

Quotes[edit]

The marine is scripted to say his lines in the following order:

  • "Stay back! Stay back, you're not turning me into one of those things!"
  • "I'll blow your brains out! Get away from me!"
  • "Gaaaaahh! Aaaaahh! Don't touch me, you freaks, I won't be like you, I'll die first!"
  • "Find your own hiding place, the monsters are everywhere!"
  • "Play dead! That's what I did... played dead. They took the live ones... Oh, God, I can still hear them!"
  • (sob) "Monsters..."
  • "Ahhhhhh! Ahhhhaaahhh..."
  • "Just leave me alone!"
  • "Sarge? Mendoza? Bisenti? Oh, God... the things took them. Away, away, away, they went away... They're gone! Get it? Gone!"
  • "They won't get me! Oh God... oh God I don't want to be like them, please, please no, please nooo..."

Halo: Campaign Evolved[edit]

The marine was included again on the remade iteration of 343 Guilty Spark in Halo: Campaign Evolved. Unlike the original game, he does not fire at the player, instead aiming at the door the player enters through and continuing to fire in that direction. If the player steps in front of his weapon, his gunshots do no damage. Killing him drops the That's Just... Wrong skull.

Production notes[edit]

The Paranoid Marine on the level 343 Guilty Spark.
The marine with Marcus Stacker's head model in Halo: Combat Evolved.
  • Though the character is unnamed in both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: The Flood, this marine is known as "Crazy Marine" internally at Bungie.[8][9] In Halo: Campaign Evolved, he is named "Paranoid Marine" in the subtitles, seemingly based on the rename on this very page in 2011 before it was reverted back to "Crazy Marine" in 2026 after the release of Halo: Campaign Evolved.
  • In all his in-game appearances, the marine is voiced by Ken Boynton, who also portrayed Thom Shephard and provided various background voice-lines in the Halo games.[8][10] Boynton would portray characters similar to Crazy Marine in the later games: the Suicidal Marine in Halo 3, the Wounded Marine in Halo 3: ODST, and the Shell-shocked Army trooper in Halo: Reach.
  • Early in production on the level, Joseph Staten wanted to include a feature where, if the player walked a certain distance from the marine, they would hear a single gunshot from his pistol and could return to his body to find him having committed suicide. Martin O'Donnell pushed back on suggestions that the player might even be able to see him die, to preserve the subtlety of the level. Ultimately, the feature never made it into the final game. O'Donnell also originally wanted the marine's lines to be randomly said at different times, but Jaime Griesemer pushed to have them all read out in order.[9]
  • In Halo: Combat Evolved and its Anniversary re-release, there are no set character models for marine NPCs (other than Avery Johnson and Marcus Stacker); subsequently, there is no set appearance for this marine. While the marine is scripted to always wear fatigues, his head model cycles between the many generic human heads from the game files, including Marcus Stacker's head model.

Gallery[edit]

List of appearances[edit]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Maw
  2. ^ a b c halo.bungie.org, According to Jaime...: "[According to Jaime] he shoots himself, and you just miss seeing him do it." - Martin O'Donnell (Retrieved on Aug 4, 2026) [archive]
  3. ^ a b c Halo: The Flood, chapter 8
  4. ^ a b c d Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level 343 Guilty Spark
  5. ^ Halo: Combat Evolved, campaign level The Pillar of Autumn
  6. ^ Halo: The Flood, chapter 6
  7. ^ a b Halo: The Flood, chapter 8
  8. ^ a b halo.bungie.org, Voice Acting (Retrieved on Dec 27, 2001) [archive]
  9. ^ a b Halo 3, Legendary Edition: Halo: Combat Evolved developer commentary
  10. ^ Halo: Campaign Evolved, credits
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