Perez (Marine)

Corporal Perez is a character who originally appears in the 2003 E3 preview for the first-person shooter game Halo 2, and appears in Halo 2.

In preview he meets the Master Chief when his Pelican lands in the human controlled areas of New Mombasa. He serves as the Master Chief's guide until they reach Staff Sergeant Marcus Banks' position, which is under attack. In Halo 2, the Master Chief meets Corporal Perez inside a building in New Mombasa where a bunch of Marines are holed up. He leads the Master Chief to Sergeant Bank's position on the roof, and then he simply becomes another background Marine. Based upon his use of the expletive "coño" during the trailer, he is presumed to be of Spanish nationality or descent.

According to both the E3 preview and dialogue in Halo 2, Corporal Perez is with "A"(alpha) Company. The E3 preview states that his unit is the 405th out of Diego Garcia. Corporal Perez apparently escaped the destruction of New Mombasa by the Prophet of Regret.

In both the preview and game Perez greets the Chief with: "Sir, Corporal Perez, A Company, CP's this way."

Perez is mentioned, but not seen, in the in-game cut scene on the Quarantine Zone (Level) in which the humans and the Arbiter race against each other and the Flood to gain possession of the Index, which the Covenant call the "Sacred Icon". The cut scene shows Miranda Keyes reaching for the Index with Sergeant Johnson saving her after the Flood tentacle fails to hold. He says a short comment to her, and then he yells out, "McKenzie? Perez? How's our exit? [Do] you hear me, Marines?" That's the last link to them from the game. As the Arbiter approaches Keyes and Johnson's position within the Icon's chamber, he steps over the remains of two human marines, presumably McKenzie and Perez. It is likely that the two were acting as sentries while Keyes and Johnson attempted to retrieve the Icon, but were eliminated by the Flood or the Arbiter himself. This is not certain, however, and others have theorized that Perez and McKenzie were among the marines rescued by the Master Chief on High Charity, or the two rescued by the Arbiter on Delta Halo.