List of Marathon References in Halo

The start menu of Marathon 2.

The logo at the end of Keyes's pipe

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In between the A and the L in the Halo logo is the Marathon logo

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The emblem of the Pillar of Autumn bears the logo.

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The eye of the Monitor is the shape of the logo.

Installation 04's Control Room is the shape of the logo.

High-Res screenshot of MC's gun from the H3 Trailer

Easier seen here

1. The Marathon logo

This is a list of all the references to Marathon that Bungie put in the Halo games. Mostly sightings of the Marathon logo, seen in the first image right.

Halo: Combat Evolved

• Captain Keyes - He has the Marathon logo on his uniform.
• Captain Keyes - His pipe has the Marathon logo on it.
• Control Room - The Control Room main chamber, when viewed from the top, is shaped like the logo.
• Cortana - The Marathon AI Durandal, is named after a mythical sword. Cortana is a sword which bears the inscription: My name is Cortana, of the same steel and temper as Joyeuse and Durendal.
• Dialogue - Sometimes Grunts or Marines will shout "They're everywhere!", similar to the BOBs of Marathon.
• Difficulty Selection - The Marathon logo appears on the Easy shield.
• Foehammer - A level in Marathon: Infinity is called "Foe Hammer".
• Level title - Marathon has a level "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay", Halo has a part "If I Had a Super Weapon..."
• Light markers - The Covenant light markers in Two Betrayals bear a resemblance to Pfhor staffs.
• MJOLNIR - There are Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs in Marathon, there is Mjolnir Mark V battle armor in Halo.
• On the back part of the Halo rocket launcher it says "SPNKR" which is a reference to the Rocket launcher of marathon which is title the "SPNKR X-18 SSM Launcher".
• Pillar of Autumn - The Marathon logo can be seen on the side of the ship.
• Rampancy - If the player kills Captain Keyes in the first level, Cortana says, "The Master Chief has gone rampant."
• Silent Cartographer (Level) - The center of the island is shaped like the Marathon logo.
• Halo PC Loading Screen - If you brighten the gamma on Halo PC a lot, you can see what looks like the Marathon symbol etched in the background of the first loading screen.
• The MA5B Assault rifle is similar to the MA-75B assault rifle in terms of ammo and name
• The flamethrower in Halo PC has a similar name to the flamethrower found in Marathon : 7057 = TOZT
• The forerunner AI 343 Guilty Spark has a resemblance to the Marathon symbol on his front side ( where his photo receptors are)
• The Flood resemble the Zombie Pfhor, an enemy which was cut from Marathon 2 during its development.[1]

Halo 2

• UESC - Lord Hood says, "United Earth Space Corps," Marathon features the Unified Earth Space Council.

• The marathon symbol is also used in the Halo 2 Multiplayer online as a gamer tag symbol.

• Doors - The doors on the level "Regret" in Halo 2

• If you get outside the level Burial Mounds, look at the rubble by the "ribs" a large piece of debris is engraved with it

• The Enforcers shields make up a Marathon symbol.

• If you melee with a shotgun, you can see a Marathon symbol on the silver casing.

• The multiplayer map "Foundation" is based off of the Marathon "Thunderdome" levels.

• The multiplayer map "Gemini" is based off of the Marathon level "Duality".

• On Headlong, in the building which houses mostly human weapons, if you look at the second floor from above it makes out the Marathon Logo

• If you look at the multiplayer map "Ivory Tower" from above, you will see that the circular courtyard and the small ditch which the water runs along makes up a Marathon logo.

• The Elite rebellion against the Covenant parallels similar events in the Marathon series. In Marathon 1, Durandal convinced a group of S'pht to rise up against the Pfhor who enslaved them; and after Durandal's disappearance in Marathon 2, the rebel S'pht found themselves stranded together with a group of humans on a hostile world (similar to the Elites' predicament on Delta Halo).

• The player's main goal in Halo 2 is to stop the Covenant from inadvertently destroying all life in the galaxy with the Halo installations; in Marathon Infinity, it was to prevent the Pfhor from inadvertently releasing a galaxy-destroying chaos being.

Halo 3

The weapons are often decaled with Marathon symbols

• When you look at a High-Res screenshot of John's gun from the Halo 3 Announcement Trailer you can see a Marathon logo. Confirmed by KP [2]

• The BR55HB SR Battle Rifle has the Marathon logo on it's optical sight.

• There is an achievement for 'accessing all the terminals in the campaign' which is called Marathon man, suggesting that Halo 3 may reintroduce the practice of revealing backstory through messages on computer terminals which the player can optionally read, a gameplay element which was introduced in Marathon (and also used in Oni).

• In the second E3 Trailer, boxes marked TRAXUS can be seen. Traxus IV was the name of a famous rampant AI in Marathon's universe.

Misc.

• Cortana Letters - These messages are riddled with references.
• Drinol - Similarity with Drinniol, a Marathon foe.
• Hunter - Similarity with Marathon foe of the same name.
• Marathon-class - A class of ship mentioned in Halo: The Fall of Reach.
• Multiplayer - The multiplayer game "Oddball" is derived from Marathon's "Kill The Man With The Ball", which had the same objective.
• In both Halo and Marathon, there is a company called Misriah on Mars.
• A Marathon easter egg is the level 819. $819/7=117$ (Master Chief's service number)
• On Bungie day (07/7/2007), there were exclusive things available on the Xbox Live marketplace, including a gamer picture pack, which included a picture of the Marathon logo picture.
• On the side of the rocket launcher reads "SPNKr" which was the name of the rocket launcher in Marathon
• Marathon 1 takes place in a ship that is orbiting Tau Ceti IV, and there is a system in Halo called the Tau Ceti system (although that star does really exist).