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[[File:Shotshell hippo.jpg | [[File:Shotshell hippo.jpg|thumb|The ejected shell with the hippo design.]] | ||
The '''Hippo in''' '''''Halo''''' is an Easter egg included in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', ''[[Halo 2]]'', and ''[[Halo 3]]''. The original ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' egg by [[Matt Soell]] is a hippo design printed on the ejected shotgun shell. This is most observable when reloading the shotgun or when the shell is on the ground. The same hippo is also on the walls of a building in the [[multiplayer]] level ''[[Headlong]]'' on ''[[Halo 2]]'' in the tower on the wall. Also, a [[Bungie]] employee wrote in the "Personal Messages" section of the ''Halo'' credits, "For hippos all over the world", a joke most likely pertaining to this. | The '''Hippo in''' '''''Halo''''' is an Easter egg included in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'', ''[[Halo 2]]'', and ''[[Halo 3]]''. The original ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' egg by [[Matt Soell]] is a hippo design printed on the ejected shotgun shell. This is most observable when reloading the shotgun or when the shell is on the ground. The same hippo is also on the walls of a building in the [[multiplayer]] level ''[[Headlong]]'' on ''[[Halo 2]]'' in the tower on the wall. Also, a [[Bungie]] employee wrote in the "Personal Messages" section of the ''Halo'' credits, "For hippos all over the world", a joke most likely pertaining to this. | ||
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==Background== | ==Background== | ||
[[File:Matt Soell Hippo Plush.jpg | [[File:Matt Soell Hippo Plush.jpg|thumb|A picture of Matt Soell holding a plush toy of a hippo dated 2001.|200px]] | ||
Some serious hunting went into figuring out where the '''Hippo in''' '''''Halo''''' might be hidden in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' after, on December 6, 2001, "Matt" wrote a long treatise on hippos, and why they should have been in ''Halo: CE'' (and why they, for the most part, aren't) but he finished with this teaser: | Some serious hunting went into figuring out where the '''Hippo in''' '''''Halo''''' might be hidden in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' after, on December 6, 2001, "Matt" wrote a long treatise on hippos, and why they should have been in ''Halo: CE'' (and why they, for the most part, aren't) but he finished with this teaser: | ||
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Everything from the bottom of [[M12 Warthog|Warthogs]] to Sniper Rifles and everything in between were postulated, but they were finally spotted on the spent shells of the [[Shotgun]] that fall to the ground after the player has fired a blast.<ref>FrogBlast, [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive4.pl?read=95679 Hippo on Shotgun shells...???]; [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive4.pl?read=95694 confirmed] by Matt Soell</ref> | Everything from the bottom of [[M12 Warthog|Warthogs]] to Sniper Rifles and everything in between were postulated, but they were finally spotted on the spent shells of the [[Shotgun]] that fall to the ground after the player has fired a blast.<ref>FrogBlast, [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive4.pl?read=95679 Hippo on Shotgun shells...???]; [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive4.pl?read=95694 confirmed] by Matt Soell</ref> | ||
== Sources == | ==Sources== | ||
{{Ref/Sources}} | {{Ref/Sources}} | ||
==Related links== | ==Related links== | ||
===Internal=== | ===Internal=== | ||
*[[Soellkraft 8 Gauge Shell]] | * [[Soellkraft 8 Gauge Shell]] | ||
===External=== | ===External=== | ||
* [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive.pl?read=18686 Matt's original "wall-hugging hippos" teaser] | * [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive.pl?read=18686 Matt's original "wall-hugging hippos" teaser] | ||
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* What does [[John-117|MC]]'s face look like? [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive7.pl?read=166939 A hippo.] | * What does [[John-117|MC]]'s face look like? [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive7.pl?read=166939 A hippo.] | ||
* [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive7.pl?read=194721 A hippo ''hater'' may exist at Bungie as well.] | * [http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive7.pl?read=194721 A hippo ''hater'' may exist at Bungie as well.] | ||
{{Easter Egg}} | {{Easter Egg}} | ||
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[[Category:Easter eggs]] | [[Category:Halo 2 Easter eggs]] | ||
[[Category:Halo 3 Easter eggs]] | |||