Halo 4, who thinks the Librarian sort of ruined John 117?

*DraconicParagon Nov 27, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Now hear me out, this doesn't mean I don't like Halo anymore, I was just a little disappointed when John meets the Librarian in the campaign and in the cut scene she explains his ability to succeed as some magic thing he has received in his genetics or something. I didn't like that plot explanation because it felt like they were turning John from Batman type into Superman.

Why do they always have to do that?

Oh, the Force is for EVERYONE, it is all around us, if you train hard enough and hone your skills you can master the Force and you can be an EXCELLENT JEDI! BUUUUUUT NOOOOOOOO, look at Anakin, he has a ton of midiclorins in his blood, so he will automatically be an awesome jedi.

John doesn't have to be a "culmination of thousands of years of evolution" or whatever it was the librarian said he was, why can't John just be awesome because he tries hard?

He was trained and taught the tactics of UNSC military via the Spartan program, and was augmented with the best Humans could do, but it is INDEED because he tries his BEST that he succeeds at what he does. He does it to protect humanity, and he does it because he loves Cortana. I was just disappointed that they explained all that effort away with "he is able to do it because of special thing X"

just throwing my thinking out there...

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~Bullet-Magnet Nov 28, 2012

It wasn't John specifically, it was that someone like John would emerge. The alterations she made are in everyone, though they show themselves in different ways (if at all) and often need to be turned on. Such as the memories of pre-devolution humans from the war that were put into humanity by the Librarian, so that personalities from that time can be awakened and recovered.