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The Face of an Icon
(Not in the face!) It would be a crushing blow to the Halo community if the face of the Master Chief were revealed. I know it's been said before, but I think I have a good reason to back it up. The faceless nature of the Chief may be what allows people around the world to immerse themselves so fully into the game- the UNIVERSE- of Halo, because his lack of a face allows for the possibility that he could be just about anyone: black, white, purple, doesn't matter. Plus, his "facelessness" allows him to be more than human, as it were, much the way the Darth Vader's initial facelessness allowed him to be more than human. Where Vader was a physical incarnation of evil with no recognizable human characteristics, the Chief can remain a super-human physical incarnation of heroism. Revealing the face of the Chief would not only destroy the mystery and widespread appeal of the character, it would also render him the one thing that many people know him to be, but have trouble imagining: it would make him human.
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(The Captain on 12-28-05 21:39 UTC, permalink)
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