I think yes he has so much yo see
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The diadact was wasted?
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Not true. The Didact has never been declared dead in any official Halo media. His status has been deemed as "contained" in some sort of composed state that has yet to be elaborated on or explained. It's not much, and we may never hear from/see him again. But that is still a big difference from being actually deceased and is the status quo until otherwise changed by some other piece of canon media.Marinealver wrote:He died in a comic, but that can be retconned very easily.
This is also incorrect. No one type of media "supersedes" anything else - that is how it has been since 343i took over and the Halo Universe is far better for it. The games, books, comics, and everything else are all equally canon until anything in them retconned by something newer.Quote:So tiers of canon from highest order to lowest.
Actually, from what I understand; he wasn't 'evil for the sake of being evil'. He was driven mad by exposure to the Flood and eventually imprinted himself upon a young Forerunner when he started experimenting on himself to try and cure himself from potential Flood contamination. This ended up creating two different Didacts; Ur-Didact, the one we end up fighting, and Iso-Didact, the one who went on to activate the Halo Array when all else was lost.WaryWhisper1001 wrote:I feel like it was a wasted opportunity to flesh out the Didact in Halo 5, as IMO he was pretty flat and stereotypical as a villain in Halo 4. Even with the expanded lore to take into account, core halo 4 Didact was typical Disney villain fair: evil for the sake of evil.
But they could have done something in Halo 5 to express him as a character, don't just TELL us about his deeds and misdeeds, SHOW them! You know? The Covenant in Halo CE were just your typical FPS aliens, but Halo 2 expanded the Covenant, showing us their religion, social hierarchy, gave us a PoV character to see the Covenant through the eyes of one of them.
what if and this is just what if..... Didact is actually controlling the Cortana we see in the Halo 5 campaign? Long shot but i'm sure i'm not the only person who thought it.Collater333 wrote:Yeah just to point out. As of right now, the Didact is NOT dead. It's been stated that he's not composed either, but something definitely happened to him. Chief considers him "contained" at most, and the Spartan Field Guide shows that the UNSC still considers him a threat.
I think it's safe to say he will be returning at one point, possibly more dangerous than ever (or perhaps an unlikely ally against Cortana and the Created, though it would be "common mutual enemy" kind of alliance).
Yeah I remember this being a theory, and it's definitely plausible IMO.SPARTAN REM24 wrote:what if and this is just what if..... Didact is actually controlling the Cortana we see in the Halo 5 campaign? Long shot but i'm sure i'm not the only person who thought it.Collater333 wrote:Yeah just to point out. As of right now, the Didact is NOT dead. It's been stated that he's not composed either, but something definitely happened to him. Chief considers him "contained" at most, and the Spartan Field Guide shows that the UNSC still considers him a threat.
I think it's safe to say he will be returning at one point, possibly more dangerous than ever (or perhaps an unlikely ally against Cortana and the Created, though it would be "common mutual enemy" kind of alliance).
Nor was he. He was composed, and essentially put on the back burner. Chief even mentions that he believes he's simply "contained". We may yet see the Didact again.JNDreher wrote:The Didact would not have been killed in a comic.
No other type of media sure but media that is closer to the source tends to have higher weight. Take Star Wars for example, in that the media of the movies surpasses the books because Star Wars existed first as a movie, even if the creator G. Lucas is no longer in charge of the movies they are closer to the form of the source than either of the books be it new canon or old legends. Now take G.R.R. Martin series, you have the TV show which for a while was considered canon now the show has sort of taken its own story and the books are considered a separate cannon (much like Legends and Disneyverse). However between the two I would have to side with the books as the story was originally in book form and directly from the creator.GreenleafCM wrote:Not true. The Didact has never been declared dead in any official Halo media. His status has been deemed as "contained" in some sort of composed state that has yet to be elaborated on or explained. It's not much, and we may never hear from/see him again. But that is still a big difference from being actually deceased and is the status quo until otherwise changed by some other piece of canon media.Marinealver wrote:He died in a comic, but that can be retconned very easily.This is also incorrect. No one type of media "supersedes" anything else - that is how it has been since 343i took over and the Halo Universe is far better for it. The games, books, comics, and everything else are all equally canon until anything in them retconned by something newer.Quote:So tiers of canon from highest order to lowest.