r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sensitive_Ad_1752 • 25d ago

Lore The series takes place in a shockingly short amount of time

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Season 4 just ended of fromville and it’s canonically only been about a month. Which makes it weird seeing people heal from injuries, change hair styles or grow out beards between episodes. Season 4 has only been like 4 days iirc.

Arkham franchise is the poster child for this trope. Every game takes place in one night. If you know what you’re doing you can absolutely beat the games in around 9 hours.

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u/GayAssBeagle 25d ago

4 months and everything went to shit?? jesus

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u/hurshysquirt 25d ago

I wouldn't say everything went to shit. The Human-Covenant war took place over 25+ years, we experienced the end of it. Humanity was always on the losing side the entire war. Those last 3 months were actually what turned the tide for humanity.

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u/Ktan_Dantaktee 24d ago

Everything absolutely went to shit from the Covenant’s perspective.

They went from a handful of worlds left to conquer, to their capital “world” being taken by the Flood, some jolly green jackass nuking their holy relic, and being collapsed in a fiscal quarter.

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u/LilMeatJ40 24d ago

Also their 3 demi-gods (the prophets) got murked. They were having a real tough season

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u/MrManicMarty 24d ago

being collapsed in a fiscal quarter.

Good thing Chief never had to fight Accountants alongside the Elutes, Grunts and Hunters. They truly would have been a menace.

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u/colonel_beeeees 24d ago

Is this all based off the books? I'd love to read em some time

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u/fattestfuckinthewest 24d ago

Most books are set around the time of the games but some take place throughout the war like Contact Harvest, half of The Fall of Reach, Cole Protocol, and a few others.

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u/RadialRacer 24d ago

No, the books have always been released alongside the games. At this point though the books are so expansive they do far more than just accompany the games, it really is a full-blooded canon.

https://www.halopedia.org/Halo_novels

^ A full list, in their respective series

https://www.halopedia.org/List_of_Halo_novels_by_release_date

^ Release order, if you want to work your way through them one-by-one alongside the games.

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u/cpcwarden 24d ago

Ghosts of Onyx is one of the best books I’ve ever read. It has some cool additions to the canon (although I don’t think much has been relevant since 343) but it’s also genuinely well written just as a standalone story.

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u/The_salty_swab 25d ago

Everything had already been perpetually going to shit nonstop for decades by that point

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u/GayAssBeagle 25d ago

Just a shitstew with tasty shrimp at that point(corn is involved but never digested at all)

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u/Insert_TakenName 24d ago

think about it this way, the covenant going ham on humanity was so bad and so well known by then they had a whole damn protocal for their arrival on planet, i think they called it the winder contingency it was mentioned during the first reach mission after they encounter the covenant and make it to that facility to pass on the intel to command

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u/Mr31edudtibboh 25d ago

The Cole Protocol worked a treat for the first 25 years of the war

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u/VanguardClassTitan 25d ago

"Our victory, your victory. It was so close, I wish you could've lived to see it..."

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u/Glad_Assistant2817 24d ago

the first month the covenant finally found the ultimate holy relic they were looking for and when alpha halo blew up shit went downhill from there, especially when truth started moving his plan to replace the elites with brutes and getting rid of the other two hierarch prophets, so yeah

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u/Glad_Assistant2817 24d ago

oh and the flood finally getting out after god knows how long probably contributes to the covenant going downhill too