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Re: MC the Monkey King?
Posted By: Arashi <gp_angelo@yahoo.com>	Date: 3/23/03 4:59 p.m.
In Response To: MC the Monkey King? (gspawn) : The Battle Rifle is inscribed with what rumor says is the line "Monkey : King". : Maybe Bungie just gave away the plot to Halo2, right there on the Battle : Rifle. The Monkey King was Part of the sory "the Journey West", : potentially the greatest epic of Asian literature. It follows the Monkey : King, a fairly average Joe Schmoe guy, who happens to be King of Monkeys, : with his monkey tail (he did have one?) and superhuman strength (MC: : Average guy, cybernetic parts, leader of the SPARTANs). Monkey King : traveled the land, and was troubled by all the corruption in the land. So, : he sought out those who were corrupting the people. Ultimately, he decided : it was the gods themselves who had to be destroyed to save the people. : (Covenant: "You destruction is the will of the gods"). : So Monkey King traveled the land, eliminating corruption wherever it : confronted him, until one day he traveled to see the God of the Sea to get : the ultimate weapon. Monkey King eventually, I think, killed the God of : the sea and took a staff, the heaviest and greatest weapon that had ever : been constructed. (Only the Reclaimer may handle the Index), and proceeded : to use that staff to destroy the gods, in order to free the people. : (Cortana never did release the Index, you know. She still has it.) : Monkey King also never sought out conflict. He only pummeled the Gods as he : saw was necessary in order to achieve good in the world. Note that MC : doesn't seek out conflict, his training ensures he only follows orders as : necessary to achieve his directives. : So in Halo2, does MC fight the Covenant only to find a higher problem? Do the : Gods need to be punished in order to end the battlecries of the Covenant? : Perhaps, in the end, destroying the Covenant homeworld isn't enough. There : are too many races, too many other worlds. Maybe the only way to get the : Covies to stop is to confront the Gods (Forerunners? Or maybe whatever the : Prophets commune with? the thing the Covenent refer to as "the : gods"). : Regardless, this reference to the Monkey King makes one thing absolutely : certain: the destruction of the Covenant, the ending of this conflict, : will rest solely on Master Chief. There will be no players in the shadows, : there will be no greater resolution caused by a defunct AI, there will be : no "MC! We have to escape before (event X) happens!". In the : end, it will be Master Chief alone who can end this. Lock and load, : people. Lock and load. Oooh, very very nice, I like the sound of that. Perhaps meet your great great great ... great great grandfather or something. Assuming the Forerunner are alive :p

Message Index

MC the Monkey King?	gspawn	3/23/03 1:07 p.m.
MC?	SniperMan27	3/23/03 1:11 p.m.
Re: MC?	gspawn	3/23/03 1:14 p.m.
Re: MC the Monkey King?	Dewser	3/23/03 1:53 p.m.
No	Ross Mills	3/23/03 3:14 p.m.
Re: No	Doggone	3/23/03 5:16 p.m.
^^LOL^^ *NM* *NM*	Agutai	3/23/03 8:56 p.m.
Re: MC the Monkey King?	Arashi	3/23/03 4:59 p.m.
Interesting connection.	opie301	3/23/03 7:07 p.m.
Re: Interesting connection.	Finn	3/24/03 4:18 p.m.