Haloid is a 2007 short CGI crossover Fan Film by Monty Oum. As the title suggests, it crosses over Halo with Metroid, and consists of nothing but our favorite Power Armor-clad protagonists kicking ass (including each others') in an ultimate showdown with no regard for minor things like the laws of physics.
Something of a rough diamond compared to Oum's later works Dead Fantasy and RWBY, Haloid was nevertheless an impressive feat, being put together in a little over two months by one man with no formal training or budget on his home computer. Showcasing spectacular fight scene choreography, polished visuals, a fair bit of Fanservice, explosions and a Twist Ending, it's a loving send-up to both games as well as shooters/fighting games/action movies in general.
Oum began work on the film after discovering reverse engineering techniques online that allowed for the extraction of models from Halo 2. Upon release, it gained a significant amount of views online and made for his first big break, securing his status as an Internet celebrity legend and making him a highly sought-after name among game companies.
Haloid can be found at any of the following links:
This work contains examples of:
- Bring It: Samus' The Matrix style "come get some" gesture to MC.
- Credits Gag: Type 5 (Monty Oum is listed as doing everything)
- Curb-Stomp Battle:
- It takes about thirty seconds for the ODSTs to all get killed.
- The Covenant get thoroughly squashed shortly after.
- After Samus loses her power armor, she starts kicking Master Chief around like a ragdoll. Chief would've easily been killed were it not for Samus being intrigued enough to stop her finishing blow and look through her opponent's visor, right before they are interrupted by the Covenant's timely return.
Word of God is that this is because MC had fallen in love
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- Dance Battler: As soon as Samus' loses her power Suit, her fighting style becomes swift, agile, graceful and elegant as if she's dancing all over her opponents. Even more blatant when she beats up MC with a series of kicks which are basically breakdancing or her combo attack with MC spinning her around while she kicks their foes.
- Dance Party Ending: One involving all participants of the main work save the poor ODST troopers at the end. Done purely for Fanservice and lulz.
- Dancing Mook Credits: The Covenant aliens are the bulk of the dancers in the credits.
- Dual Wielding: Samus does it with energy swords. And shields if you count them as weapons.
- Equippable Ally: MC picks up Samus for a rocket-boot powered Spin Attack.
- Gun Fu: MC takes down numerous Elites and Grunts with a plasma rifle this way.
- Homage Shot: To The Matrix films.
- A certain scene, with handguns swapped for rocket launchers.
- Another scene, with a metal pole replaced by a laser whip.
- Another scene, where Samus twirls around, with a metal pole replaced by MC.
- The beginning of Zero Suit Samus's Intimidation Demonstration is a shot for shot remake of her introductory scene from the reveal trailer for Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
- I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: A grunt demonstrates this with a shotgun right after the opening credits.
On himself. - Improbable Aiming Skills:
- MC. At one point Chief kills about 30 Covenant with a single sniper shot.
- Samus, to a lesser degree, though she prefers to just spam various ranged attacks to cover her approach.
- In Love with Your Carnage: The Spartan's codpeice shorts out after witnessing Samus in action.
- Intimidation Demonstration: After the first time Samus activates her Laser Blade, she performs some basic cuts and swings with it.
- Let's You and Him Fight: Samus lands and mistakes MC for an enemy. Asskicking ensues.
- Outrun the Fireball: Samus uses her rocket boots to fly herself and MC away from MC's last-ditch attack, which is to set off the Spartan armor's self-destruct bomb.
- Running Gag: Crotch: *ffzzzt* Which actually doubles as Foreshadowing.
- Samus Is a Girl: The effect of the trope name was replicated for Master Chief. MC was surprised (and aroused, as the sparkle crotch indicates) to find this out. Turns out MC is a girl too. It's short for Master Chick and she's meant to be Nicole-458 - the secret Spartan character from Dead or Alive 4. Her identity is made explicit due to the number on her unarmored model's bodysuit.
- Self-Destruct Mechanism: MC's Spartan armor has a detachable breastplate that can be set to detonate like a nuclear bomb.
- Shout-Out:
- Samus' whip sounds like a lightsaber.
- As well as numerous shout-outs to The Matrix series.
- Sigil Spam: The Marathon logo appears on the back of MC's under-armor bodysuit and the chest area of MC's dance outfit.
- Something Else Also Rises: Distaff example. Since the Chief was actually female, instead of getting a boner, she got wet.
- Stat-O-Vision:
- Threat level — '''Massive'''. We don't get to see any faces during the battle, but at this point, an Oh, Crap! reaction can be implied.
- Before removing the outer armor, MC's HUD goes through a booting up, including the Bungie logo and "SO VERY TIRED", which was either our Spartan's feelings on the matter or that of the AI in said warrior's armor.
- Stealth Pun: There were two different Floods in this video; one resulted in sparks.
- Throwing Your Shield Always Works: MC cuts a Covenant member in half with a thrown shield.
- You Don't Look Like You: The SPARTAN's unarmored appearance has never been revealed, but according to Dead or Alive 4 Nicole has a BWH of 49-30-41, a good deal more shapely than her unarmored model in the video. Though said measurements could also refer to her MJOLNIR armor’s measurement and not Nicole herself.
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Samus Aran vs Master Chief is sure to be a showdown for the ages. Samus Aran vs Nicole-458 turned out to be one of these.