People focus too hard on him taking his helmet off. There’s some great book adaptations of the Halo story (including the novel of the first Halo game which has a ton of extra story about what the marines on the Halo ring were doing in between being cannon fodder on the playable levels) and he takes his helmet off a couple of times in those, the difference is that it’s rare and usually for a purpose. That being said he never engages in a love affair with a covenant aligned human (because that’s not a fucking thing, ever) which was the real jumping the shark moment
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u/ian9921 Apr 21 '24
Man I never even seriously played Halo, and even I knew that adaptation was fucked the moment Master Chief took off his helmet