Editing Emile-A239

{{Status|Canon}}
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|name=Emile-A239
|image=[[File:EmileWaypoint.jpg|300px]]
|homeworld=[[Luxor]], [[Eridanus II]]
|birth=[[2523|March 11, 2523]]{{Ref/Book|Id=Enc22|Enc22|Page=99}}
|death=[[2552|August 30, 2552]] {{C|aged 29}}{{Ref/Reuse|PoA}}
|causeofdeath=Stabbed by a [[Sangheili Zealot]]{{Ref/Reuse|PoA}}
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|species=[[Human]]
|gender=Male
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|affiliation=*[[UNSC Navy]] {{C|formerly}}
**[[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Weapons]]
***[[SPARTAN-III program]]
*[[UNSC Army]]
**[[Special Warfare Group Three]] {{C|operationally under [[NOBLE Team]]}}{{Ref/Reuse|EVG}}
|rank=[[Warrant Officer]]
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{{Quote|In recognition of this, his warrior's spirit, we honor him as the merciless wrath of Noble.|The [[Monument to Noble Team]]}}
'''[[Warrant Officer]] Emile-A239''' was a [[SPARTAN-III program|SPARTAN-III commando]] of the [[UNSC Navy|UNSC Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]], attached to [[Special Warfare Command|Special Warfare]] [[Special Warfare Group Three|Group Three]] of the [[UNSC Army]].{{Ref/Reuse|EVG}} He fought as part of [[NOBLE Team]] with the call sign '''Noble Four''', during the [[Fall of Reach]] in [[2552|summer 2552]].{{Ref/Marketing|Id=rise|HR|Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise}}{{Ref/Site|Id=bnet|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24523|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Halo: Reach - Intel - Emile-A239 Profile|D=13|M=10|Y=2014|LocalArchive=Noble Team performance reports}}

==Biography==
===Early life and military career===
[[File:Deliver_Hope-Emile.png|thumb|left|Emile during the Battle of Fumirole on April 22, 2552.]]
Emile was born in [[Luxor]] on [[Eridanus II]] in [[2523]]. When he was very young, his parents were killed during [[Insurrection]] activity. Subsequently, his older brother took care of him in Luxor. In [[2530]] his planet was [[Glassing|glassed]] by the [[Covenant]] and his brother sacrificed himself so that Emile could escape; this event had a profound impact on him.{{Ref/Site|Id=CF|URL=https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/universe/characters/emile-a239|Site=Halo Waypoint|Page=Emile-A239|D=16|M=10|Y=2021}} Orphaned, he was conscripted into the [[SPARTAN-III program]] as a part of [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]]. Discovering that he could fill the hole in his heart with the corpses of the Covenant, Emile quickly adapted and excelled in his training. Emile graduated from the program at the age of 13, though his aptitude was such that he was removed from the general population of Alpha Company by [[Kurt-051]] and [[Franklin Mendez]] before [[Operation: PROMETHEUS]] in [[2537]] (which resulted in the deaths of most members of the company) to be used for tasks that required a more skillful hand.{{Ref/Site|URL=http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040|Site=Bungie.net|Page=Halo: Reach - Intel - Personnel|D=13|M=10|Y=2014|LocalArchive=Noble Team performance reports}} 

Some time following [[2551#December|December 2551]], Emile was assigned onto [[NOBLE Team]] to fill the spot left by the departure of [[Rosenda-A344]] after the [[defense of Concord]], taking on the callsign Noble Four. Despite this, on March 9, 2552, Colonel [[Urban Holland]] still considered reversing this placement in the event that an operation against [[Insurrectionist]]s was to come up, due to Emile's noted excessive violence in combat against human rebels.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}} In April of that year, Emile fought alongside NOBLE in the [[Battle of Fumirole]] in an assault on ''[[Sanctity of Purification]]'', a {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} which had taken position over the planet's capital city.{{Ref/Marketing|HR|Deliver Hope}}

===Fall of Reach===
On [[2552#July|July 23, 2552]], contact with the [[Visegrád Relay|Visegrad communications relay]] on Reach was lost. After losing contact with the [[UNSC Army|Army]] fireteams that he had deployed to investigate the disturbance, [[Colonel]] [[Urban Holland]] sent Noble Team to find the cause of the communications blackout. Soon after arriving at the relay, Noble Team encountered a [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] incursion force. Soon, the team split in half, with Emile, [[Jun-A266|Jun]], and [[Catherine-B320|Kat]] flying directly to the relay and [[Carter-A259|Carter]], [[Jorge-052|Jorge]], and [[SPARTAN-B312|Noble Six]] proceeding on the ground. After the team battled their way inside and fought a team of [[Sangheili Zealot]]s known as the [[Devoted Sentries]], Carter informed Holland that the [[WINTER CONTINGENCY (protocol)|WINTER CONTINGENCY]] was in effect, as Covenant forces were on Reach.{{Ref/Level|HR|Winter Contingency}}
[[File:Noble Trio.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Emile, Jorge and Carter having a small field debrief]]
On July 26, Noble Team helped defend the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]]'s [[Sword Base]] from a Covenant attack spearheaded by an overhead [[Ceudar-pattern heavy corvette|corvette]]. Near the end of the battle, Emile took position near the top of the structure. From this position, he engaged several [[Kez'katu-pattern Phantom|Phantoms]] and [[Is'belox-pattern Banshee|Banshees]] to allow some of the base's remaining [[GA-TL1 Longsword|Longswords]] to get airborne. After the corvette was destroyed by one of Reach's [[Orbital defense platform|Orbital Defense Platforms]], Noble Team met [[Catherine Halsey|Dr. Catherine Halsey]], with whom they discussed the Zealot team they had previously encountered.{{Ref/Level|HR|ONI: Sword Base}}

On [[2552#August|August 23]], Noble Team rendezvoused inside ONI's now-compromised [[Olympic Tower]] in [[New Alexandria (location)|New Alexandria]]. During this meeting, Emile tried to mask his sorrow for Jorge's death through humor. Moments later, the Covenant began [[glassing]] dangerously close to Noble Team's position. As the SPARTANs fled, Kat was killed by a waiting [[Sangheili]] marksman. The survivors attempted to kill the Elite to no avail. On August 26, Noble Team emerged from a fallout bunker beneath the ruins of the Olympic Tower.{{Ref/Level|HR|New Alexandria}}

On August 29, the remaining members of Noble Team were sent to the Covenant-occupied remnants of Sword Base; they were ordered to demolish Sword Base to prevent Halsey's excavation data from falling into Covenant hands. Emile, Carter, and Jun remained in a [[UH-144 Falcon]] while Noble Six and a team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]]s eliminated a pair of Covenant [[Cheru-pattern Tyrant|anti-aircraft cannons]]. After the cannons were disabled, Noble Team fought their way into the interior of the base. After the team arrived at the pre-arranged coordinates, which seemed to be a dead end with no load-bearing structures, [[Auntie Dot]] revealed that the team had been given a new objective. They were to rendezvous with Dr. Halsey over a kilometer away and 2,000 feet below ground.
[[File:Emile main.png|thumb|200px|Emile near the [[Asźod ship breaking yards]]]]
The team soon arrived at a [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner complex|complex]] beneath the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]]. Halsey insisted upon the importance of the site and demanded Noble Team's support while she completed transferring critical data in her laboratory. Emile and the other Spartans defended Halsey's lab from several waves of Covenant forces, who had found an entrance to the ruins. Eventually, Halsey ushered the Spartans inside, where she revealed the data she had transferred: a fragment of the [[Artificial intelligence|AI]] [[Cortana]] that carried a "latchkey" discovery found in the ruins. She ordered Noble Team to escort Cortana to the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}, a {{Class|Halcyon|light cruiser}} that was drydocked at the [[Asźod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] in [[Asźod]]. Jun escorted Halsey to ONI [[CASTLE Base]], while Emile, Carter, and Noble Six flew to rendezvous with the ''Pillar of Autumn''. As the group parted ways, Halsey detonated explosive charges within the ice shelf, burying the ruins.{{Ref/Level|HR|The Package}}

On August 30, as Noble Team neared the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s location, their [[D77-TC Pelican|Pelican]] was damaged, and Carter was severely wounded, by pursuing Banshees. Emile attempted to hold the pursuers off to little avail. Carter ordered Emile and Noble Six to escort the package to the ''Pillar of Autumn'' on foot. The two Spartans leapt from the Pelican and fought their way to the mouth of a ravine, where they were cornered by a [[Deutoros-pattern Scarab|Scarab]]. Fortunately, Carter arrived, though the Pelican's weapons were not powerful enough to damage the Scarab. As the commander told his plan to ram the Scarab, Emile encouraged Carter to ''"Hit 'em hard."'' With their leader dead and the Scarab destroyed, the two remaining SPARTANs continued toward the ''Pillar of Autumn''. Eventually, they reached the drydock's landing platforms, where [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]] would take possession of the package personally. Emile mounted an [[Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|"Onager" mass driver]] that the ''Pillar of Autumn''{{'}}s [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] contingent had installed, using it to destroy several approaching Phantom dropships.{{Ref/Level|Id=PoA|HR|The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Reach level)|The Pillar of Autumn}}.

===Death===
{{Quote|I'm ready! How 'bout you?!|Emile's last words.}} 
After Noble Six had cleared Platform Delta, Keyes arrived in a Pelican to take possession of the package. While Noble Six met with the captain, a Phantom flew to the emplacement and dropped off a group of the Devoted Sentries. Emile dismounted the emplacement and knocked an Elite to the ground. The Zealot's energy shields flickered, then turned off as Emile finished it with his shotgun. However, a second Elite managed to impale him with a stab from behind using an [[Energy sword (fiction)|energy sword]]. Defiant to the end, Emile pulled out his kukri and stabbed the Elite through the throat, causing both of them to fall from the platform. When Noble Six ascended the stairs to the mass driver, the bodies of Emile and the Elites who ambushed him were slumped against the railing, lifeless.{{Ref/Reuse|PoA}}

==Personality and traits==
{{Quote|He may say that what he wants is to win the war, but what he really wants is for the enemy to die.|In-game description}}
Emile believed maintaining one's humanity during a conflict for survival to be irrational - that both ideas cannot co-exist, so he decided early on in his career to never let them. As such, he favored an aggressive and loud approach to combat, wanting to prove to everyone (as well as himself) that he was not afraid of the enemy nor was he afraid of doing whatever was necessary to win the war. It was for this reason that Emile was often guilty of overkill, but his apparent sadism was in actuality an affectation - he did what he did because he knew that it could potentially break the enemy's will to fight, not necessarily because he enjoyed it. The one personal action Emile took to signify his victories were the scratches he made on his visor - each of the hundreds of marks that make up its skull-visage in order to threaten the Covenant opposition at first sight.{{Ref/Reuse|CF}}

Colonel Holland noted that Emile-A239's excessive use of force made it hard to field him against [[insurrectionist]]s due to the unfavorable reaction in [[civilian]] media; to this end, shortly before the Fall of Reach, Holland planned to replace him with [[Rosenda-A344]] in the event of a future counterinsurgency operation.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}}

Emile was noted to have had the most difficulty interacting with non-Spartans than any other member of Noble Team.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}} He treated civilians with suspicion and disregard, which led to confrontations between him and the more empathetic Jorge. Despite his hard outlook, he held a deep respect for his teammates, as well as readiness and loyalty to sacrifice himself in order to allow the ''Pillar of Autumn'' to escape. Emile handled the loss of teammates, such as Jorge, by masking his emotions with humor.<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', ''Legendary Developer Commentary''</ref> Despite his abrasive outlook, Emile was nonetheless respected by his peers. He was described as being detail-oriented and unbreakable, an effective member of his unit while in the field and one that maintained strict discipline off the field.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}}

He possessed an "impressive" [[keepsake|collection]] of Covenant contraband. While in direct violation of Subsection Seven of the [[United Nations Space Command Emergency Priority Order 098831A-1|Cole Protocol]], his superiors ignored this, due to them being part of the Army rather than the Navy.{{Ref/Reuse|bnet}}

==Equipment==
Emile typically wielded an [[M45 shotgun|M45 Tactical Shotgun]] and occasionally used an [[M319 grenade launcher]], for which he always carried grenades. His signature weapon was a large [[Wikipedia:Kukri|kukri]] knife that he sheathed on his right shoulder pauldron.

Emile's armor consisted of the Assault/Sapper chest piece, the Assault/Breacher wrist utility, [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/M variant|Security]] right shoulder piece, [[Asymmetrical Action Group Operator armor|Operator]] left shoulder piece, [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Tactical|Tactical/SOFT CASE]] utility, and [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/FJ/PARA variant|FJ/PARA]] knee guards. The most distinct piece of Emile's armor was his helmet, a [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/V variant|MJOLNIR EVA helmet]] with a [[Hardened Uplink|HUL]] attachment, featuring a skull Emile had carved into the faceplate. The skull is made of hundreds of individual scratches, each signifying a member of the [[Covenant]] he has killed.<ref name="gc">''[[Halo: Ground Command]]'', Core Rulebook</ref>

==Trivia==
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<!--Please do not mention his accent, as attempts to decipher its place of origin are speculative and conflicting.-->
*Emile was voiced by [[Jamie Hector]] in ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.{{Ref/Game|HR|Halo: Reach credits|credits}}
*Emile shared his homeworld, Eridanus II, with [[John-117]].
*Emile was one of the oldest known SPARTAN-III candidates at the time he entered the program, being age eight. [[Carter-A259]], the oldest known candidate, was eleven.
*Emile is the only member of Noble Team, aside from SPARTAN-B312, whose face is not seen throughout ''Halo: Reach''. He is also the only one who does not remove his helmet at any time in the game. However, Emile's face is depicted in a piece of [[:File:HR NobleTeam Concept 2.jpg|concept art]] to the far left. The faces shown in the same concept art piece are seen in one of the screens in the [[Tribute Room]], but Emile's face is largely obscured.
*Emile's helmet is available as an Avatar Award and is obtained by earning a [[Bulltrue Medal]] in either multiplayer or Firefight [[matchmaking]].
*In campaign co-op, Emile's helmet is a standard EVA helmet, missing its usual skull. In cutscenes however, the skull is unaffected. This also happens to an EVA[C] helmet worn by a player in all split-screen game modes.
*When Emile stabs the Zealot with his kukri, he stabs the Elite on the right side of its neck. However, after the cutscene, the knife is on the left side of the Elite's neck. It is possible though that he might have stabbed the Elite a following time after falling off screen during the cutscene.
*Due to [[Dead shielded Emile|a glitch]], Emile's shields, as well as those of the Elites who ambush him, still function normally after they are dead. His body also can not be shifted through meleeing or explosions.
*Emile's service tag initials are also printed on the base of the [[Mark 2488 Magnetic Accelerator Cannon|Onager]] as '''S-239''', much like Jorge's tag is printed on the cannon of the Scorpion tank as '''S-052'''.
*Emile is the only SPARTAN in the game who wears his wrist attachment on his right wrist, though Jorge wears the same wrist attachment on both wrists.
*It is possible that Emile was originally intended to be silent, as his profile on ''Game Informer'' regularly refers to him as "the silent Spartan" and states that he "does not speak", in heavy contrast to the gung-ho attitude he possesses in the final game.<ref name="Game Informer">[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/01/26/feature-noble-team-profile-2.aspx '''Game Informer: Noble Team Profile #2''']</ref>
*Along with Kat, Emile is one of the two ''[[Halo: Reach]]'' characters in [[wikipedia:The Coalition (company)|The Coalition]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Gears 5|Gears 5]]'' as part of the Ultimate Edition. His role in Horde and Escape modes is Offense, while his Ultimate Ability in Horde mode is Drop Shield. In addition to saying "Echo Tango" like he did in ''Halo: Reach'' when marking enemies, he may also shout "Who's next?!" when earning kills and performing executions.{{Ref/YouTube|ICQFgGRvtko|Hectorlo|Gears 5 - Emile - A239 Quotes / Multiplayer Lines|y=2020|m=11|d=11}}
*The ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' Assassination known as ''"Emile's Regards"'' is a reference to his resistive demise at the hands of the Sangheili Zealot.

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:HR_EmileFace_Concept.png|Early concept art of Emile for ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.
File:HR_Emile-A329_Concept.png|Concept art of Emile-A239 holding a grenade launcher.
File:HR_EVASkullHelmet_Concept.jpg|Concept art of Emile's helmet.
File:Emile-A239.png|Emile with his shotgun.
File:Emile.png|Emile crouching.
File:Halo Reach - A Spartan Will Rise-2.jpg|Emile fires at two Banshees and a Phantom from a Pelican.
File:Emile_kukri.png|Emile drawing his kukri in combat.
File:reach 947096_Medium.jpg|Emile, fatally wounded by a Zealot.
File:HaloReach - EmileDeath.png|Emile's body and that of his killer.
File:HR EmileA239 Firefight Icon.png|Emile's Firefight profile image.
File:Emile standing.png|Emile after killing a [[Skirmisher]].
File:Emilie-Avatar.png|An Emile Xbox Live avatar.
File:H5G - Wrath armor concept.jpg|[[WRATH-class Mjolnir]], a [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor (GEN2)|MJOLNIR [GEN2]]] armor based on Emile's armor in ''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]''.
File:HLC Reach.png|Jun-A266 and Emile-A239 on the ''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]'' #6 poster.
File:HLC Renegade.jpg|Emile-A239 on the ''[[Halo Legendary Crate]]'' #17 poster.
File:G5-Emile.png|Emile-A239 in ''Gears 5''.
File:HINF EMILE-A239 Armor Kit Icon.png|The Emile-A239 armor kit in ''[[Halo Infinite]]''.
File:HINF - Event - Tac Ops - 00007.png|An Emile weapon charm on an MA40.
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==List of appearances==
*''[[Remember Reach]]''
**''[[Deliver Hope]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Reach]]''
*''[[Halo 5: Guardians]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: Ground Command]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo Mythos]]''
*''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]''
*''[[Halo Infinite]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Winter Contention]]'' {{Im}}

==Sources==
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{{Noble Team}}
{{Spartan III}}

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[[Category:Spartan-IIIs]]