Editing Hidden Marine

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The Unarmed [[Marine]] is a hidden [[Easter Egg]] on the level [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]. His character model is that of [[Private Mendoza]]. It appears that [[Bungie]] wanted his model to load before the cutscene that he later appears in; they thus coded him to load early in the level, and simply used the area outside of the level as a storage area. He can be shot and killed, just like any other Marine.

==How To==
To find him, you must stay inside the [[Pelican]] that drops you off at the beginning of the level; to do this, start throwing grenades as soon as you are able to. Stay inside the dropship as it flies off. After it travels a certain distance, the Pelican will drop you off outside of the level barriers. By exploring around, you will eventually come across the Marine.

Sometimes, when you're inside the structure, bodies will spawn all around where you came in from. Sometimes (if not always), if you surface just before the Jenkins cutscene, bodies will spawn all around and the Unarmed Marine's body will be where you fought the first Covenant on the level. If somehow you manage to get to the higher level after doing the trick above, [[Flood]] [[Combat Form]] corpses will be around the spot where the Unarmed Marine is standing.

==Possible Explanation==
[Only possible in single player campaign] It seems that Private Mendoza only appears twice in the level: once during the [[Jenkins]] video, and later in the game as a Combat Form. It is possible that [[Bungie]] wanted to speed up the loading of the Jenkins video by loading Mendoza's model in advance, but to do so, they needed to put him somewhere. They likely just chose a location that they didn't expect the player to reach: outside of the level.

If that's the case, then this is a [[glitch]], not an [[Easter Egg]] -- by definition an Easter Egg is meant to be found by someone, whereas a glitch is completely unintentional.

==Trivia==
*A rare occurrence happens when the Marine is found on Co-op Mode. When you hit the first lone Marine while as the 1st player, it also registers as a hit to the 2nd player. If you kill the marine, you also kill the 2nd player.

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+The Unarmed [[Marine]] is a hidden [[Easter Egg]] on the level [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]]. His character model is that of [[Private Mendoza]]. It appears that [[Bungie]] wanted his model to load before the cutscene that he later appears in; they thus coded him to load early in the level, and simply used the area outside of the level as a storage area. He can be shot and killed, just like any other Marine.
-The '''Hidden Marine''' is an [[:Category:Easter eggs|Easter egg]] that can be found on the ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' level [[343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark]].<ref>[http://forums.bungie.org/halo/archive4.pl?read=83933 '''halo.bungie.org''': ''Further Halo Exploration, and oddity.'']</ref> His character model is that of [[Manuel Mendoza|Private Mendoza]].
+==How To==
+To find him, you must stay inside the [[Pelican]] that drops you off at the beginning of the level; to do this, start throwing grenades as soon as you are able to. Stay inside the dropship as it flies off. After it travels a certain distance, the Pelican will drop you off outside of the level barriers. By exploring around, you will eventually come across the Marine.
-==Background==
+Sometimes, when you're inside the structure, bodies will spawn all around where you came in from. Sometimes (if not always), if you surface just before the Jenkins cutscene, bodies will spawn all around and the Unarmed Marine's body will be where you fought the first Covenant on the level. If somehow you manage to get to the higher level after doing the trick above, [[Flood]] [[Combat Form]] corpses will be around the spot where the Unarmed Marine is standing.
-It appears that [[Bungie]] wanted his model to load before the [[cutscene]] he later appears in; they thus coded him with scripts to load early in the level, and used the area outside of the level as a storage area. Technically, this makes him not an Easter egg, although it is fun to find him. He can be shot and killed, just like any other Marine. Killing him will not affect the cutscene he is loaded early for however.
-In ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]'', the Hidden Marine is still present, due to the new graphics engine being built over the original gameplay engine. However, a large tree has been placed directly in front of him, hiding him from view unless he is approached from behind, or the game is switched to its original graphics.
+==Possible Explanation==
+[Only possible in single player campaign] It seems that Private Mendoza only appears twice in the level: once during the [[Jenkins]] video, and later in the game as a Combat Form. It is possible that [[Bungie]] wanted to speed up the loading of the Jenkins video by loading Mendoza's model in advance, but to do so, they needed to put him somewhere. They likely just chose a location that they didn't expect the player to reach: outside of the level.
-==Walkthrough==
+If that's the case, then this is a [[glitch]], not an [[Easter Egg]] -- by definition an Easter Egg is meant to be found by someone, whereas a glitch is completely unintentional.
-To find him, the player must stay inside the [[Pelican]] that drops you off at the beginning of the level. To do this, start throwing grenades as soon as the player is able to. Stay inside the dropship as it flies off. After it travels a certain distance, the Pelican will drop the player off outside of the level barriers. By exploring around, the player will eventually come across the Marine.
-==Gallery==
+==Trivia==
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+*A rare occurrence happens when the Marine is found on Co-op Mode. When you hit the first lone Marine while as the 1st player, it also registers as a hit to the 2nd player. If you kill the marine, you also kill the 2nd player.
-File:MarinePicture.jpg|The Hidden Marine on 343 Guilty Spark in ''Halo: Combat Evolved''
-File:HCEA 343GS egg.jpg|The Hidden Marine on 343 Guilty Spark in ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''
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-==Sources==
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-[[Category:Halo: Combat Evolved Easter eggs]]
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