Editing List of Marathon References in Halo

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This is a '''list of all the references to [[Marathon]]''' that [[Bungie]] put in the ''[[Halo]]'' games, most of which are sightings of the Marathon logo, as seen in the gallery.

== Halo: Combat Evolved ==

* 343 Guilty Spark has the Marathon symbol around his eye and on his eye.
*[[Captain Keyes]] - He has the Marathon logo on his [[:Image:Captain Keyes.jpg|uniform]].
*Captain Keyes - His [[:Image:Pipe.jpg|pipe]] has the Marathon logo on it. 
*[[Captain Keyes]] - He has the Marathon logo on his coffee cup.
*[[Control Room]] - The Control Room main chamber, when viewed from the top, is shaped like the logo.
*[[Cortana]] - The Marathon AI Durandal, is named after a mythical [[wikipedia:Durindana|sword]]. [[wikipedia:Curtana|Cortana]] is a sword which bears the inscription: ''My name is Curtana, of the same steel and temper as [[wikipedia:Joyeuse|Joyeuse]] and Durendal''.
*Dialogue - Sometimes Grunts or Marines will shout "They're everywhere!", similar to the [[Marathon_(video_game_series)#BOBs|BOBs]] of Marathon.
*[[Difficulty Selection]] - The Marathon logo appears on the [[Easy]] [[:Image:Easy Shield.png|shield]].
*[[Foehammer]] - A level in ''Marathon: Infinity'' is called "Foe Hammer".
*Level title - Marathon has a level "If I Had a Rocket Launcher, I'd Make Somebody Pay", Halo has a part "If I Had a Super Weapon..."
*Light markers - The Covenant light markers in [[Two Betrayals]] bear a resemblance to Pfhor staffs.
*[[MJOLNIR]] - There are Mjolnir Mark IV cyborgs in Marathon, there is Mjolnir Mark V battle armor in Halo. 
*On the back part of the Halo rocket launcher it says "SPNKR" which is a reference to the Rocket launcher of marathon        which is title the "SPNKR X-18 SSM Launcher".
*[[Pillar of Autumn]] - The Marathon logo can be seen on the [[:Image:PoA.jpg|side of the ship]].
*[[Rampancy]] - If the player kills Captain Keyes in the [[Pillar of Autumn Level|first level]], Cortana says, "The Master Chief has gone rampant."
*[[Silent Cartographer (Level)]] - The center of the island is shaped like the Marathon logo.
*[[Halo PC]] Loading Screen - If you brighten the gamma on Halo PC a lot, you can see what looks like the Marathon symbol etched in the background of the first loading screen.
*[[DX-class Spirit Dropship|Sprits]]-The Marathon logo is on the front of the cockpit.
*The MA5B Assault rifle is similar to the MA-75B assault rifle in terms of ammo and name
*The flamethrower in Halo PC has a similar name to the flamethrower found in Marathon : 7057 = TOZT
*The [[Flood]] resemble the Zombie Pfhor, an enemy which was cut from Marathon 2 during its development.[http://nikon.bungie.org/story/images/infected.pfhor.jpg]
*The dot on the I in the Bungie logo resembles the circle in the Marathon logo.
*The [[Plasma Pistol]] is much like the Fusion Pistol from the Marathon series, which also shares a vibrating overcharge shot.
*On the plasma grenade the marathon logo is visible on the orange part.
*[[Grunt]]s are similiar in design to the generic Pfhor fighers, both being grey-skinned with gangly limbs, with unprotected heads but wearing masks over their mouths (though this is a loose comparison).  This continues in Halo 2 and Halo 3.

== Halo 2 ==
 
*UESC - Lord Hood says, "United Earth Space Corps," Marathon features the Unified Earth Space Council.
*Marathon cruiser- On the first cutscene of the games we can see a Marathon Class Cruiser near Cairo Station.
*The marathon symbol is also used in the Halo 2 Multiplayer online as a gamer tag symbol.
*[[Doors]] - The doors on the level "Regret" in Halo 2
*If you get outside the level Burial Mounds, look at the rubble by the "ribs" a large piece of debris is engraved with it
*The Enforcers shields make up a Marathon symbol.
*If you melee with a shotgun, you can see a Marathon symbol on the silver casing.
*The multiplayer map "[[Foundation]]" is based off of the Marathon "Thunderdome" levels.
*The multiplayer map "[[Gemini]]" is based off of the Marathon level "Duality". This is furthered be the map's desription, mentioning the "ancient duality of the Covenant..."
*On Headlong, in the building which houses mostly human weapons, if you look at the second floor from above it makes out the Marathon Logo
*If you look at the multiplayer map "[[Ivory Tower]]" from above, you will see that the circular courtyard and the small ditch which the water runs along makes up a Marathon logo.
*The Elite rebellion against the Covenant parallels similar events in the Marathon series. In Marathon 1, Durandal convinced a group of S'pht to rise up against the Pfhor who enslaved them; and after Durandal's disappearance in Marathon 2, the rebel S'pht found themselves stranded together with a group of humans on a hostile world (similar to the Elites' predicament on Delta Halo).
*The player's main goal in Halo 2 is to stop the Covenant from inadvertently destroying all life in the galaxy with the Halo installations; in Marathon Infinity, it was to prevent the Pfhor from inadvertently releasing a galaxy-destroying chaos being.
*Some Marines can be heard saying "Eat it, boi!", possibly reffering to the Marathon 2 level named "Eat it, Vid Boi!"
*The oddball skull has a marathon logo in the eye.
*There is a subchapter in The Great Journey named "Delusions and Grandeur". Marathon Infinity has a network level named "Delusions of Grandeur".

== Halo 3 ==

The weapons are often decaled with Marathon symbols

*On the last cutscene of the level [[Floodgate]], when the [[Arbiter]] is bringing human weapons the weapons are the same weapons "a [[M7057/Defoliant Projector]] and a [[Rocket Launcher]] "  are held in the same poisition as Bob's picture in Marathon Infinity, 
*When you look at a High-Res screenshot of [[John-117|John]]'s gun from the [[Halo 3 Announcement Trailer]] you can see a Marathon logo. Confirmed by [[Kevin Paul|KP]] [http://carnage.bungie.org/haloforum/halo.forum.pl?read=749352]
*The [[BR55HB SR Battle Rifle]] has the Marathon logo on it's optical sight.
*There is an achievement for 'accessing all the terminals in the campaign' which is called Marathon man. ).
*In the second E3 Trailer, boxes marked TRAXUS can be seen. Traxus IV was the name of a famous [[rampancy|rampant]] AI in Marathon's universe.
*The Brute [[Mauler]] was probably based on the shotgun from Marathon, which was also dual-wieldable.
*There is a Marathon:Infinity level editor called Forge. Halo 3 shares that name of its map editor.
*At the end of the game, the rear section of the ship Master Chief is on, the UNSC Forward Unto Dawn, drifts toward a planet as the Marathon logo flashes on the surface. [[Alex Seropian]] once stated that Master Chief and the main character of Marathon were the same character. Bungie has since denied this, but the ending of the game may in fact connect them.
*The M6G has the Marathon logo on the grip near the back.
*[[343 Guilty Spark|Guilty Spark's]] Eye, which makes the shape of the circle in the Marathon Logo, also has the full logo inside the eye.
*On the Spartan Insignia, there is a gold Marathon logo.
*The way the brute holds the marine captive on Sierra 117 is possibly a reference to the L'howon chapter screen.
*The control panels on the elevators, on the level [[The Covenant (Level)|The Covenant]], have the Marathon symbol on them.
*Some Marines sometimes say "Thank God you're here!", which refers to when BOBs say "Thank God it's you!"
*A marine can be heard saying (without the IWHBYD skull) "Kill 'em all, sort 'em later", which may refer to the Marathon: Durandal level "God Will Sort the Dead". Sergeant Pete Stacker can also be heard saying "Let God Sort 'em out!", which is also a reference to the level.
*On the level [[Tsavo Highway]] the marathon logo appears on the sides of the CCS-Battlecruiser flying overhead.
*On July the Fourth, the phrase "B-B-Q at BOB's Place!" which can be seen on the Forerunner wall of [[Valhalla]] which is a reference to BOB-B-Qing, when you kill many of the BOBs in Marathon.
*The MA5C has a Marathon logo on its buttplate.
*In the mission Cortana, in the spot where you can get the flamethrower where the dead ODST is, and on the center of the ODST's stomach armor there is a marathon symbol
*The Marathon Logo can be seen on the side of covenant capital ships. This is most easily seen by traveling toward the one outside the hanger in saved films on Crows Nest.
*In the settings menu, the picture of the spartan when appearance is high-lighted, has the logo on its shoulder

== Misc. ==

*[[Cortana Letters]] - These messages are riddled with references.
*[[Drinol]] - Similarity with Drinniol, a Marathon foe.
*[[Hunter]] - Similarity with Marathon foe of the same name. 
*[[Marathon-class]] - A class of Cruisers mentioned in [[Halo: The Fall of Reach]].
*[[Multiplayer]] - The multiplayer game "[[Oddball]]" is derived from Marathon's "Kill The Man With The Ball", which had the same objective.
*In both Halo and Marathon, there is a company called [[Misriah]] on Mars.
*A secret level in Marathon Infinity was named "Hats Off to Eight Nineteen" (after the initials of Hamish Sinclair (H=8 S=19), a dedicated fan). <math>819/7=117</math> (Master Chief's service number and a [[List of "Seven" references in Halo|7 reference]]).
*The source code for Marathon 2 was released on January 17 (1/17) of 2000.
*An early promotional brochure(?) for Halo used the tagline "Somewhere in the heavens, Halo is waiting", a variation on Marathon's original tagline ("somewhere in the heavens...they are waiting").
*On the side of the rocket launcher reads "SPNKr" which was the name of the rocket launcher in Marathon
*Marathon 1 takes place in a ship that is orbiting Tau Ceti IV, and there is a system in Halo called the Tau Ceti system (although that star does really exist).  
*In the Diorama on Halo3.com, the video Testimonial:Enemy Weapon, when the camera centres on a sniper rifle, a closer look brings up a [[Marathon]] symbol.
*In Halo 3, the toolboxes and small toolboxes have the word Traxus written on them, referencing the rampant AI Traxus IV. 
*The center of the Halo 3 mutiplayer map Guardian is similar to  the Marathon logo
*The MA5C has a Marathon logo on its buttplate

== Gallery of Marathon References ==

<gallery>
Image:Maramenu.jpg|The start menu of ''[[Marathon|Marathon 2]]''.
Image:Pipe.jpg|The logo at the end of Keyes's pipe
Image:Halo1 logo.jpg|In between the A and the L in the Halo logo is the Marathon 
logo
Image:Pillar of Autumn Emblem.JPG|The emblem of the ''Pillar of Autumn'' bears the 
logo.
Image:Tangent.jpg|The eye of the [[Monitor]] is the shape of the logo.
Image:Control Room2.jpg|Installation 04's [[Control Room]] is the shape of the logo.
Image:Armarathonlogo.jpg|High-Res screenshot of Master Chief's gun from the H3 Trailer
Image:Marathon_on_AR.JPG|Easier seen here
Image:Symbols_on_BR.JPG|1. The Marathon logo
Image:Marathon symbol on 99D-S2 AM.jpg|Marathon logo on a [[Sniper Rifle System 99D-S2 AM|sniper rifle]], from [[Enemy Weapon]] video.
Image:Marathon Logo (Covenant ship).jpg|Marathon Logo on the side of the CCS-Class 
Battlecruiser on Tsavo Highway
</gallery>

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