Editing Thirsty Grunt

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{{Covenant Character Infobox
|name="Thirsty Grunt"
|image=[[Image:Food_nipple_grunt.jpg|300px|The thirsty Grunt.]]
|homeworld=[[Balaho]]
|birth=
|death=September [[2552]]
|rank=[[Special Operations Grunt]]
|species=[[Unggoy]]
|gender=Male
|height=4'6 without armor
|weapons=[[Plasma Pistol]]
|equipment=
|vehicles=[[Pillar of Autumn]]
|hair=
|eyes=White
|cyber=
|era=[[Human-Covenant War]] and
[[9th Age of Reclamation]]
|types=Special Operations
|notable=
|affiliation=[[Covenant]]
}}
==Appearances==
In the ''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' level, [[the Maw]], after the bridge where you see [[Foe Hammer]] get shot down, keep to the right side of the tunnel. You will eventually see a small tunnel in the side of the wall. Go down there and you find a tunnel to your right. 

You will see many Flood corpses, and one [[Special Ops Grunts|SpecOps]] [[Grunt]] that is still alive. He will stand there until you approach, after which he will look up and say, ''"Good thing that [[food-nipple]]'s waiting for me at the starship 'cause man, have I worked up a big, grunty thirst!"'' ([[Media:Thirsty Grunt.ogg|listen]]) He will say nothing else and will continue to sit there unless you [[melee]] him. In this case, he will stagger back, like meleeing a normal Grunt, or he will die. He will not attack you and will simply treat you like an ally. He is also one of the few enemies in ''Halo: Combat Evolved'' who happens to have a fully loaded [[Plasma Pistol]].

Note that he is the only SpecOps Grunt in Halo: Combat Evolved who carries a Plasma Pistol. All others in the game carry [[Needlers]] or [[Fuel Rod Guns]].

Based on his commentary, he could either mean he's helplessly waiting for evac, or that he is just delirious from combat. It is most likely he's delirious because of the fact that he does not treat you like an enemy. After a while, the Thirsty Grunt will do a little dance and jump up and down.

The Thirsty Grunt, and the [[Final Grunt]] are the only enemy Grunts that [[Talking Grunts|never shoot you]]. The [[Cowardly Grunt]] of [[Halo 2]] is actually an ally.

==Quotes==
*"Good thing that food nipple's waiting for me at the [[starship]], 'cause man, have I worked up a big grunty thirst!"
*"Bite me!" (This is a rare quote that happens if you do not kill him)
*"Crikey!" (This is a rare quote that happens if you do not kill him)

''Note'': If you kill him before he says his dialogue he will sometimes re-animate to say it.

==Trivia==
*This [[Grunt]] is one of the three [[Talking Grunts]], the other two being the [[Final Grunt]] and the [[Cowardly Grunt]].
*On the old page for the Grunt water bottle at the [[Bungie]] store, the description mentions a "grunty thirst."
*If you pick up the Grunt's [[Plasma Pistol]] and overcharge it, the green orb of energy will not appear, only the sparks do. 
*Of all three of the talking Grunts, this Grunt seems to be the most highly ranked Grunt.
*He is the first talking grunt to be hostile the other being the [[Final Grunt]] but the [[Cowardly Grunt]] apears friendly because you meet him when you play as The Arbiter..

==Related Pages==
*[[Cowardly Grunt]]
*[[Final Grunt]]


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