Avery Johnson/Quotes

Campaign

Halo: Combat Evolved

The Pillar of Autumn

• "You heard the lady! Move like you've got a purpose!" - To Marines, after Cortana's announcements.
• Speech to Marines depended on Difficulties:
  • "Men, keep your eyes downrange, fingers on the triggers, and we all come home in one piece. Am I right, Marines?" - Johnson's speech on Easy.
  • "Once again, it is our job to finish what the flyboys started. We are leaving this ship's platoon, and engaging the Covenant on solid ground. When we meet the enemy, you will rip their skulls from their spines, and toss 'em away, laughin'! Am I right, Marines?" - Johnson's speech on Normal.
  • "Men, here is where we show those split-chin, squid-head, sons of bitches that they could not have picked a worse enemy than the human race. We are going to blow the hell out of those dumb bugs until we don't have anything left to shoot 'em with! And then, we are going to strangle them with their own living guts! Am I right, Marines?" - Johnson's speech on Heroic.
  • "Men, we led those dumb bugs out to the middle of nowhere to keep 'em from gettin' their filthy claws on Earth. But, we stumbled onto somethin' they're so hot for, that they're scramblin' over each other to get it. Well, I don't care if it's God's own anti-son-of-a-bitch machine, or a giant hula hoop, we're not gonna let 'em have it! What we will let 'em have is a belly full of lead, and a pool of their own blood to drown in! Am I right, Marines?" -Johnson's speech on Legendary.
• "Uh-huh. Damn right, I am. Now move it out! Double time!" - after Marines' response to his speech.
• "All you greenhorns who wanted to see Covenant up close... this is your lucky day." - When the Marines move out.

Halo

• "It's a mess, sir. We're scattered all over this valley. We called for evac, but until you showed up, I thought we were cooked." - To the Master Chief once after they meet up.
• "Sure, Cortana. All right ladies, volunteers step up on the double! The rest of you, get to the drop ship." - To Cortana, then Marines regarding a volunteer for the Warthog's turret.

343 Guilty Spark

• "Watch your mouth, son. This "stuff" is your history. It should remind you grunts what we're fightin' to protect." - To PFC Manuel Mendoza, who express his dislike to Flip Music.
• "You ask 'em real nice next time you see 'em, Bisenti. I'm sure they'll be happy to oblige." - To Mendoza and Bisenti who agreed they would let the Covenant destroy their Flip Music history.
• "Looks like a Covenant patrol. Badass Elite units, all KIA." - To Jacob Keyes, referring to a dead Elite inside the Flood containment facility.
• "Wait here for the Captain and his squad, and get your ass inside." - To PFC Wallace A. Jenkins, outside a Forerunner structure.
• "Boy, you always got a bad feelin' about something--" - To Mendoza, who said he has a bad feeling about entering a room inside the facility.
• "Mendoza, get your ass back up to Second Squad's position, and find out what the hell is goin' on." - To Mendoza, after losing contact with Second Squad.
• "Where's that coming from, Mendoza?" - After hearing the gurgling sounds from the Flood.
• "Don't even THINK about it, Marine!" - To Mendoza, who attempts to escape after shouting "This is loco!" upon encountering The Flood.
• "Goddamnit Jenkins, fire your weapon!" - To the panicking PFC Jenkins, who didn't fire his weapon at the Flood Infection Forms in terror.

The Maw

Note: (Non-canon appearance)

• "C'mere you mother... I'm gonna... Grr... Ah!" - Struggling with an Elite for Assault Rifle.
• "Oh, shi—" - When the Pillar of Autumn started to explode.
• "This is it, baby. Hold me." - To the Elite, who hugs him.

Exiting the Halo Trial

• "So. You beat the Halo demo. Not bad, soldier, not bad at all. But are you ready to take the next step?! In the full version of Halo, you'll find additional vehicles like tanks, plasma turrets, and aircraft: powerful, new human and alien weapons; a single player campaign spanning ten massive indoor and outdoor environments; and support for intense multiplayer battles with up to sixteen of your friends! ... Or enemies. All that wrapped up in an epic sci-fi story that's so freaky, it makes me shake just thinkin' about it. Halo: Combat Evolved. Buy one! Heck, buy two. That's an order, soldier!"

Halo 2

The Armory

• "That, or you can hide behind me. You done with my boy here Master Guns? I don't see any training wheels." - To Master Gunnery Sergeant and John-117 after the testing the New MJLOINR Armor.
• "Sorry Guns, classified." -In response to the Master Gunnery Sergeant's inquiry.
• "Well, he's in a particularly fine mood. Maybe Lord Hood didn't give him an invitation." - To the Master Chief, referring to the Master Gunnery Sergeant's rude response.
• "Earth... Haven't seen it in years. When I shipped out for Basic, the orbital defense grid was all theory and politics. Now look! The Cairo is just one of three hundred geosync platforms. That MAC gun can put a round clean through a Covenant capital ship. With coordinated fire from the Athens and the Malta, nothing's getting past this battle cluster in one piece. Ships have been arriving all morning. Nobody's saying much, but I think something big's about to happen." - In the tram car.

Cairo Station

• "And you told me you were gonna wear something nice." - In response to John-117 complaining about cameras on the Cairo station.
• "Folks need heroes chief, to give 'em hope, so smile would ya, while we still got something to smile about!" - Upon entering Cairo Station's bridge for receiving badges.
• "I need a field of fire on that bulkhead. As soon as that door opens, let 'em have it!" - To other Marines, after the ceremony and in the early stages of Covenant's Invasion on Earth, in which Covenant Troops are send into the orbital MAC Gun stations.
• "Come on, Chief, this way!" - to John-117, near the Airlock leading to UNSC In Amber Clad.
• "Get going. I'll cover the Commander." - To John-117, after clearing the area leading to the Frigate mentioned above.
• "For a brick... he flew pretty good." - after the bomb detonates.

Outskirts

• "Dear Humanity... We regret being alien bastards. We regret coming to Earth. And we most definitely regret that the Corps just blew up our raggedy-ass fleet!" - Referring to the Prophet of Regret's name.
• "We're going in. Get tactical, Marines!" - To Marines in on board a Pelican in Old Mombasa.
• "Shake it off, Marines. Clear the crash site! Go, go, go!" - To Marines, after being shot by a Scarab moments after the above phrase.
• "I don't wanna kill ya, you're just too ugly to let live!" - During combat with First Squad, waiting for back up from a Pelican.
  • "We got Jackals in the courtyard!" - to Marines
• "Copy that. Someone get a Satchel on the gate!" - To the marines, after the pilot of the third Pelican express the impossibility for him to land the Pelican in the courtyard.
• "Stand back, Marines. Let the Chief show you how it's done!" - To Marines, after Hunters break through the gate mentioned above.
• "Understood. I'll keep an eye on 'em. Chief ... good luck." - To Commander Keyes, who requested him to join the third Pelican and provide support UNSC units in the city.

Metropolis

• Speech depending on Difficulty:
  • "You had your chance to be afraid before you joined my beloved Corps. But to guide you back to the true path, I brought this motivational device. Our big green style cannot be defeated!"- On Easy.
  • "The Chief is gonna jump in this tank, roll across the bridge, and blow up any inhuman-son-of-a-bitch dumb enough to get between him and the Prophet of Regret! Pull yourself together, because you're going with him!" - On Normal
  • "When I joined the Corps, we didn't have any fancy-shmancy tanks. We had sticks! Two sticks, and a rock for the whole platoon - and we had to share the rock! Buck up, boy, you're one very lucky Marine!" - On Heroic.
  • "Usually the good Lord works in mysterious ways. But not today! This here is sixty-six tons of straight up, H-E-spewing dee-vine intervention! If God is love, then you can call me Cupid!" - On Legendary.
• "We've all run the simulations, they're tough, but they ain't invincible. Stay with the Master Chief, he'll know what to do." - To a female Marine who asked about the Scarab.
• "Oh, I know what the ladies like..." - To Cortana when she thanks him for bringing her and the Master Chief a tank... and while cocking an M-247.
• "That's right, you mothers! Run!" - To the Solemn Penance as it deactivates its Gravity lift after the Scarab's destruction.

Delta Halo

• "I'm good. Chief?" - Response to Commander Keyes, after the following the Assault Carrier through Slipspace.
• "Say what?!" - Upon discovery of Installation 05.
• "I hear ya. Starting our approach - hang tight." - After the Chief clear an LZ for Johnson's Pelicans on Delta Halo.
• "I got a good view comin' in. There's a big building in the middle of this island's lake." - Arriving the LZ, dropping a Warthog for John-117 and ODSTs.
• "I heard that, jackass!" - In response to PFC Chips Dubbo's postcard joke.

Regret

• "I'll bet the Covenant are thinkin' the exact same thing." - To Commander Keyes' thinking that Installation 05's Activation Index is located in its Library.

Quarantine Zone

• "*Grunts* You know, your father never asked me for help, either!" - To Miranda Keyes after she retrieves the Index at the Library.
• "We got trouble." - After the two accompanying Marines fail to respond to him.
• "How ya' doing?" - to the Arbiter, who grabs his shoulders, rendering him harmless.

The Great Journey

• ""Go, go, go!" - Giving signal to Gunnery Sergeant Stacker and Staff Sergeant Marcus Banks, who attack the Covenant Separatists-distracted Brutes while he jumped onto a Scarab.
• "Listen, you don't like me, and I sure as hell don't like you. But if we don't do something, Mr. Mohawk's gonna activate this ring, and we're all gonna die." - To the Arbiter, while piloting a Scarab.
• "Well, I just happen to have a key! Come on, grab a Banshee and give me some cover. He's gonna know we're comin'." - When he is told that Tartarus has locked himself in the control room on Delta Halo.
• "Ha! How do you like it?!" - after eliminating a Wraith with the Scarab's main canon.
• "Hey, bastard! Knock! Knock!" - When he blows open the Control room on Delta Halo with the Scarab's main canon.
• "Please... don't shake the lightbulb!" - To Tartarus, who shakes the monitor in anger.
• "If you want to keep your brain inside your head, I'd tell those boys to chill!" - To Tartarus, with a Beam Rifle aiming at the Brute's head.
• "Go ahead, do your thing." - to the Arbiter, who was attempting to make peace with Tartarus.
• "Hang tight, ma'am! Not until that Brute is dead!" - Telling Keyes to wait until the Arbiter killed Tartarus before removing the Index.
• Every time he disables Tartarus' Overshield:
  1. "Hey, Mohawk! How'd that feel?"
  2. "His shield is down, let 'im have it!"
  3. "Got his shield! Hit him now!"
  4. "Quick while his shield is down!"
  5. "Come on, Arbiter! Kick that guy's ass!"
  6. "I can keep his shield down, but you've gotta finish the job!"
• "Listen Tinker Bell, don't make me...." - To 343 Guilty Spark, who unknowingly confuse them while explaining how the other Halos can be activated.

Halo 3

Arrival

• "Stay sharp!" - to shocked Marines around the unconscious John-117.
• "Radio for VTOL, heavy lift gear. We're not leaving him here." - To Marines, after attempting to feel John-117's heartbeat.
• "Crazy fool! Why do you always jump? One of these days, you're gonna land on somethin' as stubborn as you are! And I don't do bits and pieces!" - to the awaken Master Chief.
• "Where is she, Chief? Where's Cortana?" - To John-117, holding Cortana's empty Data Crystal Chip.
• "Make it quick, we've got to move." - to Marine, after a failure in Calibration.
• "'What's an aspect ratio?' It's the shape and proportion of your screen, fool!" - On the AV Calibration tool.
• "Kick off the training wheels, Corporal. He's good to go." - to Marine, after success in Calibration.
• "Chief, wait! The Arbiter's with us!" - To the Chief, who stuffs a Magnum into Thel 'Vadam's jaw.
• "Come on now, We got enough to worry about without you two tryin' to kill each other!" - to the Master Chief and The Arbiter, who glare at each other emptily.
• Line depending on Difficulty:
  • "Then they must love the smell of green." - on Easy and Normal
  • "Then they must love the smell of hero." - on Heroic
  • "Then they must love the smell of bad ass." - On Legendary, variant 1.
  • "Then they must love the smell of bad ass. And I left a little present for you, Arbiter. And I'm walking away. Ha-ha-ha!" - On Legendary, variant 2
  • "Then they must love the scent of testosterone." - On Legendary, variant 3
  • "Then they must love the scent of a real man." - On Legendary, variant 4
  • "Then they must love the smell of Bvlgari. Yeah, I'm doing a little product placement! I gotta get paid, too!" - On Legendary, variant 5

Sierra 117

• "First Squad, you're my scouts. Move out! Quiet as you can."
  • 2-Player Co-op Change: "First Squad, you're my scouts. Arbiter, watch the Chief's back. Move out! Quiet as you can."
  • 3 or 4-Players Co-op Change: "First Squad, you're my scouts. As for you, just try not to wreck my planet. Move out! Quiet as you can."
• "Let's get moving, Chief. Come on, I'll lead you out." - If they player stalls in the beginning of the level.
• "Bravo Team, this is Johnson. We got him. Fall back to the extraction point. Over." - To Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds.
• "Say again, Gunny? You're breaking up." - To Reynolds, after a failure in connection.
• "We stick together, we're gonna get spotted. We'll split up, and meet back at the LZ. Chief, go with the Arbiter, head toward the river. Second Squad, you're with me." - After a Covenant Phantom flies overhead.
  • Co-op Change: "Chief, you and the Arbiter head toward the river."
• "Keep an eye out for Bravo Team, Chief! If the Brutes do have our scent, those boys are in a lot of trouble!" - to the Chief if the player attempts to follow him up the waterfall.
• "Pelicans are en route, Chief, but I can't reach Bravo. If you find 'em, get 'em to the extraction point." - to Master Chief, after clearing a Covenant camp in the Kenyan Jungle.
• "Chief, Pelicans are at the river. We've got company, so hustle up!" - to the Chief while defending the Pelicans on the river.
• "Get a hold of her!" - to Pelican Echo 51's pilot after being shot by a pair of Banshees.
• "Chief, can you hear me?...(static) My bird's down. Half a klick -(static)- downriver from your position." - to Spartan-117, after being shot down.
• "Come on, you dumb apes! You want breakfast? You gotta catch it!" - to pursuing Brutes.
• "This isn't as fun as it looks. Cut the power!" - to John-117, after being captured by Brutes and rescued.
• "We're even, as long as we're only counting today. Kilo 023, what's your ETA?" - to the Chief, then to Hocus, the pilot of Pelican Kilo 023.
• "Roger that, Hocus. Friendly gunship, coming in hot!" - After Hocus' response.
• ""Hocus! Phantom!" - To Hocus, who comes to evacuate him, the Master Chief and the Arbiter.
• "C'mon Chief, Commander Keyes is waiting!" - to John-117, if the player doesn't board the Pelican.
• "Come on Chief! The world won't save itself!" - to John-117, if the player still doesn't board the Pelican.
• "Do you or do you not want to finish the fight?" - to John-117, if the player isn't aboard the Pelican after the previous quote.

Crow's Nest

• "Napping. Out back." - Response to Miranda Keyes' question "Where did you find him?"
• "Cocky bastard. Just loves to run his mouth!" - After the Prophet of Truth's speech against them that interrupted their meeting with Lord Hood.
• "Arbiter and I will guard the Ops Center. Don't worry about the Commander, Chief. I got her. But the Marines downstairs could use your help." - to the Chief.
  • Co-op Change: "Chief, move out. You too, Arbiter. The Commander will brief you as you go."
• "Chief, Ops Center. Double time! The Brutes are pressing hard." - After the player clear the Hangar Bay for Pelicans to land and evacuate Marines.
• "Come on Chief, hustle on back!" - If the player lingers around in the Hangar Bay.
• "Brutes have taken the barracks. Marines are trapped inside. Those apes ain't much for mercy, Chief. We both know what they do to prisoners. Get to the barracks, save those men. Then escort them to the Landing Pad for evac." - to John-117, outside the Motor Pool.
• "I'll guard the bomb Chief, get yourself to the Barracks." - If the players stays in the op-center.
• ""Commander, we lost the Ops Center. Brutes attacked in force. Couldn't hold them off. We're falling back to the hangar. But don't wait for us." - Moments after the Marines in the barracks are rescued.
• "Brutes. In the Ops Center. They disarmed the bomb. Sorry Commander, there were too many. Even for me." - Boarding Kilo 023, ready for evac.
• "Chief, follow the service tunnel to the Motor Pool." - If the player has trouble finding their way to the op-center
• "Head through the Motor Pool to get to the Ops Center." - If the player still has trouble looking for the way to the op-center in the Motor Pool.
• "We got your exit. A service elevator in the hangar. Head downstairs, cut through the caves!" - On COM, after the bomb in Crow's Nest is re-armed.
• "South hangar, straight through the caves Chief." - Through COM, if the player is taking their time to the escape elevator.
• "There isn't much time, Chief. Find that elevator." - Through COM, if the player is taking their time to the escape elevator.
• "Bomb's about to blow! Go, go, go!" - Through COM, if the player is taking their time to the escape elevator.
• "Get on the elevator, Chief! You're out of time!" - Through COM, if the player is taking their time to the escape elevator.

Tsavo Highway

• "Keep pushing to the town of Voi, Chief. Resupply birds will meet you in the next valley." - After the Chief re-established COM connection near Tsavo Highway.
• "Watch it now, Pelicans coming in! Brutes have plenty of armor between here and Voi Chief, but this Warthog should help you punch on through." - After clearing the area of Covenant.
• Chief, the gate to Voi is dead ahead. Smash the Brute blockade, open her up!" - to the Chief, who is near the Brute-defended gate.

The Storm

• "That-a-way, Chief! Target destroyed. Move to the next area, over." - When the Chief eliminates the first target, an Anti-Air Wraith.
• "We’ve got Anti-Air Wraiths in the next lake bed, Chief!" - to the Chief, who is proceeding to the next lake bed through a factory.
• "Both AA Wraiths have been neutralized...standby. Something big, closing in on your location." - After the targets in the areas are eliminated.
• "Scarab! Find some cover. Now!" - When a Scarab was revealed to stop the UNSC's progress.
• "Its armor's too thick!" - If the player waits around the Scarab.

"Aim for its legs, Chief!" - If the player waits around the Scarab.

• "Jump on top of it Chief, just like New Mombasa." - If the player continues to waste time.
• "Look for something big...power core, something like that." - to the Chief, who successfully boards the giant walker.
• "Look for the core, Chief. You'll know it when you see it." - If the player lingers around the Scarab.
• "One more target, Chief. There’s a Covenant AA gun in the next area. Take it down and Lord Hood can start his attack run." - to the Master Chief after the Scarab is eliminated.
• "Chief, that gun’s been firing non-stop: it’s gotta be running hot! It’s gonna be opening up its access panel!" - to the Chief when the Marines reach the Covenant anti-aircraft battery.
• "Wait till it opens up, vents its excess plasma. Shove some lead down its throat!" - If the player stalls under the battery.

Floodgate

• "It's Cortana, Chief! She's on that ship! Find her - get her out!" - When they realize Cortana, which later reveals to be just a recording in a storage unit, is onboard the Unidentified Flood-captured battlecruiser.

The Ark

• "Roger that, Ma'am! We're on him!" - To Commander Keyes, who acknowledge him that Truth's Forerunner Keyship isn't taking part in the space battle.
• "Enjoy it while you can, Marines. Soon as we land, we're right back to it. Priority one: Secure a Landing Zone for the Commander's Frigate. Keep your eyes and ears open. We need all the Intel we can get... on wherever the hell we are." - To Marines inside the Pelican's troop bay.
• "Come on Chief, move ahead. Go, go, go!" - If the player lingers in the cleared area.
• "Ma'am, Hocus almost got her wing shot off. But we spotted a structure on the other side of this wall. It matches Cortana's description of the map room from the first Halo ring." - To Commander Keyes, when John-117 and his team reach a wall built-in a cliff.
• "Roger that. Follow my Pelican, Chief! The LZ's this way." - After Miranda Keyes orders him to clear an LZ for the Frigate, UNSC Forward Unto Dawn.
• "That did it. LZ's clear. Commander? Bring her down" - After the LZ is clear of Covenant.
• "Yes, ma'am; just on the other side of that wall. But it's surrounded by Brute heavy armor." - Response to Miranda Keyes' question on the Cartographer's location.
  • If the player skipped the wall portion when en route to the LZ: "A structure on the other side of that wall, ma'am. But it's surrounded by Brute heavy armor".
• "Alright then, you heard the lady." - After Commander Keyes' order to go over the wall with the help of 343 Guilty Spark.
• "A tank's a tank, light-bulb. Pick one, Chief. Get back to the wall. I'll help the Commander secure the Dawn. Then we'll meet you at the Cartographer." - To 343 Guilty Spark, then the Chief, when Scorpions and Warthogs emerge from the Dawn's hangar.
• "Mount up - let's roll!" - Once the Chief get on a vehicle.
• "We'll go along Chief, you check the upper floor. Make sure we have a path through the wall!" - When the player lingers around the bottom floor of the wall.
• "Chief! Get back up there and make sure we have a clear path through the wall." - If the player returns to the bottom floor after 343 Guilty Spark open the door leading to the upper level.
• "Heads up, Marines! We got trouble." - To Marines, when a Scarab is revealed to be guarding the Cartographer.
• "Infantry on the spire! Mop 'em up!" - After eliminating the Scarab.
• "Chief, you got a whole mess of hostile air inbound. Get back inside while we take 'em out." - To John-117, after a Phantom ambush the Spartan and the Arbiter when they were looking at the cartographer.
• "ETA: damn quick! Standby for pickup!" - Once the player cleared an LZ for the Pelican.
• "I got it!" - Spooling up the AIE-486H Heavy Machine Gun, ready to fire at the Sentinels.
• "Oh, yeah? And what might that be?" - When 343 Guilty Spark tells him to not shoot.

The Covenant

• "Ma'am, we're on the ground. Third Tower in sight." - to Commander Keyes, upon reaching the third Barrier Tower while the player closing to the first one.
• "Brute reinforcements, ma'am (static)! We're pinned down!" - When the first one, and the second tower are both deactivated.
• "Negative! Fire's too heavy! (to his squad) Everyone fall back! Now! (static and cut-off)" - When Commander Keyes tells him she will drop reinforcement.
• "That the best you got?" - to Brute Chieftain, in Installation 00's control room.
• "Oh, come on. Impress me." - to Brute Chieftain, who proceeds to strangle him after the previous quote.
• "What's the matter, big shot? Can't start your own party?" - To the Prophet of Truth.
• Get out of here!" - to Commander Keyes, who alone broke into the control room in a Pelican through the large window then shoots down a Brute Bodyguard with a shotgun.
• "Do it. Me... Then you... Now!" - to Commander Keyes, who held him at gun point in desperation to prevent activation of the Ark.
• "No!" - in horror of Miranda Keyes' death in Prophet of Truth's hand.
• "Stop the rings. Save the rest." - to the Chief, who finally arrives at the pedestal just to witness the deceased Miranda.
• "I can barely keep hold of her, Chief! No way I could pick you up! Head back to the lift... Find a way down!" - To John-117, who along with the Arbiter were betrayed by the Gravemind.

Cortana

• "Chief, I'll round up our survivors, fall back to the Dawn." - To the Master Chief, who enters the Flood-infested High Charity.
• "Arbiter will do the same with the Elites." - to the SPARTAN, who continues deeper into the Flood Hive.
  • Co-op Change: "The Shipmaster will do the same with the Elites."

Halo

• "Yes, ma'am. I'll land her as close to the control room as I can." - To Cortana, who asked for his status of the Dawn.
• "Roger that. And ma'am, It's good to have you back." - To Cortana, after being recommended to make sure the Dawn is "safe" rather than "close".
• "I got you covered, Chief. Meet you at the top of that tower." - Wielding a Spartan Laser, outside Installation 04B's Control Room.
• "Careful, I can't cover you on the far side." - to the Chief, who continues up the pyramid shape structure.
• "Keep moving, Chief. I've got your back." - to the duo, as they are nearing the entrance to the Control Room.
• "Flood are crawling all over that tower; watch yourself." - to the duo, still giving support fire from the cliff outside the Control Room.
• "Spark? You in there? Open the damn door!" - Once the three arrive at the entrance leading to the Control Room.
• "Open up! Coast is clear." To 343 Guilty Spark, after eliminating Flood reinforcement.
• "Hurry! Control Room's close!" - as the trio move in the corridors leading to Control Room.
• "I'm not gonna lose her too." - To the Chief, volunteering to activate Halo.
• "We don't have a few more days!" - Response to Spark's statement about the Installation being able to activate in "a few more days."
• "Deal with it." - to Spark, who state that a premature fire from Halo would destroy the Ark.
• "Not for long!" - to the Rampant 343 Guilty Spark, who exclaim that Halo belongs to him.
• "Kick his ass." - to Spartan-117, giving him the Spartan Laser the same time.
• "No... no you're not." - His denial to the Chief that the Spartan will get him out of there.
• "Don't - don't let her go. Don't... ever let her go. (Coughs) Send me out... with a bang." - Last words, giving John-117 Data Crystal Chip Cortana is in.

Gameplay Quotes

• "Ain't I supposed to be immune to this?"- If infected by the Flood through a glitch.
• "Hey Luke Duke, slow it down!" - If the player drives a Warthog badly.
• "Friggin tourists!"

Halo 3: ODST

Epilogue

• "Don't worry...I know what the aliens like." - Response to ONI Captain Veronica Dare's comment on how the captured Engineer is extremely delicate.
• "It has access to the Covenant battle-net?"
• "The Brutes. The bastards who put bombs on your buddies and killed millions of my people...they're digging a mighty big hole. You're gonna tell me exactly what they're looking for. And then, you're gonna help me stop 'em." - to the captured Engineer, who later agreed by lighting his Johnson's cigar for him.

Halo 3: ODST Firefight ViDoc

• "Welcome to New Mombasa."
• "Bip, bap, bam!"
• "This is Firefight. And we need every able body we can get. Even yours."
• "You boys can thank me later, right now I got selling to do... Lucky for you, your squad is the best of the best: Orbital Drop Shock Troopers."
• "Problem is we got alien bastards in our house. Each new wave means more bad guys. 5 waves make up a round. 3 rounds in a set. Sounds easy huh? WRONG!"
• "See these skulls? When they activate, they turn a casual Covenant make out session, into a full on test of your manly prowess."
• "Catch, makes the enemy toss grenades like it's going out of style."
• "Black Eye, only way you're getting health back is by punching an alien in the chin."
• "And the others...well, let's just say that they call them difficulty multipliers for a reason."
• "But, as long as your feeling cooperative, there's no need to go it alone. Get cozy with up to four players over System Link or Xbox Live and Firefight with your friends through ten battlefields all over New Mombasa."
  
• "Well, it's not just about greasing bad guys. Sometimes, it's all about the glory. Put your boot up enough alien backside and the corps will pin rows of medals on your chest. Might even get some achievements, too. Bad ass, unlocked."
  
• "Now, I know what your thinking: 'Sergent Major Johnson, these sound like overwhelming odds. I don't want to drop into hell without an air tight insurance policy!'"
  
• "Well, do I have an offer for you! Pre-order your copy of Halo 3: ODST at participating retailers now and you'll get all the confidence you'll need: ME!"
  
• "Ha ha, that's right. The toughest, cigar chompest marine there is, yours to play in Firefight."
  
• (To squad) Here we go, next wave coming in! This is going to get hot!"

Firefight

Halo 3: ODST

• "Sticky-icky!" - When throwing a Plasma Grenade.

Books

• "The Flood? Hell, Chief, it's going to take more than that pack of walking alien horror-show freaks to take out Sergeant A. J. Johnson!"
• "Those Covenant sissies are going to have to tango with me before they set one foot in this room!"
• "That doesn't look like an Uneven Elephant to me: looks more like two squids kissing."
• "Help me with the lady, she weighs more than your last girlfriend."
• Corporal Locklear: "Just shoot me now, Sarge, and get it over with. Don't torture me with that crap first."

Sergeant Johnson: "Suck it up, Marine. This is a classic."

Corporal Locklear: "So's a mercy killing."

• "You better get it together, Marine, or the Chief'll reach down and pull you inside out by your corn hole. And that'll be a sweet, sweet mercy... compared to what I'm gonna do to you." To Corporal Locklear after insulting Spartan 117.