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Halo: Combat Evolved
- "I see bad guy!" - Said upon seeing the Chief.
- "Bastard!" - Said during combat after another Grunt is killed, or when the a Grunt is greatly wounded.
- "Bwahaaaaaaah!" said when blown up by a grenade.
- "God Dammit!" - Right after being shot or dying.
- "I smelled one!" - Upon spotting the Chief.
- "See ya! See ya!" - Upon spotting the Chief.
- "I'm going with you!" - To other Grunts.
- "Wake up! The enemy!" - To other Grunts.
- "Screw you!" When shot.
- "Wake up! He's here!" - To other Grunts.
- "Wake up! Bad guys!" - To other Grunts.
- "Flare!"
- "Oh, you no leave me!"
- "We'll all get medals for this!"
- "Who's the man?!"
- "No. No more!!!"
- "Me KILL IT!!"
- "In da face!"
- "Oh. I get his gun!!!!"
- "Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!"
- "Here I go..."
- "We win! WE WIN!!"
- "Good." - When Master Chief's shields are down.
- "Glory!!!"
- "Get up so I can kill you again!!!"
- "Stop shooting me!!!" - Getting shot by its allies.
- "Everybody duck!" - Throwing a Plasma Grenade.
- "Alright!"
- "Eat my Gruntiness, Demon!" - When in combat with the Chief.
- "Die, devil!"
- "Cover me."
- "Do that again! Oh, I dare ya."
- "Back off!"
- "Here I found it! Help! Need Help!"
- "Down in front!!" - When throwing a Grenade.
- "Little people first!" - When running away.
- "He's gone!" - When an Elite is killed.
- "They got Elite! Run!" - When Elite is killed.
- "Leader dead! Run away!"
- "We are the Champions!! We are the Champions!" - Sung to the tune of the song, when Master Chief is killed.
- "You think you soooo great!" - When Master Chief's shields are down.
- "OW OW OW OW OW OW OW" - When wounded with several shots.
- "You're hist-" - Just before being shot.
- "Why MEEEEE?!" - As it sees the Chief coming.
- "Not MEEE!" - As it runs away.
- "You S.O.B.!" - When hit with a round that almost kills him.
- "WOW!" - As he dies.
- "He's gonna kill us all!" - As the Master Chief starts firing into a pack of Grunts.
- "I hate you!" - As he sees the Master Chief.
- "There you are!" - As it sees the Master Chief.
- "Sorry!" - If the Grunt shot another ally.
- "You're history!" - When the Chief's shields are down.
- "WHAT?!!" - When he discovers the Master Chief behind him or nearby.
- "YIKES!" - When shot in the behind.
- "He's on Elite!" - When Master Chief is attacking their leading Elite.
- "Alright!" - Leaps up onto a Shade.
- "Get out of my face!"
- "Grenade bad!"
- "It wasn't ME!" - When a Grunt shoots one of his allies by accident.
- "DIE!" - About Master Chief.
- "Flee!" - Very high and plaintive.
- "Don't shoot! DON'T SHOOT!!"
- "Nooohoho!!!" - When a Grunt is stuck with a Plasma Grenade, Flood Infection Form or Needler's needles or in Halo 3 when struck by a spike from a Spiker.
- "Not again!!!"- When stuck with a Plasma Grenade or being chase by Needlers.
- "BURN!!" - When Grunt opens fire when Master Chief caught unaware, this doesn't happen very often.
- "Stupid!" - Said when Grunt sees Master Chief for first time.
- "You'll pay for that, man!" - When high ranking Elite or a Hunter is killed.
- "Stop it! Stop It!" - When panicking and being harassed by small arms fire.
- "Hurt you!" - When attacking an enemy of any kind.
- "Aaah! Bad Cyborg!" - When injured.
- "Get it off! God it hurts! Nooooohohooo!" - When Flood Infection Form is on it.
- "No, please, no!" - Heard when fighting with the Flood.
- "It's.. it's that Cyborg!" - When the Chief appears.
- "Get it off me! Get it off!" - When stuck by Plasma Grenade, Needler's needles, or Flood Infection Form.
- "They got the Elite! RUNNNN!"
- "More here!" - Upon spotting Master Chief and/or Marines.
- "What are you doing?!" - When a Covenant soldier betrays another.
- "What are you thinking?" - Same as above.
- "He was your friend!" - Same as above.
- "Bad Cyborg!" - After having most of his allies killed by Master Chief.
- "HUH?!?!" - Said disbelievingly As a grenade falls next to it.
- "Can't find him!"
- "Whoa - I'm outta here!" - When allies are shot.
- "I'm goin' in!"
- "You can't hide from me!"
- "Mmmm...Jackal stew.." - Asleep in Assault on the Control Room, corridor of sleeping Grunts.
- "Ooh, Aah, Get-it-off-er-MEE!" - When stuck by Plasma Grenade, Needler's needles, or Flood Infection Form.
- "Hey! No sleeping on the job!!" - When Master Chief kills all Elites in a certain area then hides for a while.
- "It burns!"- When shot by a plasma weapon.
- "Kill you"
- "Get out of my way!" - When the Unggoy is fleeing from you and there are several other Covenant around.
- "Get up so I can do that again! And again! Again!" on Legendary, after killed the Chief; similar to the ODST's "Get up so I can kill you again!"
- "He's everywhere!!" - When Master Chief runs circles around fleeing Grunts and kills them
- "Feet don't fail me now!" - When fleeing.
- "Stop it!" - When player melees unsuspecting Grunt in the back.
- "He's everywhere!"
- "I call the helmet!" - When player gets killed by a Grunt.
- "CAN'T-RUN-WITH-THING-ON-BACK!" - Fleeing Grunt
- Incoherent screaming/crying
- "Lea-der dead! Run a-way!"
- "Eh? It dies!?! - Rarely heard on Legendary
- "Grenade!"
- "Not me!"
- "Ow!Ow!Ow!Ow!"
- "Not again!"
- Grunt 1:"He's there!!
- Grunt 2:"Where, where?
- "Oh, oh! Can I have his helmet?" When player dies.
- "That was me, all me!" when killed by a grunt.
- "Bad, BAD Cyborg!"Said when all of his allies are killed.
- "HA!HA!HA!HA!" said when you either die, or when you are outnumbered & outgunned.
- "Good, good"- Said when your shields are down or if you're taking lots of damage.
- "Hey, look out!"
- "Get up!" - To sleeping Grunts.
- "Woah, he's dead, RUN!!" - When you kill an Elite.
- "He's gone, he's gone!!" - When you kill an Elite.
- "Coward!"
- "I need you, stay!!"
- "No running, fight!"
- "Stay at ground!"
- "Stand and fight!"
- "No run away!"
- "You stay here, COWARD!"
- "What are you doing?! STAY!!"
- "Haha, yeah, run!"
- "Me kill you!"
- "Run, devil, run!"
- "Oh, you afraid of me?
- "I'll take you down!"
- "Yeah, come on! Bring it!"
- "You want some of this? COME ON!"
- "I'll get ya!"
- "I'll bite your kneecaps off!"
Halo 2
- "You said he was big." - When grunt first sees you.
- "No, stay here." - When you are hiding.
- "Cower power!"
- "Search this way!" - When you are hiding.
- "You're a BAD DEMON!" - As Master Chief when you melee a group of Grunts.
- "If Arbiter no fight, me no fight!!!!"- Heard on the level The Arbiter, if player does not engage enemies.
- "Yes leader."
- "Let's play hide and go seek!" - On the Arbiter level, after engaging camo
- "Even grunt not want to join your group" - On the level The Arbiter
- "COW-ARD!!"- Taunting enemies (raises voice during hard).
- "Lightning Jim runs fast!" - When running.
- "Dope!"
- "DORK!"
- "LOSER!"
- "Humans easy to kill!" - When a Marine has been killed by a Grunt.
- "Go other way!"
- "Every Grunt for himself!"
- "Me hunting he-wa-tic." - said in a babyish voice shortly after active camouflage engaged for the first time on The Arbiter level, rare, and only, it seems, on easy difficulty.
- "Oh, thank you almighty Arbiter!!" - when given a powerful weapon.
- "Bad Guys on the move!!!"
- "Ha! He! He! Ha!!!"
- "You think me too short to be Arbiter?"
- "Please, no hurt! Me like Elites. Brutes stinky bad bad. Me stay here, make sure no Brutes come behind mighty Arbiter. Heh, heh... Eh?"- Cowardly Grunt in the level Uprising.
- "Me have bad feeling about this."
- "You always have bad feeling! You had bad feeling about morning food nipple!" - Two SpecOps Grunts in the level The Oracle.
- "That right. Cower, coward!"
- "Wish me could sleep with eyes open."
- "KILLLLLL!"
- "We make fire... sing songs?."
- "I see you Demon."
- "Arbiter go first, ha ha."
- "Is there a problem, sir."
- "You no hide from me!"
- "Arbiter, our savior! Stupid Jackal,say thank you!" - Grunt Major on Sacred Icon.
- "How come there never be Arbiter Grunt?"
- "Me take off mask, smell better! But nooo, always have to fight on oxygen planet! How come never enemies breathe methane?"
- "You hunt, me kill!"
- "Come out so I can kill you!" - When he is the only Grunt alive.
- "Aahh! Demon!"
- "There, there."
- "What want me do?"
- "We go now, fight more?"
- "Huhh?"
- "You want toady? Me be good toady! Me have lots of practice!" - When the Grunt is stared at for sometime.
- "SHEILA!" - Very rare even with IWHBYD. When you surprise a Grunt and you're in a Scorpion tank. A Red vs Blue reference.
- "They got leader! Run!"
- "The Demon is here!"
- "Me no see him." - When you're hiding as the Master Chief
Grunt: "Nuh-uh, you do."
- "Enemy moving! Stay alert!"
- "Leader dead!"
- "Spoiler!"
- "Leader dead! Run away!"
- "He dead? Me run!"
- "You big, big and dumb!"
- "Helloooo-ooo?"- When you're hiding
- "Ow-howow!"
- "Stay hidden!"
- "Eh? It dies?"
- "Me suck lot less if had good gun, you know." - When given a less powerful weapon.
- "Haha! Run, enemy! RUN!"
- "We make good team."
- "Blade!!" - When seeing an enemy with Energy Sword.
- "Oh! Me could have stayed home!"
- "Oh, it figures. Me waste ammo, you come 'long, take kill!"
- "Together we kill them all!"
- "Me live to serve." - When staring at him.
- "Die bad master!"- Taunting heretics
- "That not right!"
- "What you doing, Arbiter?" - When staring at him.
- "Tell Mum I love her!"
- "They got Elite! RUN!!"
- "Why you hurt me?? I like human... eh?"
- "Me not worthy." - When given a good weapon.
- "You there?"
- "Ah! Hurt!"
- "Monkey!"
- "Baboon!"
- "Very bad thing!!!" - When Grenade lands nearby.
- "We stand still much longer, we be on date!"- When you're not moving and are close to the Grunt
- "We aliiiiiiive! Woo-hoo!" - (After winning a close battle. Rare)
- "What's wrong? You scared, Demon?" - Taunting the Master Chief
- "What's the catch?" - When given a good weapon
- "Wake up! Bad guys!"
- "I'm outta here."
- "Get it off of me!" - When stuck by Plasma Grenade.
- "It looks like enemy."
- "Is there a... problem, sir?" - When you're the Arbiter and you stare at a Grunt.
- "Happy to be here!" - When playing as the Arbiter
- "Arbiter, tell me a story."
- "Take off suit, get on knees! Then see who tough!"
- "Can I have helmet?" - When the Master Chief is killed by Elites and Grunts together.
- "Demon feel stupid when I kill it!" - When Master Chief's shields are down."
- "Ya lookin' at me?"
- "Oh, is that a threat?" said to the Marines if they say something about the Grunts.
- "You already have one weapon!" - When swapping guns.
- "Me still see you!" - When a Grunt spots you while playing as the Master Chief.
- "Big scary thing run away! Please *snort* don't make me go back!" - Scared Grunt in the level -Sacred Icon.
- "You have plan?"
- "It die like all rest."
- "It wasting ammo, but me no care. Ha ha!" - When killed.
- "I'm little...But very, very angry!" - Playing as the Arbiter and staring at a Grunt.
- "DIE!"
- "Too close! Too close!"
- "Bringer of death!"
- "We are the champions!" - Grunts celebrating, sung to the tune
- "Can't find him."
- "Shoot you!"
- "I smell him."
- "Elite!!!"
- "Idiot."
- "That was Fred!" - Referencing Spartan Frederic-104
- "What are you doing?!"
- "What were you thinking?!"
- "Mighty one?"
- "We make good team."
- "Don't shoot me, Arbiter."
- "Are you angry, Arbiter?"
- "But Arbiter friend."
- "Together we kill them all!"
- "Baby, don't fail me now!" - When it's the last Grunt alive and Master Chief's shields are down, holds grenade or other powerful weapon. Only higher ranked Grunts seem to say this.
- "Yeesssssssss, master. Give me precious, my precious!". - When you give a Grunt a heavy weapon; reference to Golem in the Lord of the Rings.
- "I will love you, and pet you, and call you George." - When given a better weapon, referring to the weapon, not the Arbiter. A reference from Looney Tunes
- "Bad thing!" - When seeing enemy vehicles.
- "Me want nap, you shoot." - When sleeping.
- "Every Grunt for self!" - When asleep.
- "Me so cute, you give me gun!" - When afraid.
- "I wish they had instant latte makers!" - Very Rarely with IWHBYD while driving a ghost
- "Got issue with me performance ... Prefer we have rational adult conversation!" - Hitting a Grunt while playing as the Arbiter.
- "Must try to help." - When given a better weapon.
- "AAAAH! More bad.. things! Arbiter! Protect! Protect!" - When frightened by Sentinels, level Sacred Icon.
- "We happy to be Gwunties." - When seeing the Arbiter.
- "Me do something bad?"- When shot at.
- "No one see me now." - When engaging Active Camo.
- "Move, move!"
- "I'm invisible!" - When engaging Active Camo.
- "What you think, me fodder?"- When given a bad weapon.
- "Where enemy?"
- "No one can stop me!" - Said when given a Fuel Rod Cannon.
- "Tricky, tricky!" - Engaging Active Camo.
- "My thanks to the Arbiter." or "For me!?" - When given heavy weapon.
- "Make fire, sing songs. Call it camp!" - When standing still on the Arbiter.
- "Prophets no like, me no like!"
- "Me do nothing wrong!" - When you injure a Grunt as the Arbiter.
- "Come here, Arbiter!" - Heretic Grunt taunting.
- "I always hated you Elites!" - Heretic Grunt teasing. SpecOps Grunts could say that to Heretic Elites on the same level.
- "You Heretics very stinky!" - SpecOps Grunt teasing Heretics.
Grunt: "He's green?"
- "After all me do for you!"- When given a worse weapon.
- "Chimp!" - Taunt when a Marine is hiding or out of line of sight.
- Grunt : "Me so cute, you give me gun!"
Grunt : "Me cuter!"
- "AAAAAH! Bad, bad Demon!"
- "That's not fair!" - When given a bad weapon.
- "You give 'cause me cute?" - When given Rocket Launcher on the level Uprising.
- "Hey, where my gun go? Oh, right. Ha ha ha ha ha! Eeh?" - Engaging Active Camo.
- "Hard to tell, but me not female." - When staring at him as the Arbiter.
- "Me being careful."- When given a worse weapon.
- "If OK with you, me need go take pee."- When idle.
- "Shhhh! Me hunting Hewatics". - Active Camo engaged. A reference to Elmer Fudd from Looney Tunes.
- "Not even Grunt want to join your kind! - SpecOps Grunt taunting Heretics.
- "Me got dibs on Demon's boots."
- "Came the wrong way..." - Upon seeing Plasma Grenades planted near them.
- "God!!" - Upon seeing and understanding the amount of chaos that took place.
- "Bastard."
- "Sissy!"
- "All is lost!!!"
- "Oh, kind powerful Arbiter."- When given a better weapon.
- "He slip out right under nose...that's impossible, me have great nose. My family has been bred for noses! And mine best!" - When you hide from a Grunt as the Master Chief, with the IWHBYD Skull active.
- "But I only shot it once... Wait.. I shot it many many times, and killed many many enemies!" - IWHBYD probably needed.
- "Something in the way he moves! That's right! Just like no other Arbiter!! Something in the way he moves me!" - Makes some ticking noises, staring at a Grunt after a battle as the Arbiter with IWHBYD Skull on.
- "Look out!" - If being attacked or spots a Grenade.
- "What?" - If stared at by Arbiter.
- "Arbiter!? What are you doing!?" - If another Grunt is betrayed by Arbiter.
- "Me hear that!" - Heretic Grunt, in response to **.
- "Present from Arbiter? Ooooo." - Give a Grunt Needler or Plasma Rifle).
- "Heretic Boss! You see? You see?" - Watching running Sesa 'Refumee, shortly before Arbiter went to cut the cables holding up the Gas Mine, level The Oracle.
- "See! Heretic! - Watching hologram of Sesa 'Refumee.
- "Scared, Arbiter?" - Heretic Grunt.
- "Me with you, Arbiter!"
- "Better than expected." - When staring at him.
- "Okey-dokey!" - When exchanging weapons.
- "You already have one weapon!" - If you take the Grunt's weapon.
- "You have plan?"
- "Run, enemy! Ruuuuun!"
- "A present from the Arbiter, ooh" - Says when you give a good weapon to the Grunt then swap it back for his original weapon.
- "Can you change backpack?" - Sometimes said on the levels Oracle and The Arbiter.
- "That not fair!" - If given a bad weapon.
- "Off armor, get on top of me!" heard rarely on level Outskirts
- "Thanks Mighty Arbiter!" - When Arbiter gives a Grunt a better weapon such as a Fuel Rod Gun.
- "Thank." - When given a better weapon.
- "That just greedy." - If you take his weapon.
- "Could have been worse."
- "That not me!"
- "Me live, me happy!"
- "Run Away!!!"
- "Youch!!!"
- "Me thank Arbiter." - If given a better weapon.
- "Yah-hah!!!"
- "Me live to serve!"
- "Better than expected!"
- "We make good team!" - Said to the Arbiter.
- "Together we kill em all!!!"
- "Wait...how this fair?"- When given a bad weapon.
- "But...Arbiter friend."- If you injure a grunt.
- "Mighty one?"- Said to Arbiter.
- "OW!!!!!"
- "Yah-Gah!" - Normally heard in death.
- "What next, nap?"
- "How about we both take nap?"
- "Need...To...Change...Backpack."
- "What Arbiter?"
- "You have plan?"
- "Not sleepy at all!"
- "Is Problem?"
- "Ummmmmmmmmm, what?"
- "Mighty one?"
- "Don't worry me awake!"
- "Is there a problem?"
- "Ummm, we go now, fight more."
- "(whining noises) "Arbiter" (more whining noises)."- When given a bad weapon.
- "Very grateful!"- When given a better weapon
- "Above us!"
- "What they look like?"
- "Mwa-ha-ha-ha!"
- "Not here!"
- "More Covenant!"
- "Me awake! Me Awake!"
- "Prophets be proud,huh?"- When it kills a lot of enemies.
- "Me do something bad?"
- "That NOT me!"-When the Grunt kills another ally by mistake.
- "Must...Not...Fall...Asleep." - If there is a long lull in the fighting.
- "No want to die!"
- "Ugh!"
- "Yee!"
- "That easy!"
- "Me minding my own business!"
- "Sure, sure, you the boss." - When given a bad weapon.
- "Why do that?" - If Arbiter injures a Grunt
- "You the boss."
- "You no hurt me."
- "What you doing Arbiter!?"
- "What me do Arbiter!?"
- "Same team!"
- "On your side!!"
- "Me faithful servant."
- "But, Arbiter friend."
- "Careful!"
- "That not right!"
- "Not nice Mighty One!" - If you injure the Unggoy.
- "Why you do that?"
- "That not good."
- "Thought you friend."
- "STOP!" - If you injure the Unggoy.
- "What Arbiter?"
- "Stop it, Arbiter!"
- "Desist!"
- "Quit it!"
- "OW-OW!"
- "Blarg!"(death)
- "Bad friend!"
- "Why?!"
- "More enemy!"
- "There something wrong?"
- "Ahh ha-ha Ahh!"
- "LOOK OUT!!!"
- "Me see too."
- "Bad Guy!"
- "Let none escape!"
- "Yuh-Gah!"
- "Where he go?"
- "Maybe, me be sidekick, you know...like Robin." - (IWHBYD Needed) A reference to Batman and Robin.
- "Present? From Arbiter? OOOoooh!!"
- "Blegh-degahahahahaghh!!!" - Grunt death by Energy Sword or Needler).
- "Wake up, bad guys!"
- "I killed the Demon! Gotta write to mommy about this!" - When killed by a grunt minor on legendary
- "I'm invisible"
- "OWIE!!!!"
- "mmmmmgghhhhhh!" - When mad.
- "Me see enemy!"
- "Wo ho hae he"
- "Let's go!"
- "Ready?"
- "Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum"
- "Wee wee weee weeeeee!"
- "Fun, do again"
- "Hey, come out and fight!"
- "Gutless."
- "Sissy!" - (IWHBYD possibly needed)
- "Uh...we go now, fight more?"
- "What wrong, you scared?" - if you remain away from the enemy for a long time.
- "Ahhhhhhhhhh, DEMON!"
- "The demon is dead!"
- "Erhh, it wasn't me!" - If accidentally kills a higher Covenant (such as an Elite).
- "Oww! Me have big bruise there, you know!" - If fired upon by enemy/ally.
- "That isn't funny!" - If fired upon by Arbiter.
- "If want get attention, just tap backpack" - If you wound him when playing as the Arbiter.
- "Arbiter kill us all! Hahahohoho!" - When your allies turn against you when playing as the Arbiter.
- "You no hide from me!!"
- "Me forever in your debt." - When you give him a higher strength weapon.
- "Turret mine" - If it finds open turret.
- "Friend" - Says when Arbiter betrays allies.
- "D'oh!" - In reference to Homer Simpson.
- "I get the Helmet!" - If a Grunt kills the Chief.
- "Sobbing" - After his fellow grunt gets killed (or elite)
- "Suck it, Heretic"!
- "When you done peeing your pants come out and fight"- Rare, if you or an enemy is hiding.
- "Prophets no like, me no like"- Said when playing on the level the arbiter.
- "Me think I wet myself"
- "QUICK! Take my picture!"- Rare. Said when a Grunt kills you.
Halo 3
Halo Wars
- "Grunt Ready" - after buying a Grunt squad.
- "Grunt Reporting" - after buying a Grunt squad.
- "Watchya need?" - after being selected
- "It tickles" - after being selected.
- "Me move fast. Me not get shot!"
- "Go here. Go there." - common saying when told to move somewhere.
- "Grunt moving" - common saying when told to move somewhere.
- "Grunt. Go, go, go!" - after buying Grunt squad.
- "AAA!" - after Grunt is killed and shot up into the air.
- "We win!" - random Grunt saying after successfully living through a battle.
- "Can we go home now?" - random Grunt saying after successfully living through a battle.
- "What now?" - when selected.
- "Me no wanna!" - when commanded to go somewhere.
- "Look like armpit, smell like armpit..." - after waiting for a while.
- "In your face!' - when commanded to attack an enemy unit.
- "Me has bad feelings about this!" - when engaged in combat (reference to Han Solo from Star Wars).
- "Are we there yet?" - random grunt saying at some point when moving.
- "All toegther!" - when commanded to throw a plasma grenade.