"This many years into the war? Who isn't?" - To Dare, who asked about his squads "replacements".
"To me. And they're not gonna like what they hear." - Annoyed, after Dare's comment that his men follow orders.
"Come on, Veronica! What could be more important than that carrier?" - To Dare.
"Second to last, right next to mine." -When showing Dare to her pod.
"Ms. Naval intelligence, our new boss. So check your mouths, find your chairs... (shoves a Sniper rifle to Romeo) and get set for a combat drop!" - Buck to Romeo when Romeo asked for Dare's name.
Speech to ODSTs before drop depending on Difficulty:
"Pucker up, Marines! I sure as hell ain't hosing out your pods!" - On Heroic.
"We are droppin' into Hell, troopers! Time to grow a pair!" - On Legendary.
"Hey Romeo, remember when I told you to shut your mouth? Consider that a standing order." - To Romeo during the HEV drop.
"Stabilize then pop your chutes! We're going in hard!" - To the squad, after being hit by the EMP blast created by the assault carrier's slipspace rupture.
"Ah! Works great." - Sarcastically to Dare, after falling off his upside-down pod.
"Did I...do something wrong? Because the only thing I regret about you and me? Not knowing you were a spook when we first met. I would have been a lot less charming." - To Dare.
"That was years ago, Veronica! I'm (grunt) a little (grunt) fuzzy (grunt) on the... (takes out his stuck Assault Rifle from his pod)... details." - To Dare, who stated that they both agreed to end the argument about her job.
"Must have met a lot of other saps since then. Why pick me for this safari?" - To Dare, complaining his involvement in her mission.
"I remember not getting an answer..." - To Dare, who mentioned his question to her years ago.
"I said stay put! I'm on my way!" - To Dare, after sighting a Phantom flying overhead.
"I appreciate the concern." - To Dare, who tells him about the Covenant-infested area.
"See any more come down?" - To a Marine, who commented his luckiness of not getting killed by the drop.
"What the hell happened here?" - After seeing multiple dead Elites and Brutes inside a building.
"Veronica, what's with all the dead Elites?" - To Dare, after sighting more dead Elites and Brutes in the streets of New Mombasa.
"It's like a family feud, like they were killed by Brutes. Is there something I should know?" - To Dare, who wants him to explain his question thoroughly.
"Huh, some things never change." - After Dare said the answer to his question mentioned above is classified.
"Got a little Jackal problem!" - To Dare, after meeting a few Jackals on his way to help Dare.
"Gotta get through this door. Should be a switch around here somewhere." - If the player lingers around the locked door.
"Almost there! What's wrong?" - To Dare, who urgently asks for his location.
"Whoa! Hang on, I'll be right there!" - To Dare, who begins her "will".
"Damn it, no! Veronica? Talk to me! Don't move! I'm coming, you hear?" - To Dare, who loses contact with him.
"Hunters?! No, I do not have time for this! Turn around you bastards, let me shoot you in the back." - After sighting a pair of Hunters heading his way.
"There's her pod, now I just need to find a way down..." - Upon reaching Tayari Plaza, which is Dare's crash site.
"Arrgh! I'm here...I got ya..." - When attempting to open Dare's stuck pod, which is later found empty.
"Aw, nuts." - After seeing an Engineer approaching him.
"What the heck was that? You ever seen one before?" - To Romeo, who killed the Engineer.
"Hey, Romeo! You got your ears on?" - To Romeo after he does not respond to him.
"Oh, I get it. Permission to speak, smart ass." - To Romeo after he does not respond to his previous question.
"Yeah, maybe. You hear from Mickey, Dutch?" - In response to Romeo's comment that the Engineer must have killed Dare.
"We need to get above this crap, link up with the bee-net, one of our drones must have seen where they hit." - After being acknowledge that Romeo heard nothing from rest of the squad.
"No... never. Doesn't matter. All I care about now is gettin' my men out of this city. Even you." - Answer to Romeo's question that are they abandoning Dare's mission.
"Hey Rookie. You out there? Respond. That's an order!" - When activating his comm as he and Romeo descending the stairs leading to a launch pad, attempting to reach the then-fainted Rookie.
"Oh, give up, huh? What if it were you down there?" - To Romeo, who suggests him to give up on reaching The Rookie.
"Oh, you're a piece of work, Romeo." - After Romeo's cold response to his question above.
"Banshees on your six!" - To Mickey and Dutch's Pelican, which is landing on the launch pad.
"Hit the deck!" - To Romeo, as the Banshees fires their Fuel Rod Cannon.
"Alive or dead, we're pulling them out! You hear me?" - To Romeo, after losing contact with Mickey and Dutch.
"Make some noise. I got your back." - As he and Romeo enter the Covenant-guarded Police Headquarters.
"Back inside! Let's find that Pelican!" - Once inside the interior of the HQ.
"Now we get to kill them." - Response to Romeo's questions about the Covenant they evaded on their way to the launch pad.
"Do you ever get tired of bitching, Romeo?" -In response to Romeo complaining about having to use the stairs.
"Point taken." -Replying to Romeo's comment.
"They haven't seen us. Pick a target, take it out." - To Romeo, once they reach the first courtyard.
"That did it! Shoot and scoot!" - Once Romeo takes out his first target.
"Romeo! Phantom landing on the pad!" - To Romeo, pointing out the drop ship.
"C'mon, Romeo! Push through these doors!" - To Romeo, after the firefight in the courtyard.
"Jackals with Carbines up top. Watch yourself!" - To Romeo, upon entering the second courtyard.
"C'mon, Romeo. We gotta kill those Jackals." - If the player stalls with fighting the Jackals.
"Stay put Dutch. We'll come to you." - After establishing contact with Dutch.
"Grab some ammo, Romeo. These boys won't need it." - Entering a room littered with ammo and dead Police Officers.
"Sniper. Up high. Make your first shot count." - To Romeo, upon entering the third courtyard.
"More of 'em! Romeo, get to work!" - Once Romeo takes out the first target.
"Jet Pack Brutes! Don't let 'em get behind us!" - As he and Romeo make their way deeper into the courtyard.
"Keep pressing, we gotta get to that crash site!" - To Romeo, as they nearer the crash site.
"Affirmative. We're almost there." - To Mickey, who stated their makeshift bridge made up with cranes and metal bars.
"What? You afraid of heights? Get going." - To Romeo, who becomes scared when the "bridge" is merely a metal bar.
"C'mon Romeo, follow me." - If the player stalls in front of the metal bar.
"Let's get the hell off this thing!" - As two Banshees fly over and shakes the metal bar.
"What's our situation?" - To Mickey, upon reaching the crash site.
"Pick a turret, Romeo! Conserve your ammo. This is gonna get hot!" - To Romeo, as a Phantoms draw nearer to the crash site.
"Phantom coming in left!" - To the group, defending the area.
"Hostiles on the lower levels! Clear 'em out!" - When Covenant troops occupy the lower floor of the constructing building.
"Phantom! Dead ahead!" - Alerting the group after more fighting.
"Step back! Take 'em down!" - Leading the group in the intense fight.
"Pour it on boys, we're almost through this!" - As the end of the firefight draws closer.
"Look out! Chieftain!" - When the final Phantom approaches the crash site.
"Scatter!" - When Brute Chieftain drops and kills an NMPD Officer.
"Get. This. Thing. Off. Of. Me." - While underneath the dead Brute Chieftain.
"How bad?" - To the injured Romeo.
"It's alright. I know another way." - To the squad, after Dutch's gesture that their only transport out of the city, the Pelican, is no longer working.
"He's got a punctured lung, can't breathe." - Answering Dutch's question on Romeo's injury.
"Trains ran underground up to the old city, we're gonna find one of the tunnels, walk on outta here." - Explaining his plan out of the city.
"Was planning on it, but, now that you're feeling better..." - Humorously, answering Romeo's question about carrying him the whole way.
"Get the door!" - To Dutch, as a Phantom suddenly flies overhead.
"Wait here. We're gonna steal that ride. It's landing, now's our chance! Mickey! You're with me!" - To the squad, after realizing the train tunnels are flooded.
"Well, let's see what you remember trooper, move!" - To Mickey, who states that it's been years that he had run a simulation on piloting.
"They're between us and that Phantom, what do you think?" - Answer to Mickey's question regarding to kill the Engineers or not.
"Go, Mickey. Up the lift, kill the pilots." - To Mickey, underneath the Phantom.
"OK, I'll grab a Banshee, you go get Dutch and Romeo." - After Mickey's confirmation on the Phantom's status.
"A whole lot of Covenant, scattering around the Slipspace crater. I wonder what they're looking for." - Buck's answer to Mickey's question. Only available if the player flies upward to the top of the train station.
"That's the way we're headed, take 'em out!" - After Romeo alerting Banshees exiting the doors leading their way out.
"I'll head through on foot, see if I can find a work around inside the tunnel." - To the squad, when the door in front of them is jammed.
"Troopers, I got bad news." - To his squad, after sighting a Scarab.
"We got a Scarab, right by our exit." - To the squad, explaining the situation.
"Keep her steady Mickey. (to Romeo) You doin' okay?" - Upon entering the Phantom, after escaping the city.
"Mickey, turn around! Find a safe place to set us down!" - After realizing Dare's mission to the undergrounds of the city.
"I lost something! (whispering to himself) Now I know where to find her." - Answer to Mickey's question regarding why the need to turn back into the city.
"Whew! Lord, that thing stinks. Kinda reminds me of my—" - Upon entering the elevator, cut off when being punched by Dare.
"What was that for?" -After being punched by Dare.
"What mission? You dropped off the grid! My squad was scattered—" - After Dare's explanation to his question, that he "abandoned the mission." Cut off when Dare kisses him.
"You did good Rookie, no doubt. But we're not out of this yet." - To the Rookie, when the elevator stops.
"Captain, how about you hang back? Let us clear a path." - Upon exiting the building that holds the elevator.
"Flank the watchtower, Trooper! Take it out!" - to The Rookie, in the streets of New Mombasa.
"Waterfront Highway! Fastest way out of the city." - Answering Dare's question regarding where they are heading to.
"Can't that thing move any faster?" - As the four move down the streets.
"Want me to give it a little push?" - Jokingly, after Dare's response to his previous quote.
"Follow me, trooper. Double time!" - If the player stalls in the streets.
"This way, should be an elevator right through here." - Outside a building in New Mombasa.
"Sit tight. We'll need the alien to power on the switch." - Upon the team's arrival at an elevator.
"Okay, we're all set. Hit it, Rookie." - To the Rookie, after Vergil re-activated the elevator.
"They started showing up right before I went underground." - Answer to Dare's question regarding the arrival of the Covenant Cruisers to the city.
"Oh, I'm sorry, I was a little busy. Making sure perfume (points to Vergil) over here didn't take a round and blow us all up!" - Response to Dare's complaint about not telling her about the cruisers.
"Yeah? Well...here I am!" - Angrily, when Dare claimed that she thought she would never see Buck again.
"I stole a Phantom. Yes. Thank you. I hid it in the shipyards down the highway. (Looks toward nearby Warthog) But I only have room for two, so...that thing's gonna have to sit on your lap." - Answer to Dare's question regarding their exit.
"Take my advice, Rookie. You ever fall for a woman? Make sure she's got balls." -Buck to Rookie, after Dare boards a NMWD truck, and out of earshot.
"Take the wheel, Rookie. I'll ride shotgun." - To the Rookie, beside a Warthog.
"Get in the driver seat, trooper. We gotta roll!" - If the player waits around the Warthog.
"Listen Marine, we ain't going anywhere until you drive us there!" - If the player continues to wait around the Warthog.
"It's too far to walk, Rookie. Get in the Warthog!" - If the player walks instead of driving the Warthog.
"What are you, crazy? Stop moving around, and drive this 'hog!" - If the player continues to walk away.
"Hey, uh, Captain? Pick a lane." - To Dare,
"You got to be kidding me!" - When the truck smashes through the cars in the highway.
"Hey, hold up! It's a Gauss Hog. Let's change vehicles. Same deal, trooper: You drive, I shoot." - When the four come across a Gauss Canon-mounted Warthog.
"Concentrate on driving. I got this."- To the Rookie, as he gets on to the M68 Gauss Cannon.
"I see it. Must've dropped out one of the cruisers. Just keep driving, it hasn't spotted us." - When Dare alerts about a Scarab on the highway.
"There weren't that many Covenant last night!" - When Dare asks how did he make down the highway the night before with all the Covenant troops in it.
"Captain's right, trooper. We're gonna need that tank." - If the player stalls near the Scorpion tank after Dare's request on taking the armored vehicle instead of the Warthog.
"Assault Carrier! Ten o'clock high! Look at the size of that thing!" - As an assault carrier comes into view.
"But the dig site's on the other side of the city!" - When the carrier mentioned above begins charging its Energy Projector.
"Damn it, no! They're gonna burn this city and then glass the whole planet! Covenant bastards! It's just like Reach all over again!" - When the carrier begins glassing the city.
"Mickey, you read me? Change of plans. You're coming to us." - To Mickey, as they continue down the highway.
"There's no other way. Covenant just wasted the highway. We're gonna keep rolling as far as we can. Get airborne, fly the Phantom to my beacon." - To Mickey, who debates that the "sky is kind of crowded".
"And whatever you do... Stay clear of that carrier." - To Mickey, who confirms Buck's request.
"Veronica! Talk to me!" -After a Scarab fires its main canon at the truck.
"Screw the alien, what about you?" - After Dare reports that Vergil is okay.
"Take the next off-ramp, trooper. I see a building, north side of the highway. We'll hole up there, wait for evac." - After sighting the Public Entrance to Uplift Nature Reserve.
"Out of the vehicle, trooper! Let's move!" - Once the vehicle reaches the ramp.
"Our vehicle won't fit through that. We're on foot from here!" - If the player stalls inside the vehicle.
"Veronica, wait here. Rookie, let's secure that building!" - As they draw closer to the entrance.
"Mickey, what's your ETA?" - Once the area is clear of Covenant patrol.
"Hostile Phantoms, coming in!" - As Phantoms begins their assault at the building.
"That's not good!" - After Dare alerts about the Wraiths on the highway firing at the building.
"Just nice to know they really do listen. C'mon, let's get out of this city." - After Dare complimented that "for replacements [the squad] make one hell of a team."
"Come on Rookie, get in the Phantom." - If the player stalls and not approaches the ally Phantom.
"What are you waiting for, trooper? Phantom! Now!" - If the player continues to stall.
"Long as it don't get hit!" - Answer to Dutch's question about the safety of the Engineer's presence.
"What can I say...? It was a hell of a night." - to Rookie and Dutch, putting a conclusion on the ground battle.
"Easy does it." - As he and Rookie pulls Romeo from the Phantom's Plasma Turret.
"Give him some meds, would ya?" - To the Rookie, after Romeo expressing his frustration on returning the city.
"It's important. It knows things." - To Romeo, thinking Romeo was frustrated at Vergil.
"Mickey? I'm sending you a very special co-pilot." - To Mickey, after Romeo explanation he "wasn't talking about the alien".
"It won't bite. And unlike you, it knows what to tell those cruisers to keep 'em off our tail." - To Mickey, who didn't want Vergil with him in the cockpit.
"What about you? What about us?" - After Dare said that "[the Covenant] have found what they're looking for".
"Whoa! Stand down, stand down!" - To the alerted squad, after Avery Johnson tosses his lighter at Vergil.
"Don't look at me Rookie, cover the Captain!" - To the Rookie if he stares at him for a few moments.
"That look may work with the chicks, but not with me." - To the Rookie if he stares at him for a few moments.
"The last person who looked at me like that was the Captain and I asked her to marry me, so... you know." - To Rookie if he stares at him for a few moments.
"I understand that in the military we aren't supposed to ask, but I think I don't have to with you." - To Rookie if he continues to stare at him (reference to the US military's former "Don't ask, don't tell" policy).
"Look, I'm not saying anything has to happen, but maybe later we just hold each other in our underwear or something, but now we have a job to do!" - To either the Rookie or Romeo if he stares at him.
"Don't let that damn turret fire one more round!"
"This is Sparta!" -IWHBYD Skull at various points in campaign and Firefight, a reference to both 300, the SPARTAN and III programs.
"Don't make me do something manly and impulsive now." -IWHBYD Skull. This is a reference to Nathan Fillion's character Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly who insists that "Barging onto a companion's shuttle is both manly and impulsive".
"This is your 8 A.M. wake up call!"
"You know, with that helmet on... I can't tell... if you're staring at me... or not." -When stared at. IWHBYD possibly required.
"Go through 'em like a one stoplight town." -After all enemies in the area are dead.
"Thank you for the shiny, pretty gun." -If the player gives Buck a more powerful and bigger weapon, "shiny" possibly being a Firefly reference
"You do know this is a better gun?" -If the player gives Buck a more powerful weapon. IWHBYD required.
"You do realize that this is a better gun?" -If the player gives Buck a more powerful weapon.
"Whoop-dee-doo!" -When the vehicle Buck is in is launched by an explosive. IWHBYD possibly required
"That was 800 yards with a bent scope!" -IWHBYD Skull required. When you no scope a headshot in NMPD HQ. Firefly reference.
"Hey, watch it. New vehicles don't just fall out of the sky." -IWHBYD skull possibly required. When you repeatedly roll your Warthog on Coastal Highway.
"You take the turret. I haven't been able to hit anything all day." -If the player replaces Buck in the Warthog turret on Coastal Highway.
"You take the turret. You're better at it anyway." -If the player mans the Warthog turret on Coastal Highway.
"You know, they are more fun to fight than Elites." -referring to Brutes on NMPD HQ.
"Yep" - When Rookie trade weapons with Buck.
"I'll take gunner, dude." - When Buck want to ride as gunner.
"Put me in range." - When Buck mounts the gunner seat. Sometimes he continues straight from the previous line, which often happens on Coastal Highways.
"I call shotgun. You have to do it in sight of the vehicle." - When Buck approaches to ride in the passenger seat.
"Heat in the pipe! That's what she said!" - Rocket Launcher
"Let me turret, you suck at it."
"Bam, said the lady." - This is a phrase voice actor Nathan Fillion is trying to promote, with the meaning of a general exclamation. It also makes an appearance in his TV show Castle.
"Boom, headshot." - Refrence to Doug from Pure Pwnage
"Ooh, the back of your head." - Assassination/Melee kill, Red vs. Blue reference.
"Sit-down!" - Assassination/Melee kill
"Aaand, a headshot!"
"Gimmie a sec, aaaaannnnd OK." -When reloading.
"Changing mags!" - Same as above
"Swapping out mags!" - Same as above
"Let me turret, you suck at it. Don't get mad, we all know it."
"Felt good, sounded better."-Rare to be said
"Smile, you son of a bitch!" - This is a reference to Jaws.
"Whoops, dropped your brain!"
"Nice catch! With your face."
"That was messy."
"Made you blink!"
"You must be the stupidest apes in the whole damn 'verse!" - Firefly reference. Firefly characters refer to the universe as the 'verse.
"Hey I got a special delivery from kick your ass express!"
"Command: this is Gunnery Sergeant Buck, 11th ODST, over." - Requesting emergency support.
"My guys got caught in a firefight in the Nomolos Tower, roof collapsed. I gotta get over there and get them out." - Explanation to Lieutenant CommanderCatherine-B320 on his request on air support.
Alternatively: "Need escort on a classified op. Send someone who can fly a tight formation." - Mission variant
Alternatively: "Phantom's got one of my squads pinned. I need to take it out and evac my troopers." - Mission variant
"Thanks for the assist, Spartan... I'll see you in hell." - To SPARTAN-B312, after completing the emergency mission.
"But there's a reason I'm in charge of Alpha-Nine. 'Cause I never give up, goddammit. Call me the man with the plan." - Buck, referring to his persistence
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