My kids and I have finished 1 and 2 and I was wondering if anybody else had come up with their own names for the different Covenent and Flood troops?

Coventant first.

The Grunts were stuck with the name "Chuckies" because when they get terrified they make a sound like Chucky Finster from "Rugrats". Thought it was the same voice actor at first. Also, since the heavy pistol in Halo 1 was so effective against them it became known as the "Chucky Duster".

The Jackels we called Raptors. How could you not?

The Elites we called "Dog Boys" as at a distance the blue ones sort of look like anthropoid dobermans.

The Hunters of course, became known as Big Blues (And in Halo 1 you knew they were close when they cued the "Cellos Of Doom"

Prophets were Camelheads

The Brutes were just Brutes. (Sorry)

Flood Forces.

Those small thingys. At first we called them widgets, then after going to a Halo website I saw them being called "Jiffy Pops" and it stuck. Though when it gets tense "widgets" is still faster to say.

Infected Marine(s) The first kind we called "Skippys" because they look like kids on summer vacation with no shirt, shoes and the tattered pant legs. They also tend to run on their tippy toes, plus those 50 foot jumps.

The other kind we called "Preggers". If you've played the game, you know what I'm talking about.

Infected Elites. Sockheads. As the parasite doesn't need the host's head it atrophies and looks like an empty sockpuppet.

And who else thought of "Little Shop of Horrors" after seeing Gravemind in Halo 2?

And was anybody else miffed when in Halo 2 they castrated the heavy pistol and shotgun just to make the sub-machinegun more playable? C'mon its supposed to be a magnum 10 guage!

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Only played Halo on PC. You know I didn't really use different names for the aliens. But I really looked on the grunts as munchkins (from Wizard of Oz not Dunkin Donuts) and the hunters as linebackers - see the way they put their shoulder down when charging. The flood reminded me of 'Night of the Living Dead'.

By the way did you notice that many of the phrases used by the aliens were garbled versions of the same canned stuff that the marines and navy troops said like:

'More over here'

'We're all gonna die'

'Heads up' - when throwing a grenade.

My favorite comment from a grunt (with a live plasma grenade stuck to him) :

'Oh no, not again!'

I wasn't sure where to post this but the new Halo movie, which gets additional "Yikes" factor by being produced by Microsoft, has a director. He's never made a movie before but he did make those annoying Citroen robot-car ads.

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