What if Marvin Mobuto made it!? | Lore and Theory

The one dude who fought the Flood, and didn't get infected. Shame Marvin wasn't made into a Spartan, he'd definitely be a perfect one with how far he got in the Library of all places while being constantly assaulted by Flood from every direction like they were coming out of the woodwork every step of the way.

Love how after the library is one of the few times Chief canonically has time to eat...

There has only been a few people that Master Chief has been truly impressed by, Captain Keyes, Sgt Johnson, Commander Miranda Keyes, Dr. Halsey, and many a few others. but hearing that a simple, standard UNSC Marine with probably higher than average military training who single handily stormed the equivalent of the Beaches of Normandy; is quite impressive! The man honestly deserved a 21 gun salute!

If he survived, he'd probably be considered a Spartan in spirit, or similar.

Given how capable Mubuto was, it could be that he had the genetic traits to have been a Spartan-2 candidate; but just was either too old, too young, or part of the 225 that were not part of the final candidate selection. Regardless, he did possess great ability.

5:45 What if the Flood was released far earlier than we see in game? During Silent Cartographer, Keyes mentions on radio that they're 'en route to the objective', which is almost certainly the containment facility. We know from the book that he got that info from interrogating an Elite that had been part of a team shipping extra weapons there. Weapons are sent where they're needed, and if there were no humans in the area it had to be to fight either Flood or Sentinels as Covenant troops broke into the facility. Keyes learned about the facility from an Elite that had already been there and later was captured during the time between T&R and Silent Cartographer, so the Covenant could have broken in and released the Flood within hours of arrival on the ring. Further, we know that the Flood are capable of subtlety and cunning even in the Feral stage, as shown by their refusal to reveal themselves and engage 117, despite there being combat forms loose in the swamp when he got there. Here's what I think happened: The Covenant breaks into the containment facility, requests heavy weapons due to Sentinel presence. Covenant forces release the Flood and are completely consumed. 343 GS discovers the containment breach quickly, and finds Mabuto not long after his lifeboat lands. There is only a light Flood presence at the Library at that point. The Flood finds out via comms that Keyes is coming to the containment facility, so they pull back and let the humans into the facility unchallenged. By consuming the humans, they realize that these are the reclaimers the monitor needs to activate the ring, and scramble to reach the Index. The Covenant send a second team to the containment facility after communications is lost with the first; these are the panicked survivors 117 encounters on his way down later.They barely manage to reinforce at the Library in time and stop Mabuto. The Flood, knowing that Spark will try again, spring the same trap on 117 who they now know is the most capable human on the ring, and Spark's most likely next choice. After they fail to consume him in the facility, they begin swarming the Library, which is why it's a Flood infested hellhole when 117 goes through it. Mabuto probably had a much easier time of it until he got to the 4th Floor, when the Flood realized what was actually happening then swarmed him with everything they had available.

Poor old Staff Sergeant Marvin Mobuto. Absolute legend of a marine before death, takes one for the team. He better be on that memorial Pelican wing at Voi.

I love the fact he was a normal human. But do you think someone's made a theory that Mobuto was yet another Orion candidate?

Mobuto was a badass to get as far he did (and in hindsight thankfully didn't...). Starting the exact same way the Master Chief did in that God-awful, Infamous Library area. John-117 even getting pushed to his limits by this point, I'm sure previous battles before encountering the Flood also adding to it, from the constant attacks. Less Flood to deal with aside as you say, it's impressive this marine nearly succeeded against such an extremely dangerous enemy, horribly outnumbered, and a foe he knew nothing about. Just imagine if this dude survived the events of Combat Evolved and become a SPARTAN-IV. ❤‍🔥

If chief came back in between the time Mobuto grabbed the Index, with Cortana in the system you'd think that grabbing the Index would raise some notifications in the systems. I think she would have filled chief in and hold at the control room. When Mobuto and Spark show up there would be a standoff like in the cutscene except Mobuto falls in rank with the chief.

Last time I was this early the forerunners were still here

We found his body during a play through. Brothers and I speculated how a random Marine ended up in that corner. Not a marine infected form but a Dead Marine. Spark makes comments and we were impressed a Marine made it that far.

Interesting how a "what if" video gets posted the same day I have spent several hours thinking about how Halo Reach would have been been different if Six stayed to fire the warp drive and Jorge returned to Reach to finish the fight. Like from a gameplay standpoint in obviously made sense, but in universe with the Spartan III's intended battlefield use it probably would have made more sense for Six to stay behind.

I always forget about this marine. This vid was a great reminder of a tough hero.

Or a fourth option. Cause he is hard core, he gets Cortana out of the systems. Destroys the sentinels and meets up with the chief coming to retrieve Cortana and they both fight through the rest of the battle of installation 04

Thankfully he'll be apart of FireTeam Reaper with Chief, Six and Rookie in Ivanicoh's potential what if

The flood is so smart i believe even brailess remnants could still have a modicum of transcendental knowledge that sparks from certain moments and works in tandem with the gravemind planning because this looks deliberate

These are the questions we need answers to

He’d probably be up there with Chips Dubbo

WE. NEED. MORE.HALO.WHAT.IFS