Private Manuel Mendoza was an infantryman in the UNSC Marine Corps and a member of Fire Team Charlie. He participated in the Battle of Installation 04 in September 2552.
Overview & Background[]
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Biography[]
Crash Landing on Halo[]
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Manuel Mendoza was one of the Marines stationed on the UNSC Pillar of Autumn when it was attacked by the Covenant, marking the beginning of the Battle of Installation 04.
After boarding a lifeboat, he survived the crash landing on Installation 04, becoming the infantryman at the receiving end of most of Sergeant Major Johnson's shouting and yelling. During the events of the crash landing, he fought alongside John-117, until he was evacuated by Echo 419.
Encounter with the Flood[]
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- “I have a bad feeling about this...”— Private Mendoza, before the Flood outbreak.
Later on, he was part of Fireteam Charlie, which was led by Captain Jacob Keyes and Sergeant Johnson, to find a supposed Covenant weapons cache that a captured Sangheili, Vrag 'Qualomee, had uncovered and disclosed to them in passing.
Instead, the so-called "cache" turned out to be a Flood Containment Facility. Fireteam Charlie was immediately ambushed and, save for Sergeant Johnson, was assimilated into the Flood and turned into Combat Forms. Though Mendoza held off the Infection Forms for a while, unlike his comrades, he was also later assimilated into a Combat Form. Shortly before he was infected, he attempted to flee the area, against Keyes' and Johnson's orders.
Personality[]
Mendoza disliked psychedelic rock, a genre of music which Sergeant Johnson greatly enjoyed, much to the chagrin of his squad.
Developer Information[]
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Trivia[]
- In Halo Combat Evolved, Mendoza disliked flip music. Since the song Shreddin' was changed to Paint It Black, the genre he disliked was changed.
- Mendoza's line "I have a bad feeling about this," may be a reference to Han Solo's iconic line from Star Wars. However, the line is also used in a similar context in the movie Aliens, right before the marines are ambushed by xenomorphs.
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