"The Department of Homeland Security took to X/Twitter on Monday (27 October) morning urging people to help "destroy the flood" with a post inspired by the video game franchise. The post features a screenshot from Halo: Combat Evolved showing the game's protagonist, Master Chief, driving a Warthog, with the text "Destroy the Flood" and a link to the Immigration & Customs Enforcement's sign-up page."
"The Flood are a race of fictional parasitic aliens from the Halo series. Driven by a desire to assimilate all life-forms into mutant Flood creatures, the race acts as the primary antagonists of the series. In the series, the Flood ravage most of the known galaxy and threaten all life in the universe. The Forerunners, a now extinct race of aliens, create superweapons known as Halos which, if activate, kill all sentient life in the galaxy."
"Halo co-creator Marcus Lehto called the appropriation of his work "absolutely abhorrent," adding in a statement to Game File: "It really makes me sick seeing Halo co-opted like this." Senior video game designer for Bundie Studios, the original development studio behind the Halo series, Jaime Griesemer, shared his shock that the franchise's imagery was being used to call to "destroy" people."
The Department of Homeland Security posted a Halo screenshot on X/Twitter urging people to "destroy the flood" and linked to ICE's sign-up page. The image showed Master Chief driving a Warthog with the text "Destroy the Flood." The Flood are depicted in Halo as parasitic aliens that assimilate life and threaten the galaxy, with Halos acting as superweapons that can kill all sentient life. The White House posted an AI-generated image of Donald Trump in Master Chief armor. Halo creators and original developers condemned the use of the franchise to encourage actions against people.
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