{"id":1374070,"date":"2025-10-29T12:03:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vV8EmT4aCvvFHYiDcWCL8A"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:03:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:03:37","slug":"microsoft-might-be-silent-but-halos-co-creator-and-halo-2s-design-lead-have-called-the-us-governments-destroy-the-flood-analogy-comparing-immigrants-to-parasites-absolutely-abhorrent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-might-be-silent-but-halos-co-creator-and-halo-2s-design-lead-have-called-the-us-governments-destroy-the-flood-analogy-comparing-immigrants-to-parasites-absolutely-abhorrent\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft might be silent, but Halo&#8217;s co-creator and Halo 2&#8217;s design lead have called the US government&#8217;s &#8216;Destroy the Flood&#8217; analogy comparing immigrants to parasites &#8216;absolutely abhorrent&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars.<\/p>\n<p>A slightly <em>more <\/em>eventful post happened when the X account for the Department of Homeland Security shared an advertisement for immigration enforcement agency ICE, depicting two spartans in a Warthog under a Halo ring, with the caption: &#8220;Destroy the Flood&#8221;. The Flood being a parasitic alien lifeform and major antagonist in the Halo series.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSgov\/status\/1982819431894901043\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:153.02%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"sUcdwubbsqsi7JCnPMsQw6\" name=\"halotweet1\" alt=\"Homeland Security using Halo imagery in tweet calling to \"Destroy the Flood\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/microsoft-might-be-silent-but-halos-co-creator-and-halo-2s-design-lead-have-called-the-us-governments-destroy-the-flood-analogy-comparing-immigrants-to-parasites-absolutely-abhorrent.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2938\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"expandable\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Homeland Security (Twitter))<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When PC Gamer reached out to Microsoft, Microsoft stated that it &#8220;does not have anything to share on this matter&#8221;, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily reflect the people who made the damn thing\u2014well, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/fps\/ex-bungie-composer-marty-odonnell-is-running-for-congress-with-martys-army-and-says-hes-voting-trump\/\">aside from one composer who&#8217;s gone full MAGA<\/a>. In fact, some are plainly horrified, per a recent entry of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamefile.news\/p\/halo-ice-developers-react\">journalist Stephen Totilo&#8217;s GameFile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Totilo spoke with Halo&#8217;s co-creator Marcus Lehto, who worked at Bungie until 2012 and was the art director for several of the earliest Halo games. Lehto doesn&#8217;t mince words, calling the post &#8220;absolutely abhorrent \u2026 It really makes me sick seeing Halo co-opted like this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jaime Griesemer, who was a designer on Halo: Combat Evolved and a design lead on Halo 2, also told GameFile that, while the initial post of Trump squeezed into the Master Chief suit didn&#8217;t offend him (&#8220;usually I take it as a compliment to Halo\u2019s continuing legacy,&#8221;) Homeland Security&#8217;s post crossed a line.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Using Halo imagery in a call to \u2018destroy\u2019 people because of their immigration status goes way too far, and ought to offend every Halo fan, regardless of political orientation. I personally find it despicable. The Flood are evil space zombie parasites and are not an allegory to any group of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As pointed out by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/us-government-uses-halo-images-in-a-call-to-destroy-immigration-microsoft-declines-to-comment\/\">fellow PCG writer Andy Chalk<\/a> earlier this week, comparing immigrants to parasites or insects to be &#8220;destroyed&#8221; echoes the language surrounding some of history&#8217;s most horrific human rights violations, and is certainly an escalation from the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/pokemon-company-says-homeland-securitys-use-of-its-property-in-disturbing-promotional-video-was-unauthorized-but-dhs-doesnt-seem-to-care-to-arrest-them-is-our-real-test-to-deport-them-is-our-cause\/\">stunt Homeland Security pulled with Pok\u00e9mon in September<\/a>. Referring to any one group as <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Untermensch\" target=\"_blank\">subhuman<\/a> never leads to anything good.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/gaming-industry\/microsoft-might-be-silent-but-halos-co-creator-and-halo-2s-design-lead-have-called-the-us-governments-destroy-the-flood-analogy-comparing-immigrants-to-parasites-absolutely-abhorrent\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. An eye-rolling, but otherwise uneventful AI-generated image of US president Donald Trump saluting an American flag with an incorrect number of stars. A slightly more eventful post happened when the X account for the Department of Homeland Security shared an advertisement for immigration enforcement agency ICE, depicting two spartans in a Warthog under a Halo ring, with the caption: &#8220;Destroy the Flood&#8221;. The Flood being a parasitic alien lifeform and major antagonist in the Halo series. (Image credit: Homeland Security (Twitter)) When PC Gamer reached out to Microsoft, Microsoft stated that it &#8220;does not have anything to share on this matter&#8221;,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/microsoft-might-be-silent-but-halos-co-creator-and-halo-2s-design-lead-have-called-the-us-governments-destroy-the-flood-analogy-comparing-immigrants-to-parasites-absolutely-abhorrent\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1374071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[5491],"class_list":["post-1374070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-gaming-industry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft might be silent, but Halo&#039;s co-creator and Halo 2&#039;s design lead have called the US government&#039;s &#039;Destroy the Flood&#039; analogy comparing immigrants to parasites &#039;absolutely abhorrent&#039; | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Earlier this week, the official White House account jumped on a tongue-in-cheek post by GameStop to crib some credit for ending the console war. 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