The Journey of Marvin Mobuto | Halo Fan Animation 

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He would have made one hell of a Spartan. "I didn't know you, Sarge, but I sure as hell wish I had. You must have been one hardass son of a bitch." - John-117, upon finding Mobuto's body

You can see on his helmet recording that when he was transported to the library by spark, it had been 60 hours since he escaped the autumn. He spent almost three days alone in the snow before being thrust into the flood filled hellscape. Seeing that the biomass is missing in the final library, I assume him clearing the place of combat forms allowed spark to reactivate the sentinels and begin cleaning up the flood, making the library easier for chief. What a trooper

Marvin was one hardass son of a bitch. Also, you do a really good job at animating with the CE models.

Rumor has it SSGT Mobuto's only weakness was his mobility, which led to him being killed. The weight of his balls made it hard to maneuver to keep his head on a swivel.

I'm speechless. Since reading Halo:The Flood I've always wanted to see how this marine manged to stay alive so long in the infested corridors of Library. Now thanks to such dedicated fans like you we can.

Remember how horrifying your first playthrough of The Library was as a kid. Think about how your hands were shaking just playing it. Now think about how the Chief was canonically terrified of the Flood. Now... think about how it would be to go through this without the energy shields or advanced armor, as a simple human. This is far worse than any zombie apocalypse. The only mercy is that he was so mutilated that even the Flood couldn't use what was left, so he died and stayed dead.

you sir are disgustingly underrated, this is beyond amazing

Marvin Mobuto was one Hardcore UNSC marine!. Equipped with nothing but standard issue ballistic armor and a MA5B assault rifle, he fought off and survived countless waves of flood; dying just within arms reach of the index…

6:13 can we all appreciate how cool this scene is. And good job with the view through the Marines eyepiece, it's almost like a variation of Visor Mode from Halo 3 ODST, really well done🔥🔥🔥

“I didn’t know you Sarge, but I sure as hell I wish I did. You must’ve been one hardass son of a bitch.” - Master Chief upon discovering Mobuto’s Dog Tags

A masterpiece! You definitely made Mobuto proud. I really like how you added flood biomass to the library walls and floor. It was cool to hear the marines firing in burst, and when a more dangerous threat came like the hunters, they switch to full auto😎 The ODST helmets looked great! I noticed when he pulls out the knife in the escape pod you play some foreboding music from the game, that was really perfect!! The plasma burns looked really great, and it was interesting to see a marine impaled with a piece of metal. Mobuto being snow covered and starting a fire to sleep was a nice touch. I think the way he met spark and went with him was believable, so congratulations on figuring out a good way to do that. The H2 music when he finally dies is so sad, and I really appreciate Master Chief's lines from the book that you put in, as a huge Halo fan I absolutely love this. You said you might do alpha base later with more fighting, it would be cool to include private Jenkins and his transformation into the flood, starting with the helmet cam cutscene from the game💚 Thank you for all your hard work; your skill, time, creativity, and dedication are greatly appreciated

Excuse me? How on Reach is this A-tier animation isn't getting more views?! Someone share this on some halo forums stat!

2:34 badass seeing the MAC gun take out a covenant ship, and then seeing (what I assume) are 3 nukes launching...sick!!! I know in the books the UNSC use nuclear weapons in addition to their MAC guns😎

This was a nice imagining of Mabuto's story. It's good in a way he didn't get the Index because he would have activated Halo and Cortana would not have stopped him.

Always thought it was insane that a regular, un-augmented human soldier made it so far into the Library when the player, in the boots of a 7ft tall superhuman in a suit of MJOLNIR power armor trained from 7 years old to kill, was struggling to push through. Loved this style of environmental story-telling. Great work bringing in the context for it! Loved how you showed the marines, crew, and ODSTs do their fighting retreat off the Autumn and how without much dialogue you built up these characters (mostly Mobuto and that Medic). Love love loved it.

When chief said that badass shit in the end made me almost fuckin cry cause thats what id do in a situation like that fight and survive or die in glory

The Halo lore is simply beautiful 🫶🏻 Greetings from Mexico

Finding his body was one of my favorite moment in the books, good to see him getting some recognition. Great job!

I love how you tell the lesser-known stories in Halo lore. Bungie really did a great job with environmental storytelling & it's so great to finally see how they unfolded. This video alone is deserving of a million views at least

“You must’ve been one hardcore son of a bitch”. Straight out of Halo - The Flood. Thanks for taking me back. You did amazing

I've been working on a Fan film script for the story for Marvin Mobuto for a couple of years now. While not very similar to your idea, the beggining with the Chief and to make Mobuto go throw a journey before he meets 343 Guilty Spark was also something I wrote on my story. I'm so happy someone else appreciates the badassery of this character. Fantastic job, man.

It's a sad tale of a confused marine just trying to survive.

Not gonna lie this was really cool. I only recently found out about this marine in Halo lore and then saw this to solidify it. He really was a badass and hearing MC say that at the end was kinda hilarious

Mobutos story is actually insane I love his character he’s literally up there with chief himself

Imagine if this man was given the budget to capture every detail he thought of but couldn’t add

Wow, that was seriously so good man! Mobuto was such a badass to make it as far as he did! 🔥

The best part is Steve Downes actually saying the lines.

In a time when OG halo fans feel like the franchise has lost its way. You’re carrying the whole team! Man I’m going to become a member to help fund your talent and passion.

Not everyone knows the story of this lonely Marine, I am grateful that he is remembered

Without the Chief's MJOLNIR, you can't afford to be hit once by the Flood and a running battle is probably the only way to stay ahead of them without getting bogged down and overrun easily (and waiting for Spark to take his sweet time opening the Library's blast doors = death). I like how this shows even the space battle over Halo, the boarding of the Autumn from the eyes of a Marine, the brutality of the Covenant executing injured suvivors, and how he escaped the lifeboat.

Thank you for this glorious video. On side note, Sergeant Marvin Mobuto, if memory serves, was suppose to wear an ODST helmet at the end. SPV stated he managed to find it from one of the fallen ODST's and use it to keep the Flood puss out of his mouth. Kind regards.

BRO I couldn't process all the beauty of this animation. Damn, everything blew me away, from the animation to what Marvin had to go through during the war in the facility, it just feels part of the game! I loved! I ended up delighted more than I expected. I'm proud of you!

Wow this was good! Thanks for sticking with the original Halo CE graphics style.

A halo survival but linear game would be fucking lit if we get to play as Marvin

I read Halo: The Flood recently, and it talked about Staff Sgt Mabuto. He definitely seemed badass, so this was a great time to see this story of his last moments

Mobuto was so mauled at the time of his death, even the flood couldn't make use of him at that point.

No entiendo como tal tremenda obra de arte tiene tan pocas vistas 😭😭

I absolutely loved this. From the CE-style animation for the Marines and ODSTs to the music and first person POV, everything was just on point. You, my friend, have just gained a subscriber.

I swear halo has one of the most talented fanbases I’ve ever seen. The mods, the animations, the fan made stories and lore, the art, the music; it feels like everything the fanbase does to pay respect to the franchise is lightyears ahead of what 343 has done to our beloved series

Halo: The Flood released around the same time the first game did in 2001....it's so wild to see the community recreate an iconic scene that we as fans visualized from the extended media over 20 years after first release. Hats off to you!

It's beautiful. Brings a tear to my eye for the story you created.

In the book, chief mentioned how he was already tired and struggling in the library when he came across Mobuto’s body. He was amazed how far he came without Mark V Spartan armor or the enchancements of Spartans, he states Mobuto would have made an excellent Spartan ll.

He would’ve for sure been a bad ass spartan IV

I absolutely LOVE how you depicted the ODSTs as cool as they are in the books.

Una obra maestra mi querido amigo. Los esfuerazos dan sus frutos, ya lo verás!

Imagine creating playable missions that are modded around this fan film animation, adding it and turning it into a story to play on CE.

What did you think? I did what I could, a lot happened in between but I'm glad it's finished. I hope Mobuto is proud. PS: Mobuto went with Sparks because he thought he was the only survivor. Considering that he was completely alone in that part of the ring and since Sparks spoke English, he guessed that it was a secret AI or something. It makes some sense and it's also not that different from how the Chief went with Sparks as well. PS2: I would have liked to animate more combat scenes but since Mobuto was alone, I couldn't add epic scenes of Pelicans or vehicles, or the alpha base. That may be left for another adaptation of The Flood in the future. PS3: The next one I plan to be 4K

This is great and I think the coolest part by far is the CE-ified ODSTs at the beginning. They look badass and fit very well.

i would love to see the taking of alpha base, defense, and fall of it, since we don’t get to see odsts in CE i think that would be very cool to see come to life

Some of the best stuff I’ve seen

Is nobody gonna talk about the CUSTOM CE-DETAIL ODST MODELS?! It was so cool to see what they would’ve looked like back then! Great watch, gotta watch again 😂

Fue hermoso, y excelente. Ver al Super Cabronazo de Mobuto, peleando desde el Autumn hasta la Biblioteca y su eventual muerte, la inclusion de las lineas de Halo: The Flood, hermoso, esperaba mucho de esto, y supero mis expectativas, gran trabajo che!

I have the original books before they change them! This is one of the most unknown instant classic/masterpices in the books. Not only did he proved to be more badass than any other (except maybe jenckins) character to the point that even chief said so BUT to actually get to that point 5 feet of the index and salvation. Pufffff!!!! And most people don’t know this but he had a 100 times worst conditions than master chief! All of the flood was locked in with him while 117 had most of the flood out of the Library and chief had the sentinels help while M. Did it ALL ALONE! He literally died because he ran put off ammo and was so bad ass that the flood didn’t consume him but actually destroyed his body until there was pretty much nothing left 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯even the grave mind fears and respects him

Truly momentus that you have us such a vivid animation depicting Staff Sgt. Mobuto's run through hell.

I can't believe you got chief to say the line. Legendary moment. Now in audio and video form

Need an alternate story where Mobuto survived the events of Halo CE by linking up with the Chief within the Library

A real masterpiece, it was awesome! 10000+/10

Mobuto be playing the Library like me on Legendary. Just speed running as fast as I can so it can be over faster.

As someone who's first Halo was CE on the original Xbox, and has been a fan for about two decades; THANK YOU. This is the best and coolest Halo fan-made film I've ever seen. CE's art style, and general ambience, is un-parralled with other games, but this animation does that justice. The Pillar scenes are my favorite, especially before everything goes to Hell. I've always loved seeing the Pillar scenes of the Marines in the vehicle bays, and you showed me more than CE did! Thank you again, and I hope that Bungie CE devs watch and recognize this

You gave mobuto the justice that Spv3 just couldn't do. I applaud you 👏

I absolutely love the use of og Halo 1 assets this is one of the best animations i’ve ever seen

6:00 translated from Kig-yar and Unggoy Jackal: "By the prophets, this water is cold. My meal is going to be too cold to eat." Grunt: "Here." *fires plasma pistol* "medium rare."

This is awesome. I've finally got to see how Marvin Mobuto fared against the flood

It was said Mobuto's body was too mutilated to be converted so he wasn't impaled by one combat form. Lore accurate would be multiple combat forms thrashing him.

My guy had the potential and the drive of a Spartan. Goes to show that augmentation isn't everything...And as much as he was beyond ODST-material, the task he was given wasn't for any types of human. Great creation; keep it up.

Paramount should be paying you to make a series!

I have actively tried looking for this dude in the campaign because you’re supposed to be able to find them but I can’t

In all my 23 years of knowing halo, this is what I always imagined in my head after I read that part in the flood book where cheif posthumously compliments this badass marine. I absolutely love that you brought this underrated moment in the extended halo universe to life! Especially in its all its classic glory

Please, PLEASE keep animating abstract Halo lore! I’m all for it! Sub and like every time.

When Chief found Marvin’s body, he was shocked. Chief in armour and having superhuman physiology was nearing the limits of his endurance and there was Marvin. He called him a hard ass SOB

Great job !!

Running with literal metal plates and firing Cal. 308 in bursts while chased by the top horrors of Science Fiction... How was the Staff Sergeant not enlisted as Spartan?! The video is absolutely outstanding. Exactly the kind of Halo Media I love to watch and easily on par with official material like A Day At The Beach

Fua esta tremendo, se nota mucho la dedicación en cada escena y todos los detalles

This guy actually deserves to be a spartan, He would have been a top tier spartan IV

Thanks for making this man, we always wondered how he even managed to make it so far considering he wasn't even a spartan. Now we can see it even if this is just a fan animation, we've got an idea of how he got so far. SGT. Mobuto really was a hardcore son of a bitch..

In hindsight the galaxy is pretty lucky this badass SoB didn't make it to the index.

I’m calling it right now, this thing is primed to explode. Nice work! I always thought Ssgt Mobuto deserved his own chunk of story telling. You certainly did him justice!

this was awesome to watch. Ive always thought the marines stories from Halo The Flood were really interesting and something ive wanted to have visually adapted. Mobuto's unknown feats of being a hardcore son of a bitch were always the most interesting.

This is really good! I like how in the end master cheif said the note he left him

OORAH Staff Sergeant Mobuto. Damn shame you didn't make it to off the ring with Johnson, Chips, Staff Sergeant Stacker, and the others.

Halo CE at a whole new level of "visceral" O_O I'm loving it! I really dig your take on the marines' monocle HUD/targeting reticule.

A great piece of art and the now animated story of the Marine who was so close to getting the key will now last forever thanks to you

Imagine how unstoppable Sgt. Mabuto would be if he survived the war, and became a Spartan lV.😱

excellent video, thank you very much...

Marvin's HUD and the plasma wounds are such a great detail Also love the detail of mobuto covering himself in snow as cammo to show how experience he is (unless was cause the storm but still) Gran trabajo hermano

Chief couldn't have praised him any higher. R.I.P. Sgt. Marvin Mobuto.

Damn really shows how ruthless the covenant actually was compared to the games. Ive read some books describing it but actually seeing it on video is different. That soldier taking a plasma pistol shot point blank into the face really shocked me.

that drop pod escape scene was really well done

2:17 Goddamn I love the marine armour in Combat Evolved. The grey and bronze looks so good.

So cool. Now we need one about Private Dustin Echoes.

1:53 The loud boom/camera shake that shows Mobuto foot come into frame. I can definitely feel an overwhelming presence that this marine, is one tough son a bitch. Beautiful work creating this, and adding depth to this character. He reminds me a lot of Sergeant Forge from Halo wars.

This had always been one of my favorite side stories from Halo: The Flood and it wasnt even much of a story, just a marine so badass even the chief was impressed by him

It's pretty lucky that Cortana was already in the Control Room core at this point. If he'd made it through, she would have stopped him, though Guilty Spark would then have killed him for sure. Amazing animation, keep up the good work!

Love it all This is peak Halo

Marvin Mobuto would’ve made a badass Spartan 4. Even the Chief admitted that he was reaching the limits of his Spartan strength even in mjornir armor when he spotted Mobuto’s remains.

Loved: The infection forms lil wiggle Disliked: That MAC shot didnt sound nearly meaty enough to clap alien cheeks

Ah this was beautiful. The sheer horror I got from the combat reminded me why I love halo. Also, love how quickly chief talks to Marvin's body. He called him a hard son of a bitch and then he was outa there😭

Getting that type of compliment from a Spartan like chief is honestly next level Lmaoo.

He made one major mistake. NEVER WASTE THE AMMO ON THOSE BEHIND YOU, the library is a whole other beast.