Jameson Locke

Jameson Locke (service number: 73808-3153-JL) is a Spartan-IV character from the science fiction video game franchise Halo and a protagonist of Halo 5: Guardians. He has received poor reception as a character overall.

Why He Sucks

 * 1) He had a lot of potential to be a well-written character, but that potential was thrown out of the window.
 * 2) He takes up way more missions in Halo 5 than Master Chief and Blue Team do!
 * 3) He caused Halo 5 's likeability to downgrade. In other words, he, along with the rest of Fireteam Osiris (except Buck and especially Holly Tanaka), ruined the game, as hinted at in pointer #2.
 * 4) He ruins Jul's potential and character arc by killing him off unfairly without giving him a chance to stay alive until what would have been his final battle against Thel as also hinted at in pointer #2.
 * 5) Compared to the members of Blue Team, he barely resembles a Spartan supersoldier and is more like someone out of RoboCop met Vanquish and Crysis.
 * 6) Despite his experience working with ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence), he is nowhere near as powerful as the Spartan-IIs of Blue Team (Chief, Fred-104, Kelly-087, Linda-058).
 * 7) *ONI is also known to be a dangerous shadow organization in the Halo lore.
 * 8) He managed to crack Master Chief's helmet visor, but ultimately was defeated by it.
 * 9) He made Buck a punching-bag as he used an armor lock on him which was mean-spirited of him to do that and almost got him killed twice throughout the campaign.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Ike Amadi does a decent job voicing him.
 * 2) He was slightly better in the mini-series Halo: Nightfall.
 * 3) His armour, the MJOLNIR Hunter, is actually a cool-looking set of armour at least.
 * 4) He's modeled on MIKE FREAKING COLTER. Colter also voiced him in Nightfall and the Halo 2 remaster, although his voice acting was considered flat by some.

Trivia

 * In one of the Halo 5 campaign missions, there is a glitch in the co-op that allows players to assassinate Locke, thus causing someone playing as him to spectate the other players for the remainder of the mission.