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.
 * 10) Even if he had potential, he wasn't even good to begin with as he wants to hunt down the Master Chief and when he somehow beats Master Chief in one of the trailers, he actually intends to shoot the iconic main character of the franchise while unfairly taunting him!
 * 11) In Halo Infinite, he idiotically got himself defeated again this time by Hyperius offscreen and just lost his helmet and chest armor plating to him as his trophies, even though he did deserved it for ruining Halo 5 but he still got his own potential of redemption ruined by not only not learning his lesson but flanderized into being a pointless filler character as a result.

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.
 * 5) Although he did ruin his potential of redemption in WHS #9 by idiotically getting himself defeated by Hyperius and lost his helmet and chest plate to him in Halo Infinite, but again he did deserve it as a comeuppance for causing Halo 5's likeability to downgrade.

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.