Sarah Palmer (Halo)

Sarah Palmer (service number: 65287-98303-SP) is a character from the Halo series and the leader of the Spartans of the UNSC Infinity. She has received a negative reception from the Halo community since her debut in Halo 4.

Why She Should Be Called "Sarah Facepalmer"

 * 1) Her line about Master Chief's height "I thought you'd be taller." is supposed to be a reference to the often-used Marine combat dialogue from Halo: Combat Evolved ("Woah, he's taller than I thought!"), but fans mostly see this as a poorly written line.
 * 2) She barely even helped Master Chief as she only had a few minutes of screentime not to mentioned that she actually tried to arrest him at first as ordered by Del Rio while just standing there and not even reasoning with him.
 * 3) She was a cruel jerk towards Catherine Halsey throughout Spartans Ops as by example that she was determined to kill her if necessary which however is clearly unnecessary because Halsey is creator of the original Spartans who are designed to fight against Insurrectionists.
 * 4) *An infamous moment is that she literally shot Halsey's shoulder, ruining Thorne's chance of rescuing her and having her turned against the UNSC at the end of Spartans Ops.
 * 5) *What is worse is that she didn't even show remorse about what she has done even in Halo: Escalation.
 * 6) *While Lasky even has a right to show concern for Halsey and doesn't want to take it too far while pointing out that they are soldiers not hitmen, Palmer doesn't know better as she is way too naive and arrogant and not only is there the fact that Halsey is also a civilian, this action of hers also counts as terrorism.
 * 7) *And before that, she disobeyed Lasky's order of standing down and would rather listen to ONI's orders.
 * 8) She's not just a jerk towards Halsey according to pointer #2, she can also be this way to some of the others like Miller and Dalton.
 * 9) *She's also a hypocrite when in one point in Halo: Escalaton she cut off Miller's transmission due to being "annoying", yet she's the one being annoying herself.
 * 10) It was her own fault for having the Infinity locked in orbit on Requiem after she ordered Crimson to recover an artifact from the planet not to mention that she almost got the entire crew of Infinity and UNSC personal on Requiem all killed when being directly pulled towards a star.
 * 11) She even shot Lord Hood in the leg while trying to tackle Scruggs and psychotically murdered him. While it can be justified that this was justified to try to prevent Lord Hood from getting executed and of Scruggs' betrayal, what she did was still very psychotic.
 * 12) In Halo 5: Guardians, she is the forced announcer for Warzone unless you can get the Voices of War Pack, which is a paid DLC.
 * 13) She first comes off as being a pointless, narcissistic, arrogant and jerkish character but later got worst after she was flanderized into being an annoying and boring character, as alluded to in the pointer about her being the default Warzone announcer.
 * 14) She doesn't even show much personality at all when being the Warzone announcer.
 * 15) She IS the leader of the Spartans aboard the UNSC Infinity despite having had less experience than the Spartan-IIs like Master Chief, Fred-104 (Lieutenant Junior Grade), Kelly-087, and Linda-058.
 * 16) Why didn't she just be able to look for Davis if he did survive the Covenant forces after deactivating the weapon that destroys Draetheus V earlier than just to abandon him?
 * 17) Not only did she got herself caught in the EMP field from a Guardian and losing power on the Pelican, but also Halsey with her. She could've just gotten out of the way by now but she didn't and would've got Halsey and herself killed from the impact.
 * 18) She gets into a fit of rage when things do not go her way like how she never got the chance to kill Halsey which not only was it sadistic of her but also very immature.
 * 19) *As shown by how much of a womanchild she can sometimes be, she slammed her fist on a holotable leaving a dent which is vandalism.
 * 20) It was misleading when Jennifer claimed the confirmation that Palmer is indeed in Halo Infinite but she doesn't seem to appear in the game at all, making her a filler character.
 * 21) *Even if she does come back in a future DLC, it still proves the point that she had failed her leadership of the Spartan IVs, including known Spartans such as Stone, Griffin, Makovich and Sorel from getting killed by the Banished.

Redeeming Qualities

 * 1) Her voice actress Jennifer Hale actually does a decent job voicing Palmer.
 * 2) Though she didn't have much screentime in Halo 4, but it was for the best because she is not worth being shown more often for her potential worse behavior and poor leadership like Del Rio had while the game is thankfully more focused on the emotional story between Chief and Cortana with their character development and their adventure to save humanity from the Didact for the better which is something that Palmer never had and also due to the fact on how she has shown her worse in Spartan Ops.
 * 3) In fact, she was likely supposed to be hated along with Del Rio.
 * 4) Lasky had a right to be concern for Halsey's safety when Palmer was on the hunt to kill Halsey.
 * 5) Jun actually had a right to be against Palmer's poor performance of training the Spartans.
 * 6) Although she was jerkish when things don't turn well for her, she at least have a few comeuppances such as getting strike at by a Promethean Knight, getting humiliated again when she couldn't execute both Jul and Halsey after their rescue by another Promethean Knight and was refused to be greeted by Master Chief for insulting him at the end of Halo 4.
 * 7) Though she never appeared in Halo Infinite mostly from the negative reception and got replaced by Agryna who is much more tolerable than her, she at least deserved it.

Trivia

 * Palmer is the main protagonist of the Halo top-down spinoff Halo: Spartan Assault, which was released in 2013.