They look so damn similar, from the style and color of their armor down to their behavioral traits. Seems like Bungie simply saw the success that Doom had over their Marathon series and thought to themselves “you know what our next game needs? A massively overpowered super soldier in green high tech armor who spouts sarcastic one liners in the face of an overwhelming alien invasion” and went to town with that concept. And it worked like a charm, they cranked out six massively successful games before id/Bethesda decided it was time to reboot the Doom franchise 2016.
Perhaps it was payback for them to give Doomguy the Crucible in the reboot games (which looks a lot like the energy sword from Halo), but I can’t help but think these two are essentially the same character.
Games workshop would then have to use both of them. Space marines pre-date both of them.
I mean, can you really put a patent on the idea of an astronaut suit for space soldiers? That seems way too generic.
But they generally have blue and gold armor, no?
The “poster boys” are the Ultramarines, who rock the blue and gold, but there are a tonne of different chapters with individual colour schemes.
In saying that I don’t there are really any super popular ones rocking green at the time (probably were, but I don’t recall any)