Major Malfunction

Major Malfunction
General Information
Genre	Comedy Action Science Fiction
Created by	Syp The Mighty Chron Aldazaar MozzyWozzy LizDanceTV
Director	Syp The Mighty
Writer	Syp The Mighty Chron Aldazaar (3 episodes) MozzyWozzy (3 episodes) LizDanceTV (1 episode)
Cast	Syp The Mighty Chron Aldazaar MozzyWozzy LizDanceTV
Editor	Syp The Mighty
Music	Revoltge
Production Information
Studio	Steel Lion Media
Game Engine	Halo 3
Original Run	July 30, 2012—August, 15, 2012 (original) October 27, 2012—October 28, 2012 (re-release)
Movie	February 8, 2017
Status	Ended
Production
Previous	Classic Season 1
Next	WarGames

Major Malfunction is a Halo-based machinima miniseries created by Syp The Mighty, Chron Aldazaar, MozzyWozzy, and LizDanceTV. It centered on the guards stationed on Outpost High Ground as they're ambushed by an unknown attacker and are forced to flee the base.

WarGames is a standalone sequel to Major Malfunction, this series was retroactively considered a spinoff of Guard Duty Classic.

Characters

High Ground Guards

• Captain Jack O'Brien (4 episodes)
• Corporal Linda Kelen (4 episodes)
• Private Frank Collins (4 episodes)
• Private Diego Jones (4 episodes)

Other

• Unknown Attackers (1 episode)

Trivia

• The title of this special comes from the question "What's your major malfunction, numbnuts?!", exclaimed by R. Lee Ermey's character Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket.
• The logo for this special was designed by Corvaeraas, who voices the Brigadier in Guard Duty Classic and Guard Duty.
• This series originally aired from July 30, 2012 until August 15, 2012 on the now-defunct Steel Lion Media channel. It was later re-released on Syp The Mighty's personal channel from October 27, 2012 until October 28, 2012. It was compiled into a single special on February 8, 2017 and re-released on the Spite Box channel.
• A sequel/reboot series was produced by Firelight Studios around the same time as Annoyances in 2012, retroactively called Major Malfunction II, that featured the same characters but Jones wore an ODST helmet instead of the Mark VI and O'Brien died in its third episode. Three episodes were made, in which Syp archived on her personal channel.
• Had the special continued as a series, there were plans for Corvaeraas (voice of the Brigadier) to voice a character named "Payne" and Blankslate (voice of Miller) to voice a character name "Jasper". Jasper would end up being introduced in Machine, the fourth episode of Season 1, with Blankslate providing his voice, while elements of Payne were incorporated into the Brigadier.
• This special reuses songs originally composed for Annoyances, which were later used in Classic Season 2.
• Individual episodes of Major Malfunction are archived on Syp's personal channel, rather than the Spite Box channel.
• This special was filmed, edited, and written week by week when released as a series, with Syp getting burnt out by its fourth episode and leading to the premature ending of Major Malfunction.
• As director, editor, lead writer, and co-creator, Syp retained ownership of the series after Steel Lion Media dissolved.
• Over ten years after this special ended on a cliffhanger, the two final episodes of WarGames would reveal the fates of the guards and who attacked them.
• This is the only Guard Duty Classic project to not feature Geff Rodrigo, Mitchell Miller, nor Trooper, due to being considered a standalone series without any ties to Guard Duty when it was first made.