Editing Karen Traviss (section)

===Halo===
After looking at the clusterfuck that was her Star Wars writing, when rumors spread that Traviss was going to be writing for the Halo franchise, thousands of Haloites [[Meme|cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced]]. The rumors unfortunately proved true, and after getting hired, Karen sharpened her literary equivalent of a chainsaw and went to town on a decade's worth of consistent fluff. Within just a few years, this abomination of a [[Fail|writer]] birthed out three books called [[Herp|Glasslands]], [[Derp|The Thursday War]], and [[What|Mortal Dictata]]. As expected massive [[Fluff|fluff]] [[Rape|rape]] ensued and Halo fans cried out in [[Rage|rage]] over the amount of [[Fail|fail]]. Shining moments include...

* Karen's ''gigantic'' throbbing hate-boner for Dr. Catherine Halsey. Halsey has always been portrayed as a conflicted person who feels deep guilt over her role in the Spartan-II program and is fully aware of the fact that she's a monster who has committed massive breaches of ethics and morality in her pursuit of the ultimate defender of humanity. As she did with the Jedi, Traviss apparently missed that memo and instead turned Halsey into a sociopathic Mengele expy who feels no remorse over her actions and doesn't see why anyone would have a problem with her. Traviss then wrote everyone else in the series to hate Dr. Halsey with a furious passion, despite the fact that without her work, humanity would have been extinct. The characters who now hated her included the admiral who signed off on the Spartan program, several of the people who helped her recruit and train them, and two of her own Spartans, who have always been portrayed as unshakably loyal to Halsey. She's also depicted as hating the newer generation Spartan-IIIs because they're "better" than her Spartans, as opposed to her actual objections to the program (which was that the IIIs were traumatized war orphans who were emotionally manipulated into signing up for the program and were then wasted on high-risk missions with low survival rates.) It got to the point where the Halo wiki effectively dismissed Traviss' writing as ONI propaganda meant to shunt all of the blame for their war crimes and other dickery onto Halsey's shoulders and make her their scapegoat. 

* Shilling Margaret Parangosky and Serin Osman as heroic characters despite the fact that Parangosky is even more ruthless and morally grey than Halsey. Indeed, Parangosky is generally considered by fans to be Halo's equivalent of [[Inquisition|Fyodor Karamazov]], so Traviss' attempt to make her the "good guy" earned her further notoriety within the Halo community. Admiral Parangosky is in many ways ''worse'' than Halsey, as she refuses to accept any blame for her role in ONI's many morally dubious projects and was actively attempting to [[Derp|destabilize the Arbiter's pro-Earth regime by arming and supplying anti-human Elite terrorists]]. Further, her hatred for the doctor is revealed to be caused by the fact that Halsey outsmarted her once, which makes Parangosky come off as an incredibly petty and vindictive asshole. It's also revealed that she's been grooming and emotionally manipulating Serin Osman to carry on her vendetta against Halsey after her retirement, to the point where Osman is now just as morally blinkered and hypocritical as her mentor. Traviss wrote all of this and still somehow made Parangosky out to be better than Halsey, [[Rage|who went from one of the most beloved and intellectually deep characters in the franchise into a cutout copy of Josef Mengele, only more incompetent.]]

* Writing the Office of Naval Intelligence in such a way that they wind up looking like a bunch of short-sighted, incompetent buffoons rather than a ruthless and brilliant cabal of spymasters. The shining example of this is their provocation of a civil war on the Elite homeworld, after which they start supplying the sangheili terrorists known as the [[Heresy|Storm Covenant]] with weapons and tech, as opposed to supporting the human-friendly regime led by the Arbiter. This plot point was so stupid that it has been completely undone by the games' writers; the resurrected Covenant gets its shit thoroughly kicked in during the events of Halo 4 and 5 and has ceased to be a concern by the end of the latter.

* Making Spartans even more of a [[Mary Sue]] than they were already, such as the case of a Spartan-II killing a Brute with a [[What|single punch]], despite the fact that in most other fluff, Spartans consider fighting a Brute in CQC something close to suicide.

* The elimination of Lucy-B091's muteness due to PTSD, which was her defining trait, for...you guessed it. [[Rage|NO REASON!]] And it gets worse when she treats her like a [[Mary Sue|delicate little flower]], dumping all the blame on Halsey again, even though Halsey had nothing to do with the Spartan-III program and in fact opposed it. Related to this, Traviss also wrote Naomi-010, a Spartan-II, as being emotionally volatile and tempted by the idea of giving up her life as a Spartan to become a civilian, even though all other Halo media has portrayed the Spartan-IIs as cold, stoic, ultra-professional soldiers who would sooner die than retire, and for whom a quick touch on the arm is equivalent to an outburst of joyful laughter.