Are grunts immune to Flood?

Those are the "tank" varient of a flood pure form. Hunters cannot be infected because they lack a central nervous system. Also, jackals and grunts do not have enough biomass to be converted into combat forms. They are either broken down and turned into infection forms, or combined into a carrier form.
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Can Flood infect grunts?

This suggests that Grunts and Jackals are in fact readily infectable by the Flood, and are later augmented in some way to become Carrier Forms.
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Is Sergeant Johnson immune to the flood?

After a harrowing escape, Johnson accompanied the new and growing crew as the ship moved through Slipspace. Unknown to him, Dr. Halsey and John-117 were reviewing his medical files. They matched Johnson's survival against the Flood to his Boren's Syndrome.
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Are Spartan 1s immune to the flood?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them. Allthough in irony, Johnson, which has no armour, is inmune to the Flood infection.
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Can the flood infect brutes?

Walkthrough. This glitch can be done by getting a Flood Infection Form onto a Brute Chieftain. These two do not normally exist in the same area. The only way to get them together is to kill all your allies outside the third tower in the level, while leaving some Flood Carrier Forms alive.
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Are the Grunts immune to the Flood?



Why do Flood not infect grunts?

Those are the "tank" varient of a flood pure form. Hunters cannot be infected because they lack a central nervous system. Also, jackals and grunts do not have enough biomass to be converted into combat forms. They are either broken down and turned into infection forms, or combined into a carrier form.
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Why is chief immune to the flood?

Also the only reason Sergeant Johnson doesn't get infected is because he has Boron's Syndrome/Orion Augmentations which made his Nervous System so screwed up that the Flood couldn't get a match with his Nervous system rendering him immune to getting infected though he does have Flood DNA in him.
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Why didn't the Gravemind infect Master Chief?

The Gravemind has no real reason to kill the Chief, Humanity has no weapon that can destroy the Flood that is already so far spread as it is on Installation 05 and Humanity wants to stop the Halo's.
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Is Sergeant Johnson a SPARTAN 1?

Johnson was a part of the SPARTAN-I project, originally called the ORION project. The Master Chief was a SPARTAN-II, the best of the best.
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Is Johnson hugging the elite canon?

In Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary, the Elite is a Zealot, and Johnson touches the Zealot's rear instead of the other way around. This cutscene, while only viewable on the Legendary difficulty setting, is not canon, since it was specifically made as fan-oriented humor.
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Why can't the flood infect Johnson?

Because of Boren's syndrome the flood weren't to infect him because of his condition. He escaped halo on a pelican with some other marines. In halo 2 it was deemed classified by johnson and kept secret by the Master Chief.
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How did Johnson get off Halo?

He barely escapes being overwhelmed by the Flood's infection forms before reaching a lift out of the containment facility. From there Johnson escapes aboard a Pelican gunship with a handful of other survivors just prior to the ring's destruction.
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Why did the grunts join the brutes?

Before, the Grunts joined the battle because it was a civil war & it might help the Grunts get better rights. The Hunters joined the Elites because the Elites had space travel & they were a proud warrior race, but Hunters still belived Humans were enemies.
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Can Master Chief be infected by the flood?

In Halo: The Flood, Master Chief almost becomes infected by an infection form when it penetrates into his chest and almost manages to reach his spine. In The Mona Lisa, a Marine was slashed by a Combat Form and was infected that way.
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What can the flood infect Halo?

The Flood is depicted as a parasitic organism that infects any sentient life of sufficient size. The largest self-contained form that the Flood can produce itself without using other biomass is an "infection form".
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Is there only 1 Gravemind?

The Gravemind is a fictional, parasitic, hive mind intelligence in the Halo universe. While only one Gravemind is ever seen in the games, the title is given to the final stage of Flood evolution, in which the Flood becomes a superorganism.
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Is the Gravemind a precursor?

The fact the Gravemind considered itself a Precursor implies that the Precursors created it for revenge against the Forerunners. If so, then they were entirely successful.
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Can the Gravemind Teleport?

Human-Covenant war

During the Battle of Installation 05, the Gravemind was capable of utilizing Delta Halo's teleportation grid. After capturing John-117 and the Arbiter, the parasite gave them their "assignments" to stop the Halo's activation, and then teleported them to their respective targets.
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Why did the arbiter never affected by the flood?

Why was the Arbiter not infected through the inhalation of flood spores? It makes sense that J-117 was not infected, as he presumably has an air filtration system.
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Can the flood infect dead?

Infection forms can be dispatched with a single shot from any weapon (heat is most effective), but can easily overwhelm in large numbers. Infection Forms can reanimate disabled Combat Forms and infect deceased bodies.
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Can Lekgolo be infected by the flood?

As Vessel Of War pointed out, yes, they can't be infected, but they can be used as raw biomass for things like environmental transformation or building materials for Pure Forms, albeit it takes A LOT of Lekgolo for these purposes due to their poor overall suitable bio-organic contents.
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How did the flood survive Halo?

Basically, the Forerunners couldn't come up with a way to kill the Flood entirely so they settled on killing their food supply to starve the Flood into hibernation until a day where either Forerunner survivors or some future race found a way to definitively destroy the Flood.
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What is the flood juggernaut?

The Flood Juggernaut is a large Flood form originally unused and found only within the game files of Halo 2, but was later officially added to Halo: Fireteam Raven.
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