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== Red Team ==

 

 

{{quote|''"Continue with Operation Meatshield. Remember, just 'cause your bones are broken doesn't mean it won't stop bullets from hitting me."''}}

Played by Matt Hullum

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* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type V]], though he [[Character Development|evolves]] into a Type III in ''Revelation''.

* [[Ax Crazy]] Among the many, many, many examples that could be used here, one of the best ones to sum it all up is how he claims that back in Blood Gulch, he used to spend some nights going to the top of Red base and singing "When you wish that Grif was Dead...", which is his altered version of Disney's "When You Wish Upon a Star".

'''Simmons:''' Yeah, I noticed. Try harder! }}

 

 

{{quote|''"You're both an excellent leader and an attractive man, sir!"''}}

Played by Gus Sorola

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* [[Character Development]]: As of Season 4, he's no longer ''instantly'' sucks up to Sarge. He'll still usually go along with it, but he'll grumble if the plan is particularly insane, even when it doesn't directly threaten his life.

** Then comes ''Recreation'', where he's more openly critical of Sarge's leadership.

** According to Rooster Teeth, they're ''more'' than just [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]. No. Seriously. There was a question at a panel with RT where they got asked what Grif and Simmons were doing in the shade for two hours. ''Apparently'', they'd read a slash fanfic earlier. And they called back a reference to that. So.. take that how you will.

 

 

{{quote|''"Finally, an order I ''want'' to follow: run away and live."''}}

Played by Geoff Lazer Ramsey

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* [[Badass Driver]]: While he has shown considerable motor skills in seasons one to five and is the Red Team's designated driver, by ''Revelation'', he has completely owned and adopted this trope. He just has trouble ''stopping'' driving sometimes.

* [[Big Brother Instinct]] One of the few reasons he ever gets off his lazy butt for someone else (when he isn't being ordered to do something), is his Sister. He is very protective of her.

** [[Word of God]] is apparently that they have seen it.

* [[The McCoy]]: Definitely a parody. Again, although the more emotional of the trio, Grif is way too lazy to act on his conscience or change the status quo.

* [[Sanity Ball]]: The role of [[Only Sane Man]] on Red Team is either Grif, Simmons or Lopez, depending on the circumstances.

{{quote|'''Sarge''': There they are! Land right next to 'em!"

'''Grif''': "Right... Land..."

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Simmons.

 

 

{{quote|''"Who wants to hold my ankles while I stretch out my hammies?"''}}

Played by Dan Godwin

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* [[Adult Child]]: Less so when he made his debut in actual red armor.

* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A subject of debate amongst fans, and in-universe.

* [[Trans Equals Gay]]: Though the main joke is that he's gay, sometimes he acts like he's actually a girl, such as with his [[Straw Feminist]] rant after being possessed by O'Malley.

 

 

{{quote|''(subtitled Spanish) "I am going to erase every memory of you the second you are gone. Just like I did for [FILE DELETED] and [FILE DELETED]."''}}

{{spoiler|At the end of ''Recreation'', he was shot by Washington. However, since he mentioned leaving copies of himself at the base, he is unlikely to be "dead".}}

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* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Has understandably evolved into this, especially in the ''Recollections'' trilogy, after chafing under the frankly insane leadership of Sarge and later O'Malley.

* [[A Father to His Men]]: Viewed Sarge as this early on, both figuratively and (since Sarge built him) literally. This faded once he realized what an idiot Sarge is.

** The translation was, in all probability, ''[[Stylistic Suck|meant]]'' to be awful. Considering that [[Rooster Teeth]] is based in Texas and two members of the team are Hispanic or at least have Hispanic names (Jason Saldaña and Gustavo Sorola), I'm pretty sure they could've found ''someone'' to translate properly.

** Besides, he was programed by Sarge

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Or probably would be, if anyone could understand all his threats and plottings. He did, after all, work for the [[Big Bad]] of one season for quite awhile.

* [[Robo Speak]]: Always speaks in a flat, mechanical voice. In Spanish. Made even funnier by the fact his actual Spanish dialogue is largely nonsense (see above).

* [[The Smart Guy]]: The other Smart Guy of Red Team. Also [[The Big Guy]].

 

== Blue Team ==

 

 

{{quote|''"There's a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday."''}}

Played by Burnie Burns

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* [[Anti-Hero]]: On the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]], he starts as a Type I and later develops into a Type III.

* [[Badass Boast]]:

** {{spoiler|"I am not a thing! My name is Leonard Church, and YOU WILL FEAR MY LASERFACE!!!"}}

* [[Berserk Button]]: Of which he has many.

* [[Body Surf]]

* [[Cosmic Plaything]]: The universe rarely gives him a break. When given an opportunity to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]], he winds up responsible for {{spoiler|killing himself}}, Sheila and Lopez staging a robot revolution and shooting Tucker with the rocket launcher. And that's not even getting into the fact {{spoiler|he's the broken remains of a once-powerful AI, he's lost his girlfriend more than once, gets trapped in the capture unit, and isn't released until he lets go of said girlfriend, losing her quite possibly forever.}} Dude, Church's life ''sucks''.

** It is very possible that his time travel adventure was just {{spoiler|Gamma's deception to make him suffer. According to Tex, both Gamma and Omega had taken to torturing Alpha in the past.}}

* {{spoiler|[[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: Or, "non-ghost," but either way this is called into question by the end of ''Reconstruction''. ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation'' seem to infer that Epsilon-Church regards himself as equally human as his teammates.}}

 

 

{{quote|''"Women are like ''[[Voltron]]''. The more you hook up, the better it gets."''}}

Played by Jason Saldaña

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* [[A Man Is Not a Virgin]]: According to him, he really isn't anymore, courtesy of Sister, but this is [[Unreliable Narrator|Tucker we're talking about.]]

** But then again, it's ''[[Really Gets Around|Sister]]'' '''[[Lovable Sex Maniac|he's]]''' talking about.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: When using his sword in ''Revelation'', he calls out his "swishes" and his "stabs". {{spoiler|Doesn't work with Tex, ''does'' work when he stabs the Meta.}}

* [[Casanova Wannabe]]: His onscreen success rate with women is very low, though not for lack of effort.

* [[Double Entendre]]: He's made of these.

** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Which he always follows with]] [[Catch Phrase|"Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!"]]

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Tucker claims to be a pacifist during his quest, even outright stating he didn't want to kill a monster. {{spoiler|This doesn't, however, stop him from killing Wyoming and attacking Tex and Meta with potentially lethal strikes.}}

* [[Token Minority]]: After revealing his first name to be Lavernius, he's asked by Church if he's black. [[Fanon]] picked up on this, with a lot of fan art making Tucker a black guy when out of his armor.

* [[Took a Level in Badass]]: Before the reintroduction of Tex, he was the most badass member of the series. As said above, he remains the most badass non-Freelancer.

** He stabs {{spoiler|The Meta}} with his sword in close combat. The Meta, of course, is powerful enough to fight Tex one on one ''without'' any AI support, and yet Tucker still manages to land a solid hit on him. (Although, in fairness, the Meta had taken quite a few hits by that point. Still impressive.)

** Though he still did better than the rest. And his plan with Simmons to ambush Tex would've worked if Caboose hadn't acted as a [[Spanner in the Works]].

 

 

{{quote|''"The last time I was shot I got a purple heart. Yeah, I hope this time I get a purple lung. You see, eventually I hope to build an entire purple person. And we will be best friends."''}}

Played by Joel Heyman

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* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Far from being just plain stupid, Caboose is almost completely divorced from reality and utters many bizarre yet occasionally insightful non-sequiturs.

* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite his many mental quirks, Caboose has been shown to possess superhuman strength and, [[You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry|when sufficiently angry]], was able to single-handedly wipe out both the Red and Blue Battle Creek Zealots.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: For all his teamkilling tendencies ([[Insistent Terminology|that were nobody's fault!]]), he's also ''twice'' gone to the ends of the Earth to resurrect/rescue Church.

 

 

{{quote|''"Firing main cannon."''}}

Played by Yomary Cruz

 

 

{{quote|''"Hey. You can't make an omelet without blowing up a few eggs."''}}

Played by Nathan Zellner

 

 

{{quote|''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the skills you need. Unless you want to see my ping-pong ball trick."''}}

Played by Rebecca Frasier

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* [[Bi the Way]]: [[Samus Is a Girl|The revelation of Tex's gender]] after Sister calls "him" a badass "and kinda hot" does nothing to change her opinion, except that she corrects her use of pronouns.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: She's pretty much the queen of this trope.

'''Sister:''' Yeah, it seems like it would be hard. But, I thought, y'know, who wants to be known as the girl who's had seven abortions?

'''Tucker:''' Heh, yeah... [[Phrase Catcher|Wait, what?]] }}

* [[The Chick]]: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better.

* [[Made of Iron]]: Grif claims that when they were kids she once fell through the ice while they were ice skating. She was under water for three hours, and when they finally brought her up, she was [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|not only unharmed]] but also ''pregnant''.

* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Due to her [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]] tendencies, about 90% of the thing she says are responded to with the line "Yeah, wait...What?"

** See the [[Made of Iron]] entry above for just how much.

 

 

{{quote|''"Men, your delightful tomfoolery puts a spring in my step, and a bounce in my britches. If I weren't your commanding officer I'd pick you both up, give you a giant [[Bear Hug]], and make you call me Daddy."''}}

Played by [[Barenaked Ladies|Ed Robertson]]

 

 

== Freelancers ==

 

 

{{quote|''"I wouldn't say I'm mean. I just get paid to do mean things."''}}

Played by Kathleen Zuelch

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* [[Action Girl]]

*** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Remember how it was revealed that {{spoiler|Blood Gulch was where they sent freelancers for training? Seems like, for Tex, the training worked...}}

*** Epsilon also explains this later as {{spoiler|Tex always fails; but only just barely.}}

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Woman]]: Somewhat. Tex ''would'' be this on the Blue Team if she weren't obsessively greedy and uncontrollably violent. She punches the guys in their sleep, and once knocked out Tucker to steal his sword.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: In one of the non-canon Halo 2 promotion vids, she inclines to stay behind with Caboose (because he's too afraid of waiting for the guys by himself). In-canon, though, she refers to Tucker as a friend and works to prevent his assassination at Wyoming's hands. Plus, makes it clear to Sister that the Blues are "her" idiots. Guess there really is a [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|heart of gold somewhere deep inside]].

* [[Worf Had the Flu]]: Tex is supremely badass, but because she was based on the memories of someone who died in action, she is forever doomed to fail where it counts. So when nothing is on the line, she'll kick the crap out of them with ease, but when doing some sort of mission, she'll mess up at the last moment.

 

 

{{quote|''"You really are an odd group of people."''}}

Played by Shannon McCormick

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* [[Adorkable]]:

** His season nine incarnation is oddly adorable. Case in point, when he confuses {{spoiler|Tex}} for a guy, and is then corrected. Awkward stammering ensues.

* [[Badass Normal]]: He's not on the level of Tex or [[The Juggernaut|the Meta,]] but he can still almost hold his own against them in close combat.

* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]] - With the Meta in ''Recreation'' and ''Revelation''.}}

* [[Broken Pedestal]]: Season 9 shows that {{spoiler|Wash actually had a very high opinion of the Director before the Epsilon incident.}}

{{quote|'''Washington''': {{spoiler|The Director?}} He's given us everything. He's ''helping'' us.}}

* [[Byronic Hero]]: Particularly in ''Recovery One''.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "This is the worst <x> ever! Of all time."

'''Agent Washington''': [[Blunt Yes|Yes.]] }}

 

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Played by Sean Duggan

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* [[Bad Liar]]: When he tries to bluff Tex unconvincingly, she tells him he's never been good at lying.

* [[Badass Driver]]: He was pretty impressive in episode 17.

** Apparently, he agrees.

{{quote|'''York''': You didn't bring me along for my good looks, did you?}}

{{quote|"So the first face we made for Red vs. Blue this year was York. And we really just made him from scratch. We were just kinda like, 'What does a good-looking guy look like?' And I guess this is what we think a good-looking guy looks like."}}

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: He gets a nice scar across his face and it apparently made him lose vision partially in one of his eyes.

* [[Team Dad]]: Along with Carolina, he seems to be among the most capable and experienced Freelancers in the field. In adition to his [[Only Sane Man]] tendencies, he fits the bill.

* [[Token Good Teammate]]: Trumps even [[Nice Guy|Wash on his best day]] as the nicest member of the Freelancers. Friendly, calm, intentionally humourous, and actually has moral standards. {{spoiler|[[No Good Deed Goes Unpunished|Which gets him beaten to a pulp by Tex while trying to stop a rapidly-becoming-deadly fight, then hit point blank with a grenade from his own teammate after having a stone pillar hurled at him.]] [[Kick the Dog|In a simulation fight that had no substantial meaning.]]}}

 

 

{{quote|''"Looks like it's your lucky day, mate. I don't have time to torture you, so I'm just going to have to kill you."''}}

Played by Matt Hullum

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* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Tex, arguably, since he was contracted to specifically hunt her down.

* [[The Brute]]: Not as much as Maine, but still present in Season 9.

** Ironically, he's the weakest Freelancer, skill-wise. He's not shown to be as good a fighter as [[Lightning Bruiser|Tex]] or [[Dance Battler|Carolina]], and he isn't even as great a marksman as [[The Mario|Wash]]. In season nine, he's curb stomped by {{spoiler|Tex}} and is shot by law enforcement and security during [[The Caper]]. He does make up for this with his [[Time Master|time mastery]]... and fighting [[Combat Pragmatist|dirty]].

* [[Weak but Skilled]]: By [[Super Soldier|Freelancer]] standards. He's more an assassin than a straight-up combatant.

 

 

{{quote|''(A low, menacing hiss)''}}

According to the PAX East Season Nine trailer, some of the questions surrounding him may well be answered soon. The trailer itself explains the reason he speaks in growls and grunts: while on a mission with Agent Washington, the then-sane Freelancer Agent Maine was shot in the throat and thrown off a cliff- by Red and Blue "simulation troopers," no less.

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* [[Ax Crazy]]: Due to having so many A.I. jammed into his head.

* [[Badass]]: Do NOT mess with the Meta. You will regret it. {{spoiler|As Washington finds out much later. See [[Evil Is Not a Toy]], below.}}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Heights?]]

 

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{{spoiler|She is often placed in command of the other Freelancers on missions, or is used to bail out her less experienced compatriots. She only seems to treat Agent York as an equal and even speaks to him with some twinges of affection, as opposed to the coldly professional dynamic between her and the other members.}}

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* [[Action Girl]]

* [[The Ace]]: She's known as Number One and is the absolute best Freelancer in the project... at least until Tex shows up.

** [[Green-Eyed Monster]]: And she is ''not'' taking it well.

* [[Drop the Hammer]]: She uses a Gravity Hammer to take out an [[Elite Mook]] in Season 9. She returns in Season 10 with one as part of her regular arsenal.

* [[Exact Words]]: {{spoiler|Delta said that she functioned for a short period of time after getting her AI. ''Not'' that she died.}}

* [[The Gunslinger]]: In Season 9, the only weapon she is seen using is a pistol.

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Uses nothing but her own environment and fists.

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]

* [[Ninja]]: Specialist in close combat and stealth.

* {{spoiler|[[Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated]]}}: Church and Washington are just as surprised as the audience that {{spoiler|she's alive.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]}}

* [[The Rival]]: Definitely setting herself up to be this to Tex. {{spoiler|Episode 17 all but confirms it.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Wham! Line]]: "You're gonna help me kill the Director"}}.

 

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Played by Samantha Ireland. {{spoiler|And by Michael Joplin in Season 7}}

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* [[Anime Hair]]: Just how is her hair supposed to work? Is it a mohawk? Or a weird sideways ponytail? Or half a shaved head?

* [[Arch Enemy]]: {{spoiler|Considers Tucker as one, since he did screw up C.T.'s entire operation in the dig site. C.T. himself gets noticeably panicked (and ''pissed'') once it turned out that Tucker was released from the dig sites' structure, and repeatedly said that he ''really'' wanted to kill him when they meet both times on-screen. }}

* [[The Cassandra]]: Her warnings about the Director go unheeded or even outright contradicted by fellow Freelancers, despite being completely true.

* [[Commander Contrarian]]: Her dialogue in Season 9 is ''coated'' with bitterness towards The Director and the ranking system.

* [[The Dragon]]: {{spoiler|Smith, a Ranger-type Elite, serves as her main lieutenant, [[Heel Face Turn|until]] C.T. ordered Jones (one of his men) to disable Epsilon-Church, who happens to be inside [[Ave Machina|one of those Forerunner monitors]].}}

* [[Failure Hero]]: Has issues because her skills aren't up to snuff with the rest of the Freelancer Elite, and hates the ranking process.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Completely panics when the {{spoiler|operation in Sandtrap doesn't go as planned.}} Apparently this is a problem she always had.

 

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Played by Shana Merlin

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* [[Action Girl]]: As shown in the prequels.

* [[Badass]]: Well, in Season 9 she shows that Tex isn't the only girl from [[Red vs. Blue]] to be feared. She makes a fine team with her brother North (though, when it comes to follow a plan...).

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: Her and her brother both have [[Beehive Barrier|Beehive Barriers]] as their armor ability.

* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to North's Blue.

 

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Played by John Erler

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* [[Badass]]: Along with his sister when they're fighting together, though it seems that all Freelancers are badasses in one way or another.

* [[Barrier Warrior]]: He and his sister both have [[Beehive Barrier|Beehive Barriers]] as their armor ability.

{{quote|'''North''': Stay safe, Kiddo.}}

* [[By-The-Book Cop|By the Book Soldier]]

** Not so much by episode 4, when he used the dome shield. We learn later in episode 9 that using equipment in the field is against the rules.

* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to South's Red.

 

An [[Ace Pilot]] who works for Freelancer Command during Season 9. She's also Washington's communications operator during Recovery One and ''Reconstruction''.

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* [[Ace Pilot]]

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Possibly the best example in the series and that's ''saying'' something.

* [[Doomed by Canon|Grounded By Canon]]: Given that she's not flying by the time the series proper starts, something happens to her at some point. Also after the events of ''Reconstruction'' {{spoiler|she was probably arrested along with all of the other Freelancer personnel}}.

* [[No Name Given]]: So far she's only been identified in series by her callsigns "Four-seven-niner" and "Freelancer Command"

 

There are 49 total Freelancers. Most of them apparently did not appear in Season 9, and have only received minor mentions. They are named after the 49 states of the US. The lack of a 50th Freelancer has a bit of an explanation behind it, listed <ref> Tucker very briefly said "Poor Florida" when Tex mentioned that Freelancers were named after the 49 states of the Union; however this was also prior to the Freelancers taking plot importance, and seemingly was a one-off joke. What is known is that there is only one Carolina (with two [[A Is]]), seemingly representing a unified North and South Carolina, but D.C. and Puerto Rico are also known to be Freelancers, meaning that is not the only explanation. The only currently known states that are not Freelancers are Florida, Iowa, New Mexico, Arizona, and Wisconsin, and at least two of them no longer are states in order to make the numbers equal 49.</ref> out of convenience.

 

 

== Artificial Intelligences ==

 

{{quote|''"I will devour their hearts and crap out their souls! They will all taste oblivion! Which tastes just like Red Bull...[[Take That|which is disgusting]]."''}}

Because Omega was introduced in the BG chronicles, long before the Freelancer aspect of the story was well fleshed out, he wasn't the last AI {{spoiler|split from Alpha}}. Epsilon was, {{spoiler|because his mental breakdown in Washington's head was what convinced the Director to stop splitting the Alpha.}} Despite {{spoiler|the Alpha}} being first, Omega wasn't last. Go figure.

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* [[Affectionate Parody]]: During his time possessing Doc, he basically becomes a [[Captain Ersatz]] of every single [[Card-Carrying Villain]] from old cartoons, with heavy overtones of [[G.I. Joe|Cobra Commander]] and a bit of [[Flash Gordon|Ming the Merciless]] thrown in for kicks.

* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Big Bad Wannabe]]: Was effectively the main antagonist for the first five seasons, but O'Malley was portrayed more along the lines of a [[Large Ham]] parody of the [[Big Bad]] archetype.

** In the beginning of ''Reconstruction'', a shell-shocked Red soldier named Walter explained to Command over what went down after the Blues at Valhalla scavenged Tex's crashed pelican (see the ending to the Blood Gulch Chronicles). Walter's rather detailed description of an ominous 'infection' to the Blues and Reds, on top of how the Blues massacred one another, made Omega seem ''much'' more threatening as an antagonist than his previous incarnation ever did.

* [[Take Over the World]]: A hilarious parody of this type of villain. Works especially well when he's in the body of a pacifist.

 

 

{{quote|''"Knock-knock."''}}

Encountered by the Red and Blue Teams in the form of an ancient computer built by the aliens as an expert on humans, who then proceeds to warn them about a vague prophecy. They eventually figure out that Gary is really Gamma, Wyoming's AI (the name "Gary" might appear to be a portmanteau of "Gamma" and "Reginald", but [[Word of God|Burnie Burns has revealed]] the name to be that of his late cat). Gamma was evidently the personification of the Alpha AI's deceit, and is described as having removed itself from Wyoming, with potentially harmful results. In the end, they reunite during their attempt to kidnap Junior. Gamma was another one of those AIs recovered by the Meta during ''Reconstruction''. It had a strange fondness for knock-knock jokes, and speaks in the voice of Stephen Hawking's computer.

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* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Knock-knock."

* [[Evil All Along]]: Same with Vic, more or less.

* [[Laughably Evil]]: Yes. Even the supercomputer.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Personification of deceit, after all.

 

 

The original Artificial Intelligence acquired by Project Freelancer. Since they needed more, they subjected it to enough stress and mental torture to cause it to fracture, and harvested the fragments as partners for their special agents. What remained of the original was sequestered away at a backwater outpost, where it convinced itself that it was human based on the memory fragments remaining from the human intelligence it was based off of. In another major twist, ''Reconstruction'''s epilogue revealed not only was {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|Church]] the Alpha, but the Alpha itself was based off the mind of ''Doctor'' Leonard Church, the Director of Project Freelancer himself.}}

* {{spoiler|It's almost certainly a coincidence, but still.}}

 

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Played by Mark Bellman

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* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: {{spoiler|When speaking to Caboose, Epsilon takes on Delta's form for this purpose. [[Cloudcuckoolander|Caboose being Caboose]], though, the effect is somewhat wasted.}}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Kick the Son of a Bitch]]: He coldly suggests to Washington [[Deadly Euphemism|"that we do not allow]] {{spoiler|1=[South<nowiki>]</nowiki>}} [[Deadly Euphemism|to hamper our progress"]]. But considering she had by this point {{spoiler|[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|betrayed her own brother, Wash,]] ''[[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|and]]'' [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Delta himself]]}}, it's hard to sympathize with the victim in question.

* [[Undying Loyalty]]: {{spoiler|When York is mortally injured, Delta stays to administer painkillers until York dies instead of going with Tex, even though at the time he and Tex thought it would mean Delta's own erasure as well.}}

* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: He and York love to have snarky conversations with each other, but it's based out of affection and York's naturally snarky nature.

 

 

{{quote|''"[[Call Back|We are]] [[Wham! Line|the Meta]], [[Paranoia Fuel|and we will find you. Very soon.]]"''}}

 

 

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* [[Bald of Evil]]

* [[The Corrupter]]: He's the reason behind Maine becoming The Meta.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Can be seen in Reconstruction along with all of the other AIs that the Meta had, and is mentioned offhand by Washington as Alpha's "creativity" earlier.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]

* [[Wham! Line]]: Combined with a [[Call Back]] to the trailer for Reconstruction, in the first trailer for the tenth season.

 

== Other ==

 

{{quote|''"[...] a ''doctor'' cures people. A ''medic'' just helps people feel more comfortable... while they die."''}}

Played by Matt Hullum

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* [[Actual Pacifist]]: Calls himself one, and ''is'' one, even while possessed by Omega, but he does manage to shoot The Meta at point-blank range.

** He also was caught in an explosion that left ''[[Super Soldier|Washington]]'' visibly injured and shaken while he is totally fine with no injuries whatsoever.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Was this originally, until his character got [[Flanderization|Flanderized]] into being as competent as the other characters.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: During his time as a prisoner of Wash and the Meta, he mentions he doesn't have it as an insult. Later events suggest otherwise.

** He certainly seemed to have it for Omega, considering that he wound up acting like the evil AI's sidekick as much as his prisoner.

{{quote|'''Doc''': I haven't had a killing spree since my last residency!}}

 

 

{{quote|''"Blarg? Honk!"''}}

Also known as "Crunchbite", "Crouchasaurus", "Fluffy, the Alien Who Only Loves", and "Honk-Honk" (which may be his real name, but probably not). An alien who gets off on the wrong foot with Blue Team by <s> beating</s> scaring Church right out of his robot body, and then pounding Tucker into the ground after the latter recovers an alien-built sword, binding it to him. The Alien then proceeds to browbeat the Blues into helping him on his quest to save his people, which apparently involved using the sword to unlock a spaceship. The next step is unknown, as Wyoming proceeded to blow the Alien out of the sky. Besides complaining about the Alien's odor or inability to speak English, Tucker commented that the creature was always standing over him when he woke up, which leads us to...

 

 

{{quote|''"Bow-chicka honk-honk!"''}}

* [[In the Blood]]: Making the sleazy porno music at an innuendo wasn't taught by Tucker. It's genetic.

 

 

{{quote|''"I would like to remind the sub-comittee members...That anything is possible. Some things are probable. This is what is. And my agency as it always has will continue to deal with what is...until it is no more."''}}

Played by John Reed

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* [[Bad Boss]]: Allowed his soldiers to use ''live ammunition'' in a ''training exercise'', and praised the guys that did so, regardless of the obvious risks involved. No wonder CT hates him so much.

* [[Beard of Evil]]: The trailer for season 9 clearly shows him to have a goatee. Luke McKay's drawings of {{spoiler|1=Church (the AI counterpart), the closest thing to a canon image of what he actually looks like, depict Church with facial hair, but it is more stubble than an actual beard. The trailer version of the Director is fairly close to what McKay's drawing looks like other than being older and having a goatee, so this might also be a borderline version of [[Evil Twin]].}}

* [[Wham! Line]]: "Sincerely yours, the former Director of Project Freelancer, Doctor {{spoiler|Leonard Church}}.

 

 

{{quote|''"We can all understand that a shift from autonomy to oversight can be a difficult adjustment for anyone, but especially someone of your standing. In that spirit we have attempted to accommodate your ''brief'' explanations to our serious inquires. Nonetheless, I feel compelled to inform you that even ''our'' trust has its limits."''}}

Played by Jack Lee

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* [[All There in the Manual]]: His real name (Malcolm Hargrove) was made known only through some sponsors-only content on the forums.

* [[Big Good]]: Very little is known about him, but he seems to be this. Though abrasive, his goal is to take down the Director for committing war crimes.

* [[Tranquil Fury]]: The letters between the Chairman and the Director in ''Reconstruction'' gradually build in intensity until the Chairman's final letter, which is delivered very calmly, but sternly, telling the Director that officers have been dispatched to arrest him.

 

 

{{quote|''"Chill dude, take a chill pill. If you don't have a chill pill, take a chill strip - put it on your tongue, it dissolves. Chill."''}}

Played by Randall Glass, who's best known to longtime ''Halo'' fans as "the Warthog Jump guy", in his first appearance, and by Burnie Burns thereafter.

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* [[Evil Genius]]: Seems like he'd be this for O'Malley, given his profession, but it's actually not so much in reality.

* [[He Knows Too Much]]: The reason why he kept trying to get Tucker assassinated once he found out that Vic is a VI and that he acts as [[Mission Control]] for both teams. Naturally, Vic always failed at it, while Tucker always got harmed in some form anyway.

* [[Mission Control]]: He serves as one for both the Red and Blue teams, which is kept secret from them both.

* [[Mysterious Backer]]: Even more so than the Director, since we still don't have solid facts about him - just presumptions based on conjecture.

 

 

The Insurection is a military force made up of soldiers who have broken off from the UNSC. They serve as the main antagonists for the Freelancers. They are possibly [[Mythology Gag|a nod to]] ''Halo'' canon, in which prior to the war with the [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|Covenant]], Earth (and human-controlled space) was undergoing a civil war between the UNSC and a coalition of rebel groups, for the control of human colonies. Incidentally, it was during this civil war the SPARTAN-II program was initiated, as a countermeasure against the rebellion.

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* [[Big Bad Ensemble]]: Alongside the Director in season nine.

** {{spoiler|[[Big Bad Duumvirate]]: They seem to have CT as an ally, so her excavation on the desert might've been on their orders.}}

** [[Heavily Armored Mook]]: One way to differentiate a usual mook Insurrectionist from his [[Elite Mook]] counterpart. The latter (with the exception of the sleeveless guy) are heavily armoured and tend to be [[Made of Iron]].

** [[Mook Chivalry]]: The lesser grunts suffer from this.

* [[Hero Antagonist]]: A possible interpretation, given how much controversy the Freelancer project was mired in. These are people with legitimate beefs dealing with a government whose activities to put down the various rebellions has been questionable at times at best. One of the Freelancers at one point asked "we're the good guys, right?" after a particularly brutal mission.

** [[Gray and Gray Morality]]: Delta himself brings this up. Project Freelancer and the Insurrection aren't evil or good, they're just two groups trying to achieve different goals.

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The [[Elite Mooks]] ''would've'' counted, if they actually ''said'' anything.

 

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Played by Asaf Ronen

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* [[Creepy Monotone]]

* [[The Shrink]]: Of the "Harmful" variety.