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== Red Team ==
=== '''Sarge''' ===
{{quote|''"Continue with Operation Meatshield. Remember, just 'cause your bones are broken doesn't mean it won't stop bullets from hitting me."''}}
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Played by Matt Hullum
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==== Sargeisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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".
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'''Simmons:''' Yeah, I noticed. Try harder! }}
=== '''Private First Class Richard "Dick" Simmons''' ===
{{quote|''"You're both an excellent leader and an attractive man, sir!"''}}
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Played by Gus Sorola
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==== Simmonsisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
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* [[Named After Somebody Famous]]: Take a wild guess.
* [[Ow, My Body Part]]: One of his running character gags is that he does this whenever he's injured.
* [[Professional Butt-Kisser]] Initially, he agrees with anything Sarge says, but overtime he becomes less of one. {{spoiler|He doesn't lose it too much though.}}
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Arguably the most rational member of Red Team, next to Lopez, he also possesses astute knowledge of computer technology and physics. But to a fault, it's made him more than a little arrogant, which does tend to blind his rationality. When they find out the reason why they were assigned to project Freelancer since they were low-level officers and rejects from actual military service, Grif wondered why Simmons was there if he was supposed to be smart. Simmons reveals he wasn't good with pressure and timed exercises so he failed because he never finished the tests on time.
** He's also not nearly as smart as he thinks he is or leads others to believe. He does, however, seem to have become very good at faking it and fobbing the work off on more competent people (like Lopez).
* [[The Spock]]: Simmons would love to be this. But his own emotional, psychological hang ups get in the way.
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** 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.
=== '''Minor Junior Private Dexter Grif Negative First Class''' ===
{{quote|''"Finally, an order I ''want'' to follow: run away and live."''}}
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Played by Geoff Lazer Ramsey
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==== Grifisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
** [[Captain Crash]]: Specifically, he's a little fuzzy on the whole concept of "landing":
{{quote|'''Grif:''' "Sure! That just means 'stop flying', right?"}}
* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]: Church claims he is this... though [[Unreliable Narrator|Church may have been mistaken, exaggerating,]] or only comparing Grif to the other Reds.
** On the other hand, he did quickly earn several promotions once he was assigned to a new unit that apparently didn't let him slack off as much. Of course, once put back with the other Reds, he quickly degenerated into his old habits and was demoted by Sarge. (Sarge might not have actually had the authority to do this... but Grif's too lazy to care.)
* [[Butt Monkey]] Of the Red team when Lopez isn't around.
* [[The Chew Toy]]▼
* [[The Chew Toy]] Sarge, Simmons, the Blues, Tex, everyone pretty much rags on him all the time. Course he does the same to them.
* [[The Lancer]]: Fills this role for the Reds, until in ''Revelation'' when he becomes [[The Heart]].
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Pretty much every Red Team plan involves sacrificing him in one way or another.
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** [[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.
* [[Non-Action Guy]]:
* [[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..."
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Simmons.
=== '''Private Franklin Delano Donut''' ===
{{quote|''"Who wants to hold my ankles while I stretch out my hammies?"''}}
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Played by Dan Godwin
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==== Donutisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Adult Child]]: Less so when he made his debut in actual red armor.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: A subject of debate amongst fans, and in-universe.
* [[Camp Straight]]: One of the alternate endings to ''The Blood Gulch Chronicles'' mentions he married a stripper and had a litter of kids.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]]: Despite his rather... unusual behavior, he managed to grenade Tex from halfway across the canyon. In fact, he's actually appointed to Red team as their official grenadier officer.
** The fact that he was {{spoiler|working with Tucker as an infiltration specialist implies he received some special training to perform his new job.}}
*** {{spoiler|Infiltration specialist?}}
**** {{spoiler|Well, he ''did'' say he was good at penetrating rear entrances. Make of that what you will.}}
* [[Large Ham]] He acts like his life is a daytime sitcom.
* [[The Ditz]]: Is usually too busy bubbling happily to notice the assorted weird and dangerous crap going on around him.
* [[The European Carry All]]: Insists his armor is lightish-red.
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** [[Image Song|Donut: The Musical]] is nothing but this.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: "It's not pink, it's ''lightish-red''!"
* [[In Touch with His Feminine Side]] Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiig time.
* {{spoiler|[[Macho Camp]]: His Season 9 incarnation [[Composite Character|combines]] his usual [[Innocent Innuendo]] with Sarge's gung-ho attitude.}}
* [[Not Quite Dead]]: He survives Tex sticking a Plasma Grenade to his head, but has to be airlifted out of the canyon, returning with the aforementioned lightish-red armor.
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* [[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.
=== '''Lopez la Pesado ("the Heavy")''' ===
{{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]."''}}
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{{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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==== Lopezisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Beleaguered Assistant]]
* [[Butt Monkey]] Since his teammates can't fully understand what he says, they tend to treat him poorly.
* [[Conflicting Loyalties]] Zigzagged big time, many times. He started out loyal to the Red team, especially Sarge. He is later taken by the Blues, but tried to get back to the Reds who mistakenly tried to kill him, forcing him to abandon them for the Blues. He later defects with Sheila to form his own robot army, but is later taken away by Doc/O'Malley who forces him to work on his Doomsday devices and such until much later when the Reds steal him back. From that point on, he stays in Blood Gulch until one day he strangles Sister and leaves (she survived). He reunites with the Reds in Valhalla, but gets shot by Washington and left for dead. Later, Doc and Donut take over and use his disabled body as a scarecrow until he is brought to Crash Site Bravo by Donut and Doc on Chorus. There, he is taken by the Reds to work with Dos.O on their machines and weapons, but by then he no longer cared one way or another. Eventually, Dos.O defects and even Lopez turns on him, but his body is once again disabled in the battle and he's thrown in the trash by the Federal Army of Chorus until Sarge, Donut, and Washington reactivate him and he rejoins the group.
* [[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.
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** 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
* [[Mr. Exposition]] For someone nobody understands, he tends to figure things out for the others, long before they do. He tries to warn them, but usually they insult him when he does so he stops caring.
* [[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.
* [[Running Gag]] He speaks only Spanish, can understand anything everyone else says, but nobody understands him. There's also his tendency to get his head blown off and losing his body.
* [[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]].
* [[We Have Reserves]]: At least according to him he has many copies of his mind and goes through several bodies.
== Blue Team ==
=== '''Private Leonard L. Church''' ===
{{quote|''"There's a very fine line between not listening and not caring. I like to think I walk that line everyday."''}}
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Played by Burnie Burns
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==== Churchisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Anti-Hero]]: On the [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes]], he starts as a Type I and later develops into a Type III.
* [[Asshole Victim]] Sometimes it's hard to feel sorry for him when bad things happen, considering how poorly he sees and treats others. At the same time though, the trope is inverted since some of the things he's been through are seriously cruel.
* [[Badass Boast]]:
** {{spoiler|"I am not a thing! My name is Leonard Church, and YOU WILL FEAR MY LASERFACE!!!"}}
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* [[Berserk Button]]: Of which he has many.
* [[Body Surf]]
* [[Butt Monkey]] Of the Blue team, a lot of bad things happen to him. {{spoiler|In both comedic and dramatically serious ways.}}
* [[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.}}
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* {{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.}}
=== '''Private First Class Lavernius Tucker''' ===
{{quote|''"Women are like ''[[Voltron]]''. The more you hook up, the better it gets."''}}
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Played by Jason Saldaña
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==== Tuckerisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Ambiguously Brown]] Maybe... There's debate about him being black or not. We've never actually seen his skin, much less his face, so there's no way of fully confirming it.
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass]] He wasn't much of a soldier at the start (none of them were, to be honest), but by the later seasons, he becomes one of the best fighters of the original Reds and Blues.
* [[Double Entendre]]: He's made of these.
** [[Don't Explain the Joke|Which he always follows with]] [[Catch Phrase|"Bow-Chicka-Bow-Wow!"]]
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* [[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.)
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** 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]].
=== '''Private Michael J. Caboose''' ===
{{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."''}}
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Played by Joel Heyman
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==== Cabooseisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[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.
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* [[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.
=== '''M808V Main Battle Tank "Sheila"''' ===
{{quote|''"Firing main cannon."''}}
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Played by Yomary Cruz
=== '''Andy''' ===
{{quote|''"Hey. You can't make an omelet without blowing up a few eggs."''}}
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Played by Nathan Zellner
* [[Mad Bomber]] He implies that when he gets excited, he'll go off. When he gets mad, he'll go off. When he gets happy, he'll go off. Except that he never does.
== '''Private Kaikaina Grif, a.k.a. "Sister"''' ==▼
* [[Made of Explodium]] He's a talking bomb, so of course. Oddly enough though, he was built with parts from a translator robot, hence how/why he can talk.
* [[What an Idiot!]] He's a bomb. He only has 1 actual function, and yet he fails at it when the time finally comes for him to actually blow himself up.
▲=== '''Private Kaikaina Grif, a.k.a. "Sister"''' ===
{{quote|''"Yeah, sorry, doesn't sound like I have the skills you need. Unless you want to see my ping-pong ball trick."''}}
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Played by Rebecca Frasier
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==== Sisterisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
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'''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?]] }}
* [[Catch Phrase]] "It's kinda hot."
* [[The Chick]]: Even though Tex was technically the first girl, Sister fits this far better.
* [[Idiot Ball]] She's easily the dumbest of the Blood Gulch Red team, and sometimes even gives Caboose a run for his money as the stupidest in the Canyon. {{spoiler|A title she holds once they all leave.}}
* [[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?"
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** See the [[Made of Iron]] entry above for just how much.
=== '''Captain Butch Flowers''' ===
{{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."''}}
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Played by [[Barenaked Ladies|Ed Robertson]]
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] {{spoiler|How he kills the Gatling gun twins: by dropping a massive crate on them. Unfortunately, it also kind of happens to him during season 5 when he is killed by a bullet fired by persons unknown.}}
* [[Walking Spoiler]] {{spoiler|He appears throughout the Freelancer flashbacks, but never speaks until the very end of them where it is revealed that he is actually Agent Florida.}}
* [[Weak but Skilled]] He's never shown to be all that strong on his own, but he's skilled and very clever.
== Freelancers ==
=== '''Agent Texas (Allison)''' ===
{{quote|''"I wouldn't say I'm mean. I just get paid to do mean things."''}}
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Played by Kathleen Zuelch
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==== Texisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Action Girl]]
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*** [[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.}}
* [[Made of Iron]] Figuratively {{spoiler|and literally, by the time the story takes place.}}
* [[One-Man Army|One Woman Army]] {{spoiler|Figuratively and later literally when Carolina and the Reds and Blues try to reach the Director of Project Freelancer, they are forced to fight dozens of robotic copies of her.}}
* [[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]].
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* [[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.
=== '''Agent Washington (David)''' ===
{{quote|''"You really are an odd group of people."''}}
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Played by Shannon McCormick
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==== Washingtonisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
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* [[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''.}}
* [[Break the Cutie]]: [[Foregone Conclusion|We
* [[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.}}
* [[Butt Monkey]] Of the Freelancers, he was said to be the worst shot, and was known for once having a grappling hook pull him in by his crotch. After his experience with Epsilon, he is seen as much more serious and effective agent. Later on, after siding with the Reds and Blues, he is basically the most competent among them until Carolina shows up.
* [[Byronic Hero]]: Particularly in ''Recovery One''.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "This is the worst <x> ever! Of all time."
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'''Agent Washington''': [[Blunt Yes|Yes.]] }}
=== '''Agent York''' ===
[[File:agent_york_by_montyoum-d4h7yzw_2946.jpg|frame]]
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==== Yorkisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
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** Apparently, he agrees.
{{quote|'''York''': You didn't bring me along for my good looks, did you?}}
** [http://roosterteeth.com/archive/?id=4014 Apparently RoosterTeeth also agrees]{{Dead link}}:
{{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.
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* [[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.]]}}
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]] He and Delta especially, but also North Dakota and Wash.
=== '''Agent Wyoming (Reginald)''' ===
{{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."''}}
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Played by Matt Hullum
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==== Wyomingisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Arch Enemy]]: To Tex, arguably, since he was contracted to specifically hunt her down.
* [[Asshole Victim]] Once he's killed off, he's almost never mentioned or seen again. When he DOES show up again in the flashbacks, we learn a bit more about the things he did during those days and... We feel even less sympathy for him than before.
* [[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]].
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* [[Weak but Skilled]]: By [[Super Soldier|Freelancer]] standards. He's more an assassin than a straight-up combatant.
=== '''The Meta / Agent Maine''' ===
{{quote|''(A low, menacing hiss)''}}
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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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==== Metaisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]] How evil he is/was is hard to gauge. Before receiving Sigma, he was a tough, but loyal agent. After, Sigma started manipulating his mind and taking over his body until he becomes "the Meta" which leads to killing many people (including former friends and allies) in an effort to become "human". Then, after he loses Sigma and the other AI, Agent Maine's mind began to deteriorate even more on its own which led to him trying to acquire anymore freelance equipment or power that he could until the Reds, Blues, and Washington finally kill him.
* [[Asshole Victim]] How much you sympathize for him depends on how you view him as either the Meta or as Agent Maine.
* [[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.}}
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Heights?]]
=== '''Agent Carolina''' ===
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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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==== '''Carolinaisms (Associated Tropes):''' ====
* [[Action Girl]]
** [[Dark 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.
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* [[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.}}
* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]] {{spoiler|She's never evil, but she wasn't necessarily good for wanting to force the Reds and Blues to help her achieve her own selfish goals. She gets better though, and even comes to see them as her new family.}}
* [[Fiery Redhead]] Like parents, like daughter.
* [[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.
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* [[Lightning Bruiser]]
* [[Ninja]]: Specialist in close combat and stealth.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]] {{spoiler|A lot of the events of the story stem back to her own mistakes, such as giving Sigma to Agent Maine. It was a nice gesture, but Sigma managed to brainwash him into becoming the Meta.}}
* {{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]]}}
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* [[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"}}.
* [[Well Done Daughter Girl]] Some hints point to her reason for wanting to stay at the top of the leaderboard for the Freelancers was because she was trying to impress the Director {{spoiler|Aka her actual father}}.
* [[What the Hell Hero]] Some of her actions in the later seasons... In fact, some of her actions in general are pretty questionable. Such as trying to use the Reds and Blues as decoys so she could kill the director, and even threatening to force them to do it at gunpoint.
=== '''Agent Connecticut, AKA {{spoiler|C.T.}} ''' ===
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==== CT-isms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]] ZigZagged. {{spoiler|She defected from the Insurrection to expose the crimes the Director of Project Freelancer had done. This ends up costing her her life at the hands of one of the people she was trying to save and perceived as a friend: Tex. It gets even sadder when you later find out that the Insurrection was working for Charon Industries and that that organization was delving in things just as bad, if not WORSE than Project Freelancer.}}
* [[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. }}
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* [[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.
* [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"]]: She doesn't like being called 'Connie' because it makes her sound like a little kid.
* [[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.
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* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Completely panics when the {{spoiler|operation in Sandtrap doesn't go as planned.}} Apparently this is a problem she always had.
=== '''Agent South Dakota''' ===
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==== Southisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Action Girl]]: As shown in the prequels.
* [[Asshole Victim]] She sold out her allies and her brother to get her own AI, and even then she intended to sell him out too when the Meta came after her for it. Later on, Washington shoots her in the face at point blank, and then blows up and burns her corpse away.
* [[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.
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* [[Peek-a-Bangs]]
* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Red to North's Blue.
* [[What an Idiot!]] Her obsession with getting her own AI implanted leads her to doing some pretty evil things such as sacrificing her own brother North to escape the Meta. However, the stupid part comes later on when she seizes Delta, betrays Washington and Project Freelancer and leaves... KNOWING that the Meta was looking for people with AI and equipment, thus she made herself a target of not only the Meta, but Wash, AND Project Freelancer, so it's NO surprise this leads to her demise.
=== '''Agent North Dakota''' ===
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==== Northisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: He cares deeply for his little sister South. {{spoiler|It's also why he was assigned Theta.}}
{{quote|'''North''': Stay safe, Kiddo.}}
* [[Born Lucky]] Compared to his sister who sees him as this and was incredibly jealous of him. {{spoiler|His cases of bad luck in the series tends to involve her pretty much EVERY TIME actually.}}
* [[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.
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* [[Red Oni, Blue Oni]]: Blue to South's Red.
=== '''Pilot 479 / Freelancer Command''' ===
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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==== '''Pilot 479isms (Associated Tropes):''' ====
* [[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}}.
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Everyone Calls Her "Barkeep"]] Her agent name is even less distinct than the freelancers, except that she's the only agent of the organization without a state-named alias.
* [[No Name Given]]: So far she's only been identified in series by her callsigns "Four-seven-niner" and "Freelancer Command"
* [[What Happened To The Mouse?]] She only appears in flashbacks, and MAYBE as a voice of High Command for project freelancer, but that's not confirmed, so we never know what became of her.
=== '''Other Freelancers''' ===
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.
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== Artificial Intelligences ==
=== '''O'Malley/Omega''' ===
{{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]]."''}}
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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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==== Omalley/Omegaisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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]]
* [[The Berserker]] He embodies hate, anger, and rage.
* [[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.
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* [[Take Over the World]]: A hilarious parody of this type of villain. Works especially well when he's in the body of a pacifist.
=== '''Gary/Gamma''' ===
{{quote|''"Knock-knock."''}}
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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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==== Gamma/Garyisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Knock-knock."
* [[Evil All Along]]: Same with Vic, more or less.
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* [[Laughably Evil]]: Yes. Even the supercomputer.
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Personification of deceit, after all.
* [[Robotic Psychopath]] {{spoiler|He, Sigma, and Omega were used to further break the Alpha AI's mind and create other fragments.}}
* [[What Happened To The Mouse?]] After Tex's crash, we only know that he was stolen by the Meta and later lost in the destruction of Project Freelancer.
=== '''The Alpha''' ===
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.}}
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* {{spoiler|It's almost certainly a coincidence, but still.}}
=== '''Delta''' ===
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==== Deltaisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Adorkable]]
* [[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.
* [[The Spock]] The embodiment of logic. So of course he's this.
* [[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.
=== '''Sigma''' ===
{{quote|''"[[Call Back|We are]] [[Wham! Line|the Meta]], [[Paranoia Fuel|and we will find you. Very soon.]]"''}}
Little was known about Sigma except that it was the Alpha's creativity until PAX East 2012, when two new things were revealed: That it was the first AI that Maine had, his original AI partner. Second is that it will be played by Elijah Wood (yes, [[The Lord of the Rings|that]] Elijah Wood) in season 10.
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==== Sigmaisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]] His reason for driving Maine crazy and forcing him to kill lots of people and steal their AI fragments and equipment? {{spoiler|He never wanted to become a perfect weapon. He wanted to become human.}}
* [[Bald of Evil]]
* [[Celebrity Voice Actor]] Elijah Woods!
* [[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.
* [[Obvious Judas]] {{spoiler|It doesn't take long to figure out he is always scheming something.}}
* [[Obviously Evil]] He looks like he's on fire, and he talks with a semi-demonic sounding voice. WHAT MORE OF A CLUE DID THEY NEED?
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]
* [[Wham! Line]]: Combined with a [[Call Back]] to the trailer for Reconstruction, in the first trailer for the tenth season.
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== Other ==
=== '''Medical Super Private First Class Frank "Doc" DuFresne''' ===
{{quote|''"[...] a ''doctor'' cures people. A ''medic'' just helps people feel more comfortable... while they die."''}}
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==== Docisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
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** 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.
* [[Split Personality]]: Doesn't have one, but he gets vibes of these when he argues with O'Malley. {{spoiler|He later DOES gain one based on O'Malley after Grif teleports him to only he knows where for who knows how long.}}
* [[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.
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{{quote|'''Doc''': I haven't had a killing spree since my last residency!}}
=== '''The Alien''' ===
{{quote|''"Blarg? Honk!"''}}
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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...
=== '''"Junior"''' ===
{{quote|''"Bow-chicka honk-honk!"''}}
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* [[In the Blood]]: Making the sleazy porno music at an innuendo wasn't taught by Tucker. It's genetic.
=== '''The Director''' ===
{{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."''}}
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==== Associated Tropes: ====
* [[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]].}}
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* [[Wham! Line]]: "Sincerely yours, the former Director of Project Freelancer, Doctor {{spoiler|Leonard Church}}.
=== '''The Chairman of the Oversight Sub-Committee''' ===
{{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."''}}
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==== Chairmanisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Big Bad]]}} {{spoiler|It turns out that HE was the CEO of Charon industries, sponsored the Insurrection faction, and was employing space pirates to play both sides of a civil war on Chorus.}}
* [[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.
=== '''Vickory/"Vic"''' ===
{{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."''}}
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==== Vic-isms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[What Happened To The Mouse?]] After the end of Season 5, he is never seen nor heard from again.
=== '''The Insurrection''' ===
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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==== Insurrectionisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[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.}}
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** [[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.
* [[Five Man Band]] Their elite agents consist of:
** [[Cold Sniper|The Sniper]]
** [[The Berserker|The Pyromaniac, aka "Sharkface"]] {{spoiler|Also the [[Determinator]].}}
** [[Big Guy|The Sleeveless Big Guy]]
** [[The Lancer|The One with the Robotic Arm]]
** [[The Chick|The Blonde Chick]]
** [[Gatling Good|The Gatling Gun Smiley Twins]]
* [[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.
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* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The [[Elite Mooks]] ''would've'' counted, if they actually ''said'' anything.
=== '''The Counselor''' ===
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==== Counselorisms (Associated Tropes): ====
* [[Alas, Poor Villain]] He didn't exactly choose to become one, but due to his involvement with Project Freelancer and given how closely he worked with the Director. He is arrested and imprisoned after Project Freelancer's collapse. After that, he tries to escape imprisonment by siding with the Space Pirates on Chorus, but when that too seems to be going south, he tries to abandon them, but instead his ship winds up being pulled down to Chorus where it crashes into the "Purge" temple. Likely killing him.
* [[Armchair Psychology]]: Talks like this pretty much all the time. It seems to irritate the Director and creep out everyone else.
* [[Conflicting Loyalties]] Starts out loyal to Project Freelancer, but after its collapse, he gets imprisoned and was fully prepared to sell out the former agents (and a whole planet's population) to secure his own freedom. When the mission starts to go south, he kills one of the Space Pirates and tries to force the pilot to fly the ship for him to escape.
* [[Creepy Monotone]]
* [[Danger Deadpan]] His tone and expression hardly ever change. He only ever expresses emotion once or twice.
* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]] Inverted. {{spoiler|He and the ship he was in at the time were pulled down to Chorus and forced to crash into the "Purge" temple which kills him. Also, it's funnier in a more literal sense of this trope since there WAS a bridge that led to the temple that his ship destroyed when it crashed.}}
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]] {{spoiler|His comments inadvertently helped contribute to Locus' [[Face Heel Turn]].}}
* [[The Shrink]]: Of the "Harmful" variety.
* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Inverted. There is a therapist, but he's there to study and manipulate the Freelancers and [[
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